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Plum Duffer

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The essentials

  1. Take the quest: Gleeba (post-game; Wi-Fi quest (online download))
  2. The request: Duff, a peddler from Gleeba, wants you to retrieve the evidence that the plums his wife packed for him were eaten by seasaurs. It seems that eating them made the seasaurs turn into seaverns.
  3. Find: what the request names
    • Seasaur — Earliest: Ocean, zone 3 (edges) — 22% of battles
    • Seavern — Earliest: Water, rank 12: 25% of visible monsters, 32% of battles (quality 181-200: floors 13-16; 201-220: floors 13-16; 221-248: floors 13-16)
  4. Quest items received along the way:
    Plum stone
  5. Reward (first time):
    Chronocrystal
Quest 173RepeatableWi-Fi (closed)

Duff, a peddler from Gleeba, wants you to retrieve the evidence that the plums his wife packed for him were eaten by seasaurs. It seems that eating them made the seasaurs turn into seaverns.

Where to get it

Gleeba

When and requirements

post-game; Wi-Fi quest (online download)

Reward (first time)

Chronocrystal

On repeat

Reset stone

Items given during the quest

Plum stone

Quest completed (game text)

You retrieved ten plum stones from the seaverns of the watery grotto for Duff. His plums weren't to blame after all, but you received a reward anyway for your help. You can repeat this quest as many times as you like.

Under the hood

Internal quest number: 131 (scenario/questorder3.bin, entry 102); the number shown (173) is the in-game list's.

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