a ghoul scribe  

sage room on map....

RegnartBQ's directions were right on. And, if you have probs following written directions, the Scribe is in the same room as the Sage on the map. GL!

I camped the ghould scribe yesterday with a 55 chanter and a 55 Paladin. Scribe was not up, so I flattened the 4 mobs in the area (2 visible, 2 behind a false wall). Parked the chanter there while I ran the paly around trying to find the executioner, and the savant. neither were up. Got lucky and scribe popped on the second round (didn't time it 15...30? mins). Tried to charm him but had my pet, so I mezzed him because he aggroed on me. Dumped my pet and then got attacked by the other 3 pops that respawned as I was trying to deal with the scribe. Paly deals with the other 3 while chanter charms the scribe. Conned the scribe and was amiable (you can never be to sure, had collaboration up just in case). Did the turn in and got the ink. Chanter gated out to break the mezz. Paly killed the scribe and looted a cinch cord. Executioner finally popped and I also snagged an executioner's hood. Goodies for my trader.

Just remember...drop your pet BEFORE you try to charm the scribe, lol, details, details

Irris Blewmingbrite 55 Paladin <Unquenched Valor>
Vamok 55 Enchanter <Unquenched Valor>

The Tribunal

Ok. On a 52 enchanter and been camping the scribe for two days. I finally got him and charmed him. He was killed and i was attacked by all the mobs in the surounding area.

Lesson: keep all other mobs off that spawn timer...

I've gone down to LGuk three times...the first time the "a ghoul scribe" was up, i charmed him with Boltran's, handed him the vial. he Frroooakkk!'d at me, and didn't give me anything back. I went to grab a new vial, and lo and behold, someone killed him.

I camped him for 5 hours, got him to pop again...used Allure this time, handed him the Empty Ink Vial, he froak'ed again, and didn't give me crap back again. This time I say "I'm going to get a new vial and try again, no one kill him please." and left another char parked there while i went...alas someone came and killed him, as i /shout, /ooc, /tell, /auction, /emote NOT to kill him...they still claimed "oh, i didn't see you say anything".

So, its BACK to LGuk for me, but can anyone suggest why this isn't working for me or what i'm doing wrong? I put in a /petition and the GM that responded gave me back the Empty Ink Vial and said that the quest is working properly.

Place is on a about 30 minute spawn timer, wasn't up when I got there but spawned in the next room pop. Popped at the west knight PH, not at the wizards in back. Easily charmable by L49 charm spell Allure and charm lasted full duration with 255 CHA. Also heard a rumor that he can spawn near the gargoyles, though I never tried as he spawned in front of me in the sage room (just SW of executioner room) as I was being told that.

Confirmed: 30 minute spawn cycle. Get a book to read.

Ok I charmed the Ghoul Scribe as it said to do i gave him the Empty Vial. Now what he didnt give me the ink of the Dark. The write up did said Charm and not Mez. I even killed him to see if maybe he had it on him but no luck. What is Wrong?

Can anyone please post current info on Scribe spawn times? I've seen two posts over a year old stating 20 phs and no spawn, I'd like to know how long it took for him to actually spawn in one camping session. I camped him for 6.5 hours last night, 4 sages, no scribes. Servers down this morning for patch or whatever and now camping him again. Thanks for your advice :)

-Krazied/Esperer/Bafu, etc of Quellious

Edited, Tue Oct 21 06:47:49 2003

Spawned today. Helped guildy do the chanter turn in. Then killed the scribe. Dropped the "Parchment of Flayed Skin". not lore or magic. if you open it(its a book), it reads: "This piece of parchment is in fact a flayed piece of skin, upon which unsettling and cryptic runes have been drawn."

No Idea what its for

K i used calm to make the other 3 mobs less agressive and singel puleld him his charm type spell was a pain in the arse but most other spells i resisted with 64 MR.

He dropp a parchment of flayed skin..... isnt listed anywhere and nobody knows what its for =|

any ideas ??

I was camping executioner last night, but since no one was camping sage/scribe I would run over and clear it every now and then.

Scribe spawned and I pulled him (pulling to a safe area with slow is so nice). I sent my pet in to tank his pet and that went quickly. Now my pet tanks scribe for a bit. At about 1/2 health scribe manages to charm my pet. Pet beats on me for about 10 seconds and then breaks the charm. It goes back to the scribe and kills it.

HERE'S THE BUG: Even though my pet was mine at the end of the fight, the game seems to have considered it an NPC in terms of the kill. Scribe WAS killed (saw the message), but left no corpse and gave no experience! I was pissed.

gone thru over 20 spawns now and still no scribe this sucks... only got sage once he dropped a head item its pretty nice 9 int but no cha /cry.

