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Odd Wilson posted:Alas, he must eat humble pie and accept some parts of himself still knead work. Bush is always busy, he could stand to loaf around more often. Besides, this is a good season for it; might as well milk the tornado prevention, right?
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Rawkking posted:So they didn't add forbidding you from crafting if it would make you collapse until Tides of Destiny huh?
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DACK FAYDEN posted:You can do that in RF4 too! Didn't try doing it in 5 but I have definitely done it by accident in 4. in RF4, they penalized you by making it more likely to fail, but there's ways around it to an extent (Fluffy Scarf and Relax Tea, Formuade)
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The long and short of it is that I'll unfortunately need another week for both of my LPs. I've just been too busy with other stuff these last few days to have a chance to write an update for either. The thing is, I've got a bunch more projects than just these LPs, and occasionally they get unstuck and just consume all my creative energy for a while. Until, of course, they inevitably hit another sticking point, crash and burn, and leave me free for other creative pursuits. But hey, any progress is progress, and maybe one day I'll have one that just keeps going without getting stuck on something. I should be back on schedule this week, whether this current pursuit crashes and burns like usual or I have to set time aside to make these updates.
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Update 34: Ecological Warfare: Call of Runey Music: St. Poli Church Welcome back, all, Bush has recovered from being one with the kitchen counter. I've already had us take a Cold Medicine, so we'll just have to face this new day with less health and RP than usual. Hopefully this is the last time in a while this happens, every time it does we miss Anette, and she's the farthest behind on the list.   LARA: Bush, live your life so you don't have to use my services here. But if I did that, I'd have to farm my own colored grass!  First on the morning rounds is the Clocktower, and Kanno. We've got that Thick Stick for him, so let's turn that in and see what else we have to get him.   KANNO: This is the "Thick Stick" that I wanted. Good job. You certainly are bright. KANNO: Here is something to reward you. It's handmade. New staff!   You got Hell Branch! ...oh.  We already have one of these. I was expecting a wind element staff given the emerald, but fine, I guess. I'll just forget to sell it and let it clog up my inventory for a while.  Time to check on the Runeys. Everything should be fine-  It begins.  If you've been wondering when that inevitable ecosystem collapse was gonna happen, so was I. I had foolishly begun to think it might not even happen, but here it is. The Business District is down to just 4 Grass Runeys of all things, the rest of it's population having died out with no interference on my part. I've got a lot of Rock and Tree stockpiled, so I guess I'll go grab 60 of one of them and just dump them there.  Lake Poli would also be showing up as dying, but it happens to be at exactly 5 Runeys, which registers as healthy. Mountain Road is presently overrun with Tree Runeys, containing 1 Water, 0 Rock, 26 Tree, 4 Grass. If I paid closer attention to the Runeys in the air then I'd have noticed this, but you really just filter them out visually after a while.  Music: SummerBetween the Homestead and the Grass Farm I forget about half the time, I've been roughly upkeeping the current state of prosperity in the region. I could technically take one of the regions out of prosperity and it wouldn't change anything in our growth patterns as the pattern is: 1 region : -1 day of growth time 3 regions: -2 days of growth time 5 regions: -3 days of growth time ...and we're sitting at 4 prospering regions, but it is getting me more Water runeys.  ----------------------------------------------------- ~"...I see." - Cinnamon~ ...I see. So you think so, too. I see. ----------------------------------------------------- This was in reference to us claiming to not believe the moon is made of cheese. It's rather hard to intuit her reaction here. This is possibly the least telling reaction she could have sent. At least it was more than "...Oh."  ----------------------------------------------------- ~"Hm..." - Selphy~ A princess...? I guess a princess with super strength could be fun... All right! I'll go with that! Thanks, you're a life saver! ----------------------------------------------------- It seems like our suggestion went over well, now it's only time to see if it ends up selling well too. ...I don't think we're getting a cut of the royalties though.  I then resume the cooking that was cut short last night. I suppose it's good we passed out at the blender and not the oven. Would've been bad if we burned our house down or something.  Enough gifts made for now, it's time to get on with the rest of the day. And by that I mean more chatting.  Mystery girl's back outside of Mist's house! Been a while since we've seen you!   MYSTERY GIRL: Hello, Bush.  BUSH: What are you doing? MYSTERY GIRL: I was picking flowers. I wanted to place some on the alter.  MYSTERY GIRL: I really like flowers. Especially cute ones like Toy Herbs. MYSTERY GIRL: Oh! BUSH: What's wrong? Aside from the fact we still don't know her name?  MYSTERY GIRL: A four leaf clover... MYSTERY GIRL: Did you know? A "Four Leaf Clover" is a talisman for good luck. MYSTERY GIRL: Let me give this to you. BUSH: ...Are you sure? MYSTERY GIRL: Yes. You are a dear friend of mine.  You got Four-leaf Clove! Apparently it's just a clove, not a clover. Regardless, Bush's ability to make friends anywhere he goes has finally paid off in him finally recieving a gift in return, and a pretty good one at that. These normally take 40 days to grow and theory I could toss this into the seed maker and save myself the cost of buying seeds, but then that takes work to actually grow. I'll just opt to keep this and use it for something.  They do sell for a lot, 6500g each, but the profit per day just isn't as immediately good as what some of the quick crops can provide. One of the later watering can upgrades needs this, so that's probably what I'm using it for.  cave berries  runey management   ROSETTA: Say, Bush. BUSH: Yes? ROSETTA: I don't know if I should meddle, but are you having a fight with Mist? uh what where did this come from  BUSH: Huh? I don't... think I am... ROSETTA: Oh? Then I just jumped to conclusions... I'm not sure what this is on about, even my recording stops here for a few moments, with past me being caught entirely off guard about this. We talked to her normally just a bit ago, when we were talking to the mystery girl.   DANNY: You know about carrots, Bush? DANNY: They taste disgusting. I can't believe people eat them. Carrots are alright. Not my favorite food, but they're good in a stew.   TABATHA: I used to be Miss Bianca's father's maid. TABATHA: Since my age was close to Miss Bianca, I became her maid after a while. TABATHA: Of course, Miss Bianca had treated me like her maid even before I became her personal one. Yeah, that checks out.  TABATHA: Humans and elves alike live on this earth. Runes are a testimony to that earth so we must care for it. And with runes, we can wield the power of magic, enhanced farming, and toaster ovens. No, seriously, they show up in the handheld games and I don't know what else would power them. I'm really just hopping all over town today, but next up is to fix the runey situation.  One stack of Rock Runeys later and the Business District is safe for quite a while, hopefully.  Next up is Lake Poli, since it's about to die out as well. Now that I'm looking at it, it is extremely barren of runeys. I really just visually filter them out, I failed to notice this at all during the many establishing shots of the lake while we were on the date with Melody. Oh, and Cinnamon is up here.   CINNAMON: Candy asked me the other day if there's anyone I like.   CINNAMON: ...I don't understand. Yeah, same. Does she mean like, like, or just "like", you know what I'm sayin'? I ask because I don't understand that sentence either, and I just said it.  I choose you, Rock Runey! Go! And so Lake Poli was spared environmental collapse for like another two weeks or something. The other two regions will start to fall soon, but I'll wait until I absolutely have to take action first. I already shirk most of my daily runey duties as-is.  On the way past the farm on more Runey Duties, we finally spot Phanty helping out with the watering. I figured I'd set 'em to doing that as they're not really doing anything else. I originally wanted them just as a combat pet, but Pony has entirely cornered the market there. Bush will accept no subsistutes for a battle companion.  In this incredibly out of order day, I'm finally heading to meet Selphy and get a bath at 6:00 PM of all things. Losing 4 hours off the front of the day and having to deal with Runeys just eats so much time.   SELPHY: I think you're looking a bit smarter now. SELPHY: Intelligence can open so many doors for people! I don't think that's a matter you can just determine visually, but, thanks, I guess?  SELPHY: I take a bath every day because if I don't keep myself clean, the books will get dirty.  BUSH: Haha... I guess it's always about the books. SELPHY: Of course! Um, Selphy, you wear gloves nearly 24/7. In theory, you should only have to wash the gloves and maybe your coat. Actually, wait, she probably doesn't need to realize this. I have a suspicion she'd consider bathing to be optional and defer to even more reading.  It's not like she doesn't read in the bath already.  Following this, I destroy the floor of the Laga Springs with our hammer. Gotta grind those skills.  Unfortunately, it's time for more  Been a while, but such is our punishment for reaching the bath so late.  This one's pretty short and tame, it's just Candy being annoyed that she hasn't hit adolesence yet. At least it tells us that Cinnamon is six years older than her younger sister, so I guess that puts Candy at somewhere around 12?   NOLAN: Ho-ho! Bush, you must really like baths to stay long enough to get dizzy. We do indeed like baths, but this isn't a result of that. Well, let's put it out of mind and get back to the rest of our day. Off to the Inn for a bit of restocking, then it's off to Iris, and then the Lava Ruins to close out the night.  For anyone wondering, Uzuki still doesn't want anything to do with us. It'll be some time yet.  Buying more baking supplies barely dents our supply of cash. Off to Whale Island!   IRIS: I had a dream about you yesterday, Bush.  IRIS: I laughed because we were even talking in the dream. It's happening right now, too. Given that this Gelwein guy seems to hardly be a conversationalist, Iris has probably had more conversation with us in this last month than she's had in years.  IRIS: I do have a parasol, but I sleep during the day so I never used it. That would make sense, yeah.   Instead of the Lava Ruins, I opt to just do some more cooking before the day ends as watering the rest of our field dented our bars pretty hard. By combining Flour, Chocolate, Milk, an Egg, and Butter, we can make a Choco Cake.  Choco Cake Lv:1 was synthesized.  While it is expensive in terms of materials, it's some pretty solid HP and RP restoraton, alongside some decent buffs. It also happens to be Lara's favorite food, so maybe this'll help get her out of the 2LP deadzone she's been stuck in the whole game. Not gonna make these all the time, but we can easily spare it at the moment.  And with a little bit of weapon skill grinding, we close this day out.  Ah, proper sleep! Music: Goodnight oh, you have to absolutely be kidding me it's another tornado day of course     LARA: Did you work until you collapsed again?! If Bush told you the real reason, (namely that a violent hurricane would've blown through the town unless he knocked himself out,) you'd just make us stay in bed all day, thinking we'd gone delusional. Ah, yes, and it's also raining today. Rather happy this happened, in fact, saves me from having to water the field today. I'll put up a guest track in a bit.  Oh, Anette, we'll get you those Pumpkin Tarts someday.    LARA: Chocolate cake? I love this! Thank you! It's good stuff. Kinda wish I had some right now.  LARA: When you get sick, please take some "Cold Medicine." You have to take it before it gets worse. Colds don't really get any worse than they start out, and I believe they're fully cured on going to sleep, so they only ever really last one day. I could be wrong though, Colds are rarely a mechanic I interact with in these games, I'm usually on point about getting them cleared immediately.  LARA: I dislike "Vegetable Juice." Don't you thing we should all eat vegetables just they way they are? Lara does not like V8. A core part of Bush's profession in being a chef is that he cuts up a lot of vegetables, making them not just the way they are- an act in direct opposition to this belief. Of course, he's never made any Vegetable Juice either, so I guess that cancels everything out?   STELLA: The "Four Leaf Clover" is said to be a the talisman that brings you happiness. STELLA: But in the end, it is up to the person if they really want to be happy. STELLA: But it serves well as a talisman to give confidence to those holding onto it or by giving it to others. Man, all this talk about Four-leaf Clovers, and we even got one yesterday! What a coincidence. still gonna use it to make a watering can though, you can't stop me  Music: Kross' Theme KROSS: It's summer... I don't have a lot of good memories when it comes to summer. KROSS: Heh... KROSS: The sticky humidity, attacking monsters... That year was certainly hell for me... drat, you've had a rough life, man. At least Summer's almost over?   Another day at 10:00 AM, another day with half meters. Oh, uh, right, guest track, uh...  Music: Rune Factory 1 - Kardia ParkIt's not the most Summer-y or watery, but it's a track I quite like. I used to be able to play a little bit of this on piano, but that's a skill long since rusted away.   KANNO: You have gotten much better. I suppose the student learns best when the master is great. BUSH: You haven't taught me anything... KANNO: Your job for today is to bring me a "Cheap Cloth." BUSH: "Cheap Cloth," is it? All right. Didn't we already bring you one of these? Well, Bush luckily already has one sitting around in his bag I picked up in case I might need it.  Not what I'd expected I'd use it for, but hey, it worked out in the end.  KANNO: Good job. Here is your reward, a "Fire Rod." what did we go back in time or something, we already did this  BUSH: You gave me that last time... KANNO: Really...?  KANNO: *cough cough* My chronic illness... ...Alright, now I'm hoping this is just a bit he's doing because he didn't have anything else planned.  KANNO: I hear that fortunetelling can change the weather. I'd like to know how that works. You know, nobody in RF2 even questions how Alicia does it. Her mother always gives out to her about finding a real job, but never stops to think she can warp the weather at will. I mean, I guess Bush can also do it by losing consciousness, but he just stops windstorms.  KANNO: What should I make you do for the next test...? Just you wait. Please don't let it be a demonstration of Bush's weather magic, he really needs some normal sleep so I can try to make real progress.  CINNAMON: Teaching others is... hard. CINNAMON: You have to completely know the subject yourself. One can maybe edge by without knowing it fully, but it really helps to do so. Education is difficult on it's own though, as every student learns different and every day comes with new challenges. At least she's freelance, and doesn't have to deal with any regulations or overhead institutions.  CINNAMON: Is fishing fun? BUSH: Yes. It's difficult, but it feels nice when I am able to catch something. CINNAMON: Try harder. I'm not exactly sure what that advice is for, but uh, alright? Outside of hooking live bait, fishing's a pretty chill experience. Nice way to spend a few hours in nature and still feel like you've got a potential goal in mind.  CINNAMON: Time flies when I gaze at the stars. BUSH: You really like to look at stars, don't you? CINNAMON: ...Not really. Alright, whatever you say. Still gonna keep bothering you for constellation information no matter what.  In other news, Selphy has cleaned the library again! Will it stay this way for more than a day? For this we consult the Magic 8 Bush, just a little shake and... "Reply hazy"   SELPHY: I was thinking of reading Kanno's books somehow.  SELPHY: But he just won't let me! Stingy book hog! It's likely because he knows he won't get it back if he does lend you one. It'll get lost in the inevitable booksplosion that will happen tomorrow.  SELPHY: Don't you think Trampoli is a bit inconvienent at times? There's a lot I could complain about, even the falling sky island, but all of those inconveniences are still less than the fact that I have to deal with Runeys. Inconvenient, yes, yes it is.  SELPHY: Thanks to that, I learned to get changed and bathe all by myself. BUSH: But you still forget to eat sometimes.  SELPHY: Oh, come on. Why would you say that?! You know, Selphy, we have entirely different standards of inconvenience.  ----------------------------------------------------- ~Our Homeland: Zzyzx~ "Zzyzx is a chosen nation, lead by the great Emperor Eiselbard. Its people have united under his rule, raised up an army, and will one day conquer the world." ----------------------------------------------------- As you can tell, the Sechs Empire is filled with very chill and reasonable folk, with no superiority complex whatsoever. If you've played other RF games, you may better recognize Eiselbard as Ethelberd. Frontier and it's localization decisions, I swear. Also, why is this nationalist pamphlet in the library?  ROSETTA: Having adventures is fine and everything, but you should come shop here more often. Unfortunately, I rarely need flower seeds and earrings when it comes to dungeoneering.   GANESHA: I hate "Wool." BUSH: Why is that?  GANESHA: I just hate how soft and bouncy it is. I just want to tell it to "Toughen up!" Don't you agree? BUSH: Uh... GANESHA: That's why you better not ever show me any of that Wool! This is the weirdest way to not say you have a wool allergy I've ever heard. I just wish it was voice acted- it'd just be perfect.   MIST: If you throw money in a spring, your wish will be granted. Of course, there isn't a spring in my garden. It'd be great if this was actually a thing, as then I'd have a real reason to dupe wine and just dump a bunch of cash in to see what would happen.  MIST: Oh...? You seem to be wearing normal clothes today. BUSH: Huh? I wear this every day.  MIST: Oh, I'm sorry... That was in a dream. He really does wear this every day.  MIST: Yesterday, I had a dream where you were working in your field while dressed strangely. BUSH: How strangely? MIST: You had rabbit ears, a long scarf... BUSH: You can stop right there... MIST: Really? That's too bad. The irony of all of this is that we're wearing cat ears and a long scarf at the moment. I guess Bush would never dare wear rabbit ears.   RITA: It seems like Uzuki and her caretaker are arguing over a lot of things. RITA: But I don't think it's something to really worry about. BUSH: But... aren't you even a little worried, Rita? RITA: Worried? Why would I be? Those two are bound together in such a way that a little fighting won't change their closeness. RITA: You should trust them. This is mostly a signal that Uzuki's event is closer to being able to be progressed.  She still doesn't want anything to do with Bush though. We'll just go talk to Eunice instead.   EUNICE: The people of the village don't really need to use the inn. EUNICE: I guess it feels a bit lonely. I mean, Uzuki's here. I can't imagine she's just got a room for free. I'll be honest though, I never see any visitors come by. This is something later games got better at showing with generic travelers.  EUNICE: I haven't seen Tsubute recently. EUNICE: Where could he have gone...? We'll find out the answer to this soon enough.  TABATHA: The Sainte-Coquille family is a family of epicures. They are all dainty eaters. BUSH: Really? Bianca doesn't seem that way... TABATHA: Well, Miss Bianca may eat fewer times, but she eats enough for 3 to 4 people each time. TABATHA: She's the kind that just does not gain weight no matter how much she eats. TABATHA: That's why among her relations, they think that she is the only small eater in the family. BUSH: Th-that's amazing... Tabatha, I'm not sure this is exactly what "dainty eater" is meant to imply. In following generations, this view of the Sainte-Coquille line would gradually vanish, as the trademark extreme appetite would prove to show less and less throughout the years. It's not gone altogether though. Also, apparently it's pronounced "sont coquille", if the VA is anything to go by. The more you know.  Another day, another bundle of eggs, milk, and wool.  Our first set of pumpkins finally grew. I guess I did go a bit overkill on the fertilizer for this set- I was just trying to get it in before the end of the month, but here we are with 8 more days to go.  ----------------------------------------------------- ~"New Soap ♪" - Melody~ We have new soap at the bathhouse♪ Enjoy it's new, refreshing fragrance! ----------------------------------------------------- This mechanically changes nothing, but getting little advertisements like these are always a nice attention to detail. I wish they did more of them.  Toast Lv:3 was synthesized with expertise! In preparation of what's to come, I start to bake a whole lot of toast.  It seems my previous estimations of how good toast would be have fallen a little short. It's decent RP restoration and still 50 HP though. The max HP buff is mostly irrelevant, and honestly that's just how a lot of buffs are in this game without healing spells or high level medicine. I really wish they'd have put healing staves in this game, but alas.  Music: Lava RuinsAnd so, Bush's Baked Breads in hand, we descend the Lava Ruins.  All the way to floor where we last left off- B5F.  Peeking down the shortcut staircase into B6F, we can see that the staircase we're looking for will be somewhere to the left and south.  Just to the left of the B5F shortcut staircase is this little crossroads section with farm plots and the blockaded path to the south. This seems like where we'll need to be going. We'll need a boulder from the north, so let's check north.  Going up the north staircase is just another blockade, but we can see there is another boulder behind it. So it looks like we're going to have to loop around east, north, and east to get to this.   Well, that was easy and surprisingly painless. I suppose we let loose the boulder and see if we had the right idea.  The boulder smashes some ore on the way down, netting us some silver and a ruby- not bad.  Wow, Alright, I guess that was it. Huh.  LAVA RUINS B6F We stand in the penultimate room of the dungeon, at last. I go ahead and pop the shortcut door offscreen, and well...  There's no better time than now for this, I guess.  Let's do this!   Music: Mimic Slime(A new boss theme! This one's pretty good, I have to say.)  ...Uh, where is it?  Oh, alright, monsters are just gonna explode from the ground then.   A lot of monsters.  This massive group of hornets is also their upgraded form, which shoots multiple shots, so the game has suddenly turned into a bullet hell. The sting shots are pretty small hitboxes, though, so they're not too hard to avoid.  They fly right over the Earth Wand, which is a problem, but...  The Gaea staff still hits and it just obliterates the large majority of the horde and scores us a level up in the process.  Next up seems to be about 4 Panthers, an enemy we have yet to see normally. They're usually just beefy melee attackers with high crit, but in this game, they're very dodgy enemies with tons of projectiles they shotgun everywhere.  Said projectiles are pictured here, flying all over the place.  Luckily neither these or the hornets' projectiles hurt very much individually. I try applying the Water Staff here, but it's rather meh in performance.  Pony can melee these guys for 240 on a pounce, which is hilariously strong, but she's not going to last much longer in this fight. Her large hitbox has led to her soaking up quite a lot of ranged attacks.  Given these Panthers like to stay at range, the water staff is putting in a bit of work though, sometimes it does double hit and that performs some decent damage. I was also previously wrong about how elements work in this game, as it turns out, it's just two pairs of opposed elements. Fire and Water are super effective on one another, and Earth and Wind are super effective on one another. An attack of the same type, say Fire on Fire, is less effective. Everything else is neutral damage.  In time, the Panthers go down, and Pony is still standing thanks to me keeping her outside her aggro range. Seems like we've still got more monsters incoming, and nothing we've done so far has damaged the boss health bar at the bottom.  alright those are some big trolls Unfortunately, following this, Pony gets completely bodyslammed by the pictured giant troll, so we're on our own. She did a good job getting us this far.  I whip out the Crescent Axe and start going for the special attacks, and this seems to easily do the trick for these big boys. Their ending lag on attacks give me plenty of time to drop these swings safely, and they're nowhere near as evasive as the last groups of enemies.  Get outta here, ya mug  The flames break apart and spread across the floor...  Well that's a lot of slimes. Luckily, the strategy for the hornets works incredibly well here too.   We end up getting two whole levels from this encounter alone. We've leveled up four times over the course of this fight, even.  The flames coalesce in the center, and...  ...This goofy looking thing is what we've gotta fight? This is the ruler of the dreaded Lava Caverns? Well, it looks kinda like a Runey, so that's more than enough motivation for me to punch it.  So far, the Mimic Slime proves to have pretty low defense, and the axe is cutting right through it. It does have a melee range jump and slam though, which does a hefty chunk of our HP bar.  It can also explode around itself, the hitboxes on which are a bit large, but a bit less damaging than the slam. The extra super-armor granted by using a special attack seems to be letting us poise right through it, though.   It can also use a series of targeted, delayed floor explosions to force us to move. This is probably the most annoying attack it has, as these hurt and we can't afford to tank through them.  We take this opportunity to get back and eat some toast. The lifesteal on our axe really helps the HP upkeep in these prolonged fights as long as the damage isn't too bad.  The most terrifying attack it has is this multi-directional flame wave, which can build up damage really fast if you're not standing in the small blind spots when it lets this loose. You know it's going to use this when it twists itself, stretching upwards.  I take a brief break from the axe and try to spend some of my RP bar lifestealing from the boss with the Bubble Staff. The ratio restored really isn't good, but it keeps me away from a lot of the damage for a bit.  The fight drags on for quite a bit longer, and I try to stick to a ranged approach with the Water Rod. It does alright, but this boss is more than capable at both melee and range which makes approaching in any manner usually an HP trade. Honestly, that's how it feels a lot of the time in this game's combat, you just have to trade HP to beat anything. It's not as refined as the games that would follow it.   I end up taking a risk and just charge in for the last few hits. I don't have much HP left, but I estimate just two more swings could take it out at this point, and this guess turns out to be correct.  We cut to a cutscene of a now much smaller mimic slime bouncing around, and...   It just peaces out by jumping into the lava pool. Uh, okay.  Loot! But more importantly, victory at last! I have avenged my original playthrough of this game by beating this boss. Lava Ruins can go suck a lemon, I'm done with this place if at all possible. The music's nice, but it's just brutal down here. Of the loot in note, we get a few pieces of Gold ore, which is a nice jumpstart into some recipes we've been blocked from for quite some time. There's also an assortment of level 10 cooking goods, being Chocolate, Flour, Cooking Oil, and Curry Powder. These are actually prime duplication candidates, given boss drops is the only way you'll ever get these at this quality.  The boss's specific drop is the Red Core, which is apparently candy-like in nature. I can't believe fighting a candy monster took this much combined effort.  BUSH: I think I saw a stone tablet similar to this somewhere in the village. The most important item of all is the Relic, the item that will finally let us unlock the next dungeon. When will that happen? Next time! This update's running long. See you then! Left 4 Bread fucked around with this message at 19:23 on Apr 19, 2023 |
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I'm gonna be honest, that boss is one of the most adorable ones I've seen in the RF franchise. 10/10, would tame and let live in my monster barn.
