Elias Malt in Nivalis Nights is a conversation contact in Good Old Gimble, Level Up!, Project Grapevine, and Truth Be Told. Identify which quest is active before speaking to him: those conversations ask about different subjects and do not form one continuous Elias storyline.
The quest sequence below comes from interpreted game data for build 25738165. It establishes named objectives, rather than a playtested answer-by-answer dialogue route. An exact permanent standing location for Elias is not established here; follow the active objective and the character directory when searching.
Match the Quest to the Conversation
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| Quest | Elias’s role | What follows |
|---|---|---|
| Good Old Gimble | Discuss Hepzibah Gimble | Talk to Huckstash about the information |
| Level Up! | Give an opinion on the technology | Discuss your decision with Ava |
| Project Grapevine | Receive the seed package for the authorities | Follow the chosen package route and Clem’s objective |
| Truth Be Told | Explain what he knows about the Happy Hour Friends | Return your findings to John Doe |
The game records relationship values for Elias, but these quest contacts do not prove a romance route or a guaranteed relationship reward from every answer. Keep the conversation’s purpose and journal result separate from any positive reaction.
Good Old Gimble: Start with Ava’s Book Conversation
Ava’s daytime conversation about books and Elias can offer Good Old Gimble. It asks who Hepzibah Gimble was and suggests the information may have value. The recorded route has two main contacts:
- Speak to Elias Malt about Hepzibah Gimble.
- Talk to Huckstash about the information Elias has suggested.
The offer is recorded as one chance, and Elias’s conversation can fail the quest. Some starting and follow-up conditions involve daytime. A missing topic at night is therefore not enough to establish a broken quest.
Back up your save before the important conversation. The captured objectives do not identify every safe answer, so a friendly response should not be presented as a guaranteed way to preserve this quest.
Level Up!: Elias Is the Second Opinion
Cirian Krell at Metro Hub offers the Level Up! discussion. The technology promises an overnight experience of someone else’s life. The recorded sequence asks you to:
- Get Professor Kasey Remo’s opinion.
- Converse with Elias about whether he recommends Level Up!.
- Discuss your decision with Ava.
- Get a Level Up! Patch from Cirian.
- Travel to Metro Hub.
- Get Sage Hullen’s opinion.
- Discuss your experience with Sage.
Speaking to Elias completes one contact in that sequence; it does not finish every decision or later patch conversation. Follow the journal’s next objective instead of repeatedly looking for another Elias topic.
Project Grapevine: Hand In the Package or Make the Drop
Clem Hortelano entrusts you with illegal flower seeds after the relevant farming progress and venue expansion. The offer appears in the return-to-Clem conversation for Green Thumb and is recorded as a one-chance opportunity.
Clem gives you the seed package for the choice between Elias and the Oil Rig.
The package has two different destinations:
- Hand the Package In: speak to Elias Malt and give the package to the authorities.
- Make the Drop: travel to the Oil Rig and use the ventilation-system drop without being seen.
These are alternative decisions, not instructions to deliver the same package to Elias and then drop it at the Oil Rig. Follow the route you chose, then read the Speak to Clem objective for the check-in at the Greenhouses. Exact dialogue outcomes and rewards for every branch are not established here.
Truth Be Told: Ask About the Happy Hour Friends
John Doe’s investigation starts at Metro Hub, with recorded prerequisites involving meeting Sage Hullen and finishing the tutorial. Elias appears late in its six-objective sequence:
- Travel to Metro Hub and find Sage.
- Ask Sage about John Doe and time-manipulation experiments.
- Meet John Doe at the Noodle Bar.
- Investigate memory loss with R M Alken in the Stacks.
- Ask Elias what he knows about the Happy Hour Friends.
- Reveal your findings to John Doe.
The Elias step is not the start of this investigation. If his relevant topic is unavailable, check the earlier objectives rather than assuming a general friendship threshold unlocks it. The evidence here does not establish such a threshold.