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Cleared out another ruin. Beat Boss Troll on the second try. Wasn't a hard fight to adjust to. Later met up with Mayvin at the same spot after having forgotten what I was chasing him for in the first place. Equipment management is taking a while because I suddenly have so much from the increased drops since Morgrim is leveled insanely high.

I head out to the battlefield in the basin and find out from Rose's right-hand twins that they were approached for a job something something Rolance royal family something something. I legit have no idea what the hell they just said in this rapid info-dump, nor do I even have a clue what this "job" is supposed to be. Are we killing the queen? The one who's trying to seize power? Are we killing her son, the one who WOULD be the Joffrey? Like... this is all so fast and vague that I really wish I'd seen more of the internal affairs of the royal family before, along with how they intermingle with the Abbey. This is another example of the game telling things it should be showing. Dezel gets his undies in a bunch about all this, so it seems like his target is the queen. Just a coincidence that appears forced. And there's something the seraphim all knew that Sorry and Rose didn't... and Lailah says they'll explain soon. I have no idea what the hell to make of any of this but I have a very bad feeling, especially that given my levels are 50ish by now (and fights still aren't easy on Hard!), that this is the start of the total nuclear implosion. Like, if this was meant to be a plot twist, it just confused me, because this is regarding people who hadn't been relevant to the story at all so far. This information needed to be repeated.

The game does reexplain things (via Mikleo being a geek) to me at the inn in Lastonbury, but this is EXACTLY WHY I WISH WE COULD VIEW SKITS ANYWHERE. This was NOT an optional thing, and certainly not something you should have to go out of your way for. Terrible plot design and a stupid mechanic that I'm glad they realized was a terrible idea. From what seems to have happened, the two legitimate heirs of the emperor were killed in some power struggle, so the third, whose mother was the Empress's sister, took the throne. The secretary is standing against the Empress and wants her killed because she adopted this nephew as a way to stay in power or something, and he... doesn't think the late emperor would have liked it? Rose doesn't trust any of them and is most certainly trying to figure out who she needs to kill for a better Rolance. None of this makes sense, though. Why was the emperor boning his sister-in-law? Why would he have been upset that his son was in power and his widow was helping? Why did Rose just take the job without question, and not tell us anything? The game is conveniently not telling me things that ordinary people would've shared with each other by now. It doesn't feel natural.

I get back to Loegres, ready to save and quit, and Zaveid is outside waiting for me, ready to challenge me to a duel. Before I could save right outside the gate like I intended to. The devs really don't want me to enjoy this game, do they? I want to GO TO BED.

Ugh. Gonna hit the hay right after I beat this guy, however many tries it takes me.