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Train...? Blenders? The level o technology here is kind of weirding me out.
"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~Madrugada
I have seen the amateur, and it is me.
I was confused by the train bit, too, because there doesn't look like there are any train tracks anywhere close to this town. My guess is that she got off somewhere and did some walking. A whole lot of walking...
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Episode 13: All He Needs Is A Miracle
A new letter from Uzuki arrives on the 18th, again asking Raguna to let her know if she finds clues to her brother's whereabouts.
The harvester in his inventory has seen little use since he earned it, so he goes around absorbing Runeys from different spots (Raguna's own farm seems to be filled with them) until he thinks he has enough to produce a miracle.
He goes around looking for Candy, who is waiting at the clock tower with Marco and enjoying the view. Candy asks him a few times what he wants to wish for. Raguna, feeling like he's placing an order at Rita's restaurant, decides to go with the fish. With Candy's singing and a few Water Runeys, she declares the next day "fish day". He releases the rest of the Runeys into the wild to avoid upsetting the spiritual balance of Trampoli farm.
Remembering that he also has crops stored underground, he goes down to the Green Ruins and waters them, while also forcibly befriending a slime named Puyo. The slime is not happy about being brushed, but Raguna doesn't even notice the slime on his brush Pet Glove until later.
The next morning brings about a harvest of strawberries and potatoes. No mail today, since it's a holiday.
At right around 9 AM, Raguna goes to visit Lute to order some expansions to his kitchen and forge, but Lute tells him it's too early to upgrade yet. 
He's gonna need a bigger house.
Since Kross isn't doing any carpentry work today, Raguna changes his plans and takes Puyo for a walk into the Green Ruins, starting with B3. He would have tried going to Whale Island, but for some reason, he can't reach it from the beanstalk today.
Armed with his trusty Fire Rod, Raguna slings around magic bolts like they're going out of style, and comes out of his journey two levels stronger than when he started. He heads down to B4 by himself, as Puyo is too injured to continue. There's an ominous locked door ahead, but Raguna decides not to open it right away, and takes the stairs back to the first floor.
Fish Day provides beneficial to Raguna, as all of the fish he encounters latch onto the hook on the first bite. It doesn't guarantee that Raguna will actually catch them, but he has a little bit more success than usual (five out of seven, with two level 5 fish caught).
What awaits Raguna behind Green Door #1? How much wood and gold will Raguna have to raise to pimp out his house? Why are there still characters missing in his "Relations" slot? Answers to these questions and more when we return! Until next time!
edited 4th Feb '10 3:27:11 PM by WillyFourEyes
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I just imagine Raguna going crazy with a little slime stuck to his hand, going "Gerroff gerroff gerroff gerroff..."
"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~Madrugada
I have seen the amateur, and it is me.
It'd surely be more aggravating for him to have to clean that gunk off of his brush. Then again, he could always clean it in the river (barring in-game limitations, of course).
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Episode 14 - Playing Chicken
What exactly was behind that door at the bottom of the Green Ruins? The question kept biting at him as he slept. He vowed that he would find an answer to that question today.
Before tending to his farm, he whips up some picked turnips to keep his energy up. Surprisingly, the other food that he prepared several days ago has yet to degrade in quality.
Later on, he makes his Sharp Talon delivery to Kanno, but is then asked for a Hard Horn to continue his experiment. The experminet doesn't concern him much for the moment, as he realizes he now has enough money and wood to improve his kitchen. Next stop: Emo Carpenter's house. For 10,000 gold and 120 bundles of wood, he constructs a "ba-bump" kitchen for our hero. Raguna goes back home to check out his new kitchen, which is spacious, yet hospitable. I It could use a rug or two, though.
With his battle preparations completed, he takes Chit down to the Green Ruins. The Moondrop flowers that he had grown over the past few days are finished (apparently, they seem to grow at the same rate as surface plants), and he saves them to hand out to the ladies for tomorrow. The trail of feathers eventually leads him to the door at the bottom of the dungeon. Raguna takes a deep breath and pushes the door open. And lo, there was a great clucking sound, and a giant angry cockatrice descended from the heavens. The battle is mostly one-sided, as Raguna tends to scream like a little girl whenever he takes a hit (and this cocatrice hits pretty damn hard, let me tell you). Chowing down on various food items only keeps Raguna's stamina up long enough to whittle the monster's HP down halfway before getting knocked out.
