TJtheObscure – Minecraft Monumenta – Episode 7: Mage’s Tower

And welcome back everybody once again – monumento I am TJ the obscuri with you and we are back in the main city I need to figure out the name of this place I know it starts with an S but I cannot for the life of me remember so after the

Crap storm that was the last couple of episodes I figured we would take things a little easy this then this time around and do a quest we still need to do the mages quest line which I’m pretty sure it involves talking to the Dean up here

At the top of this building I went ahead and I used my well first of all after completing the the wool dungeon you’re supposed to get another skill point I for some reason did not get one but thankfully one of the mods was able to

Help me out so I used my second skill point on yet another thing of exploration which gives me a luck luck point point of luck which should help out with loot and whatnot all right let’s go ahead and talk to Vargas welcome to my office is there anything I

Can do for you learning about the Academy there’s much to learn it is a large noble building with a fascinating history whose skull is that a bold question it is a daily reminder and not a pleasant one at that I will tell you but only if you do something for me as

Well agreed years ago high mage Azariah was driven mad and retreated to his tower north of here stealing important notes about the black root jungle I would go myself but anyway when I anyway when I read the notes you will get answers or when I read the notes you will get answers

Mages legacy lengths long difficulty easy head to the mages tower north of the city to collect the research notes so that’s what we are going to be doing this episode my favorite my favorite part of a kit like being in the city is just getting the jump off of really

Really tall buildings and whatnot it’s a lot of fun a lot of fun and hopefully hopefully we don’t encounter too many issues I’m really I’m really hoping this is just a kind of relaxed Epis where I don’t die that would that would be that would be preferable I think I’m

Working with pretty basic pretty basic gear I guess some of it is Tier three stuff but for the most part it’s pretty pretty normal I do have this which actually is not too bad the health boost which is not that great because it disappears whenever you switch out oh

But it doesn’t have to regen the heart huh yeah no no there it goes there goes and yeah just basic basic stuff so I’ll see you guys at the mages tower alright here we are let’s go ahead and eat the last of that steak and still with the ladders

And whatnot but I think the the tower itself should have been reset so it should be a fresh tower for us I think what we get from this quest is a shield but I’m not entirely sure about that but I forgets a pretty good shield I of

Course lost all of my all of my really really good gear especially that the shield that I had are these Archer dudes looks like they might be let’s go ahead and take out mr. creeper it seemed kind of odd that the creeper only took two shots there that was a terrible shot

That was a terrible shot they’re moving they’re moving I cannot hit them I cannot hit them oh please I I’m starting to think that it’s just my internet just because I don’t blow up my my XP bottles guy oh just just because other people don’t seem to be having the same lag

That I have sharpness to is decent but I think we’re good on that go ahead and head up I kind of yep okay there there are mages here actually maybe those guys weren’t archers that I saw maybe they were these guys would be the blaze rods which are actually nice

For extending potions and whatnot and for letting me on fire thank you very much let’s go ahead and head up and take out this spawner if we can I don’t know how I avoid getting hit there but I did and it feels good it feels a better very

Good indeed that will not work I will most certainly not work this should work though boom big explosion let’s get in here and start lighting things up and whatnot nope do not let me on fire people all right run away run away run away and eat the foods and experience

The lag shoot him off the side nope he’s supposed to go outside tell Josh not good not good oh gosh dang it man I I don’t know I need to watch some other people’s videos I think I know logon Brian 111 I think is his name he has released

Some videos I know ty has as well and a few other people so maybe I should see if other people are having the same same problems with lag that I am if not then it’s just just my internet and there’s not really much I can do about that

I don’t like their being okay there are Archer deeds it looks like kind of moving kind of slow though I don’t have that many arrows we need to try our best to conserve them here I think um let’s just go ahead and eight hey let

Me up let me up let me up I say okay taken care of door leads to the outside and there’s some kind of cave right there interesting probably want to take out you I heard a creeper fall but I do not see a creeper I guess we’ll figure that out eventually

