Crusader's Test of Pain (#2)  

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Level:10
Maximum Level:125
Monster Mission:No
Repeatable:Yes
Can Be Shrouded?:No
Quest Type:Quest
Quest Goal:
  • Advancement
  • Experience
  • Faction
  • Loot
  • Money
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    Era:Ruins of Kunark
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    Group Size:Solo
    Min. # of Players:1
    Max. # of Players:1
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    Entered: Fri Jan 11 11:26:43 2002
    Modified: Tue Dec 5 05:21:04 2023
    Lord Gikzic may be found in the Temple of Terror, up a flight via transporter at +1035, -165, +46. At the end of the previous quest, he mentioned a [greater concern].

    You say, 'What greater concern?'

    Lord Gikzic says 'A tome has been taken from us. An expeditionary unit was returning to Cabilis when they were overtaken by a band of froglok raiders. The odds were greatly in their favor, but our forces would soon cut them down. Then, as abruptly as the battle began, it came to an end. The frogs retreated. The only item they took was an ancient tome entitled 'The Origins of Pain'. What the frogs want with it is unknown to us. Will you [retrieve the tome]?'

    You say, 'I will retrieve the tome.'

    Lord Gikzic says 'The tome ripped open in battle. There were but ten pages. This is one of those pages. You must find the remainder and the tome binder. Place the pages within the binder and once you combine them, the binder shall magically lock. Do not look upon the pages, for the words would bring a great madness upon you. Your task is simply to seek out the froglok raiders and return the magically locked tome to me. Return it with a knave's khukri and I shall give you a more powerful weapon.'

    You receive a Page of a Tome (identifies as "Page Ten of 'Origins Of Pain'"). It's a note/book but is blank.

    Go to the bandit camp east of Cabilis, in the northern part of the Swamp of No Hope. Kill the froglok raiders there until you've collected the nine other pages. All but one page is LORE, but they can be traded. The raiders also sometimes drop a Tome Binder (identifies as "The Origins of Pain"), a NO TRADE 10-slot container. Combine the ten pages in the binder:


    You have fashioned the items together to create something new!
    You have fashioned Magically Locked Tome.

    Give this to Gikzic.

    Lord Gikzic says 'I shall keep this and you shall get no reward, unless you wield a knave's khukri. If so, then hand me that also and I shall give you a squire's khukri. A finer weapon to deal out pain.'

    Give him the Knave's Khukri.

    Lord Gikzic says 'You have done as instructed. You are wise to hand this tome to me. It could bring you nothing more than insanity. As your reward, you shall have the squire's khukri. Soon you shall wield the knight's khukri, but that is for another Lord of Pain to decide.'

    Your faction standing with Crusaders Of Greenmist has been adjusted by +10.
    Your faction standing with Legion of Cabilis has been adjusted by +2.
    You gain experience!!
    You receive 3 gold from Lord Gikzic.

    Reward: Squire's Khukri
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    problem as well
    # Feb 27 2002 at 1:53 PM Rating: Decent
    21 posts
    I can't get Lord Gikzic to repsond to " What Greater Concerb ?" He just keeps talking abou the first quest. I have all the pages except the one he gives me. Please, if any of you have resolved this list it here. Thanx

    Issk Shadescale

    ShadowKnight of the 27th scale, Defenders of the Flame, The Nameless.
    RE: problem as well
    # May 02 2002 at 3:55 AM Rating: Default
    Because you should be saying "What Greater Concern"... hopefully you didn't actually make that mistake... everyone talking dirty about this quest makes my boots shake... I want my Greenmist... and this don't sound fun... nope a dope... oh well...

    /sit
    /camp desktop
    Not to bad ( if your over 30)
    # Feb 05 2002 at 9:41 PM Rating: Decent
    19 posts
    I did this quest in 2 hours first 20min i wiped all life from area except the bandits. They seem to pop alot at night and all over the place, sometimes in camp , by water , by ruins , in trees. I didnt notice any particular kill make them spawn more since they pop all over i killed every thing i could but for you lower lvls looked like the mosquitoes and plants help and pop the most.

