空の軌跡SC // Trails in the Sky SC ⚔ Story Club・Week 23

Week 23 9th February 2026
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This week’s stopping point is after a montage at your house.

Side Quests and Missable Content

You can get a gift for the guys if you go shopping first.

Two new side quests, can be left for later if you want.

  • 翡翠の塔の手配魔獣 specific location: outside the front of the tower
  • ミルヒ街道の手配魔獣2

Boss Tip: They heal if you attack them wrong. ザックーム will heal if you hit it with magic, and ジュボッコ will heal if you hit it physically.

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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

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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 did you think of the interaction at the farm?

  5. Did you have any difficulty with the battles?

  6. Opinions on that final set of scenes?

Participation

Will you be playing along with us this week?

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Party Members Poll
  • アガット
  • アネラス
  • エステル
  • オリビエ
  • クローゼ
  • ケビン
  • シェラザード
  • ジン
  • ティータ
  • ユリア
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Perhaps I’m just dumb, but I am going further than I’m meant to (in the midst of more dialog, pushing on right now) because I misunderstood the stop point. You sort of eat and do other things in a montage, but then the game is pretty explicit about how dinner is going to happen after you do some things – but you want to stop after that initial point.

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Oops, changing that now thanks

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Dazed and Confused (1993)

Alright well I have to leave out what I saw after, it continues for a while if you get locked into that.

Really what dominates my feelings on this week is that mist boss, oof. Their damage gimmick isn’t anything super noteworthy but we got totally stomped by status effects and it wasn’t even nearly possible. Had to run out of the mist forest back to town and buy accessories that I neglected getting for too long. So now I bought (enough to reach a total of) 4 of every single status protect accessory in the shop so I don’t have to worry about making a big trip again when it springs something awful on me. Even then the fight is just a bit of a slog as they keep resummoning those enemies that cancel your arts and they’re fairly evasive to non-arts. Extremely fitting timing as the FF2 club was talking about needing accessories to block status in games, heh.

I really like the excuse to show us Estelle’s mother for once; it’s nice to see some of her past, though the glimpse we get is a time when Cassius is actually home and it’s very idealized compared to what her normal circumstances must have been. But having her mom, and the weight of her absence, feel more like a part of her past is something we haven’t seen much of. There is certainly no way that early next week they will discuss Joshua.

I wanted to joke that Estelle would say “Mom and dad, I need romance in my life, can you give me a brother?” but she came out and asked for a brother anyway! The rest is implied. I think that conversation was before the save point, I hope.

Also today I learned if I play my Vita while charging, the touch screen randomly activates itself. I think it’s related to having a third party charger but you kinda take what you can get now that these consoles are aging. That was super annoying and made me miss some lines til I worked it out because the touch screen skips dialog :sob:

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Estelle and Scheherazade were having a discussion that didn’t involve Joshua so Shera panicked and just slapped her in the face. Close one.

I wanted this to turn into the Airplane scene where they all take turns slapping some sense into her:

https://youtu.be/ZbnCZT5R8Ss

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Week 23

I learned my lesson with a previous boss early on (I think it was the first optional sewer boss?) that you need to make sure you have enough status negation accessories for everybody before you head out on a mission. I had a rough time with the mist boss at first but luckily I was able to reload to just before the fight, fixed my accessories, and then finished it off easily. Maybe that’s a little cheap compared to muscling through without save scumming but in my defense… it would have been a giant pain. Confusion and sleep? Ayyy.

Not too much to say about this week except I’m sort of glad I put it off until now. I can push right on to the conclusion of this bit without becoming a filthy pre-player :slight_smile: Gotta say I love the good ol’ idyllic dream trap trope. I wonder what’ll snap Estelle out of it! j/k it’s probably Joshua.

I just finished this week’s part so am able to say, it is!

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My god this boss… People who play this game in hard difficulty must truly be masochists.

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w23

Yeah I managed to beat the boss first try but it took me so long… What mean encounter design. Enemies with tons of HP and resistance that can cancel arts and inflict sleep and confuse and call for backup.

I joked about Shera slapping Estelle above but I didn’t quite understand that scene. I didn’t get what Estelle thought she did wrong (she “froze”? When?) and I don’t understand why Shera thinks it warrants such a response.

Then again, Shera was apparently routinely given alcohol by Cassius when she was 12, so she probably has to deal with some trauma of her own:

Cool.

「欲しい」って?それより、「欲望」がマシだろう?

Anyway, it’s pretty clear that Schera has a 心当たり of who this chapter’s villain is. I wonder who it could be and why she keeps it to herself.

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I was crashing out fighting that at first; you’re not alone.

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battle of the bell

I was using every potions, and forgot to look at the HP bar direction, mistaking NUM heal for damage. Lost with 1 boss life full (and no minions). Anyway, who is who is already in the descriptions.

Got it on second try anyway.

Then, I tried to wake from sleep :zzz: :door: which ends the chapter (Next Week, prob). Missing one fishing spot :fishing_pole:, maybe soon. btw, it seems that spots also count at the time I start the quest (4, already counting the past, to be found 1 more last week).

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Next week is finally up!

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