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my bracer rank levels up and I gain a quartz named septium vein, which increases septium drops. i'm never taking it out

It also gives a ton of elemental power which ofc makes Olivier EVEN more broken. He is now responsible for casting high levels spells for wind (Aero Storm), water (La Teara, Blue Impact), space (Dark Matter) and earth (Petrify Cloud, Titanic Roar, La Crest).

Also... Earth Wall has made its glorious return. We are never getting separated again.
This frees Estelle for using fire and time arts. She is the new Josh. Meanwhile Tita gets Chaos Brand thanks to the Hit 3 I just got

And Agate hits things with a sword. Hey, it works.

I face a quest boss composed of a swarm of self healing bugs. It doesn't matter because Olivier just deletes them with Aero Storm

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Now this is how you do continuity

I do a quest about finding a peeping tom in a bath. the quest is worth it just for the massive amount of teasing they give Agate. I have zero regrets about picking him over Schera here.

also in the end we fight a boss that is basically a bunch of sheep monsters combined into a sheep megazord who fights kung fu. Devs do some heavy substances sometimes.

Olivier: "Why did you invade a military base and not call me? It sounds so fun!"

We meet Dad Bright at the base. He knows stuff. He also seems to know all about Olivier.

We place the third and final device and a wild Anelace appears! And Schera, ofc

Anelace has a cuteness overload upon seeing Tita

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Not having this gem be a permanent party member is the biggest injustice in this game

Schera is investigating the sky bandits. She's in the right track

Bad guys: "Let's attack the military base yet". Cassius: "Hmm I think they will be tempted to attack the military base this time. Let's prepare."
Dude is a mastermind.

Swapped Olivier for Kloe for the end of the chapter, so she can get some xp too. Kloe's orbment setup is considerably worse. Like, she's not even bad, just can't compare to Olivier.

Carnelia Tower is considerably less fun to explore without Haze. It has some huge mobs in tight spaces

I just killed two shining poms in a single fight and the windall of xp was as predicted

got some good loot from Carnelia tho. Lots of clothes, Attack 3 and Action 2. Agate is happy

Got to Elmo village, for the final confrontation. To make the situation worse, the bag guys' avtions are also causing the hot springs to overheat. This game's scenarios kind of remind me of Megaman Battle Network. Each chapter it's one henchman interacting with the mcguffins and causing distress for the local civilians. In that game, it was because everything was connected to systems that were being hacked. here's it's septium veins and other steampunk mumbo jumbo

There is of course a dungeon at the hot springs fountain. of course.

I find a hot spring that heals HP and... CP. The boss ahead must be really strong if the game is letting me come at him with 4 full CP bars, imo

We meet the next member of the Wacky Elite Henchman Crew, Walter the Direwolf

Walter is less wacky and more bloodthirsty. he explains how he wants to splatter people under his earthquakes in graphic detail. For the "thrills".

[It's a trap!] meme

he wont fight us though, because I guess those guys are being saved for later chapters. we fight a mob of worm things. "Mob" is the worst strategy anyone could possibly use against Tita, though.

we are put in surprise battle formation though, which means the enemies surround us and its hard to get a good aoe

which would be a problem, if those guys weren't pathetic. but they are.

the fight ends, characters are all saying it was incredibly tough and villain is mocking us for having a hard time. I object to this storytelling your honor, it doesn't reflect my actual performance!

then he knocks the party out in one punch. Ok, sorry.

But then he says he's going to hunt Josh.

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Bad call.

I gotta give it Estelle, she is ready to die a pointless death for her man. That's pointless. But brave.

Zin to the rescue! Because while he's not necessarily stronger than the party gameplay-wise, he is in-story

Also Olivier cuz why not

this setup works better because Zin and Olivier were kind of a duo in the last game

Zin and Walter apparently have that thing going where they are the good disciple and the bad disciple of some kung fu master. Classic.

Ooooh the bad guy likes the guild's clerk. the plot develops.

Walter leaves, and we go back to the guild. The clerk (Kilika) gives ZIn a hard time because he let the bad guy get away with the mcguffin. She has a point, but the guy literally phased into the air and I'm not sure if Zin has that skill too.

I smell a love triangle. I want the flashback plz

And Kiliika was the master's daughter. They aren't even trying to be original here.

We go to the 10th argument in the series so far about whether a 12yo should be allowed to join a deadly bracer mission and I'm just tired at this point. She's a party member, it's fine. We have reviving magic anyway.

Also Zin joins the party too. Just at the same time as I get a petrify quartz. Convenient.

Chapter 2: "They are running out of excuses to bring a 12yo to combat": beaten

meanwhile, we see a scene where military does stuff. Cassius and Julia are sparing, though the fight is rather one sized

the sprite fight animations in this game are fantastic. I keep saying it but it deserves to be mentioned over and over. They are so fun to watch.

The good guys have plans too, I guess. Sometimes.

Meanwhile, it's Richard's right hand woman, plotting to break into the fortress to free him. Well I want to see that. And like, if a party of kids did it last game, then why can't she too?

Chapter 3: The Mad Tea Party. That's the real name, not a joke, because the real name is silly enough.

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I dont know how to deal with this level of choice