A Grisly Fate

## Quest Details

 **Requirements:** | 5 Cooking
 **Items required:** | * Cleaver
* 4 Departed Chickens
* 4 Raw Chicken
* 4 Cooked Chicken
* Any Feathers received from Butchery
* Rats (Level 6) if fighting the rats for their carcasses

## Updates

Updated on 24 March 2023. If you completed this quest before the update, you can automatically use the butcher table in the Coyn Slaughterhouse.

## Quest Dialogue

* **Player**: *That name sounds familiar. Do I know you from somewhere?*
* **Jax the Butcher**: *I've been featured in more than my fair share of news over the years. But nevermind that!*
* **Jax the Butcher**: *I take it you've come here to study the art of butchery?*
* **Narrator**: *Learn butchery from Jax?*

 *(1. Yes)* This starts the quest.
* **Jax the Butcher**: *I knew it! I've been watching you from the bushes for quite a while now.*
* **Player**: *What's this now?*
* **Jax the Butcher**: *Let's start with the basics, shall we? First you'll have to buy yourself a cleaver from the general store in the middle of town.*
* **Jax the Butcher**: *A butcher without a sharp cleaver is no butcher at all!*
* **Player**: *I have to buy it myself??*
* **Jax the Butcher**: *For a small amount of gold! If you can't swing that, you're not a very good adventurer. Now go get yourself a shiny new chopper!*

Buy yourself a cleaver from Fern's store for 12 coins, then return to Jax.
* **Player**: *I have the cleaver you were talking about.*
* **Jax the Butcher**: *Great! Now you need to get your hands on a carcass.*

If you already have a cleaver in your inventory, the text is a little bit different here:
* **Jax the Butcher**: *I knew it! I've been watching you from the bushes for a while now.*
* **Player**: *What's this now?*
* **Narrator**: *As Jax looks you over, his eyes light up with excitement.*
* **Jax the Butcher**: *You really are an aspiring butcher, aren't you? Came prepared with your own cleaver and everything!*
* **Jax the Butcher**: *Now all you need is a carcass to use it on.*

Either way, they continue:
* **Player**: *Is butchery a long process?*
* **Jax the Butcher**: *Longer than it used to be, anyway. Back in my day, butchery didn't even exist.*
* **Jax the Butcher**: *Meat just dropped right out of animals when you killed 'em.*
* **Player**: *Golly*
* **Jax the Butcher**: *CLicHe thought it should be more satisfying so they adjusted the complexity.*
* **Jax the Butcher**: *Anyway, you can butcher all kinds of things. Rats, chickens, pigs, people, cows..."*
* **Player**: *Hold on, what was that last one?*
* **Jax the Butcher**: *Cows?*
* **Player**: *No, before that.*
* **Jax the Butcher**: *I said a lot of things before that.*
* **Jax the Butcher**: *But for today, all you've got to worry about is chickens. There are a lot of them and they're super easy to work with.*
* **Jax the Butcher**: *You only need one chicken carcass, but since you're new, I recommend killing four or more in case you mess up and ruin the meat.*

Go out and kill chickens. You'll need to pick up 4 departed chicken drops (these are the carcasses). Return to Jax.
* **Jax the Butcher**: *Oh good, you brought the chicken.*
* **Player**: *What next?*
* **Jax the Butcher**: *Just place the carcass on the butchery table and use your cleaver to separate the meat from everything else.*
* **Jax the Butcher**: *A good butcher doesn't let anything go to waste, so I'll need you to show me you can preserve both the meat and the feathers.*
* **Jax the Butcher**: *Ideally, you want the highest quality cut of meat possible, but of course any meat is better than no meat.*

Go to the Butcher Table and butcher the departed chickens until you have 4 raw chickens of any quality. You may need to kill more chickens if you fail at butchering the departed chickens. Also for this step, you **must** keep the feathers received from butchering. If you talk to Jax without them, this follows:
* **Jax the Butcher**: *I'm hearing a distinct lack of chopping coming from that butchery table.*
* **Jax the Butcher**: *Remember, I want you to save every part of the chicken carcass. That means both the meat and the feathers.*
* **Jax the Butcher**: *I'll settle for nothing less!*

Once you do what was asked, talk to Jax.
* **Jax the Butcher**: *Look what you've done! You got blood all over the floor!*
* **Player**: *...*
* **Jax the Butcher**: *Impeccable work! The way you hacked that chicken to pieces was truly a sight to behold.*
* **Narrator**: *You breathe a sigh of relief and take a small step away from Jax.*
* **Player**: *Actually, I'm feeling a bit ill...*
* **Jax the Butcher**: *Now for the final step: cooking the chicken!*
* **Jax the Butcher**: *No point in butchering meat if you don't plan to eat it, eh?*
* **Player**: *Unless you're secretly a slasher who does it for the thrill.*
* **Jax the Butcher**: *Ha ha ha ha ha! That's a really good joke you just told!*
* **Narrator**: *His expression turns deadly serious.*
* **Jax the Butcher**: *\*Ahem\**
* **Jax the Butcher**: *There are several cooking ranges here in town you can use.*
* **Jax the Butcher**: *As with butchery there's a chance you might mess up, so bring at least five raw chickens just in case.*
* **Jax the Butcher**: *Try not to burn the meat if you can help it.*

