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Quest Rules

General

- Your quest characters must not leave the accounts they started in.
- No other character must enter the quest account.
- Characters that began training prior to the quest being put on hold (listed in red below) may keep their progress due to the effort put in, since their accounts were locked and cannot be tampered with.
- All other quest characters (listed in black below) must have empty account vaults, 0 XP, no equipment and no gold other than the 200 gold they started with.
- If there are discrepancies in regards to your quest character or account, we will not let you participate until it is resolved. So if your account is locked, contact Stig immediately and the reasons will be explained.
- You may register a character after the quest begins, provided the criteria are met, but be aware you will be playing catch-up.
- When you reach level 30, you must send a memo to Stig and Scripto from the relevant quest character, stating the date and time. False claims could lead you to forfeiting a prize.
- The two quest clans will be set up a few days into the quest, to allow everyone to get above level 10. The two clans should have an even number of PLAYERS (so players with multiple characters will go into the same clan). People who wish to stick together will be considered, but some randomisation may be required so the numbers are even.
- At the end of the quest, all quest accounts will be locked so we may tally up monster kills etc. for prize giving.
- When the quest is over, you are free to use for quest characters normally.
- You may not rename your crit at any time during the quest's action.
- If you have multiple characters, they must not be used to help each other.
- If a crit does not appear in the list below, they are not part of the quest, even if their name begins with Qst.

Interaction

- Quest characters may not talk or otherwise interact with Non-quest characters in any shape or form, including, but not limited to, open chat, friend and enemy lists, paging, memoing and using AFK and DND messages.
- Quest characters and Non-quest characters may not join parties with or otherwise assist each other.
- Quest characters and Non-quest characters must not attack each other. We'll use our discretion, so you aren't penalised if you attack or PK by accident, but obvious interference will be punished.
- Quest characters and Non-quest characters must, to the best of their ability, not disrupt each other's training. This includes, but is not limited to, camping, deliberate dragging and kill-stealing.
- Quest characters may PK members of their opposing quest clan.

Trading

- Quest characters and Non-quest characters may not exchange gold or items with each other.
- Non-quest characters may not drop gold or items with the intent they they are to be picked up by Quest characterrs.
- Quest characters may not use /websell or the website auction system, and may not buy items down from the website.
- Quest characters can trade with each other in the game, and is actively encouraged... bring out the merchant in you!

Gameplay

- All monsters and bosses are fair game to both quest characters and non-quest characters.
- If, as a party, quest characters stumble across non-quest characters fighting a boss or vice versa, the party that just arrived must leave immediately, or log-to-local. Most bosses are log-to-local, although I would take caution when taking on Imhotep and the like.
- The Ethereal Shrines that you will start seeing around the realm are what drop the collectible Sparkling Trinkets and their higher forms; these items can be given to Bartenders for transmutation for easier storage. Non-quest players can kill the Ethereal Shrines for a unique kill on their list, but should refrain from hunting them unnecessarily. Note the drops are useless to non-quest players, because they cannot be put on the website and explode harmlessly if dropped, so if you do get one it is best to just discard it or /destroy it.
- Store Sparkling Trinkets and their higher-up versions in your quest character's account vault or on the quest character itself so they may be counted by staff at the end of the quest.

Rewards

- We will publish the running time of events a couple of days before they are due - these events may only be entered by quest characters (and we will check against an entry list, so don't try to sneak in with an unregistered Qst_ character!)
- If you win, a point will be added to an internal score table. The character with the most 'event points' at the end will win the relevant prize ring.
- For team events, all participants of the winning clan or team will gain an 'event point'.
- Scores and totals are tallied at the end of the quest, and prizes handed out to the main characters of the players who win.


We will be on the lookout for rule-breaking, and won't be best pleased if we catch it... you could see your quest character being disqualified. These rules will be subject to change should players start finding and exploiting loopholes, but try not to please, and instead enjoy the quest as it should be enjoyed.


