It’s hard to post when you’re not playing much, and that’s been the case for me for quite some time. \u00a0I might log in for a short burst of activity and then I’m gone again. \u00a0My last kick was in May and given my summer schedule I had planned to play a fair bit. \u00a0I wasn’t back in the swing more than few days when drama erupted and utterly killed my desire to be around.<\/p>\n
So when I saw the soldier’s quest I just ignored it and I had intended to ignore the current month long Undead Scourge quest. \u00a0On a whim I ran out on an early morning Dibbler quest that Destre was hosting and tripped over a gravestone. \u00a0A short kill later and I was, in full OCD mode, mapping the Realms again with CMud trying to track down the room names that the gravestones were located in.<\/p>\n
If you’re just getting started on this quest here’s a few things you want to know. \u00a0The gravestones can be found with the locate object spell. \u00a0Zistrosk chose to allow this in order to make it easier for less experienced questers to get involved. \u00a0When a gravestone is destroyed a mob may appear that you can then fight for additional credit. \u00a0Further once a gravestone is destroyed a haze will appear on the ground that is also locatable. \u00a0So if every gravestone was cleared you could still make note of where they were showing up.<\/p>\n
Easy peasy to rack up the points right? \u00a0Wrong. \u00a0In order to make staking or botting the gravestones more difficult there is a delay on how quickly you may clear them, roughly 2 hours between gravestones (it appears to have changed since the start of the quest when it was closer to 90 minutes). \u00a0If you rush out too early then the message you receive when attempting to destroy the gravestone will also add a little extra time to your wait. \u00a0It can be frustrating … there’s no clear indicator when you’re ok to go for the next one and I suspect I’ve gone out mere minutes too early and then had to stay up later than I planned to waiting for the tag to disappear. \u00a0Oh yes, the tags only tick off when you’re online, but I think most of us are pretty used to that idea.<\/p>\n
Zistrosk posted a week 1 summary on the archives and I was impressed by how many people had at least come and checked it out. \u00a0He’s updated it since I last looked at it and it looks like lots of people are out and having fun.<\/p>\n
[ 21] Zistrosk: OKTOBERQUEST Leaderboard (current as of posting)
\nSun Oct 9 08:14:55 2016
\nTo: QUESTORS
\nName Total Sacs Kills \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Name Total Sacs Kills
\nIndious 085 049 036 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Taokor 002 001 001
\nTharius 081 044 037 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Cidal 002 001 001
\nLilmyrr 074 041 033 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Taelc 001 001 000
\nCharas 066 038 028 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Rayen 001 001 000
\nOrkadi 056 026 030 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Olvar 001 001 000
\nTarb 053 030 023 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Madazanirt 001 001 000
\nAleq 045 027 018 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Gaonllyx 001 001 000
\nCorisar 042 023 019 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Easop 001 001 000
\nZatade 041 022 019
\nPadrik 039 021 018
\nSialaxx 029 017 012
\nSemiramia 026 016 010
\nSmee 015 009 006
\nVhaenum 011 006 005
\nJagnic 010 010 000
\nCerf 010 005 005
\nNomak 008 004 004
\nSid 004 002 002
\nVilexur 003 002 001
\nUzbekiel 003 002 001
\nJoandaxjimli 003 001 002
\nZanalani 002 001 001
\nVexile 002 002 000<\/p><\/blockquote>\nI resurrected my previous project of mapping the Realms and have visited more than 60 areas this week. \u00a0I’m having a ton of fun and hope that you get out and check out the game more. \u00a0Today I went on a walk into Blasted Lands and visited Ra. \u00a0This isn’t a big hike but I don’t think I’ve been there since I was a new avatar when I poisoned and fought Horus for bracers on the advice of people like Ganymede from Guild of Rangers.<\/p>\n
A few days ago we saw an imp mkill quest tie in and tonight looks like it’s zombies.<\/p>\n
Have fun!<\/p>\n
PS: Happy Birthday Romani!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"