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I pick up a new sidequest. A sidequest? In my Grancel? madness

its the damn phantom thief again. Should have known

we visit the Calvard embassy. theres an entire book with 22 chapters in one of the shelves. Whats up with this game and books?

I actually went and read the whole thing (got an achievement for it too). It's a cheesy but fun tale about fighting puppets. Yeah.
we have a chat with the Calvard ambassador about realpolitik, and I almost forget this is a videogame

fun little chapter. instead of running randomly asking about ghosts or earthquakes, we are talking politics with a lot of npcs

the phantom thief quest ends with a boss fight against an ice monster, fortunately it only knows how to cast diamond dust over and over. My party has 3 characters with Impede. GG.

A maid from the Erebonian embassy speculates on who Olivier is really chasing after. She needs to do her research on Olivier: the only possible answer is "everyone"

this embassy has the carnelia book series, which I did not bother to read last game.

Olivier is soloing this chapter. His political skills are top tier. Kloe is good too, but he's even better. He sounds silly until he suddenly says exactly what has to be said, every time.

The Erebonian ambassador isn't so bad, after his initial introduction. I was expecting something similar to the Duke. Yes he is a dick, but a few levels better than the other guy.

Carnelia is even longer than the Doll Knight and I'm lazy so I'm reading it online later

next person to investigate is Nial the reporter, who I suspect will have 99% of the information we need

Random woman outside the Erebonia embassy: "You were talking to that black-haired Imperial soldier, right?

Hmm, yes... I'm a big fan of his"

Nial knows nothing we don't know but his read of the situation is still miles better than everyone else. They are probably not attacking the ceremony, they want us to think they will

I mean let's be real, Orobouros is a widely known threat (not by the general public but by every authority figure in the setting) and they have a tendency to use diversion tactics. Why would they strike the most obvious place that is likely to expect them and guard against them?

The real question is what their actual target is

we learn Renne's parents are basically ghosts. Hmm.

knowing the deal with Renne makes the hotel scene incredibly ominous

meanwhile, Schera and Anelace engage in some Mission Impossible at Bose, and I get to play as them in a fight against some intel div bad guys

they meet Green Haired Enforcer, the leader of the Wacky Elite Henchman Crew. Campanella the Fool. That's a name.

he gives us what is probably the more violent scene in the series so far. Though the complete lack of blood makes it seem like he just broke a bunch of legos. Lel.

well turns out they are a bunch of legos! Or androids, apparently. Is this start wars?

I like the parallel with the fact I just read a book about puppets in some random in-game library. Turns out... that was foreshadowing

Kevin shows up again. The man is everywhere

we cut to Josh, who apparently knows everything that is happening. Turns out he left some intel for Schera's group to help them deal with the incoming events. But he's not going to help himself. He doesn't want to risk meeting Estelle, I guess

we are treated to a sequenece where Estelle roasts the Duke, and I'm 100% having it

I love the sequence where Renne just walks out in the middle of the dialogue, and nobody sees it
about when we started mentioning Enforcers in front of her, too

We learn from some npcs Ruan elected a new mayor. And it's the tourism guy, not the port guy. I know because they mention that Portos lost

Renne delivers to Estelle what seems to be a letter from Josh and I only have more questions
its obviously something fake, because we just saw a scene of Joshua saying he's NOT going where
Estelle is. But Estelle doesn't know, so she goes there alone. Honestly, Agate is kind of an idiot for letting her do that, considering Josh is involved in Orobouros business

She meets someone and the scene cuts away before we can see who it is

It's Kevin. Again.

[it's a trap meme]

Kevin and Josh need to hold a competition for who has more information that the party doesn't

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/4/5/AAO9CbAAEZ5V.jpg

Estelle is not one for discretion

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/4/6/AAO9CbAAEZ5W.jpg

Or for patience, either