Black Moa Chick

Black Moa Chick
Rarity	Unique
Type	Miniature
Stackable	No
Campaign	Core

The Black Moa Chick is a green miniature.

Acquisition

This miniature can only be obtained after completing a cross-campaign scavenger hunt; the character must have access to all campaigns, including the Eye of the North expansion. In brief, you must:

1. Get a copy of Zho's Journal (requires EotN);
2. Bring it to Katharine to craft an Incubator Kit (requires Factions);
3. Fill the kit with 6 items from across the 3 continents (requires the three primary campaigns);
4. Take the filled kit to Sorrow's Furnace and allow yourself to be zapped by the Iron Forgeman (requires Prophecies).

Scavenger details

• Zho's Journal: provided by Zho in the third round of the Norn Fighting Tournament; customized to each character.
• Incubator Kit: crafted by Katharine in Gyala Hatchery (explorable area) for 50 , 10 , and 5 .
  • The character's personalized copy of Zho's Journal must be in their inventory when they speak to Katharine.
  • Reaching Katharine requires partial completion of the Luxon storyline.
• Items for the kit:
  1. A Hardened Moa Egg, which requires taking a normal Moa Egg and hardening it.
     • Moa Eggs can be found in one of the Moa Nests south of Fort Ranik in Regent Valley
     • Eggs can be hardened at Mourning Veil Falls, a landmark southwest of Durheim Archives, which can be reached after partial completion of the Kurzick storyline.
  2. Nesting Material, from Nuwisha in southern Resplendent Makuun for 5 Skree Wings.
  3. A Volcanic Rock, from north-eastern Perdition Rock.
  4. A Herring, from Gruhn the Fisher (in western Twin Serpent Lakes), in exchange for 5 Bog Skale Fins (which can be farmed in Tears of the Fallen or Stingray Strand).
  5. A Branch of Juni Berries, a reward from the Insatiable Appetite quest in Marga Coast.
  6. A Honeycomb, which is most easily obtained as a random drop from a Gift of the Traveler, Gift of the Huntsman, from PvE foes during Anniversary Celebrations, or completing A Hunter's Pride. (There are two other sources.)

Incubator kit operation

To place the items in the incubator, double-click on the incubator to open a small window and drag the item into it. Doing this will remove the item from your inventory. The incubator window will show translucent icons as place holders for the six items, which will be replaced with the opaque icon when each item is added.

Incubation details

Once all six items are placed in the incubator, travel to Sorrow's Furnace with the quest The Final Assault and The Forge Heart active. Fight your way to the central furnace and allow yourself to be hit by Sorrow's Flame, which will hatch the Black Moa Chick (consuming the incubator and its contents). If you are having trouble hatching the chick: check that you were actually hit by Sorrow's Flame and that all items are inside the incubator (and not just in your inventory).

Although the nearby giant furnace (near the Rage Binders) uses a similar skill, the Black Moa Chick hatches only if you are covered by the liquid metal poured down by the Iron Forgeman.

Notes

• Zho's Journal becomes redundant once you have acquired the Incubator Kit; you can safely discard it after.
• The Black Moa Chick can only be acquired once per character.
• Most of the scavenger hunt activities can be performed by anyone. However,
  • As noted above, only your character can buy the Incubator Kit.
  • Your character must bring the fully loaded kit into Sorrow's Furnace.
  • In addition, the Nesting Material must be gathered by one of the characters on your account (it need not be the one who is scavenging for supplies).
• This miniature is slightly smaller than a character in Black Moa Chick Form.
• You do not need the quest The Final Assault to hatch the miniature. If any member of your party has this quest active, you may take the quest The Forge Heart when you enter Sorrow's Furnace. The Black Moa Chick will hatch when you are hit by Sorrow's Flame.
• The Black Moa Chick model does not have any eyes.

Trivia

• Like the Brown and the White Rabbit, and the Gwen Doll, this item is not prefixed by the word "Miniature".
• The Black Moa Chick is the first miniature to have an original model made specifically for it, rather than using a resized model of another NPC.
  • This model is re-used for the young Black Moas in the Zaishen Menagerie Grounds; the other baby moas are shrunken versions of their adult counterparts.
• Prior to the 2007, September 6th update, you could "trick-trade" the customized Nesting Material.

Gallery

The Black Moa Chick...

...looking to the left...

...to the right...

...towards the player...

...striding sideways...

...and away.

Maps

Katharine	Moa Nests	Mourning Veil Falls	Nuwisha	Volcanic Rocks	Gruhn	Chuno
(0) Incubator Kit (From Leviathan Pits)	(1a) Moa Egg (In Regent Valley)	(1b) Moa Egg hardening (At Mourning Veil Falls)	(2) Nesting Material (From Yahnur Market)	(3) Volcanic Rock (From Perdition Rock)	(4) Herring (From Riverside Province)	(5) Branch of Juni Berries (Marga Coast) (With Insatiable Appetite active)

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