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Oh yeah, played a TON last night. Not much to say, honestly. Because for the most part, there wasn't much to talk about.

Another pointless ruin in Glaveid Basin, which took over an hour and a half to clean out and kill the boss and whatnot. Not sure why these places exist, exactly, but they do, so I explore.

I get to Marlind and, on a tip from one of Rose's assassins, find out that the guy who murdered the kids is some NPC I've never heard of named Romano. His goons are mercenaries; two of them head for the hills when Rose claims she's one of the Scattered Bones, and then we have to beat the crap out of the other two. This takes me two tries, and it's not an easy fight. Afterward, Romano goes on some rant about how only people who truly understand and appreciate art should be able to have it, and you can't put money on it so stealing is the best way, and it doesn't matter if some brats have to die for it, it's none of his business. Rose just says "fuck it" and stabs him in the heart. Good riddance. And it turns out the two thugs are wanted in both Hyland and Rolance for numerous murders and raids.

After staying at the inn a few times, Sorry decides something he needs to do, having been inspired by the fight with the dragon in the basin. That something? Kill Eizen. Can't let Edna and Zaveid have that baggage for another few hundred years, since apparently Eizen turned 2-3 centuries ago. This is weird. Why, you ask? Because Zaveid tells a very tearful Edna "You know what your brother told me? "When I become a dragon, kill me. I can't let Edna suffer for it."" So................ he waited 250 years???? WHAT??? Edna is broken down and I'm struggling against the monsters at Rayfalke Spirit Crest, the mountain on which Eizen and Edna were born and staying, because they suddenly changed from weaklings to stronglings. Zaveid went ahead and Edna's busy crying.

Edna realizes that this is what's best, that her brother doesn't even recognize her anymore (which is why she gave herself permission to leave on a journey with a Shepherd), and he's nothing but a mindless monster. Sorry is right: The way to free him from the pain of being a dragon is to kill him. The fight is ridiculous; I take so much damage early that I spend an All-Divide, and suddenly this fight reaches Nebilim lengths. I am NOT kidding you. It wasn't hard - I was just spamming Saint's arRow and the like while fused with Mikleo, but it was LONG. As Eizen fell off the mountain in dragon form, I was like "Wow, that took me an hour." Sure enough, it took me an hour!
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And, yes, as you notice, I bought the swimsuits for the ladies (that was another project last night that took considerable time). Just for the ladies. Because I was getting bored and thought that was a good use for five bucks, including going back for a bit and playing around with Alisha in hers. Also I like Rose's hat (you know I have a hat fetish, yes?) and it looks good on Edna too (and Alisha, but I didn't get a pic for w/e reason - will change that and load an old save), particularly the band around it:
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I saved and quit after that since it was 1:30 am. I regret that 3 pm coffee I had but I knew what I was getting into. Tonight should be better, but I gotta do a movie.

But yeah, that fight with Eizen was rough on me, having played Berseria first and getting to know him when he wasn't mindless. I knew this was coming. I knew he was a boss fight in Zestiria as a dragon. And he needed to be released from his curse, which strangely wasn't mentioned at all. Edna really didn't go into detail about her relationship with him, as I noted above, and she should have. This wouldn't have been emotional for me if I hadn't played Berseria, but that retcon helped me actually feel something here. And seeing Eizen's gravestone set up hit me. That said, his drinking buddy Rokurou has been long gone, as are Eleanor and Magilou, Velvet's soul is sealed away suppressing Innominat, and Maotelus isn't the same as Laphicet, honestly. He reinvented himself. But even so... Maotelus was the answer to curing Eizen. There's only one thing that could have, a possibility I'd entertained earlier: Omega Elixir. Maotelus would surely oblige since it's Eizen, someone he was eternally thankful for.

That's all I did and thought about. Long post for little actual content though! Will play more soon, probably not tonight though. Gotta get a movie in for the other project.