Kenshi
Martial Village
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Zheyron  [developer] Aug 24, 2018 @ 10:26pm
Martial Village QUEST Line (Walkthrough)
The Martial Village offers a quest line given by the Bodhissatva NPC.

How many ranks the Village offers ?
  • Rank 0 = Drifter
  • Rank 1 = Monk Initiate
  • Rank 2 = Monk Apprentice
  • Rank 3 = Monk Practitioner
  • Rank 4 = Monk Expert
  • Rank 5 = Monk Master


    You can start this quest line by being at least a Neutral or allied faction (Between -9 and 100 relations).

    Quest 1: Monk Initiate.
    The quest is pretty simple, just follow up the line of conversation until you agree with their values. This will make you enemies of the Manhunters and Slave Traders, in exchange you will be able to train freely within the village and be their ally. You will get a Monk Initiate Parchment plus Milk that cannot be crafted and barely purchased. There are other hidden perks I won't mention, figure it out yourself :D

    Quest 2: Monk Apprentice.
    In order to transition from a Monk Initiate to a Monk Apprentice, the Boddhisattva wants you to crack your eggshell and explore a little bit around the town. You must retrieve an animal skin from the local fauna and with the Animal Skin in your inventory go talk to the Bodhisattva. He will congratulate you and give you the next rank with its rewards.

    Quest 3: Monk Practitioner.
    The third quest is a little more tricky, as the boddhisatva wants you to cultivate your knowledge of the world. For this you shall ask the Boddhi that you want to walk further in your path. Then he will ask you to retrieve some knowledge. You must buy (or get by any other mean that don't turn you into an enemy) the Ancient Science Book (DAMAGED) from the Elder's library nearby the HQ building. It is a little swamp shack with a Prince Grand Elder hosting it. He will sell you the book for 4.000 cats, but it doesn't drop its value so you can resell whenever you want.


    Ancient Library (rescued remains) building screenshot below.
    https://imgur.com/17CbBEM

    After you get the book, you must wait OUTSIDE the bodhisattva range (so outside his/her building, and this includes anyone from your squad), for at least 12 game hours or half a in-game day. Once half a day has passed, you must go talk to the Boddhi again WITH THE BOOK IN YOUR INVENTORY. once you have proved your new knowledge he will upgrade your rank to Monk Practitioner


    Quest 4: Monk Expert.
    To breakthrough from a Practitioner to an Expert, you must talk to the Boddhi as a Rank 3 Practitioner. He will ask you to help them investigate a brother's race issue. To fulfill this you must get by any means a Fog Prince Head. You will find the princes who drop this head in the Fog Lands, loot the body of a dead one.
    Once you have collected the head, you shall go back to the Martial Village and talk to him, with the head in the inventory of the character who is speaking to him. He will name you a Monk Expert and ask you to assist your brothers and sisters and listen your elders.


    Quest 5: Monk Master.
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    So this quest took me a longer time to make... it contains world states which defines each individual case that you may find yourself. It is a rescue mission!
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    Talk again to the bodhisattva so you continue with the quest line. He will ask you to be alone for this journey. In case you talk to him and you have more than 1 person in your squad, he will ask you to come back once you are alone.
    You can just make a new squad and drop your guy alone there, then talk to the bodhi.

    All belows scenarios are triggered if you don't have the Ancestor's medal:

    Scenario 1 (Morpheus Imprisoned)
    Bodhisattva Subaru will ask you to help an enslaved monk that went on a mission and was captured. To rescue him and the intel he has collected, you must go to an Slave Market (west of Martial Village) and find the unique NPC Morpheus who will be caged by the slavers. You can talk to him to retrieve the intel while he is imprisoned. With this intel you can clear the quest by going back to the Bodhi with the Medal that morpheus gave you IN YOUR INVENTORY (not equipped in belt slot), although you will lose the chance to recruit Morpheus... Nevertheless you obtain the Master title.

