Frozen Skeleton of the Cursed [ Merc Liaison - Special ]  

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Located by the Caster's Guild building on the evil side of the Plane of Knowledge.

Category: EverQuest
This page last modified 2011-01-04 19:15:57.

Level: 50
NPC Added: 2009-10-14 12:12:43
NPC Last Updated: 2018-03-16 12:09:57

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# Oct 13 2019 at 1:35 PM Rating: Decent
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is this still possible to get
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# Aug 30 2020 at 6:04 AM Rating: Good
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Yes as of 8-25-20 i finished mine


??
# Oct 14 2019 at 6:08 AM Rating: Good
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Yes, but hard to find. I just sold someone I thought was my friend one of the prizes to get his skeleton but he hasn't talked to me since Smiley: oyvey Should have kept it for myself!

You pretty much have to find the 3 item gem packs in the baz. Or which ever ones you still need. Although they are still in the LON packs you can buy in marketplace but I would not waste money trying to get them thru the pack. Too random.
Bah
# Oct 12 2013 at 7:50 AM Rating: Decent
40 packs so far and only got 1 3/3 pack, still need the other 2 packs, didn't think they would make something like that so hard to get. especially since its just a skin, ah ow well.

Edited, Oct 12th 2013 9:51am by TwistedFoxblade
LoN Skeleton Merc
# Jan 04 2011 at 11:37 AM Rating: Decent
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Do the LoN cards needed for this merc just drop randomly out of the decks ?
Do you just keep buying new decks hoping that the loot cards required drop ?

I have the Frost Gem via the card, still need the other 2.

Thanks
White or Blue?
# Jun 27 2010 at 9:34 AM Rating: Decent
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I've researched all of the 3/3 weapon aug cards and noticed that ALL of the Weapon Cards say Blue Merc.. but some people are getting White skelli mercs? the weapon cards are the following:

Axe of Bones: 1hs

Clawed Skull: Hand to Hand

Dagger of Skulls: Piercing

Great Blade of Bones: 2hs

Hammer of Bones: Blunt

Spear of Bones: 2h Piercing

Staff of Bones: 2h Blunt

These are the number 3/3 card and on every single one of them it says "Grants the owner the Frost Covered Gem which is part 3 of the items neeeded to make the Frozen Skull of the Cursed A UNIQUE BLUE SKELETON MERCENARY"

Any feedback please?

Edited, Jun 27th 2010 1:46pm by Nidachi
dialog for obtaining the blue skelly merc
# May 01 2010 at 11:46 AM Rating: Default
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You say, 'Hail, Frozen Skeleton of the Cursed'

if you have the 3 items he wants in your inventory, he will say this:

Frozen Skeleton of the Cursed says 'You have it. You have my head. Give it to me! Do I have to kill you for it? Give it to me! Please give it to me. Please Please! I beg if you want. Please give! I will work for you yes! You give me my head and I will work for you! Please give me my skull, my soul, and my frost.'

hand him the Empty Glowing Skull, Trapped Soul Gem and the Frost Covered Gem

Frozen Skeleton of the Cursed says 'I will start now.'

Frozen Skeleton of the Cursed says 'Yes... My real head. I now have debt to you. You still will have debt to me, but I will now work for you. I will waive the purchase fee once, and give you a discount on the purchase fee in the future. You still must sustain me with coin.'

You have joined the group.
You are now the leader of your group.
Frozen Skeleton of the Cursed has joined the group.

works like a normal cleric merc, apprentice and journeyman tiers 1-5.


Edited, May 1st 2010 1:47pm by Zaztik
Blue Skeleton Mercenary
# Mar 18 2010 at 3:40 AM Rating: Decent
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3 items required from LoN Travelers loot cards:

PET
1)Plagued Skull Fragment Pack (2-slot Container)
+ Plagued Skull Fragment (Familiar - Floating Skull)
+ Trapped Soul Gem (1/3)

BAUBLE
2)Path of Skulls Pack (2-Slot Container)
+ Path of Skulls (Effect: Path of Skulls Nimbus)
+ Empty Glowing Skull (2/3)

WEAPON ORNAMENT
3)Dagger of Souls Ornament Pack (2-slot container)
+ Dagger of Souls Ornament (Augment - Piercing)
+ Frost Covered Gem (3/3)

I recieved the Frost Covered Gem in this pack:

Clawed Skull Ornament Pack
+ Clawed Skull Ornament (Augment - H2H)
+ Frost Covered Gem (3/3)

Edited, Mar 18th 2010 6:18am by Harmoniq
Blue Skeleton Mercenary
# Jan 04 2011 at 12:33 PM Rating: Decent
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So the 2 Gems and the Skull are what is turned in, to receive the mercenary?
The augs and containers are just perks?