The Categories

- First to level 30
- Runner-up to level 30
- Most Sparkling Trinkets and higher-up versions collected
- Most events won
- Most monster kills
- Most unique monster kills
- Most boss kills
- Most unique boss kills


I know some people wanted the role-play category, but this will not take place due to the staff not being around 24/7 and it being near-impossible to judge due to so many individual styles of RPing. Feel free to do it though... it will be a welcome sight.



Crits that are registered so far. Ones that are listed on the same line are owned by the same player. If your name is not on here and you think you have registered, please contact me.

Qst_Medic
Qst_Makaveli
Qst_Razor, Qst_Cadabra
Qst_Thumper, Qst_Twilight
Qst_Brownbeard, Qst_Hermit
Qst_Sheridan
Qst_Amadorra
Qst_Corinne
Qst_Storm
Qst_Regulator
Qst_Zarian
Qst_Druid, Qst_Zerker, Qst_Healz
Qst_Vanquish
Qst_Depraved, Qst_Scion
Qst_Exodus, Qst_Exile
Qst_Justice
Qst_Davkas
Qst_Jangler
Qst_Atlas
Qst_Masquerade
Qst_Guido
Qst_Gnome
Qst_Primex
Qst_Fang
Qst_Headache

Crits in red took part in the quest before it was put on hold, and hence some have made some progress. Nevertheless, effort was put in to level up under the quest's restrictions, so players will be allowed to retain their progress - the accounts were locked when the quest was put on hold and will be released upon its resumption, so no unauthorised training took place.

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And it begins!

There is a problem in regards to Qst_Cadabra, so can his owner contact me at some point? Thanks.

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Just to reiterate, the prizes...

- First to level 30 = Signet of the Practitioner
- Runners up to level 30 = Ring of the Practitioner
- Most Sparkling Trinkets and higher-up versions collected = ???
- Most events won = ???
- Most monster kills = ???
- Most unique monster kills = ???
- Most boss kills = ???
- Most unique boss kills = ???


Only clue I'll give... they have the same stats as the Signet of the Practitioner.


Just to clarify with the "higher-up versions" of the Sparkling Trinkets... for example: the next level up is "Shining Spider", made by a certain number of Sparkling Trinkets, and will be valued as such if seen in your vault at the quest's end.

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A few people started late, so the list of participants has been updated above.

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This list will be updated when the players get online and assigned to a clan.

Red Team

Qst_Corinne
Qst_Exile
Qst_Makaveli
Qst_Medic
Qst_Sheridan
Qst_Davkas
Qst_Masquerade

Blue Team

Qst_Amadorra
Qst_Hermit
Qst_Storm
Qst_Thumper
Qst_Vanquish
Qst_Zarian

Unteamed

Qst_Regulator
Qst_Fang

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Due to popular demand, there are now second-place prizes for events won, monster kills etc. Following the pattern of the other prizes, they're all named "Ring of the ..." - not all of them have been created yet, so if you're trying to guess the names, search for the Signets!

As with the Ring of the Pactitioner, they are 3ac rings.

Remember, you can still join the quest even though it started several days ago - just roll or reset a crit and place it in a new account and memo the details to Stig in-game. Once I give the all-clear, you can play. Even though you will be quite far behind the competition, there is a guaranteed prize of a Ring of the Practitioner for just getting to level 30 in the allotted time.

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The following bosses count towards "most boss kills" and "most unique boss kills". General rule-of-thumb is that they're standalone bosses (including the Coliseum bosses) and end-of-area bosses, but not key-bosses or containers, for example. This list is meant to be as exhaustive as possible, but our apologies if we've missed one or two; give me a buzz if I have and I'll consider adding it:

