Investigating a Plaintive Telegram is a special location accessed by using a plaintive telegram.
Combat Adventures
caugr -- (edit metadata)
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- Item Drops: rotting beefsteak
- Meat Drop: None
- Monster Level: 0 • Substat Gain: 1 • Moxie for No Hit*: 10
- Monster Defense: 0
- Hit Points: 0
- Initiative: 0
- Elemental Alignment: None
- Damage Resistance: ?
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coal snake -- (edit metadata)
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- Item Drops: half-digested coal
- Meat Drop: unknown
- Monster Level: 0 • Substat Gain: 1 • Moxie for No Hit*: 10
- Monster Defense: 0
- Hit Points: 0
- Initiative: 50
- Elemental Alignment: None
- Damage Resistance: ?
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cow cultist -- (edit metadata)
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- Item Drops: tainted milk
- Meat Drop: None
- Monster Level: 0 • Substat Gain: 1 • Moxie for No Hit*: 10
- Monster Defense: 0
- Hit Points: 0
- Initiative: 50
- Elemental Alignment: None
- Damage Resistance: ?
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drunk cowpoke -- (edit metadata)
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- Item Drops: cow poker
- Meat Drop: None
- Monster Level: 0 • Substat Gain: 1 • Moxie for No Hit*: 10
- Monster Defense: 0
- Hit Points: 0
- Initiative: 0
- Elemental Alignment: None
- Damage Resistance: 0
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frontwinder -- (edit metadata)
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- Item Drops: tightly-wound spine
- Meat Drop: None
- Monster Level: 0 • Substat Gain: 1 • Moxie for No Hit*: 10
- Monster Defense: 0
- Hit Points: 0
- Initiative: 100
- Elemental Alignment: None
- Damage Resistance: ?
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grizzled bear -- (edit metadata)
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- Item Drops: bear claw
- Meat Drop: None
- Monster Level: 0 • Substat Gain: 1 • Moxie for No Hit*: 10
- Monster Defense: 0
- Hit Points: 0
- Initiative: 0
- Elemental Alignment: None
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hired gun -- (edit metadata)
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- Item Drops: gun parts
- Meat Drop: None
- Monster Level: 0 • Substat Gain: 1 • Moxie for No Hit*: 10
- Monster Defense: 0
- Hit Points: 0
- Initiative: 75
- Elemental Alignment: None
- Note: A.k.a. professional gunman/trained mercenary.
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moomy -- (edit metadata)
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- Item Drops: moomy dust
- Meat Drop: None
- Monster Level: 0 • Substat Gain: 1 • Moxie for No Hit*: 10
- Monster Defense: 0
- Hit Points: 0
- Initiative: 0
- Elemental Alignment: spooky, weak against hot and stench
- Damage Resistance: ?
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mountain lion -- (edit metadata)
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- Item Drops: lion musk
- Meat Drop: unknown
- Monster Level: 0 • Substat Gain: 1 • Moxie for No Hit*: 10
- Monster Defense: 0
- Hit Points: 0
- Initiative: 100
- Elemental Alignment: None
- Damage Resistance: ?
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pyrobove -- (edit metadata)
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- Item Drops: firemilk
- Meat Drop: None
- Monster Level: 0 • Substat Gain: 1 • Moxie for No Hit*: 10
- Monster Defense: 0
- Hit Points: 0
- Initiative: 100
- Elemental Alignment: hot, weak against stench and sleaze
- Damage Resistance: ?
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restless ghost -- (edit metadata)
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- Item Drops: ghost bit
- Meat Drop: None
- Monster Level: 0 • Substat Gain: 1 • Moxie for No Hit*: 10
- Monster Defense: 0
- Hit Points: 0
- Initiative: 50
- Elemental Alignment: spooky, weak against hot and stench
- Damage Resistance: 100%
- Note: A.k.a. shrieking ghost.
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surly gambler -- (edit metadata)
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- Item Drops: poker face paint
- Meat Drop: unknown
- Monster Level: 0 • Substat Gain: 1 • Moxie for No Hit*: 10
- Monster Defense: 0
- Hit Points: 0
- Initiative: 0
- Elemental Alignment: None
- Damage Resistance: ?
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Non-combat Adventures
Notes
The monsters in this zone scale to the player's stats as follows, and gain special abilities based on the difficulty of the telegram:
Monster
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Attack (ML)
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Defense
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HP
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Other
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Easy telegrams
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Mox+5+ML, 60 minimum
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Mus+5+ML, 60 minimum
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Def * 0.75
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Moderate telegrams
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Mox+25+ML, ? minimum
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Mus+25+ML, ? minimum
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Def * 0.75
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Hard telegrams
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Mox+50+ML, 180 minimum
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Mus+50+ML, 180 minimum
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Def * 0.75
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50% delevel resistance
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Only a subset of the above monsters show up in any given telegram. Fighting monsters from the subset, even from copies (which will also gain the appropriate abilities), will progress the quest. Each non-combat advances to the next set of monsters as shown in this table. Along with the 2nd continuation you receive an interim reward:
Investigation
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Begins
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Continues
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Continues
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Concludes
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Missing: Fancy Man (easy)
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A nugget of nick, quick, sick, slick, thick, tick, or wick silver
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Help! Desperados! (easy)
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2500 Meat
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Missing: Pioneer Daughter (easy)
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2 bottles of tainted milk, 3 rotting beefsteaks, 2 bottles of firemilk
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Big Gambling Tournament Announced (moderate)
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5,000 Meat
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Haunted Boneyard (moderate)
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A can of Frigid Northern Beans, Hellfire Spicy Beans, Pork 'n' Pork 'n' Pork 'n' Beans, Trader Olaf's Exotic Stinkbeans, or World's Blackest-Eyed Peas
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Sheriff Wanted (moderate)
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jangly spurs
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Madness at the Mine (hard)
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2 nuggets of nick, quick, sick, slick, thick, tick, or wick silver
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Missing: Many Children (hard)
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silver cow skull or shuddering cow skull (Sporadically)
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Wagon Train Escort Wanted (hard)
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2 cans of Frigid Northern Beans, Hellfire Spicy Beans, Pork 'n' Pork 'n' Pork 'n' Beans, Trader Olaf's Exotic Stinkbeans, or World's Blackest-Eyed Peas
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Trying to adventure here after killing the boss gives:
- You're not currently embroiled in any telegrammy business.
- Maybe stop back by the LT&T office and see if they've got something else for you?