rowanleigh
12-18-2010, 07:10 PM
<p>I started designing my own quests for my guild on Butcherblock and was asked to do one for Heros of War for Frostfell.</p><p>It's a little challenging designing a player-made event, because unlike the standard, NPC quest giver there is no wiki to look things up, and the person or Dungeon Master(heh) has to be ready for all kinds of things and improvise while in character.</p><p>So, Twylight and Frets and me, Hykata preformed this player-written quest, and we all, including the particpants had an absolute blast. I am cutting and pasting the orginal "Play" as written. As with all live events, it didn't go exactly as planned, but honestly, that's the best part. </p><p>Huge kudos to Twylight and Frets, who as part of the "Norrathian Not Ready for Nightfall Players" got into character, and improvised and Frets with his love poems cracked us all up.</p><p>Here is the quest as written. Things changed once we started the event. Some supension of disbelief is required, I mean I KNOW the Mistmoore Piano is not a saleable item, so the particpants can't be all sticklers and in your face about it. </p><p>I write the quest in a book for the particpants to keep in their house.</p><p>But it was a lot of fun, and I am thinking of doing one for the entire server for Valentine's Day. </p><p>The Gift of the GiggleGibbersA Frostfell Play Starring:PippaHykataJavijuniorVarious ZonesYou and your Merry Band of Adventurers find yourself in New Halas waiting for Randor to finish checking his broker. As you are waiting you see a young woman wringing her hands and muttering to herself:Pippa: Oh dear, oh dear, I've ruined Frostfell. Oh how could I have been so stupid!*Approach Pippa and ask her what is wrong*Pippa: Oh, I am so stupid! I ruined Frostfell! Our first Frostfell together and I ruined it!*Ask Pippa what's wrong*Pippa: Javilan and I were wed this past August. You didn't come to the ceremony?Oh, well, the invitations must have got lost in the e-mail system. You know how unreliable emails are. But this is our first Frostfell together, and I have ruined it. RUINED IT! Javilan will never forgive me, and I just know he's been ogling that wizard he goes raiding with all the time. He always talks about her too-"oh, she's so powerful", "Oh, she looked so cute in that her little Passion Outfit taking out Vulaan last night!" Huh, that wizard couldn't kill a rat in Kerra Isle, and never has heard of self-control..she's never met an AOE she didn't have unleash! *Ask Pippa how she ruined Frostfell*Pippa: I wanted to get Jav something special, and I saved plat for months and months.However,I also wanted to make our home so pretty, so I spent all my plat on furniture. I realized my mistake too late, and decided to sell my Mistmoore Piano to Hykata. I thought I would buy Jav something special for Frostfell, an adornment that only Hykata can make. Oh,I loved that Piano! It looked so great in the music room! Jav and I earned that piano together, and carved our initials in the lid! I need it back! I thought I was doing something fantastic for Jav, but it turns out I was in HIS home, and I found his Frostfell closet! He's bought me a piano stool to go with my Piano! Oh dear, Oh dear! He caught me in his home, and he stormed out and now won't talk to me! I've ruined Frostfell..now he will run off with that wizard.*Suggest to Pippa to ask Hykata to give the piano back*Pippa: Oh, no, Hykata was so against this marriage, and told me I was a fool! She won't sell the piano back. And time is running out, and I don't have time to earn more plat to get him something. And he won't talk to me at all! Oh, I am going to be spending my New Year in Qeynos Divorce Court. Is that in the castle? or is it in Qeynos Harbor? *Ask Pippa how you can help*Pippa: Suggest talking to Hykata. She's busy getting ready for the Frostfell Meet and Greet in her home at the Manors of Erollosi. *go to Hykata's House*Ask Hykata to give back the piano. Wait for Hykata's Response:Hykata: The fools! They deserve this. I told Twylight it was just as easy to fall in love with a Rich Shadowknight as it was a Defiler. But oh no.."he can heal, and he has blue skin! and look at his raid gear!" Then, she catches the decorating bug! I am not giving the Piano back. Besides, huh. You should go talk to Javilan. Last time I looked he was standing in front of the Banker in Frostfell, muttering to himself about plat. Go find Javilan and talk to him.Javilan: Of all the stupid, boneheaded things I've done! I wanted to make Frostfell special for Twylight, and sold my chestpiece to Hykata to buy the matching piano stool for her Twy's Piano. I was standing around the corner from the New Halas broker, so pleased with my purchase, thinking Twylight would be so happy to have this special Frostfell present, when I heard her talking to Hykata. Hykata was muttering on about how stupid Twylight was for marrying me, and how gift-giving is stupid anyway, might as well just give plat. But then, she said, Yes, I will buy that stupid piano from you, I hope Jav is happy with his adornment. You know his first love will always be raiding, right?Now, what am I to do? I don't have enough time to get more plat, and I sold that chestpiece Twylight and I worked so hard to get in our first raid together! Hykata says she won't sell the chest-piece back to me...what will I do? *offer to go talk to Hykata*Find Hykata in Frostfang Sea.Hykata: Well, if you are here to ask me to save those fools Frostfell, you can forget it. I sold the piano at a loss, and the chestpiece I sold to some ebay tank, it's not coming back either. Frostfell's such a joke anyway, I mean, really, we can't be nice to each other all year round? We really need a holiday to remind us to be kind to each other? Then after it's done, it's all "sorry, Hy, I know I promised to go with you to The Shimmering Citadel because I know you can't jump and you get lost, but I have raiding tonight" or "Sorry, Hy,I know I promised to make that Zen Garden for you, but Jav and I are going to go get the collectibles for my piano tonight!" Bah humbug! If you can't be nice all year long, don't bother faking it for two weeks in December. *ask Hy if there is anything you can do to help her help Jav and Twylight*Well, I do want a Zen garden in on my deck. So, you can run up and get me some bamboo from the Pandas. I pay my own way, and don't spend money on stupid crap like dividers for a home a raider's never going to be in anyway. So, here is some plat. *Return to Hykata with the bamboo Plants* *Hykata: Well this is more like it. You know, you could do me one more favor, (Depending on group) Jav and Twylight both promised me a run through Icy Keep Hard. and now, they won't go with me. I always wanted some more glacial statues, and that Stupid Dina Maiden keeps killing me when I try to solo it. Will you take me with you to Icy Keep so I can finish the quest? Jav and Twylight are so bent out of shape...and after that, I might be able to give back the piano and the chestpiece..of course I only have an hour to spare, so we have to be quick about it!Go to Icy Keep hard with Hykata. When Zone is completed. Ask Hykata if there is anything else.Hykata: You know, I am not usually such a Grinchy McScroogle Humbug. I will can't give the piano and chest-piece back, but these rares should give them enough plat to fix their Frostfell. If you can deliver the lumber to Twylight, and the gems to Javilan, I would appreciate it. Twy is in her cousin Pippet's house in New Halas, and I am sure Jav is still in Frostfell looking at gifts he can buy. to I did give them small frostfell gifts to share, make sure you ask them out presents! You all have done a great job, and I think...if you visit Sandx in your guild hall, you all will get a chance for an awesome prizes.</p>