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Armodilo
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Could the chest contain the elder horn? I don't know how the timings work out, was wondering if jack could have survived the first time using it and also for controlling the sea monster he sunk our boat with.

24-Mar-2018 10:33:10

Ashlin107

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Armodilo said :
Could the chest contain the elder horn? I don't know how the timings work out, was wondering if jack could have survived the first time using it and also for controlling the sea monster he sunk our boat with.

Unlikely considering at the time of the quest (the 5th age) Quinn was the one in possession of The Horn. Quinn doesn't lose the horn until the 6th age when she's assassinated. We still don't know about where it is exactly whether or not it fell in the sea or Quinn stashed it somewhere before her death.

It's more likely the Jack was using the black stone to control the Crassian king that we fought during the quest. That or the Crassians worship Xau-Tak and since Jack was his agent.

As for how Jack survived well presumably he ended up making his way into the underwater temple and made some kind of deal with Xau-Tak. The statement below is false.
The statement above is true.

24-Mar-2018 12:44:12

Solmestix
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Ashlin107 said :
Armodilo said :
Could the chest contain the elder horn? I don't know how the timings work out, was wondering if jack could have survived the first time using it and also for controlling the sea monster he sunk our boat with.

Unlikely considering at the time of the quest (the 5th age) Quinn was the one in possession of The Horn. Quinn doesn't lose the horn until the 6th age when she's assassinated. We still don't know about where it is exactly whether or not it fell in the sea or Quinn stashed it somewhere before her death.

It's more likely the Jack was using the black stone to control the Crassian king that we fought during the quest. That or the Crassians worship Xau-Tak and since Jack was his agent.

As for how Jack survived well presumably he ended up making his way into the underwater temple and made some kind of deal with Xau-Tak.

I'm willing to bet that the chest Jack jumped with is the same one the Gustaf Joannhes encountered, and the one that Madame Shih carried. It makes sense that jack would have it, being Xau-Tak's agent, and Madame Shih looking sick/possessed makes sense due to Xau-Tak's mental screwery, and if it was the same chest Gustaf had, then it drives people insane and allegedly has legs.

" I pressed him on what happened to this artefact, and Lygrass told me it has crawled overboard when not watched."-Death At Sea

It also apparently killed four sailors on the Glory of Zaros

" Lygrass shook as if with chill and told me that the thing Gustav brought on board killed them."
" it had 'sung' to the crew at night, and that the four men had 'become absent' and had to be killed."

24-Mar-2018 12:53:54 - Last edited on 24-Mar-2018 12:54:29 by Solmestix

Ancient Drew

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I found out that the hand does disappear after drinking rum. Could that mean that Xau-Tak can only be perceived by minds ravaged by madness, or kept at bay by the rum?

Let's look at what the 'rum' is made of, if the stuff in the Rabid Jack fight is indeed the Braindeath variety or even something similar. One of the ingredients is sluglings, which are speculated to be baby sea slugs that have mind controlling properties like the ones in the sea slug quest series. This would naturally mean that the slugs act as a mental harness to anchor the mind from the insanity that would pry it open to the perception of Xau-Tak.

Then let's take a look at the slug series. The mind controlling properties of the slugs seem to be attuned not only by Mother Mallum (and potentially other slugs that may be around), but also certain powers of magical or divine origin. Plus in Salt in the Wound, slugs are used in an anti mind control serum, along with the gland of a Stalker, which also suggests that demonic powers can tweak or reverse these effects. And these effects may have a radius to them; Mallum never seemed to have an effect on anyone drinking Braindeath 'rum', so there may be another slug master in the east. Prepare for hell on RuneScape in Naval Cataclysm!

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12-Apr-2018 16:56:59

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