Small Favors

The Quake Tortoise has the highest defense in the game, so to beat it you'll need a way to get around that. The easiest ways to do that are offensive items, all of which deal exact amounts of damage, or the poison and burn status, which deal a percentage of max HP. Besides those, there are other skills that ignore defense, like the "Blast" skills you can learn with tomes. And finally, though it's defense is very high, if you lower it's defense and raise our own attack enough you can deal damage that way, especially with magic.

Alright, let's go through these one by one.

1. The "fence north of the longest column" can be found south of Oasis, in the south-west part of the desert. There's a screen with four columns of plants, the longest of which is four plants in a row. The treasure can be found next to the fence, straight up from those four plants.

The "Dead end, right of stairs" is at a maze in the south-east part of the desert. The maze is spread across four screens, and the treasure is in the top-right screen, the one you enter the maze in. It's one tile to the right and one tile down from stairs.

2. In the Oasis Church, on the second floor, there's a room labeled "Tivelian Altars". One of these altars has a basket in front of some bottles, where you can place various drinks. Select "All At Once" when you have a Bristleback Beer, Tivelian Ale, Oasis Special, Gut Buster and Fine Wine in your inventory. It'll take all those drinks and give you Nectar of the Gods in return.

3. First you have to pay Rich Goldman before he'll even speak to you. Then he won't continue unless you have enough of certain expensive items in your inventory or equipped. Any item or equipment that has "gold" in its name counts, and others that also count are: Diamond Ring, Stylish Cape, Top Hat, Bottle of Korenta '54, Stone of Brisk Breezes, and Venom Apple Juice. Each item should show unique dialogue if you have it, including Dirt Figurine which I didn't mention because he actually counts it against you as a gag. You don't need all of these items, and can be missing several and still get Rich's approval. The reward is a unique shop.

4. The paper in that room has a note that says "spell lock: 2:00, 8:00, 4:00, 10:00", which is a hint that you can interact with objects in the room with those positions on a clock. Check the shelf in the top-right, then bottom-left, then bottom-right, then top-left. When you do a noise will play and the pot will open. Check it for some items.

Happy you're enjoying it! If you want to progress past the sliding ice puzzle in the Deepest Dungeon, start from the top of the carpet then move as follows: Right, down, left, up, left, push boulder, left, up.

While I'm looking at it, if you want the treasure in the same room, you'd start at the same place and instead move: Left, down, right, up, right, up, left, up, right, down, right, down, right, up.

Hope that helps. Thanks for playing!

Glad you're enjoying the game. The upstairs puzzle has a note with hints like the others, but it's pretty complicated so if you just want the full solution it's as follows:

You need interact with objects to pull their cords in a certain order, indicated by what's on the bedroom wall. Check the flower pot, the book on the table, the lady's dress, the sacks, then the man's coat. The objects are all in the bedroom except for the sacks, which are in the hall outside.

When you check the last object, the top drawer in the bedroom opens, which contains doll parts. There's a doll manual in the hall bookshelf with hints on which parts to use, the correct combination being green eye, pale arm, and heels. This gives you a key to open the bottom drawer, putting out the fireplace and letting you escape.

Thanks for playing!

I've pushed an updated version 0.9.3 with the deepest dungeon bridges fixed. However, I was unable to reproduce your bug with the Poofems encounter at the volcano fort entrance. Every variant of the event I've tested increments the quest variable and has Poofems appear at her next location in the Mystic Island jungle. In a similar vein none of her dialogue suggests she's in a house to the northwest. It says a jungle on an island to the north, perhaps that's where the confusion is coming from? I've tweaked the dialogue to make that slightly clearer, but otherwise the event remains unchanged. If you still believe the event is broken and have any further details please let me know. Thanks again for the feedback!

Thank you for playing! It's been helpful to get some feedback. As for those cheating items, there's no consequence to using them. It's more of a recommendation, because when the final version of the game releases they'll take the challenge out of the last couple hours. I don't think I'll remove them in the final version though, consider it a reward for finishing early.

Speaking of which, the ending is planned for release by the end of 2021. I'm the only developer and have a full-time job, so it'll be at least half a year. But as soon as the final version is complete I'll upload it here, so keep an eye on this page this page next winter.

Regen Vials are dropped or stolen from Goop/Ooze enemies in the abandoned library and volcano fortress respectively. They can be purchased at the item shop after you do a quest to upgrade their inventory, though this requires a boat. They can also be crafted at the alchemy shop in the witch tower if you find the Healer Recipes, which are in a chest on the western bluff. It's also valid to put the quest on hold until later, as there are some chests in higher level areas with them.

Something shiny in the fireplace... Probably the key to open the drawer. But there is a fire, how to get the shiny thing? The doll is suspicious, especially when the guide to dolls have a few burnt pages.

Can choose what to steal, but after your action initiates, it would say it failed to load audio/se/Buzzer2.ogg (or at least first example.

Would you be able to tell me what specific dialogue was said right before the game froze? I'm trying to find why it would freeze at the witch tower but any further details would help. Thanks!

As for the lonely cactus for the bandit clan quest, search the central desert for a screen with only one cactus. If you head to the top-right/northeast of the desert, where there's a cave entrance, the lonely cactus is one screen to the left.