Actually, Allakhazam has had this quest for a long time. It's listed under
Ancient Coins:
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/quests/Q_FirionaVie.htm
Here's a handy guide:
Nostrolo Tambourine Quest Checklist
By Windleaf Mistsong, Clan Battlehammer, Bertoxxulous
With a couple of comments by Sylly Songsynger and -=B=- taken from
eqbards@egroups.com list.
Star of Odus Purchase for 105 pp (use your carillon) in jewel shop under
Erudin palace. Make sure you have an empty space in your main inventory.
Give Star of Odus to Wellford in Firiona Vie Bank and receive Tin Box with
6 slots. (I didn't have space and had to do this again. GM's won't help you.)
Coins (not in any particular order). Identify each with your Cataloging
Libretto:
1) Torsis Ton -- Foraged in Emerald Forest
Best to have someone forage for you due to our limited forage skill
2) Royal Crown of Dalnir -- Kly Implicator in Dalnir
It comes from the Library area, off of a Failed Crypt Raider. (-=B=-)
Kly Imprecator either on 2nd floor (church?) or 3rd floor down back
towrds the main Kly (dining room) in the lab on the left as you go in.
(Sylly Songsynger)
3) Terraz Gon -- Failed Raider in Kaesora, behind library. Probably hardest
one to get.
Failed Crypt Raider near the library (4 or so 'names' rotate thru the
library spawn cycle - if you dont see him the first time - stick around for
a couple hours or so and he pops eventually.) (Sylly Songsynger)
4) Veksar Gran -- Bloodgill Goblins in Lake of Ill Omen.
Look at the base of the pillars around the center of the lake. (-=B=-)
5) Danak Gran -- Scorpoid Scrounger in The Overthere
Go in invis and track a scrounger who is down in ravine. After you hit
him, get invis back up and lead him out of ravine (really helps to have
SOW). I accidentally brought up another scorpion, but I charmed scrounger
and had him kill it. Then fear/chained scrounger to death. They do harm
touch, but I was able to do this as a 35 bard.
6) Ik Gran -- Captain of the Guard from City of Mist
Obtainable if you are in a group by the zone.
Combine Tin Box and return to Wellford for Tambourine!
Comments:
You can buy the coins from players. Just be polite and don't spam the zone
with requests. I usually would do just one request when I entered the zone
as a courtesy to others. You can frequently get the coins for free if you
are polite. However, for the Kaesora coin, I was gladly offering to pay
50pp as hardly anyone was ever in Kaesora on Bertox server, and when there
were people in Kaesora, a lot of times it was people from a Japanese
guild. On other servers with lots of Kaesora hunters, you should get this
easily). ---Windleaf
At 10:01 AM 9/26/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Windleaf,
>
>Thanks for the response on my charm/chant questions. Though I asked Cent
>directly, I always look forward to good responses and yours is definitely
>that =). You mention the Nostrolo Tambourine. I did some web searching and
>could not actually find the quest. Unfortunately, Allakhazam's is blocked
>here. Can you fill me in on the whole quest? You need to get a gem in
>Erudin, turn it in to one of the bankers in FV, get the coins from various
>Kunark zones(I have two - Dalnirs and I think Kaesora - guildmate actually
>has it), put them in the container, then... I thank you in advance.
>
>Piemur
>
>Original Message:
>
>I know you addressed this to Centiera, but I feel comfortable throwing in
>my 2 cents since I've been doing the same things. Also, I cut off Cent's
>message as it was easier for me to answer your paragraph with one of my own.
>
>In Rathe Mtns if you get too many people, you can't charm kite. You require
>at least 2 hill giants to charm kite efficiently. If the whole zone is full
>of hill giants, a bard can spend all day with no downtime. The surviving
>hill giant of each fight is killed by a new healthy hill giant that you
>charm, you keep doing that and make lots of money and exp. But even on
>Bertox, where there might only be 20 people in the zone, they're all doing
>hill giants. There's also high level solo druids, necros and wizzies just
>working for money.
>
>When I do hunt in Rathe Mtns, I will have my pet hill giant kill lizards,
>cyclopses, giant skeletons, and even basilisks who are sitting on top of a
>hill giant spawn point so that I will have plenty of hill giants spawn. I'm
>not exactly sure which mobs are the PH's for the giants, so I do them all.
>
>The only time I ever chant a hill giant (or spectre for that matter) is if
>there are no other hill giants to charm. I just run big circles weaving my
>2 chants and accelerando. Of course, the Nostrolo Tambourine is a huge help
>if you are kiting with the chants and can be gotten with a little bit of
>work for any level 35 bard, depending on the server you're on. For me, the
>Kaesora coin was the hardest to get, but I just poked my head in there
>every now and then and finally found someone to give me a coin. If I'm
>doing this type of "begging", I make sure I'm always extremely polite, only
>send one zone wide request, and always apologize for bothering anyone who's
>playing, 'cuz I know I refuse to help anyone who spams the zone repeatedly.
>
>BTW, at level 39 I found that I can effectively kite in the Dreadlands,
>even though I've been told by a couple of bards (level 45 and level 60)
>that it's probably too hard for me. Just had to try it. I was just going to
>kite a Mtn Giant Craig near the Burning Woods zone with the chants, but I
>aggro'd a spider, running him over accidentally. Even though the Craig was
>at half life, I charmed him and he dispatched the spider for me. Finished
>my faithful pet off with chants. I didn't do anymore since I needed to camp
>for the night, but I'll give it a go again soon.
>
>Also, in case you try, the giants in Frontier Mtns do not seem to remember
>the last command you sent to them if you are having them kill each other.
>You have to give your pet the command to attack again. Very annoying. Same
>goes if you charm a giant skel in Rathe Mtns to kill another giant skel.
>
>Windleaf Mistsong
>
>
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