Book Event

Book Event - Jade Dynasty Wiki

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Two times each day, monsters spawn around Sunstream City that look like ghostly women in Victorian-era dresses and are named after great works of literature ("Romeo and Juliet," "Pride and Prejudice," etc). When you kill one, it will drop a book with the same name as the monster. Your task is to find matching sets of books by the same author and bring them back to Leowen.

When you mouse-over a book in your bag, at the bottom of the description will be the list of books that are in the set. This way, you know what ones you are looking for to complete the set. Most sets are pairs. However, there are several that are sets of 3, and the books by Stephen King are a set of 4. Also, there are several sets by the same author (e.g., Mark Twain has three sets of 2). You need all the books in a set to turn it in to Leowen. When you go back to Leowen, talk to him, choose the author whose books you want to turn in and choose to give the books to him.

Ground Rules

The event only happens 2 times per day. The books spawn at 12:20 and 20:00 server time. The event only takes place in Realm 15. The books spawn in all directions from the city, north, south, east, and west. After 2 hours the books will disappear (i.e., 14:20 and 22:00 server time). However, you can turn in sets of books to Leowen whenever you want. In addition, each book will only spawn 12 times per event. The time between spawns is variable, though in the neighborhood of 5 minutes.

Each book has 20 HP of health and will hit you for -1 damage. Standard attacks will only do 1 damage to a book. Skill attacks will only do 1 damage to a book (if you don't miss, that is). Pets can also attack books and will do 1 damage, except for the Scorpus Ravager which can do 21 damage and thus perform a 1-hit kill. The only thing that can increase the amount of damage you do is a +Bonus Damage necklace (not to be confused with a +Attack necklace - this does nothing to the books).

The person who does the most damage to a book is the one who can pick it up. So, if you have a +10 damage necklace, and someone else hits it for +14, you will not get the book. In the event of a damage tie (e.g., 2 people with +10) the first one to hit will get the book. This means that kill stealing is an unfortunate fact of life in the book event - it is after all a competition. It also means that common sense should prevail - if you see someone hitting for 10, 12, 14 damage, and you hit for 1 or 2, it would behoove you to find another place to hunt or at least wait until they return to the city to sell or cash in books.

Finally, books are not bound items. They can be sold to other players like most other items. In fact you will see many vendor boxes near Leowen during the event. This is a good opportunity to complete your sets or sell off books you don't want or need.

Rewards

Each set of books you turn in will reward you with 10 silver and some culture. Not a lot, but for every 4-6 sets you turn in (it seems variable) you will get a bookcase. Simply opening the case gives you 2 gold.

• A set of 2 books gives 5 culture points.
• A set of 3 books gives 10 culture points.
• A set of 4 books gives 20 culture points.

Culture can be exchanged with Nura in Sunstream for Violeta Stones, used in Special Ops Quests until lvl 60 where it changes to Lunar Stones. You can exchange 5 culture points for 10 Violeta Stones.

Bookcases contain gold, title scrolls, as well as tomes.

• Title Scrolls: can not be traded/mailed/sold. Enjoy the Pink!
• Honor Tomes: Right clicking will give you either 250 or 1000 Honor with a given faction.
  • Vim
    • Origin of Wildland Sanctuary - 250 Honor
    • Vim Skills - 1000 Honor
  • Jadeon
    • Jadeon Travel Notes - 250 Honor
    • Jadeon Skills - 1000 Honor
  • Skysong
    • History of Skysong - 250 Honor
    • Skysong Skills - 1000 Honor
  • Lupin
    • History of Lupin - 250 Honor
    • Lupin Skills - 1000 Honor
• Piety: Right clicking will give you either 250 or 1000 Piety. A top 500 or better Piety ranking can lead to receiving honor gem(s).
• Romance: Right clicking will give either 50 or 280 Romance. Want to get married? This is a good way to accumulate the 9999 Romance you need.
• Money: Right clicking will give you either 5 gold or 20 gold (this one is rare).
• Health orbs: Right clicking will give you 10 Refined Health Orbs or 10 Special Health Orbs

Locations

(Around the West Gate and out along the path)

