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Blaziken386 posted:just had a run of this game where I basically had a recession during the final week of debt collection. Clothes, armor, weapons, metal, precious items, etc. were all decreased in value, so I couldn't sell anything. Just a friendly reminder and a nice tip to any newbies. If you know you're not going to make your goal, SPEND EVERYTHING. All stock goes back with you even though money doesn't.
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mauman posted:Just a friendly reminder and a nice tip to any newbies. If you know you're not going to make your goal, SPEND EVERYTHING. So does customer opinion of you (go back with you, that is): if you know you're not going to make your goal, being nice to Ms. "if you don't spend too much money on a thing you'll lose your happy-customer streak" and Ms. "look I could buy this exact same thing from the Guildmaster you know" is more worth it than usual.
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This Garden isn’t Much of a Garden Day 22 The price of armor has decreased The price of food has normalized Racial wars in the north coming to a head, sources say Racial wars? Pshaw, that’s none of my business. Nothin’ but right normal humans here, none of them freaky long-ears or what have you. Only good elf is a dead elf I say!  On a completely unrelated note, today’s to-do list takes us back into the Amber Garden.  There’s no plants, and it isn’t amber, but at least it’s a quick level.  New enemies include the flying jack o’ lantern, which can only be hit after it tries to land on you.  I like extra experience.  I like it a lot.  Levels with revealed maps tend to be my favorite, giving me the choice to either stay to grind and pop treasure chests or run straight for the portal to the next level.  I missed grabbing this boss’s title, and I feel bad about that. The Insect King Large, Armored, Angry He’s got a simple strategy that you’ve probably seen in several games: only the head is vulnerable, and the bug prince likes to curl up and roll at you.  He also summons bees to attack you, they still suck.  After fighting the Insect King, things were looking up, so I decided to keep going. This wing is also neither particularly garden-like nor amber. I want to see your manager!  This wing is interesting though, since it doesn’t have a boss. Instead, level 15 requires fighting a gauntlet of knights, bombs, slimes and ropers. Only after killing dozens of enemies across the map will the exit appear.  One of the knights even dropped a water crystal. Elemental crystals are needed for a handful of fusion recipes, and are pretty difficult to get.  Eventually, I fought my way to the end of the wing, and took the door out this time.  Recette sure does spend a lot of time at the pub. Tear should have a talk with that girl.  Ooooh, h’llo Recette… I also still very concerned about Charme’s intentions toward our girl.  Well, you have my deepest apologies for my continued existence. Aaaahhh, I can’t take Recette home w’me if yer here…Yes, because the fairy is going to be able to stop you.  Te-ta-ti-euuWHAAAA?I don’t think Recette approves anyway. I-I-I can not let you do anything of the sort! Aaaaahm kiddiiiing… m’kiddin’! Yeesh, y’guish’re serioush…What even is this drunk accent? Merde. Somehow I find your “humor” hard to take as such. Especially when you are THAT forward about it. Eh…hehehe…And so Recette wasn’t molested this time.  Never got around to opening the shop today, but I got a bunch of worthless crap from the dungeon. Yay? Mind you, not opening today was intentional.  It’s repayment day, after all. On the downsider, I’m kinda broke now, but I should be able to stock the shelves tomorrow with what I have in inventory. DAY 23 The price of heavy armor has decreased The hats boom has ended Beware of fire on dry days! drat, I would have liked getting another day of hat boom sales, maybe I should have opened yesterday. Oh well.  After a very profitable but boring morning, I decided to spend the rest of the day in the Amber… Volcano? Who designed this loving place anyway? Well, that’ll probably never be relevant. Onward, through the Orange Volcano.  I made so much money this morning that I decided to splurge on some vitamins for Louie. Those four bottles increased his max HP by 23, which isn’t terrible, but could be better.  Not one, but TWO colors of knights. They’re identical, except the gray knights rarely drop void crystals instead of water crystals.  I still fail to understand the fish trap. Why is this a thing?  No. I not going to say it. I refuse to breathe life back into that lovely joke. Let’s just see what the game calls it. Volcanicrab Explosive Shellfish There you go. It’s a volcanicrab, and certainly not a giant… drat it, no! Volcanicrab is another tricksy puzzle boss. He’s totally invulnerable, his claws hurt like hell, and his bubble blowing attack is surprisingly powerful. By himself, he’s unstoppable.  If he hadn’t brought help, he’d be unbeatable. The trick is killing the bombs and having them explode in the crabs hitbox, which flips him over, exposing his weak point for… massive damage.  