Now it's time to go to a Cooking Range and create 4 cooked chickens of any kind (2 Cooking). You may need to repeat the previous steps until you get what you need. If you don't do it and talk to Jax, this will follow:
* **Jax the Butcher**: *Raw chicken isn't going to do you much good if you get wounded in combat, hero.*
* **Jax the Butcher**: *You can draw out its healing properties by cooking it at any of the cooking ranges here in town.*
* **Jax the Butcher**: *Bring at least five raw chickens with you in case something gets burnt.*

Once you succeed, return to Jax.
* **Narrator**: *Jax performs a chef's kiss upon seeing the cooked chicken.*
* **Jax the Butcher**: *The apprentice becomes the master! I've taught you all I know...*
* **Jax the Butcher**: *Except the whole "getting away with it" part, but you'll figure that bit out on your own.*
* **Player**: *Run that by me again?*
* **Jax the Butcher**: *...What with you being an adventurer and all! So many people saved. Because of your butchering!*
* **Player**: *Of course.*
* **Jax the Butcher**: *Say, how'd you like to do all of this all over again to gain access to another butchery table?*
* **Player**: *What's wrong with this one?*
* **Jax the Butcher**: *Why, nothing of course! But it never hurts to have more places to chop meat. Consider this the last step in your butchery apprenticeship.*
* **Jax the Butcher**: *I want you to find and kill a rat, butcher it up real nice, cook it into a tasty rat steak, and bring it to my brother Ajax.*
* **Player**: *Your brother's name is Ajax? Which one of you came first?*
* **Jax the Butcher**: *He was the later addition to the family, but I don't see why that matters. Bring him a rat steak and he'll let you use his table.*
* **Jax the Butcher**: *Ajax's slaughterhouse is south of Coyn. He loves a good rat.*
* **Narrator**: *Jax shudders.*
* **Player**: *You don't like rats?*
* **Jax the Butcher**: *Nope. I hate 'em.*

You have three choices on how to get what you need:
1. Find rats (level 6) to the right of Jax's building. You'll need Butchery level 6 to get the Raw Rat Meat yourself as well as a Cooking level of 5 to make the crisp rat.
2. You can possibly find the needed departed rat, raw rat meat, or crisp rat for sale in Fern's store.
3. You can buy crisp rat for 7 gold at Corinthia's store.

Ajax's slaughterhouse is south of Coyn. So head east from Jax's building until you come to the main road. Follow that south to the town of Plenty. You'll then want to go south then east out of Plenty and across the bridge called 'Of into the town of Coyn. You'll then want to go south out of Coyn then slightly west to a small building where you'll find Ajax standing outside of it.
* **Ajax the Butcher**: *HEY. This here is my-*
* **Player**: *Private slaughterhouse, I know. Your brother Jax sent me.*
* **Narrator**: *Ajax turns suddenly doe-eyed.*
* **Ajax the Butcher**: *Does that mean what I think it means?? My big brother Jax sent you with a rat?*
* **Player**: *Not just any rat, Ajax. A rat* steak*, cooked pretty* well done *if I do say so myself.*
* **Ajax the Butcher**: *Usually I prefer blue rare but I'm not complaining! Give it here!*
* **Narrator**: *Ajax tears the meat from your hands and rips into it with his teeth, rat juice dripping from his mouth.*
* **Player**: *Should I go, or...?*
* **Ajax the Butcher**: *No no, sty! Help yourself to my butcher table! Use it whenever you like.*
* **Ajax the Butcher**: *A friend of my brother's is a friend of mine.*

 *(\*Quest Ends\*)*

## Quest Overview

1. Speak with Jax the Butcher near the Butcher Table in Cent.
2. If you do not already have a Cleaver, go across the center of town and buy one from Fern.
3. Speak with Jax.
4. Go west to the Chicken Coops and kill chickens until you have 4 departed chickens.
5. Return to Jax.
6. Interact with the butcher table and butcher the departed chickens until you get 4 Raw Chicken and Feathers.
7. Speak with Jax.
8. Go to a cooking range and create 4 Cooked Chicken.
9. Speak with Jax.
10. Get a Crisp Rat.
11. Head to Coyn then exit south and slightly west to find Ajax's slaughterhouse.
12. Speak with Ajax.
13. Quest Complete!

## Rewards

* You can now use the butcher table in the Coyn Slaughterhouse.