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| Swinedimples Academy
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Frontview of Swinedimples Academy
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エルシオン学院
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Dragon Quest IX
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Swinedimples Academy is a school-town in the middle of Snowberia. The academy is founded by Sir Sternivus Swinedimple, whose grave is located to the northeast corner of the academy. The grave is also an entrance to The Old School.
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When the hero is mistaken to be a detective for the academy, the headmaster pleas the hero to find out where the missing kids went and gives the Hero the uniform as a disguise. The hero finds out that a kid placed a fygg on the founder's burial grounds and the next day it was gone. Also, there was a rumor that if you touch the guardian's statue on the forehead at midnight you would find a ghost. When you join the school gang, they challenge you to touch the statue's forehead at midnight. When you do touch the statue, the ghost of the founder of the school appears and takes Fred, the leader of the gang. When you follow him, the ghost opens up his tomb and goes to the secret passageway into the old school. When you go through the dungeon, you find the missing kids in detention. The teacher transforms in to a monster, and when he is defeated, the honor of Swinedimples Academy is restored.
Part of the Swinedimples uniform.
There is no inn in the academy, you can rest freely in the dormitory.
School Shop[edit]
Most quests here are available after the Fygg is collected, and they require a certain level of a skill (most quests require weapons skills of 30, and the quests reward you with a very nice weapon for that skill) for the hero to trigger the quest.
| Swinedimples Academy - Church
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| After defeating the Dreadmaster, with a party member with 30+ sword ability
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| Marco
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| Marco
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| Warrior's Sword
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| Marco, who teaches swordmanship at Swinedimples, wants to put you to the test. He's asked you to find a red signpost that's somewhere out there in the world, then come back and tell him what's written on it.
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| The sign is on an island in Western Wormwood. Don't forget to look at the back of the sign!
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| Swinedimples Academy - Church
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| After defeating the Dreadmaster, with a party member with 100 sword ability
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| Marco
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| Marco
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| "Swordcraft in Summary" Marco's book (Gigagash sword technique)
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| Marco, who teaches swordmanship at Swinedimples, wants to put you to the test. On his travels he buried badges by the cities he visited, retrieve them all.
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| Marco's diary is on one of the bookshelves at Swinedimples and will tell you all of the badge locations. You must obtain them in the order Marco visited the towns. Obtain them by fighting the monsters outside of the towns until they drop a badge, it often helps if your warrior deals the finishing blow on these monsters
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| Western hallway of Swinedimples Academy, L1.
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| After defeating the Dreadmaster. Must have a party member with at least 30 skill points invested in the Spear skill.
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| Lance
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| Lance
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 Halberd
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| Lance, the spear teacher at Swinedimples Academy, wants you to defeat three of the monsters made up of a pile of three metal slimes with the Pressure Pointer spear ability.
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| Metal medleys can be found in The Bad Cave. It is easier to find them there than on Slime Hill most of the time. The objective will only be fulfilled if the slimes are defeated with Pressure Pointer's instant death effect, not by dealing damage. As always, the quest can be finished faster if multiple characters in the party are able to use Pressure Pointer.
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| Swinedimples Academy
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| Have a character with 100 skill points in Spear
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| Lance
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| Lance
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| Clear Spear Theory book.
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| Defeat groups of 2 or more Gloomy gastropogs using the Multithrust spear ability. Do this 5 times.
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| Gloomy gastropogs can be found in the Gittish Empire. They don't always appear in groups, so you will have to do some fighting. Have your most powerful attacker attempt the Multithrust. Make sure there are no other enemies left since you cannot control which monsters the attack strikes. Considering casting [[[omph]] to help the attacking character.
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| Swinedimples Academy
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| After defeating the Dreadmster, with a party member with 100 knife ability
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| Madame Couteau
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| Madame Couteau
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| 'Knifing Know-How'
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| Can you pass Madame Couteau's test and gain acces to the ultimate knife knowledge? Your task is to finish off an envenomated bad karmour with Victimiser in ten separate battles.
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| No matter how many bad karmours you kill this way per battle, it will only count as 1 towards your total. Make sure you don't have a weapon like Assassin's Dagger equipped as it could ruin any potentional kill by Victimiser. The high ground in Western Wormwood is likely the easiest location to find them.
