Quest: And Monkeys Might Fly

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Dalayan Beginner
This is a newbie quest, given in Sadri Malath by "A Cranky Gnome" who can be found standing around the campfire pit in the bank area. Talk to him, he sends you to a frog outside the bar near the paladin guild who, in exchange for 2 Xaeden's Foot Stampers, puchased in the bar, will tell you that flying monkeys are real and can be found in Sundered Mountains, mentioning that by feeding one a couple bags of pretzels(also available in the bar) she got it to follow her. I found the flying monkey, straight out from the tunnel to Sadri Malath in Sundered Mountains and gave him 2 bags of pretzels and he followed me, even after zoning back into Sadri Malath. Here is where the quest has me stumped, my next thought(no journal update) was to return to the gnome. He did in fact react when i walked up to him with flying monkey in tow, but he would not respond to hails and doesn't respond to anything i could think up to say to him.

I couldn't find any info about this in the Wiki, so here I am. anyone know about this quest or have suggestions on what to try next?
 
More quest bugs:
1. The model is a naked human which is kind of really sad :(
2. When the monkey follows you, it stops directly on top of you. It needs a little following distance added or something.
3. The pretzels bags don't stack, but when you buy two of them only 1 is in your inventory. It is sort of weird, and kind of confusing.
 
I tried starting this quest, but I think I was too high level to do it, so if you leveled while doing the quest, perhaps you went above the quests level cap?
 
You can still get the monkey to follow you even if you don't have the quest. The problem is, now the monkey is following civin every single time he goes to sadri. i can't get rid of him!
 
i started this on a brand new lvl 1 character, I got to the point of having the monkey follow, but the gnome doesn't react when i walk up to him. have tried with every ding up to present level 5.
 
Model is fixed, and yes there is a level cap on it. Also, when you bring him back, give it a little time, there's a scene that goes on and it takes a bit. The rest I will defer to the quest's creator. :)
 
yup, noticed the model fix after i zoned once. now i guess i'll just sit at the gnome practicing my magic to see how long it takes.


**edit** been 20 minutes since my post, and i started waiting a little before that. unfortunately, either the quest is glitched for me, which i think is most likely, or it takes longer than i would really think should be acceptable for a scene to play out.

**edit2** or maybe i've gone over the level cap, but i'm only lvl 9, so i hope that's not the case.
 
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You have not gone over the level cap, I can tell you it is a good deal higher than 9, so that should not be a concern. (and I can't believe I'm saying this with zero irony) Have you lost your monkey? He needs to be with you when you get back to the gnome.
 
he's flapping away and "ee ee oo oo" ing right beside me the whole time.

not sure if this makes a difference, but i have died a few times since the monkey started following me.

regardless, i can't stay on anymore today to try. i'll try again tomorrow.
 
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Okay, I've looked and if you are Miyabi/Okubi I can tell by your quest flags you have missed a portion of the quest. The monkeys should not have followed you at all. We are looking into fixing that now. I'll have to speak with another Dev about how to get you back on the right track and I will post again or contact you in game. Thanks for working on the quest and reporting the problems, we really appreciate that.
 
Bag of Pretzels should now stack. The next part of the quest should trigger when you approach Mr. Cranky with the monkey. If you have any further problems, please post them and we will try to get it all worked out. This is a fairly new quest, and to my knowledge you are the first to really work on it, so any help getting it smoothed out is a good thing.

Best of luck, and hope you get your reward soon!
 
yup, they are both me. and i had a feeling something hadn't triggered right somewhere. As soon as i logged Miyabi in, i got the reaction from the gnome with his glasses. waiting until server downtime to see if anything happens.

after waiting a few minutes, i looked back at my text and noticed that the monkey gave me the 'looks at you hungrily' message and i saw i still had a bag of pretzels in my inventory. has now been more than 10 mins and nothing happened after the gnome's initial reaction. not sure if having the extra bag of pretzels did something, but it might be glitched again.
 
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Taryth said:
Model is fixed, and yes there is a level cap on it. Also, when you bring him back, give it a little time, there's a scene that goes on and it takes a bit. The rest I will defer to the quest's creator. :)
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Out of curiosity, what did the fix entail? I checked for fmo,fmo_chr (the global Holgresh model) in the zones' _chr.txt files and they checked out. I thought maybe fmo wasn't implemented with this junky old client and tried inserting fmo,wakening_chr instead, but that didn't work either. I'm guessing it was simply that the race ID wasn't actually set to 168? Not like I need to know, but it's frustrating when I can't get a model/texture to work! :confused:
 
walked up to the gnome after todays patch. had gotten rid of the bag of pretzels i had before, so when i logged in, i jsut got the message that the monkey was still following me, with said monkey hovering over me. walked up to cranky gnome and he reacted. waited 10 mins, nothing happened. still not responding to hails. tried manually saying things based on the text from his reaction, nothing. my journal is saying "I'm off to look for flying monkeys outside the city". i'm curious if there's supposed to be some kind of journal update after i meet or feed the the monkeys that then tells me to go back to the gnome.
 
The model was not gender neutral, just had to set it as such. I've learned that most non-player races need to be type 2 (neutral) to show properly.
 
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