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Annath

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need assistance with the book collection quest

So, I have 29/30 silver keys, and I'm pretty sure the last one I need comes from the Book Quest. I say think, because I wasn't able to play it for a while since my Xbox was broken.

anyway, I have given the teacher every book I can think of, and he just rambles on about the Book of Spells being for wizards.....The only book I know I didn't give him is either The Repentant Alchemist or the one about a Tailor...but I don't know where they are.
 
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I'm not sure where most of the books are, but here is a list of the books he will and will not take. I know because I spent hours getting one book at a time to see if he takes it or not. Also, from what I've been testing, you can "carry" up to 10-15 books at one time, so even if you grab every book, only 10-15 will show up for him to "take a look at and accept/deny." This is from my own testing of Fable: TLC for PC, I don't know how it works on XBOX.

Books he will NOT take:
The Book of Spells
A Hero's Journey I - IV
The Trigamist
The Hierarchy of Weapons
Please note: Each time I have had these in my collection, he rambles on and on about not wanting to take them. I've tried everything, even getting the last of the books he wants after the fact, but every time it is "The Book of Spells?" this and "The Hierarchy of Weapons?" that. So, as long as I didn't collect those above books, he took everything below.

Books he WILL take:
The Sock Method
Making Friends
Eyes of a Killer
The Ugly Guide
Windbreaker Rule Book
You are Not a Bad Person
The Repentant Alchemist
The Rotton Apple
The Oakvale Raid
The Trails of Aarkan
The Guild of Zeroes
The Balverine Slayer
The Tailor's Tragedy
The Arena
Creatures of Albion Book I - III
The Dragons
Jack of Blades
A Love Story
The Tale of Maxley
The Northern Wastes
The Old Kingdom
The Other Land
The Tale of Twinblade
The Pale Balverine

Now, you could spend hours hunting these books down or you could do a Hero Save Exploit to get that last key. But since you have 29 of them, this probably won't work for you, you may have to start all over for it to work.

What I do to get the key from the Teacher without talking to him is this...
I take the Wasp quest card, skip the part where I have to goto the Picnic area and go right to part of the path with the Thorn Bushes and grab that Key. I then Hero Save right there and simply Load that Hero Save. If done right, those bushes should be back and another silver key awaits you.

That method can be done for anything you can collect more then one of. Keys, Potions, etc... As long as you are in the middle of a Gold Quest you can Hero Save and then teleport away and choose to Reload. You should still have the Item you collected and you should still be able to collect that item again from the same spot.

I hope the list of books helps you, and if you can do the Hero Save Exploit, hope that works for you as well.

Darn it Hex, beat me, sorta. I gave more tips though :p
 

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Re: need assistance with the book collection quest

Ah, the curse of posting simulatenously :lol:

Rep for both of you - to Hex for the link and to NeutronHInc for providing a detailed response :D
 

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Yeah rep to you both for your help ^_^
 
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Thanks much!
At this point, I cannot do the save glitch, since this is the last one. I'll just try to give him every book individually till I figure it out
 

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I think you have to give only certain books in order to get the evil wizards hat. Since you don't get to choose which books to give him you need to choose which books to pick up
 

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Re: need assistance with the book collection quest

Im not sure if u can do this.. But can you get both the wizards hats?
 

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Modding yes
 

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You can also get both through a hero save glitch.
 
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droded;68086 said:
You can also get both through a hero save glitch.
You know I have never quite managed to get both those bloody hats, even through using the hero save glitch. :wacko:
If you are wanting to get the evil hat, then steer clear of the books in the guild library as these all go towards the good hat.
 
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what happens if you just give all the books? in no order?
 

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You get the Good wizard hat
 
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even if u do both evil n good? from what i saw, there were more evil books then good
 

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Yea I think so I've never gotten the Evil wizard hat

Check here Fable: The Lost Chapters @ GameBanshee

Here are the books we used to get the dark wizard hat:

A Love Story

The Pale Balverine

The Tale of Maxley

The Tale of Twinblade

Eyes of a Killer

The Guild of Zeroes

The Repentant Alchemist

The Sock Method

You Are Not a Bad Person
The first four can be found in the Heroes’ Guild, and the last five can be found in Bowerstone South. If you want to play further into the game, then you could also try books like The Windbreaker Rulebook and The Ugly Guide, both found in Oakvale.


Others say they are specially designed to look stupid
:lol:
 

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Albion Knight;68175 said:
Yea I think so I've never gotten the Evil wizard hat
Check here Fable: The Lost Chapters @ GameBanshee
:lol:

I have and I found the perfect way to do it.

Sephiroxas;49278 said:
if you want the EVIL WIZARD HAT
Get all the books in the guild dorm, stay AWAY From the library (the entrance to the fresco dome), and search all the bowerstone houses.
If you want the GOOD WIZARD HAT
Just get all the books from the library first and then as many books as you want, he usually takes the good ones first.

Hope that's helpful (you need 9 books to get the hats)
 

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And you've done it so there's no better proof ;)
 
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I am trying to get the silver key from him, I have the good wizard's hat, do I need to give him all 25 books, plus how does this figure with the doll quest?
 

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royajcm;84820 said:
I am trying to get the silver key from him, I have the good wizard's hat, do I need to give him all 25 books, plus how does this figure with the doll quest?
the book quest doesn't have anything to do with the doll Quest.
and yes you need to give him ALL the books before he gives you the silver key
 
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