Will something happen this week?!

Garcon rises late in the day, intending to talk to the village chief again:

…or not.

Instead, Perseii explores the rest of the city, north of the three huts he finds:

Jackson asks Yesufu what he is doing:

Playing Awari

Before we play Yesufu and I share our backstories:

Then we get down to playing! I’m not going to show the game, it won’t make a lot of sense. If you are really curious about the game you can check the wiki article. At the end:

We play another game and this time Yesufu wins:

That is enough for now, I promised you something was going to happen in this update! Anyway, playing Awari with Yesufu raises your intelligence stat.

West of the huts is a practice range. Garcon practices a little here.

“You’re not my real mom!”

Despite that Perseii chucks some spears:

We do some more spear throwing and get progressively worse, for some reason. Helpfully, Uhuru is here to make us feel worse about ourself. So, we leave and head east.

Walk the Line

“Don’t you have a job to do or something? Instead of harass me all morning?

“Curses!”

Knowing that Uhura will make fun of him if he fails, Jackson mounts the beam:

Garcon crosses the beam a couple of times and in so doing raises his dexterity. If we were a fighter practicing the spear throwing and beam crossing would be more important because the fighter’s class mission requires him to become a Simbani warrior and excel in those areas. Being a thief though all the do for Perseii is raise stats. Having fully explored the village Jackson moves out into the Jungle. Our first stop? The pond south of the village:

Jungle Times!

At the spring Garcon fills his waterskins:

We then cast detect magic:

Trigger:

“An ‘E?’ What does tha… Oh, Erana! You get around don’t you?”

Nothing else to do here! back into the wilderness! I’m looking for a honeybird feather! Remember we need one of those for the Apothecarist! Honeybirds are a random encounter that usually occurs near the left edge of the first screen or the right edge of the second so we wander around there for awhile:

We follow the bird:

So the bird is playing with the bees and we’re not going to be able to get any where near it. Remember, we can’t kill it either or else the feather is no good. What to do?

“Yeah, this makes sense! I’ll just pour this honey all over the ground here!”

Then he leaves.

and comes back:

As we get close to the bird it flies off; leaving a feather in the honey:

*YOINK*

After spending an entire day wandering the wilderness Jackson finally has a combat encounter:

So… Combat… Yeah…

This is the combat screen. As you can see the game hints at the monsters rather than show them. Fighting consists of clicking on one of the four corner buttons on that square in the bottom-right corner. Starting from the upper-left going clockwise you have slash, stab, dodge left, and dodge right. Clicking on the pentagram brings up your spells.

The magic menu consists of (again starting in the upper-left moving clockwise) lightning, ball, dazzle, force bolt, and flame dart. The three in the center are zap, combat menu, and run away.

The dinosaur was hardly a challenge.

After spending the day out, Garcon heads back to the village, exhuasted, before he goes to sleep though he stops by to take to Yesufu. Except he’s not there, instead:

Story Time!

Still Story Time!

So Talking Time! What do these stories mean? What have Garcon and you learned from the Simbani storyteller?

After finishing with the storyteller, Perseii leaves the village and heads eastward into the thick jungles of Fricana:

Jungle Explorer!

While wandering the jungle Jackson encounters some more of the local fauna:

Garcon heads towards the grossly exaggerated tree:

up, up, and up

Perseii is attacked by glowbugs!

Big Tree

I guess I missed a pic of me picking up a gem, but you can see the ones that were left lying on the ground there… Further into the tree:

Alright! We got what we need to have our future told by the Lion Goddess! I told you something would happen this update! Intrepid explorer that he is Perseii keeps heading east:

Deep Jungle

While wandering near the falls we find:

Jackson opend the trap and the little monkey goes running into the jungle. Only to return:

“I’m sure we’ll never see Manu again and this vignette served no purpose what so ever!”

Garcon runs into a Crocodile Man on his way back to the more civilized parts of Fricana:

“Well, at least this one paid me for wasting my time!”

(combat in this game is a joke! I didn’t even power level in QfG2!)

Oh, the Main Story is Happening?!

The Simbani village guard has some big news to share with us when we arrive:

“No way?! I best go talk to the Laibon!”

We ask him about the spear McGuffin

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We then ask him about the drum McGuffin sitting next to him:

“Is that so! Wow! But,um, how did you get it?”

“Why do you think it was the Leapordmen, again?”

“Look, I don’t know how much you know about a long con, I’m an expert, but I think you’re being set up here…”

Of course, no one listens to the white devil who is only here to steal their natural resources and enslave them…

Perseii goes out back to check out this “prisoner.”

“If you are all so smart how’d the spear get stolen in the first place?”

*crickets*

Jackson tries to talk to the Leapordman but it all it does is:

Maybe next week we can figure out what to do with the prisoner, how to prevent this war, and find out our DESTINY!