SCROOMS: How to Give Marina a Fungstone (New Ground Quest)

New Ground is the first side quest you can pick up inside the Bluestone Caverns in SCROOMS. Marina asks you to bring her a single Fungstone, which the cavern crew uses to filter quarry dust. The quest is short, but the hand-in has one catch that stops people cold: the scroom has to be held on your character, not just sitting in your backpack.

Quick answer: Catch a Fungstone in the Bluestone Caverns, open your backpack with G, click the Fungstone tile to hold it, then talk to Marina and pick Hand over the Fungstone.

Where to find Marina in the Bluestone Caverns

Marina sits a few steps in from the cave mouth, right where you land when you drop into the Bluestone Caverns. She is on a bench beside a wooden table, wears a yellow hard hat, and has a “?” floating over her head. Walk up until the E Talk / Marina prompt appears.

Player standing next to the cave NPC marked with a question mark, ready to talk — Marina on her bench with a question mark over her head, inside the blue crystal cavern.

If a response won’t react to a click, right-click once to disable camera control. When it’s active, you’ll see the notice “Camera Control Enabled – Right click to toggle”.

Start the New Ground quest

Press E to talk to Marina. She greets you and works through a short exchange before asking for the scroom. Keep picking the top reply to move it along:

“Hey! You new down here?” — pick “Just got here.”
“Thought so. Welcome to Bluestone Caverns!” — pick “What do you do here?”
“Bit of everything. Mostly keeping the place from falling apart.” — pick “Sounds fun.”
“It isn’t. Actually, you mind helping me with something?” — pick “What do you need?”

She then asks for the item outright: “A Fungstone. We use their caps to filter out quarry dust. Bring me one, would you?” Choose “Sure. I’ll find one.” to accept. Picking “Maybe later” backs out.

Marina's dialogue asking for a Fungstone with Sure and Maybe later reply options — Marina asks for a Fungstone to filter quarry dust; pick the first option to accept.

A “Quest Started: New Ground” banner appears, and the objective tracker shows “Catch and give Marina a Fungstone. (0/1)”. In your Quest Log it lands under Side Quests.

New Ground objective tracker reading Catch and give Marina a Fungstone 0 of 1 — The active New Ground objective with the catch count at 0/1 and the E Talk prompt still on Marina.

Catch a Fungstone

Look for the Fungstone in the Bluestone Caverns; this Common scroom has a grey cap marked with white spots. There’s no need to search elsewhere for one. Play a song beside Marina, right where you are, to catch it. The first song produced “You caught: Fungstone! Frequency: 81.9 Hz”, and the tracker advanced to (1/1).

Catching it does not finish the quest on its own. If you talk to Marina now with the Fungstone only sitting in your backpack, she says “No Fungstone yet?” and your single reply is “Still looking.” — even though the tracker reads (1/1).

Marina asking No Fungstone yet with the Still looking reply highlighted — With the Fungstone only in the bag, Marina still asks for it and the only reply is “Still looking.”

Hold the Fungstone, then hand it over

The step people miss is that Marina only accepts the Fungstone when it is held on your character. You need to equip it out of the backpack first.

Open the backpack with G. Set “Sort By” to “Recent” so your newest catch sits at the front of the grid, which makes the Fungstone easy to find.

Backpack inventory open with sorting and search controls and a tile selected in the grid — The backpack grid with sorting controls; set it to Recent to bring the Fungstone to the front.

Click the Fungstone tile to hold it. The grey spotted cap appears on your character, and the “?” over Marina changes to a “!”, meaning the quest is ready to turn in.

Player approaching Marina with the E Talk prompt after equipping the Fungstone — Approaching Marina while holding the Fungstone, with the E Talk prompt ready for the hand-in.

Return to Marina and speak with her. She says “Oh! You got one.” Select “*Hand over the Fungstone*”. Her response is “Perfect! This’ll do. Here, for the trouble.”, then choose “Thanks!” to finish.

Expect the same rule in other “catch and give” quests in SCROOMS. If a quest giver insists you don’t have the scroom, equip it from the backpack before talking to them.

Rewards and how to confirm it worked

When the hand-in registers, a “Quest Completed: New Ground” banner shows and your rewards are paid out immediately.

Reward	Amount
XP	420
Chimes	130

You can verify the payout by watching your Chimes counter rise by 130. Ours climbed from 11,635 to 11,765. The level stayed at 34 after the XP was applied. If the completion banner shows and your Chimes went up, New Ground is done.