I still haven’t gotten Louie to buy a crystal sword from me yet, so instead I keep one on hand to equip him with.  Meanwhile, Arma’s wallet upgraded quickly enough that she’s already able to buy expensive weapons she can’t use during a price increase.  And Charme bought an ugly, gaudy piece of trash. Which really describes most of the items in the treasure category. DAY 24 The price of longswords has decreased The price of metal things has normalized Beware of fake items and scams! – the Adventurer’s Guild Fake items? Sounds like a sweet racket, I wonder if I can get in on that.  -oh, great. Good day. You seem to be lounging about as usual. Well that’s NOT true! I’m really very, very busy! …Even if I do have my feet up on the counter!Even if she does, that’s hardly Caillou’s business. Shut your loving mouth, buy something, and get the gently caress out. …Rrriiight. Putting that aside for a moment… I assume you’ve heard about the recent… issues… concerning the trade of items deemed by the chapel-masters to be “magical”?You are neither buying something nor getting the hell out. Do I have to call security? I don’t care if you are here trying to introduce some plot, I’ll have Louie cut your rear end. …Uh… …Typical.How dare a perfectly ordinary shopkeeper not be familiar with ongoing legal changes involving magic! I have heard about that. The chapel-masters have been seizing items that they claim have a… “corrupting influence on man’s immortal soul”, I believe the claim was. Hah, spot on. Just as I’d expect from you, madam fairy. Hey… Anyway, it’s all sanctimonious nonsense. Interestingly, though… the items that the chapel gathers for destruction? A lot of them are turning up in the dungeons. And I do mean a LOT. Wh-whaa? Why? A very good question. The dungeons have always been packed with mysteries, however, so it may not be worth thinking about too hard.Those places that we go to kill things and get poo poo? They’re weird and not worth thinking about. It does, however, present an opportunity. Which leads me to… HAHAHA! No. gently caress off Harry Potter. Even if I was inclined to stop using Louie, I have two more people I would sooner charge into a dungeon with before even stopping to consider you. The only way I would ever take Caillou into battle is if there was some kind of thread vote after all the playable adventurers had appeared and the will of the voters demanded it. And that’s just laughable. Oooh, you want us to give the items back to the chapel-masters.Recette, please don’t live up to Caillou’s expectations of you. How can you be so dense and still be capable of breathing? Dense? Uh…I want to make sure that these items return to general circulation.I’d accuse him of being a warlock actually in league with the devil and trying to actually corrupt people’s souls, but I feel like that would be giving him way too much credit. The chapel-masters are standing astride curiosity and knowledge, and I won’t have it! If you help me, you can recover some items to sell, while I lay hands on other things for… study. The chapel-masters won’t try to seize property from a secular shop, so you would have nothing to worry about.How does being a shop stop the chapel-masters for seizing our stuff? Does the guild master have mob connections to protect us? Ah, of course. The Merhcant’s Guild has jurisdiction over the behavior of the city’s merchants, and the guild master would never cede authority to anyone, so… So they can’t touch us.Huh, apparently so. Aren’t city politics wonderfully headache-inducing? Regardless, madam fairy. You provide the material support, I provide the quite literal firepower, we go into a dungeon together and get what we need. Agreed? Well, we’ll pay the adventurer fee for sure, but you’ll have to buy what we find here in the shop, just like everybody else!‘Atta girl. Awww, maaan, you gotta be… ahem. Well, yes, that’s acceptable. I’m looking forward to seeing you in action. I expect a lot, Mr. Magician. You hardly need to worry on that front, Miss Counter-jockey. Just make sure you can identify everything we find, alright?A reasonable concern, and one reason I focus so much on grinding merchant levels in the early game. I hate picking up a piece of loot and only being aable to tell that it’s a thing for crafting. You bet! See you!And so another adventurer is added to the stable. I don’t have to like him personally to use him in adventures, except I also don’t like him as an adventurer. NEXT TIME: There’s still 10 more levels in Amber Garden Truthkeeper fucked around with this message at 08:08 on Apr 20, 2019 |
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Can we vote to keep the Guild Card but throw Caillou into a dumpster? That's probably where half the treasure items end up anyways 
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I love that, through the power of trade unions, an 11 year old girl can freely trade artifacts and merchandise outlawed by the church. Socialism, ho?
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Blaziken386 posted:I love that, through the power of trade unions, an 11 year old girl can freely trade artifacts and merchandise outlawed by the church. Socialism, ho? guilds, not trade unions. big difference.
