KATOS KDSFA ASIGE

This quest simply requires completing “all for marketing” and waiting a day, so Chet can give you his third job at the campsite (so this one is, again, not available if you never built the campsite!). (Not knowing he writes books yet doesn’t matter, but you will want to visit him at the tavern anyway, read more below).

Talking to Chet has him mention one old acquaintance: the katos, that big hungry puppy that stole the fruits so long ago. Basically, the hyena needs two of his horns, but only when depleted of their electricity and safe to use, so he gives and lets you keep a basic dic(k)tionary about the katos’complex language to get him angry and waste all his energy. The katos is always found easily during the day in the spot below the bull tribe (where the spy and the first katos were) (since coming back from the mountain and starting act II from now on, actually), make sure to read the book gave you (basic language book (katos) in the key items) to learn their language, which unlocks “parley” as a skill while fighting them!

All katos now start with 750 HP and 0 lust, consistently dealing good damage, especially with their thunder-based attack; wasting money for a boost at the bathhouse is an option, but not necessary, as a full flask of Einar’s soup should suffice.
The point of the quest, though, is not just to win: to get what Chet wants, you need to use parley, after which he’ll be confused for only one turn; doing anything that doesn’t hurt or tease him gets him uninterested, while teasing him is an assured 20 lust, and gets him to use (hot) strong lust attacks, unless you start hurting him, but what we need is to hurt him, as this gets him enraged, boosting his attack for 5 turns, but leaving him exhausted (so, weaker) afterwards. This means charisma is useless here, there are two approaches i can suggest:

• if you have a high ATK (high STR, AGI, sword and/or equipment), simply hit and heal with bind up at around 50/60% HP, soup flask when it is on cooldown or MP are low, leaping slash only if you have MP to spare. (Elemental attacks won’t help here, by the way).
• if you can’t deal much damage, opt for equipment that boost END, HP and maybe DEF, and equip the bone blowpipe, which is a rare equipment dropped by rogue lizards (2% on easy difficulty, 3,5% on normal), rare, sure, but a good skill to poison enemies (bosses included) can always be an option, especially for tanky builds; if you don’t feel like getting it (lizards are defeated very fast now though!) the lizard merchant at the campsite sells poisoned throwing knives, which deal low damage and have a lower chance of poisoning enemies. Poison chance depends a bit on the enemy’s poison resistance (the full chart with enemy stats is in the bestiary section!), but the katos has a slight weakness to it, so it is pretty reliable with the blowpipe; damage is 6% for 2 turns (almost 1/16), also influenced by the poison resistance, so Katos takes 50 HP twice. I usually open with parley, use the blowpipe and defend during his enraged turns or heal with bind up/flask when needed, an extra blowpipe dart can be used if you are healthy enough or willing to use a potion or two, then, when he is exhausted, attack and poison if you are not low on MP (always prioritize healing though), and you should win reliably without using potions (this is done on a file without investing most stat points, +5 sword, loincloth, championship belt, Roushk’s bracelet and the blowpipe, most should have more than 97 ATK here).
  P.S: the bone blowpipe unlocks “poison dart”, a 20 MP skill you can use every other turn and poisons for 2 turns.

Win while he is exhausted to receive a depleted katos horn, since Chet wants 2, sleep, refill the soup flask, and get another one; katos is also worth 800 (1200 on normal) exp now.
Note: katos will kill you only if he wins while he is enraged, and they also have a loss sex scene if you lose/submit while they are infatuated (parley, then tease), no win scene as of 0.34.
The reward, language book aside, is a level up point and 1200 gold.

Another neat idea added in 0.34 is the inclusion of lewd stories told through books: after coming back from the mountains (so in arc II), talking to Chet at the tavern has him reveal to you he is a fantasy novel writer… of an obvious sub-genre~ so he’ll start selling books based on stories with other characters as protagonists. The first one is “Boss bull vs boss slime vol. 1”, telling about chief Axel’s slimy shenanigans, for 810 gold. Note: go to your key items to read it; these scenes are then unlocked in the gallery in “Hyena’s creation” below the normal scenes!

A new tough-looking lizard merchant has also been added to the campsite; among other things, he is the only one who sells poisoned throwing knives (as of 0.34) for 90 gold each, and a honey amber pendant for 1010 gold, great on its own with its +30 HP and +1 CHA, but this also grants +30% EXP per battle, which stacks with normal mode’s +50%, should work very well with yetis and the katos with the storybook and the peaceful connection totem to win by lust pretty fast and grind levels!