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S1E20: The Victory Lap.
Our first stop in our postgame tour is this guy.
And it's as simple as that. I believe the trigger for Coryool being able to win is his MAX HP being over 600, which'll happen around level 33 or so.
By far his best weapon, but not enough to make him an effective damage dealer.
Also the only other armour he can equip in the game is the Missionary Landcoat. Too bad Random has dibs.
The guy turns invisible out of shame.
Now we have the second last trip here (if everything goes well) but the last to actually buy anything on.
Barretta tells us she's tried her hand at forging now.
... Did Barretta get isekai'd to the Deport and choose to be a shopkeeper/crafter?
The second best sword in the game! Only available in the post-game. Hahaha. Anyway, apparently this sword is what LP2 and LP3 check for to determine if you finished this sidequest rather than any sort of imported variable or something.
She also sells a second of one of the best accessories in the game.
She tells us it might be a looong while before she comes up with something new, too.
Anyway, to resolve a sidequest we've had since the start of the game, we have to somehow know to talk to this teleport fairy on the Rillian side of the Forest Maze who is now sick.
Because she is sick, she is a bit off target when she tries to teleport us to Mizanbrandeau.
We go south first to grab this ultra secret item, which actually is one of the very few items specificially mentioned in the manual.
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Box of Moanings
Discover the old dreadful rite contained in the box !
Who knows if this item still exists in the Deport ?
In older times, fairies used it to scare their enemies, and escape more easily. But a few dark fairies traded some evil power with demons, and managed to get a greater box in exchange of a baby's sacrifice.
The tradition lived through the centuries, and the few boxes remaining still have the image of a crying and distorted baby.
No Box of Moaning have been discovered since the last 50 years, but there may be remote places still hiding some. The power hidden in the box is as mysterious as dangerous, so adventurers, open it carefully !
We go back the way we came, and...
Wait a minute. Some salt? In the fairy treasure? Could it be?
In Mizabrandeau proper, the fairies have put up a warning sign about the Hugh spider bush.
She'll only be too sick to teleport you to Mizanbrandeau correctly the one time. So... if you're like me and the first time you try this, you try to open the chest from the side, you'll exit to the world map and then when you try to teleport back there again you cannot because she's gotten over her fairy flu.
ANYWAY, everyone just goes UH OF COURSE NOT WE DEFINITELY DID NOT STEAL FAIRY SALT
Ah, Chanterless. The real beginning of our adventure. Let's take a look around for old times sake.
The post lady assistant talks about loud creepy moaning coming from the church and then wishes for a boyfriend.
lol
So does someone staying in the inn the ENTIRE length of the game. Must be a long term resident.
Even this guy in the town hall is flipping out about it.
The mayor seems to want to pretend nothing is going on though?
Anyway, we'll deal with this later. It's one of the... kind of superbosses? Most of them aren't really hard enough to be superbosses like say the way you'd say an average JRPG superboss is.
In the house near but not in Rillia, 'Zobkr' has gotten married while we were away. Everyone is happy for him. Except..
And when you talk to the happy wife?
She also mentions the moaning from Chanterless, so it must be loud as hell.
Next we go to visit Random's hosts.
Apparently the news has already reached Rillia! Martha here also seems to think Random's growing some blond fuzz on his chin.
Pierrick also compliments Random.
He also gives us a pineapple, saying neither he nor Martha have much interest in it. Guess they don't like pineapple on pizza either.
However, Sarah is in all things, bad taste.
Random also says he'll send letters to his parents later and promises Pierrick he won't make any big decisions without letting him and them know.
Marlon seems to think he and his band of thieves will regain their fame soon enough.
I believe she means steals FROM, but who fucking knows with this game, honestly.
Marlon gets pissy and tells Random to shut her up, and we leave.
It works!!!!!! We finally did it! You have to do this 'early' in the postgame too, there's an event somewhere that kills Jezzie if you do too much stuff.
Anyway, Luci asks Jezzie what's next for her.
