Side Quests

Optional — none block the Zartekch seal. Worth doing for keys, recipes, gear, and permanent combat perks.

Clear Broken Branches

Follow-up after Clear Tentacles (hub).

1. Finish tentacle quest → letter arrives next morning
2. Talk to Adrian again on apartment 1F
3. Head to the Old Woods

Time of Mysteries — Akira

Apartment 2F, NPC Akira.

1. Talk to Akira → first mystery task
2. Complete any one mystery, return
3. Accept the three-mystery follow-up → finish all three
4. Keep reporting back for the next chain step

Step-by-step for all five known mysteries: mystery events (blue ATM, Lakeside mermaid, Maggot Man, Homeland Watch, mall sports store). Blood Moon resets solved ones — moon events.

Temp Babysitter → Eldritch Prank (branch)

NPC Amelia

Amelia asks you to find her kid Ben in the park.

Choice	Result
Find Ben normally	Babysitter quest completes
Talk to pumpkin kid in park and agree to help him	Babysitter fails → Eldritch Prank starts

Eldritch Prank steps

1. Find Supernatural Slime — mall area pickup or buy from the food court shop
2. Enter Amelia and Martin's house — bottles on the table straight ahead from the door

NPC Martin

3. Pour slime into the bottles → leave → re-enter for the scene
4. Report to pumpkin head in the park
5. Reward: Steel Key — opens the upper-left door in Martin's house

Steel Key is separate from the three mall keys.

Cat Snacks — Dave the Cat

Pet Shop

Neighbor black cat Dave.

1. Talk to Dave next door
2. Cook Mist Broth — Celery (farm) + Mist Eel (Lakeside fishing)
3. Deliver → pickle jar reward

Also unlocks the fishing tutorial via sewer → Lakeside route.

Shopper Showdown — Abby

NPC Shopper

1. Abby in the park gives the quest
2. Defeat enough Shoppers in the mall → done

Good early fight XP if your build is ready.

Artificial Companion — Old Jackson

Old Man Jackson

1. Talk to Old Jackson for the quest
2. Park — collect branches → interact with the coat rack inside Jackson's house
3. Lakeside — pebbles
4. Sewers — mud
5. Mall — metal block

Fetch chain — do it when you already route through those zones.

Park and Recreation — Brian

Brian in the mall Ultra Video shop (same floor as Warp). Accept his task when you pass through for the free teleport ritual.

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Main tentacle route: hub — Adrian