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finally figured out why bob's challenge sometimes wouldn't trigger. turns out, it seems like the game actually checks whether you've ridden the horse. you have to have ridden it (not just mounted it!) at least once, even just for a short distance. i had come across this inconsistency with the challenge a long long time ago during my earliest testing, but it never came up again in an actual run until i tried any% glitched with chicken spam--the only category where you never actually end up riding the horse before the challenge (in NG+ categories, you've already acquired the horse in a previous year and more than likely had ridden it during prep). so i'm glad the phantom fodder discovery forced me to revisit this category, because my original chicken spam run of this ending from two years ago was very sloppy due to my failure to trigger the challenge when i intended.

at the moment i think this is the last phantom fodder run i will do, since it doesn't seem to be faster for any of the "money" categories (CC, FS, GD, TH1, TH2), since it makes sense to sell chickens for money (hence you can just use simple chicken spam). azure swallowtail is a bit of a fringe case, as it doesn't require any money, but doing the phantom fodder setup takes too long to reach lyla during her window of availability on most days, so unless i can come up with some other approach, i think phantom fodder really only applies to BB, EW, and HR. neat little discovery though.