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Assistant Needed (Levels 1-4)

Ralsu arrived in Crossroads once he left Sacred Glade. After meeting some of the townsfolk at the behest of Samantha, I was able to ply from her the fact that the local chef, Simone, was looking for an assistant to keep up with her frequent orders for spiralmint steak.

Simone’s killer steak recipe owed its popularity to some secret spices. She was able to teach me to make it, but her latest shipment of supplies had been hijacked by robgoblins. She asked me to head northwest to Queenfields to find the postal worker Jonelle.

Jonelle was a bit frazzled when I found her. She had succumbed to the robgoblins but felt certain they had dropped most of her packages in the surrounding area. She gave me five minutes to round up her parcels and then rewarded me by suggesting I go meet Honey farther out in Queensfields. Honey, she said, knew the world-renowned chef Bordon Cloo was in search of bumbleberry and gummyfruit. Helping Honey could give me some leverage for acceptance in Bordon Cloo’s prestigious culinary academy.

Meeting the Reputable Bordon Cloo (Levels 4-8)

Ralsu delivered his bounty to the famous chef in Sanctuary, who immediately issued a challenge: I had to cook some savory spiralmint soup for him. This recipe was the first to require a consumable ingredient that could not be harvested. I needed to buy some broth from the local vendor.

I proudly completed my dish and server it up to the gastronomic genius, who proclaimed my entrée had “very little flavor.” I was not ready for his prestigious school yet, and he felt the best cure for my deficiencies was to study under Chef Jarvie in Merry Vale. My instructions were to harvest gummyfruit and stainberry.

The master chef failed to mention that Merry Vale had its own fields for harvesting that would help me get stainberry faster, so I spent a lot of time harvesting bumbleberry in Queensfield. The minigame awarded one stainberry bundle for every three bundles of bumbleberry. I could achieve this once every harvesting minigame. After nine harvesting games and 45 minutes straight dedicated to the task, I felt like I was grinding.

Thankfully, Jarvie taught me to cook his mystery pot roast as soon as I met him in Merry Vale. I needed to buy some mystery meat to make the dish, but now I was level 8 and eclipsing the green cooks who only made the occasional goulash out of leftovers. Jarvie said that if I wanted to reach the next echelon, I’d need to practice all that I had learned.