The Mayor

The Gentleman, or the Mayor, is an NPC and possible hostile encounter in Fear and Hunger: Termina.

Location
Can be found in the Mayor's Manor, after walking the stairs and entering the upper left room.

Lore
The current Mayor of Prehevil, or at least you're told. When the player arrives in the town, several characters that still seem to retain bits of their sanity may inform them that a new mayor has just arrived, with no prior elections, making the event seem quite suspicious.

Something drastic must have happened to him to change his appearance - it is speculated that this is a unique way he was affected by the moonscorch, as even his behavior is mostly strangely formal. He doesn't seem to want to be involved in the Termina festival itself or just doesn't want to get on the Bremen Kaiser's bad side, yet is against the Kingdom of Bremen.

While burnt by Rher's moonlight, he doesn't seem to go insane like the rest of the villagers. However, he seems to have channeled his madness into interpreting strange pieces of 'foodstuffs' as artwork - it is possible that these are body parts and pieces of flesh of those that have previously angered the mayor.

It is speculated that Henryk (the Chef), one of the major characters, might be the Mayor because of their similar clothing and enthusiasm for food - Henryk is also a contestant and the Mayor is counted as being one of the contestants if you kill him. Killing him also unlocks Henryk's area of the Hexen.

Dinner Dialogue choices
Depending on the player's answers to the questions he asked while sitting with him, he will be either hostile or friendly.

(Warning this section is unfinished, some dialogue may be blanked or excluded. Contributors are welcome to reedit this section and add new dialogue aftermath into.)


 * 1) What comes to mind when you look at these dangling beauties?
 * 2) Meatballs - Doesn't initiate a battle, The Mayor will be disappointed with your answer. SAFE
 * 3) Kidneys - Unsure, but likely to be safe
 * 4) Embryos - Doesn't initiate a battle, The mayor will compliment your way of thinking SAFE
 * 5) Cotton Candy - Doesn't initiate a battle, but The Mayor questions your choice.
 * 6) The duality of mind - Doesn't initiate a battle, but The Mayor will angrily ask if you're taking this seriously.
 * 7) They look disgusting! - Unsure but Likely to initate a battle.
 * 8) What about this squirmy thing... What comes to your mind?
 * 9) Local Sausage - Doesn't initiate a battle, The Mayor also agrees with that it shares resemblance.
 * 10) Snakes - Unsure but likely to be safe.
 * 11) Male genitalia - Initiates a battle, The Mayor takes offense for saying vulgar words in the dining hall.
 * 12) I dare not say - unsure but Likely to be safe
 * 13) Your antlers - Initiates a battle, The Mayor will take it as an insult towards him.
 * 14) Get that thing off my face! - Unsure but likely to initiate a battle
 * 15) This peculiar fungus... What is the first thing that comes to your mind?
 * 16) Just an ordinary mushroom - Initiates a battle, The Mayor will take it as you are describing his food as ordinary.
 * 17) Nudity - Doesn't initiate a battle, The Mayor will also agree and describe the texture of the mushroom identical to the buttcheek's of a virgin.
 * 18) Family - Doesn't initiate a battle, The Mayor will ask the player to not speak about family in the dining hall.
 * 19) Rainy Day - Doesn't initiate a battle, The Mayor can relate on the answer due to the smell of the damp forest still on the mushroom.
 * 20) Coitus - Doesn't initiate a battle, The mayor will question how vulgar your thinking is.
 * 21) I've had enough! - Unsure, but likely to initiate a fight.
 * 22) Do you support the Breman army? are you A Man O' Kaiser so to speak?
 * 23) I don't know what you're talking about. - Unsure, but likely to initiate a fight.
 * 24) I support the Breman army. - Initates a fight, The Mayor will be displeased to hear that and say that you were not the kind he was hoping for.
 * 25) I fight against the Breman army - Doesn't Initiate a fight, The Mayor will be pleased to hear that.

If done correctly, The Mayor will give you the Lion brass key.

Strategy
The Mayor is an extremely formidable foe. He uses both of his arms (fork and knife) to both stab the player and cut off limbs, even attacking with the fork twice occasionally. His entire body has a high amount of HP, it's advised to start the battle with 3 or more characters as his attacks could be very lethal which could lead to a game over if not prepared.

Marina cannot join the fight stating that she despises The Mayor, it's recommended to not recruit her when planning to fight The Mayor as she cannot contribute to the fight.

Trivia

 * Killing him and then talking to Per'kele will result in the latter congratulating the player for finally killing a participant of the Festival of Termina and showing no remorse. Interestingly, killing either Levi or Marina will not trigger this exchange and he will keep saying that 14 participants remain.
 * There's a leftover file that shows what appears to be an earlier, different design for the mayor, found in the enemies folder. The file is named gentleman2.png which implies this is the case.Gentleman2.png