Day 3
Remo: Ah! Now *that's* an expression I know well. You've had some luck, have you, Lunar the White Wolf?
Lunar the White Wolf: Mission completed. The General put up a struggle, but he's knocked down again, for a while anyway.
Remo: Well done! I think it will be a long time before the gnomes can threaten Barton Town again.
Lunar the White Wolf: Oh... I guess you don't have anymore work for me then?
Remo: Perhaps not in the Village Greens, but we need your assistance elsewhere. In fact, Leon messaged me himself with a task specifically for you.
Lunar the White Wolf: Really? He mentioned me?
Remo: By name. He said, 'Things are getting out of control over in the ranch and Larry still hasn't got the subway running over there. Lunar the White Wolf seems very competent and should be able to iron things out over there.
Lunar the White Wolf: Wow! So I need to help this Larry guy?
Remo: Yes, and anyone else in need of help. Start with Larry, though.
Lunar the White Wolf: Will do. How do I find Larry?
Remo: Just follow the path west until you get to the ranch. There's a loop in the path there, and that's where you'll find Larry. Before you go, though, I've also got a bunch of bags of rings here and I'd like to give you one before you head off.
Lunar the White Wolf: Awesome!
Remo: Go ahead and rummage through the bags and take the ring you want.
You just found the Recipe: Lawn Gnome Figure!
Remo: Sterling choice! You sure about it?
Lunar the White Wolf: You bet!
Remo: Okay...here ya go!
You found a new Coyote Spirit ring!
Klaus Klokenmeyer: Gut-mornink! Erm. It iz mornink, ya? I cannot be telling ze time since I losen mine clocken.
Lunar the White Wolf: Yeah, it's morning.
Klaus Klokenmeyer: Oh, thank gutness! I am being lost vithout ze clocken.
Lunar the White Wolf: What happened to your clock?
Klaus Klokenmeyer: Ach! Mine clocken! One minute it vas tick-tick-ticking avay ze next it vas running down ze road. Ze Animated has infected mine clocken!
Lunar the White Wolf: Can't you just track it down and grab it?
Klaus Klokenmeyer: Nein! I tried but ze skeeters, zer are too many. Zey are fine until I grab ze clock, but zen zey all attacks me! Maybe you can fight zem off?
Lunar the White Wolf: Okay. I'll try to get your clock back for you.
Klaus Klokenmeyer: Guten! You vill save mine clocken? I followed mine clocken all ze vay from Aekea to ze skeeter hive to the southvest. It seems all the Animated clocks are gathering there and zey are very protective of ze hive! Get mine clocken, but be careful. Ze skeeters vill attacken vhen you take it.
Larry: Well, hello. How'd you wind up here?
Lunar the White Wolf: Leon sent me because he heard you needed help keeping some fluffs out of the subway. I think he must be confused though... I can't imagine anything so cute and cuddly causing trouble.
Larry: Don't let those Fluffs fool you. They might look like cute, little balls of love but they're a menace! I'm here because the miserable things keep finding their way onto the subway tracks. We keep having to shut things down because of those pests!
Lunar the White Wolf: Okay, why don't you stop them then?
Larry: That's what I'm here for! I'm pretty sure they're getting underground through a hole hidden by that clump of mushrooms across the road... but unless someone helps or I find some rings I can't do anything to stop them!
Larry: They're Animated, you can't hurt them at all without rings! It's just one of the weird things about them...
Lunar the White Wolf: Ohh, I see what you're saying. Hey, I have a few rings, maybe I can help you.
Larry: That would be fantastic! They seem to come in waves. I'll keep an eye out for more and you off 'em as fast as you can, alright? I'll let you know when I don't see anymore coming.
Lunar the White Wolf: Alright... I'll go stand by the mushrooms to start...
You are now signed up for the Fluff Rush!
You will be notified when it is your turn.
When notified you will have 10 seconds to get in position to stop the fluffs.
Stay in sight or Larry will assume you left and ask another for help!
Larry: Quick, Lunar the White Wolf, get ready! Here comes the fluff rush!
Larry needs your help with the next group of fluffs!
You have 10 seconds to get into position.
Larry: Good work Lunar the White Wolf, but you're not done yet.
Larry: Good work Lunar the White Wolf, but you're not done yet.
Larry: Don't stop yet Lunar the White Wolf, that's not all the fluffs!
You stopped the fluff rush!
