Musse is working with a small orbal pistol made by the Thirteen Factories, which I guess is totally separate from the Black Workshop.
As far as I know, the "Thirteen Factories" is a term for the engineering/tech groups working for Ouroboros, of which the Black Workshop was one of them until they defected to Osborne. Whether there are literally 13 groups (or were, I guess, at its founding/before the Black Workshop left if they weren't replaced already.) So even with the Gnomes gone they still have other workshops/factories under their employ. It's headed up/overseen by the Sixth Anguis, Professor Novartis who Joshua namedrops all the way back in SC if you take him to the right place on the Glorious.
Mac Arrowny posted...
It's the same as her CS3 outfit!
CS2, I thought, but yeah, it's not the first time we see it.
Bond Events: As a general rule of thumb, in Act 2 you will ultimately end up with enough bonding points to see everyone's event but one person if you pick up the extra bonding point from the monster quest. Looks like we made the same exact decision in terms of Bond Events to do in 2-1 though with basically the same exact logic! Fie, Altina, Musse, and Duvalie had cool events yeah. Crow's was kinda a letdown in comparison but still nice to see Rean finally getting one up on him in their gamesmanship. As for the heart events, I kind of disagree with Mac a bit as much as I spent a great deal of time lamenting them in my own write-ups but that's because I disagree that as a rule they're worse than the non-heart ones, just that a fair number of them feel like it's jarringly tacked on to what was otherwise a good event and you can't sever them (unless you miss the first heart event in which case the second one will just become a normal one and excise the romance part as mentioned). You don't really see this too much with Fie's event there because I felt that one managed to work that part in about as naturally as it could have but you will. If you're interested in final bond event criteria... Technically, you can see the final bond event for anyone so long as you can get them to 5 stars. It's kinda like CS3 in that you can see more than one (as is usual you get a number of tickets to spend time with people when the time comes.) Technically speaking you could throw 3 tickets at one person there so as long as you get some to 3.5 stars you can see their event. Romance is different though, you can only romance one person (you get a final bond-esque scene regardless of romance) but your only options here are if you get them to 5 stars and saw both their heart events, though I think the game told you that already upfront. If you miss either heart event for someone they can't be a romance option.
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