After questing furiously for the past week getting New Year tokens I have realized that Pete and Carl both ask for and award zombie themed food. I find it disturbing that they both do this. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind the zombie food, I feed them to my gourmand pet, but for characters that are supposedly not zombies, it's quite strange for them to request and award these foods.

I propose that the zombie foods be remoned from quests all together and given to a zombie quest giver that could be located in the zombie area of the site. They could ask for these foods and award them. Just an idea I had that I thought would make sense overall.

Any of you agree?

[edit] I didn't even think about how reducing the item pool could affect these quests, so I can see why that would be a bad idea.

Having Pete ask for them actually does make sense in the vien of him wanting to try all the foods of Subeta and Carl being drunk, well that can affect decision making... so it makes sense in the grand scheme of things.

I appreciate you all taking time to comment on this.

Maybe they like eating zombie food? I wouldn't want to make them stop eating something they might enjoy. I wouldn't want someone to make me stop eating chinese food because I'm not chinese.

I dunno, I think it makes sense for both of them. Pete clearly wants the chance to try literally every food Subeta has to offer, and, well... that includes zombie food. Then there's Carl, who spends between 96 and 98% of his time completely smashed. I kinda doubt he's all that discerning in his tastes.

I think it makes them look like canibals, which is a bit freaky to me. But I can see both of your points. Thanks for responding.

Lol I definitely see all points here! While I never thought about the zombie foods like that, there are several quests that I feel have mismatched items for their hosts. (I'll have to do my quests today to try to remember which they are.) I wonder if it comes down to a coding difficulty whether picking certain items out is easily possible aside from rarity or key words... As far as the zombie foods for Pete and Carl, they really gross me out and I wouldn't mind them getting removed at all! (Especially the poop ones! D:) But it would also be cool if it was addressed in the story next survival somehow! Hehe

Well, Cinthia is a little girl who keeps asking for weapons, graveyard stuff and booze (zombie booze, even)... But yeah, that "I'm going to eat this right now" message of Pete when he's asked for brains or poo or something is pretty creepy too :D

Along this vein, one could also ask why Maleria's asking for Spell Shop items. Sometimes there's no theme or overarching reason to what they ask for other than "we had to widen the pool of items". I see no problem that they're asking for zombie food, maybe they're going to host a gross zombie food joke party.

Right now I enjoy that the zombie food is part of the questing process - it makes those foods worth something, and widens the pool of the items asked which keeps prices resonable. Removing two stores' worth of food from the quest pool? No thank you.

Especially Carl. Much of what he asks for is utterly outrageous already, the last thing we need is for him to start limiting his item pool further.

No support. Pete'll eat anything because he's a gourmand, and Carl's too drunk to tell.

I think it's fine that Pete asks for Zombie food (I don't do Carl quests so I guess I can't comment on him). I see zombie food as just being another race's cuisine. He's a food expert, so of course he'd want to try food from different nations and races. :P

Well, I think both of them would eat those... Pete cause well he'll eat anything and Carl cause he's too trashed to care... but I'm always game for another quest!

maybe they just really like diarrhea food items?

I dunno..., I like brain tacos.
Seriously though, reducing the pool of items the quest givers ask for is a very bad idea. When they start having to ask for the same limited items over and over, the prices skyrocket.

Cinthia creeps me out anyway, so I actually think its a perfect fit when she asks for weapons.

And I don't support reducing the item pool.

I didn't even think about how reducing the item pool could affect these quests, so I can see why that would be a bad idea.

Having Pete ask for them actually does make sense in the vien of him wanting to try all the foods of Subeta and Carl being drunk, well that can affect decision making... so it makes sense in the grand scheme of things.

I appreciate you all taking time to comment on this.

ahhh price! facepalm my brain did not even go there either, I guess we'll have to keep buying poo and brains then :/ LOL

That's a good idea! What do you think ?

It is quite infuriating

But what do you think of the idea of having a zombie quest person?

Oh ! lol Yes great idea!