Oktoberquest 2017

The Night King approaches...

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(  1)  Zistrosk     10/09/17     The Night King approaches...

Reports have come in from across the realms that mysterious ice fissures have
been appearing in the ground, and in one instance an eye witness reported
seeing an individual that fit the description of the legendary Night King
creating the fissure simply by pointing his finger at the dirt. Upon close
inspection, the Arcane Heraldry of Darkhaven have determined that the realms
may be under attack, most likely by white walkers and other cold denziens.

Duke Luther has asked that the heroes of the Realms gather once again, and
help stave off this chilling turn of events. If allowed to progress, it surely
cannot be good for the cities of light. 

Scapezist's Note: This quest will run throughout the month of October, with a 
climactic end-event at 8pm mud time on Monday, October 30th. This quest is
for any level but non-AV questors should avoid fighting the mobs. Be IP1 in
the area, and if player corpses are on the ground at a fissure please select
another target to attack. Quest activity will be tallied automatically.
Declare your quest character to me please before you start via tells/mudmail.
Undeclared questors will recive no credit. AV Scoring will be a composite of
all KBs. Non-AVs scoring will be the total of fissures disabled. If you have
yet to start this quest you have until reboot the morning of the 29th to join.

There were technical difficulties ....

(  2)  Zistrosk     10/01/17     The Night King takes the Night Off

The Night King lost his left shoe.  Until he finds it, he is unable to continue
his attack on the realms.  Oh, and his shoelaces are gone.  He'll need those
too.  As soon as he gets that sorted, I'm sure he'll be back.
 
-Scapezist
p.s. I'm no longer in trouble for not being in trouble enough.

... but they got worked out!

(  2)  Zistrosk     10/02/17     The Night King is back on the hunt after a relaxing night off

The Night King found his formerly lost left shoe, and got a new set of laces.
Now that he's all laced up, rested up, and done "chilling out", he's back in
action.  And so are his cold minion buddies.
 
-Scapezist
p.s. Jon Snow: You know nothing, Zistrosk.
     Zistrosk: Yeah, I knew that.

Mechanics

The Night King makes an appearance at random locations across the mud, turning the ground into an icy fissure and summoning a White Walker to protect the fissure.

A wide fissure underfoot is filled with the Night King's black ice.
(Fade) A White Walker, servant to the Night King, narrows his eyes at you.
White Walker is shrouded in flowing shadow and light.

Players search the room, and find valyrian steel spikes and masks. Non-AV players can spike the fissure to damage it for a time and weaken the forces of the Night King. AV players can attack and kill the White Walkers, who lose a hand that will attack separately. When the White Walker is dead, the Night King resurrects the White Walker's corpse as a Wight. An AV player can fight the wight, who may also lose a hand that will attack separately.

The White Walkers are extremely hard unless the AV player is wearing a valyrian steel mask. The mask weakens them and makes fighting them much easier. A spiked fissure also weakened the White Walker and made the fight a little easier. Killing a White Walker has a high chance of causing the mask to fall to the ground and disintegrate.

The Night King only hangs around for a few seconds and is very hard to kill. There was a non-obvious way to get the Night King to stay, and killing him required a large group, but the one to get the KB on the Night King got a lot of points.

Once a non-AV has spiked a fissure, or an AV has killed a White Walker, they are unable to do another one for about two hours. There is no timer limit on summoning and killing the Night King.

Point Value per quest objective: Night King 100 Walker 10 Wight/Hand 1 Spike 1

Related Quests

Finale

(  1)  Zistrosk     10/30/17     The Night King is marshalling his forces...

While the Night King's campaign of icy terror has been thwarted, the Arcane
Heraldry of Darkhaven has detected a growing aura of cold to the west
of DH. Prepare yourselves, honorable Heroes, to repel this threat!
 
Note: This event will start around 8pm mud time on 30 Oct 2017, and is for
level 50s only. IP1 on any one character you want. Participation in the
previous month long quest is not required to join in.

Statistics

Final Standings

-0-            OktoberQuest 1-30 October, 2017                -0-
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Top Five:
5688-Nadidadern
5242-Grakth              Other Interesting Stats:
4721-Indious
4547-Ajis                First King Kill:      Indious    (Day 18)
3836-Charas              First Walker Kill:    Ubamakaji (10:28am)
Remaining Top Ten:       Most King Kills:      Indious    (21)
2902-Aleq                Most White Walkers:   Charas     (297)
2759-Gaonllyx            Most Spikes:          Dawson     (98)
2690-Zatade              Deaths to Night King: Grakth     (41)
2584-Padrik              Most Consistent:      Aleq       (50/wk)
2415-Ubamakaji
All other scores:
1887-Komodo     908-Cerf        191-Rockdor      012-Eisenbeard
1844-Sialaxx    776-Orkadi      128-Rayen        007-Castrus     
1711-Semiramia  740-Madazanirt  122-Corisar      007-Easop
1326-Durunex    671-Tsemus      121-Wala         005-Tarkroar
1128-Gatty      595-Aerlion     101-Rehkt        003-Taokor 
1116-Tornan     415-Perdita     098-Dawson       002-Drylon     
1038-Nomak      297-Viole       062-Kang         001-Gozirra    
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Participation

........DAILY.SCORE.TOTALS.FOR.OKTOBERQUEST.2017.ACTIVITY......
.    0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 1 2 1 2 4. NOTES:
.    8 8 1 3 3 5 5 3 6 5 5 6 7 5 5 6 6 7 4 9 3 3 4 3 8 5 8 9 1. Questors:   42
.    9 1 5 3 8 2 2 8 5 6 6 8 9 4 8 5 1 3 3 9 2 7 3 5 5 4 2 2 6. 
.    4 5 8 8 2 0 7 5 6 8 9 8 5 6 1 3 8 2 7 9 2 9 3 2 6 4 6 5 4.    Score:
.2900                                                      | !. Total:   52662
.                                                          | |. Average:  1253
.2600                                                      | |. 
.                                                |     |   | |. Spikes:    118
.2300                                        | | | |   |   | |. 
.                                            | | | |   |   | |.    Kills:      
.2000                                        | | | |   |   | |. Total:   13151 
.                                          | | | | | | | | | |. NightKings: 79 
.1700                        |         |   | | | | | | | | | |. Walkers:  3508 
.              | |   | | | | | | | | | |   | | | | | | | | | |. Wights:   3494 
.1400          | |   | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |. WlkrHand: 3468 
.          | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |. WigtHand: 2602 
.1100    | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |. 
.        | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |. 
.800 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |. Scoring:
............................................................... Night King 100
.OKTOBERQUEST-2017     1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2. Walker      10
.DAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. Wight/Hand   1
............................................................... Spike        1

Prizes

The top three got this special item (a renamed dog ear) for their numerous Night King kills:

Object 'a shard of dragonglass' is infused with your magic...
It is a level 50 armor, weight 1.
Locations it can be worn:  ears
This armor has a gold value of 0.
Armor class is 25 of 25.
Affects damage roll by 4.
Affects hit roll by 4.
Affects hp by 75.
Affects mana by 75.
Affects armor class by -25.
Affects affected_by by flying.
Affects affected_by by protect.

Other members of the top 10 recieved their choice of one item from the Drow set. Other rewards included vials of immortality, 2xp vials, and glory.