The short answer
Accept Chester's first Clean Keeper Goose task and send Angelica. When he returns with a second egg problem, read the description before choosing your knight and equipment.
| Chester's clue | Correct response |
|---|---|
| The egg is shiny | Send Gwendan |
| It smells bad, strange, or foul | Send a knight other than Angelica carrying any cheese |
| It has a delicious or appetizing aroma | Send a knight other than Angelica with a horse |
Any of these correctly matched special outcomes advances Chester's recruitment chain.
Step by step
1. Use Angelica for the first Goose task
When Chester first brings the Clean Keeper Goose problem, accept it and assign Angelica. Multiple recruitment sources agree on this opening requirement. A normal-looking completion with a different knight is not equivalent: you need the unexpected outcome that places you on Chester's hidden chain.
2. Read the second description carefully
Chester's next visit varies the way he describes the egg. The flavor text is the key; do not deploy the same answer from a previous run without checking it.
Shiny egg: send Gwendan. This condition is based on the knight choice, not an equipment substitute.
Bad or strange smell: equip any type of cheese on a knight other than Angelica, then send that knight. Community answers specifically report that the cheese variety does not matter.
Delicious or appetizing smell: equip a horse on a knight other than Angelica, then send that knight.
3. Check equipment before confirming
For an item-based clue, confirm that the required item is actually attached to the knight you are sending. Owning cheese or a horse elsewhere is not the same as deploying it with the assignment.
The sources support an item type condition. They do not justify a list of guaranteed item IDs, so use a clearly categorized cheese or horse rather than hunting for one supposedly mandatory named object.
4. Accept Chester at the follow-up
After the special task result, continue to Chester's later audience and accept him into the Round Table. Public guides disagree about the exact wording of the final dialogue button. The meaningful operation is consistent—accept his candidacy—so this guide does not put unreliable button text in quotation marks.
Why the clue table matters
The second task is not one fixed recipe. A player can follow a correct cheese answer from one run and fail because the current egg is shiny. Treat Chester's adjective as a small decision key:
- Identify the description.
- Match either the knight or equipment.
- Confirm the special outcome.
- Complete the later audience.
Chester's Jester identity also makes his broader performance less predictable. That is separate from recruitment and is why this page does not turn the unlock route into a “best Act I knight” claim.
Common mistakes
- Sending someone other than Angelica on the first Goose task.
- Skipping the second description and repeating an answer from another timeline.
- Equipping cheese or a horse on a different knight from the one assigned.
- Sending Angelica again for the cheese or horse clue.
- Completing the task normally but missing the special outcome.
- Looking for one exact final button label when public 1.0.8 accounts use conflicting wording.
Evidence limits
The mapping above was checked against recruitment guides and independent player discussion for Sovereign Tower 1.0.8 on August 11, 2026. The clue-to-response rules are consistent. The final audience's precise English button text is not, so we preserve the action without fabricating a quote.
Sources
- Sovereign Tower on Steam — official unexpected-outcome and equipment context.
- All knights recruitment guide — first task and three clue routes.
- Meet the Knights discussion — cheese-type and clue cross-check.
- Act I route guide — Goose-chain result cross-check.