Editing Diablo II/Golden Bird

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This quest is activated when a Jade Figurine, requiring 2x1 inventory space, drops from a {{DII|Enemies|Champion}}, {{DII|Enemies|Unique}} or {{DII|Enemies|Super Unique}} monster killed. This should normally be the first one generated in a game: if you're having trouble getting it to drop, in multiplayer create your own game (it won't drop if the game creator has already completed this quest) and travel to locations like {{DII|Blackened Temple|Travincal}} where Super Unique monsters can always be found.

{{DII/Log|The Golden Bird|Ask Cain about the Jade Figurine.}}

If you've already completed this quest in a previous multiplayer game, then you cannot pick up another Jade Figurine in a game created by someone who hasn't already done so. Upon returning to the Kurast Docks, other than {{DII|Act III: The Infernal Gate|Deckard Cain}} and {{DII|Act III: The Infernal Gate|Meshif}}, {{DII|Act III: The Infernal Gate|Asheara}} is the only one to whom you can talk about it:

{| {{prettytable}}
!Asheara
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|Only Deckard Cain can make sense of this.
|}

If you talk to Deckard Cain:

{| {{prettytable}}
!Deckard Cain
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|Back in Lut Gholein Meshif told me he had a fondness for jade figurines. On his trading voyages he collected an odd assortment of such small statues.<br><br>I would show him your figurine.
|}

{{DII/Log|The Golden Bird|Show Meshif the Figurine.}}

However, you can simply talk to Meshif directly:

{| {{prettytable}}
!Meshif
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|Praise you! That jade figurine will complete the set I was collecting.<br><br>Here! I've had this statuette of a golden bird for years, but I consider it a fair exchange.
|}

{{DII/Log|The Golden Bird|Ask Cain about the Golden Bird.}}

Aside from Cain and Asheara, you can now talk to {{DII|Act III: The Infernal Gate|Natalya}} and {{DII|Act III: The Infernal Gate|Hratli}} about it:

{| {{prettytable}}
!width=33%|Asheara
!width=34%|Natalya
!width=33%|Hratli
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|Such a beautiful statuette... But, you'd think it would've been better cared for. There's a compartment here that's full o' dust.
|I'm having fun just watching you run from place to place searching for a Golden Bird. Some hero you are.
|You will have to take Ku Y'leh's ashes to Alkor.
|}

If you talk to Deckard Cain (again):

{| {{prettytable}}
!Deckard Cain
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|I've read legends about a sage named Ku Y'leh, who studied the mysteries of life beyond death.<br><br>If I remember correctly, his ashes were ensconced within a golden statuette. It was a very strange tale.
|}

{{DII/Log|The Golden Bird|Give the Golden Bird to Alkor.}}

The Golden Bird also requires 2x1 inventory space. Once again, you can simply talk to {{DII|Act III: The Infernal Gate|Alkor}} directly:

{| {{prettytable}}
!Alkor
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|Ah, the Golden Bird of Ku Y'leh. Thank you, my friend.<br><br>Busy yourself while I experiment with the ashes within it. Then, return and see what I have made for you.
|}

{{DII/Log|The Golden Bird|Return to Alkor for reward.}}

You can talk to Alkor again immediately:

{| {{prettytable}}
!Alkor
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|From the ashes of Ku Y'leh I have mixed for you a potion.
|}

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|width=50%|{{DII/Log|The Golden Bird|Quest completed.}}
|width=50%|{{DII/Log|The Golden Bird|You completed this quest in a previous game.}}
|}

He has mixed you a Potion of Life, requiring one inventory space: right click to permanently add 20 to Life!

You can talk to the following about it:

{| {{prettytable}}
!width=50%|Deckard Cain
!width=50%|Natalya
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|So, Meshif had the Golden Bird all along. I wonder if he knows what he gave up for that jade figurine.
|I must admit, your foolish quest made little sense to me. But now I see the value of your actions. I believe you do possess great wisdom.
|-
!Meshif
!Ormus
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|Immortality is definitely not for me.<br><br>Can you imagine having to wake up every night just to piss for the next thousand years?
|Ormus remembers the tale of Ku Y'leh. That venerable sage forgot that there is no life beyond death. There is only life.<br><br>Once prolonged unnaturally, it can become a living hell.
|}

==Spider Forest==
Upon first entering the Spider Forest after crossing the bridge on the northeast side of the Kurast Docks, you run into a Dark Wanderer! However, he disappears and six {{DII|Demon|Flesh Beast}}s appear in his place.

