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A FAQ/Walkthrough for Magician's Quest: Mysterious Times
By DLM_The Fourth (Mandy Bertz)
Version 0.2
This file is Copyright (c) Mandy Bertz. All rights reserved.
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This FAQ/Walkthrough is not free of spoilers, so read at your own risk!
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Addition to section 0: The author of this FAQ/Walkthrough plays the European
version of the game. If something in your game isn't as described in the
FAQ/Walkthrough it could be because you play the North American version. In
this case email me about the problem, please.
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[If you see a bracket with some letters in a sentence then that's a pointer to
a certain chapter or spell that is closely tied to the current topic.]
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0. Contact and about this FAQ/Walkthrough:                                [MEA]
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As you will notice this FAQ/Walkthrough isn't complete yet. There's still a lot
of research to be done, information needs to be gathered and confirmed. So if
you have information that isn't mentioned in this FAQ/Walkthrough or see wrong
information please write me and I will add it to the FAQ/Walkthrough. Full
credit will be given of course :)
My email adress is Mirage312@live.de, please put MQ in the subject line and
make sure to mention which version, the European or North American, you play.
Thank you.
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0.1 What I want from you!                                               [WINFY]
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What I want from you: everything that isn't mentioned yet in this
FAQ/Walkthrough.
I don't expect anyone to write a whole article about any aspect of the game.
But if you can give pointers and clues, if you noticed something unusal, write
me. I'll follow all clues. Please make sure to mention which version, the
European or North American, you play.
Credit will be fully given.
What you can mail me about
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- The reward tables aren't complete yet. If you catch something that isn't
mentioned in them make sure to notice what size your catch is and what you
got as reward.
- Came up with a game that you played with other players? Tell me.
- The missing classes. If you can send me a script of the missing classes I
will be most grateful. Please make sure to write down everything the teacher
says and writes on the blackboard.
- Cheapest price lists. Think you made a real bargain? Tell me. I don't care
if I get a mail simply saying, Gong, 2080 Ritch, and nothing else. Just tell
me please.
- Highest price lists. What is the highest price Malila and Cat Sith offered
you for a certain item?
- What do the icons in the safe mean?
- Where exactly did you catch a certain bug? Was it sitting on a tree? Did
you shook it out of a tree? Was it hiding in flowers? I'm going to add
column about the exact place where the bug is hiding or sitting.
- Are there other ways to earn money?
- Is your room/conservatory nicely decorated? Why don't you write me about
it, describe how your room or the conservatory looks like and I'll let you
brag about it in this FAQ/Walkthrough.
- Questions you think that they should be in the Frequently Asked Question
Section.
- Anything you think should go into this FAQ/Walkthrough.
- Anything I didn't explain good enough.
- Maybe a nice ASCII? It shouldn't be too big, not more then 30 lines and 79
signs in total.
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0.2 Changes in the current version                                       [CCVN]
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- rewrote 0.1 What I want from you
- rewrite 1. Table of Contents
- rewrote 2.
- rewrote 2.1 and added more information
- added all spells, nearly all incantations and nearly all classes of Mister
Vlad
- added rewards for the Sea Bram
- added a lowest price list
- added Rayner/Someonymous to the contributor's list
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1. Table of Contents                                                      [TOC]
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0.  Contact and about this FAQ/Walkthrough................................[Mea]
0.1  What I want from you!..............................................[WINFY]
0.2  Changes in the current version......................................[CCVN]
1.  Table of Contents.....................................................[TOC]
2.  Getting Started!...................................................[GSTART]
2.1  Enrolling in school!................................................[ERIS]
2.2  A quick tour through the dormitory!..................................[QTD]
2.3  Your first day in school!............................................[FDS]
2.4  Exploring the school!...............................................[EXSO]
2.5  Where Principal Sol lives!........................................[PRISOL]
3.  Living on your own!..................................................[LIVO]
3.1  A quick sightseeing!.................................................[QSS]
3.2  Finding friends - falling in love!.................................[SWEHA]
3.3  Playing groundskeeper...............................................[GRKE]
3.4  Shopping in shops!...................................................[SIS]
3.5  Making money........................................................[MAMO]
4.  Mysterious mysteries!................................................[MYMY]
4.1  But what is a Mysterious Time?......................................[MYTI]
4.4.1 Lessons by Mister Grave!..........................................[LEMGR]
4.2  Mysteries triggered by the Mystery Key [haven't started yet]........[MTMK]
4.3  Mysteries triggered by date [haven't started yet]...................[MTBD]
4.4  Events [haven't started yet]........................................[EVNT]
5.  Classes.............................................................[CLSOV]
5.1  Spells taught by Mister Oakley [complete]............................[SMO]
5.2  Incantations taught by Miss Strawe [80% complete]....................[IMS]
5.3  Magic Linguistics taught by Mister Vlad [80%complete]...............[MLMV]
6.  Fishing and Bug catching............................................[FIBUG]
6.1  Fishing............................................................[FIALL]
- The Sea................................................................[FSEA]
