#octo traveler 1 quest log

[omaskit]

Session 4: I lose some respect for Cyrus

I've offically removed the 1 person chapter 1 rule. I just don't think it's possible without overleveling the heck out of your party. If you want to see the rules they are here.

I've got 2 1/2 hours before I have to leave for IRL, let's see how far we can get. Side quest time

Girl you saw someone DIE?! REPORT THAT!

ACAB

$5,000?! The bartender's getting greedy

The ice things aren't weak to fire?

Therion's constantly screaming. Bro gotta go to therapy you can't just keep beating up monsters

Well shit gang, I'm not sure if we have anything against these ants.

Nvm we have staff

girl you missed so many times

Bro's cows are is priority.

I just realized how stupid rich the flatlands are. Atlasdam AND noblecorte? Outside of the cult on the edge they are living it up!

Why does this kid have such good thief awareness? The dialouge implies that Therion's trying to trick her. boy just pick her pockets!

"Perhaps I should have a little chat with him. Just to make sure we 'understand' one another" Cyrus what does that mean?!

Dude only has two students

Ew he has people look up shit in the textbook.

Bro have them engaged in critical thought! Not textbook searching!

WHAT A STUCK UP!

TEACHER'S PET!

These 8 clans never come back again

There's so much history that never comes back again!

Bro so excited about history

Class is over thank god

HE ASSIAIGNS READING HOMEWORK?! MOTHER FUCKER I WOULD FAIL YOUR CLASS!

T E A C H E R S P E T!

I love that the librarian is named after a car

Is- Is everyone in love with Cyrus? Is Odette the only one not in love with Cyrus?

I think I just robbed the castle suppiles

bro so excited to read books

IS Everyone in love with Cyrus?! Seriously?!

You cited your sources what's wrong with you?!

Bro how do learn anything?? How are acedemic papers done if you can't cite sources?! How do you anything new???!!

Cyrus hates this guy SO MUCH

They hate each other so much

Therese what was your plan?! You report Cyrus and then....Profit?! Girl they're just gonna fire him!

What if this Tome wasn't stolen. What if it was just misplaced?

You're gonna ask the headmaster? You hate the headmaster!

Russell don't tell them about your motive!

Was the headmaster a suspect?! That's hilarious!

Nothing's weak to knives

Alright boss tim- random encounter

Russell: Tells us his motive and that he knows how valuable the book is. Also Russell: Wha? Cyrus?! Why are you here?

" I haven't the faintest clue of what you're talking about" Bro We talked about it earlier!

Bro fell for the oldest trick in the book

I would have gotten away with it if wasn't for you meddiling travelers!

Are you weak to knives?

HE'S WEAK TO KNIVES!!!!

Delisious Victory

I'm glad Russell gets redemtion at a book shop.

Cyrus: "Dude, what were you thinking? You're taking knowledge!"

Russell ratted people out?! Snitch!

Did Cyrus want to read this book to conform his historical theory?

Girl ruining his reputation will not make him pay more attention to you

"A little trouble" "HE'S GROOMING THE PRINCESS!"

Aroace oblivion

Bro is a lead block

CYRUS DO NOT JOKE ABOUT DEATH

BITCH WHO'S FOLLOWING ME?!

Session over

I think I'll get farther in the game before I post again. See you at primrose, maybe

[omaskit]

Challenge log Session 3

Hello! This is should cover Ophilia's Chap 1 and maybe Cyrus's if I have time. We'll see. Rules for the challenge are here. I'm worried about spamming the octopath traveler tag so if you don't wanna see these I'm marking all of them with 'octo traveler 1 quest log' Feel free to block that tag.

Side quest time

Ha, now you're blind

Now we're both blind

Oh I beat that guy up for nothing

Travel time

No one is weak to sword or knife and that makes me sad

Ophilia time. Fun Fact! Ophilia was my main on my first ever playthrough.

I can't get over Ophilia taking Lianna's job like I get it's so she can be by father's side but her entire life has been leading up to this and Ophilia just swoops in and takes it WITHOUT ASKING HER! That's insane

"I'll do your entire job so you don't have to worry about it"

"Your Excellency" JUST CALL HIM DAD! Literally no one else cares that you're adopted! Call him Father! H'aanit has a better time calling her dad 'dad' then you AND SHE'S HIS APRENTICE

She acts like they hang 'Adopted' over her head everyday BUT SHE THE ONLY ONE WHO CARES

Watching Ophilia interact with 'His Excellency' just makes me remember H'aanit and Z'aanta's relationship

#Z'aanta's best dad 2020

Dang she's laying in on him!

Bro got posioned

BRO WAS POSIONED AND DID NOT CARE

Maybe if you saw a doctor earlier you wouldn't have died

OPHILIA GIRL YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE WHO CARES THAT YOU WERE ADOPTED

I'm calling it. Josef's a bad dad

Why the fuck you lying

bro dying. bro dying fr

I feel like this cleric's in on it

Why you always lying

All these clerics are sus as fuck. I don't trust any of them.

Jails are only in select few towns and the cozy church is one of them

Poor Lianna. I get why Ophilia didn't ask now

Also the explanation on why is "There are centeries of tradition we must obey" and not "Galdera will be freed and the whole world will end. One of those things is slightly more important

"We are together in this" Leaves her behind

Little Lianna's like "I gave you flower why are you still depressed?"

YOU WERE CONVINCED AS A FIVE YEAR OLD THAT YOU WERE GONNA BE ALONE AND MISERABLE FOR THE REST OF YOUR DAYS?? GIRL

Dungeon time.

TECHNICALLY WE'RE NOT IN THE DUNGEON YET SO I'M ALLOWED TO USE ALFYN TO RUN AWAY! Shut up my rules!

