Tales of Graces f: DAY SEVEN

[sincere]

I was at work until ten minutes ago and here I am, turning on this game.

Must keep pace with everdistant...


Starting from: Setting sail with a letter for the president of Strahta! Please let my little brother stay and play with us!

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RECAP!


Jadia: I have a raging hate-on for Hubert for come and stealing my bio family with with his amazing adopted ways!

Hubert: I'm not stupid, so I am fully capable of stopping you from doing anything that would interfere with my plans or my friends.

Cheria: I was kidnapped but I'm okay with it because I am a benevolent being of light and goodness. Except when it comes to Asbel. Then I alternate between extremely dere and extremely bitchy.

Asbel: I have no fucking luck.

[rainfall]

[dead]

why Cheria, whyyy

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Oooh, the Strahta desert music is prettyyyy.

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END BATTLE!

Malik: Are you all right, Cheria? Are you hurt?

He is all kneeling and looking concerned.

Cheria: ...If only Asbel could be this kind.

/the end

It's becoming less and less cute. Asbel isn't less kind than Malik, he just isn't fawning over you. Most people could tell the difference.

You know, Richard said Asbel's kindness was what he loved most about him.

[rainfall]

That last sentence really makes this observation, for me. Sigh. XD

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Soldier: The researchers in Sable Izolle are all in a panic about the Rockgagong. Bunch of spineless eggheads.

See, that's the kind of attitude you get about education in the real world democracies. Ehe...

[temples]

Welcome home, Kay!

[sincere]

/bouncewith ♥

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END BATTLE!

Sophie: Asbel, why do you wear those white clothes?

Asbel: Huh? Well, uh... Let me think.

*FADE TO BLACK* *RETURNS*

Asbel: I've got it!

Cheria: You're late.

Even Asbel doesn't know why he wears that hideous disco suit. :(

[sincere]

/wanders into the next screen over

/slaughtered by enemies

/...wanders... back...

[temples]

You make amazing life choices.

[sincere]

Sophie is such an adorable mimic. She keeps copycatting Pascal and Cheria.

[rainfall]

Heeheehee. ♥

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/messes around in the desert and dualizing and stufffff I swear I'm still here

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Sable Izolle! There is a truly weird tower structure in the middle. Sable Izolle, the city of scholars!

Asbel: Let's ask around. The town-people should know something.

...the townspeople or the town-people? Like town-people are an indigenous tribe or something. What.

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There is purple smoke coming out the chimney of one of the houses.

I'm... not going to ask.

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Outside the research academy is a crowd of scholars clammoring about not killing the Rockgagong. There are two tiny Ritas in the crowd. Awww.

A guy with Alexei's voice and no name, yet, comes to tell us the Rockgagong situation is not going to be resolved anytime soon. Fretting ensues.

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SKIT! Cheria bitches about Sophie being too picky with her food, and then when Asbel comes to defend Sophie, bitches about how they both have childish tastes. :\

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...Oh my god I just got Asbel's Yuri title and I have no idea why!

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I am learning that costume so fast so I can get Asbel out of his disco suit. /the best reasoning

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/accidentally learns another Pascal mystic arte

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The researcher who comes by tells us a marginally scary story and Cheria like three times asks him to stop and then flings herself at Asbel, who is like "Wha"

Malik suggests Cheria should go into the basement of the tower and check it out. Isn't he just so kind, Cheria? Isn't he just so much nicer than Asbel?

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Okay, done messing around in Sable Izolle. Back into the desert! We're going to go poke around and see if we can get to the capital before we get eaten by a Rockgagong.

[temples]

A Rockga-what?

[everdistant]

sdfghj

[sincere]

Get out. (nottalking)

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Wow, the Rockgagong is like. The size of half a town.

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...Welp. The Rockgagong just ate me.

Gross Monstro / Jabu-Jabu / intestinal monster trek, here I come?

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There has never been so much talk of butts in Tales of before.

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Parasites are the reason the Rockgagong has turned from gentle giant into mad monstro! Let's kill them.

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END BATTLE! One of our favorite end-battle skits is definitely:

Malik: Right into next week! /triumphantly

Sophie: I have traveled back in time from next week. Please stop throwing monsters at us. /making dramatic gestures

Malik: ... /stares at her

Sophie: ... /points helpfully behind her /as in next week?

[rainfall]

loveloveloveloveloveeee

Sophie argh why are you so adorable.

She's such a well-done version of her trope.

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Observation: The town musics and overworld musics are pretty good, but son of a bitch, could the dungeon music be any more repetitive? There's like five seconds of music on a constant nonstop loop in any given shitty dungeon.

[rainfall]

/cries

It's so true. I like all the other music. Which is why I think the lousy music stands out so much.

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Dungeon dungeon dungeon.

Dun dun duuuuun
Dun dun duuuuun
Dun dun duuuuun
Dun dun duuuuun
Dun dun duuuuun
Dun dun duuuuun

Those three notes over and over again, forever.

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I would like for this dungeon to note that it is not challenging when the layout of a maze goes "GOTCHA!" and changes roughly 30% of the time when you approach intersections.

It's just annoying.

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Pascal suggests that we should be a sitcom family, with Asbel and Cheria as dad and mom, and Sophie and Pascal as their daughters! Is it really appropriate to cast yourself as Sophie's sister with all your groping? Also, aren't you older than Asbel and Cheria?

Sophie asks what that makes Malik, and Pascal considers before dubbing him the grandpa. Malik makes a violent overture, but it turns out the boss is right behind Sophie.

BOSS FIGHT.