Orion Ryder

Has anyone here ever don't that quest up in the Highlands, the one
right after the Escort/Courier Kill Quest, the one where you have to
now escort the Druid, Kinedel or some such, to the house down on the
farm and help her kill the Apothecary?

Stupid question, eh?

Well read on because it might get more interesting.

Whilst doing said quest has anyone here ever had the added excitement
occur where the Druid gets right near the house that the Apothecary is
in and SURPRISE!!! Out comes the courier and the escort?

SURPRISE!!!

My warrior Zam along with a mage and a witch was escorting the Druid to
the Apothecary house. And sure enough there was the courier/escort
running out of the house just as the Druid arrived there and I'm
thinking that I'm gonna see "quest failed" in my log.

Well the Druid took on one of the escorts. The few of the escorts ran
at mage and the warlock and the warlock's pet - don't ask me why,
maybe because I was trying to get over the shock and think about what I
should do. So I figure it is time for battle and we will not go gently
into that good night.

I have to apologize to the casters in the group as I am thinking here
that the Druid needs to stay alive in order for the quest to continue
so I run Zam up to help the Druid out. There are two undead there and I
pray that the casters can survive long enough until these two undead
are kaput. The Druid and Zam finish off the two undead and turn back to
assist the casters. There is also an orc joined in who was standing
near our path so that made 3 undead and an orc. One of the undead bit
the dust. Zam ran to assist whoever had the least amount of life, I
forget who. Another one goes down and before I can turn to swing at any
others all the rest of the undead are toast and its a pile of undead
heaped upon the ground

Did we survive that? The Druid too? Whew! I breathe a sigh of relief.

I asked if that is how it is supposed to work and someone says no it
was just a random thing.

Well it sure the hell was exciting too. The Apothecary was a peace of
cake.

We get back up top and turn in the quest and Quoua lets out a laough. I
figure it was because the Druid told her how the Escort came out of the
house just as we got there.

Assuming that the escort spawns every 5 minutes and there is a ten
second window where one can walk near the house and agro the escort
group that puts the probability at 1/30 or .0333. But I would place
that at a maximum as I figure there is on the average a longer time
between respawn of the escort given that there are times where the
escort is going to get further down the road that the Refuge Point.

Three cheers for the escort/courier spawning outside the Apothecary
house whilst escorting the Druid there for the kill.

OH! OH! OH!

Orion