Attractive Planet

Attractive Planet, The Tomb of the Unmourned King, or The Return of the King is one of the Meorcl quests in The Long Journey Home.

Description
This quest starts randomly, when the player enters an uninhabited system. An attractive force is pulling the player to a marked planet with Maylaa ruins.

The ruins turn out to be the tomb of the great king of the Meorcl. The pilot gets the choice to break the tomb's seal or to not disturb the great king in his slumber. Once the pilot enters the tomb, he gets the choice to either go left or right. Independent of the choice the pilot will face three obstacles that appear in a random order. Each time the player gets the chance to leave or to continue and after each obstacle there is a left or right choice, that will lead to the next obstacle. The obstacles are:
 * A hole with a 20% chance to get injured.
 * Stairs with a 30% chance to get injured.
 * A bridge with a 20% chance to get injured.

After passing the last obstacle the pilot finds and picks up The Slumbering King and returns to the ship.

The sleeping Slumbering King can be shown to any Meorcl ship or starport. The Meorcl are not pleased to see somebody who claims to be their king and will ask the player to eject the king into space. If the player agrees, the king dies, the quest ends, and the player receives 100.

Every crew member can wake up The Slumbering King. Once the King is awakened the King will randomly identify planets as his home planet and the player has to fly to them. The player is unable to jump out of the system until The Slumbering King decides that the marked planet is or is not his home.

The Slumbering King can be brought to any Meorcl planet to finish the quest. The Meorcl respect increases and the player receives approximately 210.

Trivia

 * Bug: Should the player decide to not break the tomb's seal, the quest does not stop. Instead, while jumping The Slumbering King might spawn on the ship, wake up instantly, and start looking for a home planet.
 * The carvings inside the tomb are numbered with roman numerals and can appear in random order.