The Wizard of Ego

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Description

This quest is obtained starting at Level 4 (13 mainstat) and after completing the Bitchin' Meatcar Quest. You talk with either:

• Grignr, the Seal Clubber (Turtle Tamer) or Terri, the Turtle Tamer (Seal Clubber)
• Asiago, the Pastamancer (Sauceror) or Edam, the Sauceror (Pastamancer)
• Duncan Drisorderly, the Disco Bandit (Accordion Thief) or Stradella, the Accordion Thief (Disco Bandit)

The character granting the quest asks you to find the key to Fernswarthy's Tower.

Tasks

• Adventure at The Misspelled Cemetary until you acquire one of the following:
  • Grave robbing shovel (pre-cyrpt) or
  • Rusty grave robbing shovel (also obtainable by adventuring The Defiled Alcove)
• Continue adventuring The Misspelled Cemetary until you get the A Grave Situation adventure, which gives you Fernswarthy's key.
• See the same guild member who gave you the quest two more times, and s/he asks you to see The Ruins of Fernswarthy's Tower if your mainstat is above (X).

• Adventure there until you acquire dusty old book.

• Give the book to the guild member who assigned you the quest.

Rewards

• 500 Meat
• Area access: The Ruins of Fernswarthy's Tower
• In your Quest Log, under completed quests, you will see: "You've turned in the old book, and they said they didn't want it and for you to go away. A bit anticlimactic, but I suppose it still counts as a success. Congratulations!"
• Class specific reward:

  Manual of Labor (Muscle classes)

  Manual of Transmission (Myst classes)

  Manual of Dexterity (Moxie classes)

Text

• Before getting Fernswarthy's key, your Quest Log will read:

  You've been tasked with digging up the grave of an ancient and powerful wizard and bringing back a key that was buried with him. What could possibly go wrong?

Notes

As of 1/24/07, the Temporal Riflet in the Nearby Plains doesn't appear automaticall. Once you obtain Fernswarthy's key, the Temporal Rift to The Nearby Plains in the Distant Past will reopen.

References

• The name of this quest is a reference to the daily comic strip The Wizard of Id (the "id" and "ego" are two divisions of the psyche, according to Sigmund Freud's theories.)