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Hullo,
I play a troll shaman, level 61 on the Nameless and I noticed you guys are missing some info for us trolls in our initial quests with Zermak, so I used my /log function and hopefully this will fill in some blanks you folks might have...or I may be repeating some other troll's hard work...
For the Ancestral Book quest:
[Tue Apr 05 16:25:02 2005] You say, 'Hail, Zermak'
[Tue Apr 05 16:25:02 2005] Zermak says 'Yer looking a might bit uncomfortable dere, Remmadee. Whadda matter? Your [armor] chafing you?'
[Tue Apr 05 16:25:05 2005] You say, 'What armor?'
[Tue Apr 05 16:25:05 2005] Zermak says 'Tell me 'bout it. Da only armor we trolls ever get is whats we can pull from our victims. Nothing fits and we're always clatt'ring around. Tell ye what though, the last stint I did was a job for dem dark elves, marching with the armies of Lanys T'Vyl. Vile, that woman is, but I'll say dis for 'er -- she fixed us up with some pretty good battle mail. It's easier to wear dan da trash you're wearin' and it's lighter dan anything one of us could craft. You should fix yourself up with some of dis [design].'
[Tue Apr 05 16:25:34 2005] You say, 'What design?'
[Tue Apr 05 16:25:34 2005] Zermak says 'Heh heh. Before I left Lany's army, I stole da armor patterns made fo' us troll troops. Had to bash dat dark elf artisan good to get him to let go, but I got 'em! Tell you what -- I can't give away my only copy, but if you bring me da [ingredients] to make another pattern book, I can fix you up with a book of yer own. Or mebbe you already got a book and you need sometin [more].'
[Tue Apr 05 16:25:54 2005] You say, 'What ingredients?'
[Tue Apr 05 16:25:54 2005] Zermak says 'Good. Good. First I need a fire beetle carapace for the cover, den a patch of zombie skin for the pages, a golden bandit tooth for the clasp, and a lion tail for the spine. I hear dese ting can be found in the Western Karanas so bring dem to me and I make a pattern book for you, ya?'
I had spare zombie skins in the bank, lion tail was off of just about any lion mob from from all the zones they are listed in (needed cat pelts anyway), the tooth dropped from bandits in West Karana like he says, but the fire beetle carapace was the pain to get. At first I thought giant fire beetle carapace
or prye beetle carapace but no, they mean fire beetle, off the inky dink versions all over Norrath, problem is I couldn't get one to drop for awhile, so I enlisted my ranger tracker to hunt them down in WK cause it saved me time from wandering around aimlessly with my shaman (hoooray for Sense Animals not working on insects!! 
) Finally got a carapace to drop after the 10th or more kill...it's uncommon to rare if you ask me 
So upon turning in the 4 required items...I goofed and fergot to turn my /log back on, BUT I did pen the words Zermak tells ya after completion:
Zermak says, Remmadee, you are one smarts troll to come up with dese tings so quick. It too bad we can't fight together under Lanys no more. Me and you could have bashed some elf heads in good, no? Heh, heh, here's your pattern book.
After that...
[Tue Apr 05 16:26:27 2005] You say, 'More?'
[Tue Apr 05 16:26:28 2005] Zermak says 'Da armor in dat book is nice an' all, but dey could be better. Mebbe I give you patterns for reinforcements if you do some tings to prove yerself. I got some other patterns, but you prolly not ready for all of dem yet. I give you patterns dependin on what you can do in [Highpass], [Lower Guk], [Old Sebilis] an' da [valley] beyond Lavastorm.'
[Tue Apr 05 16:26:41 2005] You say, 'Highpass?'
[Tue Apr 05 16:26:41 2005] You have been assigned the task 'Hotly Contested'.
[Tue Apr 05 16:26:41 2005] Zermak says 'Pesky lil gnolls need to be taught a lessin. Dey always chargin' Highpass Keep yelling about the glory of Zek. Den dey get wasted by dem hoomanz and bring shame to the big Zek war face. Wait by the gate and kill dem gnolls before the humans do. . . den bring me back dere rain water.'
