Next update is right now, apparently.
Chapter 3 continued again
And now it's time for more manipulation, this time of the AI. The first of the pirate bosses (Warrior, technically, but you know what I mean) carries the ever valuable Leg Ring. Sylvia wants this, but she already needs to buy a 40,000 gold Knight Ring. This means I'll be having her kill Dobarl. This means I'll be killing his men, letting him retreat to get reinforcements, and repeating that until Sylvia gets close, then I'll be killing his men so he goes into "retreat mode" but my units will wall his escape route off, so he won't attack and she can poke him the rest of the way to death. It's kind of tedious, but useful, and I have loads of time anyway since Dew has to travel all the way out to Blagi Tower to get the Wind Sword. Also Ethlin gets to chat with Cuan and give him the Gae Borg. Yay powerful weapon that he won't even get a chance to use before his departure.
So Brigid does her standard retreat path and Tiltyu does her standard "get hit and go Wrath crazy" routine and Claude wanders around to heal if he needs to. Fury is heading their way to help, and my units who were chilling in the north now start wiping out pirates to get Dobarl to retreat. Dew leads the group so he can steal lots of money. Unfortunately Tiltyu actually dodges the first attack thrown her way, which interferes with the Wrath strategy a bit. Sheesh, give me a way to get 100% crit rate and I still am unlucky enough to have it not work. Everything else goes smoothly, and she eats the axe hit needed to get Wrath going soon enough anyway.
Noish/Ayra and Aideen/Midir are officially lovers now, so that's nice that I don't need to shackle them together anymore.
I just now realize it's Pizarl, not Dobarl, that comes out with the Leg Ring. I'm not going to edit my previous mistakes because...uh...because. Anyway. Stuff happens and it all drags out a long time but there's never any sort of doubt that I'll achieve all my goals. The new joiners get sent home to do their arena-ing, people stand next to their future lovers when possible, etc. And Dew heads off to the tower and that takes a while because it's another stupid hidden treasure. Not as valuable as the Pursuit Ring or Hero Axe, but still nice. I almost forget to have Aideen give Brigid Ichival, but then I remember and it all works out. And Fin manages to promote at the very end, allowing him to buy a Silver Lance so he can have plenty of options when he returns.
And then we get plot. Reptor and Langbart show up, declaring that Sigurd is a traitor to the Granbell kingdom, and suggesting that Alvis is working with them. Sigurd and co. escape to the kingdom of Silesia. And that is chapter 3, completed!
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We clasped our hands, our hands in praise of a conquerors right to tyranny