Recommended Items to carry. Dagger, scissors a pouch or bag to put loot in DO NOT carry a rune book, these are not blessed and can be taken from your body if you die. Escorting is a simple, fairly safe way to earn gold. Escorting is leading a npc character to the destination they wish to go to. These characters are easy to find, they wander around towns. Some are merchants, mages, nobles, etc. Simple move next to them and say the word "destination" The npc will state which city or dungeon they desire. Be careful in deciding at this point which npc you are able to escort. Many of these npc wish to go to city's assessable using the moongates. Chose these characters, by saying "I will take thee" . If they wish to go to a location you are unable or not sure you can take them, simply move away and find a new npc. Moongate Towns: Britian, Jhelom, Magincia, Minoc , Moonglow, Skara Brae, Trinsic, and Vesper. Note: Magincia can be a challenge as you must run through a jungle area to the town. Giant Serpents and other biting creatures spawn there. Trinsic is a bit of walk, with some monsters, most of these you can outrun. Minoc and Vesper share a moongate, is a walk to either city. Wait about 15 minutes and you can do another escort. Go to easy dungeons for lower skilled players. Not only do you get gold from slaying the monsters, but you can also get items from the crates and kegs without using lockpicking skill, by using the low level mage spells, magic untrap and magic unlock. Most of the chests you will need lockpicking skill. You can identify the loot able crates by targeting them, it will say "a crate" or "a key" no more information. First use the magic untrap spell, (most have low level traps), next the magic unlock. You do not need stealing skill, simply pick the items out of the container. Remember almost everything can be sold in game, so if the loot is something you do not need, take it to sell. Minoc or Britian are good cities in which to sell all items from these crates or kegs. Also take into account the weight you are carrying, you can overload yourself and not be able to move. While out adventuring you might wish to skin some of the creatures. Reptiles and lizardmen/ratmen give spinned leather. To skin a corpse simply target it with your dagger, you will get a pile of hides. Use your scissors to cut this into leather. You might chose to sell this spinned leather to other players. Tailors us it. You can advertise you have it for sale either on the Trading Post section here on forums, or in the irc chat. You might also wish to store it for future use if you wish a tailor. Again, almost everything can be sold to npc , from raw meat to weapons and armor. Hope this helps. Have fun and enjoy our world
It is set at 1 minute on UOR. The timer starts the instant you say "I will take thee" and an NPC says "Lead on..." one minute later you can grab another escort. For non-mage escorters it is best to round up as many as you can find in a town waiting one minute cool down between each offer/acceptance until you have a gaggle (think that is proper term) of NPCs.. think it caps at 6. Now head to moongate and rake in that sweet coin. If you find one for a dungeon and accidentally agree to escort or just want to reset them, agree to take them and then say "(name) release" and they will disegage and despawn in a few seconds. If you just have one escort and want to release them.. say a Wrong seeker during Valentine event... you can just say "release" to kick them lose.
