Can't find last nex-mex skill

[TheOne]

Hey,

So I have 6 nex-mex skills/abilities but can't find the last 7th one.

The one i'm missing is "Raise Skeletal Gunslinger".

From what I've seen in guides, it comes from "Dark Forbidden Secrets of Nex-Mex" book, which is supposedly the one at Fort Memoriam but i've already got that one for sure.

I've also checked the other places where books should be according to guides and i'm pretty sure i've been to all of them. The only one i cant be sure is the book you get on random encounter but im pretty positive i got that one too

I've also opened up Alexandrias book shop and she doesn't sell the book...

Can this be some sort of bug?

I really want that last skill but i'm at a loss, what can i do from here?

[Protoman]

The Nex-Mex books are shuffled depending on the order you find them, I think. That is to say, you could find Introductory Nex-Mex at the end of the game if you didn't find any others, and that hte opposite is true.

I think I messed up that random event because there is an option that doesn't give the book, unfortunately, and I don't know if the encounter is repeatable.

Beyond that you'd just have to recheck the other 6 locations.

If it's any consolation, you only need 6 to finish the Necromancer line.

[Aeralis]

Since I can't think of a way to deliver a hint that's not super obvious, I'll just come out and be super obvious:

You have to have the pale horse to get the final book.

[Protoman]

Pretty sure the pale horse merely expedites nex-mex rather than being an exclusive source of any.

[jle30303]

No, the pale horse is an exclusive source of two nex-mex books. You can ONLY get six necromancer books if you don't have the Pale Horse.

Personally I think this is a thing that could be improved - make one of the books into a rare encounter that is "guaranteed early" with the pale horse but otherwise super-rare, and the other one can be pale-horse only. Give people with other horses the chance to get all seven.

Specifically: There are eight possible places to get necromancer books - 6 fixed locations (doable by anybody) and 2 random encounters, BOTH of which require the Pale Horse. If you have the Pale Horse, then the last of the six fixed locations won't have a book, because you will have already found the two pale-only encounters by wandering, long before, and thus will have found seven books after the first five locations.

That being said: Reading the seventh and last Necromancer book gives huge penalties to +meat and +item finding, which hurts everybody. The fifth and sixth give huge penalties to fighting with weapons and guns, making being a Necromancer only really viable for a Beanslinger. (The penalties for the first four are fairly trivial, and reading four books is enough to make the Bone Bridge if you should wish to do that without going all the way to full Necromancy.)

You can pick and choose which books you read, so if you have the Pale Horse and get all seven, you can choose to read six, and miss out on whichever you think is the weakest skill so as to avoid the big final penalty - it doesn't have to be Raise Skeletal Gunslinger (7th book, "Dark Forbidden Secrets"). Obviously if you don't have the Pale Horse, you can't get the Gunslinger book.