Explorer Survival Knives  

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Rating:
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Information:
Level:30
Maximum Level:125
Monster Mission:No
Repeatable:Yes
Can Be Shrouded?:No
Quest Type:Quest
Quest Goal:
  • Faction
  • Loot
  • Money
Faction Required:
Legion of Cabilis (Min: Dubious)
Factions Raised:
Factions Lowered:
Quest Items:
Related Creatures:
Era:Ruins of Kunark
Recommended:
Group Size:Solo
Min. # of Players:1
Max. # of Players:1
Appropriate Classes:
  • All
Appropriate Races:
  • All
Entered: Tue Apr 2 20:11:57 2002
Modified: Tue Dec 5 05:21:04 2023
Speak with Trooper Vaurk in the Lake of Ill Omen, about halfway bewteen Cabilis and the lake shore, at loc 4575.60, -3095.45.

You say, 'Hail, Trooper Vaurk'

Trooper Vaurk says 'Have you been sent by the War Baron to [assist]? The explorers from Firiona Vie draw closer. '

You say, 'i am here to assist'

Trooper Vaurk says 'That is good, I will stay here to halt any advances. Head out near the lake and destroy the trespassers on our land! Bring me four of their knives that they carry for survival. Prove your allegiance to the Legion of Cabilis. '

Not far from Trooper Vaurk is a large yellow tower, which was previously uninhabited. It is now occupied with about 6 explorers and a lead explorer.

The explorers were extremely green to a level 51, had about 600 hit points.

You have slain an explorer!
Your faction standing with Inhabitants of Firiona Vie has been adjusted by -5.
Your faction standing with Emerald Warriors has been adjusted by -3.
Your faction standing with Storm Guard has been adjusted by -3.
Your faction standing with Legion of Cabilis has been adjusted by 1.
Your faction standing with Pirates of Gunthak has been adjusted by 1.

The lead explorer was a paladin, LoHed himself, and took quite a bit more killing, although still a pushover for a 51 warrior. We'll call killing him step 2 just to keep the factions clear.

You have slain a lead explorer!
Your faction standing with Inhabitants of Firiona Vie has been adjusted by -10.
Your faction standing with Emerald Warriors has been adjusted by -7.
Your faction standing with Storm Guard has been adjusted by -7.
Your faction standing with Legion of Cabilis has been adjusted by 1.
Your faction standing with Pirates of Gunthak has been adjusted by 1.

The explorers dropped ringmail armor, food items, and the occasional Explorer Survival Knife (stackable). They aggroed on me thru the walls of the tower even though I was a reasonable distance away, so lower level players should be careful to avoid the tower.

Give at minimum 4 knives to Trooper Vaurk (I did not stack them):

Trooper Vaurk says 'Great work, the Legion of Cabilis will not soon forget your dedication. The trespassers shall all be dealt with. '
Your faction standing with Legion Of Cabilis has been adjusted by 100.
Your faction standing with Cabilis Residents has been adjusted by 25.
Your faction standing with Scaled Mystics has been adjusted by 25.
Your faction standing with Crusaders Of Greenmist has been adjusted by 25.
Your faction standing with Swift Tails has been adjusted by 25.
You gain experience!!
Rewards:
  • Faction and Coin
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Need 4 knives
# Oct 02 2020 at 5:22 PM Rating: Excellent
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The quest requires 4 knives per turn in to get the faction hits. I turned in a stack of 20 and got 125 pts of hits (5 sets x 25 per)
kill factions for Explorer Survival Knives quest
# Jan 07 2019 at 10:37 PM Rating: Excellent
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Your faction standing with Firiona Vie got worse. [Need confirmation that this is correct faction.]

It is not correct. Firiona Vie faction should not be attached to this quest. Here are the current factions you get from killing the mobs:

You have slain an explorer!
Your faction standing with Inhabitants of Firiona Vie has been adjusted by -5.
Your faction standing with Emerald Warriors has been adjusted by -3.
Your faction standing with Storm Guard has been adjusted by -3.
Your faction standing with Legion of Cabilis has been adjusted by 1.
Your faction standing with Pirates of Gunthak has been adjusted by 1.

