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yeah, the stakes for that one are just much higher, so I'd rather we make sure it gets done.
Oh, this is going to be a fun scene at some point, isn't it?
Note how Mariana immediately perks up upon hearing Erika mentioned. 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
Trails of Tera Steel (Kiseki-inspired Pokemon Academy Quest)
- Thread starter ArvisPresley
- Start date
Not doing an optional task does have its merits for sure but I think the potential story beats atm are too good to pass up
I think it's very possible to get Drilbur to 2-badge level if we take Dig Deep this turn. If we use the exp gain from this round of tasks as precedent, she'll likely advance next turn should we choose to take the Dig Deep action.
Edit: We're actually certain to get Drilbur to 2-badge level if we take either Dig Deep or The Other Half of the Battle + an Herbal Horticulture and succeed our rolls.
Edit: We're actually certain to get Drilbur to 2-badge level if we take either Dig Deep or The Other Half of the Battle + an Herbal Horticulture and succeed our rolls.
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- Location
- Wisconsin
Shouldn't these be Greatly Increase due to the gifts we bought? Or are those only for the standard Bonding Actions?
- Location
- England
Need the New Game+ bond point increase.
Have all the friends.
Elise would strike us down in an instant. Never get between a JRPG protagonist and her sidequests.
Chimeraguard
We do deserve to exist.
From the bolded bit, I think it's important that we take the action with Roland, given that we just added another member to the team that he also doesn't get along with. I don't expect things to be solved in a single action, but I think it's important to start work now when the upcoming Gym Battle is gonna be a 2v2, so Roland's gonna have to learn to work with others.
- Location
- Wisconsin
Here's some alternate plans, since I do like the idea but want a different bonding event.
[] Plan: Forest Cat-Therapy
-[] Day Two Optional Task: The Lost Woods
-[] Crystalline Cat
[] Plan: Herbal Cat-Therapy
-[] Day Two Optional Task: Herbal Horticulture
-[] Crystalline Cat
Edit: Just to remind everyone, every Renne Bond Point we don't get here will cost 1 Bonding Action and 1 AP in the Main Weeks.
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- Location
- Earth
If we use Drillbur in the Gym Trainer test, we'll probably get XP from that as well. I'm thinking we do the Lost Woods then either Roland's bond or The Other Half.
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- They/Them
Those are only for in-week actions, not the FE actions, yeah.
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- She/Her
[] Plan: Ignore Sidequests; Train with Roland.
-[] Song of Roland
-[] The Other Half of the Battle
Not that ignoring the optional tasks is something we should be doing (since we'd likely miss out on money, materials, and stat xp), though this is probably what I'd go with if we're willing to do that. I'm unconvinced that we should do the Renne bond action right now since Roland's bond seems more important to maintain along with training our drillbur.
-[] Song of Roland
-[] The Other Half of the Battle
Not that ignoring the optional tasks is something we should be doing (since we'd likely miss out on money, materials, and stat xp), though this is probably what I'd go with if we're willing to do that. I'm unconvinced that we should do the Renne bond action right now since Roland's bond seems more important to maintain along with training our drillbur.
Aliya
Someone I might become
- Location
- Kazakhstan
- Pronouns
- They/She/It
[] Plan: Dragon Rescue
-[] Day Two Optional Task: The Lost Woods
-[] Song of Roland
I shall support this because I want to spend time with our boi and also because the Pawniard mentioned that their sister killed a human, and we have a missing human...
-[] Day Two Optional Task: The Lost Woods
-[] Song of Roland
I shall support this because I want to spend time with our boi and also because the Pawniard mentioned that their sister killed a human, and we have a missing human...
- Location
- United Kingdom
Me, a fool: It sure will be difficult to decide which two tasks we'll want to pick other than the Gym of the three that look good.
The QM: Have 6 of them instead.
My inner minmaxer is screaming at me to do Other Half and Do as the Rimeans do, but the arguments for Roland are convincing. I'd be fine leaving the Optional Tasks alone to better focus on gym prep and socials, but the increasing DC of the Lost Woods has me wary of leaving it any longer.
I guess a Roland social might be doable tomorrow as well, if it's in the morning?