- The River............................................................[FRIVER]
- The Pond..............................................................[FPOND]
- The Cave..............................................................[FCAVE]
6.2  Catching Bugs......................................................[CABUG]
- The Plains..........................................................[BPLAINS]
- The Woods.............................................................[BWOOD]
- The Cave..............................................................[BCAVE]
- The Beach............................................................[BBEACH]
- The Island.............................................................[BISL]
- The Dorm..............................................................[BDORM]
- Fungi Forest............................................................[BFF]
6.3  Rewards for caught bugs and fish....................................[RWBF]
- Blue Tulip.............................................................[RWBT]
- Black Marguerite.......................................................[RWBM]
- Pink Rose..............................................................[RWPR]
- Orange May Lily.......................................................[RWOML]
- Yellow Candyflower....................................................[RQYCF]
- Red Gemflower.........................................................[RWRGF]
- White Skullflower.....................................................[RWWSF]
- Red Heartflower.......................................................[RWRHF]
- Copper Ore.............................................................[RWCO]
- Tin Ore................................................................[RWTO]
- Silver Ore............................................................[RWSIO]
- Sulfur Ore.............................................................[RWSO]
- Phosphorus Ore.........................................................[RWPO]
- Gold Ore...............................................................[RWGO]
- Crystal...............................................................[RWCRY]
- Aquamarine.............................................................[RWAQ]
- Sapphire...............................................................[RWSA]
- Amethyst...............................................................[RWAM]
- Turquoise..............................................................[RWTU]
- Lapis Lazuli...........................................................[RWLL]
- Emerald................................................................[RQEM]
- Ruby...................................................................[RWRU]
- Shade Remains..........................................................[RWSR]
- Cursed Bones...........................................................[RWCB]
- Ogre Horn..............................................................[RWOH]
- Pirate Bone............................................................[RWPB]
- Giant Fish Bone.......................................................[RWGFB]
- Ancient Dragon Bone...................................................[RWADB]
7.  Price Lists.........................................................[PRILI]
7.1  Harrows...........................................................[PRIHAR]
7.2  Daisy's Flowers....................................................[PRIDA]
7.3  Mon Paris..........................................................[PRIMP]
7.4  Cat Sith...........................................................[PRICS]
7.5  The Emporium.......................................................[PRITE]
7.6  The highest prices Malila will offer................................[HPME]
8.  Random Stuff.......................................................[RSTUFF]
- Star Signs...........................................................[STARSI]
- School Regulation, Item 99............................................[SRI99]
9.  Thanks to all the contributors and people who cared!................[CONTB]
10. Legalities and all the other stuff!................................[LEGSTU]
10.1 !Disclaimer!.......................................................[DICLA]
10.2 Version History.......................................................[VH]
10.3 The last word........................................................[TLW]
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2. Getting started!                                                    [GSTART]
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In total you can create four characters, each one will go through the same
sequences described in 2.1 - 2.3. You won't have to actively play with the
other characters. It's enough to create them to reap the benefits.
Each character has it's own space in the wardrobe and safe. Use this to store
even more items. Each character can participate in the festivals, use this to
get more items from the festival.
And of course each character has it's own bankaccount. Put money in each
bankaccount, then let the other characters sleep for weeks and months. They
will still earn interest for the deposited money.
The following sections will take you through the first steps of the game, from
creating a char to the point where Principal Sol will give you the Mystery Key.
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2.1 Enrolling in school!                                                 [ERIS]
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Start the game and choose the option Enroll to create your character.
The game takes you into the Room of the Beginning and End to Principal Sol. He
welcomes you and asks you for your name, your birthday, your gender and which
school you want to attend. He also let's you choose the appearance of your
character. There is a barber shop in town, so you won't be stuck forever with
your haircut.
When you are satisfied with your appearance and the data you gave you will be
warped into the dormitory where Reginald is already waiting for you.
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2.2 A quick tour through the dormitory!                                   [QTD]
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Reginald is a pumpkin headed man and in charge of the dorm. He lives behind the
counter and gives you helpful tips for the life in town. He'll also notify you
whenever Principal Sol wishes to talk to you. But right now he'll shows you
your room in wich you will live for the next year. Reginald is also a very nice
man who gives you a house warming gift. A beige wardrobe. It might not be the
greatest gift you've ever got but for now keep it and put it in your room.
