Dear Readers,
I looked up this creature for a quest. It's in Satori Marsh at the Place of Judgement and Talia got in danger with it during her research.
It's an ape-like creature, LV35 and it can be found at all times of the day and night.
It's been a long time since we went to the Satori Marsh. Let's go!
Dear Readers,
My first 404th post for a game. This isn't an error message, though sometimes I feel like trudging through this game is one big error. Anyway, back to what I was doing, finding the timed quests in Alcamoth.
Dear Readers,
There's this quest I found while looking up quests online. I couldn't find anything in the main game until I searched more and found another Xenoblade fan wiki with different information. It said I had to do something in Frontier Village first.
I had to look up two different wikis and several Reddit posts to get any information on this and I'm annoyed. Why does this game's quests have to be such a nightmare?
I wish NPCs were easier to find too. I have to look up schedules and locations to find anybody.
Anyway, I'll come back to this. I'll find other Alcamoth quests first. Next!
Dear Readers,
I wanted to unlock the quest "Starlight Seeker". I had to find Elior, who was supposedly at the Fountain of Eternity when I looked it up, but he was far away from it. He was actually further north and east from there at the top part of the semicircle. I had to change the clock to after 6am too.
He was interested in stargazing and wanted us to talk to Miriall. He couldn't do it himself as he was too young to go out at night. We said we'd talk to her for him.
Next quest!
Dear Readers,
We looked for the "Teaching Materials" quest and had to find Mir'leiz. We changed the clock to after 6am and found him south of Melfica Road outside the Imperial Palace. He had the quest and we took it on.
This involved talking to Caul but we'll do that later. We're collecting quests now. Next!
Dear Readers,
The next quest I wanted had to do with Talia, so I sought her out at the south fountain after 6pm at the imperial palace entrance.
She was talking about the characters behind the deciphering invention. I then got a vision of her talking about going to the Place of Judgement in Satori Marsh. She wouldn't be convinced not to go there even though it was dangerous. A prompt to accept the quest to defeat the Dogmatic Gogol in that area came up and I took it on.
We'll save her later. Finding next quest now!
Dear Readers,
I took another break from this game. Real life just sucks sometimes. Anyway I need to take another look at where I'm at and figure out the next step.
I was taking a beating from the Funeral Gozra. We'll have to leave and come back later, even though there are unopened chests around it.
This was an Eryth Sea mission and wasn't bound by time. Ok that's good. I can definitely come back to it later then.
I decided to look up online to see all the quests in Alcamoth. I'll be able to activate them if I know which NPC to speak to and when to speak to them and where I can find them. It will save a lot of time. I'll do this with earlier areas too, but Alcamoth has so many timed quests I'll look them up now.
Dear Readers,
Jarack wanted us to teach the Hodes a lesson, so we had to look for the strong one, Funeral Gozra.
We saw that it was in the Hode Refuge at all times. We went there exploring and found that we had to go inside and swim across to the cave. The enemy was there.
Dear Readers,
We had nearly all the missions we had gathered so far complete! I was pretty happy with that! Now to look for more missions!
I wanted to go to the Ether Plant to speak with Jarack. I passed by so many times here to jump off towards the Hode Refuge without saying hello and now I wanted to speak with him. So we went there to speak with him as he had a quest for us.
He said some Hodes attacked and damaged one of the turbines here. I said I was interested in helping to fix it and being the machine whizz I was fascinated by the technology.
He asked us to help him repair the wind turbine and then punish the Hode leader responsible for it. We said we'd do it for him!
We had one of the quests already finished by having the 3 pieces of Luxury Hode Wood.
Jarack appeared on the affinity chart as Handyman manager.
We told him about the wood we had and he asked us to slot them in by using the Turbine Access Panel. We did that as it was nearby and he was pleased. The machinery was working again.
All that was left to do was to teach the Hodes a lesson. He stared out towards the Hode Refuge below. Time to jump down there again!
Dear Readers,
We decided to gather 2 Lexos Beards from Racti Lexos at Eryth Sea for a quest.
I fought these guys before but I don't remember them from other monsters or where exactly I fought them, so I looked them up again. So glad to be able to look it up handy on the internet!
I found that they're on Sleeping Dragon Isle, Soltnar Seal Island, Hovering Reefs 5 and 9. All times of the day and night too. On we go!
Dear Readers,
We went hunting for the Orluga, starting with Soltnar Seal Island. It wasn't the best place to look because of all the Hodes that got in the way and the strong winged enemy that was patrolling the place. This place has one of those towers we also saw on Khatori Seal Island.
After that, we went to Hode Refuge and there were plenty of Orluga there to beat up. We got on much better there and should've went there in the first place for the slacks.
While we were there, we noticed something there with an ancient insignia on it. Was it a door or something? No idea what it was but it was sealed. Might look into it later.
Dear Readers,
Time to steal more clothes from Orlugas! This time it was Orlugas in Eryth Sea and we needed 3 Orluga Slacks.
I looked up which ones dropped the slacks and I got Funeral Gozra(probably a boss monster), Pulse Orluga and Tocos Orluga.
I decided on the Tocos ones. They're found at Khatori Seal Island and Hode Refuge. On we go!
Dear Readers,
We warped to the village entrance in Makna Forest and hunted Terra Orlugas to get them to drop their grass skirts. Don't judge. Someone in Alcamoth wanted them. I don't remember their name. They have stupid names.
Okay so it turns out on reviewing the quest they don't have a name. Whatever.
Anyway I remember these specific Terra Orlugas when we first arrived in this area and they looked terrifying and huge. Now they're very easy and quick to defeat and we're stealing their clothes.
