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we meet a guy who wants to make a potion that will make him immunte to the effects of alcohol

Schera: "That's an insult to responsible drinkers!"

Agate: "Responsible my ass, Schera"

YR: another quest about recovering an item stolen by the Phantom Thief

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We complete the quest about finding a fish for the anti-booze potion, but now we have to watch as the client tries to use it for a date with Aina

And I love how Olivier finds himself into the scene even if he is not a party member, and the party members are like "how the fuck did he appear here, he's not supposed to be in the party now". This game does a great job with writing multiple versions of the dialogue depending on who is with you. I imagine if Olivier is in the party he just asks to join the table with the other group, or something like that.

We get an amusing scene where the client and Olivier challenge Aina to a drinking contest, but still come short

... alright, rant time.

I hate the way this game portrays alcohol.

Look, I'm not a prude. I drink rather often myself. But I impose limits to myself, because alcohol is addicting. And the way this game deals with it goes along how real life deals with it, which is unhealthy as fuck. A part of society tries to completely ban it (which is unnecessary and impossible), but another part goes the opposite way, by acting like getting drunk until you fall unconscious is normal, or that alcoholism isn't a horrible disease. The fact Schera and Aina can drink insane amounts of booze without getting drunk is not a virtue, it just means they are alcoholics. Aina being able to drink multiple bottles of the strongest liquor in the store without feeling anything is just a sign she's not far from having liver failure. It's not a thing to be treated as a childish joke, people die and families get broken up because of it in real life. And the fact they keep trying to drag other members of the cast into it, and the game plays it for laughs, is rather offputting. There was even a scene at the start of the first game where Schera tried to get Joshua to drink, and he is a minor. That never happened again, but it didn't get much better than that either.

Maybe it's a time thing, and this was ok in like 2006, but at this point I've had enough exposure to the concept of alcoholism as a disease, both in real life and fictional media, to not enjoy those jokes that much. I mean, joking about a character being drunk here and there is one thing, but here it's just too much. And it's the reason Schera can't break to the top half of my character rankings.

so yeah, fun little sidequest, but while one part of my brain was going "lol", the other party was like "this is SO wrong"

The priest makes a note that drinking too much is bad, but it's basically a footnote to a running gag that has run too far

Me: faces a boss who spams Blind, only has 3 anti blind items
decide to leave Zin without one, he spends the whole fight blind and being useless
Then at the final turn, he snaps out of the blindness and kills the last enemy
Zin: "They messed with the wrong guy!'
Me: [roll eyes]

Estelle is now lv 60. Wont be long before she catches up with Josh. He should learn from her, the best way to train to take down an evil secret society is becoming a mandatory party member in an rpg

yknow, doing these sidequests makes me realize how huge Rolent is. It's advertized as a small town, but it has so many little hidden bits. Definitely bigger in content than Zeiss, and probably not much behind Ruan and Bose

Though Zeiss kind of wins if you count the factory, I guess

we recover the document that was stolen from the Phantom Thief, and the characters have a debate on how to secure it. Truth be told, there is little this small city can do to protect anything from what might be the best thief in the world. Because that's the kind of guy who steals stuff from banks, not official documents from miner's houses. The PT is impossible to stop as long as he keep making small crimes like this

He offers us 500 sepith of one color of my choice, and the answer of course is black. It's always black

Ok NOW we can go to Bose, 5 quests and another bracer rank later