Part 48: The Densest Element Known To Mankind
The Densest Element Known To MankindMusic: Fall
Short(relatively speaking) update today because it was either that or an update that's way too long.
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Today is a regular old day where I can finally make those fried veggies for Blaise.
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And I'm going to promptly ignore him and do another Kuruna quest first. I'm not sure how many of these I want to do before the marriage vote, but I at least want enough to show off her character development. The other bachelorettes have all their quests done or only have a couple left, whereas Kuruna's get halted halfway through until you do the Unity Festival, and I want things to be semi-fair.
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I could just finish everyone's questline before the vote, but I do kind of want to get the vote done sometime this year.
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Music: Love
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But we did all the most important parts.
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Well, the fact that you keep referring to us with a vaguely-racist term probably isn't helping.
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Music: Contest
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Or it might help if you wait until spring, since flowers generally don't bloom in fall.
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This is going to end well.
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If cluelessness was an Olympic sport, Link would get the gold medal.
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But I guess Kuruna thought he only deserved the silver.
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What a convenient way to wrap up that plot thread. Not that there was ever any danger of a named character leaving permanently.
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Seriously though, how is Link so earth-shatteringly dense? This is unusual levels of gormlessness even for an anime-style protagonist.
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...that's nice, Collette.
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Collette might realize what a horrible influence Marian is?
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So have you been eating them? Link has canonically been trying to get you to eat your vegetables for 3/4ths of a year. Don't let his efforts go to waste.
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Well, our house might be bigger, but it still lacks indoor plumbing. So baths are still needed.
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Yue confirmed as stranger danger.
Among her wares today is...
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Okay, one level doesn't matter that much in the grand scheme of things, but fuck it, I can afford it. Hell, I could have afforded two if I didn't mind being broke for a few days.
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I probably shouldn't have bought even the one though, because look at how unexciting that levelup is.
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Holy shit, calm down Sherman, your sprite is sweating.
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This is a followup to a conversation I didn't show off, where Marian says she's been friends with Collette since they were both little, and they liked to play house together. Poor Collette.
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The mailbox quest bottleneck means I have loads of freetime most days now. I spend the rest of today beating stuff up as a Wooly, just because. Extra skill xp is always important, because your skill levels impact your stats way more than your actual level.
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And they all feed into each other, like how crafting needs drops from mining & fighting. The accessory grind in particular is super important, because there's a wide variety of them(meaning you need a lot of skill levels and accessory bread to make them all) but you'll probably only use a small subset of them depending on your playstyle.
The next day...
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There's not even going to be a throwing skill until RF4! I call fowl!
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I guess I should get this out of the way while I remember that I have Fried Veggies.
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Sure, if you count 'waiting a few days for ingredients to grow' as a challenge.
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I probably spend more effort on cooking than on growing stuff in the fields, but
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This accessory bread gives me something very important.
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These let Link walk on water while they're equipped, completely obsoleting the lilypad magic seed. Unfortunately, they're also a pain in the ass to make - they require 6 ingredients(most accessories only need 3 or 4), all of which are monster drops.
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That's a pretty damned weird harvest festival. Especially since Turnips(pink or otherwise) aren't even a Fall crop.
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Several dozen updates after first showing her off, I remember that Mei makes a cameo in the inn sometimes. I'm rewarded with a bland RF1 reference.
(The 'special meaning' being 'gameshark a lv80 Lover Snapper in because there's no way in hell you're marrying Mei otherwise')
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No, really, that's how the conversation goes.
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>You bet!
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Not really, unless you're good at aiming and hand/eye coordination. (I'm not)
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Honestly,
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Letting Marian participate in this contest seems...unwise.
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Welp, out of stuff to do, let's go kill things.
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The rest of the day is spent grinding shortsword skill using the Chaos Blade.
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The slippery winter area is probably not the best place to try out our new attack.
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One nice thing about the Chaos Blade is that it innately inflicts paralysis on things, making it a super-easy way to grind the Paralyze Resist skill. Much better than eating random mushrooms(which is a valid way to grind the ailment resists in this game) or letting enemies inflict you with paralysis.
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After I'm sick of dungeoneering, I make a bunch of Healing Potions because the Pharmacy skill grind hates you and wants you to die.
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Fully upgrading the Tear Pendant leaves me something not so great defense-wise, but useful if I ever do some magic. Also useful if I ever fight something with powerful water attacks. And if I want to fight with farm tools for whatever reason.
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Man, the days go fast when you have no plot stuff to do and only one quest to show off every day.