空の軌跡 // Trails in the Sky ⚔ Story Club・Week 20

Week 20 18th November 2024
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This week’s stopping point is once you’ve met the mayor of the Ruan region.

Side Quests
  • メーヴェ街道の手配魔獣, You won’t be able to turn it in this week.

A scene can be found in the alcove on the second メーヴィ海道 map. There a chest just east of the entrance. This is not is quest, but a later quest gives you more BP if you’ve seen this scene.

Screenshot

Vocabulary

Vocab Sheet , thank you to everyone who has been helping with this.

We also have an arts sheet if you’re struggling with the in-game version. I added a characters tab, so far all that’s there is name, age, occupation, but feel free to add any notes you think are relevant or you might want to remember.

Please read the guidelines on the first page before adding any words.

Discussion Guidelines

Everybody should feel free to post and ask questions–it’s what makes book clubs fun! But please do not post until you are familiar with Spoiler Courtesy!

Spoiler Courtesy

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Discussion Questions

  1. What sentence/passage gave you the most difficulty? Feel free to request some help, or if you figured it out on your own break it down for the rest of us!

  2. What was your favorite new vocab word from this week’s reading?

  3. Was there any passage that you found particularly intriguing? Did it resonate with you (either positively or negatively)? Was it surprising? Offer any insight or new perspective? Was it just beautifully written?

  4. What do you think of the new people we met?

  5. How do you find the vibes of the city?

  6. Did you find anything interesting while exploring or talking to NPCs?

Participation

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:sweat_smile: I will eventually catch up. Just as soon as my brain starts cooperating…

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Take as much time as you need. I believe it’ll happen :smiling_face_with_tear:

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For those with voice acting, hearing Estelle go へえ、ほう、ふーん was a delight. Also I love the idiom 食べてすぐ寝ると牛になる (that’s the most typical form, compared to what’s in game).

This week

I like that they broke up our trip to this new town with a few pit stops on the way, makes it feel like a proper long journey. Those floating fire enemies with their confusion status though, oof. I had to hit the S-break as an emergency button when fighting the ones that popped out of the treasure chest, which left me with no points to use on crafts when the side quest boss was blocking the road, thus I couldn’t rush down those two enemies in that fight, and it became a real drawn out slugfest. I’m super appreciative that our traveling companion actually heals and isn’t just someone to escort; she saved us.

This is giving me real classic RPG vibes. When I was a kid my favorite game in the world was Star Ocean: The Second Story (I still think highly of it now) and so much here is straight from there. The kid bumping into you to steal something happens in that game, and it opens with this sort of sightseeing tour of a town. Such good memories, so I had a blast this week.

Wanted to share another screenshot to compare what I’m looking at with the image RebBlue gave us. I think for this town the bright clean look is kinda nice in its own way because it’s giving me slight Santorini vibes, but it really hammers home how different of an atmosphere some of us might be getting compared to others. On the whole I think I appreciate the cute original look of the characters and the way the textures are a little more, uhh, textured. I don’t think “dirtier” is 100% the word but they do feel less glossy, more immediate, something.

Lovely looking town, definitely my favorite so far. I found the guy in the back of the warehouse area obviously quite suspicious and wanted to report that as a discovery, but following the story scene, I guess that’s just the hideout of the town troublemakers. Feels like we’re gonna be bumping into them again, though.

Bracing myself for a week of like 6 side quests next time, probably.

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Something’s wrong with your spoiler.

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Turns out it helps if you put the content inside the tag. Thanks, sorry bout that.

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“Dirtier” is like 90% the word :smile: Your floor looks like people have yet to walk on it.

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Happy to say I have picked this up on Vita (FC Evolution) and am finally playing through it! I’ve been meaning to play this series for a long time and have been putting it off because I normally stream/record all the games I play and JRPGS are a huge commitment to do on a stream schedule, so this will be the first game I’ve played on my own in over a year at this point. I think the last game I played off-stream was Spider-Man 2… and I’ve played something like 100 games since I played that…

That being said, I’m enjoying the game so far. I’m not caught up to where everyone is yet, but the combination of the voice acting in the Evo version, the extremely useful text log, and the wealth of resources available for referencing the game script (Thank god for fans) make it a pretty breezy read. Lots of lookups for certain words to drill down to their more specific dictionary definitions, but I’d say that in the moment I’m understanding about 90% of everything I come across so far – but I’m only caught up to week 3 right now so I’m sure more complex vocabulary will show up as I progress.

One thing I like about this game and the thing that has drawn me to the series for years despite never having played them is the… Fullmetal Alchemist-like European-inspired Japanese fantasy vibe. I feel like this style is often imitated but never really successful, but here I actually really think it works and is charming off the bat. There’s also something to be said about the Camelot-esque diorama art style. Gotta love that.

Hopefully I’ll have more to say in the future. Just wanted to chime in and participate a little.

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Glad to have you! (And I don’t think I got around to saying it to @polv but you too!)

Someone else on the vita version with me now, haha. :partying_face:

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I’m actually playing on the Vita now but using the PSP version :grimacing:

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> You will never eat a bento with your bro while chilling on the Ruan cliffs.

Why live?

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Dog needs feeding.

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リベール通信 第3号

I finally remembered to read it. A cool new ship for the military (is it the one we saw at the hideout? I think so) and… an article talking about onsens! I can’t wait, I love onsens in games, it’s comfy.

Looking at the map it seems to be in the next region though, so I’ll have to be patient.

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