• Arrow of Gold (63, 92)
• Death in the Woods
• Heart of Darkness (30, 90)
• Herzog (-5, 78)
• Jane Eyre (14, 63)
• Life of Galileo (66, 110)
• Poems of Nature (72, 64)
• Poor White
• The Complete Story (52, 24)
• The Dog and the Wolf
• The Farmer and the Viper
• The Farewell Waltz (75, 82)
• The Gift of the Magi (32, 67)
• The Iliad (58, 5)
• The Last Leaf (50, 97)
• The Pickwick Papers (35, -15 in the tree)
• The Professor (32, 46 in the rock)
• The Rebel
• The Street Life in New York (44, 78)
• The Tale of Two Cities (33, 56)
• Three Penny Opera (-2, 20)
• Walden (54, 72)

(Near the Bamboo Grove and small hill beyond the west gate path)

• Age of Innocence (-74, 14)
• A Night Abroad (-24, 29)
• Dan the Detective (-78, 49)
• Principia Mathematica (-47, 25)
• Songs of the Wagons (-54, 43)
• The Decameron (-10, 2)

(North of the west path on the hills and near the pagoda)

• Black and Scarlet
• Ignorance (0, 100)
• Le Mondant (sp?)
• Manasi
• Nana
• Sand and Foam
• Scarlet Letter
• The God Bug
• The Reef
• The Prophet
• The Story of My Life
• Thousand Cranes
• White Fang

(Path east from the Pagoda)

• Germinal
• La Martre (42, 131)
• Light in My Darkness
• Vautrin (-30, 108)

Upper Sol River and northwards in little stream (52, 197)

• Around the Moon
• Hansel and Gretel (90, 215)
• Drum-taps (52, 232)
• Five Days in a Balloon
• Leaves of Grass (69, 259)
• The Age of Bronze
• The Origin of Species (101, 230)
• When You Are Old (north in stream)

(South Gate to Eastern River)

• 100 Years of Solitude
• Anna Karenina
• Carrie
• Dai Shi
• Dubliners (-4, -25)
• Frankenstein (122, 16)
• Jai Ge (110, 11)
• Jiu Ge (?)
• Li Sao (83, 3)
• Lolita
• The Analysis of Matter
• The Dark Tower
• The Leaf Storm
• The Rime (106, -62)
• The Shining
• Uncle Sam's Cabin
• Valperga (100, -5)
• Virgin Soil Upturned

COORD 118, -100 to 64, -98

• Humboldt's Gift (135, -104)
• Jude the Obscure (23, 174)
• Le Tartuffe (sp?)
• Pygmalion (73, 199)
• Tess of the d'Ubervilles (76, -100)
• The American Scholar
• The Green Mile
• The Jungle Book
• The Odyssey (101, -95)
• The Plague
• Ulysses (158, -86)
• Wise Blood (53, -112)

COORD 359, -43 (Chi Beast route)

• King Lear
• Metaphysics
• Ms. Found in a Bottle
• Notre Dame
• Othello
• The Fox and the Goat
• The Oak and the Calf
• The Raven
• The Republic
• Waiting for Godot (366, -94)

COORD 340, 21 (a little further than Chi Beast route)

• A Modern Comedy
• Don Quixote
• DreamTigers
• Kim
• La Douleur
• Little Red Riding Hood (350, -10)
• My Childhood
• Quietly Flows the Don (351, 82)
• Romeo and Juliet
• Salon of 1845
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• The Flower of Evil
• The Voyage of the Beagle (322, -15)
• The War Prayer

COORD 377, 107 (all around Righteous Manor)

• Being and Nothingness
• Four Quartets
• Knight's Gambit
• Le Comte de Monte-Cristo
• On Fame
• Pride and Prejudice
• The Black Cat
• The Mother
• The Sea-wolf
• The Sound and the Fury
• The Sun Also Rises
• The Wasteland
• Widower's Houses

(North Hills across from Righteous Manor)

• Hours of Idleness
• The Old Man and the Sea

COORD 287, 57 (East Gate around the riverbank)

• A Dog's Tale
• Balaki
• Crime and Punishment
• Elective Affinities
• Georges Danton
• John Christopher
• Lady Susan (287, 103)
• Nausia (274, 100) (spawns once: first spawn only)
• Ode to a Grecian Urn
• Snow Country
• The Gulag Archipelago
• The Three Musketeers
• To Autumn

(The Sol River-East Gate Side)

• A Krapp's Last Tape
• Catalepton
• Following the Equator
• Labyrinth
• The American Scholar
• Zaztrozzi

Book Sets

The list of authors and books you need to get for the set. Authors listed by: Name - Surname. (list in progress)

