LogFAQs > #942715988

"The winds must be on our side."
"Yeah, 'cause that was a breeze."

Gimme a Y. Gimme a R. Gimme a break, fellas.

Sara introduces us to our practical, complete with a close-up on her boobs. It's occurring to me that if you changed the color of her outfit and slipped her hair bundled at the back of her head over her shoulder instead, she'd look like Lightning.

She starts off by calling the three amigos forward, and it's pretty obvious what she intends. She pounds us with a clue-by-four if it wasn't obvious, though -- she wants to see us use combat links. And then DBDBAF starts playing, and I'm suddenly way more interested in the music than the fight. That title, "Don't Be Defeated By a Friend," is auspicious when our condition is for nobody to get KO'ed. The scarecrow is freaking easy with regen up, except at one point it hits everyone for 900, which is almost Craig's max HP. I probably didn't need to take a turn to heal, since it died right after, but the funny thing is that I wasn't even using combat links until the very end because I just assumed the game kept the same ones from last time. Whoops.

After the other two teams have finished, Sara admits that she doesn't like using the machine we fought, but it's something she worked on, rather customizable, and did it's job. Yeah, we trashed your robot, Sara. Is that really its best use? Then she announces a field study, which I totally predicted, but the entire class fills up with "..." bubbles and then tilting question marks. The devs needed to add a confused dog emote to their repertoire. But I'm being sent out on a four-man team with Craig, but no Gaius. Instead, I've got Laura (nice) and Alisa (bleh). Oh, that means Monkey-ass and Jusis are together in the other team.

Then I get a quest report and ah shit, I forgot to get the seasoning for the dude at the cafe. I go back to reload and try again, but I'm a dumbass and saved over the point where I could go back...unless I felt like reclearing the entire school sequence, too. Not worth it, unless being rank B6 now is important. (I hope not.) Battle is even easier the second time, though. And I swear when Gaius counters, he's saying "Your mom!" rather than "You're mine!"

On the bright side, when the day comes, Alisa finally comes to her senses and apologizes. Rean, being the doofus he is, tries to apologize concurrently, but Alisa's like, no, dumbass, listen. I'm the dumbass here. So just shut up and let me admit I was a dumbass, kay? Guess I need to stop calling her Pigtails since that name isn't really accurate anyway.

At the train station, we meet the other group, and they make a big deal out of Rean and Alisa. Here's to hoping that has some carry-over for M&J, who are literally standing with their backs to each other, arms crossed. Team B leaves, then we board. Our trip's much shorter than theirs. I love how the team's talking about the trip to Celdic and they don't have a clue what they're going to be doing when they get there, but once again, lampshading. Oh, and then Sara strolls down the aisle. The group asks why she didn't go with the other team, since they'd need her help more, and she says, "oh, they'd be a nightmare." Ladies and gentleman, your education system at work...

Alisa: "I don't think I've seen someone less inclined to be an educator than her."

Three rounds of the world's simplest CCG later, we arrive at Celdic, which seems way too rustic for a location of its seeming importance. The grand market looks like a minor country fair that sprung up just because this was the meeting point of the railways. Some dude with a lavendar ponytail totally creeps out on Sara and the two girls as we walk to the inn. This game is just full of people spying on us, like that cat on the schoolhouse roof that I didn't mention earlier.

Alisa's back to being nasty as soon as she learns we're all sharing one big room, despite Laura persuading her to deal with it. And our envelope with our instructions contains...three quests. Looks like we really did join the bracer guild. One of them even sounds like it'll involve leaving town, too, so yay, freedom! Independence! Sara's too busy getting her drink on to offer us any guidance, so though she won't admit it, the real reason she came was for the vacation to spend a weekend in a pub, I'm sure.

Oh look, I'm going to be replacing a lamp along the highway. That doesn't sound familiar at all...quick trip around time and it looks like we're truly going out into the field now.

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