This week’s stopping point is once you have an NPC following your party.
Side Quests and Missable Content
On which party members to take with you:
Your non-compulsory characters have relevant dialogue sometimes. For example, once you arrive in Grancel, Olivier and Zin both have scenes with their respective embassy guards, and Kloe has scenes with the castle guards and the ice cream seller. I’m not checking all permutations of the party for each segment of the game, and I don’t expect you to either. Choose whoever you want, just be aware you are choosing both for battle ability and for what dialogue they may bring.
Side Quests: (doing them this week)
- エルベ周遊道の手配魔獣
- 地下水路の手配魔獣
For the main quest: If you ask レイモンド for help, or give up, you will lose BP. Safest to not talk to him at all (unless you want to give up and move on with the plot).
Vocabulary
Vocab Sheet, thank you to everyone who helps with this.
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.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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
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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.
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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!
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
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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!
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What was your favorite new vocab word from this week’s reading?
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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?
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What did you think of the conversations of the airship?
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Did your chosen party members have any noteworthy dialogue you want to share?
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How long did it take you to find レン?
Participation
Will you be playing along with us this week?
- I’m playing along
- I have finished this part
- I’m still playing the game but I haven’t reached this part yet
- I’m playing this game after the club has finished
- I’m no longer playing the game
If you’ve already played this game but are still going to join the discussion, please select “I have finished this part.”
Party Members Poll
- アガット
- エステル
- オリビエ
- クローゼ
- シェラザード
- ジン
- ティータ
By the way, leaving this hidden to hide when future characters join.
Well, as soon as I heard it was a child, I honestly forgot how she was dressed but I figured it’d be this girl. So her parents are the techno-medieval whatever this game is equivalent of those people who drop their kids off in a Gamestop. This girl sure isn’t Dorothy, but they specifically called out in one line that the news people would be around for this event coming so I still have faith. My genuine thoughts are they’re trying a little too hard for comedy but I like this game when it’s more about bracers getting cats out of trees than it is big conspiracies so far, so besides the outcome being kind of annoying I genuinely don’t mind the hide and seek.
got some talk, and Jin got some comments in addition to Croze and Estelle. Not sure if person I don’t bring along have something to say (Olivier?), but bringing Olivier is a right choice. (Though I switch to Oliver briefly to talk at the North place near colosseum. Croze has ice-cream thingie, not sure about Tita and Schera.)