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Interesting Recruits!
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Josef Senpai  [developer] Nov 29, 2018 @ 10:01pm
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Recruitment Guide
Recruitment guides below.

Name
Method 1
Method 2
Method 3
Arien
1. Hire her by asking if she's looking for work.
2. She'll tell you what to pay. You may have the option to negotiate.
1. Tell her you just want to talk.
2. Ask what she's doing alone.
3. Make fun of the Gorillo story. She'll come with you either way.
Bhujerba (Location: The Black Tower; Mongrel if the Dust King has been killed.)
1. Talk to him with Sake in your inventory.
2. Speak to The Keeper
3. Pay up 4000 cats.
4. Bhujerba will run out of the cage and may steal a weapon. He'll join you after his monologue.
Delend
1. Any option except No and Holy Nation
2. Either ask why he won't eat you or blast Okran.
3A. Ask what makes him do what he does. 3B. Ask about his light. 3C. Ask why he preaches.
4. If you asked about his light or why he preaches, listen to his sermon, otherwise skip this step.
5. Ask him what made him believe.
6. Ask him what kind of Miracle.
NOTE: This is where stuff gets a bit random as you only have a 1 in 3 chance to get the dialogue option of "Why do you wish to know?" Otherwise he'll go back to saying "A miracle" or say he's not willing to share.
7. Tell him you think he's a painted up Paladin.
8. You have a 50% chance of him asking why you believe that. Respond by mocking his beliefs.
9. Let him rant, and at the end welcome him.
1. Ask if he's part of the Holy Nation.
2. Ask why he preaches.
3. Follow Steps 4-9 in Method 1
Eldritch
1. Ask either waht horrors he would kill, or who he would kill for you.
2. Confirm understanding.
3. Dissect his argument.
4. Math. Jokes aside, confirm that he wants 15840 cats.
5. Pay the man.
Elizabeth (Location: Port South, Port North, World's End, or Mongrel)
1. Wish her a good day, and ask her what bring sher to the bar.
2. Tell her the bar is dreary.
3. Diss her favourite bar.
4. Tell her you could do things better.
5. Agree to pay her tab in one form or another.
Gnume (Location: Shark)
1. As a anything other than Human Male/Hive ask him where he gets his nerve.
2. Listen to the man.
3. Pay off his tab of 100000 cats, if you don't have it when you talk to him, don't tell him to "Burn in Hell" or you'll lock his dialogue forever, otherwise you'll need to follow steps 8-10 of the second recruitment style.
1.Say "Hi?"
3. Ask him where he gets his nerve.
4. Back down.
5. Ask him what'he's doing in the bar.
6 Ask him what's going on.
7A. If you killed/captured Holy Phoenix, offer to help, and then you'll get an appropriate response, he'll then join you.
7B.If you haven't killed/captured Holy Phoenix, then say that you'll bug him until he talks.
8. Talk to Gnume after he exits the conversation, and ask him why he sits there and drinks all day. This only has a 20% chance of working each time.
9. Listen to his story, and tell him you're not happy yet.
10. Talk to Gnume again, and if you have 100000 cats, you can ask him to join and offer to pay his tab.
Grimm
1. Ask about his story.
2. Listen to his story, and then tell him he's full of♥♥♥♥♥♥
3. Pay off his tab.
Irdat
1. As a female of any race, or Skeleton, talk to him without a Hiver in your squad.
2. Any option other than walk away.
3. Same as step 2.
4. Let him join.
1. As a Shek Male, talk to him without a Hiver in your squad.
2. Tell him that you can hope you're stronger.
3. Let him join.
1. As a Human Male, talk to him without a Hiver in your squad.
2. Tell him you'd rather not be a leader.
3. Tell him you try.
4. Let him join.
Josef (Location: Sho-Battai)
1. Tell him you're enjoying the mod.
2. Ask "What business?"
3. Ask him what you need to do.
4. Agree.
5. Return to Josef after having retrieved a Fog Prince Head, an AI Core, the Great White Gorillo's Skin or Claw, Megacrab Ganglion, or the Horn of the Megaraptor.
