Secondly, about the missing zones, and the "safety points". The Missing Zones that have yet to be implemented BEFORE the expansion include, Paineel, The Hole, and The Plane of Sky (no, its not called the plane of air).

Thirdly, anybody that believes screenshots done by beezlebuub is either a) high or b) very gullible. Look at this screenshot for example:

http://gameznet.com/eq/sceenshots/garycoleman.jpg

This was the greatest fake SS i have ever seen =)

Its in the same design as the Kraken SS that was posted here. (The background is the West Karana zone). the SS also shows him Hailing the Kraken, and it does not follow the distictive hailing pattern for NPCs. First off, the word 'Hail' is ALWAYS capitalizied, in ALL situations. Also, when a person hails an NPC, there is always a single sapce after the text. Such as when you hail, say for example, Trannix Darkpaw, the screen would produce, 'Hail Trannix Darkpaw. '. This is the easiest hoax to disprove that I have seen in a long time. Beezlebuub does this all the time for fun and humor, don't believe any of his SSs.

Folks, please look at that screenshot! Its the funniest thing ive seen since the Southpark Movie. Go look at the fake kraken screenshot first... im sure a link to its somewhere on this site, its at Everlore.com if you wanna search for it..

but anyways...

im glad to see this post got past 200, it needs a diffenate response from Aradune and hopefully not BEN-SOE!

Hopefully theyll release some zone info or other stuff related to kunark, or anywhere else... im thinking 15 zones to kunark and the rest will be planes or the like.

Lets just all pray for the plane of tranquility! =)

On the topic of the locked Firepots in Neriak and other places, and they being teleporters.

I believe at least one person has discovered their secret. A few nights ago I was running through Neriak, and came to the gate with the large wooden spikes and large Firepots.

To my right, a human in brownish robes caught my eyes. He ran not to the gate, but to the firepot on the right side of the gate, and jumped on top of it... he for a brief instant ran against the wall, then vanished.

I immediatly ran over, loving to find new & interesting things, and jumped on top of the pot. I ran along the wall, I ran on top of the wooden spikes.. after a few minutes of searching, I found nothing.

I then ran behind the wall and looked. Even if there was a false wall, he would have just appeared on the other side. So I began looking on the other side of the wall for any hidden passages. Found none..

Odd, I was alone in the zone. Where could this HUMAN have gone in Neriak? I found it very odd that this individual jumped on top of the Firepot, and vanished. Now after I read this, I find it even more interesting and will probably be looking allot more often.

YES! A breath of fresh air. Something new. Something to seek out and explore. A reason for gaining levels and nice items.

As for the underwater passages.. can we say, fish boned ear ring? ;-) I've for a long time have held the beliefe that there are some very well hidden areas, if not zones and creatures, deep under the water. I fully intend on exploring ever watery area in Norrath to the fullest of extents... and leaving all my equipment in the bank when I do so. Just in case that odd seamonster can see invisible, and decides to eat me in one gulp.

Oh, and on the subject of the OOT and monsters living deeply down below. This is somewhat of a bummer, but have spent allot of time at the bottom of the OOT. It was barren, empty, and I didn't see so much as a wee shark, let alone any grand sea creature or shark. I WILL say, however, that falling down into the inky blackness is a frightening experiance. It is a LONG way down there..and even a Dark Elf can't see very far into that murky blackness..

Also... A reliable friend of mine today claimed to have saw bertoxxulis in kithicor forest today at the burned out house.

1)The giant sea monster was removed due to pathing problems, and may be summoned by a gm.

2)The fiery avenger as brad said is not in game yet.

3)Clockwork dragon is currently not in the game and will possibly, but not likely be in expansion.

4)Mayong Mistmoore is in the game but is not reachable "yet."(your guess is as good as mine.

5)There are two sphinx, they may give out a quest.

6)Shadowed Men: There is a detailed story about them if you talk to some npcs, mostly in temple of ro.

7)Prince Kermit: Uhh I think not, no idea though.

8)Neriak Bookshelf: Don't know

9)Miragul: Does not currently exsist.

10)Glowing Claymore of Tunare: Seems very likely to be a hoax, many problems with it, including if it was sold, would not the person give off the secret? And WHY oh why would anyone sell it!!(first) for 15k(second)!!!???

11)Dragon Quests: Ugg, someone else go try =)

12)Baby Green Dragon: No idea

13)West Karana Roc: No idea

14)Green Splinted Mail: Is not currently possible to get. Was possibly dropped in sol b durring beta (naggy?), and was only looted in a gm event before final release.

15)Neriak Fire Pots: no idea

Your faction with Vox has decreased.
Your faction with the Ring of Scale has increased.
Your faction with Nagafen has decreased.

Who is this Ring of Scale? Maybe the 'good' dragons. Maybe Naga and Vox are 'outlaw' dragons.