Does this take us somewhere nope just a little little balcony it looks like I almost feel like it would be smarter to hold off on collecting loot until you’ve actually conquered the entirety of the dungeon on the other hand I don’t want people showing up and taking the loot so

Anything in the fern I apparently not I have thirty levels I need to go and find something to repair I think I have a good sword that I can repair may want to do that help me out Amos creeper thank you oh really blindness huh oh gosh that is uh that’s

Pretty that’s pretty strong this yeah that that’s where that did like three or four hearts hello there mr. creeper I see a spawner right over there let’s go ahead and take it out of can thank you and light up things another little outside area our people why are people like climbing climbing on

Top of the world which i think is actually can actually get you kicked off the server or can get you in trouble at least look at that creeper jookin juking and jiving and oh gosh okay do not blow up on my face please okay you’re one of the regular archers

It looks like and I am in range of that spawner over there nicely done light it up and take out the lay spawner feel like something’s going to fall on my head I think we’re just about to the top here waiting to get the loot wood also helped in terms of spawns

And whatnot cuz right now we’re setting off spawners I’m sure no oh that was close that was close and of course blindness more blindness I thought you were done with the blindness Eliseo thing guy so the worst part of race crap one was all the blindness does

He see me I don’t think you saw me oh this must be the boss guy I don’t know if destroying the spawner was a good idea then I mean ideally should drop the research notes jungle research notes fantastic and switch to our bread is that everything I feel like there should

Be more more stuff here but apparently not that’s a lot of uh I do want the glowstone actually so that we can strengthen some of these these health potions that I have there’s still another part to this tower though I Guess we’ll take it on from the bottom not not too challenging not too bad and if you had some teammates then it would be a breeze the one thing that seems a little much is the the blindness arrows but again if you’re blind and you have a

Have a partner with you then it shouldn’t be too bad because they’ll be able to watch your back in fact I can go ahead and I staying it to lengthen some of these potions right now or strengthen some of them right now actually no I

Cannot I do not have my blaze powder on me alright fine fine fine fine block you off not sure if that leads us anywhere or not waiting for something to spawn you okay run away I think it’s blindness and slowness which yeah that’s that seems a little much especially for an early

Early quest where’d the guy go where’d the creeper go there’s a hole there apparently where are you at mr. Archer yes attack of the creeper and dodge all the arrows those layers good job my creeper pal one two let’s go ahead and just block off this direction

For now I think it’s what we’re going to do and just ignore all that stuff who followed down who follow down nope okay those are not to blind this dudes let’s see here how do i best want to take this out because they are spawning quickly man they are spawning very very quickly

Indeed oh come on place the block there guy all right actually make our way in here and start taking out some of these spawners is what we need to be doing here nope nope nope scroll I’m finding a new mouse desperately desperately desperately desperately I don’t like that I can fall

Right there that would not be good and I do not like to lag either this really would be significantly easier with a partner got sit there having some issues they’re all like stuck under there for some reason alright room has almost been cleared one guy left mister apprentice you shall die you’re fired

Sorry couldn’t help it good help but make the make the reference I swear I just saw a chest and I’m seeing things now it’s not good that is not good okay there’s a chest here oh but I feel like this should there should be more to this

Right does it keep going up is there way up and I guess there’s nothing there there’s still the downstairs area though light up all the things I did not quite get it did not quite get it all really thing cheater that’s it I hope I got both of their attention yes

Indeed all right lovely floor has been cleared I feel like okay there we go they can fight and they can they can blow up that was pretty funny that was pretty funny boom big explosion alright somebody come and blow me up over here please thank you okay good whew mage tower is

Responding in two minutes be careful here I think we should make it out in time though and Brogue knife some basic basic stuff nothing all that great though I wasn’t expecting amazing loot because this is a starting area or one of the early quests nope nothing

