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Warrior's with Wands 3:25pm EST - Khali

There was some dialog on the list about Warrior's (that is non-Life Magic chars) casting L1 Life Magic spells by using Life Magic Mastery wands. Yes indeed this does work. I posted a short article on it here.

Oh, and now Monty has posted an article, "Magic Items 101" also on the subject. Cool

To Camp the Lair of Death 3:05pm EST - Druss

Last night was a blast, and I get the felling there is NOTHING that can stand against us when we are all together like that.

HMMM

Nothing can stand against us????

Sounds like a Lair of Death trip to me. (just outside Arwic)

Tuesday at 6:00 Druss will be going to the Lair of Death to Smash Olthoi.

I hope that ALL OF YOU will be there to join him.

:-)

Any who wish to come, we'll be cleaning the place out.

Meet at the tunnel portal. Someone please post coords, I don't have them. [42.0N, 58.1E, L15 and up]

Lifestone somewhere, I don't have that either. [33.9N, 58.2E - on the road just SW of Arwic]

Meet at 6:00 by the entrance to the Lair of Death - anyone wants to show up late - feel free. We will be inside, and the place isn't very big, and we'll come get you if we have to.

Golem Hunting Update 2:58pm EST - Druss

The quest for Atlan Weapons continues

> Who has all the Motes?
Ginger Lynn has most of the motes (my mulette) we have 20-25 right now.

> How Many More do we need?
Maybe 160? Maybe more. We have a LOT of people wanting a weapon.

> Who has the weapons already?
Rimgar Redsun has one

> And can [Mizu-no] get on the list please?
no. Ok, sure. Why not. :-)

The List:

Rimgar Redsun (Now has his)
Rojon
Simone
Cyblade
Greymon
Pethor
Mizu
Doria
Hiro
Miko
He-who-must-not-be-named
Merodda (Rhodry's second char)

This is by no means complete, or correct. Please correct this and add to this list when you see it. I could only find an old one. Please rearrange names if you do not like your spot in line. Please add your name if it is not on here.

Power Leveling Miko Style 2:53pm EST - Miko K-sun

keep hunting and running on the mossy and the monouga hill till lvl 7 or so... about that you can start making hit and run attacks on the banderling hill..... there is a good valley to do this from.... I will have to get the coords... you lead out a guard or raider and beat on him as best you can... eventually you will kill him with out running and healing, but till then he give good xp and shouldn't take more then 2 runs at him... at the spot you can hunt 3 guards, 1 raider, 2 scouts and 3 drudges... as you beging to kill them you can go farther up the hill.... you will lvl real fast there...don't be afraid to hit and run..... It's the best way to lvl fast

More Little Guys 2:48pm EST - Druss

Gar - set up a time when people can pledge to uzimatrakamasutra - whatvere his name is - your alchemist. Then we can all meet at the tower, outfit new guys, and pledge to him, all at the same time. Everyone make sure to specialize in Loyalty please.

Mage Academy 2:46pm EST - Beryl

Ping suggested trying the Mage Academy near Neydissa this week. Supposed to be tough with good loot. We may need a lockpick specialist. Who is interested in going? How does Thursday sound?

Mountain Fortress 1:22pm EST - Rach' mann

I will most likely re-attempt the fortress on monday around 9EST along with my two vassals rimgar (ax) and pain corp (unarmed). If ya wanna come please do-recommend at least lvl 20. Druss and all other 'tanks'- I think it would be cool to see a troup of bashers do their thing. I will post this on the BBS and the site as soon as I confirm it tonight.

Little Guys 1:22pm EST - Beryl

Suggestion: Why not spend all week with each of us running a "little guy" pledged to Gar's alchemist. I got Kaia to level 6 yesterday. We could probably use a little mage. Farik has a xbow player that he can bring to Yanshi to pledge.

Also for the staff quest we will need an alchemist with a good skill to combine some ore. Someone tried to hire Gwillum (now level 2 without a single fight) for this on Sunday in Mayoi, but we could not buff him over 150.

Level 5 and 6 Tapers 1:22pm EST - Beryl

Some of you that can cast level IV or V spells, try out this site. It has a cgi script to determine the "random" tapers. I have no idea if it is accurate or not. This could be the end of taper misery.

http://sunrain.net/actaper.htm

List Serv, Site Updates, and Gatherings 3:39pm EST - Khali

The List Serv is working, just really, really slowly. I'm getting messages about 3 hours late right now. If you want to read the list spam, use the link in the nav bar above labeled ListServer and click on the link to the archives. The HTML archives are updated much sooner than I'm receiving the mail.

