Unsolved Mysteries

Some people just like exploring and trying to solve puzzles.

Here's a few ponderous things whose solutions are definitely not well known.

Note that there are of course many more and harder things to do, getting to big mobs, tricky areas, etc, but here I'm more interested in little things, that probably anybody can do. Small ponderous things.

If anybody wants to shoot the shit about these, let me know.

Dobra's Recipes

Dobra drops recipes, where to find all the ingredients and what they ultimately make?

The first is all 'aquatic stuff'.

You take a closer look at a piece of paper in inventory...
  _____________________________________________________________
 / _\                                                          \
| /  |                                                         |
| \_/__________________________________________________________/
 \                                                          \
  \                 Ambergris                                \
   \                 Thistle Down                             \
  __\                 Cattail Tubers                           \
 / \ |                 A rotting fish carcass                   |
|  /_|                                                          |
 \__/__________________________________________________________/
.

The second recipe is all 'desert stuff'.

You take a closer look at a piece of paper in inventory...
.
  _____________________________________________________________
 / _\                                                          \
| /  |                                                          |
| \_/__________________________________________________________/
 \                                                          \
  \                 Mole Beans                               \
   \                 Lanatana Berries                         \
  __\                 Newt Eyes                                \
 / \ |                 a snakeskin                              |
|  /_|                                                          |
 \__/__________________________________________________________/
.

I know where some of the items are, but, haven't solved either recipe. Don't know anybody who has actually, but I'm not very social.

Tudrulk the Shaman

In "From The Stars" is Tudrulk the Shaman who says this:

Tudrulk the village shaman says 'I am waiting on supplies from Tar'pa Cithm, until then there is little I can do. '

Now, there's also a room in the area which is accessible by teleport-only, which contains a suggestion box for Sarakin, the area author. Within that room's description however is the comment ""Have you figured out the shaman yet?"

So, what is the puzzle here? What is this guy waiting for, and what happens if you find it and give it to him?

Curse of Prosperity

Inside the Inn, upstairs, is a mob who wears a ring that you can't get:

A triumphant adventurer is using:
<worn around neck>   (Red Aura) an emerald talisman on a pewter chain

When you attack them:

A triumphant adventurer exclaims 'You can't have it! It's mine!'
A triumphant adventurer clasps her hand around her talisman before attacking.
You parry a triumphant adventurer's attack.

Upon death, they cast invis on the item:

A triumphant adventurer is DEAD!!
A triumphant adventurer says 'You're not getting it that easy!'
A triumphant adventurer utters the words, 'uizug'.
An emerald talisman fades out of existence.

The corpse is then empty, you can't see the item in corpse with detects etc.

This was on an AV and lvl49, perhaps a lowbie is required? Or its just puzzzzlllyyyy

Roll The Bones

Here's a vague one for ya.

Mob 'Jhyrta' in Barren Peaks has a skull and you can find 12 bones in/around/on her.

These seem to be a 'roll the bones' fortune telling thing, which seems like its just a novelty item (like the dicing cup). But, it's still not super clear how it works exactly. (Also... it seems general consensus is a lot of things in this area are broken/unfinished) Anyways...... ponderous!

The Pagan Woman

I'm pretty sure hardly anybody has explored Tipsy Lizard Tavern a lot, and the whole area is one giant puzzle, but there's one smaller puzzle nested within that is curious:

There's a pagan woman in the Txeru section who progs when a 25wis cleric enters:

You say 'higher purpose'
The elder sits upright for a moment.
The elder says 'Long ago, when my time came and Kaais called to me, I thought I would finally be at eternal peace.'
 
The elder says 'Instead, Kaais blessed me with another chance at life and a very rare gift. The gift to speak
directly with the Gods .. the gift of transcendence.'
 
The elder says, 'I have only met one other who truly understood. He was a travelling warlock, seeking information from
exotic lands .. including this place. We shared the rituals together, and he recorded them in a tome. I sheltered
him from the rest of the tribe for as long as I could, but each day was a new risk and he took leave from here.'
 
The elder says, 'The tome would be the only way to understand the gift. He sought to profit from the trade of his
secret knowledge, so I would think that he would try and sell it in a trading village for those such things. Perhaps
a copy of the tome can still be found, but without the gift of transcendence itself, it is worthless.'

The elder closes her eyes and takes a long breath, relaxing back into a comfortable seating position.

Now "the Tome" is fairly easy to figure out and obtain, and once you have it and walk back to her:

The elder says 'Ah, the tome. Without the gift of transcendence from the Gods themselves, it is useless.'
The elder says 'Return to me when you obtain both the gift and the tome.'

The gift however, is still unknown to me.