Deep Gnome starter quest 5+

Firewalker

Quest seems to be broken atm, got to the part where you are supposed to wait for Lady Valhassen to leave the theater and go upstairs to take her necklace off. She never leaves the theater.

Fafnyr

Did you find something to do with the note or listen to gossip?

Olo

This quest worked fine for me.

Booger

Has anyone figured out if the pirate step works? I've not been able to figure it out. Had no issues witht he previous two.

Olo

Booger Yes that works as well, try talking to the tavern owner

Firewalker

Fafnyr you listen to the bartender then he sends you to the high note bar.

Firewalker

Olo She seems to be moving around now which is more than she was doing the last time I tried the quest. But when she goes up to her room and gets to the lockbox she says. "this dreadful thing kills my neck" and walks away from the lockbox. I inspect the lockbox and it's still locked sitting on the bookshelf. Can't open it, can't pick it with a lockpick. Can't /take necklace. Not sure if I'm missing a mud command here.

Olo

Firewalker That sould be all you have to do. just /take necklece
You have turned in the drawing to the drunk right ?

ehcko

Olo I too am kinda confused on this. Everything was easy up until the lockbox part.

I spoke with the drunk guy and he gave me the layout of the room. I waited till morning and followed her into her room, she tells the guard to leave, and she says it it's uncomfortable and then walks onto the balcony and mentions the wine.

I did all manner of things from /look to /inspect lockbox. It says "There's nothing that indicates there's anything of interest inside." And /take necklace results in "There's nothing of interest for you."

other MUD commands like /pry, /open, /insert [while holding a lock pick in my cursor] do not seem to get any feedback.

ehcko

Updated: Okay so I managed to get the nacklace this time but the way to get it is not intuitive or obvious at all... You'd figure that the best time to grab it is after she tells her guard off, puts it into the box, and then goes out to the balcony.
THAT would be the time to grab it.

But that's not the case, you basically have to wait several minutes for her to walk back and forth from the balcony and fireplace and after the guard already spawns back in his position again... Then for some reason the lockbox magically opens or the necklace is grab-able... with no indicators for how or why it suddenly worked.

NarcolepticLTD

ehcko I'm gonna bug this, thank you for posting your findings - I just think the timing isn't sync'd up correctly which is throwing a lot of people off (I was able to get it following your spoilers here after going through the same confusion)

NarcolepticLTD

any clues on the next quest? I'm not getting enough context to figure it out (if it isn't bugged or missing something) I'm getting the /look text at the altar but no clue on how to get my own blood to mix with the necklace, and none of the /place /take /etc commands seem to do anything (with the item on the cursor).

Stealthmain

NarcolepticLTD Did they add another step? Last I tried it ended at the level 5 portion.

Stealthmain

NarcolepticLTD I figured out the next step. Have the neckalce on your cursor and type /place altar

NarcolepticLTD

Stealthmain I figured out the next step. Have the neckalce on your cursor and type /place altar

I think I tried that but old man brain fog says I should probably try again 😃

I remember now... pretty sure I was using /place necklace - I'll log in shortly and try it with altar

NarcolepticLTD

Ok thank you for the assists! I've managed to get the 3rd part done (spoiler: you get a spiffy dagger!)

If I have time I'll try and post a quick guide in it's own thread (someone likely will beat me to it). Seeing all the rogue player corpses in that room should be a heads up that you need to be on your toes btw 😃

Stealthmain

NarcolepticLTD I completed the next step too. hoping we get one more but its also a satisfactory concluding point. lotta MUD in this chain. I hope true noobs can figure it out

NarcolepticLTD

Stealthmain I'm guessing the third part is the last bit as I tried handing the reward to the GM and she gave it back with no special quest text - fighting my boomerism and so far managed to get some screenshots of the quest rewards uploaded to the wiki (haven't created any articles or links yet, still figuring that shizzle out) but here's all 3 - If someone beats me to fleshing this out you have my blessings 😃 (spoiler below)

reward for part 1 (level 1 requirement)

reward for part 2 (level 5 requirement)

reward for part 3 (level 8 requirement)