You have slain a lead explorer!
Your faction standing with Inhabitants of Firiona Vie has been adjusted by -10.
Your faction standing with Emerald Warriors has been adjusted by -7.
Your faction standing with Storm Guard has been adjusted by -7.
Your faction standing with Legion of Cabilis has been adjusted by 1.
Your faction standing with Pirates of Gunthak has been adjusted by 1.
lead explorer faction hits
# Apr 29 2016 at 2:13 AM Rating: Good
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Your faction standing with Legion Of Cabilis got better. +1

on the explorer too (non-lead) just noticed that one was missing too.
lead explorer faction hits
# Apr 29 2016 at 1:01 AM Rating: Good
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You have slain a lead explorer!
Your faction standing with Firiona Vie got worse. -10
Your faction standing with Emerald Warriors got worse. -7
Your faction standing with Storm Guard got worse. -7
Your faction standing with Legion Of Cabilis got better. +1
Your faction standing with Pirates Of Gunthak got better. +1
Faction adjustments for turn in
# Oct 12 2015 at 9:33 AM Rating: Excellent
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Your faction standing with Legion Of Cabilis has been adjusted by 100.
Your faction standing with Cabilis Residents has been adjusted by 25.
Your faction standing with Scaled Mystics has been adjusted by 25.
Your faction standing with Crusaders Of Greenmist has been adjusted by 25.
Your faction standing with Swift Tails has been adjusted by 25.
Faction adjustments for turn in
# Oct 12 2015 at 8:18 PM Rating: Excellent
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Sephorria wrote:
Your faction standing with Legion Of Cabilis has been adjusted by 100.
Your faction standing with Cabilis Residents has been adjusted by 25.
Your faction standing with Scaled Mystics has been adjusted by 25.
Your faction standing with Crusaders Of Greenmist has been adjusted by 25.
Your faction standing with Swift Tails has been adjusted by 25.



Updated thanks. You wouldn't happen to know the faction hit amounts for killing the explorers? [an important consideration for some players]
Faction adjustments for turn in
# Apr 09 2016 at 9:30 AM Rating: Excellent
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[Sat Apr 09 11:26:07 2016] Your faction standing with Inhabitants of Firiona Vie has been adjusted by -5.
[Sat Apr 09 11:26:07 2016] Your faction standing with Emerald Warriors has been adjusted by -3.
[Sat Apr 09 11:26:07 2016] Your faction standing with Storm Guard has been adjusted by -3.
[Sat Apr 09 11:26:07 2016] Your faction standing with Legion of Cabilis could not possibly get any better.
[Sat Apr 09 11:26:07 2016] Your faction standing with Pirates Of Gunthak has been adjusted by 1.
[Sat Apr 09 11:26:07 2016] an explorer has been slain by Pporkchop!
Faction adjustments for turn in
# Apr 16 2016 at 4:35 AM Rating: Excellent
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Nizzudien wrote:
[Sat Apr 09 11:26:07 2016] Your faction standing with Inhabitants of Firiona Vie has been adjusted by -5.
[Sat Apr 09 11:26:07 2016] Your faction standing with Emerald Warriors has been adjusted by -3.
[Sat Apr 09 11:26:07 2016] Your faction standing with Storm Guard has been adjusted by -3.
[Sat Apr 09 11:26:07 2016] Your faction standing with Legion of Cabilis could not possibly get any better.
[Sat Apr 09 11:26:07 2016] Your faction standing with Pirates Of Gunthak has been adjusted by 1.
[Sat Apr 09 11:26:07 2016] an explorer has been slain by Pporkchop!


Updated, thanks.
Iksar illusion does help faction
# Dec 31 2006 at 1:40 PM Rating: Decent
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I can confirm that illusion: Iksar DOES improve your faction with Trooper Vaurk - you just have to do a lot (read: ton) of faction work BEFORE putting on the illusion. I collected 290 explorer knives on my Drakkin SK (roughly 1200 kills of the explorers) and was still KoS. When I put on the illusion, I immediately went to Dubious. After a few turn ins, I maxed my faction with Legion of Cabilis, which was Kindly when I was wearing the illusion, and dubious without it.

