Part 30: A Diamond In the Rough
Update 30: A Diamond In the Rough
Music: SummerWelcome back, folks! Bush totally isn't in a timeloop caused by a clerical error on my part, and by that I mean I had to rewrite this entire update.
But I'm not going to be sour about it, I'm mostly hoping I remember all my commentary from before.
Anyways, new day for Bush!
oat
meal
During the daily chores, I go ahead and water the fully grown fodder grass so I can cut it for feed. Unfortunately, I forget to do that, so this amounted to nothing!
I guess it's still some Farming skill at the end of the day.
Anette's here! She doesn't have much to say today, but she did bring us a letter!
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~"A favor..." - Eunice~
I am writing you because I have a favor to ask of you.
I want to serve fresh fish to the customers for dinner tonight,
and I was hoping perhaps you could provide me with some fish?
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Unfortunately, I don't have any fish on hand right now, so I'll have to go catch some before Anette finishes her route.
no, wait
anette
come back
Once Bush is done eating dust, I go ahead and clean up the rest of the chores for the morning. Aren't I forgetting something?
Oh, right, fishing! I've got to get this done before Anette completes her route!
darn
dagnabit
fish, please
This was recorded after quite a time away from playing the last session, and when that happens my muscle memory for my keybinds deteriorates. I've been hitting B instead of A here, which just cancels the fishing but still tells you it gets away.
I do eventually get a fish, but Anette's already gone. She only hangs around Erik's on Wednesdays.
Eunice is right here, but handing her the fresh fish she wanted tonight is just silly. These kinds of things have to go through the postal system, it's common sense
UZUKI: Bush! Look at this!
What is it? The stray cursor that somehow found its way into the screenshot?
also how did that happen, it shouldn't be there
BUSH: Bush, have you found any clues to my elder brother?
UZUKI: Not really...
TSUBUTE: Perhaps he is no longer in this area...
UZUKI: It cannot be!
I guess Uzuki is capable of ventriloquism or temporarily swapping bodies with us...? I can only imagine this is an unfinished and/or bugged dialogue of some kind.
ROSETTA: I calculated the total amount for what you shipped the other day and it was huge.
ROSETTA: I'll have to thank you for shipping things out all the time.
BUSH: I'm just doing it because I want to...
ROSETTA: It still helps me out a lot. I really have to thank you somehow.
She's not wrong, our profits have been grand of late. We'll take a look at how much Bush is really making at the end of the update.
Oh, and Danny's over there, let's see how he's doing.
DANNY: It's hot! Get away from me!
yep, that's our usual danny
Off to the library!
By Saint Poli, it's so clean!
SELPHY: Tadaa! What do you think?! I knew I could do it!
BUSH: It's much better now! That's amazing, Selphy!
SELPHY: Pfft. This is nothing for me.
SELPHY: Now that it's all cleaned up, time to get some reading done.
Watch out, Eunice and Tabatha, you've got competition in the cleaning game!
SELPHY: The weather is really nice. Maybe I should go read in the shade somewhere.
Go soak up some indirect sunlight, you've spent who knows how long in here this morning cleaning all of this up- you've earned it.
SELPHY: I keep finding all sorts of books in this library. I wonder if the previous manager had a hobby of collecting all of them.
I mean, seems pretty likely for the proprietor of a library.
On both sides of the library, a new shelf are available and not blocked by piles of books but their knowledge still eludes us
The one we're looking at was entirely face-down on the ground before, so somehow Selphy lifted that all herself.
Speaking of books, let's be off to the Trampoli Study Buddies.
MELODY: I saw you getting a monster to help you with your farm work, Bush.
MELODY: So I decided to try it out, too, but the monster was so strong that it broke the flooring.
MELODY: I messed up.
BUSH: What monster did you get to do it?
MELODY: I don't remember... The Golem, I think?
this girl just went and got a siege weapon to go help clean her floors
zero fear at all
BUSH: Hahaha... You know there are jobs that each monster has their own strengths and weaknesses in.