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Black Robe posted:what a happy boss SimplyUnknown1 posted:I'm gonna be honest, that boss is one of the most adorable ones I've seen in the RF franchise. 10/10, would tame and let live in my monster barn. I can't deny that it looks like it's having a lot of fun, a lot more than the extremely angry Chickogriff. You'd have to have one big room for all that fun though  I wish I could fight it again, we got so many levels out of that so easily, but the increased difficulty version just melts us right now.
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It wants to play so bad but its little toy Bush keeps breaking
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Finally caught up on this, great LP! I've been trying to get into Harvest Moon-type games for years, but never really managed to stick to it. After reading this LP, I've realized that while I love to see a farm and the story progress, I am way too lazy to deal with the day-to-day grunt work of watering, harvesting, talking, gifting. Really looking forward to how the story develops.
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Boat Stuck posted:Finally caught up on this, great LP! Thanks! Happy to see you've caught up! For me, the dialogue and story is somewhat the reward of the game, but there's no denying it takes so much stuff to do, this game especially. I typically struggle to get into mainline SoS/HM mostly because they don't seem to have nearly as much character dialogue or more immediate reward for your efforts, and at least if you get bored in a RF game, there's the other half the game that is just fighting stuff. As a kid I did spent a lot of time with Wonderful Life and Mineral Town though, I guess it didn't take as much to hold my interest back then. On the other hand, the grunt work can kinda fit into a sort of chill vibe at times. Early Rune Factory games still draw heavily from the HM formula and have a lot of work involved in making only small progress. RF1 is at times, slower than a HM game, RF2 has the large majority of content outside of farming in the game locked behind getting married, and this game has just so, so much grunt work to just make the game progress at a decent rate. RFF really doesn't want you to play fast, despite the narrative dissonance of pushing us about the whole "Whale Island is falling" plot point. It's safe to say I'd be losing my mind a bit if I didn't have the option to boost the emulation speed, I'm not joking when I say the recordings for each individual day are about 50 minutes to an hour of gameplay, and that's with me using speedup to skip through the numerous slow actions. The save file has about 46 hours on it at the moment, and we're only as far in as we are thanks to a sizable amount of savescumming. (This is also all just aside from the Runeys, which are incredibly unrewarding grunt work on top of everything.) I'm just used to the grunt work at this point, I guess. Later games get better about speeding up the farm work, starting with the game that comes just after this one. You can water while moving, you can quickly gather items in stacks and just throw them at the shipping bin halfway across the screen, and characters have far more accessible favorite items. They also just get better combat on the whole, as while this game's combat is better than the first, that's not a hard bar to clear. I've had the idea for making something that just cuts the grunt work out of the equation and focuses on the fun parts for a long time now, but I blame my lack of commitment and short attention span- the bane of all my personal projects. As for story development, it's gonna happen soon, and it's big enough to make me have to spend a few hours working out a lot of how I want to structure these coming updates.
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Update 35: bath family Ah, time for another update! Where were we? Oh, right, we just made a giant candy monster jump into a pool of lava.  Rune Factory 3 - SummerWell, with that, we're finally on the way to some more new content.  One victory bath later, and I'm left figuring out what to do today. I've got plenty of time left and I feel like we're sorta done for the day. I could do Runey work, but I'd just rather not.  MIST: I think it's pretty dashing to be doing farm work inside the dungeon. MIST: The monsters will look after you. Yeah, they take care of me alright. Just not in the way you're thinking.  MIST: You defeated the monster in the Lava Ruins? Amazing. MIST: By the way, don't you think the Lava Ruins could be like a giant hot pot? Mmm... Turnip hotpot. ...This is about the response I expected from Mist.  We didn't come back to our house for nothing, after all, we've got that fancy new Gold ore to work with. We can upgrade our Lion Can into a Rainbow Can with some Gold, an Aquamarine, a Teardrop, and a Magic Powder. We happen to have all of these!   Rainbow Can Lv:1 was synthesized. Easier watering? There's no way this could backfire! oh, how naive i was, dear reader  I also make some more scarves while I'm at it. We really don't have much use for the wool at the moment, aside from this. We'll be getting to some better recipes soon though. We do end up with a slighly better scarf from all of this, but it's only a +4 Def improvement.  Our new watering can now waters a 5x5, which is a bit awkward in practice as it means it only waters evenly in 15x15 chunks. It uses a bit more RP, sure, but this should make working the field even faster.  Up on Whale Island, we've got another harvest of Moondrops.  also some tomatoes, but when do we not have tomatoes  The Rainbow Can is very fabulous in appearance, and is the height of farmer fashion. I'd say it fits perfectly with our cat ears and Summer scarf in this strangely dark farming game. Iris has nothing to say about Bush's fashion choices, unfortunately.  It's not even 8:00 PM yet, so why don't we take a peek into the next dungeon? Next to the Rune Archives is this gigantic headstone thing, with a conspicuously missing chunk.  BUSH: I think something can fit inside this dent... ------------------- 1. Jam in Relic 2. Do nothing. ------------------- What could go wrong?  Jammed in Relic.  BUSH: There's an entrance to the ruins here! And so the giant stone slides to the side, opening our way into the...  SNOW RUINS B1F Music: Snow Ruins(The music down here instills a forlorn, almost dreadful sense, and it matches. It's not as much of a bop as some of the other dungeon themes in the series though.) What, you thought it was going to be Autumn themed? Silly you. ...It does count as Autumn down here for growing things, but for this dungeon more than any other you're better off using Whale Island.  Walking forward progresses us into a cutscene!  BUSH: ...! What is that?!   BUSH: A Dark Rune? Something's not right here. I should be careful hereon out. Bush somehow knows what this dark ball is already. Unfortunately, the game's never told us what it is, and this has never showed up in the series before from what I know, so I can only assume it's bad.  Surprise, it's more Hornets! Or, rather, Hornet Queens! These are the real deal version of the ones the Mimic Slime used against us just earlier today.  This is also one of our first sources of Fair Hide, the upgraded tier of Insect Skin. This is effectively the Quality Fur and Speckled Skin from other games combined into one item. I handle these Queens easily this time, but unlike their mimic counterparts, these can inflict poison, as well as doing roughly double the damage in general. They're not to be trifled with.  One of the gimmicks of this dungeon is the ice blockades. These are merely walls that have to be destroyed with a fire magic spell, or a fire weapon as I'll find out later. The Heat Axe is really useful for this purpose, as it's faster and cheaper than using a fireball.  The next gimmick is present right in the next room: freezing machines. These accursed things spray out ice mist that hit for about 50-60 in all directions, as well as freeze certain doors shut. I'd later figure out that these weird arcs of metal, one of which is pictured here, power these. Just hit it with anything, and the machine will explode shortly.  Pony takes twice as much damage from the mist as Bush does, and she's already down to a third of her HP after all of this. It's safe to say the damage just ramps up a ton in this place.  More hornets down here, as well as a set of farm fields off to the left. It's so dangerous even getting to this field, it's really not worth farming down here. There's plenty of more easily reached plots on Whale Island.  Going north leads us to find Panthers! Not as large as their mimic counterparts, but just as annoying and deadlier. Their energy projectiles hit for around 70 damage right now, which is nearly as much as the Mimic Slime was hitting for on it's strongest hits.  They can do all sorts of sidesteps and flips, which is really annoying in a game where I can do none of that myself.  Clearing that one and the spawner, we've got two paths. One's blocked by ice, and the other visibly leads to more ice mist.  It's about 10:00 PM, so I just say heck with this and head on home for the night. We're gonna have to train up a bit to get read for this place. I think I direly need better armor, but most crafts recipes are inconvenient for grinding. In theory, I could burn piles of cash buying wool from Erik and just spam making scarves, but I have to imagine they fall off quickly given we're already past their crafting level.  I clear some stuff out of our inventory for an extra little bit of cash before we end the day.  And what a day it was! So much dungeoneering I had to split it between updates. Music: Goodnight Music: SummerBush awakes to a sunny Thursday morning. What kind of things are we gonna get into today?  ...I really need more fridge space.   Pumpkin Tart Lv:2 was synthesized with expertise! Getting only the best ready for Anette now that we'll actually see her for once.    ANETTE: The other mailmen don't get chased. Why only me? Looks like she's had another morning of being chased around, hopefully this tart brightens her day up.  ----------------------------------------------------- ~"I hear you found the Snow Ruins." - Kanno~ I hear you have entered the Snow Ruins. The Norad Kingdom used to conduct researches on how to effectively increase the number of Runes there. Monsters of cold regions are especially strong, so be sure not to push yourself too much. Understood? ----------------------------------------------------- Given how the kingdom left all these places in ruins, I guess they gave up on dealing with Runeys as well. Nice to see magic grandpa is looking out for us, though.  ----------------------------------------------------- ~"New shipments!" - Erik~ New items now available at Erik's Farm! They are all high quality items from my personal field, so feel free to come by and take a look! ----------------------------------------------------- I'm not sure if his stock has changed at all from what it was, but I guess we'll go see sometime soon.   ANETTE: Whooaaaaaa! The voice line is more of a "wooooow", the same one she does at the end of her mail route in fact.  ANETTE: Huh? It's for me? Thanks! I guess she's so worn out from schoolwork, postal work, and running from monsters she didn't realize we were giving this to her. Either that, or she was just really impressed at how good the Pumpkin Tart looked.  Time to do our daily chores while she catches her breath. Look at how much watering we can do!  ...Holy St. Poli our RP bar just vanished. Sure, we only had half of it leftover after all the morning cooking, but still. That all vanished in 4 can charges, and the missing 1/4th of our HP is from just one following can use. Uh... Maybe the Rainbow Can wasn't the best idea.  Looks like I'm back to eating food just to finish my daily routine again. The incredibly disorganized layout of the field is also a problem, but I should have that solved when Autumn hits and I can re-organize the whole field.  and so both Bush and Anette stand around tired for a little while  BUSH: It must be hard running around everyday making deliveries.  ANETTE: Yeah... it was hard at first, but I'm used to it now.  ANETTE: Besides, I run everyday so I know I'm fit. I never get sick, you know! She has to be the healthiest person in town, honestly. All that running around and a strong diet of eggs and natural milk has to make for some calves of steel.  ANETTE: You went deep inside the Lava Ruins? Wow! ANETTE: If I ever went in there, I would get harassed by the monsters right away. It happens regardless! It's a battlfield down there!  TABATHA: Do you like monsters, Bush? ---------------- 1. I like them. 2. Not really. ---------------- Given our best friend, Pony is right beside us, I think the answer should be obvious. I'll go ahead and split the timelines anyways: i hate monsters and lava ruins and all the monsters in there posted:
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I mean, Pony is standing right there.  KANNO: I hear you fought a monster that kept shifting shapes. KANNO: There sure are so many kinds of monsters in this world. Yeah, but just not here. The palette swapping's a bit frequent, if I'm honest!  ...Those 60 rock runeys didn't last long. Seems like I accidentally made a mini Grass Farm of sorts? Strange, I'll take note of this and experiment with it at a later date. note: i wont  I reason with how dangerous things seem to be getting, it might actually be worth messing with the Pharmacy skill. With our great wealth of cash, I take a small sum of it and buy a bunch of Neutralizers, cutting one step out of the many steps it takes to make a decent potion.  LARA: When I went to the library to borrow a book, I found Selphy on the floor. LARA: I was so surprised. She told me she forgot to eat because she couldn't stop reading. What ever will I do with her? Maybe bring her a lot of food she can read with one hand? That way there's no way she can't forget it? Perhaps I'm underestimating the ultimate desire for LITERATURE that Selphy has, I could be wrong on this.  LARA: Birthdays are the day when you celebrate the life your parents gave you as express thanks to them for it. BUSH: Oh. When is your birthday, Lara? LARA: My birthday is on the 1st of winter. Is that as auspicious as being born on Autumn 1st?  STELLA: When I went to the batthhouse the other day, Melody kept lecturing me on how good baths are.  STELLA: She really must love baths. I think even that is an understatement.  Another day, another messy library. Cinnamon's here though!  CINNAMON: ... BUSH: Um... CINNAMON: ... BUSH: She's concentrating. I should leave her alone. Bush says that without parentheses, so I assume he just said this out loud.   UZUKI: Trampoli is such a vast place...  UZUKI: It's so quiet... Uzuki's still dealing with Tsubute's departure, but at least we've got new dialogue out of her for once. I wouldn't really call Trampoli vast, but then again, I'm not living alone on a different continent from my homeland.  EUNICE: I was cleaning the bar early in the morning and I saw Mom sleeping. EUNICE: I was about to wake her because I was afraid she'd catch a cold. But then, Dad came in and put a blanket over her without saying anything. BUSH: That sounds really nice.  EUNICE: I know! I'm a bit jealous of Mom. Gotta agree with Bush, it's nice to hear something about these two that doesn't point to domestic troubles. Things are looking up, I guess?  Oh, and Eunice has the Feathered Hat here that I originally gave to Danny. I forgot that I loaded a savestate and gave it to her instead. She'll actually wear it despite it clipping terribly through her braids.  As we've entered a new dungeon, Ganesha's stock has improved. She now sells up to level 5 elemental crystals, as well as the Scimitar, Katana, and Pitchfork. These are the second. third, and second tier non-elemental weapons of their respective categories.  KROSS: So you wentt to the Snow Ruins. KROSS: Heh... The monsters there are resistant to the cold and weak against heat. You'll have a hard time surviving unless you aim for their weaknesses. I'm definitely going to want to try and get the high level fire axe made now that we're in there. It'll hopefully do some good damage, otherwise we just stick to our two usual axes. Really our combat strategy is to just one shot the enemy before they hurt us. Our chest accessory could really use an upgrade as well, although the Water Cape is a bit far off at 64 crafting skill. A new ring is probably in order too.  For whatever reason, Selphy is in Erik's store today? Did she get an advertisement as well?  BUSH: How is your new novel coming along? SELPHY: I'm in a slump... I can't think of any ideas! SELPHY: I think I'm done for... Well, maybe not that serious. Girl, do I know this feeling. Anyways, I suppose The Piquing Predicament of the Proud Pugilistic Princess Punch is going to have to wait for another day.   ERIK: Oh! Dried Fish as a birthday present seems a bit dreary but I like it so it's all good! erik erik, I gave you a strawberry As far as I know, you can't make Dried Fish, so it seems this is a developmental leftover. Also, it's Erik's birthday, but you probably already gathered that.   ERIK: It's the most basic things that will make you excel in farm work. You better be sure to care for it every day! You know, I'm really needing to excel in farming right about now, the penalty for being underskilled on our watering can really seems to bite.  ERIK: I hear you went to the Snow Ruins. ERIK: Are you sure you can manage all these fields? Well, you could just let the monsters take care of the fields in the village. ERIK: The reason I don't use monsters to help out is because I decided to do everything myself. ERIK: It's not because I'm scared of the monsters I tell you! If only monster happiness didn't take so long in this game, I'd let them do a lot more work for me. In hindsight, I might be a lot less strapped for RP if I just did more farming in the dungeons, but then I wouldn't have such massive profits! I think I'm close to the point where I might go clear out the first field in Lava Ruins to exclusively use as RP restoration. I'll just put some grass there or something.  Profits for the day are racking up! We're sitting at 58,000g, and have 22,000g in the box!  I now have to eat copious amounts of stored oranges in order to water the rest of the fields rainbow can was a mistake  runey management  Selphy's just all over town today.  And now that it's 3:00, we can finally get refreshed.  Music: Tensions(So, you know that track I've avoided showing twice now because the name's a spoiler? Here it is again, however without any indication of the spoiler. I don't really know why I bother, it's not that big of a deal, but I've gone this far with it so why not go all the way?) ...Or we get a cutscene?   MELODY: I said I don't want it! NOLAN: But it can be of great assistance to you. MELODY: And I'm saying I don't need it! I run this bathhouse because I love this bath! NOLAN: Then let us take the entire bathhouse to the castle. Doing that can be very simple... What in the world is going on here?  MELODY: Wha... Wha... MELODY: G-get out of here!! If you really like baths then think about their feelings!!  *She runs from the building.*  Apparently Bush has been awkwardly standing just off-screen.  BUSH: What happened? NOLAN: You caught me at a terrible time. Yeah, pretty much.  NOLAN: I came to Melody to ask her if she would like to be adopted by myself. NOLAN: I heard that she has no other family so I did it out of good will. However, it appears I have offended her in the process... BUSH: I see... ...You didn't handle it the most tactfully from what I can tell, what we walked in on was a bit pushy for such a delicate question.  BUSH: I'm going to find Melody. We have to talk it over. NOLAN: I suppose so... Please do so. Bush is going to go and get the other side of the story. What a thing to walk in on when we're half dead from farming.  NOLAN: I will be waiting right here. Please take care of Melody. First up, we gotta go find her. I munch down some oranges in preparation of whatever is to come, and go outside.  While she does like looking at the Lava Ruins, there is one thing definitely more important to her, and that's the Laga Springs. What better place to go than it's source?  To the caverns of Whale Island we go! The game never really acknowledges the fact we climb a miles tall beanstalk to get up here, and it doesn't acknowledge it for anyone else. It is an act that happens in a matter of seconds, somehow.  Riding through the caverns, we go to where we first met Melody, and...  Music: PinchEgads, Melody's been cornered by goblins! Normally I expect she'd have destroyed them offscreen, but I guess she's been caught off-guard.  BUSH: Melody!   Bush charges in between them, heroically wielding the, uh, harvester.  As we gain control, they immediately go to attack!  Bush fumbles to draw the Gaea Rod and Pony oneshots two of them in a single lunge.  And then Bush absolutely deletes the other three with an earthquake, throwing them across the room. I've seen a guide recommend level 30 for this.   With the power of magic and Pony's constant assistance, Melody has been saved from this deadly encounter!  Music: Whale Island CaveBUSH: Are you okay, Melody?  MELODY: I'm fine. I was just a little surprised. BUSH: Let's go back. Nolan is worried about you. MELODY: No! Bush, that was... hardly the right sentence...   MELODY: He wants to take away the bathhouse and tells me to become a princess! Can you believe it?! BUSH: A princess...? MELODY: He used to be a king of a small kingdom up north. He said that he's retired now and is just a regular bath lover. BUSH: But Melody, isn't that a good thing? Bush, my dude, you're too oblivious for your own good sometimes.  MELODY: No, it's not! I love Laga Springs! I have no intention of leaving this place! BUSH: That's all the more reason you have to talk it over with Nolan. MELODY: I know... But still... BUSH: You already made up your mind, right? BUSH: Then there's nothing to worry about. Let's go back.  BUSH: Didn't you say people who love baths can't be all that bad?  MELODY: That's a cheap shot, Bush... Now I HAVE to go back. MELODY: ...Fine. Finally, Bush starts passing speech skill checks again.  And so we fade to black as they leave the cavern.  Music: Sadness/ResolveNOLAN: Melody! I was worried sick! If anything happened to you, I would have... MELODY: ...I'm sorry. But, I don't intend to be adopted by you. NOLAN: I see... Since we both have no family, I thought we could get along... BUSH: But I thought you had a son that ascended to your throne...?  NOLAN: Yes, well... That son is quite power hungry... NOLAN: Though retired, I still have some power and he views me as a rival. My wife also passed away and... NOLAN: ...my youngest daughter as well when she was about your age, Melody. I do not have anyone that I can call family anymore.   MELODY: Then I'll be your family! wait what but you just NOLAN: What?! But... MELODY: No, not in that way.  (A special CG! It also super lags on emulation!) MELODY: Anyone who takes baths is my family! MELODY: That's why you're also family, Nolan! NOLAN: I see...  NOLAN: True happiness can be found in things we take for granted. I guess I forgot that simple truth... Thank you, Melody.  MELODY: I'm sorry for saying all those terrible things to you, too. MELODY: I also forgot that people who love baths can't be bad people. NOLAN: May I come again to take a bath here? May I be able to stay as your family? MELODY: Of course!♪  Music: Business District Buildings...and that's it. I'm still not entirely sure what happened, but I think it was good? bath family  Regardless, that was Melody's final event, as she's our first bachelorette to hit LP 10! Oh, and this takes at least 1 FP Nolan to trigger, but we've got like 4 for him or something. This has it's upsides and downsides. On one hand, we got to see the dating event early, we no longer have to make gifts for Melody, and we'll unlock a little bit of stuff regarding marriage. On the other hand, Melody won't have all that much in the way of new dialogue, so we'll be seeing a bit less of her outside of festivals and that one event I've yet to trigger. I'll include some stuff about her in RF1 every once in a while, I guess.  Well, back to business. We need to get to Farming 59 to no longer take extra RP to use our new watering can, although I'm not sure it'll make that much of a difference. We might be better off just rushing the maximum sized watering can and take advantage of it's 6x6 watering range. ...that could also backfire even harder, so maybe we just wait a bit on that  MELODY: Looks like I got you all worried, Bush. MELODY: But I'm okay now! I'm back to my usual self! Yep, all is back to normal.  The bath is also open again, so we can get ourselves refreshed for the rest of the day.  Music: Snow RuinsFollowing this, we duck into Snow Ruins to train our skills up. Unfortunately, Pony's pretty much been defeated by just the first two hornets this time.  Because of that, I decide to turn this into a scouting run. I need to know what I'm up against.  For reasons I'm not entirely sure of, this room that originally just had 1 or 2 Shadow Panthers before now has 2 Shadow Panthers and 2 Queen Hornets.  Heading north from there, we find Death Stalkers, upgraded scorpion enemies. They're really just deadlier than their normal counterparts with better drops as well. A path is off to the right and the room extends northwards a bit more.  There also happens to be Glaces hiding in the mist of this ice mist generator. They can either shoot three large balls of ice, or create and drop 4 icicles around them. Weirdly, it's rather easy to run through this generator's mist, not sure why that is. Pony would still get destroyed thanks to her big hitbox.   The door to the north is frozen shut due to the mist generator so I head into the upper right path to find farmland. There's an exit to the right, but it's blocked off. I suppose we head back to the lower right next time.  This place still hurts a ton, so I load back a savestate following that first rough encounter with Queen Hornets. Nothing lost, and nothing gained I couldn't have gotten by just looking up a map.  rainbow power is so exhausting  Nothing new from Iris, but we're close-ish to some more interesting stuff with her.  ...Wow, just dumping a pile of Rock Runeys in a location really doesn't do anything for its stability. The lake is in rough condition already, and I've still got two other locations on clock to die out. I may try stocking all of these dying areas with a few of all 4 kinds of runey, and see if that brings them to stability faster. The 7 day grace period is almost here with Autumn just around the corner, so it might be the best shot I have to promote a whole bunch of growth across the board. I might be able to skim more than usual off the top of the prosperous areas, and stock most of the areas up to about 10 or so runeys each. Hm... If not, I guess I may have to keep them on the edge of death to spare runey expense. This could actually be mildly fun from a management perspective if the act of actually harvesting and moving runeys wasn't so cumbersome and time wasting.   I've got some Rocks on hand from management today, so I ride up to the lake and throw another 25 or so out into the wild. I also throw out about 30 Trees, hoping that this might prolong it's decay. I don't really have much Water to spare.  I spend the rest of our meters on gift cooking and preparing Tomato Juice for the coming days. Bush may now have to partake in his Tomato Juice frequently to keep up with the drain this new watering can is causing.  Looking in the *gasp* Pharmacy for once, the best potion seems to be Energy Drink X, which heals for 300. That's the kind of bulk healing I need, double the healing you used to get for basic potions in previous games. These take two Energy Drink S and a White Grass to make, the latter requirement making them frustratingly difficult to get. I might have some White Grass to spare if I'd let my fields get obliterated by storms, but then I'd be broke.  The Energy Drink S requires two normal Energy Drinks to make, and heals for 105. This means in total, to make a E. Drink X, we need 4 Yellow, 4 Orange, 4 Blue, and 4 Purple grasses, alongside 4 Medicinal Herbs, 1 White Grass and a minimum 50 skill. That's not bad, but the thing I dislike the most is how many individual crafts we have to do to make these from scratch. We're talking 19 separate crafting steps to make just 1 potion. We can buy Energy Drinks premade for 260g each, which is 160g more than the individual materials cost. Honestly, it's not that bad a deal when you factor in the RP cost to make it all individually. Maybe I'm just too frugal.  I get to making some Energy Drink S anyways to end this day off, we're not skilled enough to do X, nor do I have the White Grass outside of a lucky drop I got yesterday. This whole pharmacy talk was mostly to put more things in perspective about our gear setup now that we're at a new dungeon.  This is pretty much the end of today though, just one stop by the bar for more baking supplies, leaving us with nearly 90,000g in pocket.  Before he heads to bed, Bush lights his bed on fire with the Hell Rod. Classic Bush. See you next time as we prepare for the upcoming festival on the 25th! I'll give you a hint, it involves boats. Left 4 Bread fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Apr 19, 2023 |
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Nolan was hanging out at this bathhouse as a slightly weird bath-loving old man all this time so he could awkwardly fumble through trying to adopt Melody for this one event? At least he'll stay around as adopted bath-family, I guess. Everything worked out fine for all. Shame Melody won't have much more after this event though. Pony's going to take things all the way to the final boss with all that MVP quality.
