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The Cat Beyond Time and Space - The Ogre Wars - Return of the Goddess of Time
Episodes - Mythos - Symphony - Character Quests - Other Sidequests
Other Sidequests
- A sidequest chain in the prehistoric age has Aldo helping a guy try to woo the girl he likes. The girl wants a gem, which you can supposedly get from a plant. Attempt one to get it results in a monster attacking you. The guy does more research into the gem, and the real source is...the plant you tried already. Aldo starts walking away.
- One of the sidequests in Palsifal's palace has Aldo playing matchmaker between a guard and a maid. The maid is too cowardly to confess directly, so she gives Aldo a letter... But the guard refuses since, despite finding her attractive, he considers himself too crude, brutish and low-class for a royal maid... Then the maid confesses she's playing up a Proper Lady act because she's a crude brutish low-class girl that no man finds interesting... Then the guard confesses he has a thing for crude brutish low-class girls... After finally managing to get the two lovebirds together, Aldo reads the discarded letter...I LOVE YOU PLEASE MARRY ME - MAID
Aldo: This all could have been avoided if he read it in the first place! - When you come back to Baruoki, you can find a woman in the southeast who wants to clean a well. First you find some wood to make her a special broom, and then clear out some goblins who have made their home there. Finally, the woman complains that more trash than ever is turning up... and Aldo finds a wormhole leading to Elzion, through which a callow youth has been shoveling waste. After you find him 20 Bear Asses so that he can repair his disintegrator, he admits that the detritus was his old poetry, of which he is ashamed. Aldo returns to Baruoki and tells the woman the case is closed.Aldo: All in a day's work for Aldo, Time-Traveling Garbage Man. What happened to my life?
- A sidequest in Konium sees Aldo and Guildna see a group of beast children attempting a play depicting the climactic battle between the two on Miglance Castle. After a little correcting and inspiration, the script is rewritten... with the battle ending by with the two actors performing a Fusion Dance and bringing peace to both beastfolk and humankind.
- A sidequest in the Garden of IDA involves uncovering a mystery involving several suspicious people in white hoods. It eventually turns out their shady behaviour involves the market dominance of their favorite drink, and you chase down a defector who's consumed a rival brand. The sidequest ends with you being inducted into their cult, starting with their theme song that's a parody of the Team Rocket creed. The narration is also exasperated by the experience.Your will to live weakened considerably.
- The second quest in "The Time-Space Cat and Book from Beyond" update involves a couple of hooded figures chasing down a humanoid Varuo. They describe the Bad Future they're trying to prevent as "completely kittens", complete with a Hurricane of Puns. After chasing down Varuo to the Spacetime Rift, the humanoid Varuo commands cat Varuo to touch the History Maker to secure the Stable Time Loop... but forgets that the cat Varuo's a contrarian who will refuse any orders he's given. This traps human Varuo in the Spacetime Rift, since trying to leave will trigger a time paradox that threatens his existence.
- In a sidequest on the Garulea continent, Aldo chances across a dumpling store owner who's struggling to attract customers, and he quickly discovers why. The quest leads him back to Izana to consult a dumpling master, but what follows amounts to a conversation between two Cloudcuckoolanders, and Aldo struggles to keep up. Don't think this is just a funny distraction, though — you'll have to remember certain important bits of the lecture to complete the quest, or it's back to consulting the old man again.
- A sidequest taking place in the wastelands of Future Garulea has the crew find a broken Elzion drone. So they try to fix it with a... crude method, and it works!Beast Man: Mind giving this a good whack?
Guildna: What? Why should I?
Beast Man: Because everyone knows that machines can be fixed by casual violence. - In Eeza, Aldo takes on a sidequest to fill in for an actress in a commercial shoot. But, of course, as a man he can't exactly pull it off. The girls of the story cast intervene to help bring out his "inner woman", leading to a long Training Montage in how act femininely in various casual situations. When all that fails, Riica tries something brutal to successfully maximize his womanly passion, complete with Bishie Sparkle. And the commercial that involved him beating up a robot? It turns out it was for cosmetics.
- A sidequest chain has Aldo trace the source of a stone Mask of Power to Izana in present-day Garulea. The mask is found in the hands of Genshin, who is adamant on not relinquishing it. After going on pretty much a wild goose chase, Genshin reveals that he already got rid of the mask... by putting it up on public display and allowing anyone to take it. Why? He got bored, and decided to get rid of it in the most vexing way possible. Aldo's response is to slowly step away... and then dramatically collapse face-first to the floor.
- A sidequest in the Lunar City leads to Mistrare burning up and asking Prai to "relieve the heat within her". Cut to outside with Thillelille happening to listen in on this bit of the conversation. She busts in... and finds Prai and Mistrare fervently jumping side to side. Moke wants in on the action and darts across the room. Thillelille is completely befuddled.
Cat Quests
Playing as Varuo, in general, is a goldmine of hilarity, whether due to the Cat Quests or the hidden events.- The "Never-ending Contest over Territory" basically has Varuo teaming up with his love rival Langelo (the fat male calico in Baruoki) in what amounts to the equivalent of feline gang war. It didn't go smoothly thanks to (a) a cat suddenly decided to take a nap in the middle of the planned battlefield (east entrance of Baruoki) and (b) the owner of the rival cat (Josephine) suddenly appeared to take her home.
- "A Wayward Cat's Rhapsody" has Varuo watching a man in Rinde who attempts to write a love letter for proposal for his lover... after which he muses that he will be broke after buying the ring and promptly writes another letter to borrow money from his "other woman". When the man is gone, the player has option to have Varuo swap the letters, to hilarious results.
- One quest has Varuo encountering a vase sculptor who wants to submit his latest work to a local art contest, but feels something is missing. When he leaves, Varuo made an internal remark that he didn't like the vase one bit and attempted to make it his latest scratching post...only to accidentally push it and ended up breaking it. The kicker? The sculptor ended up having "Eureka!" Moment upon seeing the fragments, and he made a dramatic remark complete with a zoomed focus over the vase fragments.
- One quest in Last Island has a cat that pesters the son of the owner of the local inn by practicing metal-style meowing, complete with dark, distorted note visual effect. One thing led to another, and the cat and Varuo form a metal band with three other cats. It Makes Sense in Context.Innkeeper: Isn't this just the most amazing Cat Metal Festival ever!
- A major cat quest on the Last Island that unlocks the cat battle feature can basically be summed up as "Varuo and co. vs. space cats". It all starts with Varuo chancing upon and claiming a toy mouse, declaring it as "his treasure" and following it through warps into the crashed ship, where he wages war against the whole crew after they repossess the toy. The base of the space cats is called "S-purr-ace Colony".
- One hidden event for unlocking Chaos Crystals trade has Varuo encountering a pair of men in Antiquity who, for whatever reason, are halfway buried in the ground (which reason is explained later when the player properly rescues them as Aldo). One man attempted to direct Varuo to ask for help, only for Varuo to smack him repeatedly like (as the other man puts) "a hole-mole".