Press L or tap on the symbol in the upper left corner, then drag the wardrobe
into the room. Stand next to it and press B to move and turn the wardrobe till
you found the best place for it.
Doesn't your room look great now? Blue striped carpet and wallpaper and a beige
wardrobe. Lovely. Fear not - there's a shop in town where you can purchase
furniture and items to decorate your room after your own taste.
But right now there's nothing left to do in your room. If you want to have a
quick look at your town map then press SELECT and tap on the purple house
symbol. Tap on the icons on the map to see what it is and who lives there.
Once you're done leave the room.
While you're there check out the dormitory. You will find several doors in the
dormitory as well as a trash bin and a conservatory.
The game allows you to create four characters, each character will move into a
room with a colored door. You can enter the rooms of the other players or use
them for yourself. Use them as storage or extra room.
On the right side of each dorm is a brown door which is closed most of the
time. You can open the door directly after you start playing again. But not
now. If you can open the door you will be randomly warped into the appartment
of a fellow student.
On the right side of the first floor you'll find a trash bin. Oddly enough you
open it by pressing A. The trash bin will never be emptied, so use it to store
stuff.
The purple door on the first floor takes you to the room of an exchange
student.
On the second floor you'll find what looks like an elevator. This is the
Gateway of the Beginning and End. Use it to activate Mystery Time, to travel
abroad or allow visitors into your town and to save the game. To get your
friend code enter the communication rooms and there ask about your friend code.
Go up the stairs and you'll be in the conservatory. Decorate it with flowers
and furniture you bought at Daisy's and Harrows. Come here with fellow students
to learn or drink tea. Remember to water the flowers you planted in this room.
Berry bushes and trees won't grow here.
When you saw enough go and talk to Reginald. Tell him that you've seen enough
of the dorms and he'll takes you to the school. Before leaving you, Reginald
reminds you of coming back to the dorm to collect your schoolarship funds.
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2.3 Your first day in school!                                             [FDS]
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Principal Sol is waiting for you, so hurry in.
After greeting you Principal Sol takes you up to the classroom. He gives you
your first wizard's hat and a magic staff! Finally, you're a wizard/witch!
Now find you a seat and listen closely what principal Sol tells you.
Once the class is over you're free. The game releases you from it's grab and
let's you decide what you want to do. You can save the game, go and explore the
town, talk to your fellow students or take more lessons.
The blue speaking bubbles over the head of your fellow students will give you
clues about what they want to speak with you and in what mood they are.
Introduce yourself to the other students, then leave the room. Do you remember
what Principal Sol just told you? That he will teach you the basics of the
game? He still stands outside of the class room, so talk to him again and take
the next class with him. About staffs.
You will have to take the 8 basic lessons with Principal Sol before you can
take regular classes to learn spells. Before I summarize the basic lessons I'll
tell you what happens during a class.
What happens during a class:
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- The teacher will tell you about the subject of the class.
- A student might pass you a note. You can read it or not. If the teacher
catches you reading a note he will ask you a question about the subject of
the class.
- At the end of each class the teacher will ask one question. To answer it
press A. If you don't want to answer it wait a bit till the teacher chooses
a random student. It could be you or one of the other 3 students.
If you answered the question correctly every student will commend you and
you'll get a note on your attendance sheet. If you gave the wrong answer the
students will be dissappointed with you and you won't get a note in the
attendance sheet.
- After each class the teacher will give you a stamp on your attendance sheet
to confirm that you attended the class. This isn't true for the basic
classes.
Remember that you can repeat classes by speaking to the teacher and choosing
"past class".
With that out of the way we go straight back to principal Sol and his lessons.
The 8 basic lessons:
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- To transform your staff press the R button.
- Shops are closed during certain hours and you need money to buy things.
- Magic linguistics are used for spells and talking to creatures. They are
sorted into 6 categories.
- Rotate clockwise to transform a wizard. Rotate anti-clockwise to transform
back. Spells always begin with the magic rune.
- Incantations always begin always with the incantation rune.
- Press START to bring up your wizard chart. Collect 10 small stars to get one
big star. For every big star you get a present from principal Sol. To get
stars solve mysteries and attend classes.
- To exchange students bring them to the Gateway of the Beginning and End.
Or go alone to visit another town or to invite someone into your town.
- To learn a song listen for a while until you get the message that you
learned the song. Now you can play the song on an instrument or whistle it.