6. Both Josef and Yiannas should join your team after a brief interlude. Note: If they are imprisoned/separated/enslaved, the dialogue may not work properly.
Katharciss
1. Ask about her paint.
2. Ask about her people.
3. Deny fear.
4. Confirm that you aren't scared.
5. Tell her you want a companion.
6. Deny that you want to kill her.
Kazakh
1. Any Option except "Ah...Nothing."
2. Ask what he is if he's not a sellsword.
3. Ask him what he means by being disgraced.
4. Ask if there's a way you can help.
5. Tell him that every man has his price.
6. 50% chance for him to be okay with it.
7. Retrieve the 3 items he asks for by killing Altis and Albanh, and talking to Kastor. Kazakh will tell you where Altis and Kastor are, but you'll have to pay Kastor to find out where Albanh is, or just look for him. You can also cheat with this Location Spoiler: Altis is within the Dust King's Tower. Albanh is at Bast. Kastor should be at Port South.
L'Cie
1. Tell him to calm down.
2. Tell him you want to talk.
3. Ask him if he's for hire.
4. Offer either 3000, 1500, or 700. Please not the 700 option will turn to 1000 if you want him..
1. Follow Steps 1 and 2 from Method 1.
2. Ask him why he's not outside.
3. Tell him it's less scary with companions.
4. Make a nice speech about the unknown.
5. Ask him to come along.
1. Tell him to calm down.
2. Tell him he's a wimp.
3. Tell him he can't hit a rum bottle!
4. Tell him it's time to prove his worth!
Mesilla
Placeholder.
Mikael
1. Tell him you're a merc.
2. Ask why you can't talk to another merc.
3. Ask if he's for hire.
4A. Offer anything above 700.
1. Follow Steps 1-3 from Method 1.
2. Ask about his story.
3. Don't interrupt his story.
4. Ask him if he expected you to be sympathetic.
5. Tell him to come along.
1. Tell him you're a saviour.
2. Ask him how much.
3. Tell him you can help.
Okuro
1. Ask him if he's looking for a fight.
2. Tell him you're not looking for a fight.
3A. Ask him who he is.
3B. Tell him you want to hire him and pay 8500 cats.
4A. Pay him 500 cats.
5A. Tell him they lost out on a good man.
6A. Ask him what's up.
7A. Welcome him aboard.
1. Ask him if he's looking for a fight.
2. Tell him you're at an impasse.
3. Tell him you want to hire him.
4. Pay the man.
Opsmit/Pepssim (Location: Western Hive)
1. Talk to the Irritated Hive Prince they're enslaved to.
2. Literally agree at any point.
3. He'll throw 75000 cats at you.
4. Use this money to buy the duo, you'll only have one chance!
Optic
1. Talk to the man.
2. Ask about his skillls.
3. Ask why he hasn't been hired.
4. Support his skills and listen to his story.
5. Imply that you might want to take him along...
6. Tell him you're willing.
Ordis (Location: Ghost Village)
1. He'll tell you to bug off. Say "What? Why?"
2. Ask him about his research, but don't call him suspicious.
3. Ask him to tell you more about the research, again, don't call him suspicious.
4. Tell him no.
5. Tell him that it's interesting.
6. Ask how he would that even help.
7. Tell him you would ALSO like to take over the world.
8. Agree with him.
9. Agree with him.
10. ???
11. Profit.
Orphis (Location: World's End)
NOTE: You can only talk with Orphis every 6 hours.
1. Ask what he's doing with a sword.
2. Tell him you want to save the world.
2B. Tell him you want to survive.
3A. Select 2B or tell him you meant what you said.
3B. Goto step 4.
4. Tell him he's a cynic or be sarcastic.
5. You will receive a different option based on how many followers you have. You need at least two people in the squad to reply correctly.
6. If you have a large enough town, he will say he can trust you.
7. Say yes or ask about his story and then say yes.
Palach (Location: Drifter's Last)
NOTE: You can only talk with Palach every 6 hours.
1. Tell him he's an ♥♥♥♥.
2. Ask him what his deal is.
3. Offer to help.
4. Ask what's good enough.
5. In order to respond correctly, you'll need a large enough town.
6. Confusion!
