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The Main Quest - Part 12

Part 12 - @T'sen-Ang

NOTE TO Franz: All of this information here in the 'Main Quest' lore pages is not known by the NPCs unless they are specifically mentioned to know about a piece of information.

Upon reaching @T'sen-Ang, speaking to the guards and asking for @M'in Gorad, they will let you in providing you have a @Molochean Hand Amulet.

Find @M'in Gorad and talk to her. This is the main area where the game can branch dramatically.

  • If you are evil, you can join her side. To prove your allegiance you must kill all the inhabitants on @Stillwater and return when complete. She will then tell you to talk with the high priest of the Panarii, @Alexander in @Caladon.

  • You can talk to her and get enough information

  • You can talk to her and convince her to let you go in exchange for your "services"

  • You can kill her (and read the note she has)

  • Pick pocket her note and read it

  • Convince her that you are an assassin and the contract has been completed

  • Find out the information and then charm her, resulting in "parental recreational activities".

After leaving her, you will meet up with a member of the @Molochean Hand. Again, results may vary.

@Virgil

Upon leaving @T'sen-Ang, if @Virgil is in the party and you are following the good path, he will leave saying that he has business to attend to. It is imperative that you take anything you want from him (strip him naked if you wish).

Either by the information gathered from the newspaper, detective work, or random searching you will find Virgil in the cellar under the @The Sobbing Onion in @Caladon, dead, killed by thieves After killing the thieves he can be resurrected (a scroll can be found in the chest nearby, or use the spell Revive) You find him a changed man, he will tell you his true origins.

@Virgil is very different indeed, having different abilities and a different levelling scheme (now Zen Virgil). Note he is also now level 25, so most people will now be rather annoyed at all the levels he has lost. It is possible to complete all the main quests and get to this point by level 25 but is quite difficult (you need to avoid most combat situations or let your followers do the fighting; another possibility is increasing the difficulty of the game in the game settings menu, which decreases the amount of experience you gain and needs to be done at the start of the game).

Finally @Joachim turns up and gives tells you some more details.

@Vollinger

If @Vollinger is in the party and you never read @Joachim’s book, he will also leave and tell you to meet him at @Vollinger’s Meeting place, alone (similarly strip him naked as well). At this point in time, he will reveal himself as a @Molochean Hand assassin and try and kill you. He will have changed to a level 30 character as well.

If you read @Joachim’s book and discuss the history of the @Molochean Hand with, he will reveal himself to you as an assassin but he now believes you are no longer his enemy you no longer have to worry about him trying to kill you. If you joined @M'in Gorad, you must then visit the @First Panarii Temple and talk with @K'an Hua.

If you did not join @M'in Gorad, you now have to return to @Qintarra and talk with @Silver Lady again.