7.1.2 Easy Path Mcoc
Martez Fields
Welcome to the Once Ever After walkthrough, primarily written by me, Grim8P.[1] This walkthrough is intended to cover everything you would possibly want to know about every aspect of the game. Some sections of the game will allow you to make different decisions for different benefits and consequences. This walkthrough will cover the different options you can take while not assuming you have made specific choices. One point though is that the walkthrough will assume you have followed the guide up to that point. For example, the walkthrough may point out that you should do something which requires a specific Intelligence or Corruption value. The requirement will be listed so you can understand why you may need to come back later to complete that task.
This walkthrough will cover how to obtain every item you can obtain for free (in a chest, as a quest reward, etc.), every archetype, skill slot, point of Intelligence, point of Corruption, and sex scene.
The guide rarely mentions how to equip your party members or which skills to use. You should always use what equipment and skills you think are best. There are tips for specific fights though. Refer to the tips section below for more information.
Grim8P Note: The below skills are, in my opinion, some of the best skills in the game. This does not mean you should save up to get them before anything else necessarily, but that in general getting them sooner than later is going to be best.
Enter Ingrid's house to the northwest. Enter the east bedroom. Interact with the chest. Interact with the bed to rest.[17] Select "Masturbate". Sex scene: Ingrid's first masturbation scene. Exit the building.
Important: Interact with the figure in white. This figure gives you items that when equipped, make the game significantly easier. If you choose to equip one, it will lock in place and you will not be able to remove it. When the items are equipped, certain challenges will be removed, but no story or adult content will be removed. If you make it through the entire game without equipping them, you can hand them in for a cosmetic key item that represents your achievement. Simply owning the items does not enable the easy mode. If you are struggling with the game, you can equip the items, one per character. This walkthrough assumes you are not equipping the items although you can certainly still follow it.
Interact with the chest partially hidden to the southeast before the fight. Head south for a fight and lose. Head southeast for a fight and win.[19] Interact with the chest. Interact with the chest to the west.
Note: Later in the game you can grind as much experience and money as you want, however until then, there is a scripted series of battles in a few sections that you will want as much experience and items as you can get if you want to get the best possible outcome.
Head east for a chest. Head south and fight the closest stationary enemy. Head south past the fight you just won, then fight the northern stationary enemy, dodging the roaming enemy. Kill the Flameling first. After the battle, open the menu and use the Bread and the Long, Hard Loaf to heal Ingrid. Head northeast to get ambushed. Head southeast for a scene. Hood should say "But I'm impressed you survived this long, given the nature of your Tale."
This section starts by resetting Ingrid's Intelligence and Corruption so there are no negative side effects to having lowered her Intelligence or raising her Corruption before this point. Then there is a check on the Intro variable:
Head south and interact with the chest adjacent to the House of Cumerce (blue roof, sign that says "ITEM"). Head northeast and interact with the chest adjacent to The Naughty Library. Enter the The Naughty Library and interact with the books on the blue shelf nearest to the door.[23] Exit the building.
Head south and interact with the chest between the The Pounding Anvil and Big John's House. Enter Big John's House. Interact with Big John. Exit the house. Enter The Pounding Anvil for a scene. Exit the building.
We still want to fight every battle possible to prepare for an upcoming difficult fight. There are three chests and six fights in this area. Complete them all. In the forest south of Grandmother's Clearing is an axe sticking out of a tree stump. Interact with this to gain the Violence skill. Enter Mister Wolf's House and interact with a chest. Exit the house. Exit south.[24]
There are three fights here. Attempt to interact with the mushrooms just southeast of the entrance to this area for a fight. If you missed the guarded chest earlier, it is south of the mushrooms you just fought. Head to the southeast most corner where you first saw Hood and Fenris for a scene. Interact with the shiny spot.
Exit Bangville. Between the entrance to Bangville and the entrance to Grandmother's Clearing is a small forest. In the northwest corner, there is a small red portal. Interact with the portal for a scene. Interact with the portal and select "Yes" to proceed.