7. Either ask him what you get out of the offer and then agree, or just agree outright.
Potpourri
Potpourri has a very large dialogue tree, so I will simply place the easiest way to recruit her here.
1. Select "Talk, mostly. What's up with you?"
2. Select "Well, only so long as gravity keeps us down, eh?"
3. In the second dialogue, select either the "Really now? ..." or "Always good ..." options, then follow any tree except for "Good on you. ..."
4. In the third dialogue, select any option that's not related to trading.
5. In the fourth dialogue, tell her to "Go for it." and follow the tree to the end.
6. In the fifth dialogue, tell her to "Hit me." and then select the option for "Delightful." after following the dialogue tree.
7. Tell her to come along. You can also end the dialogue and come back, and there will still be an option to have her join.
Slezkh
1. Every character has a different personality, and this will change your options. Tell him you want an extra hand.
2. Offer 120K to purchase him.
3. Question a temporary assist and tell him you don't do temporary.
4. Pay up and he'll have a 5% chance to join you, or negotiate.
5A. Negotiations only have a chance of being succesful. Offer 300K, he'll come back with 400K, you'll only have a 10% chance of success.
5B. Negotiations only have a chance of being successful. You may have an option to tell him he's not worth that much.
6A. Retort with 300K. You'lll have a 20% chance of success.
6B. Agree. You'll have a 30% chance of success.
I'm proud of this method. Here's the easiest steps to hire him as a bodyguard.
1. Follow steps 1 and 2 from Method 1.
2A. Either agree to pay 160K or negotiate and goto step 2B.
2B. Negotiation will give you a 60% chance to have him join.
3. Option A, he'll follow you as a temp bodyguard for 18 hours, Option B will hav him follow you for 36 hours.
4. If you're low on health or weaker than he is with sufficient money, he'll attack you at the end of the contract. Note: You MUST be outside of a town for him to even consider it.
5. Win. If you lose, he'll never talk to you again.
6. When he wakes up, you'll have a new conversation where you can either force him to join you or extort him.
Tortuga (Location: Fishing Villages or Swamp Towns
1. Question what he talks about.
2. Do anything but walk away.
3. Ask if he's like a common bandit. You have a 25% chance for him to be frustrated, if he goes "Arrrrgh!" goto step 4.
4. Tell him that he looks like a bandit. You'll have a 65% chance for him to say "Arrrrr!" if you do goto step 5.
5. Tell him that sounds about right. You'll have a 50% chance for him to go "Arrr", if you do goto Step 6.
6. Ask him to join you, you'll have a 5% chance for him to ask if he can join. If you do, goto Step 7.
7. Say yes.
1. Talk in Pirate Speak.
2. Agree to his game.
3. Wager your soul.
4. If you win, he'll join you, otherwise he'll attack you.
Tyran
1. Ask about no hives.
2. If you have a hiver in the squad, she'll ask if you will build a new hive, otherwise tell her she has potential.
3. Tell her you will build a new hive.
4. Agree to take her with you.
1. Tell her she's strange.
2. Tell her she's not wrong.
3. Follow steps 2-4 from Method 1.
1. Ask if you surprised her.
2. Tell her she has potential.
3. Follow steps 3-4 from Method 1.
Yiannas (Location: Sho-Battai)
1. See the above entry for Josef and follow all steps to recruit Yiannas.
Yunomi
1. Tell her you're hiring.
2A. Ask her how much.
3A. Pay 5500 cats.
2B. Ask about her story.
3B. Ask her to go on.
4B. Ask her why she's hiring herself off.
5B. Pay 3 cats.
Last edited by Josef Senpai; Feb 15 @ 1:49pm
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Graal Otonami Apr 11, 2019 @ 4:11am 
Can we get a rough location of these companions?
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Josef Senpai  [developer] Apr 11, 2019 @ 1:35pm 
Locations are random, with the exception of Palach and Orphis at present. They are in Drifter's Last and World's End respectively.