EDIT: I can also confirm that these knives are MQable, so if you're trying to get your factioning out of the way early on a newbie toon, and you've got a high level toon you don't mind destroying your FV/SG/EW faction, you can loot three times as many knives on the high level toon, and turn them in in sets.

Edited, Dec 31st 2006 5:10pm by nyteshayd
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Anadriel Starfire, 120/46k AA High Elf Mage
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# Nov 02 2006 at 6:05 AM Rating: Decent
Sneak ftw.
hmmm
# Oct 28 2006 at 5:48 AM Rating: Decent
i'am a drakkin Nec and ive killed explorers for a lil bit got almost 2 stacks of knives..so i went to bazaar and bought 1 ess of iksar so i could turn these in.but even with ess...they still rdy to attack =/

Edited, Oct 28th 2006 at 6:52am PDT by Bbeast

Edited, Oct 28th 2006 at 6:53am PDT by Bbeast

Edited, Oct 28th 2006 at 6:56am PDT by Bbeast

Edited, Oct 28th 2006 at 7:01am PDT by Bbeast
Drakkin Necro
# Nov 02 2006 at 4:32 AM Rating: Default
Assuming, that even as a Drakkin necro, your deity is still Veeshaan. Illusions somehow do not hide your deity. Iksar are known not to like dragons, due to the shuffle with Trakanon. Thats the reason you are still KOS with them.
Dubious Faction
# Jul 09 2006 at 2:17 AM Rating: Decent
I just hailed Trooper Vaurk as Dubious and I was able to get the quest.

Time to collect me some knives.
Dubious Faction
# Jul 09 2006 at 11:12 AM Rating: Excellent
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Zakassis wrote:
I just hailed Trooper Vaurk as Dubious and I was able to get the quest.


Which faction?
Dubious Faction
# Oct 31 2006 at 7:22 PM Rating: Good
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Trooper Vaurk is on Legion of Cabilis faction.

-Al
Dubious Faction
# Oct 31 2006 at 11:04 PM Rating: Excellent
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Alredhel wrote:
Trooper Vaurk is on Legion of Cabilis faction.

-Al


Updated, thanks.
Updated info for anyone that is looking
# Feb 24 2006 at 5:50 PM Rating: Decent
Had 72 knives on my ogre beastlord(Rallos Zek) and previously handed in about 5 stacks of knoves. Did another 72 this evening and went from Scowling to Dubious o the Crusaders(SK's). I also had accidentally killed the alchemist in OT twice, and the one monk in FM once. Am doing another 2-3 stacks tonight to hopefully reach indifferent.
Great Faction
# Oct 04 2003 at 7:43 PM Rating: Decent
OK, here's the lowdown for my factioning experience. Playing my 51 Troll CT worshiping shaman I had never done anything to effect my iksar factions when i started. Took me about 5 hours to farm 10 stacks of knives. At that point I was still threateningly to the Legion of Cabilis so i went and destroyed Sarnak at the fort for an hour or so -- killed my way into the chancelor's room and took his Prod (need it for the HS key anyway to finish most of the ikky quests)> After that I was dubious to the legion. After turning in 3 stacks of knives i was max positive warmly faction with the legion. I turned in the other 7 stacks before i checked the other factions. When i did check I was amiable. My guess is that with another 2 stacks at most I would be max positive with the shaman monk SK guilds. Now I just have to go farm the outcast iksar types so the Necro's like me too. =P
RE: Great Faction
# Oct 23 2003 at 5:37 AM Rating: Excellent
I've been doing Iksar Faction for the last couple of days only for my Shaman, a Troll worshipping Innoruuk, and I am currently at Kindly to the Scaled Mystics in Troll form -- I can get all the Cudgel quest text from the NPCs, containers etc.

I had done nothing to hurt Cabilis factions, and not much to raise them either, before I started. (I used a different character to kill Digalis for the skull in FM).

I camped 8 stacks of Explorer Knives. This left me at Threatening to Trooper Vaurk in LoIO. I then used 1 dose of Essence of Iksar (all I could find in the Bazaar), which took me to Warmly with him. I then handed in 17 sets of 4 explorer knives which took me to the maximum faction with the Legion of Cabilis (he considers me an Ally). I continued to hand in the knives, but I did not get any '... could not possibly get any better' messages for the remaining factions.