BUSH: How about the Wooly? I think it'll be good.
MELODY: Nah... I'm done with getting the monsters to help out.
I guess a Wooly would be pretty good at cleaning a floor, you could probably have it be a mop, or at least produce wool for replacing mop threads.
MELODY: Shazam! Shazam! I feel like I became a wizard!
Never change, Melody.
BUSH: You wake up so early every day, Lara.
LARA: I suppose so. I have to sweep around the church and also place some flowers so I have to wake early.
LARA: I'm still in training so I have to make myself useful to Sister Stella.
We've probably already seen this dialogue before but I'm including it anyways since we really just don't see much of Lara.
While I'm here, I check up on The Runey Situation. It's doing pretty well!
I've had to deal with it so much that it's starting to bother me less, but I'd still rather it not be there at all. There's a framework here for something rather good, but as is, it's very unrewarding busywork. The farming makes you a lot of money at least, and it's always neat to see how much you bring in at the end of the day- there's none of that with Runeys.
I don't know if I did such a good job or what, but the other zones seem like they're holding kind of stable for now, so maybe the impending doom was oversold a bit.
For some reason, I keep having to play hide-and-seek with Bianca and Tabatha. They'll not be in the foyer, I go deeper and they're not in there, so I go back out to the foyer and they're suddenly there.
I don't know why it keeps happening.
Anyways, Miss Viviash has nothing to say, but it's worth noting that we have finally gotten 1 LP with her and can see that constellation now.
Cinnamon and Kross also had nothing new to say, so uh... time for Erik, I guess?
ERIK: Young man, do you know what this village's specialty is?
BUSH: I don't. What is it?
ERIK: It would be the "Dried Fish" that I make during the winter! That's the village specialty!
BUSH: Really...?
ERIK: Probably!
BUSH: ...
ERIK: By the way, I love it too!
erik you like garlic and strawberries, not fish
what's with everyone and fish today
Talking to Erik proved to be worth the trouble today! I guess we've got something to look forward to in Winter aside from making flower arrangements on Whale Island.
With nothing else at hand, I try out stocking our Grass Runey farm with some Rock. It's supposed to boost production.
If it does, it really does mean that Tree Runeys are just the worst.
CINNAMON: The weather is nice. I feel like taking a nap outside.
Cinnamon really is just an undercaffinated college student at heart. Just don't fall asleep while you're fishing, that'd probably be bad. Sleeping with the fishes isn't a good thing!
KANNO: Hello, Bush.
KANNO: Everything in this world has its own uses.
KANNO: Even failed dishes from cooking may have their own uses that we don't know about.
He's right! There's a reason why I'm saving all these plates of ash and weeds after all, it's not only because I'm hoarding specific trash items for meaningless collection purposes.
KANNO: But the one exception is "Scrap Metal." That's completely useless.
He's wrong! I've already shown how it's useful for upgrading tools and grinding Forging skill.
This is mostly just his "this is what I hate item, don't give it to me" dialogue, although nobody likes scrap metal in this game. Sadly, few people have the refined preferences of Sofia from RF3.
TABATHA: If you pet your monsters inside your barn, you can become better friends with them. Please be sure to pet them.
I do so every day, even if it amounts to very little! Higher FP with monsters makes their level rise, which in turn makes it harder to raise their FP, and you mechanically don't need any higher than 1 FP. I guess if you want higher level milk, wool, and eggs it's good to do, but this game doesn't have the different size distinctions like the handheld games.
There's some sort of mechanic about brushing them in places they like, but I haven't figured that out yet.
(Oh, also fun hint, the reason I'm saving all my cooking flops has to do with Tabatha.)
Anyways, Bush doesn't go swimming, he goes to the local hotsprings!
BUSH: You're always coming to Melody's bathhouse.
NOLAN: Yes. I love hot springs. Now that my son has ascended the throne, I am traveling to the hot springs around the world.