EDIT: There's a few others with locations now. Updated the list.
Last edited by Josef Senpai; Aug 23, 2019 @ 12:41am
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DasPartyPooper Apr 28, 2019 @ 5:46am 
There's a free way to get Slezkh but you will need to be able to 1v1 him. If you tell him you want to hire him as bodyguard, then respond with... 1. You look like a samurai, 2. What brings you to a bar. 3. Whats your story. 4. You're a disgrace. 5. That i did, problem? Then beat him up and patch him up and wait for him to wake up and recruit/extort him. (don't let any other follower attack him or else you will get all town guards to attack you) make sure to save for safety
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ppga Jun 23, 2019 @ 8:33pm 
Tried that Pooper, got the same dialogue when he woke up as at beginning.
#4
Cyrus Sep 4, 2019 @ 4:51pm 
Can I find L'cie's lost friends?He's driving me crazy talking about this Galuf dude all the time
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Josef Senpai  [developer] Sep 4, 2019 @ 10:17pm 
Originally posted by Cyrus:
Can I find L'cie's lost friends?He's driving me crazy talking about this Galuf dude all the time

It's supposed to be a reference to Final Fantasy V, but I'll think about it :D
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Irinel Goslingul Nov 29, 2019 @ 8:38am 
Hi, it seems some of the dialogues that are finished (Gnume, Eldritch and Elizabeth) don't work in my game, when I try to recruit those 3 they give me the "my dialogue isn't finished yet, want to recruit me?" line for 30k cats, is there a fix for this or is an incompatibility with other dialogue mods?
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Josef Senpai  [developer] Nov 29, 2019 @ 7:22pm 
No, sounds like you might still be using an old version, did you import after the update?
#8
Irinel Goslingul Nov 30, 2019 @ 7:32am 
Yeah, it was an old version, I've checked the readme file and that confirmed.
Anyway great mod, looking forward for the next update :D
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Kellhus Dec 17, 2019 @ 9:44am 
how does orphis judge your base? guildings? used recources? wall? teck? crafting stations?
EDIT: ok nvm i completed the wall and he agreed^^
Last edited by Kellhus; Dec 17, 2019 @ 9:48am
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Brimsaw Jan 13, 2020 @ 12:04pm 
Hey there got a question Regarding Kazakh:

I managed to get the belongings from altis and the sword from Kastor, and after paying him 20k he told me to find Albahn in Bast, now I've searched that misreable town from top to bottom and cant find him or his gang anywhere, Whe it says he is in bast, does that mean the ruined city or is he just roaming around the area bast? Cause if that's the case he's probably Cannibal food now... is there still a way for me to recruit Kazakh?
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Josef Senpai  [developer] Jan 13, 2020 @ 6:56pm 
The ruined city specifically. And you're prolly right. I may buff his brigands or increase the size of his troop to ensure they don't become Cannibal food XD
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Brimsaw Jan 14, 2020 @ 11:04am 
Originally posted by Josef Senpai:
The ruined city specifically. And you're prolly right. I may buff his brigands or increase the size of his troop to ensure they don't become Cannibal food XD

So I deleted my original reply cause I did some more testing, and I believe I have an issue with another mod. It seems either 'Reactive world' or 'living world' are causing some kind of override, since on the wiki it says only squatters should be in bast, but I have tons of samurais and slavers with a few citizens mixed in, some even have random names. I did an import to see if that would spawn him there freshly, but after looking through all the people there I couldn't find anyone not either part of the UC or a random bar spawn. Some buildings have also been rebuilt in addition to the one that's around in vanilla so I feel there must be something fishy there.

I have your mod set at the bottom of the list, but since both reactive world and living world mess with world triggers and reset some settlements depending on who you kill there might be some issue there. I will try one more import with resetting the killed npc's to see if that causes him to spawn in bast, as I am pretty sure Bast is only recaptured by the UC if you mess up the HN.(in one of those mods)

*EDIT*
Just importet without dead NPC's and had a squad around Bast. Albanh and his brigand posse spawned no problem and patrolled the ruined city. I doub't there is much you could do at this point apart from moving him to a different location, but honestly, I'll just wait till I get bored of not having the Holy bro's around and get around to grabbing Kazakh then.
Last edited by Brimsaw; Jan 14, 2020 @ 11:21am
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cK- Jan 24, 2020 @ 2:33am 
As you've started working on Potpourri's dialogue, is she still recruitable? Can't get past your first lines of dialogue.
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Josef Senpai  [developer] Jan 24, 2020 @ 6:31pm 
Originally posted by El Condor:
As you've started working on Potpourri's dialogue, is she still recruitable? Can't get past your first lines of dialogue.

'Fraid not, at the moment. Next update, prolly.
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