Quest Issue: A goblin Penkeeper (droga)

[Zeelot]

I'm coming up on approximately 100 hours spent at this camp and I've yet to see a 'stone key' So far I've gotten 3 copper keys for the monk shackles and about 30 trash keys. There's no way that this item is supposed to be this rare.

[maximum]

I think the Shackle of Steel is bugged. Search the forums.

Something I found for you, via Google:

http://www.theclenchedfist.com/Conte...age/pid=2.html

"To free him you must obtain a coppernickel key by getting the copper key from a goblin interrogator, also in Droga, and the nickel key from a goblin penkeeper in Dalnir and combining them in a large key base given to you by Master Rinmark. Give him the key and your shackles of Copper and Bronze and you recieve the Shackle of Steel and free Veltar, causing him to immediately despawn."

[Versus]

He's talking about a SK quest. I think they share a loot table for a monk shackle quest though.

[Mylec]

I've gotten the stone key before...I have "A Coarse Iron Needle" on my monk

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=22916

It didn't take me nearly that long though...pretty sure I got the stone key twice when I was doing this too, I've yet to see the interrogator for the copper key tho >< still need that

[baalzy]

Last modified in 2004 (the clenched fist page)

The Iksar specific quests went through some overhauls and might not reflect how they are implemented here on P99. My advice would be to use the wayback machine to try and view the quest-pages on allakhazam or other resources from the 2000/2001 era and see if the steps in the quest match what they do now.

It's entirely possible that the quest is implemented differently here then what the guides you're looking at say.

[Gibcarver]

I have countless hours slaughtering all the gobos in the jail getting all the penmasters but the penkeeper has never spawned for me. the earliest post I have seen seems to describe a spawn that is not present on p99...

Ok I got my Stone key today finally. Sit in the cell next to the Imprisioned Iksar's cell. Kill the mob that pops in there - be sure to snare all mobs ofcourse - and also be sure to kill the goblin interrigator. Wash rinse repeat. The Penkeeper doesent always have the stone key, just be patient. The other keys (bone, bone necklace)seem to come from the penmasters just outside the bars)BTW dont bother with a pet he will get you into serious trouble. If you get a bunch of mobs on you and FD fails run back and forth through the false wall till FD comes up again. I hope this helps.

from http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/q...tml?quest=1202

I wonder, has anyone gotten a penkeeper?

[Zeelot]

Spawns in the same spot as penmaster. It's same PH - will either be penmaster/spider/penkeeper.

Penkeeper is the rare and stone key is his rare drop.


Have fun!

[Gibcarver]

This post from September 2000 also mentions the penkeeper spawning around the fire visible from inside the double cell doors.

The goblin penmaster which spawns in front of the jail (around the fire there) and who has a placeholder which is one of two spiders (neither dropped anything that I recall, other than spider silk) drops two items that unlock the outer and inner door to the jail. These items do not look like keys, and it took us quite awhile to figure out what they were for.

The penmaster spawn is targetable from inside the jail, although he can only be pulled with a spell (arrows have a tough time getting through the grating.) So falling in without a key isn't necessarily a have-to-gate-or-pick-lock situation.

(http://liveweb.archive.org/http://eq...e=92&mid=10437)
that is more inline with what I remember. It's also worth noting that none of those doors are locked on p99

[Drakaris]

Gibcarver, the quote you have there is for the Penmaster, not the Penkeeper.

It's easy to get confused...

The Penkeeper is supposed to spawn inside the cell that has a fake wall, which is next to the cell with a busted down door in the jail area. He is a common spawn. The reason why he spawns there and why he is common is because his keys are used to get out of the jail area, because the cell doors were locked before the revamp.

If you fell down the pit that lead to the "enslaved iksar" cell, you could still pull the penkeeper with ranged as he was visible at an angle. Why do I know this? Because I did Droga to death back in the day and when I did my shadowknight quest, I stupidly thought the bone key and the bone key necklace were off the penkeeper and camped him for ungodly amount of hours, before finding out that it in fact dropped off the Penmaster which had 2 place holders (both spiders, however there is only 1 place holder on this server).

The goblin interrogator spawns in the cell with the broken down door.

Right now on this server, both the interrogator and penkeeper spawn points are unoccupied.

I have reported this in the bugs forum and have found these old magelo links to where they should be spawning.

http://eq.magelo.com/npc/419503
http://eq.magelo.com/npc/419984

[Uthgaard]

I show it as an 11% chance. You're just unlucky.