    Darknom 44th SK looking for a good sword!
    dd
    # Feb 03 2002 at 2:37 AM Rating: Default
    these also drop of iksar bandits
    Raiders?
    # Feb 01 2002 at 4:27 PM Rating: Decent
    After many hated hours of camping frogluk raiders and reading post I came to a revalation, they only spawn between the times of 8pm and 8am around midnight ALOT start spawning, just kill everything you see and soon you'll have raiders poping faster then you can grind them into the ground :)
    binder
    # Jan 24 2002 at 1:13 PM Rating: Default

    I'm having a very hard time finding the binder. Any suggestion? I got all the pages already, keeping them in the bank. I had to kill probably 20 raiders before I got them all cuz I kept getting duplicates. Never once had I seen the binder. Do I need to look for a "special" raider somewhere? Would it help if I carry all ten pages in my inventory while I go hunting for raiders?
    RE: binder
    # Jan 25 2002 at 7:12 PM Rating: Decent
    22 posts
    The Binder is dropped off the same raiders as the tome pages. The binder is a random drop off the raiders. there is no special Froglok raider, and you don't have to carry any of the pages on you. You may have to kill alot of raiders to get the binder, it does help to have the dead raiders cleared by having someone loot the extra pages (preferably another SK who needs the pages or just someone in your group). It is not necessary to loot the extra pages to get the binder it just helps with the respawn time.

    Conton Darkbander
    33rd Season Zealot Of The Greenmist
    Terris-Thule Server
    Cant do the Quest
    # Jan 12 2002 at 2:49 PM Rating: Default
    I did the first Sk quest but i can't seem to get the 2nd one. It just keeps going on abut the first what should i do?
    problem
    # Dec 28 2001 at 7:49 PM Rating: Default
    I cannot get the npc to give me this quest i am a lvl 57 SK that has all the quest items up to the lord sword. but i cannot start the second quest.When i camped the failed crypt raider in kaesora i killed the non KoS ghost a few times but i did the Bone quest to rasie faction again.Is my faction to low ,how high does your faction have to be to get this quest?
    True light
    # Dec 18 2001 at 1:34 PM Rating: Decent
    Just did this quest recently at 45. My taktik may be called simple, but for me it worked efficiently. I killed everything outside the Iksar camp east from Cabilis and whenever i saw frogloks i perished them instantly. got page for page and got only 5 times duplicates (Aka bad raiders.) got my ten pages before the tome so i would recommend get enough space before you go and kill. Good luck fellow iksars.

    Oh and remember its 8 pages that are just LORE, one NO DROP LORE (the one you get from the begining) and one page that is neither lore nor no drop. So check before combining that you dont have perchance 2 pages or more that are neither lore nor no drop.

    (Time taken to complete: 4-5hrs)

    Edited, Tue Dec 18 13:39:18 2001
    RE: True light
    # Apr 19 2002 at 10:44 PM Rating: Decent
    I have 2 pages that are no drop lore... 7 thar are lore and one that is neither lore nor no drop. so I have 10 pages but they do not combine.
    Help!!!
    LOL
    # Dec 09 2001 at 2:12 PM Rating: Decent
    LOL, I have probably spent over 4 weeks al together on this quest. I started it at lvl 10, and I have almost got the next khukri..(I am lvl 30) anywayz, thanks for posting what to say to him, I was stumped on that and spent an extra 5-6 hours camping bcuz I didn't have the page Lord Gizkic gives to you. Grats, Allakhazam, for telling us what to say :/. Better get that up there. I can say that being higher lvl makes it easier to camp. You can kill much faster, and therefor they spawn faster (especially with MOSS/ clay guardian shield hehe) thanks people

    -Synome Shadowscale, 30th scale Shadowknight of Fennin Ro-
    The skinny on being able to combine
    # Dec 08 2001 at 10:45 AM Rating: Default
    Ok here is the skinny, posting from my girlfriends PC as I just finished this quest.

    Reading the pages doesn't seem to matter... what matters is that you have the page that he gives you which is Lore NO Drop, a page which is NOT LORE (only 1 copy of that one) and the other 8 LORE pages, then it will combine.

    The rest is all here in the rest of the posts and notes.

