Alice

Alice is an NPC and Rare Customer found in the Forest of Magic. This location and NPC are from DLC 1.

## Descriptions

### Bond Lv1

A magician who lives in the Forest of Magic with blond hair and fair skin. She's so pale that she looks like a doll. Rumor says her home is also full of dolls so vivid they look alive! It's... kind of creepy...

### Bond Lv3

Anyone seeing the movement of her dolls will question whether they are alive. She's actually very considerate of others even when she seems hard to approach. Is this what they mean by an "urban mentality?"

### Bond Lv5

It's not easy opening up to her. She's polite, gentle, yet distant. Having so many dolls... Was she lonely?

## Tag Requests

* Homecooking: *“Even when the path of a magician is lonely, I still occasionally miss the taste of home.”*
* Premium: *“I really can't stand low-class food.”*
* Western: *“Of course magicians prefer Western style cuisines.”*
* Sweet: *“I occasionally dream of sleeping in a house made of chocolate and candy.”*
* Cultural Heritage: *“The history behind food and magic are equally mysterious.”*

## Spell Card

### "Waltz Between Children & Dolls" (Reward)

Alice's dolls will transform into guests and fill all remaining empty seats.

*(Guests are freely chosen from all common guest types: this is also the only way to gain the Common Customer album entry for Goblins, who are otherwise unused and do not spawn naturally.)*

### Magic Sign "Artful Sacrifice" (Punishment)

Throw a magical vial at the kitchen and blow up a random kitchenware. It takes 60 seconds to repair it.

## Bond Rewards

* Lv2: Cream of Mushroom Soup recipe
* Lv3: Ordinary "Eat Me" Cupcake recipe
* Lv4: Seven-Colored Yokan recipe
* Lv5: Unlocks "About Gathering (will spend 30 minutes)" dialogue option. This will yield all gatherable items from the Forest of Magic at 18:00.

## Strategies

Satisfying Alice's cuisine preferences is massively simplified by the fact that you immediately gain access to Cream once she becomes available, and this ingredient applies *three* tags she likes: Homecooking, Sweet and Western. This leaves only Cultural Heritage and Premium as tags to be added. If you have DLC2, you could use Bingdi Lotus to apply these as well: as such, theoretically speaking, you can 100% guarantee every single tag Alice likes without needing a specific recipe for it.

Your most probable option at this stage of the game for Cultural Heritage is Scholar's Ginkgo, which, by default only has Cultural Heritage and Sweet. For Premium, you can use Unconscious Youkai Mousse for Premium, Sweet and Western. Any other needed tags can be applied with Cream.

Once you have her bond at Lv3, Ordinary "Eat Me" Cupcake fulfills Premium, Cultural Heritage and Sweet, where the remaining two tags can be filled with an additional Cream for a guaranteed 5 positive tags with no negatives.

She has a difficult combination of beverage tags. Modern does not overlap with Low Alcohol or Western in **any** drink, so if she requests it, give her any beverage with the tag; the cheapest option is Ramune and the most profitable is Wind Priestess. Otherwise, Low Alcohol and Western overlap in Fruity Highball and Bloody Remy only. (She has the Sweet tag for food only, not beverages.)

Alice is a **decently high priority character** overall. Her recipes are clearly designed to accommodate for a player who is already at the Scarlet Devil Mansion despite her being unlocked much earlier in the game, which may cause some confusion, but they are generally worthwhile once the ingredients become easily available. Alice being the area's gathering character significantly improves her importance, especially as the Forest is a highly consistent source of mushrooms.

Alice's reward card is useful if she arrives very early or very late, but doesn't much otherwise.

## Trivia

* *Mystia's Izakaya* treats Alice's appearances in the PC98 games as canon, even though it's not clear one way or the other whether the official canon does.
* Alice is the only character in the game who has a last name in canon (Margatroid) which is omitted.
	+ This is likely due to the fact that she had no surname on the PC98, and her appearance in *Mystia's Izakaya* is meant as a combination of her PC98 and Windows-era selves.