We managed to get what we needed, which was nice.
Dear Readers,
We decided to hunt Orluga in Makna Forest again, this time for a quest asking for 5 Orluga Grass Skirts.
We fought a few Orluga but they weren't dropping anything we wanted! I had to go back to research.
The Orluga in Makna Forest that drop Orluga Grass Skirts are Ashy Orluga, Suelo Orluga and Terra Orluga. The Ashy one was exclusive to another quest. I think we'll go for the Terra Orlugas, as they're not as strong as the other ones.
Terra Orlugas are found north of the village entrance and over in that hard to reach clearing at any time.
I'm glad I can look up this information as I would've been driven demented otherwise.
Dear Readers,
Now to hunt the Flabbergasted Jerome. We looked all around Hovering Reef 5 but couldn't find it.
Then we thought of the island underneath this hovering island and dropped down into the little lake at the centre of it. There it was.
This was a very long battle. It usually is pretty long with these cloudy enemies but we had to lure it to the shore so we could fight it but it kept drifting away. Sharla was the only one attacking it for ages.
Plus it kept making us depressed or whatever that status effect is called. I had to go around encouraging everyone to keep going.
On top of that, the shelled enemies got stuck in the fight too. I had to pick them off myself because they were distracting.
We just stuck with it and slowly but surely we defeated the Flabbergasted Jerome. Whew.
Dear Readers,
This next quest is so similar to the last one, I didn't bother with much research. I just went hunting for these Kromars on Reefs 6, 7, 8 and Soltnar Seal Island.
Again, their friends of similar shape but often with different names joined in to fight. We dealt with them all handily as we were more than strong enough at this point.
Jumping to different hovering reefs, we got enough of them to complete the quest. Next!
Dear Readers,
We went to the one on 7 but it had cohorts to be defeated for other quests too. They were still Kromars but had different names. I couldn't really tell the difference between them otherwise.
Anyway, one of them had boss music and when we beat that one up, the regular battle music came back, which was kinda cool.
There were more to defeat for the quest quota, so we went to reef 8. The one there was guarding a portal with its cohort of a different name but more or less the same creature. They always let us pass no worries, but this time we had to beat one of them up. Then the other one joined in so we had to beat that one up too.
Similar story on reef 6 when we went there.
Then we went to Soltnar Seal Island, the main hangout of these guys and beat up another 2 of them there. That was more than enough.
Dear Readers,
I decided to go to Eryth Sea and defeat 5 Palti Kromars for a quest. I just had to look them up first.
I learned they're found on Hovering Reefs 6, 7 and 8 and on Soltnar Seal Island at all times.
On to the hunt!
Dear Readers,
Now to hunt for those Itmos Upa for their Upa Embers.
First we went to the watering hole. We got two here before we ran out of Upas.
Then we warped to Makna Falls and fought more on the beach. Nothing.
Then we went downriver to hunt Upas along the banks. It was a very pleasant experience doing this. There were big brogs along the way too but they were peaceful enough.
It took us a while to get the drops we wanted but it was good fun. That happens a lot with this game; I'll get bored and drop it for a while and then I'll find stuff I like from it and keep going. That's a thing I always hope for, to hit my stride and keep playing.
Anyway, next quest!
Dear Readers,
Next challenge was to grab 3 Upa Embers from Upa in Makna Forest. It didn't specify which type of Upa, which was annoying so I looked it up and became considerably less annoyed.
Itmos Upa are the ones in Makna Forest. They all look like lizards with the head of an angler fish. These ones come out at all times of the day and night but not during heatwaves. I can see they're found along the banks of the river and around the Eks watering hole. I'm very happy to have decent access to information. Makes me way less annoyed.
Egad why couldn't this game have a built-in bestiary with maps? It badly needs it.
Dear Readers,
We warped to the Glowmoss Trihenge and hiked to the Yellow Flower Grove in search of the Lazy Bluco for a quest. We had to do it at night as well.
On the way there I recalled all those failed attempts at the first Telethia battle. Wow that was annoying back then. Made me give up the game for ages too. Glad we got past it. It was those Deinos Sauros chasing us around back then too.
We got to the flowery grove and out popped one of elucas, a huge one. Fighting it wasn't too much of a hassle, which was nice. The other elucas didn't bother us either, which was also pretty nice.
That's that one out of the way. Next!
Dear Readers,
Next challenge was the Lazy Bluco. I looked it up.
It comes out only at night, it's in the east part of Makna Forest, and it's at the Yellow Flower Grove.
It's one of those big centipede crawly thingies. On we go! To the hunt!
Dear Readers,
We went after the Breezy Zolos, engaged in battle with it, got a good few hits in and with a chain attack even, but then, the nearby LV90+ Deinos Sauros joined in and slaughtered us. Oops.
We tried it again and kept the Deinos in frame in case it attacked again. As we fought the Breezy Zolos, we could see the Deinos Sauros approach slowly from the background. It was pretty funny. Of course, we had to flee when the huge creature got involved again.
We stayed away for a while until the Deinos stomped past and had its tail to us, then we attacked the Breezy Zolos again, defeating it this time.
I got the "Need... More... Treasure" achievement for obtaining 50 super rare treasure chests. Hooray!
Also, Deinos Sauros is just such a funny name. It fits in this game's way of trying to make strong enemies sound fancy and it's also just so silly.
Dear Readers,
The next challenge was to bash the Breezy Zolos near Windmill Pavilion in Makna Forest.
I looked it up and it looks just like any other Eks and they're found at any time in all weathers. Let's go!