Well, I guess it's better than being dead.
What.
What!?!??!?
Yveen what the fuck are you talking about. Also 3 fucking HP is useless. USELESS GODDESS
Jezzie let's us nick this as a reward.
And now we're on to the home of Sarah's hosts.
There's a mess of pots and barrels in the kitchen.
Sarah meets her host, Careyn and he basically says wow you look tough now!
You should become a Suprem Elf! And Sarah agrees.
Then he tells her to clean the kitchen.
lol
At least Leanda is sympathetic.
It's kind of weird that two of the female party members consistently object to or at least have concerns about the s/M thing and the other two are way into it.
Even Careyn's new girlfriend that has never met her before is bossing her around.
haha
Elsewhere, Sarah gets jealous of the maid Random hit on way at the beginning, again.
Let's go visit Kevin.
Hmmm.
Kevin also congratulates Random and co. on being great heroes.
Next, we visit the library.
Luci says she loves Simon like a father.
The guy Luci gave advice on casting Turquoise Tornado to now has a very mini-scene where Luci straight up 'boosts' him by taking his hand and channeling energy or something into him. Apparently he was doing everything right besides needing that boost.
He praises Yveen and...
I don't remember talking to her with Wendie in the party. Being talked AT, yes.
Wendie bites off a guys head.
Sarah still jealous.
This guy in the weapon shop brags about conquering the maze and wonders where Randoms been hiding. Then he offers to sell the secrets to the maze and Randoms just like '... I'll think about it.'
We go see Sandy again, and Random has a nice chat with her about everything that's happened.
Random also confirms the big Tournament was cancelled.
Then Wendie has a bizarre rant in her head about Sandy obviously wanting to sleep with Random. The dialogue here... it's hard to say if it's just Wendie being Wendie or that's what you're intended to get from it. She does say a lot of nice things about Random especially how charming he is when he declares his infinite love for Sarah. BUT on the other hand, in games where Sandy is Actually A Character, she's characterised as a timid and very self-conscious and normal woman who just happens to get along with Random.
Sandy also has a new boyfriend.
And Sandy's son, Steve, asks if Random won the tournament.
I don't know why but this line is funny to me. It reads like she's covering for Random being a failure.
At the ancient abandoned shrine, we find Wendie hates Yveens guts.
And Random will generously donate 5 GP to the local general store for some reason.
He's definitely not taller, that's for sure.
We teleport back to the SankT region.
And are confronted with this random encounter on our way to a small event near the Indinera Woods. Nothing difficult.
Indinera Worm's are worth 128XP and 25GP.
Assassin Elf's have a low chance of dropping a Diamond and are worth 54XP and 215GP.
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Indinera Worm (common, Indinera Woods)
To give you an idea of how huge can be the creatures in this mystic place, the Indinera Worm is for the Indinera Woods what a common worm is for plains of the Deport. That is probably the reason why only experienced Elves dare leaving the roads to enter the forest. Many times the Indinera Woods were aim of explorers' attempts to draw maps, discover the mythical Lakes or Elven tribes, but they never got revealed.
Talking back about the Worm, this creature is usually tamed by Indinera Elves, and used as a horse or a dog. Fat and long, the Worm is a dangerous opponent a lot of rogue elves use to steal merchants' convoys.
Sarah says YEAH DUH ITS BY A RIVER! And then Guanidia sounds the alarm.
We get an easy fight against... these. The Vermin go down immediately, but the two Pond Things have high defenses and Love Me does fuck all to them. Thankfully, they do little to us in return and don't have all that much HP.
We get 1700ish XP for this battle and some gold.
After the battle, Sarah and Leanda gripe about how gross and scary the things were.
We're still not allowed to enter Indinera, either.
I decide to head west, making a brief stop in Sankt Leona as we do.
I show you a screenshot of nothing, in the Japanese (?) themed 'Dragon' restauraunt.
There used to be a guy here in the corner you could barely see who would just tell you to go away threateningly. I mention this because he had the same faceset as one of the Lords of Evil Tower, Magnymion. The hooded bearded man we killed first.
