Nascence Training Grounds

The Nacene Training Grounds are one of two places that players can start the game in, the other being the ICC Shuttleport on Rubi-Ka. The Training Grounds are located in the Shadowlands in Jobe's Nascense Research area. Only those people who have the Shadowlands expansion can choose to start in this area, and if you choose Shade or Keeper as your proffesion you are required to start here. The area contains many quests and missions to help new players get used to the game as well as get some unique low level equipment that will help them on their way. Since the area is level locked to players level 50 or below, many people who started on Rubi-Ka on 'newbie island' come here to do the additional quests.

Drake Rodriguez

Drake is a major scientific mind in Jobe and has made signifigant advances in understanding how the weird environment of the shadowlands effects human DNA. When we approuch him to ask him about how the heck we got here, he immediately turns to us and asks us if we are ready to participate in his experiments. Experiments!? We just get pulled through space and time in some sort of hallucinogenic adventure and now he wants to mess with us more!? After a little bit of explantion, Drake says that there are signifigant rewards for participating in the tests, and that he has never had anybody refuse to participate. Well, with the thought of an ambigous disclosed reward on the line I happily singed up Dravet, maybe the good doctor can find out what is wrong with him. It seems that you need a special bracer to go through with the tests and when we arrived, we didn't have one, so we asked Drake for one to slap on Dravet. After talking to a couple of the other 'test subjects' we found out that if you started here in the Shadowlands from the Morning Star Space Station (such as if you are a Shade or Keeper) drake well give you an experiance boost and a standard equipment set like Brandon Thorn did for us.