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BraveLittleToaster posted:Nolan was hanging out at this bathhouse as a slightly weird bath-loving old man all this time so he could awkwardly fumble through trying to adopt Melody for this one event? At least he'll stay around as adopted bath-family, I guess. Everything worked out fine for all. Shame Melody won't have much more after this event though. Nolan should adopt Pony and make her the princess. She deserves to be royalty.
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BraveLittleToaster posted:Nolan was hanging out at this bathhouse as a slightly weird bath-loving old man all this time so he could awkwardly fumble through trying to adopt Melody for this one event? At least he'll stay around as adopted bath-family, I guess. Everything worked out fine for all. Shame Melody won't have much more after this event though. Yep, pretty much on both accounts! Nolan himself is only at like, FP 4 right now, he's still got a number of conversations under his belt. Melody is pretty tapped out though- it's an unfortunate side effect of making most dialogue based on FP/LP levels, something the later games kinda try to improve, but don't always succeed at. I'll be honest, I though the story was working towards Melody being a lost child of Nolan's royal family, and thus a princess by birthright, but this ending was good too. I like Melody just being the wacky, wizard cosplaying girl who finds happiness in life from baths and nothing more. ...bath family Black Robe posted:Nolan should adopt Pony and make her the princess. She deserves to be royalty. Once we expand the barn, she'll get her own room on the top floor to look down on the world. Nolan can adopt her if he wants, but she's not leaving Bush's side for anything.
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Update 36: The Day Bush Didn't Bathe  Music: Trampoli Daily LifeWelcome back! Bush is continuing his morning routine of baking food. Eventually we'll hit a point where we just don't have to do this anymore outside of adventuring provisions.  It seems as if those Pink Cats I planted are almost ready. ...I think I mentioned planting those? My memory is as unreliable as Bush's it seems!  Morning, Anette!  Mail!  ----------------------------------------------------- ~"See you at the lake!" - Ganesha~ Tomorrow is the Ganesha Cup Boat Race! As its name suggests, I am the sponsor. Everyone, come by Lake Poli tomorrow to participate! ----------------------------------------------------- Tomorrow is indeed the Ganesha Cup Boat Race! It'll be a fun day, and the first time I get to do this festival. Also, I just like festivals.  ----------------------------------------------------- ~"How goes exploring the Snow Ruins?" - Kanno~ How goes exploring the Snow Ruins? Creatures in cold climates tend to grow much larger than those of warm climates. According to my documents, a monster used to guard the ruins. If that monster were still alive and fulfilling its duty... Impossible. That would be impossible. ----------------------------------------------------- I somehow think there's a high chance said monster is still fulfilling its duty. Also to respond to how the exploring is going: "im getting my rear end handed to me over here"  ANETTE: The other day, I was making my deliveries half asleep and I crashed into Erik's mailbox... ANETTE: I can't believe I did that. He always treats me to meals, too... I mean, I fixed it, but still. News Report: Lack of sleep is now leading cause of vandalism in Trampoli, with all of a devastating one case having been reported in the last two seasons. Is this a downward spiral for our tranquil little town? But seriously, I don't think he cares too much. He's an odd guy, but he is pretty chill. Danny, on the other hand, he's not got much chill for how chill he tries to look.  ANETTE: Tomorrow is the Boat Race. I love festivals! Are you going to join, too, Bush? ------------------------------- 1. I will. 2. I'm still thinking about it. ------------------------------- Unlike other questions, this one's attached to a holiday so it'll show up again if I just talk to her some more. I don't even have to ----------------- "I will." ANETTE: Really? Then maybe I should join, too. ----------------- "I'm still thinking about it." ANETTE: Oh, come on! Do it! It'll be fun! Anette is very hyped for the boats, as you might be able to tell.  well, time to get extremely exhausted from the rainbow can  I'm having to even drop by to grab the rune from the cave strawberries. At least this will hopefully get better when Autumn drops.  manage those runes   BIANCA: Boat Race? I'm not going to participate. Aren't boats for servants to row? Bianca doesn't like having to work for fun. I think even Selphy might be more athletic than her, and that's one low bar. You can get her to participate, but that'll be a long way off from now.  TABATHA: Tomorrow is the Boat Race. Will you be participateing, Bush?  TABATHA: I wish you luck. Tabatha knows Bush well, and immediately assumes he will be boating.  MIST: Tomorrow is the Boat Race. You race with boats. She's... she's not wrong.   KANNO: Do you know why a boat can float on water? KANNO: The Spirits in the water are pushing the boat up. But, the reason why the Spirits are... KANNO: Bush! Are you listening?! Bush believes in floatational physics, and has no need for runic theory.  MELODY: I hear that there's going to be a Boat Race tomorrow. I think they'll be racing with boats. MELODY: Not a very witty name, don't you think? ♪ It really isn't. At least I don't have to wonder what we're doing though!  CINNAMON: Tomorrow is the Boat Race so you can't go fishing at the lake. Too bad. There wouldn't be anything to catch anyways. All the fish are going to be hiding while Trampoli Drift is going on.  LARA: Sister Stella is getting very excited as she prepares for the Boat Race tomorrow. Apparently, Stella is an avid boater. No wonder she's up there on the weekends, she must be shredding waves while nobody's looking!   UZUKI: Bush... UZUKI: Tsubute... has not returned. I can hear him so I know he is nearby, but... Uzuki's really not handling this well.  UZUKI: What shall I do, Bush? BUSH: That's easy. If you think you were wrong or if you said horrible things, you just need to say you're sorry. UZUKI: Say that I'm sorry...? But even if I did, Tsubute will never... UZUKI: I don't know what to do... UZUKI: Tsubute... This is our sign it's time to progress this event for once! In a minute though, I've got people to talk to.  EUNICE: Bush, will you be participating in tomorrow's Boat Race? EUNICE: I can't. It's too scary to row a boat... Part of me would like to think it would be pretty fun, but I'm also afraid of falling, so any loss of balance just sends my heart racing and not in a good way.  DANNY: Tomorrow is the Boat Race! DANNY: Did you train for it, Bush? Even if we end up going up against each other, I won't go easy on you! danny what are you going on about you've never even been to the lake, what do you know about boats  Ganesha oddly has nothing to say about her own boat race, and instead continues to impress upon us the idea that wool is too soft and that the Green Ruins are dangerous.  Outside the shop, we hear an oddly familiar insect. We follow the noise to the left of Ganesha's shop, and...  *Cicada noises* BUSH: That voice... Tsubute?  Music: Sadness/Resolve TSUBUTE: Bush, did you come to laugh at my pitiful self? BUSH: Of course not! TSUBUTE: It is all right. I am not needed by milady, and her brother, milord, is still nowhere to be found. TSUBUTE: All I can do is to rot here alone... BUSH: ... Seriously, have you been out here this whole time? What have you been eating?  Uzuki seems to have heard us, and approaches.  TSUBUTE: Milady...  UZUKI: Tsubute... It is all your fault... You were the one to say we should return... Hold up, what did Bush just tell you? UZUKI: ...No. I misspoke. That is not what I want to say!  Uzu: I'm... sorry, Tsubute. I am sorry for saying those things to you... Uzu: I know I may be pushing my luck... but would you please come back...? I need you. TSUBUTE: Milady... Those words alone are enough for me. There ya go. I'm starting to seriously think you've really got too much stress built up or something.  Music: Festival- Celebration(This new track is obviously for festivals, but it also sounds very Mineral Town-ish so I dig it.) TSUBUTE: I am unworthy, but I shall work to aid you the best I can, milady!  TSUBUTE: And it seems that you still cannot live without me! UZUKI: What say you?! I am an adult now! You can stop treating me like a child! st. poli's stromboli, this lasted all of 5 seconds you two seriously  Music: Let the Games Begin!TSUBUTE: Graaagh! What was that?! TSUBUTE: You are still a child if you cannod admit your mistakes and apologize with all of your heart. UZUKI: But I did apologize! Stop digging up what is past! You are an elder but you still act a child! TSUBUTE: I am still better than someone who cannot even wake up on her own every morning! UZUKI: Th-that only happened once! How dare you, you stubborn old coot! TSUBUTE: Stubborn, you say?! Well, that is all because...  BUSH: (...They're back to how they were before. That's a relief.) I wouldn't call it a relief, but it's better than depression, I guess? Maybe? I'm starting to think Cicada Samurai Dad is the problem here.  Music: Trampoli UZUKI: Bush. It seems that I have caused you much worry. But there is no need for that anymore. Yeah, you know what, you two do you gonna go talk about boats with people  BUSH: Turner, are you going to participate in tomorrow's Boat Race?  TURNER: Not with how fat I am right now. I'll sink the boat! Hahaha. Despite saying this, this won't actually stop him from trying. You'll understand what I mean tomorrow.  RITA: The Boat Race sure brings back a lot memories.  RITA: Of course, Turner can't row the boat being how fat he is now. You could get a bigger boat, maybe? That little gondola's part canoe at this point anyways.  ERIK: Are you prepared to pick up the oar? ERIK: Did you rub oil onto the base of the ship? ERIK: Did you find someone to ride with you? ERIK: Do you think you can beat me?! Yes, no, no, and yes, in that order.  Selphy is now in the LP 8 range, about a week late for the Summer date. Asking her out now would only schedule for the Fall date, which is a tad odd given that's like 24 days away or something. It's almost a whole month off. We'll have most of our bachelorettes available to date by then, and I'll show all of them off when we do.  SELPHY: The Boat Race? I'll pass. SELPHY: Well, if I row a boat, I'll definitely get muscle pain the next day.  It's following this that I try to do another fight against Mimic Slime, but I briefly forgot that bosses get tougher after the first fight.  These Queen Hornets have double the damage and nearly triple the HP it would seem, so we get thoroughly owned in short order. It's a good thing this was just an alternate timeline!  Back to the magic crystal mines we go, to impress our constellation teacher. Today, I prepared some cookies as working food, and they're not too bad, despite the cost of 2 milk and 1 flour total being about 700g. The healing's okay, too, but they're definitely not the most efficient option for either choice. Just Warm Milk and Bread alone would probably be better. I've got a lot of leftover Relax Tea Leaves, so I might just brew all that up and use it as RP food in the coming days. It's not like I need to give Melody any more now.  I think our next ring of choice is going to be a Silence Ring. Bush just relies so much on special attacks between his Axes and Magic that silence is such a killer.  Mist is continuing to misinterpret Bush's combat wear as rabbit ears and a scarf, rather than cat ears and a scarf.  Bahumbug, we need an Insect Jaw to make a Silence ring, and I just sold one the other day. Usually these things drop all the time, but now that I want one and don't have it, it'll never show. Regardless, the materials are a Silver Ring, a Magic Crystal, a Pink Cat, and an Insect Jaw, and it's just barely in our craftable range. Honestly kind of a rude move to make so many of these accessories need Magic Crystals later. I'm only getting as many as I do because I'm abusing savestates. I spend a while looking through what we can craft, but remain just out of skill or just one material off on everything.  I then go to check with Kross about how close I am to the bedroom expansion. I don't really need it right now, but it's necessary for us to get married in the distant future. The cost is 75,000g, which is something we can afford, but we still need 766 lumber. I suppose I'll have to get to choppin'.  Kanno's outside and therefore would tell us more about Cinnamon's backstory, but the festival dialogue is overriding it.  Following that, I ride to the church clinic and buy 10 energy drinks off of Lara. This costs 2600g, and is only going to net me about 500 HP worth of healing. Such a pricy tradeoff, but the way I see it I can consider that 75,000g put in the bank, and everything else open to spending on food and medicine.  Music: Snow RuinsBush takes a brief dip into Snow Ruins, but it goes south from the first Hornet. The difficulty ramp in this game is nothing like the others, and I remain continually punished for treating it like it is. At this point I duck back to take a bath, something I would show if the recording hadn't seemingly broken at the end. Luckily, nothing much of importance happens the rest of today, I take a bath, Iris had nothing new to say, and I go to sleep after finishing up some busywork. Also, luckily, I record in chunks rather than one long recording, so I'm able to pick up tomorrow just before we go do festival things.  Music: FestivalIt's a bit after 10 the next day, a result of field watering and preparing some fish as work food. I hadn't yet thought about just using my tea supply instead.  UZUKI: I will not be participating in the Boat Race. The reason... Ah... My arms cannot reach! It is not because I am scared! yyyeah, sure whatever you say  EUNICE: Bush, good luck at the Boat Race. ...and that's it. Thanks, I guess!  SELPHY: Are you going to join the Boat Race, Bush? SELPHY: Well... Good luck. There is a yes/no prompt here, but her response is the same either way.  TABATHA: Today is the Boat Race. It is a race where you row a boat and gather balloons. Well, I guess that says what we'll be doing!  BIANCA: You want to take part in the Boat Race? Then why don't you go to the lake? In a minute, I gotta talk to people! Get all that juicy festival dialogue content that comes oh-so rarely!  MELODY: Today is the Boat Race. Be careful so that you don't fall off the boat and get taken to the bathhouse. At first I thought this meant the bathhouse was somehow filled by the lake, but then I remembered the little water canals around Trampoli square and just outside the Laga Springs. I guess if we got sucked into the waterfall, we'd end up down in the canal outside it. We'd definitely want a bath after that, so I guess it's somewhat convenient? You can alternatively take this as a comment that if we fall off the boat, Melody will be the first to try and rescue us. Evidently she knows how to swim or teleport given how she got back after that date.  MIST: Are you going to join in on the Boat Race today, Bush? ------------------------------- 1. Yes. 2. I haven't decided yet. ------------------------------- Unlike Selphy's these do have different responses. -------------------- "Boats, boats, boats, boats-" MIST: Oh. Good luck to you then. ------------------- "Not really sure yet." MIST: You say that now, but you always end up joining. She knows that about us, at least. Bush never misses a festival. Really the whole town seems to know.  ROSETTA: I heard that the Boat Race is today. The people of this village sure love their Festivals. I say there's not enough festivals. Went all spring without a single one! Alvarna's got more, even if half of them are pointless!   CANDY: Are you going to join in today's Boat Race? Good luck.  MARCO: Today's the Boat Race. I wanted to join but I couldn't... MARCO: I was told I should come again after I grow a little taller... Man, Marco just never gets to have any fun. I really don't see why they can't hold a kids contest, aside from maybe these two being the only ones in town.  RITA: I'll just take it easy here for today.  TURNER: I used to ride the boat a lot with Rita before we got married. So we have heard, yesterday, in fact!  KROSS: This year's Boat Race will be exciting. BUSH: Really? KROSS: Heh...  KROSS: The reason is you... I guess he's got faith in our boating skills?    LUTE: So it's a boat festival? LUTE: I'm not very fit so I won't join in. To be fair, travel only really works your legs. It won't inherently do anything for your arms.  KANNO: I'm actually good at boating. I used to ride with so many kinds of people. KANNO: Of course, men weren't allowed on. Oh, Magic Grandpa, what are we gonna do with you? I mean, we kinda already got the idea he used to be a ladies' man from his comment way back on Foliage Day, here's just the confirmation of it.  LARA: Today is the Boat Race. Just be sure that you don't fall off and catch a cold. Lara seems to think anything can cause a cold. I suppose Noradian medicine only goes so far when you have known cures to the common cold, poisons, and paralysis.  DANNY: Hm? DANNY: Let's see what you're made of, Bush! I would like to point out that Danny is still so shell-shocked from losing to Rosetta that he still greets with "W-welcome, good morning." What I'm saying is that you're going down, son.  ANETTE: The Boat Race is today. I'm getting excited. Anette got the day off, and she'll also be a competitor today! although maybe not take the mailbag with you when you do it  ERIK: You better get pumped up about this! ERIK: I've trained for this day! Must be nice to have nothing else to do but practice for a boat race that happens once a year. No seriously, I'm not being sarcastic, that'd be great.   GANESHA: Did you come to join? Then talk to Stella.  GANESHA: Bush, I'm counting on you to do well! With Danny and Erik presumably being the only competitors for the last year, I guess people are hyped to see what we can do.  STELLA: You want to enter the Boat Race? hell yes STELLA: If you're entering, would you like to hear the rules? Saves me from explaining them, so sure. (i've also never done this before)  GANESHA: I'll explain the rules. GANESHA: It's simple. Row the boat around to gather balloons. Blue ones are worth 1 point, yellow are worth 5, and hearts are 10 points! GANESHA: If you gather a heart while a girl is with you, you'll get a speed boost! Oh, the power of love... GANESHA: Of course, if you're alone, hearts won't do you any good other than as points. GANESHA: Time limit is 60 seccs. The one with the most points wins. The winner will recieve a prize that will make his girl very happy. That's a lot, but I think we've got it. Now then...  STELLA: Bush entered the race!  Music: To YouGANESHA: Oh? Just you? This could have been your chance to impress... Yeah, I dunno, none of 'em asked. I'm just here to beat Danny and Erik. VOICE: Bush, hold just a moment!  TURNER: *huff* *huff* *gulp* *huff* TURNER: Bush, I can't let you get on that boat alone. BUSH: (Whoa, Mr. Turner's already drunk!) TURNER: I won't let you, Bush. The flower of all Boat Races are girls!  TURNER: I cannot allow a young man to row a boat alone! If that's what you were planning, I have something. TURNER: It can't be helped. I'll get on the boat with you! BUSH: But... Bush says this, sweating and with tears in his eyes, fearing the impending disaster of having a drunk Turner on board. Alas, all he wanted was to show up General Store Guy and Vegetable Store Guy. Heck, he could just bring Pony. I told you Turner would find a way on that boat, didn't I? VOICE: Hold up! GANESHA: Huh?  Music: RomanceMELODY: Hunter of Hot Springs, Melody, makes her entrance! MELODY: I heard, Bush! You're going to look for a hidden spring in the lake, right? BUSH: What?! When did that story get around? MELODY: It sounds fun, so let me come, too! Okay? Cool! Luckily, for us, and Bush's desire to win all festivals, Melody has come prepared with a plausible-ish story as an excuse to get on the boat. ...Or something like that. You have to have gone on a date with a girl before they'll show up for this, which means that date a few updates ago is even luckier than it seemed.  MELODY: Well, if you're ready, let's go! TURNER: *gulp* MELODY: Bush - Melody pair wishes to enter! Given we'll be making waves, Melody has come prepared with her swimsuit. With how fast she changes and how there's no changing room up here, I can only presume that she was wearing this under her robe and was maybe just planning this the whole time? Turner has presumably already forgotten about the situation and is drinking even more wine.  GANESHA: Bush, your life is tougher than it looks... You don't know the half of it. Music: By the Ocean A familiar tune strikes up as we get to see the gauntlet of balloons that lie ahead. Our targets in this quest.  STELLA: All right, then. Start! In a rare moment, this line is voiced!  Music: Let the Games Begin!Also, boating! In between that black screen, Bush changed into his swimwear because I guess it'd be awkward if Melody was the only one. The boat's rather hard to get up to speed at first, you've roughly gotta time it when the paddle just hits the water again. It also doesn't show the usual B button prompt either, so you have to time it without that as a guide. It doesn't really matter too much though as-  THE POWER OF LOVE IS EQUAL TO THE SPEED OF SOUND   Put more coherently, as long as you've got a date on board and hit those heart balloons, you go to max speed instantly, and will maintain it for a couple of seconds.  The problem is that your turning speed isn't really that good, and it's easy to miss a lot of balloons.  MELODY: Keep going! Part of me thinks it might be easier without a date, despite everything, but we're not getting out of this if we wanted to. There's no way to turn down a girl jumping on board. Also, whatever date you have will also give some encouragement as you go around. It contrasts a bit with Bush's constant "HYEAGH!", (the same battle cry as the axe special,) every time he hits a heart balloon.  Balloons you collected recently will also be underwater until a certain amount of time elapses.   STELLA: Goal! Our first attempt nets us 295 balloons.  Music: GoodnightMELODY: Rune Factory Frontier! Location: Lake Poli Results after this. Before we head to the judging, we get short little zoom out from Melody where she exclaims the title of the game. Also a text box informing us that we are at the lake, as well as that the results are coming after this, as if this was a commercial break for an anime or something. I think that's what they were going for? At least it's the only time we hear anyon else but Bush say the game's title- unlike other games, only he does it on the main screen.  Music: Festival- Results (de-Sainte Coquille Remix)As the song's title suggests, the results them is in fact a remix of the Coquille manor's theme.  STELLA: Now for the results of the Ganesha Cup Boat Race! *Many "whoa"s can be heard, the same for when we expertly craft* This line is also voiced. A lot of budget went into this festival.  STELLA: 3rd place. With 61 points, Erik!  ERIK: *sigh* hah owned  STELLA: 2nd place. With 295 points, Bush! ...Oh.  BUSH: Oh, man... I was so close!  MELODY: We were almost there. Let's try harder next year. ♪ STELLA: And finally, the winner of this year's Ganesha Cup Boat Race is...    STELLA: With a whopping 375 points, Danny!  DANNY: Naturally. No, I can't accept this. If it was Anette, sure, but I'm not losing to Danny. It's time to turn back time.  Oh and also we get a safety mask as a surprise, oddly menacing in the age of Corona. It's rather hard to see from all the bloom. Cutting this attempt here, let's try this again. ---------------------------------------------------  Music: Let the Games Begin! After 3 more tries, I get to this run, our 5th attempt. I've finally managed to find a working strategy by this point.  MELODY: Just keep going! The paths are curved in a way you can hit most of the hearts in a loop, but you have to be very aggressive about turning. Starting off, I actually grind against the edge of the left island here.  You'll inevitably miss a couple of blues and yellows, but if you keep grabbing the hearts, you should be in good shape.   This turn on the right side is the worst given how sharp it is, the best you can do is hard cut left when you grab the heart here. Oh, and as a general tip, hold forward movement any time you want to stabilize your turn, it seems to help a lot.  MELODY: Just a little more! Keep rowing!!! This time, I finish with 414 points. Skipping ahead of what we've already seen out of the awards ceremony, Erik gets third again, but...  Music: Festival- Results (de-Sainte Coquille Remix)STELLA: 2nd place. With 374 points, Anette!  *She does a little jump off the ground.* ANETTE: Aw, so close. I was this close! Anette, absolutely shredding it out there solo.  STELLA: And finally, the winner of this year's Ganesha Cup Boat Race is... STELLA: With a whopping 425 poins, Bush! Apparently we grabbed a few more balloons as the screen faded out or something.  BUSH: All right! I won!!  *Melody does a little pose*  MELODY: Yay!♪ We're great together, don't you think? That's up to the thread to decide!  STELLA: The winning prize is... Cat Ears!  ...Oh. We're already wearing those. I'd give it to Melody and we'd match, but she will not wear anything but her awesome witch hat as far as my testing has shown.  STELLA: This concludes this year's Boat Race. Did you have fun? It was more realized than the melon smashing, at least!  MELODY: Congrats on winning the Boat Race! MELODY: Riding with you was so fun! I have no idea how it controls without a bachelorette on board, and no way to test, so I'm left assuming you made it much easier!  Winning this with Melody has absolutely maxed her bars out, as well as jumping everyone's LP by roughly 1/3rd of a bar!  STELLA: Isn't it time for you to think about settling down and getting married? BUSH: Huh?! I... Uh... Valid response, Bush. STELLA: This is a good time for you so let me give you this. BUSH: A... recipe? STELLA: That's right. This will tell you how to make a "Wedding Bouquet".  STELLA: You take the person you like to a romantic place. Then you give the bouquet when things are getting exciting. STELLA: This is how we propose marriage in this village. BUSH: Propose?! BUSH: I think it's a bit too early... No kidding, the others haven't even finished their storylines yet! Also, I don't think we can even get married until we finish the main story anyways.  STELLA: It doesn't do you any harm to hold onto it. Just give it when you made up your mind. You got Happiness 101! STELLA: This is something you just can't do alone. You have to think carefully about who you give it to. BUSH: All right... Luckily, I've got the thread to make these decisions for me. We're running a bit long on this update today, but before we close this out, let's go over the more important conversations.   EUNICE: Bush! Umm... Do you have a minute? BUSH: W-what's wrong, Eunice? What happened? EUNICE: Bush... Do you...  EUNICE: ...ve...ne...like? BUSH: I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you.  EUNICE: Bush, do you prefer thinner girls? BUSH: Um, I guess so. bush, you dink  ----------------------------------- 1. Yeah, I prefer the slimmer type... 2. Well, not exactly. ------------------------------------ Let's be honest, we all probably expected this question to come up eventually. This is the bit of Eunice's storyline that was a bit controversial, namely you can influence her to lose weight (and perhaps that it's even the default option). Now, I don't have anything against the idea of a character trying to lose weight and wanting our help as a workout buddy or the like, exercise is a lot easier when you do it with someone else, I've found. That would've been a fine direction for this. But what we get is this toxic situation entirely based on what the protagonist wants visually, and that's the killer. Given Eunice isn't one of the 6 vote winners, I'll make the choice I think the thread would probably go for anyways.  BUSH: Of course not. I think it's best for people to just be themselves. EUNICE: Really? It seems more hopeful now. Thank you so much. BUSH: O-oh... (I feel like I just made a very important choice...) Girl, you fine, don't change yourself for nobody.  KROSS: Congratulations. Who will you give the prize to? KROSS: If you'd like, you can give it to me... I mean, nothing... Is there anyone else we'd give it to?   KROSS: Thank you... I will gladly accept it. You can have it, my dude. Happy boat day! (It won't visibly show on him, but how could I say no?)  ... I could've sworn I watered this this morning. Huh. Anyways, before we close out we've got one last person to talk to.  Hey Mist, we- ...Mist? ---------------  BUSH: "...Right..." BUSH: "...That's how I wish I could say that day went at least." BUSH: "But the truth? Well, you might already know this didn't happen." 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Second, by herself? And able to both take out and repair a DIY mailbox project? This is why Annette is best girl
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That's an ominous as heck ending. Bush, you fool, you should always visit the bathhouse! Or his time meddling's caught up to him..
