Goldthwait Park
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| Goldthwait Park | |
Region |
Ocean City |
Unlocked by |
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Goldthwait Park is an excellent place to begin exploring Ocean City and earning Meat, items and XP.
Quests
Speak to the groundskeeper, convince him (to pretend) you're a government contractor, earning 5 
, and take up to five jobs.
When you return to the groundskeeper, you gain 75 
and 5 for each job you've completed.
(Convincing the groundskeeper is a fake stat test; it claims you need whatever your current main stat is or 4, whichever is lower.
The other two stats pass at 4 and have the exact same effect.)
a landscaper
| Landscaper | |
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Enemies
|
Invasive Plant Invasive Plant Invasive Plant |
XP (kill) |
7 |
XP (weedicide) |
5 |
| Exterminator (left) | |
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Enemies
|
Aggressive Giant Cricket Furtive Giant Cricket |
XP (kill) |
5 |
| Exterminator (right) | |
|---|---|
Enemies
|
Armed Giant Cricket Aggressive Giant Cricket Furtive Giant Cricket |
XP (kill) |
5 |
The groundskeeper unlocks the botanical garden, to the left.
- Enter it and examine the invasive plants.
- You might also check out the maintenance shed, which contains a few helpful items, such as a potent weedicide (requires Cryptobotanist or 3ish Mysticality in addition to having seen the plants).
- Slip the weedicide into the sprinkler system in the garden and activate it with 2ish Muscle.
- Or you can simply fight and defeat the three Invasive Plants.
an exterminator
You'll find the Lepidopteratorium up and to the left.
- Inside, fight and defeat two groups of giant crickets to complete the job.
- If Pacifist Mode is enabled, you won't initially be able to accept the exterminator quest. Later on in the game, the quest will be become acceptable even with Pacifist Mode ticked. Alternatively, you can just disable the Mode while you talk to the groundskeeper and then re-enable it.
- There is a non-combat solution to this quest, but you're unlikely to have the 9ish Mysticality needed for it on Day One.
a plumber
Go west (that's new west, meaning up on the screen) and down the ladder to the Maintenance Tunnels.
- Mess with the switches to get the pressure to 40 gallons/minute.
- Fast solution: flip the two leftmost switches and the rightmost switch.
- The correct configuration, from left to right, is down, up, down, up, up.
a security guard
Head up to the fountain where a hobo is busking with his oboe skills.
- He asks for some Meat. Giving 10 or 50 allows you to simply ask him to leave as a friendly favor (and he also goes to the Hobo Camp and can become your companion).
- Or you could get rid of him with Brag/Bewitch/Bamboozle (4ish mainstat).
- Or scare him off with the power of the terribly cursed fedora if you haven't uncursed it.
a... statue polisher?
Get some Stench Armor.
- The cheap cologne from the trash can on Plunkett Street will do, or the Cola Wars gasmask from the surplus shop.
- Then interact with the five statues to the groundskeeper's right to clean them up.
Remember to see the groundskeeper for your payment for finished jobs. Once all 5 side quests are complete, you get a random ring.
Interactions
Main Plaza
- Find sandals in shrub next to the Botanical Garden.
- Just beyond the Botanical Garden is a bunch of pointy rocks with an inscription and a date to look up in The Watchful Eye Office.
- Late in the game, you may also find a shadow rift in the middle of the rocks. It contains the shadow knife.
Maintenance Shed
- Random items from a junk shelf, like matches or paper clips.
- Find a plate of homemade cookies and take one.
- Find an open locker with maintenance overalls inside.
Botanical Garden
- A shop selling:
- You can punch a Northern palm tree to get a broken coconut.
- With 3ish Moxie or Cryptobotanist, find a swordleaf leaf sword.
- Cryptobotanists also identify the invasive plants as Maneaterus chompitarius.
Fountain Plaza
| Fishing in the fountain | |
|---|---|
Limit
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3/day |
Items
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8-12
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- Psychogeologist: reassure a rock for 5 .
- Once you fix the fountain, you can fish up Meat from it.
Lepidopteratorium
- The crickets can be spoken to with 9 Mysticality, leading to A... Spaceship? and a new ending.
- Birdbath in which you can fish for nasty goo (once).
If you want to talk to the insects day 1, perhaps as a stunt, it is possible:
- For best results, be a Cheese Wizard, a Psychogeologist, and uncurse the fedora after choosing your class to guarantee a Mysticality boost.
- 2 from perks: Basic Humanity, Skeptical
- 3 from effects: Ishmael's Boon, weak mushroom tea, and a food made from glowing ooze; find some as a Psychogeologist in the Science Center or while wandering.
- 2 from gear: uncursed fedora, reporter's cufflinks
- 2 from skills: Quick Wit and Bleu Brilliance, costing a reasonable 65 XP. With the other two Myst skills, you could even do this on Eleven difficulty, though it'd take rather a lot of XP.
- Ciabatta's pants and Contemplative are also available today, but they both require fighting.
Science Center
- A lab bench.
- Psychogeologist: Harvest glowing ooze, energizing powder, and frosty flakes.
- Various science demonstrations. (eg. get zapped between the Tesla and Edison coils)
Maintenance Tunnels
Other Locations
- Underground Fishman Bar. Requires antique manhole opener to access.
Gallery
The main entrance
Maintenance Shed interior
Botanical garden exterior
Lepidopteratorium exterior
the groundskeeper
Plains Swordleaf
Highland Bonebush
Wetlands Nastybramble
Eyegrass
Joshua Tree
