From Syntax... May 2025:
Note: you'll need a rope and grapple.
- Go to and kill Slums > Slaver Leader for an Amber Talisman (Slums -> Building Rooftop)
- Go to Black Caves > Gnome Commander and 'ask orb' to get a bloodstone orb
- Note: If you have 251+ picklocks, you can skip to steps 3 and 4
- Go to and kill Dark-Elf City > Dark-elf Archmage for a dark blue orb
- Note: you may get a message from megamud about needing a gate key. You get the gate key by killing a mob at the gate. The command to summon said mob should be built into the path steps, automatically getting you the key. Alternatively, you could go to Dark-Elf City > Dark-Elf City (Hole Up), which is the room just before that mob and the gate. However, that rooms is defaulted to "hide in goto list" in megamud for some reason so you would need to go into the megamud database > rooms > that room (search 'hole up') > and uncheck that box to have it show up in megamud's goto list.
- Go to Dark-Elf City > Sleazy Shopkeeper and 'ask sleazy orb' (get moldy key in exchange for dark blue orb)
- Go to and kill Dark-Elf City > Wererat Emissary to get a greasy leather bracelet
- Go to Black Caves > Ancient Stronghold (Puzzle Door)
- Use character with the best INT and WIS and type 'solve puzzle'. Repeat until success. Each fail will hit with 75-150 lightning.
- Go west and ATTACK APPARATUS
- Kill the Wererat Emissary, he will drop a greasy leather bracelet. You need this to get into the ancient stronghold.
- Once inside the ancient stronghold go and speak with the ghost knight.
- Then go to where you have to turn the torch. (top floor room with all the torches), make your way down to the very basement and then SEARCH SOUTH. (Here on out make sure you brought a priest with cure disease)
- Go to the room with the puzzle door and type SOLVE PUZZLE, (have the person with the highest intell do this) once the door to the west opens kill off all the plague crafters in the room (sometimes 9, so be careful)
- Then type ATTACK APPARATUS or DESTROY APPARATUS
You will get 150k exp and +1% to dodge.
- Kill the Slaver Leader for an Amber Talisman
- Kill a Wererat Emissary for a Greasy Leather Bracelet
- Go to the Ancient Stronghold
- Greet the Ghost Knight
- Turn the torch in the torch-filled room to get to the basement
- Search south once in the basement
- Solve the puzzle of the Puzzle Door
- Find the Apparatus
- Destroy the Apparatus
- This one is pretty simple. First grab some maps for mod 3 area. Then make your way down to the Dark-Elf City and kill the Wererat Emissary, he will drop a greasy leather bracelet. You need this to get into the ancient stronghold. Then climb your way back up to the top, its the level of the caves same below the hill top fort, and go to the spot in the very lower right hand corner and rub the bracelet. It should open a way to the ancient stonghold. Once inside go and speak with the ghost knight. Then go to where you have to turn the torch. (top floor room with all the torches), make your way down to the very basement and then SEARCH SOUTH. (Here on out make sure you brought a priest with cure disease) Go to the room with the puzzle door and type SOLVE PUZZLE, (have the person with the highest intell do this) once the door to the west opens kill off all the plague crafters in the room (sometimes 9, so be careful, and keep the priest alive) Then type ATTACK APPARATUS or DESTROY APPARATUS and boom (sometimes you have to exit the realm to see the changes) you should have gotten 150,000 exp and some MA (varies depending on lvl/charm/class) It gives about 1%-2% dodge.