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An iksar knight - Missing Item / Event / Dialog
The event doesn't end in anything substantial, but it's a neat thing I'd never heard of and adds to that classic EQ mystique. It explains why he needed a shovel too.
The Event in Steps- 'A forest giant' spawns.
- player attacks
- giant dialog - "a forest giant covers a pouch as to something from jumping out. 'You not get lizard!! You be squashed!!" - Are we missing the word "stop" here?
- Knight escapes and runs to Cab guards - the forest giant maybe chases?
- -----P99 stops here-----
- Knight sits for a while or until 3-5 mins after a player with 'good' faction hails him
- Knight paths to the entrance of the LOIO Tunnels - Does he say anything while traveling?
- Knight does an attack animation and says 'Dig, dig, dig.. It's gotta be here!!'
- Knight 'digs' for a few moments
- Knight emote/says - 'an iksar knight removes a Glowing Dagger. Ha ha!! This must be it!! Ha ha!! Hey.. Thanks for the escort. There's a broken rusted one here for you. Ain't I generous? Thanks for the escort, now go your own way!!'
- An obsidian hilt ground spawn... spawns.
- Waits for a moment
- the iksar knight runs off into the woods before despawning
It looks like the event and item was in for the entirety of Kunark and possibly removed with Greenmist? People are still actively talking about it through SoL launch like it happened to them recently so I'm thinking maybe it was removed with SoL, it's cool and harmless though.
He's up so often and for so long on p99 that I can't remember for the life of me how his spawn works here, but it seems that the knight should spawn at the feet of 'a forest giant' and run to his sitting spot or into the woods then de/respawn at his sitting location instead of just spawning there. There are mentions of the giant chasing him as well.
I can't tell if the trigger for him to start his dig walk is just a delayed continuation of his rescue event or a delay after he is hailed. At a minimum it looks like the knight should despawn a few minutes after being hailed. (I believe this is what happened after the event was removed)
Classic speculation seemed to think that it had something to do with epics or the Visceral Dagger, but I'd imagine it was originally going to be used for Greenmist.
https://web.archive.org/web/20020102...e=35&id=152917
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Obsidian Hilt [Subscribe to this document]
Xzzy | 6/13/2000 4:03:18 PM
In the ruins near the city gates, there's usually an NPC named 'an iksar night.' Upon hailing him, you don't get much information.. he's just glad the guards are there to protect him.
But if you hang around for a few minutes, the knight will get up and start walking off. He eventually stops right outside the entrance to the bandit caves.
Once there, he begins "digging," and says, 'Dig, dig, dig.. It's gotta be here!!'
A moment later, he emotes this message:
an iksar knigh removes a Glowing Dagger. Ha ha!! This must be it!! Ha ha!! Hey.. Thanks for the escort. There's a broken rusted one here for you. Ain't I generous? Thanks for the escort, now go your own way!!
At his feet is an item. It is named 'An Obsidian Hilt', and is labelled LORE and NO DROP.
Soon after saying this, the iksar night runs off into some other part of the zone and despawns.
One would assume that this is a quest to produce some sort of "Glowing Dagger," and this leg of it gives you the hilt. Perhaps something like the Obsidian Shard can be used with it to create a new weapon?
As it is, I'm stuck. I just stumbled on this because I happened to be idling near the knight when he was walking off, and have absolutely no clue of where to go from here.
Any ideas?
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https://web.archive.org/web/20011218...e=35&id=161094
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Submited by: puzzled On: 12/15/2001 7:16:28 PM
I have tried this a couple times now, but have only collected "an obsidian hilt".
The iksar knight spawns soon after the unique "a forest giant" spawns in the giant camp. The iksar knight runs into the camp and apparently robs the giant. You see a text message from the giant that is something like "you will not take this from me lizard, I will bash you!" and then another text message saying "the giant fumbles with a pouch" and then the lizard runs off with the giant chasing him. The iksar then eludes the giant and possibly (not sure about this) buries the item he has robbed from the giant. Soon after this event occurs you can find the iksar knight crouched down behind a wall near the ruins that lead to Cabilis. The troopers are protecting him he says. If you hail the iksar knight (you must have good faction for this) he will proceed into the woods to the spot where he buried the item. After a few minutes of him standing there (I did all of this while camoed and with the help of an Iksar friend who helped me hail the knight) there will be a text message "the iksar digs up a glowing dagger" and the iksar exclaims "this is it, I found it!! thanks for the escort, take this rusty one for your help, ain't I nice?" and drops the "obsidian hilt" on the ground. Killing the knight at this point before he sprints into the forest and despawns (note: this will hurt Cab and Green Mist faction) does not seem to work as there is nothing on him. If this is related somehow to what Galdon Vok Nir says about "Kurn's favorite weapon of torture", I have not yet made the connection.
