You've just reached Water Treatment Control with the Dam Surveillance Key tucked away, heard footsteps somewhere in the building, and suddenly realize Greasing Her Palms is not a "follow the marker" Arc Raiders errand. Before you burn a risky run chasing extra loot or browsing ARC Raiders Items for future loadout plans, understand the quest's real test: identifying three exact trigger spots, completing them fast, and leaving before a simple location check becomes an expensive recovery trip.

The Three Stops at a Glance

Celeste gives Greasing Her Palms after A Better Use, and the objectives can be cleared in any order because each sits on a different map. The Dam task is the only one with an item requirement; Spaceport and Buried City are proximity checks, meaning you don't need to find a switch, collect evidence, or wait for a special interaction prompt. That distinction matters because players often waste time combing Rocket Assembly for something that simply isn't there.

Dam First, and Here's Why

Put the Dam Surveillance Key in your safe pocket before deploying. Seriously. The locked room at Water Treatment Control is reached most cleanly from the southern entrance: enter, take the right-hand interior corridor, turn right again, and look for the locked door near the security camera. Open it, walk fully through the doorway, then wait for the quest update. From what I've seen, players who only crack the door and pivot away are the ones left wondering why the objective did not proc. The room can be worth searching if it's quiet, but don't let container greed turn a completed quest step into a prolonged fight. This is also the point where the Lure Grenade Blueprint becomes relevant; players comparing crafting routes or ARC Raiders BluePrints buy options should remember that this quest awards the blueprint through normal progression.

Spaceport Is the Fastest Step-and the Most Exposed

At Spaceport, move southwest from Rocket Assembly toward the rocket's rear sections, between the assembly area and Control Tower A6. The target is behind the southwestern thruster, on its southern-rear side. There is no button to press. Stay there for a few seconds and confirm the notification before peeling away. The open ground is the danger, not the objective itself, so approach using nearby structures and terrain breaks instead of sprinting straight across a clean sightline.

Do this: arrive light, confirm the trigger, and choose your exit route before stepping into the open.
Not this: search every rocket component after completion just because the area looks interesting.
Do this: pause briefly behind the thruster if the update is slow.
Not this: stand beside the rocket body and assume any nearby position counts.

Floor Six Is an Orientation Test

Buried City's Space Travel Building asks for a different skill: vertical awareness. Get inside, climb by stairs or any usable vertical path, and check the large wall markings rather than guessing your floor. On floor six, take the main hallway to the right, continue beyond the prominent wall sign, then take the second right toward the meeting-room section. The blocked area is the destination. A rooftop entry can shorten the climb when the building interior sounds busy, but it may expose your movement more clearly; at least in my experience, the safer choice depends entirely on what you hear before committing.

What I Wish I Knew Before Running It

Greasing Her Palms rewards a reconnaissance mindset, not a DPS build or a min-max loot run. Clear Dam Battlegrounds first to remove the key dependency, then treat Buried City and Spaceport as quick insertion-and-extraction jobs. The rewards are one Lure Grenade Blueprint, three Speaker Components, and three Electrical Components, but the bigger payoff is learning how Arc Raiders marks objectives: sometimes the answer is a locked threshold, sometimes it is a patch of ground, and sometimes it is one very specific floor. Check the notification every time. A ten-second pause at the target beats repeating an entire deployment because you left too early.