Wispy Hospital Pants

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Description	It's hard to focus on these pants for more than a moment. You just get glimpses, details floating in and out of your mind like half-remembered dreams. They are dusty. The cuffs are tattered and scorched. They fade into mist. The blood stains are ancient and brown. They smell of antiseptic and old-fashioned perfume. The pockets are filled with expired medicine and faded prescriptions.
Type	Pants
Effects	+2 Etheric Defense +2 Eclipse Duration

Sources

Zack's House of Coins, Season 46 for 2 unearthly coins.

Uses

When equipped, while Etheric, you will get the following choice encounters every few(?) turns:

• Dusty Village Street (first time, one time only)
  • Dusty Beggar (when outside the castle)
    • Dragon's Pit
      • Dead Dragon's Pit (After killing the dragon in the pit)
  • Sorceress's Blessing (when outside the castle)
  • Shining Castle (when outside the castle)
    • Dusty Throne Room (when inside the castle)
      • Abandoned Cellar (when inside the castle, after learning about it from the Fool in the Dusty Throne Room)
    • Bedridden King
    • Fantasy Library (when inside the castle, after learning about it from the alchemist in Bedridden King or from Sorceress's Blessing)

See Dusty Encounters for a full list of encounters, or see spoilers below:

Spoilers/summary below

Note: all progress "flags" reset daily for the pants - for example the dragon needs to be unlocked every day. Items/techniques gained from the pants are retained and can help with progress on further days.

Encounters

Various NPCs can be interacted with but six characters seem to be specifically Capitalized in their naming, and they all seem to have unique non-tradable rewards; and on obtaining that reward concludes the wispy hospital pants encounters for the day and advances on to the orbital watch encounters. (There is additionally the dusty beggar, and the bedridden king himself, which do not seem to be part of that set). The NPCs are:

• the Alchemist
  • No-trade item reward: philosopher stone
  • Obtained by:
    • Obtain a tome of stars.
    • Bedridden King: "Just chat" with a tome of stars equipped.
    • Bedridden King: "Ask about his patient", "Sure thing" to obtain an ancient love potion.
    • Drink the ancient love potion
    • Bedridden King: "Reveal that you drank it"
• the Fool
  • No-trade item reward: cap of fools
  • Obtained by:
    • Obtain cellar documents.
    • Dusty Throne Room: "Heed the Fool", "Show him the documents", then "Let's go".
• the Sorceress
  • No-trade item reward: charmed shirt
  • Obtained by:
    • Obtain one or more of the tome of flowers, tome of spells, tome of stars.
    • Dusty Throne Room: "Heed the fool", "Join his chatter" to best the Fool by equipping the appropriate tome to match his random topic. (topic remains consistent until you best him; so if you fail once you can come back with the correct tome).
    • Sorceress's Blessing: "Mention the Fool".
    • Dusty Throne Room: "Approach the queen", "Speak for the sorceress" with a consort crown equipped.
    • Sorceress's Blessing: "Discuss the Queen".
• the Queen
  • No-trade item reward: consort crown
  • Obtained by:
    • Obtain flower of the dragon.
    • Dusty Throne Room: "Approach the queen", "Talk about the king" - to avoid arousing her suspicion.
    • Trade flower of the dragon for draught of immortality.
    • Dusty Throne Room: "Approach the queen", "Offer the draught", "Of course".
• the Prince
  • No-trade item reward: princely sword
  • Obtained by:
    • Obtain dragon blood and cellar documents.
    • Dusty Throne Room: "Approach the queen", "Talk about the king" - to avoid arousing her suspicion.
    • Dusty Throne Room: "Approach the queen", "Offer dragon's blood".
    • Dusty Throne Room: "Talk to the prince": "Give him the documents".
    • Dusty Throne Room: "Talk to the prince": "Talk about the throne".
• the Princess
  • No-trade item reward: princess bloom
  • Obtained by:
    • Obtain flower of the dragon.
    • Trade flower of the dragon for draught of immortality.
    • Bedridden King: Give the king a draught of immortality.
    • Bedridden King: Talk to the Princess: "Ask to go for a walk".

