RD Quests

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Much to my chagrin, I misplaced all the maps that I had downloaded and gleefully printed as a newbie. Later, upon going to that URL it was no longer valid. Recently, I was delighted to rediscover the maps on Yane's Site, so I guess my original favorite source simply moved to this url. Go here to visit Yanes Site for yourself. :)

Download RD Maps here: Ravens Dust Maps

Note: he himself came up with a work around for the friendliness issue, and I included the link in a text file called PRINTING NOTE.txt. Simply copy and paste into your browser.

Note: If you want to be able to explore things yourself, don't go any further on this particular page. If, however, you get stuck, this is a good place to come for tips.

OK You Made it to Raven's Dust -- What Now?

When you first arrive in Raven's Dust, you will find yourself at a fountain and a 4 way walkway. Head along the one that goes closest to the upper right corner of your monitor, and follow the path in a straight line and it will lead you directly into the temple. Once there, speak to one of the priests there about Sanctuary, which will cost 15,000 gold pieces. If you don't, then hope that your sanctuary is windhowl because the cheapest way of getting back to RD otherwise, if you are good, is to go to Lliurn Clar and have him teleport you. An evil character has no choice but to purchase scrolls in WH pot shop for 25000 gold each if they skip the sanctuary step upon getting to RD, so in the long run it is much cheaper to change your sanctuary.

The Pig Quest

Baldric Silverknife, located in the building just below the armor shop that is across from the pot shop, gives you this quest. He wants you to kill 10 of Rondy's pigs. The pigs are in a nearby farm.

Good Path to Stoneheim aka Royal Key Quest

Special Note: You can do these keys in any order, but in order to succeed at them all you must have at least Redeemed Karma. Raising Karma can be done by killing Balork or Jarko. If that takes too long for you, go visit Malaar in Windhowl temple and say donations until it stops giving you the message "Your Karma just went up." Each donation will cost you 10,000 gold, so if you do not wish to kill the 2 npcs beyond the one required killing of Balork, then you will need a fairly large sum of gold on you.

Before you do Keys Number 1 and 2, you MUST talk to the 12 Brothers in the 3rd level of RD Crypt. You only need to do this once each time you do this whole quest. If however, you can get ahold of a Reynen's Key from someone, you can wait until you need to do Key Number 2 before you go visit them.

THE 12 UNDEAD BROTHERS

You must talk to these guys in the exact order given or you will have to begin again. Some of them are clustered near each other, so to be on the safe side, you may wish to rightclick an undead before you talk to him and make sure you have the right one. In addition, after you say the correct thing, the white keyword given in response is what you say to the NEXT brother.

1. A decrepit figure: click him and say torment. He will say torment in white afterwards, so find

2. A stumbling corpse: click him and say torment. and so on.

3. A moaning shandow: click him and say tournament of princes.

4. A frail creature: click him and say king of goldmoon.

5. A rotting monstrosity: click him and say theodore

6. A pitiful being : click him and say deaths.

7. A wailing entity: click him and say poisoned.

8. A miserable soul: click him and say cursed.

9. A foul abomination: click him and say cuthana.

10. A putrid beast : click him and say heal.

11. A creeping fiend: click him and say royal doors.

12. A loatheome horror: click him and say lower dungeon.

The loathesome horror in particular is very close to brother number one, the decrepit figure, so be careful. Our loathesome friend here will tell you to return to him after you have all 6 keys.

Key Number One (Reynen)

Find Celydia in the SS castle on the right side of the castle wandering in a dress (no crown though). Click on her and say Royal Key and then follow the white keywords. Note: she will not talk to you at night about this.

Go immediately to the SS Tavern just above the Pot shop, wander around and find Laren somewhere inside. Ask him about Reynen. He will send you to see Belagan, located down below the SS temple in the training building, as he is Adriana's assistant.

Belagan, when you ask him about Reynen or the royal key. Watch him because he may want a Book of Warfare for Adriana or he may send you to Reynen, located in the nightblades cave. The easiest way to get to Reynen is as follows:

Go into the desert. Find the oasis. Go to the bottom of the oasis. Walk down into the desert until you can barely see the oasis at the top of your screen. Now go straight to the left of your screen. You should run right into the entrance of the nightblade cave. Head left and down on your monitor. Put your puppet's right shoulder on the wall and stay on that wall for dear life. After several turns you will run into a room with up to 3 nightblades in it. One of these is Reynen. It is a good idea to go ahead and kill any of the others in the room, tho you may want to rightclick on them first, because if you accidently hit Reynen, there is NO killing him and he will eat you up if you try too long to win.

