The Drexel Stead
The Drexel Stead | |
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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 | |||
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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 (7ish 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 7ish Muscle, or S.I.T.'s steam laundry. Return the milkman's clean hat.
- Ike Breeman, the ice cream man, is past the wardrobe.
- He needs a refrigeration coil. Get one from the appliances with 7ish 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 | |
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Limit
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11/day |
Items
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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 (7ish 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 | |
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Limit
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If you don't have any |
Items
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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. | |
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Enemies
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A horrible scarecrow |
XP (kill) |
16-18 |
Drops
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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 | |
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Enemies
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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."