Read up to and optionally including the two collapsed enemy tables below before you continue. After the scene, head south. You will trigger another scene and a fight. A bunch of enemies will spawn one at a time and chase you down until you fight them. Your goal is to loot an item from each of skull piles / skeletons in each of the four corners and survive all of the fights until the fight with the Killer Wolf.
Grim8P Note: I recommend you fight each enemy in an area the the first time you visit, if you visit an area and things have changed significantly, or you notice the enemies have changed. Also potentially of note is that only some enemies respawn in a given area. This can change depending on the area but is generally true.
After the scene, you can equip the Woodsman archetype on Ingrid. Exit north. To the north of the camp Wilhelm took you to initially is a rock with a shiny spot. Interact with the shiny spot for a fight. Exit northeast.
Follow the path and interact with the chest to the east. Climb the stairs and interact with the log to push it off the cliff. Cross the gap via the log. Before climbing the stairs, head west then south into a hidden area. Interact with the hidden chest. Climb the stairs to the north. Head west for a scene. Sex scene: Wilhelm's flashback scene. Continue west then south. Interact with the two sticks near the tree for a scene.
Note: If you are using the easy mode items granted by the white figure, there is a chest in the middle of Hoodton Crossroads that give 3x Heart Branches. Giving Brunhilde 5x Heart Branches completes a quest. This chest allows you to complete that quest much earlier. This walkthrough will list the scene when players would naturally see the scene.
Grim8P Note: The easy mode item chest is is not a sufficient reason to use the easy mode items for me personally, but if you are already going to use the easy mode items, you might as well grab this chest.
Exit north. Interact with the guard near the bridge to the east. Enter the inn and interact with the quest board to the northwest. Climb the stairs. Interact with the roaming woman in purple for a quest. Enter the west bedroom. Interact twice with the guard and select "Help him".[35] Sex scene: Guard titfuck scene.[36] Exit the inn.
Head south and enter the building. Interact with the woman and select "Yes". This gives you access to the Hoodton Library. Interact with the the bottom row west bookshelf. You can interact with the book on the pedestal to the north to learn about different status effects. You can interact with the pile of scrolls to the east to learn about the base and secondary statistics. Exit the building.
Head west then north. Attempt to enter the building at the top of the stairs.[38] You can enter this building much later in the game. Proceed east from the building to find a closed portal. Continue east and interact with the elderly woman for a quest.
Grim8P Note: The Lumberjack Hide skill can be very useful for those who have fallen behind on finding accessories that give 100% protection from critical hits. If you are following this walkthrough from start to finish, you will enough accessories to have 100% protection on all characters throughout the game (or at least fairly quickly after obtaining each new character). If not though, this skill can be quite useful early on. The penalties are not ideal for long term use however.
Grim8P Note: The first fight in Deep Forest is against three enemies. This can be a good fight to grind archetype points on.[41] Enemies only grant 1 archetype point each for a while and this battle is easy.
Your goal is now to reach the far northwest corner. This involves crossing a pond. To cross the pond, you must push a tree into the pond. Circle around to north to interact with it. There are also some chests you can interact with along the south of the map. There are two before you cross the water and one after.
After you cross the water and interact with the chest, head north to find the pool and a fight.[42] You will be given the option to teleport back to Brunhilde. There is no benefit to remaining unless you want to continue exploring.
Grim8P Note: The Forestkin archetype is one of the better options and maxing it out entirely is pretty quick and useful. You do not have to grind, but Silence immunity and skill costs being reduced can both be helpful. This is a good archetype to consider purchasing. You will get some free archetype points in the near future.[44]
You can interact with the group of Girls to the east for a scene. Interact twice with the guard on the stairs on the red building and select "Fight" for a fight. Return to Hoodton and interact with the guard captain to complete the quest. Return to the Red Arena. Enter the building north of the entrance.
Read this next paragraph in full before you do anything. If you interact with the purple Fairy Godmother, she can bless you. This gives you 50 JP for your Woodsman archetype. If you wait until after you beat the Peasant Cup, she can instead increase Ingrid's Intelligence.
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