Level up an agnostic (important!) high elf chanter to 12 (Crushbone belts/pads!) Need Lvl 12 Illusion: Halfling, Invis, Illusion: Dark Elf. Must be agnostic since Illusion: Dark Elf won't fool anyone if you worship Tunare
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Step 1: Chanter runs to EC Tunnel, bind. Run to East Freeport and go to the Seafarer's Roost. Buy an Innoruuk's Kiss of Death from the bartender Gregor for about 8 silver (lore alas). Hop the boat to the sister island in OOT. There she can buy (for the 1 plat) Kiola nuts, might as well buy a few since they're not lore, if you'll be doing this a few times.
Step 2: Gate to EC Tunnel, get a SOW. Run west to Kithicor. During the day, attack bixies until you have 3 honeycombs - check vendors as well. Alternatively pay 3-5pp ea to newbies in Misty Thicket or hunt there. Take 3pp to the bank and get it changed to 30 gold. Illusion halfling, alliance, and give 30 gold and 3 honeycombs to Kizzie Mintopp, in the burrow across from the Fool's Gold to get Honey Jum (lore). Gate to EC Tunnel. Honeycombs are one time sink in this quest but not too bad.
Step 3: Get a port in EC Tunnel to Toxxulia Forest. Run to Erudin and go to the Hawk's Inn, buy one Innoruk's Kiss of Death (lore) if you forgot to get one at EFP like I always do! Go to the third floor of the library and give the Drink to Sinnkin Highbrow, the bookworm. She'll give you the Erud's Tonic (no drop lore item) in exchange. You don't need Illusion: Erudite if you're indiff which you should be as an agnostic HElf. Boat to N Qeynos. Invis til you get to the boat to avoid shark attacks en route!! And don't fish off the boat, sharks can eat ya! The Boat is the other time sink!
Step 4: When you get to North Qeynos, invis to avoid corrupt guards, head to the Temple of Life compound in S Qeynos. Camp to a lvl 3 SK alt (death touch makes fish kill fast, lvl 3 easy and makes kill easy) - it's very helpful to go get a bind behind the vendors near the pool since if your SK dies after killing a few fish he'll deathloop on respawn at the guards at the front gate. The bind means you never have to make another. Once the SK kills a fish with a corpse, camp to chanter, wait to loot the corpse and grab it. Voila, one fish corpse and no bad faction hits. Under no circumstances use your chanter because of bad faction hits, and occasional Rodcet Nife incarnations pretending to be fish that'll own your ass in 2 secs. EB yourself on the chanter if your attention wanders, I once let mine drown answering the phone
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Step 5: Gate to EC, get SOW, run back to the Seafarer's Roost in EFP. Cast Alliance on Gregor and give him the 4 items (Kiola Nut, Erud's Tonic, Honey Jum, Fish Corpse) He will give you 1 to 4 plat and the Bartender's Compendium. Buy another Innoruk's Kiss!
Step 6: Leave East Freeport and run down through the desert of Ro (North, Oasis, South) to Innothule Swamp. Run to Feerott from there, and then to Oggok. Invis and stick to the shoreline in North Ro and Oasis, and the west wall in South Ro and be careful of undead in South Ro since your invisibility won't fool them. You are safe in Innothule, Feerott and with Delf illusion in Oggok. Remember to recast when you zone into Ogguk if you Delf in Feerott!
Step 7: Once in Oggok, run to the end of the city where the tavern is. You want to be Illusion: Dark elf, they're not KOS in Oggok but the merchants will not sell to you. Go into the tavern, cast Alliance on everyone in the room, then Clurg, and give him the book. You should get the stein in return. Gate back to EC Tunnel, and go sell the Stein in EC for 175-250pp! Rinse and repeat.
There you have it, works like a charm. Thanks to all who gave me advice when I was doing my first Stein run, and to those who posted previous guides I used for source material. I've done it about 15 times since then, for gearing up my main LOL.
Regards,
Mg