    Cheers,
    Sspar
    E'ci Iksar SK
    36th ShadowScale
    Pages
    # Nov 30 2001 at 11:07 PM Rating: Default
    Hi.. I'm doin the quest now and I'm wondering if the "strange writings on bookmark" is one of the pages needed. thanks ahead of time
    milrn
    RE: Pages
    # Dec 02 2001 at 9:39 PM Rating: Default
    As far as I know, it isnt. Just the pages like described at the beginning.
    In Response to my own NYAAAH!
    # Nov 23 2001 at 12:15 PM Rating: Default
    I figured out what had happened to me, there are 9 lore pages and 1 non lore, I had looted all the lore pages and 2 non lore and tried to combine this will not work, you have to get the page from Lord Gikzik too, he will give you once you activate quest
    NYAAAAH!
    # Nov 23 2001 at 11:52 AM Rating: Default
    I just got all 10 pages and the tome but they WONT COMBINE in my tome!!!! Someone mentioned earlier it could be because i read them...I hope that isnt true and theres a quick fix, please someone tell me something I want to hear...
    AAAAARRRRGGGHHH!
    # Nov 18 2001 at 11:25 AM Rating: Decent
    ok, this quest has just about done me in... it's not so much that the froggies are hard to kill, not for me at lvol 50 anyway... but, holy cow man, i have killed about 50 of em now and i am still looking for my 10th and final page... it is damn frustrating when every single time i kill one i try to loot and it says "you cannot loot that lore item. you already have one." ACK! is there some secret to getting all the pages to drop? i am at the end on this one, i woulda never gone back to it if not for greenmist, but i am at the point where i am ready to quit it again and go try for innoruuk's curse instead!

    Jorb Darkmoss
    50 SK
    Emancipation
    Reading the tome pages
    # Nov 11 2001 at 1:28 AM Rating: Default
    Last night I started this $"$&/ quest with my lvl 30 Sk. When I had the 9th scroll I opened it by accident...
    Now the good message: I destroyed the scroll I had read and continued to get my 9th and finally 10th tome page. The very next frog after the last page carried the 1st binder. I put the stuff in and combined it, no prob 8). I guess only pages u have read are not working anymore, not the whole quest.
    Coriss,
    Crusader of Greenmist,
    Divine Awakening
    Reading the pages
    # Oct 29 2001 at 12:24 AM Rating: Decent
    Does anyone know for a fact whether or not opening the pages to read them prevents you from combining them in the binder? After I got the first two, I was trying to figure out a way to tell them apart, so I opened them. Please only respond if you've read the pages and were still able to finish the quest, that's the only way we can be sure.

    Thanks,
    Savorn
    Test of Pain.... the painless way
    # Oct 18 2001 at 12:36 AM Rating: Good
    16 posts
    Ok. here it is 8 pages lore... 1 page lore no drop (original).... 1 regular page... combine all in binder turn in with khukri.

    Now to get the pages and binder. When leaving Cab head east to the raider camp and kill all the mosquitos and leeches that are green to you at level 25. Don't worry bout bandits, plants or skeles. (fyi skele cycles through skele, lsr ice, scale, grt scale, grt ice... or something like that but the point is the skele spawns higher level skele)

    Also stay right around bandit camp at night.... turn sound up and you will hear the frogs jumping. Ignore slaves and fishers they seem to spawn knights and shiman. At night you can kill 3 4 and sometimes 5 raiders easy. Ok now for some reason the binder is not rare but not common kinda in between but one i got 8 pages they seemed to drop more common than the pages. I hear from other people that its the other way round so it truly is random, luck whatever you wanna call it. Personally i think this quest shoulda been called Test of Patience more than anything... i've seen to many Sk's just give up untill their a higher level (like 50) but you can do it. If your round lvl 20 i'd bring a shammy friend or a druid/ ranger to track and heal and sow. Other than that it's basically kill greens, circle camp at night and kill raiders. Good luck all.