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Cicada Samurai Dad sounds like either the best Saban-era sentai clone that never was, or the name of the worst Stone Temple Pilots cover band.
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BraveLittleToaster posted:That's an ominous as heck ending. Bush, you fool, you should always visit the bathhouse! Or his time meddling's caught up to him.. It's a little bit of both, but it was inevitable. It's... not entirely without it's upsides though. I'll say that. racerabbit posted:Cicada Samurai Dad sounds like either the best Saban-era sentai clone that never was, or the name of the worst Stone Temple Pilots cover band. Next time on CICADA SAMURAI DAD: Uzuki has almost overslept again, but is awoken by a new foe bringing havoc to Trampoli! After a breakfast gone wrong, will the bickering duo be able to set aside their differences and put an end to this menace? Tune in next week to find out!
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Your replace script did its damnedest this update but you sabotaged it in a couple places, all dealing with Uzuki's portrait. There's two "Uzu"s missing their ki, which may be the real reason Cicada Samurai Dad is disappointed, and there's an "Uzuki-" that needed a colon transplant but its insurance plan only covered a hyphen.
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Raitzeno posted:Your replace script did its damnedest this update but you sabotaged it in a couple places, all dealing with Uzuki's portrait. There's two "Uzu"s missing their ki, which may be the real reason Cicada Samurai Dad is disappointed, and there's an "Uzuki-" that needed a colon transplant but its insurance plan only covered a hyphen. curses and exclamations I thought I fixed all of those, thanks for the heads up! I used to alias Uzuki as just Uzu, but at some point I stopped doing that, and something went sideways in my alias exceptions with this update. In fact, now Anette's the only character I still use an alias for in the script writeups, because I would inevitably type Annette constantly.
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Update 37: Flowers of Contrast you know something serious is going down because this is a real update title for once "We return to the 24th... 5:00 PM..."  Music: Snow RuinsBut for real, I went in for an extended grinding session on the two opening Queen Hornets. It was going pretty well, somehow, but it's slow going. Eventually, I decide to go in a bit more to try to find some better place to grind. In hindsight, maybe I should've just progressed into Whale Island further, but I don't claim to make good decisions.  Our Heat Axe is a faster, maybe cheaper way of breaking the ice barriers, but not really by much in either regard.  When I get to the room with 2 panthers and 2 hornets, I opt to just run past everything on Pony. There's gotta be a better place in here to just farm anyways.  To the right of the scorpion room is another 2 Death Stalkers, but with one of the power arc things for the ice mist generator.   Fighting these turns out to be ill-advised, and Pony almost goes down. We lack any real way to heal her, so I'm just going to have to make do, These Death Stalkers do drop Magic Talons, higher tier versions of the usual Sharp Talon.   With that arc destroyed, the ice mist generator has exploded, and the door to the north is now unfrozen. This also happens to lead downstairs!  SNOW RUINS B2F  Immediately to our south is a long, wide room that spawns 2 Glaces up front- not a welcome sight.  Back up and right, there's a hallway almost blockaded by two Death Stalkers.  Pony goes down in the confrontation, and there's just a machine-frozen door down at the end of a long hallway. Guess it's time to hoof it on foot past those glaces.  There's pathways going left, right, and to the south, yet the south is frozen by these two mist generators right here. oh, and there's two more panthers, but when aren't there panthers down here   I destroy one arc, but just opt to retreat out to the leftwards door. The monsters close in on me too fast to get the other one.  It ends in a hallway branch going north and south...  And the northmost room is incredibly suspicious with it's blue (higher rarity) chest sitting out in the open alongside two spawners that haven't spawned anything yet.  As soon as I approach the loot, Glaces drop down, so I nope right on out of there.   The south pathway leads to a farming room that is terribly out of the way, but also to another southern room.  Bush stops to smash some ore, and gets only scrap for his troubles.   To the right is a staircase down, but it's guarded by more panthers. I opt to not fight them and just go to the left through the ice barrier instead.   It's a long room running south, absolutely packed with monsters. Most notably, we've got a new one, the Demon! There's demons down here, that's a great sign. Demons have a pretty expected poke attack with their pitchfork, but they can also meld into shadow on the ground and try to stab from underneath. In previous games, they're rather deadly for their ability to paralyze and silence, but I don't know if they can do that in this one. i just ran away   Down a rightwards path, specifically. Oh, and there's also the recolor of the Elephant here, the Mammoo.  SLIDE! SLIDE! SLIDE! This slippery ramp dumps us into another farming room. This one's rather long and extends to the right quite a ways.   There's a ramp up at the right end, of which I find a power arc, a machine, and more panthers.  Running to the south, I get clipped by a projectile attack from a Glace, getting Bush paralyzed. This, incredibly annoyingly, slows him to a walk.   I am able to make it into this southern door safely though- I think this might have been frozen shut by that machine? I do thankfully have Para-gone on hand, kept for situations like these exactly.  The hallway takes a turn to the left, opening up into a long room running further right.  Aside from a Mammoo, there's a chest here that drops... a Para-gone of all things. This was a bust.  Warping back in time, I go south in the room we saw a demon in. This is surprisingly one of the only times I used a  Oh, hey, the staircase was right here all along!  SNOW RUINS B3F Third floor!  There's more ore here, but I only get scrap. Scrap's not useless, I'd just rather have Gold or Platinum.  Fun fact, the staff bonk attack doesn't deal elemental damage, and therefore cannot break the ice barriers.  The only path is to the north into this massive room, notable for that iced ramp to the upper right. There's a mist generator up top causing the ramp to be frozen like it is, but we can't get up the frozen ramp to clear it.  Oh, and there's also demons and  Apparently the demons can also wind up and throw their spears! Neat. They have absolutely no tracking with it though, so it's pretty easy to avoid.  To the north is more demons and corndogs, but with a mist generator we can actually reach.  Oh, and there's also a recolored Duck here, also capable of exploding. I don't actually have an information on what this is called, aside from maybe a Peck? That's usually reserved for recolors of cluckadoodles though.  Ramp unfrozen!  After waiting for the duck to finish disco bombing, Bush drinks down the last energy drink I had prepared. We head up the ramp and to the south...  And we're at the first ramp now! I clear the arc, and start to look around for what it might have unfrozen, as it didn't seem to unfreeze the ramp.  Oh, there's a door down and around the first ramp that was frozen. Huh.  This leads into a roughly square room with exits to the south and east, but also a giant CANNON  It doesn't track well, so I'm able to clear the arc powering it pretty easily. Huh.  Going further east, is a hallway that branches north (to a room with another cannon,) and even further east.  The eastern room is a dead end, so north it is!   The cannon is powered by an arc defended by a couple of demons, but I slip in and take it down pretty easily.  Further north in this room is an ice mist machine, and a big minotaur frozen in ice blocking a doorway.  Running up and around the nearby staircase leads Bush past more demons and to the arc that powers the machine.  Oh, hey, that unfroze the minotaur! This blue minotaur, compared to the red ones we've seen before, is a Minotaur King. As far as I know, just generally stronger than its counterparts. I say that because I just ran past it to the big door.  This door's actually rather fancy. When I approach, however...!  *We cut to Bush walking up to the door dramatically.*  VOICE FROM BEHIND US: "Bush."   *Bush turns around to see Mist and Candy!*  BUSH: Mist! Candy, too! BUSH: What are you doing here? It's dangerous! seriously i didnt clear any monsters  MIST: Sorry... It's just that I hear a voice from in here asking for help.  CANDY: A lot of Spirits are inside here. I think the Spirits from Whale Island are in here, too. BUSH: The Spirits...? And the voice that Mist heard is coming from in here, too...? BUSH: Does that mean there's really something inside? Alright, yeah, these are totally valid reasons to be down here. I guess I'm just going to have to prepare myself to eat floor here, as I'm not really best of shape to fight a boss. *Bush turns to the door and we fade to black...*  BUSH: Darn, it won't open.  MIST: It won't open?   *Mist walks up to the door and it suddenly opens!*  MIST: It opened... BUSH: Ahaha... Looks like it did... ...Huh, mysterious. Also unfortunate as I'd otherwise we could turn around and put this off until later.  CANDY: There are so many Spirits in here... They sound so... sad... Alright, yeah, that's no good. Looks like it's time for some ill-advised heroism!  The crew walks in...  To see a massive Dark Rune! It causes this constant magical whirling noise that fades in and out.  BUSH: ...!! Whoa... MIST: Oh my... CANDY: Wow...  *We then get a panning view of the Dark Rune, where we can see this complicated magical circle in yellow and red underneath.* Suddenly...  Sound: Noire's Spirit Song of Sorrow... A distantly familiar song is sung- the same one from the singing rock in the town square! (This clip of it I had to record myself, so enjoy the added waterfall sounds from the Trampoli town square in the background.)  MIST: Do you... hear something...? CANDY: I hear something... A melody... A Spirit Melody?! *Then a cutscene begins!*   *We finally see who's singing: a girl... Iris?*  *Red and green eyes...*   *And from her flies out another Dark Rune into what can only be a massive one above her!*  BUSH: Iris...? BUSH: No, the atmosphere is slightly different... Mist, is this the voice you heard Iris'? MIST: No... I don't think so. The voice I heard was...  *Mist points towards her.* The cutscene made this look more intimidating, I'll be honest.  BUSH: Runes are... gathering...  BUSH: They gathered here and became this giant Rune... CANDY: Just like how I sing to talk to the Spirits, that girl's singing must be calling out to them. *She tears up.* CANDY: You have to stop that girl! If all the Spirits gather here, Whale Island will lose its Rune and fall to the ground!! BUSH: Iris, stop! Why are you doing this?!   IRIS: I have nothing else... This is all I have... BUSH: What are you talking about?! You're the one that told me you're not lonely anymore! You told me that you'd sing for me some day! BUSH: A sad melody like that doesn't suit you, Iris!! I don't remember that conversation, but I'm sure it happened. We do however get to see Iris's new sprite, her eye colors switched, her hair silver and slightly longer, and her outfit entirely black instead of white.  IRIS: Who... are you? My melody is... BUSH: It's me! We used to talk on Whale Island, remember?! Did you forget?! IRIS: I... don't know you... I have nothing... BUSH: Iris! This conversation is going nowhere unfortunately.  MAN'S VOICE: "What are you doing?! I never told you to stop singing!" ...Someone else enters the fray!  It's... Gelwein!  Music: Pinch GELWEIN: There's no one in this world that would ever befriend a worthless fool like you other than me! GELWEIN: You want me to cast you out?! You can't live without me! So do as I say and sing, fool! And it turns out when he does say something for once, he's a massive dinkus- who could've guessed? BUSH: Iris, stop it! Please!  GELWEIN: Who in the world are you...? GELWEIN: You dare enter into this facility without my permission? This is why trash like you... BUSH: You... I saw you before in front of Iris's house... BUSH: Iris had nothing but good things to say about you. She called you her "friend"... How could you?! Bush is getting ready to throw hands already.  GELWEIN: I knew I remembered your face from somewhere... You're the one that visits "Blanche." BUSH: "Blanche"...? GELWEIN: Haha... Hahahahaha! I see! You can't tell apart "Noire" here and "Blanche" up on that floating island! Bush is generally oblivious, this is to be expected.  GELWEIN: "Noire" here and "Blanche" up on that floating island are two separate entities. GELWEIN: Well... I guess it'd be more accurate to say that they're "separate entities right now." BUSH: Wha-What do you... GELWEIN: That Iris you met on the floating island is not really Iris. GELWEIN: There once was a girl that lived here, who split into two because she wanted someone to talk to. BUSH: You're telling me... Iris... One girl split... into two?! GELWEIN: That's right!  GELWEIN: Iris is the last of a vampire tribe legendary for being those closest to the Spirits in this world. Iris is a vampire?! (i mean ok, it was pretty telegraphed, i think we all knew) GELWEIN: She alone knows the secret art that controls the Spirits through song. That art is what gripped me! GELWEIN: The two Irises continued to sing from above and below the earth. Their powers are the same, since they were one person to begin with. GELWEIN: By going back and forth between the two Irises, the Spirits brought balance upon this world.  GELWEIN: This is where I devised a plan. I kept the Iris underground singing while stopping the Iris above. GELWEIN: Of course, as a result, the Spirits began gathering underground around the Iris that continued to sing. GELWEIN: And behold! The fruits of my labor! This giant Dark Rune! Fancypants here evidently has had nobody to gush about his grand evil plan to until we arrived. Being a villianous sort doesn't lend you to having many people you can do this to.  *We get another panning view of the Dark Rune*  BUSH: Stop! If you keep doing this, Whale Island will lose all of its Rune Power and fall to the ground! GELWEIN: Why should I care?! I will have my revenge on the fools that envied my genius and banished me! BUSH: I can't let you do that! GELWEIN: Hmph! You seem to have some skill with a sword, but that won't be enough to defeat me! Finally, I've been waiting for Bush to just deck this guy in the nose and put an end to this. Alas, Cutscene Law of Anime defines we just have to stand back and wait until both sides are done with the rhetoric and its already probably too late.  BUSH: We'll see about that... Or he could just brandish his axe and get ready to cut a man, that works too, the pacifist magic only sort of works on humans.   GELWEIN: What a fool! Then why don you give it a try! GELWEIN: Let's see how you stand up to this!  *He swings his arm in dramatic declaration, flaring his cloak.* Music: Iris Noire Battle(A new track! It's dramatic, but not as high energy as the other ones if you ask me.) GELWEIN: Go, Iris! Wipe out these fools that dare interrupt my plan! oh of course he isnt going to fight us ya coward  BUSH: Stand back, both of you!! Mist, I'll leave Candy to your care!! MIST: Okay... Be careful!   *Iris Noire struggles to her feet as Gelwein throws his cloak out again.*  *A close up of vampire fang...*   *Bush staggers back in surprise as she charges him at high speed!*   *Her eyes have gone to a full, glowing solid color now as she's right in front of Bush...!*   *Gelwein smirks...!*   *And she leaps right at Bush!*   IRIS: Stop! Iris?! wait I mean, the other Iris?!   *Suddenly, Iris Blanche appareas in front of Bush!* BUSH: Iris...? She's speaking through me... IRIS: Please, stop this!! You can't do this...! IRIS NOIRE: I have nothing else... This is all I have... IRIS: That's not true! You have me! Bush will also become your friend, I promise! IRIS: If you continue down this path, you can never return! You really will lose... everything! believe me, he's got a lot of tomato juice  IRIS: This isn't you, Iris!! Come back, please...!!! IRIS NOIRE: I... don't know you... I... I have... IRIS NOIRE: Ah... Aaaaaah! *She grabs her head in pain.*  GELWEIN: "Blanche"... Why are you here? GELWEIN: Wait... You...!!! You gave your blood to "Blanche"! GELWEIN: No, this can't be! The awareness-control will break...!!! IRIS NOIRE: Ah... Aaaaaah! *Noire cries out one last time before we fade to white.* So, that moment where Iris awkwardly licked the blood off our hand? Turns out it was a good thing! Normally, there's a boss fight here, but we just get to skip it instead and continue onwards into this incredibly long cutscene uninterrupted.  *Mist and Candy return from where they were hiding.* MIST: Are you all right? BUSH: I'm fine. How's Iris...? *He turns to check her...* BUSH: Don't worry. She just fainted. MIST: *phew*... That's good. It's all very confusing, but I guess it turned out alright?  Music: Sinister(Another new track! This one's renamed to avoid spoilers, but it definitely works here.) GELWEIN: Bush, was it...? You worthless piece of... BUSH: This is the end. Leave this place. If not... GELWEIN: ...?! Ha... I get it... It's no wonder my awareness-control was broken so easily. BUSH: ...? What are you...?!  GELWEIN: I never imagined there would be someone with a more powerful song than Iris, here, in a place like this! GELWEIN: No matter! I still have the upper hand. In fact, this is the perfect chance to solidify my plan! GELWEIN: Bush... I must thank the likes of you!  *He swings his arm dramatically again, causing another fade to white!*  RED VOICE: "I'll let Iris go, as you wish. She is of no use to me, now that I have the final ingredient in my hands!" RED VOICE: "Hahahahaha!!" ...Well, I suppose that partially answers our question about who those voices in our dreams we were hearing. Also, I'm pretty sure we just got Candy kidnapped. Another fade to black...  Music: VisionsRED VOICE: "The diagnostic results are in. As we thought, the reason behind the Rune dissipations was... GREEN VOICE: "I see. A body that endless absorbs Runes since birth..." GREEN VOICE: "Why did it fail...?" GREEN VOICE: "Is it sinful for man to create life by his own hands...?" GREEN VOICE: "But the child has not sinned... I should have been the one to be punished..." GREEN VOICE (???): "If we do nothing, all the Runes of the world will be absorbed by this child...and the world will perish. I must do something. Something..."[/b]  And Bush wakes up on his bed! He must have had cutscene overload and collapsed. We have some visitors in Lara, Noire, Kanno, and... Candy?  BUSH: ...Where am I? LARA: You're in your room, Bush. Do you hurt anywhere? BUSH: No... I'm fine...  *He gets off the bed.* BUSH: What am I doing here...? BUSH: Oh, no! Iris was being controlled, and I...  IRIS NOIRE: If you're worried about me, I'm fine... BUSH: Iris! You're back to normal! I'm glad... BUSH: What were you doing in a place like that? Besides that Gelwein guy... IRIS NOIRE: I'm not the Iris from Whale Island... BUSH: Huh...?! Unfortunately, the cutscene overload is bringing back Bush's amnesia. Also get ready to have a recap of everything we just heard.  IRIS NOIRE: A long time ago, the Iris that lived in this land became so lonely she split into the Iris on Whale Island and me. KANNO: Hm... So both Miss Iris of Whale Island and Miss Iris of the underground were singing the Spirit Melody. KANNO: That is why Runes were in equilibrium, and Whale Island could soar in the sky. KANNO: However, Miss Iris of Whale Island stopped singing while the other Miss Iris continued on due to Gelwein's plots. KANNO:As result, all the Runes began gathering underground while the Rune within Whale Island shrunk. IRIS NOIRE: That's my hypothesis anyway. What do you mean, "hypothesis"? Gelwein literally told us all of this.  BUSH: Then the danger has passed? Whale Island is safe? BUSH: I mean, you're here with us and you're not singing. CANDY: It's... not that simple... BUSH: What? Why not? Bush doesn't like it when conflicts get complicated.  CANDY: The Spirits are now called below by an even stronger force than before. My song won't reach them... BUSH: How can that be...? Iris isn't singing anymore, so... KANNO: There must be a great power we don't know about that is drawing the Spirits to it. BUSH: A great power...?  KANNO: I dare say tha this has something to do with Miss Mist going missing. BUSH: Mist is... misssing? LARA: She disappeared when that whole fiasco ended, and we can't find her...  BUSH: What?! She might still be in that room! We have to go save... KANNO: That room has been sealed by magic and cannot be breached. BUSH: No way... Then Mist is... Once again, Bush must go locate Mist, like we did at the start of the game.  IRIS NOIRE: I'm so sorry... It's all my fault... BUSH: No, Iris. You were being controlled. You didn't do anything wrong. BUSH: Besides, I'm sure Mist is totally fine. So... don't blame yourself like that. IRIS NOIRE: Bush... IRIS NOIRE: Bush, I want you to take me to where the other Iris is. If we work together, we may be able to bring the Spirits back to Whale Island. IRIS NOIRE: Magic cannot be used without Runes, so if we bring back the Runes, we may be able to weaken the magic seal on that room. KANNO: Then I'll look into this Gelwein fellow. LARA: Bush, just don't do anything rash, okay? Sounds like a plan, because we're honestly not prepared to do anything about this. I just triggered this on accident because I ran past everything! I don't know if I could call that scouting run a success or a failure.  *We fade to black and return to see Bush escorting Noire to Iris's tower.*   *The two Irises see one another, Noire starting to cry.*      *Noire runs to Blanche and they hug.*  IRIS NOIRE: I missed you... This is the first time we actually hear a voice line from her- she's decently deeper voiced than her counterpart's higher, cheerful tone. Also, since they'll regularly be in the same room now, I suppose I'll need to defer to saying Blanche and Noire to differentiate them.  Music: Iris' Spirit Song(Another) new track! This is a rather good one, although if the Spirit Song really is just "la", then I'm not sure why it's such a big deal.] IRIS BLANCHE: I understand what you're trying to do. IRIS BLANCHE: I never dreamed that Gelwein would do something so... IRIS BLANCHE: ...I'll believe you. IRIS NOIRE: We will sing together.If we can bring back the Spirits that went underground, Whale Island won't fall. BUSH: We'll all be counting on you. Way to lay on the pressure, Bush.   Music: FestivalAnd THAT's why I started the festival day out at 10:00 AM. The pacing has kind of been obliterated, and the only previous save state I have is pretty far back so I couldn't really undo this once it happened. Really, I just want to know if Gelwein is the reason why Runeys are so bad, because if he is, he's really going to regret this plan twice over. ...Uh, next time we finish up the festival day? This really didn't do anything to help the pacing did it gosh darn it all -----------------  MYSTERY: "...I don't get why you waited to tell this part. It didn't help the pacing at all." BUSH: "I, um..." MYSTERY: "..." BUSH: "T-That's just how it happened, okay? So, then I watered the tomatoes-" MYSTERY: "can we not go over the tomatoes again" Left 4 Bread fucked around with this message at 20:07 on Apr 19, 2023 |
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Haven't seen that touch of darkness in the game too much lately and that's a nice big dollop of it in a plot bomb. Gelwein turned out to be a big angry twit who's making a large dark rune for revenge on an entirely nebulous runesucking child-related banishment. We got another Iris out of it at least, though she might be traumatized. I wonder who runs the Turnip Mafia now that Mist is M.I.A. BraveLittleToaster fucked around with this message at 19:08 on May 14, 2022 |
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 I forgot to mention, when we did the first bachelorette vote, I photoshopped Noire out to keep her a secret. (Although, she was already shown in the intro movie from way back when.) This is also the reason I kept miscounting the number of bachelorettes. Long story short, here's the official art. It's definitely tomato juice. BraveLittleToaster posted:I wonder who runs the Turnip Mafia now that Mist is M.I.A. The root racket is in shambles without its sinister head
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BraveLittleToaster posted:I wonder who runs the Turnip Mafia now that Mist is M.I.A. It's fine, her capos will be gathering the troops to go rescue her as we speak. Bush can chill out and go to the festival, the Family got this.