I'm going to be out of town through the weekend so there will be no updates to the site till Monday. I have a number of pictures that I haven't managed to get posted today and I appologize for that but there are only so many hours. And man was I up late last night...

At some point people will be going after the Mountain Stronghold S of Qualab'ar where the quest for a new unarmed weapon has run into a stumbling block: a huge dungeon full of shadows. Someone needs to remember to bring bread crumbs to leave a trail. Stay tuned to find out when people are going.

Please, would somebody help Rojon run the Friday Folthid Cellar. It is a really great thing and I'd do it if I were here but I can't so somebody please help do it. OBTW, I think a standing 9pm Friday at the Yanshi Well for new Source (L10-20) would be awesome. We'd have a couple L20+s who could show up and lead whoever shows around.

I don't know of any particular weekend quest, but a lot of people are camping Golems either N of Holtburg or on the Mayoi beach or in the mountains between Lin and Baishi. And the matter of getting Gar's alchemist up in levels still remains. Of course we could always just find a charitable alchemist outside the group to donate their services. Perhaps Druss or Mizu or Pain know someone. I hope to log in Monday to find Rimgar weilding a pyreal axe.

The List 1:36pm EST - Druss

The List:

Rimgar Redsun
Rojon
Simone
Cyblade
...
Hiro
Miko K-sun
He-who-must-not-be-named

Please note I put Simone ahead of Cyblade so we could get one of the weapons for unarmed into the Source sooner. Also, neither of them have specified a place in line, so I chose for them. Cyblade will be getting an axe. Since Rimgar will be getting an Axe first then we get sword, unarmed, then axe again.

More on Motes 1:33pm EST - Muttfyre

The Motes combined up to 8 of them Using the 1+1, 2+2, rule. Once motes are combined together by any mortal you get a Pyreal Bar (You need 2 of these for an Alchemist to combined for you into a 16mote big BAR) At that point you INFUSE a Glyph into this 16-mote bar. Now to determine WHICH weapons it can make, We would go up to the wizard I mentioned up North, and see what Glyphs you can purchase from him to find out what weapons are available. I knw there is a CLAW Glyph so that means UA gets at least ONE weapon but I believe there is 2 for UA. Staff as you said may not have one... There is no Bow or Xbow made mentioned anywhere. I will try and take a ride up to the Wizard and buy the glyphs we need and see what is available. I was merely collcting Motes for you and Miko. So, from what I read, Mizu is going to be dissapointed...

Anyways, I hope this helps. I will put together all the data I have and put it into a HTML friendly mode so Khali can slap it up on the web I guess...

The Search for Motes Begins 10:41pm EST - Khali

For those who don't know, this event involves some new weapons. Gar sent around a link that gives the definitive story:

Check out this link, it explains all about the new weapons and how to make them: http://boards.xrgaming.net/cod/discboard/messages/5829.html

Druss also sent out a note that talks about getting glyphs:

Didn't find a damn thing for an hour and 55 minutes. AS I was running back home, just as I turned east, I ran into a small cave. IN the cave were FIVE alliance monarchs. One of them asked me if I would like to be added to the line.... Um What line? Cave of the fire glyph for the new weapons, outside Uziz and Yanshi. Takes an HOUR each spawn.

and later he adds this advice

Oh, and the glyphs/stones cannot be given away. You camp the spot - its yours. Oh, and the first spot was very easy to camp, but the gril told me the green stone is harder. NONE of the five alliance monarchs HAD a new weapon yet. Oh, and you get motes off of golems. Any kind of golem. All golems drop pyreal motes.

Farik suggested a camping spot N of Holtburg:

Sac and Farik have been killing wood golems ALL DAY. During this process, Sac found a pyreal mote. (incidentally, the same golem dropped a wood heart. must have been the rich kid on the block)

I have a mule with Alchemy skill around 100, unbuffed.
I would be surprised if this is sufficient however.

Any Source who want to come join us, bring your fire weapons and run (don't walk) to the Wood Golem Spawning Ground at 62.4 N, 29.9 E. Pretty much straight north of the Holtburg lifestone. This is going to be my stomping ground for a while, so give me a @tell to see if I'm there.

Later Druss added:

Mare and I are in the North Woods hunting Golems above Holtburg. Whta ablast. Wood Golem after Wood golem, tumbling down. We killed about a hundred before Mare got the first one. Anyone hunting some other kind of golem having a better ratio? Rumor has it that bigger golems have a better ratio. Anyone have any proof to this?