To find out the title of the song talk to Piquard in Harrows. You can also
order the song there.
Now you've finished all basic lessons you can start taking lessons from the
regular teachers, Mister Oakley who teaches you spells, Miss Strawe who teaches
you incantation and Mister Vlad who teaches you magic linguistics used for
talking with creatures.
The spells, incantations and linguistics are listed in section 5.
The teacher on duty will change every new hour. You will only have 3 new
classes each week. Classes will change every Sunday.
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2.4 Exploring the school!                                                [EXSO]
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On the first floor you'll find the teachers lounge, the toilets which are
strictly seperated for boys and girls and the message board.
Let's have a look into the teacher's lounge on the left side of the hall. Here
you'll find Miss Strawe, Mister Oakley and Mister Vlad. If you talk to them
they give you good advise and let you check your attendance sheet.
Additionally each teacher will allow you to alter one thing related to the
school.
Mister Vlad will let you change the school uniform which all students have to
wear. Perhaps you already noticed that girls wear a red jacked and boys a blue
jacket? Mister Vlad allows you to decide what uniform everyone should wear.
Miss Strawe allows you to redecorate the school room. Buy chairs, desks,
carpets and wallpapers at Harrows and give them to Miss Strawe. Think twice,
once you give Miss Strawe an item you won't get it back. And you can only give
her items that are designed for school.
Finally Mister Oakley let's you adjust the timetable to your needs. School can
start either at 8am and end at 8 pm or start at 0 pm and end at 12pm.
Back in the hall you'll notice a message board on the right side of the door.
Leave messages for other players and read the news about your town, events and
special sales. Check it daily.
On the right side of the stairs you'll find the restrooms. Girls can only enter
the girls restroom, boys only the boys restroom. If you fail to save the game
before turning off the DS several times Reginald will make you clean the
toilets.
If you want to meet the Phantasm go to the restroom.
Go upstairs and then take the left stairs. You will enter the trophy room.
Whenever you solved a mystery you'll get a trophy which is put on the shelves
and the book updates itself with your newest adventures.
Go back and take the right stairs to enter the auditory.
Evaluations will be held on the stage. During Mystery Time fellow students will
hold a garage sale here. 2 random students will offer 2 random furniture from
their houses for trade. The item you offer will have to be of the same size and
value. An item that is two spaces big can only be traded for an item that is
two spaces big and roughly of the same size.
Next to the auditory you'll find a room stuffed full with strange things. The
skeleton that hangs there and snores is Mister Grave. He wakes up during
Mystery Times and holds extracurricular lessons on the place south of the
fountain.
The big organ allows you to play music and to compose your own town tune. The
town tune can be heard every full hour and whenever a class starts and ends.
The locker holds one pattern for trousers, skirt, jacket and robe. You can
design your own clothes and allow your friends to wear them. Of course you can
wear those clothes yourself, but remember, if your dressed in your own patterns
and decide to wear a clothe bought from Vivian's Boutique the clothe will
return to the locker and not go into your inventory.
There's a rumor going around about a mysterious figure which only shows up on
clear Saturday nights.
Opening Times: all day
Timetable: either from 8am to 8pm or from 0pm to 0am
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2.5  Where Principal Sol lives!                                        [PRISOL]
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Leave the school and go back to the dormitory. Use the map if you forgot the
way. The first time you'll enter the dormitory Reginald will give you 3000
Ritch, your schoolarship funds. Leave and enter a second time and he will lead
you to the library where Principal Sol lives.
Principal solve wants to talk to you about the Mystery Key. He will explain
that only human children can activate Mystery Times. I will explain Mystery
Times and what they mean in section 3.
After Principal Sol gave you the key he will warp you back to the dormitory.
Since you were already there now and because the library is a very important
place you should go back and have a closer look at it.
The first thing you will notice are 2 books, each of them is chained to it's
own rostrum.
The left book is the fish catalogue. A friendly book that will eat everyything
caught with the fishing rod. It will catalogue your fish and reward you with an
item depending on the kind and size of your catching.
You can view the fish you already caught and read it's information [FIBUG].
The right book is grumpy and the bug catalogue. Be careful, rumors have it that
it already tried to bite someone!
It will catalogue anything you caught with the net and give you a reward
depending on the kind and size of your catching. To read the information about
a certain FAQ talk to it and tell it that you want to view the bugs [FIBUG].
On the right side behind the book you will see Principal Sol, enthroned on a
heap of books! Climb up the book stair to talk to him. You can ask him for
evaluations and a new Mystery Key. You can even chat with him.
