Quest Issue: Shaman Cudgel #6 should be in-game

[nilbog]

I'm still working on this quest, but began encountering difficulties.

I couldn't find any information on Vagnar the Channeler. For the time being I made him a similar level/appearance as the coerced channeler and referred to the writeup on allakhazam, referenced from Cradossk's page writeup.

The iksar slave* is also a bit confusing. In classic, this npc resides in droga. I built his script, but according to some forum posts, there are faction differences between the iksar slave for the shaman skull vs the iksar slave for the monk shackle in addition to the textual differences. Currently they both share the same spawn point.

Could use any additional npc information, or quest information not present on these pages.

[Passenger]

- https://web.archive.org/web/20011215..._of_Droga.html

Name			Level	HP		Race		Class	Position
crazed iksar slave, a	19	610		Citizen, Iksar	Warrior	(-220,1321)
enslaved iksar, an	30	1150		Iksar		Warrior	(-198,1307)
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iksar slave, an		23 - 26	750 - 810	Iksar		Monk	(-220,1321)
iksar slave, an		30	1170		Iksar		Shaman	(-198,1307)

- https://web.archive.org/web/20020106...35%26id=208624

Submited by: Niblz On: 1/23/2001 12:30:23 PM

So, there are two Iksar's in the Droga jail. One says he is Digalis, a mystic of Cabilis, so unless he's lying, he's not Veltar. Veltar should be a Monk. The other one is a Crazed Iksar Slave and always attacks me. Interestingly, when he does, Digalis jumps in to help me. I tried sneaking behind the Crazed Iksar Slave to talk to him, but he doesn't respond to anything I tried, like "Master Rinmark sent me.", "What is your name?", "Are you Veltar?", "Where is the Shackle of Steel?", etc.
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- https://web.archive.org/web/20020805...tml?quest=1204

Veltar
By: Anonymous
Posted @ Fri, Feb 2nd 9:24 PM 2001

Veltar spawns in the middle of the cell, his pher is the crazed iksar slave. Don't kill the iksar slave that spawns on the right half of cell or you will get bad legion and mystics faction.

It appears the two "an iksar slave" should not share a spawn with each other. Digalis (shaman slave) shares a spawn with "an enslaved iksar"; Veltar (monk slave) shares a spawn with "a crazed iksar slave".

[nilbog]

Thanks, I got the spawns separated and on the appropriate factions.

Does anyone know if either or both of the iksar slaves existed prior to Jan2001? The existing slave had a rule for Jan2001 as well as a day/night despawn mechanic. If there is further information about either of these I can update.

[Passenger]

I believe the ficticiousname9 ShowEQ dump (linked above) can be dated to Aug2000 or early Sep2000.

- https://web.archive.org/web/20231014.../20000809.html

AUGUST 9, 2000
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Dragons:

Rumor has it that some new dragons have been spotted in Kunark. It should be noted however that the dragons can be engaged from much further away than is intended. Rather than hold off implementing these dragons for another week, we've decided to implement them now and fix the problem in the next patch. Enjoy [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

We see Gorenaire present in the dump of Dreadlands, however, I have yet to encounter any NPC introduced with the Sept. 19, 2000 Epics patch.

It appears there was a separate issue affecting the Shackle of Steel quest:
- https://web.archive.org/web/20001119...ML/001409.html

Mandrak_Andragora
posted 09-06-2000 11:22 AM
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Shackle of Steel : per Ester the NPC in Droga who is supposed to drop the third piece of the copper-nickel key is not even in the game.
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- https://web.archive.org/web/20001118...ML/003335.html

Topic: Hobart-Shackle of Steel in this patch?
wallcrawler
posted 10-29-2000 07:09 PM

Is the copper key mob going to be put in with Oct. 31st patch? Cant remember who but someone said that they would make sure that when this went in, that Abashi would make a note of it in the patch msg. Since this has been broken since RoK went live it would be nice to have it fixed before Velious comes out.

No reply from Hobart.

- https://web.archive.org/web/20011125....shtml?zone=92

RE: copper key
By: Jolariss
Posted @ Wed, Jan 10th 3:55 AM 2001

Thanks to the Jan 9 patch the Iksar Shackle of Steel quest now works. The copper key is dropped by the Gobiln Interrogater that spawns in the cell with the broken down door.

- https://web.archive.org/web/20231014.../20010109.html

JANUARY 9, 2001
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* Fixed the Iksar 'Shackle of Steel' quest.

Seems the goblin interrogator should be flagged for Jan2001?