Dear Readers,
I tried to face Mumkhar again to see how strong he was and he was plenty strong. We are at LV 51, all of us. I'm making note of this now so we can work from this as we get strong enough to beat him. This is going to be through quests or levelling. I haven't done much levelling before but I'm gonna start now.
Dear Readers,
I haven't played this game in about three or four months. It's a horrendously tedious game and it's going to be even more tedious right now to find out where I am and where I'm going. I'm gonna try and fill the days of the blog still so let's keep going.
I know there's a boss fight I'm stuck on. I decided to run past him to see how far I can go and I can! I was able to explore a little pocket of an area to the southwest of where he is. Day turned to night and I got killed by a big bird.
After respawn I tried exploring more and when I got to a point a box appeared on the screen with the words "You must defeat Mumkhar" on it. Well that's it for the exploring.
Dear Readers,
We warped to Valak Mountain and started hiking in search of the Three Sage Summit.
Using a map we hiked through a pass which led all the way to the Bionis' Right Elbow but nowhere else. It felt like a place we shouldn't be yet. There were Setor Eks here which looked just like other Eks but they were well above LV90. The Monta Moramora flying around looked intimidating too. There were also Latio Apis, little bugs flying around that seemed like they might be part of a random quest later. Big ol' ether deposit here too but I didn't bother harvesting anything.
On the way there we met a Setor Eks randomly galloping through the pass. It wasn't malicious but I did feel the need to step out of the way!
Three Sage Summit was near here but definitely not part of this path. I'll have to try a different route next time.
Dear Readers,
After talking to Lesunia, I set the clock back to daytime and went back to Vidian. Whew.
She was delighted to hear Lesunia was back to her old self. She then told us she remembered back then, admitting she was embarrassed her headwings were so small, since she was half High-Entia. Lesunia said back then she didn't care about that at all and that she was envious of her shorter wings, saying they must be easier to maintain. She was really happy now they could be friends again! Hooray! This updated in the affinity chart too.
I decided to catch up with Lesunia even though the quest was now done. She said she did some research and that once upon a time there were High Entia that discriminated against other races. She said it she honestly thought it would be romantic to fall in love with a Homs and that it would help settle the differences between races.
Dear Readers,
I looked online to see if I could do any more quests. I found one for Vidian in Alcamoth. We warped there to chat with her.
She heard about us helping Lesunia out with her racism problem and asked us for more help with her. They used to be friends until they had a falling out over something Vidian broke that belonged to Lesunia. She was still cold with Vidian and Vidian wanted the old Lesunia back. We agreed to collect Morning Dew Ice from Befalgar Pedestal on Valak Mountain at dawn.
Off we go!
Dear Readers,
After defeating a couple of enemies that gave me trouble before, I thought, why not the next major story enemy?
Unfortunately, he was still too strong for us. I tried running around a bit but things got confusing and I didn't know who was who sometimes.
We did manage to knock him down on the ground at one stage at least, so that's something. We'll get there.
Dear Readers,
We went back to Jarack at the Ether Plant and he said he could hear the Hode Leader's death cries all the way from here, which was pretty good! It saved me from having to tell him everything that happened.
After we finished up his quest, another popped up. The Hodes wanted revenge! We had to defeat 2 Confusion Ekidnos. Jarack legged it lol.
They lined up side by side and came to the Ether Plant. They were very easy to defeat though, which was nice.
When we beat them, we had to find Jarack. He escaped to underneath the plant on the ground below. Seemed like a good hiding place while we were fighting above.
He thanked us and set off to repair the lighthouse.
Dear Readers,
I didn't notice this before but the next available heart-to-heart was between Shulk and Dunban on the Bionis' Leg at the Believer's Paradise. I didn't realise it before because it doesn't work unless the characters in question are in your party when you check it out. Anyway, we got there and did the scene.
I said to Dunban we'd never see a sight like this from Colony 9. This was the absolute wrong time to do this because it was misty and pouring rain hahaha!
Anyway, the scene continued. He agreed with me. I said I'd never get tired of looking out at this landscape and wondered when these rock formations dated from. He didn't sound too interested and I said it to him.
From this point I had to choose stuff to say for Dunban. I had him say of course he was interested. I told him he seemed to switch off whenever I talked about geeky stuff or anything about the latest fad. I asked him if he knew what the latest "superfood" was that everyone was talking about.
I'm pretty surprised this game has the word "superfood" in it as a topic of chat!
I had Dunban say that he knew. He brought up Chewy Radishes and said they were the latest healthy ingredient. He said he saw a queue of people lining up to buy them and that it was as long as the Bionis' Leg, which made me laugh!
I was surprised he knew the answer as I barely knew myself. He told me not everything could be learned from books or from researching in the lab. I said I'd keep it in mind.
I was expecting this to be about Dunban giving Shulk a pop quiz, but from the looks of things it's the other way round!
Dear Readers,
The next available heart-to-heart was at Eryth Sea and it was between Sharla and Riki at Hovering Reef 2.
Riki said the flowers here smelled like passion and made him feel passionate. Sharla asked him if he was feeling okay. He said he loved flowers.
This time, I was picking what to say for Sharla. I said I liked flowers too for the best results. The other option was about Riki getting old, which wasn't a nice option! What the heck!
Riki talked about eating flowers but also about bringing them home for his wifeypon. Sharla said he was a good husband and he was modest, saying he wasn't that good.
Sharla commented on the shade of blue these big flowers had and said they would suit Melia. She suggested he give her one of these blue flowers!
I had her say she'd be so happy. She thought Melia was sensible but she was too uptight and needed to loosen up. Riki agreed with her. Sharla offered to help Riki pick out flowers for Melia and he happily agreed.
What a nice thing! I had a look at the alternate dialogue and it's funny too. He's dead right to protest the ageism remark!
Dear Readers,
The next available heart-to-heart was in the Ether Mine, again between Sharla and me. This was in the Mining Base landmark and it was called "A Broken Watch".
Sharla was looking for something and she found it, her pocket watch. As Shulk I had to pick what to say. I said it's a beautiful watch. Sharla said it was her father's who gave it to her before he died. We reckoned Otharon must've picked it up during the evacuation. Unfortunately it wasn't working right now.
I said I could fix it. She was super grateful and said it would mean so much to her. I said it was no problem as I was handy and everyone at Colony 9 kept bringing me things to fix!
I love watches myself! I can see how a particular one can be special to someone.
Dear Readers,
Next heart-to-heart I was able to do was "What Visions May Bring" with Sharla and me as Shulk. This was the one next to Raguel Bridge - North landmark.
Sharla asked me what it was like to see the future. I said I found it hard to explain but I described it as being made to watch a dream. I asked her what she thought of my ability.
I then had to choose what to say for Sharla. I looked up what the right answers were. I had her say I wish I had it. Sharla said if only she could see what was going to happen to Colony 6 then maybe she could do something about it, maybe even save Gadolt. She admitted it couldn't be helped though but she was grateful that Juju was able to be helped with the power.
I had Sharla say that I could save someone's life. She said she felt stronger because of me. I was thankful for her kind words but I felt like I could be better with my powers. I wasn't able to save Fiora and sometimes my visions were hazy. She said not to be so hard on myself as I saved everyone loads of times with my abilities! I was thankful.
I looked up the dialogue and it looks like there's other dialogue if I chose other options with more opportunities for hearts, even if there was an initial loss of hearts. That extra dialogue seems nice too, like the stuff about what kind of girl Juju would pick for a relationship.
Oh well. I won't worry about that for now.
