466 xenoblade - ambassador for the alliance against mechon

Dear Readers,

Kallian called us for a meeting. Some lovely dramatic scenes followed.

He said he was inspired by our banding together to fight the Mechon and said the High Entia were going to ally with others to do the same. He asked me to be an ambassador for this cause. I hesitated.

It was all because of Fiora, who was now among the Mechon. Melia encouraged me and the others to go save Fiora. It was funny how her weapon was clipping through her cape and the camera was so zoomed on it haha.

She said she would stay and be the ambassador, as she was of mixed heritage. I had some hesitation but I agreed to it and thanked her. It was a sad parting. Sharla had a chat with her about our feelings for each other and that she would make sure to look after me. Melia got all proud and flustered. It was a nice scene to watch.

Kallian then encouraged Melia to join us on our adventure, showing what looked like another Melia, but she was wearing a mask like Melia always wore before. They were going to take care of the ambassador stuff while we were away. I told them I appreciated it.

We were now all together once more, set and ready to go!

465 xenoblade - chatting with dunban about his sister

Dear Readers,

It was just me on my own in Alcamoth looking for Dunban now. I went back to speak to the others and they were supportive. Melia was curious about Fiora but didn't press on anything. Riki wanted to join me if I was going for food.

I chatted with the citizens of Alcamoth as I left the palace. They were grieving and coming to terms with the loss of their Emperor but they were hopeful for Melia.

Dunban wasn't too far outside the palace, standing in front of a railing. I went up to him and we had a chat about Fiora. He reflected on their lives, how he was a much older sibling than her and how they lost their father to a Mechon. He said he thought she should be with me as a couple, making me gently flustered. Shucks! Reyn was just as close a friend and a good person but his personality was very different.

This was like a heart-to-heart, but obligatory to the story!

We discussed how Fiora didn't recognise us. We wanted her back, even if she lost her memory she was still our Fiora. We joined up and went back to the group.

When we got together, a servant said Kallian wanted us. I was prompted to organise the party made up of me, Reyn and Dunban as a suggestion. I put Sharla back in instead.

464 xenoblade - telling the party about our childhood friend

Dear Readers,

Back in Alcamoth, Kallian announced that Melia would succeed as leader one year from now, but until then he would assume duties. Lorithia discussed the Mechon in her usual evil tone of voice.

While this was happening, we were hanging in our hotel room/prison/meeting room, wondering what the heck just happened. Fiora turned out to be alive but she didn't seem to recognise us at all. Dunban wasn't here. He locked himself away for a while.

Melia came into the room, demanding to know who Fiora was. We asked her if she was okay after losing her father and she put on her bravest, business-like tone. We told her about Fiora, how we knew her all our lives and how she was Dunban's sister. Everyone finally understood what we were going through right now.

I set off on my own to find Dunban. Melia asked if Fiora was important to Shulk and Reyn said she was more than important and she was the reason why we're going after the Mechon. Sharla put her hand to her head. I guess everyone can see that there's a spark between Melia and Shulk, except maybe Reyn that is.

463 xenoblade - still alive

Dear Readers,

It's not really a big shock to me that Fiora is alive or the way Metal Face is someone we know as well that we assumed was dead, but I am glad that it's finally being revealed in the story itself. This game is taking forever, though of course that's because of all the quests I'm doing.

We couldn't save Melia's father, who was saying his last words of encouragement to his dear daughter, who was crying by his side. It was a dramatic scene, poetic singer and all. Poor Sorean passed away.

I asked Melia to come with me to fight the Mechon, to avenge her father and make them pay. She agreed wholeheartedly.

Another scene followed, with Alvis leaning on the weapon that speared Zanza. They spoke with each other and chuckled, as if he played a part in a big scheme. It had the tone of some dramatic double crossing scene, but we don't know for sure. It's all to get the imagination racing and hold our attention for another chapter. Next!