Fletching Aids 10:40am EST - Rojon

Be aware Fletchers can now whittle "Pile of short sticks" into quarrels and "Pile of Long Sticks" into arrow shafts in the latest update.

Good Triumps Over Evil 10:40am EST - Cyblade

Thought I should take the time to tell of my adventure last night. I spent most of the morning fighting Golem like everyone in the game has been doing for the last couple of days. Without any luck Golem hunting I thought I would go get the fire stone The legend told me about. I run to the coords and there are about 4 people in front of me. I come up with the plan I will just log off and log back on 5 in the morning when I get up to go to work. Then out of no where 3 Flares come into the Cave.

Me without any cold weapons on me fight to stay alive. Maybe going back to get a flame weapon in a good idea. I run back to get my BD IV cold axe. When I get back there is only 2 people there. I'm now 3rd in line. about 2 hours go by (very slowly) and a Guy named Jian comes in. He is level 38 and don't believe he should have to wait in line. he said he don't have to play by our rules. I'm next up for the stone and it is now 11:30 at night. My stone spawns at 12:15. He try to tell him there is a line and he shouldn't be an ass about this matter. This goes on for about 15min. Now I have 30 before my spawn. I tell him evil will never conquer and some how he will pay. Out of no where this lvl 1 guy pops in the cave and start telling everyone that he is from The Zone and he is here to settle this matter. He tell Jain that we all have to work together to make this game work and being evil isn't the way. This last for about 25mins and then Jian leaves. 5 mins til spawn. I believe the Gods of Asheron's Call were looking over me. Jain should be place on the Enemy of The Source list and we should msg hie King Cannibal about him.

Hunting Spot Near Zaikhal 10:40am EST - Cyblade

This message is for all 10 - 15 members of The Source. I have found a great place to help you powerlevel. It is up near Zaihkal. I have been there many times and plan to go back Friday for any who want to check it out. It is called the Banderling Castle. It isn't camped at all. There are Banderling Breeders and a Captaon and even one Banderling Chief. I started as a level 17 and made 18 in no time alat. Iam now 20K from 19. I will make 19 there easy. If you are looking for a nice place to powerlevel let me know and I will take you there Friday at 6:00 from Yanshi. The place has a cool fort near with a lifestone a a portal back to Zaihkal and one to Hebain-to. It is also a nice place for archers to sniper bigger game. Let me know if you are interested and I will be happy to take you. I'm looking for a party of 4 - 6 people. You can felow in smaller groups to get the most Xp. This will also keep you safe. The respawn rate is very fast. i went there with SahowWeaver and another 22 levl player joined us. we couldn't keep up with the respawn rate. I would like to see if we could claer the Castle. Also there is great hunting around the castle. There are Tuskers and more Banderling and mites and Golems.

Matty Camp Results 12:27pm EST - Hiro

We got 6 hides! Here are some pics from the event. We had a ton of people, probably a dozen or so showed up. More details later. [see pics]

Obsidian Bridge 5:42pm EST - Khali

Farik sent in this picture of the new Obsidian Bridge that spans the river near Cragstone.

Initial Post-Patch Report from Fort Teth 2:14pm EST - Rojon

Multiple Drudges, Lts., Wasps and Shadows are invading Teth. 2 Panumbris Shadows guard the runway from the common portal entrance. Gar buffed me and we hunted along the outside of the fort killing numerous lurkers and stalkers. Activity is definately picking up and its obvious Turbine wants to keep Teth mid-level free. I'm still not good enough to solo most of the stuff here.

News from the town crier:

Town Crier tells you, "News! Spice merchants have set up shop in the quiet towns of Plateau, Baishi, and Al-Jalima. Those pursuing the culinary arts of Dereth are sure to flock to these sleepy villages

Town Crier tells you, "News! A lurking sense of evil has permeated the entire land. Seers and madmen have reported seeing menacing forms during foul weather, and children from Qalaba'r to Stonehold have been plagued by nightmares. The Drudges seem more anxious than usual."

Town Crier tells you, "News! Raving lunatics claim to have been whisked away by mysterious forces, and brought to a previously unexplored area of barren rock and thick marsh."

New Utility 12:51pm EST - Garurumon

Hello all my favorite AC Addicts, I don't know if you have seen this before or not, but if not check it out: http://www.zuggsoft.com/ac/ac.cfm It is an AWSOME program for figuring where stuff is and what else is around that area. I know now that I have it I plan to explore more.