The QM: Have 6 of them instead.
My inner minmaxer is screaming at me to do Other Half and Do as the Rimeans do, but the arguments for Roland are convincing. I'd be fine leaving the Optional Tasks alone to better focus on gym prep and socials, but the increasing DC of the Lost Woods has me wary of leaving it any longer.
I guess a Roland social might be doable tomorrow as well, if it's in the morning?
I think this should be 22,000?
I wonder if Ostia caught a pokemon here when they were looking in the forest.
This is interesting. Looks like each of the options for our third mon would've had a different reason for knowing Curse, unless this is because they literally grew up in the shadow of someone that meant they learned Curse?
CedeTheBees
Probably high right now
- Location
- Somewhere
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- They/Them
Sidequests feel like a smaller priority right now than training. We gotta make sure our team is as strong as it can be.
Definitely voting for these:
[] Plan: Ignore Sidequests; Train with Roland.
-[] Song of Roland
-[] The Other Half of the Battle
[] Plan: 2-Badge Drilbur By Friday
-[] Dig Deep
-[] The Other Half of the Battle
But I'm tossing a couple more on the pile too:
[] Plan: Convince Renne to Fight
-[] Crystalline Cat
-[] The Other Half of the Battle
[] Plan: Grand Entrance
-[] Knowing is Half the Battle
-[] The Other Half of the Battle
Definitely voting for these:
[] Plan: Ignore Sidequests; Train with Roland.
-[] Song of Roland
-[] The Other Half of the Battle
[] Plan: 2-Badge Drilbur By Friday
-[] Dig Deep
-[] The Other Half of the Battle
But I'm tossing a couple more on the pile too:
[] Plan: Convince Renne to Fight
-[] Crystalline Cat
-[] The Other Half of the Battle
[] Plan: Grand Entrance
-[] Knowing is Half the Battle
-[] The Other Half of the Battle
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[] Plan: Two 2-Badge Levels
-[] Day Two Optional Task: Herbal Horticulture
-[] The Other Half of the Battle
If I'm not mistaken this plan gets us the 800 Poke XP that Drilbur needs to become 2-badge level given we succeed our mandatory task.
[] Plan: Dig Deep and Get Smart
-[] Day Two Optional Task: The Lost Woods
-[] Dig Deep
Likewise, if I'm not mistaken, this plan will net us 600 stat points, pushing our KNOW to 8, and give Drilbur 700 Poke XP (leaving only 100 XP to reach Badge 2-level) if we suceed our rolls.
Also, regarding this plan:
-[] Day Two Optional Task: Herbal Horticulture
-[] The Other Half of the Battle
If I'm not mistaken this plan gets us the 800 Poke XP that Drilbur needs to become 2-badge level given we succeed our mandatory task.
[] Plan: Dig Deep and Get Smart
-[] Day Two Optional Task: The Lost Woods
-[] Dig Deep
Likewise, if I'm not mistaken, this plan will net us 600 stat points, pushing our KNOW to 8, and give Drilbur 700 Poke XP (leaving only 100 XP to reach Badge 2-level) if we suceed our rolls.
Also, regarding this plan:
Doesn't Herbal Horticulture give 400 Poke EXP to all our pokemon without a roll, making it a better choice than Dig Deep? Or am I reading things wrong? I assumed the Optional tasks gave Poke EXP to all of the pokemon in our party.
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- She/They
I see I'm going to have to do some campaigning for the people who haven't played Trails.
Although really, it comes down to two things:
1. Training to be the very best like no one ever was is our personal ambition. Serving the people of Paldea as up-and-coming civil servants and/or soldiers is our job.
2. The sidequests, especially the forest one, are definitely leading into the plot mysteries we've established so far, and I really, really think it would behoove us to learn as much as we can about what's going on before things inevitably come to a head on Friday.
That said @ArvisPresley important question: is the reward for Lost Woods supposed to be "PROW XP" instead of "STAT XP"? Or does it really go to all of our stats?
In Trails games, sidequests are very much a priority.
The purpose of class VII is to show the country that nobles and commoners can work together and basically be the catalyst for change.
