Military Cemetery

Military Cemetery
Area	West of the Mountains
Unlocked by	Revealed by Doc Alice, if she's your pardner Possibly revealed by using disposable binoculars in Fort Treason Wandering in region D

This location is part of the quest to stop skeletons received from the mayor of Breadwood. It has four locations of note: The Burial Plots, The Eternal Flame, and The Caretaker's Shanty. The caretaker's shanty contains a shovel as well as the next clue for the quest. The eternal flame has (unsurprisingly) an eternal flame. There is a goblin there roasting a hot dog on it that can be fought to receive three goblin sausages. The most interesting location is the burial plots. You can select one of 999 different plots to visit, most containing either a grave to loot or a skeleton to fight. There are several notable grave numbers, however.

• 13: There is a clue for the Necromancer Journal
• 69: A soldier from the Innuendo Division is buried here with a Chest Full of Medals

• 420: There is a book here that gives the Passin' Fair Mycologist perk.

• 666: There is a Nex-Mex book here.

The Puzzle Plots

A reward and an ominous message.

There is a puzzle in this area where if you follow clues on the headstones of various plots, you will be lead along a sort of scavenger hunt through the various plots.

• 11: The first puzzle plot. This puzzle involves translating a morse code message (... --- .-. .-. --- .--) , the solution is SORROW. It reveals the grave 37.
• 37: Second puzzle plot. This puzzle involve converting numbers to letters based on their position in the alphabet (8, 21, 2, 18, 9, 19) the solution is HUBRIS It reveals the grave 111.
• 111: Third puzzle plot. This puzzle involves shifting the alphabet such that A=N (EVHARQ). The solution is RUINED and it reveals the grave 230.
• 230: Fourth puzzle plot. This puzzle involves reading every second letter of the epitaph (Beau to Ann Yem). The solution is EUONYM. It reveals grave 370.
• 370: Fifth puzzle plot. This puzzle treats every letter as if the alphabet were backwards (DVWTVW). The solution is WEDGED. It reveals grave 690.
• 690: Sixth puzzle plot. This puzzle treats the listed times as Naval semaphore code (6:00 10:15 1:30 10:37 7:23 4:30). The solution is DYEING. It reveals the grave 11.
  • After you have solved all the above graves you will get a message at the next grave from the one you just finished. You will now find a rock which reads "LOL," but it says it's upside down. This is a clue to go to grave 707.
  • 707: The Final puzzle plot. This puzzle is a Metapuzzle you need to use the first letter of every puzzle solution you have found so far, in grave order, and assemble them into the final word (Sorrow Hubris Ruined Euonym Wedged Dyeing). The solution is SHREWD. Your reward is 1000 meat and an ominous note from Gen. Wisen Heimer. The note reads "You've not heard the last from me."
    • You can say another word at the grave, the clue for this is that if you say SHREWD again you get a message. The message reads "You wait around for a minute but nothing happens. You can't shake the feeling General Heimer hasn't had his last word, though."
    • Placing the answers in a grid gives SORROW HUBRIS RUINED EUONYM WEDGED DYEING
    • Reading up and left from the bottom right corner spells GENIUS. Speaking GENIUS gets you a dream sequence.
    • The dream scrolls left to right; the rocks on the ground make a braille pattern spelling THE SECRET IS IN THE TREES.
    • The trees have the following pattern, where 0 denotes a short tree and 1 a tall tree: 01111 01111 00011 00001 00000 01111.
    • Using 0 for a dot and 1 for a dash, these translate to the morse digits 1, 1, 3, 4, 5, 1. Indexing into our original answer list lets us extract SHINED: (S)ORROW (H)UBRIS RU(I)NED EUO(N)YM WEDG(E)D (D)YEING
    • Speaking SHINED gets you a cool sapphire.

Graves

While a few graves are special, such as for the puzzle, most graves contain either treasure or a combatant. There are 3 kinds of treasure, and 9 kinds of enemy you may find:

• Treasure
  • Grave loot (teeth, skull chips, skeleton bones etc)
  • Military supplies (army field trauma kit, smelling salts, full canteen, various bullets, etc)
  • An army lockbox, containing military supplies but requiring a needle to open

A toughest opponent
Bad guys	a skeletal cavalry officer or a skeletal army Beanslinger or a skeletal cannoneer
XP (kill)	70 - 73
Drops	1-5 of skeleton bone skull chips handful of loose teeth rifleman's helmet1

A tough opponent
Bad guys	a powerful skeletal cavalryman or a skeletal army Beanslinger or a skeletal cannoneer
XP (kill)	50 - 53
Drops	1-5 of skeleton bone skull chips handful of loose teeth

A weak opponent
Bad guys	a skeletal cavalryman or a skeletal army Beanslinger or a skeletal cannoneer
XP (kill)	30 - 32
Drops	1-5 of skeleton bone skull chips handful of loose teeth

• Enemies (muscle)
  • a skeletal cavalryman (weak)
  • a powerful skeletal cavalryman (tough)
  • a skeletal cavalry officer (toughest)
• Enemies (mysticality)
  • a skeletal army Beanslinger (weak)
  • a skeletal army Beanslinger (tough)
  • a skeletal army Beanslinger (toughest)
• Enemies (moxie)
  • a skeletal cannoneer (weak)
  • a skeletal cannoneer (tougher)
  • a skeletal cannoneer (toughest)

    ¹ Only the (toughest) skeletal cannoneer drops the rifleman's helmet