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Your counsellor is standing before you.
”Noble Lord, a young man seeks an audience with you. He says it is a matter of great urgency.”
You ask your counsellor to show the man in.
”My Lord, I come to you on behalf of a strange creature I met in the woods yesterday. He appeared to be half man half goat and he spoke to me with the strangest voice. He said he was in dire need of aid. He was feeling ill and said the only cure to his illness was resin from a steel-bark oak. He said it was only a matter of time before he died, and he was too exhausted from his illness to get it himself. He offered me gold in abundance if I helped him, but I don’t know where to find such trees and I’m not sure I would be to break the bark to extract the resin. I thought I should tell you, so you could send the right man to help this creature.”
You ponder at the information. This creature has to be a faun and they are said to own unimaginable treasure. You actually happen to know a part of the great forest where these ancient trees grow but they may be hard to find this time of year. Nevertheless this is a great opportunity!
Any ideas???
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Surely you need intelligence to find the tree in question - and the text sort of indicates that you could require strength to "break the bark to extract the resin"... but that's just a guess.
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I wonder if there in quest calculation might be a racial modifier..? My first thought with this quest was to send an Elf.
Can/will the programmers shred any light on this? Or does someone else have any reason to think that there might be/not be such a modifier?
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I haven't looked at the quest (and do not know it) before answering this post, so do not in any way take this as a hint for or against anything! The quest system is designed so quest that can only be completed by a single race can be made. Whether McKnight and Goffdahl ever used this feature is beyond me. But you should remember that humans always do better at quests (when the abovementioned criteria isn't utilised) than the other races. Elves come in second, then dwarves and finally orcs. Also the amount of gold brought home after a successful quest differs (elves bring back the most, then dwarves, humans and orcs).
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Llorente wrote:I haven't looked at the quest (and do not know it) before answering this post, so do not in any way take this as a hint for or against anything!
The quest system is designed so quest that can only be completed by a single race can be made. Whether McKnight and Goffdahl ever used this feature is beyond me.
But you should remember that humans always do better at quests (when the abovementioned criteria isn't utilised) than the other races. Elves come in second, then dwarves and finally orcs. Also the amount of gold brought home after a successful quest differs (elves bring back the most, then dwarves, humans and orcs). So dwarves tend to steal some gold too? And elves and dwarves aren't equal in quest ability?
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Yup. The orders I give in the previous post are correct. If you read the manual, you will see that something similar is written there. At least a hint of the same :-)
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my god.. i failed this quest at level 2 with 19 shields..
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Hmm - Strange - Exactly the same thing happened to me.. Now i know that you can fail a quest even with 20 shields - but is it possible there´s a bug in play? Mr Llorente?
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I´ve just been "surfing" around on some of the other homesteads, and seems like a lot of people botched a 19/19(20) quest today.. Based on messages from guestbooks, and "press releases".
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I just ran some statistics on today's quests, and you're correct that a fairly large amount of 19 shield quests were missed. But there were also a lot completed successfully. Nothing statistically impossible happened today and since nothing has been changed then I'm rather certain that nothing's amiss. We'll soon implement a small addition to the quest element and when I do this I'll also re-test the quest calculations and everything concerning these. More info on this later. Cheers
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Okay - As always, thanks for a quick reply - I´ll just have to blame lady fortuna (that fickle hore;) then.
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Bad luck for me as well. . . I failed this quest this week with 19/19 shields on level 2.
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The question is ofcourse: How did you get the 19 shields? Was it intelligence, strength and bravery that counted after all?
I'm sending off this guy on a level 2:
Level 5
HP 157/169
Strength 9
Dexterity 6
Intelligence 10
Leadership 3
Bravery 7
Toughness 7
Swiftness 7
I'll be back with further information on # of shields tomorrow...
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I failed the quest too with 19 shield. I chosen a dwarf thinking they can be able blacksmith. I would know what I had to do
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Well, I got 19/19 shields with the appointed hero - and bloody failed!!! I can't believe it!
Seems he couldn't find his way (intelligence?) in the forest.
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Failed with 19 shields
this is the hero
Race [Elf]
Level 2
Fame 0
HP 155/156
Strength 7
Dexterity 7
Intelligence 6
Leadership 4
Bravery 3
Toughness 6
Swiftness 4
he didn't break the bark
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That makes at least six of us to have failed it with 19 shields. . . quite a coincidence.
Has anyone actually succeeded at this quest with 19 shields?
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Does it have any impact on the battleshields that your hero is not on full hit points? Any idea?
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It does indeed. But it very much matters what kind of tests the quest implies. An intelligence test doesn't really require your hero to be fit, while physical tests like for an example a battle does require a fit hero.
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That's what I thought - so does a quest like this require hit points? Cause I would say no... :-)
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