While using DMPQUEST to study those
"CompUSA Special Edition" quests I noticed something very odd. Quest file B0B81Y02.QRC contains quest info which sounds familiar... It starts with:
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I am _qgiver_ of this<253>
knightly order. I have a most<253>
dangerous quest %pcf. You<253>
are one of the few that could<253>
possibly take it on. A lich is<253>
raising an army of undead. We<253>
need someone to go in and put<253>
a stop to it.<253>
A note to be found by the adventurer states:
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...have found a clue at last!<252>
I dare not even name the lost<252>
artifact of ancient power that<252>
it points toward. It is too<252>
late for me. I will die down<252>
here in ___dungeon2_,<252>
lost among it's dark passageways.<252>
First, I will hide my clue.<252>
If I cannot...<252>
A message from the monster:
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A pox upon you for disturbing<253>
me %pcn. %oth, of course<253>
I know your name, and no I'm not going<253>
to tell you mine. What's the use<253>
in bein' a wizard if you can't<253>
know things normal folks don't.<253>
I also know why your here. You<253>
want Chrysamere, except you<253>
didn't know it by name, did you?<253>
The only way you're gonna get<253>
it is if you do me a favor first.<253>
Following this is several alternative messages. Each is identical except that the
"Chrysamere" reference is replaced with
"The Necromancer's Amulet", the
"Staff of Magnus", and the
"Warlock's Ring." I find this very strange since all of these artifacts are standard and should be available in the official version of Daggerfall. And looking into guides and hintbooks, I see that all four of these are supposed to be gained via a Knightly quest. So, why would this be in the
"CompUSA Special Edition" package as if was something exclusively available to CompUSA customers? (An
alternative quest to get these artifacts?)
Has anyone reading this successfully completed the knight's guild quest to find one of the above artifacts? If so, does the above dialog sound familiar?
And I could not find the B0B81Y02.QRC/QBN files in the original (patched) version of Daggerfall. At first, I assumed these artifacts are made available through other (Knightly) quests that come standard. However, doing a text search of ALL the quests that come standard, I could not find any mention of "Chrysamere" or the other artifacts. Nor could I find a quest that started with a similar "A lich is raising an army of undead. We need someone to go in and put a stop to it..." message. I thought that very strange.
I guess that the official version of Daggerfall uses different quest(s) to provide the player with a chance to obtain these artifacts. Perhaps these are quest(s) which don't even mention the artifacts by name? However, there does not seem to be enough QRC/QBN files to define all the quests in the game. All the main story plot quests seem there, as are numerous quests for the Dark Brotherhood, Theives Guild, Fighter's Guild and others. But there seem sparsely few QRC/QBN quest files for the Mages Guild and others.
There are 48 QBN files and 46 QRC files, for a total of 94 files. Which means that 2 of the QBN files do not have a QRC equivalent. (Ordinarily, a quest needs to be defined by both a QRC, which is the dialog, and a QBN file.) That makes for about 46 quests or 48 at the most. (Assuming all the files are used. There are many files in Daggerfall that are not used.) So that makes me want to assume that these quests are built into the code in other files.
Of course, I'm making a lot of assumptions and guesses here. I don't know the game files like some people.