Lich Dungeon Expedition 11:58am EST - Mizu-No

I am headed using Blair To investigate the Lich Dungeon near Kara on Sunday at noon. Meet in Kara

The restrictions are level 14-22. We will be facing Lichs and Lich Lords It is goona be tough going and there are no life stones near by

Any one can come
But be prepared for another Shadow dungeon fiasco

TO CAMP THE MATTY CAVE!!! 4:21pm EST - Druss

Good Morning ALL!!

Saturday morning at noon, I will be leading an expedition to the MATTY CAVE to (hopefully) get some coats. I am thinking that we could take over the cave (just by sheer numbers) and camp there for saturday and sunday - all day.

People can of course leave when they wish, but I know that there will be a lot of people there, and you need a lot of people in order to take over the cave.

We will meet in Yanshi at noon, by the well, where I will fellow any one interested in going. Bring a spare weapon, bring tons of spell components, bring TONS of mana stones and healing kits. We will be running a good fifteen - twenty minutes through the mountains north of holtburg, and there is not a lot of stuff to buy at the little fort that we will be going too. And, what is available at the fort is amazingly expensive.

Here's the plan for those of you looking to go early and just want the coords.

Portal to Holtburg
Run to 66.4, 20.4
Run to Neydissa Castle - 69.5, 17.5 (Attune)
Run to Matty cave - 65.4, 16.7

explanations - the first set of coords are safe passage through the mts. If you try to run straight to Neydissa Castlke, you run into a mt range that you cannot get over, and you have to backtrack and it is very frustrating. Run to the first set of coords first.

Neydissa castle has a lifestone, a few vendors, and thats it. It is NOT a safe place. There are mt rats that spawn in the castle, and tuskers have been seen chasing people inside. Wow, the more I think about it, the more I think that this place is like a mini dires!

Run out the entrance and run straight for about two minutes, then take a right, and run through the mts to the matty cave. Its a a bitch to get to.

WARNINGWARNINGWARNINGWARNINGWARNING

Tempers flare in the matty cave. Matty coats spawn VERY VERY slowly. sometimes to the tune of one every five hours. Sometimes more, sometimes less. I have spent 8 hours in the cave, And not got a hide after killing great after great after great. Another time, I signed on in the morning and got two in the first five minutes of being there. Not a joke.

Mages are extremely effective against Matties. They can kill them WITH EASE which is very frustrating for the warriors who have to burn mana like the everready bunny just to stay alive in there.

A word of caution - do not let your temper get the best of you (like it does me sometimes - he) I would like to swarm the matty cave with Source Members, and I would like to leave a good impression. Do not get into a shouting battle with someone over looting rights, or get pissed off when you see the mages camped there blasting matty after matty after matty. You are a representative of the Source, =- and that means something. We have a great deal of respect in Dereth, and last night I was talking to an alliance monarch with 283 followers who said to me - "You have some really, really nice people in your alliance" Notice the two "really's". Also note that he has three times as many followers as us, and I had never heard of him. But he knew us. Everyone knows us.

And he is right. We have a great group. Your tempers and strength of will, will be put to the test in the matty cave. Not with other source members, but with people already there.

just be nice, and remember the @squelch option

(@squelch "assholes name who is bugging me")

See ya Saturday at noon.

Jamie

Just to clarify - this is for the mid level guys and the high level guys.

I am thinking of Ji, and Cyblade, and Spooks, and Shadoweaver, doria, fist, that crew. The higher levels are more than welcome to come - but should not feel the responsibility to come. Since we are all going to be camping there - its not going to be a great exp bash - its going to be more of a social hang out and kill matties kind of thing. All are welcome - no one is required.

Of course, the cave is tough - we could fit 20 people in it from entrance to pit (do NOT go in the pit btw there is no way out except a portal that takes you to Bandit castle, outside arwic) and still lose control of it.

thats all

Jamie

One-sided conversations and Panumbris Shadows 9:33pm EST - Khali

Reading a bunch of one-sided conversations that Miko was having with the RW folk via the ListServ was kind of strange, huh? Got this pic from Miko showing him and Simone fighting a Panumbris. It seemed from Miko's message that other people wanted to see the pic (which so nicely gives us the Panumbris stats), so I'll make it front page material just this once (normally I don't like cluttering up the home page with pics).

