Brigade Town

**Brigade Town** is a location within the Capital City, the main and largest city within the continent of Victusia. It makes up majority of the city, and is where most chefs are not only live, but work and study. The main headquarters of the Battle Chef Brigade is located here. Presumably, the prestigeous Actusia Academia cooking school is also located somewhere within or around Brigade Town, if it is indeed within the Capital.

It is the location where the annual "Battle Chef Brigade Tournament" is held, and where signups for the event occur. It is also a center of trade and commerce in which many different races of different skills and classes come together and interact. Several guilds and research centres, all revolving around cooking, can be also found here. Various merchants set up their pop-up stores here, because of the amount of foot traffic the location recieves.

## In-Game Locations

There are number of areas players may visit:

### Hunter's Haven

One of the primary guilds in Victusia, the Hunter's Haven is in-charge of monster population control, clearing-out, and general protection. In this sense, the guild plays a similar role to Adventurer's Guilds in many fantasy series, where chefs can take on contracts to help clear out monsters. It is run and headed by Instructor Thorn, at store unit 502 on the street.

The interior the guild is stacked to the brim full of various monster skeletons, taxidermies, and other preserved monster parts. Many of which were enbalmed by Thorn herself, using a technique she learned from her father. The history and collection is so large, and including such a wide range of monsters, that Ziggy calls it 'a museum of monster history'. There are also many weapons meant for chefs to be found here.

### The Regal Warren Inn

Known as one of the best inns in the Brigade Town area, the Regal Warren is run by a husband and wife pair; their names unknown.

The husband, a chubby man in his 40s with balding red hair and a thick beard, is the one that attends to all guests checking-in and out. He is incredibly short-sighted, and has a habit of reading all of his guest's mail. His wife makes all of the in-house complimentary breakfasts for guests, and traditionally cooks full continental breakfast spreads that are known to be very delicious.

There is a painting of a beautiful blonde woman on the walls of the inn, but it unknown if this is the wife.

The inn is very well decorated, and has books as well as a sitting area for guests to both dine and relax in, on the first floor. It is unknown how many other floors it has, but the inn at least has a second story where the guest rooms are located. Each room contains one writing desk, a bed, several cabinets, and a trunk for storage. The owners also seem to be quite fond of paintings and small ornamental statues, which can be found adorning the place.

In-game, this is the location where both protagonists Mina and Thrash stay during the events of the story, and where the player can find many of the characters for challenging. Including Thrash himself, Leonid, Cezar (right outside), and more.

### Luis & Louie's Shop

Luis and Louie's is a pop-up wagon store run by twin ettin brothers, Luis and Louie (as the name suggests). The store is not permanent, and is only present in the game to capitalise on the chefs that are coming in for the annual Tournament. In nighttime sequences and cutscenes, the shop is sometimes not found. Implying that the ettins pack it up to store elsewhere for the night.

Louie, the blue half of the ettins, is the more cheerful and upbeat brother, with a chipper voice to match. Luis on the other hand, the red half, is more dour and tends to be caught looking off to the side. Louie also tends to give more discounts to their customers, something that Luis has to constantly stop him from doing.

Here, chefs can purchase a wide range of helpful items. Including, but not limited to: special ingredients for matches, kitchenware such as pots and pans, ovens, books for expertise, and seasonsings.

In-game, this is the only shop that players can purchase items from. Using the currency they've earned from job completion.

### Belchoir's Research Labatory

Belchoir's Research Labatory is a quaint and colourful looking shop unit with flowers growing outside and cats, along with cat *imagery*, everywhere. It is the home and main research station of the Alchemist Belchoir, his research students or assistants, and his small army of cats. The logo of the research lab is a single cat's eye, and the same icon can be seen repeated even above the door. To show how much he loves cats, there is even a huge cat printout on the glass by the front door.

In-game, this is where players can complete research jobs for Belchoir. Earning cash, learning more mechanics of the game, and gaining more parts of the story. The first time is compulsory, but afterwards, players have a choice if they want to participate in the storyline. Completing it will result in players gaining the Ambrosia ingredient, which provides two drops that boost any gem to its next tier. Thus, it is highly recommended to do all of Belchoir's jobs.

## The Crescent Moon

The Crescent Moon is a cheap and fast diner joint within the Brigade Town, and one of the most popular eateries in the area due to its speed without compromising food quality. It serves as the testing grounds for many a tournament chef to practice their skills under Pontida, a dwarf Brigade associate and great chef in her own right. Several of the chefs working here eventually go on to try for the Brigade, with at least one of them having made it in during the centennial tournament.

The restaurant seems to use only dwarven cooking pans, and so none of the pans will match gems together. Instead, in-game, the player must match the pattern necessary as fast as possible, and without breaking the gems in the process, as they are unreplacable. This job is also the one capable of giving the most money, since its payout is entirely dependant on how many dishes one can complete.