Larry: Aha! You stopped those Fluffs nicely. I really appreciate it. Could you do me a favor and let Bill know that I'm headed back to Barton Town soon? He's a bit of a xenophobe so I'm sure he's ready for me to be leaving...
Lunar the White Wolf: Sure... where can I find Bill?
Larry: Bill should be in front of his ranch directly to the west.
You just found the Recipe: Plain Fluff Plushie!
Larry: Please let Bill know that I'm headed back to Barton Town soon. He barely agreed to let me stay long enough to deal with the fluffs. You can find Bill by the gate to his ranch directly to the west.
Rancher Bill: Git offa my land!
Lunar the White Wolf: But, Bill, Larry sent me to tell you that the subway is running again and he's headed home to Barton Town.
Rancher Bill: Well'n... mebbe I done spoke too soon. If'n yer the one what got the subway a'runnin' mebbe I gots some work fer ya.
Lunar the White Wolf: I was the one. What kind of work do you have for me?
Rancher Bill: Well'n... the shipment in't quite ready. Muh boy Purvis were supposed ta git th' cows ready but I 'aven't 'eard from 'im. An' fair Rubella were supposed ta git th' chickens ready. I needs someone ta tell 'em git the shipment ready ta go. Kin ya help?
Lunar the White Wolf: Sure, I can help out.
Rancher Bill: Great! Any questions ya lemme know.
Lunar the White Wolf: I think I'm all set... I'll go let Purvis and Rubella know you're ready for the shipment.
Rancher Bill: Tell 'em ta hurry. I wanna git them shipments together right fast. An' when yer done git back over here. I got more work fer ya.
Purvis: Dur, pa's ready fer the shipment? Garsh... I been so busy rightin' them silly mooers I can't find no time to milk 'em. Buh... d'ya think ya could 'elp me out?
Lunar the White Wolf: Mooers? Do you mean cows? I guess I could milk them, but where are the cows?
Purvis: Oh, they is all over the farm... most of 'em are in the field though. If'n ya find one whats been tipped ya can't milk it. Don't worry, I'll be rightin' any I see and then ya can milk 'em.
You kneel and attempt to milk the cow.
Take the milk back to Purvis.
Purvis: Them mooers is milked! Buh dur... thanks!
Rubella: Howdeee sweetheart... does Bill know yer here?
Lunar the White Wolf: Of course, he sent me over here to find out why you don't have the shipment ready. He needs to send it out soon and wants you to get it ready as soon as possible.
Rubella: Oh no, I don't have the shipment ready! I still need one more chicken! I've been tryin' to catch 'em but every time I get near one they run away too fast for me to catch 'em. Bill's gonna be soooo angry with me.
Lunar the White Wolf: Maybe I can help you, Rubella.
Rubella: Really? Thanks, sweetheart! I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. I think you'll find most of the chickens all along the western end of the farm, between the barn and here. Careful when you grabem or they'll run away..
The chicken clucks away as you try to pick it up
The chicken clucks away as you try to pick it up
The chicken clucks away as you try to pick it up
The chicken clucks away as you try to pick it up
Rubella: Howdeee sweetheart!
Lunar the White Wolf: Hi there, Rubella
Rubella: The last chicken! Omigod thanks, sugar! I'll send these right over to Bill.
Rancher Bill: 'owdy! I been lookin' fer ya. Purvis an' Rubella sent their shipments over, wanted to thank ya. 'Ere, take this!
Purvis: Buh, 'ey there, Lunar the White Wolf. Think ya could help me wit' somethin' else?
Lunar the White Wolf: That depends. What do you need help with, Purvis?
Purvis: Well... duh... garsh. Have ya... have ya met Rubella? She's so purty. Every time I try to talk to 'er I get so ner... nerv... I can't talk good. I wrote 'er a poem... but I'm too skeered to read it to 'er. Would ya read it to 'er fer me?
Purvis: Dur... okay. Roses is red, mooers go MOO! Puvis is a fella and he likes Rubella.
Lunar the White Wolf: That's... a nice poem. I'll go tell it to Rubella immediately.
Purvis: Garsh, thanks a lot, Lunar the White Wolf! I hopen she likes it.
Rubella: Hey again, sugar. What can I do for ya?
Lunar the White Wolf: What do you think of Purvis?
Rubella: Honestly, I try not to. I think the poor boy has a little thing for me but I need someone a bit more... intellectual.
Lunar the White Wolf: Intellectual? Like a poet?
Rubella: Yes! Oooh! A poet would be great!
