200 xenoblade - arriving at eryth sea

Dear Readers,

There was a tour guide at the top of the tree. She made a column of water and a big spherical thing come out of the water and told us it would take us to Eryth Sea. We all got in, though poor Reyn was reluctant. He got in shortly after us though.

We found ourselves on a beach at Eryth Sea. Melia showed us where Prison Island was. It was big, tall, dark and floating in the sky. She then showed us the floating city of Alcamoth, where we had to go to obtain permission to go to Eryth Sea.

I asked Melia if she was curious as to why we were going there and she said she wasn't going to pry. Reyn said she was dying to know and she said "how dare you!" Melia was a very proper and polite lady. She admitted she was interested as no Homs would really go to a place like Prison Island. I told her the story about how the Mechon attacked us. She was understanding.

The area's music was a gentle tune.

Melia said we could go to the city via a transporter not too far away.

199 xenoblade - melia offers to guide us

Dear Readers,

We overshot the meeting point with Melia and went up to the next floor without her by accident. Ooops. We climbed back down and met up with her.

She wanted to continue with us as our guide and I said we were delighted to have her. I told her about a dark tower in my vision and she said it was Prison Island, but we needed permission to go there.

Reyn didn't have an understanding what was going on so an exasperated Sharla explained things like sanctions and empires to him. An explanation for the rest of us to help understand what's going on really.

This time, with Melia, we went to 8F, the Apex Lake.

198 xenoblade - riki's hero welcome

Dear Readers,

We returned to the village after defeating the Telethia, where Riki got a hero's welcome. We let him have his glory. He did make a difference, even though I have no clue what it was. These guys are supposed to be strong as well as cute after all so I won't doubt it.

The chief Dunga said Riki's debt was repaid, but his littlepons ate a lot while he was gone, so he announced Riki was going to continue adventuring and fighting side by side with us. Riki wasn't too pleased!

Riki then introduced his wife and huge family to us, which made us raise an eyebrow. I asked him how old he was and he said he was 40. He was going to support his family by joining us and they'd be taken care of by the village. That was the plan.

Melia asked Dunga if he could allow us passage to Eryth Sea and he gladly granted it. She told us to meet up with her above when we were ready. Finally, some progress!

197 xenoblade - telethia defeated at last!

Dear Readers,

We finally beat the Telethia! The major change I made was having Melia and Riki in the party. I've had Melia there before, but I never had Riki there. If that made all the difference I'm not 100% sure how it did.

I tried other strategies like deflecting the aggro from myself and using backslash on its actual back. I'm not familiar with Riki or Melia's moves so one or both of them made a big difference.

When we defeated it, a dramatic cutscene played where everyone joined in to attack  it.

Afterwards, Melia thanked us and we patted each other on the back in congratulations. There was some weird explanation where it was being filled with energy and that's what done it in but I didn't fully grasp it at all. Who cares though! Time to move on!

196 xenoblade - telethia is still kicking our butts

Dear Readers,

We haven't faced the Telethia in quite a while, so I decided to try it out again.

We got our butts handed to us again haha.

However, I saved at just before the fight and loaded it so I don't have to traipse all the way there again past huge creatures.

195 xenoblade - frontier village collectopaedia page

Dear Readers,

The Frontier Village of the Nopon had a very small collectopaedia page and we collected everything there.

This time, Riki and Melia had a go each of naming things.

194 xenoblade - makna forest collectopaedia entry

Dear Readers,

Just like one of the previous pages, we were only missing one thing from Makna Forest. Not sure what it is yet.

The princess daffodil has an odd name. I thought daffodil was a masculine name?

The venomous lizard entry says it just looks like a venomous lizard. Doesn't say otherwise if it really is. I guess it's one to avoid anyway.

Dunban and Sharla tried naming things in the strange section.