User:Penguinpyro/Penguinpyro's Retcon Walkthrough

Welcome. This is Penguinpyro's guide to getting through Retcon efficiently, step by step, as you level up.

My approach aims to get a decent load of mettle while still doing quests with convenience and speed. Not exactly blazing fast speedruns, but still plenty fast enough so that you don't feel quagmired. And you get a load of shiny goodness.

This is the general Retcon Guide for general tips, which you probably followed this link to.

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Anyway...

Retcon Settings

My suggestion for Retcon selection:
First run: Naturalist, 5 pulls, Diet, No Perm Skills, no sidekick. Mettle: 16.

• The Skill you should perm first is Trample of the Rhino. It can make a hair-pulling-ly frustrating fight against the Mick or the Fusion Octotron turn into a cakewalk. A very very violent cakewalk. But still a cakewalk. That's why Naturalist is the best starting retcon class.
• 5 pulls is my favorite, since I only need about 5. 10 is more pulls than I need, and zero makes it maddeningly difficult to get good gear.
  

Your results may vary.

• Diet is statistically more efficient, and it gives more mettle. Which I like.
• No Perm Skills. The only perm skill you can have at this point is Procompletion Pro. If you don't have it, No Perm Skills isn't a loss, if you do have it, you only lose six turns a day, which is well worth the mettle.

Either way, you get a very rewarding +5 mettle.

• No Sidekick. I find the permanent sidekicks to be rather weak at low level, so I prefer the +2 mettle. Again, your results and preferences may vary.

Later runs: Any class, 5 pulls, Diet, Perm Skills but only class skills can level, no sidekick. Mettle: 13

• Since you already have the. I recommend Gadgeteer the most, since its excellent combat stats and easy self-healing make patrolling a breeze, but you should explore all classes to get all perms and certain class-specific items.
• Permed class skills are very valuable if you pick correctly. It's a very small price to pay if you can only dump skill points into class-specific powers, since those permed skills still provide valuable benefits at level 0, and the class powers are usually equally valuable. Only exception is, in my opinion, the Elementalist, who doesn't have very good skills to put points into until level 6.
• Everything else is unchanged from the first run for the same reasons.

Before You Reset Your Life

• Copied from Retcon Guide*

All optional, but these precautions may save you a lot of trouble later.

• If you have positronic computers, swap them with electronic ones. You're going to lose whatever you have installed in your computer labs.
• Obtain as many as you can/want of the "items" to pull (listed below).
• If you don't want extra items cluttering up your Deep Storage screen, clear out your inventory by putting stuff in your Momento case, storing it in Hideout (don't forget it's there), or selling it.
• Make sure your Sidekick has at least the skills Jujitsu expert, Documentarian, Flea market trader and Egyptian knife fighter/Karate expert.
  

Note: I use Jujitsu Expert when fighting bosses, Documentarian for general patrolling and Flea Market Trader for getting quest items.

Right, So Now You're in Pajamas and This All Seems Strangely Familiar To You...

This section is assuming you stayed fairly close to my suggestions in terms of pulls and Food/Items. See *below* (link to be added) if you didn't. This guide is complementary to Retcon_Guide, so, please consult it first. Read the Quests guides in this wiki if you need specifics for the quests.

First things first.

Your first pulls should be among these, in order of priority.

• Gold coin/blue chip- Very important. They'll give you plenty of cash when sold, so you don't ever have to grind for chips unless you start dumping cash left and right.
• A Talisman of your choice- I really like the Swedish Navy Wrench and Paradox Naught, but any advanced (non-starting) Talisman will do.
• Lexura Infides X-8 or Paradime Device. Preferably the latter, but the former is more available.
• Any Items of the Month you have and can use.
• Number one fan/Baseball emerald- Very useful for the +3 PP regeneration. You can buff yourself or cast offensive spells a lot with these in hand.
• Filigreed foil hat, gold-plated poncho, gilded leggings - IF you have them already. If not, assemble them from their components, if you have enough gold foil.
• Rolled Doll dahl- Helps you get through quests a little faster. Optional.
• Icicle- It's probably at this point the most powerful normal weapon available, but the fights are fairly easy at the start of the game, so it's really optional. Disregard the level 2 requirement- you should get to level 2 almost immediately.

• All mettle medal items if you have any- They're free pulls, so use the second dropbox to get them for free. Assemble Supersolid Mettle Medal if you want to.

