HOUSE RULES
HOUSE RULES is an errand CLEM hands out on BOOT HILL, and it wants 10 kills of SALOON BRAWLER.
The brawlers are scripted to fight at nine, and it has not been nine in eleven years. Ten of them is how long it takes a room to go quiet enough to clean, in a saloon whose barkeep has polished the same glasses every night rather than admit the shift is over.
What it asks
| SHAPE | WHAT | HOW MANY |
|---|---|---|
| CULL | SALOON BRAWLER | 10 |
- ANY KILL COUNTSyours, a companion's, a powerup's — the errand is thinning them out, not proving it was you.
What it pays
Handing it in pays experience, 150 coins and 1 rolled piece.
The experience is authored as a SHARE of your own level bar — 0.5 of one — rather than as a figure, so the same errand is worth the same fraction of a level on the first map and the last. The table below is what that comes to for a hero at the level this venue is tuned for; take it later and it pays more.
The rolled piece goes through the ordinary drop pipeline at your own level, with 1 tier of skew on the rarity roll — the same skew the merchant's stall takes. A quest is a second CALLER of the loot system, never a second loot system, so what it hands over is the same kind of thing a monster drops.
| WHAT | HOW MUCH |
|---|---|
| COINS | 150 |
| ROLLED LOOT | 1 (+1 tier skew) |
| DIFFICULTY | HERO LEVEL | XP |
|---|---|---|
| EASY | 31 | 26656 |
| MEDIUM | 32 | 30941 |
| HARD | 35 | 49751 |
| NIGHTMARE | 54 | 1116474 |
The chain
Opens THE EIGHT O'CLOCK NUMBER.
A chain never crosses a map or a run: the quest log belongs to the run you are in rather than to the hero, so every link of one is taken, done and handed in on a single visit, from the same person.
What is said
The errand in the giver's own words, covered until you ask for it.
The ask
CLEMTHE BRAWLERS ARE SCRIPTED TO FIGHT AT NINE. IT IS NOT NINE. IT HASN'T BEEN NINE IN ELEVEN YEARS.
CLEMTEN OF THEM AND THE ROOM GOES QUIET ENOUGH TO CLEAN.
Coming back short
CLEMSTILL BRAWLING. STILL NOT NINE.
The handover
CLEMQUIET BAR. I'D FORGOTTEN THE SOUND OF MY OWN GLASSES.
CLEMTHERE'S A CASE UNDER THE BOARDS. TAKE ONE.