Anachronox/Ballotine (PAL)

Weapons: Cordicorps Shockshot x2 (PAL's Great weapon, ranged) Cells: Ballotine Thoughtcell (464 NRG, 216 Throughput, no shield, anti-nuts) MysTech: NutsSlapshot (Excellent Yellow MysTech) Elementor Host YellowBeetle Skills: Battlebot TaserDrain Upgrade (PAL's 4th-level skill) Other Items: Healgrease Complete x2 Healgrease Plus x2  TimeMinder Tear x3

From the timeminder, turn right and go through the hole in the fence. Go through the door by the woman. Grab the box on the floor to get PAL's TaserDrain skill. Turn around and talk to Claude three times to get a quest.

OPTIONAL: From the house, turn right and right again to the stream for a Healgrease Complete.

Leave town the way you came in, and follow the path through a door. Take the elevator up to the Ballotine Plant.

Ballotine Plant
Roll forward, watch the cutscene, and continue along the path, passing a mutant, until you reach a three-way intersection. There's nothing to the sides, so continue forward until you see a timeminder sitting next to a machine with a dataport.

OPTIONAL: Hack the port for a Ballotine Thoughtcell (464 NRG, 216 Throughput, no shield).

Click on the machine, and move the fuse from Pool 1 to Pool 2. Go left and click on the duct to the Pool 1 area.

OPTIONAL: When you come out, turn left, go down to the floor, and grab the Healgrease Plus in the far left corner.

Go up the ramp, turn left and click on the cyan pad to open the door to Pool 2. When you reach the suspended walkway, look right to find a NutsSlapshot. Continue through the tunnel to Pool 2.

OPTIONAL: To the right is a dataport. If you have PAL's Master Comptalk, you can hack it for 3 TimeMinder Tears.

Go out onto the walkway and click on the red wheel. Hit the 1<-2 button to empty Pool 2 into Pool 1. Go down the ramp to the right and click on the duct.

Go back to the fuse panel, and move the fuse to Pool 3. Go through the right-hand duct to the Pool 3 area. Go up the ramp, then left, and use the wheel panel to empty Pool 3 into Pool 1.

Go back across the walkway to the door to Pool 2, and go through the tunnel.

OPTIONAL: Immediately after the dip, you will find a dataport to the left. Hack it for the Cordicorps Shockshot (great, ranged). You'll get another one back in town, so no need to bother with this one.

Once you reach the Pool 2 area, go down the ramp, roll over to the Pool 3 door, and click on the panel beside it. Go through the tunnel and the next door.

OPTIONAL: Grab the Healgrease Complete in the far corner.

Go up the small ramp to the wheel. Turn it to the right, and the town is saved! You will automatically go back out and down the elevator.

If you aren't already full on yellow bugs, there's one sitting on the pool of goo before the door. Head back to town.

Along the path, there's a HealGrease in front of a wall.

OPTIONAL: There's an Elementor Host in the room where you talked to Claude before.

There's a Healgrease Plus along the path down to the stream. Talk to Claude by the stream for another Cordicorps Shockshot, and again to end the quest.