Dreads

Killing stuff at 6 kiss

via Gourdy

wear:

protects-your-junk

UKS shield

Castle - buff muscle to at least 2000 (and some moxie) and attack. (also + weapon damage)

Village - I dunno, apparently it's not that hard at 5 kiss, maybe it's also OK at 6 kiss

Woods - elemental damage, -monster defense
  -my standard one for this is to equip a mercenary pistol and use special clips for bugbears and saucegeyser for werewolves. An alternative I thought of is using an ultracolor shirt with lots of effects. At 6 kiss, bugbears only take 75 damage per source. Mercenary pistols count as 6 sources of damage each clip, so 12 for dual use.

Hard Mode Bosses

I have a feeling that other than UKS, which only takes passive damage, and ZHA, which needs a lot more damage, the other four might be defeated with only the mercenary pistol + rare special clip combination plus whatever other thing is needed (like drunkeness, blindness, equipment, damage reduction etc)

Drunkula

Drunkula is expensive to kill in hard mode. You need 10 ghost threads and a dreadsylvanian skeleton key first. Then go to the estate, unlock the master suite and mess with the loom. This will make a ghost shawl, which must be worn into the fight to activate hard mode.

Drunkula is not particularly difficult to kill, but you need enough drunkness that you don't get totally drained, which will cause you to lose. 

The formula for his HP is 8000 + 2000 (n-1), where n is the number of kisses. Therefore, at a 6 kiss level, he would have 18000 HP.

The amount of draining per round is 10 - 15%, i.e. 10% is 1 kiss and 15% is 6 kiss level.

The easy way to do this is to equip the mercenary pistol and funksling the rare special clips. You don't have to be very overdrunk to do it at 1 kiss, probably 150 would be overkill at that point.

FFS

You need to drink a bloody kiwitini to access FFS in hard mode. This requires a muscle class to hit one from the top of the tree, after another class chooses to stand at the base (looking up). Then the kiwi catcher needs to look up again to get the kiwi. A key is needed to unlock the master bedroom in the estate, then the nightstand needs to be chosen to get an eau de mort. Then, as a moxie class, visit the castle, go to the tower, unlock the lab, and use the still to get a kiwitini.

The cheat method of defeating the FFS in hard mode is as follows:

Buff moxie

wear makeshift turban

add some passive damage

equip a merc pistol

funksling 2 boneburners, graveburpers or splatterers

or:
buff moxie
equip merc pistol
drink white lightning to get temp blindness
round 1 funksling spectral jelly and seed pod

on subsequent rounds either:
1) begins to spin in a circle - Hide Under a Rock
begins to paw at the ground - Dive Into a Puddle
shuffles toward you - Hide Behind a Tree

2) funksling 2 boneburners, graveburpers or splatterers

Mayor Ghost

The method to get the badge is a bit involved.

as a myst class - hall - dining - levitate

cabin - basement - stick in lock

as an AT - cabin - attic - turn off music box

as a moxie class - skid row - ticking - make key

cabin - basement - check out lock box

You can also buy a replica key and then do the last step.

The basis of hard mode for this boss is that you have more ways that you can cause a violation, for which you will immediately die.

Possible stuff he can ask for is:

Possible equipment: Choker of the Ultragoth, clown wig, giant gym membership card, leotarrrd, oven mitts, plush hamsterpus, spork, and white snakeskin duster.

Possible skills: Inappropriate Backrub, Chronic Indigestion, Snowclone, Spooky Breath, Tango of Terror, Stream of Sauce, Sing, Disco Dance of Doom, Ravioli Shurikens, Spectral Snapper, Harpoon!.

Possible items: poltergeist-in-the- jar-o, brick of sand, sparking El Vibrato drone, blue plastic oyster egg, hot clusterbomb, tequila grenade, sharpened hubcap, fetid feather, onion shurikens, stone frisbee.

The drone, clusterbomb, and hubcap are things I would suggest replacing yourself. You can buy the hot clusterbomb, but it is expensive. The other two are not tradeable.

You can get away with not having some of the required things, but that means there is a higher chance you get decreed something you don't have and then you die.

You cannot use healing items or get healed, or you also die. Buff yourself to use elemental love songs.

6 kiss stats are 20000 HP.

