空の軌跡SC // Trails in the Sky SC ⚔ Story Club・Week 39

Week 39 1st June 2026
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This week’s stopping point is after Ruan’s hidden quest.

Side Quests and Missable Content

Ruan:

  • Before NPC dialogue (including the village, orphanage, and lighthouse)
  • Quest monster outside tower entrance
  • Quest monster north of ruan city
  • Tower roof
  • Hidden quest - academy

STOP HERE
(I’m just leaving these here for next week because I already typed it up, but the hidden quest ran wordier than expected)

  • After NPC dialogue
  • Hidden book - after hidden quest, go to academy, main building, downstairs floor, left classroom, talk to purity fix name
  • After hidden quest, take Tita to the weapon shop for a better S-Craft

Other:

  • Report in all the monster quests if you haven’t yet (it’s not automatic)
  • Bose: After NPC dialogue available
  • Bose: Hidden Book - after all hidden quests, go to market, book shop and talk to minuet fix name
  • Grancel: turn in all 14 hidden books to baral fix name, found bracer guild top floor
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Vocabulary

Vocab Sheet, thank you to everyone who helps with this.

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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. Thoughts on the hidden quest?

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  6. ?

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Will you be playing along with us this week?

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  • I have finished this part
  • I’m still playing the game but I haven’t reached this part yet
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Party Members Poll
  • アガット
  • アネラス
  • エステル
  • オリビエ
  • クルツ
  • クローゼ
  • ケビン
  • シェラザード
  • ジン
  • ティータ
  • ユリア
  • ヨシュア
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The Rescue (2021)

Alright this is the hidden quest I liked by far the best. We meet old characters we have way more attachment to than random miners, there’s involvement of the most minor of the villains, and scouting around with Joshua is a fun enough setup. I quite enjoyed this section.

What I also like, as a fan of weird little details and tastefully employed tedium, is how the bridge is up and you have to take the little boat across, but with so many people always wanting to cross, you get that waiting montage. I almost wish it had been longer. These are the kind of weird things that amuse me way more in games than they should, and that’s why I had an avatar on here taken from Flower, Sun, and Rain for so long, haha. But I really do respect that they do a small sequence to simulate the wait and don’t just skip.

The boat and dark tunnel were probably my favorite of the ways you see the world change without the orbments so I sent us in the wrong order. I didn’t even know you could get Tita a new S-Craft but I basically never used her outside the bit where you have to for the onsen so it’s ok.

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Unlucky that the bridge was open when the city appeared given that I think it opens twice a day? It’s thematically cool though, so I don’t mind. Discovering all the unexpected ways the orbment blackout impacts life in Liberl is the only really interesting thing in this part of the game.

I would argue that if there’s something worth fixing, it would be the bridge over the Onsen…

I think the reason I find this quest so bizarre is that there’s tension between the meta-element of me wanting to do all quests and the roleplay element of me thinking “there’s absolutely no way I would waste my and everybody else’s time doing that if I was in-universe”.

After my 3rd expedition in the tunnels I realized that I didn’t need to equip the goggle as long as I avoid combat, I can just use the minimap to orient myself.

Given the importance of the task at hand, I expected that maybe you would be allowed to cut the line…

It’s cool seeing the ravens helping out with managing the crisis.

I decided to avoid the Guild and go straight for the hidden quest since I’d rather not lose one of my last two Zero-point-thingy device just yet. And clearly we’re canonically not in a huge hurry anyway…

Foiled again! At least I got to dispatch the quest monsters on the road.

Damn, sounds like an internal combustion engine could be really useful right now. Chucks. If only we had one of those. And a lot of gasoline conveniently located in the docks right next to where the boats ferry people.

I like that Estelleたち don’t even attempt to explain that he can’t fix it. If it’s not an onsen they truly couldn’t care less.

I’m really tired of my damage output not matching the enemy’s HP growth, turning every fight into a marathon. And every enemy seems to inflict status effects now.

Unlocking tier 3 orbments was cool, while I could use them at least. I guess we’re just spamming Josua’s S-Craft then.

Fun and balanced gameplay.

Anyway, a school is taken hostage by heavily armed mercenaries. We save everybody. Nobody is hurt. I wasn’t worried. The status quo is restored.

Oh my god he’s gonna kill him!

But of course not.

It’s time for this game to end now. Enough wheel spinning.

Looking at this 361 and remembering how Jinn’s basic punch did 4 digit damage…

That particular hit I’m assuming might be partially that guy’s fault; I didn’t use him but some of the side characters they give you briefly tend to seem not very good, that part’s a shame. Or maybe you had to use him and I forgot cause he did nothing lol, it’s been a bit.

In general I don’t really get damage calculation in this game, there’s clearly some factor I don’t understand. Estelle hit a guy for 7 (that’s the digit seven) damage twice this week despite not having any debuf. Meanwhile the temporary bracers in my party started hitting for decent damage eventually.

At any rate I have Joshua set up as a one-man army like in FC and it works fine. Agathe is good too but I couldn’t have him in by party at this moment. I miss Croze…

I dunno how much of this is Evo vs original differences, but I did find the combat to get easier as the games went on. I think the Evo versions use the same mechanics as Zero, so these are the damage formulae I found for both:

SC

Zero (and therefore Evo)

Just setting Attack and Defense power to 1, base damage for original version is 0.5 whereas base damage for evo is 1.25. Also the Skill Power is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. It’s additive in the originals but multiplying everything in evo? Though, it appears they changed that from a number (Estelle’s first S-Craft has a power of 40) to a percentage (in Zero the first S-Craft has a power of 230%).

Um, basically things are different and that’s why it’s not very fair nor comparable.

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I have to agree that the school hostage situation was the best quest we’ve had this chapter. The scenario was interesting and being able to sneak around and scout out what the baddies were doing was refreshing.

Gilbert sure fell apart at the end though. He was so serious when fighting Estelle on the ark, but here he just goes full slapstick :sweat_smile: The attack where he hits 20 times while quipping and then landing like no damage was silly. I admit I also thought we were about to see Campanerula(?) roast him on screen but I shouldn’t have gotten my hopes up.

Quick question

  • long week (with uninterrupted 10k scene) to finish chapter
  • short week (~3k) to allow npc time, have that long scene be next week’s
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