    Scenario 2 (Morpheus alive recruited - Slave Market Master alive)
    This unlikely scenario can only mean you recruited Morpheus before this quest and you disposed the medal... The only solution I developed for this scenario is the following: You must kill the slave market master living in the Slave Market outpost to the west of the village. Afterwards the new *override* Slave Market destroyed outpost shall respawn. In these ruins, you can find a respawned Ancient Medal somewhere laying in the ruins. You can go back to the bodhi with the medal in your inventory (not equipped). You will be granted Master Rank 5.

    Scenario 3 (Morpheus Dead - Slave Market Master Alive)
    In this scenario you can raze the slave market and eliminate the slave master so you get the ruins respawn as scenario 2.

    Scenario 4 (Morpheus Dead - slave market master dead)
    In this case, similar to scenario 2, you will have to retrieve the Ancestor Medal from the Slave Market ruins. Once you give the medal to the bodhi, you will be rewarded.

    Scenario 5 (Morpheus alive - Slave Market Master dead)
    This is a combination of scenario 2 and 4. So you will need to retrieve the medal from the Slave Market ruins... Once you have the medal, go talk to the bodhi and you will be rewarded =)

    Scenario 6 (hidden)
    If you talk to the bodhi while carrying Morpheus with the character talking to him, you may try a couple of times and you will trigger the reward for Rank 5: Master =)
    Note: This will only work if you are a Monk Expert, not lower rank


    Scenario 7 (unique)
    This scenario was reported by Talant.
    It is possible that Morpheus escapes his slavement by the some random chance and goes around the world with other slaves. His life is up to his destiny at this point.
    In this unique scenario, unless you chance upon him, you won't find him in the slave market, the only solution is either find Morpheus roaming the world with luck or just raze the slave market, and pick up the Medal from their ruins.



    Quest development stops here. Thank you guys for reading up until here! Enjoy the game and the mod!
Last edited by Zheyron; Mar 1, 2023 @ 6:52pm
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Edetor89 Sep 11, 2018 @ 10:37am 
Hola, Me ha encantado tu mod, pero tengo problemas en la Quest 3. La distribución que tengo en mi juego es distinta a esta: https://imgur.com/xbirejt. en el Hospital están los Thieves, en los Thieves no hay nada, en la Residential está el Hospital y donde debería estar la Librería está la Travel shop y en la travel shop hay muchos monjes. Por lo tanto no puedo conseguir el book. Espero puedas ayudarme y sigas haciendo mods geniales, un saludo desde México.
Zheyron  [developer] Sep 11, 2018 @ 12:04pm 
Originally posted by Edetor89:
Hola, Me ha encantado tu mod, pero tengo problemas en la Quest 3. La distribución que tengo en mi juego es distinta a esta: https://imgur.com/xbirejt. en el Hospital están los Thieves, en los Thieves no hay nada, en la Residential está el Hospital y donde debería estar la Librería está la Travel shop y en la travel shop hay muchos monjes. Por lo tanto no puedo conseguir el book. Espero puedas ayudarme y sigas haciendo mods geniales, un saludo desde México.

Hola Edetor89! Si estas jugando en la version experimetal (no la estable) es posible que la distribucion cambie por bugs de la version.
Si estas en la version estable, entonces sugiero que salves la partida con tu escuadron fuera de cualquier edificio dentro de la aldea, y luego importes tu partida.

Muchas veces cuando importamos el juego fuera de la aldea, todas las aldeas/ciudades del juego cambian la distribucion. Esto se arregla importando desde adentro de la aldea y es una limitacion del juego lamentablemente.

Saludos desde Argentina hermano!

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For english speakers:

Guys, I noted that even other vanilla villages / cities get scrambled when you import the game. Please, import your game when you are in the village (without occupyng any building with your squad members) as to regain the original distribution.

Have fun!
stecph Sep 12, 2018 @ 2:17am 
Once again thanks for the super fun mod, I went doing the new quest and I really liked it, I love your ingeniuity:-)
The quest itself worked like a charm, but obviously I did a scenario you did not think about in the walkthrough and had to load-scum;-)

here it is plus a couple of observations:

I set him free BEFORE talking to him (so I don't know his lines while he is caged) and he just joined right away, off course I did not notice the medal, so I took him back and released him, the golden dude went back to the quest giving line, when he talks about Morpheus being held in the Market etc.
I did not have a clue how to solve it so I had to look it up on the walkthrough, learnt about the medal and I loaded back, got the medal, dismissed him and then it worked.

