A FEAST FOR A BEAST
After coming back from the mountains again having completed "the great molescape", and cooking at least 10 of Parif's dishes (jams NOT included), this new quest is triggered the next time you enter the kitchen while he is present.
The chef wants to cook up something special for Lana, to have her feel welcomed and for her diet’s sake, so he asks you to retrieve a variety of ingredients, including some fruits not anywhere in this fog, and our wolf understandably doesn’t want to ask and buy them from Chet.
These are NOT ingredients you have to search! As the text tells you, go ask a merchant, either the one in the bull tribe or the lizard tribe (both can be asked, if both villages still exist, but just one is fine), only to find out Chet just bought them all, give up and go ask him at the tavern, and, of course, he won’t let them go easily. More info about choices and consequences will be added at the bottom, nothing is known as of 0.34.
Based on your past choices, not all routes may be available, but there are 4:
- pay 30000 coins: this outrageous sum can’t be reached easily, even if you got both big jewelry bags with 7 raffle tickets, and you don’t get to interact much with other characters, it’s a matter of farming a lot, i do not recommend it; lastly, give the fruits to Parif.
- cabin kitchen: go ask Snow for an idea, he will say he could cook the cheezy bombs Chet loves so much, if he had a kitchen for his experimental cooking (since Parif won’t let him use the tavern’s for that); if you saved Flo back in “saving the master”, you can just go to the bathhouse when he is working and ask him, he’ll be happy to help, then tell Snow about it, let him cook and give the snack to the spoiled hyena, and finally give them to Parif. (This route is arguably the fastest, unless you already happened to have around 30000 gold, but it has limited interaction with other characters, which might matter, it is not known in 0.34).
- bull kitchen: an option if the bull tribe wasn’t destroyed in the war (so not in the lizard or Selye routes). Same as above, but, after talking to Snow, go ask Axel (in his tent during the day) about a kitchen; he will call for a quiet and sweet bull, who wants to offer his soon-to-be wife something special to fuel her hope of getting out of the fog for their marriage, something that reminds her of the snow typical of foreign places, this is his request to hand you the license Snow needs to be let in the village. Him needing snow should have you think of asking the people around Guden, but you will surely be attacked by a mysterious white wolf while going back there, unless you delay it by travelling at night, as the cold prevent the fight from triggering, so you can refill the flask or buy stuff there, progress in the quest and fight him on the way back.
Surprisingly, the wolf rivals the bosses in the previous dungeon, with 800 HP, good consistent attacks and defense, but especially his high agility, he will OFTEN dodge your attacks/items, and even absorbs fire! The holy fist is the only attack in the game (items included) that cannot miss, but, unless your INT is very high, the MP cost won’t justify the damage, i’d rather bind up or gamble on a leaping slash if MP are high. The bathhouse boosts are highly recommended (if you start Ebb and Flo’s quest, bathing with the Snow plushie out gives x1,5 HP and MP bonuses instead of the usual x1,8 HP or x1,8 MP ones from Ebb and Flo respectively.), and also a good refill of potions from Chet (the rusted spoon should be good too, if you got it from the previous dungeon), and, as mentioned above, a full flask of Einar’s soup. Regardless, the fight will rely a lot on how often the wolf dodges, failing the AGI checks before it can be a wasted turn healing too, but about the checks: a random 1-100 number is generated (twice), it must be lower than your AGIx10 (thus AGI 10 guarantees both checks), so consider adding some AGI with your equipment (loincloth, shepherd’s stone from the lizard village shop), or just reload the save if you are unlucky.
The fight can safely be lost, though! You will just miss out on 2500 EXP, no loot from him.
In Guden, ask about what you are looking for to Kin (Kith will only tell you Kin might know, so go visit after 18:00), thankfully, he has what you need, he only wants you to ask Frode for a seed (not that seed, this time~) to help him make up, by cultivating his favourite flower. Frode is guarding the windmill at night, so catch him outside during the day; he doesn’t ask for anything in return, he is just happy to hand a seed to a friend (some other NPCs could learn from him), so go give this unnamed seed to Kith in the evening/night in exchange for the never-melt snowflake you needed, back to Axel’s tent to deliver it, and finally to Snow to go together to the bull village’s kitchen and cook, the cooking scene being fairly different here; finally, deliver the cheezy bombs to Chet and lastly to Parif with the fruits. - lizard kitchen: it is very similar to the bull version, and obviously doable if the lizard village still exists (so not in the bull route). Instead of asking Axel, find advisor Red in front of the prison guard in the lizard village, he needs something always at hand to cool down, the stress and heat are giving him headaches very often. The rest is about the same, except you will trade Red the snowflake Kin gave you for the license, and then tell and go with Snow to the lizards’kitchen instead.
The scene following the delivery to Parif will include Thane, if is alive (neutral route and bull route) and he cooked all 3 dishes in “hell’s kitchen” (both volunteering and finding volunteers count), and Nauxus, if he is alive (lizard route, Selye route, neutral route), you had sex with him once (see “Nauxus’s date”, which also mean he had to have ≤ 3 suspicion points to like you enough in a neutral route) AND be evening (so deliver the fruits after 18:00!). So you can be alone, with Thane, Nauxus, or both present, each variant having its own lines and mood, but having no influence on future events.
All the routes have 2 level up points as their reward, plus the harvester’s ring, a trinket from Parif’s tribe that will make forageable ingredients glow, making them much easier to see and collect (especially during the night); as of 0.34, it is not known if your opinion about ferals when Parif asks, winning or losing to the mysterious wolf and Kin having the seed to make up with Frode will have consequences.