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Don’t Starve Together – Character Guide Wendy

Introduction

Into the constant spawns Wendy and her twin sister!!!

Wendy is the most easiest and fun character to play with, there is a small challenge at the beginning requiring the player to kill a creature to make he summonable. Easiest mob to kill is the butterfly as it sits on a flower. The second easiest mob to kill is the Moleworm place a flint on the ground wait for it to pop out, then kill it. The spider is a little bit difficult as its first attack needs to be dodged after which you can put it down easily with a few hits from an axe or a pickaxe. Pressing Shift+F is an easy way to force an attack on a nearby creature rather than clicking on it with the mouse. Abigail’s mode can be toggled between aggressive and passive by right clicking on the flower. The color and shape of the flower changes to red and sightly bloomed when she is summonable. Abigail has lesser HP on the day she spawns and it doubles the following day. She deals more damage at night.

Wendy on the other hand is dark and depressed and relates things to death. Apart from that there aren’t too many down sides. She is a very good support character especially when it comes to dealing with hordes and procuring huge amounts of meat with ease.

Abigail’s Pros

  • Abigail can take on a horde of frogs and spiders as she has an AOE attack thus making her an ideal character to gather meat
  • Can easily dispatch the waves of hounds with ease
  • Light source at night
  • Can be further buffed with the Sisturn and items crafted using Mourning Glory related recipes

Cons

  • Abigail doesn’t do well against higher level mobs
  • Wendy’s attack speed is slow
  • Need to micro manage Abigail during boss fights, dispelling her before she dies

Pipspook

Pipspooks are non aggressive mobs that spawn at graveyards with gravestones. Wendy can assist them by right clicking on them which will make them follow you. If you stand still it will move in the direction you are supposed to go, once you are near the location Wendy will inform the player as well as a radiating halo will appear over the Pipspook. As Wendy nears the invisible item it will come into focus as long as the Pipsook is near you. The frequency of the halo increases depending on Wendy’s proximity to the item, although it might not show at first if the Pipspook is too far. Each item drops a single Mourning Glory and the final item drops four.

Character Crafting

  • Abigail’s Flower – Craft Abigail’s Flower
  • Revenant Restorative – Triples Abigail’s health regeneration for a day
  • Spectral Cure-All – Healing regeneration rate increases by 20 per second for 30 seconds
  • Unyielding Draught – Increases the duration for which Abigail is immune to damage
  • Distilled Vengeance – Increases the damage immunity time for Abigail and returns damage
  • Nightshade Nostrum – Allows Abigail to deal the same amount of damage she deals at night
  • Vigor Mortis – Increases Abigail’s movement speed
  • Sisturn – Place four petals in it to buff Abigail

Tips

Let Abigail take the mob aggro after which you can follow up with attacks with Wendy.

Keep Beefalos away from her when they are in heat

Force attacking Aigail unsummons her

Fallout 76 – Mistress of Mystery

Introduction:

Fallout 76 has a fair share of quests some of which even need to be replayed in order to experience all the different scenarios. Other quests are dailies and events. Among all of them some are considered to be critically acclaimed by the community and we will be delving into the most interesting quest called the Mistress of Mystery. This quest is part of the Faction quests for the Order of Mysteries and is the last quest of the entire chain. The questline can be activated upon discovering the dead corpse of a young women on whom we find a damaged Holotape and a Worn Veil belonging to the Order of Mysteries. The corpse is part of randomly encountered events and can be found at various locations across Appalachia.

The Mission

After successfully completing Seeker of Mysteries the player is finally able to access the Headmistress’ office. It’s finally time for some clarity on this whole mess of events that occurred. Going back to a cryptos terminal you will finally get to access it as Olivia and authorize access to the Headmistress’ office. A hand scan terminal outside the office grants the player access to her cabin and upon accessing the terminal and reading the message sent by Olivia we finally find out that she came across members of the order gossiping about how they knew they were suspicious about her. She confesses to killing them and how she then wanted to get rid of the entire order, with a final message to her mother suggesting that meet at the usual spot they used to meet on the day of her birthday.

The Final Events:

At this point you will unlock the optional quest to search for clues regarding the meeting place, which can be found on Olivia’s terminal using her credentials. A new location marker appears on the map just north of your current location known as Seneca Rocks. Once you reach the place you will find the dead bodies of Olivia and her mother, the headmistress Shannon Rivers. Upon interacting with them you find the Holotape that has the recording of the final moments between the two of them. You can initially hear Shannon requesting disclosure and her daughter explaining how she was tired of the way they were operating. Olivia ends up killing her mother with the help of Brody, a raider who was assigned the task of doing away with the entire order. At the end he betrays Olivia finally putting an end to the entire Order of Mysteries.

Conclusion:

Now if we go back to the cryptos terminal we can finally login as Headmistress Shannon Rivers. You can access a few new things and promote yourself to the rank of Mistress of Mystery. The Holotape that you receive has an entry of Shannon delivering her final message, welcoming you as a full fledged member of the Order and briefly describing her reasons for the order. Apparently she had high hopes for Olivia and could not stand what her daughter had turned into at the end.