Aet'Thol
Aglon the Scourge
Arovet the Infidel
Atrium Monarch
Balrog
Banshee
Bigfoot
Black Hand Necromancer
Blackguard Burton
Blue Dragon
Brimstone Serpent
Bristlemane Wolf
Credenza (Though a container, it has no distinct guardian and is at the end of a very hard area)
Crystal Giant
Demilich
Demonic General
Demonic Scribe
Drow Blade Mage
Dwarven Enchanter
Einon
Elshira
Ganymede
Gargantuan Black Widow
Gh'ul'arg
Giant Centipede
Giant Chameleon
Giant Crocodile
Giant Hawk
Giant Sand Wurm
Giant Water Snake
Goblin Elder
Gristle
Guruk the Ugly
Hedge Lord
Herald of the Damned
Herric
High Priestess Ku'Nal
Hornet Queen
Hydra Body
Imhotep
Jaguar
Kraken
Lord Darksparrow
Lyzanthir The Enchanter
Mansion Owner
Pious Hannah
Profane Dianna
Rel-thon's Chest
Sabretooth Tiger
Sewage Smithy
Sludge Lord
Spider King
Spirit of Ariat
Spirit of Ruh'guul
Time Knight
Undead Marcus
Veteran Gladiator
Vinewhip Troll
Water Wraith
Winged Vampire
Zanitos (Technically a key-boss, but is the end of area boss)


What won't count:

Most key-bosses (This includes the Time Mage, Time Mummy and the Harabec Dungeon bosses. Zanitos is an exception, since he is the end-of-area boss)

Anubis Statue (high-HP blocking monster)
Bolted Chest (container)
Crazy Pete (While almost impossible to kill, akin to the Vinewhip Troll, he respawns too quickly)
Drow Archmage (appears as a regular monster too, also a key-boss)
Drow Blademaiden (appears as a regular monster too, also a key-boss)
Ibis Statue (appears as a regular monster too)
Lieutenant Burton (recurring mini-boss... finally appears in boss form as Blackguard Burton)
Mountain Ranger (high-HP blocking monster)
Rel-thon (recurring mini-boss)
Shady Diggy (same reasons as Crazy Pete)
Stone Gargoyle (high-HP blocking monster; appears as a regular monster too)
Stone Sentinel (high-HP blocking monster)
Storage Cabinet (container)
Sylva (recurring mini-boss)


Everything listed here, including the reject list, count towards "most monster kills" and "most unique monster kills" as well.

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Because that scavenger hunt was so successful, it now exists as a low-level miniquest, although the starting NPC, Kayla, will only appear periodically.

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Well, the quest is now over. Over the next few days I'll let the characters' statistics update themselves so I can give accurate results, then I will commence prize-giving.

One result I will announce now because it was one of the most hotly contested categories. On one side we had Qst_Makaveli who spent virtually his entire waking moment collecting Sparkling Trinkets, and on the other side was a coalition of four players helping each other around their busy real-life schedules: Qst_Thumper, Qst_Hermit, Qst_Amadorra and Qst_Fang, with the trinkets going to Qst_Thumper.

The end result... BOTH TIED FOR 1ST PLACE! - 2517 trinkets each. I don't know the chances of that at all.

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Results are in (red is 1st place, blue is 2nd place):

Qst_Amadorra
Level attained: 25 (XP = 71,495,404)
Monsters killed: 8,561
Unique monsters: 167
Bosses killed: 24
Unique bosses: 11
Event points: 0
Trinkets collected: 0

Bosses
Aglon the Scourge 1
Black Hand Necromancer 1
Bristlemane Wolf 1
Elshira 2
Giant Centipede 5
Giant Crocodile 3
Rel-thon's Chest 2
Sewage Smithy 1
Spirit of Ariat 1
Spirit of Ruh'guul 2
Zanitos 5


Qst_Atlas
Level attained: 12 (XP = 309,930)
Monsters killed: 23
Unique monsters: 2
Bosses killed: 0
Unique bosses: 0
Event points: 0
Trinkets collected: 0


Qst_Brownbeard
Level attained: 1 (XP = 0)
Monsters killed: 0
Unique monsters: 0
Bosses killed: 0
Unique bosses: 0
Event points: 0
Trinkets collected: 0


Qst_Corinne
Level attained: 26 (XP = 74,838,298)
Monsters killed: 3,030
Unique monsters: 34
Bosses killed: 2
Unique bosses: 2
Event points: 0
Trinkets collected: 3