Prince Kyrmit (Not spelled Kermit) is in the game and is a froglok in lake rathetear. Hes around 23ish. Didn't drop anything when we killed em, was a bit of a dissapointment. He sometimes becomes lodge in the hill near the Lake Rathe/Rath Mountain zone, just past the bandit camp.

Sorry, about that. Didn't mean to post yet.

When my ranger was in his mid-teens I would often go to the island in Erud's Crossing to hunt willowisps. MANY times I would see fire elementals on tracking and try to hunt them down (I'd fought earth and air elementals before, so thought I would try fire). Every time that I tried to find them, after following them for a certain distance along a the direction indicated by tracking, the tracking would start to flop around -- fire elemental is to your left, fire elemental is behind you, etc. If I moved far away, the tracking would point right back to that spot, but when standing there it was as if tracking was confused because the fire elemental was either right above or below me.

After this had happened a few times, I did visual seraches of the island looking for the fire elemental (or elementals) that I could see on my tracking and there were none unless they were invisible. The island is not large and one could readily criss-cross it and be reasonably certain that you were seeing all that there was to see.

It has become my suspicion that there are caves beneath the volcano on the island in Erud's Crossing. I searched inside the cone of the volcano and never found any apparent (or not-so-apparent) entrance, but did not extend my search beyond that. Perhaps the entrances to the lava tunnels lie out in the water somewhere or beneath the ship of the zombie sailors. Just speculation.

Does anyone else think there might be something to this or am I being fooled by a tracking bug?

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Also, regarding the human using the firepot in Neriak and then running against the wall for a few seconds before vanishing. This is exactly the sort of latency behavior you see when someone uses a teleporter and, to me, supports the speculation that these firepots are teleporters.

If you don't believe this, go to the casters' guild in Felwithe and sit in the main teleporter chamber for a while and watch people using the teleporter platforms to go to their respective guilds. Whenever anyone steps on one of the platforms and teleports, it appears to some watching that they continue to step forward and run against the wall for a second or two before vanishing. This is exactly the appearance I would expect someone to see if someone actually did successfully use the firepots as teleporters.

Two other rumors I heard regarding the firepots come from the first time I ever heard of them. My agnostic dark elf was in Misty Thicket and a Barbarian came up to him and asked about the firepots (news to me at the time). He began by asking me if I worshipped Innourruk becuase he had been told that the firepots in Neriak only worked for those who followed Innourruk and that they also required a key to operate. Third-hand information, but I ofter for what it is worth.

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Lastly, there are parapets and overlook walkways in Felwithe. If you look up you can see guards patrolling there and once I saw another player on them. Does anyone know how to reach these and do they conceal some secret passage or chambers in Felwithe (perhaps the elven royalty)?

Second, HOW does the Leatherfoot Deputy get into Neriak????? He must have a Spawn there I have not seen ANY NPC's zone. Why? What business does this Halfling have in Neriak? Someone expound on this for me. I have nery a clue...

Third, where did the Ring of the Dead go? I got Loveal to give me a Reaper of the Dead, twice. And Ixtaz or whoever won't tell me about the Ring. Do I HAVE to be a SK or Nec to get her to talk? Any comments will be helpful.

And lastly, has anyone else noticed that there are NO quests in the Spires of Innoruuk. I started Erudite, Gnome and Halfling Clerics just to check this out and ALL the other halls have cleric quests. Why doesn't Innoruuk chose to support his cleric?

Oh and one more thing, when doing quests for the Rogues they talk about serving the King. Yet, when you do a quest for the SKs/Necs they talk about serving the Queen. Is there a connection here? Has anyone looked into this?

Does anyone have any leads on this quest???

"It's funny the things they don't mention in patches. Ok after doing that orc runner quest a few times, a new quest shows up.
It's about the upcoming invasion of kelethin and the secret dark elf army gathering. go speak to so and so for more details.

so you have to head off to one of the guilds (you figure it out) and find a recently added npc who gives you the invasion plans. but first you have to prove your worth by running an errand to a another dark elf npc in southern ro.

once this is done, the plans are yours and you will now be allowed to enter the secret door behind the npc. note you cannot enter this tunnel without the plans.

at the end of the tunnel are two dark elf guards and a teleporter. do not attempt to get on the the teleporter right away or the guards will take you out (double attacks, kick, and bash in one round yikes). you have to hail the guard on the right in which he gives you a riddle.

the answer has to do with the history of nerriak and it took us a couple days to figure this one out.

when the correct answer is given and you step on to the telport, guess where you now appear in crush?

this was a toughy."

- I myself have no idea if this is true or not but it maybe someone has figured out a new unknown mystery in Neriak which has to do with the Teleportation devices that dark races were rumored to have hidden somewhere as the "advantage" to being evil.