Fortunately, losing a battle doesn't mean Game Over, as it did in the original Rune Factory (and probably in RF 2, which I haven't played yet). Instead, our loser hero wakes up at the infirmary the next day at 10 AM. Lara admonishes the boy for overexerting himself, and urges him to take it easy.
Without much time to do any work, he misses his chance to talk to Anette. He is mildly excited that his first set of cucumbers has grown in, which should make him a decent amount of money.
He also goes around town handing out Moondrop flowers to several of the girls. Not many of them are all that impressed by them, but Eunice seems to get the most enjoyment out of them. I guess it's because she's a more domestic type than most.
Selphy's started organizing her books a little better. Though the floor still looks like crap, there are more things to read on the shelves now. She doesn't have anything new for sale, but Raguna purchases a book on making foods from a mixer to go with his new kitchen.
Returning briefly to check on his plants in the Green Ruins, Raguna notices a swirling sphere of dark energy. "That wasn't there before", he thinks. With his biting hunch that dark energy portals never lead to anything good, he avoids it, lest he be sucked back into the fight with Super Chicken Boo.
All that's left for him to do is start clearing the ever-expanding sea of debris on the farm, and then try to get some rest. Good luck, kid...you'll need it.
edited 4th Feb '10 3:28:27 PM by WillyFourEyes
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I love the randomness of the bosses. A chickengriff is something I likely wouldn't see in any other game series. And yeah, the bosses can be quite a pain at first before you get their pattern. I only beat this thing on my first try because I brought a Buffamoo, one of those buffalo-cows.
The portal is just a shortcut to the bottom floor, by the way. You won't be directly transported to the boss room, but merely in front of the door.
I have seen the amateur, and it is me.
Good. That should save me some time exploring, then.
What about the Hard Horn?
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Beat up a Wooly or Buffamoo, the farm animal monsters mostly found on Whale Island for it.
edited 3rd Feb '10 8:21:10 AM by Cliche
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Bok bok bu-KAW! Chickeeeen!
...No, not Ragsy, the boss! 
I have seen the amateur, and it is me.
Worry not...that chicken's gonna get his. Just not this episode, though.
Episode 15: Pink Elephant in the Barnyard
Yet another rainy day...but just like clockwork, Anette manages to start her rounds at 6:45 sharp, rain or snow (no storms, though). She gives Raguna a letter from Selphy, who's got a hankerin' for a hunk of bamboo rice. Rice doesn't get put up for sale until the bar opens up. Danny's shop would be the ideal place to get this sort of thing in the mean time, but it doesn't have much of anything to sell, and therefore, sucks.
In a break from tradition, Raguna takes Puyo up, up, up to Whale Island to do some monster hunting...both defeat and friendship. He tries to give the first Goblin he sees that good old loving touch, but Puyo is having none of it, and smacks it down with one hit.
Since the goblin failed the strength test, Raguna presses onward past the hot spring to find a new monster ally. One of the Orcs 1 "passes" the friendship test, and becomes the latest member of Raguna's new monster party. As he and Puyo continue to crawl through the floating dungeon, they come across a pink elephant, expecting it to attack. All it does it walk around in a circle around Raguna and leaves.
Whale Island seems to be plentiful with different-colored herbs for potion-making and minerals for mining, so Raguna makes it a point to grab as much as he can while he has the energy. They walk past a sealed door and a pillar with a slot for inserting a Rune stone. Unfortunately, Raguna doesn't have anything like that, so he moves outside to what appears to be one of the island's fins. The area is pletiful with Woolies (those sheep-monsters Anette was walking around with at the beginning) and Buffamoos (the cow/buffalo hybrid Raguna encountered in the Green Ruins). After fighting a few of the Buffamoos, Raguna eventually finds the Hard Horn he needs for Kanno. He returns to the surface to turn over his trophy, and it looks like Kanno has everything he needs for his experiment, but he isn't saying what it is just yet.
Cinnamon is in the other room, looking at books. She tells Raguna that if he goes to the observatory at night, he can look to the sky and see constellations.
Speaking of books, Raguna now has enough money to buy up what's left of Selphy's "for sale" stock. She is strangely happy about this. 2
Before finishing up for the day, he goes to Rita's and purchases some rice so that he can make his recipe for Selphy. He hands it over to Annie on her next mail run, and then goes back to work on his farm. When he goes to check on the monsters from his farm, he sees the pink elephant sitting in a corner, all by itself. Raguna wonders why it decided to park itself in his living space, and how it even got off the island in the first place with all of the hostile monsters around. It doesn't respond to his brushing, so he leaves it alone and concentrates on the ones that will listen to him, for he has big plans today... 3.
