Your First Quest

From now on, you are free to talk to who you want, and don’t worry, you can talk to anyone as many times as you want, even if topics will change as you go on in your adventure, and some may become unavailable later on, so don’t forget to talk to your new pals when something major happens.

You can go upstairs to rest in your room, but we will talk about that later. For now, you can meet Hakan, but you won’t be able to buy him a beer, because Snow is outside, somewhere, you can’t find him, so don’t try. Witer is cute, you can talk and you can buy jerkies for $20 if you want, they are cheap, but you can’t use them in combat; instead, if you use one when you have max HP, you will get 30 bonus HP, but only temporarily.
The semi-invisible guy next to Hakan is yet to be implemented, don’t bother.
The only way to proceed is to meet Chet, a very peculiar and lewd hyena living under a spandrel, where he also has his shop. Some people were having trouble here, so now Chet will automatically give you your first true quest, and this is an RPG, so it’s a fetch quest! Aren’t you excited? But it isn’t annoying, especially since now you only have to defeat and collect 2 slime jewels from slimes, we had to collect 5 back in my days! New gen gamers have it so easy… Slimes are easier to find just south of the tavern, they may require a few “explore” to find. It’s also heavily recommended you buy Chet’s pocket watch immediately (for 100 coins), so you can keep track of time (it also gives +5 MAX HP and +10 MAX MP), remember to equip it!

You can talk with your new friends and buy HP and MP potions for 45 coins each from Chet, but don’t bother, the slimes are easy (50 HP, immune to teasing but weak).
It’s also time for your first stat check! If you have at least 8 CHA (7 before 0.11), Chet will sell you HP potions for 30 coins each or MP potions for 35 (it is a hidden check). Note: a dice minigame was in development, but the dice next to him were removed, and it’s unknown if Caro plans on adding it later on...

The moment you step outside, you bump into a big, shadowy figure: a lizard who goes by the name of Nauxus. Whatever you say, he will teach you how to “flirt” in combat, but keep in mind that works only on some enemies!

If you have at least 5 CHA (another hidden check), you get the choice of kissing him (why did I have 4 CHA? :’( ) but that doesn’t seem to matter. (Before 0.6, you could ask Witer his opinion about Nauxus, early in the game, telling you more about he and his brothers’ childhood but this contradicted his other version of his childhood, which he would reveal later; it was removed and fixed in 0.11).

Now that you know how to flirt, you can also gain 1 CHA training with Witer: he will ask you some questions, and if you impress him with all 3 answers, you win. Knowing him a bit better can help, but the answers are 1-2-1, showing he is a romantic, but also a very dirty gator ;p.
The areas just outside the tavern (barn, bathhouse) are yet to be implemented.

Now you can finally head out, and the first quest is easy: keep exploring the place south of the tavern, until you see and defeat 2 slimes. Slimes won’t care about your flirts, of course, so just spam attacks and you’ll be fine, unless you have low STR, in which case you might need to rest in your room after the first one. Keep in mind you will gain 1 COR if you lose to a slime (BUT it’s worth it…).
Note: if you roll back your last turn, and pick the same option again, you will get the exact same turn again, not different damage/heal rolls! However...if you save and load, the results WILL be different, so save-scumming IS possible.

That place north-east of the tavern should be the exit, but it will always be covered by the fog.
Just get back and give the 2 jewels to Chet, selecting “about the work”. From now on, if you get loot from enemies, you can sell them to Chet, he offers a fair amount of coins (in early builds, people sold them instead of turning them in for the quest, so you have to complete it now before being able to sell). You gain 200 EXP and 100 coins from this quest.

You also unlock the possibility for an optional sex scene with Witer! Just talk to him and tip 210 coins, if you have enough, and you’ll also have more topics to discuss with him later, what else could you ask? (well, I’d ask for a Witer plushie, or even better, Witer himself…)
Note: Witer’s topics will change after having sex with him; this scene doesn’t seem to be a requirement for further quests (but, i mean, aren’t you playing this game for good sex scenes too?)

Chet will also start selling fire bombs for 40 gold each (25 gold if the hidden 8 CHA check is met), a basic offensive item that deals fire damage to a single enemy; they were added this early partly to help high CHA builds a bit with non-teasable enemies. Oh, they require 3 AGI for full damage, but nobody should ever have problems with that.