Yeah, that makes-
wait you're ROYALTY?!
that's a hell of a bomb to drop so casually
NOLAN: Going into baths at this time is great. Taking it easy here in the morning is priceless.
BUSH: Is that so? I didn't know Melody's bathhouse was so great.
NOLAN: It is so. It maybe that true happiness can be found in everyday things.
NOLAN: The owner of this bathhouse must really love baths.
Melody doesn't just love baths, she lives for baths. Still, I was not expecting the sudden bombshell that Nolan is royalty, or at least related to it.
As it turns out, I've been doing Nolan wrong all this time: you're supposed to talk to him after you hit the bath. I didn't find this out until after I recorded this two day session, so we'll see what new things he's got in store for us next time.
NOLAN: Did you also come to the bath to wash up, Bush?
NOLAN: Possibly because I have aged, I become dizzy when I stay in the bath for too long.
I believe it's called heatstroke, my man, it's why Melody doesn't want you drinking in here.
Music: Whale Island CaveFollowing that, I head up to Whale Island early and spend some time collecting Warrior Medals for Kross. I'm running out!
On the outside, we've got another harvest of turnips at the ready. The only seed I have on hand is a single bag of turnips, so we'll lay down another set for now. I probably need to grow some more moondrop soon or maybe plant pumpkins for Anette's favorite gift.
BUSH: The colors of your eyes are very mysterious, Iris.
IRIS: R-really?! It's the first time some said that to me, so it feels a bit nice.
This would be a rather big statement, but remember that we're her only human contact aside from Gelwein. He's not very talkative either, so I'm not surprised.
Iris isn't the first girl in the series with heterochromia, Lynette from RF1 only wears her eyepatch because she has it, but she's one of the few.
IRIS: I really like to grow flowers.
Believe it or not, this isn't a "I have no more new dialogue" thing, it's just a very simple statement. I guess things are still a bit awkward since the whole blood thing.
Going up to Whale Island early lets me get down to the Observatory in time for that Elephant Constellation. While I wait for it, Bush collects oranges.
Cooking-wise, Apples and Chestnuts are far more useful than these, but we gotta get our Vitamin C!
Just before 8:00 PM, Bush looks to the stars...
Found Elephant Constellation!
BUSH: It does look like an elephant. It's huge...
This one makes a lot of sense! Some of the previous ones were a bit of a stretch, if you ask me.
We finally saw this one, so that wraps up all the star-gazing for the Summer season. We'll see what this does tomorrow.
Music: Lava RuinsWe've still got time and plenty of HP and RP, so it's down into the spicy water caverns in search of gemstones! I'm getting tired of Kanno nagging me for an Emerald all the time, so I figured I'd start checking rocks in here until I found one.
Nothing in this three on the first floor, just copper and scrap.
To the south of this room is a spot with a ghost spawner, a bomb, and a breakable wall. I wonder what's inside?
Blast that open, no need to worry about the integrity of the structure we're inside.
Oh, hey, a chest. It's probably got some old ri-
YE GAWDS
IT HAS TEETH
BEGONE
That there was a Gobble Box! They're basically your usual RPG mimic. Their attacks are nothing special, but their drops are. Consistent of a 55% chance of a fang with the other 45% filled up with a chance to drop gems, they're always guaranteed to drop an item, and it's not unlikely to be a valuable gem. Heck, when tamed they start producing gems like eggs!
Pony helped me take this one down and I got an Aquamarine for our troubles. Nice. I'll be coming back here each day for a while.
There's also two other chests in this room. This one here drops a variety of minables, in this case a ruby, while the other drops... red grass.
I found this entirely by accident and I needed a gem supply, so I'm pretty happy with this!
After this, I fish the rest of the night away stocking up on gifts for the two fish-loving girls and Eunice's fish by post request.
Organize my boxes a bit and...
Sleep time!
Wake up time!
Today is Summer 15th, a sunny Tuesday. Nothing special about that, aside from being the midpoint of the season!