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I have to wonder if it's possible to reach that boss fight without ever actually meeting Iris (Blanche). That possibility would necessitate a failsafe - for example, a beat for beat repeat of a plot dump that happened mere seconds ago - but I don't get why they'd have alternate dialogue for you having Done the Thing, to the degree it actually lets you skip a boss fight entirely, and then not also check to see if you'd Done the Thing immediately afterward when it recaps in case you hadn't Done the Thing. But then, this is the game with Runey management, so I guess sanity checks like that shouldn't be within the expected minimums here...
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Raitzeno posted:I have to wonder if it's possible to reach that boss fight without ever actually meeting Iris (Blanche). That possibility would necessitate a failsafe - for example, a beat for beat repeat of a plot dump that happened mere seconds ago - but I don't get why they'd have alternate dialogue for you having Done the Thing, to the degree it actually lets you skip a boss fight entirely, and then not also check to see if you'd Done the Thing immediately afterward when it recaps in case you hadn't Done the Thing. Edit: I've actually been running through some stuff to get a recording of the Noire boss fight, and it would seem that you can do Lava Ruins before meeting Gelwein. It's entering the Noire boss room you can't do before meeting Gelwein, it just turns you away and the cutscene doesn't start. ----------------------- My theory is that the recap dialogue on wake up is one of these things: 1. Possibly just a leftover from an earlier draft of the game's events. 2. Fancy Mc Villain explaining his entire evil plan to us was something added late in development. 3. There was more than one scenario writer and they didn't check with each other. 4. The translators goofed it up somehow, "that's my hypothesis anyway" could be "that's all we know of, at least". I still lean towards the first theory as the recap dialogue is notably missing any use of the characters' expressions, like some of the other odd bits of dialogue we've seen, sometimes even regarding Iris herself. Left 4 Bread fucked around with this message at 02:38 on May 16, 2022 |
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Update 38: Much Ado About Marriage and Kids Welcome back! Last time, Mist either wandered off or got kidnapped, we met the alternate half of Iris the vampire who split off due to solitude induced depression, we shredded waves at a boat race immediately following that, and now the environment is dying.  Oh, wait, that last part is always happening. In this update we'll actually escape Summer 25th, a day we've been on for a total of 3 updates now. I'll fire through the victory dialogue for the festival first though.  ROSETTA: So you won the Boat Race... Not bad. Rosetta is evidently impressed. By the next time we have a date based festival, we should probably be able to take anyone from the main 6 out for it.  BIANCA: So you won the Boat Race. That's amazing. Miss Sainte-Coquille is less impressed by some degree.  TABATHA: I heard that you won the Boat Race. Congratulations. Neither of them seem that excited about it. Maybe expert boating is just that common in all the fancy places they go to.  MARCO: Did you win the Boat Race? MARCO: I know I would win if only I joined. But Mom... This phrasing opens up the possibility he didn't enter just because his mom would embarass him. To be fair, at the end of the day Ganesha does seem like the kind of parent who'd go overboard cheering for her kid.  DANNY: It's sunny right now so you should buy some seeds while you're here. Danny, having been thorougly trounced by everyone in the boat race is now evidently in a daze, thinking he's still running a shop.  ERIK: Not bad, young man! But you fell one step short of me! Ah yes, if you lose, merely claim that you won regardless. Truly the strategy to win at life with.   GANESHA: Hello, Bush. I put a rose pattern on a shield the other day because a customer wanted it that way.  GANESHA: I have some extra roses I used to design it with so you can have them. BUSH: Thank you so much. Oh, that's neat. Free flower!  GANESHA: Put that into the into the "Seed Maker" to grow "White Roses." GANESHA: Good luck! BUSH: ...? You got White Rose! The context of this situation makes more sense when I note that the wedding bouquet recipe that Stella gave us requires a rose to make- a flower completely unavailable up until this point. Either way, Stella put her up to this, or she wants the town to have more kids in it so that Marco and Candy have someone to hang out with.  GANESHA: Congratulations on winning the Ganesha Cup Boat Race! Your rowing sure is a sight to behold. Honestly, I wanted to see Anette's attempt at it. She got nearly as much as us without anyone on board for free speed boosts. ...Did she just run across the water at high speed, or is she that good at boating? Speaking of Anette-  ANETTE: Not bad, Bush! ANETTE: Bush, it was really great just watching you row the boat!  CINNAMON: Did the Boat Race... end? BUSH: Yes, it's over. CINNAMON: ...Oh. Now I can fish again. Great. She doesn't care if we win or lose, she just wants her fishing spot back. I respect that though, good spots to fish at are hard to find. Took me forever to find her here though.  LUTE: Did that boat festival end? LUTE: You seem like you had a lot of fun. Lute! We haven't seen you in a while! i keep forgetting to go to the lake on thursdays  Since we're sitting at a massive 90,000g, I decide to go and buy a bigger storage box for our house. It only costs us 10,000g.  SELPHY: So you won the Boat Race. SELPHY: You're amazing. It would have been impossible for me. Who would win in an arm-wrestle contest, Bianca or Selphy?  As the day winds down and the summer cicadas start up, Bush is down in the fields collecting the rest of the harvest. We got some more Pink Cats today alongside the usual corn and tomatoes. Those pumpkins should be done soon, also.  We got a lot of Pink Cats, actually, but I don't need most of them so in the shipping bin they go. I'll keep 15 on hand as gifts and crafting materials.  nearly die of exhaustion watering the fields  It's pretty dark by the time we finish, so I head inside to make the white rose into seeds- I'll plant them on Whale Island. The description makes mention of a long lost method of how to turn them into blue roses, how mysterious!  ...And convenient as the recipe for the bouquet calls for blue ones! They're also worth 810g a piece each and can grow in any season but winter, so they're honestly good money. The Wedding Bouquet itself requires a Blue Rose, Green Grass, a Moondrop, a Toy Herb, a Pink Cat, and Baleen. That last thing is the big ol' filter bristles on whales by the way, commonly referred to as whalebone, which isn't really bone. Say, we know a whale! I guess maybe we can get some from him sometime.  It's a holiday, so the path to the Tower of Rest is a lot shorter.  Music: Iris' Spirit SongAnd when we enter, the music's completely different! This plays from now on inside the tower as...  They're both singing it! We can still talk to them as they have to take a break at some point. It doesn't stop the respective vocals in the background, which is understandable, but it would've been a neat detail.  IRIS BLANCHE: We're both singing, but it's not doing much. IRIS BLANCHE: This just shows how strong of a power is calling the Spirits below. IRIS BLANCHE: We'll keep singing, although this may do nothing more than ease our minds... BUSH: Okay. I'll keep looking for a way to get into that room in the ruins. BUSH: Don't push yourselves too hard, okay? IRIS BLANCHE: Thank you. Bush, you be careful out there, too. Last time, Blanche said she promised she'd sing for us at some point, which makes me wonder if there wasn't another alternate progression to this storyline at some point. Had she done so, the Whale might have recognized it was helping. Then again, it'd probably mean Gelwein would probably just kidnap Blanche too.  IRIS BLANCHE: Do you know about "Blue Roses"? IRIS BLANCHE: Blue roses don't usually grow in nature. But, if you let moonlight shine on white roses for a few days, they will turn blue.   IRIS BLANCHE: I'd like to see it at least once. If you think back all the way to how we first met Blanche, there's our answer of what to do with the roses! There's strong moonlight out here on the fin, so I suppose we just plant it anywhere.   IRIS NOIRE: It's because of me that Mist... IRIS NOIRE: I don't know what to say... BUSH: It's not your fault, Iris. I'll be sure to find Mist. BUSH: Iris, please don't say that. It's not your fault.  IRIS NOIRE: Thank you, Bush. I'd just keep calling the other Iris just that, and this one Noire, but the game insists on referring to both of them as just the former. I mean, technically they are both the same Iris, but they're also kinda different? It's confusing to say the least.  IRIS NOIRE: There is also a field inside Whale Island. I wonder who it belongs to. Given Bush is the only one willing to risk his life for farmland, I guess it's his by default.   IRIS NOIRE: I hope we, including my other self, can get along from now on, too.  IRIS NOIRE: The night is still young. I assume that latter line is a vampire reference. From what I've seen, she leans a little bit more into the vampire side. Oh, and Noire is a full character now, although her lines will be occasionally eaten by plot relevant dialogue.  She even loves tomato juice just like Blanche.  IRIS (NOIRE)- "The other half of Iris. A liveliness returned to her upon meeting Bush." And she even has a separate FP and LP bar of her own. She's evidently a bachelorette candidate, but she's still Iris. As they're the same person, Bush has to raise both of their LP to 10 in order to marry one of them. It's all very unusual, even when you put aside the matter of them being vampires and one of them now bloodlinked to Bush aside. Whether or not it's intentional, there is an odd mechanic unique to Iris in that you can gift her multiple times in the same day for extremely diminished returns. In theory, you could max both of them out in the same day if you had enough tomato juice. I'm not doing that though.  Back out on the fin, Pony shows her superiority over the native wolves while Bush plants the rose seeds. These wolves up here used to be capable of nearly one-shotting Bush, but now they can only deal 1 damage to her as she one-shots them in return.  Back at home, I finally make use of our box. It's double the size it once was, giving us plenty of space to store all the random materials we're gonna need to get our crafts and forge skills built up.  A lot goes inside, and the bathing suit we do have is still put at the very bottom. One day, we'll do something with this. It'll probably be next Summer though.  Music: GoodnightSleep ahoy! Time to finally be done with this day!   Music: Trampoli Daily LifeAh, 6:00 AM. How long it's been since we've seen you!  Cook food!  Gather food! This is a lot of pumpkins. Hopefully it's enough to never need to grow any more?  Mail!  ----------------------------------------------------- ~"Curry" - Cinnamon~ I ate curry for dinner lat night. I asked Candy to make fish curry next time and only got yelled at. I'll have to cook it myself. ----------------------------------------------------- ---------------------- 1. Do your best. 2. Maybe you should reconsider? ---------------------- Hey, a person will only remain terrible at something if they never practice the skill. Master Chef Bush says do your best! I think the context of this is mostly that Candy's probably sick of fish.  ----------------------------------------------------- ~"The other day..." - Eunice~ I was cooking the other day, and I accidentally poured too much sauce, and it splattered on my apron. It was so hard getting rid of the stain. Bush, you should be careful, too. ----------------------------------------------------- This is starting to feel like a question corner from back when people used to write letters into shows. BUSH: "These are things you have to be wary of when cooking, otherwise it turns into a plate of char, and not the fish kind!" Tell me I'm wrong. Bush has somehow progressed to T.V. celebrity chef without the presence of television.  ----------------------------------------------------- ~"Like I said...!" - Bush~ I've had enough of this! I told you I don't care! I have nothing to do with this, and I'm totally fine by myself, so just stop! Don't write me anymore! ----------------------------------------------------- uh ok I think Selphy sent this to the wrong address? Maybe we'll learn what this is about today, although Bush doesn't usually talk about his mail. Well, anyways, off to the usual routine.  ANETTE: Wow, you're early! Bush was actually a few minutes late today! Although him being zonked out in his house as frequently as he has recently probably doesn't set a good example anyways.  ANETTE: The other day, I found a lost kid. We looked everywhere for his parents. Thanks to that, I was late with the mail. ANETTE: But it's okay since the mom was found. Aw. There are valid reasons to be late with the mail, and this is definitely one of them.   ANETTE: *phew* This is so heavy. BUSH: That looks tiring. ANETTE: Yeah. But this weight is nothing compared to the emotions everyone puts in these letters. ANETTE: So I can't sit around complaining, you know? Anette is regularly the bright spot in this occasionally dark town.   ANETTE: Where did Mist go? I'm getting worried. Speaking of dark, we will get reminded of Mist's absence by the townsfolk every once in a while. It'll be a while before we really have the means to find her, so there's not much I can do.  In other news, we broke the 100,000g mark yesterday. This Summer has been incredibly profitable for Bush. Just but a season ago I was having to scrounge every last bit of money out of strawberries, now we just sell raw produce without a care.  LARA: If you have "Energy Drink X," it can heal all wounds right away. But that doesn't mean you can stop being careful! It heals a little over 300 HP last I checked, which is still more than Bush has in max HP. It'd be really nice if we had some, but the pharmacy needs so many extra steps. I'll still try to work on our pharmaceuticals, but I do think a healthy supply of rice oatmeal is probably good enough?  LARA: I know you are worried about Mist, but you must take care of yourself, too. More than that, Bush must prepare himself. Over the course of the next few days, I'm going to be going hard on gearing up. The first week of Autumn will also give me lots of time to prepare as I don't even have to bother with runeys.  Library's clean again! By the way Selphy, uh, what's with this very angry letter  SELPHY: Hmmm Hmm Hmmmm! ♪ SELPHY: Hey, Bush! Look! BUSH: A... book? SELPHY: I bought a new book! I can't wait to see what it's about! SELPHY: Time to read! i guess we're not getting any answers on the letter then  Also no new books that I can find. Despair and tarnation!  Music: TrampoliBUSH: Rosetta, you're always working so hard at your own store. I really respect you for that.  ROSETTA: I-I sometimes dream about having a knight in shining armor to come take me away. ROSETTA: ...I'm a girl after all... BUSH: W-what's wrong? Did I say something to make you mad? ROSETTA: It's n-nothing... Bush remains ever oblivious. Rosetta was a lot more forward in her original characterization, but I guess in a way, this is still pretty forward when you think about it. While Bush is capable of romance, as we've seen with the date he had, he just can't pick up on it when it's coming from anyone else. He is an enigma. Let's have a change of conversation!  ROSETTA: Maybe I should put up more flowers in the store. Don't you think the place looks a bit drab?  ---------------------------- 1. That's a great idea. 2. I like it the way it is. ---------------------------- A choice! Perhaps it's best we hold back on messing with the timelines and commit to one. "I like it the way it is."  ROSETTA: Really? Well, you're a customer so if you think it's fine, I'll keep it the way it is. This isn't an excuse for forgetting to make a savestate, I assure you.  ROSETTA: Mist... Where did you go...? ROSETTA: Don't make me worry about you like this...  UZUKI: I was born on the 15th of summer. I do not know if it is because of that, but I do like summer very much. Something I didn't notice until just now is that Uzuki never complains about the heat. Or at least I can't remember her doing so. Huh.  UZUKI: In my country, people belonging to the upper class have people that serve as wet nurses. UZUKI: That person is the one who will raise the child. UZUKI: We did not have someone like that, but others around me had children that never recieved love from their parents. I felt sorry for those ones. UZUKI: If I had a child of my own, I would never be indifferent to its upbringing. I will raise the child myself. (i feel like someone forgot to make her stop smiling during that third line)  TSUBUTE: Bush, one must not ever be indifferent to one's child, right? UZUKI: Why are you asking for Bush's opinion in this matter?! TSUBUTE: Now then... I wonder why. is your face stuck uzuki Anyways, sheesh, all the adults trying to get us to have kids this update. Bush isn't ready to settle down yet! I guess this means we have Angry Samurai Cicada Dad's approval?   UZUKI: Is that large tree near the clock tower a sacred tree? It certainly looks grand. I don't go down that path too often these days, so I've mostly forgot it's there. I presume it's where the wedding ceremony actually takes place.  EUNICE: I can sew, too. I made this outfit. EUNICE: You can tell me if you ever tear your clothes, Bush. Eunice is a good friend. ...I'm surprised Bush still has clothing left after all he goes through to be honest. Whatever this is, it's durable. It's never really explained why he showed up on the Sechs border wearing farm clothes or where this outfit came from. It might not even be his!  MARCO: I'll tell you right away if I find out where Mist is. Don't feel down. BUSH: ...Thanks, Marco.  MARCO: No problem! Marco's also a good friend. I wish I was better at finding him on the regular  Tabatha's up in the square today.  TABATHA: The water around here is very clean so the vegetables look very nice. TABATHA: Do you like working in the fields, Bush? I love my work as a maid very much. I'd say we technically don't grow vegetables, just fruit, but that'd be a lie as we did just harvest pumpkins this morning. Working in the fields is chill, although this watering can makes it less so. Still kinda wish I hadn't upgraded it.  By 2:00 PM, we're in the magic crystal mines yet again.  Aquasword Lv:2 was synthesized with expertise! An hour later, we've got one, and it's time for a bath. I also used a spare water crystal to make an aquasword to see if it'd be better to either farm Ignis or to just grind weapon skill. It turns out to be bad at the first and indistinguishable at the second.  MELODY: Welcome!♪ The bath is perfect as always today! And am I finally glad to be back! Not bathing that one time resulted in disaster.  NOLAN: My birthday? NOLAN: Let's see... I think it was... NOLAN: Yes, I remember! I believe it is on the 8th of spring.  One bath later and we're off to really get our day started!  Music: Snow Ruins...Huh, there's actually a boss shortcut portal in Snow Ruins. Might as well take it to see what happens.  Well, we're back outside the door where found Noire. The way out is blocked by the Minotaur King, inconveniently re-frozen in the hallway's entrance. Bummer, this would be a good experience farming shortcut. I guess we try the door and see?    *We get a short montage of Bush inspecting it.*  BUSH: Man, this is shut tight. It'd be nice if I could find some other way in. Welp, it was worth a shot.  I take the portal back and do some tests on RP consumed to weapon skill gained, but I wasn't able to really find anything noticeable. So I opted to just fight some hornets instead.  Occasionally Bush will critical hit, I believe thanks to the cat ears. This does hilarious damage with the axe's charge swing.  Still getting that missing issue.  Roughly three and a half hours later I give it a break, our RP bar thoroughly drained with crops on Whale Island still needing to be watered. So we head on up there.  Music: Whale Island EntranceWHALE: "A Spirit Song... I have not heard it in some time..." BUSH: Whale! Iris' Spirit Song is calling to the Spirits. Now... WHALE: "Unfortunately, it will be difficult... The power summoning to the Spirits to the underground is too srong. At this rate..." WHALE: "Unless the source of that power is stopped, I will continue to fail..." WHALE: "Bush, please discover what's causing the Spirits to gather under the ground. Please..." Can you give me, like, two weeks? I should be ready by then. Seriously, I've got a feeling that Noire would have just killed us if it wasn't for Blanche stepping in.  Got some Toyherbs almost done up here. I'll save one or two for some high level recipes and the bouquet, and the others I can probably give to Stella.  St. Poli knows these two probably need some refreshment if they've still been singing for hours on end. Your voice has to blow out at some point, right?  IRIS BLANCHE: I'm so glad we can talk again. I'm glad you stopped us from having to do that boss fight! They don't really have anything else to say today, alas. I suppose speaking of that boss fight, I should cover it. The problem is that I don't have a save file anywhere close to it and I'm having to I've spent a few hours on it, and still haven't gotten the event where you meet Gelwein for the first time, which seems to be the trigger for Noire's boss door. I was hoping to have it for this update, but I guess it'll happen when it wants to happen. So what I'm saying is I'll cover it eventually. In the meantime, that's all for this one. It's a bit short, but the last two have been some big stuff. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BUSH: "In the coming days, I would need to gain as much skill as I could. There wasn't much time left."  MYSTERY: "Finally, we're past those two days. So bored of hearing about those." BUSH: "Those were two of the most important days of my life!" MYSTERY: "What about when the first town was-" BUSH: "I am obligated to say that was somebody else." 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Update 39: "i do regret the rainbow can" (So for some reason I redid part of yesterday in my recordings, but I don't remember having done it. All the same stuff still mostly happened, but I made better use of my time and collected some crafting materials on the side. That's and some late night fishing is about it. We now resume as if nothing happened.)  The Bush awakens!   We start our morning off smashing some scrap iron into our sickle. Not to actually upgrade it, just to grind forging skill. A better weapon's not really on the table for a while given we still take some penalties on the Crescent Axe, but I might as well.  The skill we need do need to raise is crafts. I'm looking to get an elemental cape of some kind, (preferably a water one,) but the lowest skill requirement is 54. That one's also the Wind Cape and wind is rarely an issue, so I've set my sights on the next highest, the Fire Cape at 59 skill. That means getting 12 more points of skill from our current 27. Given the relative rarity and overall variety of materials, grinding to this point won't be easy. But with the season winding to a close, a boss room to break into, and no other immediate goals, I can't think of anything better for us to start working on.  