Cuthbert's Legacy

## Rewards

### Achievements

Cuthbert's Spirit, after talking to Maxus at Leklerk's tower and receiving the spellbook for Cuthbert's echo.

### Reward second ending

Arranged the surprise picknick for Aurora and Maxus.

**Cuthbert's Legacy** is a sidequest which can be started by reading the flyers titled: Adventurer Wanted! or by talking to Maxus Tabaccus directly.

### Recommended skills and needed items.

* Teleport scrolls to Duneville (recommended).
* Mininum combat level of 20, though 25-33 makes the fight a lot easier.
* The spells Mark and Return can save time travelling back and forth between Duneville and Aurora Leklerk's tower.
* Fighting equipment, battle spells and potions, as you have to fight undead and one Boneripper at least.
* Spare Parts, Wood and Iron Ingots in case the materials near the supply ship towers have been taken already. At least 25 Handicraft or some items which grant a boost in the skill.
* 2 King Mead, one Banana Liquor (given near the start of the quest) and one bunch of Peaceweed.
* For the romantic dinner:

## Walkthrough

The alchemist Maxus Tabacuss can be found a top of a tower, connected by a tightrope structure in Duneville. The advice to reach Maxus is stick to the middle and walk fast or run across it.

When past the tightrope, you can find the alchemist on his platform. When asking about the quest, he will invite the player to the bar to talk about in further detail. The game will then fastforward to the conversation in the bar. He will talk about his minipig Cuthbert, who has recently died. Cuthbert has hidden his alchemy diploma somewhere in the desert and Maxus Tabaccus would like to recover his diploma.

Because the pig is dead, the only way to gain information about the whereabouts of the diploma is by summoning Cuthbert's echo from the Sea of Eventualities. For that to happen, Maxus gives Cuthbert's bristles to you and urges you to enlist the help of the arcanist Aurora Leklerk, who can be found in an unmarked tower near the coastline of the Powder Desert, close to the Duneville's Supply Ship, west of Duneville.

### Enlisting Leklerk's aid

From the Myrad Tower in Duneville, travel west by following the coastline. From the tower, head southwest and head to the shore by descending the steep hill down (the player character shouldn't drop some metres and risk being injured or dead). Near the wrecks, you can find two undead, who either can be fought or ignored. The only other creatures are Steppe Horses and King crabs, until crossing the stream. Near Leklerk's tower, which is not marked on the map, you can find a Cheetah and other large felines. When arriving at the tower, you will discover that a Boneripper is inside the base of the tower and made a mess of the place. Mages should use ice spells to deal with this threat.

When the boneripper is dealt with, head upstairs and go to the top floor, where you can find Aurora Leklerk. When mentioning that a boneripper broke into her house, she mentioned her dissappointment with the spells sold by Tahutie Leklerk, her sister in Riverville. After that, she will ask why you need. Mention that you want speak with someone who is dead, and she will offer that service if you can find a new door for her house. She also needs a "special" elixir, the Cosmic Winds, for her ritual, which must be acquired by you as well. In case you are collecting Mystical symbols, the one at the top of the tower can now be collected.

You can find the materials (10 Spare Parts, 7 Wood and 2 Iron Ingots) for a new door in some barrels near the other towers, near the supply ship, unless they were already taken. You need a Handicraft level of 25 to make the door. The anvil needed to make the door can be found just outside Leklerk's tower. For the potion of the Cosmics winds, you have to return to Duneville or any other Alchemy workbench to mix the potion which consists of 2 bottles of King Mead, a bottle of Banana liquor and one bunch of Peaceweed. The banana liquor is given to you during the first meeting with Maxus Tabaccus and in case it's lost or consumed, you can buy it at the same bar.

Return with the items to Leklerk's tower with the ingredients and the game will fastforwards to the night. In case you have encountered Tahutie Leklerk during Bad Vibrations, the ritual of the New Age will be more hilariously, as it is all an act. The situation turns ackward when you mentioned that the golden locks of hair are in fact bristles of a minipig. When you mention that you wish to summon a minipig for your employer, mention that it is Maxus Tabaccus. She will then expain her earlier and then summon the minipig, which will increase her arcane fever tremendously.

### Cuthbert

With the echo of Cuthbert now summoned, you have to communicate with it and help you find Maxus' diploma in Alchemy. By feeding it a cake with white glacing (Endrelean Sugar Briad), which can be found on the first floor of the tower, you can convince Cuthbert to reveal the place. It will not show interest in other food and it will squeal in case you feed him bacon. The echo of the minipig will disappear after convincing it, but the spell added to the spellbook allows you to summon red orbs, which have to be followed to get there. You don't have to follow the orbs at all, as there is no progress or orb tagging system which will add a new orb. You can either follow them or just make your way to the final location.

The final destination is the Soul Bed cave in the middle of the Powder Desert. Enter the dungeon. At the entrance, you will be greeted by Cuthbert, who will then attract the attention of an undead and lure it into a trap, which makes the undead lifeless once again. Though the minipig has no tricks for the other undead, his echo could still function as a decoy, giving the player an easier time to clear the undead further in the dungeon. The undead or the medium and powerful undead, including one Lord of the Lost Ones and an Ancestral Spirit.

When the player character arrives in the central hall, you have to enter a small cave with a large undead giant at the dead end. Cuthbert will goad the undead into hitting him, which will impact the integrity of the ceiling, until it some it crashes down, killing the brute. Cuthbert will then hint you at this is the place where he buried Maxus' things. With a shovel dig at the suspicious spot. You won't find the diploma there. When asking Cuthbert about it, he has no clue and dissapears. You can find the blood-stained diploma inside the corpse of the undead brute. With the goal of the quest being a failure, it's time to return to Maxus Tabaccus.

For the questline, it's not necessary to explore the rest of Soul Bed dungeon, which was locked until the giant undead encounter. You can either leave the dungeon and continue with the quest or explore the rest of it. However, it contains little of interest apart from a few mid-level enemies. All of the chests are empty.

### Return to Maxus Tabaccus

Return to Duneville, where you can find the alchemist who hired you. Return him the slip of blood-stained paper, which was his diploma. He will reward the player with 300 Endralean pennies. Questioning further about the need for his diploma reveals the true reason why he needs it. Due to his lack of confidence in his chance of success to make Aurora Leklerk love him, he thought that he needed his diploma, his biggest achievement in life, to impress. Give Maxus the information that Aurora Leklerk is impressed by him. He will think that the player character tries to fool him, as he considers his chance for love with her gone.

In case the player accepts the reward without further questioning, the quest ends here. But in case the player did ask, it continues with arranging the surprise dinner for the both of them.

### Romantic dinner

You can buy most of the consumables needed for the dinner from the Kilayan bar owner in Duneville. You then have to convince Maxus and Aurora to go to part of the beach, near her tower, where the dinner takes place. For convincing both of them, there is dialogeu in place which always results in success. When the items are placed and Aurora and Maxus are lured to the place with a ruse, the game will fastforward to sunset and the cutscene will begin.

## Rewards

* You can buy alchemy ingredients from Aurora Leklerk.
* The spell Summon Cuthbert, which allows you to summon the minipig at your command.
* 300 coins.
* Unknown amount of Experience points.

## Notes

This quest has a tendency to run into bugs, making either the quest unable to complete or being able to gain all rewards after the quest. It's advised to have at least a different save file during the quest.