• Aesop
  • Dog and the Wolf
  • Farmer and the Viper
  • Fox and the Goat
• Agatha Christie
  • Murder at Vicarage
  • Alibi
• Alexander Dumas
  • La Traviata
  • Monsieur Alphonse
• Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  • The Oak of the Calf
  • The Gulag Archipelago
• Albert Camus
  • The Myth of Sisyphus
  • The Rebel
• Albert Camus
  • The Stranger
  • The Plague
• Aristotle
  • Logic
  • Metaphysics
• Arthur Conan Doyle
  • His Last Bow
  • Valley of Fear
• Brothers Grimm
  • Hansel and Gretel
  • Little Red Riding Hood
• Charles Baudelaire
  • The Flowers of Evil
  • Salon of 1845
• Charles Darwin
  • The Origin of Species
  • The Voyage of the Beagle
• Dante Alighieri
  • Convivo
  • Divine Comedy
• Edgar Allan Poe
  • The Raven
  • Ms. Found in a Bottle
• Emile Zola
  • Nana
  • Germinal
• Ernest Hemingway
  • The Old Man and the Sea
  • A Farewell to Arms
• Ezra Pound
  • A Lume Spento
  • The Pisan Cantos
• Flannery O'Connor
  • Wise Blood
  • The Complete Stories
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Great Gatsby
  • Tender is the Night
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • Crime and Punishment
  • Notes from Underground
• Geoffrey Chaucer
  • The Canterbury Tales
  • The Book of the Duchess
• George Bernard Shaw
  • Pygmalion
  • Widower's Houses
• George Byron
  • The Age of Bronze
  • Heaven and Earth
  • Hours of Idleness
• Giovanni Boccaccio
  • The Decameron
  • Rime
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Uncle Sam's Cabin
  • How to Live to Christ
• Henry David Thoreau
  • Walden
  • Poem of Nature
• Honore de Balzac
  • Vautrin
  • La Maratre
• Horatio Alger Jr.
  • Dan, the Detective
  • Street Life in New York
• Ivan Turgenev
  • Fathers and Sons
  • A Hunter's Sketches
• Jack London
  • White Fang
  • The Sea-Wolf
• Jack London
  • Martin Eden
  • The Call of the Wild
• Joseph Conrad
  • Heart of Darkness
  • The Arrow of Gold
• Jules Verne
  • Five Weeks in a Balloon
  • Around the Moon
  • The Mysterious Island
• Kahlil Gibran
  • The Prophet
  • Sand and Foam
• Leo Tolstoy
  • Anna Karenina
  • War and Peace
• Marguerite Duras
  • The Lover
  • La Douleur
• Mark Twain
  • Adventures of Tom Sawyer
  • A Tramp Abroad
• Mark Twain
  • Roughing It
  • The War Prayer
• Mark Twain
  • Following the Equator
  • Is he Dead?
• Mary Shelley
  • Frankenstein
  • Valperga
• Maxim Gorky
  • The Mother
  • My Childhood
• Miguel de Cervantes
  • Don Quixote
  • The Siege of Numantia
• Milan Kundera
  • The Farewell Waltz
  • Ignorance
• Moliere
  • La Tartuffe
  • Don Juan
• Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • To Jane
  • Zastrozzi
• Plato
  • Crito
  • The Republic
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Self-Reliance
  • The American Scholar
• Rudyard Kipling
  • The Jungle Book
  • Kim
• Robert Frost
  • My Butterfly: An Elegy
  • Nothing Gold Can Stay
• Romain Rolland
  • Georges Danton
  • John Christopher
• Samuel Beckett
  • Waiting for Godot
  • Krapp's Last Tape
• Sherwood Anderson
  • Poor White
  • Death in the Woods
  • Dark Laughter
• Stephen King
  • Carrie
  • The Dark Tower
  • The Shining
  • The Green Mile
• Stendhal
  • Scarlet and Black
  • Armance
• Thomas Hardy
  • Jude the Obscure
  • Tess of the d'Ubervilles
• Victor Hugo
  • Les Miserables
  • Notre-Dame de Paris
• Vladimir Nabokov
  • Lolita
  • Invitation to a Beheading
• William Shakespeare
  • Hamlet
  • King Lear
• William Shakespeare
  • Othello
  • Romeo and Juliet
• Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Faust
  • Elective Affinities

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