Investigating a Plaintive Telegram

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Investigating a Plaintive Telegram
Zone Num 474
Location Right Side of the Tracks
Unlocks plaintive telegram
Recom Stat
Combat %
ML
Terrain outdoor
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Investigating a Plaintive Telegram is a special location accessed by using a plaintive telegram.

Combat Adventures

buzzard This monster is a Beast -- (edit metadata)
  • Item Drops: buzzard feather
  • Meat Drop: None
  • Monster Level: 0 • Substat Gain: 1 • Moxie for No Hit*: 10
  • Monster Defense: 0
  • Hit Points: 0
  • Initiative: 100
  • Elemental Alignment: stench, weak against cold and sleaze
camp cook This monster is a Dude -- (edit metadata)
caugr This monster is a Demon -- (edit metadata)
  • Item Drops: rotting beefsteak
  • Meat Drop: None
  • Monster Level: 0 • Substat Gain: 1 • Moxie for No Hit*: 10
  • Monster Defense: 0
  • Hit Points: 0
  • Initiative: 0
  • Elemental Alignment: None
  • Damage Resistance: ?
coal snake This monster is a Beast -- (edit metadata)
  • Item Drops: half-digested coal
  • Meat Drop: unknown
  • Monster Level: 0 • Substat Gain: 1 • Moxie for No Hit*: 10
  • Monster Defense: 0
  • Hit Points: 0
  • Initiative: 50
  • Elemental Alignment: None
  • Damage Resistance: ?
cow cultist This monster is a Dude -- (edit metadata)
  • Item Drops: tainted milk
  • Meat Drop: None
  • Monster Level: 0 • Substat Gain: 1 • Moxie for No Hit*: 10
  • Monster Defense: 0
  • Hit Points: 0
  • Initiative: 50
  • Elemental Alignment: None
  • Damage Resistance: ?
diamondback rattler This monster is a Beast -- (edit metadata)
  • Item Drops: rattler gland
  • Meat Drop: None
  • Monster Level: 0 • Substat Gain: 1 • Moxie for No Hit*: 10
  • Monster Defense: 0
  • Hit Points: 0
  • Initiative: 75
  • Elemental Alignment: None
drunk cowpoke This monster is a Dude -- (edit metadata)
  • Item Drops: cow poker
  • Meat Drop: None
  • Monster Level: 0 • Substat Gain: 1 • Moxie for No Hit*: 10
  • Monster Defense: 0
  • Hit Points: 0
  • Initiative: 0
  • Elemental Alignment: None
  • Damage Resistance: 0
frontwinder This monster is a Beast -- (edit metadata)
  • Item Drops: tightly-wound spine
  • Meat Drop: None
  • Monster Level: 0 • Substat Gain: 1 • Moxie for No Hit*: 10
  • Monster Defense: 0
  • Hit Points: 0
  • Initiative: 100
  • Elemental Alignment: None
  • Damage Resistance: ?
grizzled bear This monster is a Beast -- (edit metadata)
  • Item Drops: bear claw
  • Meat Drop: None
  • Monster Level: 0 • Substat Gain: 1 • Moxie for No Hit*: 10
  • Monster Defense: 0
  • Hit Points: 0
  • Initiative: 0
  • Elemental Alignment: None
hired gun This monster is a Dude -- (edit metadata)
  • Item Drops: gun parts
  • Meat Drop: None
  • Monster Level: 0 • Substat Gain: 1 • Moxie for No Hit*: 10
  • Monster Defense: 0
  • Hit Points: 0
  • Initiative: 75
  • Elemental Alignment: None
  • Note: A.k.a. professional gunman/trained mercenary.
moomy This monster is a Demon -- (edit metadata)
  • Item Drops: moomy dust
  • Meat Drop: None
  • Monster Level: 0 • Substat Gain: 1 • Moxie for No Hit*: 10
  • Monster Defense: 0
  • Hit Points: 0
  • Initiative: 0
  • Elemental Alignment: spooky, weak against hot and stench
  • Damage Resistance: ?
mountain lion This monster is a Beast -- (edit metadata)
  • Item Drops: lion musk
  • Meat Drop: unknown
  • Monster Level: 0 • Substat Gain: 1 • Moxie for No Hit*: 10
  • Monster Defense: 0
  • Hit Points: 0
  • Initiative: 100
  • Elemental Alignment: None
  • Damage Resistance: ?
pyrobove This monster is a Demon -- (edit metadata)
  • Item Drops: firemilk
  • Meat Drop: None
  • Monster Level: 0 • Substat Gain: 1 • Moxie for No Hit*: 10
  • Monster Defense: 0
  • Hit Points: 0
  • Initiative: 100
  • Elemental Alignment: hot, weak against stench and sleaze
  • Damage Resistance: ?
restless ghost This monster is Undead -- (edit metadata)
  • Item Drops: ghost bit
  • Meat Drop: None
  • Monster Level: 0 • Substat Gain: 1 • Moxie for No Hit*: 10
  • Monster Defense: 0
  • Hit Points: 0
  • Initiative: 50
  • Elemental Alignment: spooky, weak against hot and stench
  • Damage Resistance: 100%
  • Note: A.k.a. shrieking ghost.
skeletal gunslinger This monster is Undead -- (edit metadata)
  • Item Drops: triggerfingerbone
  • Meat Drop: None
  • Monster Level: 0 • Substat Gain: 1 • Moxie for No Hit*: 10
  • Monster Defense: 0
  • Hit Points: 0
  • Initiative: 75
  • Elemental Alignment: spooky, weak against hot and stench
spidercow This monster is a Demon -- (edit metadata)
  • Item Drops: spidercow eye-cluster
  • Meat Drop: None
  • Monster Level: 0 • Substat Gain: 1 • Moxie for No Hit*: 10
  • Monster Defense: 0
  • Hit Points: 0
  • Initiative: 50
  • Elemental Alignment: spooky, weak against hot and stench
  • Damage Resistance: ?
surly gambler This monster is a Dude -- (edit metadata)
  • Item Drops: poker face paint
  • Meat Drop: unknown
  • Monster Level: 0 • Substat Gain: 1 • Moxie for No Hit*: 10
  • Monster Defense: 0
  • Hit Points: 0
  • Initiative: 0
  • Elemental Alignment: None
  • Damage Resistance: ?
wannabe gunslinger This monster is a Dude -- (edit metadata)
  • Item Drops: realistic cap gun
  • Meat Drop: unknown
  • Monster Level: 0 • Substat Gain: 1 • Moxie for No Hit*: 10
  • Monster Defense: 0
  • Hit Points: 0
  • Initiative: 50
  • Elemental Alignment: None

