So, Erati, I think you are broadly correct. This must have been a quest spoiler from late beta or very early launch.
I had to crawl around a lot but found an old Onelist mailing list called eqbards whose archives are still on groups.yahoo.com. I used the api to extract all the messages and grep through them, and found this email from Sunday, July 25, 1999 5:39:27 PM (932924367) describing that Grimrot did not accept the lute as a reward, and the wakizashi was the result of another (obviously the vampire fangs) quest.
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Ok here is the story. No, you can not get the Wakizishi from this quest =(
It is in Mistmoore but has nothing to do with Arlena. Lord Grimlot does
want you to bring back Arlena's bones and give them to him, what that does
who knows. Lord Grimlot has two forms, an easy skeleton form, and a super
hard Human in full plate form, sometimes with Opal Scythe sometimes with
some type of good scimitar. The way to get Lord Grimlot to spawn is to go
to the skeleton camp just outside the bridge in south karana. gotta clear
the camp and hope he spawns at night. we got him to spawn first night, and
had a dark elf necro talk to him, and got him to talk about his lost love,
but he wanted bones not lute. myself and my bard friend didn't want to risk
losing our lutes (that do nothing, but you never know). a level 50 druid
friend of mine took his level 25+ bard and went to Grimlot. with his bard
he used his mask of the deceiver to become a dark elf and sang charismatic
carillon on Grimlot. Grimlot was no longer KOS but was amiable i think, got
him to talk about the quest, and gave him the lute. all Grimlot did was
equip the lute, so they had to kill him but was able to loot the lute
(hehe).
Shada
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https://groups.yahoo.com/api/v1/grou.../messages/4295
And a followup from Sunday, July 25, 1999 10:27:22 PM (932941642):
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> It can't hurt. Let us know! =) Also if you ever manage to find Arlena and
> give Grimlot her bones instead of the lute of the gypsy princess, would be
> interesting to know what that quest gives. Another reason I doubt Grimlot
> has anything to do with the Wakizishi or the Lute is because he mentions
> Arlena, and she is not who carries the lute. just thought of that. anyway,
> good luck.
Yeah, Arlena is the main reason I thought it was bad. And the fact that
there's already another quest, verified to work, which is much harder than
the lute->grimrot quest, that gives a wakizashi.
And to rephrase more clearly what I said in the previous message.. if
you're going to disprove something, might as well do it right. =)
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Jesse <j@...>
http://www.lumiere.net/
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https://groups.yahoo.com/api/v1/grou.../messages/4310
Here's the extract digest if anyone else wants to use it for research in the future:
https://github.com/dbsanfte/eq-archi...-lists/eqbards