The quest is listed as "weak", but it's at least hard. First it's tells me I'm about to fight a troll, but there ends up being an additional monster. Then in the next phase when I follow the screams to the basement I'm told that I'm facing a single scientist with a flaming sword, but when I initiate a battle, there are several strong monsters there, not just one.
Also, I lost the battle, which moved the doomsday counter ahead by ten...IMO, that's too much for a single lost battle.