Waaaaaaay ancient guide I did prep;
Re: Library Story
Here is a bit of a Walkthrough/Hints list for exploring the demo;
Perks;
-Masquerade: Start the game with a lockpick
Help (feed) the rogue at the stocks without demanding anything in return. Edit: it is and has always been stocks, not gallows. Anyone, who says otherwise is a Tongas partizan.
-Gilded Whip: Belle starts with +20 Submission
When you encounter the red headed thief, depending on your hunting skill, Gaston has a chance to catch the Red Headed thief. Choose the option to spank her.
-Monster Hunter: Start the game with 50 additional Hunting Skill
Beat the beast encounter in the forest
-Looser: Start the game with a set of armour
Loose 10 or 12 (not completely sure) fights
-Money Box: Start the game with 150 additional gold
Amass 750 gold pieces
-Honorary Collector:Begin the game with 5 special mushrooms
Collect at least 1 sample of all 12 plant types in the game. There is only one specimen of one of the plants (Blue something, needed for potion quest) and you need to find the "Dire Cucumber" in the forest and defeat it before you can grab it.
Eating the mushrooms in the correct order gives you a nice easter egg
SPOILER
Blue, Green, Yellow
-Hot Dog: Get yourself a hunting buddy
Buy the collar (50gp) as well as a food item from the merchant and proceed to the market square. Next to the gallows, you may see Trigger Asaurus Rex the Beastly Hunting Dog the third. Feed him some food and then pet him. If/When Gaston says he is a nice dog (I think the amount of food needed is dependent on one of the skills) you can collar him and obtain a meat shield that can tank 2-4 hits per encounter.
My take on starting perk choices:
Updated: Personally, I prefer starting the game with Doggy. Other than him, the herbalist (+500gp) is also another good way to hasten the grinding.
Walkthrough;
Atm, due to the first demo run state of the game, game systems are... quite a bit unbalanced. Between the 22 day limit, RNG and not yet implemented aspects of the game, it can be frustrating and/or a save scumming fiesta to get everything done in time.
Because of these, I'll be tackling this section in 2 parts; first I'll list the existing quests, steps to accomplish them and their possible rewards as well as the special encounters and their requirements. Then, I'll give you a step by step walkthrough that is insanely heavy on the save scumming and min-maxing to wrap up everything inside the current (0.6) time limit.
Quests:
Hungry Rogue: Market District, Central Square, Until 19.00, Until day 8 (Not yet implemented)
There is a gallows in the middle of the marketplace with a poor, hungry thief stuck in the said gallows, begging for food.
-Directly choosing to help him without asking for anything and feeding him a sandwich nets you 5-10 hunting skill and feeding him ham nets you 15-20 hunting skill.
Choosing to bully him nets you a lockpick and a book stolen from Belle at the cost of an hour, which grants you +20 on Tongas. If you editorialize the book, you will later Belle will loose 5 affinity to Tongas but gain +5 Corruption.
-Asking for rewards and then feeding him will grant you a favor from him down the line (not yet implemented)
Choosing to bully him again nets you the lockpick and the book.
-Torturing him makes him your enemy (Not yet implemented)
Red Rouge:Random encounter when you are travelling to any Town location. (so Tongas' Bookshop and Belle's Cottage are not included)
Skill check (Hunting ) determines if you notice some light fingers on your purse. Failure means loosing 5 to 10 gold. Critical Failure adds insult to injury by an additional chance of loosing 10 Respect for Gaston.
If you pass the skill check, you capture the Rouge.
-Spanking her nets you the achievement and probably an enemy later on (not yet implemented).
-Letting her go nets you lockpicks and possibly some help later on (not yet implemented).
-Taking her to the watch gets you nothing and some quest hooks for later
-Demanding "Services" gets you a handjob. (Possibly an action for aCreme Fountain achievement? Maybe?)
Innocent Belle: Before you can get on with more serious training you need to teach her the basics of sex.
Unique Encounters:
-The Unlucky Nomad will be raped by a Polar Bear in the middle of the Desert:
You can run into this guy after day 3 in both forest (The large, deep green zone) and forest outskirts (The 3 part yellowish green zone, the one next to the Hut in the forest).
The damage bonus from 200 hunting skill is nice as otherwise, you will need some RNG.
You need the Sword, Leather Armour and Rexasaurus the Toothless meatshield fierce attack dogasaurus.
Lots of HP and decent damage potential but no special abilities. A Grizzly on steroids in other words.
SAVE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE FIGHT
Let your faithful companion tank 2-4 hits and then dodge-sword-sword-sword-dodge till the white terror is defeated.
Enjoy your rug and +10 Rep.
-The Dire Cucumber:
Only appears in deep forest.
You need to have the Axe equipped. Your faithful meat shield also makes this fight much easier.
Dodge, Axe, Axe, Axe, Dodge... till it goes to the great garden in the sky.
Do not forget to grab the apples and the Blue whatever!
In addition there are usually 2-3 more herbs hidden among the bushes.
You can apply the venom to 5 arrows in the inventory screen
The sapling (and the gardening) isn't implemented yet
Enjoy your +2 Town Rep.
-The Pirates:
Only appear in the forest outskirts
You must have the damage bonus from 200 hunting skill or the poisoned arrows. You can skip using the poisoned arrows and use a single bodkin if you have the damage bonus.
You need the Sword, Armour and Warhound Titan.
Nuke the fatso.
Ferocious Bite whenever it comes up. Open with Arrow and then spam sword slashes until the dogsibody is knocked out. After that, continue slashing until gunner finishes reloading and then dodge to negate most of his damage (remember the first turn after you dodge, you receive %75 DR bonus). Continue Nuking Fatso then the defenceless and interruptible gunner.
Grab your spoils of war in the chest!
Don't forget the 2-4 herbs scattered around.
-Ze Beast!
Bigger than Gaston (in every way)
Stronger than Gaston
Uglier, much Uglier than Gaston (if you can believe that)
Immune to Poison Arrows.
No, I don't have patreon perk.
Technically, this fight is winnable. It just takes a horrendous amount of save scumming to get the beast attack the right target (ie; you when dodge is off cooldown) and do minimum damage with each attack.
Your doggie can tank at most 4 hits during this combat. You need it to tank all 4 of those hits or you will run short of 1 swing and end defeated.
You need to ensure that he tanks the few turns when your dodge is on cd and your dodge bonus is down
The doggie needs to hit for max damage (3 on normal bite and 9 on ferocious bite
I think) every time
The Beast needs to hit for minimum damage.
I don't have the save handy atm but roughly the combat goes something like this:
Save
Ferocious Bite (reload until you get max damage,
9 I think)
Save
Dodge
Reload if the beast hits doggie or hits you for more than 9-10 damage
Save
Bite for 3
Save
Musket Shot, Normal Arrow, 44 dmg + 20 bleed dmg (next turn) +20 bleed dmg (the turn after)
Reload if the beast hits anklebiter or hits
you for more than 25
Save
Bite for 3
Save
Slash
Reload if the beast hits anklebiter or hits
you for more than 25
Save
Bite for 3
Save
Slash
Reload if the beast hits you! You want it to hit anklebiter this time as your dodge is on cd but if the anklebiter is hit for more than 25 damage, reload
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Beast dies
Congrats! You just won a fight of epic dickishness, way before you had enough gear to take it on. Now look back on your last hour wasted save scumming and curse yourself blue.