I personally really liked that quest but I'm not sure I'm buying this. What was the original plan for the quest they can move closer to?
As the other poster pointed out in this thread, it seemed like the dev(s) wanted to do more with the concept as the quest ends rather abruptly. But, even so, revamping the quest would be an opportunity to improve on the original.
Adding a free quest to DDO is a good idea and rebuilding Memoirs would be a somewhat faster/easier way to do that as the non-coding parts of the initial quest such as voice files are still usable.