The Sea

My rough notes about the Sea

Wear the sea cowboy hat and sea chaps and use lassos right away until you are an expert. Then you can stop.

Rescue Little Brother
Kill Neptune flytraps in an Octopus's Garden to get a wriggling flytrap pellet (increase item drops)
use it

Rescue Big Brother
Go to Wreck until non combat Down at the Hatch. (lower combat frequency)
Talk to Little Brother.

Rescue Grandpa
get 3 noncombats at location until skill is learned. (lower combat frequency)

Rescue Grandma (optional if you have the gladiator and scholar equipment, but if you don't, buy everything you can for that)
Ask Grandpa about Grandma to unlock outpost
(3 non combats at outpost, then ask Grandpa about Note
go back to outpost)

Outpost
fight mer-kin until lockkey drops
remember which one dropped it and choose that one during the non-combat Into the Outpost (lower combat frequency), then choose whatever option and hope to get a stashbox.
burglar - sneaky (camouflaged)
raider - aggressive (skull bedecked)
healer - mysterious (glyphed)
read trailmap

ask Grandpa about currents

if expert at lassoing:
get 3 sea cowbells
use 3 sea cowbells and lasso on seahorse in corral

Gladiator
equip gladiator equipment

Buff your muscle a lot and just use noisemakers/love song of vague ambiguity.
Or buff some other stat and use the appropriate divine thing/love song.
Or spells.
Or don't buff anything, get a merc pistol and funksling boneburners/graveburpers/splatterers. Maybe you might die on bladeswitchers or something if you get unlucky.

Scholar
get 10 wordquizzes and cheatsheets
wear scholar equipment.
adventure in library to get dreadscroll
8 phrases
-healscroll
-killscroll
-knucklebone from a drifter (use pulled yellow taffy)
-eat sushi with worktea
-playing the catalog card (3) -combat frequency
-use deep dark visions skill

Shub-Jigguwatt
remove all damage dealing effects and familiar attacks
use 4-6 crayon shavings
use regular attacks (use a strong weapon)
buff muscle and moxie (to about 1000)
spend all mp
max Damage Absorption
use handful of hand chalk or gremlin juice to prevent fumbling and missing

Yog-Urt
equip 3 prayerbeads
get 6 good healing items
-healscroll, extra-strength red potion, red pixel potion, gauze garter, filthy poultice (and scented massage oil for after debuff)
poison yourself
remember to have mp items (high-pressure seltzer bottle, New Cloaca-Cola, blue pixel potion)
use sea lasso then mouthsoap with healing items
Don't use the same item more than once.