This area tour was run by Dentin. A rough, edited transcript of the text, with notes and
additions, is provided below.
The haunted mansion resides in Jo'Kerin, the city of the undead, near the northeastern
edge. It was built by the god Kefka prior to the year 2000. This tour started from
the front porch on the southern side of the area.
Dentin: this is going to be mostly an exploration party. I dont actually know much
of the history of this area, and I'm going to be powering through all the doors so we can see everything
Dentin: if you go through it for real, you'll have to figure out the keys and so forth to actually get into places
Jakalas: who created the area then, if you don't know it, sir creator?
Dentin: that's an excellent question
Dentin: this area was originally built by the god Kefka, back before the turn of the century
Dentin: my guess would be that it was constructed around the 1997 timeframe
Dentin: I honestly don't know if it came before castle dragnok or after. I think it came after
Dentin: kefka only built those two areas, but both of them have a lot more neat stuff in them than appears
Jakalas: is this area on the old alter server then?
Note - Jakalas is referring to the 1995 server used for anniversary events.
Dentin: and no, the old alter server was wayyyy before this area was created
Samon: what was kefka like as a person?
Dentin: kefka as a person was just a guy, I dont really remember much about him because he didn't interact with me
Roan: I dont remember him
Dentin: note that there are backstabbing mobs in here which might very well one shot kill you
Dentin: there will probably be a couple of random deaths due to that
Dentin: welcome to the house
Dentin: my initial exploration of this zone had me a bit paniced because the map
was all stupid, but it turns out that once you split out the staircases, it maps pretty well
Dentin: about the only real nonlinearity is with this porch, which isn't
quite wide enough for all the windows and doors, but it's close enough
Dentin: heh, a lot of the desciptions are funny
Dentin: like the male ghost here
Dentin: feel free to attack things
Dentin: when you come here yourself, there's some neat stuff in that safe
Note - the safe is in the western front room.
Dentin: this is one of two staircases going up
Dentin: we're going to ignore it for now
Dentin: this is the poker room
Note - from a quest standpoint, the poker room has all the good stuff.
Dentin: looks like most of the stuff here isn't actually aggro
Phalange: no, not really
Uicli: Just the dolls and zombies methinks
Phalange: and the walls
Dentin: no kefka area would be complete without toilets
Sea: heh true
Dentin: much like dragnok, this area has a lot of decoration stuff in it
Dentin: funny thing about kefka, he never scrimped on domestic services
Uicli: What of that exit to the north?
Note - Uicli is referring to the boarded up exits out of the kitchen and laundry room.
Dentin: the two exits are nailed/boarded shut
Dentin: they dont go anywhere
Kerrigor: How big is this area? Seems like a pretty big space.
Dentin: it's pretty big, yeah
Lizz: he .. powder room
Dentin: that's this layer. We basically went in a circle around the west side,
to the north, across through the hallway and back to the middle
Dentin: we're going to go up now
Dentin: and there's the first of the nasty mobs, heh
Uicli: That's the backstabbing mob obviously
Dentin: back in the olden days, that mob could backstab you to death through all protective spells
Dentin: that's harder now because of limitations in how backstab works on players
Alicinia: those days weren't that long ago lol
Dentin: heh, I know
Dentin: chucky is popular
Dentin: interestingly enough, you can look down into the lower rooms from here
Lizz: oh wow you can
Dentin: like I said, lots of goofy stuff in here
Dentin: no haunted house would be complete without rotting dog carcasses in childrens rooms
Dentin: and monsters in the closet
Phalange: or dolls that say they're chucky and wanna play.
Kerrigor: There really are some great descriptions in here.
Gordan: wow. bondage zombie
Dentin: heh wow
Note - there really is a bondage zombie in there. Go find it.
Dentin: no wonder all the ghosts here are pissed
Dentin: the bathroom door is locked
Dentin: eww
Note - the 'eww' above is because the bathtub is full of body parts and blood.
Samon: lots of yous in these longs
Dentin: yeah, it's a very old area
Dentin: keep in mind that this area is older than danielmaster
Note - Danielmaster is a problematic teenage player who often claims to be more than he is.
Dentin: this is the front of the house
Dentin: theoretically, the porch is below us somewhere
Dentin: eww
Note - this other bathroom is gross too.
Dentin: man, what is with all the bathrooms in this place
Kerrigor: In fairness it is a big mansion. If I had a huge mansion, they'd all have en suites.
Dentin: heh yeah, but you'd think plumbing costs alone would have sunk the place
Dentin: ok, that does it for the top floor
Cheetah: theres an up at one end of the hall
Dentin: there is?
Dentin: just a minute, let me check
Dentin: I'll be darned
Dentin: lets go check it out
Dentin: yay runic trapdoors
Dentin: we had cockroaches like that in my last x2 apartment
Uicli: Chaos Soul eh
Dentin: I dont think we can go in there and actually get back
Dentin: one way exit
Uicli: well, we can't, you can
Dentin: I think all those vortexes go to the same place
Dentin: this is a pretty boring attic
Dentin: the basement is the bottom floor, it's the last part of the place
Dentin: this floor is creeepy
Note - group starts attacking a wall with grasping arms coming out of it.
Uicli: annoying wall is annoying
Dentin: unload spells on it or it won't die
Dentin: on those walls, probably the best bet is nonorm weapons, rot, and sickening touch
Dentin: they're way over mob resist composite
Note - it was pretty much all the group could do to kill the walls. Single players
and small groups would probably either sneak through or just flee repeatedly to get to the other end
of the corridor.
Note - the group stumbles upon a room containing a demon chopping up body parts.
Dentin: I wonder if that demon was responsible for most of this
Dentin: the house I mean
Dentin: last place
Dentin: the boiler
Dentin: negative regen in there, so if you have to bail out, go ahead
Dentin: and that's it. We did the whole thing, except for one room with more wailing arm walls in it
Blood: I seem to remember something being in the clock
Dentin: is there stuff in the clocks?
Dentin: what the hell, where are the clocks
Eldrin: they move around and time out dentin. I had to find them by c locating
Dentin: that makes sense
We find a clock, pry it open with building commands, and enter it.
Dentin: dont go wandering off
Dentin: heh, the witch
Dentin: and that's truly it
Dentin: there's no way out of this section, so we have to bail
Dentin: thanks a lot guys, hope you got to see some stuff you havent seen before
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