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12/27
The gang gathers around to discuss the tree situation, but basically decide that it's out of their zone of expertise, and that they should keep doing what they've been doing. Gathering students, doing quests for Olivier, getting more ore. Lame! I was ready for some main main plot stuff to start happening, but I suppose we'll have to wait for CS3. Sara pokes fun at Toval over the radio about the Carnelia books, and also says that they're certainly available in stores everywhere. Is that a hint and I'll actually get to read it now? Probably not, but we'll see.

Walking around the ship, I go out onto the deck to see if they added the Azure tree to the map, but sadly they did not. Missed opportunity, Falcom!

There's new weapons to buy, but I'm completely broke after upgrading everyone's armor in Bareahard. I guess I'll go sell some more sepith in a bit. Dorothee has a book for a curry recipe that fills in the slot above the Parfait that I was worried about earlier, so I'm down to only two recipes to go!

Sara in the kitchen is talking about Crossbell and says that they should be fine, since they have high ranking guild members plus an unusually talented police force :). She says there's a group of police officers there that have been working closely with the guild that have made a real name for themselves :):). Rean has a thought to himself where he thinks that they sound interesting, and he would love to meet them someday :):):). Thanks for that scene, game.

Nothing else on the ship that I find, so it's time to go out into the world and see what awaits. The first place I go is Ymir, because I skipped snowboarding last time and I want to check on that. There's a green checkmark on the Ymir map in Ymir Valley, so I guess there's some sort of sidequest here? I go up to it and it triggers a scene of Beryl (best student) walking and giggling to herself, so we chase after her. When you finally catch up to her, she just literally..vanishes into thin air right before your eyes. Mysterious! You end up climbing to the top and find her again, and the gang is all like wtf was that about, but she just brushes it off and joins you aboard the Courageous. I'm guessing she's some kind of...ghost student? Who knows lol.

I tackle the snowboarding as well, but don't find anything else to do there so I head out. Legram is next because I know there's a mission for us there. When you get in the fog is thicker than usual, and the guild wants us to investigate the cause. They say they heard a bell going off too, so it's like what was happening here before. Intriguing! They require us to use Emma here so I swap her in. While exploring the town I found another recipe in Laura's home, so now I'm down to only 1 remaining. Nothing else of note in town, so castle time it is.

In the castle there's a black record on the ground right when you enter. The boss at the end is super braindead, S Crafts from everyone kill it before it gets a chance to move. Nightmare difficulty indeed. Unfortunately for me, I stumbled upon the boss the first hallway I went down and it teleports you away with no option to return...no exploring for me. Thankfully I found that Black Record right away since those are important, but hopefully there's nothing else that I missed here that's too big of a deal.

Next up I go over to Celdic. Rosine is in the church of course, and she has an idea to throw a concert for the townspeople, to revitalize their spirits after everything that happened. Apparently this is a fetch quest of sorts, we need to go around Erebonia and recruit musicians for the concert. They give you a list of some people you'll want to find as well. I guess this is this games version of "getting the band back together for one last show". I'll tackle this one as I go I suppose.

I remembered that that traveling musician was in Bareahard yesterday, and I need to go there anyway so away we go. He agrees to join our band without complaint, so that's one down. I also remembered there were a few kids here that wouldn't join us yet, so I go to recruit all of them. There's also a trial chest on the highway outside of Bareahard. "Class VII's been working tirelessly to find a way to stop the civil war, but it's Claire that they're Tovally at a loss on how to do it. Care to Sharon idea or two?" 10/10 best one yet unironically I love it

Actual chest fight is for Alisa, Elliot, Laura, and Jusis. I already use 3/4 of those guys, so I'll let you guess how easy that fight was...

There's also a whole 'new' path that's opened up, Aurochs Canyon Path. New for this game, it was in CS1. There's another trial chest here for Machias and Jusis! They had to wait until the end of the game to unlock that one lol. "Have you seen Dorothee's book about Jusis and Machias? It started with a Noble Command, a Treasure Sword was brandished, and it ended with a shotgun wedding." LMAO okay this one actually made me laugh out loud so 11/10 that's fucking great. Shoutouts to Falcom for even including that. If what someone said earlier about these only being in the English translation is true though I guess it's not Falcom who's been writing these. Also MZero has been missing out.

During the fight I learned if Machias does a link effect with Jusis, Jusis says, "I don't need YOUR help." just like that lol. That's pretty great. Fight's pretty easy, but the first turn was Jusis getting a Zero Art turn, so he got to cast his lost art for free. Pretty hard to have a hard fight after that.

There's also a quest monster to kill here, which Laura damn near one shots, in stereotypical fashion. Challenge, please return to me soon. When you get to the end of this path there's the fort where you first saw Altina in the last game. Rex is there to recruit onboard the ship, and he joins without a fight, though not without a throwaway line of comparing the breast size of all the girls on the ship.

Over in Roer there's a hidden quest. Jackass, the repair shop owner wants us to repair a stopwatch. Well, he has the stopwatch, Alisa is actually the one that wants to repair it because it's her mothers. We have to also travel around Erebonia to find some very rare parts that this stopwatch will require. Also, instructor Mary is here to join our merry little band for Celdic.

Fast forward, ended up fetching all the goods for the watch. You bring them back to Jackass, but he says that Alisa can fix it herself, so we return to her house so she can try. Apparently the watch was a memento from her dad that he gave to their mom. She's able to fix it, and lo and behold it opens up and starts playing a song as well. Musical stopwatch! Erebonia doesn't stop with the hits. There's also a picture of Alisa's mom and dad inside on what looks to be a wedding day, so that's cute. Alisa and her mom have another one of their scenes between them, you know how this goes by now. Alisa shows some backbone though and says that she'll be there to pick up the things that her mother cares for, but has no time to handle. That's pretty great. Also, as the gang walks away, it's revealed that there's a hidden picture of Momma holding baby Alisa which makes me wanna tear up. Well done sidequest there, I can't believe they'd hide this one and leave most of the generic crap they do in like normal.