230 xenoblade - the scarlen ricoth and rozeal love triangle

Dear Readers,

We continued exploring and mingling. Outer circle, Alcamoth, Fountain of Eternity.

Some guy had a quest for us. He asked us to defeat Tempestuous Edegia on Hovering Reef 10 at Eryth Sea at night. We agreed to do it.

We caught up with Don Argentis. He said he dreamed of going somewhere green. He worried about his daughters being selfish and figured they may learn some independence if he went off somewhere.

I caught up with Ricoth! She said she was fond of Scarlen and spoke of how he was manipulated by women in the past.

I then spoke to Rozeal. She wasn't straightforward but she was flustered. She said she should tell him about her feelings herself. 

I returned to Scarlen and he was glad we asked them. He said he was glad they didn't dislike him.

On the affinity chart, Scarlen comes up as "Indecisive man", Ricoth comes up as "Pretty lady", and Rozeal comes up as "Lives for love".

He then had another quest. He said they both came to him to admit their feelings for him. Now he had to choose between them. He asked us to ask both girls what their favourite memory of him is. 

We hiked back to the girls again and they both had red exclamation points over their heads. Which to ask first? 

I asked Ricoth first. She had a specific memory about the time he saved them on a picnic or something. Rozeal didn't pick a specific one because they had so many.

We returned to Scarlen and told him. He chose Ricoth after considering everything, including his own feelings. Hooray! I wonder if it was because we spoke to her first?

Scarlen then had one more quest. It was to give a letter to Ricoth, expressing his feelings for her. He didn't want to do it in person because Rozeal was always near and he didn't want her to cry. He asked us to be discreet.

We gave Ricoth the letter. She was happy, yet sad. We told Scarlen about it, and then he finally had the courage to get with Ricoth and tell Rozeal. They talked it out, then agreed to continue being friends as well. Ricoth and Scarlen were now dating. That was a lot of over and back but we got it done. It does seem that Ricoth was more in love with Scarlen, so that was nice. I'm glad it worked out like that.

I then went on to look this up online, and it seems there is an alternative that leads to something else. It does depend on who you talk to first it turns out. Some people even said that Rozeal was the ideal one! 

Yeesh! What a headache! I don't care! But then, what if I missed out on something cool? Bleehhhhhh. I'm just going to go along with this. I've it saved anyway.

229 xenoblade - arielle's discriminating daughter

Dear Readers,

We continued mingling on the outer circle of Alcamoth ground floor at night. We reached the Fountain of Eternity and around that area.

Arielle had a quest for us. She said her daughter suddenly started hating Homs and Nopon. Yikes. She didn't even like half-blooded High Entia. Uh oh. We agreed to find out why by having a chat with her daughter, whose name was Lesunia. Arielle came up as "Kind old lady".

Arielle became the 120th person we registered on the Affinity Chart, earning us the "Friend of the World" achievement. Whew!

Arielle then advised us that Lesunia may only talk to other High Entia. A job for Melia then, when we catch up with her!

228 xenoblade - mingling on the outer circle of Alcamoth, ground floor at night

Dear Readers,

We explored the outer circle of Alcamoth, ground floor at night.

We met a Nopon near the Fountain of Hope. He had a quest for us. We agreed to find the Health Amulet for him. We already had it, so we gave it back. He was happy to have his lucky charm back.

He then told us about Faras Cave, how it was hard to find except at night and it had lots of nice things there.

We mingled at the Fountain of Hope and the people there had nice and useful things to say. One thanked us for a quest we did earlier about finding someone's kids.

Another citizen said he lost his Mother's Necklace. We agreed to find it for him.

By the escalator was a kid named Lunara, who came up as "Lonely girl". She was happy with her new big brother Mir'leiz. She was here to greet her father hopefully, because she missed him.

Yura came up as "The people's poet" and he heard about a group of amazing people who went around defeating Mechon. I wonder who :)

Scarlen had a quest. He fell in love with two girls named Rozeal and Ricoth. He wanted us to find out how they felt about him. Wow. The tick box said we had to talk to Ricoth.

Soon afterwards I collected all the Stardrops I needed. Think I'll take a break here.

227 xenoblade - meeting the argentis daughters

Dear Readers,

We met Don Argentis' daughters near the south, not too far from the Nopon that likes to drink.

Zel Argentis knew her father worried about her and her sister, but didn't know what to do. She came up as "Naïve sister".

En Argentis was nearby and said she thinks her father was considering living on his own and have fun without her. She also came up as "Naïve sister". She said she wants to eat delicious cake, be sent flowers, to sleep in more, and not to work. It sounds really nice, though it seems like they all have some kind of crisis.

The girls seem worried... they all do. At around 3am, they started walking and had other stuff to say. They admitted they argued with each other and distanced themselves from each other. That's sad... I'll have to catch up with their father later, but he's all the way on the north side of the area.

226 xenoblade - alcamoth ground floor at night, inner circle

Dear Readers,

Now to cover all the same ground... at night! We started with the ground floor.

Don Argentis boasted about being rich and giving his daughters everything they wanted. He was very proud of them. He came up as "Concerned father" and he was in the northern part of the area.

We covered the whole inner circle and down towards the outer circle.

Towards the south, a citizen dropped a Silver Ring he was going to give to his girlfriend. We agreed to find it for him. Thankfully, we already had it. We gave it back and he was delighted. He warned us about how dangerous Secluded Island was. It was south-east of the main gate and had really dangerous Kromar there.

Nearby, we found an item called "Ha Ha Ha", which was really weird.

Nearby was Nelo the Nopon, who had a quest for us. He had a drinking problem, so he asked us to make a medicine that would make him drink less. We agreed to find 2 Feris Blood, which we already had, and 5 Pagul Hot Pots, which we didn't have yet.

Nelo came up as "Enjoys a drink" on the affinity chart.

225 xenoblade - a quest from kurralth

Dear Readers,

Kurralth then had a quest for us. He lost a Chalk Container on Anu Shore at Eryth Sea. We agreed to find it for him.

This was a container of cream used for travelling in cold climates. He said it's likely near an ether deposit.

We definitely didn't have this so we'll look for it when we go out.

Another citizen nearby lost a Merchant's Gift. We agreed to find it for him.

We already had it so we gave it to him and he was very happy.

224 xenoblade - discovering the fountain of eternity, kurralth and zain

Dear Readers,

The thunderstorm finally stopped, not that it was affecting us at all in Alcamoth, ground floor. We continued filling in the map until it was finished.

We found the Fountain of Eternity, getting a nice bonus and a Globetrotter achievement for discovering 80 landmarks. Wow. That is a lot... it feels good I suppose, especially since it feels like this game is taking forever.

We mingled a bit and learned a few bits and pieces, like about a dragon island locally that has a big strong dragon on it when it rains.

We met an older High Entia who has hip problems, but is able to go out because of the good public transport system.

We met Kurralth "half of an adventure duo" and Zain who had a quest for us to get water that doesn't freeze. We agreed to collect this water. He was the other half of this adventure duo.

It just so happened we had all the water he needed! We gave it to him and he was delighted.