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| Swinedimples Academy
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| After defeating the Dreadmaster, with a party member with 30+ wand ability
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| Itchy
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| Itchy
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| Backscratcher
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| Brouhaha boomstick
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| There's an old man at Swinedimples Academy who need his back scratching, but first you'll need to find the perfect wand for the job.
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| Defeat monsters in the Tywll Cave until the required item drops.
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| Swinedimples Academy
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| Quest 69 completed, Quest 77 completed , Wand Skill 100
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| Itchy
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| Itchy
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| Molten Magma, Toad Oil
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| “Wands and Beyond”: Zing Stick ability
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| There's an old man at Swinedimples Academy who needs some medicine, but first you'll need to find the ingredients!
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| The Molten Magma is a special item drop so the quest must be accepted in order
for this item to drop. It can be found at Magmaroo upon defeating live lavas.
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| Swinedimples Academy
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| After defeating the Dreadmster, with a party member with 30+ staff ability
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| Paulo
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| Paulo
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| Killer Piller
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| Paulo from Swinedimples, wants to use the Deliverance staff ability to defeat a stenchurion in the sea to the north of Gleeba, and bring back the mirror it stole from him.
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| Swinedimples Academy
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| After defeating the Dreadmster, with a party member with 100 staff ability
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| Paulo
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| Paulo
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| "Staff Studies" - Counter Wait ability
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| Talk to Paulo at night and the ghost of Joy will appear and will ask you to go into a grotto and kill Nemean with a blow from the laundry pole . Once defeated, he will drop the staff scroll.
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| East classroom at Swinedimples Academy, L2.
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| After defeating the Dreadmaster. Must have a party member with at least 30 skill points invested in the Whip skill.
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| Toadie
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| Toadie
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| Hammerfang
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 Spiked steel whip
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| Toadie, a pupil at Swinedimples, wants to buy his teacher Mr. Whippy a new whip from Catwright. See if you can find one that he will be happy with.
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- Catwright, the craftswoman mentioned by Toadie, can be found at the lighthouse near Bloomingdale. She will ask you to get a Hammerfang which is dropped by Power hammers.
- Power hammers can be found in the Djust Desert near Gleeba. Defeating them will eventually drop the Hammerfang, which you can then take back to Catwright at the lighthouse.
- Catwright will tell you she can deliver the whip as soon as she makes it. You can Zoom back to Swinedimples Academy and speak to Toadie. After a short scene with Catwright and Mr. Whippy, the quest can be completed.
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| Swinedimples Academy, dorm on L1.
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| After completion of Quest #73: Whipping Boy's Wish, with a party member with 100 skill points in Whips.
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| Mr. Whippy
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| Mr. Whippy
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| Catwright's parcel
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| 'Working with Whips' - Allows a character to use Serpent's Bite while carrying it.
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| If you want to learn a new skill from Swinedimples' Mr. Whippy, you'll need to pass his first test. Meet with the whipmaker Catwright at the Blooming Beacon and follow her instructions.
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| Blooming Beacon is the lighthouse in the west of Bloomingdale. Catwright wants you to defeat two monsters, a Dreadful drackal and a Drastic drackal.
Dreadful drackals can be found in the Gittish Empire, while drastic drackals are found at the Wyrmtail. The finishing blow must be performed with a regular attack from a Leather whip, which can be purchased from the weapon shop at Stornway if the player does not already have one. Both monsters have a little over 200 HP each. After defeating the monsters, speak to Catwright again and she'll give you the parcel to take back to Mr. Whippy.
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| Swinedimples Academy
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| After defeating the Dreadmaster, with a party member with 30+ claw ability
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| Klaus
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| Klaus
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| 10 Tiny feathers (Obtained by killing robo-robins with can opener)
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| Kestrel claws
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| Klaus, the claw teacher at Swinedimples, wants you to find him ten tinny tail feathers. Apparently, robo-robins drop them when they're defeated with Can Opener.
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| Go to Iluugazar Plains and you should be able to find some robo-robins. During battle, make your claw user(s) attack the robo-robins with can opener and make the rest of your party defend to do this quest easily.
