Map File Locations: Put these in dreadspire_3.txt
P -249.8655, -2583.1602, 124.5690, 0, 240, 240, 3, Bedroom?
P -236.8859, -2649.9407, 63.5682, 0, 240, 240, 3, Crypt?
P -1.5203, 56.6970, -1104.4302, 0, 240, 240, 3, Study?
P -41.1409, -56.5208, -1292.9857, 0, 240, 240, 3, Ritual_Area?
P 298.5941, -3073.8772, 96.5693, 0, 0, 0, 1, Clickable_book
P -203.1000, -3022.2000, 81.0000, 0, 255, 255, 3, The_Laboratory_(KOS)
P 252.5000, -2986.0000, 100.1000, 0, 255, 255, 3, Library
P -0.2000, -2947.5000, 97.0000, 0, 255, 255, 3, Ball_Room
If - at TURN IN STAGE (obv) - you turn in the food that you picked up from the murder room - i.e. the ground spawn item itself - you will NOT get the chest/paste, and Meliotn's final message to you will be:
Melion Pell, Minor Functionary says, '[Thank you] for dealing with the matter. While we love our master, we don't want to draw his attention if we can avoid it. Though you accused the real culprit, your investigating skills were not very impressive.'
The CORRECT move is to turn in the food item picked up from the table that sits in front of the murderer, in which case:
Melion Pell, Minor Functionary says, '[Thank you] for dealing with the matter. While we love our master, we don't want to draw his attention if we can avoid it. You may find something interesting on the table.'
To be clear, for those doing this first time and are confused by somewhat incomplete instructions:
The weapon racks and the study are in the South Spire.
I zoomed in and looked all over the maps for a study and couldn't find it!
To get to the South Spire / Weapon Racks you go to the front door of the keep, the farthest area straight south of the dining room, where there are 2 curved ramps going upstairs. As you face north, as if coming in the door, go up the right-side curved ramp into the right-side hall to the west. Go as far north as you can in this hall and a steel door will take you to the South Spire. This should be on your map.
Go down a long spiral ramp (no stairs) and go through another steel door. The weapon racks are in this room, And, you get the chest/paste.
Attached is a link for the worksheet I wrote a couple of years ago for this.
It has saved me a lot of time and energy ( not forgetting stuff ) so I thought I would share it.
The zip contains 2 files. Eq_FormalDinnerParty.exe and MicrosoftVisualBasicPowerPacks.dll
Just unzip where you want it, run the .exe file, and click Click Me for instructions.
There are no network components or spyware of any sort in this. It is really a very basic program.
Both files have to be in the same folder.
If you don't like it don't use it and most importantly don't crab to me about it.
If you find some missing or new item combinations send me an email in-game with the exact information and I will update it.
https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=9095Not sure what changed, but if you want to get it right the first time, then this should help.
Setup
Get the quest evil side under bridge in PoK
Receive invitation
Zone in
Give invitation to Doorman
Speak to each person at dinner table
Speak with Melion Pell
Go through doors and buff up
Drops
In each major section of the map will be a ground spawn, don't pick it up, but if you do, record which room you found it in
Quest items drop from mobs which have classes listed on them
you will need 4 mob item drops (also found on weapon rack) and 1 ground spawn to correctly complete this so you can get the aug
even if you know who it is before you have all 4 item drops, you need to complete the quest as listed (Alt-Q) as i have seen it work and not work for getting the chest at the end. Your call on how you do this.
if you cleared the whole zone and didn't get all of your drops, then its likely your last drop is on the weapons rack at the bottom of the long spiral staircase where you should find four weapons racks
Turn-In
Go to Belion Pell and hand in the mob drop items
Now, look at the dinner table and see which food is in front of the guilty class. don't pick these up, you have been warned!
Next go get the food from the room that is in front of the guilty class or if you recorded the room you found it in then simply turn it in to Melion
Now, he will ask you which room did the crime take place. You need to be correct here to get the chest
If he says, 'are you sure', then you were wrong, just finish the quest and accept your 35AA, gold and commemorative coins
If he ask who did it, then if you select correctly, the mob will go active and you can engage.
If you select incorrectly, he will ask are you sure, now for every wrong class you select, they will aggro for being falsely accused and the correct one will also go active, you can potentially have the whole table if the person selecting the accused goes all stupid.
Final Battle
if your group is 109 to 110, then the final battle will be with a red con lvl 114 mob.
group was setup on east wall, tank did the last turn in and ran back to group. you should have a second to get back before the accused goes active
if you picked wrong, just take your punishment and die at Melion and then have someone drag and rez after. they go inactive and you can single pull the correct one from the table when you are ready.
fight is nothing special, they don't cast, or didn't for me at anytime. tank and spank. hit hard until you get a slow on it
fight should be over in 30s if you are geared with EoK or TBL, guessing sooner for others
after its over, talk to Melion and a chest will appear on the table
open take your singe award, then come back in the regular zone for this zone and do your turn-in for the aug
Make a deadspire_3.txt map and put this in it so you can select the correct room at the end.
P 200.0037, -2583.0037, 132.0016, 240, 0, 64, 3, Bedroom1
P -249.8655, -2583.1602, 124.5690, 240, 0, 64, 3, Bedroom2
P -236.8859, -2649.9407, 63.5682, 0, 240, 240, 3, Crypt
P -1.5203, 56.6970, -1104.4302, 0, 240, 240, 3, Study
P -41.1409, -56.5208, -1292.9857, 0, 240, 240, 3, Ritual_Area
P 298.5941, -3073.8772, 96.5693, 0, 0, 0, 1, Clickable_book
P -203.1000, -3022.2000, 81.0000, 0, 255, 255, 3, The_Laboratory_(KOS)
P 252.5000, -2986.0000, 100.1000, 0, 255, 255, 3, Library
P -0.2000, -2947.5000, 97.0000, 0, 255, 255, 3, Ball_Room
hope this helps!
Ok they have fixed this group mission so you have to complete it fully with no shortcuts as of 4-18-18. Easiest way to do this? Go through talk with Melion Pell, then talk to all the people at the table. Do not touch the food on the table. Go out, clear the rooms and get your 4 pieces off the mobs(random mobs in any room plus weapon racks at times). Once you have the 4 pieces or have figured out the murderer from the pieces(shows class on each piece that can use) then go back to the table and find the food in front of the murderer. Now find the room that has that same food. Hand in your 4 pieces then take the food off the table from in front of the murderer(don't do it before because its auto fail if you do now). Then fight the murderer and talk to Melion Pell. A chest now appears on the Table if you got it right. Just set aside time to clear pretty much the entire zone to get the pieces. All in all the difficulty is better and the mobs don't kill you too fast unless you get a bad pull. Happy hunting! I also leave the food on the floor of the rooms now in case I forget the room that had my food in it..