The Spider Forest is randomly populated by three of the following six monster types: {{DII|Animal|Cloud Stalker}}s, {{DII|Demon|Fetish}}es, {{DII|Demon|Fetish Blow Piper}}s, {{DII|Animal|Jungle Hunter}}s, {{DII|Animal|Sucker}}s and {{DII|Animal|Thorned Hulk}}s. There are always {{DII|Demon|Fetish Shaman}}s with Fetishes and Fetish Blow Pipers guarding paths branching off from the river.

A waypoint and the entrance to the Arachnid Lair will be in the same clearing at the end of one of these paths; the entrance to the {{DII|Golden Bird|Spider Cavern}}, where {{DII|Khalim's Will|Khalim's Eye}} can be found, is in another such clearing. If you keep traveling along the riverbank, then you should find the entrance to the {{DII|Golden Bird|Great Marsh}}, and possibly that to the {{DII|Blade of the Old Religion|Flayer Jungle}}: if you find the latter, then you don't need to enter the Great Marsh.

===Arachnid Lair===
The Arachnid Lair is an optional area, relatively small and square, randomly populated by three of the following five monster types, all animal: {{DII|Animal|Fiend}}s, {{DII|Animal|Flame Spider}}s, {{DII|Animal|Giant Lamprey}}s (which generate {{DII|Animal|Giant Lamprey Egg}}s, which in turn generate {{DII|Animal|Giany Lamprey Young}}) and {{DII|Animal|Poison Spinner}}s (2) (this means they can be picked twice, for '''90%''' chance of spawning, while the others each have 'only' 60% chance of spawning: there's also 10% chance of being populated exclusively by Flame Spiders and Poison Spinners). They guard a chest.

===Spider Cavern===
The Spider Cavern is similarly laid out and populated to the {{DII|Golden Bird|Arachnid Lair}}, except its chest is always in its south corner, and specially guarded...

====Ssark the Burning====
{{DII|Enemies|Super Unique}} {{DII|Animal|Flame Spider}} ({{DII|Enemies|Extra Strong}} {{DII|Enemies|Cursed}})

This Giant Spider and its minions guard the chest containing {{DII|Khalim's Will|Khalim's Eye}}. Although it doesn't need to be killed, caution may dictate that you do so. Extra Strong ''and'' Cursed is already bad, and in Nightmare and Hell it's more likely that {{DII|Enemies|Aura Enchanted}} with {{DII|Offensive Auras|Might}} or {{DII|Offensive Auras|Fanaticism}} will be selected, which is a truly nightmarish (or hellish) combination: its minions will also always be physically stronger, and being cursed with {{DII|Curses|Amplify Damage}} makes you much more susceptible to physical damage from ''any'' source. If you're cursed and poisoned before it's killed, you may even want to create a portal to return to Kurast Docks to be cured by Ormus before continuing.

==Great Marsh==
The Great Marsh is a potentially optional area randomly populated by three of the following six monster types: {{DII|Animal|Bog Creature}}s, {{DII|Animal|Bramble Hulk}}s, {{DII|Undead|Drowned Carcass}}es, {{DII|Demon|Fetish Shaman}}s with {{DII|Demon|Fetish}}es and {{DII|Demon|Fetish Blow Piper}}s, {{DII|Undead|Gloam}}s and {{DII|Animal|Swamp Dweller}}s. There are always Fetish Shamans with Fetishes and Fetish Blow Pipers guarding paths branching off from the river, and {{DII|Animal|River Stalker}}s lurking in bodies of water in the clearings to which these paths lead.

A waypoint can be found in a clearing at the end of one of these paths, while others lead to clearings containing chests. You may also find the entrance to the {{DII|Blade of the Old Religion|Flayer Jungle}}: if you haven't found it after following the river and a thorough exploration of the clearings away from it, return to the {{DII|Golden Bird|Spider Forest}} and search for it there.

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