Possible technique is:

If equipment is asked for, use 2 elemental love songs.

If a skill is asked for, do that.

If an item is asked for, funksling that item + a love song.

Do not use the love song of vague ambiguity, since that heals you.

UKS

As with the badge, the method is long:

dread tarragon - woods- cabin- kitchen- spice rack

bone flour - old dry bone - muscle - woods - cabin - kitchen - flour mill

dreadful roast - castle - hall - dining room - roast

stinking agaricus - castle - dungeon - guardroom - break off

These can all be bought in the mall.

But you need to be a myst class to bake the pie.

bake - myst - village - estate - servant's quarters - make pie

The strategy is to pile on the passive damage, lower your HP, use a mosquito with a fish scaler equipped, and increase familiar weight and action frequency. Also, max out damage absorption.

You can't do anything in the fight. Just wait it out and hope you don't die while the passive damage does its work. HP is 3500 at 6 kiss.

Example: Level 22 Sauceror, no permed skills 

2 kiss UKS

sponge helmet

a weapon

cup of infinite pencils

square sponge pants

Mer-kin gutgirdle

bottle opener belt buckle

passive damage:

GORF

eel battery

skeleton: warrior

Damage absorption:

mother's little helper

oil of parrrlay

cement mixer (booze)

portable wall

gene tonic: construct

lower HP:

sewage schnapps (booze)

consumed by doubt effect from jar of psychoses: crackpot mystic

increase familiar weight and action:

irradiated pet snacks

recording of chorale of companionship

green snowcone

gene tonic: fish

potion of punctual companionship

Great Wolf

You need to wear a moon amber necklace to fight the wolf.

muscle - tree - shiny thing

moxie - town - ticking - polish

myst - tower - library - read enchanted jewelry

requires pliers, jewelry crafting - little canadia jewellers

craft necklace - polished moon amber + heavy necklace chain

raise moxie

connery's 

pirate juice

serum of sarcasm

tomato juice

oil of expertise (or whatever equalizer is appropriate)

potion of temporary gr8tness

cold-filtered water

bottle of fire

lobos mints

raise damage reduction

mystic shell

brawnee's anthem

stiff upper lip (TT facial expression)

tube of dread wax

mother's little helper

spirit gum

oil of parrrlay

bottle of fabric softener

scroll of Puddingskin

vial of The Glistening 

pokemann band-aid

total DR - 308 from effects and 80 from the cool irons outfit, OK for 2 kiss, I probably overdid it though

outfit

cool iron helmet

Stick Knife of Loathing (I use the clothing of loathing as a base outfit, so this was left here. It's not directly useful, but wearing multiple parts of the clothing of loathing outfit does raise stats)

old-school flying disc (10 DR)

Drunkula's cape (I forgot to take it off, it's useless in this situation)

cool iron breastplate

cool iron greaves

Belt of Loathing (20 DR)

Protects-Your-Junk (20 DR)

moon-amber necklace (required to fight Wolf in hard mode)

You also need:

about 15 full heal combat items, like scented massage oils or the seed pods

elemental love songs, about 15 of those, I used the love song of nasty innuendo because I'd buffed moxie anyway.

Every round was:

funksling love song of nasty innuendo and a massage oil

Then I ran out of massage oils, but I fortunately had some seed pods left so I used those instead.

6 kiss:

has 5000 HP

pufferfish spine or love song of icy revenge + massage oil

raise moxie past about 4200 (which is its defense)

passive damage

ZHA

with muddy skirt equipped and seed pod in inventory - castle - hall - ballroom - trip the light fantastic

The ZHA has 5 million HP even at 1 kiss level. 

There are three methods.

1) You are somewhat rich/willing to spend.

Buff mainstat a lot, about to 8334.

Use a shard of double ice.

Use 2 hot or spooky clusterbombs per kiss level. You need to use more if your buffed mainstat is lower.

If you are ascending, you can get fuses, and paste the bombs yourself to save cash.

2) You have super high mysticality and spell damage.

You need to be able to cause 167000 damage or something like that to kill ZHA in 29 rounds. I can't do this either.

3) Get splattersmash, buff muscle, and equip green lantern if you have one.

This is the better method. For 6 kiss, about 15312 buffed muscle and double ice use is fine.