Blue Caterpillar/Don Oruga

You walk through the Spore Forest, fighting off living fungi, shoving your way through... more fungi. Emerging, you reach a fork in the road. Taking one path, you realize it's the wrong one and end up back where you started. After wasting some time, you finally reach a new area. Further on, you see a mushroom, and sitting atop it is a man who looks like a caterpillar. On the ground is a message: "Beware of the drug-addicted insect ahead." You approach him. Mr. Caterpillar: Who are you? He doesn't pay attention to you, slight shyness. Don Oruga: I'm not interested. Not at all. You're about to leave when he suddenly calls you. Don Oruga: Hey, don't go! Come back! I have something important to tell you! Kid, kid, kid! You approach him again when you happen to get lost again. He takes a hit from his hookah. Don Oruga: Fuu-haa... You're looking for someone, aren't you? You're looking for Alice. Don Oruga: I don't know her. But I know someone who might. In a mansion west of here lives a woman called the Duchess. She has important connections and her coffers are full. He inhales again. Don Oruga: ...ha. Well... if you manage to contact her, of course.