Sixteenth session of The Abyss: Dark secrets and a new boat.
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After the team goes back to the Daath Bay, they talk about their next move. Jade proposes visiting the emperor in Grand Chokmah, but he says they can't go with the Tartarus because they might think they have hostile intentions. They decide to dock on the broken bridge from the beginning of the game and continue all the way there by walking. However, while they were going to Rotherlo Bridge, the ship crashes with a seamine, and they need reparations before they can continue. They stop in Keterburg, the birthplace of Jade. It's a winter town, full of snow. It appears that it holds a lot of hotels and other tourist attractions, like a casino (I lost in poker twice and moved on). Jade tells some story about the emperor's lover, and that she might be the reason the town has so many recreational things in it. They go to the governor to ask for the needed repairs for the boat. Once they reach the governor's house, they find Nephry there, Jade's sister and the governor of the town. She's surprised to see her brother, because there were rumours around that Jade had died in Aktzeriut. She promises help with the boat, and sends them all to the inn to get some rest. All but Luke. She asks Luke to meet her in private. Once they are alone, she tells him the origin story of the fomicry technology. Apparently, at the age of 9, Jade was a genius and created fomicry simply to fix one of his sister's dolls. Luke is impressed by that, but Nephry continues. She says Jade didn't really understood the importance between life and death, killing small monsters just for the heck of it, and that once his talents were discovered, they were adopted by an important family. He was then put under the tutelage of a professor that could use the seventh fonon. Because Jade couldn't do that, he admired her a lot, but one day one of his experiments malfunctioned and accidentally killed the professor. He tried to make a replica of her, but instead he made some sort of monster. Jade should have watched Full Metal Alchemist before trying a stunt like that. Nephry asks Luke to take care of her brother. When Luke goes back to the team, Jade asks Luke about his discussion with his sister, and guarantees Luke he has no intention of resurrecting the proffesor anymore, simply because whatever the result of the cloning would be, it wouldn't be the same person. The next day, the repairs are finished, and the team goes on their way.
They reach the broken bridge and they walk to the Theor Forest. Once there, some soldiers stop the group and ask Jade to come with them. Jade goes with them, and after what seems like a long time, something goes wrong. The team decides to follow Jade, but there are some wounded guards, and they say the oracle knights are here! After a stealth section I got tired with and just fought everyone on my way, they find the oracle knights. Largo appears and tries to ambush the team, but Natalia manages to keep him under controll. Then, out of nowhere, Guy tries to attack Luke! It must be that curse, haven't they cured it already? There's an earthquake, and Natalia manages to find Sync and snipes him, like a boss! Guy falls to the ground unconscious. The Oracle Knights ask them to give Ion, but then reinforcements arrive, and they have to run away. The team enters the city with the woulded Guy, and send them to the hospital with Ion, so they can finally eliminate that curse. Tear is very confused about the curse, and says Guy couldn't have attacked Luke if he didn't have an intent to kill him in the first place. So Guy hates Luke? That's a first, he's been the only one that trusted Luke after his return. What's going on? Luke has a bit of a tantrum, but it's quickly shut down by Tear. The team goes to meet the emperor, who is a friend of Jade. Once there, the emperor Peony informs the team that the town of St. Binah is in danger of sinking into the abyss, and he can't send troops because it could be interpreted as an act of war. Luke asks the emperor to go himself, and he agrees. They go to St. Binah, but not before going back to get Guy. He has been healed of the cursed slot, but he's sad. Luke apologizes in advance, but Guy tells him it's not his fault. Apparently, Guy came from a village that was destroyed by Luke's family during the war. Wanting revenge, Guy entered at the service of the Fabre's family searching for an oportunity to get even, but he never did. He says he's sorry and the wants to keep being on the team. Eveyone's glad nothing happened, and thus, they go to St. Binah.
Once they reach the town, they start evacuating the city, but they are attacked by one of the machines of Dist. They keep getting sillier and sillier, but nonetheless it's a decent fight. Once it's beaten, Dist retreats, but his interruption causes half of the population of St. Binah to get trapped when the ground starts sinking. The team decides to go to a place where someone was developing a flying machine, to rescue the remaining townspeople. They go to Sheridan, the city of craftsmen, and they try to find someone to ask about the flying machine. They find some people that say the machine was stranded in the desert, and the pilot might be in danger. So the team goes there, fights a dinosaur (of course), and rescues the ship and the pilot. They explain the situation and why they need the machine, and the owners give it to them. The ship is broken, so they have to repair it by adding some of the pieces of Tartarus. We won't be able to use that boat again. A bit underwhelming that goodbye, that ship has been around since the beginning, and now we don't even get a goodbye scene, it's just "hey, we have a planecopter now, cool". So they get the planecopter, they rescue the townspeople before St.Binah sinks, and they bring them to Yulia City. More another day.
