This article will be your detailed “guiding light,” leading you step-by-step through the Drunken Boar questline, also known as the Yellow-Robed Squire. You will not only be “guided” thoroughly but also be given “insider tips” and easily missed details, ensuring you don’t get “lost” on this journey.
Finding the Yellow-Robed Squire for the First Time (Rockrest Flat)
From the Rockrest Flat Shrine, go straight ahead. You will see a Spearbone (a type of monster). Just go past it. Continue going, and you will reach a wider area. The Drunken Boar is sitting on a rock in the middle of this area. Talk to the Drunken Boar. He is drunk and needs something to sober up. He will mention the Sobering Stone and suggest Windrest.
Obtaining the Sobering Stone
There are two ways to obtain the Sobering Stone.
Buy it from the Man-in-Stone for 6,480 Will.
Or you can find it in Windrest Hamlet.
From the Windrest Bridge Shrine, cross the bridge. You will see a small house on the left that you can enter. Break the pot inside the house, and you will find the Sobering Stone.
Giving the Sobering Stone and Meeting Again at Crouching Tiger Temple
Return to Rockrest Flat and give the Sobering Stone to the Drunken Boar. He will become “sober as a judge” and… leave, complaining of hunger.
Fast travel to the Crouching Tiger Temple Entrance. Go up the stairs. Turn right at the second turn (before the Meditation Spot). The Drunken Boar is leaning against the wall, under a large tiger statue.
Giving the Jade Lotus and Information about the Arhat Gold Piece
You can buy a Jade Lotus from a Keeper’s Shrine (90 Will) or pick them up in ponds and lakes. Return to the Crouching Tiger Temple and give the Jade Lotus to the Drunken Boar.
He will “ramble on” about a “gold piece” (Arhat Gold Piece) and a certain “senior brother.”
Obtaining the Arhat Gold Piece (Defeating the First Prince of Flowing Sands)
You must defeat the First Prince of Flowing Sands in the Valley of Despair.
The Battle with the Yellow-Robed Squire (Rockrest Flat)
Return to Rockrest Flat after you have the Arhat Gold Piece, you will see the Drunken Boar have moved and is standing near the gate.
Talk to the Drunken Boar, he will be furious and call you out for having the Arhat Gold Piece, after that you will fight him. Beat him and you’ve completed the questline of the Drunken Boar, which unlocked the hidden map of Chapter 2.