462 xenoblade - fighting metal face with the power to defeat it

Dear Readers,

I got a new tutorial about the Monado. I could now fight Mechon with faces and Monado Arts could now be levelled up to level X or 10. I never really did this kind of thing... Maybe I should start.

Metal Face was LV 42 but we were stronger. We were well able to fight him and bring his health down with our usual attacks!

When this health got down to a point, a very dramatic cutscene played.

The female Mechon got between me and Metal Face, telling me to desist. She got in the way of my swinging and part of her got damaged.

Zanza encouraged me to swing to my heart's content. He and the female Mechon then exchanged words that didn't make sense right now. He said she existed outside the harmony or something? It wasn't clear at this moment.

We then looked at the female Mechon. There was a Homs inside! It was revealed to be Fiora! This was the moment that revealed she was still alive! We were all amazed!

She and Metal Face, along with the other Mechon, retreated, flying away with me calling out to her. She was saying some things that wasn't like her, but it was no doubt that it was her.

461 xenoblade - zanza unshackled

Dear Readers,

Zanza told me that if I freed him, he would lessen the constraint on the Monado, which would allow me to defeat the faced Mechon.

Melia told me not to do it, saying her people must've had good reason to lock him up like this.

I told her I needed this power, getting flashbacks of what the Mechon did to us on Colony 9. I said I would do it. I released the shackles on Zanza.

Zanza was about to unshackle the Monado when the Masked Mechon's weapon suddenly broke through the barrier and stabbed Zanza in the chest! He wanted to stop the unshackling from happening!

The female Mechon then spoke to Zanza, asking him how many more will he sacrifice. What did she mean?

She said she wanted to talk but a fight broke out. I attacked in a rage demanding Fiora be returned. The masked Mechon knocked me aside and the others joined in the scuffle.

Dunban and the Masked Mechon had an exchange that made it dawn on him who the Masked Mechon really was. Anyone playing this would recognise the voice but the characters are finally finding out.

The scuffle continued with Sorean getting hurt defending Melia.

Zanza spoke to me and I asked him to give me the power. he said I already had the power and told me to make the Monado bend to my will. He told me to think of my enemy and the power to defeat them would be mine. He then burst into what I assume was a flurry of ether.

This stuff seemed to get absorbed by me. I thought of my enemy, Mechon, and the Monado changed form!

The female Mechon warned the others about this emerging power. A boss battle followed. I stuck with my regular crew.

460 xenoblade - zanza the giant tells the truth about the monado

Dear Readers,

We finally reached Sorean and the giant. Melia ran up to him and asked him who the giant was.

Sorean explained the giant was what their forefathers locked away. The giant welcomed me, calling me the true heir of the Monado. I wondered who the giant was too.

The giant introduced himself as Zanza, telling me he waited centuries for me. He revealed that he made the Monado in order to oppose Mechonis. He said the sword had infinite power, explaining stuff about ether or whatever.

He said some feared this power and imprisoned him here. Melia said her people couldn't have done that and Zanza simply said "You are what you are", which is a dang good line!

Zanza explained the Monado was the sword of the Bionis and it was shackled, just like him. He said this constraint led to faced Mechon who couldn't be defeated by the Monado.

While all this was going on, the Masked Mechon tried getting through the barrier and noticed that Zanza was there with us. It got ready its new weapon...

459 xenoblade - reaching the prison island place in my visions

Dear Readers,

We went through the huge door to a massive empty hall. There was a weird dark portal just ahead of us but we explored the place a bit.

At the end of the hall was some kind of device that made a message box appear that said it was deactivated. We turned around and went through that dark portal.

We emerged on another path outside. The way downwards led to another deactivated device like the one we saw in the hall. We then turned and went upwards along the path. We crossed a bridge which had another dark portal at the end of it. The path continued until it got to another deactivated device. We went through the portal at the bridge.

We emerged at another deactivated device. It seems these portals are bypassing these deactivated devices, which are probably teleporters.

