Adventurer's Guild
The Adventurer's Guild is a guild open to any character, and is a way to earn experience, silver, and bounty points. These are rewarded based on quests that one performs. The system is currently in beta testing in the Gemtone IV Platinum
Joining
Joining the Adventurer's Guild requires simply finding the guild Taskmaster in a town and ASKing him about BOUNTY.
Types of Quest
There are 9 types of quest that the Taskmaster can assign you. Assignment of these tasks is random, so you can get the same task many times in a row. The assignment of a specific type is level and realm based; you will be given tasks appropriate to your training and location. You can get assigned any creature within +/- 5 levels (or +/- 2 if you're under level 15). The system will try to pick from creatures that are nearby first, so if your level and town is such that there are more creatures in that range higher in level than you than lower, you'll tend to get uphunting tasks more often.
Gem Gathering
This task requires you to get a number of a type of gem for the town jeweler. You simply collect the gems and sell them at the gemshop. The gems assigned seem to be level-based, so a 2 train character would be asked to find something on the order of '6 pink spinels' though as early as 15 trains you can be assigned to look for such rarities as Sylvarrend rubies. Rewards on this are based on (table of rewards)
Example Task:
Skinning
This task requires you to gather skins of a specific type and of at least a certain quality for the town furrier. If you have 0 ranks on Survival and First Aid you will not be assigned skinning tasks. Rewards for this are based on (type of creature, skin quality, and quantitiy?) (table of rewards)
Example Task:
Foraging
This task requires you to forage for a specific item in a specific area. The items foraged need to be fresh (not [bundle]d or eaten). Rewards for this are based on xxx (quantity, rarity?). (table of reward ranges)
Example Task: Surtey Akrash says, "Ah, so you're from the Adventurer's Guild? Yes, I do have a task for you. I've been working on a concoction that requires some wolifrew lichen. Unfortunately, I need a specific variety that only grows in the Graveyard near Wehnimer's Landing. If you could retrieve 10 samples for me, I would be most grateful. Keep in mind that I need these samples to be in pristine condition. That means no eating, bundling, or otherwise damaging the samples. You can GIVE them to me as you FORAGE them."
Heirloom (loot)
This task is assigned by a town guard, and is one in which an item is said to have been lost to a specific creature (in a certain area?). To complete it, kill the creatures and when searching them, you should eventually find one that was carrying the item in question. This can necessitate the killing of up to 30 of the creatures. The assignment of creature type and area is level-based. Rewards are based on (something?) (table of reward ranges)
Example Task:
Heirloom (search)
This task is assigned by a town guard and is one in which an item is lost in a specific area. To complete it, one must kneel with empty hands and search in a specific area. The item is not in a specific room before you start searching, so any room you start to search in will do. Training in Perception helps a lot for this task, and it is likely that the spell Presence does as well. Rewards blah blah blah
Example Task: The guard says, "Ah, so you're from the Adventurer's Guild? Yes, we do have a task for you. One of our citizens was attacked by a giant marmot in the smuggling tunnels near Wehnimer's Landing. He barely escaped with his life. Unfortunately, in his haste to escape, he dropped a family heirloom of great sentimental value to him. He has put up a reward for its safe return. The heirloom is an entwined silver and gold necklace and you'll be able to identify it by the initials OP engraved upon it. Hunting down the creature that attacked him won't do you much good, as I don't think they take a liking to treasure. You'll probably find the item wedged into some nook or cranny in the area if you do a thorough SEARCH. Report back to me once you have retrieved it."
Quelling
This task is assigned by a town guard, and is a very simple task that just requires you to kill a number of a specific creature (in the specific area?). Rewards are based on blah blah (table)
Example Task:
Boss Creature
This task is assigned by a town guard, and is based on the report of a particularly (mean sounding adjective) creature running about. To complete it, you have to go kill some number of the regular creatures, then randomly, the particularly mean one will come out. This one is of a higher level than the base creatures. The assignment of creature type and area is level-based. Rewards are based on (stuff) (table)
Example Task: The guard says, "Ah, so you're from the Adventurer's Guild? Yes, we do have a task for you. A particularly dangerous great boar has been attacking hunters based out of this town. It has racked up quite a few kills and is beginning to worry us. Most of the attacks have occurred on the Locksmehr Trail between Wehnimer's Landing and Zul Logoth, which it probably considers its territory. Hunt it down, kill it, and report back to me. It doesn't always attack hunters, but you can probably get its attention by killing other creatures of the same type in its territory."
