Speaking of Meow Brother's hidden quest, you had to mention his terrible luck—the kind that made people mourn just hearing about it and weep at the sight of him.
After the players took down the Blood Eagle Corridor, a high-level raid, they experienced their first in-game loot boxes. Everyone got something, and some even got mounts. Only Meow Brother's group came away with almost nothing worthwhile.
It was as if they'd been cursed by something foul. Of course, this disaster was the consequence of spreading gossip behind people's backs. No matter how bad things got, they had to put up with it themselves.
But Meow Brother's situation was special.
Back then, he'd obtained an unfinished blueprint, which kicked off a long quest chain to find a "Necessary Evil replica." The very first step had nearly stumped him.
The quest required him to make a weapon blank for a replica of Necessary Evil, but the blacksmiths at the camp couldn't handle it. He'd had to invite two "master swordsmiths" from his social circle into the game to get the job done.
But after he submitted the blank to Lord Murphy, the quest had stalled.
No matter what he tried, he couldn't get the next stage of the hidden quest to trigger. Meow Brother had thought he was just unlucky, but only now, when the third part of the quest had activated, did he realize that it wasn't his bad luck—the hidden quest couldn't be triggered until the major update to version 3.0!
Holy shit!
That scared the hell out of me.
Meow Brother let out a long breath, then reached into the weapon case and grasped the replica magic sword, which Mrs. Triss had personally enchanted. His joy at having something he'd thought lost returned, he took hold of the now-distinctive,