I'm also starting to burn through that Relax Tea supply so that our watering can doesn't completely exhaust us for the day.  Music: SummerIt's another clear and sunny Summer day!  Morning mail time!  ----------------------------------------------------- ~"Yes." - Cinnamon~ Fish curry must be delicious. I just know it. ----------------------------------------------------- It's an actual food, although I can't vouch for it's taste. I don't like the taste of fish and I've never had curry. Regardless, Bush salutes your cooking endeavors, Cinnamon. He too was once a beginner with dreams of unique dishes.  ANETTE: Well? BUSH: Well, what? ANETTE: I'm wearing boots that make me taller!  ANETTE: They're uncomfortable and no one noticed so I'm gonna quit wearing them! I'd imagine running in platform boots is far from a comfortable situation. She's only like an inch or two shorter than Bush, but alas. Perhaps someday Anette will find her magical height solution.  Anette still delivers Mist's mail as if nothing has changed, but she is aware of the circumstances. Perhaps it is a means of coping with this shocking situation, or perhaps it is merely continuing things as normal just in case she's wandered back. It's also me reading far too deeply into what is just a minor oversight.  Ah, runes, you sustain us in these trying times so much more useful than runeys  MELODY: I fixed my bed hair so I could wear this swimsuit. While it doesn't look any better than usual, perhaps it is far more chaotic than we think underneath that hat.  TABATHA: Human food seems to have all sorts of ways to prepare dishes. TABATHA: I have learned quite a lot of cooking methods from Uzuki recently. TABATHA: It has helped me greatly since Miss Bianca is so particular with her food. Apparently, the elves don't have the most diverse food recipes. In a way, this can be taken as a vague hint to something we'll might get to in a week or two. I'll leave what that is a secret for now.  Being honest, there was a period of time in which I had begun to think the whole hullabaloo over runeys and the environment falling apart was a bit overblown, but no, I'm really seeing it now. Everything outside of my prosperity zones is gradually vanishing. A free week is coming soon with the start of Autumn, I'm just hoping things can hold until then.  By the time I hit the archives today, I realize I don't have a gift for Selphy. My supply of carrots for sandwiches is getting low, and I keep forgetting to buy more cooking oil from the bar. I'll have to make her a rice ball for today I guess. Honestly, the one disadvantage of Danny going out of business has manifested in that my only source of cooking oil is from the bar.  UZUKI: The weather is so nice. Respecting the sun is common among all cultures. Except for the mole people, they seek to wage war on sunlight.   EUNICE: My birthday is on the 17th of autumn. It's the season when everything tastes good. Eunice is evidently a fan of pumpkin spice. More seriously, her favorite gift specifically requires the chestnuts that grow on the trees in Autumn.  ROSETTA: You seem really close with Mist. ROSETTA: Are you two... What kind of relationship do you have? BUSH: Huh? I don't know what you mean. It's very difficult to explain the bond created by giving someone your breakfast on new years day.  ROSETTA: Then... What about... me...  ROSETTA: N-nothing! Forget what I said! Rosetta's really trying to make a move on Bush, but just can't get it out. Part of me feels like she hasn't had too much screentime, but she kinda has? I guess she hasn't had too many big events yet, but that's about to change. She's been climbing up in LP since we got our oven.  GANESHA: I heard you started blacksmithing. GANESHA: Looks like I have some competition now. BUSH: I still have a long way to go... GANESHA: No no. I feel more motivated when I have someone to compete with. I hope you'll do well. I guess it says something about our forging skill that we're just seeing this dialogue now, nearly halfway through a year in the game.   Following this, I take a pit stop into the Green Ruins for some metal while looking for some of the other townsfolk. This little spot on the first floor only accessible with a silver hammer or stronger reliably gives at least 1 per visit.   I nab some more scrap in general while I'm down here. Might as well.  I also have another reason to be here, which is to grab an Insect Jaw off one of the ants. I don't need it to be high level, so I might as well farm the easiest option.  Then I do some tests to see if chopping wood with our combat axes gives either Lumber or Weapons skill- it would seem to be just the former. Regardless, I clean most of the stumps out of this area, so that's a few steps closer to getting a two-story house.  Not much later, it's time for a bath.  Following this, I get to grinding some crafting skill using anything I've got to make things with. I've ended up with a lot of iron and copper that need to go, which have basically no use beyond the mid 20's skill range, really.  I do have something more important to make though, and that's with the Insect Jaw I just grabbed. Using the Silver Ring we're already wearing plus one of our few Magic Crystals, a Pink Cat flower, and an Insect Jaw, we can make a Silence Ring. Aside from being a minor jump in stats over a base Silver Ring, it provides complete immunity to Seal and also gives us a 100% chance to inflict Seal with any attack, (monster resistances aside.)   Silence Ring Lv:1 was synthesized. Finally, we no longer have to worry about losing our ability to use magic or special attacks on our axe. It also means we can even seal enemies with our stronger Crescent Axe rather than needing to use Alldale for it. There are other good options for arm accessories, but I've got a feeling we'll be wearing this one for a long time. Also apparently it makes people chatty when they wear it, which won't really affect Bush. He already actively seeks out conversation by any means necessary.  Following that, I spend some Silver and Insect Skin on 3 rings purely for skill gain. I might make these into the other status rings later if getting the Magic Crystals isn't too much a pain. We're up to 30 crafts skill now, that just puts us 9 more away from our goal.  I drop by the Materia General Store to pick up a basic pendant following this.  I've got enough extra materials lying around, and now enough skill to make an Earth Pendant.  Earth Pendant Lv:1 was synthesized.  And so ends the long era of Bush's wearing a knit scarf as this edges it out in stats. He almost looks wrong without it at this point. *sigh* You served us well, Knit Scarf. We only wore you through the hottest season of the year, but it was worth it.  I use a whole bunch more scrap metal on our sickle, pushing our forging up by about 5 levels in the process. This gets us in range to start slapping scrap iron onto the Rainbow Can, which being a higher skill item, pretty much guarantees a skill up per forge at this point. We still have to get our skill up quite a lot before we can even access forging for expertise to lower the RP cost. Unfortunately, I ran out of scrap metal, so grinding forging more can wait for now.  A few more Earrings and other bits later, we've thinned out the material box further and gained two more points in crafts. Things are coming along!  Just not finding that much new dialogue today, unfortunately. I hope the crafting escapades make up for it.  Unable to find new, riveting conversation, Bush dives into Lava Ruins and begins mining there for usable materials.   The ore vein on the second floor near the exploding Duck gives us an amazing yield of 3 silver ore! This is what we're really looking for. Silver is featured prominently in many of the accessory recipes presently, and basic Silver Rings are some of the least complicated things to make.  Following this, I while the evening away farming Ignis. We're finally making some amount of progress with Cinnamon, and she's got a long way to go still, so farming these will be a part of our day to day life for quite some time. Now that the Ignis can't seal Bush and every hit seals them, it does make farming a bit easier. Doesn't improve the drop rate any, but it does mean less time is wasted between waves.  Finally, by 8:00 PM we get one. Not only are these a favorite gift, they're a component in so many recipes. This drop rate is just brutal given all that.  With nothing else left to do in the day but some passing runey management, it's off to Whale Island.  BUSH: Whale...? WHALE: "What is it, Bush?" BUSH: I found this crystal by the seashore. It's not much but it might help bring the ocean to you. WHALE: "Ah, it is almost as if I can feel the waves already... Thank you, Bush, this is is wonderful!" BUSH: You're welcome, Mr. Whale. WHALE: "If there's any way I can return the favor to you, please let me know."  WHALE: "I owe you one for the 'Tide Cluster'." BUSH: Well... I can think of something. Can I have some of your "Baleen"? WHALE: "That can be easily arranged."  WHALE: "Every time you bring me a 'Tide Cluster,' I will exchange it for some more of my 'Baleen'."  *And it appears on the ground in front of us!*  ...And that's how we get the other important material for our wedding bouquet! This dialogue would have triggered yesterday, but the conversation about the two Irises singing overrode it. If you don't remember, the Tide Cluster was that white crystal we found on the beach like a week ago or so. I didn't bring too much attention to it at the time, but this is what it's used for. We could have turned it in before getting the bouquet recipe and still gotten the same dialogue, but Bush would have saved the favor for later. (Due to shenanigans, I had to sort of recreate the above script as I'd already turned in the Tide Cluster, but lost the small recording where I did that. I hope you don't mind. So many technical difficulties this update.)  Music: Iris' Spirit SongIRIS BLANCHE: Should I grow out my hair? IRIS BLANCHE: Do you prefer girls with longer hair, Bush? Blanche is getting self conscious over her other half now, I think. Noire's got minorly longer hair, mostly just longer bangs. Then again, she might just be thinking about longer than that in general. I don't think much longer hair would really work with the giant collar they wear, unless they run it in front like Noire's already kind of doing. That could be a good look, now that I think about it. Two long tails in front? Maybe just one long braid? There isn't any choice to be made here though, unfortunately. Only way we can influence their style is to give them an accessory.  IRIS NOIRE: My hobby is actually fortune telling with tarot cards. IRIS NOIRE: Do you want me to tell your fortune?  ------------------ 1. Yes, please. 2. Not now. ------------------ One can only wonder when and how she had the time to get this hobby with Gelwein over her head. Regardless, what could it hurt? (saying no here doesn't provide any interesting dialogue, if you were wondering) IRIS NOIRE: Now then...  *Card shuffling* *rustle* *SNAP*  IRIS NOIRE: ...There. Let's see... IRIS NOIRE: "Anything you do today will turn out well. If you want to start something, do it today, but do not get carried away." IRIS NOIRE: There it is. Of course, fortune telling is always a hit or miss affair. I'd say we followed that advice pretty well retroactively. Hit or miss is about right though, fantastic Silver luck today, abysmal Magic Crystal luck. Alas, tarot doesn't involve the branch of fortunetelling that includes weather shaping magic.  IRIS NOIRE: The scenery from here looks wonderful. It feels like I am swimming in the sky... We'll probably be getting more dialogue from Noire than Blanche for now, as the latter is nearing LP 10.  IRIS NOIRE: I really like to grow flowers. IRIS NOIRE: You can grow flowers for spring, summer, and autumn on Whale Island. I'm glad I came over here. Noire also shares similar tastes to her counterpart, given they're two halves of the same person.  Following this I remember to stop by the bar for cooking oil, and we're off to bed.  I do manage to make a level 5 Silver Ring before we do that.  So many rings!  Alas, we're 1 skill point away from making a Poison Ring. It'd be worth a skill point on it's own.  We blow our remaining RP on grinding some Magic skill, and then it's off to bed for Bush. Music: Goodnight Music: TrampoliWe awake to a sunny Summer 28th. Just two days left in the season! Next update will be the last we see of this season for a long time!  Music: Summerwatering everything is still a strain on resources i do regret the rainbow can so fashionable yet so painful  I manage to meet Anette before she even makes it off the bridge today. Getting a lot better at timing this!  ANETTE: Bush, you must get so tired from working in the fields. ANETTE: When that happens, you can recharge your batteries by eating some fruit. But maybe that's just me. Timely advice! It's quite true, the supply of oranges I gathered earlier in the month has kept me alive while watering. They're not a lot of RP, but they're enough to stop you from passing out. My only question is how she knows what batteries are. Norad doesn't have electricity! Maybe she means like artillery?  One silver from Green Ruins today. I don't think I've ever not gotten at least one from here.  r u n e y m a n a g e m e n t  LARA: I'm relaxing a little before I do my daily morning work at the church. LARA: We all need some time off. I'll say! I don't think I ever see you not working outside of these trips to the beach. This reminds me that these last three days is also the last we'll really see of the beach. While it made locating some characters annoying, there was a certain fun in not knowing who'd be here each morning. Melody and Uzuki still come out here occasionally anyways, just not in swimwear.  BIANCA: That Mist... Where could she have gone...? Making us all worry about her like this...  BIANCA: I-I'm not...! I mean... Tabatha was worried... Every once in a while Bianca lets something slip through- she's a good person at heart, but is just afraid to show it. I don't really know what relationship she'd have with Mist, but she must have found her at least somewhat interesting given her oddball conversations.  BIANCA: Once I get bored of Trampoli, I may move to another summer home. You'll have to entertain me so that doesn't happen. As we've given her Francoise already, she's not going to leave. This could be a real shock to someone who doesn't know this is coming, but the conditions are so easy I don't know how you'd miss it. If there is an LP requirement of some kind, Bianca's almost at 3LP thanks to all the conversation and winning the boating festival.  UZUKI: There's really not much to do when you go fishing. UZUKI: I swung my naginata to kill time and the fish got away. If you're a restless person, bait fishing can be really hit or miss. I normally have to keep myself occupied all the time, but fishing's the one time where I can really just sit back and take in the atmosphere. It's the perfect mix for me, the feeling like I'm doing something alongside the ability to just simply relax. If it's too slow, then fly fishing might be more your style. It's constant action.  EUNICE: I used to be lonely, but I have so many more friends now. EUNICE: Cinnamon always comes to pick up Kanno every morning. I'm really grateful for her. Magic Grandpa's usually out on his own by 12 AM. He actually doesn't get much sleep from what I can tell, I don't think he goes to sleep until like 3:00 AM.  EUNICE: I feel so calm inside when everything is cleaned up. It's a strange feeling, but I've had it before. I also feel like I've covered this before.  GANESHA: The Snow Ruins, as the name suggests, has monsters that are resistant to cold. GANESHA: But, they're also weak towards heat, so adjust your equipment that way to prevent needless damage to yourself. This is why I'd like a Water Cape, but that just so happens to be the one with the highest skill cost. Ah, well, I'm still making one for the massive improvement it'll be over that Crest we made at the beginning of Summer, I think.  I buy a Wind Crystal while we're here, as I've got something I can make with it.   CINNAMON: I've gotten good at back rubs recently. Grandpa loves it when I do it for him. Cinnamon's racking up a list of skills now- fishing, fish prints, constellations, magic theory, medicine, dabbling in cooking, and now massage! A few more and she'll catch up to the jack-of-most-trades that is Bush!  CINNAMON: Melody seems really... motivated recently. Melody's usually pretty motivated, so she must be putting into overdrive now. Must be thanks to getting more bath family.  MELODY: I'm actually really picky about my hat. Did you know that I wear a different hat everyday? Speaking of Melody, here's some Melody Facts for you. We've seen this before, but with the springs of content being a lot drier for her now her storyline's complete, I've gotta do something to not just leave her out.  SELPHY: In Uzuki's country, there's a legend about a princess that came from the moon. Isn't that romantic?! SELPHY: But yeah. I discovered that hearing someone tell a story directly can be really fun, too. Selphy has branched out from literature to also being interested in the wider world of storytelling. If this keeps up, she might end up inventing tabletop roleplaying with "Woolies & Warriors, 1st Edition". That just leads to the fun question of who in town would play the game. Melody's a hard yes, Cinnamon's a maybe, and I've got a feeling Bianca would really want to join but wouldn't say so. You'd proably have to ask her directly so she can claim she's bored and has nothing else to do.  SELPHY: Books are so good. They're compressed packs of human knowledge. Everyone should read more books! Despite getting into oral tradition, Selphy will continue to espouse the virtues of reading. It will forever be the supreme form of storytelling in her eyes.  Conversations done for the day, we return to home base to continue our accessorizing. First up, I make some yarn from our recent wool harvest.  I also try out making some yogurt. Its basically worthless as a food, so either it's an ingredient for something, or a really really minor profit.  Next up, we stick a Wool, a Yarn Ball, a Monster Hide, and a Toy Herb together to make...  Furry Belt Lv:1 was synthesized. A Furry Belt. With this and the cat ears, Bush is entering dangerous territory, I know, but this is a long needed replacement for our horribly outdated Crest.  It's a pretty decent jump in DEF, but this'll soon be replaced by that Fire Cape I've got my eyes on. It was also a free skill up.  And so the Crest goes into the shipping bin alongside some whatever earrings. You served us well, sort of, but you were so tiny I pretty much forgot you were even equipped. Rest In Profit, good soldier  It's around this time I check in with Erik and his supply of wool he somehow has despite being terrified of monsters and not raising any himself. For only 360g, we can buy two wool and make a scarf, so that may be a viable means of us to speed grind the craft's skill. We're rolling in cash and the only big purchases are far off from now, so it's not a horrible idea.  I do buy one and make another few belts while I'm at it. I've got a good number of leftover monster hides I can use for this, but it digs into my Toyherb supply a lot.   It's a cost I'm willing to pay though, as each one of these is getting me a skill up, and I've got enough to get me just to that coveted 39 crafts skill. They're worth a lot thanks to how much Toyherbs are worth, so it adds a pretty hefty profit to today's earnings.  KANNO: Trampoli is a very nice village...  KANNO: ...but it's so deep in the countryside that there isn't any place I where can gather materials for research. Just give me quests to go hunt stuff for you, I'm pretty sure I can get most of what you need. Also, it's been a while since we've seen a typo. Hard to tell if it happened because of an editing pass to "any place I can" or just putting the "I" before "where".  Time to grind items in Lava Ruins!  After far too much fighting, I manage to acquire a Quality Cloth. Two in fact! I never get this kind of luck on drops so frequently, that tarot reading must be really working it's magic. That's one material for our cape down!  Time for our daily bath!  Refreshed, we examine the materials left for us to acquire. It would seem all I need now is some Cheap Cloth and a Quality Fur.  Before I go get that specifically, I've got another thing in mind. So I go magick the giant chicken away again.  The HP bar doesn't even get to finish draining before it goes down.  And bam, another Feathered Hat, just like that. If you're asking why I needed another of these, it's because I sold the old one and gave the spare to Eunice because I am a master of planning ahead. But with it, I can now make one other new piece of gear to add to our ensemble.  That hat, plus a Toy Herb, a Fair Hide from the hornets in the Snow Ruins, and a Quality cloth make...  Stylish Hat Lv:1 was synthesized. One stylish hat!  It may not have the passive crit from the ears, but it's a decent little jump in DEF and MAG. If that flower on the side was a feather, then this would definitely be a pimp hat but as is, it's only close to it. Now, off to Whale Island for the day!  Music: Whale Island OutsideBefore we go visit the Tower of Rest, we've got some other business to attend to.    All the way back up to the Tower of Birth we go, a place we haven't visited in a long time.  Up here, I start to grind the    Far too many hours later, a quality fur finally drops. Sealing really shuts them down, locking them to using only their basic horn poke attack. With that done, we can go visit Blanche and Noire.  IRIS BLANCHE: People change, but one should never be afraid of it. Sudden, but good advice, I guess.  IRIS NOIRE: It's most dangerous right when you get used to things. Please be careful when you explore the ruins. They're just throwing all sorts of advice today.  Back at home, we're still missing 2 materials for the cape: the Cheap Cloth and a Fire Crystal. These are both pretty easy to acquire, so we'll have it for sure next time.  Not today though, it's gotten far too late. I spend out the last of our RP on various skill grinding as usual, with nothing else left in the day to do with it.  With that, I shall see you next time, in which our obtainment of drip shall continue, and we give a send-off to the season. --------------------------------------------- MYSTERY: "Wow, they still said 'drip' back then?" BUSH: "Yes, although I'm still not sure I know what it means." MYSTERY: "Eh, that's fine. The rapid mutation of multi-dialectic slang in the modern world means that a lot of these words don't stick around." MYSTERY: "Unless of course it progresses to its own dialect of our language, and then evolves past that into it's own separate language consisting of references to things you had to be there for to understand." MYSTERY: "Said shorthand reference language will then consume the world leaving a nearly indecipherable written history behind, which will confuse our alien successors who become fed up with the language and pass it off as merely a strange form of art instead. And thus, we will be lost to time." BUSH: "Uh... can I continue my story now? The network said we had to keep these short." Left 4 Bread fucked around with this message at 20:17 on Apr 19, 2023 |
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Clearly that hat is stylish though
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I mean the hat is objectively defined as Stylish. OP have you considered turning to hacks to negate runey hell? It sounds interminable. I don’t know what format you’re playing the game on but google is showing a variety of methods to just lock areas at prosperity runey levels.