Very well made charachter and of the appropriate race IMHO, but I run with only females so I had to let him go:-(

Maybe it would be cool if the medal would be stored in one of the super hard chests in the noble's home, after all, if I would capture a monk with such a medal, I surely would not let him keep it on his neck. Also it would prevent the issue I had I guess.
Or....he hid the medal inside of him, so better move it to the armor slot:-))))


One thing I don't understand, I already can craft the "grand elder robes", the black ones, what does rank V give me more? I thought black that was the max already...

No idea if it's difficult or not, i just ask if it would be possible to have same rank robes having different colors, my people all look the same, I don't know who is who anymore:-)))
I can dress them up with vanilla clothing, but I am doin a run focused on your mod so....:-)

Last edited by stecph; Sep 12, 2018 @ 2:20am
Zheyron  [developer] Sep 12, 2018 @ 4:08am 
@stecph, Thank you for your feedback!

I will have to add a couple of new lines to trigger in the case you recruit him and you don't have the medal equipped/obtained, so he can give it to you even if you didn't talk to him before releasing him.

I didn't think about adding the medal to the safe of the house because the building may be subjected to vanilla changes of layouts, etc, which would cost me to keep an eye on more things in case they update vanilla files, and I didn't want to touch/add vendors/spawn layouts of the vanilla Slaver Squad.

I'm glad you liked the quest!


Have fun!
Last edited by Zheyron; Sep 12, 2018 @ 10:52am
Zheyron  [developer] Sep 12, 2018 @ 10:54am 
@stecph
The Book Rank V unlocks the grand elder (only black robes/black pants) while the previous book IV, gives access to the red elder robe/pants. I don't remember exactly If I added anything else in those ranks, but there may be extra things in the future in the case I keep adding other stuff.

Unfortunately I made the colours in purpose to distinct each rank, and they give their own perks increasing each rank... I will think about a recolouring for grand elder robe in a side book :P
stecph Sep 12, 2018 @ 3:10pm 
Originally posted by zheyron:
@stecph
The Book Rank V unlocks the grand elder (only black robes/black pants) while the previous book IV, gives access to the red elder robe/pants. I don't remember exactly If I added anything else in those ranks, but there may be extra things in the future in the case I keep adding other stuff.

Unfortunately I made the colours in purpose to distinct each rank, and they give their own perks increasing each rank... I will think about a recolouring for grand elder robe in a side book :P
Thanks for always being present in your discussion section, I reply late as I am busy getting something for a dude I met at the village, I just hope it's not WIP:-)))

I haven't explained myself so well about the rank V, I already had a Black robe (grand elder), BEFORE you made the rank V quest, I never crafted the red one, I went straight to black as I bought a book (black if I am not wrong) and after I found the option in the crafting station.
I wrote something about it in the comment sections a while ago:-)

Thanks for the answers about my observations, I forgot one though:-)
Once again, no ide aif it's easy or not, but it would be so cool (although a bit hard for some), if rank V would really be a solo mission, like the golden dude wants you alone to talk to you? Eh, you also need to go alone and use the stealth skills.
Why didn't I do it anyways? Because I am "weak" IRL and as the game allowed me to, I went in with all the girls:-))

PS. I think I will go exploring the new land with your mod's save, seriously I am having so much fun:-))

Zheyron  [developer] Sep 12, 2018 @ 4:41pm 
@stecph That sounds fun!

I haven't explained myself so well about the rank V, I already had a Black robe (grand elder), BEFORE you made the rank V quest, I never crafted the red one, I went straight to black as I bought a book (black if I am not wrong) and after I found the option in the crafting station. I wrote something about it in the comment sections a while ago:-)

The books aren't restricted by faction rank because it is not possible to restrict them like that in the FCS. So they only have the requirements of tech level to make it a bit harder.

