As we travel the road to Alster, there's a really sneakily hidden treasure chest that I would've missed if I didn't have the quartz equipped that labels treasure chests on the map! When we arrive in Alster, Altina reveals she came here on a covert mission during the civil war to engage some former jaegers who had escaped from Noble Alliance forces, and she worked with Old Class VII for a little while. They find Sandy at the well, and Juna once again waves while facing someone! She's been helping at the tavern her family runs in town.
We meet a blind freelance journalist named Marcel Nielsen who gets his own byline, so I guess he's at least somewhat important! He says he'll be traveling all over Erebonia, so I imagine we'll be running into him quite often! We find the Steinrose Distillery, and now I'm kinda glad I didn't bring Sara along...! One of the employees has a weird note that came from Ordis, and New Class VII assumes it's a message from Musse. It sounds like something she'd do, at any rate. We find a memorial set up to the Lenheim Family resident, which apparently burned down when it was struck by lightning a few months ago. They leave some flowers at the site in Olivert's honor in an understated but kinda touching moment.
In a rare moment of courtesy, we actually knock on the door to Kai and Tilia's house before entering. Fie and Altina remember them from the civil war (did we actually meet them in CS2? I don't recognize them, but they know who Rean is, so either I've forgotten or it happened in the interim between CS2 or CS3, I guess!). Tilia tells us she saw the black Pleroma Grass at Osgiliath Basin, which sounds like a mashup of Giliath Osborne's name, so I'm a little suspicious! It's also called the Forbidden Basin, which doesn't make me feel much better!
