DoD Level 69 Spell #1: The Lost Notebook  

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Rating:
*****
Information:
Level:69
Maximum Level:125
Monster Mission:No
Repeatable:Yes
Can Be Shrouded?:No
Quest Type:Task
Quest Goal:
  • Advancement
  • Loot
  • Spell
Time Limit:06:00:00
Quest Items:
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Related Quests:
Era:Depths of Darkhollow
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Group Size:Group
Min. # of Players:3
Max. # of Players:6
Appropriate Classes:
  • All
Appropriate Races:
  • All
Entered: Fri Sep 30 23:31:34 2005
Modified: Tue Dec 5 05:21:04 2023
This is the first task in a series of four (the end result being your 69th level spell/tome). It begins with Model XG CVIII and Brovil Pallivineg in Corathus Creep (southeastern part of the zone - location -750, +375).

Cicero's Torn Notebook drops off drachnids in Stoneroot Falls. The first page of the text says to return it to Cicero's assistant, named Model XG CVIII, who's in the southeast corner of Corathus Creep.

You say, 'Hail, Model XG CVIII'

Model XG CVIII doesn't respond to hails. Hand it the notebook.

Model XG CVIII says 'I-dent-if-ied, Cic-er-o's Note-book. Error. Con-tents missing. Sections one through nine un-accounted for. Current location of sections one through nine e-quals. . . unknown. Cicero's current location equals. . . unknown. Error. Initializing shut down. Click. Whirrr. Clunk.'

Brovil Pallivineg says 'You got Cicero's old clockwork talking again! How'd you do that? That [hunk of rust] hasn't moved or made a sound in over a hundred years.'

Target Brovil to continue the conversation.

You say, 'What hunk of rust?'

Brovil Pallivineg says 'That there is Cicero's clockwork assistant. He took it everywhere with him when he was researching around here. It hasn't worked since the day Cicero [disappeared].'

You say, 'Disappeared?'

Brovil Pallivineg says 'Unfortunately, last we saw of Cicero was over two hundred years ago. He ventured off over the waterfall to the south in pursuit of some spelunking sporali migration or some such nonsense. He never came back, although we did find Cicero's clockwork assistant with its cogs and springs tossed about near the lake of Korlach. It was mostly bound up in a thick web and hasn't really worked ever since. We believe Cicero was killed by the drachnids a long time ago, but we've been unable to organize a search party to verify anything. If you can [recover] Cicero's notebook pages, we would reward you as best we can. I'd hate to see Cicero's last great work disappear in this darkness.'

You say, 'I will recover the pages.'

Brovil Pallivineg says 'Many thanks ______. It will be most welcome to finally know more about poor Cicero's end. See if you can find any trace of Cicero's pages in the drachnid hive. Take any that you find and place them back in his notebook here. If you lose the notebook let me know and I'll see if I can come up with [another] copy for you.'

There are three versions of this task: Low-level (for those 67 and below), normal and hard. The only difference between them is the quality of loot and difficulty of mobs.

You have been assigned the task 'The Lost Notebook'.

You receive Cicero's Notebook, a 10-slot container. If you lose or destroy the container, you can say "another" to Brovil to receive another one. If you say it without the mission, he'll tell you:

Brovil Pallivineg says 'I'm sorry, I only have a limited supply of these copies of Cicero's notebook. I can only give them out to someone who is helping to recover the missing pages.'



1.Find the secret entrance to the Hive 0/1 (Stoneroot Falls)

In Stoneroot Falls, follow your compass to the instanced zone-in to the Hive.

2. Collect the 9 sections of Cicero's Notebook 0/9 (The Hive)

These sections will drop one by one from random mobs in the zone. Make sure to loot as they drop, or else you'll keep getting the same item drop over and over.

There are no respawns in this instance and the mobs do not summon (ie, they can be kited).

The task completes itself after you loot the ninth item. Optionally, you can combine them in the container received at the beginning of the task to produce Cicero's Reassembled Notebook, and deliver it to Brovil.



Everyone in the party receives a Spectacular Image Enchancing Prism + an automatic reward (listed below). As well, a chest spawns at the zone-in with one item in it:

Automatic Rewards
Normal (low level) - Melee: Hive Sentinel Collar
Normal (low level) - Caster: Drachnid Collective Mask
Normal - Caster: Hivegrime Stone of Thinking
Normal - Melee: Hivegrime Stone of Fury
Hard - Caster: Hive Silk Mask
Hard - Melee: Drachnid Skin Necklace

Low Level
Drachnid Cocoon Secretion
Hardened Chitin Helmet
Molted Drachnid Arms

Normal
Blood Rage Choker
Cocoon Skin Arms
Dark Web Mask
Damaged Expedition 328 Miner's Hat
Hive Warden's Choker
Wall Climber Ring
Web Weaver Chain Vest

Hard
Blood Defender
Crystalline Webbing of Musing
Crystalline Webbing of Wrath
Drachnid Soother
Hardened Chitin Breastplate

Random Zonewide Rare Drops
Hard - Drachnid Amice of Malice
Hard - Drachnid Leg
Normal - Drachnid Tendril Ring
Normal - Gory Belt



Completion of this task leads into the next task in the series, "Cavern Botany".