@stecph Thanks for the answers about my observations, I forgot one though:-) Once again, no ide aif it's easy or not, but it would be so cool (although a bit hard for some), if rank V would really be a solo mission, like the golden dude wants you alone to talk to you? Eh, you also need to go alone and use the stealth skills. Why didn't I do it anyways? Because I am "weak" IRL and as the game allowed me to, I went in with all the girls:-))))

I cannot force a real "solo" because there are no triggers or events in the FCS to verify if the player have had or has any extra support in the vecinity. As I did with the quest, you can only
trigger it while being alone, what happens next is not in my control.
Also, if you read the Master V parchement you receive at the end of the mission, there is a hint that it doesn't matter as long as you know that you have trustworthy people at your side. He just "warns" you, not forbids it.

Have fun!
Last edited by Zheyron; Sep 12, 2018 @ 4:44pm
stecph Sep 13, 2018 @ 10:54am 
@zheyron ohhh it's fun indeed:-)

I will go read that parchment, thank god I still have it:-)

I gave that thing to that dude to "fix" him up.....damn I gotta do the spoiler thing again:
So, I am talking of the super OP skelly who needs a CPU (great idea BTW), how does he work?
He is really criptic in his sentences, could it be that when i will rank up more, he will need help somehow (now he says he does not need help) and maybe join us????


I don't like to ask these questions, I'd rather do it in-game, but as the mod is WIP, I don't wanna spend hours working towards a goal only to discover it was a dead end.
Any suggestion on how I should approach the mod? I usually am very careful in using the tools given in-game to understand how things work, but as I am always here bugging you, it seems this round I'm missing something:-)

EDIT: thanks also for the FCS's explanations, I am far from the level of you guys, but I am really interested in the "behind the scenes" of games' mechanics.
Last edited by stecph; Sep 13, 2018 @ 12:35pm
Zheyron  [developer] Sep 13, 2018 @ 9:21pm 
@stecph

The Ancient Elder skeleton does refresh its inventory every 24 hours, its best artifacts are the ancient limbs (only arms).
In the future this skeleton elder will be used for a side quest when I keep developing the main quest. That is why it says that you aren't able to help him now. I plan to unlock that side quest with main quest rank 8.


You can approach the mod the way you want, there is no limitation really. In one of my games, I'm playing a monk squad fighting against the zombie apocalypse, is quite fun!
stecph Sep 14, 2018 @ 6:45am 
@zheyron
heheheh MA monks fighting the zombies?? Are u sure it is mate what you drink??;-)
Thanks for clarifying my doubts,I figured it out myself,I edited my post but it was too late,thanks for the patience:-)
I am so looking forward for the developing of the mod...although I guess from monday,you'll be roaming the new lands like everybody else:-)) I'll be patient too...
Karmapolice Sep 22, 2018 @ 8:25am 
I have done the available quests but I am not sure what the perks are for the different ranks. Could you give some details?

What I noticed are some different dialogues and one recruit that accepts following you.

Thanks :)
Zheyron  [developer] Sep 23, 2018 @ 1:38pm 
Hi @JC. As I develop the mod you will unlock other perks or side quests for certain higher ranks. What you pointed out is part of the current perks.

As for now, I'm developing slowly until they release the official 1.0.0, as everytime they make a major change I would have to rebuild a lot of things in the mod.

You also can talk to the Ancient Elder (an skeleton wandering the village), he has a hidden conversation that you can unlock with a CPU unit.

Once they release the new version 1.0.0 , I will start adding more unique NPCs, Items and dialogs.


Karmapolice Sep 24, 2018 @ 3:48am 
Ah good to know, thanks :)
Sum Gai Oct 11, 2018 @ 4:08am 
I kind of skipped the whole process accidentally. I found the village and for the fun of it, knocked out Buddah and just took his clothes and backpack. Now I am Buddah. No-one seems to care either.
Zheyron  [developer] Oct 11, 2018 @ 6:54pm 
Originally posted by {Not Bravo} Sum Gai:
I kind of skipped the whole process accidentally. I found the village and for the fun of it, knocked out Buddah and just took his clothes and backpack. Now I am Buddah. No-one seems to care either.

hahaha you must be op then!, that is funny.
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