Talking to YanvirIn order to talk to Yanvir, you must have at least 25 points. Unlike Julius, Yanvir can and will show up almost anywhere, and may even drop by your house or the shop.
In case you had not already gathered, Yanvir is not completely sane. He tends to refer to himself in third person and go off on tangents. You're welcome to speak to him provided you meet the point requirement, but don't expect to get anything useful out of the conversation.
Questing with YanvirJust like with Julius, receiving a quest from Yanvir costs 1 QP for rare item quests and 2 QP for immortality quests. On the plus side, questing through Yanvir means you don't have to deal with Julius's riddles. On the other hand, you do have to deal with Yanvir.
It is much, much, much easier to get a quest from Yanvir. Yanvir does not spend his time hiding under houses or avoiding people. He likes people. However, he will require some form of payment for his quest. It is up to you to come up with something that Yanvir might like and offer it to him in exchange for a quest.
NEW: You are responsible for obtaining an image on a white background of whatever payment is asked for. You can buy it from a shop, google it, or draw it yourself, but you
must roleplay the acquisition of the item.
In addition, Julius's quests tend to be good in nature, while Yanvir's are slightly evil. Yanvir generally does not care what your feien's strengths and weaknesses are. He will happily send a feien with one stamina point on a trek across the desert, or have a feien with one strength point be required to move a large boulder. (Julius, on the other hand, will only send you on quests that you might reasonably accomplish.) If you do several quests with Julius, Yanvir will not give you quests. If you do several quests with Yanvir, Julius will not give you quests. The two do not like each other.
Yanvir's quests generally don't require as much roleplaying and time as Julius's quests, but have a much higher failure rate.
NEW: There is a 25% chance that any quest Yanvir sends you on will fail. In comparison, you will always have a chance to succeed at Julius's quests provided you do enough writing.
For immortality quests, be warned. Yanvir will occasionally send people questing for immortality to their deaths. You have a
NEW: 1:15 chance of being sent on a death mission if you ask Yanvir for an immortality quest, and he gets to keep whatever you paid him. If you've done a lot of quests with Yanvir, though, you obviously cannot get an immortality quest through Julius, and will have to take the chance. In addition, there's still the 25% chance of failure. No, you don't get your QP back. On the other hand, if your feien is generally not a good person, Yanvir is your best bet, because the minute Julius finds out you've got a less than stellar reputation, he will refuse to deal with you.
In Short:Julius will give you good-oriented quests which you have to work hard at. His quests will take you lots of time and thought. If you put forth enough effort, you will always succeed.
Yanvir will give you evil-oriented quests which require much less work but have a high chance of failure, and possibly even death.
BUT! Just because you receive a quest from Julius or Yanvir DOES NOT mean you have to embark upon it or complete it. You could get a quest from Julius and a quest from Yanvir and then choose who you'd rather be questing for. Doing this will cost you QP for both quests, but it does give you more options.
NEW: Furthermore, you are responsible for obtaining all the necessary quest details from Yanvir, including where to look and what you are looking for. If you do not obtain this information, you will
automatically fail. Obtaining this information is not easy. You do not get to determine this information yourself. You may add your own hurdles to the quest, but the location of the quest and the details of the item are not up to you. Yanvir quests are vague to make it hard to obtain the information you need. Julian quests are vague to let you design the details of the quest yourself (and, to some extent, what you are questing for).
I do not make obtaining quests hard to spite people: it's not
supposed to be easy, though it will be easier for some feien than others depending on their attitudes, who they are asking, and how they approach the problem. The entire concept of a quest involves some sort of struggle. To balance out the lack of RP required for a Yanviran quest, you are expected to struggle to obtain the quest details. The RP in which you obtain your Yanvir quest must also last longer than 15 posts and I
will throw obstacles in to lengthen it.
This being the case, I will not listen to any whining that you're not going on quests in the future because it was sooo hard talking to Yanvir or Julius. QUESTING IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE EASY. Even Yanvir quests are supposed to entail some difficulty. Accept this or don't go on quests. (Might I point out, less quests = less work for me, so I'm not going to suffer any if you throw up your hands and walk off.) The ancients who give out quests are intentionally difficult to deal with for various reasons and have -always- been so difficult. They used to give quests to the ancient feien before they died off, after all.
So for one last time: be prepared for hurdles with questing because that's part of what questing is about, overcoming hurdles. Remember that neither Yanvir nor Julius are mechanical quest dispensers, they will sometimes jump to conclusions or judge your feien harshly, they will play favorites and they will be petty, they will take offense at certain behaviors or actions and will reward generously for others. They have histories you do not know about which influence their actions and responses. At the end of the day, they are no different from any other feien in these regards, and no different from any of the people on Gaia or the Earth at large.
