Warning, spoilers ahead. This document is mostly for folks who have finished the module or need help getting through it.

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Welcome to the Royal Castle. You'll be starting modules this way from now on; Dawn gives a mission briefing, and then you pick your henchman (or no henchman) and exit via the castle doors.

Before you strike out on your bold adventure, let's do a rundown on who you should hench up with and why.

• Zachary offers no bonuses or subquests in this module. Pick him only if you'd prefer to have his healing powers around.
  
• Sally offers a very combat heavy subquest, which will net you some nice money (when combined with Ralph's subquest) and a five use Spin-o-Taur summoning device. If you're ready for a brawl, or just want her high energy magic to blow stuff up, pick her.
  
• Talya has an important but simple subquest that starts her romance subplot. The rewards are low (you actually lose 500 gold in the process) but it nets you a Your Heart token that'll play into future modules as it changes Talya's disposition towards you. She's also helpful at disarming traps in a later subquest.
  
• Grandma has no specific bonuses or subquests. Pick her if you want a good tank to hide behind. She could be helpful in the optional 'corrupted plane' area as well.
  
• Whisper has a short, combat intensive subquest with an XP reward that also unlocks access to a more XP-earning solution to a later puzzle. It also expands on what Azul's really up to. Sort of.
  
• No henchman means you can't access any hench subquests, and you may have to tough it out a bit in fights, but obviously you can still complete the game.

Off you go to PUTS! Although you won't be exploring much of the campus. On arrival Ursula Gonn explains the current situation, and as you walk towards the Campus Interplane Lab (located next to the Great Library, via underground passage) two things will occur.

One, you'll feel your inventory shift around, and suddenly you've got some nice treats in there. Five sparks of life for keeping your henchman with you (any leftovers from PR1 will work too), a Potion of Aid, and an unsigned note that's pretty obviously from the Advent.

Two, IF you have Talya with you, she'll ask that you go with her to the dormitories. (You can't get in unless she's with you.) If you say no she'll just ditch you, so agree to her request.

Talya's Subquest: Talya's Important Errand: In the dormitories, Talya will direct you to the fourth door down the hall -- and look, here's an old friend! Talk to her and you'll discover that she has something very important to Talya, but won't let it go for anything less than 500 gold. You can't negotiate the price down.

You could just say 'Darn' and leave it at that, but what kind of jerk would that make you? Front the money! If you don't have 500 gold, do some of Ralph's subquest, then return with the cash he gives you. Talya's subquest can be completed at any time.

Your reward will be in the form of a romance plot token. It'll be important in later modules; you'll have another opportunity to get it in PR3, but it'll be much more satisfying on a story level if you get it now. Talya will give this to men OR women; if you recoil in abject horror at the notion of a female/female romance plot, just skip this portion of our program, okay? Good.


Down the stairs and into the Campus Interplane Lab you go. Talk to Spiro to get the main quest ("You've Got Chainmail") which is to hunt down the d20 members in the Interplane and bring back an artifact called the r00tkit.

As you walk by, if you have Sally with you, she'll get very alarmed about one of her friends being stuck in the Interplane. Talk to her and it'll assign you her subquest.

Sally's Subquest: Friendship is Neat: Miki Sayuri, Sally's classmate, is stuck in the Interplane. Your job is to rescue her. Sally will provide a SlashHack.plane login and password, which unlocks the area for your access -- you can get there from either PUTS.edu.plane or Huzzah!.plane.

This is a very straightforward dungeoneering brawl, but make SURE you talk to Ralph and accept his subquest before proceeding, so you can get paid for all the bugs you kill down here. The difficulty of the monsters is pretty tough, so talk to Nurse Panya and buy some supplies. If Sally is dead when you find Miki, you don't get the reward! For completing this little violent jaunt, you get a five use Spin-o-Taur.

Once Spiro gives you superuser access, enter the room in the back near the helpdesk and find Ralph. Talk to him and mention the 'bug hunt' he'll have to do later -- he'll try to shuffle the work off onto your shoulders instead.

Ralph's Subquest: More of Ralph's Errands, Dammit: Yes, it means playing errand boy for Ralph again, but you're going to want to do this -- for every encounter of system errors that you kill, you get 250 gold. This is especially critical for Sally's subquest (which has the most system errors) and the corrupt plane subquest later. You can return to Ralph at any point to get paid up to the last number of encounters you've cleared.

All set? Okay, let's go into the Interplane...


The module becomes quite nonlinear at this point, since you can freely explore the Interplane. Your end goal is going to be to get to Kazoo.plane, via a quest at ChatZone.plane, but why rush it? There's lots of optional areas and things to do and see along the way.

You'll start out in PUTS.edu.plane, which has one system error encounter to whet your appetite. (Some weak bugs. You'll hit nastier stuff later.) That connects off to various sites, notably Huzzah!.plane.

Nearly every plane is connected to Huzzah!, and Huzzah! connects to nearly every plane. It's going to be the nexus you walk through en route to... well, anywhere else except Kazoo. Here's a rundown of places you can go to.

• PUTS.edu.plane, which you know about. Not much to do here.
  
• SlashHack.plane, which is only open to you if you're doing Sally's subquest.
  
