Resting Grounds

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I'm on my sort-of second playthrough and both times have missed Cornifer in the Resting Grounds. I got there by jumping down from the right side of Crystal Peak (i only have wall jump and dash powers atm) and after gathering all essence available in the location i got to the stag station there, but Cornifer was already gone.
What are you supposed to do to actually meet him there? Visit Deepnest first and get the tram pass from there?

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Oh man...how did I do this. I think I somehow got the elevator up from the City of Tears, having gotten to the area to the right of the fountain where King's Station is from the Royal Waterway. Then I ran to the statues and fainted, did the dream sequence and woke up in the Seer's hut and ran straight to the Stag Station from there.

I did all of this before I even got to Crystal Peak (I apparently figured out how to get a LOT done before Crystal Peak). I'm on my first playthrough as well and I still haven't done all of Crystal Peak yet, lol. The places you can explore just by leading flying enemies to areas and pogo jumping off of them to reach higher ledges is pretty nuts...I'm fairly certain a double jump exists but, well, yeah. I've found ways around needing it so far. o.O

[Boksha]

I've played this game for ~200 hours according to Steam, and I didn't even know you can meet Cornifer in the Resting Grounds.

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Originally posted by ⊂╫i└└ i∩':

Oh man...how did I do this. I think I somehow got the elevator up from the City of Tears, having gotten to the area to the right of the fountain where King's Station is from the Royal Waterway. Then I ran to the statues and fainted, did the dream sequence and woke up in the Seer's hut and ran straight to the Stag Station from there.

Huh, i completely forgot there's a 3rd entrance to the Resting Grounds. Missed the Royal Waterways the first time and this time i had lost all my collected geo before i could buy a key to unlock it lol.

Originally posted by ⊂╫i└└ i∩':

I did all of this before I even got to Crystal Peak (I apparently figured out how to get a LOT done before Crystal Peak). I'm on my first playthrough as well and I still haven't done all of Crystal Peak yet, lol.

I'm ignoring the top of the Crystal Peak as well, but the lower part can be easily done with just a wall jump and a dash. Frankly i was just mapping available territory while trying to raise some geo and accidentally ended up repeating my previous playthrough without even remembering it.

Originally posted by Boksha:

I've played this game for ~200 hours according to Steam, and I didn't even know you can meet Cornifer in the Resting Grounds.

Well, there is a note from him at the stag station. I just don't know what triggers his leave. I couldn't get to Cornifer in Fog Canyon but after many hours and some progress in other locations he's still there, and i think when i managed to get around that black wall on my 1st playthrough i actually met him.

[karasielvenlied]

Originally posted by mork yorg★n:

What are you supposed to do to actually meet him there? Visit Deepnest first and get the tram pass from there?

There's no way you can meet Cornifer at Resting Grounds.

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Originally posted by karasielvenlied:

There's no way you can meet Cornifer at Resting Grounds.

Oh, i see. Thank you.

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I am almost positive he was there though. This is my first playthrough and like I said I found Resting Grounds before I even ground pounded into Crystal Peak. I recall his dialogue mentioning the atmosphere there being calming or something of that nature.

It was literally last week. I wish I had screen capped it now since I didn't even know this was a "rare" or whatever thing. =/

As for the key to get into Royal Waterway, there is a free one above the entrance if you take the elevators up to the top if I remember right, in the far right of the room with the Winged Sentries (same room with the Whispering Root/Dream Tree). The only one I was able to purchase, I used immediately on Confessor Jiji's hut.

I did Royal Waterways and found my way to the Watcher long before going into Crystal Peak - pretty much right after I found that key a few floors above the entrance to the Waterways, when I first entered City of Tears. Ended up in the other area of City of Tears (where the Watcher is) and took the elevator above King's Station to the Resting Grounds, and after the Seer sequence Cornifer was certainly there.

I am wondering if Crystal Peak is what makes him leave, and not the seer sequence (I am currently researching this as I type).

But then again I have done a LOT of stuff I assume is out of sequence? I even beat Hornet's second fight in Kingdom's Edge and got the King's Brand before Crystal Peak (painstakingly pogo jumping the Primal Aspids up the platforms to get to the area just below the bench, since I don't have the double jump yet even now, assuming one exists in this game).

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Originally posted by ⊂╫i└└ i∩':

I am almost positive he was there though. This is my first playthrough and like I said I found Resting Grounds before I even ground pounded into Crystal Peak. I recall his dialogue mentioning the atmosphere there being calming or something of that nature.

Can't say anything here, i googled a bit more and apparently even HK wiki says you always "miss" Cornifer in the Resting Grounds :0

I'm not even sure there's really a way to do things "out of sequence" in this game. It's not exactly linear and has a lot of entrances and ways to achieve this and that. Some are just a little less obvious.

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Spoilers below (for OP and anyone I guess):
TL;DR - The way I got the King's Mark was a little iffy, and apparently a speedrun tactic - that's kind of what I meant about "breaking the game" lol. But yeah, I don't know what to say about Cornifer.

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Yeah I'm apparently finding speedrun tactics (not new ones or anything, just coming across ones commonly used to speedrun this game). I recall there was a room in Forgotten Crossroads with a hole in the ceiling I couldn't jump to, so moving on there were 3 of those Goam worms that burst out of the ground in a row, and just to their right was a big area with a lone Vengefly hanging out (same room). I figured I was supposed to pull that Vengefly through the Goams, timing it to keep him alive, and pogo off him to get to that hole in the ceiling. It worked and I got my first Mask Fragment that way - so since then I just approached every inaccessible ledge the same way as long as a flying enemy was nearby, assuming they led to secrets or something.

So with that in mind, first time I saw Hornet I used the Squit just below where I was standing to get to the ledge she was standing on, skipping the entire southern section of Greenpath (didn't realize it until I came back from the other direction just exploring, after beating Hornet).

Main spoilers below since I'm not sure if OP got here yet:
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Then I used a Primal Aspid (hate those things) to get up to where she was apparently waiting to fight me again the second time in Kingdom's Edge, superceding the double jump (I currently still don't have it - I only just got the Super Dash finally having gone through Crystal Peak). That one was actually hard, since there are two more "steps"/ledges beyond the first one. But there is actually a hidden bit of wall you can wall jump off of just beneath those ledges, to get up those (hard to explain that one - you have to jump or jump-dash into the flat part of the wall just under them to the left, quickly wall jump to the right and you should get just high enough to dash back into the ledge itself, and wall jump off that onto the ledge). That's how I got King's Mark without the double jump.

So yeah, that's kind of what I meant. Getting the Mark the way I did it felt iffy, like I definitely was supposed to at least have the double jump to get to it (specifically the second and third ledges). But maybe it was by design - if so, that's pretty damn brilliant to be honest. But I was honestly hesitant to go learn "The Truth" after beating her because I didn't want to prematurely get end-game content or something.