    Mnayar Drayklor 45th Season Iksar Shadow Knight
    Xegony Server
    There are only 10 pages
    # Oct 08 2001 at 9:53 AM Rating: Default
    I started and finished this quest this weekend. It is truley a quest of pain. Pain in the butt. There is confusion over the total nuber of pages. There are only 10 pages total...9 lore and 1 nonlore. Make sure you only put 1 nonlore page in the binder (right click and hold on each page). You can pick up copies of the non lore page. I had 3 by the time I finally got all 9 lore pages. Only the Froglok raiders carry what you need but they are few and far between. I spent 3 hours on Fri, 8hours on sat and 2 hours on sun trying to get the binder. I did level while there. Kill everything blue or less to you and avoid the froglok ton warrior and vis shaman they will aggro and kill you before you acn train them to the zone. Combine the pages (9lore 1 nonlore) and give it back to Guzac (SP?). Good luck
    RE: There are only 10 pages
    # Oct 10 2001 at 7:18 PM Rating: Default
    Question for Firiona Vie only.

    Has anyone done this quest yet?
    I am stuck with 8lore pages +1 normal + 1 binder....for ages.

    ty
    How do i start it
    # Oct 06 2001 at 5:59 PM Rating: Default
    What do you say to go this he didnt say anything when i finish the pawn quest.
    RE: How do i start it
    # Nov 25 2001 at 1:27 AM Rating: Decent
    ask him "what greater concern"
    11 Pages...
    # Oct 01 2001 at 2:15 PM Rating: Decent
    Ok, according to the description up top there are 11 pages; "You are given one page of the tome and told to collect the other 10 pages and the binder from the raiders." So now I have 11 pages and no binder... This is normal? I don't want to combine these and find that I'm shy one page and I have to do this quest all over again.
    In addition and contrary to many of the posts, I find that the raiders come out at dusk and dawn. Last night I saw 5 raiders from 8-10pm EQ time thus getting the last few pages.
    Lastly, I would recommend doing this quest near level 15, luring the harder mobs to the guards if they are interfering with your hunt. This way you can kill most of the mobs you'll see and live to run from the harder ones. (send the pet in, wait a few seconds, then run for the guards). At least you'll be getting exp for most of the stuff out there rather than wasting time killing lots (and LOTS) of greenies.
    lore pages
    # Sep 07 2001 at 9:31 PM Rating: Decent
    I just spent about 9 hours at starting at lvl 11 and went to lvl 12 soloing [with my pet] this quest. Seems that you cannot pick up wrong/incorrect lore pages. After getting 6 of them I was getting really annoyed that the death of the raiders was not producing the pages I needed. Wound up having slay about 30 raiders to get all the right items. Once I had them all with the Gikzic and non-lore page the combine was easy.
    Not the greatest of quests so far but I am now only a blue bub away from 13 so the kills were at least worthwhile.
    I wound up giving another SK the non-lore page and wished him luck:)
    lore pages
    # Sep 07 2001 at 9:30 PM Rating: Decent
    I just spent about 9 hours at starting at lvl 11 and went to lvl 12 soloing [with my pet] this quest. Seems that you cannot pick up wrong/incorrect lore pages. After getting 6 of them I was getting really annoyed that the death of the raiders was not producing the pages I needed. Once I had them all withe the Gikzic and non-lore page the combine was easy.
    Not the greatest of quests so far but I am now only a blue bub away from 13 so the kills were at least worthwhile.
    I wound up giving another SK the non-lore page and wished him luck:)
    lVL 21
    # Aug 28 2001 at 4:50 PM Rating: Default
    Can a lvl 21 iksar shadowknight who already has some dreadscale solo this quest. I prbably sound foolish to not have done it 10 lvls ago but i hate this zone.
    Finished!!!
    # Aug 20 2001 at 7:51 AM Rating: Default
    To start this quest, say to Lord Gikzic, "What greater concern?" and he will give you a page, it will not be lore. Go to swamp of no hope and as soon as you enter the zone head left and follow the path, but watch out for Ton Froglock Shaman. He took over 300 hp from me in the manner of ten seconds. Follow the path to a pillar, and near there you will see a camp of iksar bandits, and there will be iksar footpads or Maurauders patroling as well. Kill everything weaker, and then kill the froglock raiders when they appear. Be sure that you only pick up LORE items. I grouped with another sk and we both scanned around the edges. ut took all knight, but i finished. That quest was no fun. Ah well, its done now.

    Vailon
    "To trust is to invite betrayel."
    how do i start it
    # Aug 17 2001 at 9:54 PM Rating: Default
    i cant get the quest to start all i need is the page you are given and have no clue ho to get it what NPC do i take to and what do i say PLEASE help
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