-Aaredor Mistwalker

Around this time Blackburrow was a heavily hunted zone of sometimes more than 80+ people somewhat like Lower Guk is today. So as I was on my way to Blackburrow an OOC caught my eye saying something like this "Looking for more members to hunt PAW with, great exp and awsome loots!" PAW? the dungeon known as Splitpaw, I had never been there before and all I knew of were that it was very far away and carried some valuable treasures. So I ventured with this group into PAW, 2 of the members seemed to already know the dungeon fairly well, and mentioned that we will be camping a 'secret' room for RTSs, which were worth 40-50pp at the time. These 2 individuals asked the rest of us to keep this room a secret, for it could become a heavily camped spot and ruin the value of RTSs. Until this posting I have kept the secret, but now that PAW has been revamped and RTSs are of little value, I want to share with you what I had seen with my own eyes along with, by the end 4 other individuals whos names I cannot recall.

After what seemed like a very long run at the time, we reached PAW. Upon entering the zone we came into a massive train of gnolls; and had to zone right back out. So then the leader of this hunt a wizard, casted see invis and invis spells on all of us, and back into PAW we went. He stated "Follow me closely and quick before our invis runs out".

I wish I had better knowledge of the dungeon, but eventually we came to a pool of water that maybe took up half the room. On first glance, and inspection of this pool it appears to be shallow and have nothing to it; but there is a small drop in which you can swim down a bit further and discover a deep tunnel. The drop in the water is a bit difficult to find at first so you had to look around carefully. This tunnel was long and almost took all of my natural breath to swim through, and upon comming out of the water we were in what the wizard called the secret room. Now here is where the 2nd person in command came into play, a rogue whos name I barely remember as being Zparad. The wizard questioned Zaparad something like this, "Do you think, you will be able to pick open the chest?" Zaparad; responded with a clear "yes". So into this secret room we wondered into at first there are two way to go, one way which leads into a dead end room with some poisonus snakes, and another which lead into a large chamber with bats, gnoll generals? (I belive) and a gnoll high shaman (holds the RTS). After about 5 minutes of carefully plotting an attack plan, we charged the room. Unfortunetlly one of the members died and went LD Im assuming because he dropped the group right upon death (don't know if he ever came for his corpse or not). The wizard claimed first to recive an RTS and we all agreed since we would all profit from his secret. Now I know Im really dragging on here but, hey I like to chat, what can I say?

Now this is where things got really interesting. In this room layed a treasure chest. At the time I didn't think they could be opened. Yet, this rogue proved me wrong when she picked the lock on the chest open. This was the wizards main purpose on comming down here as it appeared to me the following day. He wanted to know what was in that chest. Anyway the rogue said something along the lines of; "blackburrow key?!? whats this crap?" The wizard then replied "i have some good ideas as to what this is lets go try it out people."

Well, there went our groups chances of cashing in today.

Anyway upon leaving PAW we came across one nasty mean darkelf necro, killed one of our members near the zone, but luckily the rest of us managed to escaped. So onto Blackburrow we went, and with the remaining group members we came down into the snake pit, where a big unopenable door is. Well, the rogue tried the key and to our suprise it did not work (BTW, do not know if this is of any importance but the key was No Drop). The wizard seemed quiet frustrated at this and said, for us to follow him because he had one last idea. Im not very good about directions but there is an area some ways in blackburrow on the lower levels that also has a big unopenable door and beside it a small passage you can slip through too.

Well, again the rogue tried the key in this door and the wizards delight it opened. Upon entering there was a short narrow hallway were 2 commanders stood. We quickly took them out and moved on a little further and came across an even narrower passage which when we walked some ways warped us back a couple steps. Very, very odd we thought maybe it was bug or something at the time.

After that day I never really thought much about it until I saw the mentionings of a lower blackburrow on this message board. I really want to get a rogue and grab that key again, but now that the dungeon is 30+ it would take a large group, and who knows whats in that room now.

Well i guess some GMs heard about it and the spawned a MOB called BERTOXXULOUS. he just stood there as all of us (around 30-40 people) stood in awe. He didnt walk around {although he didnt move a couple times}. Most of us started yelling all hail the plaguebringer and crap like that. Then he gave Akturus (our head shadow knight) a Scythe of Pestilance and I a Dagger of Bertoxxulous.

Now this is all true and im sure a few of you were there and remember. i would like you to reply so that people wont doubt this. I will have pics of the Dagger of Bertoxxulous up for everyone to see. I just thought ise let everyone know.

Ohhh yea Bertoxxulous looks like a giant (about the size of a stone guardian) zombie w/spectre cloak. He con'd red to me as i was level 50. the stats on the dagger were ( 15 dam 23 delay +6 wis +10 Int Effect: plague* Magic item artifact NO Drop)