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Karana Plague Discussion
The Karana Plague was always something I remembered fondly from live. It was active when I started playing the game in 2001 and as all of my characters back then were from Qeynos I spent a lot of time in the zones that were effected by it.
Fast forward 12 years and I discover P99 and my love for classic EQ starts all over again. However when I started in 2013, I could not find any information on the internet about this Karana Plague and the majority of the people who I asked if they remembered it in game had no idea what I was talking about. I started to wonder if this was some sort of event that happened on my server only or if I was actually crazy and had just imagined the entire thing. Then one day I had returned from one of my extended breaks of p99 and by coincidence I was passing through North Karana when I noticed the message "your skin feels itchy". Excitedly I look up to the sky and notice it is green, turns out I was not imagining this afterall. So the reason for this post is that I am trying to piece together all the information I can to do with this event before it is finished. I believe it will end once the Chardok 2.0 patch goes live and as far as I am aware that patch could drop any day now so I want to try and see or do as much of this stuff as I can before it is too late. Here are some of the things I have found so far, but please I encourage anyone reading this to add anything and everything that they might think relates to the Karana Plague event.
TLDR: Trying to gather up as much info and lore about the Karana Plague before it is gone.
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Last edited by Vareous; 07-26-2018 at 11:08 PM..
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The rude individuals had to have been true to some extent BECAUSE the first weapon i ever remember having was this on my cleric. http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=97
apparently they only dropped from those guys during the 2 week event or however long it lasted, making the item super rare later on. I always wanted to find another one once my original was lost to time but I never could : ( *i remember a quest for this ring too http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=1636
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The newspapers were indeed purchased in game, new issues were released with each patch. They actually introduced new vendors to each city to sell the papers. Think they cost a few silver each.
Very interesting reads, looks like certain foods may have increased in price and had limited vendor quantities during the plague. Also forced bakers to find new recipes to help feed their people. Seems like qeynos investigator quest is directly related? Will be amazing if events like this are ever fully pieced together, wonderful attention to detail!
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I definitely remmeber the rude individual in qeynos on small camps around qeynos gate... Unsure if that was from the first plague event or added later, like maybe when they added the badge of nobility... The bulkwart I thing was a gm reward for the first person curing the plague...
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Try downloading Vaslin's EQ compendium. It is essentially a document that lists a lot of lore and stuff but also has the usual quest text. Some of lore of the plague may be in there? This guide was basically the wiki of the day, can be found here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20020608...compendium.htm The Rude / Loathsome individuals definitely were a thing, I have noticed plenty of them in my ClassicQuest travels. I've flagged a bunch in my personal archives, here's a few to read through: http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5734 Quote:
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5777 The keepers website had a bunch of mentions of the plague as well, I highly doubt it had anything to do with the Sleeper wakening as there are mentions to the individuals prior to that, and it was on all servers. In my research journey I seem to recall the Karana Plague was a 'long standing event' and had a bunch of mini-events in other zones tied to it. With each of these 'mini-events' there was some GM always of the same name that people tried to kill or chase away that had info on the plague. For example there was a LoIO event where the sky turned red and Faydedar was in the lake. In that event a player actually got to control one of the GM characters and participate in the story (sounds like he was transformed via illusion / temp name change). In regards to Plane of Disease, from what I read that was the hopes and dreams from players, I had not seen any developer comments about the intention. Bertox is the king of decay who's lore says resides in the Plane of Disease (may have even been called 'Plane of Decay' back then), so people assumed with the plague that it was his doing and would open up the plane much like what happened with Bloody Kithicor events, etc. That Prime Healer's Bulwark is cool! Hope it gets implemented so all those shrouded monks can be reminded they really don't have BiS [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] I recently made a bug report on the Claw of Veeshan item (bug report here), and it details some events that, I think, may have lead to the opening of the Plane of Sky. It would be really sweet if P99 devs eventually put all these 'Norrath official storyline' GM events in with appropriate rewards / titles on refresh. Need someone like Kraddok to piece together accurate timeline and script of events and such! EDIT: Forgot, here is a link to some Lore of events in Norrath. I believe they are official releases from Sony/Verant, they aren't logs from events or anything but more from a roleplay write-up perspective of certain events. I don't think the plague is in there, but take a look. https://web.archive.org/web/20021204...ests/index.jsp
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Man, I want that BP
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So I was curious and looked through Vaslin's Compendium... TONS of info on the Plague, apparently this was communicated through the newspapers (will P99 implement these?), will post each here... apparently there is a tradeskill recipe or two in these, not sure if they were strictly during the plague or new trades that lasted after (paging Sorn), the guide doesn't appear to have every issue of the newspapers, but a lot of them:
Da Swamp News: Issue #1: Issue #2: Issue #3: Issue #4: Issue #5: Issue #6: Issue #7: Freeport Observer: Issue #2: Issue #3: Rivervale Voice Issue #1: Issue #2: Issue #3: Issue #4: Issue #5: Issue #6: Issue #7: The Antonican Times: Issue #1: Issue #2: Issue #3: Issue #4: Issue #5: Issue #6: Issue #7: The Dark Truth: The Mining Circular Issue #2: The Odus Chronicles Issue #?: Tinker's News and World Report Issue #2: The Royal Herald Issue #2: So there you have it, more info on the plague than could fill your wildest dreams! Kraddok, I hereby command you to create a video summarizing all this delicious lore...
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