Did you Know...?

Regarding part 1 (Ancient Artifacts), you should also get a quest completed each time you bring a Ridley's Book of Rituals to John. You get 500 experience for each book you hand over to him to look at.

Regarding the translated communique, when you give the communique to Jack, he doesn't take it from you. Some people wind up dropping it after realizing it isn't needed to keep it in your inventory, but when you do that, Elpam Gorlab activates a quest to replace the translated communique that you dropped from your inventory. If you wanted to add onto your quest counter, couldn't you just keep getting a new translated communique and dropping it and repeat over and over again?

It wouldn't add on your quest counter because it's the same quest; but a repeatable one.