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Mycroft Holmes posted:guilds, not trade unions. big difference. oh yeah, big time. Simply put, guilds are in place to better/protect the industry. Unions are in place to protect workers. It's way more complicated than that obviously, but it's confusing. In Recette's place, being in a union would be worthless. The fact that she's in a guild is stupidly good for her. mauman fucked around with this message at 07:11 on Apr 19, 2019 |
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Charme's icon should be in place of this sentence: Aaaaahm kiddiiiing… m’kiddin’! Yeesh, y’guish’re serioush…
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Section Z posted:Can we vote to keep the Guild Card but throw Caillou into a dumpster? That's probably where half the treasure items end up anyways Oddly enough, although we're unable to get rid of the regular cards, there are special cards you receive at the end of the game that you can then turn around and sell the next time around. Yes, there's a next time around even if you win. I'm never going to manage to show off everything in one go-round, so at the end of the month we'll be entering some variety of New Game+ or another. Scalding Coffee posted:Charme's icon should be in place of this sentence: Aaaaahm kiddiiiing… m’kiddin’! Yeesh, y’guish’re serioush… Should be fixed now, after a minor hiccup of accidentally posting the entire update again, because editing posts at 4AM is hard. mauman posted:oh yeah, big time. Oh my yes. This setting probably hasn't gotten past the apprenticeship level of giving a drat about your employees. Doubly so for the guild being good for Recette. The guild seems to be one of the only two wholesalers in the city, and the market, while alright, would not be able to support an adventurers' item shop very well alone. Huh, there's a weird idea for a challenge run, only using one wholesaler the whole game. I don't think it's come up at all yet, and in fact I feel like it's never mentioned at all, but the hell kind of government do you guys think we're looking at? Given that it's Medieval Anime Not!France, a monarchy would be easy to assume, but if so it's one where the church has a great deal of power (huh, kinda like France). We almost never hear about what's going on elsewhere in the country, besides the ongoing racial wars constantly coming to a head, maybe it's not a country at all but instead Pensee is some kind of city-state, where everything between the Adventurer's Guild and the item shop Recettear is ruled by a mighty theocracy? More thoughts on this, much, much later. Truthkeeper fucked around with this message at 09:06 on Apr 19, 2019 |
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Truthkeeper posted:Should be fixed now, after a minor hiccup of accidentally posting the entire update again, because editing posts at 4AM is hard. Uh... Truthkeeper posted:
Also, out of the many hours I've And never plan to; Caillou can gently caress right off.
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TracerK posted:Uh... Good for bosses, slow as gently caress in dungeons (insufferably so, much like his personality). He does get something to help with getting around, but it's rng based, which is it's own big problem. Also, you need to lug around a ton of sp items, cuz you REALLY don't want to rely on his basic attack (which is bad....like really really bad even if it does give back some sp). Problem is there are several other characters that are also good at bosses, but don't sacrifice everything else for that power. That being said...the kid does have some hidden depths. mauman fucked around with this message at 10:07 on Apr 19, 2019 |
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The dungeons really lose all coherency after the Jade Way. It's like they designed a bunch of dungeon environments then never thought of places to put them. Or possibly that there were a ton of much smaller, distinct dungeons originally that the game design shifted away from.
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Go home Tear, you're already drunk.
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My personal summary of Caillou is that as long as you can keep his SP up and in range of enemies, he is the strongest attacker in the game. He's completely reliant on his SP and slow, though, so...
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Cyouni posted:My personal summary of Caillou is that as long as you can keep his SP up and in range of enemies, he is the strongest attacker in the game. I once would have agreed with this, now I don't. On the strongest attacker bit that is.
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Actually, the church is just hiring people to throw things into dungeons so they can also hire people to get them out again, thereby stimulating economic demand.
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TracerK posted:Uh... Very definitely finally ultimate remix fixed this time. mauman posted:Good for bosses, slow as gently caress in dungeons (insufferably so, much like his personality). He does get something to help with getting around, but it's rng based, which is it's own big problem. Also, you need to lug around a ton of sp items, cuz you REALLY don't want to rely on his basic attack (which is bad....like really really bad even if it does give back some sp). He's alright for bosses, but frankly between his speed and lack of a dash, I take so much damage playing him that his own damage output just isn't worth it. His teleport skill is no substitute for a reasonable way to move out of the way. I'll admit to him being sort of nice to have for fights where dodging is harder. Looking at you here, Griff Part 2: Archdevil's Boogaloo, although I really prefer Tielle for this one. Tenebrais posted:The dungeons really lose all coherency after the Jade Way. It's like they designed a bunch of dungeon environments then never thought of places to put them. Or possibly that there were a ton of much smaller, distinct dungeons originally that the game design shifted away from. Jade Way wasn't very coherent in the first place, what with the random out of nowhere underground segment. Still, the weird dungeon layouts will eventually be explained, it's most the naming conventions that strike me as particularly odd
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I find the important thing about using Cailou is knowing two things. A: His bullet spray attack is his bread and butter. B: The invulnerability frames of said attack. It's sad that his other attacks largely don't work at all. I've used the ice attack on one of the bosses since you need to hit a specific spot, but that's it. A lot of times, fighting with him properly you'll basically fire his spell with no intention of actually hitting something to avoid some attacks.
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quote:The only way I would ever take Caillou into battle is if there was some kind of thread vote after all the playable adventurers had appeared and the will of the voters demanded it. And that’s just laughable. Self-Fulfilling prophecy anyone? We are often called goons for a reason. 
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Question: is there any reason to do the boss-rush mode of dungeons? It would be worth it if it guaranteed a boss drop, but most times, you get nothing from the bosses, and no drops/treasure chests from doing 5-10 floors.
