Drathrok's Duskruin 419

Drathrok's Duskruin Quest is a Simutronics-run paid quest that was announced in January 2016.

Announcement

On January 18, 2016 Duskruin was announced to players via email.

Drathrok's Duskruin

Friday at 9PM Eastern!

Drathrok and Zoluren's leaders are sending out the call far and wide for brave adventurers to step into the newly built arenas and Dwarven mazes to hone their skills for the battles that lie ahead!

Compete against dangerous foes (some long forgotten!) with mighty spells and abilities, never-before-seen traps, and the clock to earn bloodscrip!

Then...

Spend your hard-earned bloodscrip on UNIQUE ITEMS only available at Duskruin!

• Fleintoore's Folio - Unlock new verbs, stats, and features on exo weapons and more!
• Lockbox of Lirum - Skip the bank, handle your own exchanges!
• Verika's Trove - A collection of powerful boosters to make you OP!
• Frostdrums - Smash a limb and freeze it into oblivion!

PLUS A WHOLE LOT MORE NEW, never-before seen items!

What are the Duskruin Arenas?

• Face challenging foes from the far reaches of the lands!
• The difficulty rises each round!
• Avoid dangerous traps!
• Win chests that can contain powerful prizes!
• Even cheer on your friends as they compete!
  
  

What is the Duskruin Labyrinth?

Dwarven tunnels twisted into shifting mazes!

• Find your very own pet rat!
  • Battle other players' rats to see whose is fiercest of all!
  • Feed and care for them!
  • Carry it on your shoulder or in its very own special sack!
  • Keep it forever!
• Discover powerful treasures hidden by the Dwarves of Stone Clan!
  
  

What exactly *IS* bloodscrip?

• A special currency exclusive to Drathrok's Duskruin!
• Awarded for vanquishing foes in the arenas!
• Can also be discovered within the Dwarven labyrinth!
• Can be traded, sold or given to others! But why would you?!?
• Remember, this is how you get acquire the rare items of Duskruin!
• Spend your bloodscrip to purchase prizes ONLY available at Duskruin!
  
  

Sounds great! How do I join in?

• There are two ways to enter for your convenience!
  • In Zoluren* find Drathrok's Duskruin near the Stone Clan Traders' Outpost!
  • Outside Zoluren* Check NEWS 4 1 for portal locations!
    
• Hang out and watch the fun for free!
• Free-to-play accounts are welcome without any extra visas!
• To fight in the arenas or run the maze, head on over to the Simucoin Store*
  • Purchase Dueling Slips to enter the arenas!
    • The announcer will explain the rules!
    • Kill your foes!
    • WATCH for their nefarious tricks!
  • Purchase Golden Rat Tokens to enter the labyrinth!
    • SEARCH high and low for your rat, treasure and more!
  • Dueling Slips and Rat Tokens go on sale Friday, January 22nd!
    
    

Drathrok's Duskruin will begin THIS Friday, January 22nd around 9PM Eastern! Join your fellow adventurers in constructing the arenas, and then jump into the games! Act fast, because Duskruin won't be here long!

Bloodscrip

Bloodscrip is a currency similar to the Grey Raven Commissary scrip. While Grey Raven scrip is automatically accumulated in your character's total listed under the TICKETS, some bloodscrip starts off as an actual item when found and can be bought, sold, or otherwise traded to other characters. Once REDEEMed on a character, bloodscrip cannot be turned back into an item and traded. Bloodscrip can be obtained in the Duskruin Arena and Duskruin Labyrinth and redeemed at various locations within Duskruin and appears as Duskruin bloodscrip.

Note: Because bloodscrip can be a actual item in game, it is highly recommended you treat it with the caution you would any item you would not want to lose.

Duskruin Arena

The arena is an individual event where a player fights against various creatures and traps in the hopes of earning prizes and bloodscrip. There are multiple arena rooms, allowing up to 50 players to be competing in the arena at once.

Spectators can use YELL and CHEER to encourage those in the arena, or taunt their failings. The WATCH LIST command will show who is currently competing, while WATCHing any player, such as WATCH BOB will allow you to track their progress.

