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we enter the ticket lobby at Grancel and watch what seems to be an international incident. Olivier's friend helps defuse it. I wish Olivier was here too, he would try to defuse it with the power of music.

The ambassador guy seems to be the Erebonian equivallent of the Duke from last game. Just a rich idiot.

Oh ok, so Liberl wants to share their super engine to the world as a way to make friends, and Calvard is mad because they are rivals with Erebonia and that might give the later an edge. Ngl they have a point.

Agate is naturally suspicious of both Olivier and Mueller, while Estelle wants to trust them. Well I know Olivier is a good guy, but in-universe I'd side with Agate

I buy Liberl News 2 in the ticket office. The first one was available at the prologue, but I had no money in there. Did the game actually expect me to sell valuable sepith to buy a newspaper?

Agate works well here because Estelle is not a junior anymore, so he respects her. Before, he could pretty much just shut her and Josh up and kick them out if he wanted to. Now he is willing to listen to her. But that means she gets full access to making fun of him or making him feel uncomfortable, which is awesome.

An npc gives me a fishing rod. I feel like I have been recruited for something scarier than even orobouros itself

We arrive at Ruan. Mission 1 is some ghost busting. Estelle is afraid of it. Agate doesn't care. We are ghost busting, period.

monster killing requests now come with hints of what to use against them. Nice

and with that, the game FINALLY breaks open. I was missing just exploring around. Even Grancel was kind of not great for that

Ruan has been taken over by electoral season. I'm sorry for their loss.

I have fallen into gambling

now gambling in this game is a breeze. Nothing compared to the game corner in pokemon. I play poker until I get a full house, then blackjack until I get a 6 card hand, then buy all the available prizes, except for the book because I somehow missed the first volume.

Damn, fishing is hard. I use all my bait and only catch one fish

The Raven gang now has character portraits

The raven gang is tough, so it takes me two tries. Agate's new Wild Rage is good, but very risky, so you gotta make sure there is healing coming next. The main thing is that the ravens have more hp than attack, and if Agate can seal them, it's over. But it's 3 enemies so its tricky.

retry offset probably helped though. I'm turning it off. Don't like the idea of the game just giving me free wins. I'll turn it on later if I hit a roadblock, maybe.