OK, I have conflicting information on the initial 'Hotly Contested' task details for the Journeyman's book. You DO have to kill 20 gnolls, any gnoll, BUT you only need to loot 2 rain waters. Then the smugglers...I dunno if it's a bug or not, but in the text given in the task window, I was asked, in writing, to kill 10 smugglers, but the numbers listed asked me to kill 5...and wouldn't ya know it, after 5 kills, my task was complete...so I'd say it's only 5 smugglers & the looting of 1 human blood...return the blood to Zermak and...
[Tue Apr 05 21:29:17 2005] Good. Dat work nicely. You earned yerself some reinforment patterns.
...I received the Journeyman's Book of Troll Cultural
Yes, I think it's a typo and means reinforcement patterns, but hey...I'm just the messanger
I didn't copy down what was inside, will do that at a later date
Continuing text for next task 'Takin's da Fight to da Froggie'
[Tue Apr 05 21:34:47 2005] You say, 'What about Lower Guk?'
[Tue Apr 05 21:34:48 2005] Zermak says 'I tink you ready to get some revenge on dem froggies. Dey can't kick us out da Grobb and not pay da price! Go to der old city and scout tings out a bit! Sneak in dere amongst de undead ghoul froggies and rip 'em apart. Bring me dey phos-frus. Mebbe when you get back we see if you up for some warrin' with de real live froggies.'
So far I've killed the required 50 ghouls, but darn it
the powders are probably an uncommon to rare drop, unless I'm hunting in the wrong areas (also didn't help that like 3 Fabled mobs were up...when they leave, I know a Ghoul Cavalier who's gonna have a series of bad days! 
) cause out of 50 kills, I got zero phosphorous powders to drop from ANY undead froglok ghouls 
So, until the Fabled mobs leave Lower Guk, I'm going to delay any efforts to update this post...hopefully this will help you folks out 
I play a troll shaman, level 61 on the Nameless and I noticed you guys are missing some info for us trolls in our initial quests with Zermak, so I used my /log function and hopefully this will fill in some blanks you folks might have...or I may be repeating some other troll's hard work...
For the Ancestral Book quest:
[Tue Apr 05 16:25:02 2005] You say, 'Hail, Zermak'
[Tue Apr 05 16:25:02 2005] Zermak says 'Yer looking a might bit uncomfortable dere, Remmadee. Whadda matter? Your [armor] chafing you?'
[Tue Apr 05 16:25:05 2005] You say, 'What armor?'
[Tue Apr 05 16:25:05 2005] Zermak says 'Tell me 'bout it. Da only armor we trolls ever get is whats we can pull from our victims. Nothing fits and we're always clatt'ring around. Tell ye what though, the last stint I did was a job for dem dark elves, marching with the armies of Lanys T'Vyl. Vile, that woman is, but I'll say dis for 'er -- she fixed us up with some pretty good battle mail. It's easier to wear dan da trash you're wearin' and it's lighter dan anything one of us could craft. You should fix yourself up with some of dis [design].'
[Tue Apr 05 16:25:34 2005] You say, 'What design?'
[Tue Apr 05 16:25:34 2005] Zermak says 'Heh heh. Before I left Lany's army, I stole da armor patterns made fo' us troll troops. Had to bash dat dark elf artisan good to get him to let go, but I got 'em! Tell you what -- I can't give away my only copy, but if you bring me da [ingredients] to make another pattern book, I can fix you up with a book of yer own. Or mebbe you already got a book and you need sometin [more].'
[Tue Apr 05 16:25:54 2005] You say, 'What ingredients?'
[Tue Apr 05 16:25:54 2005] Zermak says 'Good. Good. First I need a fire beetle carapace for the cover, den a patch of zombie skin for the pages, a golden bandit tooth for the clasp, and a lion tail for the spine. I hear dese ting can be found in the Western Karanas so bring dem to me and I make a pattern book for you, ya?'
