Rare Item Quest

Rare Item Quest (Jackalman)

The Rare Items shelf in Nermine's shop is looking a little sparse and she's willing to pay you in gold for your assistance. Golden Ankhs that is!

Note: This quest and the Helper Quest are mutually exclusive.

Step 1 - Strange Fruit

1. Locate Nermine's shop, either via the Smith Haven Mall or the 'Strangeshop' situation.
2. Talk to Nermine and talk rare counter to enter into a series of jobs for Nermine to restock the rare items counter. Accepting her offer will begin the quest.
3. Explore the Park until discovering the 'Twisted Fruit Grove' event. You must then defeat 3 Parasitic Plants. Failure results in a unique scene with a chance to try again. WARNING: The second attempt will have a harder battle, losing which results in a unique game over instead.
4. Return to the Mysterious Shop and talk rare counter to give her the twisted fruits in trade for your first Golden Ankh.
5. Use the Golden Ankh to gain your first Jackalman mutation.

Rewards:

Granted the first Jackalman mutation: the tail (+4 Dexterity). This form will revert any other tail mutation back to it.

Freeing the Felinoid from the plants during event unlocks the Injured Felinoid event, which may allow you to gain it as a pet.

Step 2 - Pirate Gold

1. Talk rare counter to hear her next request: to obtain some rare, golden coins.
2. Complete the A treasure well earned! quest (if you haven't already done so) to obtain some pirate treasure to bring back to her.
3. Once acquired, talk rare counter again to gain another Golden Ankh.
4. Use the Golden Ankh to gain your next Jackalman mutation.

Rewards:

Granted the second Jackalman mutation: the skin (+3 Charisma, +3 Stamina). This form will revert any other skin mutation back to it.

Step 3 - Silver Jewelry

1. Talk rare counter to hear her next request: to steal some silver bracelets from the Museum. But it turns out to not be as simple as that.
2. Explore the Museum until you locate the 'Stolen Artifacts' event to discover that they've already been stolen. A successful Perception check is needed to discover that hyenas may have been involved.
3. Return to the Museum Foyer and talk to everyone's favorite Sphinx, Valerie. She'll tell you to locate how the thieves got in past her.
4. Continue exploring in the Museum until you find the 'Alternative Entry' event and pass another Perception check to successfully follow the trail of evidence to a back exit. You must defeat a Sabertooth to complete the event and move on to the next step.
5. Discovering that the hyenas have escaped down into the sewers, you need some help from Mary the ewe at the New Ewe Store. You will have to complete the Little Lost Lamb quest to free her if you haven't already done so.
6. You will now have to track down the hyenas involved to obtain the treasures by encountering the 'Hyena Challenging' event found outside:

   If you have no special standing as part of the hyena gang, fight four Herm Hyenas and then their Hyena Matriarch in a very tough battle.

   If you are already the Hyena Matriarch, this part of the quest is automatically completed w/o battle.

   If you're a gang member of low standing (defeated once or twice by the Matriarch), this portion of the quest automatically fails, though they do enjoy the attempt.

7. more stuff

• Finally the nice easy item retrieval is complete! The Player must talk to Nermine for their next and according to her, last Ankh.

 * Use ankh will consume the ankh granting the Third Jackalman mutation, the Head. +4 Charisma +4 Perception
 * The Player now experiences two short scenes based on succumbing to, or rebeling against Nermine.

• But wait, you aren't complete yet, and while Nermine doesn't want to make you even better, there is someone at the Museum who just might be able to help!
• The Player must adventure in the Museum (SP) until they encounter the Anubis Statue event where someone sends you to the Zoo to gather some new ingredients for him.
• The Player must adventure in the City Zoo until they encounter the Beastial Pheromones event and fight with several Cheetah Women after which they will be able to return to him at the Museum and claim their final ankh!

 * Use ankh will consumer the ankh granting you the Fourth and Final Jackalman mutation, the Body. +4 Strength +2 Dexterity

• Information for Jackalman quest is taken from the main FS Guide/list forum post and all thanks go to appropriate authors and contributors!
• Post edited for ease of reading, grammatical and spelling corrections.