The Piper's Price  

Submitted by:Harold, The Ancients, Gaheris
Realm:Hibernia
Start Zone: Lough Gur
Start Location:Innis Carthaig
Start NPC:Amynda
Class:All
Type:Regular
Related Zones:
  Shannon Estuary
Min Level:25
Max Level:50
Grants XP:Yes
Grants Coin:Yes
Rating:
*****
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Related NPCs:
  Chieftess Niamh
  Giant Ant (Hib)
  Glennard
  Irewood Sapling
  Luch
  Rat-catcher
Related Items:
  Glennard's Crafted Staff
  Green Irewood
  Giant Ant Mandible
  Bag of Money
Last Updated:Tue Mar 8 16:58:00 2011
DISCLAIMER: Your Steps and Tasks may be different

Visit Amynda in Innis Carthaig , she will ask you to make some rat traps. You will need to get the wood of
an Irewood Sapling and the Mandibles from a Giant Ant. Return to Amynda with the parts you have collected. Received 2.6m experience and an Embellished Rat-Tooth Belt (Level 27 belt with +5% to each of Crush, Slash and Thrust as well as +4 Con). She will ask you to visit Glennard while she builds the traps.

Glennard wants you to find a staff he made for the chieftess but the rats stole. Look in their den to find it. The den in on the side of a hill. Leave town to the southwest and follow the path around the lake. Follow the path until it enters the woods, as opposed to getting really close to the woods, then turn west. Find the den around 16.4k, 24.7k. You will be attacked by several luches. Once you have defeated them, take the staff back to Glennard.

Once back at Glennard, he will reward you with your choice of several weapons. A staff, or something from your specialty: blades, large weapons, crushing, celtic spear, recurve or scythe (Glennards Short Sword: Blades weapon DPS: 9.3, SPD: 2.5 100% Quality. +3 to Blades, +3% Body, +3%spirit, +28 Hits). He will then ask you to take the staff to the chieftess.

Chieftess Naimh talks about how she hired a rat-catcher to help with the problem the town is having. She asks you to stick around and verify that he does the job he's been hired to do. He will appear around dusk, or 6pm. He will arrive slightly after 6pm with a trail of rats following him and gather more from the houses as he walks. He eventually walks into the lake drowning the rats. Return to the Chieftess to report the results.

The Chieftess gives you some bad news and asks you to go pay the Rat-catcher. Take the bag of money and take it to him. He can be found at 18k, 21.2k, near the rat lair you went to previously. The Rat-catcher responds to the bad news in a very negative fashion and you must return to the chieftess to get more money.

The chieftess asks you to visit the vaultkeeper near Connla, who can be found at the tower next to the portal to Hy Brasil. The vaultkeeper states that he can't help and you must return to the Chieftess.

You return to find that the Rat-catcher has taken the children from Innis and brought them to a cottage on a farm with a barn in the back and lots of black horses. You can find the place in question at 57.6k, 26.1k. You must rescue the children any way you can!

Once you return to the Chieftess, you are given a choice of chest armor Rescuer's Scale Hauberk: Scale AF54 100% Quality. +9 DEX, +9 STR, +5% Spirit, +24 Hits).

Rewards:
  Embellished Rat-Tooth Belt
  Rescuer's Scale Hauberk
  Glennard's Short Sword
  Glennard's Club
  Glennard's Stiletto
  Rescuer's Reinforced Vest
  Glennard's Scythe
  Glennard's Staff of Mana
  Rescuer's Silk Robe
  Glennard's Carved Bow
  Glennard's Light Crafted Staff
  Glennard's Crafted Shillelagh
  Rescuer's Leather Jerkin
  Glennard's Arboreal Crafted Staff
  Glennard's Barbed Spear
  Glennard's Verdant Staff

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Irewoods and ants
# Oct 03 2005 at 7:21 AM Rating: Decent
Yellow ants and irewoods at 25 are now north and south of Innis Carthaig too :)
Ant and irewood
# Oct 03 2005 at 5:02 AM Rating: Decent
Actually there are irewood saplings blue/yellow con in Connacht near the parthanon farm there.A bunch of giant ants orange/red con at 25 can be found in Shannon Estuary east side of the little river leading to Connla's well; attention east side not west, the ones on west side of the little river are all scouts calling help.
high red con
# May 29 2005 at 6:26 PM Rating: Decent
Did this quest today with my 27 Vamp. Only problem I ran into was the Irewoods and Ants you have to kill at the beginning. They conned a high red at 27, some even purp. You may want to bring someone to help with this step.
a hoot!!!
# Feb 26 2005 at 11:49 PM Rating: Decent
Did this one today on 25 druid, 25 vampiir duo.

this was supposed to be a cooldown quest from doing cad goddaeu... turned out to be long and involved, but OMG fun!!!

