Aid Grimel No. 7 - Baking  

I'm posting this here because I could not figure out what I did wrong the first time I killed Solusek Ro.
Nowhere did I ever find a SPOILER online mentioning that you had to take the lava tunnel. Nor did I find any texts from the planar projection.

After killing Solusek Ro, hail the planar projection.
Take the lava tunnel next to the planar projection to Plane of Fire.
Talk to Grand Librarian Maelin in PoK. "I have new information"
Receive the flag from Maelin.
Speak with Aid Grimel, and he gives you the Field Satchel
Do the combine as mentioned above and give it to Grimel to receive Runed Signet.

Now talk to the Councilman to start the Signet of Might / Arcane quest. Having pre-looted a hope stone from the elemental planes would save a lot of time.

To make party platters you will need: a bucket of crab legs, hero sandwich, picnic basket, 2 planar fruit pies, and slarghilug stuffed poppers. Each platter combine yields 2.

Bucket of Crab Legs: bucket (smithed: 2 metal bits {2 small pieces of ore and a water flask}, bucket mold, water flask), butter (bottle of milk, dairy spoon {smithed: 2 metal bits, scaler mold, water flask}, rennet), cracked regrua meat (crab cracker, regrua claws {dropped in the plane of water by regruas). To make the crab cracker, you will need to get a GM tinkerer to combine firewater (tinkered: gnomish spirts + water flask), Knuckle Joint (dropped in Innovation), and 2 metal rods (vendor purchased) in their tool box. Both the dairy spoon and the crab cracker are returned on failure and success. Yield: 2

Hero Sandwich: hero parts (off of human model mobs in HoHa and HoHb, as well as valorian guards in PoV), dressing (vegetable oil {brewed: vegetables, water flask}, vinegar), loaf of bread, smoked hero parts (hero parts, smoker, spices), spiced hero parts (hero parts, jug of sauces, vinegar, spices), and vegetables (foraged). To make the smoker for the smoked hero parts, you will need to combine: metal bits, smoker base mold, smoker support mold, a water flask, and skewers (water flask, metal bits, skewer mold) in a forge.Yield: 2

Planar Fruit Pie: 2 celestial essences (scent of marr + celestial solvent, combined in a mixing bowl), frosting (vendor purchased), clump of dough (snake egg, bottle of milk, cup of flour), planar fruit (foraged in Plane of Justice), muffin tin (smithing: water flask, metal bits, muffin tin mold, ceramic lining {pottery: ceramic lining sketch, water flask, small block of clay in a pottery wheel. fire the result in a kiln with a quality firing sheet). Muffin Tin is returned upon success and failure. Yield: 1

Slarghilug Stuffed Poppers: There are three ways you can make these. You can use either slarghilug leg, webbed tail fin, or unbroken eye stalk in this recipe. All come from Slarghilugs in the Plane of Nightmare. Combine: bottle of milk, cup of flour, habanero pepper (foraged), mature cheese (2 bottles of milk, dairy spoon, rennet), non-stick frying pan, and your choice of the slarghilug parts mentioned above. To make a Non-Stick Frying Pan: water flask, metal bits, ceramic lining, and frying pan mold in a forge. Yield: 2

Picnic Basket (tailored): woven mandrake (tailored: 2 mandrake roots), and steel boning (water flask, small brick of ore, file {smithed: water flask, metal bits, file mold}) Yield: 10

Hope this mindless drivel helped someone...and hopefully it made sense. :P Correct if necessary.

Edited, Fri May 21 14:52:26 2004

I first thought the same thing when I looked at this quest. You can spend AA points to allow you to pass 200 in more than one skill. It is expensive though - 3AA points / skill. Hope this helps!

Carivone 52nd wolf of the Honors Guild
Terris-Thule

EQTraders at http://www.eqtraders.com/quests/pop_aid_grimel.htm#last gives the final reward:

If you have a mana bar (other than bards), you will recieve this:

Signet of the Arcane
MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM NO DROP
Slot: EAR
AC: 25
STR: +25 DEX: +25 STA: +25 WIS: +25
INT: +25 AGI: +25 HP: +130 MANA: +150
SV FIRE: +15 SV DISEASE: +15 SV COLD: +15 SV MAGIC: +15
SV POISON: +15
Effect: Flowing Thought III (Worn)
Focus Effect: Preservation of Xegony
WT: 1.5 Size: TINY
Class: ALL
Race: ALL

If you are a pure melee or bard, you will receive this:

Signet of Might
MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM NO DROP
Slot: EAR
AC: 25
STR: +25 DEX: +25 STA: +25 WIS: +25
INT: +25 AGI: +25 HP: +145
SV FIRE: +15 SV DISEASE: +15 SV COLD: +15 SV MAGIC: +15
SV POISON: +15
Effect: Aura of Bravery (Worn)
WT: 2.0 Size: TINY
Class: ALL
Race: ALL

I believe the reward for this entire quest is the Marked Signet. This earring dropped in FM off a 35 level mob for a short time due to a error. Amazing earring, although I can't remember at the moment what the stats are, they were awesome