Abby's Planchette

Abby's Planchette

Type	Weapon
Type	Dagger
Level	8
Damage	24-30
Crit Chance	6%
Stats	Crit. Chance (+4)
Location	Desert Festival

Abigail keeps a planchette, the little pointer used to pick letters off a spirit board, and she mentions it long before it ever becomes a weapon. At the Desert Festival she will sell it across a stall for 70 Calico Eggs, which turns a piece of her personality into a working dagger. The blade hits for 24 to 30 and lands critical hits more often than almost anything else in the game, so it is a genuine mid-game weapon rather than a souvenir. Only six villagers run stalls in any one year, and only two of them trade on a given day, so a farm can pass a whole year without seeing it for sale. The description notes it is cut from fine marblewood, which is as close as the game comes to explaining how a seance tool holds an edge.

Location

The Desert Festival is the only place it changes hands. The festival runs for three days in Spring out in the Calico Desert, which means the bus has to be repaired through the Vault bundles before anyone can attend, so a first-year farm will not be buying one.

Calico Eggs are the currency, and they cannot be brought along: they have to be earned on the day and they vanish from the bag the moment the festival ends. Betting on the critter races pays 20 eggs for picking the winner, and a race runs most of the day. The scholar near the egg merchant pays out for answering his four questions, though only once a year. Gil and Marlon hand out combat challenges in the Skull Cavern, Willy sets fishing tasks, and the trash can beside the merchant's stall gives up a handful each day. Three good days of racing and challenges comfortably covers the 70 eggs the dagger costs.

Whether Abigail is one of the six stallholders is decided when the festival generates, so the only reliable plan is to attend all three days and check who has set up.

Stats

The critical chance is the reason to carry it. Where an ordinary dagger rolls a crit a few times in a hundred swings, the planchette does so around six, and that is before rings, professions or gems are counted. Only the Iridium Needle beats it on the base figure.

Damage of 24 to 30 is modest in absolute terms but well above what most daggers manage, and the band is tight, so every stab does reliable damage. With the Scout profession raising crit chance by half and an Aquamarine Ring adding ten percent, a run of crits during the four-stab special move removes monsters that the raw damage figure says it should not.

Knockback is almost nothing, which is the planchette's real weakness. Monsters stay in contact while being stabbed, so this is a weapon for players who are happy to trade hits or who keep a stack of food in the bag.

Notes

The planchette shares its damage and critical chance with Elliott's Pencil and the Wicked Kris, which makes it the cheapest route to that stat line for anyone who has not yet broken open the right crate in the Skull Cavern. Since the festival only comes round once a year, keeping it is wiser than shipping it.

At the Forge, Aquamarine is the gem that fits its character, piling more critical chance onto a dagger already built around crits. Jade is the harder-hitting option, since crit power decides how much those frequent crits actually take off.

The Desperado profession is the natural partner. Doubling critical damage on a weapon that crits this often changes the dagger from a curiosity into something that can clear the Mines' lower floors.

The weapon also closes a small loop in Abigail's own story, since the planchette turns up in conversation during her eight-heart event before it ever appears on a stall.

All Daggers

Every entry in this group, with its key details.

Name	Type	Level	Damage
Abby's Planchette	Dagger	8	24-30
Broken Trident	Dagger	5	15-26
Burglar's Shank	Dagger	4	7-12
Carving Knife	Dagger	1	1-3
Crystal Dagger	Dagger	4	4-10
Dragontooth Shiv	Dagger	12	40-50
Dwarf Dagger	Dagger	11	32-38
Elf Blade	Dagger	2	3-5
Elliott's Pencil	Dagger	8	24-30
Galaxy Dagger	Dagger	8	30-40
Infinity Dagger	Dagger	16	50-70
Iridium Needle	Dagger	12	20-35
Iron Dirk	Dagger	1	2-4
Shadow Dagger	Dagger	4	10-20
Wicked Kris	Dagger	8	24-30
Wind Spire	Dagger	1	1-5