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Tales of Graces f: DAY THIRTEEN
It's already late but I will be damned if I don't play this game tonight.
Starting from: Fixing the laser cannon in Fendel.
Starting from: Fixing the laser cannon in Fendel.
RECAP! The entire world is surrounded by water and to get to Fodra to heal Sophie we need a spacewatership and laser cannons to evaporate the water, but one of the laser cannons isn't working because it's in a piece of crap country. So off to Crapholistan we go!
P.S. Where's Richard.
P.S. Where's Richard.
SUBEVENT! Some dude is trying to chip away at a rock wall with a spade when what he really needs is a drill. He gives us his spade and sits down with a musicnote to await our return with the drill.
As it happens, I already have it, so I give it to him. Pascal stomps around like a dinosaur because WE'RE BUSY but Cheria insists that we need to take the time out to help people when we can; it's important not to rush things, like her mother used to say.
It's all very cute and I wish Cheria would stop talking to Asbel and be like this more often!
As it happens, I already have it, so I give it to him. Pascal stomps around like a dinosaur because WE'RE BUSY but Cheria insists that we need to take the time out to help people when we can; it's important not to rush things, like her mother used to say.
It's all very cute and I wish Cheria would stop talking to Asbel and be like this more often!
BOSS!
After the boss there's a little scene, and I can't help noticing that Sophie is asleep in the corner of the room we entered to fight the boss on a little sleeping bag. When did we find the time to set that up before the boss attacked us? Have we just been dragging the sleeping bag with Sophie on it around the dungeon?
After the boss there's a little scene, and I can't help noticing that Sophie is asleep in the corner of the room we entered to fight the boss on a little sleeping bag. When did we find the time to set that up before the boss attacked us? Have we just been dragging the sleeping bag with Sophie on it around the dungeon?
SKIT! Entitled "It's a secret to everyone," because the game localizers are doooorks.
Asbel observes that the glowy light that he, Cheria, and Hubert can wield is proving effective against the monsters, so Hubert votes that they be the ones to take the lead against the monsters. Cheria mrrs about not wanting to hurt anyone's feelings, so Asbel says we can change up our party as the situation calls for it.
Then it just ends abruptly.
Screw you guys, childhood era team is my forever team! /shoves Malik and Pascal out a window
Asbel observes that the glowy light that he, Cheria, and Hubert can wield is proving effective against the monsters, so Hubert votes that they be the ones to take the lead against the monsters. Cheria mrrs about not wanting to hurt anyone's feelings, so Asbel says we can change up our party as the situation calls for it.
Then it just ends abruptly.
Screw you guys, childhood era team is my forever team! /shoves Malik and Pascal out a window
Lhant actually does something right for once, and just as we're about to go into a second round of fighting, Bailey shows up with the militia and promises to take care of everything, urging them to go.
Which is nice and all, although 1) we just made a big point of how much easier it is for the Triplets of Terror to fight them, and 2) these monsters were flattening Lhant like two days ago, so... I wouldn't expect the militia to get out of this alive.
Which is nice and all, although 1) we just made a big point of how much easier it is for the Triplets of Terror to fight them, and 2) these monsters were flattening Lhant like two days ago, so... I wouldn't expect the militia to get out of this alive.
Unexpected anime scene with terrible voice acting!
The shuttle is launching. Enjoy this CGI, everyone!
Hahaha it is really fast. There's a huge crowd of monsters blocking our way, but Fourier arrives on one of her bioweapon monsters to distract them. Pascal gets woobly.
The cannons fire, and we blow a big hole in the aquasphere that the ship zips through at speeds that are truly hilarious to be depicted for nobody to be wearing a seatbelt.
We escape the planet and look back down at it and heeeey, waaaaait. Foselos, if that's your planet's name, looks suuuuper tiny compared to that red beast next to it and has strange devices surrounding it.
IT'S THE TRUMAN PLANET-- /shot
The shuttle is launching. Enjoy this CGI, everyone!
Hahaha it is really fast. There's a huge crowd of monsters blocking our way, but Fourier arrives on one of her bioweapon monsters to distract them. Pascal gets woobly.
The cannons fire, and we blow a big hole in the aquasphere that the ship zips through at speeds that are truly hilarious to be depicted for nobody to be wearing a seatbelt.
We escape the planet and look back down at it and heeeey, waaaaait. Foselos, if that's your planet's name, looks suuuuper tiny compared to that red beast next to it and has strange devices surrounding it.
IT'S THE TRUMAN PLANET-- /shot
Okay, so Fodra is Mars. It's all red and barren and cold. Malik thinks it looks like there was once a great battle here... We couldn't see Fodra from our world for some reason, but we can see our world from here.
Getting some Scrapped Princess vibes
But, hey, is this shuttle still... operational?
But, hey, is this shuttle still... operational?
