Quest: Grunfeld Bogs : A crazed hermit

This quests is for some nice affects, especially if you're a low-level character. To complete this whole questline, it shouldn't take more than 20 minutes.

Finding the Crazed Hermit

The Grunfeld Bogs is the area just NNW of Ruushi. If you hit NaPoli, where the fields and Ants are, you've gone too far. The crazed man is the first quest mob you see. He sits in the NW corner of the big room, past the Murky Pond.

Here's the room he sits in:

The Grunfeld Bogs [ exits: east south ]
The entire area is a series of fog obscured bogs. The air is filled with 
the stench of decaying plant material and rotting carcasses of those animals 
not strong enough to survive the demands of this fetid place. The ground is
soaked with water and the muck that forms catches small rodents and pulls 
them to their grave. The occasional traveler's boot sticks out of the mud.

His mob string is:

A very unkempt man stares at you with a glassy stare.

The quest begins!

Use "check hermit" to start the quest line:

A crazed hermit tells you, 'Huh! I haven't seen anyone in these parts for quite
some time. Praise the gods above! They've sent a messenger to help me on my holy quest.'

< emote > A crazed hermit lowers his voice and waves his arms in a random direction.

A crazed hermit tells you, 'Shhhhh! They might hear you. I have a very important quest for
you. I need 5 tentacles and 2 spearplant blades to create a salve for you, how you get
them is up to you. Collect these items for me and return them to me as quickly as possible!'

You have opened a quest (type quests open for more details).

Gather the items

There are a lot of different mobs in the area, but the two you're looking for are the tentacle and the spear plant.

Here are the mob strings you're looking for:

Spear Plant:

A plant with spear-like leaves seems to move with you.

[ X ] spear plants carpet the swamp.

Tentacle:

A tentacle strikes out of the bog with stunning speed.

A mass of [ X ] tentacles grope for you!

When you kill them, you'll sometimes see a drop, which are not particularly rare:

[ 748 ] You land [ 1 of 1 ] attacks on a tentacle: MUTILATING (748) damage!!
A tentacle falls to the ground! He is dead!
You receive 69,794 (+13,921 learn, +1,014 rp) exp.
You get a pile of 2,073 gold.
You get a severed tentacle.

[ 906 ] A beam of light fires from your eyes DEHISCES (906) a spear plant!!
A spear plant falls to the ground! He is dead!
You receive 123,038 (+17,392 learn, +1,548 rp) exp.
You get a pile of 3,736 gold.
You get a spearplant blade.

Perhaps the tentacle drops less often, and it seems as though spear plants are less common. The repop timer on Bogs is quite short though, and should be no problem working through, even if it takes a couple of laps. Once you get the required items, head back to the Crazed Hermit.

Giving the items over

Use the "check man" command to check the Hermit's

A crazed hermit can open player quests. 
A crazed hermit can open or complete at least one quest you have not completed.

A crazed hermit tells you, 'At last! Just give me the tentacles and blades and I'll start working'

  You have 120 seconds to give 5 tentacles and 2 spearplant blades to the 
  hermit.

Hand the items over:

give tentacle, man
give tentacle, man
give tentacle, man
give tentacle, man
give tentacle, man
You give a severed tentacle to a crazed hermit.
You give a severed tentacle to a crazed hermit.
You give a severed tentacle to a crazed hermit.
You give a severed tentacle to a crazed hermit.
You give a severed tentacle to a crazed hermit.
give blade, man
give blade, man
You give a spearplant blade to a crazed hermit.
You give a spearplant blade to a crazed hermit.

He gets excited and gets to work:

< emote > A crazed hermit puts the leaves and tencacles in a bowl and begins to grind them to a mash.

A crazed hermit says, 'Ok, this shouldn't hurt one bit.'
A crazed hermit says, 'Thank you very much Doos. I've applied the salve
on your body (check "affects"). If you should  happen to be in the area
just return to me with 5 tentacles and 2 spearplant blades and I'll make you
another mixture.'
Note: This quest NPC has given you a quest lock affect, see 'help affect: quest lock'.

A crazed hermit reward experience: +60,000,000 (learn curve: 3,909,397, role-play: 600,318) experience!

You have completed a quest (type quests completed for more details).
To see if this quest NPC has more quests, type: check <NPC name>.

Make sure you're done

Use "check man" and you'll see:

A crazed hermit can open player quests. 
You have completed all the quests this NPC can open or complete.
Note: you should check this NPC for new quests from time to time.