Okay, this is random. Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K, the 2-hr TV show where you watch a full length movie while silhouettes of a person and two puppet robots sitting in a row of theater seats make fun of it) announced tonight they're doing a special tribute in two weeks to the movie "Manos the Hands of Fate", one of their most classic episodes (and they claimed it was the worst movie they ever did out of more than 200 episodes). This movie from the mid 60s was made specifically to win a bet, and reportedly the total amount paid to the entire cast and crew was one bicycle and a supply of dog food.
In case you can't figure out why any of that would be relevant, Manos -> Chronos, and Hands -> Tears. Yes, the quest is named after an episode of a TV show, which is named after a movie. Red hands are a theme in Manos, which show up maybe a dozen times in the quest. In fact, yesterday's post about the optional dungeon name? All four optional dungeons are named after MST3K episodes. If you want to check out how bad Manos is, the Rifftrax of it has jokes that aren't 25 years old (free preview here
https://www.rifftrax...hands-of-fate).
This is a good chance to bring up something else. There are eight secret money caves with characters from other things in them, many of which have no indication whatsoever without the lens of truth. One of them contains the three hosts of MST3K: Joel ('88-'93) Mike ('93-'99 and Rifftrax founder) and Jonah ('17-current). The two soldiers from Discworld puffing on tobacco is the only open one of these eight caves, so you probably came across that one even though you did not get the reference. The references are described in three spoiler-free sections of the walkthrough,
one that includes other things like why wizzard is sometimes spelled with two Zs but no locations, one that says who is in each cave and where, and
this third one that only lists eight overworld coordinates and nothing else. I put these caves in the quest merely because I felt like it. And now I suspect nobody will ever find most of them if I don't say something. I hope somebody other than me gets some mild entertainment from these caves, especially the one with <redacted>. These caves have nothing to do with the game or story, and the only help or hints you'll get out of them or the reference pages of the walkthrough is a few extra rupees.