Miscellaneous: Kedge Keep wasn't itemized until October 1999

[Dolalin]

So, Kedge Keep wasn't itemized until the October 28th 1999 patch:

https://wiki.project1999.com/Patch_N...Enhancements_2

Post from Brad here:

9/28/99

not yet -- probably in a month or so.

RCondal wrote:

> Has Kedge been itemized to anyone's knowledge yet?
>
> Sabretooth
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https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt....U/Z8v5Jc_bfboJ

Functionally what this means is that there were no unique drops in the zone. This included Swirlspine Belt etc:

9/28/99

Part of the reason that
Kedge Keep hasn't been explored is that if you go there and kill
things, you'll get some gold pieces, maybe some fish, maybe some
common gemstones, and not much else.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt....U/zBB-zjLxIaMJ

I'm unsure whether Phinigel's drops were added until this patch. But I do know for sure that the Swirlspine Belt was not in game until this patch:

November 10th --

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Next on today's update would be the location of the "new" Haste belt(Swirlspine Belt) for melee-only classes which is found in Kedge Keep on a named lvl 51-52 Swirlspine Seahorse in the vicinity of Phinigel Autropos, the Lord of Kedge Keep.On that note, enjoy all.
-Fyndhorn

New/Updated Equipment: Carmine Pants, Swirlspine Belt

http://web.archive.org/web/199911111.../eq/index.html

Though EQ'Lizer does mention the Swordfish Bill dropping:

This guide was submitted by: Nictathan Meriz'el

Kedge Keep is located in Dagnor’s Cauldron under the surface of the water. This Dungeon is tuned for lvl 30-50. DO NOT attempt to go here if you do not have Enduring Breath, or a Fishbone Earring. For the most part at the moment the Dungeon is unitemized. Being the only things I have found so far are a Sword Fish Bill (Piercing, Dmg 4 dly 28), Shark fins and bones, and the standard runes.

Once you Enter Kedge will you will come into a Large room with three more hallway entrances which have all been blocked by crumbling rock over the years. Also in this room are four Lancer swordfish, the least of Kedge’s denizen’s. They are lvl 31-32. You will also notice a large hole in the center of the Room, this is how you go farther into Kedge. If you swim down this hole you will find another room with four gates, one with a Cauldron Shark (34-36), and one with a Stilleto Tooth Piranha (33-35). The other two rooms you can safely get to if you are careful, because there are more Stilleto Tooth Piranha at the very bottom of that hole you came down, and Swordfish lining the ceiling. Once inside these two rooms you can use the passageways that are but small missing tiles and go deeper into Kedge. For all you good races, the mermaids (lvl 41-43) are not KOS. So you can freely walk/swim by them until you kill one or two, which will be tempting with the high level named Mermaid Enchanter that sits down there. The real prize to Kedge though is Phinigel Autropos, the last of the Kedge. Good swimming to you all!

http://web.archive.org/web/199910031...kedgekeep.html

[YendorLootmonkey]

So does this mean Rain Caller shouldn't be in the game yet? If this gets fixed, Rain Callers need to be removed or at least made non-usable until the golden-haired mermaid drops her lock of hair for the quest.

[Dolalin]

It looks like the Rain Caller quest was broken until late October 1999:

On Fri, 1 Oct 1999 10:35:35 -0400, "Watson Ross" <wwr...@ce.udel.edu> wrote:
|I was wondering if anyone could give me a bit of starting info on how to get
|my Trueshot bow enchanted. I DO NOT want spoiler info, I just need to know
|where to start. I have talked to Maesyn Trueshot and with everyone in the
|enchanters guild in Felwithe, and have found out nothing of value. If
|someone could let me know, for example, in which zone I can find the next
|part of the quest, that would be plenty of info. I want to do the quest all
|myself but need a little help getting started. Thanks in advance!
|

While there is no official word, the consensus is that this quest is
broken.

