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THREAT LEVEL ORANGE

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NOTICE

Based on confirmed information from reliable sources there is a high probability of an emminent attack on the citizens of Bal Harbor and Newbatia Township. The red sash brigade headquarters has not released the exact nature of the threat, but is asking everyone to be extra vigilant Sunday afternoon. The terror alert warning system thus currently stands at threat level orange with the expectation of going to red very soon.

Thank you and God bless you.

Department of Homeland Security

Thordfalen and Valkerie Joint Operations Center

Is Dot back in town?

Thanks all who participated in opener. It was definitely fun. It was kinda funny how many players assumed that the quest could just be solved by going to an area and typing ‘where galio’. Thanks Truth for actually taking the clue and talking to the appropriate mob.

I realize that a lot of people were unhappy about part of the quest being on VK. My bad. Lesson learned. But was definitely amusing to see a huge group of vker’s fighting the demogorgon. You probably could have killed it on your own eventually.

Anyway, have fun exploring the zone and finding the new pops.

Gratz on getting the new area in Rub. I

m tipping a cold sam adam’s for ya as we speak.

When I arrived there was a hardy vk group fighting demo. Marvel led these fine adventurers through a few runs. Marvel soon asked if anyone would lead and I gave it my best shot. After a run the powerful Immortal Clink came to valkyre to help us. Clink tanked the evil Demo and soon we were victorious, reclaiming the twenty bars of dwarven gold and 10 drachma. We then ventured to Settlestone to find clues about the dwarven gold. Truth led us to King Brandor who told us how his gold was unjustly stolen and of Galios imprisonment. We gave the King his gold and he showed us the way to Chopak the scout. Chopak is in the monk guild on settlestone. Hire chopak for 1m coins and 250k a head and he will lead you to the new area The Kingdom of Salamis. Inside we found foot soldiers that steal The Chalice of Ra due to it being illegal in the area. We found martyrs that explode themselves and kill players in the room. Mobs of pilgrims jumped us near the Minaret. Eventually we found our way to Osama and freed Mayor Galio for another 10 drachma. We then found a sack of eq on the stone prophet, who transformed into another much larger mob. One quest item was found and a sack full of medium eq. The area is well put together, grats to Rub. Ill try to work on my patience in these large groups. Its quite hard to lead so many people with all the spam. I apologize for being short with anyone, we all did a great job.

Big thanks to all the imms and mortals involved.

Rub for making and running the area.

Clink for helping on vk.

Firebrand for tanking.

Truth for figuring out Brandor.

Firon for keeping it together for me :)

Mike

My report on things :D

As was mentioned, Juggleblood held his opener today for Kingdom of Salamis.

It started out on Valkyre with Demogorgon attacking Newbatia, Mayor Galio of Bal Harbour being abducted and Osama himself making threats. Demogorgon was eventually dispatched by an intrepid group of valkers with the help of Colonel “I know nuthink!” Clink to be the meatshield of the group.

Looted from the corpse of Demo were some gold bars of Dwarvish make. Off we went to Settlestone to see if we could find out where the gold came from to hire Demo to attack Newbatia!

Once there, several fruitless forays were made by the group floundering about SS looking for the mayor. Truth made her way to King Brandor in Dwarven Mountain and discovered that he had something to say to the group. It turns out that thieves had snuck by his vault guardian and looted the gold that was used to pay Demogorgon to do his dirty deed. In return for giving the gold back to him, King Brandor offered the services of one of his dwarvish scouts to track down the brigands who stole it.

The dwarf in question is Chopak (located 8s6w3s2es of well) who resides in the SS Monk Guild that is part of Dwarven Mountain. In return for a large sum of money (greatly decreased now that quest is over) he showed us to the Kingdom of Salamis!

Once there we wandered about a bit trying to figure out how to get to Osama and free Mayor Galio. Eventually we made our way there past lascivious camels, unruly mobs and even martyrs-in-training who blew us up!

We eventually killed Osama, Al’Zuwahiri, freed Galio to save the day. Then with some hints we found our way to the big mob, Iblis, which was dispatched and swag was received.