At this point, became invisible and headed toward the entrance to Cabilis, where I targetted Crusader Deezin, moved well away, and became visible. In Iksar form, he is warmly towards me. Removing the Illusion reduced my faction with him to Dubious - non-KoS, but not good enough. (At this point, the Legion of Cabilis Troopers consider me Warmly even in Troll form).

I returned to the Explorers, and farmed another 2 stacks of knives. After handing these in, I was considered Indifferently by the Crusaders. I did one more Stack for good measure, and reached Amiable with them. I was now able (with invisibility to avoid the Brood of Kotiz faction NPCs) to enter the Scaled Mystic Guildmasters. Since I was able to get the earlier quests, I decided to check directly with Zand and proclaimed 'I am the Chosen Saviour' -- and to my delight, he did not tell me to get lost.

Nevertheless, since some of the components I need for the Quest will be MQ'd, I decided to do the Penance Quest twice -- this took me to Kindly. (Say "Yes" to Zand to start this -- It doesn't take all that long to do the Penance quest - buff your DEX and Haste yourself, and /duel a high level melee type and stand behind him for a while... with your awesome melee prowess, and the crappy hammer, their natural Regen will generally vastly outpace the damage you do, and you can even go AFK a bit, the bone fragments will collect on your hammer till you drop them into your inventory -- put the Grotesque Mortar in the first slot and it will fill up automatically).

Here is my estimate of the Faction gains:
+1 Legion of Cabilis per explorer, sarnak, goblin or outcast kill
+100 Legion of Cabilis per 4 knives
+20 Scaled Mystics/Crusaders of Greenmist/Swif Tails per 4 knives
+? Citizens of Cabilis (much less than 20, possibly only 5) per 4 knives
+100 Scaled Mystics (or whatever) per Penance Quest

(From previous work, the corresponding number is +1 to each of the above per 4 bone chips given to Trooper Mozo).

Word of warning: I have not yet fixed Brood of Kotiz faction (Necros) so beware Grype in the Tink'n'Babble at night; also, the BANKERS are on some other faction, PROBABLY Cabilis Citizens, but are STILL at Threatening, so I will either have to do more faction work, or do my banking in PoK.

Illusion: Iksar is worth about +1000 points (while it lasts) -- or considered the other way, any form other than an Iksar that worships Cazic Thule is a -1000 penalty, but since even other Cazic worshipping characters are still KoS, I suspect it's split something like -750 non-Iksar and -250 non-Cazic.

So, basic advice, farm 11-12 stacks of Explorer Knives, get a single dose of Essence of Iksar, and head over to Trooper Vaurk.
factions
# Aug 22 2003 at 11:46 AM Rating: Default
You all are just lazy in my opinion. But is lowers this faction or it lowers that faction. Do the research look around some. Doing this quest lowers the following factions.
· Emerald Warriors
· Firiona Vie
· Storm Guard

Now look at the factions and where they are.
Emerald Warriors:
That is the Elves faction for wood elves. What raises that faction. Crush!! All the orcs there raise that faction. The Aqua Goblins in Ocean of Tears, Lake Rathetear, Butcherblock Mountains raise it also.

Storm Guard:
WOW the same goblins that your killing to raise the woodelf faction raises this faction. ALSO what about CRUSH??? That raises this faction also.

So that is 2 factions raised just by killing mobs under the level of 20 and it is the same mobs.

Now for Firiona Vie:
Any goblin in Kunark will raise your Firiona Vie faction and most of them will also raise your Legion of Cabilis faction also. And you want to know something….. they are under level 20 also.

So if your going to raise factions do the research and don’t give up as there is a way around everything. You just have to be willing to work at it. Yea work at it.
Good luck
Gailth
Luminary of the Tribunal on the Tribunal.
RE: factions
# Aug 25 2003 at 9:21 PM Rating: Decent
The muffin quest in freeport will raise faction with tha elfies. Much quicker and less annoying.

