In Everquest 2 that is. I spent most the day Wednesday goofing off, and then Thursday I logged in one of the alts I had not leveled, my troubador Crystalos. He is a high elf and one of the few characters in my "character whore stable" (bonus points if you get the movie reference) that I had not touched. Wednesday I got my monk to level 40 and my new warlock to level 6 (WOOT!) but today I felt like playing the assassin type. Tuesday I played my new froglok paladin Freok to level 15 and had to log out, and then toward the end of the week I have a lot of doctor visits and junk like that so I knew I wouldn't be able to play much.

Knowing that at 5pm I had to start drinking this crap I knew that my playtime would be short so off I went. I remembered most of the quests in Greater Faydark and by level 9 I was on my way to help the mushroom folk out in Dyer Mycoria once more. I always liked this section of Greater Faydark because these quests were off to the side in a long tunnel that was a little mini adventure before you left the starting place. It evokes a great sense of exploration and has a really cool theme to it. After all it is not everyday in this game you get to help mushroom people. The voice acting here is superb as each mushroom character speaks slowly like you would expect one to.

I had forgotten how extensive those tunnels were back in there and almost got lost a few times, but I got my wits about me and started off on the first few quests there that had me talking and mingling with the fungus folk.



I spoke to Agarighus and started the quest chain that would eventually lead to my character becoming an ally of the mushroom cave denizens. The first task was to get some shrumblers out of the mushroom breeding area and put them back in their proper place. To do this Agarighus provided me a net and I was soon off to round up the baby shrumblers and throw them back in their pen. On the opposite of Agarighus is another mushroom man leader that gave me a quest to take out a few Grobin Diggers so I knocked that one out as well. had to wait a bit for more to spawn since there was actually another living player in the tunnels a few quests ahead of me. The spawn rate was fast and I simply took out the aggressive grobin sentries in the area while I waited. After tackling those quests I was off to assault the grobins in the mushroom home head on and take out two of their leaders: Pengo and Turkrik. Getting to these two grobins involves a LOT of fighting and on my way into the depths I hit level 10. My Raxxyl's Rousing Tune was upgraded and armed with a new buffing song I worked my way inward. I found Pengo asleep at the back of a cave, and while stealthed, proceeded to massacre him. Poor guy never knew what hit him.



I found Turkrik around a campfire, talking to a Crushbone Emissary. Orcs. I knew this wasn't going to end well. Whenever trouble is around Orcs are usually to blame. I learned that from just hanging out in Zek. After delivering this bad news and rescuing some baby mushroom caps from a grobin infestred cave I was told to head on out and talk to Jenthis, a good guy sentry in the main area of Greater Faydark. I was sad that my little adventure in the mushroom caves had to come to an end, and it was certainly the type of questing I LIKE to do. Nice little story, tightly wrapped up and finished rather quickly. Throw in a little grinding and you have quite a good time in this little starter area side adventure.