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Title: A Formal Dinner Party
Post by: Riou on March 16, 2018, 12:36:26 AM
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Title: Re: A Formal Dinner Party
Post by: Lasii on March 16, 2018, 07:08:51 AM
Got something called Red Berry Paste, with the identify of "What Likes this?"
Title: Re: A Formal Dinner Party
Post by: Piyper on March 16, 2018, 04:43:19 PM
1 i was given the info

step about the proof there are weapon drops in each "area" also one of the food on the table will let you turn it in. turn them in 1st one at a time who everthe food was in front of that they take is the killer. where ever you find the same food on the floor is the room. ie for us it was the green apple in front of the clr and it was in the crypt under the sisters room.
Title: Re: A Formal Dinner Party
Post by: kaylord101 on March 16, 2018, 08:54:27 PM
after 12+ hours here is the simplified walk-through.

everyone in group will get Aug
(doing quest isnt bad, mobs aggro range is huge, and can hit up to 44k. Puller/slower would be very helpful)
to do mission you need to do Hails at start, then you need to find 5 Proof Items... 1 is a ground spawn...4 are dropped from npcs... only one item will drop per room but not every room. there are 7 rooms. Ballroom, Study, Ritual area, Bedroom, Lab, Library, Crypt, . Out of the many times i done this I always had a drop in Lab/Crypt/Ballroom always... though that may just been my luck.
To complete quest get the 5 proofs. turn in.. kill murderer.. thats it...

To get the Aug.... you must get the Accused Correct and Room Correct on your FIRST try.

here is how to find out who and where


Zone in... you see a Dinner table,,,, with 8 Classes, one piece of food item infront of them each

pick one item at a time... turn in one item at a time... remember who you took it from... Example, the quest guy took the apple infront of the Rogue.
Easy - now you know the rogue is the killer.

if you mess this up there is a back up.... (the 4 items you need to loot for quest updates, They show usable classes on them, only ONE class will be on every item. so the rogue should show on each item as usable) Might say item 1 monk rogue bst war ; item 2 cleric rogue wiz bst item 3 war rogue druid cleric .. ect ect... rogue is the only one thats on each item..

Now for the location if where the murder happened...
Remember the item the quest guy accepted at the start? from the dinner table? For this example it was the apple....
now (rogue would be nice) go sos and find the apple ground spawn in one of those rooms above... where ever the apple is... thats where the murder happened..

..Also **Charname*** reported you can use items from a failed mission on a new mission.

Best charm aug in game now, and everyone in group gets it... its pretty easy once you figure it out =)... just remember the food at the start..

IF you complete the mission correctly and get the 2 guesses correct... you will get "Red Berry Paste"

Turn this item into A batling in the REAL dreadspire keep zone in

at end something to note. When the Task guy gives you options as to who the murderer might be, he may not give you the correct one. (example: my murderer was ranger, but he didnt give that as an option.... type /say the ranger still gave update and was correc

Enjoy
Title: Re: A Formal Dinner Party
Post by: kaylord101 on March 16, 2018, 08:55:58 PM
There are also Weapon racks on the bottom of spiral south tower
Title: Re: A Formal Dinner Party
Post by: Gildurath on March 16, 2018, 11:53:02 PM
You do not need to complete the mission to get this. You can even drop the task once you get the red paste, and go hand in later.
Title: Re: A Formal Dinner Party
Post by: Soraia on March 18, 2018, 11:28:17 AM
Two things to note:

Someone mentioned above that there are weapon racks, but didn't mention that the pieces you need to collect can drop from those as well. We killed EVERY mob in zone and were still missing a piece until we took out the weapon rack.

Also, when you go to turn the paste in to the batling, make sure you don't have a pet up. Two in our group had pets and were not able to turn in until they dismissed them.
Title: Re: A Formal Dinner Party
Post by: Battileur on March 25, 2018, 04:55:47 PM
It looks like you have to complete the mission now to get the aug - got room and murderer right first time twice now and no Berry Paste...
Title: Re: A Formal Dinner Party
Post by: KellanMarr on May 14, 2018, 03:36:19 PM
Mission changed so that A) you must complete it to get the reward .. and B) you only get one reward for the entire group now. If you have a full group, you will need to do the mission six times for everyone to get the aug.
Title: Re: A Formal Dinner Party
Post by: Gdaymate on April 17, 2020, 06:51:49 PM
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pick one item at a time... turn in one item at a time... remember who you took it from... Example, the quest guy took the apple infront of the Rogue.
Easy - now you know the rogue is the killer.

DO NOT DO THIS!! You will NOT get the berry paste at the end of the mission! Instead you need to go to each room and make a note of any food item you find there, THEN when you have all four loot items and know who the murderer is, the room where the murder happened will be the room where you found the food item which is in front of the murderer on the table.
Title: Re: A Formal Dinner Party
Post by: Wildwill on April 26, 2023, 05:05:38 AM
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=9095

Not 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..





Title: Re: A Formal Dinner Party
Post by: Wildwill on March 26, 2024, 11:55:55 PM
Video of event
https://youtu.be/7CWTjDsq3uI?si=p9oBRDLafl9ZnA-j