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Episode 16: Chickens and Constellations
In preparation for his rematch with the chicken monster in the Green Ruins, Raguna purchases a handful of energy drinks from Lara, hoping this time that he doesn't actually have to use them. He stops by the library, where he sees Cinnamon reading some books. He can't exactly see which ones she's reading because Selphy's bookshelves are jam-packed, but still utterly disorganized. Cinnamon mentions that a "turnip" constellation can be seen in the sky early at night if one goes to the observatory. Raguna says almost exactly what I'm thinking ("Turnip constellation? That's...strange.")
Still no word yet on what Kanno's working on with that Hard Horn he asked for. Raguna turns his attention to Candy, who is outside with Marco again. He doesn't have any Rune Wonder requests for her this time, so he asks where all of the Runeys are concentrated. The map she shows him seems to indicate that there are a lot of Runeys in areas where it won't do them much good, save the Church and the Mountains (which are both plentiful with Tree Runeys).
Raguna feels that it's a good time to take Chit for another walk, and they head down to the Green Ruins together, jumping straight to the giant chicken monster's room via the dark portal near the entrance. Before he walks in, he readies his newly-crafted Flame Sabre and chows down on an Egg Bowl for a temporary strength boost.
Having remembered his last disastrous encounter with the beast, Raguna stays back and waits for the chicken to run towards him and do something stupid, leaving it open to a combined assault of spinning sword slashes and acorn bombardment. After three or four passes of this, Chit chucks another acorn at its head, and the beast goes down. Raguna doesn't spend much time celebrating, as he just picks up the scraps that the chicken left behind and leaves the place as quickly as possible.
At 1:00, he has plenty of time to do some more farm work while waiting for the Turnip constellation to reveal itself. It is during this waiting period where he learns that Erik, the town's seed salesman, hates turnips (crushing the hopes and dreams of Erik/Mist shippers everywhere...both of them).
At 6:30, he takes his daily trip to the bathhouse, and overhears a "developing" conversation between Candy and Cinnamon. Cinnamon keeps quiet about it, and tells Raguna of another constellation that is to appear later in the night sky...the more sensible-sounding "Serpent". He heads to the observatory point at the mountains and looks toward the sky, where he sees the Turnip constellation in all of its starry glory. At that moment, Raguna sees something fall from the sky and lands somewhere in his house. Judging by the tone of the music playing, it's probably not all that serious. It turns out that whatever it was that fell out of the sky spawned a half-dozen turnips inside Raguna's house. Naturally, Mist is there to check up on him, showing incredible restraint by not taking any of the turnips for herself. A return trip to the observatory later on yields a glimpse of the Serpent constellation, fortunately this time with no funky side effects.
How will Raguna's defeat of the giant chicken monster improve Trampoli's economy? What is Kanno doing in his lab after hours? Tune in next episode for answers to at least one of these questions!
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Ahahaha. Oh man. Go Chit! Super Squirrel, wooo!
Mmmm. Sky turnips.
"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~Madrugada
I have seen the amateur, and it is me.
Yes. We should get the little squirrel a cookie.
Sky turnips are nice, too, but it seems that in this universe, they don't adhere to the "five-second rule". Then again, turnips do normally come from the ground, so...
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Anyway, let's move on. Time for "Season" 2 of this liveblog experiment. Yay!
Episode 17: Upgrade You
No special cutscene or a "thank you" from the villagers for taking care of the chicken-that-isn't-all-chicken, but Raguna does get a notification from Ganesha that she's expanded her shop a bit. An RSVP letter from Desperate Danny wonders why nobody's buying anything from his shop. Raguna has two choices: he can either be nice to Danny and give him some advice, or be a bit of a dick and tell him to give up. While the latter would most assuredly relieve me of his "buy something" pleas, Raguna figures he needs as much help as he can get, so he plays the Nice Guy card. Selphy also sent him a letter, thanking him for the bamboo rice delivery, but noting that she could just have picked up some food from Rosetta or Danny.
