LogFAQs > #962142990

First off, I was too erased last night to add this for you guys:
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That's what I have on for Velvet and Eleanor. It's pretty "whatever" honestly. None of the alternate costumes in-game are all that awesome. The Normin suits are absolutely hilarious though.

I get a skit where Rokurou and Eizen argue over who LOST the fishing competition, and both are so prideful that they admit defeat and won't take a draw... the loss is theirs. Uhh... that's very abnormal, but alrighty then. They end up deciding to settle it with a drinking contest, but let's be real: These guys are so similar that they're obviously great friends who are pushing each other to do their best. Bienfu gets ragged on for suggesting fishing up snacks and reigniting the competition... welp.

Seems Dyle's tail isn't actually growing back, and he's taking up the role of groundskeeper here. Velvet accuses him of being afraid of her. LOL. Anyway, off to a Class 4! Just gotta press my Easy Button here and... boom, done!

I notice I can head to Hellawes, so I do. After some equipment management (ugh), I realize I need more than the 11 Odorless Fluids I... you get the idea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyF8RHM1OCg

The Unicorn Horn is now available, so I pick that up before grinding out more Odorlesses. The skit is AMAZING. Eleanor getting angry about not being called a "pure maiden." (If you want to know what I think a pure maiden is... well I'll keep mum :P) Magilou saying she'd liken herself to a maiden who's maxed out her purity stat by her third playthrough has me in STITCHES, XD. Turns out it's actually a narwhal's horn, which makes it even more amusing. I'll go to Videl after I finish up with... y'know...

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Okay, back to earth. I now have 28 Odorless Fluids. I should be good for a while. I go to the tavern for the sidequest. Magilou prepared a script for Laphicet to memorize... and she tells him to ad-lib at the same time. Uhh, how much practice did you give him? It's actually really funny, because Phi means a near/meow pun that confuses people, and he and Magilou start fighting on the stage. He sells her out and everybody mocks her, but she takes it in stride. This is actual comedy. Real, genuine improv comedy. The best comedy routines aren't the to-the-letter stand-up acts. They're the ones where the comic knows how to work the crowd and changes things up in each performance. There's a reason Whose Line Is It Anyway? is funnier than most scripted comedy shows.

Rumors are going around town that the Lord of Calamity killed Medissa, so apparently we got away without anyone seeing her...? In broad daylight...? I don't quite follow that. Wouldn't she be recognized, or did her appearance change so drastically that nobody did? Even though... obvious daemon is obvious. The logic with this is a bit strange, honestly. I stop in Cadnix for a nor doll and get a skit where the Toitolez gives Eizen another hate tweet, which Rokurou reads very amusingly, again mentioning pure maidens (as does an NPC). The theory becomes that Eizen's sister is the one sending these because she misses him and wants him to come home. Eizen doesn't want to. The last time he did, his low-malevolence hideout was suddenly overrun by the stuff and he blames his Reaper's Curse. He doesn't want to put his sister through that again.

At Reneed, I hear whispers about a monstrous daemon at Laban Tunnel that took out some Capalus nobles. Velvet only cares about the daemon, and Rokurou wants to fight it. I get to Videl, who thinks he has the Twelve Year Sickness - you get a fever every twelve days, each slightly worse than the last, and you are doomed to die when you are 12 y/o. This sounds very familiar to Velvet, who's throwing a fit over it because it's just like her brother, and she's stating to think that Artorius sacrificed Laphi because he was doomed to die in a year anyway. That's also why Laphi seemed to accept it. This is valuable. It also shows that Artorius is a dick for not telling Velvet and explaining what he was doing, his motive, and that Laphi was going to die. Like if someone's diagnosis is terminal... why the fuck wouldn't you tell their next of kin? That's only going to cause more grief later. Artorius could've saved himself Velvet's wrath by just being honest instead of a manipulative jerk.

On my way to Laban to beat up that daemon, I find the fishing mini-game... if you'd even call it that. This is the worst fishing mini-game I have ever played. Like if you thought Pokemon was bad... this is just pressing A to cast the line and Velvet automatically catches a sparkling dot meant to represent a fish. No need to time your pull. No need to even do anything. Just pressing A for hours on end, for all 91 pieces of bait you have. Like if it's going to be this boring, why can't you just exchange your excess bait for Tales Coins outright? Would save a lot of time. I'd much rather have had something like Stardew Valley, a system which doesn't require much effort to code. Rendering different kinds of fish in 3D takes time, sure, but just... give me something to do instead of watch a boring, lazy animation with even lazier coding - what's with this "a(n)" bullcrap when all the fish start with a consonant? And there's also the fact that there's no difference between the two types of bait... and that each only spawns 10-28 TC. Ah well, I'mma go look at pure maiden pics, since that's a theme as of late, while constantly tapping a single button. I think I did a good job.

I get to the daemon in Laban (in the empty space from before) and... while it's not difficult, I do get down to just one soul. My controller's been acting a little weird today with button presses, especially the bumpers and triggers. Will look into that. I switch out and it goes down. I then get Rokurou's backstory: Shigure was the eldest surviving son, so he became head of the clan, but the lord they served wanted him dead so he sent Rokurou to do it - only Rangetsu swordsman can defeat each other. Shigure made Rokurou into a laughingstock and he was subsequently arrested and thrown into Titania, where he became a daemon for beating himself up for failing to do his job. This is why he wants to kill Shigure: He was the hitman who failed to even land a hit, so he has to carry out a job. And he doesn't think he's strong enough yet.

After some equipment management in Reneed, I head for Zeksom and then the Galles Lake Road, where I call it a night. I played for longer than I thought I would. Maybe it was the fishing? Fishy fishy fishy...