This week we’re playing to the scene with the spinny saw thing. Or, 8 bullet points in the main quest page of the notebook.
Side Quests
臨時司書求む
トラット平原道の手配魔獣
Both can be completed immediately.
Hidden quests:
臨時司書の残業
続・臨時司書の残業
続々・臨時司書の残業
How to find: Complete the previous step of 臨時司書 for each of them You can run around doing all that immediately or work on it throughout the chapter.
All books found for the library can be read. They’ll be on the shelves after you hand them in if you want to come back to them later. IMPORTANT: 猫語 can be used to translate all cat dialogue for the first five games. I strongly encourage you to read this book.
You might also want to grab some tomatoes whenever you stop by.
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I assume this is a cat I didn’t notice or something? Wanted to put my new knowledge to use but haven’t met one yet. Next week for sure I’ll hunt one down.
So I started off with the side quests. Did the main part of the book one this time. I figure these chapters always have us run around the local area so maybe I can find the harder books in the meantime, or at least buckle down and hunt for them later on when I have a better mental map of the place.
That combat one was rough though; I didn’t expect the game to give Tita back so soon so I did it with Estelle and Joshua only. That went badly until I dumped all of our money in upgrading all of our equipment; most slots have pretty significant upgrades compared to what I had on them, and I also needed 気絶 prevention accessories. With that all together, the duo pulled through.
So this orbment has kind of an EMP effect, and one that activates automatically in a seemingly defensive capability when other energies act on/near it. I’m curious if there’s a way to manually activate it as well or not. This seems… dangerous! Pretty much everything in the world runs on this stuff, right? You could take this on a flight and crash it. This feels like it’s going to be core to some scheme, maybe what Cassius is chasing down now? I’m very interested in the big world implications of this and people who should be on the forefront of knowledge about this stuff seem totally surprised by what it does. So I also wonder where it came from. Place names in this series trip me up but they were saying this whole technology was brought in by this 博士 from another country(?) or whatever where he worked with the original inventor, so perhaps it’s another place like that? Could the original inventor himself be involved? Hmm.
I quite enjoy Tita and her grandpa; she’s on that line where I could see her being annoying to some people but I just think she’s cute. His character type is nothing new but they’re really committed to seeing it through and the interactions were just a joy to watch. I take my coffee the same way he does.
I’m not feeling like there any secret villains so far, but we are likely to need some crime to clear up if getting our Bracer qualifications here is going to proceed the same way it did elsewhere. This big orbment lab is an obvious target… are we going to lose the black orbment? Maybe not, but until more things happen I’m just taking stabs in the dark.
I had quite a bit of cash last week so I bought all the gear in the Zeiss shops as soon as I got there, leaving me broke.
As I was equipping it I noticed that I had a powerful weapon for Estelle that I forgot to equip for I don’t know how long (more powerful than the one I had equipped until now, but less powerful than the one I just bought in Zeiss).
It’s interesting coming into every new RPG series and having to feel out how much they actually want you to use the shops or not. There are a lot that let you completely ignore them, and if you explore a bit, probably reward you with stuff better than you’ll find in the store at most points in the game. I’m learning by now that this game is NOT that, haha. And honestly that’s probably good, yeah give us nice rewards for exploration but if you’re gonna have stores it’s nice if there’s a reason to use them.
So, I missed the monster on the way into the area so I ended up exploring the entire region, including the local tower which was surprisingly easy and contains a ton of valuable quartz and gear (that outclasses the stuff I just bought ). With a couple more levels and upgraded gear and orbment setup I feel OP.
Yeah I think some kind of terrorist attack is planned on the capital and this could play a key role.
I missed that but admittedly because of the above-mentioned extracurricular activities this was a fairly long week for me, by the end I was going through the dialogue without looking up much of anything and didn’t understand 100%. What I did get is that R博士 is the 第一弟子 of the person who discovered/invented orbal energy.
I also think that they mention that the black device is modern (and not one of these ancient artifacts?) but I don’t get why. At any rate they were surprised not to find a serial number and expected that it could have an 後ろ暗い purpose (I like this expression!).
I also expected that the energy source they would use to cut through the device would be the geothermal energy from the onsen but apparently they prefer internal combustion engines. No I’m not obsessed with onsens shut up.
By the way during the dinner discussion Estelle at some points used the expression (?) 血を争わない or something like that and I couldn’t make sense of it nor find it in my dictionaries. Does anybody have a clue?
I ended up not doing the combat quest this week because once you start the main quest up, ティータ doesn’t let you leave town. I’ll get to it first thing, next week
future crimes
I don’t think this is at all a stab in the dark, there’s reason to believe the blackout is going to be the inciting incident for a big crime. If the conversation with 工房長 can be taken at face value, about the orbment being newly made rather than an old relic, we can assume it’s probably stolen and not just found by the sender. Otherwise there’d have to be some convoluted reason why they couldn’t get information from someone who was involved in making it. If the original owner is looking for it, the blackout would be the obvious sign that leads them to it. And if they’re as shady as they’re implied to be, they’ll probably do crime to get it back!
It could even be the recurring masked guys. Only a mysterious black-clad organization would produce a mysterious black orbment, the aesthetic connection is undeniable. Mmhm. (Please ignore me)
). With a couple more levels and upgraded gear and orbment setup I feel OP.