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killing witches is totally fine if they exist! but alright, continuing.

before going to see the queen, first thing first: explore the town and get that frozen chest i saw. there's only a couple items and the place isn't too big so it doesn't take too long, though i do get a good laugh out of the one in the weapon's shop. right in the back door/staff entrance, right next to the salesman, there's a chest with 3000 gold. yoinked that shit for myself and then talked to him like nothing was wrong.

platinum sword recipe get, far as i can tell that's the most important thing here. i move towards the castle and a cutscene hits featuring a voice crying for help. sadly neither me nor the twins know what that was about so we move inside.

naturally the first thing to do in a castle is loot. to the basement! place has a locked door, that silver icon for the other key entrance. i break all the pots around it and check the chest out to get a bunch more seeds, hell yeah. queen's bedchamber next, noble knife. fairly useless item but... purple tick tock? oh hey, another Pastword. forgot about those. voice calls me a fool and to not her take me for a fool, she's not who she says she is. so uh... i noticed that basement mentioned a prison.

am i going back to jail?
the guards also notice something's off.
lemme guess, the witch is pretending to be the queen again.
...well that was quick, didn't even involve a boss fight either, just all solved in a cutscene. yes, she was the witch and somehow the true queen popped right out of the book this time after answering the test correctly. the witch is drained so she can't put up a fight anymore but the queen defends her because she's clearly got Stockholm Syndrome and now it's time for some exposition:

witch was released by a man with the same pendant as Hendrik. gee, who could it be? she also apparently wanted to bang him but nope he just fucked off. truly a villain right there, like c'mon. you released a witch who's maybe a little crazy, a little evil, but into you and is surprisingly loyal. she's a woman of her word and doesn't mind getting her hands dirty. pretty great wife candidate right there but Mr. Eyes Half Closed is having none of it. Rab might understand who the villain is now, as if it wasn't obvious with that revelation. but hey, alls wells that ends well; i get the orb, the witch is staying with the queen as an advisor of some kind, and lost in all this is what the witch of accents really is. french? german? dutch? who knows!

i get a brief cutscene telling me that i've collected all of 'em and to go find that village. well that'll be easy. i figure i'll leave normally for now because Erik ain't in the team and it's the right call, cutscene happens as we leave. Erik being aloof, so is this gonna be a place he's got connections to, then? well, whatever it'll be clear soon enough. i also stand corrected, Rab doesn't know who that pendant is matching to and i assume neither does Jade. these people make my head hurt. as we leave Rab's porn collection falls and he's embarrassed by it but there's no shame in that, old man. stand tall, stand proud. after the cutscene i talk to the party and there's a mix of talking shit about Rab and Veronica telling me where to go. well, first thing first: mini medal dropoff.

45 get. Agility Gilet, woo. uh... hm. Rab, i guess. boosts him to a much better level than before. teleport to Arboria, just walk straight up and talk to the guy. cutscene.
there's previous Luminaries, right.
twin blonds are reincarnations, okay.
big baddy is my evil, okay.

wait previous hero was Erdwin? checking... ah, it's Erdwick in the Tick Tock stuff. wonder if they're related. who knows!
for now i'm just gonna keep going forward because i've taken way too fucking long collecting these dragon balls and want to get to the next part of the story. in this area i've got myself some new enemies like that flying dragon. spiffy.

he died quickly. yeah uh, Jade having 6MP regen right now makes a lot of these fights dumb because Multi-thrust on 1 enemy is 4 hits for 12MP. so just two turns, capped again. it's dumb but hey, that's how RPGs work.

i go inside the first forest and proceed to beat a bunch of enemies up. these aren't running away from me so i guess i'm close enough to the proper level, which is neat. they do give a ton of EXP though so that's nice, couple more level ups are always good as i proceed to run around getting items and just filling up the monsterdex. we finally get by the top at which point Rab being an old man catches up to him and we gotta camp out for the night. cutscene.

i believe this is the first time i've seen Serena's nails painted. usually fingers are the same peach color but here she's gotta strum that harp so she got extra color. we get some tree mythology stuff happening as people go to bed. wake up, walk around the base and find another treasure chest, then go up and the dragonballs fall into their slots as they produce... rainbow road?

surprise Mario Kart crossover? or just magically teleport me to the top, that works too. i find a well that lets me go back down so that's nice. anyway, to the end of this path, cutscene. the Master Sword is behind some vines and an electric barrier, oooh. guess this means he's canonically a single handed sword user eh? well alright.

alas i get shot in the back by Jasper, who was the knight guy i forgot the name of. the evil dude with half closed eyes. apparently he's super strong now and cue battle.
...cue unwinnable battle? as it's pretty clear i can't do shit to him. everything is ineffective because of his aura. sure would be nice if i had a SWORD OF LIGHT to deal with this but y'know, no good there. eventually he uses his power, we get knocked to 1 HP, and the fight ends for more cutscenes.

a lot more cutscenes with a lot of things happening. alright, let's see here...

Hendrick shows up with King Gero, goes "SEE I TOLD YOU HE'S EVIL NOW" to the king without realizing he's totally the last one to know. he then gets shot in the back because obviously he would be and King Gero then steps forward and has a weird body shifting moment as Mordegon pops out of a shadow from his body. Rab realizes he was a dumbass all this time in the process. excellent progress, just a liiiitle late there bud!
i then get stabbed in the chest but magically and it's so he could rip out my Luminary Command Seals and makes it his own, as the mark appears on his left hand now. basically, i got hit with Rule Breaker. he then grabs the sword, corrupts it with LORD OF SHADOWS powers or something, and stabs the now evil sword into Yggdrasill's heart (?) to corrupt/break it. now the source of all life is dead and as Veronica goes "wait no if this dies then--" the tree falls out of the sky, makes a gigantic shockwave, and cue new chapter title.

in other words game over heroes lost, gg guys.

or the game shifts to a new chapter title! was something about Hope. Searching For Hope? something like that.
queen mermaid says that okay looks like evil's won and we're in for some darkness but there's a light still inside and now this is a Kingdom Hearts game.

cue new cutscene, Sylv is alive on a beach. his burly sailor buddy somehow found him at just this moment and gets him on the ship, where he briefly has a cry before getting the depression slapped out of him. that's a damn good crewmate Sylv's got there. now motivated once more because he realizes that he's totally the weak link in this canon, we're off to Gondolia, where upon landing turns out everyone is depressed.

sounds like a lot of backhands are gonna be needed.


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