A Century in the Making

A Century in the Making
Table of Contents
Type	Found Item
Required Items(Consumed)
Mysterious Package Smelly Nightmare
Mysterious Package Smelly Nightmare
Rewards
Reth's Lettuce Soup
Reth's Lettuce Soup
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A Century in the Making is a Found Item Quest that is started by picking up a Mysterious Package from a dirt pile within Kilima Valley.

Description

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You have found an unmarked, and very smelly, package in a pile of dirt in Kilima. Time to open it and see what mysteries lie inside.

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Objectives

Part 1

• Open the Mysterious Package

Part 2

You probably shouldn't have opened that package. Still, someone must be missing this stinky oval. Ask around and see if you can find its wayward owner. Surely they must be missing this!

• Find the Smelly Nightmare's owner.

Rewards

At Quest Completion

• Reth's Lettuce Soup

Walkthrough

1. Find the trigger item. Location: You come across a pile of dirt under the bridge leading towards Bahari Bay.
2. You can try digging through the dirt pile. (Interact with it via or )
   • You cannot resist rummaging through the tempting dirt pile in front of you. After a bit of digging, you find a small package.
3. You have found a Mysterious Package, which you can open. The package contains a Smelly Nightmare.
4. Time to find the owner! Question the villagers to track them down.
   • Hint: Ashura will point out that the package probably belongs to Reth.
   • Answer: Talking to Reth finishes the quest, whether you talk to other villagers or not.

Dialogue and Mail

Progression

Upon asking the villagers

Player

Is the smelly package yours?

Ashura

That looks, and smells, like one of Reth's failed creations. Trust me, I've seen more than one in my day.

Auni

Eww, gross! That smells like one of my failed stink bombs. Uhm, not that I was working on anything like that!

...Don't tell my mom, okay???

Badruu

Hooey, that's ripe! I'm used to the odd smell or two, but that's a unique stink. Not mine, though!

Caleri

...Remove that from my sight before I have you banned from the library.

Chayne

Ah, that's- ahem- pungent. But I'm afraid it's not mine.

Elouisa

(gasp) Is that the magic talisman I buried last month to protect against the Creepees?!

Oh. No, no it isn't. Good, the village remains protected. For now.

Hassian

...No.

Jina

I can see why you might come to me, but I'm fairly sure this isn't, uhm, anything of archaeological worth.

Nai'o

Why're you carrying around a pile of ormuu dung? (Player), are you okay??

Tamala

...I am feeling generous today, so I'll allow you to leave this conversation unscathed. Best take advantage of my kindness, darling.

Tau

(You can almost feel Hassian's judgmental stare as you try to hand the smelly nightmare to Tau. You responsibly put it back inside your Pack.)

Zeki

I've sold some weird stuff to some weird folks, but this'd be a stretch even for me.

Conclusion

Upon speaking with Reth

Player

Is the smelly package yours?

Reth

My century egg! Oh man, I totally forgot about it.

Player

It looks more like a millenia egg.

Reth

Yeaaah, I'm still working out the kinks.

Player

This is... food?

Reth

Anything can be food if you're hungry and desperate enough.

Player

Oh, I love eggs!

Reth

They're basically the perfect food. They can be turned into omelettes, bread, soup...

Player

Are you sure you have the right recipe?

Reth

Hah! Bold of you to assume I have a recipe at all!

So , there's this restaurant in Bahari City that specializes in century eggs. They're basically super-preserved peki eggs covered in a special husk that makes them taste... well, tasty.

I've been trying to figure out their secret recipe for years. it's not like they deliver out here in Kilima...

Player

Are they supposed to look like this?

Reth

Uh... no. They're a lot less goopy than this when Egg Palace makes them.

Player

Again: this is food?

Reth

It's more like...food-adjacent. Aspirational food. The dream that food once had.

Player

Great, let me try!

Reth

Whoa, not so fast! Look, I can give myself food poisoning, but it'd ruin my rep to let you partake.

Player

You might have a few more years left.

Reth

Good thing I have absolutely no other hobbies.

Anyways, the culinary world is full of happy accidents, right? Like, how was the first popcorn made? Whose idea was it to let milk get really old until it tastes good again?

I could have just made a SUPER-century egg or something. Only one way to find out.

I have to eat it. For science.

Player

Don't do that.

Reth

Are you sure? It could be secretly delicious...

Okay, okay, fine. Besides, Tish would probably kill me if she found out.

Anyways, thanks for bringing this back. Here, according to my critics, this is slightly more edible!

Player

Do it.

Reth

(Reth carefully wipes the mud off the egg with his apron, shrugs, and cracks it right into his mouth.)

...

Player

Are you crying?

Player

How is it?

Reth

I gotta go.

(Reth hurriedly shoves a bowl of lettuce soup in your hands and turns away, green-faced.)

Gallery

Location of the Dirt Pile
Mysterious Package Location Dirt Pile

Update History

Build 0.165:

• Introduced.