Not where you'd expect, and maybe not
what you'd think, all things considered.
The good news is that I don't have to
use artifacts to get quests if I don't want to. The bad news is that
since I've never made it quite this far in the game before, I'm not
entirely sure where they might be. So to start this issue off, I got
my pet Rabbite out of the barn and went to the Luon Highway to see if
I could get myself some enchanted coins. I managed to pull it off
this time by playing an upbeat tune for the Undine I found there.
Got some Undine Silver for the trouble. And then I figured I may as
well go for an actual quest, too, so that I'd have something decent
to write about this time, which in this case meant a trip to Domina.
While there, I found our good buddy
Elazul hanging out in the pub. He says he's looking for a friend,
and since nobody else is coming, I'll take the case. The fact that
he's asking me to stay out of it tells me he's looking for Pearl, so
I insist upon going, for which I guess he's grateful. As we get
ready to leave the pub, Pearl shows up and asks to come with. Elazul
tells her that it isn't safe, and he's right for a change. But I've
gotta add that I suppose it's not safe in Domina, either. And since
I had to go and say that, the only real option I've got now is to
invite her to stay at my place for awhile. Looks like I'll be
getting that female character in my house without actually having to
play one after all.
After a brief and ultimately
unsuccessful search in a few other likely places where I thought I'd
find Pearl instead, I went back to my place. When I went into the
house, Elazul told me to look out for Pearl and that he was headed
off to a place called Geo to look for something. I know I don't have
Geo on the map at this point, and I'm not sure I even have the
artifact to put it there yet. That's when it hit me that I didn't
actually have a quest going at this point. As a result, this little
voice in my head that sounded like Sandoval from Earth:
Final Conflict started asking me where the mission was, hence the
title of this issue.
Then I remembered that the guy who can
at least potentially open up the rest of my workshops for me is in
the Junkyard area. So, I went there and talked to him. His name is
Professor Bomb, and he says he built this golem that escaped, and he
needs somebody to go find it and stop it for him before it does
something bad.
Suddenly, this has gone from a Mana
game to Monster
Rancher. I mean, here I am, a guy with a barnyard in which I
actually do have a pet rabbit monster, which is with me at the
moment, and can potentially have an eyeball monster as well, and I'm
talking to a guy who wants me to go looking for a Golem to fight.
The only clue Bomb gives me to where his robotic creation might be is
that I should go see the fortune teller in Domina. She says that
there's going to be a “special encounter” by the lake. So, I
need to go to Lake Kilma to find this thing.
At the lake, I find the thing almost
right off, and after a short chase, there's a trail of broken toys
that leads directly to the golem again. It says it wants to take
over the world. Kicking its ass is no problem, and back at Bomb's
lab he says he'll reprogram the golem. No offer to help with my own
lab, no suggestion that he'll be there at all, and worst off, no new
artifact at the end of the quest.
I guess the best thing to do now is to
see what I can do about getting to Geo. Along the way, I might see
what I can do about getting the rest of my workshops opened up as
well. But that's for next issue, which I think I'll call In Search
Of Geo. Until then, stay safe, have fun, keep gaming, and DFTBA!
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