At night you will find Principal Sol on the roof, gazing at the stars.
Climb the stairs on the left side to get up to the roof.
Have a look through the giant telescope to watch the stars or the clouds.
Talk to Principal Sol and he tells you about the star formation you can
currently see. He will interpret the stars and tell you how they influence your
luck and your friendship with the other students.
Come here during the day to hear birds sing. If it rains you will also hear
the thunder rolling and the storm howling.
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And now you made it through the introductional steps of the game. Feel free to
do whatever now.
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3. Living on your own!                                                   [LIVO]
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Now that you are a proper student of your school it's time to learn what else
life has to offer you. The town offers many opportunities to enjoy your
sparetime and to have fun with your friends. Of course you can't just fool
around after classes, you have to earn money to furnish your room and to buy
fancy clothes.
You don't want to live in a bare room and you certainly don't want to wear the
same clothes every day. That won't make a good impression on your fellow
students.
And if you want to live in a pretty town, then you have to play groundskeeper
too. Taking care of the weeds, flowers and trees.
You will have to be very busy to manage all your official and unofficial
duties.
Your first task should be to get to know the town and the surround envoirement.
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3.1 A quick sightseeing!                                                  [QSS]
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Make your way back to school but don't enter it. Go to the right and you will
enter the town. Make sure to introduce yourself to anyone who crosses your
path. Here you'll find several shops, a bar and an appartment house for four
students. These shops will offer you everything you need, but I will tell you
later more about them [SIS].
Follow the road and pass Mon Paris, Vivian's Boutique, the Limelight which lies
rather hidden between Daisy's Flowers and Harrows and go through the gate in
the northern part of the town.
You're now on the beach, a nice place to fish and spent time with your friends.
Go up the stairs of the cliff and you are at Lover's Point. It's a very
romantic place! On the right side you'll find a carpet on the ground. Step on
it to call Mah, the mummy who will take you to the Island on her taxi-broom.
Notice how long the broom is? You can take the broom together with a friend.
The island is very calm and very small. You will come here very often, at least
once every Sunday.
Find your way back to the school, if you get lost open your map by pressing
START and then tapping on the house icon.
From the school go straight down the stairs. See the big treehouses? Students
live in them. Now don't run against the building, pass it on the left or the
right side. In any case you will stand now in front of the bank and the
postoffice.
The fountain with the benches left and right of it is a place where students
like to hang out. Approximately 5 steps south of the fountain you'll see a
little plastered plaza. Festivals and extracurricular classes will take place
here.
From here go to the west till you reach the river. A few steps to the south
will you find the bridge. Cross it and keep going west. You'll pass the library
which is in the tall tower, and will finally reach the ruins, a small crescent-
shaped pond surrounded by broken stone pillars. From there go north till you
reach the stairs which lead up into the forest.
If you keep going on a straight line to the north you will see a black hole in
the bushes. This is the entrance to the Fungi Forest, a clearing and cul-de-sac
in a what must be a giant tree. Have a look into the tree if you like but come
out after you have seen enough. Go right and follow the path through the forest
until you reach the bridge which leads over the river.
Pass the bridge. Did you hear a voice? It's a scary place, no? A small cemetary
in the forest, directly in front of a house with broken windows and cobbwebs
hanging from the roof over the door. If you can withstand the temptation to
have a look at it for a short moment then follow the path up to the cave, north
of the graves. Enter the cave and follow it through to the lake. It's strange
that the soil in the upper part near the lake is blue.
Okay, now you've seen the whole town and everything around it. Feel free to
leave the cave and to enter the Haunted House.
Should one of the ghosts catch you and warp you back to the dormitory remember
that I warned you! Luckily all these ghosts will ever do is to send you back to
the dormitory. You won't loose anything and they can't damage you. But it's
still scary!
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3.2 Finding friends - falling in love!                                  [SWEHA]
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X - Waving at a student to get his/her attention
A - Talking to him/her
X, then A should bring up a menu, choose from the following options:
- Listen to her/his story
- Give her/him a nice present
- Go to school together (they will wait in the classroom for you)
- Say it's nothing at all
If you currently play someone but want him/her to leave you alone, press X,
then A and choose the option to stop playing together.
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On our tour through the town you've seen many students. All in all there will
always live 11 students in your town in a random combination of boys and girls.
And it's. Or can possessed items have genders? In this town everything seems
possible. Don't let the appearance of some of the students fool you. You are
the only human around. Everyone else is either an animal, a demon (of the nice
kind) or an possessed item. Of course there's still Capt'n Dot, but he doesn't
live in the town.
