The Retired Hunter Alternative Ending

[Jimbo1990]

Has anyone here ever seen it? I found it by sheer accident when i had finished the Sue / Bernie sub-plot i went to do this quest again, but at the end Donoph said a whole lot more about Heathcliff Flowen and Zoke Miyama, then on pioneer 2 i spoke with Alicia and i got Forest 2 unlocked, ok i thought lets see this, went through forest 2 and went to the computer near the weather terminal expect to see the accessing main computer access denied lark but to my surprise my character started searching for Heathcliff flowen! and it came up with his last words to Donoph and Zoke, Quite interesting stuff. I would make a guide how to get it but i'm currently involved with other projects...
But has anyone else seen this?

[K_I_R_E_E_K]

It would be good to know the last words.

[Lance813]

I believe there is a guide on PSOW.

[K_I_R_E_E_K]

The guide sucks, only tells you how to finish the quest in the fastest way possible.

These 2 however are from gamefaqs:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/dreamcas...8288/11590

You must set up the language of the game in japanese to play this one. Otherwise the VMU will
not recognize it.
Donoph, a hunter wants you come with him in the ruins to kill 99 monsters in less than 30 minutes.
Zoke the great swordman didn't do better. You can answer "??" or "!!" to Donoph. It's better to answer
"!!". You go in ruins 3 alone and find him there. Kill 99 monsters to complete this mission. It's easy
and Donoph count them for you.

No one in town is happy to learn about Donoph's success. If you remember correctly the soul eater quest,
Kireek talked of another rival in Pioneer 1. This rival ruled the black market of Pioneer 1. This person
is Donoph. He managed to survive after the crash of Pioneer 1 and then became a retired hunter on Pioneer 2.

Here is the beginning of the side quest :

To play this side quest you must be only in Very hard mode.
You notice in town Alicia Baz, the yellow force. She knows Donoph and wants you to bring him to her (after you
complete the side quest of course).
1) Answer "!!" to Donoph.
2) Complete the challenge, kill 99 monsters. Donoph leaves and say that he has just one monster to kill to beat
the record. Collect items and return in town by using the warp to Pioneer 2, at the beginning of the dungeon.
If you use a telepipe the next sequences won't occur.
3) Now talk to Alicia, instead of going to the guild. You hear a shime of victory. She opens for you Forest
area 2. Visit this forest. You can kill everyone, there are 2 points of interest :
The first is the locked room.
The second is the mail, written by Flowen (the same as in Flowen's sword, armor and shield), about Donoph. I
don't really understand it, but it talks of High Scriff (a title probably, like master or general) and it talks
of Donoph. Answer yes to read the mail.
4) Return in ruins area 3 and you see a message. The message you see is :
"go go, there is one monster to kill". If you find this monster you will open the locked corridor, i think.

That's where i am stuck because i can't find any monsters in ruins 3 and Alicia doesn't give a clue. I think
that the goal is to fight Donoph or maybe someone else in the locked room of forest 2, after you opened the
locked corridor in ruins 3.

I begin this side quest after i read the faq of Darthsif. I submitted to him informations about the japanese in
this quest, and i invite everyone who is reading this part to read his faq of the retired hunter. I hope he
will update his faq with the informations i sent to him.

[Jimbo1990]

well a) you just need to do the sue/bernie sub-quest so bernie appears in pioneer 2 at the end of the retired hunter and b) you dont need the language to be in japanese, i did mine in english, coz after the kill the 99th monster you get the cutscene where donoph dies but you get extended dialogue incluind donoph asking zoke and heathcliff not to start the party without him! but yeah yo udo talk to Alicia on pioneer 2 to unlock forest 2 where you can use the computer terminal to read flowen's last words.

[K_I_R_E_E_K]

This is a dreamcast faq, so at the time retired hunter could be a japanese only quest.

But what about after that?

4) Return in ruins area 3 and you see a message. The message you see is :
"go go, there is one monster to kill". If you find this monster you will open the locked corridor, i think.

Is this part true?

[Lance813]

I have never heard of that before :O

I would like to know that, I thought i had the events of this quest down.

[Jimbo1990]

no that part didn't happen, Donoph still dies at the same point so there is no final monster

[Cye Zero]

Has anyone here ever seen it? I found it by sheer accident when i had finished the Sue / Bernie sub-plot i went to do this quest again, but at the end Donoph said a whole lot more about Heathcliff Flowen and Zoke Miyama, then on pioneer 2 i spoke with Alicia and i got Forest 2 unlocked, ok i thought lets see this, went through forest 2 and went to the computer near the weather terminal expect to see the accessing main computer access denied lark but to my surprise my character started searching for Heathcliff flowen! and it came up with his last words to Donoph and Zoke, Quite interesting stuff. I would make a guide how to get it but i'm currently involved with other projects...
But has anyone else seen this?

Forest 2? Don't you mean Forest 1? At least that's the ending I always got as an alternative ending.

[Liu Bei]

Hmm i think i did that but Donoph didn't see anything new to me. He just died and i talk to alice and she open a path to forest 2. But i did that quite a while ago and now i cant do it anymore!

But that final monster thing seem interesting.....I think i'm going to go and try to find it!

Oh yeah the sue/bernie side plot.....I think i did that. Is that the one where you can get the ragol ring too?