The path continued until we got to the place I saw in my visions.

458 xenoblade - the huge door on prison island

Dear Readers,

Prison Island was a gloomy place, especially with all this bad weather. It was a long continuous path lined with chain linked railings. Some enemies were around but we didn't bother them. More Rays and Nebulae type of things.

We just went to the story point and another scene played.

We came across a huge door, along with a massive statue of what seems like a Telethia and some kind of seal with a symbol similar to the Monado's. Melia spoke of beings who were there before the High Entia. She said only her family could open the door and she summoned her forefathers to open the door for us, and it did indeed open.

When it opened, I got a vision of the giant saying something about the heir to the Monado, saying let the event begin, but didn't show me what the event was.

The others asked me about my vision but didn't stick around long enough for me to explain it. Oh well. Hope nothing bad happens right?

457 xenoblade - sorean and the giant

Dear Readers,

We stepped into the transporter for Prison Island and a cutscene played.

It was stormy around Prison Island. Mechon and the High Entia forces were fighting intensely all around.

Sorean observed this and knew the forces of Alcamoth couldn't defend against them for long. He summoned the wisom of his forefathers with some incantation, seals and lights shining making a shackled giant appear.

They talked for a bit. Sorean then did some thing that made a big shield appear all around the island. The Masked Mechon wondered what was going on.

We then appeared at the teleporter on Prison Island.

456 xenoblade - beating up the skyray that suddenly attacked us

Dear Readers,

When we opened up the transporter, a cutscene played where we looked at the little explosions that were happening over at Prison Island.

Suddenly, a boss appeared, the LV40 Skyray! We beat it up handily. It was able to daze us, but it didn't faze us too much.

After the fight, we wondered what it was exactly. Melia said she only saw these creatures as fossils and Dunban said it must've been something that was protecting the transporter when we activated it, something from many years ago.

Anyway, we can continue. Woo!

455 xenoblade - breaking the seals to access prison island

Dear Readers,

I decided to go for the next story quests, going for the Soltnar Seal and Khatori Seal Islands to activate the mechanisms in both places.

Thankfully I've been to both places already. We weren't able to break the seals then, but we did do a bunch of quests in both places.

On Khatori Seal Island, I decided to fight with the Cumulus Danaemos that always attacks us when we get there. We were well able for it this time. After taking care of it we went up to the top and released the seal.

We did the same on Soltnar Seal Island. The Kromars didn't even try to attack this time! They were very chill!

Then, on Central Seal Island, the two structures that emerged there revealed another seal, which opened up the transporter to Prison Island. We were able to go there finally.

454 xenoblade - inviting pokapoka to colony 6

Dear Readers,

We bumped into Pokapoka in Frontier Village by chance. He said he wanted to move to Colony 6 for reasons related to food tasting. He was willing to help with reconstruction too.

We invited him and he was happy. Colony 6 got some stat boosts too. Hooray!

453 xenoblade - secret club in alcamoth shuts down

Dear Readers,

With Dedeba caught at the secret club, we headed back to Gadada. He was delighted with us and thanked us for our hard work in getting Dedeba apprehended.

Gadada said he was going to arrange for Dedeba to take on all of his debts. he also said Bana didn't want to talk about it anymore, just the future. What an end to a big saga of sidequests! It was very hard to get reliable information on anything, but it all starts with the Nopon, particularly Gadada.

One thing bothers me though... Zazadan was worried about getting killed by the "chairman" and Dedeba insisted he was being framed and the real kingpin was someone else. Could there be more to this? We'll see if there is or not.

All these quests were timed too. Glad to take care of them.

To wrap things up, I warped back to Alcamoth and hiked to the secret club venue to find that there was nothing there anymore, just an empty little chamber on the road. No people or anything. Probably for the best. 

The Nopon were all very embarrassed by what happened. The High Entia didn't seem to have any shame about what they did. Oh well.

