NPC: Professor Silax
NPC: Professor Silax
Long Desc: Professor Silax stands here, his arms full of magical hare traps.
Professor Silax is a fairly obscure magical scientist from the Towne of
Sigil. Funded by a grant from the Council of the Arcane, he has been
researching the great jumping ability of the hare and potential applications
for use in designing magical apparatus to enhance humans' jumping ability,
perhaps producing a real pair of Seven League Boots. Fraudulent versions of
the boots exist in the world, but none can actually send the wearer seven
leagues in a given direction. Rumors have been circulating that the
Professor had produced a prototype pair that could send the wearer four
leagues, but not the full seven leagues as required by the specification.
Apparently he was experimenting with increasing the power of the boots when
a fierce, unexplained thunderstorm disrupted the delicate magical process
and caused a tremendous surge of etheric energy in his laboratory. The hares
that had been caged in the laboratory each gained unusual powers from the
magical discharge, and most escaped their cages and fled into the Towne of
Sigil.
Unfortunately, hares are renowned for their fecundity - and especially these
hares, who had been magically enhanced - and in no time at all had
reproduced and reproduced and are now spreading to many of the major Townes,
causing no end of trouble to the residents, who are partially to blame for
the spread of the hares off the continent of Auryn. Many people thought them
cute, and would take them home, only to discover that in a few weeks they
had several dozen hares when they only wanted the original two.
Professor Silax has come up with a magical trap for the hares, which he has
been giving out to anyone who offers to help him. The trap - operating under
an alchemical spell - will attract the hares and transform them into small
baubles of varying power, which may then be given to Professor Silax's
assistants Snide, Bide, Wide, and Pride, who are located in the townes with
the hares. The trap must be outfitted with a special lure to work, however,
and the list of lures that will attract the hares is somewhat limited.
Professor Silax will sell you lure. You can see the various lures by typing
SHOP LIST. Buy the one most appropriate for your level. Place the lure in
the trap and then set the trap on the ground. There can only be one baited
trap placed per location.
A special lure, silver clover, is offered to help brave adventurers capture
the illustrious silver hare, a magically mutated version of the previous
hares. This hare will turn into a pair of two, three, four, or five-league
boots when he is captured. If you should happen to stumble across a pair of
these two, three, four, or five-League boots, take advantage of them while
you can! They will last about a week maximum before the magical field
sustaining them wears out.
Professor Silax had a second experiment underway with some of these unique
hares that allows them to produce, of all things, brightly-colored eggs.
The purpose of this experiment has yet to be understood by anyone outside
the magio-scientific community, but the Professor has made it clear that he
will reward adventurers who, should they run across one of these special
eggs, return them to him or one of his assistants.
Unfortunately the eggs are extremely frail and reactive to their
environment. A slight trip or lapse of concentration while carrying one of
these eggs will almost instantly cause the egg to shatter. The special hares
that produce these eggs have mixed in with the others, so it's anyone's
guess as to where the eggs will appear, but you can bet there will be hares
nearby!
The hares have been cleared from Sigil using the traps, but the Townes of
Xaventry (where you will find hares for levels 11-60), New Rigel (where you
will find hares for levels 61-120), Rune (where you will find hares for
levels 121-180), and Vospire (where you will find hares for levels 181-241)
yet remain hare-ified.
If you'd like to help Professor Silax, try finding him in Sigil and saying
to him, "I will help recover the missing hares".
He is a human approximately 5'7" tall.
This NPC can be found in: Easter Global.
*This NPC is a shopkeeper.
*This NPC is protected by the Powers.
*This NPC is stationary.
This NPC is known to carry the following items:
1) a crisp lettuce leaf 16 150 gp
2) a large orange carrot 66 200 gp
3) a large spinach leaf 126 550 gp
4) a crisp head of lettuce 186 1,000 gp
5) a clump of silver clover 11 7,500 gp
Long Desc: Professor Silax stands here, his arms full of magical hare traps.
Professor Silax is a fairly obscure magical scientist from the Towne of
Sigil. Funded by a grant from the Council of the Arcane, he has been
researching the great jumping ability of the hare and potential applications
for use in designing magical apparatus to enhance humans' jumping ability,
perhaps producing a real pair of Seven League Boots. Fraudulent versions of
the boots exist in the world, but none can actually send the wearer seven
leagues in a given direction. Rumors have been circulating that the
Professor had produced a prototype pair that could send the wearer four
leagues, but not the full seven leagues as required by the specification.
Apparently he was experimenting with increasing the power of the boots when
a fierce, unexplained thunderstorm disrupted the delicate magical process
and caused a tremendous surge of etheric energy in his laboratory. The hares
that had been caged in the laboratory each gained unusual powers from the
magical discharge, and most escaped their cages and fled into the Towne of
Sigil.
Unfortunately, hares are renowned for their fecundity - and especially these
hares, who had been magically enhanced - and in no time at all had
reproduced and reproduced and are now spreading to many of the major Townes,
causing no end of trouble to the residents, who are partially to blame for
the spread of the hares off the continent of Auryn. Many people thought them
cute, and would take them home, only to discover that in a few weeks they
had several dozen hares when they only wanted the original two.
Professor Silax has come up with a magical trap for the hares, which he has
been giving out to anyone who offers to help him. The trap - operating under
an alchemical spell - will attract the hares and transform them into small
baubles of varying power, which may then be given to Professor Silax's
assistants Snide, Bide, Wide, and Pride, who are located in the townes with
the hares. The trap must be outfitted with a special lure to work, however,
and the list of lures that will attract the hares is somewhat limited.
Professor Silax will sell you lure. You can see the various lures by typing
SHOP LIST. Buy the one most appropriate for your level. Place the lure in
the trap and then set the trap on the ground. There can only be one baited
trap placed per location.
A special lure, silver clover, is offered to help brave adventurers capture
the illustrious silver hare, a magically mutated version of the previous
hares. This hare will turn into a pair of two, three, four, or five-league
boots when he is captured. If you should happen to stumble across a pair of
these two, three, four, or five-League boots, take advantage of them while
you can! They will last about a week maximum before the magical field
sustaining them wears out.
Professor Silax had a second experiment underway with some of these unique
hares that allows them to produce, of all things, brightly-colored eggs.
The purpose of this experiment has yet to be understood by anyone outside
the magio-scientific community, but the Professor has made it clear that he
will reward adventurers who, should they run across one of these special
eggs, return them to him or one of his assistants.
Unfortunately the eggs are extremely frail and reactive to their
environment. A slight trip or lapse of concentration while carrying one of
these eggs will almost instantly cause the egg to shatter. The special hares
that produce these eggs have mixed in with the others, so it's anyone's
guess as to where the eggs will appear, but you can bet there will be hares
nearby!
The hares have been cleared from Sigil using the traps, but the Townes of
Xaventry (where you will find hares for levels 11-60), New Rigel (where you
will find hares for levels 61-120), Rune (where you will find hares for
levels 121-180), and Vospire (where you will find hares for levels 181-241)
yet remain hare-ified.
If you'd like to help Professor Silax, try finding him in Sigil and saying
to him, "I will help recover the missing hares".
He is a human approximately 5'7" tall.
This NPC can be found in: Easter Global.
*This NPC is a shopkeeper.
*This NPC is protected by the Powers.
*This NPC is stationary.
This NPC is known to carry the following items:
1) a crisp lettuce leaf 16 150 gp
2) a large orange carrot 66 200 gp
3) a large spinach leaf 126 550 gp
4) a crisp head of lettuce 186 1,000 gp
5) a clump of silver clover 11 7,500 gp