Miscellaneous: Failed Crypt Raider

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Can anyone confirm that the failed crypt raider is dropping the illegible scroll since the last few patches? From all accounts I've heard it used to be a fairly regular drop on p99, but I've killed him 13 times while camping him well over 40 hours now and have only seen the coin drop.

My drops so far, out of 13 kills:

• Ancient Coin 13/13
• Fine Steel Morning Star 10/13
• Spear of Mortification 2/13
• Illegible Scroll 0/13
• Tattered Note 0/13
• Kylong Hunting Knife 0/13

True classic info is virtually nonexistent, except to say that the Lord Of Pain's Khukri clearly existed in our era of classic (given, since there are many on P99 already)... and as far as I can tell may no longer be obtainable on P99. My only guess is it might have inadvertently been broken in the patch on 9/10/11:

Originally Posted by Rogean [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[*]Uthgaard: Fixed failed crypt raider faction, loot, and spawngroups

Updated with everything I could muster on 11/9/11:

Links for Failed Crypt Raider:
Magelo: http://eq.magelo.com/npc/411867 (seems to jive with other accounts I found)
MQEmu: http://mqemulator.net/npc.php?id=88091 (does not line up with other accounts, but included for reference/thoroughness...)
Allakhazam: http://eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com/search.shtml?id=13370

Links for Illegible Scroll [Scroll of Vok Na Zov I]:
Magelo: http://eq.magelo.com/item/12715
MQEmu: http://mqemulator.net/item.php?id=12715
Allakhazam: http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=3538
Lucy: http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=12715


Evidence that by 2004 he was dropping Ancient Coin, Illegible Scroll and Tattered Note all at once (matches the current magelo info from live linked above):

Originally Posted by VroQat, Feb 2005

Along with the ancient coin, the illegible scroll, he dropped
a fine steel morning star, and
a tattered note . . .

Originally Posted by mikal: Feb 2004

Was looking for part of VP key when all of a sudden this guy walks by. Being level 65 I promptly owned him and he dropped some FS wep, the coin, and illegible scroll, and a tattered note...

Evidence that this is, at the minimum, rarer than it should be, from the Test of the Lord page on Alla:

Originally Posted by Badiel, Jun 2002

The failed crypt raider is an uncommon spawn. Took me a few hours to get him on my SK, but he does still spawn.

Originally Posted by matsumurak, Sept 2002

I got the failed crypt raider to spawn in under an hour. When I got there the whole area had just been cleared of mobs - don't know how long it had been camped before me.

Quote from somebody's narrative quest writeup, implying drop on first kill:

Originally Posted by Krikk Xog

The two of us first went to the ruins of Kaesora. Inside, Tsaer found a Failed Crypt Raider, who he was certain held one of the pages. The two of us dispatched him, and he did indeed possess one of the pages.

Nothing anywhere ever specifically mentions anything about a kill of the Failed Crypt Raider where the illegible scroll did not drop. I see posts from people complaining that they didn't see him for lengths of time <10 hours. No posts from anyone saying they killed multiple times without drop, or that it took them 20+, 30+ or 40+ hours.