Third session of The Abyss: Where we kill a lion-turkey and we are trapped on the boat.
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After promising the elder cheagle to deal with their predators, I grind for a while on the forest before continuing. I realize that my methode of fighting is just spamming regular attacks while jumping, need to improve my combat. We arrive at the liger's nest. The liger queen looks like a mix between a giant lion, and a turkey, and she's protecting her eggs. Suddenly that makes everyone go crazy. The ligur seems as sentient and intelligent as the cheagles, ans she warns the team to back off and leave her and her eggs alone, but Tears said they have to kill the ligur. Apparently the ligur kids like to eat humans, and without the rest of the forest, they will attack the town. Luke is understandably doubtful, but fights anyway. First boss-fight of the game? Not really. The thing kept hurting Luke and Luke hurts the ligur. After a while, Luke and Tear say "it's too much for us, we can't take her". Was that a scripted boss? I used potions, why would you make me use potions on a scripted boss-fight!? From nowhere, the blond military guy and his friend from the town appear, and with them, the ligur falls quickly. The eggs die (awww :(, I want the ligur to eat some cheagles).
This raises a lot of questions. If the ligurs represented a threat for the town and the sacred cheagles, why haven't the military ended them before? Why do the Lorelei people have an alliance with the cheagles instead of the ligurs if they are both intelligent and sentient? If they just killed the ligur queen, have they just broken the natural equilibrium of the ecosystem of this sacred forest? Without a natural predator, are the cheagles going to breed, swarm and consume the land? The poor ligur was killed by the team while the cute cheagles get to be the mascots. Just because it isn't a cute critter. Poor thing. Luke is disturbed by this, while the rest just accept is as normal. After they go back to the elder cheagle, he thanks the team and gives Luke the little cheagle that burnt down the forest (it's called Miau). The team exits the forest, and Luke and Tear are instantly captured and put under arrest by Jade. And they go on a boat. A boat on land. They get a bit of exposition, and all agree that Luke knows anything about what is happening (neither do I) so Jade let's them free to explore the boat to get to know the curret situation. What's really going on? Will there be war? Will the cheagles bring armageddon upon the land? Next time on Tales of the Abyss.
