Ok so you can do "not kill Peeper" option without being attacked by Daeyena and another elf. For that you have to undress Undead character (I had Fane) and he will scare Daeyena, she will run away. With another character you shall talk to second elf, and the rest 2 characters can kill void chickens and loot some source orbs. Works in Definitive Edition.

If you will talk to Magic Rooster with a character that has no Pet Pal, they will do some "cawking" dialogue lines, you will get 5k xp and A WHOLE WORLD OF PAIN. I strongly suggest to save before you attempt to dive into that.

If Daeyana (gift bag mod) and her companion are near Magicockerel, they will become your enemies if you choose "not to kill that cute little ball of fluff." I tried this with a few reloads and bribes on Daeyana (to 100), and it appeared to make no difference. If it's possible to move Daeyana away (perhaps by doing later spore things? IDK how Daeyana works) then do that before escorting Peeper to Magicockerel, otherwise your choices will be killing Peeper for 7k exp+reward, or killing Peeper's voidwoken, Daeyana, and her companion.

I haven't done a playthrough with the Daeyana content, not sure if she'll spawn later if killed but I expect she won't. Really stupid placement and agro calculus for this particular NPC at this particular time.

I don't know what caused it but the Magicockeral totally f'ed me, never given the choice to kill peeper. I arrived with peeper and the only dialog was something like, well you brought him, you deal with him and he warped out and everything aggroed.

large marge told me she buried a treasure behind the coup. sure would be handy if the wiki had a location for it.

Fun fact; this annoying Chicken is not only stupid, it lacks self preservation and there's no checks that they coded in to stop the chicken, sir lora, from joining you in the arena.
How did I find this out? So the chicken may have exploded into necrofire while me and my friends were in the arena, blind folded.

Slightly irritating, but at least that's *one* less annoying critter to deal with I suppose..
(as a side; im sure sir lora is cool. i however dont have petpal, someone else does, and im very tired of him standing in deadly AoEs, taking damage from AoEs, or just not staying out of combat. :v)

If you're doing a 2 person lone wolf playthrough with atleast 1 undead character you can remove your clothing and Daeyana ai will cause her to run away. Get her far away then talk to the other elf so he won't aggro during the fight then you can complete the peeper quest without additional hires. Then you can always go back to Daeyana and she should slowly be walking back to her original spot.

Damn elves, always up to no good.

With lvl 12, last game version: killing peeper in the name of Magicockerel gives me 1 rune awarded form Magicockerel , 1 Source Orb from dead peeper and 1 rune and 1 legendary two-hand sword form the chest.

if you do this before seeds of power, you will aggro the elves from that quest