ok, how the hell is one supposed to download this? the how to play says extract and run the exe but the exe is some weird Slowutil.exe or something that installed taskbarify, and offered 30 kinds of different antivirus, and whenever it says that it has installed the file i cant find it anywhere, has the link been changed or am i missing something?
i know, its my fault, i still dont know much about this, but like, how do i even delete the supposed phantom file? if i cant play at least i would like to be as i was before
Your anitvirus intercepted and quarantined it. What I can suggest is you make an entirely new folder and set your AV to ignore this new folder), download and extract the game to that. I always keep it in this folder -that I made myself and have full read/write permissions to it and have set my AV to ignore it-
(Drive):\Games\RPGMaker\VX
SlowUtil.exe and taskbarify shouldn't be present in this game or archives. By themselves, they are at worst
suspicious and there's not a lot of easily available information on what they are or what they do.
A decent method to see if the .zip is at fault is to run it through
virustotal.com's online scanner.
You could try MalwareBytes. That tends to clean up a lot of crap and if it can't, it'll tell you where the files are located.
You might need to use the Task Manager to kill the offending process first and then get to cleaning it out.
where to get food? and what is my mission in the game?
You can get food from the tavern that you'll need to trade coins at to get TP (Trade Points) which are then used to buy things.
Alternatively:
(1) At the tavern, there's a cookbook behind the counter that you can nab for free
(2) Go out the north gate and into what looks like plains / farmland (a small fenced-in area) and kill bunnies. You can then use the Black Cauldron to toss the meat in (with a spare log of wood)* for a food item that doesn't decay (Smoked Meat) at a rate of 2 Wild Meat (+1 Wooden Log) per every 1 Meat. It's more worth if you toss a pile of Wild Meat in with a wooden log. For every batch of Smoked Meat, you just need the one log.
Alternatively, you can skip the log and make Meat Soup instead. Soups are really good in this game.
You could also cycle between the two fenced in areas (as long as you're playing on the default difficulty) and just get a whole heap of veg and make soup out of that. As far as I know Soup keeps as well.
*You can also toss in the starting Club if you haven't got any spare logs.