Shelda is shrouded in mystic gibberish. Whatever reason she has for staying out here, I'll need to decipher her riddles to get her home.
Objectives: Convince her to go home.
Shelda Speaks In Riddles is the main quest for Shelda. With the help of Chandlo fixing the bridge in the hopes of The Journalist finding his guru on the other side, they venture to the sizzling sands to seek the wise one. Shelda cosmically being able to read the Journalist entirely sets them up for seemingly useless busywork to become enlighted.
With the return of both her and Floofty Fizzlebean back to Snaxburg as the fifth and final wave of returns, Major Celebration! follows and marks the Point of No Return which escalates into the Conclusion of the story.
Chandlo says Shelda is meditating out in the desert. I'll need to get her back to camp to finish my interviews.
Objectives: Find Shelda in the Sizzlin' Sands.
Hmmm...This one has many questions. So it is my wisdom shall be shared.
Are you Shelda?
Am I?
One who is called Shelda exists beyond the self.
Will you give me a straight answer?
Answers have no shape,
yet truth comes in many flavors.
What is your deal?
Ah! The questions must cease. Wisdom can be gained only through experience. One who is you, tainting others with the Toxin that is Bugsnax, have strayed from the Mother's Path. So it is, you must atone.
Hunger Pains![]
Um...will you come to Snaxburg?
In seeking inner peace, Shelda has renounced material temptations. So it is that Shelda is really grumping hungry. Seek the yellow sauce
within the great maw of stone. On this I shall be sustained.
Hunger Pains!
Shelda only eats cheese sauce. I will have to find some for her so that she doesn't waste away.
Objectives: Get cheese sauce for Shelda (3/3)
Here is your material sustenance?
Ohhh...Yum is one, and one is craving rebirth! Consider the sandscape a reflection of the mind. One unable to escape its dry embrace. First, an act of rebirth. To break out of my current Shelda. So too must you break shells. Crack open the Egglers, give them new life.
Egglightenment![]
Egglightenment!
Shelda said some nonsense related to opening shells. I will crack a few Bugsnax and see if that works.
Objectives: Crack two Egglers. (2/2)
The Journalist must crack two Eggler shell - there being four in the level.
Buffalocust, smother the shell with hot sauce to make it attack it
I broke eggs and made an omelette?
I too have burst from my shell, and so oozes forth my spiritual yolk. Yet obstacles devour that yolk, the sinister Picantis of temptation. To truly destroy these obstacles, one must break them down into their elements!
Legend of Shelda![]
Legend of Shelda!
Shelda believes I should destroy obstacles. She may mean the Preying Picantises that watch over the desert.
Objectives: Break two Preying Picantises. (2/2)
I have unblocked the obstacle?
Snax of temptation removed. Yet, one still lost in darkness, seeking the light.... For only in the light of Mother Naturae can the Toxin be purged. Seek a Razzby, deep below. A hidden ruin. A maze of trials. Guide this Razzby to one's side.
The Path![]
The Path!
Shelda has tasked me with retrieving a Bugsnak from the dark. Where that is and what exactly that means, I can't be sure.
Objectives: Guide a Black Razby from the under ruins to Shelda.
I got you a Razzby from the darkness?
Ahh...what once was lost, now is found. The path to light determined. The time has come. Egress from the sandscape. So it is that Shelda survives.
I don't understand why I did any of that.
Talk normal already!
It was a metaphor. Now to Snaxburg goes me, to bring such clarity to my followers!
*Shelda stands up and walks off*
Gah! My grumping butt is so sore! *Ugh* Note to self: get a chair.
Aftermath[]
Back in Snaxburg, Shelda meets with her most loyal follower Chandlo who is stoked to have her back.
Whoa, Shelda's back! Wiggle and Gramble are gonna be so stoked!
One has returned from a great spiritual sojourn. So it is, one would really like to lie down-
Sounds intense! I bet you're overflowing with wisdom, now. Go ahead and lay it on me, Sheldawg!
Ah, yes, wisdom. Um. The strength you seek cannot be found within Toxins, for truest strength is the will to resist.
Whoa, I get it. I gotta check my Snax, and if they look toxic, I won't eat em!
No! One is not...
You... Clearly you need more guidance.
Shelda. With the help of Chandlo fixing the bridge in the hopes of The Journalist finding his guru on the other side, they venture to the sizzling sands to seek the wise one. Shelda cosmically being able to read the Journalist entirely sets them up for seemingly useless busywork to become enlighted.
What is your deal?