Non-combat Adventures

The Investigation Begins
The Investigation Begins
  • (various): Begin quest
  • Note: Occurs on first visit to the zone.
The Investigation Continues
The Investigation Continues
  • (various): Advance quest
  • Note: Occurs after winning 9 fights in the zone.
The Investigation Continues (2)
The Investigation Continues (2)
  • (various): Receive reward (varies)
  • Note: Occurs after winning 9 more fights in the zone.
The Investigation Thrillingly Concludes!
The Investigation Thrillingly Concludes!
  • (various): Fight one of several bosses
  • Note: Occurs after winning 9 more fights in the zone.

Notes

Completing a quest gives the following rewards:

  • 1 to 3 buffalo dimes, depending on difficulty
  • a tradable item, or some meat, depending on the individual quest (this is received 2/3 of the way through)
  • an untradable item, dropped by the quest boss

The monsters in this zone scale to the player's stats as follows, and gain special abilities based on the difficulty of the telegram:

Monster Attack (ML) Defense HP Other
Easy telegrams Mox+5+ML, 60 minimum Mus+5+ML, 60 minimum Def * 0.75
Moderate telegrams Mox+25+ML, ? minimum Mus+25+ML, ? minimum Def * 0.75
Hard telegrams Mox+50+ML, 180 minimum Mus+50+ML, 180 minimum Def * 0.75 50% delevel resistance

Only a subset of the above monsters show up in any given telegram. Fighting monsters from the subset, even from copies (which will also gain the appropriate abilities), will progress the quest. Each non-combat advances to the next set of monsters as shown in this table. Along with the 2nd continuation you receive an interim reward:

Investigation Begins Continues Continues Concludes
Missing: Fancy Man (easy) A nugget of nick, quick, sick, slick, thick, tick, or wick silver
Help! Desperados! (easy) 2500 Meat
Missing: Pioneer Daughter (easy) 2 bottles of tainted milk, 3 rotting beefsteaks, 2 bottles of firemilk
Big Gambling Tournament Announced (moderate) 5,000 Meat
Haunted Boneyard (moderate) A can of Frigid Northern Beans, Hellfire Spicy Beans, Pork 'n' Pork 'n' Pork 'n' Beans, Trader Olaf's Exotic Stinkbeans, or World's Blackest-Eyed Peas
Sheriff Wanted (moderate) jangly spurs
Madness at the Mine (hard) 2 nuggets of nick, quick, sick, slick, thick, tick, or wick silver
Missing: Many Children (hard) silver cow skull or shuddering cow skull (Sporadically)
Wagon Train Escort Wanted (hard) 2 cans of Frigid Northern Beans, Hellfire Spicy Beans, Pork 'n' Pork 'n' Pork 'n' Beans, Trader Olaf's Exotic Stinkbeans, or World's Blackest-Eyed Peas

Trying to adventure here after killing the boss gives:

You're not currently embroiled in any telegrammy business.
Maybe stop back by the LT&T office and see if they've got something else for you?
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