Lunar the White Wolf: It just so happens that Purvis wrote a poem for you. Would you like to hear it?
Rubella: Purvis? A poem? Uhg! That boy is a little slow on the uptake. I've tried subtly letting him know that I'm not interested but he just doesn't seem to get the message.
Lunar the White Wolf: Oh, come on, he's a nice guy. Can't you give him a chance?
Rubella: Well... he is nice. Okay, read me his poem.
Lunar the White Wolf: You are my shining star, you are my heart and soul. Without you I am nothing, but with you I am whole.
Rubella: Purvis wrote that? About me? Maybe I was wrong about him. Tell him I think his poem is great. He should write another.
Purvis: Dur... did ya talk to Rubella? Did she like my poems?
Lunar the White Wolf: Er... yeah. I read her a poem. She loved it! She wants you to write her another.
Purvis: Garsh! Poems is hard to write. Pa's good at thinkin'... mebbe he knows a poem fer Rubella?
Lunar the White Wolf: I can go ask him if you like.
Purvis: Buh duh... yeah! Pa'll help!
Rancher Bill: 'owdy! I weren't 'spectin' ya back so soon.
Lunar the White Wolf: Bill... Purvis needs your advice with Rubella.
Rancher Bill: What? That dang boy. I tol' 'im to stop chasin' that girl like a lost puppy. My garlic done 'opped outta the groun' and took off. I got a vampire overlookin' my ranch and no garlic to fight 'im off! I don't got n'time fer girls and poems.
Lunar the White Wolf: Did you say a vampire?
Rancher Bill: Why d'ya think I grow garlic? Because I like the smell? I'm a rancher, not a farmer. The garlic is fer protection!
Lunar the White Wolf: So now you have no protection?
Rancher Bill: Well, I did lock the gate to the graveyard... but that won't keep 'em out forever. Dangit! I wish I could git ma garlic back in the groun'.
Lunar the White Wolf: Maybe I could help?
Rancher Bill: Yee-aw! Ya could at that! Jus' grab a bunch, makem stop squirmin', and stick 'em back in the groun'. They's all aroun' the ranch, especially in the woods to the north.
Larry: Hello again, Lunar the White Wolf.
Lunar the White Wolf: Hey Larry, I thought you were going back to Barton Town. What gives?
Larry: What gives is that these freaking fluffs keep coming!
Lunar the White Wolf: That sucks.
Larry: Yeah, but I have a new plan! I'm gonna wipe them out before they get a chance to rush past me. Hey! Maybe you can help?
Lunar the White Wolf: Sure, Larry, I'd be glad to help.
Larry: I knew I could count on your help, Lunar the White Wolf. Just whack any fluffs you find in the woods nearby. Say about twenty of them.
Air Fluff 1/20
You just found the Recipe: Forum Badge (SF)!
Air Fluff 2/20
You have retreived Klaus Klokenmeyer's clocken. It was on the ground!
Air Fluff 3/20
A powerful force moves you through space...
Air Fluff 4/20
You just found the Recipe: Forum Badge (SF)!
Air Fluff 5/20
Air Fluff 6/20
Air Fluff 7/20
Air Fluff 8/20
You found a new Hornets Nest ring!
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Klaus Klokenmeyer: Mine clocken! You saved it from ze skeeters!
Lunar the White Wolf: I sure did. Anything else I can help with?
Klaus Klokenmeyer: Since you offered, mine clocken iz schtill Animated! I have been noticing zat ze crystal near ze traktor reverses ze animation. Would you take mine clocken to the nearby field, northvest of here, and reverse ze animation?
Lunar the White Wolf: I can do that!
Klaus Klokenmeyer: Excellent! Just bring mine clocken near ze crystal and it should reverse ze animation.
Larry: There you are, Lunar the White Wolf. Looks like you took out the fluffs I asked you to.
Lunar the White Wolf: Yeah... but it seem they're still coming.
You just found the Recipe: Chained Pocket Watch!
Larry: You're telling me! We'll get them yet, though. What do you say, up for another round of fluff whacking?
Lunar the White Wolf: You betcha!
Larry: Awesome, I guess you know what to do. Twenty again.
The effects of Animation no longer control Klaus' clocken.
Klaus Klokenmeyer: Mine clocken is no longer ze Animated! Oh zank gutness, I can tell ze time again!
Klaus Klokenmeyer: Ze skeeters, zey must pay for ze attacks zey are makings! You must make zem pay!
Lunar the White Wolf: Definitely! The pests just won't leave well enough alone. I'll take them out.
