Coffinwell

Coffinwell
Japanese name	ベクセリア
Rōmaji name	Bekuseria
Type	Town and Region
Game	IX

Coffinwell is a very Gothic town in Dragon Quest IX. It is located to the northeast of Stornway. With a great deal of high stone-made walls, the town's design is similar to that of an fortress, and is shaped as a shield. The Mayor's house is the highest house in the town. Staircases can be seen around the town.

Initially, its residents have contracted a deadly disease which is plaguing the entire town. The sickness is related to the nearby Quarantomb.

Story

In the past Coffinwell was the previous seat of power for the Gittish Empire, before the son of current ruler, Godwyn, poisoned his own father King Godfrey and seized power for himself, sealing the body of the old king inside the Quarantomb. Beginning a campaign of world conquest, the Empire seized many new lands, relocating their capital at Gittingham Palace; following the destruction of the Empire's leaders and armies by Greygnarl and his allies, Coffinwell, left leaderless, restructured itself, becoming a separate kingdom of its own.

When the Hero reach the pass that King Schott has recently opened, you go through and head north. You reach Coffinwell and see that the townsfolk are deadly ill here. According to the man in the front of the town, Coffinwell's "days are numbered", meaning Coffinwell's citizens will die soon. The hero then heads to the biggest house in the town, Mayor Laria's home. You see him on the second floor studying old manuscripts (however he isn't making much progress). He sees you and asks you to go to Dr. Phlegming's lab to the west of town. Then you take the house directly to the west and see a woman. Her name is Catarrhina. She is Dr. Phlegming's wife. She takes you to the lab and has the doctor open the door.

The hero walks in to see a man who introduces himself as Dr. Phlegming. He is studying why the town has come down with this disease. You tell him the Mayor's message and he reads it, saying that long ago, there was a shrine known as The "Qurarantomb" and that when the people saw it, they rather rashly decided it to be a good idea to venture inside. A ghost of an unnamed king layed there, and to keep the ghost there, the people made a terrible disease and sealed it away. But during the recent Earthquake, the seal has broken and the contagion has gotten to all the citizens.

You go back to Mayor Laria and he gives you the Quarantomb Key, which you are to give to Dr. Phlegming. When you do, he says he will need someone to help him because of all the monsters. When you reach the tomb, you venture in and at the seal chamber, you see the broken seal and a monster reveals itself. It is the Ragin' Contagion. He has been doing this and you must stop him. Meanwhile, Dr. Phlegming is fixing the seal to trap the Ragon Contagion once again. When you defeat him, Dr. Phlegming fixes the seal and successfully seals away the Ragin' Contagion for good.

When you get back to the town, every one is cured, but Catarrhina is dead. Because of this dark event, everybody cannot help but feel sad, preventing any benevolessence from being obtained. The Hero has to fix this. Mayor Laria tells you to come to his house in the evening to collect your reward. Compared to other gifts you get for beating the boss (Angel Falls, you get Stornway Inn, and for Wight Knight and Morag you get treasure in Stornway Castle) this one is not so great. He gives you a feather hairband.

When you exit, you see Catarrhina's ghost asking you to take Phlegming around town to see who was ill. When you finsh, you exit the town and go back to the Starflight Express, because now you have Catarrhina's benevolessence. This ends Coffinwell's story.

Places of Interest

• Dr. Phlegming's Laboratory

You can find recipes for: Tracksuit Top, Tussler's Top, Tracky Bottoms, Feline fan, Kitty shield, Catty shield, Cat ears, Lunaria, Magic water, Mystifying mixture, Hephaestus' flame and Aggressence.

You can learn the party trick "Provoke" in Dr. Phlegming's laboratory.

Shops and services

Item Shop
Item	Price	Attributes
Medicinal herb	8 G	Restore 30 HP
Antidotal herb	10 G	Cure poison state
Moonwort bulb	30 G	Cure paralyze state
Chimaera wing	25 G	Teleport to visited towns/villages
Evac-u-bell	28 G	Escape from dungeons
Holy water	40 G	Monster repellent

Weapon Shop
Item	Price	Attributes	Vocations
Rapier	480 G	Attack +19
Iron broadsword	1000 G	Attack +27
Iron lance	450 G	Attack +17
Long spear	1400 G	Attack +29
Bronze knife	200 G	Attack +10
Divine dagger	640 G	Attack +18
Poison moth knife	1250 G	Attack +24 Possible to paralyze
Oak staff	120 G	Attack +3 MP Absorption Rate +1.0%
Staff of sentencing	1600 G	Attack +11 MP Absorption Rate +2.0%
Thorn whip	350 G	Attack +11
Battle whip	960 G	Attack +17
Carrying pole	530 G	Attack +15
Oaken pole	780 G	Attack +22
Iron claws	620 G	Attack +17
Razor claws	1750 G	Attack +28
Iron fan	300 G	Attack +14
War fan	920 G	Attack +24

Armor Shop
Item	Price	Attributes	Vocations
Bronze shield	370 G	Defence +6 Block +0.5%
Shell shield	600 G	Defence +8 Block +0.5%
Hardwood headwear	120 G	Defense +4 Magical Might +2
Turban	310 G	Defense +7 Magical Might +3 Magical Mending +3
Chain mail	540 G	Defense +11
Bronze armour	720 G	Defense +14
Iron cuirass	1000 G	Defense +16
Garish garb	660 G	Defense +12
White t-shirt	520 G	Defence +11
Leather gauntlets	60 G	Defense +2
Iron gauntlets	450 G	Defense +5
Leather gloves	190 G	Deftness +16
Leather kilt	110 G	Defense +5
Red skirt	340 G	Defense +5 Magical Might +3
Iron kneecaps	640 G	Defense +9
Leather boots	70 G	Defense +2
Iron sabatons	580 G	Defense +7
Clogs	160 G	Evasion Chance +1.5%

Inn
Price
5G per person

      This is a location where the game can be saved.