Escort
Rescue
This task is assigned by the town guard and requires you to go and find an NPC and rescue it from a place of danger. It is usually necessary to kill several of the creatures in order to entice the NPC to come out. Once out, the NPC will FOLLOW you, but only one room at a time. You simply advance one room, then wait for the NPC to follow, going more than one room at a time will cause the NPC to wait in its location. The NPC can be attacked by creatures, however creatures will attack any characters in the room before targeting the NPC. Rewards are based on (stuff)
Example Task: The guard says, "Ah, so you're from the Adventurer's Guild? Yes, we do have a task for you. One of our citizens is in quite the predicament. His young son ran away from home recently. A local divinest has discerned glimpses of the child fleeing from a lesser burrow orc in Melgorehn's Valley near Wehnimer's Landing. The child is still alive, though is in constant danger and is probably cowering where ever he can find somewhere to hide."
The guard continues, "Go out the area where the child was last seen, find him, and bring him back safetly to me. You will probably need to kill some of the creatures that he was last seen fleeing from in order to build up his confidence in you and reveal himself."
Rewards
For each task you are awarded some amount of silver, experience, and bounty points. The experience awarded can stack on top of other unprocessed experience with no seeming upper limit. The rapid completion of tasks has allowed characters to accumulate over 30,000 unprocessed absorption. Also, the experience awarded is influenced by the XXX system, so the award of 1000 experience on XXX is the equivalent of being awarded 3000 experience. Bounty points are awarded and can be exchanged for items in the bounty point treasure system.
Treasure System
| 1 | a crystal amulet | 100 | A standard ESP amulet |
| 2 | a gold ring | 500 | A standard ring of teleportation |
| 3 | a treasure chest | 250 x tier | An unopened treasure chest. Chests are graded in tiers (1-10), with 1 being the poorest, on average |
| 4 | a magic item | 1000 | An item charged with a random unidentified spell |
| 5 | recharge an enhancive item | * | Have the item ready in your hand for a cost quote |
| 6 | a weak potion of accelerated unlearning | 100000 | Instantly migrates any and all Combat Maneuver List unlearned training points when drunk |
| 7 | a strong potion of accelerated unlearning | 250000 | Instantly migrates all skills to match skill goals when drunk |
| 8 | a potion of body and mind | 1000000 | Grants the ability to reallocate your stats when drunk |
Badges
These badges are awarded to anyone who is a member of the Adventurer's Guild (have completed an AG task). Their function is as both a status symbol (as the more points you accumulate, the fancier your badge can be) and as an enhancive item. They are awarded by the Treasure Master and the look of the badge is awarded based on the number of points you have accumulated. Further upgrades of the badge can also be accomplished based on the number of bounty points you have accumulated.
Upgrades don't cost you any bounty points or silver, but you earn them by earning a certain number of points over your career, including points you've already spent. A badge can be upgraded in five different areas, and each area can be upgraded ten times. The goal for earning the first upgrade in each area is 10,000 points, and every subsequent upgrade in that area will require you to earn 20,000 more points, then 30,000 more, etc. For example, I might upgrade the binding after I earn 10,000 points. To upgrade the binding again I'll need to earn 20,000 more points, or I can upgrade the gem after 10,000 more.
Obviously, the more upgrades you get, the bigger its enhancive capacity will be. On top of that, the two or three highest-ranking upgrades on your badge have the potential to unlock its ability to hold more than one enhancement.
You can set up your badge to enhance any skill or stat or other attribute that is available on the menu. If you want to know how much of a particular enhancement your badge can hold, just ask the treasure master NPC without specifying the bonus amount. Be aware that the treasure master has to drain your badge of all its charges before he can make any change to the enhancements it holds!
Once you've upgraded your badge and set it up with the enhancements you want, you'll have to place an order from the regular rewards menu to have it charged up, just like you can have any enhancive charged up. Recharging badges costs less than recharging other equivalent enhancive items, though.
Other tips:
- The badges are permanently attuned to the owner.
- If by some weird calamitous chance you manage to lose your badge, you can ask for a new one, but you'll have to set it up all over again. If you get a new badge, the old badge will become a useless paperweight and lose its attunement to you (or anyone).
- The strength of the enhancements you can get is limited by the overall value of your badge, but it is also limited by your level. The level limits aren't too restrictive, however -- a capped player could have a +10 stat enhancer, for example.
Locations
- Wehnimer's Landing: North Ring Road
- Teras: Glaes Street
- Solhaven: Latirus Lane
- River's Rest: Sandy Path
- Icemule: East Road
- Ta'Illistim: Fraendel Var
- Ta'Vaalor: Glimaerstone Var
- Zul Logoth: Ruby Tunnel