Mt. McLargeHuge Quest

John the Trapper

John the Trapper

Description

After reaching level 8, The Council of Loathing will send you to aid John the Trapper of Mt. McLargeHuge in The Big Mountains.

Tasks

• Speak with John the Trapper of Mt. McLargeHuge in The Big Mountains. This will unlock The Goatlet and Itznotyerzitz Mine. The trapper will ask for three asbestos, chrome or linoleum ore, and 3 wedges of goat cheese.
• Obtain the required ore.
  • Adventure in Itznotyerzitz Mine until you have acquired the Mining Gear. Then, equip the Mining Gear to adventure Inside of Itznotyerzitz Mine until you have the three ore the Tr4pz0r requested.
  • Alternatively, obtain three ten-leaf clovers, then adventure in Itznotyerzitz Mine three times to get three of each ore.
• Adventure in The Goatlet until you have acquired 3 wedges of goat cheese. You may do this before or after getting the ore.
• Return to John.
• You need to find handholds to adventure in the The Mist-Shrouded Peak.
  • Adventure in the The eXtreme Slope until you have the eXtreme Cold-Weather Gear (eXtreme scarf, snowboarder pants, & eXtreme mittens). Wear the outfit, and continue to adventure until you encounter Discovering Your Extremity‎, 2 eXXtreme 4 U, and 3 eXXXtreme 4ever 6pack.
  • Alternatively, adventure in The Lair of the Ninja Snowmen until you fight three ninja snowman assassins to get the ninja rope, ninja carabiner and ninja crampons.
• You also need at least 5 levels of cold resistance to adventure in the The Mist-Shrouded Peak.
  • The eXtreme Cold-Weather Gear gives enough so is a convenient choice.
  • A combination of effects may be used, such as the Elemental Saucesphere or Astral Shell buffs, the Northern Exposure skill, the Hot and Cold Running Ninja Suit outfit, or an Exotic Parrot familiar.
• Head to The Mist-Shrouded Peak, fight three panicking Knott Yetis, and then defeat Groar.
• Return to John for your final reward.

Rewards

• Groar will drop 5 dense meat stacks.
• After defeating Groar, John the Trapper will give you one of the following, depending on your main stat:
  • fuzzy busby (Muscle)
  • fuzzy earmuffs (Mysticality)
  • fuzzy montera (Moxie)
• The privilege of trading yeti fur for hippopotamus skin, penguin skin or yak skin at The Trapper's Cabin.
• Access to The Icy Peak.
• In your Quest Log, under completed quests, you will see: "You have helped the Trapper, and brought (relatively speaking) peace to Mt. McLargeHuge. Shazam!"

Council Text

On initial visit:

Adventurer! We've received an urgent letter from the Trapper, requesting our assistance. We're, like, really busy right now, so we were hoping you could go out to his place and see what he wants.

He lives at the base of Mt. McLargeHuge, the tallest of the Big Mountains. We'll mark it on your map for you.

On subsequent visits:

You still have unfinished business with the Trapper, Adventurer.

Trapper Text

On initial visit:

"Howdy! You look like a spry young varmint. There's dastardly doin's afoot up on the peak of this here mountain, and it's making it right hard to make a living at the trappin' business.

That's my business, by the way. Trappin', I mean. I'm a Trapper, name o' John.

A couple days back a mighty dumfungled fog blew in, and afore I knew it my ski lift got knocked to pieces.

To fix it, I'm gonna need some dagburned [asbestos/chrome/linoleum] ore and some consarned goat cheese. You can get the cheese from the goats over yonder, and just a bit yonderer lies Itznotyerzitz Mine. The dwarves over there ain't any too friendly, so you best watch yourself."

Before retrieving the ore and cheese:

"Dagnabbit, you varmint, I told you I can't fix the lift until you bring me that cheese and [asbestos/chrome/linoleum] ore. Now git!"

After retrieving the ore and cheese:

The trapper slaps his knee and cackles with glee at your return. He takes the load of cheese and ore and walks bow-leggedly out the door.

From behind the cabin come the sounds of hammers on metal, chains on wood, and teeth on cheese. After a few minutes of this, the Trapper comes back inside.

"Well, the lift's fixed, so that's that. Or, I reckon, that would be that if it weren't for them mists up there. I'd be mighty obliged if you'd head on up there and see what ya make of it.

You ain't dressed for the cold, though, and all the duds I own are on my greasy back. Them durned guttersnipes up on the eXtreme slope dress pretty warm, maybe they can help ya.

Watch out for those snowmen on the other side, though. Them sons a' guns'll send ya up the flume soon as look at ya."

Before acquiring 5 levels of cold resistance:

"You'll freeze faster'n molasses in January if you try to go up there in them fancy city clothes. Go up to that thar eXtreme Slope and get somethin' warmer!"

After acquiring cold resistance:

"Ya look warm enough -- what're you waitin' for, gol-durnit? Find your way up to that thar peak!"

After reaching the Peak, but before defeating Groar:

"Keep at it! You'll figger out what's spookin' them varmints!"

After defeating Groar:

"Yeehaw! I heard the noise and seen them mists dissapatin' from clear down here! Ya done it! Ya rightly done it!

Let's see that fur -- hoo boy, lookit! That varmint musta been a tough one! Here, lemme see if I can't whip you up something for your ol' noggin.

Thanks to you, I'm back in business! Come on back if ya ever wanna trade some furs!"

Notes

• Under Avatar of Boris, you do not need the Mining Gear. The required ores can be obtained by fighting the mountain man or the Either Ore ten-leaf clover adventure.

History

• The new HD version of the quest was introduced on July 24th, 2012. The old version can be found here.
• The following changes were made to the quest:
  • The Goatlet and Mine open at the same time. You do not even need the mining gear to clear the way to the goatlet.
  • The Trapper no longer gives super-advanced weapons or goat cheese pizza as rewards.
  • Under the old version of the quest, you needed six wedges of goat cheese; now you need 3.
  • You now need to obtain 5 levels of cold resistance (rather than 1) to make it up to the peak. You must also find the staircase (using eXtreme tricks or ninja gear).
  • There is now a boss, with bodyguards, on the peak.
  • You receive a new piece of stat-based headgear for completing the quest.
  • You no longer receive 5,000 meat or 5 yeti furs from the Trapper upon completion, but the boss drops 5 dense meat stacks in lieu of it.
  • Trading in yeti furs is no longer always 1-for-1. Yak skins still cost 1 yeti fur, but hippo skins cost 3, and penguin skins cost 5.
  • The Icy Peak is called the Mist-Shrouded Peak until you defeat Groar.
  • If you had previously completed the level 8 quest when it changed you didn't need to find handholds to adventure in Mist-Shrouded Peak for that ascension.

References

• The subtitle "Am I my Trapper's Keeper?" is a combination of two references:
  • A well-known line in the Bible from the story of Cain and Abel: "And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?" (Genesis 4:9, KJV)
  • The Trapper Keeper, a brand-name notebook binder produced by Mead featuring a foldover velcro closure, popular with school-age students during the 1980s
• The name "Mt. McLargeHuge" is a reference to the "Space Mutiny" episode of the popular comedy show Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K), wherein the wisecracking bots come up with dozens of silly names for the musclebound protagonist, including "Big McLargeHuge".
• John the Trapper is a reference to Capt. "Trapper" John McIntyre in M*A*S*H originally a book but populaized by the movie and TV series.