Time sure does fly!
Music: Rune Factory 1- SummerHere's a summer theme from Bush's past once again, just to mark the occasion.
Oh dear, looks like Anette's had a rough time of it yet again this morning.
BUSH: You were being chased around again, Anette?
ANETTE: Yeah... it's so annoying.
ANETTE: The other mailmen don't get chased. Why only me?
I dunno, some people just attract animals. A strong scent, maybe?
I do some farm work until 9:00 when she's rested up enough to talk again.
BUSH: How many letters do you write, Anette?
ANETTE: I don't write any. But I do like writing though.
BUSH: Oh, why?
ANETTE: Well, you promise not to laugh?
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1. I can't say until you tell me.
2. I won't laugh.
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A choice! I'll go ahead and ready up the alternate timeline...
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"I make no guarantees."
ANETTE: Then I won't tell you.
...Well, that was short! But Bush is an honest lad, and he hasn't told anyone about or laughed at Anette's...thing that we saw in the changing room, so the second option is a much more Bush thing to say.
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ANETTE: Really? Well, the thing is...
ANETTE: My handwriting is pretty bad. Sometimes even I can't read what I wrote.
BUSH: Really? The letter you gave me when I moved here was very nicely written.
ANETTE: It took me a long time to write that, you know...
BUSH: So you can write nicely as long as you go slowly. You just need more practice, that's all.
BUSH: I know. Why don't you try sending letters to me? As practice.
ANETTE: Really? Then I'll try that out next time. Thanks.
Huh, good idea, Bush! I can sympathize with bad handwriting, mine's pretty rough because I just want to get what's in my head on paper, and I also went to a school with far too many timed assignments.
I guess we'll start seeing more letters from Anette!
And before I forget, there's a fish delivered to Eunice.
Well, since it's already 9:00, I suppose we might as well go and head off to the highlight of today. Constellation event, ahoy!
To the manor!
Music: de-Sainte CoquilleBUSH: Bianca, you dropped something.
BIANCA: Oh, thank you.
BIANCA: ...What is this? Paper? This dirty piece of paper isn't mine.
BUSH: O-oh, really? But I thought I saw you drop it...
BIANCA: I said it's not mine!
BUSH: There's something written on it. Let's see...
Hmm, really now...?
"When the elephant gazes at the stars, water shall erupt from the trunk."
BUSH: What is this? Is this some kind of code for a secret treasure?
BIANCA: I don't know... If you're that interested, why don't you go check it out yourself?
BIANCA: There's no way you can find it though.
BIANCA: But, even if you do, half of it is mine.
BUSH: Huh?
BIANCA: Of course it is. That paper is mine.
BUSH: O-oh, really?
...B-but...didn't you just say it wasn't yours?
BUSH: All right. But don't expect too much.
BUSH: When the elephant gazes the stars... The observatory comes to mind when you think of stars.
...And the hunt is on! Bush does a pretty good job of thinking where to look during this, must be all those book smarts he's absorbed.
Off we go! The observatory sounds like a good guess.
Hmm, nothing's standing out...
BUSH: Huh...?
BUSH: There's something buried here.
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1. Dig it up.
2. Don't do anything.
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Bush is a farmer and dungeon explorer, so he's no stranger to getting dirty. Let's see what it is.
BUSH: It's a letter... Let's see...
"From a solitary teardrop from the eye, erupts a spring, leaving behind a speck of light."
BUSH: A spring... Was there one in this village? I know that there's a lake...
How cryptic. Well, there's that thing outside of Mist's house, but it's more of an oversized puddle. There are hotsprings, but I doubt it's inside the bathhouse or up on Whale Island.
Let's go for the lake anyways, it's the closest to us. On the way, we meet Cinnamon fishing on the bridge.
CINNAMON: Did you find the Elephant Constellation?
BUSH: Yes, it was very cute.
CINNAMON: The ancient people believed that the world is held up by elephants.
BUSH: Oh, really?
