Parchment Quest 4

Parchment Quest #4Feb 22, 2013 at 8:08pm   QuoteEdit Post by Dank on Feb 22, 2013 at 8:08pm Back in 1997, I ran a short-lived set of in-game quests. They were popular with the few players who began trickling back after the several server moves through Colorado and later, JPL. Here is one of them, mostly for Dina, who loves this stuff. Note the format: I had to pre-compose the text with spacers in order to get the parchments to format more nicely. In those days, pets lived forever and never wandered. You could call them, and give them stuff, and they'd remain until the end of the uptime. Great for making carriers of notes without having DEMI+ privileges. GENERAL QUEST POST An abiding evil threatens the Realm… While dark powers gather against two fortresses near the Calidone Woods, a tower of arcane magic, has been corrupted in the name of vengeance and tyranny! Discover the dark secret of three realms… Trace the web of evil to the very edges of our plane… Intercept the instruments of destruction before they can wreak havoc... Parchment placed with KING EVELAKE ... mind thee, the dastard does not care one whit for his service to thine crown, and holds nary a thought for the poor souls he sacrifices so brutally hither. I beseech thee, liege, renounce his unholy services and break the bond with which he might yet shackle thee... At least do this for me. DESTROY the six words of power before they can be uttered... Destroy them, Evelake, or be thee destroyed. Signed, LORD WELMAR King of the North Plains

Parchment placed with Queen De Grance: 5th day of the Month of Futility Day of the Great Gods Champion of the Realm, Heed My Royal Plea: My husband has been accursed by evil magicks arrayed against him and beyond the ken of his advisers and close counsel. He was lured by a power that consumes him, a dark promise made to him by his father years ago, that the kingdoms of Camelot and Carteloise would one day be ruled as one! It has clouded his mind and allied him with the purest of evil... I wish it were not so... Please answer my most earnest appeal and save my husband... I will order a reward for you and all who will follow you... Seek my husband and see his pain! Do not harm him, for he knows not what he does... I will provide you with the name of the ultimate evil so that you may destroy it ultimately! J. S. E. |[the royal seal is affixed here...]

On Morgana Le Fay: | ...We hast done what thee hast demanded | Morgana, and now we desire our reward! | | The WORDS are EVELAKE's now, and | thee shall have thine revenge upon Camelot | and Arthur! | | Our gold, Morgana! Do not delay! Send | us our spoils! | | [ the parchment has a faint musty smell]

FIVE WORDS, given to creatures in CAMELOT: SCRYING CHAMBER HIGH TOWER SORCERY Red-herring, random latin stuff given to bones in CAMELOT

On the Master Summoner (High Tower of Sorcery): Conjurer of Magick Most Arcane: I implore thee! Unleash thine minions NOW upon the lands of Arthur! As we made compact, my good sisters have provided thee with the SIX words of power... and now thee controls the sixth plane as thy biddeth... In further payment, mine agent will deliver EVELAKE's child bride to thee as guaranty, and soon thereafter, her lover, Sir Kay of Camelot... as repayment for his transgressions! I remain yours in Service... MORGANA LE FAYE

On Sir Kay: My darling: Take heed and leave at this once! The evil summoner is in the employ of my deluded husband and has unleashed forces upon thine truest Lord Arthur. Make haste my love to me, for I fear for my Life. J. S. E. [The seal of Carteloise]

Left in Kitchen in Carteloise: My Dearest Love, Kay, You canst reach me, for the agents of the Wytch in league with the summoner have taken me. I am lost, but my love, I shall always carry thine soft words and glorious desire within mine hearte. Do not ye despair. I promyse a return to thee afore long. Julia Sarah Allia Queen of Castle Carteloise

On a bonecrusher [oddly, you are able to easily interpret the latin on the parchment...] blue tongue of fire carry the armies of the sixth plane into the hearts of Arthur and his servants... blue tongue of flame smite them where they sleep and bring mine vengeance to me at last! --M L F

Thanateros won the 1,000,000 gold coins I paid out as a prize. He used locates, of course.

Last Edit: Feb 22, 2013 at 8:12pm by Dank "XYZZY" -- A powerful magic word, ADVENTURE, circa 1977, (and a great way to remember 3D matrix transforms).