Don't judge your fellow students by their appearance or by their voice, they
are humans like you and me and they have feelings. And birthdays and a mind of
their own and certain preferences.
Befriending them and getting to know them is important. It's fun to talk to
them, to play with them, to hang out at the bar and to take classes together.
You might even find a girlfriend (if you play as a boy) or a boyfriend (if you
play as a girl). Your sweetheart will spend much time with you, go shopping and
walking with you.
On your walk through the town you've already seen blue bubbles showing up over
the head of the students. These are speak bubbles, telling you in what mood
they are and what they want of you. If someone hails you you should go over and
talk to person.
Of course you could take action yourself and wave at a student you find nice
looking or interesting. Press X to wave at them. They will come over and wait
for you to talk to them. Talk to them and listen to their stories. They are
quite the gossipers, telling you what they observed about other students. They
will tell you of students they saw acting strange and of rumors they heard.
If they ask you if a certain rumor is true it's your chance to influence the
gossip that goes around in town. They even give out clues on whom they like and
with whom they have fallen in love.
You should accept if someone wants to play with you. Your friends will follow
you to all places, with one exeption. They won't ever go into the haunted house
with you.
Show off your room if you want and hear if they like it. Bring them up to the
conservatory. They might want to have a cup of tea with you there. Or learn
with you.
It's nice that you don't have to walk slow out for fear to loose your friend
somewhere. Run if you want. Or fly on a broom. They will mirror your action and
get out their own broom. Have a broom race if you want.
Or go fishing or bug catching. Again, they will mirror your action, even giving
you hints on where to find a bug or cheering at you while you catch a fish.
They're reactions and mood will change with the location. Bring someone to
Lover's Point to understand what I meant.
If you want to improve your friendship invite them to a bowl of Noodles at
Charlies. Or go and have a drink with them at the pub. Remember, that since you
invited them, you will have to pay for what they eat and drink too.
You can give them gifts, try flowers and room decorations, like ramen or pizza.
You can even try to give them clothes.
To improve your friendship with the others and to make them do certain things
you can use the following spells and incantations.
Spells
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Party Popper
Love Insight
Magnetic
Incantations
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Declare Love
Phantasm
Friendship
Popularity
Sharp-Eared
Sweet Dreams
Sit By Me
Check the spell section [SMO] and the incantation section [IMS] to learn how
these spells work and what magic linguistics and items you have to use.
Sometimes your friends will indicate that they are ill. They will talk of
stomach ache or fever. When that's the case go to Malila of The Emporium and
ask her for a cure.
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What can you do if you don't like on of your students and want him/her to
leave? Nothing. Up to this day there is no known way to make a student leave a
town. Jinxing them, using naughty spells on them won't work. Writing rude
letters won't work. Either strive to get to know them better and learn to like
them or ignore them completely.
Roughly once in a month one of the students will try to leave the town. If
he/she likes you he/she might talk to you off this before hand. If that's the
case you can prevent them from moving.
If they don't talk to you then you will only learn of their plans once
Principal Sol and the moving student announce her/his leaving to the class. A
new student will move in imediately.
There have been rumors going around. One of the treehouses will always be
uninhabited. Which leds to the assumption that at one point you will be allowed
to move in there. Up until today these rumors are not confirmed, so don't get
your hopes up.
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3.3 Playing groundkeeper - taking care of your town.                     [GRKE]
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Another of your tasks, besides being a good and popular students, will be to
take care of your town.
It is solely your task to pull weeds, water and plant new flowers and to plant
trees and berry bushes. Of course you will be rewarded for your efforts.
The world tree spirit [IMS] will watch you closely and judge you. If you pull
weeds regulary, water wilting flowers and plant new trees he will reward you
with gifts for the conservatory. There's also a wizard title you can gain if
you have many (200) flowers in your town.
What you will have to do:
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- Pulling weeds
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There are 3 different kinds of weeds. One looks like a comb laying on the back.
A second one looks like many orange cloverleafs.
The third one looks like a dandelion! And with this weed you will have to be
careful. There is a plant (categorized as bug by Konami) which looks very
similiar to the weed. You can only tell them apart by the color of the leaf.
The harmless dandelion-like weeds are green. Green like the comb-like weed.
The leaves of the "bug", a mandragora, are blueish-green. Don't pluck them!
They are sleeping in the ground, if you pluck them they will wake up and scream
- and send you back to the dormitory. And yes, the mandragora will be gone for
good.
Leave it in the ground and make sure that you remember where it is. When the
next Mystery Time activates run there as fast as possible. You will see the
mandragora running around. Catch it with your net! I find that they make a nice
room decoration, you can exhibit them in a terrarium.
