You know something? I'm getting a
serious sense of deja vu off this, and I'm pretty sure I haven't done
this part of the game yet.
At least not so far as the Text Play is
concerned, far as I can remember. Granted, this is not my first time
playing this game, though if I do finish it this time, it will be the
first. But I'm sure I haven't done this part of it as recently as it
seems like I have.
But anyway, cracking this thing's a bit
of a trick, in a lot of ways. Getting through this is trickier than
I remember, in spite of how recently it seems I've done it. I've
gotta go around talking to all the Lilipeas and Nouvelle, who
translates what they're all saying. Eventually, I've gotta get
Nouvelle to tell me what the village elder is saying. The elder is
quite clearly the one with the bird on it.
The trick in that is not so much
figuring it out as it is getting Nouvelle to follow you to a place
where he can hear the Lilipea elder speak and translate what he's
saying. This particular scene reminds me of an all-too-common
sensation from the everyday life I'm trying to use video games to
escape in that it seems like I can't take more than two god damned
steps in a row without tripping over at least one of the little
fuckers running around the place. If I'd have been driving a bus or
an 18-wheeler, half of them would have been dead before I got to read
what they had to say for the number of them that just jumped right
out in front of me.
But eventually, I did get Nouvelle and
the elder together, and it turns out there's a monster I've gotta
kill to end the mission. Figuring that out was no more difficult
than anything else this mission. And this wasn't even all that hard
a fight. It was against a souped-up version of the Mantis Ant. Some
sort of bee monster, I
guess. There's no great reward here, just 850 XP, a couple hundred
Lucre, and some Visiel Gold from the elder. Because this is one of
those quests that's more frustrating than anything, I'll take it and
be glad I'm done with it, especially since I did get a level out of
it.
Really, though, this whole quest
reminds me of the first
episode of Spoony's LP of SWAT 4. The kicker here is that on the
way out, we get to talk to Southerbee again, who seems to think that
Hamson and Skippie are out to get every last Lilipea they can. Oh,
if he only knew. And I'm just frustrated enough to want to mace the
guy in the eyes on the way out.
But anyway, I guess this means I'll
have to go to the entrance to the underworld to get Sierra, so I'll
try that next time, just to see what happens. Hopefully, there'll be
a chance to run around in the White Forest some before we actually
get down to the business of going to hell. Then again, I may just
want to get with it, given my luck thus far.
Until next time, folks, keep gaming,
have fun, stay safe, and DFTBA!
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