Right as I took the quest from Kaela it clicked with me that she was Calvardian - and probably the Rocksmith Agency, though at this point her exact affiliation is still up in the air. Seems Schera is okay and in the Alster region... but in hiding for reasons. Probably has to do with whatever reason Patrick and Ferris were hiding but it still seems weird. Anyway, to Saint-Arkh for the operation where apparently the curse is actually just a status effect that Elliot's S-Craft can heal. Looks like we might be able to solve this crisis if we just load everyone up with Recuria and start casting it at people influenced by the curse. ...No? Well, I'm sure Class VII will use this new knowledge that Elliot can, at least in some circumstances, heal the curse to help-ahahahahaha of course not. They don't even mention it when dealing with Alan a bit later. Dreknor Fortress was alright I guess and we got Tita and Alfin back, yay.
Also took a quick look in at 2-3's Bonding Events:
Alfin's Bonding Event was nice. She's a good character when she's not being forced into her gag role of shipping Rean/Elise. Altina also had a very good bonding event, perhaps the best yet, but damn you Falcom NO we're NOT doing this. I will hypnotize myself into Altina feeling FAMILIAL love for Rean and no more. He can adopt her as a daughter. and that's it. Stop trying to ruin this bonding event. Towa's was interesting if only for confirming my "totally called it" moment from CS3 that Towa's parents died in the shadow war between the intelligence divisions. It wasn't a particularly difficult call but I still called it when she gave us her backstory in CS3 Chapter 4! Machias and Kurt had interesting events too - Machias for the callback all the way to CS1 with his cousin's fiancee and showing how far he (Machias) has come. Kurt for the whole memory resonance thing. Which leaves Laura. arghhhhh Falcom. This was a good event right up until the forced romance and Laura acting like a mild tsundere afterwards. Laura probably the dropped event here for me this part as a result.
Also more generally I need to be able to bring a bigger party at this point. I was already having to make tough calls on who to leave behind but now it's absolutely brutal.
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