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The Unfinished Tale of Bob the Snail

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by DrJason, Sep 23, 2022.

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    Jay's curiosity is a questline lv35+ that involves Bob the Snail. After finding the maple history books (lv 25 quest) Jay learns about Bob and tasks you to find him.

    https://maplelegends.com/lib/quest?id=4928 (here is the quest info)

    You kill Bob in Drake's meal table and then show it to a bunch of NPC's around Victoria Island to learn about Bob. He is apparently as old as the maple universe and has helped various people. We also learn from Jay that snails are born on maple island. During one of the sub-quests, the Rememberer steals him and you have to fetch another snail shell to trick him into taking an imposter Bob instead. You bring him to Jay at the end and he mentions some place that Bob would like to visit, and the questline ends. All of this is what is currently coded in Legends.

    I did some research and apparently this quest line was NEVER completed in GMS (or any server presumably). The Legends library (pulls quests from the original wz files) shows that there are some sub-quests which are currently missing. These are listed in the library but are empty, un-startable quests:

    https://maplelegends.com/lib/quest?id=4939
    https://maplelegends.com/lib/quest?id=4935
    https://maplelegends.com/lib/quest?id=4934
    https://maplelegends.com/lib/quest?id=4933
    https://maplelegends.com/lib/quest?id=4937 (this one has dialogue and even breaks the 4th wall, very funny)

    In addition, Bruce mentions talking to Winston near Perion (one of the quests above) but this is not necessary to complete the quest for some reason. And there is no satisfactory conclusion to the quest. What am I supposed to do with Bob?!

    I just wanted to share this unfortunate instance of missing Maplestory lore in case anyone in the future wonders why this quest ends so abruptly. Personally I have kept Bob with me ever since completing this quest 4 years ago (he is droppable btw).

    Why do you think Neckson never finished this quest and how do you think they should have ended it?
     
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