• ChatZone.plane, where you can continue your main quest (details to follow).
  
• EndlessAdventure.plane, where you can get some important story background and pick up a few leads on the true identity of the d20 gang and such. Or a lot of red herrings. History's a bit muddled. There's a Meditation Stone here, as well.
  
• InMyUnderwear.plane, where you can buy sexy clothes (and fight a few system errors). It's also important to Whisper's subquest, and one of the dressing rooms has a link to the corrupted plane.
  
• RalphNeckerson.plane, where you can worship the demigod of a man that is Ralph Neckerson and pry into his personal life a bit. A later quest will bring you here.
  
• TiasExotics.plane, which is Under Construction, and if you try to break and enter be ready for a whole lot of traps. A later quest will bring you here.
  
• The Corrupted Plane, which you can get to from InMyUnderwear or ChatZone. It's basically a large, unmapped area where you're trapped upon arrival until you can find the exit, but it's very useful if you like a combat challenge, want XP, or want a nice ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sword you can sell/use. Of course, to find the exit or the sword or whatnot, you have to fight your way through waves of difficult system errors.

Whisper's Subquest: To Hell and Back: When you arrive in Huzzah!.plane, Whisper will request to talk to you. She'll reveal that she's got a double purpose here -- her master wants her to seal a link to Baator, plane of devils, that has accidentally formed in the Interplane.

The link to Baator can be found in InMyUnderwear.plane's back room. There's a locked door to get in, but if you can't unlock it Whisper should automatically bash the hell out of it and on you go. There are two System Error encounters back here, and a misty, endless corridor. It has no 'area transition' glow but walk into it when Whisper's your henchman and off you go to Baator. You're safe for the moment on arriving. Whisper will fill you in on what this place is, then you'll meet Duke Xilk, a devil of Baator.

BEFORE YOU TALK TO HIM, raid the book pile by this throne and grab the Accursed Phrasebook. It'll net you some nice XP for a later puzzle! Heck, you could grab the book then leave without fufilling this subquest if it's just too hard for you. The only other way to get the Accursed Phrasebook is to brawl your way through the corrupted plane, and this duck-and-run strategy might be a lot easier (even if it brands you a coward for not fighting a threat to Penultima).

After exchanging some words, the Duke will attack, summoning Succubi and demons to his aid. They're not too strong but they swarm you immediately and you're in for a hell of a meelee fight. Once all of them are dead, grab the Rift Seal he drops, then return to InMyUnderwear. After walking through the rift, it'll seal up, you get 500 XP and off you go.

So, once you've had your fill of the Interplane or if you want to get on with things, go to the ChatZone.


The ChatZone... normally a place of relatively peaceful discussion. But, lately it's broken out into a complete faction brawl between two sides of annoying, juvenile punks.

On arrival you'll see a link to Kazoo.plane to your left, but it's sealed until you can get a login and password. If you talk to the Goblin or the Kobold at the door, you'll find that the d20 Gang (specifically Li and Lu, the twins) were here, and went to Kazoo. Both note that their respective leaders have Kazoo access, so... there are three ways to go here.

• Side with the Goblins. They'll become friendly to you and help you out in fights, although any Kobold (or troll, there's trolls in there too, naturally) killed by a Goblin will get you 0 XP.
  
• Side with the Kobolds. Same thing, but in reverse; Goblins hate you, Kobolds will help you.
  
• The third option, and the hardest yet most rewarding, is to go talk to the Orc who's hiding on the righthand side of the map. He suggests you align yourself with the Orcs. If you agree, he asks you to go talk to an Orc in the northernmost point of the ChatZone, then return for your reward (Kazoo access and superior XP). But if you do this, EVERYTHING in the ChatZone will hate you. Kobolds, Goblins, Trolls, you name it. You'll have to be a sneaky ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and get them to kill each other or be a tough ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and kill them all to be able to do this. But, the XP you get is the XP you keep...

Assuming you picked Gobs or Kobs, either way the quest you undertake is very similar. Enter the ChatZone, seek out the leader (talk to any friendly Gob/Kob and he'll point the way). The Leader will ask you to kill the leader of the other faction, so it's a march across the ChatZone to the OTHER stronghold, fight your way through enemy territory, kill the leader, and BAM you'll instantly get your Kazoo access.

That's a lot of playtime compressed into one paragraph, though. This is a very combat rich envrionment. Here are some tactical suggestions.

• Let your friends do the fighting, if possible. One nice trick is to walk into a room until the spawns occur, then run for it. Wait. Return. Either your buddies will have won the fight or you'll just have a few weakened enemies to pick off.
  
• Work the trolls! Nobody likes trolls in a discussion group, so the Gobs and Kobs will seek to kill them first (usually). You can sometimes sneak by while they're dealing with the troll.
  
• Train 'em! Once you clear a room odds are it'll be full of friendlies. Go taunt the enemy, then run back and let them follow you... right into a room full of your pals. Combat begins, but with more advantage on your side -- especially if friendlies in other rooms hear the fighting and rush to join you.

Of course, once you're inside enemy HQ, all that goes out the window since you HAVE no friends there...

Either way, complete your assassination job or help out the orc, and you'll have a Kazoo login. Off to Kazoo we go.