As a 51 pally I use ivu to place myself in the back corner of the hidden room with the wizzies. I proceed to beat the crap out of them without getting adds. Then I use dw hehlm to heal and cast ivu so I can med in peace if I need to. If scribe is up I make sure I have 3 stuns up to interrupt his spells and beat him easily. This room isn't too hard if you just have the right strategy. Haven't died yet or had any problems so far.

I was in the ass/sup rooom with a guild shammy...I'm 46 pally and he's a 42 shammy. We had no problems holding the room...single pops cuz we had it spread out. Well...next thing we know as we kill the sup's ph. We got an add...i'm thinking roamer in ass/sup? Kill sup ph and notice that the scribe is nuking my shammy to death...I proceed to kill his the lil punk. Stun...root...tank...stun...tank...he's dead. Dunno why he popped in the ass/sup room. But the only fought him two other times...my first exp was horrible. Went down to his room with 2 47+wiz's, chanter 50, cleric high 40's and me at 38lvl. We enter the room and ivu drops on cleric. All aggro goes to him...we tank the scribe...but he charms both other tanks, who proceed to finish off cleric...chanter's mez won't stick on the tanks...next thing i know...i'm charmed...tanking our tanks who just broke charm and killed our cleric. I proceed to switch after i dropped one tank and beat on our wiz's who had other ghouls on them...poor wiz's couldn't even gate. Next thing i know...i brk charm only to have the scribe nuke me to death as the ghouls root me. Ugly. My second to last exp...was sweet revenge...went down there with some guildies...scribe is up...I drop ivu and stun him...everyone assists me...scribe drops like a sack of potatoes...we mopped up the room which our chanter had mezzed...WOOT To bad the gorgon quill feather and parchment are friggn' useless.

All I hear about is how hard this guy is even to the level 50+ people.
I can safely say I have yet to loose a battle to this guy solo at 51 and 52.
Yes he is hard and charm sucks but if you root him first, then take out the pet there isn't much to worry about because the pet is the one that breaks your spells.
If you are worried about the DS... well then sucks to be you. The fast melee's worst nightmare and Achilies Heel.
Hell I just nuked the SOB with Dismiss Undead. took about 8 shots with a few hits in here and there.

From what I am reading you 50+ level guys are taking the room all wrong.
Sit in the corner just before the room and pull the scribe or ph with a spell or thrown item.
The other guy won't agro and nor will the wizards behind the wall.

Problem solved, worries over.

Tylus
52nd Paladin
Bristlebane Server

I was dooing Ass/Sup-room looking for my new TBB. I had just the same day recieved a CoF, so was looking for some new improvement in the Belt section. Anyhow from up in my nice little nest I hear this dude cast spells. I then walk down to him and single pulls him to a place I can fight him. I didnt give it much thought that he would have a dmg-shield. Anyhow as I loaded of my billion blows (Monk epic) my Hp started to fall ofcourse. Anyhow I had him pretty long down, and thought I would just use my Mend (Cureing 25% HP), but in the same second I got charmed. This though didnt stop the scribe from beating on me, or the pet for that sake. I didnt take any dmg though. So I was thinking wtf. After charm broke though, then I was instantaniusly dead. I had the mouse curser locked over my Mend button, and never got to click.
Beaware of this guy, he isnt all that easy to solo. (Even with 100+ MR)

Crunzh Bonebane<Project Eon> lvl 58 Monk on CT

Been in Guk a while now and made some good loot/exp, had some bad occasions (as has everyone), but last night this bad boy was the key that took out my entire group, everything went wrong:

Whilst attacking the sage ph the scribe pop'd along with the whole room:

-Main tank got charmed and went ld at the same time (started hitting me for 80's).
-Group leader gated without and word AND disbanded the group making group chat impossible ("Your not in a group, are you talking to yourself?").
-Monk eventually shouted "Scribe" and FD'd at 3/4 HP: refusing to get back up.
-It turned out our Enchanter had lied about his lvl (doh!) to get cowl drop and couldnt charm anything off me.

Leaving me (39 war) and our 40 rogue (brave lad) to try and defeat Scribe, 2 Wizzy's, and the sage's PH all whilst being hit by our charmed 45 main tank.

Lesson 1: Dont think that just because the room is empty when you get down there that it has been properly broken, cos having the whole room pop on you sucks the big one!

Lesson 2: Some real chickens/ greedy idiots come to lower Guk. Con everyone and make sure of your groups lvl/exp in this V Hard zone.

Lesson 3: Make sure that the cleric in your group isnt the only one in the zone who can rez.

Lesson 4: On other occasions the scribe went down no probs - just make sure you are all on him fast to reduce charms.