      This location can be reached using the Zoom spell.

Quests

Quest #026 - "Doug and the Sluggers"
Location	Coffinwell - Outside the Mayor's House
Available at	After visiting Alltrades Abbey
Requested by	Doug
Response to	Doug
Requirement	Kill 10 Sluggers
Reward	Mini medal / Snakeskin (on repeat)
Detail	Poor old Doug in Coffinwell has had his feelings hurt by his granddaughter, who said he looked like a slugger. He wants you to make him feel better by going just outside town and battering ten of them.
Hint for solution	Sluggers are located outside of Coffinwell.

Quest #027 - "Big-Headed Bard"
Location	Coffinwell - Between the armor and item shop
Available at	After visiting Alltrades Abbey
Requested by	Earnest
Response to	The nun in Coffinwell church
Requirement	Technicolour dreamcloth
Reward	Elfin charm
Detail	A poet in Coffinwell called Earnest wants you to find him a bolt of Technicolour dreamcloth. Once you've found it, he wants you to present it to the nun in the church, along with a love poem he wrote for her.
Hint for solution	To make a Technicolour dreamcloth combine x3 Grubby bandage, a Brighten rock and a Celestial skein. The nun is located outside Coffinwell Church, find her and give all the Technicolour dreamcloth and the love poem to her.

Quest #044 - "A Climber for a Climber"
Location	Coffinwell
Available at	After completing main story
Requested by	Mrs. Tofferton
Response to	Mrs. Tofferton
Requirement	Stone's Throw ability
Reward	Mini Medal
Detail	Mrs. Tofferton, the richest lady in Coffinwell, wants you to find her a beardy weirdy. Apparently, it's fashionable among certain circles to keep one as a pet.
Hint for solution	Defeat a Treevil with Stone's Throw. If the beardy weirdy's beard is less than 100 cm long, it will not count toward completing the quest. This quest is repeatable.

Quest #045 - "Tale of the Paper Trail"
Location	Coffinwell
Available at	After completing main story
Requested by	Jade
Response to	Jade
Requirement	N/A
Reward	Brainy bracer
Detail	A worried mother wants you to find her son's test paper, which has blown off somewhere outside of Coffinwell.
Hint for solution	Fight random Monsters around Coffinwell until you obtain all three pieces of the torn exam paper.

Quest #046 - "Puttin' 'Em in Platinum"
Location	Coffinwell
Available at	After completing main story
Requested by	Dominique
Response to	Dominique
Requirement	Platinum sword, Platinum shield, some Platinum mail, and some Platinum headgear
Reward	Divine Dress
Detail	Dominique from Coffinwell wants you to help her son pass his all-important entrance examination. All you need to do is find a platinum sword, platinum shield, some platinum mail, and some platinum headgear.
Hint for solution	All of the items can be made via alchemy

Quest #141 - "Coffinwell Conundrum"
Location	Coffinwell
Available at	After finishing quest #137 and #46
Requested by	Dr. Phlegming
Response to	Dr. Phlegming
Requirement	N/A
Reward	Learn Professor's Pose Party Trick
Detail	Dr Phlegming needs your help to decipher an old manuscript detailing historical links between Coffinwell and the Gittish Empire. He wants you to try and find a book on the Gittish Empire for him.
Hint for solution	Look in a previously uninteresting bookshelf found in the Oubliette.

Material Gathering

The following items can be gathered on the maps in this region:

• Superior medicine - at a lone tree way east of the town

Layout

The town.

Trivia

• As with other towns in IX, Coffinwell is named for its relation to the plot of the game. "Coffinwell" is actually a pun ("coughing" "well") on the town's sickness.
• Coffinwell also has the word "Coffin", hinting towards the people killed by the virus.
• The archeologist in Coffinwell is named Dr. Phlegming, this is a play on "phlegm"(the mucus created from coughing) and "Fleming"(the discoverer of penicillin).
• The name of a notable NPC in Coffinwell, Catarrhina, is a pun on the term "catarrh."
• The name of the mayor is also a pun. "Mayor Laria", is a play on malaria, another disease.
• Muniyeka Town from DQX has a layout based on it.

Other languages

Other languages
French	Bacilli
German	Siechau
Spanish	Catacumba
Italian	Malazia
Dutch	Unknown
Norwegian	Unknown
Greek	Unknown
Portuguese	Unknown
Russian	Unknown
Chinese	Unknown
Korean	Unknown