To enter, players can GO PORTCULLIS while holding a dueling slip and will be escorted to an arena and the announcer will explain the rules. Players will face 25 challengers, and every 5th one will be a 'boss', or more difficult opponent. Only one creature or opponent will face a player at a time. Players can use the WATCH command to assess the situation and react accordingly to try and avoid these traps. Your time in the arena is limited, so make good use of it. If your time expires, you will be moved out to collect your winnings.

If at any point you've had enough, you can SURRENDER and quit early. However, if you surrender your coin and bloodscrip earnings for that session will be cut in half. Should you fail and die in the arena, you cannot DEPART but will be automatically dragged out, and healed to full health. The arena's healing services include returning you back to life, but any normal death penalties (lost field experience, scrolls, etc) will still apply normally.

If a player does everything perfectly in a single session, the most they can earn is 250 bloodscrip. You always get some bloodscrip even if you SURRENDER or die, with the minimum at 50 bloodscrip for participating.

Currently, there is no specific combat mode with constructs for Empaths, but it is being considered. Necromancer and Empath, and other pets are allows in the arena. Players may receive buffs or other help from players before entering.

Arena Titles

Players can get several temporary titles by participating in the Duskruin Arena. These titles are temporary and clear after logging out and back in. However, if you are wearing a title the announcer will skip the introduction and rules segment of the arena session, allowing you to do more sessions faster.

Duskruin Combatant - Earned by participating in any Duskruin arena session.

Duskruin Arena Champion - Earned by making it through and beating all 25 rounds.

Duskruin Arena Hero/Heroine - Earned by scoring a perfect 250 bloodscrip upon finishing the arena session.

Loot

TK

Duskruin Labyrinth

Located on the eastern side of the arena, the labyrinth does not have any combat. Players enter by paying with Golden Rat Tokens, and are lead inside. True to its name, the labyrinth is a maze that occasionally reorganizes itself, so any attempt at mapping it is futile. Players can attempt to chase and capture the rat running around inside via the SEARCH command. Each session, a player may do 10 searches and obtain various treasures hidden within labyrinth.

Only one rat may be obtained per character, per opening of Duskruin. However, there are many different treasures hidden in the labyrinth, so even if a player already has a rat there are things to search for.

The most bloodscrip that can be earned in any one labyrinth session is 200 bloodscrip.

Pet Rats

Players can explore the Duskruin Labyrinth and try to and find their very own rat companion. Rats bond to their owner and can be worn or stored in the sack they come with. Note that you should only stow your rat in the sack it came with when it is not worn, as doing otherwise can risk losing the rat. Rats come in many different appearances, and can be altered.

Rats can be worn on the shoulder (in a general slot, but looks like the shoulder). Players can put them in their sack, or DROP them on the ground. Players can FEED them various types of food. Only the owner can GET the rat from the ground. The rats have several other interaction such as KICK (not that you would!), POKE, RUB, TICKLE, THUMP, TOUCH and PET.

Rats put on the ground via the DROP command will follow their owner, without risk of losing the rat. While on the ground, rats can do battle with the rats owned by other players. Rats may become wounded by battle, but they will not permanently die. Badly wounded rats will run away temporarily and return a real life day later once healed.

Currently only one rat may be obtained per character, per opening of Duskruin.

Loot

Clothing

• black silk tabard emblazoned with a pair of crossed gauntlets

Jewelry

• oval black star sapphire
• platinum toe bells shaped like tiny helms

Weapons

• blackened steel katar shaped like a raven's head

Shields

• bronze target shield shaped like a clawed paw
• mountain-shaped warrior's shield

Armor

• battered plate gauntlets
• tarnished chain shirt embellished with a shield-shaped medallion

Magical

• frosty blue ring
• shimmering gaethzen fist

Other

• brass compass with a cracked glass covering
• dust-covered/half-eaten/sticky/trampled choryu cake
• faded canvas bag marked with "CC": Contains dyes, cards, and diras

Gems

• Random gems
• bearclaw emerald
• bloodmist garnet
• Dalaeji black sapphire
• drake's heart amber
• Gemfire ruby
• Hekemhhg lazuli
• viperscale alexandrite
• lightning amethyst