Edited, Mon Aug 25 23:25:16 2003
Knives are magical
# May 16 2003 at 6:37 PM Rating: Decent
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Knives are magicial: they cannot be stolen and WILL trivial on Firiona Vie.
RE: Knives are magical
# Jul 23 2003 at 12:02 PM Rating: Default
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Fortunately we now have a trick to use to get around TLC. As long as you're a part of a raid, TLC will never take effect. So create a raid with a friend while they go into trader mode in the bazaar, make sure you have looting privledges, and go farm the explorers or whatever else you please.
Faction...
# Apr 29 2003 at 4:04 PM Rating: Decent
As a Barb Shammy of Tribunal Faith I wanted badly to do the Cabilis Shammy quests seeing how nice they are. Yesterday while trying to collect quest items in PoK for me alts at the Gobby fort in WW I went back to FoB on way to PoK book and noticed I was Dubious to Troopers! Woot! Never thought I would ever see that! Well I have like 3 ten slot packs of bone chips but after hearing how many it would take and how slow now I opted for this quest. When I began slaughtering the explorers with my pet (I am lvl 52 BTW) I was Warmly to them. After doing this for perhaps 3 or 4 hours (and they respawn very quickly, like 3 or 4 min spawn) I dropped down to amiable in Fir.
"Speak with Trooper Vaurk in the Lake of Ill Omen, about halfway bewteen Cabilis and the lake shore, at loc 4575.60, -3095.45."
Now when I went to turn in the knives I looked for him there and was nowhere in sight! I logged on my druid to track him and as it turned out He was at this Loc! But He was walking on the roof of the four piller ruins next to the hill. So to get him down I blasted him and Ran for me Life (me druid is barely lvl 29)then gated. Logged on my shammy again and he had walked back to the spot but now on the ground.
Now after turning in two stacks of these knives However, I went from Dubious to Indif tho it says I am Max ally with Legions of Cabilis now? Is it Possible to improve it more even tho it says "it can't possibly be any better"? I need Scaled Mystics Faction the most though but was Curious?

Edited, Tue Apr 29 16:51:19 2003
RE: Faction...
# May 03 2003 at 5:03 AM Rating: Default
I have several friends that have done this quest to raise faction. They said once they got max on one of the factions you get from this one, you have to drop that particular faction, so you can continue to get faction improvements. Seems weird to me, but that is what they have done, and are now on amiable to most. Hope this helps.
RE: Faction...
# May 19 2003 at 9:16 AM Rating: Default
That bug for raising faction was fixed maybe 2 years ago. The issue is that you cannot always max your faction at ally. If you are a tunare worshipping woodelf (for example) your max faction in Iksar land might be indifferent or maybe amiable. I have maxxed my Iksar faction with the North Freeport Paladins and Clerics (I get the "your faction cannot get any better" message) and I am not ally ( might be at kindly ).

It is possible that not all Iksar factions are limited this way. You might be able to hit Ally with Troopers but I know Scaled Mystics are more skeptical.
#REDACTED, Posted: Nov 08 2002 at 4:38 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) killing the explorers in loio gives bad faction for fv, but the quest itself does not.To preserve your fv faction simply have someone else kill the explorers for you.
GREAT
# Aug 19 2002 at 1:22 PM Rating: Default
Turned in 75 of these, went from Threatning to Warmly with troopers, and up to threatning with crusaders.. great quest.. just go farm those explorers :)
Explorers locket drop
# Jul 04 2002 at 6:22 PM Rating: Excellent
I killed a lead explorere and he dropped "an explorers locket"its a neck slot item that acts as a compass and adds 3str, 3wis,3agi, and ac6.nice item IMO.
#Anonymous, Posted: May 23 2002 at 3:15 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) The knives in Rm are now gone... they (as in Gms...Verent) has band them and they are no longer sold in RM but still drop in loIo
Good? Bad?
# May 23 2002 at 3:08 PM Rating: Default
Should a lvl 42 Warrior 1/2 Elf try this? in order to get to LoIO i have to go to FV so do any of them See Invis? thanx for trying

Jagular 42 Warrior
Iksovah 19 Beastlord
Imuzue 10 Chanter
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RE: Good? Bad?
# Jul 23 2002 at 2:59 PM Rating: Excellent
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ALL, i repeat, ALL of the explorers in FV near the city see invis, getting KOS there would be a bad idea if you still travel that way. On a side note, it would take a half elf a LONG time to get the faction to do this quest, getting enough faction to be dubious at 42 would be bizarre, much less the amount of faction to do this quest.