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Blaziken386 posted:Question: is there any reason to do the boss-rush mode of dungeons? It would be worth it if it guaranteed a boss drop, but most times, you get nothing from the bosses, and no drops/treasure chests from doing 5-10 floors. If you're specifically hunting boss drops and don't want to waste time running through non-boss floors. Particularly if you're the kind of person who's okay with save-scumming.
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Truthkeeper posted:Particularly if you're the kind of person who's okay with save-scumming.  Fair enough, I always forget that's an option. The past decade of games auto-saving has trained me out of abusing that sort of thing.
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Glazius posted:Actually, the church is just hiring people to throw things into dungeons so they can also hire people to get them out again, thereby stimulating economic demand. They better be doing this countercyclically.
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Playing through this again, I forgot how slow Louie feels in comparison to Charme. Also some price increases are amazing when they line up correctly.  That sword's something I grabbed from the dungeon that isn't purchasable. Suffice it to say, I am now quite a bit ahead of the curve on the way to the next repayment.
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Cyouni posted:Playing through this again, I forgot how slow Louie feels in comparison to Charme. Also some price increases are amazing when they line up correctly.  
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Horrifying Yet Adorable Berserker Rage Day 25  My frequent trips to the Amber Garden got me a water crystal, which I was able to use to make a sword. Item fusion is thirty kinds of not loving worth it until the endgame, but I like to do one of everything when I’m able. Sometimes crafted items are used as materials for later crafted items, though I usually forget which ones they are and just sell them off.  Adding a crystal to a sword somehow made it gold. SCIENCE!  Expanding my store costs as much money as I make selling a single sword now. CAPITALISM, HO!  There are a number of annoying things about the expanded store though. First off, you can clearly see that the tables aren’t centered on the rugs, and there’s no way to center them. since the furniture is on a grid and the rugs are one square wider than the tables. This has never stopped bugging me. Second, possibly more important, is the counters in front of the window. We’ve established their importance, items there are visible to the public, meaning they affect store atmosphere, draw people in during booms, and overall reflect the store. When I had one window with one counter in front of it, this was fine. Now I have two windows, two counters, each four spaces. That counter in front of the right window only allows three spaces to be visible through the window. This is an actual game-mechanic affecting issue, whichever item is on the end closest to the wall (or the opposite end if I move the counter one square to the left) just straight up doesn’t count. Nobody seems to have a clear idea on if this was intended behavior or a bug. Enough griping now, new store layout, lots of space for selling stuff! Two window counters, another counter on each side, and two tables. I usually like to replace both tables with vending machines, but I won’t get around to picking up a second one until a bit later.  Oriented this way, you can clearly see that this is a repurposed CokeCola machine. Its item description notes that it has a cooling system that cools the entire shop.  A running theme for the next week or so is everybody wanting to sell me their sweets. That’s already pretty common, but I mean constantly. I had Caillou in here every drat day trying to get cash for his candy and apples.  This one’s interesting, it’s an item, used for crafting, that can only be obtained from a customer selling it to you. I’ve gone entire playthroughs without seeing any of these appear.  It’s progress, but I need to make more money. We’re at the point where payments are hundreds of thousands now (200,000 this week, 500,000 next week). DAY 26 The price of precious metals has decreased The price of swords has normalized Town Square belongs to everyone, please pick up your trash! Precious metal price drops really start to hurt at this point, since a lot of my most valuable items fit that category.  So I popped back into Amber Garden instead. Enemy defense increases suck hard enough that it’s more worthwhile to just skip fighting and keep running until I find the teleporter.  The only new enemy is the floating pumpkin. Invulnerable in the air, it will attempt to crush me, at which point I can hack away at it.  Attack power doubled is nice, but dangerous if you’re playing a lower-defense character. Louie isn’t really bothered.  Oh, haven’t run into her in a while.   Oh, my. Welcome! “Welcome”? Wait, this can not possibly be your homme… Hmm?... Oh my! No, this is not my home!Thank you, Rygoa Hibiki, for that stunning display of navigational acumen. Where… am I, exactly? Eh… hehe… heh… HOW is it possible to have so little spatial awareness?... I do seem to run into the two of you often when I come this way… Do you, by chance, live here? Absolutely NOT! We actually run an item shop. Sometimes we go inside dungeons with adventurers, and then we sell what we find in our shop!Not pictured: Louie sitting on a rock eating a sandwich and tuning out this entire conversation. Oh my! That sounds like a lot of fun! I would like to visit your shop sometime… We’d love to have you stop by! Our place is on top of the hill in town. Recette, what makes you think this obviously foreign woman even lives in the same town as you?  