Thelin's Torment (PoNb access)  

This quest is supposed to begin by hailing Elder Poxbourne, but I believe it is broken.

I found [a very old log entry] that gives it:


I could not get Adroha to give me this text upon hailing Elder Poxbourne, so I think the script is broken. I did verify that the text is valid as the trigger phrase worked for me:

[Mon Feb 18 22:18:43 2013] You say, 'what coma'
[Mon Feb 18 22:18:44 2013] Adroha Jezith says 'My pity onto Thelin. His life on Norrath was a miserable one. As a young man he began to study the workings of fear inspired by Cazic-Thule. The workings had been translated for mortals by Zebuxoruk. Pouring over the texts, Thelin felt his mind being invaded by Cazic. This information was not for mortal usage and the malevolent god stripped him of all his earthly belongings and cursed him to live in [poverty and ruin].'

The rest of the text is the same as what is listed already.

When you talk to Thelin in Plane of Nightmares without the Pre-Flag:

[Wed Feb 13 16:00:04 2013] Thelin Poxbourne screams loudly, and then falls asleep once again.

When you talk to Thelin in Plane of Nightmares with the Pre-Flag:

[Mon Feb 18 21:45:44 2013] Thelin Poxbourne tells you, 'Who is it? Are you.. really there? You are! Please I beg of you to help me escape from this horrid place. Terris Thule is holding me here, she delights in the nightmares she sends me. To further torture me, she has offered me a pact. She has said that if I can retrieve my [dagger], then I am free to go. She does this only because she knows that I cannot retrieve it on my own.'
[Mon Feb 18 21:46:10 2013] You say, 'what dagger?'
[Mon Feb 18 21:46:11 2013] Thelin Poxbourne tells you, 'She has taken the only thing that has brought me any joy in my life. She took it and broke it into seven pieces. She placed them deep within the labyrinth of my nightmare. I must retrieve it, will you [help] me. Please I beg of your mercy.'
[Mon Feb 18 21:46:27 2013] You say, 'I will help you'
[Mon Feb 18 21:46:28 2013] Thelin Poxbourne tells you, 'I do not know who you are, but I am thankful that you have stumbled upon me. I can bring you into my dream state, but my powers are limited so I can only handle eighteen at once. Please when you are prepared have the leader of each of your band of adventurers tell me they are ready.'
[Mon Feb 18 21:46:41 2013] You say, 'I am ready'
[Mon Feb 18 21:46:42 2013] Thelin Poxbourne says 'Thelin Poxbourne closes his eyes and falls asleep immediately. He looks peaceful for a moment and then screams in agony!'

You are ported into the Hedge Maze.

When you hail Thelin inside the Hedge Maze:

[Mon Feb 18 21:46:55 2013] Thelin Poxbourne says 'Has everyone made it here safely? When you tell me I will seal off my dream and we can begin. We must be careful here, visions await around every turn. Are you ready to follow? I know where all the pieces of the dagger are, but I cannot collect them all on my own.'
[Mon Feb 18 21:47:24 2013] You say, 'I am ready'
[Mon Feb 18 21:47:24 2013] Thelin Poxbourne says 'Please stay close, I know not what horror Terris will unleash upon us.'

Thelin beings walking around. He picks up 6 pieces of his dagger:

[Mon Feb 18 21:52:35 2013] Thelin Poxbourne kneels down and picks up a dagger hilt.
[Mon Feb 18 21:56:10 2013] Thelin Poxbourne slowly picks up a shard of a dagger blade.
[Mon Feb 18 21:58:00 2013] Thelin Poxbourne picks up a the top half of a dagger blade.
[Mon Feb 18 22:02:06 2013] Thelin Poxbourne picks up a dagger handle with a small hole in it.
[Mon Feb 18 22:04:32 2013] Thelin Poxbourne picks up a small gem to place inside the handle.
[Mon Feb 18 22:07:39 2013] Thelin Poxbourne kneels down and picks up a dagger blade tip.