This is mostly done by helping/saving everyone and their grandmother, so that one day when we need help, we'll get it from those we helped before.
Edit: also, I don't know if this will carry over, but in the games the field exercises are graded and the only way to get the highest grade is to do all the optional missions and one hidden mission per trip.
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Bloody*Vermilion
The newbie of newbies on this site
- Location
- Canada
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His/Etc
A shiny! That's a surprise.
Okay, there's no need for that, you have already won.
Ohhhhhhh, that's dirty.
Okay, I'm starting to get where Renne is getting from.
Ah, so they are like Millium then.
Huh, not what I expected for her third pokemon.
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- She/They
[] Plan: Dragon Rescue
-[] Day Two Optional Task: The Lost Woods
-[] Song of Roland
[] Plan: Forest Cat-Therapy
-[] Day Two Optional Task: The Lost Woods
-[] Crystalline Cat
I've talked myself around to definitely rescuing Watterson before the DC goes up any higher, but I'm undecided between the story rhythm of hanging out with Roland or the long-term benefits of hanging out with Renne. I might do the former Wednesday and hope we have space for the latter Thursday.
[] Plan: Dig Deep and Get Smart
-[] Day Two Optional Task: The Lost Woods
-[] Dig Deep
This is also plausible for the Poké XP, and would hopefully get Drilbur to Badge 2 when combined with the Gym Trainer fight (or even the first part of the Katie fight given that we've seen Pokémon gain levels and even evolve mid-battle here).
Man. I really want to scout out her roster but we just don't have the time...
-[] Day Two Optional Task: The Lost Woods
-[] Song of Roland
[] Plan: Forest Cat-Therapy
-[] Day Two Optional Task: The Lost Woods
-[] Crystalline Cat
I've talked myself around to definitely rescuing Watterson before the DC goes up any higher, but I'm undecided between the story rhythm of hanging out with Roland or the long-term benefits of hanging out with Renne. I might do the former Wednesday and hope we have space for the latter Thursday.
[] Plan: Dig Deep and Get Smart
-[] Day Two Optional Task: The Lost Woods
-[] Dig Deep
This is also plausible for the Poké XP, and would hopefully get Drilbur to Badge 2 when combined with the Gym Trainer fight (or even the first part of the Katie fight given that we've seen Pokémon gain levels and even evolve mid-battle here).
Man. I really want to scout out her roster but we just don't have the time...
StattStatt
Supplier of suspenders for your disbelief
- Location
- On one of your shoulders
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I'm considering if we could just ask Nemona and/or Atticus if they may have some tips since it seems they'll probably fight Katie before us, but it might not be enough to really matter on such a short notice
- Location
- United Kingdom
I feel like The Other Half is just better than Dig Deep in pretty much every way. Except narratively I guess, though considering the latter doesn't actualy require battling we could always do it tomorrow morning instead?
Dig Deep just maximizes Drilbur's Poke EXP gain tbh, and is a relatively easy check only needing to roll a 3 or higher. We could probably level up Drilbur during the 1st Gym Battle just as easily doing The Other Half and The Lost Woods instead, while also getting more bonds with different character and forgoing the roll altogether. We'd also still be leveling up KNOW.
- Location
- United Kingdom
Aww. I just realised we're guaranteed to get KNOW XP during the Mandatory task, which means our dreams of a full KNOW turn next week are probably dead.
EDIT: Though actually, @ArvisPresley are there any consequences to failing these rolls?
Wasn't there some speculation that bad things will happen if we don't get Roland to Bond 3 before he evolves? I vaguely remember that being a thing.
KnownParadox
Not a sphere
- Location
- Canada
You know, out of every Bond action here I bet Crystalline Cat will still be around the next day, there doesn't seem to be any circumstances that make it so we have to do it today. I think we can afford to hold off on that one specifically.
Basically, dragons and ghosts are temperamental and Roland is both, plus he does seem to want to kill Renne. So in effort to not have him go full Ash's Charmeleon on us and the rest of our team we want him at Bond 3 or maybe even Bond 4 before he evolves into a much more powerful Drakloak.
- Location
- Philippines
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Does anyone else think the ambition traits' colors being similar is a coincidence or not?