Due to being dead tired, it's kind of a short session this time, but got a few things done.
Made my way to Castaway Cove "haven of half-dressed harmony" (more on that later), in order to find a ship that will send Oliver and Esther off to the next sage. I wasn't expecting it to go smoothly, but I wasn't expecting this...
Close to Buff Bay: bastion of bare bliss
About as soon as I get into the town, the heroes spot some one stealing a large pot from a store so they give chase, gradually, it's a story even so i can take my time and pick up items along the way. They manage to corner thief at the pier, and he throws the pot at them as a distraction and runs away. So now we (well, just Drippy) have to lug it back to the shop it was taken from.
Hide it before the police show up.
Back at the shop, the store owner says he doesn't really want the thing back since not only does it not open, but makes creepy noises now and then, so he gives it to Oliver. Drippy then identifies it as a magic cauldron, and to open it you need to just say the magic words. This is a cut bit since it required you to read the section on cauldrons in the magic book for the magic words, then type them out in a text window when interacting with the cauldron. I was expecting just an automated "click on the book page" and the game does the rest.
Yay for a game making the play actually do stuff!
So with the right word the lid pops open and out pops the genie, Al-Khemi, who right away attacks.
"So, what should we name the genie that does alchemy?"
This fight was actually really tough, mostly because i wasn't expecting another boss battle so close after the last one. With half my familiars evolved and still low levels, I was totally relaying on Mulberry to pull it off, which also meant switching back to Oliver when his stamina meter ran out.
Surprise boss fight!
During the fight, the genie would occasionally pause to dig a giant flaming sword out from the pot, but at random times he'll pull out a parasol by mistake. This stuns him for a short while and was about the only break I got in this fight.
Hey, Princess Peach and Ryoga Hibiki can kick ass with a parasol
And stay down! No, wait, get up and give us stuff!
With the fight over, Oliver is now officially the genie's master, but this isn't the three wishies kind of genie, this one is for crafting! He basically adds another game play element (filling in the last space on the options menu), which you can use alchemy to mix ingredients together and make new stuff (either from recipes or random mixing of things). This also unlocks the related section in the wizerd book.
So now it's also the Atelier series by Gust (which I love!)
Cool, this opens up new side quests where you have to make stuff for people, and it's more ways to make the game interesting, but we have a boat to find!
Don't make it far though, since we're stopped by the fashion police, literally. It turns out that this peaceful village has a odd law, everyone there must wear swimsuits, even just visiting. The reason being that with all the traders and sailors stopping at the port, fights kept breaking out, so the governor figured that you can't hide weapons wearing a swimsuit. Right...
That guy in the toga and tunic in the back is really bending the definition of "swimsuit"...
So after explaining this silliness, they give Oliver some shorts, Drippy (yes, even the normally naked fair has to wear a swimsuit) a old style swimsuit, while Esther gets a two piece. Not too sure what the point of this whole thing is (since they pop back to normal clothes as soon as they leave), but given that this is Japanese, it's likely meant as fan service. Ew.
I think the devs may have issues.
So now properly attired, they can go 10 feet down the dock and talk to the captain of the only ship there. He says that he can't take them anywhere without authorisation from the person in charge back at Al Mamoon. So glad we had to change just to find out we have to leave.
Back at Al Mamoon, Esther is stopped by an artist who says that he needs to study her face as a reference for a painting he's working on. When they get to the palace, they are told that they can't see the woman in charge, Queen Lowlah, since she is always eating, even when sleeping.
"and then, elevensies, luncheon, afternoon tea, dinner, supper..."
Instead of right away figuring "this must be another one of those messed up curses", they treat this as normal and figure out a plan to get to see the queen but bringing her favourite food. To find out what this food is, they plan to go to Oliver's world and find who the queen is soul linked to. Down side of this is that they have no clue who the queen is linked to or what she even looks like. Fortunatly the artist from earlier shows up with the painting he was working on, which is of the queen.
Cow girl. Called it!
The queen looks just like the woman that runs the store back in Oliver's world (minus the horns and cow ears). Really lucky that all the people in this vast fantasy world are soul linked to people in this one small town. So it's back to the other world!
Along the way, they bump into Esther's soul link, Myrtle, but since Esther is from the magic world, she's invisible.
From total shut in to fully employed, she turns around fast!
The store owner then shows up for her jog. She's not jogging for her health or for fun, she's doing it to work up an appetite so she can stuff her face with cheese! Yeah, she just straight up eats a wheel of cheese in one sitting, almost decking Oliver when he tries to get a piece for the queen. Again, this isn't seen as some curse or a problem, just quirky fat people hi-jinks! I really hope they go back later and do address this as not normal behaviour.
You have a cheese addiction lady!
So they now know what the queen's favourite food is, but they don't have any since the shop lady ate all the cheese in her shop. Fortunately, Pea pops up again and suggests that Oliver could just use alchemy to magic up some cheese from milk. Also, Esther finally points out that Oliver is talking to nothing! Drippy just dismiss it, but Oliver insists that Pea is real and she's just invisible to them like Esther is to the norms.
Yay for pot hole filling!
So tomorrow it's back to Al Mamoon, where they apparently have a fountain that constantly spews milk. I really hope that it's magically generated magic milk, or else that's very eww and really unsanitary.
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