- Caring for flowers
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Water wilting flowers. Wilting flowers are easy to recognize, their blossom is
gone. Use your watering can to water them. If you watered them right golden
sparks will show up. You don't have to water plants if it rains or snows.
You can pluck flowers and plant them in other places. Plant them in the
conservatory. Since the conservatory has a roof you will need to water the
plants even if it rains or snows.
You can put the flowers in your room, they will be in a nice flower pot and
they will never wilt.
You can transform the flowers to get a rarer form of them. As Daisy from
Daisy's Flowers will tell you, if you plant certain flowers in certain spots
they will change their color and will turn into different colored flowers!
- Tulips of any color will turn blue if you plant them in the blue soil in the
cave. Here you will have to water them even if it rains or snows.
- Marguerites of any color will turn black if you plant them in the circle that
is formed by the tombstones near the hunted house.
- May Lilys of any color will turn orange if you plant them in Fungi Forest.
- Roses of any color will turn pink if you plant them in any part of the
forest, remember, the forest stretches from the narrow gate, formed by bushes
above the stairs till the bridge that crosses the river at the haunted house.
It might take a few days till the flowers change their color.
If you want even rarer flowers, flowers that look quite spectacular and
magical, then you can use the mystery bloom incantation (Incantation - Mystery
- Give) on the different colored flowers.
You need to leave/plant the in the area where it changed it's color. The blue
tulip needs to stay in the cave in the blue soil, the pink rose needs to stay
in the forest, and so on.
Choose the watering can, then transform and enter Incantation - Mystery - Give.
Now water the plant. You might need to repeat this process for some days.
There's apparently a limit to the number of flowers you can use it on. So make
sure to never use this spell on too many flowers. Though what exactly the limit
is no one knows yet. My personal rule is to never have more then 4 flowers to
use this spell on.
If you are successfull the different colored flower will turn over night into a
magical looking flower.
- The blue tulip will turn into red gemflower.
- The pink rose will turn into a red heartflower.
- The orange may lily will turn into a yellow candyflower.
- The black marguerite will turn into a white skullflower.
Can you imagine my shock when I came to the graveyard and found a white skull
between the tombstones? >.<
Successfully transformed flowers can be planted anywhere except in the places
where no flower will ever grow.
These places, where no flowers will ever successfully grow are:
- anywhere at the beach
- anywhere on the island
- around the heartshaped sandpit on Lover's Point
Yes, you can plant flowers there to attract beetles, but they will wilt the
next day and despite every effort to keep them alive they will be gone the day
after. So make sure to collect the flowers you planted there for the day once
you leave the area.
- Planting saplings
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Quite annoyingly trees will only live for roughly a month. If you don't want to
live in a barren country you will need to buy saplings from Daisy's Flowers and
plant them. You can also check the plains and the forest, you might find wild
saplings there. Of course you can simply use berries you plucked from a bush.
Or check the island. Every day you will find a random berry there.
You can pull them out and move them to a different area. To bury them choose
the shovel, then open your inventory and drag the sapling to the space where
you want it to grow.
Even if you know that a tree once stood in a certain spot there is no guarantee
that a tree will grow there again. There are rumors around that trees need
flowers at a certain side or need to have a free space at a certain angle -
that's not true and you will see it for yourself, once the first wild saplings
start growing.
Just make sure that you can walk around the sapling.
Saplings don't need to be watered.
A sapling needs three days to grow.
On the first day, when you bury it, it will be a sapling.
The next day it will either have grown or died and vanished.
The day after the tree will be grown up.
Planting trees in different areas changes the appearance of the tree. Just
compare the trees in the plains with the trees in the forest. The forest trees
look quite spooky but they grew from the same saplings as the normal trees.
Black trees who lost nearly all of their leaves are dieing. You can't revive
them.
- Berry bushes
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I understand it that berry bushes aren't important for the judgement of the
world tree spirit. But they are plants, important plants, and that's why I
cover them here.
You will plant berry bushes for two reasons. Because they look nice and because
they are moneymakers. It's as if you have a licence to print your own money.
Some people trade with stocks, other trade with turnips and Cat Sith trades
with berries! Cat Sith visits the town on every day that is divisible with
three (3rd, 6th, 9th, etc.). He opens his shop in the haunted house and buys
berries. Sometimes for a lot of money.
There are 5 different berries:
- Cranberries
- Strawberries
- Blueberries
- Blackberries
- Raspberries
Berry bushes only live for a short time and you can only harvest them once.