Wolveran Shadowbane 54.1 Pathfinder
Shizadow Knizight 33 Shadowknight
RE: Good? Bad?
# Jul 21 2002 at 10:28 PM Rating: Default
you have to have very good faction with cabalis for this quest
RE: Good? Bad?
# Apr 03 2003 at 12:17 AM Rating: Decent
Not true. You only need to be non-kos to Trooper Vaurk (Legion of Cabilis) to hand in the knives. Like the bonechips, only UNLIKE the bone chips, you don't have KOS crusaders wandering nearby making things more difficult.
RE: Good? Bad?
# May 31 2002 at 10:19 PM Rating: Decent
Umm, you can do the quest with your halfelf if you want, but keep in mind that it will make you KOS to NPCs in FV, Kelethin, and Kaladim. Not sure why you would want to do that.

exp bad, faction good
# May 11 2002 at 2:31 PM Rating: Decent
I had my level 22 monk in lake of ill omen, and he came across this tower, i thought it was the goblin tower and ran past it on my way to cab so i could bank. Couple seconds later, i've got 6 mobs on me, and they were all blue. FD'd and waited tell all but one were left, so i killed him to see what the faction hits were, knowing that FV would never like me anyway, i thought why not. So i kill him and get good exp off the kills. I've camped the tower for a week, just solo and made 100pp selling the ringmail drops, and such, and collected 24 of the knives. So i went to turn them in, and i checked my exp bar. My lord does the exp suck for handing them in, but the faction for Cab went through the roof. So now i'm going to just have my main, and my monk sitting there and monk will kill and main will loot. This way i can gain faction and just walk through cab whenever i feel like it with my main.
RE: exp bad, faction good
# May 20 2002 at 8:49 PM Rating: Decent
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Just one flaw, (assuming your main has Legion of Cabilis faction up to non-kos) the Brood of Kotiz. The necromancers. There are lizards on necro faction just outside the bank, in Tink-n-Babble and supposedly throughout (with logic, none the less) Western Cabilis.

Just a thought,
faction hits with cab
# May 04 2002 at 5:50 AM Rating: Default
killing Iksar Bandits, Sarnak (anything), and goblin (anything) will raise cab faction. However, it is as difficult to get faction with iksar as it is for iksar to get faction with the other races (i.e. very difficult, though not impossible). As an iksar monk, I got a port and invis to bb and got a sow to run my scaly self to cb and went from 12-15 and STILL KOS in kel. Of course, that could also be due to religion as ALL iksar worship casic-thule (so if you're a necro or SK, you might not have as many problems as say a pally or ranger).
this quest is really dumb in my opinion. Iksars who are trying to go somewhere else without being KOS need to avoid it because ANY neg faction hit is bad and the only ones who can do the quest are iksars (unless you have already gone and done the whole kill gobies and sarnak in which case, keep doing it) who don't need those faction hits. if you REALLY want a quest that'll get you faction, try the scorp pincers quest in FoB or the bone chip quest, also in FoB, they don't have neg fac hits.
lizzy monk
Nice Exp
# Apr 24 2002 at 12:11 AM Rating: Default
These things are easily killed as a lvl 23 monk Fd pulling them 1 at a time and are nice solo experience. the exp for the knives hand in is an ok bonus too :). Who cares about faction for FV if u are an iksar noone likes u anyways :)

52 cleric of Veeshan
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faction tips
# Apr 12 2002 at 3:35 PM Rating: Default
Kill sarnaks/goblins/outcasts etc and in sebilis to raise legion of cabilis from there you can either turn in bone chips to trooper mozo in FoB or do this quest to raise all cept necro faction which is raised by killing outcasts...gnome alt is totally nonkos to everything there
Yes, No Drop
# Apr 06 2002 at 9:58 AM Rating: Decent
These knives are, sad to say, No Drop and the only place I have found them are off the Explorers in Lake of Ill Omen.
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