Strange Springs

Obtaining
Talk to Poochan at (26,-29).

Step 1 - Who is frightened by the Bowmeow

 * Description
 * Poochan is looking for a future husband but the only clues she has are that he lives in Pandala and he fears Bowmeow. The easiest would be to turn herself into a Bowmeow and spring on everyone, wouldn't


 * Objectives
 * Talk to Poochan
 * Find Bow Meow's husband (at 25,-34)


 * Talk to Poochan


 * Defend


 * Rewards
 * 1000 XP

Leave the area, then return and talk to Poochan, who will now look like a Pandawa. You will receive Bow Meow curse, transforming you into a Bow Meow. (You cannot fight or you will change back.) Talk to Lanma at (25,-34) while in cat form to scare him. Talk to Poochan again. You will receive the following character Poochan (item). Go to (26,-32) without losing Poochan to trigger a cutscene. You will lose Poochan and complete the step.


 * Note
 * You can use zaaps and remain in Bow Meow form.

Step 2 - Informal agreement

 * Description
 * Here, the tradition tells that the father decides who his son or daughter will marry. You just have to persuade the father to let his son go. You will have to do your best to convince him.


 * Objectives
 * Talk to Poochan


 * Find the father and speak to him [at 23,-38]


 * Beat monster: x1 Gempa in one fight
 * Convince the father


 * Rewards
 * 1000 XP

Talk to Poochan at (26,-29) again. Talk to Heitit at (23,-38). Keep insisting and you trigger a battle with Gempa (a pandawa). You must win this battle, but your opponent will not fight back. Talk to Heitit Metoasa, and keep refusing to give money until you can give him the dish from Poochan. This completes the step.

Step 3 - Conquest of the Dento

 * Description
 * In order to free Lanma from his duties you will have to break off the marriage promise he made to a girl of Dojo Dento.


 * Objectives
 * Talk to Sli


 * Talk to Akane


 * Go to the Dojo for the versus
 * Beat monster: x1 Timouss in one fight


 * Rewards
 * 1000 XP

Talk to Sli in the left house at (25,-34), pick either choice. Go upstairs and talk to Akane (who seems to be called Nakunne when other people talk about her, so don't get confused), who will challenge you to a fight. Go outside and enter the dojo. Goriya (a small wild boar, level 20) and Timouss (a bwak, level 30) will challenge and attack you when you enter. Defeat them, and watch the following cutscene to complete this step.

This battle is very difficult for characters below level 50 or so. Both of the monsters have -100% water resistance, so characters with water-based attacks will find this easier than others. It is designed to be a 2-on-1 battle, but there is a way for characters that have a spouse (see Marriage) to have their spouse join them in the battle. When the battle timer starts, have the spouse use the join function. Then the spouse will see the usual sword icon and can join the battle.

Step 4 - Completion

 * Description
 * Poochan awaits you


 * Objectives
 * Talk again to Poochan


 * Rewards
 * 7000 XP

Talk to Poochan at (26,-29). This completes the quest.

Reward
Talking to Poochan now gives you the option to turn into a Bow Meow (Bow Meow curse), Bwak (Bwak Transformation), or Young Wild Boar (Young Wild Boar Transformation) for 2000 kamas. Transformation only lasts until your next battle. You are then able to return to 26,-29 to transform again if you so desire.

Trivia
The characters in this quest are named after characters in Ranma 1/2. Poochan is Shampoo (a girl who is cursed to turn into a cat and speaks broken Chinese), Lanma Metoassa is Ranma Saotome (who is also terrified of cats), Gempa is Genma (Ranma's father, who is cursed to turn into a panda), Akane Dento is Akane Tendo (who Ranma is betrothed to, even though neither really wants to be), Goriya is Ryouga (Ranma's rival, whose curse turns him into a pig), and Timouss is Mousse (Shampoo's childhood friend who is madly in love with her, who is cursed to turn into a duck).

The title of the quest, "Strange Springs" and the Juice-Sane-Ki-Oak spring that Poochan uses to turn herself and you into a Bow Meow, both refer to the Jusenkyo springs in Ranma 1/2 that curse people with the form of whoever or whatever had drowned in that spring.

A Goriya is also a boomerang-throwing enemy in many of the Legend of Zelda games, but that similarity is probably a coincidence.