The new items in Ganesha's shop include a ready-made battle hammer and battle axe, and some improved quality elemental crystals. Raguna could just as easily procure the materials to get the weapons, but he makes a note of the prices of the crystals so that he can save up to improve his hammer and axe. Whether or not they would do him much good in removing the tree stumps and rocks on his field would be a matter for another day.
Not much else happens on the 24th, with Raguna taking the time to improve his lumberjacking and hammering skills. One item of note: there is a small plant buried in rubble outside the observatory near Lake Poli. It seems that the defeat of the monster under the Green Ruins has encouraged it to grow a little bit.
The holiday is on, and that means only Lute and Selphy are in business (she doesn't work Fridays, which is the only day out of the week she isn't reading). With the new addition to the house in place, Raguna can go ahead and buy the Great Kitchen he had his eye on for a while. He also buys up the rest of the appliances from Lute - an oven, a steamer and a blender, as well as an upgraded frying pan. The rest of the money is spent on new books at Selphy's for recipes that he can't use yet because he doesn't have the proper ingredients.
Raguna does a bit of running around with his ghost containment unit harvester, trapping dozens of poor, innocent Runeys to be used as fuel for a Rune Stone at the hands of the not-so-innocent songstress Candy. He gives her ten Tree Runeys, and she gives him a block of wood. Clearly, Raguna is not the brilliant negotiator we thought he was. He is, however, a man of compassion, so he releases the remaining Runeys into the atmosphere (presumably to be sucked up again later when he needs their "help").
Later on in the day, he heads back to the Green Ruins to do some dungeon diving, because Whale Island is out of reach again. This time, he tames a plant monster, which he names Spring. Its limbs are far too flimsy to do any farm work, so it will serve as his battle companion. However, it hasn't gained any sort of Leaked Experience, so it's at level 3 while his other monster friends are at level 7 and higher.
At the end of the day, Raguna goes home and tries out his new cooking tools, seemingly having the most fun baking things in his oven. He makes note of what sorts of ingredients he'll need for the recipes he hasn't yet prepared, and goes to sleep, clutching his Tree Rune Stone in his hand.
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Condemn some innocent spirits to a life of slavery, get a piece of wood? Sounds like a good deal to me!
"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~Madrugada
I have seen the amateur, and it is me.
Those spirits are going to be used as fuel for magic keys, so at least they're being put to good use.
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Episode 18: Cow and Sheep
Raguna is anxious to find out what this Tree Rune Stone will bring him, so after he does his normal farming duties, he takes Spring with him to Whale Island. They battle their way past the usual batch of monsters and down to the door with the pillar next to it. He inserts the stone into the slot on the pillar, and a dim brownish-yellow light shines over it, opening the door and revealing TREASURE! A Ruby, A Fire Crystal, and a Cheap Band. Surely, there must be something Raguna could make with these components, but it appears he doesn't have the right recipe for them just yet.
But he's not done there, no sir (and madam)! He heads out to the fin of the what and nabs himself a Wooly and a Buffamoo. The bruises he's received from trying to tame a Buffamoo that enjoys repeatedly headbutting him will surely go away in time, with or without Lara's help. Wool (the Wooly) can provide wool for Raguna, which can then be spun into yarn once he gets a maker. Momo (the Buffamoo) will eventually give out delicious milk, which should be good for making butter. Like Spring, these two monsters can't do anything to help out around the farm (since they lack opposable thumbs and such).
When Raguna returns to the surface, he goes around town giving away some of the new dishes he prepared the previous night. It seems that Wend er, I mean Selphy, is a big fan of rice balls...especially when prepared hot. He later goes to Snowstyle to get some more ingredients from Rita to start the process all over again.
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You can only milk the Buffamoo? Not slaughter it and use all its bits and pieces for everything under the sun?
"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~Madrugada
I have seen the amateur, and it is me.
Unless there are recipes in the game that require meat, I'm afraid not. Even then...have you really ever tasted buffalo?
Rock On
Yes. It was tasty.
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Episode 19 - The Not Quite Dead Green Monster and the Floating Gardener
Anette comes by right on time, as expected. She must eat a lot of high energy meals. She mentions a rumor about a monster in the Green Ruins that lays really big eggs, and says that they might taste good boiled. Wait a minute, Raguna thinks to himself. Didn't I just beat a big monster down there not too long ago? He tries to take his mind off it by gathering up all of the strawberries, cucumbers and turnips that he's grown this season. Soon, he's going to have to cut most of them down to ring in the changing seasons.