Dennis F. Heffernan EQ: Venture Fletcher(E'ci) dfra...@email.com
Montclair State U #include <disclaim.h> ICQ:9154048 CompSci/Philosophy
"There's no easy way to be free."
-- Pete Townshend, "Slip Kid"

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt....k/zXa4D3XfbhgJ

It was then fixed in around the same patch that Kedge was itemized I think? This post from early November 1999:

Subject: New Enchanted Trueshot aka "Rain Caller"
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/al...ym8/discussion

On 05 Nov 1999 00:23:19 GMT, bulld...@aol.com (Bulldoze95) wrote:
- hide quoted text -
| If you goto Kinool Goldsinger in the Enchanters guild, Felwithe, and say "what
|about the Rain Caller" he tells you that you need the following items to get
|the enchanted trueshot.
|1) 3000 gp
|2) Faerie gold dust
|3) Trueshot bow
|4) Treant Heart
|
|What is stumping me is the Faerie gold dust.
|
|He mentions about striking a deal with the Faeries but when asked, he wont
|reply to what he said in the [brackets.]
| Later he mentions that the princess can enchant the dust, and I hear if
|you kill her, you get "princess faerie dust" but im not sure if it is what he
|requires. Does anyone know if you have to strike a deal with the princess? Or
|do you just have to kill her and take her dust?

It is a long and involved quest and the reward isn't really worth it IMO;
you get a bow with the same stats as the Trueshot only range 200, plus some
side stuff: STR+6, STA+6, 5 charges of Flamestrike (a 300-pt or so Druid DD).

People on EQRangers are going ga-ga over it because of the stat bonuses;
my opinion is that I wanted a BOW and not a piece of jewelry.

Oh, and you need an item off a L40 mermaid in Kedge to finish the quest.

ANYway: killing Joleena will not get you what you want; it will probably
get you killed by Gearheart and the entire freaking Fairy town. The problem
is that there is a typo in Goldsinger's text; you need to say 'What deal with
the fairie folk' to get more info.

SPOILERS:


Joleena is PO'd because 'a giant' stole her wing. She wants it back
before she'll give anyone any Fairy Gold Dust. The 'giant' was bald and
smelled of rust and refuse, which points at Sanfyrd Feathertop in Ak'Anon
(waaay in back near the Mines of Malfunction).

He won't give up the wing because he read somewhere that it will make his
hair grow back, and he's upset 'coz he has no friends 'coz he's bald. If you
offer to be his friend he wants you to prove it by getting his hair tonic.
That's sold by a Gnome just outside the West Freeport gates. Get ten tonics
in the case Sanfyrd gives you and combine them, give the case back to
Sanfyrd...and find out he wants you to take his old toupee BACK to the guy in
WFreeport and get it fixed. To do that you need a lock of hair from the
Golden Haired Mermaid in Kedge (about L40) and two clumps of hair from Hulking
Gorillas (in Cazic-Thule). Give the wig dealer all that and the old toupee,
and you get the Mane Attraction (AC 4, +10 CHA or the like). Give that to
Sanfyrd and get the wing. Thankfully, giving the wing to Joleena gets you the
dust; on EQRangers we were expecting her to say "I'll make you the dust if you
get me a pile of gold and items A, B, C, and D found on mobs in four different
corners of Norrath". You can get the Treant Heart (called a Wooden Heart)
from the _real_ Jyle Windshot in Freeport; give him lanterns until he gives
you the Heart instead of Wood Shards. Give the Trueshot, Heart, Dust and 3000
gold to Goldsinger, and you get your Rain Caller.

Courtesy of The Ranger's Glade and EQRangers Onelist.


Dennis F. Heffernan EQ: Venture Fletcher(E'ci) dfra...@email.com
Montclair State U #include <disclaim.h> ICQ:9154048 CompSci/Philosophy
"There's no easy way to be free."
-- Pete Townshend, "Slip Kid"


https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt....8/YXK4DwiPsbwJ

Kinool Goldsinger should not offer the continuance of the quest until October 1999 then, looks like.

[YendorLootmonkey]

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