Uh, okay. Y’know the town market? Head straight to the square from there… I… see… …and then, uh, you turn right… I… see?...*TIME PASSES* …and then you just go up the stairs, remember? It isn’t hard, really…Somehow we made it through this one without Recette getting sidetracked telling an adventure story. Teeeeeeear! I don’t think I can explain this to her! I amm struggling to refrain from all comment. Oh, don’t worry. My sense of direction is excellent. I think I can find your shop with no problems at all. HeuWHA?! But, I, how… … And this is why I attempt to refrain from editorial comment. That reminds me… I haven’t asked your names, have I? Oh! Well, I’m Recette, and this is Tear. Is that so? I am called Nagi. I apologize for the late introduction. Recette, Tear, it is a pleasure to meet you both. The pleasure’s all ours! See you at the store!And that’s hopefully the end of Nagi wandering around in the dungeons, unless she does so while I’m paying her to do it. Eventually, I reached the end of the wing, and the terrifying boss that guards the exit.  Not one, but TWO Crowned Slimes! I’m not hear to wonder about how primogeniture works with slimes, and definitely not to guess how slime sexuality works., so we’re just going to accept that they’re both lord of the slimes and move on. This is actually a surprisingly difficult fight. Ideally, you focus on one slime at a time, except they’re very good at guarding each other, knocking you away from an injured slime long enough for it to absorb a small slime to regain its full size and defense. On the plus side, I got a liver off one of them. If you’re farming for livers, for item crafting or to have one to throw at Caillou in NG+, better to come to this wing and have two chances rather than the one chance in Jade Way. Meanwhile, back at the shop.  Maybe she wants you to lose some weight. Have you considered turkey?  This happens with Charme with alarming frequency. Not sure if the implication is that she’s stealing fruit, or seducing old rich guys into giving her fruit. Day 27 The price of shields has decreased The swords boom has ended This year’s cold season will come late, experts say I care not for your shields and swords, because I’m taking my shield and sword (and an adventurer to wield them) on another adventure to close out Amber Garden at last.  The final Amber Garden wing is either mysteriously hollow trees or trees with their tops mysteriously shorn off.  While there are no new monsters here, it’s been a while since we’ve seen the rabbits. I feel like they drop their furballs more often here, but they’re more difficult to kill since they’re tougher and have more room to jump around here.  With surprisingly little effort, I made it to the final boss. What kind of horrifying, terrible, ugly creature could be waiting for us this time? Is something wrong? There’s someone over there… It looks like a… girl. A girl my age. A… girl? In a place like THIS?Yeah, that’s just absurd. Children would never go into a dungeon, right Recette? I think she’s… crying. Hmm. She is, perhaps, lost. Yeah, that’s gotta be it! We need to help her! But wait a!... second… A lost girl… this deep in a dungeon? How could she…Recette cares not for your ponderings on how or why! PHILANTHROPY, HO! Really though, this might be the first time in a while that Recette has gotten to interact with a girl her age, as opposed to the much younger shop customers. Let’s see how she handles this most basic of social interactions with a nice, perfectly normal…  …elf girl. RUN AWAY RECETTE! SHE’S GONNA KILL YOU AND EAT YOU! H-hey there! Ah! Are you okay? If you’re lost, we can… Heuwha? Don’t come any closer, nasty humanperson!Well, that’s just racist, and we don’t have to take that poo poo from a dirty knifeear! Uh, what are you, I mean, uh… humanperson? Get away… GET AWAAAAAY! Huh, angry red elf. Does that mean that she’s already transforming into a giant ugly monster? This girl… I am sure of it… she is an elf!No poo poo Tear, really? I’m glad we have you and your amazing powers of perception to tell us OF COURSE SHE’S A loving ELF! An elf? Yes, but… this is shocking. I did not think I would ever meet an elf this young. Uh, I don’t think we have time to wonder about her age… She’s coming!That’s it? No transformation into a hideous monster, just a scared little girl? She doesn’t even get an name screen like the other bosses. Alright, fine, I’ll do it. Tielle Scared little girl, armed and presumed dangerous Tielle is… probably the hardest boss fight so far, if I’m being honest. If I’m being really honest, this fight is actually a little easier with Caillou. Or Charme. Really, Louie feels like the worst possible choice for this one. But I knew that going in, which is why I equipped Louie to the nines with backstock.  This right here is Tielle’s gimmick. She summons boxes to form a barricade, you have to cut through the boxes to get to her while she shoots at you from behind them. Monsters you spawn from some broken boxes, and gnolls will spawn on top of some of them as well.  When you get past the boxes, you can run up to Tielle and beat the crap out of her!... which is kind of horrible, but to be fair she’s a little racist and she tried to kill us first. Also, unlike every boss we’ve seen so far, this is a multiple room fight. After hitting Tielle a few times, she falls back to the next room.  Rinse and repeat. The main difference in this phase is that Tielle is hiding inside a box and you can’t tell where she is… except that she still shoots at you, so you just have to get to the box the arrows are coming from.  Easy-peezy lemon squeezy.  