The Drexel Stead

The Drexel Stead
Region	Gray County
Unlocked by	Chat with Iola Kinmundy at Jasper's Feed and Tack

A house-shaped field of seemingly liquid shadow stands where The Drexel Stead once stood. Behind lies The Maize Maze, a cornfield which imprisons everyone Billy sends there.

Quests

The Maize Maze
Cat	Milkman	toys	crow
Ice cream	evil corn		onions
wardrobe	Sissy	Colonel	Dentist
Hobo	appliances		scarecrow
		outside

From elsewhere

For Iola's quest, all you need is a glass of milk. Buy one for 1500 , or help the milkman out first and pay 750 or 250 .

For the Hobo Camp, convince Cornelius to go with Brag/Bewitch/Bamboozle (7^ish mainstat).

For the Mob's quest, you can have Dr. Sarah doctor the evidence. You need to let her fix your teeth before she'll do it.

There's a radio here for Rufus's radio quest.

From here

Colonel Benedetto rates morale at 0 out of 10 initially. This of course means there are 10 tasks to do to help out the maze folks.

To get past the crow and scarecrow without fighting:

• Send Cornelius to the hobo camp and get homemade cornbread from him.
• Give cornbread to the crow for a giant crow feather.
• Brandish the feather at the scarecrow.

To improve morale:

• Stan, the milkman, is in the back. His ludicrous prices cut in half, then third, with each task done.
  • Listen to his grumpy diatribe (or at least stand there while he says it), then bring him a fine silk bowtie from the wardrobe.
  • Agree to wash his hat. Use the washtub (in with the appliances) and 7^ish Muscle, or S.I.T.'s steam laundry. Return the milkman's clean hat.
• Ike, the ice cream man, is past the wardrobe.
  • He needs a refrigeration coil. Get one from the appliances with 7^ish Mysticality. You might also have one from the Refrigerator Factory.
  • He wants a barrel of cream, but a barrel of old-style milk from the milkman will have to do.
• Sissy stands alone just west of the appliances. Ask her how she likes the place and about what she misses.
  • Find her cat, who runs away. Then bring Sissy a saucer of old-style milk from the milkman. You can now get Ghost's Boon.
  • Get Sissy's teddy bear from the toybox.
  • Bring her some creamed ice from the ice cream man.
• Dr. Sarah is to your right as you enter, past the scarecrow.
  • Let Dr. Sarah practice on you three times. Get Perfect Teeth, a perk for +1 Moxie.
  • Bring her wind-up chattering teeth from the toy box.
  • Get her the popcorn machine from the appliance yard.

With these ten tasks complete, ask the Colonel about morale again.

• Pig Skinners get infantry epaulets.
• Cheese Wizards get grenadier's epaulets.
• Jazz Agents get gunnery epaulets.

Interactions

The Drexel Stead

• An empty mailbox.
• A shadow pouch.
• An old car. With a wire coat hanger or cursed key, find a jewelry case.
• A vaguely house-shaped shimmering thing.

The Maize Maze

Hobo, appliances, scarecrow

Fishing in the corn pot
Limit	11/day
Items	single kernel of corn

Cornelius seems pretty happy with his situation.

• Chat with him. Billy sent him here but he won't talk about it.
• Learn +1 Hobo Literacy.
• Send him to the Hobo Camp with Brag/Bewitch/Bamboozle (7^ish mainstat).
• Fish in the corn kettle. It's a great spot to get rod-specific items with the cursed or Tracy rod.

Fishing in the washtub
Limit	If you don't have any
Items	handful of soapy water

Scattered appliances.

• A broken radio, needing a fuse. After fixing, you still can't find any stations to listen to.
• An arcane oven.
• Find a refrigeration coil in the broken fridge.
• Go fishing in an old washtub for unlimited handfuls of soapy water any time you don't have one.

It isn't any less freakish up close.
Enemies	A horrible scarecrow
XP (kill)	16-18
Drops	scarecrow hat severed scarecrow face

Scarecrow to the right. Fight it or brandish the giant crow feather.

Sissy

A small girl who misses her teddy, her cat, ice cream, friends, and the sun. She's the only one here willing to talk about Billy, her brother, who sends everything he doesn't like to this place.

Wardrobe

• A wire coat hanger
• A wardrobe of church clothes for a small boy. After talking to Milkman Stan find a fine silk bowtie.

Ice cream truck, evil corn

Ike sells his product for 50 . You can buy:

• creamed corn initially.
• iced corn after you give him a refrigeration coil.
• creamed cream after you bring a barrel of old-style milk.
• creamed ice if he has both.

Evil corn stalk.

• If you have dire corn holder, can make dire corn on the dire cob.

Cat

Ghost runs off when you approach.

Milkman, toybox, giant crow

Milkman Stan is very unhappy with his situation, and it shows in his prices.

• Buy a saucer of old-style milk for 750 (375 after bowtie, 125 after cleaning the hat).
• Buy a glass of old-style milk for 1500 (750 after bowtie, 250 after cleaning the hat).
• Buy a barrel of old-style milk for 3000 (1500 after bowtie, 500 after cleaning the hat).

In the toybox:

• Find Sissy's teddy bear after talking to Sissy.
• Find wind-up chattering teeth after talking to the dentist.

Fight it
Enemies	Scary giant crow
XP (kill)	8-9

Fight the giant crow, or with homemade cornbread, make friends and get giant crow feather.

Colonel Benedetto

• Talk to him about troop morale.

Dr. Sarah

• Let her do dentistry to get Badly Misaligned Teeth perk
• Let her try again to replace that with No Teeth At All perk
• Let her try again to replace that with Perfect Teeth perk

Onions

• Past the crow, find an immense can of cocktail onions.

People

• Cornelius the hobo
• Cecelia, better known as Sissy
• Ike, the ice cream man
• Stan, the milkman
• Dr. Sarah, the dentist
• Colonel Benedetto

Billy, the boy who sends people and things here, is nowhere to be found.

Notes

• Way back at the lake, Theresa Danforth offers/offered you an entire barrel of cream. Oddly, though, you aren't able to accept one and bring it to the ice cream man. Stan's old-style milk is the only option.
• There is no known way to free anyone from the maze or address the missing house, but the ending suggests there might be something to do about Billy.
• On speaking to the Colonel after the first time, the narrator confuses his rank: "You salute the General to get his attention."