It's almost always already in progress since the cumulative prizes for the very popular aslaran/krokani handins are quest pieces (and it's only after these are handed in that the gold appears) but, even if this was not already done, you really don't get any more information to start from. Take a look at the statues in the courtyard. Basically just explore the whole area very thoroughly and help anyone you find with a miniquest.

Any idea how to take down the cloier? I never want to see this again:
A gaseous cloier emits a strange scream and charges at you.
4536h, 4918m, 4680e, 10p, 16387en, 18759w esSixkd-stf cloier
point staff cloier
One of your reflections has been destroyed! You have 0 left.
Pointing your staff at a gaseous cloier, icy water erupts forth and pounds into his body. A gaseous
cloier gasps from the shock of the cold water, the very breath knocked out of him.
4536h, 4818m, 4680e, 10p, 16387en, 18729w sSixkd-(-100 Mana) n
You must regain equilibrium first.
4536h, 4818m, 4680e, 10p, 16387en, 18729w sSixkd-n
You must regain equilibrium first.
4536h, 4818m, 4680e, 10p, 16387en, 18729w sSixkd-
A gaseous cloier rushes forward with surprising grace, smashing his scalding spines into you,
cutting deep.
You have been slain by a gaseous cloier.
You become visible once more.
You come back into focus as the blur illusion vanishes.
As your soul leaves your body, the elixir vitae courses through your spirit and suddenly bursts in a
bright light, forming a new body around your soul.
3780h, 4140m, 3900e, 0p, 16387en, 18729w esSix-(-756 Health, -678 Mana, -780 Ego) n
One of a gaseous cloier's smaller balloons comes forward and shrinks suddenly, releasing streams of
scalding gas that burn the flesh from your body.
You have been slain by a gaseous cloier.

Demiganksquad would do it.

It's a supermob. More people means it does less damage to each person.

It does over 20k on its room attack, so... yeah, you need a lot of people.

Wow. I was guessing like 5k per hit, but... wow. Yeah, okay.

Is the Rikenfriez quest disabled? Every time I inquire about it using (what I think is) the correct Word Salad, I'm told 'maybe later.'

Yes it's broken/disabled, and has been properly bugged.

Late reply but the way I understand it is this: No message back means it did nothing. A message back with an item dropping or something happening means it did something. A message like "unaffected by your efforts" means that it didn't do anything -this- time. Another time when the quest reloads that spot could possibly hold the needed item/action.

Unaffected means that it's never going to work.

There are usually 2 messages when it will work; one for "It did something but nothing fell out" and one for "It did something and something fell out".

After killing all the astrologers I still don't have enough keys to free all slaves at Arthar'rt Observatory. Is it supposed to be done in several respawns or am I missing something? I poked all the rooms, and opened / shut all doors in the hope keys would fall out, but all I got was some gold and a different key.

Try begging from them before killing them.

Got the note, hand it over, give response, but due to being enemied the whole thing messed up. Is amnesty mandatory?

Edit: Not getting any new note to try again after grabbing the Rak'ia respawn. Did I just break it? >_<

Edit2: Amnesty is not needed, Etil'ck is just very picky in the correct answer phrase (say to Yes)

Sometimes, you will simply get an empty space with the h/m/e prompt, with no error message. This is the same thing as "It did something but nothing fell out".

"scientist133731" a mutated mugwump head scientist
"scientist74188" a mutated mugwump scientist
"scientist133321" a mutated mugwump scientist
"mugwump102966" a mutilated mugwump
"mugwump102772" a mutilated mugwump
Number of objects: 5
4650h, 5626m, 4240e, 10p, 16955en, 17029w elrxk-give phial to 133731
You give a phial of clear liquid to a mutated mugwump head scientist.
A mutated mugwump head scientist gibbers insanely.
A mutated mugwump head scientist exclaims, "USELESS!"
A mutated mugwump head scientist throws a phial of clear liquid to the floor.

last one

wat do

It happens randomly, get another set and redo it. (There are 5 sets so it should be easy, unless the rusty key breaks off in the lock at a bad time)

Sometimes it looks like the scientist himself reset so you're pretty much screwed until the wardens come back with new generator pieces.

Tried bugging it?

Killed everyone for the asylum quest, including the scientists. Did not get the screw quest piece.

Also, the murderer in Stewartsville varies?

Edit: Was looking back through some old posts, and came across this forum post by me:


Does anyone know anything about this quest? That was back in the days when I sucked at questing even more so than now. Actually, now that I think about it, I might be able to get there.

Yep to the second bit.

This is a noob hunch, but, I think you're talking about the...kephera princess near Celest?