CINNAMON: I've never seen it, but I really doubt it.
I've heard of turtles carrying the world, but not elephants. It's a neat idea. I'm imagining two elephants walking side by side, with the world suspended on streams of clouds or vines between them.
Despite knowing all these myths, The Girl With A Spice For A Name isn't very keen on them. Have you looked up recently or over at the impossibly tall beanstalk over there? There's a giant, whale shaped island above us, who's to say this whole place isn't on the back of an even bigger sky whale?
It always goes back go sky whales, I'm telling you.
We leave Cinnamon to her fishing as we take the gondola out on the tiny lake. I suppose we check the island with the lone tree first. It doesn't usually get used for much.
Nothing here, unfortunately...
BUSH: Hey... Something's buried here.
But just to the right of the dock where we disembarked, we've found something! We're prompted to dig it up again, which we of course do so.
BUSH: What is this?
Out pops a sparkling white gem!
BUSH: This is... Diamond!
BUSH: And it's another letter.
"The light always returns. It cycles over and over and arrives back to where it originates."
"The things precious to you are where they are supposed to be. At your feet."
BUSH: Wow, it's Diamond. I should take this to Bianca.
How very cryptic. I guess Bush's boots are very important to him!
Also thanks for the most understated reaction possible, Bush. We got a diamond, the most expensive gem!
Not just any diamond either, a level 10 diamond!
...and it's still only worth 840g. Oh well, this thing is still pretty big! I guess we ought to go back to where this started, with that scrap of paper Bianca did/n't have.
One warp back to the house and a short jaunt to the left later and we're here.
BUSH: Hey, there's another thing buried here.
Of course, we must dig it.
A ring pops out? We pick it up and before we can inspect it...
BUSH: What is this?
(good job photobombing there, Pony)
BUSH: This is...
Suddenly, someone arrives from behind us!
BIANCA: It looks like an old wedding ring.
BUSH: Oh, Bianca... out of the treasures, half of it was supposed to be yours, right?
BUSH: So... should I give you the ring?
BIANCA: That's a wedding ring!
BUSH: But... we had that promise... What should we do?
BIANCA: I don't know!
Good job accidentally proposing, Bush, but she's only at 1 LP.
BIANCA: Oh, but I have heard about two lovers who were separated but swore to meet again...
BIANCA: ...and buried something precious to them.
BIANCA: This ring must be that. They must have buried it for the day when they will meet again.
BUSH: Then we should put this ring back where I found it.
BUSH: But what do I do about our previous promise...?
BUSH: I know. Here. Take this Diamond.
BIANCA: I don't want it!
BIANCA: I mean, Diamond is something that's too ordinary for me... so I'm saying you can have it!
BUSH: Thank you.
BIANCA: You better be thankful!
And that's how it ends.
Good work, Bianca. Bush didn't make it very easy on you.
Music: Rune Factory 1- SummerAnd so we stand outside the manor while Pony attacks the air. The diamond is still a great get, and I'll be sure to save it for something where that level doesn't go to waste.
As for why Pony is attacking the air, I think temporary NPCs in on-map cutscenes like those must have some leftover flag that makes our pet think they're an enemy.
Doing that little event got us nearly half a bar of LP with Bianca as well- that's nearly a week of talking!
Well, off to bother the rest of town.
EUNICE: I used to feel lonely but I have many more friends now.
EUNICE: I always goe to Rosetta's store.
It's the only general store!
rip danny
UZUKI: Shrimp! This makes me doubly happy because today is my birthday. Thank you, Bush.
This is the happiest anyone's been for a small, single shrimp, aside from someone lost on a deserted island maybe.
UZUKI: It seems you have started smithery, Bush. I have high hopes for you.
Yeah! I'm aiming to get one of those late game axes eventually, but I definitely need to get back on forging. I'll probably go do a few rounds of collecting scrap metal and see where it gets us.
ROSETTA: Say, do you have any good ideas?