Lesson 5: I love Wizzy's with Evac, shame we didnt have one :(

GL all,

Basho Matsuo
39 Human Warrior
Hooded Nomads of Saryrn

I've had 2 exps with this punk. First try, 55 wiz and I go to smack him up to break the camp. Wiz casts ice comet, frig charms him and his 108 MR. Needless to say, the Ice Comet that ensued hurt like hell. His charm then broke, and I got charmed. I healed the Scribe when charmed, doh. EVAC as I die for him.
Next try. I start the fight with stun and fly in and melee. Wizzy nukes him to all hell, we win.
My group took him fairly easily along with 4 othere frogs, very easy when he's not charming, and he doesnt, when being meleed. (We only had 2 tanks on him.)
Still, one tough bastad.
Emosem FaithHealer
36th Cleric, Inny

I'm a 52 Nec trying to get my Runed Cowl the old fashioned way. I have had 3 fights with this jerk. First time I darked him and then got charmed and gated when it broke to be safe. Second time I cast Envenomed Bolt (awesome dot) and a dark before I got charmed. The dot killed him and charm broke but his corpse poofed on me. Third time I hit him with Screaming Terror, then EB and he still got a charm off with pet bashing him. Charm broke and I nuked him dead but Sage PH had popped so I gated again to be safe. The only strategy I can think of as a Nec would be to chain cast ST but try to slip in some dots that have no initial damage. He is really making me mad, I'm almost 20 lvls above him and he has no trouble at all charming me. I'm grateful he hasn't charmed my pet because I'm far more scared of him attacking me than a damn frog.

does anyone know what this is for?

A word of warming… bring a cleric or a healer you’ll need it and a tank wouldn’t hurt.
Here’s what you’ll have to face in that room:
-Scribe
-Scribe’s Pet
-Sage or his PH Wan Knight
-2 X Urd Ghoul Wizard
First try
I try to break the spawn alone with stun then mez….apparently it spawns are too far away to be all effected, and the Scribe’s pet can not be stunned…needless to say I die…
Second try
I summoned a pet and all buffed up with the best 51 chanter buffs, pulled the Wan Knight and Scribe…My pet killed the Wan knight fairly easily, meanwhile I got charmed with 108 MR, how? I have no idea, probably got Tash by the scribe. Next thing I know the 2 Wiz are out and after charm broke I was a sitting duck. For greenies they hurt.
Third try
I enlisted a lvl 42 SK. We pulled and kill the Wan knight, then the scribe…both Wiz got arggoed, I was down to half health. Keep in mind I had arch shield and Rune IV caste on myself with a total of about 1300 to 1400 HP. The SK manage the taunt the scribe and his pet off of me. Meanwhile I stun and mezed the 2 wiz. I then mez the scribe and SK killed the pet. I charmed the scribe. And try to hand him the empty vile. Turns out that it wouldn’t take the vile if it’s mez before charming. After both broke shortly after I was out of mana and SK was getting his ass kicked.
Fourth Try
I’ve die about 4 time and ready to give up at this point.
I enlist a 50 pally and 52 mage
We pulled the Wan Knight killed it. Pulled the scribe argo both wiz, pally tank while I mez the scribe and killed both wiz. By that time the pally was down to 1/3 HP. We rested and I charmed the Scribe…luckily the mez broke before the charm and I was able to hand him the vile and got back the Ink of the Dark.

Lesson learned?
-Don’t solo that room if you value your exp
-Don’t bind yourself outside of the scribe’s room cuz u got too tired of running around the maze
-Don’t underestimate these greenies, it hurts when they gang up on you

Hope these info helps the next chanter on his quest

The Ghoul Scribe plays a part in the Enchanter Epic quest. You obtain an 'Empty Ink Vial' from the Enchanter Guildleader in Qeynos Sewers (Reania Jukle) to give to the Ghoul Scribe after he is charmed. He will give back 'Ink of the Dark'. The words to say to Reania to get the vial are: "where can I find the ink of the dark?"

1. This guy is, next to the Froglok Noble, one of the most feared frogs in LGuk.
2. He is an Enchanter. Comes complete with Pet, Mez, and (ah, crap!) Charm. He uses charm liberally, sends mages against their own pets, warriors against those mages, and has everyone else shouting EVAC! EVAC!
3. Spawns across from the Ghoul Sage or its PH.
4. Scribe has a Wan Knight for its PH, usually.
5. It drops *crap*. Nothing currently usable.
6. Try to avoid this thing altogether and not pull his PH. (Use Lull, enchanters)

This guy is a chanter. This guy can mez and charm.. if breaking into the sage room, its best to kill this guy first.

I got a quill and a piece of skin off him what is it for?

That's not a ghoul scribe...that's a ghoul scribe "blank" someone just polished out the last word...see, the name isn't centered above the head and you can see part of the other word.