I'll mention that there already was a picture on the site of a Panumbris Shadow. In that instance Druss and Mizu had to fight a couple Panumbris Shadows to recover a body for "Oatmeal" (read Druss' account here). The best thing about that picture is Mizu's line which inspired Hakeem's wonderful insight that the real reason Warriors are better than mages is that they can shout cool things while they battle Panumbris Shadows while Mages are busy fiddling with their keys.

More on the Mite Maze and Mt. Lethe 2:42pm EST - Ping

Well Ping didnt make it to the mite maze. The Server gods of ISP deemed him not worthy and delayed his entry back into Dereth. This put Ping about 2 hours behind schedule. Had some xbow testing, trading and general burden reduction, before Mite Maze.

As a result, Miko K-sun, and Ping have decided that we will develop a more complete plan for the Mt Lethe expedition. Especially since there are lvl 35+ Virindi, Skeleton Lords, lvl 66 Obsidian Golems and lvl 103 Magma Golems, not to mention some mid 30 level NPC's to fight in the Mt lethe dungeon.

I am recommending that no under lvl 25 go on this expedition and that we hold off for a couple of weeks to allow some of our group to pump up. The Minimum for the dungeon is lvl 20. Remember that it is on the West coast of the dires. I dont believe there are any lifestones (known ones) near the dungeon either. That means a 30 click run from Fort Teth. I also feel that we should have every heavy hitter The Source has on this one. It is a long run and we will need escorts, Im sure. We already know of the problems that can happen with large groups, therefore a splitting of the attack force into waves or seperate assult teams could be recommended. Each team of say... 5 people.

Either way, we should hammer out the details before going. I still think we should play safe and get the letters from the Mite Maze and then the Celyard(sp?) guy in Rithwic.

Ping

Oh, some other info I forgot. We need at least two people with Very High Lockpick Skills.

Mite Maze and Mt. Lethe 2:42pm EST - Miko K-sun

Miko sent out this note this morning:

Ping and I will be meeting at 9:00 eastern tonight to do the quest for a scroll of summon portal..... our first stop my be the Mite Maze... we have 2 of the notes from the maze already, so we are not sure if we are going there... after the maze or if we decided not to go we will then be going to Mt. Lethe (I think is name) a lvl 20+ dungeon in the dires, Simone will be joining us for this part (she say Mite Maze sucks and if you and Ping can't handle it i will go, but other wise im not going in there)..

joining us.... if you would like to join us we will be doing a mad dash thru the Mite Maze to get to the mage, so this we be very disorganized as ping and I will be smashing everything we see and running around trying to find the mage in there...

the dungeon in the dires will be more organized and much slower. we will be taking our time in there so as not to die :)

if you wish to join the best thing is an in game tell tonight as we are not sure of the plan ourselves... the only plan we have now is complete the quest... I may do parts of it in advance (the Mite Maze) so Ping and I can get to our vitae and fun in the dires.

Then Hakeem added this:

The first time that The Source went into the Mite Maze, we found the guy, without knowing what he did. He gave this note to Druss, and Druss gave it to me. The note said to give it to Celcynd of Rithwic. I never made it to Rithwic until about a week ago (I'd been carrying this note for a Loooooong time.) Celcynd has a book of the mages, and the mage wants it back, yadda, yadda, yadda. I give Celcynd the note, and he gives me a note back with directions to Mount Lethe (Has the location on it) Supposedly there's something on the bottom of Mount Lethe you need to get to give to Celcynd, or to the mage from Mite Maze.

I'm interested in going, and will try and meet you guys wherever we need to. Do we even need to go to Mite Maze again? That place is confusing.. If I recall correctly, the guy with the notes is upstairs, but not entirely sure...

And Mount Lethe is close to the west coast of Dereth it looks like. I'll try and locate a lifestone near there, if possible.

And finally Miko finished with this:

I am going to go the the Mite Maze at 7:00 est or about there... I hope to have a few more notes from the mage before Ping loggs to meet me at 9:00 est.... this will cut down on some of the time needed for this quest.... anybody wishing to meet me, including ping, can do an in game tell to find out where I am... I am confidant that the maze creatures are of little challenge to me... the problem will be the maze... going by myself I will be able to portal out when confused, but with others they can help me learn my way around, so either is good

One concern that Ping and I have is that we need a note for each scroll we wish to get and would hate to get to the bottom of Mount Lethe and need more scrolls.