He goes to check on his monsters, and they all still appear to be in good health and high spirits. Little Spring seems to pump out a random bag of seeds every few days when exposed to the Harvester. Today, Raguna obtains a bag of turnip seeds, which will have to be planted underground due to, uh..."time constraints". He also opts to put Puyo on rock clean-up duty, but does't expect a whole lot from it since it's Puyo's first time. He spends some time chopping some lumber, in preparation for the big addition he plans to make to his forge in the coming days.
He bumps into Cinnamon and Candy at the bathhouse later that night, where Cinnamon tells him a bit more about the Turnip and Serpent constellations he saw. Apparently, the turnip one came about after some guy ate a few turnips before going off to kill a giant catfish. (If I've learned anything from my video game history, giant catfish can be highly dangerous...think of all the earthquakes!) Another constellation, the Crown, is said to be visible at midnight. Raguna goes to Lake Poli to kill some time fishing. When it gets close to 11:30, he hurries over to the observatory where he waits for it to show up...but he can't see it clearly, because there are clouds in the way. Disappointed, he uses his Return spell to get back to his house so that he can get enough sleep to wake up on time the next day.
The clouds have given way to more rain. There are still a lot of tree stumps and rocks on the field, so Raguna goes off to Whale Island in search of some new monsters to assist him with cleanup. He tries taming a goblin, a poison-spitting soldier ant of unusual size, and an orc archer, only to learn * that they didn't have the right skills to suit his needs.
His journey to the island leads him to a totally different discovery: a lone tower on the fin that is locked by day, but at night, a girl (with Mismatched Eyes) comes out briefly to water some plants, and then locks the door behind her without saying a word. He wonders what she could be doing there, and why she would hole herself up on an island full of monsters. Monster extermination time? Perhaps, but that will have to wait for another day, for there is more farming to be done tomorrow.
I hope you get tiny bits of eggshell in all your omelettes for the rest of your life!
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Episode 20: Innocent Flower Girls
Still no new mail, but Anette tells Raguna that she got a flower from Eunice this morning. He asks around town about the flowers, and everyone else says that Eunice came to them with flowers as well. Raguna walks over to the business district to greet Eunice, and she gives him a moondrop flower, too. She says that she likes to watch the flowers grow during the spring, and hopes that sharing the flowers with everyone will make them smile. Aww...
Unfortunately, Raguna is RUNNING OUT OF TIME to plant new crops, so he harvests the strawberries and turnips that he has and cuts them down to make room for the summer crops. Puyo is getting a little better at clearing out the rocks, but there's still entirely too much garbage on the field, so he goes down to the Green Ruins with Orcy in tow to continue his search for someone who can efficiently chop wood. His journey leads him to B3, where he runs into a wolf mage. Instead of trying to defeat it straight up (because he can laugh off its fireballs), he uses his Pet Glove to cool it down, and then gives it the name Maggey. He also snags one of the fungus monsters (called a Big Muck; he names it Biggie...no, not him), wondering what sorts of things he can get from it.
With Raguna's monster roster expanding, he'll need to grow some more grass if he wants to keep them well-fed. He also wants to expand his house again, but according to Kross, he's not going to have enough money or wood to make another extension yet, even with today's profits. A lab expansion costs 15,000 gold and 180 wood, while a forge extension (the one Raguna is shooting for, because he needs a tool update) is worth 20,000 gold and 240 wood.
But wait! Eunice isn't the only one who's feeling in a giving mood. Sister Stella gives Raguna a Toy Herb flower, which brings significantly more than Moondrops do, because they're so common.
The next day marks the last day of spring, and with no new crops to farm, Raguna decides to take a walk to Whale Island yet again, this time with Maggey in tow. While Maggey's fireball shower looks impressive, Raguna winds up doing most of the legwork. He still can't get the girl with the weird eyes to talk to him, so he goes back home.
Everyone around town is excited about the Beach opening up for the holiday. Raguna doesn't know whether or not he'd fit in, because he doesn't remember bringing a bathing suit. Maybe someone will provide one for him...
Kanno has a new assignment for Raguna: "I WANT...an EMERALD". So Raguna goes home and gets one from his not-so-secret stash. Kanno is mildly pleased, but now he wants Raguna to bring him a Thick Stick (uh...) Raguna doesn't have one of those, so he says goodbye and awaits the appearance of the Crown constellation (which he misses...again).
