Mayor Zenobia alerted us to an enemy that surfaced on the cold continent of Thule. We were to find the sneaky spies, take the key fragments, forge the key and infiltrate the enemy lair to kill all the invaders.
Luckily, the spies have chosen to only come through the Ether Plains, so we found them quickly enough and reduced them to piles of dust, ashes and icicles - they were conveniently vulnerable to different schools of magic. We then found Sheikh Shabazz to forge us the key, so we could enter the enemy lair.
The enemy turned out to be a colony of ant-like creatures, ranging from relatively small, those who can kill a cow, to the gargantuan Queen Mother. We walked through the area, easily killing smaller ants, while exploring the caverns and looking for the queen.
The medium ants turned out to be splork mobs - for Reality - with some gold. While killing them, we popped:
1. a set of riveted steel shoulderguards from the formian soldier
Object 'ant riveted steel shoulder guards shoulderguards', Item type: ARMOR
Item is: GLOW MAGIC SHOULDER 2x40-ITEM
Weight: 0, Value: 32982gold, Worn in: TAKE NECK
AC-apply is -0.6
Can affect you as:
Affects: CON by 1
Affects: HITROLL by 1
Only those who are at least supreme thieves, warriors, bards, or monks, and
have attained supremacy in at least two classes may use this item.
2. the poleyns of the thunderous pounce from the giant lynx spider
Object 'poleyns pol thunderous pounce legs leg', Item type: ARMOR
Item is: GLOW 2x40-ITEM
Weight: 0, Value: 0gold, Worn in: TAKE LEGS
AC-apply is -0.9
Can affect you as:
Affects: SAVING_SPELL by -1
Affects: HITROLL by 1
Only those who are at least supreme magic users and thieves, and have
attained supremacy in at least two classes may use this item.
3. the heart of the silent hunter from the ant lion (a 100mil mob)
Object 'heart silent hunter', Item type: LIGHT
Item is: GLOW MAGIC 3x40-ITEM
Weight: 0, Value: 59687gold, Worn in: TAKE ABOUT
Can affect you as:
Affects: REGEN_MANA by 2
Affects: REGEN_HP by 2
Affects: REGEN_MOVE by 2
Only those who have attained supremacy in at least three classes may use
this item.
The item seemed to be a robe at first, but it really is a light. Way to raise and crush our hopes, Neptune
4. the centipede's stinger from the giant centipede
Object 'stinger centipede cent', Item type: WEAPON
Item is: GLOW MAGIC 2x40-ITEM
Weight: 0, Value: 23456gold, Worn in: TAKE WIELD THROW
Damage Dice is '3D3'
Can affect you as:
Affects: HITROLL by 1
Affects: DAMROLL by 2
Only those who are at least supreme thieves, and have attained supremacy in
at least two classes may use this item.
No idea, if it has any proc - it seems too weak without it. Yet to be tested.
When we were searching for the queen, a few people died from falling to aggro mobs and/or being dragged away, but we pulled through.
When we did find her, we popped:
5. the crown of the queen mother from The Formian Queen Mother
Object 'crown queen mother', Item type: ARMOR
Item is: GLOW MAGIC
Weight: 0, Value: 187249gold, Worn in: TAKE HEAD
AC-apply is -1.2
Can affect you as:
Affects: REDUCE_DAMAGE by 1
Affects: STR by 1
Only those who are at least novice avatars may use this item.
The mother turned out to be a 200mil (unaged?) epic.
Hopefully, she'll be improved to be more exp (maybe she has been, now that Neptune added honor for her), or we'll consider her to be a pure eq mob, as she takes extraordinary effort to kill, as she's very thick and summons cow killers to help her.
Also, Neptune has answered Josiah's and Crumb's prayers and there's a forge in the area:
The formian mystic tells you 'Ahh yes, the sleeves of enlightenment...Here is a little bit of information for you:'
Object 'ant sleeves enlightenment enlighten enlight', Item type: ARMOR
Item is: GLOW PERSONAL MAGIC 2x40-ITEM
Weight: 7, Value: 0gold, Worn in: TAKE ARMS
AC-apply is -0.5
Can affect you as:
Affects: HAND_DAMAGE by 2
Affects: HITROLL by 1
Only those who are at least supreme monks, and have attained supremacy in
at least two classes may use this item.
Requires: 1000000 coins, 1x banded leather sleeves (1),
1x the sleeves of shadow flame (0), 1x the breath of the ether (0),
1x diamond sleeves (0)
(Cps were edited)
A pretty neat addition to a hand dam set for non-monks, I should say.
Thanks Neptune for the area and an entertaining quest.
Thanks Josiah for tanking, Crumbs for managing healo and healing, Dr for endlessly healing, Reality for stabbing, Alris for running to places and others for doing the good job of exterminating the invaders.
More info on other eq and mob exp is here.