Carved Caves Expedition 2:29pm EST - Beryl

Expedition to the Carved Caves on Saturday night at 10pm EST. Everyone should meet in the town of Zaikhal at that time. Note that the Carved Caves are restricted to Level 17 and above.

Roger Wilco 2:14pm EST - Khali

It has taken me seemingly all day to work through the backlog of AC Spam from this morning. Man you guys crank out some e-mail, hehe. So I'm excited about all the Roger Wilco stuff and want to make sure everyone has the opportunity to download it and try it out. I've set up a dedicated page for Roger Wilco info which will hold IP addresses of Source Servers as well as information on configuration and other general impressions. If you find some good material for the page, just send it along.

Announcing the Source Council 11:23am EST - Caessa II

THE SOURCE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN .....

The votes are in and have been counted and each of the members has accepted their nomination. I am honored to annouce the first members of The Source Council:

Garurumon
Hakeem
Khali
Miko K-Sun
Mizu-No
Mutt of Niska
Rhodry
Rojon
Caessa II/Sister C

I was thrilled to see the number of people that voted and the thought that went into their votes. We sure are lucky to have such a GREAT group.

We will be starting work on The Source Charter next week (weekends are for playing :-). I will do my best to keep everyone up to date on our progress.

See you in Dereth,
Mare
a/k/a Caessa II and Sister C

Redesign 5:51pm EST - Khali

Finally Finished
I've finally finished (or as close as I'm going to get tonight) with the site redesign. There may still be some troublespots and I know that the old colors on some pages don't look right with the new background, but I'll try to get to it over the next week or so. Also all the pages are supposed to have graphic titles but I haven't gotten around to making them yet because I was still tweaking the structure (and therefore page names). And because I've been changing the site structure too, the nav bar at the top is already out of date a bit and needs to be updated. Until I can get around to fixing it, I just added in what I thought were the useful links in text underneath the graphics.

Feedback
There are probably still some errors with the site. If you find a broken link or a missing image or something that just looks wrong, give me a note. I've gotten mail from a number of people over the last couple months pointing out minor corrections and I really appreciate the feedback. I'd also love to hear what you like or don't like about the redesign. Of course I may not _do_ anything about it (lol) because I like the redesign, but I'd still like to know.

New Pages
One of the new pages is called Site Map which basically just lists each page in the site grouped by directory. If you're having trouble finding a page, this is a good place to start looking. You'll also notice three links on the far right under Discussion that lead to the message board, the list server and to a calendaring service that Rach' found on When.com. I don't know if this is going to be useful or not, but I figure if I don't include a link, we'll never know.

Backlog
There has actually been a lot of really good stuff from the last couple days and now that I'm done with the major headaches of moving the site into a new design, I have a bunch of content waiting to go up. Thankfully with the site now more structured and with my HTML more templated, it should take less time to put up new content. But check back tomorrow and expect a lot of material to go up.

Oh and that Roger Wilco is the bomb. I think it will change the way we play.

Many thanks to Rach' mann who supplied the basic art and provided a development area for me. And thanks to you all for your patience while I futz around with this thing.

-Khali, Source Scribe & Webmaster

More Lich Lord Spawns 9:43am EST - Khali

Beryl added a couple of potential Lich Lord spots

There may be an easier spot. Zombie Rock west of Lin has a tower that contains 2 liches and a lich lord. Would that do it? I have also heard talk of a better lich tower somewhere near Tou Tou. I suspect it would have a lich lord too.

-Beryl

I hit send too fast. I forgot to mention that Ping and I have not been able to find a means of reaching the tower on Zombie Rock. It is on the east side of a big sawtooth mountain west of Lin. There are cliffs all around it and there must be a way of getting up there since it is usually camped by a couple of people. Although I have been past a couple of times and no one was up there. You can stand at the bottom of the cliff and listen to the people in the tower. Last night no one it would tell Ping how to get up there. Figures.

Let me know when you are going too Mizu, I would be happy to help out.

and Miko had one too

I have heard that there are liches and lord at the bottom of old mine in Q with the luggs.... need lock pick to find out.. You name the camp Miko will camp...

More Lich Lord Spawns 9:43am EST - Khali

Beryl added a couple of potential Lich Lord spots

There may be an easier spot. Zombie Rock west of Lin has a tower that contains 2 liches and a lich lord. Would that do it? I have also heard talk of a better lich tower somewhere near Tou Tou. I suspect it would have a lich lord too.