452 xenoblade - catching dedeba at the secret club

Dear Readers,

Now that we had the Secret Club Card we headed straight for the club and spoke to the bouncer. He put on his best manners and let us in!

Visually there was nothing special going on. It was just four soulless figures just standing and sitting there, not eating anything yet their dialogue was all about them eating the addictive stuff made from the red orbs. It's what I've come to expect from this game but moments like these where the dialogue is way more animated than the figures it really stands out.

Anyway, Dedeba was also here, bouncing up and down. We confronted him and he got all nervous. He couldn't worm his way out of anything because we had the evidence and all.

Suddenly the Alcamoth Imperial Guard appeared and placed him under arrest! He blathered about how he was framed and he was not the kingpin, despite all the evidence. They took him away.

Now we had to go tell Gadada, next time. I kind of like seeing how the high and holy mighty High Entia are flawed just like anyone else. They're just like rich jerks.

451 xenoblade - hunting orluga rufus for control units

Dear Readers,

For the secret club card, we had to go back to the High Entia Tomb to hunt for Orluga Rufus and obtain their control units.

I did some research and found them east of the "Tower of Trials - Bridge", so we warped there and went after them.

This place was a tower and each floor had an Orluga Rufus so we kept wrecking them and regenerating them by leaving and coming back until we got the drops we wanted.

I also found that warping to the Ceremony Hall landmark was better because that didn't involve any climbing.

We got the drops and gave them to Nelo in Alcamoth. He was happy and gave us the secret club card! Yay!

450 xenoblade - finally on the road to obtaining the secret club card!

Dear Readers,

Gadada's next quest was about catching Dedeba out. We were finally going to deal with the secret club in Alcamoth! Hooray! It was titled "Destroying the City Trade" and we accepted it wholeheartedly.

We warped to Alcamoth and made it nighttime. We went to the club, where the bouncer had the red exclamation mark. He said some extra stuff about getting a Secret Club Card from someone but doubted they would give it to us. This spawned a surprise quest about getting the card! Woo!

We caught up with Nelo, who had a card! He was in want of something though, 3 Rufus Control Units from Orluga Rufus in High Entia Tomb. He said if we got that for him he would give us as many secret club cards as we wanted. Hooray! We'll seek it out... next time!

449 xenoblade - collecting dedeba's evidence

Dear Readers,

Gadada's next quest in the great Red Orb Scandal Rabbit Hole was to gather pieces of Dedeba's Evidence scattered across Frontier Village. This was all about a trade that was going to happen at Alcamoth. We took on the case.

Nice bit of fun to this series of quests, even though the presentation is pretty ridiculous. I'm glad I'm not getting hopelessly lost at least.

There were four pieces of Dedeba's Evidence. Two were conveniently placed right here at the pollen works. One was behind Dedeba's little house and the last one had us looking all over the village. We found it in the underground store. It was kinda fun but at the same time I was going to give up if we didn't find it there.

With all the evidence, we returned to Gadada, who had another quest in this series for us. Next time!

448 xenoblade - interrogating zazadan about the red orb black market

Dear Readers,

We confronted Zazadan about the red orbs and he gave us a choice of things to ask about.

We asked him what if it was processed? He admitted to it being processed into something addictive, Highmore Caviar.

We talked to him again and he got begging and desperate, saying he'll get in trouble. We said we didn't blame him, which was the least violent of the choices. The other two were about killing and hurting! Yeesh!

He appreciated this choice and told us his secret Nopon society sold this stuff to the High Entia, which made them lots of money. he then revealed a rumour about a secret club the High Entia had!

Finally! I'm on the right track with this secret club thing!

Zazadan continued, saying the High Entia celebrated every night at this club and ate the Highmore Caviar there.

Next we had to get a confession out of him. We got more choices.

By the way, it seems that making the wrong choice doesn't have consequences, except maybe just a funny bit of dialogue. I didn't make all the wrong choices but I reloaded my save just in case.