Now that you can safely talk to Reynen, tell him Royal Key. He will tell you about it being in a chest (another keyword) and to go check and see if it is locked, which of course it is. So tell him locked. He will give you his key, which thankfully now is unlimited use, as the chest only spawns about every hour and does not always contain the royal key. I have also seen it give feathers and dark keys (for that chest near Jarko that is always locked).

To find the chest with the key, return the way you came, pass the entrance and keep going. This time, of course, it is your puppet's left shoulder on the wall. If you stay on that wall, you will first come upon a well, which you will need for key 6. Keep going a few turns and you find an exit. Pass that, because that is the exit to SkullKeep Dungeon, commonly called Bane's. Go a few more turns, still with that left shoulder on the wall, and you will finally hit a chest in an upper corner of your screen usually guarded by a couple illusion weavers. You will know if you have hit the right chest by a message coming up that your key unlocks the chest. If you don't get the royal key, most ppl basically park at that chest until they get the Royal Key.

Royal Key Two (Chamberlain Thomar)

You will need a potion of heroism for this one, dropped by Orc Battlemages in and around RD Orc Caves and the Camp after you exit the caves. Take your potion of heroism and go to Silversky Castle and find Terwin, wandering around up near the bank. Ask him royal key. Providing you have done the 12 brothers, follow the keywords, which should go like this:

honest

potion of heroism

yes

royal key

honest

now he asks you for 5k gold, so say yes and give him the gold.

Now say royal keys (yes you say it again). Now he will finally send you to Chamberlain Thomar, a mage in a black robe near the bank. Click on him and say champion of light. Follow the keywords, taking the oath that is asked of you. Once you are accepted, ask him for a royal key, which he will give you into your pack.

Note, if you want to wait to do this key last, you can actually do the champion of light part early, because you need to be a champion of lion to get the well in key 6 to give you the sword of might.

Royal Key Three (Zhakar's Key)

Have a flask of bluish liquid in your backpack for this one, either from the quest or from the Minotaurs. Go visit Elysanna Blackrose, the lady mage in the skinny house below the temple. Ask her for the royal key. She will tell you she wants a flask of ether which is the bluish liquid currently in your back. Tell her ether and she will offer you a potion of serious healing for that ether. If you want that key, though, you must tell her no when she offers the trade. Now she admits that she gave the royal key to Zhakar so that is where you must go. When you get to Zhakar, you must say blackrose three times. The third time he will ask you a riddle. say answer donkey monkey turkey all at once on one line. Now that you have proven your intelligence, he will hand over the third key.

Royal Key Four (Bane's Key)

Find the barmaid in the SS Tavern, though she only has time to talk at night. Click on her and say royal key. She tells you it was taken by a priestess who left some time ago. This is actually Moonrock in Lighthaven Temple. Go ask her royal key and she will tell you that Bane Blackblood has it. Now you have to find him. If you havent previously done the cape of fire resistance quest, when you click on Bane, he will send you to talk to Dwarthon Stoneface, a blackguard-looking npc located just to your puppet's left of Bane's room, using the keyword Bane. Stoneface tells you you must prove that you can be trusted and sends you to kill Delwobble, a rogue mage along a skinny back corridor near Shadeen. Don't kill Stoneface at this point. Upon killing Delwobble, return to Stoneface, and say Delwobble. He congratulates you and sends you to talk to Bane. Do yourself a favor, tho: before you start telling Bane royal key, put his room wall between you so that he can't attack you. You will have to say royal key several times before he relents.

Royal Key Five (Arrowmist's Key)

For the 5th key, you will need to find John Hamboo, the palace cook. you find him on the right side of castle hiding in the kitchen next to the palace wall. Ask him royal key. This will get him starting telling the story of the key. At the end of each statement, he will ask you a question containing a keyword which will indicate for example that you want to here more (example of one of the keywords). Do this until there are no more and he mentions Kalir and Jamar.

