473 xenoblade - chatting with nopon researchers at zokhed pass

Dear Readers,

We mingled with the Nopon at the camp after the chilly slide.

The leader's name was Dakuku and he was worried about someone he sent to study Chilkins. I got the "Networl of Knowledge" achievement from speaking to him, which was awarded to me for getting to know many Nopon outside of populated areas. It's fun to speak to them, though they are hard to find on account of being so little.

There was a shop here too and another Nopon had a quest for us.

The quest was about Chilkins and Antols who were fighting all the time which was interrupting the Nopon's research. We agreed to defeat 5 Poleaxe Chilkins and 5 Ent Antols in this area.

472 xenoblade - the cave slide at hollow bone

Dear Readers,

From Hollow Bone we continued adventuring through the tunnel the Nopon pointed us towards. The tunnel became a slide!

I collected an item and got a vision of a future fetch quest. Melia will speak of collecting both pieces of Frost Glass that Kaleka wanted to repair the Ether Furnace Controls.

Immediately after the vision, the slide turned into a big drop going all the way down into a big pool of water. We swam ashore and found the Nopon camp we were looking for.

471 xenoblade - hiking down the snowy valak mountain

Dear Readers,

We got to Valak Mountain and it was very very cold with snow all around. Reyn and Riki weren't thrilled with it at all. Alvis directed us to a tower in this area.

We chatted with some Nopon Merchants who set up camp near the entrance to this area. They had directions, a shop and a bunch of Monster Quests. We agreed to take on all four of these quests.

At a glance, there was a lot of snow, a lot of thick grey icy mist and a very steep slope going downwards. The Nopon told us to keep going and meet some of their researcher friends, clearing monsters along the way.

We got the first monster quest done and dusted quickly, which was nice.

As day turned to night, the tall ice crystals emitted this really cool ray of light straight up into the air, making the snowy areas glow.

We then got the third monster quest done, which was nice too.

I made room in the inventory for the Lucky Chilkin Ring, which gave me a vision of a future quest for Oleksiy and Zel. We'll have to get two of them. Melia was in the vision.

It was fun hiking down this mountain and the music was a soft piano tune. We reached the next landmark, Hollow Bone. There was a Nopon patrolling here who directed us towards the tunnel nearby. We'll go there next time.

This Nopon research team kind of reminds me of Captain Toad and his team. In any case, it's really nice to see a new area in the game after so long.

470 xenoblade - lady mayneth is repaired

Dear Readers,

The next scene took place in some repair place on Mechonis. The Mechon that had Fiora inside was getting repaired.

She was talking to someone, saying Zanza was not dead. Someone else called her by some name that was definitely not Fiora. Who was Lady Mayneth?

She wondered why Zanza did what he did and then said she had feelings for the boy that Zanza chose. When she got repaired she said she wanted to meet me. She said something about some kind of reawakening and then flew off towards the Bionis.

Metal Face saw her flying away and then realised it was Fiora! Dun dun dunn! There's a lot of stuff to explain with these Homs/Mechon hybrid thingies.

469 xenoblade - a nice red item on the way to valak pass

Dear Readers,

From the pod landing site we headed for the new area. Along the way we saw a massive Orluga, a LV43 Suelo Orluga. It was standing in the way of a path to a red item and a dead end. We looked at it from the safety of another path on a hill above that one joined at the dead end. We took the red item and it was an ancient document. Yoink!

We continued on the main path until we got to the Valak Pass landmark.

468 xenoblade - fallen bridge in makna forest rebuilt

Dear Readers,

We went hunting for Hodes in the east part of Makna Forest for their planks.

We can beat these enemies super quickly now! It's quite fun to do it too. It took a little bit of time but we got the planks we needed for the bridge.

We warped back to the pod landing site and brought the materials to the Nopon. He built the bridge straight away and they were all very happy! The other Nopon said Lupa would be very happy because they like to study the ruins.

It's really nice to have that bridge there now. I remember that time I ran right off the cliff because I thought there was one there haha.

467 xenoblade - taking the pod to makna forest

Dear Readers,

Alvis guided us on the next place to go, Galahad Fortress. He had a flying contraption prepared to take us some of the way through Makna Forest and told us to expect a tough climb through a snow covered mountain.

We got on a flying vehicle and were taken to Makna Forest, in that area north of Bridge Three, where the bridge collapsed, but on the other side.

We ran towards the bridge and met some Nopon who were stuck here because the bridge was out. One of them had a quest. It was to fix the bridge by gathering materials. We agreed to get them for him! We had some of them already but we needed 5 Hode Planks from Hodes in this area.

I think I'm going to do this. It'll be nice to have that bridge. We don't see quests that result in a bridge very often so I'm gonna do this now.