bgillisp wrote:The chicken is meant to be beaten in Chapter 6 on up, though looks like it is doable earlier based on what you posted.
It is very tough in Chapter 2 although, unlike darkange, I'm doing this in Normal mode. I do think it's somewhat dependent on luck (not LUK) as the first time I tried I got the multiple pecking which was extremely hard to recover from. I saved that success and tried again, this time using Eye for Eye, and this time the multiple pecking was on Cedric, so the chicken did itself a lot of damage. But it requires a lot of thought and strategy to win at this stage, and is by no means certain. It would have been even more difficult if I hadn't upgraded a couple of weapons in *that* place, and found the Dwarfen Halbard in the caves.
I do have a fairly serious bug to report.
I was underwater and doing exploration so thought I'd see where the vine by the heal crystal took me, and of course it took me back ashore. No problem, I bought myself 8 flowers, went to the dock with the sparkles, accepted Yes, and then nothing. No matter what I did I was stranded. Picked up from a save, which fortunately wasn't too far back. On the other side I thought I'd see what happens if I went back to complete the Waterstone quest. On the Emberfield dock when I accepted Yes, there was the dialogue about eating the flowers and I was able to get back to the other side. However, once there the same thing happened again, no dialogue and I was stuck - though this time I'd made a save immediately before trying as a precaution.