Gnolls Quarry, Relinquished Tombs, Other Changes

New Area – Gnoll’s Quarry:

For generations, the lords and kings of Mesolar have sought out the stone cut from the Mesolarian Quarry. Known for its superior stone, master craftsmen and fair prices, this quarry has provided the rock that built many of the towns and castles of Mesolar. Run by dwarves, the quarry was always bustling with activity and visitors and had even built up a small town to house all of the workers and their families. That is until a few years ago when the Ark’Garoo Gnoll pack violently came to destroy and loot the village. It was only after the gnolls has completely decimated everything that they realized the profit potential of the quarry. What dwarves were left were enslaved to work the quarry.

A encampment has been erected over the ruins of the old village and the gnolls have quickly taken to pressing the dwarves into cutting stone deeper in the quarry than they ever dared go in the past. The gnoll pack leader Grak’ou has appointed himself as the Overseer of all operations and has moved his wife Arrssa and daughter Urloo into the only remaining stone building left from the attack. For awhile, everything was running to the Overseers likings until the dwarven slaves started disappearing.

Rumors of strange noises started to be whispered amongst the dwarves. When word of this reached the Overseers ears he laughed it off and pressed the slaves to work even harder to make up for the lost labor.

However, with the disappearances continuing and production slowing down, the Overseer has no option but to investigate and eliminate the cause of the slave disappearances.

Level Range         : 105-125
Goal Difficulty     : Hard
Goal Recommended at : 125
Goal Converter      : Stutz & Xadyen
Area Author         : Stutz & Xadyen

New Area – The Relinquished Tombs

It’s been so long since the tombs have seen any visitors! The keepers of the Relinquished Tombs have developed tasks for daring mortals to complete. Drydel, the tomb keeper, has lost all of his treasured jewelry and needs help locating them. Dinymos needs help banishing intangible beings from the tombs. What is the final task Kimrodcer has in store? Visit Rilnyi to start your adventure and find out!

Level Range         : 70 to 100
Goal Difficulty     : Medium
Goal Recommended at : 90
Goal Converter      : Rhuli
Area Author         : Rhuli & Leonassan

Note: This area replaces Stonekeep.

Other Changes:

A few other changes and bug fixes made it into this reboot:

• Added a message to ‘gq info’ and ‘gq check’ to say that some mob names might be scrambled. Hopefully this will cut down on the bug reports.
• The ‘gquest ranges’ command has been tidied up a little. It is now color codes based on whether or not the gquest has already been run and will respect pagesize settings. You can also use ‘gquest ranges [level]’ to show only ranges that include that level. When used without a level filter, the command will show the total percentage complete on the current gquest cycle.
• There is a new config option called ‘clantags’. When using ‘who’ with this set, instead of seeing the colored clan logo you will just see the clan name inside yellow brackets. For example: [wolf]. Same applies to gquest chat, but gquest history still shows the full logo.
• Items bought from questor or bought using ‘tpspend’ will now come with the ‘keep’ flag (the free one) already set.
• A primary class paladin using ‘awareness’ will no longer get the negative HR/DR affects.
• The time between a war being declared and moving into the ‘preparation’ stage has been reduced from 4 minutes to 2 minutes.
• ‘Consider’ will now capitalize correctly where mobs have real names.
• Fixed various places in ‘train’ where it would show ‘1 trains’.
• Fixed an issue with hide and invis sometimes being ‘stacked’ with race effects and removed twice at start of combat.
• When you enter remort mode you will automatically stop following. This is to prevent someone from being able to pull you out of the remort room leaving you stuck in remort mode.
• When using the ‘recall’ command (or /), any text after the command itself will cause the command to fail.
• The ‘@’ sign at the end of a line would cause the ‘newline’ character to be skipped and the next line to either not be displayed or to be displayed as one long line. Now fixed.
• You will now see a GMCP message when your spouse leaves the game.
• Fixed a bug with ‘rank 17 yearly’ not sorting correctly.