Quests that were never really solved

[Buellen]

Don't remember where i read this:

The orc shaman apprentice in west commons would occasionally drop unreadable scroll (don't rem the item exactly). when you took these scrolls ?? to the gnome that spawns int he bar in east freeport you would get a low level spell in return commonly but on rare occasions you could get a recipe for trade skills.

It was postulated that this is the only way one could find the unsolved recipes but would take a horrendous amount of time.

A few years ago i tried this on eqmac as that was the most unsullied (changed code of eqlive available at the time) I did it roughly 20 times and i did get recipes occasionally about 1 in 10 scrolls but they where known recipies from the books available at various merchants. IT could have been possible to maybe get some unknown trade skill recipe, but i could not dedicate that much time to this project as i busy raiding and doing all kind of crazy quest on eqmac at the time.

[Buellen]

A lot of those old quest where not really intended to be quest.

Example: Mammoth hide quest in surefall glade it does have one turn to the druid npc who's son is eaten by mammoth for the bayl list II i believe, BUT if you talk to the two bear/fox armor guys in qeynos hills and ask them about mammoth hide they will imply a quest which does not work.

for kicks and data i log into live and killed mammoth few times <needed to know faction hits for here on p1999> i did the turn into the mourning druid for bayle list.

Had a few extra mammoth hide and headed to qeynos hills and tried to turn in the hide to the two npc their and no luck they would not take it at all even though they said they pay "TOP DOLLAR" hehe that is exactly what they say when you ask them about mammoth.

[Thiefboy777]

What about the sphinxes, what's up with them? Isn't there also some random darkelf that spawns in sol b too?

[Kender]

the sphinxes was a quest line they never finished developing