From everything I've read, all you need is the blackened wand and the blackened sapphire, and the orange sash. I too am waiting on the sapphire. My advice is petition a GM BEFORE you try it, show the items to the GM, then turn them in.
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On Mon, 14 Jun 1999 09:53:59 Aaron Braunstein wrote:
>From: Aaron Braunstein <aaron_spam@...>
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> I have recently acquired an item which I was told is Marnek's wand.
>However, I was under the impression that what was necessary to fulfil the
>Monk's red sash quest are actually TWO PIECES of the Wand of the Burning
>Dead. I therefore expected to be needing two different inventory items. I
>asked somebody on-line about this, and he showed me his own Red Sash and
>told me that the whole wand is what he used.
> Can somebody confirm this for me? I'm a little (well, a lot) leery
>of gambling this whole wand as well as my sash (not to mention the
>still-to-be-obtained saphire) when I turn them in for the Red sash.
> Oh yeah, one more thing. I've recently put both my orange sash and
>orange headband in the bank and wend with mesh articles in their stead.
>The theory is that the AC (and damage dissipation) they offer more than
>offsets the small stat bonuses provided by the quest items - not to mention
>the fact that we can't even proudly display these thins as we walk around.
>Is anybody else of this opinion as well? At what point would the
>sash/headband properties outweigh mesh's?
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>Aaron Braunstein
>Pacific Data Management, Inc.
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