Dance! Dance! Dance! Strange Tale in NTE – Salon Servant Musician Solution

The Dance! Dance! Dance! Strange Tale in Neverness to Everness hides a simple trick behind its riddle. The party guests are waiting for a musician, and your job is to show up at the right time and play music. Do that, and the anomaly dance party comes to life.

Quick answer: Go to the building on the eastern side of Sunward Island, set the in-game time to 10 PM (before midnight), then use the Cubox Portable Player Walkman from your inventory to play any track. Walk in to trigger the dance party.

Requirements before you start

You need one specific item to finish this Strange Tale, and one timing condition. Without the Cubox Portable Player Walkman, the Salon Servant will block you at the door.

Requirement	Detail
Location	Building atop the hill on the eastern side of Sunward Island (Sunni Island)
Time of day	10 PM, before midnight (the party ends around midnight)
Required item	Cubox Portable Player Walkman
How to get the item	Reach City Tycoon level 7

The Cubox Portable Player Walkman is tied to your City Tycoon progress. You unlock it by hitting rank level 7, so if it is not in your inventory yet, level up that system first.

How to complete Dance! Dance! Dance!

Travel to the structure on the hill on the eastern side of Sunward Island. A note pinned to the wall sets up the task and tells you when things begin.

Dance! Dance! Dance! Ten pm sharp, the guests have come to start. Feet itch to sway, the dance floor’s bare today. No tune, no song, no skirts twirling along. Musician, don’t be shy! Let the notes fly tonight!

Change the clock to 10 PM. Keep it before midnight, since the party closes around then and you have a limited window once the time is set.

Approach the entrance. A Salon Servant stops you and hints that you might be the musician they have been waiting for, asking if a guest who is not on the list has arrived.

Open your inventory, use the Cubox Portable Player Walkman, and play any music. This marks you as the musician and lets you through.

Walk into the venue. The anomaly guests start dancing, and the Strange Tale completes.

How to confirm it worked and reward

You know the task is done once the dance party plays out in front of you instead of the empty floor described in the note. Completing it grants +24 Footprint Points for Sunni Island.

Note: This is not a quest that depends on bringing specific characters. The only gate is the item and the 10 PM timing, so as long as your City Tycoon rank is high enough to hold the Walkman, the rest is straightforward.

Common reasons it does not trigger

You arrived outside the window. If the clock has rolled past midnight, the party is over, so reset the time to 10 PM.
You do not have the Cubox Portable Player Walkman yet. Reach City Tycoon level 7 to unlock it.
You tried to enter without playing music. The Salon Servant blocks you until you use the player and start a track.

With the right item in hand and the clock set correctly, the Dance! Dance! Dance! Strange Tale is one of the quicker Sunward Island objectives to clear in Neverness to Everness.