Here's their living cycle:
Day 1 - plant the berry or the berry sapling
Day 2 - the bush is fully grown
Day 3 - the bush is fully grown
Day 4 - the bush is fully grown
Day 5 - the bush carries 3 berries; harvest them
Day 6 - the bush still lives on
Day 7 - the bush still lives on
Day 8 - the bush is wilting
Day 9 - the bush is gone
If you don't harvest the berries the bushs life cycle will continue:
Day 6 - the bush carries 3 berries
Day 7 - the buss carries 3 berries
Day 8 - the berries are gone
Day 9 - the bush is still living on
Day 10 - the bush is still living on
Day 11 - the bush is wilting
Day 12 - the bush is gone
If you can't or don't want to sell the berries on the day you harvested them
store them in your dresser. Don't put them on the ground, don't put them in the
trash, don't leave them in the bag. They will be spoiled the next day.
But they stay fresh eternally if you keep them in your dresser.
Like trees bushes don't have to be watered.
For more information on how the berry market works look here [CSITH].
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3.4 Shopping in shops!                                                    [SIS]
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Before I tell you how to make money I'll tell you why you need money. You need
money to buy things to improve your live. You need money to buy clothes and
furniture, you need money to go to the barber and to have a drink at the
Limelight.
There are 10 places in this game where you can spent your money. They are
scattered around the town.
All shops, with the exception of Cat Sith are open every day.
All shops, with the exception of the Limelight and Charlies Noodles, will
change their prices several times a day. OpheHon and I tried to find a pattern,
to know when the prices will change and to be able to predict them. We failed.
The prices seem to change randomly. Sometimes the price stays the same for
nearly 2 hours, sometimes it changes within half an hour. The price pattern of
Saturday is different to the price pattern of Sunday.
To be able to find a pattern, if one exists, one would to have to write down
the prices of several items of each shop and control these prices every minute,
making notes when they change. And that for at least 7 days.
Even if one is so insane to try this - who says that the price patterns are the
same for every town?
The best we can give you and advise you is to take notes of the cheapest prices
and to look out for the time when the prices is low. We're also working on a
list of the cheapest price for each furniture and item [PRILI].
Mon Paris
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A small shop in the town. Roland, the barber is only to happy to sell you wigs
and give you a new haircut. Each day Roland will offer you 3 different
hairstyles from which you can choose. You can't however choose the color, you
have to take what he gives you.
If it's really bad either get a new haircut or wear a hat or a wig.
You can choose hair cuts from the other gender too.
Location: in town
Opening Times: 9am - 12am
Vivian's Boutique
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Lively Vivian, an animated cloth doll leads this shop. She sells hats and
masks, glasses and shoes, dresses, skirts, trousers, jackets and robes.
Feel free to wear whatever you want. Boys can wear skirts and girls can wear
trousers. Combine what you want.
If you wear trousers but decide to dress in a robe or dress you will see the
trousers poking from under the dress/robe. Simply change into a skirt, no one
will be able to see the skirt under your dress or robe.
Stand in front of a cloth and press A. Vivian will tell you what it is and what
it costs and ask you if you want to try it on.
Location: in town
Opening Times: 9am - 12am
Daisy's Flowers
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Cute and calm Daisy owns the little shop. Every day Daisy will sell 3 random
flowers, 2 furniture or items for the conversatory, a sapling and a flower
seed. If you want to buy berry saplings from her or want her advise on flowers
then talk to her.
Location: in town
Opening Times: 9am - 12am
The Limelight
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Marcy, the bar maid is a cherry or caterpillar. Come here alone or with a
friend. Listen to the music - you might learn a new song. Take the seat in the
middle and have a drink. Your friends will always sit on the right seat, random
visitors like Daisy will sit on the left seat.
Have a random berry juice and talk with Marcy. She will give you advise on your
relationship with your sweetheart or friend.
The song changes several times a day, so come here as often as possible.
Location: in town
Opening Times: 8am - 4am
Harrows
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No, the clerks name isn't Harrow, his name is Picard and he works on both
floors. Two brooms, several furniture and items can be bought on the first
floor. To get to the second floor take the lift.
In the left room you can choose from 4 carpets and 4 wallpapers. In the right
room you can choose from 2 music instruments, 4 CD's and 2 radios.
You'll need a radio to listen to a CD, but you can buy CDs without having a
radio. CDs will be collected in a special place (press L, tap your char, choose
whistle and you'll see your CD collection).
You can order CDs from Picard, one at a time. Talk to him, then whistle the
song for a while. You can pick up the CD in three days. (On Wednesday if you