Dude's other quest
| The Dude's other quest | |
| Sidequest
| |
|---|---|
| Quest information | |
| Location | Rail Crossing |
| Given by | Dude |
| Rewards | 2 Oddity XP |
Dude had a vision... of a journey with you. Although he doesn't remember the specific details it involves gathering ingredients through his old homes. Completion grants Second Sight which allows Fast travel through rifts, with the aid of The Juice.
Objectives
- The Dude had another vision...
- Help Dude search his old home in Core City.
- Help Dude search his old home in Upper Underrail.
- Dude needs 2 mushroom brews, two measures of unsaturated psionic catalyst, two of morphine, and two of gyromitrin to make the juice for you and him. Speak to him when you're ready to continue the journey.
- Dude needs you to find any kind of mineral oil you can find in this base. It is the only way to return back whence you came.
Walkthrough
After returning the Mushroom Brew to Dude in the Rail Crossing bar, you can join him in the quest by elevating your consciousness through mushroom brew.
This transports you to the Dude's old home in Core City and gives you Heavy Intoxication a flat penalty to all stats that decreases as you journey with Dude. Zone Ma can be persuaded, intimidated, bribed with 100 Charons or insulted with intelligence into letting you search her apartment. There's a hidden cracked tile in the south-east corner containing a small key. This opens a safe behind a panel containing an Unsaturated Psionic Catalyst.
Next stop is Dude's old lab in Upper Underrail. The ingredient here is trapped in a locker in a locked room inexplicably full of mutants. The Dude left the keycard in the desk. The mutants can be fought directly or the Dude's zap-spider addled console can be used to turn on the cyro chambers and slowly refrost the mutants.
Console Puzzle
There are three sequences of numbers hidden in the trash can, chemical station and power box: 67 33 82, 79 55 11 and 76 89 25 on normal. The console has options each with 3 numbers separated by jumbles of letters. The solution to the puzzle is to sum the 3 numbers in the console options. The correct options in the console will have the same total as the 2 digit number in the clue. For example 67 33 82 requires entering in the option that equals 67 (23+31+13) followed by the option that equals 33 followed by the option that equals 82.
| solution |
Correct options are 6,4,2 then 8,5,3 then 8,6,6 |
The Dude's next home is in the Upper Caves. The Dude warns you that's there dangers inside, laser cats which go hostile when you approach the bed. There are 10 dog cages on a shelf to the south. These can to capture and neutralise at least some of the enhanced felines. They have a very low HP pool but have very good dodge and evasion. Grenades or traps are good options. The final ingredient to The Juice is gyromitrin and helping Dude remember the recipe rewards 2 oddity XP. Consuming the juice allows you to attune yourself to the rift in Dude's house.
Grey Army Base
The visions didn't warn Dude that your ultimate destination is the Grey Army Base. Dude can't make any more juice to return home but mineral oil might inexplicably provide enough lubrication for the residual juice in your body to work again. The Gun Lubricating Oil is located on a shelf at the back of armory. Access to which requires getting the Magatzin keycard from a desk in the North-West of the second level. The Grey Army Base is swarming with Grey Army Gunners, Snipers, Grenadiers, Heavy Gunners and Officers. If the original soldiers are killed the lights will cut and Grey Army Spec Ops will spawn. Retrieving the gun lube will reward you with 2 oddity XP.