Big thanks to Juggleblood and Clink for running opener, Marvel and Isaiah for leading us unruly punks and everyone who came and went during the quest to help out!

Area Name: Kingdom of Salamis

Run to area: 8s6w3s2es, say hire scout, you will be transed to start of area

Cost is 10000 coins plus 5000 coins per group member. Leader must pay Chopak once you are in the area.

Be SURE you have the coins to pay Chopak to take you to the area. I went back to check area out and decided to recall out and Chopak trans’ed me. He went to well with me and stabbed me to -1498hps! :twisted:

No eq/items were loaded in area during quest but items were placed on Iblis to distribute to group:

sack (carried):

a fiery ring of light..It glows violet!..It has a soft glowing aura!

robes of the archmagi..It glows violet!

a serrated steel ring..It glows violet!..It has a soft glowing aura!

volcanic shoulder guards..It has a soft glowing aura!

a bracer of flames..It has a soft glowing aura!

a crystal teardrop..It glows violet!..It has a soft glowing aura!

a silver ankh..It glows violet!

a great helm

a purple dragon’s claw..It glows violet!..It has a soft glowing aura!

a set of polished bone leggings..It glows violet!

a pair of sharkskin boots..It emits a faint humming sound!

a beaded bracelet..It glows violet!..It has a soft glowing aura!

a tooled dwarven brace..It glows violet!

an ivory torch

Object ‘great helm quest high’, Item type: ARMOR

Item is: DOUB-40-ITEM

Weight: 5, Value: 50000000, Worn in: TAKE HEAD

AC-apply is -1.5

Only those who are at least supreme warriors, and have attained supremacy

in at least two classes may use this item.

There is a bedouin camp hidden in the sand dunes near entrance to area. Not sure if there is a sure route there as in the 6x6 rooms you get “lost” in the sand and move around.

To get to Osama you need to mount the griffon at the north end of area which the group then gates you when the rider gets off the griffon, beware of agg zealots afer the griffon.

To get to Iblis, attack the prophet stone near center of area.

Enjoy exploring and finding eq!

-1.5ac helm! :shock: wow

I must say that this is the first time that i was involved in such quest that had very marginous obsticals to go through at first when everyone died at demogorgon within a few rounds i was quick to say “the hell with this it isnt gunna happen.” there for:

Juggleblood tells you ‘why aren’t you helping.’

You tell Juggleblood ‘my newbie is useless he can’t dispel he is only level 11 warrior and 2 thief’

Juggleblood tells you ‘chop’

You tell Juggleblood ’no chance to chop we all went down in the first few rounds without a chance’

Come to find out the first run we tested was without the ether scrolls we were load for the quest in its self. So i say sure i will go back and give it another shot first time it wasnt successful so i said well hell here we go again then Clinkster came along and help us veng back our deaths and take the mighty demogorgon. that part being over we found ourselves having to go to ss for more of the questing opportunities.

You grouptell: ‘great so now we can use our tard?’

Juggleblood – ‘bring who you’d like’

From there on i decided that well you know what i will use my tard put forth my effort see what we cant accomplish finding Galio was the fun part sure we died but we were restored when a bomb dispatched our entire group which was beyond interesting it rocked. Osama is dead! R.I.P

well woot we get our drachma get a few more deaths corpse’s etc. fun fun well time to go for me i gotta go play a basketball game. And come to find out i get back there is more to the quest! Well for as much as i participated i would like to thank the leaders for allowing me to join up and put forth my efforts in whatever way i could even though i may have been a pain part of the time tryin to figure stuff out. I would like to thank Rub for workin on the quest it was very fun and interesting just a shame i didnt get to the end and get that -1.5 helm :twisted: but i still got 10 drachma and enjoyed it whomever got that badass helm charish that badass thing :P

Thanks again all who were involved and getting it kicked off.

