Runic Scroll NPC

[Quetzalcoatl]

I got a Runic Scroll from Fiama that summons a random NPC as resident.
What's a good choice?

I'm looking for little sister, but are there perhaps other better choices? Via save scumming, so far I did roll an apprentice trader, mage, even a secretary., then lots of monsters.

What's a secretary gonna do to my town? What will investing in my own home do?

[ephang]

I dont remember seeing such scroll that summon random npc as resident, how do you get that?

[Iyasenu]

It's "Runic Scroll" because it's unidentified.
It's actually a "Scroll of Ally".

As for whatever's best, if it's not someone you want as a party member, then go for someone you'd want boosting your base's skills.

Secretary allows you to invest in your base's development level, which acts to boost the shop inventories of any merchants you have living at your base.

[CornBreadtm]

Scroll of Ally is random. You don't pick.

[ephang]

I thought that only summon as temporary ally, but actually not.

Depends on what progress you are, if early game and want some ally to fight than some strong monster/guard or something.

If for resident expand for earlier game than get slave merchant.

[Quetzalcoatl]

Yeah my bad, it's unidentified so I don't know what it's really called.

Originally posted by Iyasenu:

Secretary allows you to invest in your base's development level, which acts to boost the shop inventories of any merchants you have living at your base.

Sounds very useful. Maybe I should have locked in to that roll.
Guess I have to luck sack again.

Edit: wait, if Secretaries are in my town. What sort of Furniture tickets do they sell?

[Quetzalcoatl]

Originally posted by CornBreadtm:

Scroll of Ally is random. You don't pick.

Yeah it's random, but as I mentioned, I save scum to get what I want. In my past playthrough I thought it was just monsters and younger sister since they're the only ones that popped up back then after maybe 10 rolls (got 2 or 3 younger sis).

Didn't even know the scroll includes Human NPCs, so I asked what to look out for when rerolling.

[madpraxis]

Originally posted by Quetzalcoatl:

Yeah my bad, it's unidentified so I don't know what it's really called.

Originally posted by Iyasenu:

Secretary allows you to invest in your base's development level, which acts to boost the shop inventories of any merchants you have living at your base.

Sounds very useful. Maybe I should have locked in to that roll.
Guess I have to luck sack again.

Edit: wait, if Secretaries are in my town. What sort of Furniture tickets do they sell?

The same you get as rewards for your board, Myselia

[Quetzalcoatl]

ok thanks. Myselia is useful. I hope I get a secretary again.

Oh, speaking of Furniture tickets.... if by some ungoldy chance, I happen to have Furniture tickets without any town attached to it, where can I use those?

[Quetzalcoatl]

Originally posted by ephang:

I thought that only summon as temporary ally, but actually not.

Depends on what progress you are, if early game and want some ally to fight than some strong monster/guard or something.

If for resident expand for earlier game than get slave merchant.

I am very early game, but I don't worry over my fighting so I wanted a resident. I always take my Little Girl with me to the dungeons.

I'll consider slave merchant. It's not up to the esthetic I want in my town, but it still sounds useful to buy Residents with Orens. Do they have any effects due to being slaves? Or do they function like Residents once I buy them?

[Quetzalcoatl]

Crap! I messed up my save scumming on a bad NPC. I just kicked them out because of Drinking.

*sigh* Sad, such a massive waste of a good scroll.

Thanks for the suggestions anyways. I'll just keep on a lookout on the NPC mentioned here.

[Iyasenu]

That's a shame, but don't worry overmuch.
That scroll is high-tier, but not exclusive to that quest reward.
You can come across them in decently-invested scroll-stocking merchants.

[Quetzalcoatl]

Yeah got it. I'll just be on the lookout for decent NPCs.

You mentioned investing. I suppose I'll do that too.

[Iyasenu]

Originally posted by Quetzalcoatl:

Yeah got it. I'll just be on the lookout for decent NPCs.

You mentioned investing. I suppose I'll do that too.

Be sure you've joined the Merchant's Guild before going on an investing spree.
Investing in shops is how you gain guild contribution to that guild, and it also makes investing slightly cheaper, too.

[twitch.tv/GFYE]

Scroll of Ally is an amazing tool if you have neither gold bars or orens to spare. It pulls from the entire possible pool of entities "minus bosses" in the game. Early game you could get a Dinosaur on your first pull and suddenly your sub 10 hour character is hand walking through content into the lvl 30 range OR you get a snail. XD It can also pull every single none unique npc and shop keeper type, though you don't get to see their hobby/job before hand, which is a trade off.

Certain animals do NOT appear in the animal handler until ridiculous levels and only save scumming seems to make the quest board usable without spending 100 hours just looking for your desired shop.

These scrolls can be huge deal for you if you want to get into genetics and breeding because you can target pull with save scumming to get the monster you want, then use a love potion to get the highest quality milk after some investment.


If you don't have a carbuncle or have a "druid" type support caster, you can find the cat friend in Yowyn down the stairs in the cat cafe and possibly a D rank druid there too if the adventurer board tab indicates it. Late game your can pick and choose whatever

[gimmethegepgun]

Originally posted by Iyasenu:

and it also makes investing slightly cheaper, too.

And also get the Investing skill from Willow or Lumiest as well, for the same reason :)