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I take the road back to Loegres and I'm almost out of Odorless Fluid. The game's board says you can reduce the difficulty to make the no-skill weapons more likely to spawn. Many weapons I get on my way back to Zeksom, but only ONE has no innate skillz. Like WHAT. How am I supposed to upgrade stuff? Le ugh.

The Toitolez is waiting at the gate (hence "skillz" above) and he has a letter for Eizen that's the kind of crap you see Twitter thugs spitting out. Eizen crumbles it up and doesn't care, because he's a pirate - so what? People hate him 'cuz they ain't him. There's also talk about noh dollz - Empyrean statuettes that are actually magical and may counteract the Reaper's Curse, but are very hard to find. Whatever, it's just fetch quest stuff. Eizen also confesses the lady he writes to is his sister, so hey, it wasn't a spoiler!

There's a skit where Phi asks why the pirates were fighting over catz vs. dogz and it predictably turns into an argument. Magilou narrates like it's Homeric poetry and obviously likes catz, preferably black. Eizen likes squirrelz, Rokurou finds dogz more annoying but hates that Shigure likes catz, Eleanor is a dog person, and Velvet says dogz since "they don't betray you." She's more like a cat herself. Keeps to herself a lot. Never wants to play for long and only does it to entertain you. Bienfu thinks he's entitled to Bienfu people, but probably just wants some lovin' again.

I beat up a Class 4 to farm weapons but NONE OF THESE are skill-less. Like how can I upgrade weapons without necessary parts? UGH! Even the easiest difficulty makes weapons have skills, however useless the +5 to Focus is at this point. It's obnoxious. I switch the difficulty back and give up. This weapon system is the worst part of the game.

Back at the ranch, Phi is... pushing himself a little too hard in sensing earthpulses. I am afraid this means he'll die, giving his life because he overexerted himself. Stubborn self-sacrifice may not be for the greater good if you're not there to see that the fruits of your labor will succeed. How many times has Y character died at the end to achieve the goal? You can't die SOONER - dying along the way makes you a nameless NPC.

I noticed this at the port, but it's not an anomaly: The chests refilled themselves. Perhaps this is due to me messing with the difficulty. I go around Titania to grab some of this. This place is so needlessly convoluted. At least put in warp pads or make it feel complete, like a Suikoden castle. Those tend to be pretty huge (I've played I, II, and V) but they're packed with people. This is empty. Empty like my life. It's depressing to move around in for so long. It's also lacking Odorless Fluid, but... I do get a Balmy Fluid and Mellow Fluid that I have to throw out. Like seriously, this lazy weapon system gets worse and worse. I playtest and what comes from a chest is pregenerated based on the difficulty. So I can't save scum. UGH.

I get to the pit to find Eizen telling Phi to not overwork himself. He explains - and Velvet doesn't seem to overhear this, which is strange since the game from her perspective - that malakhim bestow divine grace upon humans who pray to them, but this has sadly become abnormal because - you guessed it - the Abbey stripping them of consciousness to use as slaves. Velvet asks where we're going next, and Phi says Hellawes. Aww yeah, I've wanted to go back there and see... what's been done with the place.

I see a scene between Kurogane and a pirate about some spinning death machine that doesn't have an off switch. Uhhh... okay. That's kind of an important thing to forget!! Anyway, the plan is to be cheeky bastards and smuggle in relief supplies for the disaster we caused. So long as Dyle doesn't come with, we can get in, since the reports indicate the Abbey doesn't have many thugs there. Phi realizes that Artorius wants to divert people's prayers toward Innominat to grant it strength, which is why he herds the sheeple to do that... and they listen. As someone who realized her xenophobia and hypocrisy, Eleanor doesn't like this. Too much power in one place. Bienfu also sends Phi a letter to give him the experience, which was very nice of him. Reading it aloud to glorify himself, he remarks about having called Magilou fat, and her punishment of hanging him upside down in the cold so he becomes a normincicle has me laughing. Magilou/Bienfu is one of the best relationships of the game tbqh. We don't see enough of them together.

Dyle's not coming since he stole some beer bound for Hellawes, good - they'll recognize him. Kamoana runs crying to Eleanor about a nightmare where her Mommy said she didn't want such an ugly little girl. Eleanor blows obvious smoke up her ass and it doesn't work. Eleanor is thinking hard, knowing her sin caused this poor girl to be like this. Velvet embraces Kamoana and lets the kid cry it all out until she falls asleep. We get to Hellawes and, at the place we first beat the crap out of Eleanor, she's still moping about Kamoana. We eavesdrop on some Abbey goons - one of which is very "IDGAF" - talking to the shipping guild captain we double-crossed. They're mad there's no exorcist in charge, but the goons go "lol too bad we goez north" and they're off. Must be a therion up there. Who's Medissa, by the way?

Hellawes immediately provides ONE Odorless Fluid. In a chest! Well, 1 > 0, but I need nine more right about now. The townspeople are calling Velvet "Calamity" - the Abbey probably dubbed her that, but she'll take it. She wants to look into Medissa because that could prove fruitful. The port looks like it wasn't destroyed at all. Lazy devs. They could re-do the port area. They did that way back in Symphonia. It looks perfectly fuctional, even though the people are spoiled and greedy. They also hate us a LOT. Even though we didn't do anything - it was Teresa's doing.

Confessional time! Eizen is called upon for having the Reaper's eyes, but, since Eizen IS the Reaper, one death glare scares the priest shitless. Eizen tells this story about a beautiful painting that turned out to be a forgery and... all he wanted to repent for was stealing 100 gald from his sister to buy it. Uh. I make ten times that in a single battle, so... okay. Should've been 2,000 gald - a lot to a kid. Phi gets a turn, but he's so young that he only has little boy stuff. He poured salt on a slug, but it was sugar in the salt shaker and... it was brutal. The ants devoured it! And then he poured sugar water down the ant hill and... yeah. Little boys. The pastor said that when he was 8 y/o he did the same thing. Nice.

After some weapons management (two more Odorless Fluids from the shop!), I call it a night. Next time: Asking around about some things. They miss Villain Teresa but hate us, so... we'll see what they spill.