ESO Elder Scrolls Online Jester's Festival and no bounty Noble Guest runs

The Elder Scrolls Online Jester's Festival is back. This is a guide on grinding the event on your toons and avoiding paying a bounty in the quest "A Noble Guest".
Depending on how many combat-competent alts you have, the two easiest missions (i.e., no combat involved) are Springtime Flair and A Noble Guest. Since the best rewards are only available on the first three unique missions you run on the account, you might as well save time on your non-combat-worthy alts by skipping Royal Revelry.
Good time-saving add-ons to have are:
  • Faster Travel, which lets you quickly port to a location accessible by Travel to Player on your Guild rosters.
  • Port to Friend's House, which lets you hotkey a port to a friend's house, even if that house is not their Primary Residence. It's handy to have a port to:
    • Enchanted Snow Globe Home - Wayshrine close by and no guards in between.
    • Sleek Creek House - Outlaw's Refuge close by and no guards in between.
Grinding the Jester's Festival in a systematic way
Here's how to get organized doing the Jester's Festival. Organize your list of alts so that the last ones are the ones that will do Royal Revelry. Make sure you have Baelborne Rock Wayshrine discovered.
  1. Stonefalls
    • Pick up A Noble Guest and go get the mudcrab apples. If you get a bounty stealing the apples, stay where you are because there are no guards in that stable. (The stealth detection there used to be bugged, but was fixed for the 2019 Jester's Festival).
  2. Switch to another alt
    • Log out and log in to your next alt. While you are offline on the previous toon, their bounty will continue to tick down.
    • Repeat (1) and (2) until you have gone through all your alts.
    • On your last toon, you have two choices:
      • Teleport out to safety and do Royal Revelry, or
      • Log out and go back to your first toon, where the bounty has probably expired already.
    • If you choose to do Royal Revelry:
      • Get to Baelborne Rock Wayshrine (e.g., port to Enchanted Snow Globe Home, then walk to the wayshrine nearby outside and teleport to Baelborne Rock Wayshrine) and go to Jester King Emeric's tent. The route should have no guards at all so your bounty won't be an issue.
      • Go get your quest items including the Dazzlers from Jester King Emeric.
      • It is actually possible your bounty won't have ticked down to zero yet, but the bounties will definitely have reset on your earliest toon so switch back to that one if you still need to wait.
  3. Stonefalls - A Noble Guest
    • Back to your alts, now with the bounty expired and their status "Upstanding" -- so just walk out of the stable and go to Princess.
    • If you have trouble leading her back, this video shows an easy and safe route:
  4. Auridon - Springtime Flair
    • After A Noble Guest, head to Auridon for Springtime Flair.
    • During the stage to Pelt Grumpy Temple Stoics, also grab the daily crafting writs, which are on two boards nearby.
    • If you have Faster Travel, port to Auridon after each stage. It will likely take you to where you need to go, or at least take you to a wayshrine faster than riding back to one.
  5. Glenumbra - Royal Revelry
    • Now without any bounty, finish up with Royal Revelry if you want.
  6. You've also picked up your Daily Writs, so finish up by doing those as well.

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