Me? Probably not, since most of them don't work out anyways. Bush has been on a roll this update though!
That's all she's got today. That single line- what is this, Rune Factory 1?
LARA: I have a lot of medicine so please buy the ones that fit your needs.
In our case, it's probably just more colored grass. We can already make better food than the starter energy drink and when we get an oven, we won't really need anything but some debuff cures (or I could just drink tea and never get debuffed!)
Off to the library!
no
selphy, why
it was so clean...
SELPHY: Whether to clean or not. That is the question...
What do you mean? You cleaned it yesterday!
Oh, well. Some things just aren't meant to be.
It's a Tuesday, so Selphy's only got her clearance stock on display today. The only thing left isn't cheap at all- "Happy Toys" still costs 30,000g, which I think is more than we paid for a house extension.
Given it only contains recipes for miscellaneous gifts like ribbons and fans, and does not have a recipe for the Brand Sunglasses, this is something we can safely avoid buying for now.
BUSH: Let's see... a memo... [To Candy...]
While passing by the clocktower, I check up on the Runeys and write a memo to Candy to make a Rock Rune Stone for us. I've got too many, so why not? Aside from a few rune stone doors I saw in the Tower of Birth, there's always that thing about giving one to a favorite monster.
Also, I don't know what's triggered it, but Bush has long since graduated from saying "I don't get it" when looking at the Runey population thing. Now he says stuff along the lines of "Hm..." and "I see...".
I wrote that memo because I didn't expect to see Candy today, but she's the first person I run into at the beach! It's odd seeing her without her hat, although I think hatless Uzuki is still the most jarring.
This is also her in swimsuit, which is luckily not bad at all!
CANDY: I want to see that huge block of Runes near the tail on Whale Island.
It's, uh, not doing so hot the last time I checked. Don't worry about any impending impact though, that won't happen.
It's probably way too dangerous, but it might actually be useful to get Candy up there to the Tail Tree though. Her spirit talking magic might be able to tell her something useful.
I also go ahead and get a Tree Rune Stone made while we're here. Bianca's stuck in the doorway wondering why the heck the girl from the clocktower is sparkling and singing.
MARCO: Curry is great. You like it, too, don't you?
Curry powder is Marco's liked gift, and his favorite gift is literally anything made with it as far as I know. Unfortunately, I have not located any curry powder.
It's apparently sold at the Snowstyle, but I have somehow failed to notice it every single time I've been there.
Also, Marco's swimsuit looks like a Monster Hunter default outfit, and that honestly checks out.
While everyone is off taking in the ocean wind, we're off to take in the Laga Springs heat... after a lot of Runey management. I'll spare you from that.
MELODY: I've got really bad bed hair under this hat. But keep that a secret.
Melody, girl, it's no secret. We can partially see it right now, and it's on full display at the beach.
MELODY: Recently, the spring's flow isn't very good...
MELODY: I hope it's just my imagination.
don't scare me like that
these baths are my lifeline for a dungeon run gone wrong
MELODY: The other day, Selphy went in for a bath and didn't come out for a long time.
MELODY: I got worried so I went in to check on her. Just like I thought, she was reading in the bath and she'd fainted!
MELODY: That's why you're not allowed to read in the bath!
Sheesh, so many irresponsible bath-goers in this town.
NOLAN: My birthday?
NOLAN: Hm... I wonder when it was. We tend to get forgetful when we age.
Sometimes being reminded of how old you are isn't the best of things, so the pro strat is to pretend you forget your birthday. This is has been Trampoli Life Tips with Sir Nolan.
After our bath, there's one last girl we haven't met up with in town, so I go on a search and eventually have to hit up a schedule guide.
Tabatha was in Rosetta's store all along! Also Eunice is here!
TABATHA: My birthday is on the 12th of autumn. It is the day right before the Harvest Festival. I hope you will remember it.
We won't have maxed out your LP by then, so we'll probably gift on that day anyways! A favorite gift on a birthday has to be worth a ton of LP.
