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

Use the Jackal totem to finalize activation of the quest and gain your first Jackalboy mutation.

Rewards:

Granted the first Jackalboy mutation: the tail (+3 Dexterity). This form will revert any other tail mutation back to it.

• Upon entering the shop the player may choose to Talk Rare counter to enter into series of jobs for Nermine.
• Offering to help Nermine will have her offer the Player some jobs with the promise of payment in Gold.. Golden Ankhs that is! The job is collecing up some Special Fruit...
• The Player must adventure in the Park until they discover the Twisted Fruit grove event. The Player must then defeat 3 Parasite Plants Failure results in a unique scene witha chance to try again.
• WARNING: If the Player fails the second much harder battle, they get a unique game over instead.

 * Note this unlocks the Injured Felinoid quest if you win either battle.

• Talk to Nermine over the rare counter and receive her latest bid to improve you!

 * Use ankh will consume the ankh granting the First Jackalman mutation, the Tail. +4 Dexterity 

• Now Nermine wants some rare coins and the Player must complete the A treasure well earned! quest.
• The Player must bring some of the treasure back to Nermine for the next Ankh.

 * Use ankh will consume the ankh granting the Second Jackalman mutation, the Fur. +3 Charisma +3 Stamina

• The Player must now find some Jewelry from the Museum that is a lot harder to find than advertised! First the Player will need to find out where the items are, so they must adventure in the Museum (SP) until they discover the Stolen Artifacts event. Afterwards the Player must talk to everyones favorite Sphinx Valerie and she tells them that next they need to find how the thieves got in.
• The Player must continue adventuring in the Museum till they discover the Alternative Entry event.

• At this point some help is needed, the Player must talk to Mary at the New Ewe Store (unlocked by the Little Lost Lamb quest) who will give them the last piece of information you need to find who stole the items.
• The Player must now confront the people who have it in a very tough series of fights by encountering the Hyena Challenging event found outside.
• Note:

  *  If the Player has lost to the Hyena Matriarch before, this part of the quest will not be finishable, though they do enjoy the attempt. 
  *  If the Player has already become the Hyena Matriarch, this part of the quest is extremely easy. 

• At this point the Player must fight between four Hyenas followed by the Matriarch, careful as losing to the Matriarch ends the quest here, however it may be possible to redo the event if failed before her.
• 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.