• Obtaining dragon blood:
  • Give the Dusty Beggar money (various) or help him medically (with sufficient First Aid).
  • Dusty Beggar: "Talk to him" to unlock Dragon's Pit.
  • Dragon's Pit: "Challenge the beast" with 5 Fire Defense and sword/spear weapon to unlock Dead Dragon's Pit
  • Dead Dragon's Pit: "Gather some blood" with gloves and Myers sampling kit to gain dragon blood

• Obtaining flower of the dragon:
  • Give the Dusty Beggar money (various) or help him medically (with sufficient First Aid).
  • Dusty Beggar: "Talk to him" to unlock Dragon's Pit.
  • Dragon's Pit (or Dead Dragon's Pit if you've already killed it): "Pluck the flower" with ≥ 6 Etheric Power to gain a flower of the dragon.

• Obtaining draught of immortality:
  • Obtain a flower of the dragon (see above)
  • Choose either of:
    • Dusty Throne Room: Approach the Queen: Talk about the king - to avoid arousing her suspicion.
    • Dusty Throne Room: Approach the Queen: Offer the flower (she sends you to the Alchemist)
    • Bedridden King: Chat with him: Give him the queen's flower: lose flower of the dragon; gain draught of immortality
  • or
    • Bedridden King: Talk to her: Talk about her father (unlocks new option with the sorceress)
    • Return outside (by walking away from any interior dusty encounter)
    • Sorceress's Blessing: Offer the flower: lose flower of the dragon; gain draught of immortality

• Obtain cellar documents:
  • Obtain one or more of the tome of flowers, tome of spells, tome of stars.
  • Dusty Throne Room: "Heed the fool", "Join his chatter" to best the Fool by equipping the appropriate tome to match his random topic to unlock the Abandoned Cellar. (topic remains consistent until you best him; so if you fail once you can come back with the correct tome)
  • Bedridden King: Also search the room to obtain ancient candle.
  • Abandoned Cellar: "Search for documents" with the ancient candle equipped to obtain cellar documents.

After obtaining all 6 no-trade items above, you unlock the Dusty Adult Avatar.

The set of encounters available is determined by if you are inside or outside the castle. You start outside the castle each day but can enter it via the Shining Castle encounter. Walking away from most encounters inside the castle will take you back outside.

Outside castle

• Dusty Beggar: Give him money or treat him medically and then talk to him to unlock Dragon's Pit. (Giving better money gives buffs).
• Dragon's Pit: Locked until known via the beggar. Sneak past to get dusty coins. Kill dragon with sword/spear and Fire Defense.
• Dead Dragon's Pit: Locked until killed dragon.
  • Gain dragon blood with gloves and Myers Sampling Kit
  • Both above: pluck flower of the dragon with Etheric Power ≥ 6?
• Sorceress's Blessing:
  • Ask about the castle to learn about the Fool.
  • Ask about the Fool to learn about besting him.
  • Best the Fool? and/or use consort crown to get in Queen's graces to let her back in? [clean this up]
• Shining Castle:
  • To enter, do one of: a) Slay the dragon b) use appropriate weaponry to impress the guards c) storm the castle with charmed shirt

Inside castle

The Dusty Throne Room and Bedridden King are the two main encounters, where most of the Important NPCs reside.

