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!
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 we head out into the snow, Sophie starts collapsing again, glowing erratically. She's burning up, and Cheria wants to take her back, but she wants to keep going. But after some guilt, she passes out. Dun dun dunnnn running out of time. ;;;
Message from Poisson: Fourier won't help us because she's busy sulking. This means there's a problem doing the thing from Sunday that doesn't make sense! Uh-oh! Let's do this dungeon before we worry about it.
Dungeon dungeon dungeon. There's a gimmick with directing power to different areas of the dungeon to do different things that isn't hard to figure out, but which they felt the need to explain to me only towards the end of 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?
When we get outside again, Asbel is carrying Sophie on his back. A monster looms up to attack us, and the group surrounds him, the girls to either side and Hubert running up in front of Asbel and Sophie. ;; Awww flanked protetively.
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
Poisson appears conveniently. The Overseer told her to come help! Pascal is sad that her sister is still upset, though. Poisson will fly the shuttle for us, then.
While Pascal and Poisson tinker, Cheria sneaks off, and Asbel follows her.
She's a little melancholy thinking they'll be leaving the whole world they know soon. Asbel apologizes for dragging her into it, and Cheria says, shut it, I would do anything for Sophie. She's my friend, too.
"When we were kids, I thought she was my rival," she confesses.
It was a very cute scene. Quietly shippy without being oppressive or reducing anyone to a moron. I will allow it to exist.
I'm really starting to feel like I'd enjoy this game more if I didn't watch any skits or do any subevents, which is a crappy way to enjoy a Tales of game.
BY THE WAY, not to say I'm not enjoying it! Just that I'm enjoying it, like, only 3/4ths as much as I would without the bullshit, and a lot of the bullshit appears to be localized to the skits and subevents...
Back with the shuttle and Sophie's sleeping bag. They start the countdown to board the ship, but wait! Monsters! And we can't abort the launch procedure! Nooooo
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.
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.
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