NOPE! We have no idea how we'll get back. But whatever, right? We have to fix Sophie first anyway.
Hey, there's a building floating in midair over there! For some reason we are surprised to see it floating, even though the Amarcian Enclave is floating.
Whatevs. Let's go to it.
Hey, there's a building floating in midair over there! For some reason we are surprised to see it floating, even though the Amarcian Enclave is floating.
Whatevs. Let's go to it.
SKIT! Pascal can't make the ship work, and she says cheerily that if they're stuck we'll have to make a home on this planet! Asbel is not amused, but Cheria agrees. She will, apparently, take saving Sophie but never seeing anyone else they care about again and dooming their entire planet.
Really...? You're totally okay with that...?
Really...? You're totally okay with that...?
We have arrived at... Telos Astue, the Extinct City.
Whoops. That description isn't exactly promising.
We find someone sprawled on the ground a short distance away and run over to find... a Sophie clone! Things are not going well. Pascal touches the motionless girl, who dissolves, and everyone freaks out.
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rainfall: Stop groping Sophies. Even dead ones don't like it.
Whoops. That description isn't exactly promising.
We find someone sprawled on the ground a short distance away and run over to find... a Sophie clone! Things are not going well. Pascal touches the motionless girl, who dissolves, and everyone freaks out.
rainfall: Stop groping Sophies. Even dead ones don't like it.I found the "records room". There's still some operational machinery in here and a discovery that makes our characters babble about how this world isn't alive the same way Ephinea is. (If Ephinea is the name of the world, then what's Foselos??)
The surrounding pillars say cryas is an artificial ore that was made on Fodra. Its purpose is to contain and transport eleth, and stabilize it.
They also reveal that this city's altitude is dropping. Pascal reads it as "The machine keeping the city afloat is only operating at 20% capacity."
The surrounding pillars say cryas is an artificial ore that was made on Fodra. Its purpose is to contain and transport eleth, and stabilize it.
They also reveal that this city's altitude is dropping. Pascal reads it as "The machine keeping the city afloat is only operating at 20% capacity."
The liitle girl has fled into a room with a woman in a machine. (Sophie is still on her sleeping bagggg.) The machine abruptly deactivates; the green-haired woman from the opening animation inside isn't breathing and has no pulse, but Cheria doubts that she's dead.
There's some rumbling as the woman wakes up slowly, and asks the little girl (Psi) if she brought these people here.
She has a lot of boob.
We introduce ourselves and the woman, Emeraude, realizes we're from Ephinea, but the seal on it still isn't broken. How can this be!
Hubert: Ephinea must be their name for our homeworld.
Maybe you should have given me your name for it before saying that. Also, it helps if you don't have skits where my characters use the term Ephinea before learning it.
There's some rumbling as the woman wakes up slowly, and asks the little girl (Psi) if she brought these people here.
She has a lot of boob.
We introduce ourselves and the woman, Emeraude, realizes we're from Ephinea, but the seal on it still isn't broken. How can this be!
Hubert: Ephinea must be their name for our homeworld.
Maybe you should have given me your name for it before saying that. Also, it helps if you don't have skits where my characters use the term Ephinea before learning it.
Emeraude says she's been asleep for around a thousand years, and Asbel asks her if she recognizes Sophie.
Emeraude: That's Protos Heis, is it not?
Emeraude: It also appears to be malfunctioning. Did you bring this all the way from Ephinea?
I knew she was a robooot.
Emeraude: Protos Heis is an artificial humanoid soldier created by Fodran scientists.
Sophie's self-healing module is one of the malfunctioning bits.
Emeraude: (The damage is quite severe... Could it have been Lamba?)
Emeraude: That's Protos Heis, is it not?
Emeraude: It also appears to be malfunctioning. Did you bring this all the way from Ephinea?
I knew she was a robooot.
Emeraude: Protos Heis is an artificial humanoid soldier created by Fodran scientists.
Sophie's self-healing module is one of the malfunctioning bits.
Emeraude: (The damage is quite severe... Could it have been Lamba?)
Emeraude thinks she can fix Sophie, but they need to go to the Humanoid Research Center. But it's overrun by monsters and its equipment might not be functional~ Good times!
While we're looking into Sophie, Emeraude tells her minion to repair the shuttle.
While we're looking into Sophie, Emeraude tells her minion to repair the shuttle.
SKIT! The robopeople we see around here aren't the same as Sophie; they're eleth-powered civilian units. Emeraude refuses to explain what the Protos Heis units are until we get to the lab.
Asbel: I'm really confident that you can help Sophie.
Emeraude: I assure you that I will.
You better not make Sophie not adorable or hate Richard. :(
Asbel: I'm really confident that you can help Sophie.
Emeraude: I assure you that I will.
You better not make Sophie not adorable or hate Richard. :(
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