Intermission 1: 1st Year of Spring Progress Report
And with that, Raguna's first season in Trampoli has come to a close. Let's take a closer look at how our hero has progressed so far, shall we?
Combat
Raguna has done a lot of fighting since moving in here...and I mean a lot of fighting. He's already gone from level 1 to level 20 in 30 days' work on the island. His Weapons aptitude is an impressive 35, while his Magic aptitude is decent at 15, even though he favors his custom-made Flame Sabre over the Fire Wand given to him by Kanno.
Farming
His farming skills are pretty good, since he's tried to maintain small areas of crops instead of trying to clear out everything on the farm. At the end of the season, his "farming" rating is a keen 26, while Lumber 1 and Hammer 2 are both solidly at 21. It still takes quite a bit of effort for Raguna to clear a tree stump with his upgraded Axe, and he tires out after breaking two of them up (that's 20 pieces of wood; not bad, wouldn't you say?)
Production
Raguna is still only a novice fisherman, with a rating of 12, but that could change come summertime, when he finally gets the forge upgrade so that he can further build on his tools. He's become a great cook (30 Cooking), is decent at medicine-making (18 Lab) and forging materials (16 Forge), but still needs work on accessory crafting (11 Craft).
Relationships
Raguna's personal "love quest" is progressing slowly, but surely. Currently in the lead for his hand in video game marriage is the reclusive bookworm Selphy, with a Happiness rating of 1 and a Love rating of 2. Inverting this trend, on the Just Friends end of the scale (2/1 in Happiness and Love) are Rosetta and Melody. Mist is next with 1/1, while Lara, Eunice and Uzuki have one Happiness smiley, but no Love Hearts. The two remaining girls Raguna has met so far, Cinnamon and Anetta, have varying degrees of friendliness toward Raguna, but not yet enough to let him know that they're interested in him.
edited 17th Feb '10 7:58:19 AM by WillyFourEyes
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Did you talk to Rosetta after the encounter with the girl on the island? She will tell you about a legend of Moondrop flowers which you will need to get her interest.
As for the Thick Stick, so you've finally arrived at one of the two point in the game which spawned multitudes of GameFAQs threads asking how to progress. One of the monsters in the Lava Ruins has it, but in order to get to the Lava Ruins in the first place, you are supposed to place a Tree Runey in that plant outside the Observatory.
Episode 12: Raguna and the Chitterling (Part the Second)
The next day is a rainy one, so Raguna can skip the watering phase of his workout and go straight to dungeon diving again. He didn't get any mail today, but he's sure to make some coin from the strawberries he's grown.
Raguna and Chit travel back down to B2 using the shortcut. They have even more time to go around the dungeon and whack some enemies due to the energy Raguna saved by not watering the lawn.
Even with Chit by his side, Raguna seems to get the lion's share of the offense. By the end of the journey, Raguna's gone up three levels, and Chit only one, though it had to bow out early after being nearly trampled to crippling injury by a buffalo-cow hybrid. This is after they had to wade through handfuls of magic-slinging kobolds, wandering chickens, and bees.
Raguna himself gets stung by one, and has to sustain himself with energy drinks just to make it back to the infirmary to get Lara to give him a cure. Antidote herbs are cheap to make at home...it's just that Raguna forgot his.
With everyone getting some much-needed "inside time" due to rain, Raguna decides to visit the business district and say "hello" to everyone. At the inn, he learns that Uzuki's staying in Trampoli in order to find clues about her missing older brother. They apparently got separated on a train.
Meanwhile, on his daily trip to the bath house, he overhears Selphy complaining that her boobs are too big. Interestingly, Nolan is not here today. Could it be because of the rain? Maybe he, too, has an aversion to big-chested women? Whatever the case, Raguna isn't going to heal easily today.
Though the weather is lousy for logging and anything else that might require actually working on a field, it's still a good day to do some more fishing. To mark this occasion, Raguna whips himself up a straw hat and gets to work, scouting the rivers and beaches around the farm for the best catches. The beach seems like a good place to find fish other than carp and trout, but unless Raguna upgrades his fishing rod soon, he won't see anything other than level 5 fish for quite some time. Looks like an upgrade to the forge is in the works, and hopefully Lute and Kross can help out with that.
edited 4th Feb '10 3:13:56 PM by WillyFourEyes
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