Anyway I chose to ask where Dedeba was. This led to him giving us a memo. He said he couldn't say any more or else he would be killed by the chairman.

We took this evidence back to Gadada to read. This spawned another quest.

Whew! Next!

447 xenoblade - following the red orb trail to zazadan

Dear Readers,

We took the top secret data from Gadada and warped to the Nopon merchant camp in Satori Marsh. No red exclamation marks there, so we went to the Nopon Refuge. Two red exclamation marks there!

One was for a red orb for the fighting brother's quest in Colony 9 so I yoinked that.

One was for the Nopon here, Zazadan. We showed him the letter and he got very worried. We stared at him silently and he got all nervous.

All of a sudden, a prompt for a surprise quest came up! It was all about interrogating Zazadan about the red orb black market! This was called "Gather Information", which we'll do... next time!

446 xenoblade - visiting dedeba's funny little house

Dear Readers,

Now to go after Dedeba, continuing this journey down the Red Orb rabbit hole. We went to his home. Gadada said it was next to the Pollen Orb Storehouse, which was very helpful.

Thank you, Gadada for being helpful.

We went to Dedeba's house. It was funny when the little red exclamation mark appeared in front of it.

He wasn't home.

We went back to Gadada.

Gadada said that packages always arrive at Dedeba's house from Nopon in Satori. He gave us top secret evidence data and asked us to bring it to the Nopon merchants there. We will, in the next post!

445 xenoblade - gadada reveals details on dedeba

Dear Readers,

We continued with this investigation Gadada was doing with the Red Orbs. The quest itself is interesting but the over and back is fiddly and annoying and I have to remember where and when everyone is.

Anyway Gadada brought up Chief Dunga's advior, Dedeba. He said the letter said that Dedeba was misusing Red Pollen Orbs. So it was Dedeba who was behind it all. This was called "Adviser Hunt" and we accepted this quest to go to Dedeba's home. Next time!

Yes I get to make multiple posts about this. I can try to be as annoying as this game, even though I'll never be as annoying as this game.

444 xenoblade - giving gadada the nopon letter

Dear Readers,

We caught up with Bana and confronted him on behalf of Gadada and the Red Orbs scandal.

Bana said an order arrived from Nopon Merchants to give the red orbs to the High Entia. He didn't know who exactly sent it but he thought it might've been big trouble, so he got involved in the Red Orb giving thing. He felt tricked too.

Another leg to the quest opened to speak to Gadada again. We changed to daytime again and went back up to the works to speak to him again.

We got a letter from Nopon Merchants earlier somewhere I don't know or remember but we gave it to Gadada and that helped with the quest. 

This however, opened a new quest from Gadada that followed up on this. Next!

443 xenoblade - gadada is angry at bana

Dear Readers,

We caught up with Gadada at the pollen works and he had a quest. He said he was in debt because of the effort he went into making Red Pollen Orbs. Uh oh... he said Bana asked him to give them to the High Entia. He wanted Bana to explain himself.

This quest was titled "Find the Kingpin" which is pretty funny. Is this some kind of drug war thing?

We agreed to speak to Bana. We had to change it to nighttime though. I'm gonna continue in a new post.

442 xenoblade - gadada trading in the forest

Dear Readers,

We found Bana near the sacred altar but we had to change to nighttime. We asked him about Gadada and where he could be found. He said he saw him go to Clear Waterfall. He was a bit more specific about directions but I sussed that he meant that tiny area near the falls that was only accessible by bridge.

We warped over there and yup! He was there!

He was doing business with a High Entia when Cherri showed up and said no! Gadada gave out to her for making them run away. They then talked about Red Pollen Orbs and how they shouldn't be sold to outsiders. Gadada said he felt tricked. Aw... that's a pity.

Cherri promised a reward when we got back to the storehouse and she gave it to us when we got there. She said Gadada felt bad and seemed sad so went to see him. He had a quest...

