List of quests in Dragon Quest IX/061-080

The following is a list of quests in Dragon Quest IX.

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Quest #061 - #070

Quest #061 - "Mager Migraine"
Location	Western Wormwood
Available at	after doing quest #039
Requested by	Cephalgernon
Response to	Cephalgernon
Requirement	Hexite
Reward	Lucida shard
Detail	The Grand Wizard Cephalgernon in the well in Western Wormwood says he'll grant you a wish if you bring him some hexite. Find and defeat Shogum in his grotto lair to come up with the goods!
Hint for solution	More info collecting...

Quest #062 - "Brian's Dyin' Wish"
Location	Cringle Coast - Cave on the island in the North/East corner of the world map
Available at	after doing quest #039
Requested by	found on a scrap of paper near Brian's Corpse
Response to	Brian's corpse
Requirement	Larrrst letter
Reward	Baramos's Map (Legacy Boss Treasure Map)
Detail	A scrap of paper you found on a corpse in a cave on an island off the Cringle Coast implores you to locate a sea captain who set off across the sea in search of a certain grotto. Some salamarauders were apparently going to the very same grotto.
Hint for solution	Salamarauders can be found at Tywll Cave and Slurry Coast. Keep fighting them until one drops a treasure chest containing a 'bedraggled piece of paper', turns out this is the Larrrst letter of the captain. Return with it and read it to Brian's corpse.

Quest #063 - "Keep your Eyes Peeled"
Location	Swinedimples Academy - Church
Available at	After defeating the Dreadmaster, with a party member with 30+ sword ability
Requested by	Marco
Response to	Marco
Requirement	More info collecting...
Reward	Warrior's sword
Detail	Marco, who teaches swordmanship at Swinedimples, wants to put you to the test. He's asked you to find a red signpost that's somewhere out there in the world, then come back and tell him what's written on it.
Hint for solution	The sign is on an island in Western Wormwood. Don't forget to look at the back of the sign!

Quest #064 - "Turn in Your Badges"
Location	Swinedimples Academy - Church
Available at	Complete Quest 63, after defeating the Dreadmaster
Requested by	Marco
Response to	Marco
Requirement	A party member with 100 sword ability
Reward	Gigagash sword technique
Detail	Marco, who teaches swordmanship at Swinedimples, wants to put you to the test. On his travels he buried badges by the cities he visited, retrieve them all.
Hint for solution	Marco's diary is on the bookshelves in the Swinedimples teachers lounge and will tell you all of the badge locations. You must obtain them in the order Marco visited the towns. Bloomingdale, Gleeba, Angel Falls, Coffinwell, and Swinedimples. Obtain the badges by fighting the monsters outside of the towns until they drop their respective badges, the Bloomingdale badge, Gleeba badge, Coffinwell badge, Angel Falls badge, and Snowberian badge; it often helps if your warrior deals the finishing blow on these monsters

Quest #065 - "Operation Mercury"
Location	Swinedimples Academy
Available at	After defeating the Dreadmaster, with a party member with 30+ spear ability
Requested by	Lance
Response to	Lance
Requirement	More info collecting...
Reward	Halberd
Detail	Lance the spear teacher at Swindeimples asked you to kill three Metal medlies with Pressure Pointer.
Hint for solution	You can encounter Metal medlies in The Bad Cave near Bloomingdale, or on Slime Hill (but you need control of the Starflight Express to go there).

Quest #066 - "Operation Multithrust"
Location	Swinedimples Academy - L1, west corridor
Available at	Complete Quest 65 after defeating the Dreadmaster, with a party member with 100 spear ability
Requested by	Lance
Response to	Lance
Requirement	Defeat 2 or more Gloomy gastropogS with Multithrust five times.
Reward	'Clear Spear Theory' book (Lightning Storm ability)
Detail	Lance's final exam, defeat a group of gloomy gastropods (found in Gittingham palace area) at the same time with Multithrust ability five times
Hint for solution	If you have completed the game, go to Stornway and buy the Demon spear. It can kill instantly, leaving more attack for the other gastropod. Additionally, if you battle 4 gastropods at once, and all are defeated with Multithrust, it counts as 2 of the required 5.

