Fisch Oppressor & Record Breaker Quests: Tormentor and Tryce Guide

Last Verified: November 4, 2026. Quest steps, riddle answers, rod stats and mutation rates are from the Official Fisch Wiki (fischipedia.org): the Tormentor, Tryce, Oppressor, Record Breaker and Duskwire pages, plus each mutation page. Record Breaker's ability and Tryce's final reward step are still marked TBA there.

The hardest task in either questline is a Shiny Sparkling Bog Skulker. At the base 1% for each, that works out to 1 in 10,000. That one fish is why Record Breaker is harder to finish than the C$70 million Oppressor.

Tormentor's and Tryce's quest pages both went up on the wiki overnight, so these are the two Venue Encore questlines our Black Fairy vs Oppressor comparison and D.R.E.D. guide had to skip.

Almost every task wants a mutation only one or two rods can roll. What you can finish comes down to which rods you already own.

The rods each questline asks for

The rods in bold are the ones that stop most players. The Tormentor list is long but mostly cheap. Tryce's list has two late-game rods on it, and for these tasks nothing else rolls their mutations.

Tormentor's four quests (Oppressor)

Tormentor stands on stage in The Auditorium. Click the guitar on the Underground Music Venue stage during a Tropical Squall or Raging Squall to get in.

He won't talk to you until you have two things: the Dusk title and the Duskwire equipped. The title is a Duskwire mastery reward for 200 Perfect Catches with the rod. Duskwire's control is -0.2, so budget real time for this. It also only works with Invincible or Dune on it, because its max weight is negative.

Quest 1: Chaotic Resurgence

• 2 Shiny Chaotic Catfish
• 1 Mourned Wyvern
• 3 Darkened Enchant Relics
• 1 Chaotic Enchant Relic

Duskwire covers most of this. Every catch rolls exactly one of its mutations: 68% Darkened, 30% Chaotic, 2% Serene. After a Perfect Catch it's 97% Chaotic, so perfect-catch the Catfish and the Chaotic relic.

Catfish live in Mushgrove Swamp on foggy nights in autumn or summer. Shiny is still a flat 1% on top, so plan on about 100 Catfish per Shiny Chaotic one, around 200 for the pair.

The Enchant Relics are the slow part. They drop at a fixed 1 in 350 anywhere. You need roughly five relics to land three Darkened and one Chaotic, which is around 1,750 catches at that rate. In The Depths your luck raises the relic chance, and the Scavenger enchant triples relic odds.

Mourned is the odd one out. The Tidemourner rolls it 35% of the time, so about three Wyverns. Without it you're down to appraisal or Tidefall's 0.036% natural rate, and Wyverns don't live in Tidefall.

Quest 2: Road of Revenant Carcasses

Three riddles. The wiki has the answers:

The eel is the expensive one. Distraught at night times a 1% Sparkling is about 1 in 286 Revenant Eels, if the two rolls don't affect each other. During the day Dreambreaker drops to 25%, which makes it 1 in 400. Revenant Eels are a Rare in Hades' Underworld of Indefinite, more common on stormy nights in autumn and winter.

Anything that raises Sparkling helps a lot here. Rainbow weather, Lucky Pools, the Blessed and Glittered enchants and the Destiny Rod all do it, and the wiki has more.

Quest 3: Divergent Perceptions

• 1 Distraught Veiled Charybdis or a plain Charybdis
• 1 Squalled String
• 1 Fallen Scylla

Take the plain Charybdis option. A Veiled Charybdis only appears after you catch a Charybdis in the Obsidian Trench, so the Distraught version is strictly more work.

Squalled is easy if you do this during the same weather that opens The Auditorium. It's 25% in a Raging Squall and 15% in a Tropical Squall, and String is trash in Desolate Deep.

The Fallen Rod's 50% Fallen rate only applies below Y-level -400. The natural rate is 0.072%, so check your depth before you commit to the Scylla Hunt.

Quest 4: Impermanent Distress

• 1 Fallen Skolopendra
• An Olympian Devil caught with the Duskwire and no companion
• 35 Legendary or Mythical Oppressed fish in Crystal Cove
• Parry 75 projectiles
• Pay C$70,000,000

Two of those are odd. Oppressed comes only from the Oppressor, and parrying is an Oppressor mechanic. So you need some version of the rod in hand before the last quest, even though the wiki lists the Oppressor as the reward for quest 4. It doesn't say how that works yet.

Oppressed rolls 20% of the time, and only on catches where you didn't miss a parry. 35 of them means about 175 clean Legendary or Mythical catches in Crystal Cove.

The Olympian Devil is a Secret in the Olympian Fissure, on stormy nights with Obsidian-Bone bait. Unequip your companion before you go.

Tryce's quests (Record Breaker)

Tryce is in the main Underground Music Venue room. You don't need the squall weather for him.