And he's not here anymore. That's two lords that were spending time in SankT Leona before their deaths. I wonder if there's meant to be a society infiltrating aspect to the Dark Order that never really is capitalised on to the extent it should. It does happen again, but you never get much paranoia and stuff about it. Weird, considering their drug that turns you into a subservient super soldier.
Also I stop by the SankT smithy to try my hand at the pet tournaments (does not go well, Guanidia got stomped by the very first fight!)
Hahahaha there's always more. Your fucking sword BLOWS my dude.
Also he's selling Athors Co. swords now wtf?????
There's also this place by Evil Tower. There's no one interesting inside (just the most boring Guardians yet), just a Knight's Helmet to steal.
Over west, to the Minotaur Coast...
The place a guy wanted to build a restauraunt at...
Well, he's making progress apparently. I believe this state is where it remains for the rest of the game.
Inside there's many workers complaining about something or other or telling you what one identical spot might be later.
Some guy made the most fucked up window to ever exist.
Some guy wasted his money!
lol. That's cute. The actual guy responsible for the place doesn't say much of interest and we're not allowed to explore the higher floors of the tower, due to them not being cleaned out yet.
So I head back east, through Sankt Leona and still more east.
This looks like a barrel.
But it's actually the stupidest inn ever. It's also kind of a cute idea. A stupid cute idea.
It is also extremely expensive to rest here. The SankT Leona inn costs 750GP, btw. This place does have a special benefit to you if you rest here though. Or rather, FOR YOUR POTTED APRICOT TREE!!!
Apparently one of the conceits of this place is people bring their pot plants here so the gardener can make them healthier. I... Well. Fine.
Hahaha, Wendie shrapnels the whole party.
This is now an Elder Scrolls adventure. Funny, I'd have told you it was too high quality to be an Elder Scrolls game, if you go by the series average quality.
There's also a king here that refuses to talk to anyone but nobles. Not even the big heroes.
Like the King of the Northern Lands we met at the hospital, this guy must be some real petty kingdoms bullshit since neither ever come up again afaik.
We can also finally put a name to our fether friend. Not that we'll be selling him our fethers.
And this mirror inspires Sarah to suggest it would be GREAT to stay the night. Nothing happens regardless of whether you do before or after seeing it.
And uh, that's all for the initial victory lap.
So, I put together a comprehensive list of things that remain to be done.
1. There's a few one-off encounters here and there that are sort of like superbosses... but not at the usual difficulty superboss would imply. They're just harder than anything in the main story which isn't hard.
2. Chanterless moaning is also resolved essentially by a superboss fight.
3. Granit Tower, which may be the cause of the curse that turned people in Tangar into animals and strange beasts.
4. Return to the adventuring inn to get the quest that one woman offered us that Random turned down. It's a dungeon called The Pit of Fire.
5. I mentioned this right at the start of the LP, but there's a guy a the Rillian docks that will take us to some islands that are basically a dungeon. We need to commit genocide there, for the 10k battles quest.
6. Balthus Cave, the roughest dungeon in the game. Also has a couple bosses, one of which is probably the closest thing to what you'd call an Actual Superboss.
7. The 13 Cinders quest. Which requires us to back track to many, many locations in the game.
8. There's at least one or two really minor quests here and there too, that won't take much time.
9. Run through the Pet Tournament as both Guanidia and Herasia. Won't take that much time and is easy with the right gear.
10. The Blazers Tournament for -everyone-. We've not seen this yet but its there. This may be very difficult or impossible for Leanda without RNG firmly biased in our favour.
11. Grind everyone to level 50 for Reasons.
12. 10k Battles quest. Yes, I am really doing that. I've done it before, more than once.
That all sounds like a lot, but really, there's so little meat on most of those bones, in terms of things that might be remotely interesting to look or talk about, I'll probably do like half in a single update and the rest in 2 or 3. They will take HOURS in actual play time, however.
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