The third phase is almost identical to phase 2, except…  …Tielle put down her bow and started summoning fuckmothering sky lasers. These hurt a lot more, hit multiple locations on screen, and give very little warning about where to get the hell away from. Also, since these lasers come from the sky, there are no arrows being fired to show you where Tielle is, so you have to keep breaking boxes until you find her.  At this point, she’s out of rooms to fall back to and fights you for real, bow against sword, child against grown-rear end man!  Truly a victory for the forces of justice?  Are you okay?! Oh Heaven, I think we really, really hurt her! Tear! Tear!! Is she badly hurt?How about some pity for Louie, he lost more health in that fight than in the entire dungeon wing leading up to it. Well, we certainly did a number on her, as the saying goes. I think, however, that he life can be saved if we take her home and get her to a proper doctor. If we wish to do so, however, we must leave NOW.R-right! Let’s go back right now!Well, I guess that sounds fair. And it’s the end of the dungeon anyway, nothing else left to do. Nothing left to get.  Or that. …It… kind of feels like it’s saying “open me!” You have no idea.Alright, screw the maimed and possibly dying child, we’ve got loot! Capitalism, ho!  That… that medicine. I must be delusional, it can not be… And that’s the end of that. I wonder how much elves sell for on the black market. This one’s not in the best condition, but I bet I can get a good price for her, she’s a deadly archer.  Whu… Hey… are you awake? Ah! No, no! Don’t move so suddenly… … My name is Recette. This is my house… …Wha… You don’t remember?You went into a horrifying yet adorable berserker rage and tried to murder our pet swordsman. I’m the one that spoke to you in the dungeon. You attacked, so we, uh, had to fight back, and you got hurt… but I really don’t mean to do anything bad to you. I guess you find that kinda hard to believe though, huh?Yeah, for all my jokes, this isn’t Pokemon, and Recette doesn’t forcibly enslave the people she beats up. That part comes later. Ummm… that medicine… This stuff was amazing! It healed your injuries like they were bugbites. That’s… elf medicine. Tear told me about that. Oh, duh, Tear is the fairy with me, and… well, the two of us run an item shop. She’s not always, uh, the most civil of people, and she can be a little hard-headed when it comes to money… That medicine is… really, really valuable. Yeah, Tear wouldn’t shut up about it… So why use it on me? I mean, I...Had it coming for trying to kill us? Would have been fine without the medicine as long as we got you to a doctor? Well, uh, I dunno if I have the perfect answer, but we hurt you, and we had the medicine, and it was perfect, and… I guess you could just say “I wanted to”. I felt I had to. …Tielle. Bwuh? That’s my name… I’m Tielle. Tielle… nice to meet you Tielle! Yeah! But hey, why were you there all alone? Well, I was with my big sister at first, but then we got separated, and I… I… Oh man, I can see why you’d be so afraid. I’m sorry I attacked you… I… It’s okay, really! I should be the one apologizing.No. No you should not be. You just rest until you’re all better, okay? Okay. Thank you, Recette. While it is true that had we decided to sell the medicine, you could have made more money than most kings ever dream of and repaid the debt at a single blow… Yeah… Your choice to use it to save her life instead… Well, you saved something more valuable than gold, I think. I certainly have no objections.Which won’t stop you from kicking Recette into the street the next time she fails to make a payment. Tear!... Let us hope she recovers quickly. Thank you Tear! I… oh, I… need to change her bandages! Er, slow down before you… I’m okay! I’m- HEUAAAAH! …fall. Merde… Still. The rare elven medicine showing up at that exact moment… Living dungeons… Perhaps it is not quite as wild a theory as some think it is… I wonder…I don’t want to even try to imagine the ecosystem that would form around a sentient dungeon.  Much! Well, I’m glad… I still feel kind of bad for hurting you in the first place.If you want to get technical, Louie was the one who did the hurting. He was also the one getting shot, so I don’t think he’d be inclined to apologize. So, you intend to search the city for your sister? Yeah… it’s what I need to do, I think. She’s probably looking for me too, and must be worried…Kid, your sister is either dead or she pulled a Papa Lemongrass. Either way, you should probably check and see if there’s a mortgage on your house owned by Terme Finance. And if you try to open a competing item shop to pay off your sister’s debt, Recette’s gonna break your kneecaps. I hope you find her soon… and if you need anything, feel free to visit! I will! Thank you, Recette!And so ends the adventure of the Amber Garden. It was neither Amber, nor a Garden, but it did have a murderous elf who probably would have cheerfully eaten Louie after killing him. Also, With Tielle introduced, that’s now all of the normal playable adventurers (there are two more, one I won’t be obtaining for a little while, the other for quite some time after that. I’ll do a little writeup on each, maybe get some screenshots or video of how they play, and you, the viewers at home, will get to vote on who I’ll main in the next loop. And of course there’s going to be a next loop. Amber Garden is clear, but the game is far from over. The month, however, is almost over. NEXT TIME: Well read little girls and the terrible creatures that roam the city at night
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At least the final stretch of Amber Garden had trees. That was a lot more garden-y than I had hoped for.
