Eighth session of The Abyss: Battling animals at the top of the castle.
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After my grinding session is completed, we go back to the Choral Castle. It's a spooky enough place, with ghosts (that all look like duskull and dusclops, by the way) and moving statues all over the place. We have to find two orbs that, when combined, they make a purple orb to open a door. So we go looking for those orbs, grinding on the spirits and other enemies, opening chests with tresaures...
The team finds an enourmus structure inside of the castle. It looks very advanced tech, and none of team members seems to know what it is. The keyword here being seem. Jade "seems" to not know what it is, but he's obviously just hiding the fact he knows that machine. It makes him very nervous, and everyone sees that. Guy the guy starts talking about the possibility of this machine being related to Luke's kidnapping, when suddenly a mouse strartles Annise, who goes and grabs Guy. Guy takes some time to process what just happen, and then he has a panic attack. A really bad panic attack, everyone is shocked to see this. I'm surprised too, what the hell could have caused Guy the guy to act this way. He tells the group he lost a part of his memories too, but in his case, it's just an instant. Because neither Jade nor Guy want to talk about the machine or Guy's past, we continue with a very tense atmosphere around the team.
The team spots one of the big yellow ligurs climbing the stairs to the top of the castle, and one of those heall-all save points appear. Oh, boy. Bossfight incoming. Luke and Anisse quickly go up the stairs, and inmediately get captured by a giant blue bird. Seems that Arietta can control more than ligurs. The bird goes to take Ion, but Anisse saves him. Ion and Arietta discuss some Order of the Lorelei backstory, and the rest of the team arrives. I love Tear's reaction here. She sees Luke being dragged by the bird and, with the biggest deadpan expression on her face, she says Luke should be more careful. Everyone is thinking it too, Tear! Luke is grabbed by Dist, the gentleman on a chair (that's the only thing he's done so far) and he goes off.
Luke wakes up strapped onto that machine from before, and he hears part of a conversation between Sync and Dist. Apparently there's some sort of perfect creation (is Luke a robot? Twist?) and Sync says Van should punish Asch for being sloppy. So Van is with them! I knew it! Dist goes "to analyze this data! huehuehuehue". After Luke tries to ask Sync some questions... Guy the Guy appears! He takes a DVD away from Sync and fights with him. He hits him and takes away his mask (you were right Cone, it was a mask). Guy is shocked, becuse he recognizes who Sync is behind the mask, and Sync takes advantage of that and runs away. When the team reunites, Guy gives the fon DVD (it has fonic information apparently) to Tear, so she could take a look later.
They go back to the roof, and Luke uses Mieu's fire to block the blue bird. After all are on the roof, they fight. And it ends really quick. I overleveled. I fight the yellow ligur while everyone else fights Arietta. The ligur dies fast, and I change to the blue bird (I thought it was one of those bosses that you need to end the minions before going for the main boss), but while I was fighting the bird, Arietta is defeated. Well, now I have a decent level advantage against the enemies.
By the way, there's a green bar under the HP and SP bars, and I don't know how to use that. Did I skip that on accident, or I haven't reach its tutorial yet?
After defeating Arietta, Jade tries to execute her. Ion doesn't want to kill her, but luckily Van appears and says he will take her as a prissioner. Luke, you herd the other two bad guy talking about how Van was with them, do something! But he doesn't, and they rescue the engineer. They go back to the docks, repair the ship, and go back to Malkuth territory.
We take the ship, a real one this time. Luke starts hearing voices again, which is really unnerving. Do not ingnore it, Luke, you aren't going insane, you already ARE! But anyway, he talks with everyone on the team, Tear says something of Luke possibly being a seventh fonist, Anisse teases Luke more, Ion wants to bring peace, Guy talks about the good old days... And, out of nowhere, the voices take over Luke's body! What the hell! And they seem to want him to jump out of the boat! Someone call a doctor and an exhorcist!! Luckily, Van is there and saves him from the voices. He tells Luke that maybe the reason for him being recluded on the castle is because he might be one of the most powerful fonists ever. Luke is angry about that, but he plans to be a hero so they leave him free.
They arrive at the desert town of Chesedonia. Van goes with Arietta (he has her on his arms, he doesn't even tie her up, is nobody seeing how he is the villain??) while the team goes to the town. They come across a group of thives called the Dark Wing, possibly the bandits at the beginning of the game. I'll save here, more game for another day.
