Elusive Badge! Trouble Center Walkthrough

Elusive Badge! is a Trouble Center side quest that allows Ms. Mowz to join your party in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (TTYD)! Keep reading for a full walkthrough of the Elusive Badge! Ms. Mowz trouble side quest, its location, rewards, and how to unlock it.

Elusive Badge! Ms. Mowz Trouble Quest Location and Details

The Troubled for this quest is hidden on the bulletin board, listed only as "???".

Elusive Badge! Ms. Mowz Trouble Walkthrough

Elusive Badge! Quest Objectives
1	Use the inn's staircase to go to the second floor of Rogueport Plaza, and meet Ms. Mowz on the roof of Zess T.'s house.
2	Go to the top room of Hooktail Castle where you first battled Hooktail. We recommend equipping the First Attack Badge so you can just ignore the enemies along the way.
3	Use Madame Flurrie to blow away the middle of the room, revealing a chest.
4	Bring the Elusive Badge Back to Ms. Mowz.

Find Attack FX B in Hooktail Castle

The badge that Ms. Mowz is looking for is hidden inside a chest in the middle of the boss room of Hooktail Castle. Go through the whole castle and up the tower to reach this room.

Swap in Madame Flurrie as your partner once you've reached your destination. Walk to the center of the room, and use Madame Flurrie's ability to blow away the centermost panel of the room. This will reveal a chest containing the badge you're looking for.

Get the badge, and return to Ms. Mowz. She'll reveal that it was actually a game she set up for you! Impressed by your skills, Ms. Mowz will decide to join your party. She'll also give back the Attack FX B badge you got for her.

How to Unlock Elusive Badge! in Paper Mario TTYD Switch Remake

Complete Chapter 4

Elusive Badge! from Ms. Mowz will appear at the Trouble Center once you complete Chapter 4. To activate this request, select it from the bulletin board at the Trouble Center.

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Accept From Trouble Center on the East Side of Rogueport

The quest must first be accepted from the Trouble Center bulletin board before you can do any of the steps to complete it.

To get to the Trouble Center, you must first get through Gus, the guard blocking the east side of Rogueport. You can either pay him coins every time you need to pass or defeat him in combat. Once Koops joins your party, defeating him becomes much easier.

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Elusive Badge! Ms. Mowz Trouble Rewards

Ms. Mowz Joins Your Party!

Once you complete this quest, you automatically get Ms. Mowz in your party. She comes with two moves, Love Slap and Kiss Thief, as well as the ability to sniff out any items nearby. Like Mario's other partners, you can upgrade Ms. Mowz twice by giving Shine Sprites to Merlon, adding two more moves to her movepool.

Ms. Mowz is the only recruitable character that isn't required to progress through the game. The Elusive Badge! side quest is completely optional, so you can miss recruiting Ms. Mowz.

How to Get Ms. Mowz

Attack FX B

Ms. Mowz will return the Attack FX B badge that you got for her once you complete the Elusive Badge! trouble quest. The Attack FX B badge adds a mouse squeak sound effect to Mario's attacks when equipped.

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Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Related Guides

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Prologue: A Rogue's Welcome
Chapter 1: Castle and Dragon	Chapter 2: The Great Boggly Tree
Chapter 3: Of Glitz and Glory	Chapter 4: For Pigs the Bell Tolls
Chapter 5: The Key to Pirates	Chapter 6: 3 Days of Excess
Chapter 7: Mario Shoots the Moon	Chapter 8: The Thousand-Year Door

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Important Thing!	Get These Ingredients!	I Need My Magazine.	Security Code...
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