
Time Pilot
Go to the Xunlai Jade Power Plant. Enter New Kaineng City. Discuss next steps with your team over comms. Find Engineer Hu. Help Engineer Hu with his problem. Speak to Engineer Hu to get the access code. Meet Yao at the jade bot service station. Speak with engineer Elora. (Learn how to use your Xunlai jade bot.) Jade Bot Training Draw two charges from nearby jade batteries.: x/2 Test out the jade tech teleporters: x/2 ((Optional) Ask questions of Elora.) (Optional) Speak with Elora (Ride the jade zip lines.) Ride the jade zip lines: x/4 (Light floating lanterns using jade power charges.) Light floating lanterns using jade tech power charges: x/4 Spar with one of Xunlai Jade's training mechs. Reconnect with your team on comms. Investigate the Xunlai Jade Power Plant. Enter the Xunlai Jade Power Plant. Take a look around. Head to the control room. Listen as Mai explains the jade power network. Pick up an energy scanner. Use the scanner to take readings on a group of jade batteries. Use the scanner to take readings on another group of jade batteries. Use the scanner to scan one last group of jade batteries. Reset the power plant's junction boxes. Power Restored Use the scanner to scan one last group of jade batteries. Get access to the other lab. Leave the power plant and contact Yao. Meet Mai at her apartment. Speak with Mai. Speak with Crex. (Deliver pressurized steam canisters to nearby turbines.) Pressurized steam canisters delivered: x/3 Return to Mai's apartment. (Optional) Speak with Marjory. Speak with Mai in her apartment. Look around Mai's apartment for ...something. Ask Mai about the object you found. Investigate Nahpui Lab. Enter Nahpui Lab. Meet up with Gorrik. (Use the scanner on new jade batteries.) New Jade Batteries Scanned. Use the jade drone to collect more samples. Regroup with your allies. Review the scan results with Taimi and Gorrik. (Survive the Aetherblade assault!) Aetherblades Defeated. Use the holographic console to contact Taimi and Joon.
To investigate if the Jade Mech's malfunction is due to Aetherblade sabotage, the commander needs a passcode for the Power Plant and an introduction to Jade Bot operating as Yao explains in a comms call. Acquiring a Passcode Engineer Hu, who can be found in Garden Heights by continuing into the city center through the tunnels north and south of the power plant region and up the stairs, has access to the needed passcode. But the console it is saved on has been infested with an Elite Volatile Jade Spark that must be dealt with first. Instead of killing the Spark, engineers can directly fix the console themselves by interacting with it. Talk to Hu again after defeating the spark to get the code. Jade Bot Qualifications Meet up with Yao near Garden Heights Waypoint. The quickest way to get there from Engineer Hu's location is to go north, then up the stairs below Temple of Preeminence into Garden Heights. As they are busy, Yao directs you to Engineer Elora, who can provide optional, additional information through dialogue choices marked by ; while choices marked by progress the story. To train Jade Bot handling you must complete the following tasks in order: Interact with Jade Tech Teleporters after picking up a Jade Power Charge twice Ride Jade Tech Zip Lines four times Light four floating Jade Tech Lanterns with the Jade Bot To do so, interact with the nearby Jade Bot Terminal to directly control the Jade Bot's movement. Pick up charges by flying close to a Jade Battery and interacting with it, then up to the lanterns to charge them through interacting. Each lantern lit will consume one Jade Power Charge. Spar with a training mech The Xunlai Jade Administrators with markers optionally explain each of the tasks or provide further detail. The Xunlai Jade Power Plant Enter the Power Plant and instance The Future in Jade: Power Plant at its entrance on the ground level road, behind where the waterfall flows into the canals. After waiting for clearance to look around and another comms communication with Taimi about the tech's power source, head to the control room on the facilities' upper level. Following Mai's explanation, pick up the Jade Tech Energy Scanner. Stowing it with (skill 5) will grant the special action skill and protect the scanner from short-circuiting after coming in contact with water. Use the scanner's (skill 1) to obtain data on the sets of batteries. Scanning the first set of batteries will enable . Jump across the maintenance sleds near the Xunlai Jade Technician without gliding or touching the water to scan the batteries (be wary of jumping or moving on a sled as it is about to stop as that causes weird things to happen to the game's physics). Stowing the scanner to prevent accidents is recommended. It is relatively easy to jump from right near the Xunlai Tech to the second sled. It is also possible to jump directly to the third sled, but takes better positioning and timing. Get to the fourth sled, and just scan as you go past them. To get the achievement [[#Industrial Espionage|Industrial Espionage]], walk close to the locations described in the achievement section below to reveal and interact with the documents. Before you can get the last dataset for Taimi a power spike shuts down the power plant. Defeat the Coursing Jade Sparks and play the minigame at each of the three Junction Boxes to turn it back on. You are playing a game of Simon. Press a code, it will then give you another code that is the old one with one more symbol added to it. Repeat the code again. At four codes, it completes. See Notes at bottom for more. Scan the last batteries and listen to Taimi's explanation on the communicator before leaving the instance. To Cobble Ward Since Yao can't grant the party access to Nahpui Lab, Mai Trin has another idea. Meet her in front of her apartment in Brume Alley. As the district's steam power grid is offline, speak to Supplier Crex to get into the apartment complex, who'll explain how to pick up and deliver s with a Raptor mount. Before going into Mai's apartment, you can optionally check back with Marjory. After speaking to Mai inside, interact with the objects in the apartment to find what she's looking for. Looking through her things reveals more about her life after the Aetherblades arrived in Cantha. Pick up the Unknown Device to advance the story. Investigate Nahpui Lab Marjory, Mai and Gorrik wait in the lab's instance The Future In Jade: Nahpui Lab. The closest Raptor Taxi station is Bori Ward. Start by talking to Gorrik before scanning more batteries for Taimi with the Jade Tech Energy Scanner. As only three batteries are accessible from the ground level, the rest have to be scanned from the Jade Bot. Interacting with the large Jade Bot Terminal enables the effects and and also starts the latter's timer. Focus on scanning the batteries first, to get Duct Cleaning and Time Pilot in the same run (the static discharge ability that gets rid of rats and the rats themselves remain in place after scanning the batteries, allowing you to get rid of the rats with no time pressure). The remaining batteries' locations can be accessed by flying through ducts in the walls and ceiling of the lab building. Laser walls and air pressure from other vents can slow navigating with the Jade Bot. You can exit the bot's remote control through Skill 5 to regroup with the commander's allies. Taimi visualizes her findings on a display screen. As soon as her and Gorrik's explanation is finished, Aetherblade intruders ambush the Lab. Repel them then contact Joon and Taimi.
Entering the water with the scanner equipped will short-circuit the scanner, requiring a new one to be retrieved. This can be avoided by stowing the scanner. Resetting the power junction boxes requires playing a game of Simon. For example, when you hit "reset" (F), one of the three symbols will appear/sound off after a moment. Click that symbol. Then it will cycle, and replay "Symbol 1", and add a second symbol. Click both of them, then it returns with the first two and a new third. Repeat. When you get four symbols correct (usually not difficult) the unit is reset.