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Hello, I wanted to start this thread to discuss details about the Week 4 in-game assignment.

According to the Syllabus, the in-game activity for week 4 (Aug. 4 to Aug. 10) is to reach the top of Weathertop – there are two basic options for doing this.

First, the most challenging:  If you do the epic quest line, which starts with a level 15 quest “An Unwanted Guest” given by Barliman Butterbur, the bartender at the Prancing Pony, you will eventually get to the Book 2, Chapter 5 epic quest “Retake Weathertop”, which you can do as either a fellowship (6-person) or solo quest, your choice.

As alternative, you can just get up to the top of Weathertop any way you can. If your character is too low in level to handle the level 20-ish enemies in the Lone Lands (where Weathertop is located), you can get an escort from some higher level characters – just ask on the coursera chat channel and you will likely find plenty of people happy to help.

The reason I want to bring this up now is so that, if you WANT to do the “Retake Weathertop” quest, you might want to start doing the epic quest line soon, since there are twelve chapters (quests) in book 1, and four more in Book 2, which precede the “Retake Weathertop” quest.

I thought that you could start book 2 without having completed book 1, but I just tried that with a level 26 character of mine (who is about half way through the book 1 quests), and she was not able to get the book 2 prologue quest from Gandalf, who is the bestower of the book 2 prologue quest .. so maybe you do have to finish book 1 before you can start book 2.

The epic quest line is actually kind of fun, and some people have said that they are the best written quests in the game.

Submitting a record of your journey

The syllabus says that one option will be to submit "a YouTube video of your assent to Weathertop with a voiceover narration comparing the game's remediation to the film and the novel's versions." In the previous session of the course, you could also just submit a screenshot of yourself once you made it to the top. (Please check the peer reviewed assignment for Week 4 when it becomes available on the course website for details.)

 EDIT: the assignment for week 4 has now been posted, with additional details, so please see this website news article for the official details for that assignment.

 

 

 



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I have added a fellowship version of the 'Retake Weathertop' quest to the calendar for Sunday, August 3 at 9PM servertime (Eastern Daylight Time). If you expect to have a character up to book 2, Chapter 5 of the epic quest by that time, this would be a fun way to do the week 5 in-game assignment. As I mention in the original post, this is not the only way to do the week 5 assignment, but it's one way.

I realize that this particular time will likely work only for people who play in the evenings in the Americas time zones. I will also schedule some other versions of this event at other times during the week, which should work for people elsewhere in the world. Anyone, of course, is welcome to use the calendar and Questing forum to schedule events at any time that would for them.

Hope you can come with us to the summit!

Please go to the calendar and sign up if you would like to reserve a slot!



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Briallan wrote:

 

I have added a fellowship version of the 'Retake Weathertop' quest to the calendar for Sunday, August 3 at 9PM servertime (Eastern Daylight Time). If you expect to have a character up to book 2, Chapter 5 of the epic quest by that time, this would be a fun way to do the week 5 in-game assignment. As I mention in the original post, this is not the only way to do the week 5 assignment, but it's one way.

I realize that this particular time will likely work only for people who play in the evenings in the Americas time zones. I will also schedule some other versions of this event at other times during the week, which should work for people elsewhere in the world. Anyone, of course, is welcome to use the calendar and Questing forum to schedule events at any time that would for them.

Hope you can come with us to the summit!

Please go to the calendar and sign up if you would like to reserve a slot!

 

Thanks, Briallan! Are there any runs planned this week or weekend?

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Yes Yes! I just put this on the calendar to get it started ... we will very likely be running Retake Weathertop several times this week ... people who have already run it once can go again by getting the quest from a Reflecting Pool .. and (as we've found out today), people who have not yet made it to the Retake Weathertop quest in the Epic Quest line can apparently also can still get that quest from the Reflecting Pool. So we should have no problem getting up teams of six to go at various times this week.

We did two groups of six tonight, and I am aware of several people (including yourself) who would still like to do that quest. I will check around on the chat channel to figure out what might a good time to go again, and we can schedule something if that seems the best approach .. and of course you can just ask on the chat channel if people would like to do the quest, and just go ahead and launch it on the spur of the moment.

Also, I think I've mentioned this elsewhere, but anyone is free to schedule events on the calendar whenever they like .. the website permissions are set so that all website members (not just the kin officers) are able to add events to the calendar.

 



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