-Beryl

I hit send too fast. I forgot to mention that Ping and I have not been able to find a means of reaching the tower on Zombie Rock. It is on the east side of a big sawtooth mountain west of Lin. There are cliffs all around it and there must be a way of getting up there since it is usually camped by a couple of people. Although I have been past a couple of times and no one was up there. You can stand at the bottom of the cliff and listen to the people in the tower. Last night no one it would tell Ping how to get up there. Figures.

Let me know when you are going too Mizu, I would be happy to help out.

and Miko had one too

I have heard that there are liches and lord at the bottom of old mine in Q with the luggs.... need lock pick to find out.. You name the camp Miko will camp...

Need Help From Team 9:39am EST - Mizu-No

It has come down to this.

The Lich Seal Comes from one of the following:
Lich Lord
Revenant

cool huh
Places to kill these kind of things are
Lich Lord:

• Bottom of the Dungeoun in Uziz
• House in the mountains near Kara
• Moguanana Pit
• Bottom of the Pleatue Village Inner Dungeoun
• and i think Druss mentioned an advocates tower with lich lord in it in the Dires

Revenant:

• Arwic Mines #2
• Moguanan Pit

they dont drop them all the time.
they Revenants drop them more than the lords

I need help on this one.
i can kill lichs easy but not lich lords.
I have managed to solo the revenant in arwic twice but it was touch and go both times.
I need someone to go camping with me.
i would like to do it in the dires if we can find that advocates tower Druss spoke of

the problem: these guys spawn only one of their kind. so camping them is REAL tedious. Congrats to Gar on level 30 and Miko for level 28.
if we can get that seal we can attack the city of frore
it is all we need.
tell me if you guys have good places to kill these things
thanks

Updates 5:17pm EST - Khali

Hakeem suggested we take a look at Roger Wilco (http://www.rogerwilco.com) to possibly use as a way to voice-communicate while in-game. Send your thoughts to the list.

CyBlade announced that the group going to Zaikhal will meet in Yanshi by the armorer.

Posted a good note from Hiro on Darktide. Nice job.

Also in case you didn't notice, Miko added the third installment to his "How to Make a Tank" series and Hakeem wrote up a nice little note on the Dires. Seems that all the L20+ Source members are slowly moving their focus Westward. And on that note, Garurumon (who made L30!) has offered to portal anyone who wants out to Fort Tethana from Mayoi. At the Fort is a portal back to Glendon Woods and a lifestone (but watch out for the Ash Gromnies and Silver Rats!).

A couple of current items 12:38pm EST - Khali

There is a lot of good Source spam today on the ListServ. Nice to see it return.

Beryl had this to say about CyBlade's trip to Zaikhal:

Several of us went into this dungeon a week or so ago. There was one tusker and bandy for sure also zombies, but no liches as i remember, certainly there are in halls of helm up the road. I am not positive we figured out the whole place. There are some eerie sounds on the bottom level. There is a vendor in the dungeon near the beginning.

Also Miko is talking about getting together an Olthoi hunt along the coast NE of Arwic. He recommended you bring some Piercing Protection and a taste for Vitae. When he gives out the specifics, I'll post it here.

Also there was discussion of Dires Vorous Shreth. Miko sent a couple pics of them that I posted in the Gallery including one with full stats.

Field Trip to Zaikhal 11:23am EST - Cyblade

Here we go boys and girls. You wanted a good adventure and now you are going to get one. I have been some reconing of some places. I believe I found a good one. A field trip to Zaikhal. All expences paid. All you need to bring is guts and a weapon that does cold damage. We will be entertained by the likes of Crude Manugas and the sexy female truskers. There may even be some undead to help with the fun. While there, we will also be visiting the wonderful Crypt of Ashen Tear. A must see. Sorry no one under 12 should apply. If you do you will only rack up some vitae. Now to make this fun, we need to get there early. So the ship will sail Saturday 12 at 12:00 noon. I will post more detail about the trip and Changes to it later in the week. Higher level members please be on stand by for body recovery, or come along for support. Please reply with any ideas on making this trip better.

Nominations for the Council 11:26am EST - Caessa II

MAKE YOUR VOTE COUNT!!

Greetings All,

I have been pestering Druss to get the council organized (because I am the one that gets to hear the most complaints from him -- but ya didn't hear that from me :-) So, what did the pestering get me???? He promptly appointed me to organize the council :-) Hmmm there is a lesson to be learned there I have no doubt!!!!

Anyway ....

As most of you are aware, to begin with, the council will work on establishing The Source Charter, setting out the guidelines for being a member of The Source, etc.

