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Tour of Kefka's Castle Dragnok - Jan 15, 2013

This area tour was run by Dentin. A rough, edited transcript of the text, with notes and additions, is provided below.

Castle Dragnok was built by the builder Kefka in the early days of the game. It is a three rack zone, with many hidden pieces and sub-areas to explore. This tour starts from the drawbridge of the castle.


Dentin: I know a little bit about this zone, but not a tremendous amount. I know little of its history, other than I've seen some serious dumb shit go down in here

Dentin: I'm pretty sure I know all of the major places in it, though we'll probably end up missing a few because the zone is so complicated

Dentin: we obviously can't get to the teleport rooms, but if it makes you feel any better, those teleport rooms appear to only be mobload rooms and don't actually have anything interesting in them

Shadowweaver: so who's kefka? it says there is no player named kefka when I try and finger them.

Note - Kefka was automatically deleted due to inactivity many years ago, and while his name is reserved, he doesn't show up in the playerbase. He does show up on the builders list.


Dentin: first thing we're going to do is go into the moat

Note - off to the side of the drawbridge is a slide down into the moat.

Dentin: normally, if you didn't have fly, you'd fall from here down into the moat. Or rather the dried out moat

Dentin: this dwarf talks about a giant stinky wyrm as part of a quest

Note - tour guide rips out unopenable iron grate and brings group into a special part of the castle.

Dentin: keep in mind that we're in the lower bowels of the castle

Dentin: basically, this is the cesspool

Dentin: if you go into the lavatory above, you can go down into here

Dentin: there's a mob here, we're going to go kill it

Dentin: there's a quest assocaiated with these leggings, I encourage you all to figure it out some time :)


Dentin: there's some leeches down in that pit, but I'm pretty sure we can't easily get down there without noleave

Dentin: that pit with leeches is underwater. You guys don't all have waterbreathing


Dentin: you'd like to think you can get out of the moat via this drawbridge, but yeah, you can't

Dentin: the only way out is through the maintenance tunnels on the west side

Dentin: we're now officially back in the castle

Dentin: and guess where the maintenance tunnel for the moat ends? the pantry, of all places

Dentin: why, I have no idea

Felonia: quickest way to rid the kitchen of garbage

Camlorn: actually, that makes a lot of sense.

Camlorn: if we're in a medieval castle, we don't know about, for example, germs, so.

Camlorn: the tunnel is the quickest way to the moat, without offending the guests


Note - the group encountered a mercenary guard on its way through the buttery, near the pantry.

Dentin: there's mercenaries all over the place, though it doesn't seem like anyone is really in charge here

Dentin: ok, we're basically just outside the flaming pit furnace area for the whole place right now

Dentin: we're going to go in there and hopefully nobody will die

Note - the group is now in the center of the firepit.

Dentin: you'll notice a maiden here, or rather the remains of one. The jerks in the room above lowered her down as a sacrifice

Dentin: religious nutjobs, heh

Dentin: the only way out of the fiery pit is back through the buttery

Dentin: wine cellar/buttery

Dentin: ok, so story time

Dentin: that fire pit has killed countless people

Dentin: usually, they fall into it on accident from up above

Dentin: in the olden days, I had to do god level CRs to get back equipment because there often wouldn't be enough people on to make it possible

Westie: [the guy above the fire pit] dispels

Roan: in the old days you lose your corpse, you lose your eq


Dentin: keep in mind, this area is nearly 300 rooms, and there's a lot of hidden sections

Dentin: the upper levels of the castle contain nearly all the interesting stuff

Dentin: we're going to avoid that for now and make sure the lower layers are explored

Dentin: there are two ways to go up, one of them is west of here, the other is on the other side of the keep

Athlon: wait, there's the staircases on the northwest side and what other way?

Dentin: we'll go up the other side and show you athlon


Dentin: the stables here aren't real interesting, near as I can tell. If anyone knows better, let me know

Eathmon: is there a waypoint?

Dentin: no, there's no waypoint

Dentin: whatever happened to this place, it basically destroyed a big chunk of the keep

Dentin: religious jerks rule half of it, mercenaries the rest

Westie: think the guards are employed by the religious nuts


Dentin: we have maidens to rescue

Phalange: apparently not

Athlon: bye bye girls

Shadowweaver: woops?

Dentin: well, I suppose that killing the maidens is sorta rescuing them

Athlon: death is the ultimate freedom


Xorg: this is off candlewood right?

Shadowweaver: dark forest

Dentin: this area is located west of candlewoods, not far


Dentin: this is a big reading, study room

Dentin: no idea what this sage is for

Dentin: basically this part is empty except for him


Dentin: this is the place that takes you down to the worm and stench below the moat

Dentin: dont go down

Dentin: it's the cesspool, heh


Dentin: roast piglet in the refectory

Dentin: destroyed kitchen nearby

Dentin: that albino mage is important in some way, I'm not sure why


Dentin: ok, we're going to hit up the dispelling guy

Dentin: if you fall, I may have to summon you back

Note - we all fell in.

Dentin: we'll just have to climb back out, heh


Dentin: last place on this level is the courtyard

Dentin: the courtyard is in the center, but it's kinda a maze and it's bigger than the space it fits in

Dentin: pain in the ass to navigate

Dentin: a few months ago, it was brought to my attention that there was actually something in this courtyard

Dentin: morph and I reworked the rooms to make it so you could actually get in there

Dentin: I'm not going to brute force these doors to show you all whats inside

Dentin: you'll want to explore the area and figure out how to actually get in


Note - the group prepares to ascend the southeastern staircase.

Dentin: ok, we're going up now

Dentin: to answer athlons earlier question, this is the other way up

Dentin: lots of decoration mobs in here

Dentin: if you go west, you'll end up falling behing the back of the castle near the destroyed kitchen

Note - the group went down through the trapdoor in the northeast watch tower to the dungeon.

Dentin: this is the dungeons. Normally you'd need a special key to get down here

Dentin: but there's something funny I wanted to show you

Dentin: this is where the paladins are

Dentin: there's a number of other cells down here, but I'm going to have to go soon, so we'll skip it


Dentin: this is the demonlords chamber

Dentin: there's two ways to get at the demonlord

Dentin: you can either kill the mages guarding him and let him out, or you can go to camilles chamber and drop down inside the wards from above

Dentin: we're just going to nuke him

Note - the group handily kills the demon lord.

Dentin: I remember when this guy was a ridiculous badass that simply destroyed people

Dentin: not so much anymore


Dentin: this is the place I was talking about with camille

Dentin: if you go down from here, you fall into the demon lords chamber


Dentin: ok, next part

Dentin: there's a spider and some cobwebs here

Dentin: the spider is a pain in the ass, it comes and goes at random

Dentin: I took down the web wards this afternoon so the two sides are now linked better

Dentin: not sure where the spider is

Dentin: come out of the lair

Dentin: everyone come back out of the lair or I'm leaving you

Dentin: and here's ye olde spider, heh


Dentin: I have no idea about the queen of dragnok, but this room is described up the ass with extras

Dentin: spend some time in here and see if you can read them all


Dentin: this is glass golems

Dentin: you won't be able to see a lot of the glass mobs in here without detect invis

Dentin: this is a pretty messy chunk of rooms, it doesn't map because the mirrors make it confusing

Dentin: and that's the master enchanter

Dentin: and here's the diamond golem


Dentin: this is the last section

Dentin: which is good, because I've got to bail

Dentin: mercenaries, tons of them

Dentin: this is their barracks

Dentin: and just like that, we're back on the bottom floor

Dentin: and now we're back where we started

Owyn: cool, thanks for the tour Dentin



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