1) Trapped Soul Gem
2) Empty Glowing Skull
3) Frost Covered Gem
Blue Skeleton Merc pt 2
# Jan 25 2010 at 6:23 PM Rating: Decent
Ok, I got the Blue Skeleton Mercenary yesterday from the Frozen Skeleton of the Cursed NPC in Evil section of POK Cabilis end. You need three (3)LoN loot cards to get this. Card 1/3 PLAGUED SKULL FRAGMENT when redeemed gives you the trapped soul gem, and a plagued skull nimbus that is a clicky that goes in your ammo slot in inventory and summons a flying skull pet that gives you 50 points in two stats I cant remember what right now, sorry. Card 2/3 PATH OF SKULLS gives you a path of skulls nimbus that fits in your ammo slot and casts a path of skulls spell when clicked and an empty glowing skull. Card 3/3 can be any one of a number of weapons ornaments for diferent types of weapons, I happened to use the 1hs one called Axe of Bones or something like that. When redeemed it gives you a container and inside the container is a frosted gem and weapons ornament. The ornament works just like an aug. take it to a pool and combine it with the appropriate weapon and it changes the graphics and gives you a 160 hp proc on that weapon. Once you have redeemed the three cards on a SINGLE TOON and that toon approaches the Cursed skeleton NPC he will start yelling "You have it, you have it, give me my head, etc, the statement ends in a plea where he says please give me my head, my soul, and my frost and I will work for you." YOU GIVE HIM the EMPTY SKULL, THE FROSTED GEM, and the TRAPPED SOUL GEM. Then he works like a regular mercenary liaison. He says he will give you the mercenary for free once, and at a discount thereafter. It is a cleric merc as stated elsewhere. Also it gives you a cursed skeleton head. I assume this is to resummon him if needed, I couldnt get it to do anything else. Hope this helps 8)
Blue Skeleton Merc pt 2
# Feb 17 2010 at 7:53 PM Rating: Decent
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Just /claim the three loot cards and hail him.

"You have it. You have my head. Give it to me! Do I have to kill you for it! Give it to me! Please give it to me. Please Please! I beg if you want. Please give! I will work for you yes! You give me my head and I will work for you! Please give me my skull, my soul, and my frost."

Turn in the two gems and his skull.

"I will start now."
"Yes...my real head. I now have debt to you. You still will have debt to me, but I will now work for you. I will waive the purchase fee once, and give you a discount on the purchase fee in the future. You still must sustain me with coin."

As soon as you do the hand in he follows you as a merc. Note that you don't have to use any of the loot cards to do this, just turn in one item from each loot card.

Did this on my level 84 alt (T4 flagged) and it is 79 plat 8 gold upkeep ( same as other races) and 1876 plat 9 gold to buy another one (7507 plat 8 gold for other races...)
Blue Skelly Merc
# Jan 22 2010 at 6:37 PM Rating: Decent
I have gotten a bunch of the 3/3 items. They are loot item LoN cards. Ornamental weapons pack cards all come in a container. In the container you get the weapon ornament that fits into an aug slot on any weapon of the type stated on the card. Also in the pack is a blue frosted gem. I assume the other two items are also LON cards, 1/3 Plagued Skull Fragment, and 2/3 Path of skulls. If these other cards are si,ilar to the 3/3 cards, then itmes like skull fragments and skulls are probably items that you get from redeeming those items. i.e. 1/3, and 2/3.
dialogues
# Jan 10 2010 at 4:30 PM Rating: Decent
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You say, 'Hail, Frozen Skeleton of the Cursed'

Frozen Skeleton of the Cursed says 'Where is my head? This is not my head. Someone stole my head. I think they even broke my head. Bring me my head and I will work for you. Please bring me my head covered in frost, preserving the soul.'
what happens if DISMISSed
# Dec 18 2009 at 4:17 PM Rating: Decent
So what happens if you DISMISS the merc and dont have the turn in items anymore. Do you have to get all 3 again?
Get out your credit card
# Oct 29 2009 at 10:35 AM Rating: Decent
Be sure to have a credit card in hand for both Halloween Merc quest, the scarecrow merc tank, and the blue skelly for cleric.