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werbear posted:At least the final stretch of Amber Garden had trees. That was a lot more garden-y than I had hoped for. I'm still not sure if those are supposed to be trees with the tops cut off or hollow trees, but they're pretty weird either way. But you're right, it is more gardenish than the previous wings. Still no Amber.
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May 7, 2019 00:38
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Tielle's no joke as a fight. Last time I fought her, those lasers burned away my health and then she shot me in the face. She deals a LOT of damage. And I'm pretty sure she has a multishot when you finally engage her.
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May 7, 2019 02:52
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I'm sure it's a useful tactic against the average enemy. But using shipping crates against the power of capitalism? What an idiot.
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May 7, 2019 06:09
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I'll say this for Louie, at least he's got a shield to block arrows with. ...right?
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Glazius posted:I'll say this for Louie, at least he's got a shield to block arrows with. ...right? Sadly, Louie's shield does not work against Tielle's arrows... thinking on it, I don't think it actually works against any boss attacks. Section Z posted:I'm sure it's a useful tactic against the average enemy. If anything, those crates only make me even more powerful! Because in addition to enemies, they can also contain items, some of which can't be bought. Not necessarily good stuff, but rare. Cyouni posted:Tielle's no joke as a fight. Last time I fought her, those lasers burned away my health and then she shot me in the face. She's a serious powerhouse, I had to redo the fight (and the entire wing leading up to it) three times, and only managed to beat her because I bit the bullet and kitted Louie out with the best defensive equipment I had that he's been refusing to come in and buy.
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Okay, but where is The Beast, though? It's been a while since i played, but I expected Chainbreaker to show up before now.
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He is probably fighting Sentinels.
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drat and blast. I wanted to get the cards from all 6 basic adventurers before the end of the month so I could do an infopost with some videos of each of them, and Nagi is refusing to give up the goods. I'll keep trying a bit longer, but Nagi might just not be included at this rate.
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Pretentious Evil Day 28 Reading is reaching an all-time high of popularity among young women The price of pieces of armor has normalized Steel your soul against the dark arts, and turn them away! – the chapel masters It’s boom time again, little girls want books and they want them now! A brief visit to the market so I can stock up and books, and then…  Girls have come in great numbers, looking for the popular books!  I have to be a little careful here, girls have the lowest budget among the generic NPCs so, even after all this time spent working on them, they can’t buy the most expensive books.  It’s not the best armor upgrade for Louie, but it’s the first one he’s bought so far, so I’m not complaining.  Charme, I think you might have a problem.  Oh, Tear! You’re still up?... What’s… up? You look like you’re thinking really hard about something… “What is up” with me? I should be asking you the same thing. If you do not get to bed soon, you will sleep until noon – at the earliest. Hehe!... well, maybe. Hm… that elven girl… Bwuh? Oh, you mean Tielle?Have you met any other elves recently? Or at all? She’s neat, isn’t she? I’ve never met an elf before! Hardly surprising. most other intelligent races avoid humanity. They do? Do other people really hate humans that much? Hmph. It is hardly just the fault of humanity. Every race looks out for their own interests first. Men, elves… even fairies. Huh? I chose… well, no, it was not just myself alone. The entire race of the fey chose to live alongside humanity. And yet… And yet… what? Are you okay, Tear? Ah. Never mind. I am rambling. I really have no right to pass judgment upon entire races. But… Comme, we need to get some sleep. Good night, Recette. Well, Tear clearly has some secrets, stuff she doesn’t want to weigh the kid down with. I’m sure that will never become relevant to the plot or anything. Day 29 The price of sweets has increased The books boom has ended Today’s weather: sunny, possibly cloudy, with a chance of rain and thunderstorms How sad, such a short boom. Ah well, it’s not like I need them that much now.  For gently caress’s sake Alouette, there are only two wholesalers in this town, I’m pretty sure your family’s store and mine have the exact same stock.  I swear Caillou is showing up to sell me his lunch every drat day.  Oh, Elan! Welcome! You finally came! Wellll… I can’t afford anything expensive, but I thought I’d drop by. That’s fine! Looking is free!Unless Tear catches you, in which case she’ll try to find a way to charge you for looking. Haha! You’re all right, Recette! Hmph.Not really sure what Tear’s problem is. She’s the one who insists that we have to be polite and professional to customers we hate (looking at you here, Caillou), and yet she snubs Elan for being broke. At least Charme kinda deserves it, after that whole attempted mugging business. Uh… Hm? Oh, I guess you two haven’t met. This is Tear. She’s my business partner here in the store. Tear, this is Elan, an adventurer. For the record, we do not accept payments on tab.I’m surprised she isn’t trying to set up some kind of high-interest credit system. Ah… haha. Noticed me in the pub I guess, eh? Don’t worry, I’ll pay straight when I’m here. Then there will not be any problems. Welcome to Recettear! Time to get shopping then!Not that I have anything he can afford on the shelves.  