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12/21
The day only moved forward by 1, so apparently at some point yesterday it turned from 12/19 to 12/20 though I never noticed it. Whatever! The new day starts off with the gang talking to Gwyn, Alisa's granddad. He lets us know a secret way into Roer, by sailing in through a stream that starts in Ymir. Sounds risky to me but I'm sure things will be fine. It has me pick a party, Alisa is the required one this time so I get to pick my full team of people I actually want to use for once. The game starts you off on the byroad right by Roer, so I guess we don't get a cutscene of them sailing the boat down the rapids. Lame!

Trial chest for Alisa and Emma is the first thing I find. It makes sense that Emma was the top scorer on the Thors entrance exam. After all, she really knows how to spell! Nice. Unfortunately though, I don't have Emma with me, and there's no quick travel menu to get back to the ship to change teammates, so I guess this one will have to wait until later.

Upon arriving to Roer, the guards at the gate outside think they recognize us, but then say that all kids look the same and that they're just faces you'd see at the bar. First, these kids have pretty wild and wacky appearances, so cut that shit right out I'm pretty sure you'd recognize Alisa anywhere. Second off, why are you seeing kids at the bar? Mysterious shit man! The gang then ponders why it was so easy for them to get in, so I'm guessing they're setting up for a man on the inside who was helping them gain access. Since it's Roer, maybe Sharon's pulling some strings for us? We'll see!

I speak with Jackass, the crafting shop owner and he lets us know that Schmidt is working with the nobles to develop weapons. I forget who Schmidt is to be perfectly honest but I'm sure he'll show up soon! Hugo is in the shop downstairs and tells us he'll let us know anything he finds out but doesn't join the Courageous yet. In the general store we find Linde, Vivi's sister. Glad to see she's okay! I can't believe that they made us wait this long to reunite the two. She then says if we need anything to come and find her because she won't be going anywhere. Not what I expected? I guess they're gonna make us wait until the end of this section to formally recruit her or something. I could see them holding off on Hugo but Linde doesn't have much else to do but join us now lol. She's working part time at a grocery store for God sake, that's like, the lowest of the low...

Anyway after that I try to go to the Reinford hq but we aren't able to go inside yet. Apparently Angelica's uncle is evil (who wouldve guessed) And is taking over the Reinford company while Alisa's mom is imprisoned. And he's even using the top floor where their home was as his own personal office. How uncouth! We must stop this man immediately.

Instructor mary is chilling in a random house, she asks how Mint is doing and tells us to be careful but doesn't have much info for us. I head over to the bar but there's no Claire in a sexy dress so not much to see here. Over at the church there's some new sister that nobody recognizes, 0% chance that becomes a plot point later.

Last but not least I head over to the Roer technology school, but to my surprise there's nothing there. Except a receptionist who refers to Schmidt as a dick, which was funny for it's unexpectedness. But I thought there'd be some plot advancement. Not sure where else to look now! Eventually while aimlessly walking around the gang has a cutscene where they talk about being out of leads and Alisa gets a call from her buddy at the diner. I feel like the diner being in the last game and Alisa going to talk to that chick was literally only put in the game so they could have this scene here. But it's okay, I respect that.

Over at the diner the ~mysterious~ sister from before is revealed to be none other than Angelica! I don't really care for her much, she's okay but kind of one note? But I do like her rebellious plot against her family so I'm glad to see her out of prison. She goes into detail about how her father isn't as on board with the Noble alliances actions and occupation of Heimdallr as the rest of the leaders. She also says that she plans on using her few allies she has in the alliance to lead an insurgency against her father's army. I have to admit that's pretty damn badass, so she's growing on me a bit here.

She reveals she's uncovered the location of Alisa's mom, which is on some cold steel tracks in the iron mine outside of town. See what I did there? These really have been the Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna ~ The Golden Country, haven't they? ...Anyway, we decide to set off on a 3 part adventure, first to the mine to rescue Mom, then with her in tow we come back to Roer to reclaim Reinford HQ, then finally with his hostages gone, we head off to the Schwarz Drache Barrier to finish things off with Angelica's dad. Seems like a pretty sensible plan to me! They mention that we're gonna need to bang out all 3 operations back to back in order to give our enemies as little time to react as possible, also smart. I'm liking the way their planning is going.

Angelica joins my party and it tells me that setting her as my party leader is highly recommended since her quartz will give us triple advantages randomly. Unfortunately for this game I've mastered the art of getting triple advantages every fight and I'm burned out on temp characters after they took my Claire from me. Sorry Angelica, you're staying in the back. You, Sara and Machias will be there for me when I need you. Angelica's stats are pretty nutty though, she almost had as much attack as Laura and that's with only one moderately good accessory equipped.

The game let's you explore out on the highway going to the Barrier instead of going immediately to the mine so I do that for fun. I find a trial chest for Elliot, Emma, Millium, and Sara out here. Keep in mind you can't switch your party for this section, and Alisa and Rean are required. Is there any chance on earth that a single human being would ever have picked those four people to join them to get that chest the first time around? I absolutely refuse to believe anybody would pick those four characters. That is such a joke. I think they really just wanted to make sure they were able to show off at least one chest quote this game, to make sure everyone knew they existed. That's the only rational explanation. "Have you heard Elliot's father published a best selling book on the Imperial forces? They don't call him 'Craig the Read' for nothing!" That doesn't even make sense bro that'd be like if he was a writer not a publisher but whatever I'm not even mad.

Lmao I walked up to a chest and Angelica chimed in, "Always happy to lay my hands on another chest." Okay she's growing on me still that was pretty funny. There's another shrine here, but Angelica says we don't have time to worry about it because we have important things to do today. Nice avoidance of ludonarrative dissonance, game designers! Eventually I get up to to the Barrier and Angelica puts her veil on and says that we should do some investigating since we're here and I get +2 AP. That's pretty neat! Margarita is here, the fat chick from the first one, but besides that there's nothing here. At least I got some AP out of it, the best reward you can truly get. After that Alisa suggests we head back to Roer to restock, but nothing actually happens when you get there so off to the mine!

After a battle my Alisa hits level 90 and gets an upgraded S craft which has a Class SSS+ ranking. Alisa's S craft sucked before so hopefully this one's actually useful. It does say it has a 200% chance to mute so that seems promising if it can actually mute bosses. Also Angelica got her s craft upgraded, which is pretty funny since I just got her. Why not just start her off level 90 bro c'mon.