If the Harvest Festival is the same as it was in Kardia, it's mostly about giving vegetables to people.
EUNICE: Bush! Let me tell you something nice.
EUNICE: If you wash old brooms with water and dry them in the shade, they will be good as new!
Huh, that's pretty good to know! Thanks!
While I'm here, I go ahead and buy a Pumpkin Head mask. We could probably make one of our own if I planted Pumpkins soon, but we've got extra money and I don't know how long it stays available in the store.
Worst comes to worst, we can gift it to someone as a joke, like Danny!
Following this, I head down into Lava Ruins to check my new gem farming spot. Just an Sapphire and a piece of copper today. Oh, well.
But off-screen, Pony takes down a ghost and gets me something I've been looking for for weeks now: Quality Cloth!
This stuff isn't even that rare of a drop, I'm just unlucky.
Music: Whale Island OutsideOut onto Whale Island, I head out back to the Tower of Birth to try and find that shortcut that's supposed to be out there.
As I pass through Tail Tree, I find that Pony can run up the steep branches without slipping! This makes things far safer and easier then!
Music: Whale Island TowerStill doesn't stop it from taking over 2 hours to get out to the tower.
These two rocks were suspicious to me when I first got here, but I guess they're nothing.
Looking it up, I need to go through the Tower of Birth to some new zone first?
Well, let's see if we can find it.
Well, it's not down here.
And up here are ghosts! More specifically, Fausts! These dark-blue wearing Ghosts have moved on from petty melee attacks to sending out big cutter projectiles.
They do a ton of damage, so I'm getting out of this high level zone!
But first, I load a savestate so I can show this guy off. This is a Necro, a ghost wearing red, and the final recolor of the ghost family. They're even tougher Fausts!
And they're even within walking distance of each other. That's some close palette swapping.
Let's save all of that for some update of a later date- Bush is a bit underleveled and undergeared for all that!
Off to see Iris we go.
IRIS: The night sky is very beautiful today... It seems as if something will fall from the sky.
Please, no more space turnips! I don't want Bush to fall into the notice of the turnip mafia again!
This is all she's got to say, so it's off to home.
Before we sleep, we've got one last thing to do. With that quality cloth from earlier, we can make an alternate headpiece for Bush. It's slighty better at magic and wind effects, but a bit less on defense than our red hairband.
Feathered Hat Lv:1 was synthesized.
With a Quality Cloth, a leftover Bird Feather from the giant chicken boss, and a spare Wind Crystal from all that slime farming for colored grass, we make ourselves a feathered hat!
Unfortunately, the biggest downside is that it kinda looks like a fedora. It's supposed to be a Robin Hood type hat, but the point isn't very pronounced.
Well, regardless, Bush is off to his nightly exercise of tearing up his floor practicing his axe swing, so he'll be off to bed soon. While he's off doing that, we've got some stuff to look through...
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BONUS
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But first, the thread's votes regarding that Highly Expensive Swimwear was to offer it to Eunice and Cinnamon, the two possibly worst options to do so. How does that go?
CINNAMON: ...I don't want it.
She won't take it. Fair enough, especially since she can't even swim nor likes Bush that much. I have seen what it looks like, and, well, it's quite a difference.
EUNICE: No... I... Swimsuits are...
EUNICE: T-thank you.
EUNICE: Shouldn't you be giving this to someone much closer to you...?
She turns it down as well. It's a pretty tame response all things considered.
It seems like the girls won't take it unless they like you enough- who could have guessed? I tested it with Melody and she would take it, but Rosetta wouldn't. I guess the starting point is somewhere around 5-7 LP?
Anyways, back in the box it goes for some later date, possibly to get sold when I need room. Somewhere out there, someone might need affordable high quality swimwear. They surely won't have to spend as much on it as we did!
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UP NEXT: The vote you've all been waiting for! Probably!
Note from the future: If you want to see the vote, return to the table of contents and go past the final update to Intermission 2.