空の軌跡 // Trails in the Sky ⚔ Story Club・Week 43

Week 43 28th April 2025
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This week’s stopping point is after you go through the locked door, but before the door after it. To double check, you should have 4 bullet points on the second page of the quest.

Side Quests

Nothing this week.

If you’ve collected all the Carnelia books, the guy in the coffee house (west block) wants a full set.

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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.

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

Please follow these rules to avoid inadvertent ネタバレ. If you’re unsure whether something should have a spoiler tag, err on the side of using one.

  1. Any potential spoiler for the current week’s reading need only be covered by a spoiler tag. Predictions and conjecture made by somebody who has not read ahead still falls into this category.
  2. Any potential spoilers for external sources need to be covered by a spoiler tag and include a label (outside of the spoiler tag) of what might be spoiled. These include but are not limited to: other book club picks, other books, games, movies, anime, etc. I recommend also tagging the severity of the spoiler (for example, I may still look at minor spoilers for something that I don’t intend to read soon).
  3. Any information from later in the book than the current week’s reading (including trigger warnings that haven’t yet manifested) needs to be hidden by spoiler tags and labeled as coming from later sections.
Instructions for Spoiler Tags

Click the cog above the text box and use either the “Hide Details” or “Blur Spoiler” options. The text which says “This text will be hidden” should be replaced with what you are wishing to write. In the case of “Hide Details”, the section in the brackets that is labelled “Summary” can be replaced with whatever you like also (i.e, [details=”Chapter 1, Pg. 1”]).

Hide Details results in the dropdown box like below:

Example

This is an example of the “Hide Details” option.

The “Blur Spoiler” option will simply blur the text it surrounds.

This is an example of the “Blur Spoiler” option.

Posting Advice
  • When asking for help, please mention the page number, and check before posting that your question hasn’t already been asked. As the threads get longer, it becomes more convenient to use the Search function, which is located in the upper right corner of the forum. It is the magnifying glass which is near your profile picture! The best way to search is usually to type part of the sentence you are confused about, and select “in this topic”. This will show you all posts within the current thread which has that string of text.

  • Be sure to join the conversation! It’s fun, and it’s what keeps these book clubs lively! There’s no such thing as a stupid question! We are all learning here, and if the question has crossed your mind, there’s a very good chance it has crossed somebody else’s also! Asking and answering questions is a great learning opportunity for everyone involved, so never hesitate to do so!

If necessary, include an explanation of any discrepancies in the Ebook page numbers from physical page numbers. If there is an easy shortcut for some ebook versions to relate back to physical page numbers, it would be worth it to include it as a third bullet here, or if you want to use chapter page numbers instead of volume page numbers, as is the case with some manga. For example:
Example

For the Kindle version of this manga, the page numbers and the location number are always 3 apart. If you subtract 3 from the location, this will give you the accurate page number!

OR

Please use the chapter page numbers, instead of the volume page numbers. These are located in between the panels!

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. Did you have any difficulty finding the people you need to talk to?

  5. How did the mission go?

  6. What do you think the situation is like on the other side of that door?

Participation

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Describing a room within a building with cardinal directions is psychotic behavior.

Woo things are occurring

Didn’t expect the talk in the hotel to be so fruitful, but now we know, partially, how the black orbment came into our heroes’ possession. We also have kind of an answer for the “hypnotism” thing? Honestly… I don’t hate it. I think it’s interesting and terrifying how people can pretty much become unrecognizable if they, say, have a head injury or a tumor or something; physiological changes altering personalities are very real. The main problem for me would be how easily this was reversed – I guess I can imagine something that is only temporary if continually dosed, and the people stayed in contact with 情報部 so that’s kind of feasible?

I mean it’s straining plausibility sort of, but I also do like to give stories leeway to do this sort of thing if it helps the plot. I’ve been a little more nitpicky about things this game does (Cassius hype for example) specifically because the game does a lot to build a real world, so those parts where they stray stand out more. Like I’ve always said, I don’t think it actually worked out as well for the plot as just having smaller antagonists be independently greedy, but at least it helps excuse the pirates and let them be more fun to hang around cause I do like them a lot haha.

What a tongue twister. I really like that we came in here with support as a proper larger scale operation. Since this isn’t your traditional RPG story about a legendary hero or something this is exactly the sort of thing I’d like to see out of this series, the bracers or others as organizations operating on a slightly more realistic scale like this. Still a pretty tiny amount of people, but I like it. Feels like what we’re starting on now is exactly the sort of thing I was looking for out of the arrival in the capital, and I’m loving it so far.

Damage and defense is crazy on the two guys in front of the door. Felt like I couldn’t do anything meaningful but spam healing and wait for S-breaks. Didn’t help that attack one, while being an AOE to take out half the health of 2 people, also stunned Jin. Then they killed Joshua the moment his first S-break was available. We made it through on attempt 1, but it was a mess.

I’m sure we’re about to hit plot for a while, but what a cliffhanger to leave us on, heh. I feel like we’re going to be able to meet up with the people we came here for ok? But who knows. Gotta wait a week :sob:

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I couldn’t resist and entered The Door™️ to see what was on the other side. I stopped immediately after however.

Do we? I must not have paid enough attention, I got that guildbro got memory wiped when tasked to deliver the GOSUPERU but didn’t clock how exactly it happened.

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Response

I believe they were basically just saying, the way they know the villains here have experimental poisons and stuff, based on what they used on Agate, that the cases of the mayor and the pirates might have been using something along those lines. Not very specific, and really just Joshua or Estelle (I forget) idly musing, but I feel like this has been the sort of game where when the heroes jump to a conclusion like that they tend to be right. So we don’t have proof and certainly don’t have details, but I’m pretty sure that’s how they said it there.

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がかかか (help please)

I’m currently parsing it as まるで + モヤが + かかかった + みたいに but there’s too many か in a row.

For what it means, I’ve got “It seems just like [verbed] haze.” Nothing for a triple か verb, I’ve got four double か verbs including the infamous 掛かる which means whatever you want it to, and no clue what the other か is doing.

Looking at the localisation it says “It’s like there’s a thick fog blanketing the whole thing…” which suggests the 11th 掛かる option, but I’m still not sure what the extra か is up to. (Though it seems I choose the wrong まるで meaning)

Any ideas?

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I had the same problem. I dismissed it as a typo.

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Yeah, that’s what I think too. もやがかかる is a really common word pairing.

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Went with a longer week to avoid another door cliffhanger. You’re welcome.

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