Trails of Cold Steel (and the Kiseki series in general)

[Briar King]

I have been enjoying this distant duo situation between Lloyd and Cs teams. Guide says I'm due for another sequence of multi battles with a turn limit for RP which i just don't think i have the will to trigger tonight. It says it won't be near as hard as the last one that gave me so many problems but I'm not risking bad rolls this late. Better to be fresh tomorrow incase I have to restart it. Plus I still need to get some Alloy 4 reading time in today.

 

[Briar King]

Wish me luck! I just went through both the 1st fights and now it’s RP for 40 rounds. That took a long time and I have no want to repeat multiple times before success. I think I ll lose it if I fail here.

 

success!

Edited February 8, 2025 by Briar King

[Briar King]

Holy crap man my neighbor txt me the moment I won that fight and I've been on pause until just 5 mins ago where I could see the skit to follow and get a save file done.

The entire time I was outside I worried about a power outage or my dog somehow turning the PS off lol.

+5RP!

[Briar King]

Oh my....

I just looked at guide to see what I had to look forward to do on Lloyd's side of things in the RF place.... not looking forward to that. I'm still having nightmares from CS2.

[Briar King]

HotdigitydogdamnDO! That was funny! Tita with that high hp with mobius in her main MQ was the difference maker in making that a 1 timer. It really is a fantastic quartz.

Gotta admit to some hmmmmm stuff in the Anguis's dialog there. We ll see what happens.

Time to get back to Nord. I'm unsure if I ll press on with that now or wait for tomorrow. Neighbor is supposed to be on his way soon so idk how long I'd be outside and still have Alloy 4 reading time to complete.

[Briar King]

Ok i actually did continue on for a good little bit and took out a Cryptid in Nord. I also finally made use of the Corridor for the 1st time outside of must go there to continue. Just to go to tree and to access the good trade stations. Will press on tomorrow. I'm going to miss this place! I still find it a crime it doesn't have the same background tune of CS1&2 though...

[Eluvianii he/him]

On the bright side, we have two Nord themes now! New one is not as good but sill really good imo. 

[Briar King]

Woke up at 3:41pm to a txt from my son asking when we're gonna watch the super bowl and I was like what.. walk to the bathroom and he is sitting on the couch in den lol. It wasn't his weekend. He needs to go to the dr tomorrow so his mom dropped him off. So no progress today though I forgot about it being SB Sunday last night when I planned to press onwards last night today. Was a good day with him watching all pregame and game time. 

[Briar King]

Oh my!!! Decided to get on for a quick session to press on. Will get back on after 9pm but this rust is getting fire! I'm going to the Watchtower for the 2nd time when I get back on.

[Briar King]

I think the game just said "Tanner it's time to progress." Like seriously I climbed this tower and found a place to farm fortitude droplets and then go to Nord North and farm magic ones. I did that almost 2 hrs and the game just quit giving me the ones I really wanted...magic. I went 40+ minutes without getting a single one. Got a ton of u mats though.

[Briar King]

HolyeverlovingAidiossauceonastick!

Reverie Rean Act 3 stuff

 

now i could absolutely swear last night when I was going up the tower I saw green clothing leading me to suspect I was going to be fighting a Cassius Bright bot and instead I get a red robed Arios bot.. I'm gonna have to go back and see if I have the initial moment easily redone to see if it was indeed green or red. It's really fast though..

Hmmmmmmm with Cedric basically afk I'm wondering if Schrea is now carrying the future Crown Prince/cess...

Poor Nord has a massive battle going on in it. All this has unfolded over a close to 3 hr session and I'm still not quite done it seems. I have a show down to come at the stone place now that the wings have retaken to the sky.

Not sure if I will proceed with that part tonight or tomorrow. Still Alloy 4 on the schedule. Will leave PS5 on to charge controller a bit and make a decision shortly.

Veryyyyyyy much looking forward to Act 4 and yet not at the same time. So many yrs on this side of Zemuria are coming to an end..

Edited February 12, 2025 by Briar King

[Eluvianii he/him]

The ending to Rean's Act 3 is so good.

[Briar King]

Holy hell that is no joke! L and C’s Act 3 have…..NOTHING on that pure escalation of jazzberry! Obviously I went ahead and finished it rather than finishing out my night before ambien reading. I’m like 30 minutes away from med time so I’m not going further but it’s VERY tempting to put meds off for an hour to see what happens next.

R Act 3 finale stuff

ANOTHER battle kicks off across all of Nord and just when your heart is in your throat as the railways gun fires Rean taps into ascension mode to save the day. Before that I began to fear a repeat of scenes though because I could not connect hits on Arios bot for some reason. Miss miss miss x a lot and it was almost nighttime for me. I have no clue what Tyrfing S is instead of Valimar but I now have a cool Lapis dual eye colored Rean with some lighter hair! That will take some getting used to but I think my favorite is still red eyed CS4 Rean.

Aint no way I ll be able to wait till tomorrow’s 9pm session to continue… will definitely try and get some earlier playtime in during the day.