I had spare zombie skins in the bank, lion tail was off of just about any lion mob from from all the zones they are listed in (needed cat pelts anyway), the tooth dropped from bandits in West Karana like he says, but the fire beetle carapace was the pain to get. At first I thought giant fire beetle carapace
or prye beetle carapace but no, they mean fire beetle, off the inky dink versions all over Norrath, problem is I couldn't get one to drop for awhile, so I enlisted my ranger tracker to hunt them down in WK cause it saved me time from wandering around aimlessly with my shaman (hoooray for Sense Animals not working on insects!! ) Finally got a carapace to drop after the 10th or more kill...it's uncommon to rare if you ask me So upon turning in the 4 required items...I goofed and fergot to turn my /log back on, BUT I did pen the words Zermak tells ya after completion:
Zermak says, Remmadee, you are one smarts troll to come up with dese tings so quick. It too bad we can't fight together under Lanys no more. Me and you could have bashed some elf heads in good, no? Heh, heh, here's your pattern book.
After that...
[Tue Apr 05 16:26:27 2005] You say, 'More?'
[Tue Apr 05 16:26:28 2005] Zermak says 'Da armor in dat book is nice an' all, but dey could be better. Mebbe I give you patterns for reinforcements if you do some tings to prove yerself. I got some other patterns, but you prolly not ready for all of dem yet. I give you patterns dependin on what you can do in [Highpass], [Lower Guk], [Old Sebilis] an' da [valley] beyond Lavastorm.'
[Tue Apr 05 16:26:41 2005] You say, 'Highpass?'
[Tue Apr 05 16:26:41 2005] You have been assigned the task 'Hotly Contested'.
[Tue Apr 05 16:26:41 2005] Zermak says 'Pesky lil gnolls need to be taught a lessin. Dey always chargin' Highpass Keep yelling about the glory of Zek. Den dey get wasted by dem hoomanz and bring shame to the big Zek war face. Wait by the gate and kill dem gnolls before the humans do. . . den bring me back dere rain water.'
OK, I have conflicting information on the initial 'Hotly Contested' task details for the Journeyman's book. You DO have to kill 20 gnolls, any gnoll, BUT you only need to loot 2 rain waters. Then the smugglers...I dunno if it's a bug or not, but in the text given in the task window, I was asked, in writing, to kill 10 smugglers, but the numbers listed asked me to kill 5...and wouldn't ya know it, after 5 kills, my task was complete...so I'd say it's only 5 smugglers & the looting of 1 human blood...return the blood to Zermak and...
[Tue Apr 05 21:29:17 2005] Good. Dat work nicely. You earned yerself some reinforment patterns.
...I received the Journeyman's Book of Troll Cultural
Yes, I think it's a typo and means reinforcement patterns, but hey...I'm just the messanger
I didn't copy down what was inside, will do that at a later date
Continuing text for next task 'Takin's da Fight to da Froggie'
[Tue Apr 05 21:34:47 2005] You say, 'What about Lower Guk?'
[Tue Apr 05 21:34:48 2005] Zermak says 'I tink you ready to get some revenge on dem froggies. Dey can't kick us out da Grobb and not pay da price! Go to der old city and scout tings out a bit! Sneak in dere amongst de undead ghoul froggies and rip 'em apart. Bring me dey phos-frus. Mebbe when you get back we see if you up for some warrin' with de real live froggies.'
So far I've killed the required 50 ghouls, but darn it
the powders are probably an uncommon to rare drop, unless I'm hunting in the wrong areas (also didn't help that like 3 Fabled mobs were up...when they leave, I know a Ghoul Cavalier who's gonna have a series of bad days! ) cause out of 50 kills, I got zero phosphorous powders to drop from ANY undead froglok ghouls So, until the Fabled mobs leave Lower Guk, I'm going to delay any efforts to update this post...hopefully this will help you folks out
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