It is sad, that the only way to fully complete either task, is by SOE getting some more of your hard earned cash.

The scarecrow quest requires marketplace purchase for title, and the skelly quest is not a quest at all, but requires you to get 3 LoN cards either through getting lucky with your 5 free booster packs (yea like that is going to happen), or by buying booster packs and opening them in hopes of loot cards.

Sad, sad, sad. Most of us would be fine with some long quest to achieve both, like the Timeshear quest which is still broken btw SOE thanks, but no go get your credit card out, and maybe you can have these items.

Wow that sounds like alot of fun.

Edited, Oct 29th 2009 12:36pm by skytraffic
Get out your credit card
# Dec 29 2009 at 12:16 PM Rating: Decent
skytraffic said: "The scarecrow quest requires marketplace purchase for title, and the skelly quest is not a quest at all, but requires you to get 3 LoN cards either through getting lucky with your 5 free booster packs (yea like that is going to happen), or by buying booster packs and opening them in hopes of loot cards."

Scarecrow required a quest...got a surname and access to the merc after completing it, no "credit card" needed.
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Get out your credit card
# Nov 01 2009 at 5:19 AM Rating: Decent
I can confirm I got these from a LoN Booster Pack, guess I got lucky.

1) Plagued Skull Fragment Pack >> 2-Slot Container
2) Plagued Skull Fragment >> Familiar - Floating Skull
3) Trapped Soul Gem >> Magic, No Trade, Quest
>>> The Lore on this says "Scratches on the back of this Gem make it look like it used to fit inside something else"

Now I hear the Trapped Soul Gem is for this Skeleton Merc but can't find any details on what else I need for the quest.

Guess if there is a "Empty Glowing Skull" maybe the trapped Soul Gem goes inside it?

Zycon
Get out your credit card
# Oct 30 2009 at 9:58 PM Rating: Good
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The post I am replying to makes a few assumptions which are not entirely accurate. Also, some new information is available from developers, which may have not been known at the time of the post. I would like to clarify this so as to allow people to understand the situation and arrive at an informed opinion.

This NPC (Frozen Skeleton of the Cursed) is not part of a Halloween task. It is something that appeared in Plane of Knowledge the same day as the release of the Legends of Norrath "Travelers" expansion.

This NPC is part of a collection "quest" related to the Legends of Norrath expansion called "Travelers" released Tuesday, October 13, 2009 (see: Zam news item and official LoN page). It might seem like this is directly related to a Halloween task, but not directly. Travelers was released two weeks before Halloween 2009, and also about 1.5 weeks before the EQ Halloween quests were reactivated, on Saturday, October 24, 2009. So the time frame is similar, but not quite.

The scarecrow mercenary mentioned above is a reward from the Halloween 2009 quest, The Hunt for Tattooed Flesh. The reward is an item called Frightening Writ, which at the time of release, had an incorrect clicky spell description implying that you would earn the right to use the suffix title called "the Haunted". According to a post on the Sony EQPlayers forums, developer Ngreth stated that this was an error, and the spell description accidentally implied that you would get the title, when in fact, that particular title is for a Marketplace item called Title of the Haunted.

The actual reward is that clicking the writ gives your character a flag entitling you to purchase a tank-only mercenary whose NPC model is a scarecrow.

In the same post, Ngreth stated that to make up for error which caused many people to believe they would be earning a title ("the Haunted"), that in the next patch the developers would make it so that anyone who completed the quest and clicked the Frightening Writ would, in addition to the flag for the scarecrow tank mercenary, get the right to use the suffix title "the Gravedigger". This would be retroactive to those who had already clicked the writ (it would just check your flag).

The new title ("the Gravedigger") is separate from the marketplace title ("the Haunted").

You can see the forum post at >this< offsite link.

