Buck

## Mood Perks

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Harvests  Mushrooms

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Gives you snacks

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Harvests  XP Potions

**Buck** is a spirit character of Spiritfarer.

He can be found atop Hikarishima Lighthouse after unlocking the bounce ability, and is the only spirit character that cannot be released at the Everdoor.

Buck will be the last spirit on your ship and will keep you company until the end of the game. He will entertain any completionists by offering mini errand quests after the final spirits depart. He will not have a quest that ends with taking him through the Everdoor.

## Life

In a strange way, Buck has already passed on when Stella meets him. In Stella’s life, Buck was her sister Lily’s friend who died in his teenage years. Stella remembers Lily’s recounting of many of Buck’s stories, after his death. Although Stella never actually met him in life, his story fascinated her, as well as the geeky personality Lily described when she talked about him. Buck’s habits of escaping his reality through tabletop RPG’s led Stella to believe, in a very peculiar way, that his attunement with the end of his life defined him. This made her fall in love with Role Playing Games, idealizing Buck in the process.

## Filing Cabinet Facts

* Secretly thinks Demons and Ghouls 2nd Edition is better than the first.
* Has a fondness for Paul Bunyan.
* Can't help correcting people who say "I could care less."

## Mood

### Influences

* Has a fully improved house. (+4)
* Has eaten his favourite meal. (+2)
* Was recently hugged. (+2)
* Had a refreshing beverage. (+2)
* Was helped by Jackie. (+2)

### Notes on Perks

* "Harvests mushrooms" works by visiting an island with mushrooms, and then talking to Buck after visiting it.
* "Gives you snacks" occurs when talking to Buck on occasion, where he will provide snack dishes to you.

## Quests

* **A Lair of Wonders**: Another passenger. Another house. From the sound of it, this one is complicated.
	1. Buy the blueprint for Buck's Room from Edgeborough Lane.

* **The Silver Company**: An adventure with a peculiar Oracle tree and role-playing friends. Buck sure has an active imagination...
	1. Find Buck's friend Jerome in Hummingberg.
	2. Find Buck's friend Bryan in Bottom Line Corp.
	3. Find Buck's friend Bob in Oxbury.
	4. Give a Popcorn to Buck.
	5. Give a Corndog to Buck.
	6. Give a Toffee to Buck.
	7. Take Buck to Nordweiler.
	8. Talk to the Oracle Tree in Furogawa.
	9. Talk to Buck in Furogawa.

* **Demons of Light**: A shrine in the middle of the ocean. An ancient evil. What are the odds?
	1. Head over to **- 185**, **-92**
	2. Acquire the powers of light.
	3. Talk to Buck.

* **The Fires of Tondor**: The fires of Tondor have to be lit. Sounds like lighthouses that need to be switched on.
	1. Light the Nordsee Pier.
	2. Light the Sandwich Walk.
	3. Light the Hikarishima Lighthouse.
	4. Talk to Buck on the boat.

* **Looter's Literary Review**: Buck is really excited about some magazine or journal or whatever it is.
	+ You receive a total of six letters in the mail each containing an old map of treasure location with no coordinates given. (Each map must be viewed and can be reviewed using the projector in the Archive Room.

### After escorting All Spirits to the Everdoor

* **Visions of Oil**: What's with this one? A wandering merchant... that's clearly Francis, right?
	1. Complete the proper ERRAND.
		1. 1 Burnt Food
		2. 1 Questionable Meal
		3. 1 Old Shoe
		4. 1 Household Glue

* **The Lizard King**: What's a Lizard King? I wish I knew!
	1. Meet the Lizard King in Edgeborough Lane.
	2. Do the Lizard King's bidding.
	3. Talk to Buck.

## Dialogue

### Food

* **Favorite dish**: "This can't be... By the Moons of Dor-Umin! This is... *THE RED DISK OF UNFATHOMABLE BLISS*! Commander... I have no words... May your endeavours be forever blessed by the gentle touch of the Radiant Fae! May your fortitude be as eternally strong as Roghar the Brave! This is delicious! ... Man, I love **Tomato Pizza** so much..."

* **Likes**:
	+ "By the Seven Graces of Immalda! You coming forth and offering me the gift of ***Comfort food*** is a sign of Hallor, the prince of Fate! My appetite can't resist such delicacies! A very wise choice, Commander; I'm not surprised by your cleverness! I guess Hallo won't mind if I gain a few pounds after all..."
	+ "Oh! Blessed be the Stars! I salute your insight, Commander! You astutely guessed that my heart would be brimming with joy at the sight of a good ***Old Fashioned*** meal! An ancestral delight of epic resonance! Many thanks! May the lords of Wa-Eron accompany you in your path! ...  Whoops sorry, I spit on you a bit."