WHAT DO I NEED FROM YOU?

To do this, I need each of you to think about who you want to be on the council. There will be 9 members on the council. Think about a well-rounded group that will represent each of the classes, levels (lower levels to higher levels), interests, personalities, etc. To start with, Druss has asked/appointed me to chair the council to get the ball rolling.

I need you to SEND ME A LIST OF 10 NAMES to represent your nominations to the council -- 8 additional council members (the chair makes 9) and 2 alternatives.

DON'T BE SHY about nominating yourself if you would like to contribute to the council!!!! Only I will know and I would like to see that people interested in working on the council :-)

Send your nominations in a PERSONAL email to me (not the ac list) at: [removed]

I will take nominations thru next Tuesday (2/8). I will tally the nominations on Wednesday and confirm that each of the individuals is willing to work on the council and then announce the first Source Council after that.

Any question, just send me an email (occasionally I do log out of AC (gasp!) and check my email :-).

May the Source be with us :-)

Thanks,
Mare
a/k/a Caessa II and Sister C

Couple items from Miko 4:41pm EST - Khali

Added Miko's "How to Make a Tank" document in addition to sending it out to the list because it is such good Library material :-) Thanks Miko.

Also wanted to share something Miko passed my way that perhaps not everyone knows about their subscription:

From: Zone Billing Customer Support
To: 'Keith & Stacey'
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 2:55 PM
Subject: RE: Your Subscription to Asheron`s Call is About to Expire!

Dear Zone Member,

We have received your message regarding your Asheron's Call account. Characters are stored on our server for up to six months, so if you inadvertently get canceled or do not get renewed, your character is safe as long as you continue to use the same User ID.

For future subscription and billing assistance, feel free to access our direct email form http://www.zone.com/zqdb/hframe.asp?topic=11003 for prompt resolution of your concerns.

Thank you,

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Microsoft Gaming Zone - Customer & Billing Support
www.zone.com

So if any of you get notices of problems with your account, rest assured that your chars are safe under your user ID even if it takes you a couple days to work it out with the Zone.

New Posts 1:35pm EST - Khali

I've posted a story from Farik on how he got the Green Mire Cuirass, a note from Druss titled Council and a re-post from Rojon that got some attention on the list.

Sorry the updates have been so light, but my time for the site has been limited.

Frore Quest 1:35pm EST - Mizu

Ok enough I am going after the axe and helm of frore
if I have to get a lich seal might as well go all the way i have been to teh bottom of the Bandit castle
i have fought and kill 2 gold wasps and retrived notes and misc
Bullshit
but one chest does not open for me even after weaken lock I
i dont have the key and i dont know who does and i dont even know if there is any thing in the damn thing I am haveing a large amount of frustration in this area anybody know how i can get started on this

Things I know
you need lich seal
you must give the quest items to the chick at the pleatue village and she will open a portal

MY PLAN
get the items we need
Then send out an all source call to assualt the city and get the axe and the helm
get many axes and many helms
give axe to druss
give helm to simone and get lots of XP
Dont die in that god forsaken place

Sounds like a plan?.

A couple notes 11:31am EST - Khali

The last couple days have been pretty slow for Source material. I've been a bit under the weather so I haven't been going crazy posting material, but there hasn't been anything too momentous happening. The message board has seemed pretty quiet with most of the attention on the ListServ. Rojon began a nice thread on leadership and dealing with dangerous situations. Beryl has been taking a dungeon inventory. Druss is talking about arranging to bring mid-level chars out to Fort Tethana to look around and shop. Someone mentioned perhaps doing a big group outing to Dryreach.

I know personally I'd like to see some more stories written up. I know everyone is really busy trying to get that 50K they need to make the next level, but remember that its not a race. Enjoy it. If you had a good time last night, savor it. Work out the story and get it down on "paper" (at least virtual paper).

Hall of Helms Adventure 12:27pm EST

Rach' mann led a very successful Hall of Helms adventure last night. Rach', me (Khali), Ping, Rhodry, Beryl, Rach's newest vassal Rimgar Redsun, and Pain corp (ne Nan toi) all met in Zaikhal last night and spent several hours inside the Hall of Helms. I'll post my account of the evening on the message board's Tall Tales forum. In the mean time, check out some of the cool pictures we snapped last night including one IDing the Guardian himself. Not that fearsome, but still a cool shot.

Oh and I got L19, immortalized with the help of Kodak Moment Self III which Rach' had recommended I learn.

-Khali