Quest 1: Getting Started

• 5 Titanium Rusty Bolts. Mineshaft, Magnet bait, Titanium Rod at 25%: about 20 bolts.
• 5 Melody Iron Chunks. Also Mineshaft. Only the Stellarwave Melody rolls Melody, at 18.8%, and it never rolls naturally outside Crystal Cove, so plan on about 27 chunks.
• 5 Electrified Scrap Metal. Zeus's Thundermaul gives Electrified 100% of the time, but only during its Electrified State.
• 1 Shiny Infernal Fragment. Fragments come from Crag-Crab Mining at Scoria Reach, 5% per crab. The wiki doesn't say how Shiny applies to a mined fragment.

Quest 2: Out of Tunes

• 1 Shiny Synth DJ Spinopus. Synth is 8.8% on the Stellarwave Melody, times 1% Shiny: about 1 in 1,136. DJ Spinopus is a Mythical in Crystal Cove on clear nights in spring or summer.
• 1 Cracked Treble Bass. Cracked comes from the Blazebringer's Ablaze effect: 5% at Ablaze I, 10% at Ablaze II. Treble Bass is an Exotic around Moosewood's seaweed and mini-island.
• 2 Phantom Speed Cores, caught directly. Eidolon Rod at 35%, so about six from Sunstone Island.
• 1 Shiny Sparkling Bog Skulker. 1 in 10,000 at base odds.

The Bog Skulker is the wall. It's a Common in Toxic Grove, and the task is just two 1% rolls on the same fish. Wait for a Rainbow or Shiny/Sparkling mini-event, or put Blessed or Glimmering Crown on whatever rod you use. Doing it at base odds isn't a plan.

Quest 3: World Tour

Fish while Locked In for 120 seconds at seven spots: Roslit Pond, Moosewood Pond, Forsaken Shores Pond, Everturn Forest, Ancient Isle Pond, Snowcap Pond and Boreal Hollow. That's 14 minutes of Locked In time, plus all the travel.

Locked In is Record Breaker's own state, from lining up the notch on its spinning vinyl. So the rod is already in your hands by quest 3. Beebom reports the first two quests give a restricted version, and World Tour removes the restriction. The wiki's reward step for this quest still says TBA.

Which one is worth the grind

Do Tormentor first. Oppressor has the highest luck (310%) and lure (300%) of the five Venue Encore rods, and its 11.2x Oppressed mutation ties Black Fairy's best. Most of the rods on that list are cheap. Dreambreaker and the 200-catch Dusk title are the real gates.

Record Breaker is a harder questline for a weaker rod: 227% luck, 70% lure, 0.22 control. Its Rewind mutation is 4x at 50%, or 25% while Locked In. The in-game description says Locked In buffs every angler nearby, but the wiki hasn't published the numbers.

Without the Stellarwave Melody and Zeus's Thundermaul already in hand, you're signing up for two endgame rods and a 1-in-10,000 Bog Skulker for a rod whose payoff is only a stat line so far. Wait for the ability numbers before you start.

Our Fisch rods database has both rods' stats next to every other rod in the game.

FAQ

How do you start Tormentor's quest in Fisch?

Get the Dusk title from 200 Perfect Catches with the Duskwire, equip the Duskwire, then enter The Auditorium by clicking the venue guitar during a Tropical or Raging Squall.

How much does the Oppressor cost?

C$70,000,000, paid as the last task of Tormentor's fourth quest.

Where is Tryce?

In the main room of the Underground Music Venue, which you reach through a trapdoor in Crystal Cove or the temporary "Ken Carson Quest" portal.

What is the answer to "conquer the distressed and effervescent reborn eel"?

A Revenant Eel with both the Sparkling and Distraught mutations. Distraught only comes from the Dreambreaker.

Can you skip the Veiled Charybdis?

Yes. Quest 3 accepts a plain Charybdis instead.

What does Record Breaker's ability do?

The wiki lists Rewind (4x) at 50%, or 25% while Locked In. The rest of the ability is still marked TBA.

Sources

• Tormentor: all four quests and the riddle answers.
• Tryce: all three quests.
• Oppressor and Record Breaker: stats, abilities, prices.
• Duskwire: mutation rates, Dusk title mastery, enchant requirement.
• Underground Music Venue and 2.08: Auditorium access, portal.
• Mutation pages: Oppressed, Distraught, Mourned, Chaotic, Darkened, Squalled, Fallen, Titanium, Monstrous, Melody, Synth, Electrified, Cracked, Phantom, Rewind, Shiny, Sparkling.
• Fish and item pages: Catfish, Wyvern, Enchant Relic, Legionnaire Lamprey, Leviathan, Revenant Eel, Charybdis, Veiled Charybdis, String, Scylla, Skolopendra, Olympian Devil, Rusty Bolt, Iron Chunk, Scrap Metal, Infernal Fragment, DJ Spinopus, Treble Bass, Speed Core, Bog Skulker (fischipedia.org).
• Rod pages: Dreambreaker, Titanium Rod, Cusk Purger, Cusk-Shot, Fallen Rod, Tidemourner, Stellarwave Melody, Zeus's Thundermaul, Eidolon Rod, Blazebringer Rod, plus the Ablaze effect page (fischipedia.org).
• Beebom: How to Get Record Breaker Rod in Fisch: the restricted rod before World Tour.

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