3 rewards, all nice, and the story is a hoot!

since we are new to daoc (refugees from neverquest/evermess) the gear was mostly upgrades. the tunic...well, we have almost the same from guild master, but it was worth it, anyway. the weapons were a definite upgrade for both of us.
Nightshade
# Nov 13 2004 at 11:18 AM Rating: Decent
Did this quest as a 26 NS, recieved a Rescuer's Leather Jerkin, Dex 9 Str 9 Body 5% and Hits 24.
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# Feb 26 2004 at 5:05 AM Rating: Decent
29 posts
The LW is called Glannard's Crafted Shillelagh:

DPS 9.3
Speed 4.7
Body 3%
Heat 3%
Hits 28

The rats that spawn near the den are relentless. At 28, 5 or 6 of them were surely capable of killing me and they do like to come in large numbers. If they pose any threat to you at all, the suggestion to pull to the entrance of Treibh Caillte works well. Grab a bunch, run to Treibh, kill as many as you can then zone in to heal up. When you exit Treibh, the rest of your rat friends will be waiting right there for you. After killing about 8 of them, I stepped on over to the loc given above. The remaining rats disappeared and the staff appeared in my inventory.

Edited, Tue Mar 2 00:47:33 2004
fun fun
# Nov 28 2003 at 4:30 AM Rating: Decent
23 posts
I absolutely loved this quest. Great storyline and very fun to do!

Totally agree with the horse tip tho, especially at night.

Since everything is in or near innis, great quest to do pieces of while waiting for people to gather for dragon/ez/siabra city raids.
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# Oct 21 2003 at 3:40 AM Rating: Good
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This is a great quest for new players on a /level 30 hib server. I recommend aquiring your free gear then heading directly to Innis to get this quest. You will get your choice of body armor type, your choice of a staff or weapon, and a decent belt.
Unless you are very familiar with Lough Gur, I advise taking a horse from Innis to Culraid to reach the rat den. Its faster, and circling that lake is very risky due to the large population of high-level aggressive mobs in the area. The "den" is on the side of the hill that leads to Treibh Callte, just NE of the dungeon, as you approach the hillside the rats will charge you. They con grey to a 30, but come in numbers and continuously instant cast disease on you. I recommend pulling them to the TC entrance so you can escape if need be.
If you are a warden or druid take a look in the area for the named Greater Luch, Luchtigern for his one time necklace drop also. But dont make the mistake I did and try him first, I engaged Luch only to find myself not only facing him but the swarm of grey quest rats also - well after returning to pray at my grave i decided to finish the quest rats off first, heal up then take on Luchtigern.
Upon returning from the rat den and handing over the staff, you get your choice of a focus staff (light, mana, void, enchantment, mentalism, arboreal, creeping, or verdant) or weapon (piercing, blades, blunt, large weapon, spear, bow, or scythe):
Glennard's Club: 9.2 dps, 100% qual, +3 blunt, 3% energy and body resist, +28 hits (left hand usable).
Glennard's Stiletto: 9.3 dps, 100% qual, +3 piercing, 3% matter and spirit resists, +28 hits (left hand usable).
Glennard's Scythe: 9.2 dps, 100% qual, +3 scythe, 3% energy and body resist, +28 hits.
Glennard's Staff of Mana: 9.3 dps, +3 mana magic, 6% spirit resist, +7 int, 27 lvls mana focus.
The farm in step 15 is NE of Innis in the above location, the Rat-catcher awaits you inside the barn. Upon return you get your choice of body armor:
Rescuer's Reinforced Vest: af 54, 100% qual, +9 str, +9 dex, 5% spirit resist, 24 hits.
Rescuer's Silk Robe: 27 af, 100% qual, +7 dex, +7 int, 5% cold resist, +5 power.

Edited, Wed Oct 22 06:01:41 2003
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