Bandages for Honeybugger  

[Fri Sep 04 17:37:37 2015] Right click on the NPC to consider him.
[Fri Sep 04 17:37:38 2015] Joogl Honeybugger says 'Oh thank you, Coalition. If you are ever going to gather bixie honeycombs pray you do not run into the queen. The only way I know of collecting the honey is by intercepting the drones and taking the honeycombs they sometimes carry. Good luck !'
[Fri Sep 04 17:37:38 2015] Your faction standing with Merchants of Rivervale has been adjusted by 1.
[Fri Sep 04 17:37:38 2015] Your faction standing with Deeppockets has been adjusted by 1.
[Fri Sep 04 17:37:38 2015] Your faction standing with Guardians of the Vale has been adjusted by 1.
[Fri Sep 04 17:37:38 2015] Your faction standing with Mayor Gubbin has been adjusted by 1.
[Fri Sep 04 17:37:39 2015] Your faction standing with Coalition of Tradefolk Underground has been adjusted by -1.

Done by my rogue who conned Apprehensive.

Joogl Honeybugger is located at -615, -1190

"Hail, Joogl Honeybugger"
"Hello, I would shake your hand, but it would [hurt]. Ooooh! Owwy!"
"What hurts?"
"I was attacked by the bixies. They swarmed on me!! I think I got too near their queen. I need that honey to make a living! Get me a bandage and I will you where all their worker bees buzz around".
Hand a bandage (or 4) to Joogl.
"Oh thank you, <name>. If you are ever going to gather bixie honeycombs pray you do not run into the queen. The only way I know of collecting the honey is by intercepting the drones and taking the honeycombs they sometimes carry. Good luck!!"

All faction changes lited are correct. Did not get a message about XP.

A few years back, my human paladin decided it might be fun to kill halfling guards in Misty Thicket, and because I made so much money at it, I stayed there for a long time, driving nearly all of my Rivervale factions as low as they could go ("could not possibly get any worse"). A couple days ago, I decided it was time to fix the factions.

Let me start by saying that if Joogl (I think that's how it's spelled) "scowls at you, ready to attack", he will hand the bandage back rather than allow you to complete the quest. Subsequent research showed that once he only "glares at you threateningly", he will accept the bandage even though he's still KOS to you, allowing you to complete the quest. Bear in mind that if he aggros on you (he's only around level 10, so as long as you don't sit in front of him, most people will find that he won't attack), you cannot initiate a trade at all.

Since he scowled at me, the first tactic I tried was having an enchanter charm him, which brought him to indifferent with me. Sadly, though he will then accept the bandage and even spout off the quest completion text, he does not grant faction hits. I found that to be rather strange, but it is indeed the case.

The solution that DID work for me was to group with the enchanter, initiate the trade with Joogl, but not press "Give". I then had the enchanter invis me, and after I was invis (thereby raising my faction with Joogl to indifferent), I hit "Give". That completed the quest, giving me the faction hits and leaving me invis. I would then initiate a new trade with Joogl (which would break the invis) and repeat the process. I handed Joogl four unstacked bandages each time (thereby getting four sets of faction hits each time). Because my faction was so bad, it took something in the neighborhood of 800 bandages to get me just to threatening with him (at which point I no longer needed to be invised to complete the quest), and a total of about 2,000 bandages (1,200 more) to get me to max allied. Because my Coalition of Tradefolk Underground standing was already bottomed out from turning in damaged militia helms in North Freeport, I wasn't at all concerned with the negative hits to that faction.

This quest fixed all the factions I'd trashed in Rivervale with the sole exception of Storm Reapers. Storm Reapers includes the druids of Rivervale (and Ella Foodcrafter in Misty Thicket) and sadly, the paladin guildmaster, Kaya, that stands near the cleric guild (and Kithicor zone line) in Rivervale. To fix that faction, I'm now doing the Deathfist Belt quest in Misty Thicket and the RunnyEye Warbeads quest in Rivervale.

Note that this quest will not help the Rivervale cleric faction, so if you've damaged it, you'll need to find a different way to fix it.

Edited, Wed Jan 18 09:22:35 2006

It seems you have to be higher than KoS to do this quest now. I tried with my necromancer , but he just gave the bandages back...

Edited, Fri Jan 6 08:13:53 2006

turned in about 10 stacks went from ready to attack to indifferently

4 stacks of 4 only got me 4 faction changes. So only turn in 4 bandages at a time now, just don't stack them in the give window. At least it's easy to grab one at a time off the stack holding CTRL down. Wish they would have made CTRL + ALT + Left Click grab four at a time though. I noticed the same thing doing the red wine quest in Neriak 3rd Gate the other night.

the faction ups are the same as those you get for killing gbos, etc....4 stacks of 20 for 80 faction hits...this would be a really simple way of getting a squad ring

For those of you who do not know where to locate Joogl Honeybugger, he is located in Misty Thicket in the SouthEast section of the zone. If you were coming out of Rivervale, you would make a left coming out of the tunnel from RV and hug the left wall.

Joogl is in one of the Halfling 'hill' huts (say that 10 times fast) with his sister Lil Honeybugger.

You can actually give Joogl 4 stacks of 4 bandages at a time for a total of 16 faction hits per transaction. I have done this myself.

Bandages can usually be purchased from the vendor in the Rivervale Bank.

Edited, Sat Sep 7 15:16:52 2002

ok, I'm just off to do this, but do I really need to worry about the FP rogues? so far as I can work out, I do not have to go into or through FP unless I want my headbands, so, If I'm high enough faction to the FP militia to get in/ out of FP, I dont need the rogues? am I missing something here? if so, please tell me

What does this quest have to do with a lesser nightmare? Buy a bandage, and give it to the dude.

As a rogue, I did this quest about 500 times to raise my faction to warmly throughout Rivervale. Unfortunately, the faction hit (CoalitionofTradeFolkIllegal) includes members of the FP rogue guild, so you can very quickly become KOS to your own guildmembers. Not a huge deal unless you like visiting the guild there, but something to keep in mind...

Thought I'd post this simply because the faction hit (in-game) reads as CoalitionofTradeFolkIll, which I took to mean Coalition of Tradefolk 3. Imagine my surprise when my GM in Freeport decided to 'make an example' of me... :)

Also, it took several hundred bandages to raise a gnome necromancer to the point where she was dubious with the guards in Rivervale. Despite being KoS to guards, she had no problem handing in bandages without being killed...

Xsi Kal

I know the monks can do it by sneaking...would a Iksar Nec be able to do it?