* **Neutral**: "Humble thanks, Commander! This sustenance is right on time! My hunger was reaching level 1!"
* **Dislikes**:
	+ "My deepest apologies, Commander. I cannot accept your generous offer. As I've crossed paths with him, Lactergroth the Nobgoblin cursed me out of jealousy. A dreadful level-three lactose intolerance. Yes, it's a conjuration ritual. I won't talk about what happens if I ingest the smallest dose of ***dairy.***.."
	+ "Oh!... Wait... this sustenance contains fruit doesn't it? I'm sorry, Commander, I unfortunately cannot accept your generous donation. ***Fruit*** are sacred according to the holy scriptures of Dor-Umin, of which I am a pious follower. It is utterly forbidden to even think about someone thinking about eating one. I cannot ingest them, by faith. Yes, by faith..."
* **Same item**: "Commander, may I interject? Your humble servant is not exactly picky. But once in a while... how to say this I just don't feel like eating the same thing over and over again. Sorry, Stella. Something else maybe?"
* **Inedible**: "This is not edible."
* **Not hungry:** "Thank you, Commander, but I am at full HP. This won't be necessary."

* **Hungry**:
	+ "My sincerest apologies for pestering you with such mundane requirements, Commander... but your humble servant feels the need for sustenance. I would gladly accept the smallest of scraps from your magnificent cooking skills!"
	+ "Commander! I'm sorry to require but a fragment of your precious time. But I'd gladly accept a modest meal! A vile hunger tortures my innards!"

* **Starving**:
	+ "My sincerest apologies for pestering you with such mundane requirements, Commander... but your humble servant feels the need for sustenance. I would gladly accept the smallest of scraps from your magnificent cooking skills! Anything, really..."
	+ "Commander! The time has come for you to cast a level 3 'abundant meals' spell! I am, unfortunately, starving... Like, *REALLY* hungry..."

### Hugs

* **Hugging**: "I was in dire need of a spirit heal; my mana was low..."
* **Second hug**:
	+ "Sorry, Commander, my short rest has already been taken."
	+ "Sorry, Commander! I'm in no need of such reinvigorating embrace. My mana is full."

### Goodbye

Buck, a teen who died and already "moved on" represents the life unlived for his spirit. He is busy adventuring and waiting for his friends and family to catch up with him, so they might be at peace together. It is alluded to that Buck will continue Stella's work as a spiritfarer by taking over her boat when she goes. It is unclear if the boat will reset itself and delete the spirits who have inhabited it so that Buck can bring on new passengers. The spirits of his friends Bob, Bryan, and Jerome may or may not be their actual spirits or merely spirits of memories, as Lily - Stella's sister - is still living and relatively young.

## Game Notes

* Buck tends to fly around thus always structure your buildings to be stacked on top of each other
* Finishing Buck's missions enables you to get Light Burst, which makes events much easier to do, especially Elena's Deadly Pulsar Rays event
* Always keep Buck's room on the ground

## Trivia

* Buck is inspired by a friend of the game's creative director Nicolas Guérin, who sadly passed away at the young age of 18.
* Buck's figurines in Buck's Lair of Wonders contain several references to pop culture, such as Guts (referenced as Intestines, the brooding anti-hero), Griffith and Casca from the manga *Berserk* and the Hobbits Frodo and Sam (referenced as the Halfsies Frego and Pam) from *The Lord of the Rings*.
* One of his lines of dialogue references The Witcher series ("Its perfume possesses the distinct aromas of lilac and elderberries" - in The Witcher series, one of the main characters is distinguished by her perfume which smells of lilac and gooseberries).
* Even though **Buck** is lactose intolerant, a slice of pizza can be seen on his bookshelves and his eating animation features him eating pizza from a pizza box. This is explained by his favourite food - a tomato pizza cooked without cheese.
* Buck's constellation can be seen in the sky all throughout the game, suggesting that he has already gone through the everdoor, hence he can't go back through and stays with you on the ship. In addition to this many spirit citizens mention him even before you find him on the lighthouse. Also, the fact that Buck is already under his spirit form when Stella finds him clearly hints at this.
* Buck alongside Stanley, Jackie and Daria are the only spirits that you meet in their animal (or mushroom in Stanley’s case) form.

### Artbook Entry

Inspired by our Creative Director’s teenage friend who died at the young age of 18, Buck is a an intriguing character and the only Spirit who takes the form of a mythical creature. A basilisk with a petrifying gaze, Buck has already taken his final form when found by Stella.

In a strange way, Buck has already passed on when Stella meets him. In Stella’s life, Buck was her sister Lily’s friend who died in his teenage years. Stella remembers Lily’s recounting of many of Buck’s, after his death. Although Stella never actually met him in life, his story fascinated her, as well as the geeky personality Lily described when she talked about him. Buck’s habits of escaping his reality through tabletop RPG’s led Stella to believe, in a very peculiar way, that his attunement with the end of his life defined him. This made her fall in love with Role Playing Games, idealizing Buck in the process. To Buck, the game is of the utmost importance, as he is simply having fun, while living in denial of reality.

Adorned with rue flowers, Buck bears the burden of sorrow and regret. His life was never fully lived and it was never really within his grasp to do so.

## Source

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Spiritfarer - The Artbook