Bosses
Giant Centipede 1
Giant Crocodile 1


Qst_Davkas
Level attained: 21 (XP = 13,708,918)
Monsters killed: 949
Unique monsters: 34
Bosses killed: 2
Unique bosses: 2
Event points: 0
Trinkets collected: 1

Bosses
Giant Centipede 1
Elshira 1


Qst_Depraved
Level attained: 15 (XP = 1,103,214)
Monsters killed: 141
Unique monsters: 9
Bosses killed: 0
Unique bosses: 0
Event points: 0
Trinkets collected: 0


Qst_Druid
Level attained: 1 (XP = 0)
Monsters killed: 0
Unique monsters: 0
Bosses killed: 0
Unique bosses: 0
Event points: 0
Trinkets collected: 0


Qst_Exile
Level attained: 27 (XP = 110,012,138)
Monsters killed: 6,944
Unique monsters: 25
Bosses killed: 1
Unique bosses: 1
Event points: 0
Trinkets collected: 7

Bosses
Zanitos 1


Qst_Exodus
Level attained: 1 (XP = 0)
Monsters killed: 0
Unique monsters: 0
Bosses killed: 0
Unique bosses: 0
Event points: 0
Trinkets collected: 0


Qst_Fang
Level attained: 22 (XP = 22,379,756)
Monsters killed: 2,244
Unique monsters: 57
Bosses killed: 5
Unique bosses: 4
Event points: 0
Trinkets collected: 0

Bosses
Giant Crocodile 1
Sludge Lord 1
Spirit of Ariat 1
Zanitos 2


Qst_Gnome
Level attained: 3 (XP = 2,217)
Monsters killed: 0
Unique monsters: 0
Bosses killed: 0
Unique bosses: 0
Event points: 0
Trinkets collected: 0


Qst_Guido
Level attained: 1 (XP = 0)
Monsters killed: 0
Unique monsters: 0
Bosses killed: 0
Unique bosses: 0
Event points: 0
Trinkets collected: 0


Qst_Headache
Level attained: 5 (XP = 13,041)
Monsters killed: 12
Unique monsters: 7
Bosses killed: 0
Unique bosses: 0
Event points: 0
Trinkets collected: 0


Qst_Healz
Level attained: 16 (XP = 1,905,922)
Monsters killed: 111
Unique monsters: 10
Bosses killed: 0
Unique bosses: 0
Event points: 0
Trinkets collected: 2


Qst_Hermit
Level attained: 24 (XP = 44,412,579)
Monsters killed: 14,032
Unique monsters: 166
Bosses killed: 42
Unique bosses: 11
Event points: 6
Trinkets collected: 0

Bosses
Aglon the Scourge 1
Black Hand Necromancer 1
Bristlemane Wolf 1
Elshira 5
Giant Centipede 16
Giant Crocodile 2
Rel-thon's Chest 1
Sewage Smithy 1
Spirit of Ariat 1
Spirit of Ruh'guul 2
Zanitos 11


Qst_Jangler
Level attained: 10 (XP = 135,197)
Monsters killed: 55
Unique monsters: 13
Bosses killed: 0
Unique bosses: 0
Event points: 0
Trinkets collected: 0


Qst_Justice
Level attained: 16 (XP = 2,025,753)
Monsters killed: 89
Unique monsters: 8
Bosses killed: 0
Unique bosses: 0
Event points: 0
Trinkets collected: 0


Qst_Makaveli
Level attained: 30 (XP = 277,804,933)
Monsters killed: 17,390
Unique monsters: 62
Bosses killed: 13
Unique bosses: 3
Event points: 2
Trinkets collected: 2517

Bosses
Giant Centipede 10
Giant Crocodile 1
Sabretooth Tiger 2


Qst_Masquerade
Level attained: 17 (XP = 3,099,431)
Monsters killed: 332
Unique monsters: 18
Bosses killed: 0
Unique bosses: 0
Event points: 0
Trinkets collected: 1


