261 xenoblade - bashing andos robots is a lot of fun!

Dear Readers,

As Melia, I was confronted in the High Entia tomb by Tyrea, who called me a filthy Homs half-breed. Yeesh.

The scene shifted to the group again, down in the hole we fell though. I was now Shulk again. We all gave out to Reyn for pressing the button, but we were thankful we were safe. Alvis said we just had a longer way to go now but we could still help Melia.

We started wandering hallways, beating up on Andos robots. This part was extremely fun! I loved running around the place, smashing up robots that appeared. The way they crumbled was very satisfying. We did this for quite a while.

We found stairwells that were just spiral ramps with pools of water at the bottom. Very nice design for this game.

We eventually found a room with a landmark called Valley of Emperors, but I'm gonna continue wandering around bashing robots for a while. Gonna savour the fun bits of this game while they're here!

260 xenoblade - melia's ritual

Dear Readers,

I was now playing as Melia in the High Entia tomb, undertaking my trial for the throne.

The music here was gentle and futuristic and mysterious, fitting with the area nicely.

I got a tutorial about Fighting with Melia Alone. It suggested firing elementals and inflicting sleep when facing groups of enemies. This has a fresh feeling to it.

I fought a single robot first, then a couple of robots. It was easy enough to get used to playing as Melia. I had to summon elementals first as Arts, then use them with the central command to attack.

The trials were pretty easy. I was then congratulated by a machine replicating my ancestor, who explained some things, but not in a way I could fully understand. He granted me the seal to rule the High Entia and told me I was probably the last.

I didn't know what he meant. All of a sudden someone showed up! It was someone named Tyrea, here to cause trouble!

259 xenoblade - entering the high entia tomb as melia

Dear Readers,

Now we had to go see Melia at her ritual at the High Entia tomb.

I had a check to see the quests and it looked like we could still do them. Hooray!

We warped to the High Entia Tomb and a cutscene played where Alvis and I talked about our powers to see the future. Mine were different from his. He talked a little bit about the Monado, which was more powerful and storied than we imagined. It was passed down through generations and eventually it made its way to the Homs and now it's for me. He said it was up to me to discover how to use it. We entered the tomb.

The scene shifted to a masked Melia. I was playing as her now too. As her, I verified myself with the system here and it let me proceed with the ritual.

Scene shift to the group again in the same room some time later. Alvis talked about the security system here. Reyn unwittingly pressed the button and the floor disappeared, making everyone fall down a huge hole! Oh no!

After this, the scene shifted to Melia again. It was time to fight as her.

258 xenoblade - offering to help melia with her ritual

Dear Readers,

After we beat up the High Entia assassins, Melia's brother came in with Alvis and some High Entia guards.

They wondered what was going on. This was pretty much one of the bad things that was happening because of Melia's mother.

The scene shifted to a masked Melia, getting ready for her ritual. She had to face the challenge by herself. There was a very sinister sounding lady telling her what was going on. She sounded evil anyway.

Scene shift back to us. We told Melia's brother that I had the ability to see the future, similar to Alvis. We also convinced him to let us help Melia, as she was in grave danger. He admitted there was no rule saying Homs couldn't help, so he agreed to let us help.

257 xenoblade - attacked by high entia assassins

Dear Readers,

We warped back to our hotel room/prison in Alcamoth. Hilariously, it was raining indoors haha.

We watched a crowd gathering in the city as Melia's father announced she was going to be the new ruler.

I got a vision of a masked Melia being attacked by someone. Uh oh.

There was a scene where Melia's mother revealed she really really didn't like Homs. Yeesh. Melia's brother was listening to her.

The scene shifted back to us and all of a sudden, these masked High Entia entered the room and attacked us.

The battle with these guys took ages. We were at a much higher level than they were, but we weren't doing much damage to them because we weren't using the counter debuff strategy that was being introduced in this area. They were using chain attacks and everything.

We were well able to get them with our own chain attacks and pick them off slowly one by one until we flattened them all on the ground. Woo!

I hope we aren't being locked out of quests... Time for the next story scene...

256 xenoblade - sorean decides it's melia's time

Dear Readers,

A cutscene played where Alvis was speaking with the leader of the High Entia. Also there were the leader's wife and brother. To Melia, Sorean is the father and leader, Yumea is the mother, Kallian is the brother.

They discussed the Telethia being defeated among other things and decided it was time for Melia to carry out some kind of ritual. Yumea's thoughts didn't agree with what they decided. Sounds like there's tension there that will escalate soon. Alvis seemed to notice this.

It was all something about the Bionis coming back to life or something? We'll see.

The scene shifted back to us. We decided to head back to Alcamoth.

255 xenoblade - saving the lighthouse worker from kromar

Dear Readers,

We got to the Ether Crystal Deposit at Eryth Sea, where we found the Kromar that were attacking the worker.

They were pretty easy to deal with and we beat all of them handily. I did notice they had a status effect attack that made us unable to use Arts, like some kind of fury status effect.

When we beat them up, the worker thanked us and then things jumped to a cutscene...