First go find Kalir, the npc wandering on or just around the oasis in the desert. Ask him royal key. He will talk about his friend Jamar. He will ask you if you will take a letter to him, giving you the keyword give letter.

Go find Jamar, an npc wandering somewhere between SS Fountain and SS Tavern. Give letter to Jamar, and he will tell you that Kalir does indeed have the key and asks you to give a letter back to Kalir.

Go back to Kalir, saying give letter. Afterwards he thanks you and asks you what it was you originally wanted. Here is where you ask again for the royal key. Now he gets embarrassed and tells you that he had the key but gave it to Arrowmist Northwest of Tarantula Lake for his help last time he got lost. He wanders below where the river bends almost a point, so listen for the fighting. In addition, he will only talk to you in the daytime.

Go to Arrowmist, and say royal key. He gives you the key, wishing you luck along your path.

Royal Key Six (Mordrick Warstone's Key)

First find Tobias, an npc who wanders near the Fountain inside the Palace near the dungeon. Say royal key. He will send you to go see Celestina Waterbreeze, the lady mage up in RD Druid camp. Say royal key. She will ask you to answer a question truthfully. She will then ask you if you have ever killed a guardian tree. Answer it in reference to the current life of your character. For example, if you did in your first life (before wings), but didn't after wings, say no. If you have killed one, say yes and she will give you a task to atone for doing so. To be honest, I have no idea what that task will be. Afterwards, or if you had no atoning to do, she sends you to Mordrick Warstone, a wandering guard near the front inside of the SS Palace. Say royal key. He sends you on to see Illusion, which is actually the name of the well in that Nightblade cave near Bane's exit, the one you may have passed to get to Reynen's Chest. The reason is because he wants his Sword of Might back. The sword likes to disappear and always winds up in the well. Go to the well, click on it. You will hear the sounds of dripping water. Say make mine thy might. The sword magically winds up in your backpack. Take the wandering blade back to Warstone, and say ROYAL KEY in order to give him his blade. You will get the 6th key and your Karma will rise to blessed (or pure if already blessed)

After you have all six keys, you must now return to the loathesome horror on the 3rd level of RD Crypt. REMINDER: he is very near the first brother so be sure to rightclick and make sure that you have the right brother. Tell him I have the six keys. He will now ask you if you are ready to continue. Tell him yes. He teleports you into the lower dungeon. Near where you end up, there is another undead named Theopold's Specter.

Tell him riddle. He will alternate between asking you a riddle and talking to you. After you answer each riddle, though, you will have to say riddle to him again to get him doing the next riddle.

Riddle 1: What is the center of balance? say the letter a

Riddle 2: What happens once in a minute, twice in a moment, once during weekdays, but never on a weekend and never, ever during a hundred thousand years? say the letter m

Riddle 3: AYAMS TOKEER ANNEED SOMELP say i am stuck here and need some help

Riddle 4: One where none or two should be. Seeking out purity in the King's tree. What am I?

say unicorn

Riddle 5: I am better than eternal life, I am worse than death, dead men will eat me, if you eat me, you will die. Say nothing.

Each time you complete a riddle, you start over again by saying riddle. In addition you will get a certain amount of experience per key, and he will remove the key from your pack. When you are done, he will ask you if you are ready to continue. Say yes. He will teleport you to yet another cave that looks the same as where you were. Wander nearby and find a chest. The sixth key opens the chest and eats it, and you will find yourself teleported somewhere out near the crypt. When you look inside your backpack you will find a cuthana herb. This is used to heal the bishop when he is ill.

Healing the Bishop

When you talk to the Bishop, if he is sick (and he needs to be), he tells you hes in pain and to see Princess Delilah.

Talk to her and she sends you to Chamberlain Thomar. Talk to him and then say noble gesture. He will ask you if you are willing to undertake the quest for the cuthana herb. Tell him yes. He tells you to take the herb once you have it to the princess. Go take your cuthana herb to her, and by just clicking on her, he is now healed. She offers you a reward. Be sure to take curse removal.

Getting to Stoneheim

Now the minimum level to get to SH is 50 and the minimum level to be reborn is 75. Apparently this happened with the 1.20 patch.

If you are evil, Monsegnior Damien will be the one to refer you to Zhakar to complete his ritual to go to Stoneheim.