Here is a quote from that post:
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Date:10/29/2009 10:20:44
Subject: Re:Halloween Events are Up
From: Dev-Ngreth
Forum title: EQ Designer

To make up a bit for my mistake with mentioning the title, we have decided to grant anyone that clicks on the Frightening Writ item the title " the Gravedigger."

This *is* retroactive. I will use the same flag that allows you access to the mercenary to grant the title. So if you have access to the mercenary you will have access to this title.

So after the next patch the item will say:

Grants access to mercenaries that resemble a scarecrow, and grants you the title: the Gravedigger


The ability to get a scarecrow tank mercenary flag is from a Seasonal quest (halloween time each year), while the ability to purchase booster cards or trade with people in the LoN client to get all 3 components necessary for the blue skeleton cleric mercenary, are available year-round, at least until and if Sony decides to stop producing Travelers-expansion booster packs (as has been done with Oathbound booster packs, the same day Travelers was released - see this link for details: link).

The blue skeleton mercenary is expected to be a luxury item, which few people overall will have the ability to get, while the scarecrow mercenary is open to people of all levels, however you can only get the flag to purchase it during halloween seasonal quest time.

Hopefully this helps to understand the circumstances surrounding this NPC.

Rondor

merc
# Oct 26 2009 at 7:59 PM Rating: Decent
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just got this merc 5 minutes ago, confirmed: it only comes in cleric! sorry healers, no warrior.....also it looks exactly the same as the vender that sells it. (same name as well, no random generated name). overall, i love it!
LoN Loot Cards
# Oct 19 2009 at 12:18 AM Rating: Decent
in order to get the 3 items needed for the Blue Skeleton Merc, you need the Plagued Skull Fragment (1/3), the Path of Skulls (2/3) and then ANY of the weapon ornament of Skulls/Bones (3/3)
OK
# Oct 18 2009 at 1:44 AM Rating: Decent
ive been hearing some things in game frost covered gem. witch looks like its a piece for this guy is deffinatly LoN loot BAH so im thinking that to get this guys mercs you have to get at least 4 different loot Cards ***** SoE
Items
# Oct 17 2009 at 7:07 PM Rating: Decent
Plagued skull fragment

Trapped Soul Gem

Plagued Skull fragment pack

Empty Glowing Skull
WHERE ARE THESE ITEMS FROM
drops
# Oct 17 2009 at 7:06 PM Rating: Decent
Doe anyone have any info at all on where the parts from the head drop or are they LoN items whats going on with this i really wanna work on this if its non LoN but i keep checkign for days and there is no info anywhere
Update
# Oct 17 2009 at 1:25 PM Rating: Decent
Looking at the updated items for the 16th, a couple of items seemed to pop out:

Plagued skull fragment

Trapped Soul Gem

Plagued Skull fragment pack

Empty Glowing Skull


the descriptions on these items seem to clearly indicate their involvement in the quest, but there is no info on where they are obtained at the moment.

tried hunting for his skull
# Oct 15 2009 at 12:57 PM Rating: Decent
When talking to him he really puts an emphasis on Frost and mentions his soul.


Putting 2 and 2 together, i tried permafrost and everfrost this morning, but nothing unusual mob wise seemed to be popping up.

Judging from his level we can assume it isnt a high level zone (i havent actually checked this though, so i could just as easily be wrong). So that rules out Frostcrypt and the like.

I hope this info helps, im still searching for the answer
LoN related?
# Oct 15 2009 at 11:03 AM Rating: Decent
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More LoN stuff I am guessing.
Text and Level
# Oct 14 2009 at 10:50 AM Rating: Decent
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Conned Grey to 76, so below 56 level.

Not flagged for the special mercs, when right-clicking you get the following message:

[Wed Oct 14 12:45:18 2009] You do not meet the requirements to purchase any mercenaries.

[Wed Oct 14 12:45:18 2009] Frozen Skeleton of the Cursed regards you indifferently -- You could probably win this fight.


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Text and Level
# Oct 15 2009 at 12:13 AM Rating: Decent
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If You hail him - he says you need to bring him his head with frost on it so it won't spoil
Text and Level
# Oct 15 2009 at 12:44 PM Rating: Decent
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anyone have any clue where to get his head?
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