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Wrench and Waterboarding

Event quest: not offered by the trader now. “Wrench and Waterboarding” is a Skier task in Escape from Tarkov. Reward: 15,000 XP. Objectives: Visit The Lab. Walkthrough, map and requirements.

Wrench and Waterboarding

Event: Blackout · 14 July 2026

Skier — briefing

Alright, mate. Fancy getting involved in something serious? Ain't gonna be easy, I'll tell you that now. We're gonna strip that underground lab clean. Few days back, we grabbed a civvy who used to work at that TerraGroup site. Entrance security, or something like that… Didn't fancy talking at first, but we had a proper chat with him, and eventually he spilled. Says if the lab gets switched over to emergency power, every sealed section can be opened with the same access code. You get what that means? No one's ever walked in there with odds this good! We don't know much about the place, but I've already sent a couple of crews to smash anything we reckon might be feeding power to the lab. Now we need to find out if it actually switched over to emergency power, or if there's still something left to do. Might even be some switch inside the lab itself, for all I know. Think you can have a look? You've got a better chance of figuring that place out than any of my lads.

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Skier: Hang on. So when you got there, the power was still on, then someone turned up after you and switched the whole place over to emergency power by hand? Alright, details for later. What matters is we've confirmed there's a way to trigger emergency mode, and we can still make use of it.

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