If you are evil, you will need to have done the silver feather quest. I originally got the RD quests from the Eacceleration Server Page and it was listed there. In order for Zhakar to teleport you, he wants the following items:

the silver feather, see note if you did the royal key quest

belladonna berries,

a skeleton bone,

a crystal water,

gob blood,

and 5000 gold.

If you are good and have done the healing of the Bishop, (and by the way, if you have done this before you are not supposed to have to heal him again) go to Princess Delilah and say oracle. She tells you to ask Zhakar. If you say Oracle to Zhakar he tells you all about how the Oracle is located in another place. I took this path myself. I told Zhakar Oracle and then Stoneheim. He mentions that he has a ritual of blood, so tell him ritual and he will tell you he needs the items listed above. If you haven't healed the Bishop until AFTER the patch, you get the silver feather from Delilah after you do the healing.

The method as Tom sends it to me is this:

"Speak to Bishop after you heal him and say Balork. Then go to Delilah and say Balork. She removes the mark and then mentions Stoneheim. If not, just say Stoneheim and follow along and eventually she will give you the feather."

The method sent to me by Demitrizar is this:

"after you say noble gesture and give the guy the cathuna after the princess removes curse say stoneheim to the princess she gives you silver feather"

When you have gathered all the items, tell Zhakar Ritual. After one hour for him to complete the ritual, you will be all set. When your hour is up, get the conversation started again by mentioning ritual.By the way, I believe Sanctuary in Stonecrest is 25k gold, and scrolls back to Stonecrest if you forget to set your sanctuary are 50k gold. Scrolls to SS are still 25k.

When you complete either the good or the evil quest, you will be able to enter the Oracle's Realm, and THAT is where you become a Seraph with the cool wings and logon animation. Wings are now removable to allow the wearing of capes, and the login animation can be turned off by clicking the file called T4C Tweak.exe in your main T4C folder and checking disable animation.

Thanks to the Open Alpha test server, any of us who wished to become testers of the new island, which some call T4. I immediately added myself to the list, so that I would be able to begin gathering information. Keep in mind that things constantly change, so what is here may not be completely accurate. I do still have things to add when I have time, such as the Arakas Quests, and the Evil Path to RD. From what I have seen, however, it is an excellent idea to store up skill points, and even mages should really consider being as tanked up as possible. The reason???? Most, if not ALL the creatures shoot spells, and some shoot Diseases at you!!!!!!! Two of the worst I have seen are Rabies and Disease. There are Cure Rabies Pots in the Stonecrest pot shop. I found a cure disease pot and a scroll of recall in with the skeletal centaurs dungeon. There is a spell called Dispel, out there, which negates many of the diseases so far, and appears to take care of rabies. Something which I would get immediately from the priest in stonecrest is Bless!!!!! It is affected by wisdom, so if you have Tranquility, cast it before you cast Bless. What Bless does is gives a major boost to HP, Attack, and Archery for 30 min. Unfortunately, that has nothing to do with the Wisdom, Intelligence drops that also come with it. However, Rabies does apparently boost strength, so warriors actually like rabies! Rabies comes from some of the wolves (and you are most likely to encounter wolves immediately if you go out the North gate using the upper left exit of the temple, so mages, watch out!).

It is possible to purchase Manastones out there, but the merchant is NOT in Stonecrest. My page with Directions on it now includes some maps courtesy of others, mainly Yane's Site, which is included in the Links Page One of the maps included is a map of Stonecrest town itself.

Omar Hold, the jeweler, also has 4 nice rings you can purchase by telling him buy.

A special note about NPCs. "Help" seems to have become an important keyword in discovering things. It is one that I barely ever used before, but now has been known to sometimes help get an NPC talking more when "Name" doesn't give you enough to go on. Another note: pay attention when an NPC asks you a question. This is especially true of the Armor merchant across the way from the pot shop. He asks you if you are here to shop. Shop looks like the keyword because it is white, but using it won't let you sell or buy. You have to answer his question with Yes first. This becomes important, if you turn in Villain's Skulls frequently!!! He and the rest of the NPCs in town require that you wait your turn at this point.

Acknowledgements for additions and corrections on this page of the site go out to: Red Drake, Dusk, Tarl of Tarl's Server, Tom, King Killer, Witchypoo, Orion, LRWolverine, Bountyhunter, and Demitrizar.