Doing the Dirty Work

Quest giver: Marcette
Location: Central Shroud (X:16.5, Y:18.6)
Level: 29

Required items: 1 Marcette's Medicine
1 Putrid Stomach
Experience: 3,040
Previous quest: Shocking Discoveries
Next quest: Thwack-a-Mole
Patch: 2.0
Links: EDB GT

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Marcette would keep your nose to the grindstone.

— In-game description

Rewards

Choose one of the following options:

Walkthrough

Go find one of the big marlboros called Halitostroper, and use the given bottle (Marcette's Medicine) on it. This will give it a HP Penalty and Determination Down, which makes it much easier to kill. Once killed, return the Putrid Stomach to Marcette to complete the quest.

Steps

Use Marcette's medicine and kill a halitostroper.
Deliver the stomach to Marcette.

Journal

Marcette would keep your nose to the grindstone.

Marcette requires a freshly extracted stroper stomach for her latest experiment. Use the medicine she has provided you with to neutralize its foul breath, then slay the creature and extract its innards.

You have obtained the putrid stomach of a stroper. Deliver the foul mess to Marcette before you pass out from the unbearable stench.

Never have you seen anyone so happy to receive a putrid pile of innards. Marcette is once again tremendously pleased with herself, and─from the fact that she remembered your number─might even genuinely appreciate your efforts this time.

Dialogue

Accepting the Quest

Marcette: Research Assistant Eight Hundred Seventy-three! You're late!
Marcette: I am conducting an experiment of the utmost importance to determine the source of the distinctive stink of a stroper's breath, and require one freshly extracted stroper stomach.
Marcette: The stench is said to be strong enough to knock out a man, so I shall provide you with a bottle of Marcette's Breath-Be-Gone. I know not what you've been eating lately, but you may want to take a dose of it yourself.
Marcette: Oh, and do try not to get killed, will you? Funeral rites for incompetent assistants are eating away an inordinate share of my research budget these days.

Delivering the stomach to Marcette

Marcette: Assistant Whatever-your-number-was! I haven't all week! You'd best have the stroper stomach I requested, or I do believe I shall use your own innards as a substitute!
Marcette: Yes, yes—just hand it over, will you? And the dissection reveals...
Marcette: ...Exactly as I surmised! With the proliferation of poisonous toadstools in the years since the Calamity, the stroper's diet has undergone a dramatic change. The reaction of the toadstools with the stroper's stomach acids results in the noxious gases emitted from the mouth of the foul beast!
Marcette: And with that groundbreaking discovery, I believe I owe my prodigious mind a well-deserved respite. You, on the other hand, Research Assistant Six, have earned nothing of the sort! Get out there and hone your skills, that you might actually make yourself half-useful the next time I call upon you.