And the end of day 29 means the end of another week, and another debt payment. We’re up to hundreds of thousands of pix per week Day 30 Sweets are increasing in popularity with homemakers! The price of swords has normalized Beware of high-pressure salesmen with expensive goods – it may be a scam! Scams? Nah, I don’t think that’ll ever be a problem. More importantly, we’re jumping right into another boom, sweets for housewives.  Women have come in great numbers, looking for the popular sweets! Sadly, there’s no high-value sweets to be able to make big money with here during the increased price/boom combo, but it is a nice constant stream of sales, I’m not gonna knock it. Day 31 The price of metal items has decreased The price of valuable things has normalized Be careful when heading out at night Oh pish-posh. This town is perfectly safe for a child and her fairy companion to go wandering around at night in!  Yes, I did just make back half of last week’s loan payment in a single transaction. If you grind sales enough early on, the later game becomes much easier. Of course, regular game mode isn’t meant to be particularly hard…  My recent merchant level increase unlocked the last tier of buyable items. Yes, this is the kind of RPG where magical demon slaying swords can be found on store shelves, and at low low prices!  It’s also the kind of game where a sailor fuku is the best buyable armor in a category.  Oh goody, I guess he needed to eat his lunch today, so he brought me some garbage instead.  Alright, I’m gonna prove that this town is perfectly safe, even for little girls and fairies! First, I’m going to the pub!  Advice? Well that would not be very surprising for a fortuneteller or such. But… here in the pub? Apparently she can clear up any problem you have in seconds! I kinda wonder who it is! Wish I got why thish w’s happenin’ lately… Uh, excuse me, you’re… yeah, you have to be. Will you hear me out? M’kay, I’ll lishhen, go ‘head. My wife terrifies me so much at this point that I can’t even look at alcohol without feeling guilty! Help! Ahh, women’re easy to handle. I should know, right? Just do… little thingsh t’keep her happy. That’ll solve y’rpromlemsh. Huh. Yeah, that makes sense. I’ll try that out! Thanks! … Been a lotta people like tha’ lately. Wonder why?Well, good to know Charme accidentally found a hobby. Well, that was perfectly safe, if weird. Just gonna go take a walk through the town square, and absolutely nothing bad will happen, that’ll prove how safe this town is.  Indeed. We should proceed home dir- Wha!... Huh? What is it? It’s a guy with a darker skin tone than ours! Run away! Oh… uh… h-hi. What’s your name? Hmph. As ever, the fairies continue to sever as the lapdogs of humanity.Tear is Recette’s lapdog now? I’m not sure this guy knows how loan sharks work. H-huh?! What’s this all of a sudden? …You are of the race of demons, are you not?Tear! You can’t just call people demons! He’s just an elf that spends a lot of time in the tropics. Wait, demons? Like, demon-demons? Like, demon-demmon-de…Like, demon-demons, or just those demons Papa always complained about while he was watching the news? YES, Recette. Perhaps I am mistaken, however. A demon would not enter a human city so brazenly… Where I go and what I do is my own affair, fairy. And since I can no longer stand to slink in the shadows, away from the fearful eyes of humanity, here I stand. How perfectly conceited of you. Conceit? Truly? Is that really a word you can use without irony, fairy? Ah… No, I thought not. It gains a special kind of irony when coming from servile trash like yourself, doesn’t it?Hey buddy, gently caress you. I’m the one who calls Tear trash around here. H-HEY! Now hold on just a second, Mister Demon!Yeah, you tell him Recette! I dunno what all this is about, but quit picking on Tear! What is this… such a perfectly annoying little human girl-child. Human, if you value your safety, you will be silent. No, I will NOT be silent! What did Tear ever do to you, huh?!Cause unless she threatened to take your home away and force you to sleep in a cardboard box unless you salve away for her in the retail industry, I don’t want to hear it! …How happily, moronically innocent young humans are. Wouldn’t you agree, fairy? I… Tear? Fool child. Humanity may believe they have the friendship of the fey… but were I you, I would not be so sure such “friendship” is mutual.Of course it loving isn’t. This was only ever supposed to be a business transaction for Tear, Recette was the one who made it all weird. Tear never put up any false fronts or illusions about them being friends, Recette won her over honestly through sheer charisma. Enough prattling. The night is dangerous. Go home. Wait!... aw, he’s gone. So, like, what was THAT all about? Talk about sudden. …I… Let’s go home, Tear.NEXT TIME: Mo’ adventurers, mo’ problems
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I'm sure this guy is never going to pop up again and become important
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In a shocking plot twist, it turns out he's actually the king of demons, and doesn't care about humans, but REALLY dislikes fairies, so he just guys an item in Recette's store for the exact amount of her loan to spite the fey.
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Maybe it is just the actual Satan the church keeps talking about.
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