[Briar King]

Huh that's a surprise in the fact that Act 4 doesn't open with a skit. I can blankly choose between all 3 povs. I decided to go with C and stretch out the mystery from R's epic development.

Watching State of Play now.

[Briar King]

C's Act 4 start stuff

I feel you Duvaile! I'd punch Rufus in the dick to for what he did to your beautiful and scary strong Lord if i were you!

Despite playing for over 3 hours today I didn't get much further then gaining her. Most of my time went into crafting the old top accessory items ex Still Blue etc(man I can't wait to be able to afford the new upgraded things. That and I really focused on upgrading some of these combo quartz ex Def/Adf + 400. All of this because of the quick silver carp fish spot. Those 9 u mats a catch add up! Ignore the fact I have over 1000.. I'm keeping that as a min as some of these trades require 999 u mats. So I fished for about 400 of them and went on a craft spree. I got Renne up to 3K Adf/def at lvl 121 and Rufus at a balanced atk/ats of 2.7K after quartz and items. Man I can't wait to be able to do this and go even higher with people on R&L's roster that is around that(thanks to droplets) already without having these quartz available in Act 3.

Let's see what tomorrow brings!

[Briar King]

Short session on C's Act 4 stuff

ok this was a bit much and a point against the awesome this game has brought...2 more Arios bots followed by Arios himself. It's a bit to over done. I'm looking forward to seeing those 2 talk to Ian if all goes as planned.

One difference is that I seem to be able to continue onwards after getting the mirror scene unlike Act 2&3. I'm not sure if I'll do so though once main game time comes later on or switch to Lloyd. I'm saving Rean for last engagement since not only that last Act was so epic but I'm more partial to Rean and company since my Heroes trek began with CS. Kinda want to go out them choice wise as this part of Zemuria comes to a close.

I LL BE BACK LATER!

[Briar King]

Huh ok then I guess there goes my plan to just have one save file for this part of game no big deal. C&L Act 4 stuff

so yeah I pressed onwards into the prison for some of these chest items and the recipe after Rufus mirror scene. Veryyyy nice exp farm spot for the lvls my toons were at it turned out and I shot up 2 whole lvls until I reached recipe where I intended to engage Ls route..

I've been in alot of skits since then and running around areas near Mainz that i remember well from recent CB play through. Always makes me grin when I get to these old new areas that weren't in CS3&4! Anyway I'm currently working on scanning and running away since I'm just with L and Noel. Looking forward to reuniting with Randy and his gal Mireille shortly. Maybe tonight but for sure tomorrow.

Anyway it blocked off Rufus's route from going any further so they are stuck at the chest and I have to throw up a new save file.

See yall sooner or later homies!

[Briar King]

L Act 4 stuff

oh SNAP! I knew Randy was going to come out swinging when I wasn't fighting but 4 of the larger group of EDF soldiers. I tell yall what I had completely forgotten about in the months i started playing Rev ago was that Machis and Towa were in CB which instantly came back to me when I saw them and an extra thought of wait wheres Dudley at when he was absent from the scenes. Also oh no Mireille!! Randy is on a mission to save his gal and I'm here to see The Red Reaper!

So I got the mirror skit but I'm going to walk this dialog round around Mainz and look at guide to see if i can get any good items easily like I did with C's group before I engage R's route.

So I imagine since I got up a bit early today and got my reading time with Alloy 4 and Sloglight Archive over with I'll just stay on for the next 50 minutes till good one ambien time. I ll post again if anything else happens with what I do till then.

Off to waterpik my teeth now so not all playtime till then.

[Briar King]

Oh cool Heathcliff and Mercedes is here the Romeo and Juliette couple from CS3&4! That's pretty neat.

Wish the Count(?) and his constantly spending his money daughter from CS1&2 would show up at some point just to get a lol. 

Dang man Branch Manager Cirdan is here and I got excited when I saw him thinking I was gonna be able to sell my fish horde for droplets but nope not right now. They building up too..ugh

Edited February 14, 2025 by Briar King

[Eluvianii he/him]

Omg, I totally forgot about that father-daughter duo. I genuinely don't remember if they ever got any resolution. 

[Briar King]

I remember being pretty mad they didn't show up in 3 after being in for 2 straight games.

I just found something weird before turning off. Our shotgun weilder has a Mirage colored and placed MQ but the txt is saying Earth quartz for some reason.. also the shop says I can buy a shotgun for our dual pistol gal.. ok...does that show up in battle?

[aneonfoxtribute]

I missed all of these! I got signed out on mobile! Argh!

[Briar King]

Son decided to come this weekend so progress likely won't pick up till Sunday night.

[Briar King]

Looked up Daybreak 2 ultimate. $130! Hopefully it ll get a sale in a month or so.

[aneonfoxtribute]

14 minutes ago, Briar King said:

Looked up Daybreak 2 ultimate. $130! Hopefully it ll get a sale in a month or so.

Yeah uh don't buy the Ultimate. It's way overpriced.