• Hmm… I noticed something odd in Episode 38. Some Numbers, is Rean’s hometown of Ymir a mining town?
  
• I also have a theory about why Laura is angry at Fie. That Bracer from chapter 2, Toval, said he was from the Bracer Guild in Legram. Laura is from Legram. Laura likes to train in combat. It would not be all that surprising if Laura liked to train with some of the local Bracers on occasion.
  
• Apparently punny names for quests are also a Highlander tradition.
  
• 50 mira says that the monster will be at the Stone Circle.
  
• I wouldn’t have figured that sheep-herding nomads would have an orbal factory, but I guess I’m just being too racist. FEDIT: At least the party finds it odd as well.
  
• Really? You couldn’t walk the 10 arge to the Elder’s Hut? You had to teleport? (Okay, okay, these episodes are pretty long as it is.)
  
• Boring Stats Talk: If I’m reading those stats right (as much as I can without knowing the base stats without items), Alisa is the third-most powerful mage, but she’s slightly faster than the pure casters – but not enough to really matter much.
  
• Aerial costs 120 EP? Sheesh, talk about inflation. It only cost 20 EP in Trails in the Sky. No wonder magic is so bad. Does the game expect you to buy lots of EP charges with the money you don't make from completing quests?
  
• Actually, this whole game looks like it suffers from inflation of numbers.
  
• So, there’s a freight rail line going from Roer to the Nord Highlands. What freight is coming back from the Nord Highlands? …Just livestock, maybe? It seems like there wouldn't be all that much traffic to demand separate rail lines going north and south.
  
• That watchtower is in a very good spot. It can see the Calvard base, but it can also be seen from Zender Gate, so Calvard can’t just blow it up without Zender noticing immediately.

Stabbey_the_Clown fucked around with this message at 22:42 on Dec 31, 2016

Cyouni fucked around with this message at 02:31 on Jan 3, 2017

• Yeah, I think that Zechs should have been able to handle the wolves on his own. There's an impressive thing which Estelle Bright can do solo in Trails SC, and I'm sure that Zechs is at least as competent as Estelle.
  
• No. No. No. That monster is clearly, not at all, a creature which belongs in this environment. Wait, I think I recognize it from TitS FC as a quest boss. (Rhinocider was also from TitS FC, but as a regular enemy in the Prologue. In other words, easy to kill.)
  
• Molten Rain looks like it could be good... except for that tiny cast range.
  
• Wild Rage? First, that's literally Agate's craft from Trails in the Sky. They didn't even change the name. Second, that craft fit Agate because he was a barely-contained ball of white-hot fury. Gaius, on the other hand, is way too laid back for a rage-based buff. Third, this is a game where at least two party members get crafts which heal and give CP to the target, so Wild Rage on top of that seems a bit broken ESPECIALLY in a game where all your S-Crafts are AoE's. At least all of your first S-Crafts in TitS were single-target (except Tita).
  
• I see a chest you missed, it's at the base of Triangular Rock's east side. Too bad that was months ago and you'll never find it again.
  
• I noticed that those task lists were surprisingly vague about what to do in the Northern Highlands, given the three notable areas there. But of course, there's always a secret main quest hidden after you do the others, so that should be interesting. I also suspect that given all the Alisa character stuff frontloaded into this chapter before reaching the highlands (without a payoff) that haven't seen the last of Alisa's character development this chapter. In fact, I don't think we're going to visit Roer in a later chapter (but we might make an unexpected or unplanned visit in this one).
  
• Good question, Jusis. I mean, no offense to the wonderful people of the highlands, but their lifestyle doesn't strike me as lending itself to requiring a whole lot of education. FEDIT: Ah, missionaries. Of course. Got to educate that Savage Heathen and teach them the Good Book.
  
• There was a quest in Trails SC where Estelle had to teach a Sunday School class. It was actually kinda cool seeing her character development through that.

Stabbey_the_Clown fucked around with this message at 07:02 on Jan 3, 2017

• Hold on a minute. Where did the Nords get all that wood for their doors, bedframes, and fenceposts? There are like no trees here at all, and certainly none bigger than saplings.
  
• I wonder if the mystery of the mysterious breaking fence will be solved.
  
• Okay, gently caress trying to find sheep with a draw distance that short.
  
• Yes, apparently Critical turn bonuses work for CP as well, because Alisa's Blessed Arrow restored 60 CP instead of 40. (Crafts are so BROKEN.)
  
• I was expecting that we could go to the lake shore, not that it was 500 meters down a sheer drop.
  
• Rean: "It looks even more massive the closer we get!"
  
• Congratulations to Rean on mastering the basic concept that objects appear larger the closer you are to them.
  
• Congratulations to Some Numbers on mastering the basic concept of "oh poo poo a character with 100+ CP is going to die, better use the S-Craft!"
  
• The real key to farming Sepith in Trails in the Sky FC was harvesting Shining Poms using S-Crafts or Shadow Spear. But that also gives you lots of XP, which might be a downside and leave you overlevelled.
  
• In Trails in the Sky FC and SC, you DID get EP back when levelling up, helping to make casters fantastic in long dungeons, but you DIDN'T get CP back when you rested at inns (except for one specific location).
  
• Hmmm... there's no chance it's a coincidence that there are statues on both places where field study teams were sent this month. Is that connected to the ancient ruins under the old schoolhouse? (Also, old schoolhouse dungeon music was playing during that scene)
  
• ...Okay, I wasn't expecting something odd to happen to Rean. I have no clue where the game is going to go with that, so points for intrigue there.
  
• Very good of the game to make it very clear that the photographer is a "hey, finish up everything else first" moment. But I bet now you're really regretting not going after the south sheep BEFORE the north sheep, because now you have to ride all the way back south, round up sheep, then ride all the way north to fetch the photographer.

• Quarries are typically used to harvest rock for some purpose. It is not apparent what the rocks from this quarry were used for (the statue looks like it was carved from the cliff and the stone pillars are too massive), but it has been a thousand years, so whatever it was could have crumbled away.
  
• Quarries also were not usually decorated elaborately, so all those fancy statues don't fit. Looks more like a tomb. Creepy.
  
• ...That creepy stone door will open later, won't it. And there will be a dungeon inside. We haven't had a dungeon this chapter.
  
• Since there are battles in the sheep quest, I retract the "waste of time" comment.
  
• The whole party recovered 120 CP from Rean fishing six times? Geez, crafts are so broken.
  
• You pronounce Agate as AH-gut, and not Ah-GAYt? (caps are for pronunciation emphasis, not a comment on orientation)
  
• Ewie is actually pretty spot-on about Estelle in FC just wanting to be a Bracer because it's fun and you get to hit things with your staff, and not being all that great at the details of handling the overall responsibilities of being a Bracer. That's a big part of her character arc in FC and SC, but I'll leave it off at that to avoid spoilers.

Erpy fucked around with this message at 16:34 on Jan 6, 2017

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