Here good source for books in case you ever need bookshelves anything a bit more XP yes we do want that alright lovely let’s go ahead and return to the city with our research notes and see what umm see what the dean of the school has to say

Alright here we are I like how the book is like we can’t can’t decode it it’s pretty cool you found the notes tell me is as a riot nevermind I don’t think I want to know flips through notes alas they seem to be magically encrypted as a rise old office

Is on the roof if you can figure out which levers to pull and push the button on his desk it should cast a translation spell in the book you should be able to find clues in the library on the ground floor alright now I have heard people

Talking about this this quest can we keep going up how do we keep going up perhaps out here and how how difficult the puzzle is so we shall I’ll probably end up ending this quite a bit as I try to figure it out I need to find the the

Levers themselves though oh here we go here we go alright so we flick the levers and then press the button and the clues are in the library on the ground floor so I head let’s head there it might be faster to simply jump off the top here perhaps we oh gosh makes me

Sick to my stomach sometimes alright to the library we go I think this is what they’re talking about tax reports tax revenue Eastern Province Eastern taxes have been consistently high I wonder if that means that the switches on the east side need to be up perhaps scarred for

Life we return from a terrible land a maze of realms each lethal than the last armies of undead and a dwarven empire were the least of our concerns when we began to be attacked by monstrous lizard folk and mortal creepers and ninjas few of us survived sounds like rage

Craft later madness wandering delusional through hellish hallucinations and dreaming of death itself of the hundreds of us who entered only a few survived I pray that no one else has to suffer through that that I have no idea what the clue would be they’re an awful concert the merchants guild put on a

Concert yesterday a choir from the northern realms it was a travesty the moment they began I knew something wasn’t right a dirge sung much too high lacking any somber tones and as soon as I and as soon as that singer left the stage left they reached a new low with a round of

Body songs best suited for a tavern finally a pair of twins twirled to the middle of the stage to perform a duet but the one on the right was off-key higher than his brother henceforth I will skip foreign concerts so I’m thinking it’s talking about the northern switches maybe and like to capitalize

Letters huh I I don’t know I’m gonna take the ones that I think are giving me a clue and we’ll try to figure it out may just end up pulling neighbors randomly and trying to do that Western winds the wind from the West has changed much over the years in the distant past

When we had left everything behind we knew the wind blew low across the lake in the middle days of our kingdom it was strong howling through the streets with high power right now however the wind is low flags barely fluttering the breeze while the learned majors dismissed us as

A natural phenomenon I fear it is a dark omen for a great city that seems pretty clear so the switch is on in the West the left switch should be low the middle switch should the high and the right switch should be low as well that one seems that one

Seems like we like it makes sense and fishery surveys southern fishery survey results all numbers are estimates but should be accurate numbers are low okay I don’t remember there being switches on the southern side which would be that way right I don’t know we’ll figure this

Out though I like that there’s a blend of puzzles in the in the question whatnot maybe maybe a bit too cryptic I don’t know we’ll have to wait and see I yes hey hey hey gosh player did it really just reset I think it really just

Reset uh I got to do it all over again okay I think it was something like that gosh dang it I think the eastern one it says after a year a dismal year with low revenue they’ve been consistently high so that that seems to make sense and in western

Wins when we had left everything behind we knew the wind blew low across the lake so it should be low in the middle days of our kingdom it was strong with high power and then it’s been low again I think that’s right and in the awful concert it says I knew something wasn’t

Right so the right one a dirge song much too high so that one needs to be up and as soon as that singer left the stage they reached a new low so the left one needs to be down with a rounded body songs best suited finally a pair of

Twins it’s the middle ones twirl to the middle of the stage to perform a duet but the one on the right was off-key higher than his brother I think I think we have it right hey look at that So that one decrypted notes alright that’s not much of a decryption that that wasn’t hard at all the one that kind of throws it off is the one that talks about the South because there are no levers on the south but I mean that’s kind of obvious to me

