Note for Rebby  

Correction...I guess it's only those faction numbers for the initial quest. Repeats produce the 10, 10, 1, 1, 1

I just tried this on Live, and turning in the Note to Rebby netted me merely XP, no rat whispers.

With the PoR expansion, Nestral moved to live with the SKs and Necros. Invisibility will get you there, but I doubt you can get the quest without agroing many mobs in the area.

Rebby is in a fairly safe place, a gully outside the Mage Guild in West Freeport.

This used to be one of the best quests to adjust Freeport factions, but now ...

I began this quest being looked at threatening by all the npc's directly involved in these two quests, and built up some strategies over the course of it. I am a ranger, and used three abilities to complete these parallel quests that your character may not possess (but you can improvise with your own character to some degree). These include Sneak, innate camoflage (not necessary but useful), and the spell Harmony of Nature. However, this Is manageable with only sneak.


Risk
First of all, none of the npcs you'll encounter, or have to pass, will see invis. The guards in WFP hit up to about 40 and weren't too dangerous when i screwed up, although the rogue guildmasters in EFP will hit up to 350, no doubt backstab and maybe assassinate. None run fast, summon, or cast, although all of them have high resists to snare and roots.


First Step
Both Harkin Duskfoot and Nestral TGaza will give you first note when sneaking. However standing behind either mob will not work since both npcs have a second guildmaster beside them.

On Harkin's left is the tunnel leading west eventually to WFP. This tunnel stick out slightly, blocking his view of you. If you turn sneak on (making sure it was successful), you can inch your way along this wall towards him, continually hitting a hotkey of '/say what messages?' until he gives you the note. At which point he will turn towards you (but not see you due to the bump in the wall), and backing off is advised!

Nestral is much easier. For her you need to enter her room (invisible) and target her. Now leave and head back the way you came till you see Harkin infront of you. It is at this point that you can drop invis without either seeing you (too far from harkin, and a wall between you and Nestral), and raise sneak. /say I can go to Janam and Rebby's.

If you don't like this method, there are three others I have that work well. Firstly you can harmonise the surrounding npcs, and then sneak right behind either guildmaster. Another option is to pull the guildmaster to the zone, zone out, invis, come back, and sneak while he/she is moving back to their spot. Lastly, since the items are droppable, you could just have a friend who isn't kos to get the items for you!

I should mention though that no matter what, you will need to con indifferent for the final turn in.


Second Step
The two npc's you will want to hand either note to are called Janam Rekish and Harkin Duskfoot. They both stand side by side, with a static character called peasant woman, and a wandering guard named Guard Inofus nearby. Personally the peasant woman looked at me amiably (one of the few in FP), though those who she is less fond of should harmonize her before attempting the hand in. Rooting her may also work. Then the task is simple to wait for Guard Inofus to leave, then sneak, drop invis, and give Janam and Harkin their respective notes. They return two items which are again droppable.


Third Step
This is the most dangerous step as you need to be right by the mob to hand in the item. Dubious works for neither, and Indifferent is enough for both, I haven't checked Apprehensive.

Now you will have to sneak (unless you are a class that can charm/alliance/etc). One option will be to pull the guildmaster from their position, then zone/camp the agro, come back and sneak to the returning guildmaster. In many ways this is safer than the alternative, but takes longer.

The other option is to harmonize the guildmaster and the npc you're turning the item into, then sneak, then hand it in, and then get out before harmonize wears off.

I chose the latter which worked fine all but once. I failed sneak too often and my harmony wore off. So long as you're careful though, both methods work.


Effect
I went from Threatening to Dubious to the rogue guildmasters in three trips, but stayed Dubious after my roughly next 20. I remained KOS to the Freeport Militia throughout.

This is a long and slow process to get friendly with the faction you're doing it for, though there are no negetive faction hits which therefore makes it a useful quest.

Hope that all helped.

I am doing with quest with another char, how di I transfer the items to the char that needs the faction (I have never done "muling") before.

I got tired of being apprehensive to the militia and found this quest and the note for Janam and the Frikniller Family. This is what I did.

First I found Falia in NFP and bound myself there and ran back to EFP and cast Camo (not liked by the evil guildmasters in the tunnels). Then I ran past the guildmasters and hugged the righthand wall till I found Harkin. Now at first I gave his guard the ale but later I skiped that part and just told harkin "What Message" and got his note for Janam. through the door and asked Gren "Who is your sister?", got his note. And out the door and up the ramp, through the door got Nestral's note "I can run to janam and rebby's.". Now gate to Falia, give her the note and get the artifact, run to zone with WFP, run to janam and rebby's at the theater of tranquility. Swap both notes with the proper guy and run to zone with EFP. back to the tunnels, give the returning objects and repeat.

I'm up to indiferent now and will continue until they like me.

I will pay 20 pp a stack ) my name is maddokk or maddokka chechj either one )

money for the rebby whiskers i mean

with plenty of practice i learned to do this quest in 2 min 25 sec (rebby and janam both)including zoning once and gating once. you really need to find the way thru the docks area and not run around past the west freeport gate to the tunnel which is much longer. yes i had sow too. the hard part is keeping it up at that pace for hours on end. helps to make a /afk hot key which you hit every time you zone :)and it goes without saying hotkeys for the things you have to say to harkin and nestrel ... this is a good quest for newbies to use to make money since they can sell the whiskers by the stack to high levels with more money than patience. no joke id do 200 plat a stack if i were a poor newbie but at this point in my career i wouldnt even do it for that. if i were kos i would pay that much though. im paying a few friends 100 per stack now to help me with this one. i only dont understand why i cant talk them into doing harkin since they are right there anyway. i guess when youve never been kos in a place you need to go you have no appreciation for faction.

ok maybe this is a stupid question but i've done both these quests 15 times so far, now i can shop in fp but what about the merchants in ec and nro are these of the same faction or do i need to do something else ?

can anyone please explain to me..(sorry if i am a bit slow to catch on) but a) can a troll warrior who follows innoruuk get into freeport east and west to do these 2 quests mentioned and b) how exactly? sorry i have no concept of how freeport works coming from the swamps...and i have not ventured far from home yet.
thanks for any help.

szazak
troll warrior
10th season
Tunare