Quest Issue: The Skull Of Torture Should Not Exist.

[Terethian]

Don't get me wrong, I am easy going. I am posting this for informational purposes only.

During Planes of Power and above I was a level 65 necromancer messing around in Kurns tower for days while checking the allakazam forums.

Why?

The mystery of Mirgon's head quest....

...because... even then, no one solved it!

...because.... it was broken / incomplete!

The quest items were dropping and I was able to place them inside of the skull, but I am not sure if combine worked or not. Regardless, the glowing skull that is dropping and the combine to create it were never working during the Kunark era.

They did an update due to many of us complaining /petitioning and I think this is around the same time they added to the necro skullcap quest as well. Which I suspect is also going beyond what it should for the time period.

Regardless, I feel the quest was always the way the skull of torture should be aquired. Why have many components including one that must be fished in order to create a glowing skull and then make the glowing skull simply.. DROP anyways? Come on, that is just stupid.

Honestly, if we insist on leaving the skull of torture quest in the game, the glowing skull should always be quested through the combine. This dropping from skeletons takes away from the spirit of questing.

Of course, as I said, the skull of torture quest was not even around when Kunark came out. I mean, it existed somewhat but was NOT completed till POST Planes of Power.

Anyways, I just wanted to share this information.
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/q...tml?quest=2177

...And you will see the big debate as people attempt to solve the quest that was never really done till years later.


Thanks!

- Terethian, High Elf Cleric

[Buellen]

This is correct

The skull of toture should not exist till POP expansion.

The quest item for the original quest can exist but would make no sense since we have no way of knowing what the original quest reward was or how to complete it.

[Kender]

the Glowing Skull that drops is used in the SK khukri quest chain. are you saying that no one ever completed greenmist until POP if the glowing skull was never completed?

[Terethian]

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

the Glowing Skull that drops is used in the SK khukri quest chain. are you saying that no one ever completed greenmist until POP if the glowing skull was never completed?

Not at all. I am not implying I know every little thing about Everquest. I think your response is very rude and ill thought out. I am not here to argue or attack anyone. All I knew for a certainty was that the Skull of Torture should not exist and obviously making a huge combine collection to create an item that simply drops is silly. Which is what the official developers did as a ill conceived solution post POP to finish the skull of torture quest.

Obviously, if the glowing skull drops for a quest I did not know about, and was present at the start of Kunark, by all means that should exist.

I can think of a far politer way of saying that than your post!

May the holy light of Tunare shine upon you and show you to the light,

Terethian, High Elven Cleric.

[Wrench]

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

Not at all. I am not implying I know every little thing about Everquest. I think your response is very rude and ill thought out. I am not here to argue or attack anyone. All I knew for a certainty was that the Skull of Torture should not exist and obviously making a huge combine collection to create an item that simply drops is silly. Which is what the official developers did as a ill conceived solution post POP to finish the skull of torture quest.

Obviously, if the glowing skull drops for a quest I did not know about, and was present at the start of Kunark, by all means that should exist.

I can think of a far politer way of saying that than your post!

May the holy light of Tunare shine upon you and show you to the light,

Terethian, High Elven Cleric.

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

Don't get me wrong, I am easy going.

[nilbog]

So what all exactly should be removed?

Inside the Hollow Skull, combine: Bone Chips + Zombie Flesh x2 + Salt Minnow.

Should that combine not work? Should the skull not drop? Should the quest script be removed from the skeletal cook?

[Buellen]

probably should have been more thorough in my post.

1. current skull of toture item should be removed was not from our time line.
2. all items from the orig quest should be removed never solved EXCEPT those needed for other quest from kkurns tower.

Hope the helps.

[Buellen]

ill check the old quest with links. and up date this post.

Here is the link to the last working parts of quest note it remained unsolved and was patched by sony with the current item in 2003 skull of torture

http://oldunsolvedquestsineverquest....d#.VEg26r50vjQ

This is the allakazam quest link.

Again notice the dates of post 2002 is the earliest and still was not solved so this item should not exist on p1999.

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/q...tml?quest=2177

[planeofdreams]

I thought it was weird when people were completing this the other day. Not that I think its a game breaking item or anything, but I never remembered it from my days in Classic Kurns. Do remember a glowing skull though.

[nilbog]

I'm still not sure what to do with this.

Imagine that I know nothing at all about the item or the quest, but I have all the tools at my disposal to change it.

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

So what all exactly should be removed?

Should that combine not work? Should the skull not drop? Should the quest script be removed from the skeletal cook?