The New Worker

Kunark Era (added 2000)

Undead Foreman

Start Zone:	The Overthere
Quest Giver:	an undead foreman
Minimum Level:	1?
Classes:	All
Related Zones:	None
Related NPCs:	None

Reward

• Worker Sledgemallet

  Worker Sledgemallet

  

  MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM NO DROP
  Slot: PRIMARY
  Skill: 2H Blunt Atk Delay: 50
  DMG: 6
  Effect: Overthere (Combat, Casting Time: Instant) at Level 50
  WT: 3.2 Size: GIANT
  Class: ALL
  Race: ALL
  

Walkthrough

An undead foreman may be found at +2385, +3305 .

You say, 'Hail, an undead foreman'

an undead foreman turns to face you. You can see a faint green glow emanating from his vacant eye sockets. 'Are you a [new worker]? Huh? Speak or go!!'

You say, 'I am a new worker.'

an undead foreman says 'Hmmph!! Too much flesh!! If you want to work, you must first fill my eye sockets with my favorite gem. This shall be your payment for your Sledgehammer.'

His favorite gem is jade. Give him a Jade.

an undead foreman places the gem deep into his hollow eye socket. He pulls a giant sledgehammer from thin air and hands it to you. 'Here!! You shall be assigned to the lower decks of the Scaled Trident.'

You receive Worker Sledgemallet and no experience, faction hits, or coin.

(If your doing this as a bard/enchanter just use the dark elf form and a faction spell/song to get Amiable no need for charming then)

Please note that if using a charm technique to obtain the mallet, the undead foremen has very high resist rates. (Four of Five Kintaz resisted and 2 of three Boltrans on 255 cha enchanter at level 55)

Raising Venril Sathir Faction

The turn-in requires amiable or higher faction standing with Venril Sathir. The quickest way to raise faction is to kill dragons in Veeshan's Peak. Alternatively, charm gives the charmer amiable faction, so Enchanters, Necromancers (undead charm spell), Bards, or anyone with Puppet Strings can perform the quest turn-in while charming the undead foreman. Enchanters/Bards can also use Dark Elf illusion and Benevolence/Cinda's Charismatic Carillon to raise their faction to amiable if you haven't reduced faction while leveling.

To raise faction the old-fashion way, complete the Protect the Shipyard quest.

• Turning in four sarnak war braids appears to give you +5 to Venril Sathir.
  • Requires dubious or better faction for turn in of braids.
    • Can ask another to cast Invisibility Versus Undead on you when your trade window is open to get indifferent.
  • Evil and Neutral races have better starting faction.
• Faction amounts per consider level, from this table.
  • Amiable: 51 to 450
  • Indifferent: -49 to 50
  • Apprehensive: -449 to -50
  • Dubious: -699 to -450
  • Threatening: -1049 to -700
  • Scowls: -2000 to -1050

If kill-on-sight (KOS) and able to Sneak, then a cast of Harmony on the marines will allow sneaking up behind Captain Rottgrime to complete the Protect the Shipyard quest. I'm told that this is possible without Harmony, but that is extremely delicate and risky. To do this, sneak in from the side of Rottgrime and the marines, conning to make sure they are still indifferent and just get close enough to trade. Turn ins can be Multi-Quested by having someone turn in 3 and allowing you to turn in 1 and gain the faction and experience.

The New Worker quest turn-in table is below. List each 4 Braid turn-in as one turn-in. Only list a number if its the complete range. e.g. You just turned in braids and moved from threatening to dubious then you keep track of how many it takes to go from dubious to apprehensive.

Race	Class	Worships	Max Scowls to >	Threatening to >	Dubious to >	Apprehensive to >	Indifferent to Amiable	Average + Per Turn in
Race Modifier	Class Modifier	Deity Modifier	Variable	70	50	80	20	5

• am doubtful about the table below. Faction is a fixed modifier not a percentage modifier. Different races, classes, and religions will have a different starting point, but once you determine distance to the next consider, growth from that point should be common from that point forward.

Turn-ins per Faction Level (NO PARTIAL faction level turn-in numbers)

Race	Class	Worships	Max Scowls to >	Threatening to >	Dubious to >	Apprehensive to >	Indifferent to Amiable	Average + Per Turn in
Ogre	Shadow Knight	Cazic-Thule	-	-	-	88	20	4.5
Ogre	Shadow Knight	Rallos Zek	-	-	-	11	20	4.5
Dark Elf	Wizard	Agnostic	-	-	-	11³	20	4.5
Iksar	Monk	Cazic-Thule	75	75	37	88	20	4.5
Iksar	Monk	Cazic-Thule	-	59-72¹	111 total	201 total	221 total	4.5
Human	Shadow Knight	Bertoxxulous	-	-	-	-	20	-
Troll	Shaman	Innoruuk	-	-	-	11³	20	-
Wood Elf	Ranger	Tunare	191	70	42	88	20 (411²)	-
Half Elf	Ranger	Tunare	191	70	50	92	20 (423 total)	-
Human	Ranger	Tunare	2	70	41	-	-	-
Dark Elf	Cleric	Innoruuk	-	-	-	11³	20	-

¹ December 2018: Had 58 prior turn-ins (scowling), did 14 in rapid succession, was now dubious with total of 72 turn-ins. Became apprehensive after total of 111, and indifferent after total of 201, and amiable after 221 turn-ins. Jul 2019: Another examination of the logs shows that I had killed 2 A scorpikis at some point, which would skew the faction, so final total for Iksar monk might actually be closer to 198 rather than 211.

² Logging failed multiple times (due to character surfing and repeated logins and logouts) so can not be sure of exact numbers.

³ It took 11 turn-ins (44 braids) to reach Indifferent (not a "complete range report", but a report nonetheless)

Starting Faction to next Faction Level Table

Race	Class	Worships	Starting Faction	Turn-ins til next Faction Level
Ogre	Shaman	Rallos Zek	Apprehensive	11
Ogre	Shadowknight	Rallos Zek	Apprehensive	11
Dark Elf	Wizard	Solusek Ro	Apprehensive	11
Gnome	Wizard	Solusek Ro	Apprehensive	11 (confirmed 4/3/22)
Gnome	Wizard	Agnostic	Apprehensive	11
Human	Shadowknight	Bertoxxulous	Apprehensive	11
Troll	Shaman	Innoruuk	Apprehensive	11
Troll	Shadowknight	Cazic Thule	Apprehensive	11
Troll	Shadowknight	Innoruuk	Apprehensive	11
Iksar	Monk	Cazic Thule	Threateningly	15
Wood Elf	Ranger	Tunare	Scowling	191
Half Elf	Ranger	Tunare	Scowling	191
Human	Ranger	Tunare	Scowling	2
Human	Monk	Agnostic	Apprehensive	11