Qst_Medic
Level attained: 20 (XP = 11,128,129)
Monsters killed: 635
Unique monsters: 10
Bosses killed: 2
Unique bosses: 1
Event points: 0
Trinkets collected: 0

Bosses
Aglon the Scourge 2


Qst_Primex
Level attained: 1 (XP = 0)
Monsters killed: 0
Unique monsters: 0
Bosses killed: 0
Unique bosses: 0
Event points: 0
Trinkets collected: 0


Qst_Razor
Level attained: 11 (XP = 253,392)
Monsters killed: 36
Unique monsters: 7
Bosses killed: 0
Unique bosses: 0
Event points: 0
Trinkets collected: 0


Qst_Regulator
Level attained: 15 (XP = 1,204,402)
Monsters killed: 239
Unique monsters: 18
Bosses killed: 0
Unique bosses: 0
Event points: 0
Trinkets collected: 1


Qst_Scion
Level attained: 1 (XP = 0)
Monsters killed: 0
Unique monsters: 0
Bosses killed: 0
Unique bosses: 0
Event points: 0
Trinkets collected: 0


Qst_Sheridan
Level attained: 28 (XP = 150,525,557)
Monsters killed: 5,002
Unique monsters: 101
Bosses killed: 7
Unique bosses: 5
Event points: 0
Trinkets collected: 0

Bosses
Elshira 1
Giant Centipede 2
Giant Crocodile 2
Spirit of Ariat 1
Zanitos 1


Qst_Storm
Level attained: 15 (XP = 1,116,593)
Monsters killed: 377
Unique monsters: 15
Bosses killed: 1
Unique bosses: 1
Event points: 0
Trinkets collected: 0

Bosses
Spirit of Ruh'guul 1


Qst_Thumper
Level attained: 24 (XP = 37,081,139)
Monsters killed: 6,083
Unique monsters: 86
Bosses killed: 14
Unique bosses: 11
Event points: 1
Trinkets collected: 2517

Bosses
Aglon the Scourge 1
Black Hand Necromancer 1
Bristlemane Wolf 1
Elshira 1
Giant Centipede 3
Giant Crocodile 1
Rel-thon's Chest 1
Spirit of Ariat 1
Spirit of Ruh'guul 1
Water Wraith 1
Zanitos 2


Qst_Twilight
Level attained: 2 (XP = 1,690)
Monsters killed: 0
Unique monsters: 0
Bosses killed: 0
Unique bosses: 0
Event points: 0
Trinkets collected: 0


Qst_Vanquish
Level attained: 20 (XP = 10,518,416)
Monsters killed: 7692
Unique monsters: 13
Bosses killed: 2
Unique bosses: 1
Event points: 0
Trinkets collected: 1

Bosses
Elshira 2


Qst_Zarian
Level attained: 24 (XP = 39,483,571)
Monsters killed: 2753
Unique monsters: 34
Bosses killed: 5
Unique bosses: 2
Event points: 0
Trinkets collected: 2

Bosses
Giant Centipede 3
Giant Crocodile 2


Qst_Zerker
Level attained: 1 (XP = 0)
Monsters killed: 0
Unique monsters: 0
Bosses killed: 0
Unique bosses: 0
Event points: 0
Trinkets collected: 0

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Prizes - quite a few people were joint first, so they'll each get a Signet in that category:

Qst_Amadorra: Ring of the Usurper, Signet of the Adventurer, Signet of the Destroyer
Qst_Exile: Ring of the Scavenger
Qst_Hermit: Ring of the Hunter, Ring of the Adventurer, Signet of the Competitor, Signet of the Destroyer, Signet of the Usurper
Qst_Makaveli: Ring of the Competitor, Signet of the Hunter, Signet of the Practitioner, Signet of the Scavenger
Qst_Sheridan: Ring of the Destroyer, Ring of the Practitioner
Qst_Thumper: Signet of the Destroyer, Signet of the Scavenger