Klaus Klokenmeyer: If you defeat zem, I vill give you ze revards!
Lunar the White Wolf: How many did you have in mind?
Klaus Klokenmeyer: Oh, I think perhaps tventy.
You found a new Improbability Sphere ring!
Garlic Sprout 1/3
Garlic Sprout 2/3
You just found the Recipe: Fresh Garlic Dress!
Garlic Sprout 3/3
You have planted the garlic.
Rancher Bill: Did ya git ma garlic back in the groun'?
Lunar the White Wolf: You bet I did, Bill. Planted and everything.
Rancher Bill: Finally, some good news! Seems like it's nothin' but bad news lately. While ya were out we was takin' stock of the ranch. My prize cow, Stoocie, has gone missin'!
Lunar the White Wolf: Missing? Where could a cow go?
Rancher Bill: I sent Purvis after 'er. 'e followed 'er 'oof prints all the way down to the gate to the 'ouse and got skeered. I need ya to take this 'ere key, go there the gate, an' find muh Stoocie!
Lunar the White Wolf: You mean the vampire's house? Sounds like fun. Count me in!
Rancher Bill: Er... yeah! A 'ootin 'ollerin good time! Well, 'ere's the key. Ya can find the gate to the south. There's no reason ta go in the 'ouse, though. this seems more like the work of misch... mischiev... rascally underlings.
You just found the Recipe: Garlic Plushie!
Lunar the White Wolf has upgraded a Coyote Spirit ring up to CL 3.0!
You've earned a new G'hi ability!
Lunar the White Wolf has upgraded a Hack ring up to CL 3.0!
You found a new Scaredy Cat ring!
Look out below!
Stoocie: Moo!
Stoocie will now follow you back to Rancher Bill.
You just found the Recipe: Clutch Purse!
Rancher Bill: 'old it right there! This 'ere is private prop'rty...
Rancher Bill: ...wait it's you! Stoocie!!! Ya saved 'er!
Lunar the White Wolf: Yeah! She was so scared... but she's a good little cow and followed me home.
Rancher Bill: Stoocie's a good cow. She's a moo-moo. A moo-moo-goo-goo. Yes she is.
Lunar the White Wolf: A moo-moo-goo-goo-boo-boo?
Rancher Bill: A moo-moo-goo-goo-boo-boo-doo-doo.
Lunar the White Wolf: Do you need a private moment with your cow? I'll leave you two alone.
Rancher Bill: Oh! Before ya go, Rubella told me to tell ya that she's lookin' fer ya.
Lunar the White Wolf: Uhm... okay. Thanks Bill.
Rancher Bill: Stoocie, why don't ya 'ead out to pasture?
Stoocie: Moo!
You just found the Recipe: Clutch Rollerblades!
Rubella: Howdeee sweetheart! Say, did Bill mention I was lookin' for you? I really could use another favor, if'n you have time.
Lunar the White Wolf: Of course I'll help you, Rubella.
Rubella: Thanks again, sugar. I'd be lost without you. Anyway, with all the Animated running wild around here, and the men-folk running even wilder with panic, I haven't had a chance to check up on Katsumi! We write each all the time but I haven't heard hide nor hair from her since the Animated started showin' up. I sure am worried 'bout her. Please go track her down in Zen Gardens to the north... she's usually in the shrine.
Rubella: I'll go check up on Katsumi immediately.
Rancher Bill: Lunar the White Wolf, my friend, you're a lifesaver. We're finally starting to get on top of things 'ere on the ranch and it's all thanks to yer 'elp! If'n yer interested, I gots something else could use yer touch.
Lunar the White Wolf: Sure, what do you need help with?
Rancher Bill: I knew I could count on Lunar the White Wolf! Anyway, now that ya got my garlic back in the groun' we can see about clearin' up the mess they made. Rubella an' Purvis seem to 'ave the cows and chickens purty well in 'and, but I'm none to 'opeful when it comes to 'em fixin' the tractor and the windmills. Seems ta me that'll need someone with figurin' skills like yerself to remedy. We got two windmills, one west an' one northeast, and the tractor to the east. Fix'em up an' lemme know when yer done.
You have repaired the first windmill.
You have repaired the tractor
You have repaired the second windmill.
Rancher Bill: I can see them windmills a'turnin' and a plume of smoke comin' from the tractor. Good work, Lunar the White Wolf.
Lunar the White Wolf: I just do what I can to help.