When he reaches the center of the maze, a construct of nightmares spawns. Kill it and loot Dagger Blade Shard. Hand it to Thelin:

[Mon Feb 18 22:10:39 2013] Thelin Poxbourne takes the final shard from you and places all of the pieces on the ground, with unseen hands the dagger moves together and fuses itself back together into one complete piece. Thelin picks it up and hands it to you.
[Mon Feb 18 22:10:50 2013] Thelin Poxbourne says 'Terris hear me now! I have done as you have called for. My beloved dagger is whole once again! Come now keep up your part of the bargain.'

Terris Thule spawns unattackable:

[Mon Feb 18 22:10:50 2013] Terris Thule says 'You fool! You did not earn this prize on your own! The contract that has been drawn is now invalid. You will never leave my grasp, prepare your soul for eternal torment!'
[Mon Feb 18 22:10:56 2013] Terris Thule laughs heartily and then vanishes in a swirl of incorporeal mist.
[Mon Feb 18 22:10:56 2013] Thelin Poxbourne says 'Vile wench, I knew in the end it would come to this. You shall pay dearly for your injustice here.'
[Mon Feb 18 22:11:03 2013] Thelin Poxbourne says 'So then my hope is nearly lost. Take with you my dagger. Plunge it deep into her soulless heart. If I cannot escape from this plane under her rules, I shall make my own!'

Hail Thelin Poxbourne:

[Mon Feb 18 22:11:15 2013] Thelin Poxbourne tells you, 'Please destroy her for all that have had to endure her hideous visions.' Thelin closes his eyes and is swept away from his nightmare. The land of pure thought begins to vanish from around you.
[Mon Feb 18 22:11:15 2013] You have received a character flag!


Edited, Feb 19th 2013 3:49pm by Beimeith

This can now be done with a single person, no group or raid required to get him to port you in.

At the end of the hedge event where you hail Thelin for the flag, he ports you out with the spell Waking Moment. This is a detrimental spell and will cause your pet to attack him. So --- everyone needs to KILL YOUR PET before you hail him.

Oh, and at the start of the event, only group leaders should say "I am ready". If more than one person in a group says it, it could count your group twice and bug the event and not allow the third group to enter.

Did this last night with my chanter and thought I'd throw in a couple tips that I figured out as we went along.

Use DAZZLE on Thelin and cast as soon as creatures show up. You can basically use Dazzle to keep him from moving for a long time if you need to rez or people need to med. Do not let Thelin cast at all if you can help it. Use MEMORY FLUX when you are ready to move again and /CON to see if it took.

Use APATHY or higher on everything else. Rapture works, but the refresh on it causes trouble.

When you begin to run low on mana, Dazzle Thelin and use Theft of Thought and Scryer's Trespass. Scryer's will wear off before Dazzle does if you cast it shortly after mezzing. Mem blur again til he cons indifferent and you're good to go again with a bit more mana than you started with.

When we got to the construct I just kept the birds mezzed with Apathy while another 60th chanter kept one mezzed with Rapture so I could throw in some nukes here and there.

Everyone in the raid must hail Thelin to get the flag after the turn in to him is done. Might have been said in another post here, but I didn't see it.

make sure you hail thelin before some dum@$$ in group/raid kills him....if they do kill your sol and have to do it all over again :(

Did this raid today and someone got left behind in the maze and couldn't find the rest of the group. Since they were in my group I figured I would just COTH them to me and they would be fine. I tried several times and I kept getting the message that said something like "you hear a voice telling you there are no heroes here" or something to that affect. Anyhow, it seems this is yet another place where COTH isn't allowed, so if someone gets lost or left behind they're going to have to find their own way to the rest of the raid party. Same thing with people getting stuck in the hedge, you can't just COTH them out of it. Thankfully with /rewind if people just be patient and stand still for the 30 seconds (which seems like an eternity I know) they can free themselves. Just an FYI for mages and any wanting a mage to COTH while inside the maze.

Kaylaanie Shadowmage

Edited, Sun May 30 00:57:04 2004

Do you get an AA for this or just for killing TT?

Did this on the 7th Hammer over the weekend. 15 people. Was quite easy.