You can also come back and repeat this task at any time:

You say, 'Hail, Brovil Pallivineg'

Brovil Pallivineg says 'Greetings _____. Do you happen to have some time to help me out? I've been studying Cicero's notes you retrieved and have found quite a bit of information about the plants in the area. If possible, I would like to continue his work, though I don't wish to meet the same end he did. If you could [gather] some samples of these plants for me I would be very grateful for your assistance. If you'd like to [check] for Cicero's notebook again let me know.'
Submitted by: additional write-up by KyrosKrane
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Another trash drop
# Dec 12 2005 at 12:50 PM Rating: Decent
http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=83790
Dropped off a Drachnid infilltrator on normal
Another Chest loot.
# Dec 10 2005 at 6:34 PM Rating: Decent
http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=83838
Dropped in chest on hard version.
60hp aug, random drop?
# Dec 10 2005 at 5:27 PM Rating: Decent
Drachnid Infiltrator dropped this on hard setting today:

Drachnid Leg: Magic, Lore, No drop, Augmentation, Slot 7 and 8.
+60hp
All slots, Required 61 Recommended 66.
Chest loot
# Dec 09 2005 at 2:54 PM Rating: Decent
I have done the normal misson twice and Wall Climber Ring was the chest drop both times.
chest
# Dec 06 2005 at 5:33 AM Rating: Decent
got wall climber ring (AC 13 hp175 ring) off chest at the end of normal difficulty task
Chest Loot
# Dec 04 2005 at 7:55 AM Rating: Decent
Normal chest loot - Damaged Expedition 328 Miner's Hat
Hard mission info
# Dec 02 2005 at 12:07 PM Rating: Decent
I have solo'd the mission 2 times and completed it 6 more times with a group on Druzzil Ro. All missions were on hard. Here is the loot we saw...

Chest Loot
2 Drachnid Soother - both destroyed
2 Blood Defender
1 Hardened Chitin Breastplate
2 Crystalline Webbing of Musing
1 +35 attack aug (can't remember name)

Random loot
1 +75 HP aug (was called drachnid something...can't remember name)
1 very nice bst/mnk claws 17dmg/19dly +180 HP and other comparable stats (can't remember name)

The solo exp in this place is the best I've ever seen. Beats the crap out of the nest. I used my exp vet reward during the 2nd time I solo'd it and I ended up getting 11 AA by the time I finished(took around 3 1/2 hours).

Make sure you check bodies after each kill. The same book will keep dropping until you loot it. Looting two of the same book still only counts as one book.

Mortifer
70 Necromancer of Druzzil Ro
changes in runspeed?
# Nov 29 2005 at 1:09 PM Rating: Decent
Scholar
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73 posts
immune or root/rotable?
RE: changes in runspeed?
# Dec 02 2005 at 12:32 PM Rating: Decent
They are snareable and can be rotted. They're very fast when snare is resisted, so be careful. Casters will sometimes dispell themselves until snare gets dispelled, so watch out for that.

Mortifer
70 Necromancer of Druzzil Ro
another drop
# Nov 28 2005 at 12:33 PM Rating: Decent
Gory Belt dropped from drachnid in hard version
Hard version Drop
# Nov 28 2005 at 11:10 AM Rating: Decent
Hi Again

Another Hard version drop.

Crystalline Webbing of Musing

Thanks,

ZZ
Blood Rage Choker
# Nov 27 2005 at 4:20 AM Rating: Decent
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139 posts
http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=83774

Another drop from this was normal setting
Cocoon Silk Arms
# Nov 23 2005 at 2:53 PM Rating: Decent
Do these come from chest in hard or normal version of this mission?
Brass Intrument
# Nov 20 2005 at 5:40 PM Rating: Decent
Hi All

We looted this bard intrument from a hard version.



No bards on the mission, so destroyed 8(

loot
# Nov 17 2005 at 5:35 AM Rating: Decent
Hardened Chitin Breastplate was the chest loot from the HARD mission of this. Hive silk mask was the caster reward for hard version also. Both are on Lucy.
Background for the quest
# Oct 28 2005 at 11:59 AM Rating: Good
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385 posts
Cicero's Torn Notebook drops off Drachnids in Stoneroot Falls. The first page of the text says to return it to Cicero's assistant, named Model XG CVIII, who's in the southeast corner of the zone.

