Pax Klanq, I Presume?

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Pax Klanq, I Presume?

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	quantum mote Tomb of the Eaters (quest) Spread Klanq around Qud in 4 Ways of Your Choosing

[ Barathrum the Old ]

Unfortunately, no one knows Pax Klanq's whereabouts. Through contacts I made over the years, I inquired as to its location. The most I was able to garner were these enigmatic instructions:

"Seek the heart of the rainbow, eat the god's flesh, and follow the Coral Path."

Barathrum the Old asks the player to solve a riddle to find the mysterious Pax Klanq and ask him to build a climber for the Spindle at Omonporch.

Journal

Get Q Girl's Blueprints for the Climber

XP: 250

• Speak to Q Girl to obtain the blueprints for Q Girl's climber design.

Seek the Heart of the Rainbow

XP: 1500

• Travel to the center zone of the central parasang of the Rainbow Wood.

Eat the God's Flesh

XP: 1500

• Find and eat an Eater's flesh, either by looting the human remains (which also have a cybernetics credit wedge 3¢ and a scroll bound by a strand of kelp) or by harvesting it from one of the elcatls nearby.

Follow the Coral Path

XP: 1500

• Become shimmering. Follow the yellow brick road to find Pax Klanq.

Convince Pax Klanq to Construct the Climber

XP: 1500

• Agree to Spread Klanq around Qud in 4 Ways of Your Choosing and choose a body part to infect with Klanq.

Return to Grit Gate

XP: 4000

• Return to Grit Gate and speak to Barathrum the Old.

Rewards

• quantum mote
• New quest available: Tomb of the Eaters (quest)
• New quest available: Spread Klanq around Qud in 4 Ways of Your Choosing

Accomplishment

You walked the Coral Path and convinced Pax Klanq, mushroom prodigy, to fabricate a battery of Q Girl's design.

Notes

This section is opinion-based. Your mileage may vary.

• Attempting to travel on the world map through The Rainbow Wood will result in the player character becoming instantly lost. It is advisable to start from the edge of the woods and work inwards. Starting from the north or south end of the woods will result in less net distance to travel, since a zone is shorter on that axis.
• The player may wish to bring a pickaxe, nanopneumatic jackhammer, phasing, teleportation, or some other way of quickly dealing with walls, as Klanq's laboratory is completely enclosed by mushroom flesh. A fungicide gas grenade will make quick work of the flesh, but will damage Klanq and turn him hostile if he wanders into the gas.
• The rivers of primordial soup will spawn large numbers of soupy sludges if they come into contact with any liquid. This can be dangerous for characters who can't kill the sludges faster than they spawn or disperse the affected ooze.
• Exercise caution once you have eaten the Eater's flesh, as soupy sludge will still attack and you will be suffering from -60 Quickness for the duration of the shimmering effect.
• It is not necessary to complete Spread Klanq around Qud in 4 Ways of Your Choosing before continuing on to Tomb of the Eaters, but doing so will remove Klanq from the player character. So long as the character is infected with Klanq, they will occasionally puff a cloud of spores when damaged, potentially turning neutral characters hit by the cloud hostile.