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| Swinedimples Academy
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| After defeating the Dreadmaster, with a party member with 100 claw ability
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| Klaus
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| Klaus
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| 'The Core of the Claw'
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| Klaus requests you to defeat his three apprentices with claws.
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| Defeat Tearwolf at the Snowberian coast in the south of Swinedimples Academy, then report back. Defeat Claws in the Oubliette B3 in Gittingham Palace, then report back and finally, defeat King Crab at the four corners of the ocean. He must be defeated there in order to get the
scene.
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| Swinedimples Academy
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| After defeating the Dreadmaster, with a party member with 30+ fan ability
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| Fanny
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| Fanny
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| freezing feather
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| White Tiger fan
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| Fanny, a teacher from Swinedimples, has asked you to bring her a freezing feather, an item that monsters in the snowfields apparently sometimes drop. She says she want to cool herself down by making a fan out of it.
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| The freezing feather drops from Apeckalypse after you have accepted the quest.
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| Swinedimples Academy
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| After defeating the Dreadmaster, with a party member with 30+ axe ability
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| Max
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| Max
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 Max's axe
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 Pro's axe
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| Max, the axe teacher at Swinedimples, needs you to retrieve his axe from a strange moving tree. Find a purple tree in the marshland south of the Iluugazar Plains and make it suffer. If it's the culprit, it should drop the axe.
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| Defeat Treevils in the western area of Urdus Marshland until one of them drops the axe.
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| Swinedimples Academy
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| After defeating the Dreadmaster, with a party member with 100 axe ability
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| Max
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| Max
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| Advanced Axecraft (Whopper Chop axe technique)
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| Max, the axe teacher at Swinedimples, is impatient for you to defeat three magmalices, three stone guardians and three bad karmours using Hatchet Man.
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| Defeat three Magmalices, three Stone guardians and three Bad Karmours all by using Hatchet Man.
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| Swinedimples Academy, middle-right classroom on L2.
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| After defeating the Dreadmaster. Must have a party member with at least 30 skill points invested in the Hammer skill.
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| Bumbles
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| Bumbles
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 Wobbly jelly
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 Terra firmer
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| A pupil at Swinedimples has confided to you that she broke a hammer she was supposed to be looking after for her teacher. You should be able to find some information in the library to help you fix it.
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| On the first floor of the academy, examine one of the bookshelves to read the magazine 'Mallet Monthly'. It states that the hammer can be fixed with a dab of wobbly jelly, which are dropped by Admirers. Admirers can be found in the Plumbed Depths, which is accessed through the royal baths at the Mirage Mahal in Gleeba. The monsters will eventually drop the jelly after they are defeated.
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| Swinedimples Academy, room left of entrance on L1.
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| After completion of quest Quest #81: Mallet's Mallet, with a party member with 100 skill points in Hammers.
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| Mrs Mallet
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| Mrs Mallet
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 'Hardcore Hammering' - Allows a character to use Big Banga while carrying it.
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| Mrs Mallet from Swinedimples wants to teach you the ultimate hammer ability, but first you'll need to defeat a liquid metal slime with Bagsy Last while wearing a tortoise shell.
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- Tortoise shells can be purchased from Porth Llaffan for 1,550 gold each. It is highly recommended to have at least two characters or more in the party equipped with tortoise shells that are able to use Bagsy Last.
- Liquid metal slimes can be found rarely in the Bowhole, on Slime Hill near Angel Falls after acquiring Sterling's whistle, or occasionally from volcano or ruins grottoes.
- They have 8 HP, so it is recommended to use skills such as Metal Slash or Metalicker to lower their HP enough unless one gets lucky by landing a critical hit with Bagsy Last. After defeating a liquid metal slime with the skill, return to Swinedimples Academy and speak to Mrs Mallet to complete the quest.
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| Swinedimples Academy
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| After defeating the Dreadmster, with a party member with 30+ boomerang ability
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| A student
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| A student
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| Swallow tail
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| A student at Swinedimples is troubled, and wants you to defeat a metal slime with a Power Throw to prove your boomerang skills. Once you've done that, it sounds like he has something else he needs to ask you to do.