You say, 'Hail, Model XG CVIII '

Model XG CVIII doesn't respond to hails. Hand it the notebook.

Model XG CVIII says 'I-dent-if-ied, Cic-er-o's Note-book. Error. Con-tents missing. Sections one through nine un-accounted for. Current location of sections one through nine e-quals. . . unknown. Ciero's current location equals. . . unknown. Error. Initializing shut down. Click. Whirrr. Clunk.'

Brovil Pallivineg says 'You got Cicero's old clockwork talking again! How'd you do that? That [hunk of rust] hasn't moved or made a sound in over a hundred years.'

Target Brovil Pallivineg to continue the conversation.

You say, 'what hunk of rust?'

Brovil Pallivineg says 'That there is Cicero's clockwork assistant. He took it everywhere with him when he was researching around here. It hasn't worked since the day Cicero [disappeared].'

You say, 'He disappeared?'

Brovil Pallivineg says 'Unfortunately, last we saw of Cicero was over two hundred years ago. He ventured off over the waterfall to the south in pursuit of some spelunking sporali migration or some such nonsense. He never came back, although we did find Cicero's clockwork assistant with its cogs and springs tossed about near the lake of Korlach. It was mostly bound up in a thick web and hasn't really worked ever since. We believe Cicero was killed by the drachnids a long time ago, but we've been unable to organize a search party to verify anything. If you can [recover] Cicero's notebook pages, we would reward you as best we can. I'd hate to see Cicero's last great work disappear in this darkness.'

You say, 'I will recover the pages'

Brovil Pallivineg says 'Many thanks Kyroskrane. It will be most welcome to finally know more about poor Cicero's end. See if you can find any trace of Cicero's pages in the drachnid hive. Take any that you find and place them back in his notebook here. If you lose the notebook let me know and I'll see if I can come up with [another] copy for you.'

At this point, Brovil offers you the shared task The Lost Notebook (normal or hard version) if you are in a group. I believe you can bypass much of this text and simply say the last line to Brovil to get the mission. Apparently, Brovil hands you Cicero's Notebook, a ten-slot container, when you accept the mission. If you lose or destroy the container, you can say "Another" to Brovil to get one back. I said "Another" to him without having accepted the mission, and he told me:

Brovil Pallivineg says 'I'm sorry, I only have a limited supply of these copies of Cicero's notebook. I can only give them out to someone who is helping to recover the missing pages.'

Edited, Fri Oct 28 13:19:06 2005
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Sir KyrosKrane Sylvanblade
Luclin (Veeshan) Server
Lord, Lightbringer, and Redeemer in the service of Erollisi Marr
Master Artisan (300 + GM Trophy in All)
Master Fisherman (200 + 5%) and maybe Master Drunk (2xx + 20%, too drunk to tell!)
Chest Loot
# Oct 27 2005 at 10:31 AM Rating: Decent
Blood Defender was a chest loot from the hard version of this mission.

Edited, Thu Oct 27 11:51:01 2005
Kiting
# Oct 11 2005 at 10:56 AM Rating: Decent
I took a group of level 70s, 2 necros, 2 rogues and a bard bot for playing mana song and curing the root dot(nasty but I believe this is a either a proc or point blank as only the rogues got hit with it)half way through we added a shammy to the task. Normal version mobs are level 72 hit for 1500ish. Got 4 pages off the yard mobs then started pulling the towers. Pulled the drachnids from the towers with snare, if you don't keep line of site on the snared mob it will warp on you. The instanced version apparently doesn't have the little spider traps the regular version of the zone has. Took about 2 1/2 hours to complete.
More loot
# Oct 11 2005 at 1:03 AM Rating: Decent
I've done this mission about 6-8 times. Still hoping for a silk drop...

Chest loot:
Plate Helm, 120hp (something miner with a # in it)
All/All ring, 120hp
Melee neck, 130hp, Clicky 90hp buff

Random trash drop (from spider):
Melee neck, 130hp, Ferocity 1
item
# Oct 07 2005 at 7:49 AM Rating: Decent
i recieved a drachnidskin somthing necklace, liek 14 ac, 7 str 10 stam 140hp some other stats or somthing i got no aug and won hard :( and got prism
Hard Rewards
# Oct 28 2005 at 10:17 AM Rating: Decent
Casters: Hive Silk Mask


Edited, Fri Oct 28 16:30:59 2005
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