So, once you get your pulls, this should be your first day.

1. Equip as much of your pulled stuff as you can, including Talisman and transportation. Fill in the rest of the equipment slots from Pliant's shop.
2. Sell Gold Coins/Blue chips.
3. Beat up people in Neighboring and Neighborly Neighborhood until you get to level 2. Remember that leveling up refills HP and PP, so you can level up strategically at moments of low HP and PP.
4. Be sure to spend excess PP buffing yourself. It may just save your skin at one point or another.
5. Continue beating up people in the Neighborhood until you get the level 1 quest encounter. Visit the hospital, go back to the Neighborhood, patrol until quest is finished.
6. Then, visit the Galleria Shops. That'll start the level 2 quest. Continue the quest by beating up people in the Tavern, going back to the Galleria shops every time you have a quest encounter. Get Steel Knuckles after a while.
7. Now that you have the Steel Knuckles, wait until 11:00 or after, beat up Big John Steele. Don't forget to visit the Galleria beforehand to hide the knuckles and then retrieve them in the bathroom.
8. CAFFEINE! University shops or Black Market (Gingerette/Gingerelle) are your best choices for now.
9. When you finish, or in the meantime, explore the sewers. Eventually, you'll get to level 3 and start the sewer quest by visiting Rand.
10. When ready for the Sewer quests, go into the Dank and Rusty Maze in the sewers, and complete the level 3 quest.
11. If you need chips or something else to distract you at level 3, visit the Hint Giver for the appropriate B-Quest. Equip the detector and adventure in the sewers proper (not the Maze) to collect.
12. Hit level 4, at least visit Rand for the lv 4 quest.
13. If you've finished the B-quest, embark on the level four quest. Keep in mind this is a fairly hard environment to be in.
14. Sell unnecessary items. Keep in mind some may come in handy for assembling/welding later, so if in doubt, look them up in the wiki to see what can be assembled out of them.

• If you get beat up, either visit the Hospital, use healing spells (if a Psion or Gadgeteer) or just rest. Don't be afraid to rest often- it can get bumpy if you lack decent dodging.

By this point, you should be level 4 and almost done or done with the level 3 quest, as well as comfortably rich.

Second day: Pull your choice of these items, in order of priority.

• Mister Tea- Caffeine for level 5, which you will be soon. Lots of bonus turns! Get two. If you don't have these, visit the Black Market or Jitter coffee again.
• Night cap, deluxe Lux Leather chair, Wiggum wigwam- These enhance resting. Which you may be doing often. Get one of these- I recommend the Wiggun Wigwam for all classes except Naturalist, who should go for the Lux leather chair instead. It's fine if you don't have these.
• Embossed Emblem- Bonus XP is always good. The former is better.
• Positronic/Electronic Computers-Save yourself time. It's likely you won't have one on you at the time, but if so, no big deal.
• Rolled Doll dahl- If you have one and haven't pulled it out now, now's a good time to. Equip it to advance in quests, when you really need a particular non-combat encounter.
• Harbor Pearl/Sub-Ma-Car- You might have time left over to start the level 6 quest, which requires one of these items to complete. And Remember: Elementalists do NOT need items to swim.
• Bass-O-Matic- It's very unlikely, but in the event you actually manage to approach the end of , you'll need this. So pull if if you have no other pulls to make.

1. Finish level 3 quest if you already haven't. Finish level 4 quest. Beware- the enemies here are pretty strong, so you will be resting often. Spam offensive spells if you must.
2. Get some better equipment at Bazooko's Bayside shop as it becomes available as you level up.
3. Level up when you're ready for it. Grind in the City of lost robots if you must to get to level 5.
4. Start level 5 quest. You'll need at least one computer. If you don't pull one, buy appropriate items from Aaron's Computer Shop, beat up Lost Robots until you get the items, assemble, install Decrypt software and then either decrypt mangled data plates or create a second computer.
5. Once you're satisfied with your computer situation, adventure in the casino until you beat up counsel Harry. It'll take some time to finish the quest, so be patient.
6. Get shouted at by the Mick. Start level 6 quest if you can. If not, adventure wherever you want until the next day. If you want a challenge, go to the Bayside docks and search for a Harbor Pearl if you don't already have underwater abilities.

Third day!

Notable Equips:

• The Whole Nine Yards- You might be able to can assemble this baby

Midgame- Meet Mad Mister Mick

After you've