441 xenoblade - avenging rasha's sisterpon

Dear Readers,

I went to the sacred altar looking for Bana, but found Rasha with a quest. She wanted to speak to a grown up woman, so I spoke to her as Sharla.

She said she ran a business with her sister until they were attacked and the sister lost her life. I sympathised with her. The sister was Cherri's mother and since then, Rasha had been taking care of Cherri. Cherri blamed Rasha for the loss of her mother and Rasha felt bad, wishing it was her who was taken instead.

I told her she mustn't think like that, that time heals all wounds. I also understood what it was like to have such a big loss so I was able to relate. I had an idea and asked her what kind of monster it was that attacked them. She said the monster was probably still there today. I said we'd slay the Pillager Hode for them if it would help them in any way. She was glad we would do something like this for them.

440 xenoblade - cherri worried about gadada's disappearance

Dear Readers,

Cherri now had a quest after that last thing. She was worried about Gadada after he left for the forest and worried he might be in trouble. We agreed to chat with Nopon who were friends with him. It's called "Dangerous Ambition" and we'll get around to it.

439 xenoblade - choosing cherri to take over the pollen works

Dear Readers,

I found Gadada at the pollen works, but I had to make it daytime.

You know, I looked over the last post and I was frustrated. Even though the Nopon are cute and they have very funny names, I was still irritated. I should be laughing. I actually was laughing but that was in hindsight. While I was playing I wasn't laughing at all. No enjoyment from that secret club quest I can't activate properly.

Anyway I talked to Gadada and now I have to talk to Dobadoba again. After ages I found him at the pollen orb storehouse on whatever level. I talked to him and to Cherri and chose Cherri to be his successor. I don't care I don't care just get it over with.

Cherri is now taking over the pollen works. She wants to focus on the allergies thing which I think is kinda cool so I picked her. I don't know what'll happen now.

438 xenoblade - trying to find any information at all on the secret club card quest in alcamoth

Dear Readers,

I tried looking up stuff about the secret club card quest in Alcamoth again. I could not get a straight answer anywhere, just bits and pieces from different wikis and Reddits and whatnot.

It seems to be connected to a quest in Frontier Village, though I could be wrong.

I went there to find Gadada, but found Dobadoba first who wanted to pass down ownership of the pollen works. He wanted to find Gadada as well.

I accepted his quest. Now I have to look up where and when Gadada is again but I don't feel like it now. Next time maybe. This game is so frustrating.

437 xenoblade - telling arielle about lesunia's reasons for racism

Dear Readers,

We warped to the Fountain of Eternity and kept it nighttime. We went looking for Arielle now that we finally knew why her daughter was so racist.

We explained everything to Arielle and she couldn't believe it was the Bionis that spoke to her. She did remember that Lesunia had bad dreams that night and she had changed afterwards.

She thanked us and said she'd talk to Lesunia and tell her that she couldn't think like that in this day and age.

I caught up with Lesunia and she said Vidian apologised to her several times. Seems there's hope for her but she still has an attitude.

I caught up with Vidian too by going all the way over to her and changing the time to daytime. She had nothing different to say.

Well that's that quest. Next!

436 xenoblade - lesunia explains why she's so racist

Dear Readers,

We warped to the lighthouse and found the Marine Marble that Lesunia wanted. It was very quick too! Thank goodness!

We warped back to her and made it nighttime. I spoke to her as Melia and she opened up as to why she didn't like other races.

She said Vidian broke her headwing decorations. That night when she went to sleep she heard the Bionis speaking to her, telling her that only those of pure High Entia blood were worthy. She said the "savage" Homs were a joke, before following with a "no offence". Yeesh.

She said Vidian's blood was tainted by the savages and so she must've gotten jealous and smashed her headwing decorations out of spite. She said it didn't matter now that we had gotten her the Marine Marble, which she said was nicer than her decorations were.

Now to speak with her mother.