Quest #067 - "Nab the Knife-Nicker"
Location	Swinedimples Academy
Available at	After defeating the Dreadmaster, with a party member with 30+ knife ability
Requested by	Madame Couteau
Response to	Madame Couteau
Requirement	broken blade
Reward	Icicle dirk
Detail	Retrieve Madame Couteau's kitchen knife! When the offending Shivery shrubbery is sleeping, finish it off with a Toxic Dagger attack.
Hint for solution	More info collecting...

Quest #068 - "Spice Up Your Knife"
Location	Swinedimples Academy
Available at	Complete Quest 67, after defeating the Dreadmaster
Requested by	Madame Couteau
Response to	Madame Couteau
Requirement	A party member with 100 knife ability
Reward	'Knifing Know-How'
Detail	Can you pass Madame Couteau's test and gain acces to the ultimate knife knowledge? Your task is to finish off an envenomated Bad karmour with Victimiser in ten separate battles.
Hint for solution	No matter how many Bad karmours you kill this way per battle, it will only count as 1 towards your total. Make sure you don't have a weapon like Assassin's dagger equipped as it could ruin any potentional kill by Victimiser.

Quest #069 - "You Scratch My Back"
Location	Swinedimples Academy
Available at	After defeating the Dreadmaster, with a party member with 30+ wand ability
Requested by	An old man
Response to	An old man
Requirement	Backscratcher
Reward	Brouhaha boomstick
Detail	There's an old man at Swinedimples Academy who need his back scratching, but first you'll need to find the perfect wand for the job.
Hint for solution	head for Tywll Cave north of Porth Llaffan, one of the Salamarauders will have the backscratcher.

Quest #070 - "Look, Back in Anger"
Location	Swinedimples Academy
Available at	Complete Quest 69, after defeating the Dreadmaster, with a party member with 100 wand ability
Requested by	An old man
Response to	An old man
Requirement	Molten magma, Toad oil
Reward	'Wands and Beyond': Zing Stick ability
Detail	There's an old man at Swinedimples Academy who needs some medicine, but first you'll need to find the ingredients!
Hint for solution	The Molten Magma is a special item drop so the quest must be accepted in order for this item to drop. It can be found at Magmaroo upon defeating Live lavas.

Quest #071 - #080

Quest #071 - "Staunch the Stench"
Location	Swinedimples Academy
Available at	After defeating the Dreadmaster, with a party member with 30+ staff ability
Requested by	Paulo
Response to	Paulo
Requirement	More info collecting...
Reward	Killer pillar
Detail	Paulo from Swinedimples, wants to use the Deliverance staff ability to defeat a Stenchurion in the sea to the north of Gleeba, and bring back the mirror it stole from him.
Hint for solution	Stenchurions have a 1/127 chance of spawning in the ocean directly north of Gleeba near the landing spot of Urdus Marshland. Stenchurions defeated with Deliverance anywhere other than the ocean will not drop the item.

Quest #072 - "Jump for Joy"
Location	Swinedimples Academy
Available at	Complete Quest 71, after defeating the Dreadmaster, with a party member with 100 staff ability
Requested by	Joy [only at night]
Response to	Joy [only at night]
Requirement	Laundry pole, Staff scroll
Reward	'Staff Studies' (gains use of Counter Wait abilty when put in a character's inventory)
Detail	Talk to Paulo at night and the ghost of Joy will appear and will ask you to go into a grotto and kill Nemean with a blow from the Laundry pole (the weakest staff available). Once defeated, he will drop the Staff scroll.
Hint for solution	Increase tension, use sap spells to decrease Nemean's defence, and attack improvements to make the job easier.

Quest #073 - "Whipping Boy's Wish"
Location	Swinedimples Academy
Available at	After defeating the Dreadmaster
Requested by	Toadie
Response to	Toadie
Requirement	Hammerfang
Reward	Spiked steel whip
Detail	Toadie, a pupil at Swinedimples, wants to buy his teacher Mr. Whippy a new whip. See if you can find one that he will be happy with.
Hint for solution	Go to the island with the lighthouse near Bloomingdale and talk to the girl in the bunny suit. She will ask for some ingredients for a whip. You will need a Hammerfang, dropped by Power hammers after excepting the quest. Give it to her then meet Toadie to get your reward.

