空の軌跡 // Trails in the Sky ⚔ Story Club・Week 7

Week 7 19th August 2024
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Stopping point: Reporting quest completion to Aina, including the new side quest(s). If you look at your 手帳, you should see 2 bullet points for the next main quest.

Side Quests
  • 子猫の捜索
  • エリーズ街道の手配魔獣
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(yes I haven’t done all my side quests yet.)

Vocabulary

Vocab Sheet , the frequency data is very inaccurate due to not existing.

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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. Who else thought Estelle had actually lost the crystal?

  5. Now that we’ve all officially met Josette, not just the Evo players getting spoiled on her face portrait early, initial impressions?

  6. Are you excited for when we find the cat translation book?

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mine incident

That new miner purposefully sabotaged the shaft, right? I’m not sure I fully understood the implication of his little 独り言 but I think that’s what he was hinting at.

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Reply

From what I can tell (from double checking that bit and trying to ignore my future knowledge) these are the points we can take from that:

  • とんだ誤算 = unexpected miscalculation
  • so he was not expecting the monsters or the bracers
  • he’s going to be truthful in his report

Extrapolating, it would be reasonable to guess that he was up to something suspicious, but was interrupted by the incident and therefore not able to complete his goal.

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amogus

Right that’s roughly what I gathered, I was just a bit confused because since he didn’t intend for this to happen I couldn’t tell what part was intentional and what part was the accident. Was he trying to sabotage the mine or something else? Maybe create a path to somewhere? Or maybe steal something?

I’m sure we’ll know more later. I like that the game hints at all these political machinations taking place in the background that will almost certainly lead to some terrible event in the future. I’m guessing it must have something to do with that queen jubilee that’s in preparation.

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I played the rest of the mine quest last week so it was a short one for me this week.

Mine quest

I’m not sure he did it on purpose, but he was definitely up to something sneaky. He states that the monsters swarming was part of the miscalculation, so my guess is he was either looking for something or trying to open a secret path. I think he’d have used different language if the mistake was getting cornered by monsters or something like that.

Also I still think Josette is a secret princess :eyes:

Side quests and NPC sightings

The way the cat lady spoke was a little hard to follow, though it seemed like Joshua and Estelle had the same problem so I don’t feel too bad about it.

I also went to finish up that flower quest from last week and managed to get what I needed. Really the hardest part of the forest for me was that the tentacle pineapple looking monsters will freeze my game if they get an アーツ off.

There are new portrait people hanging around town!


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I barely just returned from the mine, I decided to check out the tower where the kids were playing during the first mission on my way back.

Tower excursion

I expected that Joshua would interject but you can actually climb all the way to the top now. Or course since you have nothing to do there you only get to enjoy the view but you do get some decent loot on the way there.

The monsters get pretty tough towards the upper levels though, so it’s probably a good idea to save frequently. I didn’t die but I came pretty close twice.

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I struggled with that as well, I think she’s never to be a bit… eccentric?

Also after the first cat sighting I thought it had give in the sewers so I ended up clearing that part once more for naught. I want to know what that rusty door is hiding damnit!

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Week 8 is up

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子猫を見つけてください!love2

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見つけた!

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おめでとうございます!:tada:

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