Recover the Lighthouse Keeper's Gunpowder

Description

Recover the Lighthouse Keeper's Gunpowder is a side-quest in the Mysterious Island Quest. The Lighthouse Keeper needs your help retrieving barrels of gunpowder from Sonofa Beach. The Lighthouse can initially only be accessed while wearing the Frat Warrior Fatigues. It becomes available while wearing the War Hippy Fatigues after a sufficient number of Frat warriors (64 or more) have been killed in The Battlefield.

Tasks

• Talk to The Lighthouse Keeper.
• Adventure in Sonofa Beach until you fight at least five lobsterfrogman. They are guaranteed to drop a barrel of gunpowder.
• Easy as that sounds, it may take a while. Sonofa Beach is entirely non-combats, except for the lobsterfrogman. To speed things up, try boosting the frequency of combat adventures. Either way, it's going to take a while.
• Adventurers with access to Copying items, especially a Spooky Putty sheet or a Rain-Doh black box, can dramatically lower the expected expenditure of adventures by copying lobsterfrogmen.
• Once you have five barrels, return to the lighthouse. He'll disappear inside.
• Go to the lighthouse again to finish this side-quest and get your reward.

Rewards

• Completing this quest in Frat Warrior Fatigues:
  • A total of three tequila grenades and molotov cocktail cocktails, or a total of three beer bombs and sake bombers.
  • Adds tequila grenade and molotov cocktail cocktail to the inventory of the Orcish Frat House Shop.
  • Tequila grenades and molotov cocktail cocktails now drop from War Frat Wartenders and War Frat Elite Wartenders.
• Completing this quest in War Hippy Fatigues:
  • A total of three patchouli oil bombs and exploding hackensacks.
  • Adds patchouli oil bomb and exploding hacky-sack to the inventory of the Hippy Camp Shop.
  • Patchouli oil bombs and exploding hackensacks now drop from War Hippy Sky Captains and War Hippy Airborne Commanders.
• Once the war is over, you return to Sonofa Beach to get more gunpowder. Once a day, The Lighthouse Keeper will make more bombs for you.

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Without wearing soldier fatigues:

"Sorry, but I don't have time to mess around with you right now. I'm waiting for the soldiers to come and help me, bumpty-bumpty-bump."

On initial visit with war fatigues:

Finally, some help, bumpty-bumpty-bump! Here I was, just minding my own business, trying to make the big boom, big boom, bumpty-bump, when all of a sudden war breaks out! War, bumpty-bumpty-bump! Those pirates, they went away, but on the way out of the cove they sank the ship that was bringing me my gunpowder! I need it! I need it for the big big boom, bumpty-bump!

Anyway, I tried going down to Sonofa Beach to see if any of it washed up, bumpty-bump, but those lobsterfrogmen down there are too tough for me to handle.

You -- you go get it for me, bumpty-bumpty-bump? 5 barrels, at least."

After bringing back five barrels:

"My gunpowder! Big boom! Big big boom! Thank you, bumpty-bumpty-bump! Bumpty-bump!"

He gazes at you thoughtfully for a few seconds, then a smile lights up his face and he says "My life... er... my bombs for you. My bombs for you, bumpty-bumpty-bump!"

He then disappears into the lighthouse.

After retrieving the barrels, once per day:

"I took most of the bombs over to your house, bumpty-bumpty-bump, but there are a few left over. Big boom! Big boom!

As a Frat:

You acquire N tequila grenades

You acquire N molotov cocktail cocktails

or

You acquire N beer bombs

You acquire N sake bombers

As a Hippy:

You acquire N patchouli oil bombs

You acquire N exploding hackensacks

Once a day after completing the side-quest:

"Big boom, bumpty-bumpty-bump. Big big boom! Bring me some gunpowder, and I'll make it for you! Big boom for you, bumpty-bump!"

Returning without a soldier's fatigues on, or wearing the fatigues of the side you did not solve the quest as:

"The man giggles madly.

"I'm making the big boom, bumpty-bumpty-bump, but not for you! Not for you! You'll see, bumpty-bump! You'll see!"

Subsequent visits:

"I already gave you the big boom today, bumpty-bump! More tomorrow! More tomorrow!"

References

• The Lighthouse Keeper is based on the The Trashcan Man, a character from Stephen King's The Stand with an explosives fixation. His exclamations of "bumpty-bump!" and "my bombs (life) for you!" are a reference to this character.