Rancher Bill: Ya do a 'eck of a job at it! Ne'er woulda got the ranch back up an runnin' without ya. 'ere. Listen, 'fore ya 'ead out I'd like to give ya a ring as muh thanks fer 'elpin'.
Lunar the White Wolf: Awesome!
Rancher Bill: Go ahead and rummage through these sacks and take the machineEnd you want.
Rancher Bill: Dang fine decision! You reckon that's the one ya want?
Lunar the White Wolf: Absolutely!
Rancher Bill: All righty then. Here's the one y'picked.
You found a new Defibrillate ring!
Purvis: Gawrsh, hey there Lunar the White Wolf. Guda see ya agin!
Lunar the White Wolf: Hey Purvis, how's it going?
Purvis: Urg, not so good. Y'see Rubella was complainin' 'bout the smell of them Garlics, so I tole 'er I'd get rid of 'em, but I can't!
Lunar the White Wolf: Why not? Just bang them over the head with a few rings and they'll drop easy enough.
Purvis: Buh duh... I don't got no rings. Not much a fighter anyway. I jus' wish someone'd take out the buh-durn Garlic so Rubella'd be 'appy.
Lunar the White Wolf: That's a noble cause. I'll take care of your Garlic problem, Purvis.
Purvis: Lunar the White Wolf! Ya jus' made me 'appier than a fly in cow-dung!
Lunar the White Wolf: Er, I guess flies enjoy that sort of thing?
Purvis: Durn tootin'! Anyway, I figger about twenty oughta bring the smell down ta a ree... reaso... oughta stop the stink enough.
Purvis: Buh dur, I know I said I wanted ya to knock off twenty Garlic, and I know ya did, but... well'n I can still smellem!
Lunar the White Wolf: Of course you can! They just keep popping back up every time I whack them!
Purvis: Well'n, think ya could whack some more? They can't come at ya ferever!
Lunar the White Wolf: I suppose they can't. I'll give it another shot, Purvis
Purvis: Gawrsh, thanks Lunar the White Wolf!
Lunar the White Wolf has upgraded a Hack ring up to CL 4.0! of
Katsumi: Hello, stranger. My name is Katsumi.
Lunar the White Wolf: Hello there. Rubella asked me to swing by and check up on you. Is everything okay here?
Katsumi: Rubella? That was sweet of her! Please give her my best when you see her next!
Katsumi: You are welcome to hide here in the Meditation Shrine. It seems to be a safe haven against the Animated.
Lunar the White Wolf: It is? You mean the Animated don't come in here?
Katsumi: That's right. I don't know if it's because the Shrine protects us somehow, or if they simply can't see us when we're in here.
Lunar the White Wolf: Really? What's so special about this shrine?
Katsumi: I have no idea. It's definitely not just because we're inside a structure. People have been attacked in their homes all over Gaia.
Lunar the White Wolf: Do you have any clues at all?
Katsumi: Well...maybe. Uncle brought me the crystal that you see here in the Shrine. He said it was from an asteroid crater from elsewhere in the world.
Lunar the White Wolf: Is it becoming Animated?
Katsumi: No, no...but it's pulsing with some kind of inner light. And the *really* strange part is that it started glowing right around the same day that the Animated began to appear around here.
Lunar the White Wolf: Do you think the Animated are staying away from the shrine because of that crystal?
Katsumi: Yes. I do. It's keeping me safe...but the Animated are everywhere out there, and now I'm trapped here!
Lunar the White Wolf: Do you need help against the Animated?
Katsumi: Yes! Oh very much, yes. I had a Kokeshi Doll here in the shrine. It was beautiful and fragile. But then it Animated! It took off like a rabbit...probably because of that crystal...but after that, more of them began to appear out there.
Lunar the White Wolf: You think YOUR doll had something to do with all those Kokeshi out there?
Katsumi: I'm very much afraid that ALL of those dolls somehow came from MY doll. I need to know! Could you go out there and try to find my doll?
Lunar the White Wolf: Of course! But how would I know if it's your doll or not?
Katsumi: That doll was a present from my Father before he disappeared. He wrote my name on the bottom before he gave it to me. I saw that it ran off toward the southeast somewhere. You should try that direction first.
Lunar the White Wolf: Okay, Katsumi. Challenging, but I'll go look for your doll and tell you what I find!
Katsumi: Good luck to you, traveller. Be careful.
Lunar the White Wolf: The name's Lunar the White Wolf! And let the Animated be the careful ones!
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