QUIJANO'S PROFILE

Hello Samji,
If you look carefully in each screen, you will notice that near one of the four possible exits on each screen there is a tiny plant. You need to look carefully. Just go through that exit and after a few screens you will get to the eyepatch. If you take the wrong exit, it either takes you to the same screen or back to the beginning (think Lost Woods in the original Zelda).

Spoliers (if you don't want to do the looking) - scroll over the text below
When you enter the forest, go south (the only possible way)
Then, go: west, south, east,north.
Spoilers end

The "it's a secret" NPC does tell you a secret only after you get the eye-patch / necklace from the forest if you have completed all the other kill-quests and before you set out on the boat. The secret is that he likes someone. The guards from the castle will only let you in after you talk to the Dockmaster (westernmost section of the town) and he asks you to get his mystical eye-patch from the forest. To get into the forest (two guards are blocking the way just outside of Alyssia) you need to talk to the Queen - that's the only moment when you can go into the castle (I took that trope from the PSP Growlanser). The "Kill 10" NPC, if it's the one on the main tavern first town, it wants Hellhounds killed. If it's the one in Alyssia, it's goblins.

As for the rewards, I will go back and check on the Basilisk lady, but just as a head's up I made it so that NPCs (and PCs) did certain things based on the order you did things and on the answers you give to people. For example, if you were impolite with everyone you talked to, and you finish the Dog quest, the dog leaves your party. If you kill off the quest monsters before getting a quest, the NPCs won't reward you, as they heard that someone did what they were going to ask you to do (the rumors travel ahead of you).

Anyway, I will go back and make sure that these aren't things that I overlooked. Thanks for the feedback!