One thing I would strongly suggest, using a chat channel and using the "/chat mod #" command so only the people you want to give commands can (you can give other people rights by "/chat voice name #")

When we started a few tag alongs decided they new better and started issuing commands and questioning the raid leader... took us an hour to do 10% of the maze while they were going on... eventually I got pissed off and gave them the old STFU or FO... and then the rest of the maze was done in 1 hour LOL.

The only real advice I can add to all the stuff below, is on the last wave having a cleric with the new GoD healing ward helps... just plant the ward in the center, and your clerics will still be close to FM when the wave is done. Also, off-tanking works alot better than mezzing.

Oh and with the wonderful new graphics engine, our tanks kept getting summoned to the walls and stuck there. The only deaths we had on the raid was the tanks who we had to /duel to kill so we could drag their corpses out of the the walls... lol.

Edited, Sun May 9 20:47:08 2004

I was in a pick up raid on Karana a few weeks back. Only 1 enchanter (myself) and 1 clerics. From everything I read about this event, I was expecting us to fail it. Well, to my suprise we succeeded with only one death.

This raid is doable with only 1 enchanter, although I would recommend 2 atleast. You do not have to mez Thelin like everyone says, just be sure to pull argo from any mob that starts attacking him. He actually ended up helping us with the damage he was doing on the mobs. We only keeped him perma mez'd when the Construct spawned.

Now, the problem came up that some people were still not able to zone into PoNb after we were done. Can someone post each character flag step in order so we can see if we missed one somewhere? Thx

Once inside the maze Thelin will wander around. There are mobs that are already up in some "pocket rooms". There are 7 waves of mobs. They go from 1 mob to 2 mobs to 3 mobs and so on till the final wave of 7. After the last wave we will walk to the center of the maze.

Another tip about the Hedge Quest is to SoW Thelin Poxbourne in order to make things go a bit faster. Of course when you need to stop either for resurrections or re-buffing, you just mez him.

Our guild completed this quest about an hour ago and some things have changed with the patch that went in.

First of all, Thelin does not bust down wall, nor are they rebuilt afterwards ... he walks right down the middle of every path as you would expect anyone to do normally.

There are 8 waves that correspond to the 8 pieces of Thelin's dagger. Thelin will stop to pick up each piece at the beginning of every wave.

Thelin aggros three things: 1) anybody in wolf form, 2) MoBs used as pets, 3) anybody who tries to hit him.

You can heal and buff Thelin providing he's charmed first of course.

The Construct of Nightmare spawns alone by the fountain right at the very end of the Maze Walk. He's a long fight but not difficult ... think Inny without the Gravity Flux.

To get out of the maze after Terris Thule spawns, just hail Thelin and he will translocate you back to the hedge area. Make sure your pets are dead first because Thelin will try to attack any pet without an owner - if he dies before you're ported ... well, you get the idea.

I can also confirm that the recent patch allowing you to do quests out of sequence does work. So if you speak with the quest giver in PoT (Adroha Jezith) *after* you do the Maze Walk, you can visit the Seer to get yourself flagged for the Crypt of Terris Thule. The Seer is in PoK, in the left-hand room in the low building beside the portal to PoT. Hail the Seer and ask for "guided meditation" and to "unlock my memories" in order to get both flags synchronised for entry through the gates to CoTT.

Bring three chanters is my advice - two 61+ to keep the MoBs organised, and one to take care of Thelin. We had 18 in our raid, ranging from a 56 warrior to a 65 druid.

A very fun quest - the whole guild had a ball.

..had a full party of 18. We had no issues with Fences although somehow we did end up with one group in a different part of the maze. Make sure only your group leaders say the key word to be ported into the maze. Make sure you have everyone standing when pops are due, they get progressively more and if they pop (up to 8 a time) with someone sitting close they will be mashed. We had 3 clerics, 2 chanters who did a great job and I believe the shammy was doing AOE slow. Means you may need to blur the quest guy tho ;)

Great fun, did take a while but got there in the end, killed the boss (who wasn't too hard) who dropped some nice RNG/ROG/SHM legs (Elder's chain leggings i think)

You get your flag into the Lair of Terris right at the end when you hail the guy to port out.

Recommend having a go :)

Edited, Mon Nov 11 07:34:02 2002

What character flag do you get?