504 xenoblade - hunting bono nebulae for squall elements at eryth sea

Dear Readers,

All that we needed now was the Squall Element, which is obtained from Bono Nebulae at Eryth Sea.

Been a small while since we were in this area. Enemies are quite weak to us now! Maybe we should take on the strong enemies we couldn't fight before. All in due course.

The green Bono Nebulae are all over the place except during thunderstorms when they turn a different colour and become extremely strong. When that happens we just have to change the clock and hope for a time when it's not thundering.

We had the same old problem of the creature blowing up on us when it got too weak, not dropping anything. We spent a lot of time trying to get our chain attack gauge to stay topped up so that we could be ready. This meant we had to fight many other enemies for ages and some of them were too weak to even let us build up anything.

Eventually I switched out Shulk for Riki. I used Riki's Yoink! move again and again until I finally got the Squall Element with it! Great little Nopon he is!

503 xenoblade - hunting reef nebulae for snow elements

Dear Readers,

We were on the hunt for those blue nebulae in the mountains. Up until now, we didn't go near them, but now I needed the Snow Elements for an upgrade in Colony 6. Reef Nebula they're called.

These things are all over the place. I find that a good place to hunt for them is the little area southwest of Befalgar Pedestal. They appear there a lot and there's nothing else in the way to annoy you. It's level ground as well. The more powerful version of them are here too but I'm not gonna bother with them for now.

Just like every other nebulae in the game, they explode when they get weak and don't leave any treasure, which is very annoying. I've come to expect such a thing now, so when I see them emitting some red lines when their health is low, we carry out a chain attack with break and topple in order to delay its move long enough to defeat it and get the drop.

Getting the drop takes luck as well and we had to fight so many of them. Eventually we got the snow elements we wanted and then got the heck off the mountain.

502 xenoblade - how i almost got killed in the mountain looking for ice cabbages

Dear Readers,

One of the items I wanted for the Colony 6 reconstruction was the ice cabbage. I got some before but now I just need one more for an upgrade. I took out my reference and got to hiking.

I hiked everywhere I could see spots where they might be. I hiked along Kana Peak trying to get lucky, but I kept picking up every other thing like wet rats or whatever else in the miscellany of items that have a much higher rate of appearing. I also started falling off the mountain for the first time! I tried again and I kept falling off! How did I manage to stay up there the first time when exploring?

At one point Reyn fell off and when he respawned his respawn pushed me off the mountain! It actually made me scream when this happened.

I even tried going on that awful ice slide again. No luck at all.

Eventually I got the ice cabbage by revisiting the Lava Cave over and over until I finally got it in that inner chamber where we got the Magma Rock.

I also unwittingly discovered the Hidden Gamigin during one search where we went south from Ignia Hill along that narrow path going upwards. That didn't end well at all. I'm just glad we got the ice cabbage at last.

501 xenoblade - researching valak mountain items for colony 6 reconstruction

Dear Readers,

We had a chat with Juju about reconstruction again. I looked up to see what I could upgrade and it seems I could upgrade Nature to LV 3 and Special to LV 3. I just needed to pick up an Ice Cabbage and obtain 2 Snow Elements from Reef Nebulae and 1 Squall Element from Bono Nebulae. I had some of the other stuff needed already.

Research done, now to obtain the stuff!

500 xenoblade - giving nopo'rikh the wrong perfume on purpose

Dear Readers,

There are two routes to the Ma'crish/Nopo'rikh situation. I chose the one where she continues to dote on him because I think it's cute. I don't know if she's enslaving him but I do think she's really fond of him.

I spoke to her and she said to get the Pure Perfume from an island at Makna Falls which would have the opposite effect of what he wanted. It was very easy to find and very near the warp point. We got it in no time at all.

We gave the pure perfume to Nopo'rikh and then headed back to Ma'crish. She was grateful we gave him the wrong perfume, saying she could now cuddle and snuggle with him forever and ever.

Nopo'rikh didn't seem to mind too much. He said she didn't mind if he didn't do his chores and doted on him anyway. That's nice at least! I think he'll come to appreciate her affection for him and I'm glad he's not a slave.

For this we got the Colony 6 Celeb achievement for getting a 3-star Affinity for the Colony 6 area. Hooray!

499 xenoblade - nopo'rikh doesn't wanna be a pet

Dear Readers,

We found Nopo'rikh fairly quickly. He was in the Armu Field in Colony 6, so it wasn't far from where Ma'crish gave us the mission at all. Finding him increased Colony 6's stats and Ma'crish was very happy he was here.

We caught up with him again and he was unhappy with her company, feeling like he's a servant. Aw that's a pity. She likes him so much. We agreed to get some smelly perfume for him.

We also got the "Drawing a Crowd" achievement for increasing the population of the place to 50 people. Hooray!

498 xenoblade - ma'crish is looking for nopo'rikh

Dear Readers,

We warped to Colony 6. Ma'crish was here and she had a quest. She was looking for a Nopon named Nopo'rikh and she was worried about him.

We agreed to help her find him.

Been a while since we were in Colony 6. The music has changed a bit! It's getting more developed here!

Anyway, she says he likes to hide in the grass so let's have a look for him.