The Black Monk

The Black Monk was a mob who wandered New Darkhaven during the months leading up toward the shattering. He spewed various obscure prophecies and many players put a lot of energy into trying to make sense of them. Certain keywords triggered him to recite special blurbs, and much effort was put into trying to find these keywords, some of which were secret (for example "eskhatos"). He was tangentially a part of the Orcus-Hastur-Seth Covenant storyline. The Monk had different speeches for members of the different orders. He was modified to give special recognition to Inconnu when they managed the first Orcus kill after ToD was upgraded; and again to give special recognition to Dragonslayer and Ascendere when they managed the first Hastur kill. He also gave a unique special recognition to the player named Covellia.

Black Monk Bloopers

For a while, it was possible to provoke the Monk with magic missiles and the like, and lure him around. For example, one could lock him in the dungeons of Castle Darkhawk.

Also, by using "tell" to send the Monk a private tell containing all his trigger keywords in one line, one could generate pages of spam to annoy people in DH.

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