That there are no levers then the book is it’s a red herring right it’s stranded throw you off the scent throw you off track so I don’t know that that was not hard at all to me but other others might might get confused so let’s

See we know do not need the books I’m sorry for littering I hate people who litter but it is a video game credibly done now we can finally of course its intellects and he always did that did love that language to laxen that sounds like something out of a Star Trek isn’t

Aren’t the Talaxians a Star Trek race anyways what else did you say the next step is to find a translator there was a skilled translator named our Meese though he left the city years ago he was a bit reclusive so perhaps he lives somewhere in the swamp okay I feel like I’ve been

Up and down through the swamp but I don’t recall ever seeing a guy huh well I guess we’re gonna go and explore and see what we can find all right that wasn’t that wasn’t too difficult the swamp is kind of large though so I could certainly see some

People getting lost so a lot of wooden tools it’s pretty much in the kind of southeastern most corner of the of the swamp like the abandoned docks or the haunted docks whatever like right over there that you do for the pirate quest oh cool cool you died yeah those bandits

Are pretty rough especially the executioner’s although they move rather slow so I had a bunch of junk let’s go ahead and talk to him I smell that book that’s until accent I can translate it for you for a price you do squish them you go squish them glue glue pad oops

Nearby and bring me a bit of gloop and I’ll do it what gloop-gloop of dupes said what he said glue pad oops as you like oppa Loompas and bring me some of their gloop I have no idea was talking about but I’m assuming there’s some kind of custom

Gloop mob nearby that we have to kill maybe slime um huh I’m guessing that that is the gloop gloop a dupe are you the gloop a dupe I didn’t see any kind of name tag on them it just says slime ball I do not know people are again torn up by those

Bandits oh the slimes they’re so very powerful and that’s it all right another help potion let’s head up all right so it is the slime the slime will need to be named and they only seem to drop the gloop occasionally that’s it and let’s just go ahead and block them

Off where in the heck did you come from mr. spider that was kind of odd all the health potions me all the health potions please man lots of people are dying like every like every 30 seconds there’s a death message alright my gloop I’ll be eating good tonight all you eat it

Here’s your book I’ll try and let it out get out of my tower all right back to the Academy we go to talk with the Dean and hopefully hopefully there’s not too much more of a quest left here’s one of the minds by the way I think this is the

Southeastern mine in case anybody was wondering there’s some chords for you then the mines are low hard to find but I think that they are addressing that problem in the next update all right here we are back at the academy let’s talk to mr. Vargo so that is the end of

The quest so you guys bye Hermy now interesting that aside we can read this book now it seems a bit cryptic but I think if we both explore around we can solve it keep this copy and here take these as well for your help of course a

Deal’s a deal allow me a moment to steal my mind and then I will tell you about the skull mages legacy is complete awarded morphic shield and two Imperial coins really well that’s pretty that’s pretty generous and a mending shield yeah wow that’s nice with the speed buff as well

Honestly that reward seems better than any other reward from the other quests that I’ve gotten that I’ve done but the quest itself seems significantly easier a bit longer perhaps but uh yeah just I’m kind of kind of surprised that was every kid at shield like that all right

A soda thout without me dying and a quest line that I thought was pretty pretty enjoyable and pretty well done I did not get confused for have issues like a lot of other players seem to have had the one thing that needs to be addressed is that the slimes are not

Named or at least say I didn’t see a name maybe maybe they are but yeah that gives us three Imperial coins now from what I understand these are the most valuable things on the server so we definitely want to hold on to those and

We got a nice bit of XP from that as well next episode I don’t know where the location of the orange wool dungeon is so next episode if I find it and that’s then that’s what we’ll try and do but most likely will be doing another quest

I think we’ve done most of the quests here at the starting city so we’ll move on to the quests in near and the question far as well so anyways you guys that’s going to be it for me for today thanks for watching everybody hope you enjoyed and I will see you next time You