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Only updates afterward last night were two Dire Foe fights and an Odorless Fluid trip, where I got five more of 'em. I have enough for four more upgrades which I hope is enough. The people in Beardsley are a little confused about the events of the prior night. As they should be. Everyone should be.

Gonna play just a little bit right now...
There was no scene upon entering Hellawes, but there are some sidequest scenes. One of Teresa's stalkers is asking Eleanor what happened to her, and she scolds him for being a weakling who wants HER protection instead of providing it himself. I mean... that's why you use a condom. The fire in Eleanor's eyes also turns this guy on. He sounds like he has a need to attach himself to a fantasy because he has nothing else, but acts mightily creepy... I have that kind of need for attachment too, but I don't go about it in a creepy way anymore >_>

Bar talk is about Velvet overrunning Meirchio with a lot of misinformation. One, that the "Calamity" is trying to hurt people. Two, that it's only daemons there (as opposed to pirates). And three, that the Abbey can actually do something... or that Teresa would "defend" them. Did these people forget how Velvet wiped the floor with Teresa and kidnapped her malak? Or did the Abbey spin that into a lie as well? The fearmongering is working to control them, but... the Abbey will be history soon enough, and people will realize that Melchior and Artorius were scum.

Eleanor sends a sylphjay to her training buddies... and signs the letter, even though she's a traitor. They won't ignore the plight, but would they really trust her any differently than an anonymous tipster? We also eavesdrop on two thugs talking about an Abbey experiment where they combined several malakhim into one big one to study potential artes and let it run loose at the Faldies Ruins. And people think the Abbey are the good guys. Laphicet talks Velvet into going to kill it so they won't use whatever arte against us. Right thinking. The thugs also say that slaves were for the good of humanity. Fuck these guys. I go to kill the thing and take care of it (I get to see Howling Dragon TWICE for the first time in a while - sweet since it's the best Mystic Arte in the game that I've seen... I haven't seen Good Grip since the first time though, and have yet to see Rokurou and Laphicet's Level 2s). They just re-used Medissa's cage. Magilou whines afterward that it was just a load of bull, based on the thing's form. Lovin' the jokes, but hatin' the Abbey just treating malakhim like lesser beings that they can do whatever they want with. Bigoted AF. Slavery was NOT for the good of anyone.

And THEN I get a good one: Eleanor's confessions! Eleanor says her biggest regret she wishes to repent for was her blind faith in the Abbey and becoming a sheep. She says she doesn't want forgiveness because that would be repeating the same mistake, and the priest is too appalled to say anything... until he wants to confess to Eleanor. LOL!

I manage my equipment after the errand to the Faldies and stop there for now. To-do:
-Another Odorless Fluid run, probably.
-Go to Taliesin to find the Katz that'll take me to Nam Cobanda Isle
-Noh Dolls in Yseult
-Kill the Code Red near Stonebury (miasma in the woods? There's this other dungeon...)
-Class 4 north of Hellawes?
-Find Laphicet's friend with the 12-year sickness
-Figure out whatever loose ends I'm forgetting about
-Kill Artorius

There's probably more that I gotta do than that. I am at endgame. The climax was what I did last night. That scene of Velvet DEVOURING Melchior in front of the red moon was so glorious. Like it was extremely satisfying even if I wanted to torture the bastard. Melchior is as despicable of a villain as they come and its comeuppance was so satisfying because. And that's one thing this game does well: It has this irredeemable over-the-top dirtbag as the true Big Bad, but the others have complex motivations and less sadistic personalities. A good group of villains has the irredeemable one (Melchior), the alpha dog (Artorius), the sympathetic one (Villain Teresa), the henchman (Shigure), the throwaway (Thug Oscar), the turncoat (Eleanor), and the clueless one (also Eleanor). The "turncoat" can go in either direction, mind you. This party didn't have a turncoat; Bienfu was a spy only because he was brainwashed by a monster, not because he chose to be.

Definitely enjoying it, but this endgame cleanup is gonna be boring. I'll try to make it fun.