User:Artheau

Maxed Factions

Erudin

Peacekeepers

Temple of Prexus

Put six bone chips in a box

Get carpal tunnel

Craftkeepers

Over in Freeport

The battle cry of Kynarn:

Must drown in sorrow

Gatecallers

Tirelessly collect

The bones of Elial Brook

A macabre gift

Merchants of Erudin (no longer ally due to Kerra faction work)

Give Jyle lanterns

Run halfway across the world

Give Emil wood chips

High Council of Erudin (no longer ally due to Kerra faction work)

Performing various tasks

In and around the city

Friends by accident

High Guard of Erudin (no longer ally due to Kerra faction work)

If ever one should need

To make friends with bucketheads

Just kill the kobolds

Heretics

I almost forgot

You also befriend cultists

By killing kobolds

Kerra Isle

Hello cat people

I have brought a gift of heads

And a few rat teeth

Kerra

Time for a rampage

Through the Erudin Palace

Sentinels must die

Halas

Rogues of the White Rose

Killed many sled dogs

Should have done mammoths instead

Do not recommend

Merchants of Halas/Shamen of Justice/Wolves of the North

Tired of Cindl

Started giving out tonics

To two warriors

Qeynos

Order of Three

All right, check this out

Maybe one day Unsar will stop being

such a smug bastard

Rivervale

Mayor Gubbin/DeepPockets/Merchants of Rivervale/Guardians of the Vale

Joogl Honeybugger

Now has enough bandages

To be a mummy

High Keep

Highpass Guards/Highpass Merchants/Carson McCabe

Handed playing cards

To a dark elf who wanders

Only at nighttime

Neriak

Priests of Innoruuk

A willing convert

Devoted to Innoruuk

Please recommend me

Dark Bargainers/Dread Guard Inner/Dread Guard Outer

Slowly but surely

Give red wine to a blue man

Got to be patient

Freeport

Priests of Marr

Poor Mojax Hixspin

Will now revisit his lunch

Milk challenge extreme

Coalition of Tradefolk/Coalition of Tradefolk Underground

I'm the real Slansin

Won't the real one please stand up

I have your potion

Arcane Scientists

It's an acquired taste

You don't want my grilled rat ears?

Oh well, it's your loss

Ashen Order/Commons Residents

While you're in Freeport

Take time to casually

Snipe the deathfist pawns

Kaladim

Clerics of Underfoot/Miner's Guild 249

Bones bones everywhere

Today we give bones to dwarves

In North Kaladim

Kelethin

Faydark's Champions/Soldiers of Tunare

Praise be to Pandos

For the size of his stomach

Muffins om nom nom

Felwithe

Clerics of Tunare/King Tearis Thex

When you are in doubt

About how to raise faction

Muffins for Pandos

Keepers of the Art

Behind the portal

In the magician's guild house

She wants wing of bat

Ak`Anon

Merchants of Ak'Anon/Gem Choppers/King Ak'Anon

In Erudin's basement

An alcoholic gnome lays

Now drowned in green ale

Grobb

Grobb Merchants

Strange troll in a bar

Wants wolf meat two at a time

Gives me lots of bags

Cabilis

Legion of Cabilis

All over Kunark

Strange beings of all types roamed

Sadly they are dead

Cabilis Residents/Crusaders of Greenmist/Swift Tails

Thanks to the players

Who sold me countless bone chips

Over many months

Scaled Mystics

When chips are wanting

And all other allies made

Brittle skulls suffice

Velious

Coldain

Giants in the snow

Knocked over one at a time

So many hitpoints

Misc

True Spirit

Citizens of mist

Announce when pages appear

Surprise, I'm a bard

About

One of my favorite things about the classic Everquest experience was the faction system. In my early days of playing, I saw a human monk sitting in the Neriak bank and immediately thought, "I want to be THAT guy." I rolled myself up a human cultist and went straight to Neriak, but soon learned that life would be difficult if I did not invest time in faction. Frequent were the times when random citizens would jump through walls and ceilings to punch me to death. I eventually settled upon playing a half-elven bard and did a great many quests to gain faction in unusual areas, up to the point where it was possible (as Everquest was a very buggy game back in those days).

On p99 I relive those days. Many of the bugs have been fixed, and a few of the faction numbers are not the same as they once were, but there is enough nostalgia that I find great satisfaction in factionquesting.

A question I receive often is how I managed to increase my faction in different cities (and for some reason I am asked about this more often in Cabilis than in Neriak or Oggok). The short answer is that I prefer to do this through quests. It is much more satisfying to quest for faction than to kill innocents for faction, and gathering items for quests is more consistent with the rich Everquest theme than is...say, killing the exact same thing every six minutes.