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| After completing the first objective you need to locate the bridge west of swindimples and on the east side of urdus marshland to complete the quest fully
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| Swinedimples Academy, lower right courtyard.
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| After completion of Quest #085: Comeback Kid, with a party member with 100 skill points in Boomerangs.
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| Kylie
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| Kylie
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| ‘Basic Boomeranging’, ‘Better Boomeranging’, ‘Bonzer Boomeranging’
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| 'The Boomerang Bible' - Allows a character to use Gigathrow while carrying it.
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| Kylie asks you to look for a note in the art room on the second floor of the academy which then gives you the objective of locating 3 monsters across three caves you have explored and defeating them with a basic Boomerang attack until they give you a specific item.
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| Asking Kylie for pointers after locating the note will give you details on the three monsters and their possible locations. The three monsters are Mortoad in the Tywll Cave, Hunter mech in the Bad Cave, and Living statue in the Bowhole.
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| Swinedimples Academy
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| After defeating the Dreadmaster, with a party member with 30+ shield ability
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| Buckler
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| Buckler
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| white shield
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| Buckler, the shield teacher at Swinedimples, said that if you want to improve your skills, you just need to practice by defending against enemy attacks with your shield. Block 10 enemy attacks.
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| Your party must block the attack completely for it to count towards your total. Having a high shield skill helps, as well as using the Immense Defense skill.
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| Swinedimples Academy - room adjacent to the headmaster.
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| After defeating the Dreadmaster, when a party member has 100 shield ability.
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| Buckler
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| Buckler
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| "Secrets of the Shield" - guaranteed block of Critical Hits when equipped with a shield
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| Finish off 10 Killing machines with the Blockenspiel ability.
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| Find them in Gittingham Palace or the surrounding areas.
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| Swinedimples Academy - L1, auditorium on the lower left.
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| After the completion of Quest #089: Way of the Fitht, with a party member with 100 skill points in Fisticuffs.
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| Cecil
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| Cecil
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| 'Fearsome Fisticuffing' - Allows a character to use Miracle Moon while carrying it.
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| Cecil, the fisticuffs teacher at Swinedimples, will give you the book containing the final secret of fisticuffing, but not before you've travelled to the tenth level or below of a grotto wearing no equipment and defeated fifty foes with regular attacks.
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| The player will need a treasure map with at least ten floors in order to complete the quest. At least one party member will have to remove all of their equipment in order to defeat the monsters. The quest can go by faster by having more than one character without equipment. Their vocation should be changed to one with naturally high Attack, such as a Gladiator. Since the bare party member will be vulnerable, it's recommended to bring a Paladin to protect them with Whipping Boy or Forbearance. The monsters can still be whittled down to low HP with skills and spells. Casting Oomph on the bare party member is also recommended.
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| Swinedimples Academy, in the Old School at night
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| After downloading on DQVC
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| Vena, the ghost of a female teacher
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| Vena, the ghost of a female teacher
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 Pruning knife;  Malicite for repeat
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| Vena, a troubled teacher fom Swinedimples Academy has set you some homework. She wants you to defeat a master moosifer with a poison needle by inflicting just one point of damage.
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| Master moosifers can only be found in the highest ranking volcano grottoes. Deals about 900 damage and then attack with poison needles. You can purchase poison needles in Bloomingdale.
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| Yes.
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| July 1, 2011
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Location Attributes[edit]
This is a location where the game can be saved.
This location can be reached using the Zoom spell.
- Swimedimples Academy is a play on the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from the Harry Potter series. Sir Sternus Swinedimples is a play on one of its more notable teachers. Severus Snape (stern and severe being similar terms).
- The Name 'Swinedimples' means 'Pig Smiles'.
- The Japanese name シオン (Shion) can also means "Gratitude to Teacher".
Moonwort bulb
Halberd
Spiked steel whip
Max's axe
Pro's axe
Wobbly jelly
Terra firmer
'Hardcore Hammering' - Allows a character to use Big Banga while carrying it.
Pruning knife; 
Malicite for repeat
This is a location where the game can be saved.
This location can be reached using the Zoom spell.
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