Quest #074 - "Mr Whippy's Wish"
Location	Swinedimples Academy
Available at	After defeating the Dreadmaster, after completing Quest #73
Requested by	Mr Whippy
Response to	Mr Whippy
Requirement	none
Reward	'Working with Whips'
Detail	Mr Whippy, a teacher at Swinedimples Academy wants you to pass a test so he can give you the ultimate whip ability.
Hint for solution	Talk to the bunny girl at the blooming beacon to get the test. She will ask you to defeat a Dreadful drackal and a Drastic drackal with a normal attack from a Leather whip. It must be the final strike to count.

Quest #075 - "Rake a Tail Feather"
Location	Swinedimples Academy
Available at	After defeating the Dreadmaster, with a party member with 30+ claw ability
Requested by	Klaus
Response to	Klaus
Requirement	10 Tiny feathers (Obtained by killing Robo-robins with Can Opener)
Reward	Kestrel claws
Detail	Klaus, the claw teacher at Swinedimples, wants you to find him ten tiny tail feathers. Apparently, Robo-robins drop them when they're defeated with Can Opener.
Hint for solution	Go to Iluugazar Plains and you should be able to find some Robo Robins. When your in the battle make your claw user(s) attack the Robo-robins with Can Opener and make the rest of your party defend to do this quest easily.

Quest #076 - "Talonted Trio"
Location	Swinedimples Academy
Available at	After defeating the Dreadmaster and completing Quest #75
Requested by	Klaus
Response to	Klaus
Requirement	A party member with 100 claw ability
Reward	'The Core of the Claw'
Detail	Time to take on Klaus's challenge and defeat his three apprentices with your claws. The first has sharp talons and looks like a wolf. Hes somewhere near the Snowberian Coast, to the south of Swinedimples. The second apprentice is a man like monster with iron claws, who is currently lurking in a palace dungeon somewhere. The final apprentice lives at the end of the ocean and has huge, hardy claws and a rock solid shell.
Hint for solution	Defeat Tearwolfs on the Snowberian Coast. Report to Klaus for the second clue. Go to Oubliette, it is a dungeon located in the depths of Gittingham Palace. Defeat Claws. Report to Klaus for the third clue. Sail around the edges of your map looking for King crabs, they are tan and orange.

Quest #077 - "Cool-Fanned Kook"
Location	Swinedimples Academy
Available at	After defeating the Dreadmaster
Requested by	Fanny
Response to	Fanny
Requirement	Freezing feather
Reward	White tiger fan
Detail	Fanny, a teacher from Swinedimples, has asked you to bring her a freezing feather, an item that monsters in the snowfields apparently sometimes drop. She says she want to cool herself down by making a fan out of it.
Hint for solution	The freezing feather drops from Apeckalypse after you have accepted the quest.

Quest #078 - "Oh, the Indignity"
Location	Swinedimples Academy, 2nd floor
Available at	After completion of quest #77, with a party member with a fan skill of 100
Requested by	Fanny
Response to	Fanny
Requirement	Defeat a Liquid metal slime with 'Fan Dango' while wearing Bunny ears and a Bunny tail.
Reward	'Further Fanmanship'
Detail	Kill a liquid metal slime using the Fan Dango ability (must also have Bunny ears and Bunny tail equipped).
Hint for solution	Make sure to talk to Fanny again with the necessary items equipped! Otherwise, the kills will not count.

Quest #079 - "Bring Oi Back Me Axe"
Location	Swinedimples Academy
Available at	After defeating the Dreadmaster, with a party member with an axe skill of 30
Requested by	Max the Axe Teacher
Response to	Max the Axe Teacher
Requirement	Teacher's Axe
Reward	Pro's axe
Detail	Retrieve the axe for the axe teacher.
Hint for solution	Head to the Urdus Marshland and find Treevils. Kill a few and eventually one will drop Max's Axe.

Quest #080 - "'Achet Job"
Location	Swinedimples Academy
Available at	full axe skill, quest #79 complete
Requested by	Max the Axe Teacher
Response to	Max the Axe Teacher
Requirement	Kill 3 Magmalices, 3 Stone guardians and 3 Bad karmours using Hatchet Man
Reward	'Advanced Axecraft'
Detail	Use the Hatchet Man ability in battle to kill the required monsters.
Hint for solution	Magmalices are in the Magmaroo, Stone Guardians are found in Gittingham Palace and Bad Karmours can be found in the Oubliette.