• Dusty Throne Room
• Bedridden King
• Abandoned Cellar: Locked until learning about it from the Fool in the Dusty Throne Room.
• Fantasy Library: Locked until learning about it from the alchemist in Bedridden King or from Sorceress's Blessing

Items

Item	Type	Effects	Source
dragon blood	Usable	Learn Dragonblood	Gather from Dead Dragon's Pit with gloves and Myers sampling kit
draught of immortality	Usable	Give to King or Queen	Trade from Sorceress or Alchemist for flower of the dragon
dusty coin	Usable	Give to Beggar or Sorceress	Steal from Dragon's Pit/Dead Dragon's Pit or Bedridden King: "Show her his potion" (see that page for details)
cellar documents	Misc (Quest)		Search the abandoned cellar with ancient candle
ancient candle	Offhand	+2 Fire Power	Search the bedridden King's room (1/day)
ancient love potion	Medicine	?	At the Bedridden King: ask the alchemist about his patient after learning Spell of Stars today
flower of the dragon	Gadget (Quest)	+6 Strength +6 Will	Pluck from Dragon's Pit/Dead Dragon's Pit if your Etheric Power ≥ 6 (1/day)
tome of flowers	Offhand	+3 Evasion Power -6 Reflexes	Take from the fantasy library (1/day)
tome of spells	Offhand	+3 Etheric Power -6 Will	Take from the fantasy library (1/day)
tome of stars	Offhand	+3 Fire Power -6 Perception	Take from the fantasy library (1/day)
cap of fools	Hat (No Trade)	+2 Evasion Power +6 Perception -2 Stealth Power	Show cellar documents to the Fool*
charmed shirt	Shirt (No Trade)	+3 Etheric Defense +3 Ranged Defense with Eclipse	Best the Fool; talk to the Sorceress about the Fool; talk to the Queen about the Sorceress with consort crown equipped; talk to the Sorceress again*
consort crown	Hat (No Trade)	+2 Stealth Defense +6 Will	Give the Queen a draught of immortality*
philosopher stone	Offhand (No Trade)	+4 Etheric Power +4 Strength	Slip the Princess the Alchemist's ancient love potion
princely sword	Weapon (No Trade)	+5 Melee Power +2 Melee Defense	Talk about the throne with the Prince, after poisoning the Queen and giving him cellar documents*
princess bloom	Offhand (No Trade)	+1 Morale +3 Etheric Defense	Ask the Princess to go for a walk after giving her or the king a draught of immortality*

* Ends hospital pants encounters for the day, with the "perhaps a little less alone than you thought" message.

Effects

Effect	Effects	Source
Boon of Generosity	+4 Evasion Power +4 Etheric Defense	give the Beggar a dusty coin (50)
Boon of Protection	+4 Etheric Defense +2 Reactive Defense	give the Beggar some old coins (50)
Boon Of Commerce	+4 Etheric Power +4 Ranged Defense	give the Sorceress a dusty coin (50)
Bent Knee	+4 Etheric Defense -4 Etheric Power	bow to the Queen (30)
Peace of Blossoms	-4 Melee Power -4 Power when your target doesn't have a Technique	Blossoming Peace technique (1) - Applies to all participants in combat?

Avatar

Getting all six endings that grant a No Trade item unlocks the Dusty Adult avatar.

Techniques

Technique	Chain	Type	Attribute	Source
Princely Form		Melee	Reflexes	Spar with the Prince with princely sword and Swordplay†
Light in the Shadow		Fire	Will	Search the depths of the abandoned cellar with ancient candle†
Lesson of Flowers		Evasion	Will	Chat with the Princess with tome of flowers†
Charmed Defense		Etheric	Will	Storm the Shining Castle with charmed shirt†
Lesson of Stars		Fire	Reflexes	Chat with the Alchemist with tome of stars†
Breath of Dust		None (Fire)	Will	Meditate in the Dead Dragon's Pit
Dragonblood		Stealth	Reflexes	Use dragon blood†
Lesson of Spells		Etheric	Perception	Chat with the Sorceresss about magic with tome of spells†
Crack the Stone		None	Perception	Crack the philosopher stone† with aqua regia or dragon blood
Blossoming Peace		None	Will	Distract the Princess with princess bloom†
Royal Decree		Etheric	Will	Bow to the Queen with consort crown

† is consumed on learning technique.

Check Your Pockets gives a unique message with the wispy hospital pants equipped.

This item is not a component for any kind of crafting.

This item cannot be salvaged.

This item cannot be added to a gang stash.