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Mzbundifund posted:I mean the hat is objectively defined as Stylish. I know there are ways to just cheat the problem away, but I feel like I've committed to playing the game with the system as it was designed, for now at least. When either I get tired of it, or when we get to towards the end of the LP where money and farming don't matter anymore and I'm just trying to show off the last bits of content, I'll probably turn it on. I like to complain about it for the comedy factor, but it's mostly just added busywork. I'm actually pretty lazy with it as is: I only bother with it every few days or so, and I just jack the emulation speed up. (Yes, I do realize it's kind of backwards to say I'm aiming to play as intended when I frequently abuse savestates and push to make progress way faster than the game wants you to )
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Update 40: Bush Becomes a Debt Collector We resume the adventures of Bush, master chef, as we approach the end of the season. I've got a good deal to cover, so let's waste no time in getting to the good stuff.  Music: SummerMorning, Anette! Hello, Summer theme! This'll be the last time we hear it, pretty much forever. Give it a good listen!  ----------------------------------------------------- ~"Pumpkin Festival" - Stella~ Tomorrow is the Pumpkin Festival. To participate, you simply have to wear a pumpkin on your head. I hope you'll join me! ----------------------------------------------------- This'll be why today is the final day for the seasonal theme, tomorrow's festival theme will override it. It's also good that I bought that Pumpkin Mask forever ago even if I could make one now. Gotta save all my pumpkins for Anette.  ----------------------------------------------------- ~"All prepared for autumn?" - Erik~ Did you know it'll be autumn starting the day after tomorrow?! In autumn, all summer crops will wither, so be sure to come by our shop and purchase autumn seeds. ----------------------------------------------------- Despite him reminding me to do thhis, I'll go ahead and say I forget to anyways. It's not much of a loss, we've got plenty of money, and I'll want to wait to plant my crops anyways.  ANETTE: Tomorrow is the Pumpkin Festival. Everyone in the village wears pumpkin masks. ANETTE: When I first saw it, I thought the village was being attacked by monsters! There is an enemy in the series with a pumpkin for a head, but they're not in this game as far as I know.  MELODY: Tomorrow is the Pumpkin Festival, I hear. You have to wear a pumpkin on your head all day. That's so weird. It's a really simple holiday, but that's fine, not every holiday has to be a minigame. I'm not gonna deny I like them all being minigames, but still.  CINNAMON: Tomorrow is the Pumpkin Festival where people wear pumpkins. CINNAMON: ...Can't wait. Evidently, Cinnamon's going to enjoy this one, unlike the boating festival. Also get used to people telling us what tomorrow is and what we do then, that's pretty much all the dialogue for today.  CANDY: Tomorrow is the Pumpkin Festival. It's a festival where everyone wears pumpkin masks. amazing    To shake things up a bit, we head onto Whale Island for a short time to fight some orcs. After a short time, we get that Cheap Cloth we needed for the cape. That's the last thing we need!  LARA: I am very conscious of my health. I can't have people say that a caretaker of health is unhealthy herself. Given that even the VA reads this out like a poem, this semi-rhyme was definitely intentional. Also this is coming from the person who I've been giving slices of chocolate cake to most mornings.  LARA: Tomorrow is actually the Pumpkin Festival... I'm actually not too fond of it. BUSH: Why?  LARA: Isn't it... embarassing to wear a pumpkin? Not if everyone else is doing it! I also buy some energy drinks while I'm here because I can't be bothered to make my own at this point.  STELLA: You came at the right time. Can I ask a favor from you? STELLA: A priest that I know wants me to send him "Scriptures." I think Lara has it so can you go fetch it for me? BUSH: All right. "Scriptures," was it? STELLA: Thanks. Hey, a little quest! Wasn't expecting this today! Lara's literally in the next room over, but I'm not gonna turn down content.  BUSH: Lara, I'm looking for the "Scriptures" for Stella. LARA: "Scriptures"? I think I lent it to Selphy. LARA: You came at the right time then. Since it's on the way, can you ask Selphy to return it? BUSH: Oh... All right... Calling it now, she's not going to be able to find it.   Or I'm not going to be able to find her! I guess she's down at the beach, although Cinnamon's here.  Well, next on the list, to Materia!  um, cutscene? Rosetta's just come trudging out of the store, a heavy bag on her back.  ROSETTA: Oh, Bush. BUSH: What happened? Why are you carrying so much luggage? ROSETTA: My father collapsed. He may be worthless, but he's still my father. ROSETTA: I'm going to be gone for a while. I left Danny in charge of the store so it's business as usual.  And so she leaves. Well, uh, I guess our LP went a bit faster than I thought it would. She'll be gone for a few weekends although for how long, I don't know. This is kinda inconvenient timing, but I'll work with it. She's also already at 9 LP somehow? Wow.  EUNICE: Tomorrow is the Pumpkin Festival. It's fun to make your own mask. EUNICE: Did you make yours already, Bush? Make, yes, I definitely made it. Sure did.  UZUKI: The Pumpkin Festival? I am sorry, but what is so fun about wearing a pumpkin on your head? I'm not sure, really. Perhaps tomorrow will enlighten us.  GANESHA: Tomorrow is the Pumpkin Festival. That's why I'm making the mask now. My job makes this a piece of cake! Her hammer's got that big spike on the back, so I can only imagine her going at carving a pumpkin with that.  TURNER: Tomorrow is the Pumpkin Festival. Did you get your pumpkin yet?  TURNER: Our family has been eating pumpkins since half a month ago. That's about when they'd finish growing, so that makes sense. We're still carrying two dozen around with us.  RITA: Tomorrow is the Pumpkin Festival. RITA: I always grow pumpkins at home every year. I can't wait to try it this year, too! This just made me realize how almost everyone uses the exact phrase "tomorrow is the Pumpkin Festival" and now I can't stop noticing it.  KROSS: Heh... KROSS: Tomorrow is the Pumpkin Festival. I prepared a great pumpkin just for today.  ERIK: This day has finally come. I'm going to wear a great pumpkin in front everyone this year! Erik is hype for the festival as usual. ...What? I did say I'd forget to buy anything from him even though he's standing behind the counter right now. ...  We then return home, have a sudden craving for tomato juice, and get to the big moment of the day.  To the workbench goes a Cheap Cloth, a Quality Cloth, Quality Fur, one Fire Crystal, and one Pink Cat...  Fire Cape Lv:1 was synthesized.  Now we stylin' Honestly, the only elemental color that doesn't look that good on Bush is green. He's got dark blue, red, and brown in his outfit so the Water, Fire, and Earth capes all match somewhat. These will be our threads for quite some time, as these should jump our capabilites quite a good amount. Now back to finding people to talk to.  BUSH: Selphy, Lara wants you to return the "Scriptures" she lent you. SELPHY: "Scriptures," right? I already finished reading it so I was about to return it anyway. SELPHY: Just wait a sec...  *And so we're forced to wait while she searches around...*  SELPHY: Hm... Looks like it went missing. BUSH: What? Come on... SELPHY: It's not like I lost it or spilled something on it. Let me think... BUSH: *sigh*... Totally called it. I guess we'll have to get back to this quest at a later date.  SELPHY: A story about a princess and a knight is really cliche but that's what makes it good. BUSH: Are you the kind that wishes you were a princess? SELPHY: Me? I'm actually the kind that wishes I were the evil tyrant...  SELPHY: I'm tired of being a princess, and I know what the knights are really like... SELPHY: *gasp* Ahaha! Forget what I just said! Selphy, you're just the worst at hiding these things. If you hadn't already guessed it already, this little bit of dialogue should inform you of who Selphy really is.  MELODY: The bathhouse opens at 3. Just wait a little longer. but it's already 1:00 PM and i need RP please where's the benefits for being bath family  Fine, I guess we'll go fish with Uzuki.  UZUKI: Bush, are you out for a walk? The town square is a nice place. It certainly is a pleasant place for everyone. UZUKI: It is so peaceful... Or we could just get a cutscene too, I guess. I always find it funny this is the "square" although it's a big circle.  UNKNOWN: Ahhhh! BUSH: !!  Music: PinchUZUKI: This bloodcurdling scream! We have an emergency! TSUBUTE: Let us go, milady!  And so 2 out of the 3 people in town with weapons charge to the rescue!  Music: ConfusionEUNICE: It's so cute! FRANCOISE: *mowp* (That's about what she sounds like.) Ah, it would seem thew were not bloodcurdling screams, merely bloodcurdling squees over the tiny pink elephant.  UZUKI: What is going on?! I shall defend the peace of Trampoli! CINNAMON: ...What's wrong? UZUKI: I thought I heard Eunice scream... CANDY: We were just looking at Bianca's Francoise together. Uzuki was about to put all that morning training to work for once, rather than being afraid of everything.  BIANCA: I normally won't allow it, but I'll let everyone pet it today.  MARCO: It's so fluffly. Try it out, Uzuki! UZUKI: I-I am fine... TABATHA: You don't need to act so modest. Francoise loves being petted. UZUKI: I-I... But...  BIANCA: ...What? Are you saying you can't pet Francoise? UZUKI: No, it's not that... Faced with her most adorable foe yet, can Uzuki, Defender of Trampoli's Peace, overcome the challenge before her?  UZUKI: Very well, I come from a family of samurais. I shall harden my resolve to do this. CINNAMON: It's not supposed to be that serious of a matter. And so she steps forward...!  UZUKI: Oh! It is much more tame than I imagined. And it is warm.  BIANCA: My Francoise is the best in the world. UZUKI: Well well. This was a wonderful experience. I thank you, Bianca. TABATHA: I hope Uzuki's hatred of monsters will be eased a little bit with this. UZUKI: That is a difficult thing to follow through with. That happened! I think, oddly enough, this is a Bianca triggered event rather than Uzuki triggered.  fishin'  bathin'  Music: Mimic Slimebossin' I thought that my new fire resistant gear would let Bush handle fighting Mimic Slime better but I forgot about it powering up after the first victory.  This took entirely too long in real world time, to the point I forgot that I didn't record any more beyond this. There was many savestates involved, as I the game's not nice enough to just let you warp out once you're in.  Out of RP restoratives and with the boss's big slam capable of eating nearly 200 HP off us still, I had to devise a very safe strategy. It goes thus: Bait out the targeted explosion, count the sound effect 4 times, use axe special, retreat. Then repeat on loop, being ready to dodge any of the other attacks.   I even managed to tie with the boss once.  The only part of this that was worth it is the Gold Ore which I somehow simultaneously feel that I both did and didn't earn it. Oh well.  And now we cut to one real-world month later, as in, yesterday, where I realized I didn't have enough recorded and had to play more. This 4 week gap is probably how I forgot to buy seeds, but it's not going to be much of an issue.  I go around, do some fishing and cooking for RP food since we're bushed and still easily have 8 hours left in the day, then go ahead and craft those 30 Energy Drinks into 15 Energy Drink S. I'm aiming to get some more of these, as they're not horrible. I'll probably mostly survive off of oatmeal in dungeons from now on, but these are nice enough.  Black Fish(57 cm) Lv:4 was caught. Such a creatively named fish. Either way, the rest of this day pretty much goes to fishing and cooking more supplies for the next few days. While I won't have much farming on my hands, (Erik's store will be closed for the next 2 days,) I've got leveling up to do and lumber to chop.  IRIS: I feel like I've gained more things that I hold dear after I met you, Bush... IRIS: I had a dream about you yesteday, Bush. IRIS: I laughed because we were even talking in the dream. It's happening right now, too. Most of the bachelorettes are at very high LP now, so we're gonna be seeing a lot of stuff like this.  IRIS: I believe there are no bad people among flower lovers. Well, if there are no bad people among flower lovers and bath lovers, then someone who loves both must be amazing.  Noire can also do the tarot reading every day, which is neat.  IRIS NOIRE: "You are undecided about Something, but if you must make that choice now, do it and it may go in your favor." IRIS NOIRE: There it is. Of course, fortune telling is always a hit or miss affair. There seems to be different ones, and they're even all voiced, so we'll see how many of these we can get. I respect that she just does it for fun, there's no mechanical benefit as far as I can tell.  With our nightly fortune read, Bush is bushed and hits the hay but not with a sickle. Music: Goodnight Morning! Music: FestivalHere's the requisite festival theme to play on loop all day and drive you mad. Music: Rune Factory 3 - FestivalIf it helps at all, here's a festival theme from the future (where it's also raining).  ----------------------------------------------------- ~"Looks fun." - Tart~ I see. Festivals are so... fun. I like them very much. Now that the festival is over, I am writing... to you while reading a book on this... peaceful night. What do you do at nights usually? ----------------------------------------------------- 1. I just sleep. 2. I sometimes read books. 3. I frequent the tavern. --------------------------------- Wow, Tori finally got back to us! I guess this is letter mail between indistinctly distant towns, we can't expect it to go as fast as the in-town mail. I say number 2 is the most correct answer, and it's not because I'm picking what she wants to hear. I do save in the diary most nights, more nights than I just hit the bed or go to the bar. Oh, if you were wondering what she looks like, you can see a bit of her portrait when looking through the letter on your table, but here you go.  Ah, the grungy 2006 DS sprites and freehanded character art. She's not a candidate, but it would've been funny if she was a secret bachelorette only available after answering many, many letters. This is our only letter today though.  After brushing the animals, we don our terrifying seasonal visage. We have become... The Headless Horseradish Farmer   And then we head up to Whale Island immediately. Why?  Because Blanche and Noire are still awake! ...yes really I figured this out when working on that file to show off the boss fight we skipped- apparently the Irises stay up from 6:00 PM to 9:00 AM. This fixes my scheduling quite a lot as it means my mornings can now go Anette -> Animals -> Iris -> everyone else -> fighting and farming. If only I'd known this sooner.  IRIS NOIRE: Don't you just feel like drinking tomato juice impulsively sometimes? IRIS NOIRE: You don't? I guess it's just me... Bush denies that he felt the need to down vegetable-less V8 yesterday, it's part of being in character for the festival. They really do just share some lines- I can't tell if I was supposed to somehow get to the Irises later or sooner. Anyways, back to the festival.  Hail, pumpkin-eered fellow!   LUTE: So today was the Pumpkin Festival. LUTE: I get surprised every year. I thought all the villagers turned into monsters! Hey Lute! I believe this is the first time we get to see him on a Friday as this festival isn't also on a holiday like other ones. We can't even buy from him today if we wanted. sorry i ate all your chocolate fighting the confectionary slime  LARA: If it was possible, I didn't want us to meet today... BUSH: But, I think you look good in that, Lara. LARA: Am I supposed to feel happy about that? Bush has unusual tastes in aesthetics and women's fashion. Lara does have one of the better masks though, hers is just a small face mask that doesn't cover her hair or habit.  LARA: Bush, would you please do me a favor? BUSH: What is it? LARA: Well, I had lent Selphy some money... LARA: It's past the due date but she still hasn't returned it. LARA: Would you please collect it from her? BUSH: All right. Oh dear, more quests from the church! At this rate, we'll sideclass into Farmer-Paladin! It's also even more Selphy failing to return anything.  And so two pumpkins meet in a clean library.  SELPHY: Hmmm hmm hmmmm! ♪ SELPHY: Hey, Bush! Look! I bought a new book! I can't wait to see what it's about! BUSH: Didn't you just read that book the other day? SELPHY: Of course not! I never forget about which books I read. There are plenty of books with similar titiles so maybe you mistook it for that? BUSH: Oh... Hm, how weird. Well, maybe we'll figure out what these new books are about at some point. We're here on other business.  BUSH: Did you find the "Scriptures"? SELPHY: "Scriptures"? What are you talking about? SELPHY: I'm kidding! Don't look at me like that. SELPHY: Scriptures... I last read it while I was in the bath. SELPHY: I know! I left it at the bathhouse! Razor sharp detective work by me. SELPHY: I'm sure it's still there so why don't you go get it? selphy, what are we ever gonna do with you Also wouldn't the humidity and steam just ruin the books?  BUSH: Uh... Isn't it in the women's bath? SELPHY: Don't worry about that! Be a man about it! BUSH: That's the problem here... (I guess I should talk to Melody about it.) Yeah, she'd punch us into next week if we just waltzed in there. Conveniently, this mirrors the questline where Father Wesley loses his holy book in RF1 because Nicholas plays a prank on him by hiding it in the women's bath. Presumably, this is also who Stella wants to send these Scriptures to anyhow, so there's just a weird precedent for holy texts getting lost in the women's bath in Norad. Anyways, we were here on other business.  BUSH: Selphy, Lara wants you to repay the money she lent you. SELPHY: Whoa! I didn't think she'd send a collector to come get it! SELPHY: Not bad, Lara! "Scarlet Sister, sending someone to do your dirty work for you- not bad..." "In the name of St. Poli, you will repay...!" ...She's probably workshopping this story right now.  BUSH: Setting that aside, would you please pay back the money? SELPHY: Well, about that. I want to pay it back, but I just don't have the funds. BUSH: So, you don't have the money to repay it? SELPHY: Well, if you put it like that, I don't know how to respond! SELPHY: That's why I need a favor from you. Can you pay it back for me? BUSH: ... This set of conversations is only enhanced by the fact everyone has jack-o-lantern heads today, I think.  MELODY: Hahaha! This festival is so weird! But, I like stuff like this. Melody won't have the bath open at all today (egads!) so we're not getting anywhere on the scriptures front for now. Bush won't even dare try to sneak in.  LARA: How was it? Will Selphy pay it back? -------------------------------------------- 1. Yes, I have the money. 2. No. She said she didn't have any money. -------------------------------------------- I didn't savestate here, although I should have. I reasoned it couldn't be that much anyways, and we're crazy rich. What's a little generosity?  LARA: Bush, you shouldn't lie. LARA: I suppose that Selphy just had you pay in her place? BUSH: How did you know? LARA: It's because you're a terrible liar. LARA: All right. I will speak with Selphy directly later. Thank you for your help. busted and burned  KANNO: I've found out some things about Gelwein. BUSH: Really?! KANNO: Yes. Apparently he worked for the Imperial Magic Research Center in the Kingdom of Norad. BUSH: Imperial Magic...? That's where you and Cinnamon used to work, right? KANNO: No! We were at the Imperial Magic Academy! Don't you ever compare our Majesty's personal facility to those bumpkins! BUSH: S-sorry... you could also say those pumpkins Okay that was an extremely bad low hanging fruit, sorry also why is so much development happening on today of all days  KANNO: Anyways, they were researching for a way to utilize Runes effectively. KANNO: Gelwein's reputation there was most terrible, but apparently his skill was top-notch. (the former's not surprising) KANNO: Of course, his skill is nowhere near mine or Cinnamon's. Hohoho. BUSH: Okay... KANNO: It seems as time went on, Gelwein began to devote himself to a particular area of research. BUSH: What was he researching? KANNO: Military use of Runes. In other words, immoral experimentation that sought to use Runes for war. BUSH: That can't be right... Using Runes for warfare is supposed to be forbidden in the Kingdom of Norad. Somehow, Bush knows this. I guess he remembers it from the first game.  KANNO: Yes, it still is. That's why the monarchy cut off funding the research and the facility fired him. KANNO: Now, Gelwein is here, in Trampoli. BUSH: Do you think he's trying to continue his research? KANNO: I doubt it's that simple. According to his past co-workers from the facility, Gelwein apparently swore revenge on the monarchy and the research center that kicked him out. KANNO: He's most likely trying to use his research to use Runes as weapons against the Kingdom of Norad. BUSH: We need to stop him, now! KANNO: We don't have much time. Hurry, Bush! Alright, we'll get right on that but first, pumpkin festival You'd think Gelwein would've been arrested rather than exiled, but okay. If he wasn't blinded by ego, he'd probably have just signed up with the Sechs Empire and continued his research there. They're looking to destroy Norad, just as soon as they get the right stuff to do it.  KANNO: What do you think? Candy made it herself. KANNO: You can't have it even if you want it! Hohoho. Magic grandpa is a proud grandpa, even if he is a bit grumpy.  BUSH: This book... It's unbelievably hard. I can't even read it, it's so hard. BUSH: Kanno must be even smarter than I thought... KANNO: "Than I thought"?! I am smarter than you could ever imagine!  CINNAMON: Candy made this mask for me. CINNAMON: Looks good. Cinnamon's into pumpkin fashion.   GIRL: Guess who! ------------------------- 1. Candy...? 2. I don't know... ------------------------- A mysterious figure! How could we ever guess who they are with that mask?!  BUSH: I don't know... CANDY: It's Candy! I love how weird the Pumpkin Festival is! If you do guess right, you get this: CANDY: You got it! I guess it's too easy to tell it's me.   DANNY: H-hey. I'm not Danny! Honest! You almost fooled me, but the massive pec window gave it away, I'm afraid.  UZUKI: It felt a little embarassing at first, but this Pumpkin Festival can be enjoyable after one gets used to it.  Also, yes, Tsubute is also wearing one and it's also almost as big as his entire body.  SELPHY: Hey, Bush! What do you think? I made it myself. SELPHY: I think it turned out pretty well, if I do say so myself. As it turns out, we never got her comment on her mask thanks to all the loan collecting we were doing.  EUNICE: Well? Are you enjoying the Pumpkin Festival? EUNICE: This festival originated in the town where my father used to work. EUNICE: When he moved here, he wore the pumpkin by himself but Stella grew to really like it. EUNICE: That's how it became an official festival. This does absolutely sound like something Turner would do. The guy has zero reservations.  BIANCA: I'm only wearing it because Tabatha made it! Ssssure you are Honestly, it's a missed opportunity that her hair drills don't come outside of the pumpkin.  TABATHA: How is my mask? I made two for Miss Bianca and myself yesterday. Another missed opportunity is that all the masks are the same design, but missed opportunity is the name of the game with Neverland, and I'll hit the wordcount limit if go on about all the things they could have done. Still a good festival so far, it's simple, but it's fine that way.  STELLA: Are you enjoying the Pumpkin Festival?  STELLA: Tomorrow is the Pumpkin Festival. It's a festival where you wear a pumpkn mask all day. STELLA: It all started from when a monster with a pumpkin head helped a lost innkeeper. w-whahuh but today is the fest... Does Pumpkin Festival never end?!  KROSS: ...!! KROSS: Heh...  KROSS: D-do you want to build e-e-extensions? Kross is probably handling the pumpkinhead anxiety the worst today    While I'm out in this direction, I go ahead and harvest the last of the oranges. All 30 take me most of my bars and nearly three hours.  Rosetta...?   ROSETTA: How do I look? ROSETTA: I always thought that Pumpkin Festival was stupid, but it's actually fun when you take part in it. So the deal is, she'll still show up on Holidays and festivals, but she's back to living with her dad for the moment. I didn't know this until I looked it up, so I don't handle this as efficiently as I could. Either way, if you were worried she was gonna vanish completely for a while, rest assured she's not.  MARCO: H-hey. What do you think of this mask? ----------------------------- 1. It looks good on you. 2. It looks weird on you. ----------------------------- Well, time to do a bit of timeline splitting- lookin fresh mate posted:
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We get a different story each way! You're a sly one, Marco. Regardless of what we answer though:  CANDY: I think that mask's pretty cute. MARCO: R-really?! I actually think it's really nice! oh marco what a future you have ahead of you  RITA: Haha. It's me, Rita. RITA: Well? Are you having fun? Moderately!   CHEERFUL MAN: Hi! I'm the mysterious Pumpkin Mask! BUSH: Turner... CHEERFUL MAN: I'm not Turner! I'm Pumpkin Mask! TURNER: Hahaha. You have to go with the flow here.  ERIK: Take a look! This pumpkin... is sure to win! BUSH: Win what...? Erik treats every festival as a contest, no matter what. He desires minigames  ANETTE: How do I look, Bush? ANETTE: When I first saw it, I was scared, but it started being fun once I joined in. Anette's also here, although she's a bit hidden. I had to look up a schedule to find her, even.   I can't really tell how much this festival has helped our LP, but we really are in general in a way better state than where we were at the first bachelorette vote. Heck, Iris Blanche has capped out even!  Ah, our last harvest of tomatoes and corn. I skimmed a couple off the top so that I have some for juice.in the coming days.  What seeds I do have on hand is fodder, so I just plant one half the field into fodder because why not. I'll just use it as runey growth material I guess- if I need more space, I'll get rid of some of it. Stuff barely costs anything anyways.  Following that is a lot of prepared meals for the season ahead.  Aaand finally, sleep. All pumpkin partied out, we now wave goodbye to Summer for good. So much money made, so many skills grinded, we pretty much cut through about half the game in this month. What lies ahead? Character development and new characters, actually! Left 4 Bread fucked around with this message at 20:35 on Apr 19, 2023 |
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Update will be somewhat late, (I suppose that's pretty evident at this point,) as my hands hurt too much yesterday to type a lot. It's okay-ish today, but I'm not gonna push it too much. Worst case scenario, this'll 1 week break will just become a 2 week break. We've got good stuff coming that I want to get to as we're sorta entering Bush's second training arc, but I can't argue with my hands. arthritis is fun
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Take all the time you need to recover, man. Hope you feel better soon!