:twisted:

ran a group for some hours later

plaza guard had this

Object ‘beads prayer ornate’, Item type: ARMOR

Item is: NOBITS

Weight: 1, Value: 18000, Worn in: TAKE WRIST

AC-apply is -0.2

Can affect you as:

Affects: HITPOINT by 5

Only those who are at least adept clerics may use this item.

prince sayed had this

Object ‘rhinestones multi-colored multi colored’, Item type: CLASP

Item is: NOBITS

Weight: 0, Value: 100, Worn in: TAKE

Clasp can only be attached to:

a pair of black riding pants

Clasp gives the user +1 CHARISMA

the mob of pilgrims started to multiply, at one point there was 8 in one room and we couldnt walk past or do anything, simply too tough :)

Mike

Yinao you got to work on your engrish dude.

jamila

Object ‘saddle camel jeweled’, Item type: TREASURE

Item is: NOBITS

Weight: 0, Value: 50, Worn in: TAKE

*lag reduced on chopak, hitroll/maxhit fixed

*martyrs no longer instantly kill entire group

*mobs shouldn’t bunch up at policeman anymore

mud mail me any other bugs to rub pls, thx

osama

Object ‘bisht cloak gold trimmed royal’, Item type: TREASURE

Item is: MAGIC

Weight: 1, Value: 10000, Worn in: TAKE NECK

Can affect you as:

Affects: MANA by 5

Only those who are at least apprentice magic users or apprentice clerics,

or adept thieves, or adept warriors, or apprentice druids, or apprentice

necromancers, or adept bards, or adept monks may use this item.

prince fayez

Object ‘hat gaudy captain’, Item type: ARMOR

Item is: MAGIC

Weight: 5, Value: 5000, Worn in: TAKE HEAD

AC-apply is -0.3

Can affect you as:

Affects: MANA by 5

Affects: DEX by 1

Only those who are at least adept magic users, clerics, druids, or

necromancers may use this item.

Great job Juggleblood.

Splork

bling bling

iblis loaded this

Object ’loop green adamantite rune’, Item type: ARMOR

Item is: HUM MAGIC TRI-40-ITEM

Weight: 7, Value: 350000, Worn in: TAKE WRIST

AC-apply is -0.5

Can affect you as:

Affects: MANA by -10

Affects: REGEN_HP by -3

Only those who are primary supreme warriors, and have attained supremacy in at least three classes may use this item.

king

a Sarabian Aventail

Object ‘Sarabian shoulder guards shoulderguards aventail’, Item type: ARMOR

Item is: SHOULDER DOUB-40-ITEM

Weight: 2, Value: 20, Worn in: TAKE NECK

AC-apply is -0.0

Can affect you as:

Affects: ARMOR by -8

Affects: REGEN_HP by 2

Only those who are at least supreme warriors, and have attained supremacy

in at least two classes may use this item.

foot-baz

Object ‘sarabian signet ring’, Item type: TREASURE

Item is: MAGIC

Weight: 1, Value: 20000, Worn in: TAKE FINGER

Can affect you as:

Affects: HITPOINT by 15

Affects: ARMOR by -1

Only those who are at least apprentice thieves, warriors, bards, or monks

may use this item.

Already posted where this stuff loaded

Hamza loaded signet ring last night also

ask urchin about trade

A street urchin says ‘I’ve got a buyer who wants me to acquire various personal affects from the royal family.’

A street urchin says ‘It’s some kind of strange hobby or fetish or something. Anyway I’ve also got this '

A street urchin says ‘great rig for your boots that a dwarven blacksmith gave me. They’re these steel spurs '

A street urchin says ’that really put some hurt into your kicks. So bring me that ridiculous hat that whacked out '

A street urchin says ‘prince is always wearing around the castle, a royal bisht and signet ring, that gorgeous’

A street urchin says ‘saddle, and 500000 in gold and we’ll make the swap.’

trade spurs

A street urchin says ‘Aha! Here it is’ and hands you Steel Spurs.

Steel Spurs

Object ‘spurs shiny steel’, Item type: CLASP

Item is: NOBITS

Weight: 0, Value: 100, Worn in: TAKE

Clasp can only be attached to:

shoes and boots

Clasp gives the user +4 KICKDAM

That’s cool, foot clasp.