Shops

All item values are in bloodscrip

leather-covered traveling trunk
Item	Price	Done
TK	?	No

simple maple counter
Item	Price	Done
TK	?	No

low wooden workbench
Item	Price	Done
TK	?	No

sturdy wooden easel
Item	Price	Done
TK	?	No

ramshackle folding rack
Item	Price	Done
shining gold tuner - holy	1,600
bright silver tuner - lunar	1,600
patinated copper tuner - life	1,600
scintillating electrum tuner - elemental	1,600
A parchment scroll reads: "These items are not for the faint of heart. It takes one skilled in the ways of triage and first aid. While a novice may muddle through, the experience could be quite gruesome. These devices will empower one to sense other forms of mana nearby, but NOT how to draw upon it."

large blanket with fringed edges
Item	Price	Done
TK	?	No

rickety handcart with two wheels
Item	Price	Done
thin black armband made from interlocking ebony spiders - Creates a deep ebony exoskeletal mattock	140,000
thin anklet made of black interwoven fibers - Creates a deep ebony exoskeletal bludgeon	120,000
delicate silver pendant encasing a black widow spider - Creates a deep ebony exoskeletal hammer	150,000
A notecard reads: "These jewelry pieces were thought lost to time, but a large crate was recently discovered in an innkeeper's cellar! They're imbued with a particular magic that will summon blunt weapons, so we're told."

woven basket
Item	Price	Done
small pocket calendar framed in darkly stained wood	500	!!

wheeled cart with a canvas canopy
Item	Price	Done
length of braided sailing cord tied in an intricate knot	3,500
elaborate openwork tree pin crafted from sana'ati heartwood	3,500
polished silver serpent ring	3,500
intricate khor'vela armband sculpted to resemble an ouroboros	3,500
pair of zephyr heart earrings ensconced in silverwire	3,500
artfully spiraling silver circlet crowned by a trillian-cut amethyst	3,500
painted ear stud shaped like a haunch of roasted meat	3,500
pair of sharply pointed kertig earcuffs	3,500
intricate flat weave platinum chain with a purple jade fairy as the clasp	3,500
Favor savers

large shelf
Item	Price	Done
brown gargoyle-hide boots adorned with leathery wings - conveyed by the leathery wings	1,000
pair of black leather boots tooled with a spiderweb pattern - hauled upon the sixteen jointed legs	1,000
pair of fuzzy brown mouse slippers - carried by stubby fluffy legs	150
Rub for temporary custom travel messaging (charges)

small wobbly wagon
Item	Price	Done
TK	?	No

large shipping carton
Item	Price	Done
TK	?	No

open-sided stall
Item	Price	Done
TK	?	No

dilapidated wooden bin
Item	Price	Done
TK	?	No

rustic driftwood pushcart
Item	Price	Done
TK	?	No

thin metal box with rope handles
Item	Price	Done
medicated bandage - RUB the medicated bandage over bleeding wounds to heal them	10,000

tiny stand
Item	Price	Done
darkened leather hip pouch branded with a rolled scroll	35
A sign reads: "I've placed a single scroll within this pouch. It could be some great lost spell from ages past, or it could be Air Bubble. The only way to find out is to purchase it. No refunds, returns or exchanges allowed!"

large trestle table
Item	Price	Done
infuser stone	1,125
A parchment note reads: "These infuser stones are one half of what has been dubbed 'Fleintoore's Folio'. They can enhance an item to be used more frequently or just more in general -- a recharge of sorts."

large folding counter
Item	Price	Done
potency crystal	2250
A note card reads: "These potency crystals are one half of what has been dubbed 'Fleintoore's Folio'. They can empower certain items with additional features or strengthen existing ones, among other abilities."

pine wheelbarrow with a metal wheel
Item	Price	Done
TK	?	No

shipping crate with wooden slats
Item	Price	Done
TK	?	No

wooden counter
Item	Price	Done
small chest - Contains dyes	1,500	DG
sturdy backpack - Contains bone stacks	1,500	DG
large chest - Contains metals	2,000	DG
leather pouch - Contains fabrics	1,500
traveler's knapsack - Contains leather	1,500	DG
large canvas sack - Contains stone	1,500	DG
woven sack - Contains random	1,200	DG
A sign reads: "These containers were assembled by Seamstress Zasele and associates. She did not disclose what was contained within, other than a random assortment of gems, coins and materials. They may be purchased without limit or restriction."

Trivia

The DragonRealms version of Duskruin was inspired by GemStone's own Duskruin [[1]].