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Update 41: Over Jumbled Lines of Localization Good morning, Bush! Good morning, readers! With the change of the season comes a brand new color for the clock up top, this time a brown. It honestly looks better than I thought it would.  bush makes food what else is new   Oh, what is new is me slapping a Gold ore, a Ruby, a Glittering Edge, and a Thick Stick into our lumber axe to make a Mountain Axe. Hopefully this will cut wood a lot faster. It vaguely resembles a single edged Alldale with a pick end on the other side- I guess Bush has two Golden Axes now.  Somewhere along the line I obtained a lot of Water Runeys, and I don't really remember where. I have been focusing on collecting them when I do my maintenance, but it feels like there's more than there should be. I've been almost ignoring the Grass farm, so that's possibly why. Speaking of ignoring Runeys, it's the free 7 days, so I can continue to do that risk-free for the next week.  Welcome to Autumn! Everything is a lot more brown, yellow, and dark red, as to be expected. We'll get a nice view of most of the town in the coming days, but I gotta say, I really like how it looks. I'm a sucker for Autumn ambience though, so that's probably just personal bias speaking. Music: AutumnThis comes with a new seasonal theme, and it's quite good. It's an entirely different feel from the Spring and Summer tracks, but I'd say it matches given how different everything is now.  ----------------------------------------------------- ~"It's autumn!" - Rosetta~ Autumn begins today! Autumn is a season for beautiful flowers, for which, of course, we carry seeds at Materia! ----------------------------------------------------- Rosetta stopped by to drop off her monthly advertisement, despite the whole situation with her dad. Gotta respect the hustle.  Nothing but some fodder planted, so watering shouldn't take us too long. It'll probably be some time before I plant real crops this season as past me was waiting on an event that I thought would happen sooner. We've got plenty of cash regardless, and the extra time should help us to work on getting prepared for our inevitable clash with Gelwein. Rune Factory games keep insisting on using main plot hooks that typically demand urgency, but the games themselves never supporting that urgency. We really shouldn't be calmly farming like it's nothing and having festivals while knowing that Mist has been kidnapped and that Whale Island could crush us all at any moment, but that's how it is. We've been ignoring the whole "Whale Island is falling" thing for a pretty long time, really.  No Anette today? much sadness Daily chores took too long, so we won't be visiting the Irises early today.  What's this? Heading down to South District, a new house has appeared in the previously empty spot beneath Kross's house.  ----------------------------------------------------- [Brodik] If you have no business, go away. If you have business, go away. ----------------------------------------------------- ...How nice.  Uh, Lute...? Why are you awkwardly standing outside the Sainte-Coquille Manor?  LUTE: What is it? I'm not doing anything suspicious. LUTE: S-see? N-nothing... If you say so!  LUTE: Oh yeah! Bush. I was born on the 13th of summer by the way! Changing the conversation skill: Masterful  It's really odd, I haven't seen anyone but him today. Going back to the normal schedules after a month of the Summer ones has got me confused.  UZUKI: The autumnal leaves look splendid. Well, some of the villagers' schedules never change anyways. Oh, right, with a new season comes new season dialogue.  UZUKI: Have you found any clues on Brother? BUSH: No, I haven't found anything significant... Have you gone inside the ruins, Uzuki? UZUKI: I-It is so dark and scary the- UZUKI: I mean, is that not your responsibility? Maybe it'd help if you gave us a description, maybe a sketch? Regardless, we haven't seen anyone in the dungeons aside from Gelwein. I doubt he's your brother though.   EUNICE: I heard Uzuki and Tsubute having an argument yesterday.  EUNICE: I guess you can say tha people who don't care about each can't have fights. Even without the typo(s?) that doesn't make sense. Plenty of people who don't care about each other get in fights- not caring makes it easier, in fact! I'm no relationship counselor, but something's up if you're fighting regularly.  EUNICE: You know how Dad and I wake up in the morning and Mom wakes up at night?  EUNICE: That's why we make sure we always at least eat breakfast together. That's nice. Third-shift jobs can be a strain on the family. ...But Rita's always awake. In fact, I don't think she goes to sleep at all, now that I think about it. She'll be standing in the bedroom sometimes, but I've never seen her asleep.  TURNER: Listen. Alcohol is said to be the cause of all sorts of illnesses. It's really bad for you. TURNER: Wine is especiall bad. That's why if you have any on you, give it to me. I'll dispose of it for you. TURNER: I'm not saying this because I want to drink it. Don't forget that. TURNER: *gulp* Your reverse psychology won't work on me! As mentioned before, Turner's favorite gift is apparently the Amazing Bathing Suit- Wine is actually his hated gift. This is because he'll go on a drunken bender if you give him any and get chewed out in the morning by Rita. I guess I can show the event off at some later point, but I'd rather not make trouble for Eunice.  I checked upstairs in Materia for Rosetta, but she's not here right now. I think she's on the Beach Road at this time of day, but I don't think past me remembered that.  Inside the Archives, we find an unusual sight- Bianca!  BUSH: Hey, I thought that you were only here during the summer, Bianca. BIANCA: That was my initial plan but Francoise can only live in these lands. BIANCA: I can't just leave it here so Tabatha and I decided to stay. BUSH: I see. Well, you're always welcome in the village. Bianca's gotten rather attached to Francoise at this point, something that will keep showing up more and more. I'm glad they're getting along, when the purple elephant was with Bush it just sat in a corner idling forever.  BIANCA: The other day, Francoise ate what I gae it instead of Tabatha's food. BIANCA: It feels kind of nice.  While I'm here, I spend a little bit of cash picking up some of the last few cooking books we don't have, mostly for dishes we care about.  LARA: It seems that Rosetta's father is sick. That worries me. Lara would've known Jean personally in some capacity, so this is more than her usual but already great concern for anyone in ill health.   KANNO: Gelwein wants revenge on the Kingdom of Norad! KANNO: We must stop him! I'm working on it, but we're not done with Bush's training arc just yet. That and I have to explore around a bit more to find a back entrance.  CANDY: The Spirits are sad. Please help the Spirits! i said i'm workin' on it  BUSH: Marco, you seem to be really good friends with Candy. MARCO: Y-yeah... Candy's really weak so I have to protect her. CANDY: I'm not that weak! It was this moment that would later influence Candy to become a martial artist of legendary skill. ...Probably.  KROSS: It's autumn. It is a melancholic season. It is, but it's also pretty and consumed by blazing heat. I just ignore the fact that I'm surrounded by decaying plant matter.  KROSS: This hoe is my partner. KROSS: Until I met this hoe, I had never done any sort of farm work. KROSS: This hammer even taught me that I can make things with this. KROSS: Heh... KROSS: I'll have to thank the sister that gave this to me. I suppose it was probably Stella? I guess there's always that one unnamed girl who we haven't seen in a rather long time at this point.   ERIK: Young man! How are your fields?  ERIK: I'm glad to have another farming buddy. We should compete with each other to hone our skills! Sure, you can have a head start this month. Bush is just gonna grow some grass for a while and that's it.  CINNAMON: Fish is in season. Did you eat some? Not yet, but we're gonna be eating a lot in the coming days, I'm thinking. Autumn really is a good time for fishing though.  CINNAMON: You can see the "Hat Constellation" now. BUSH: A hat? That's an odd constellation. CINNAMON: The Hat Constellation can be seen when it's a bit late. Good luck. This one is Melody's constellation, and I'm looking forward to the reward it gives.  CINNAMON: The "Broom Constellation" can be seen during this season. BUSH: People back in the day really thought strange things. What were they thinking when they saw a broom among the stars? CINNAMON: ...Who knows? But the Broom Constellation can be seen way past midnight. Try to stay up for it... bush casually throwing shade on his ancestors It is a pretty late constellation though. I'll try to get both of these rather soon, but the broom is a bit of a challenge if I don't want to lose any time.  STELLA: I like how there are more people in the village now, making it much more lively. It does make for a lot of content. Just imagine if the town never grew past the people available on the first day- I guess you'd have to write everyone with much more complex dialogue. I could get behind that idea though.  Some Lava Ruins farming later, and we've got a crystal for Cinnamon. I think at this point that Tabatha has accidentally overtaken her just from the sheer difficulty of obtaining these things. I also decide it's about time I try out our new lumber axe, as I'm looking to finally get that upgraded house sometime soon. So I find a stump and-  ...oh yes hell yes I was not expecting it to change the axe swing into him chucking the axe a dozen feet into the air, jumping up to catch it, doing *two* unnecessary frontflips, and then striking the stump with a massive column of lightning. Truly our magic skill has crossed into our axe skill.   Much lumberwork ensues as unlike the rainbow can, this is pretty efficient on RP.  I keep going and clear the whole Lava Ruins B2F, taking until 6:00 PM going at it with the axe.  BUSH: Melody, it seems that Selphy forgot and left behind the "Scriptures" here...  MELODY: So you came back for it?  MELODY: ...Isn't it in the women's bath, then? BUSH: Yes...  MELODY: I told her that you're not allowed to read in the bath! That girl is so... MELODY: Oh, fine... No one comes when it rains or on holidays so just come in then. BUSH: Rainy days or holidays, right? Thank you! On our stop for the bath, we resume Stella's request to recover them scriptures and it continues to play out in a mirror of the similar event to RF1. These same conditions were there as well. ...My question is why Melody can't just walk in there and get it for us. She cleans in there almost every morning, I'm surprised it hasn't ended up in a lost and found of some kind.  I think by "holiday" she means festivals, not the day of the week Holiday, as it wouldn't let me just go in now. Everyone's presently dressed and not inside, I don't see why I can't give a "gimme a sec, i just gotta grab somethin Selphy left" Anyways, apparently everyone present has small lines if you try to do this, all of them pretty much variations of "what are you doing".  MELODY: Um... That's the wrong way... I don't know if it's just because we're bath family now, or it's always been this way, but Melody's response is not the "world of hurt" she promised long ago. I just think it'd be funny if she personally threw Bush out the door. Anyways, that's enough sidestepping how weird this weird situation is. Time to stop on by Whale Island.  TABATHA: The season of autumn has all sorts of foods so I feel excited about what I can cook. But first, a slight detour to Tabatha.  TABATHA: Do I find anything dissatisfying with Trampoli? TABATHA: No... It's a very quiet and nice place. It has a mysterious power to make people kinder. I just have that feeling. Way long ago, in one of the library books, there was some information that Runeys affect people's emotions- prosperity brings happiness and failing environments brings irritation, or something like that. I guess all my hard-ish work is to thank for this mysterious power? ...Just imagine if they made that a mechanical effect of the Runeys, having townsfolk be less receptive to gifts and the like if you're not balancing the environment. That'd be truly awful with how bothersome it is. It might actually be neat if the system was any fun to work with.  BIANCA: Francoise lets me pet it recently. BIANCA: I think it's finally used to me. More of Bianca slowly becoming a friend to monsters like Bush. Also her voice line for an afternoon greeting sounds like she didn't expect us to be here, which is fair. 7:00 PM's a pretty late visit.   IRIS NOIRE: *giggle* BUSH: What's the matter? IRIS NOIRE: It's nothing. I was just happy that you came to visit me, Bush. Noire's definitely come out of her depression now.  RITA: People who have longstanding relationships need to test how close they are by fighting sometimes. BUSH: Are you talking about Uzuki and Tsubute? RITA: Who knows? It probably helps if you have a friendly spar with your warrior buddies every once in a while, but I don't think that's the correct context for this relationship advice.  either way, I'm just here for flour, not your relationship advice   KANNO: Always be in love. That's the secret to staying young. RITA: So... how did it go? Magic Grandpa is very drunk right now, as evidenced by the VA. He says "Always be in love: love is the key to youth" though, instead. Rita's says merely "Oh, I see...!" instead. The localization continues to be odd. This update is filled with localization oddities, in fact.   Found Hat Constellation! BUSH: It looks like Melody's hat. At 8:30, we can catch the Hat Constellation.   With so much time left in the night and so much RP to spend, I continue Bush's war against the stumps, this time clearing out a lot of Green Ruins. This should be at least about another 100 lumber or so.  Sleepytime! Left 4 Bread fucked around with this message at 02:49 on Mar 30, 2023 |
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Update 41.5: Over More Jumbled Lines of Localization (Had to split this in two.)  Wakeytime! ...has that ever been a word?  After our usual morning cooking, which is getting shorter, we begin our first sunny weekday of Autumn. Behold our field of immature grass that lags the game!  BUSH: That's a strange necklace you have on, Anette.  ANETTE: Jealous? ANETTE: I had a really good friend back in the day. When she moved away, she gave it to me and we swore that we'd always be friends.  ANETTE: I haven't seen her since, but I hope she's doing all right. I never had a parting gift, but I've got someone like that. Sometimes you just have to wonder what happened to people you used to know. Regardless, this won't be the last we hear of her little golden acorn necklace. Also this took precedence over the usual mail dialogue for some reason.  ----------------------------------------------------- ~"A Test Letter" - Bianca~ I heard that you take requests for items people want by mail. I don't really want anything in particular, but.. hm... Send me an iron. ----------------------------------------------------- Word's gotten out that Bush is in the acquisition business, and Bianca is scoping out the quality of service I assume. Honestly, if Bush ever decides to put down the hoe and can, this'd probably be what he does for a living. Going out of his way to obtain certain things people want is already something we do every day. I don't have any Iron on hand as I turned it all into earrings for crafts skill. I wish she'd have asked for Bronze- that stuff is basically useless in this game. ...I kinda don't even remember where exactly to get it, I just end up with it when I'm looking for scrap or Silver. It'll be somewhere in one of the early dungeons though.  ----------------------------------------------------- ~"Once again." - Tabatha~ We have officially become residents of this town. Please allow us to first extend our greetings as new neighbors. ----------------------------------------------------- Although Bianca confirmed it for us yesterday, here it is in paper. Bush has done a lot for this town's population growth. I don't know what becoming an official resident entails, Bush never signed any paperwork, Mist just gave him the house with unquestioned authority.  ----------------------------------------------------- ~"Sorry!" - Selphy~ I'm so sorry! That last letter supposed to be for someone else. Just forget what you read. Okay? ----------------------------------------------------- I had already forgotten about it, but thanks for reminding me. Selphy must've been in a mad panic when she wrote this, because she forgot a "was"! Perhaps we'll find out soon who that letter was meant for.  ----------------------------------------------------- ~"Autumns are quite agreeable." - Uzuki~ Is autumn not wonderful? The colors, the food... I am quite fond of autumn. Are you, Bush? ----------------------------------------------------- While I like Autumn, I don't know when it comes to Bush. I may the being controlling most of his actions, but I only speak for him occasionally. Regardless of what he thinks, we can't reply to this letter, so I guess we're leaving Uzuki read but not answered. Trampoli postal etiquette remains a mystery. Also 4 letters today, wow! That's a new record.  Yep, not a single piece of iron. Just a lot of Copper I've been handing over to Ganesha and Turner. I guess we'll have to go-  ...Cutscene? What's Anette walking past our house for? She's usually running past by this point.  *She slowly stumbles forward and collapses.* I know it's been a while since we had a collapse gif, but this isn't what I was expecting!   BUSH: Anette! What is it with the front yard of this house and people collapsing here? Music: St. Poli Church BUSH: Anette... Are you okay? ANETTE: Huh...? Hey... What am I doing here? LARA: You collapsed in front of Bush's house. LARA: I know your job is important to you, but please don't overwork yourself.  ANETTE: Oh... I'm sorry. Bush might work himself to the limit, but he knows where that limit is at now. Now you'll have to start your mail route at 10:00 AM tomorrow morning and maybe even have to buy Cold Medicine! On the bright side, you're now a member of the illustrious "Passed Out On Bush's Front Lawn" club henceforth known as the POOFL.  LARA: You must have been very tired. LARA: Anette, I'm going to have you rest for the rest of the day. Given what happened with Selphy ages ago, you might be able to guess at least one thing that'll happen after this.  ANETTE: Sorry... This is all she has to say. Unfortunately, we don't get to help her deliver the rest of the mail or anything, this is all that'll happen today. ...In a twisted way, I guess this means I have more time to get that Iron, as she'll be right here all day.  STELLA: Anette is always so full of energy. It makes me smile just looking at her. STELLA: I'm so glad that she's the mailman for Trampoli. This random dialogue couldn't have been timed worse!  And so, I spend the next while looking for Iron and being unsuccessful at it.   What I do find is the first Chestnut of the season on the cornucopia trees, meaning I can start making Mont Blancs for Eunice if I can find the time.  Music: Kross' ThemeKROSS: Answer me, vegetables. Where has your vitality to grow even without the Greenifier gone? KROSS: Are the vegetables that make me want to place them on the wagon and run under the blue sky gone? KROSS: Where, oh where, have you gone...? BUSH: That's a sad song... KROSS: Heh...  KROSS: ...Yes. These lands used to be very dry and growing crops was very difficult. I wonder if this is why greenifiers cost so much. 9,000+ g a bag is kinda ridiculous, especially when you consider how long it'll take to actually make profit from it. Still, compared to somewhere like Sharance, this soil is rubbish. Minimum 5 days growing time on anything.  In the manor, we find Bianca brushing Francoise! Nothing new to say, just a neat little interaction that'll happen as part of her daily routine from now on.  TURNER: My birthday is on the 22th of spring. TURNER: Drinks taste wonderful during this season when you have them while admiring the cherry flowers. TURNER: N-no pressure. TURNER: *gulp* Ah, the twenty-secoth of Spring, an auspicious day, but not as auspicious as the thirteend. But aside from that...!  Music: Confusion*Bush looks around the upper floor of the Inn as an unfamiliar face approaches from behind...*   *She bumps into Bush and he barely stays standing!*   ELF GIRL: Oh, I'm sorry. ELF GIRL: But you're getting in the way by standing there... BUSH: I'm sorry!  *He moves out of the way and she continues down the hall for a couple steps.*   ELF GIRL: Are you from the village? BUSH: Yes. ELF GIRL: Hmm... She's an odd one, but then again, most elves are. ...But why not just walk around...?  ELF GIRL: Say, I know there's a maid called Tabatha in this village. Do you know where she is? BUSH: Yes, she lives in a large mansion nearby. ELF GIRL: Oh. Thanks.  *And so she continues further down the hall...*  MINERVA: I'm Minerva. I'll be staying in this village for a while. BUSH: I'm Bush.  MINERVA: I see. Well, bye, Bush. Well, that was strange. I guess there's another elf in town now? I think this is the highest concentration of full elves in any RF game. RF2 is mostly half-elves.  RITA: We better prepare for winter soon. It's the second day of Autumn, no rush. Anyways, if we head back to the manor now that we've met Minerva...  MINERVA: Sure... I already checked in at the inn here so I'll be staying for a while.  TABATHA: What am I supposed to do with you... I think you've got the authority to throw her out or something if that's the direction this conversation is going.  *Bush arrives on scene!* BUSH: Hello. TABATHA: Welcome, Bush. How are you doing, sir?  MINERVA: "Sir"? "Sir!?" Why are you talking to him like that?! TABATHA: You must be more polite in front of a guest, Minerva. MINERVA: But I'm a guest, too... TABATHA: Stop splitting hairs! BUSH: Excuse me, but... Do you two know each other? TABATHA: Ah! I'm terribly sorry! Bush, having been removed from the conversation, attempts to get himself involved again.  TABATHA: This is Minerva and she is my little sister. Come and greet him!  ...For the first time ever, the game starts to decide using these emotion bubbles. I guess I'll try to transcribe them? These have never showed up in Frontier until this point. What happened behind the scenes with this game's development  MINERVA: ...  MINERVA: ...Hi. BUSH: Haha... Hi. Family introductions are often quite embarassing. Minerva doesn't seem that much younger than her sister outside of her higher voice, but it's rather hard to judge age with the RF artstyle. It's not like voice pitch is a good indicator either, but whatever. I do like the look she's got going on though, it's a good color scheme. Also, if anyone's wondering, no, Minerva's not a romance candidate, she's just here.  Well, new arrivals aside, I dip down into Green Ruins and finally manage to get a piece of Iron. Back to Anette with it we go!  CINNAMON: Did you find the Hat Constellation? BUSH: Yes, it looked very funny, like Melody's hat. CINNAMON: That hat is said to belong to a very powerful wizard who dropped it while fighting a giant scorpion. CINNAMON: If Melody wore that hat, maybe she could become a great wizard... BUSH: Haha. I guess so. Along the way, we find Cinnamon and get our history lesson for last night's constellation. This mythological history is some wacky stuff.  I'm not exactly sure how to get Kanno to tell us more about Cinnamon's past, him being outside is usually the trigger, but I'll see what I can do. I'm already gifting him magic powder every day, we've got like 30 bags of it, maybe I need to step it up to Strawberry Tarts. A decent portion of her storyline is from him, so I need this to happen. His tests to collect materials are apparently just based on character level.  Anette still prepares the iron for delivery tomorrow despite her current condition. One could consider this callous, but it could also be the sort of thing she wants. A sort of "you'll be back in top form tomorrow sort of thing". It'd depend on the person really, but given Anette loves her job, I think she'd appreciate Bush not holding back this delivery request.  ----------------------------------------------------- ~Constellation: Hat~ "The Hat, an autumn constellation, appears just after dusk. They way it lies next to the moon makes it especially beautiful." ----------------------------------------------------- While we're in the area, I go ahead and read the constellation entry for The Hat. More small typos to be found. Following this, we head on up to Lake Poli. We'll find Minerva up there on some days of the week, otherwise she's loafing around the manor.  MINERVA: Your name was Bush, right? MINERVA: What are you to Sister, Bush? BUSH: I don't know how to answer you... MINERVA: Oh... It's true, we don't really know. She wasn't in the top 6, but I've accidentally progressed her LP rather fast as riceporridgemealoats are easy to make now since we mastered cooking all that time ago. I only had to get her to LP 6 to get Minerva to arrive, but I think we recently hit 8?  MINERVA: Fine, we'll set that aside. It'll only be for a little bit but I hope we'll get along. BUSH: I feel the same way. I can't really tell if she's got a thing for Bush. She tends to use the little heart emotions frequently, although it's possible it's a side-effect of her only being a non-candidate and thus only having two expressions.  MINERVA: Seems like we're in autumn now. MINERVA: I like to take walks. MINERVA: Even if something bad happens to me, looking at the scenery like this makes me forget about it. Autumn scenery does that for me, yeah. Really nature walks in general do.  Now, a while back I said I was saving Flops and Weeds for a reason more than just pointless collection. Here's the use for the former, as a gift for Minerva.  MINERVA: Hey! Is this really edible?! Oh, whatever. *gulp* MINERVA: ...?! MINERVA: *gulp gulp gulp gulp gulp* ... *phew* MINERVA: Wow... This kind of dish doesn't exist in the nation of elves! Please tell me the next time you make it! Evidently, nobody in the nation of elves has ever failed at cooking This is her favorite gift, although that's probably apparent.  "Minerva - Tabatha's younger sister. Independent and unyielding, unlike Tabatha." Here's her profile entry before I forget.  On our way down the mountain, we see another new person.  Music: Brodik's Theme(This is the theme I've had to avoid linking by name since Summer 01. It probably wasn't worth going through that much effort, but whatever. No points for guessing who this guy is.)  IRRITATING GUY: That hair... Those eyes... So this is where you were... IRRITATING GUY: And you're living here as if nothing ever happened!  ------------------------ 1. Um, who are you? 2. Long time no see. ------------------------ The second is just one extra line compared to the first, so we'll go with that. We have no idea who this guy is by the way.   IRRITATING GUY: ...What do you mean long time?! I have never met you before! LOUD GUY: Hey, Weber... Wait, you must be going by another name now... BRODIK: You! What is your name? BUSH: My name is Bush. Nice to meet you. BRODIK: I see. So that is what you call yourself here. This guy's localization is incredibly confused. Yes, his displayed name changes this many times and he hasn't even told us his name yet. The only excuse for the very odd path of dialogue is him acting like he's never met us before. All you really need to know is that he thinks we're somebody called Weber from his past.  BRODIK: Very well. I, Brodik, will be the one to chase you out of this village! BRODIK: I'm gonna kick you out of this town, by doing whatever it takes! You got that?! BRODIK: Hahahaha! "I, Brodik, will knock you all down!" Our? past has caught up to us and it has materialized in the form of a complete dingus. If you thought this game was missing a guy that was needlessly aggressive towards you like Jake, here you go. He's now here. If anything, he does have a good evil laugh.  BRODIK: Hey. Going to go torture monsters again? BRODIK: I hear that during a mission in the past, you said you wanted to hide out in the countryside and run a farm. BRODIK: And it's called the Shrub Farm? I never thought that you would really start one up... BRODIK: Heh heh heh...  BRODIK: Are you sure you want to keep it as Shrub Farm? BRODIK: That name of your farm isn't witty at all! At least do something about it to make it harder for people to find out! BRODIK: Hahahaha! I can't believe you just disrespected the name that was voted on at the start of this LP. It's witty and thematic!  BRODIK: Heh heh heh... BRODIK: Why are the villagers so nice to outsiders like you and me?! You better not be taking advantage of them! BRODIK: It's better for everyone if you just left before you become attached to them. BRODIK: But that's only if you can still act friendly to people! Hahaha! BRODIK: Hahahaha! Psh, the Turnip Mafia was more threatening. If they were here, you wouldn't be laughing.  BRODIK: The weather is so hatefully good! BRODIK: Hahahaha! Like I said, this guy is a complete dink.  Oh, and I guess this guy is the other use for weeds.  BRODIK: What is this? Are you trying to piss me off? BRODIK: Heh heh heh... BRODIK: I'm not going to fall for that trap! Hahahaha! *You were given 1 Gold!* BRODIK: There's a little something for our troubles! Can you see how generous I am?! Hahahahaha! You can ship these for 10x that, so it's not worth it. I will keep my Weed collection safe from this cheapskate.  "Brodik - Appeared out of nowhere only to harass Bush. Why?" There's a plotline to explore here, but it'll be slow to progress.  Enough of new characters, it's about time I wrap up this update. First up, I stop by Erik's and grab a random assortment of crops to grow, not even bothering to check their profitability. I went in mostly on yams since they're like the tomatoes of this season. I'll plant them at a later date though, we've got enough money and Bush needs to get to training his combat skills. Next, we drop on by the bathhouse for our daily routine.  Music: Confusion MELODY: Hi Bush! You came just at the right time! BUSH: Did you need something? MELODY: I'm gonna try out the spell that Cinnamon taught me the other day. So help me out! BUSH: Huh? How am I supposed to help? MELODY: Just stand over there. Now relax. BUSH: Huh...? *Deep magical bubbling* BUSH: Nothing seems to be happening...  *out of tune -bwing- noise* MELODY: That's weird... I did just as I was told, too. BUSH: Um... Can I ask you something...? MELODY: What? BUSH: What magic were you trying to cast? MELODY: Eep! MELODY: U-um... Well... It's the magic to... BUSH: What? I couldn't hear you.  MELODY: It's, uh... the magic to turn someone into a frog! BUSH: What?! What if the spell had actually worked?! MELODY: Well... Then I'd just... you know... Kiss... or something... MELODY: I-I said nothing! I said nothing about kissing! MELODY: It didn't work anyway! BUSH: Oh, come on... MELODY: See you later. I need to learn some more spells. Oh, Melody, you wacky gal I suppose it's worth knowing if only a princess can cure a frog, or if it just has to be any maiden. Otherwise she might've had to actually get adopted by Nolan to fix the issue.  BUSH: (My mind seems to feel very clear...) BUSH: (Maybe Melody cast a spell with a different effect?) Bush's Magic skill went up! This is our reward for the Hat Constellation, a +3 Magic skill! Very much appreciated, especially as we were looking to start training it soon.  speaking of training magic sorry about the flooring     And then most of the day goes to cutting more lumber. A LOT of lumber.  In other news, our roses finally finished growing! I took one as a precaution regarding the seeds and left the rest to mature into Blue Roses. White ones are only worth 810g a piece, but that's still quite a lot.  IRIS NOIRE: I really like flowers. When you grow them with love, they become especially lovely. IRIS NOIRE: B-But, I guess that's a given for you as you work in the fields. I guess we just grow some of the best level 1 flowers around.  And with all that done, it's time to stare at the sky until dangerously late at night.   Found Broom Constellation! BUSH: Now that you mention it, it does look like a broom. Question not thy ancestors' interpretation of stars, Bush! I guess it could've also been the Naginata Constellation or something, but a broom fits.  Unfortunately, said constellation shows only at 0:59 AM which means you have to make some real fast teleport inputs to get inside your house before you're stuck waking up at a later hour the next day. Bush was quick enough to escape that fate tonight though- onwards to tomorrow!  Music: Goodnight...Next time! There was some more stuff with Minerva I didn't show, but I'll just slot it in next time with the power of *e d i t i n g*. It'll be so smooth you wouldn't have known if I didn't tell you! oh wait Left 4 Bread fucked around with this message at 02:49 on Mar 30, 2023 |
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