Quest of the Astari Guard
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To start this quest you must be both divine and also a Night Elf. You must seek out the cave west of the ruined city of Mnemmon (Located within the bounds of the Elf patron at coordinates = IS/OS (814, 3223.). Once inside the cave, seek a large metal door (801,3222) and try to enter. One of the guards will yell at you and say "That is a restricted area. Astari guard personnel only, if you wish to join seek for Lord Solfein in autumn". Head down to Autumn which is the city east of Whisperdale and find Lord Solfein. Speak to him and ask about joining the Astari Guard. He will look you over and if you are an Elf and Divine he will permit you to join. If you are not divine he will say "hmmm your heart doesn't seem pure enough. Don't get into trouble and in time I may reconsider you". If your anything besides elf he'll say "Hail and well met!, Welcome to the fair city of Autumn." He will tell you to go talk to Captain Laulban in the Astari shelter, so head back to the large metal door in the cave, and this time you'll find you can enter. Follow the corridor until you see the first sign on the wall saying "Captain Laulban's Office" Go through the door and speak With Captain Laulban. Dialogue follows:
Captain Laulban: So your the new recruit, eh?
Captain Laulban: Very well
Player: What are my duties?
Captain Laulban: You duties are simple.
Captain Laulban: The supplies and records in this chamber have been stored for the astari people incase of an emergency, such as a second rune war.
Captain Laulban: Our job is to protect them.
Captain Laulban: We've been facing an infestation of poisonous green triddles lately, they come up through a trap door, way back in the shelter.
Captain Laulban: Not the one just west of here -- that goes down into the sewers, we're not sure where the one leads.
Captain Laulban: So every once in a while the triddles get in and go after the supplies. And every once in a while one of the recruits doesn't come back.
Captain Laulban: Follow this corridor to the end. The trapdoor is in the last room.
Captain Laulban: Be sure to check the lock on the trapdoor, and close it if its open.
Captain Laulban: Then report back to me.
So now you must follow the corridor around to the end. Be careful if doing this at a lvl lower than about 6, as there is as you can guess a few poisonous triddles (lvl 6) and on occasions spiders (lvl2) and firefly swarms (lvl 4). Kill any creatures in the room and then close the trapdoor. Return to Captain Laulban for your next task.
Dialogue continues :
Captain Laulban: I'm glad to see you are still in one piece recruit. What do you have to report?
Player: I found the trapdoor. It was open so I closed it.
Captain Laulban: Good work. I'm glad to see you can handle yourself, soldier.
Captain Laulban: I have another assignment for you. Lord Malgoth over in Dunmarrow has asked us to send him certain documents from our files.
Captain Laulban: Apparently this shelter held the last remaining copy. I sent your predecessor to get them, but like so many others he never returned.
Captain Laulban: The documents are filed away in a footchest in the room just before the one where the triddles are getting in.
Captain Laulban: Go find these papers and bring them to me, but be careful there may still be insects about.
Player: Yes Sir, Right away Sir.
Captain Laulban: Good luck recruit.
(At this point I encountered a bug, where the footchest isn't where it should be. A few people have the chest, but the only one i know of is Hellrazzer/Razzer, and Maina/Ladysunsetz. Once your get to the chest it'll say return to Captain Laulban. He'll tell you to go down the passage that he told you to close the passage to and, and once in you'll have to find this vine ladder somewhere to the right. Go up it, and theres a secret passage somewhere (havent found it >.<) and i heard that right inside the passage is the sash.
([Raude notes] I found the chest exactly as described in the talk with the captain, you return to the captain and he asks you to go back down into the caves and find another paper. I found it by going down the ladder. south to a turn to the east to a T intersection. I then went south and east again to a vine thing. up it to a new cave. I went east into a small side room and through another hole. Inside was a level 25 termigon warrior which my bear cubs and my bow quickly took out (I was lvl 25 at this time with 2 lvl 15 bears) and just to the west of the hole I came through was a corpse (grave) I got the paper from it and returned to the captain. Who promoted me to lieutenant gave me my sash and told me to go to Dunmarrow (doesn't seem to be a quest but haven't attempted the travel yet) The sash is not too bad for the ease of the quest it weighs 4 pounds, it has 16 protection, lvl 7+ requirement, and gives +3 DEX and +3 CON much better than the silk sash i was wearing)