Good luck all
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https://web.archive.org/web/20010922...html?quest=314
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Ran into this Iksar Knight by accident, here is the exact text from my encounter...hope it helps
You say, "Hail an Iksar Knight"
an Iksar Knight wipes the sweat from his forehead and spits some flarefire seeds on the ground near your feet. 'Whew!! Good to be back and safe at the Cabilis Gate. The troopers will protect us.'
After this he waits a few minutes then goes to approx. Neg 2162, Pos 1438 by the tunnels to Omen.
There he stops and turns towards you
and a few minutes later...
an Iksar Knight says 'Dig, dig, dig.. It's gotta be here!!
at this point I tried to ask a number of questions like...what are you looking for, what is here, what is it, can I help, what are you digging for, etc...but he says nothing..
a few minutes after that
an Iksar Knight pulls out a glowing dagger. 'Ha ha!! This must be it!! Ha ha!! Hey, thanks for the escort. There's a broken rusted one here for you. Ain't I generous? Thanks for the escort, now go your own way!!
after that he runs off and poofs like a second later..
Sounds like a much bigger quest, or maybe there is something missing after you hail him for the first time... Maybe asking some questions to him like are you okay, or can I help you might lead to more information before he runs off to start diggin...will try again ...and update this later...
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The dagger that Dag created is the Visceral Dagger in Dalnir, I believe. The Obsidian Hilt identifies as Item Lore: ZOK. Let me know if anyone knows what the ZOK means.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20020430....shtml?id=4367
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What he is for. Reply... By: Anonymous
Posted @ Wed, Nov 8th 2:20 PM 2000 Score: Decent[3.00]
This Knight is for the Iksar SK Zealots Khukri Quest (the fourth Iksar-SK quest weapon upgrade).
An Iksar SK (even Iksar monks don't have enough faction) needs to hand him 3 'miscribed spells' and a shovel to get 'The Chalp Diagram' which they then return to the guilmaster with their Knights Khukri to get the Zealot's Khukri.
He then heads out into the forest, stops, digs for a minute and drops a 'hilt' which will probably be used in the next SK Khukri quest (currently broken).
Yisaar (Iksar SK)
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Try not killing him? Reply... By: Anonymous
Posted @ Tue, Oct 17th 4:15 AM 2000 Score: Default[2.00]
I know, radical new idea, but if you hail him when he is near the Cabilis entrance he responds with the usual stuff about being glad he is near the entrance and protected by the guards.
Wait a few minutes and he starts walking into the woods, eventually stopping somewhere (dunno where it was dark and I couldn't see a thing!) and after a few minutes says "dig dig dig, it must be here somewhere" or something like that. Then drops an obsidian hilt (I think it was called that) at his feet.
Wait a few minutes more and he pulls out a glowing dagger (this is in emote, I think this is what it says), says you can have a rusty dagger (which doesn't appear) and runs off.
Tried giving him the hilt, he said he didn't need it but thanks anyway.
So, is there a blade somewhere for the hilt?
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RE: Try not killing him? Reply... By: Dalcron, Scholar
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Posted @ Thu, Dec 28th 3:16 AM 2000 Score: Decent[3.00]
He ends up stoping right next to the entrance to the tunnel to Lake of Ill Omen. That is where he digs up the "an obisdian hilt" and drops it on the ground. I waiting til he was finished finding what he was looking for (glowing dagger) and killed him. Nothing on the body. I think it is the obsidian hilt that you should be concerned with.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20020102...e=35&id=134643
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Submited by: HOTATH KOLDHART 32Ne On: 2/18/2001 9:04:19 PM
I have killed many giants at the giant fort i have never seen this rare giant but i do know this the iksar knight is very common i see him every so often by cab kneeled by the left side buildings if you are heading out of cab he wanders just alittle then stops north of the caves leading to lake of ill omen if you follow him to the cave and wait till he speaks he will give you the obsidian hilt which is from what i heard for a SK quest.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20030906...picID=32.topic
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Iksar Knight-Broken Dagger- Warsilks Woods
Occasionall a giant in the fort will appear to capture an Iksar NPC that wanders through. When the giant is killed the NPC will run from the fort and can be caught again near the Cabilis gates. Hail him... After a long time he was run off into the woods.. Follow him and he will dig up a dagger and a broken dagger blade (ID: Zok) he gives this to you and runs off.
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