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change of plans due to aiming for better consistency: daily/every other day updates for the next couple weeks, intending to force me to play through more of it and stay ahead of what i'm typing up. should work better than large update -> week for large update. and it makes more sense sectioned off like this anyway.

so first up, the nordic land of the sniffles.

it's frozen, i went in the door, and am told to go find a non frozen person. wandering around i find a blond and yeah okay this is Sweden. cute glasses girl, young queen, watch out Jade or i'm leaving you for this blond. there's 11 treasures supposedly but they're encased in ice too so if i wanna loot i gotta defrost everything. Veronica's plan is simple enough, beat the shit out of the witch who cast a spell to put everyone in ice. sure, let's go with that.

now uh, why exactly do we believe everything she said again? like i can accept the excuse of "thought with my dick, forgot that's always a mistake" but what does the rest of the party have to say for themselves? getting this straight, we are:

• in a frozen city
• only one person exists who isn't frozen
• she blames a third party who came here months ago. meaning thing this lady has been alive for months, locked inside a frozen city. and her story is just that she was put to sleep.
• she sent us to do a random ass quest.

like nobody's spotting the obvious warning signs here? we're just gonna randomly believe her crap? well whatever, i'm off to explore the world. and by explore i mean "oh wait a sec i've been to everything in this area before." royal library, check. after we get this orb to the twins' hometown, probably. maybe there'll be mention of the purple orb or something but that's clearly how this is lined up. and this of course reminds me once again that i am still confused as to how they were so utterly worthless in combat when this is the place they grew up in. but moving on, to the frozen hell area.

0 treasures. yeah, i've been here.
i rush to the save and move on in. cutscene, walk forward, cutscene. Hendrick's in a fight! quick, save him Mediolas-- wait wrong series. kinda looks similar (closer to his brother though), with a similar name, and a similar role. not sure who ripped off who/is an homage in this case; Seven Deadly Sins is obviously Toriyama inspired but man. does remind me that i should finish that series now that it's over, am somewhere around Vol 33 i think. where was i? oh yeah, solo boss fight.

bash him upside the head 4 times and win. cutscene.

Hendrick tells me that i'm not getting away this time! the game then reminds us that hey, we're in a blizzard. kind of a dumb th-- dayum. chick is wearing a hell of an outfit on now. skin color change, hair change, ditched the glasses, but looks like her still. she freezes both of us in place, grabs Hendrick's necklace and says now she'll be matching. because we need even more proof that the other knight guy is evil, i guess. at the very least, that knight has good taste in women, goddamn. sure she's probably crazy, definitely evil, but she is hot. fortunately for me, i'm not going to die to her here because Veronica saves the day. aaaaand i collapse because i'm now dying of hyperthermia, whoops nevermind.

fortunately there's a nearby cabin and we go to it. well, they carry my half dead body to it is more precise. Rab also enjoyed talking shit to Hendrick, 'ppreciate that. anyway, once i'm awake cutscene. hot witch lady is from the Age of the Gods, so she's an extra in FGO's Babylonia arc, got it.

time to go to the Royal Library finally. as i talk to the party: 1) Veronica's a loli tsundere and Serena's willing to rat her out, 2) Jade is putting 2 and 2 together, proving she's the smartest of the bunch, and 3) Sylv totally gets me. the man called her hot but said that her beauty's only skin deep. i'm assuming he's an ass man. the puzzle appears to have reset in Royal Library but it doesn't matter because enemies don't want to fight me. couple minutes later it's complete, i'm in the room, cutscene.

oh no the monster we beat keeps the witch's powers sealed! who could've guessed this.
also the book the queen was reading was a forbidden book.
oh hey Veronica figured it out and wants to go back to talk to the queen. score one for the loli in a catgirl outfit, imma 'port right on over. actually pretty much everyone in the party got it except for Serena i think. truly, she's a blond bombshell in all senses of the word.

i get back in town, talk to her again, cutscene. Veronica's suspicious and i'm getting suspicious of this chick's accent. aha, a fireball that burned the witch is on this girl's face, that's proof! and my reward for this is a magical girl sequence, okay hold up.

now i'm not complaining.
but i feel like i'm about to beat the shit out of a too old magical girl and the game is gonna just whitewash this as me saving a city from an evil witch. no, i'm beating her because Veronica should be the magical girl, not this queen wannabe. also her trigger to transform is throwing her glasses? that's all wrong! almost as wrong as this girl's accent flying across at least 3 different regions.

anyway battle time.
takes a little bit of effort. and by effort i mean Jade stabbed her full of holes a lot and it worked. she turned me into a snowman and stuck that Frozen song in my head, truly evil. but she goes down easily enough and we get a cutscene. she needs to be sealed away into the book again as opposed to, y'know, just... beating her. i could just kill her in this weakened state you know, we don't need to seal he-- nevermind, she's getting sucked in like it's Ghostbusters. now defeated the city's ice melts. or disappears more like, if it melted i think we'd be talking to the mermaid queen right about now. meanwhile out the book pops... the queen?

okay so witch-queen was a faker, real queen was trapped in the book. but she knows i want the orb so she tells me to go to her. can do! but first, town exploration. many treasures to get, even if Erik is being Mr. Cool and saying he don't talk to royalty. sure, Erik. sure.

(that's more queen for me so i'm alright with this.)

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