Shackle of Clay  

Skippers can be found by following the path south from Cabalis in the Swamp. I spent an hour searching the zone before I followed the path south and found one at LOC +375, +2600. My first kill didn't produce the skipping stone, but I returned about 20 minutes later and found a second Skipper at the same LOC. This one dropped a skipping stone.
The goblin scout and sabertooth cub took 2 minutes to find outside Cabilis in LOIO. The Large scorpions are easy to find in FoB.
Happy Questing!

Just did this quest. What makes this quest a pain is the components that work look almost identical to the ones that don't.

you want a cub canine, not a kitten canine. The saber cubs and kittens are found in the newbie area of LOIO, and scout beads from the gobby scouts also there.

Then you need the LARGE scorpion pincer off the large scorps in field of bone. Had to bounce back and forth to this darn list a half dozen times before I got the right items. Large scorpion pincers and regular scorpion pincers look identical. Ya want the one that isn't a wind instrument.

Lastly you need the Froggy skipping stone which just says "A skipping stone" and drops off the froggy skippers in the swamp of no hope.

Turn it all in and you get.... TA DA!! a crappy newbie bracer. However it is the part of a long quest chain that ends in... another crappy bracer. However, they may continue the chain one day and end it in something neato. For the moment this is pretty decent newbie armor. While these quests are kinda goofy and don't really result in anything breathtaking, they're still worth doing, if only for the bragging rites.



Faelawen Starfyre, the Mad Mage of Povar.

PS: Raska is behind Glox, the meditating guy you give your newbie note to.

PPS: You talk to Raska first and get a 4 slot bag, put the stuff in the bag, hit combine and hand it back to him.

PPPS: (This is getting silly) Anyhoo, They just added another quest to the line. The Shackle of Tynnonium. A bracer which does very much not suck. So now this quest line really IS worth doing.


Edited, Wed Apr 3 02:26:32 2002

I of course dont have shackles of dust. So if I have a friend start new mnk and turn note into npc (which one by the way?) He then receives shkl. Then i gather items for shackle of clay. When we go to Master Riska i am combining items? Please clarify and be specific, i want to go back and complete these shackle quests, but ive messed up the beginning. Thanks for your help.

Say "Why am I a whell?"

How canI get the First Rite Pack ?e.g. what shoulf I say. I try to say hi to Master Raska , but It didn't hand anything to me.

Rawlins suggested multiquesting for the shackle of clay if you lost the shackle of dust. Was this Nerfed(TM) during the multi-quest changes? I was told that most of the changed quest were in Velious and not Kunark. Can anyone confirm this?

Thanks!
The Toad

did you combine the bag? or did you just give the bag to the person? cause i did that first and i didn't know what happened then i found out i didn't combine the contents in the bag is that what was wrong?

I found this quest with my necro. She was going around NPC bugging when one outside her guild asked her if she had her broodling robes. I told him "no" and he gave me a book to give to the toilmaster. While I did this with my necro, I know for a fact that Master Niska asks the same question about your bracer. If you answer her "no" she will give you a book as well (same book).

When I gave it to him, he gave me a penance book. It tells you to say "give me the hammer of exoneration" and say "I need a bag". He gives you a HUGE (wt 25) 2HB hammer and a 8slot bag. You are instructed to go to the Mortician and say "I need a mortar and pestle". He gives you an 8 slot grinder.

The idea is that you attack with the hammer and it knocks off "Bone Fragments" (no drop). These go into the Mortal and Pestle. When you have 8 you combine and get "Bone Dust" (no drop). You put the dust in the Penance bag. Repeat until you have 7 piles of dust in the Penance bag, add blood water and combine. Take the bag back to who originated your quest, give them the book and the combined bag back, and you get your newbie item back.

I know that this is a lot of work. And the technique described about of having a friend create a new monk (or whatever) is easier. But it is possible to recover "in game". Funnily enough, the two game masters that we petitioned about our lost shackle, didn't seem to know that this quest existed.

BTW, there is no faction hit or gain from doing this quest. As a matter of fact, when I completed it, I got another bag from the Toilmaster (the mortar is left alone). Between the mortal, penance bag, curscale bag, and the ingredients mortar from the shamans, I have 4 bags in the bank that were free :)

Ok don't freek out if you destroyed the dust shackles this is easily fixable..

Get a friend to role an Iskar monk

Have him turn in his note to get his dusty shackles

Group with him.. have him give the dusty shackles to the NPC

You then give the remaining pieces to the NPC and recive the quest item

I did this earlier today it does work just like Jboots and so many other No drop quests

Was pretty easy for a level 5/6 monk.

Got the large scorpion pincer off the scorps in the field of bone. Luckily for me, I caught a time when there were a few wandering around the newbie area, and didn't have to go to the pit.
Second scorpion I killed dropped the pincer. Large Scorpions were white and yellow to lvl 5.

Sabertooth cub tooth I got from the lake of ill omen. IMPORTANT: Make sure it's the CUB tooth, not the kitten. The cubs wander around the same area as the kittens, but perhaps a little further out, around the goblin outpost. Dropped off the second cub I killed.
Cubs were blue to me at 5.

Goblin Scout beads: the goblins are in the same area as the sabertooth cubs, around the outpost building there. Beads dropped off the first scout I killed. Just make sure you got SCOUT beads, not any other kind.
Scouts were also blue to me at 5.

The froglok skipper skipping stone:
This was the hardest oart of the quest, and was only difficult in terms of patience. I headed out along the right edge of the water (facing away from Cabilis) and wandered around on that hill by the water edge. The skipper spawns seemed kind of erratic, and I killed about 20 skippers before one finally dropped the stone. But up on that edge, you avoid most things that can kill you. (At 5, the skeletons were yellow, and at 6, the froglok fisher I encountered was yellow) You can also see a good deal of the skipper's hangouts. They spawn around that hill, and along the close edge of the island. You can see the frogloks across the water. I got used to listening for the trademark froglock suction-cup hopping sound, and would barrel of in that direction as soon as I heard it.
Other frogloks I found in the area are tads (green to 5/6) escorts, blue to 6, escaped frogloks, also blue, and the froglok fisher that was yellow to me at six.

While you're waiting, there's large mosquitos and giant swamp leeches in the area that con blue and give decent exp. As well as the occasional skeleton. Only the skeles and non-green frogloks woul aggro on me, even though both the large mosquitos and giant swamp leeches conned "ready to attack"

All in all, I went from halfway into level 5, to 2 bubs into 6 experience trying to complete the quest.

Shackle of clay is AC 3, and I got 2 gold from Raska when I turned in the bag.

Also, you need the right type of pincer, was it a scorpion pincer or a large scorpion pincer?

I did this quest and It destroyed all the items, The only part I might have got wrong is the skipping stone. I got it off the frogluk skipper. Does it have to say Frogluk Skipping stone or just skipping stone? All my components were destroyed, why did'nt this work? (Yes I am a monk etc. No stupid replies please.)