Pretty! But there's nothing up here and every step leads to death

The dungeon is level 7 that's not a good sign

NEW RULE: if the game throws 4 enemies at you you can use your second character

Ophila has 80sp at level 5?!?! Alfyn has 67 at level 13!!

Girl's leveling up fast

I'mma edit my rules to say that your main can join the cleric and dancer boss fights since octo 2 had extra characters.

Honestly not sure if she'll need it though.

Phili's got this

I'm feeling cocky let's try the boss fight!

OH NO IT'S A STONE GOLLUM

IT'S WEAK TO ICE?!?!?! WHY????

What does "three more turns" mean?!

oH!

Take 2: let's not explode

Bitch get back here

Shhhhiiitt Alfyn died

Take 3: I'm so close

Take 4: Does reflective veil affect explosion?

Take 5: No, no it doesn't

FINE I'LL LEVEL UP!

Take 6: The wiki states the shadow things are based on how many party members you bring in but it's actually how many you've collected. Big difference.

Take 7: Last attempt before I'm bringing out the boys

WE'RE BRINGING OUT THE BOYS!

THEY'RE WEAK TO ARROWSS!!!! Life is good life is great life is spectacular. Ophilia's no longer alone

"Egades"? Alfyn everyone is almost dead!

It Dieeeedd oh my gooooosh finally!

Aww, dad woke up

Oh I'm in trouble

Prophethetic dreaams!

SHE CALLED HIM DAD! LET'S GOO!

Game? Saved. Session? Over. Hotel? Trivago.

[omaskit]

Octo Quest Log 5: Terrible News

I have terrible news. My original pathing plan was to knock out the chapter 2s and chapter 3s at the same time and follow the trial. However, I completely forgot that Octopath is a level game. Cyrus revealed that his next chapter is at level 40. I hate overleveling my characters and if I grinded for his chapter 3 I would destroy all the chapter 2s before me. I honestly didn't know what to do and considered quiting the run. BUT! I found a solution!

My new pathing, and what I wish I started off with, is that we're going clockwise again. I'm going to start off at Saintbridge and circle around to Goldenshore. There I should be able to knock out Alfyn chapter 2 and transition to Ophilia chapter 3. Then follow the circle to grandport.

I've also removed the original pairs. We now have Alfyn, Therion, Whoever has the chapter, and whoever is next chapter. This way I can level everyone without fear.

However I have even more terrible news. I lost my switch at the airport. The run is currently sitting in cloud limbo until I either buy an new one or get my old one back. For now I'll focus on my fanfiction and writing.

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Challenge Log Session 2 A.k.a H'aanit Hell

Challenge Rules Here

Found creatures not weak to knife or axe; we're fucked.

Holy shit they're weak to fire thank god.

left for five days bc irl stuff lol

I feel bad for the girl trying to be Z'aanta's favorite. Girly pop he already has a favorite.

Into the box theri goes.

I love H'aanit and Z'aanta's interactions. It's so sweet and well written. You immidently see how important they are to each other. <3

Maybe it's just that H'aanit is made for breaking but her dungeon is surprisingly easy. My only problem is that she's not leveling fast enough.

Oops, went into H'annit's boss without grabbing a skill. Eh, it should be fine -Looks away for one second- and she's dead. Huh.

The boss difficulty increases with order... fuck.

YOU CAN GRIND ENEMIES FOR ITEMS???

take 2

NO MEEP YOU DON'T HEAL ALFYN!!!

Take three lets go

MY MEEP HAS BETRAYED ME YET AGAIN

WE LIVE THESES!!!

We don't live these.

Take 4: Pray to the rng gods

Bro one shots H'aanit with one attack

BACK TO THE GRIND!

Take 5: we level 8

SHE STILL GOT ONE SHOT DX

I miss shops

Take 6: okay

We gambling! We Gambling!

We gamble and we lose! We gamble and we lose!

Take 7: Please die this time

Take 8: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

That was the wrong move

Take 9: I was supposed to do Ophilia this session

5 seconds. H'annit died in 5 seconds.

Alfyn is level 12. We've done two bosses.

I've had sleep and meranign, lets go.

Take 10: level 10

Take 11: we at 600 health and still die

this feels like slow death

Take 12: Don't use rampage don't use rampage

FUCK!

Take 13: Did you know you can see the boss sprite in the overworld before entering the battle cutscene? cool

Take 14: Well okay

Fuck I healed Alfyn

Take 15: Y'all should listen to MILGRAM it's good.

Lowkey forgot the boy counters

Take 16: Let's not be dumb

I HATE RAMPAGE

Take 17: I already fucked it up

Take 18: XP

Take 19: Heavy sigh

Take 20: Might break my rules and buy some grapes

Take 21: 21st times the charm!

Take 22: If this doesn't work I'm buying grapes.

We're buying grapes

Take 23: We now have 20 grapes

Take 24: I forgot to buy the grapes

I am out of healing items

Take 25: don't forget the healing items

Take 26: I did not expect this boss to take this long

Take 27: I didn't pay attention

Take 28: T_T

Take 29: blep

Take 30: made a stupid mistake on my part

Take 31: I've been swapping from writing the flavor text before the fight and writing it after and I think it's pretty confusing.

Take 32: if we go to 35 i'm letting Alfyn fight.

Take 33: I used the wrong move.

Take 34: It's times like these were I remind myself the point of this challenge is to have fun. If I'm not having fun I need to change things up.

Take 35: Alfyn in play

Alfyn does less damage then h'aanit! I didn't expect that.

OLIVES OF LIFE!!!! HOW I MISS YOU!

How much damage does the boss have?

IT'S FINNALY DEAD!!

Session over. I'm enjoying my day. Enjoy yourselves.

[omaskit]

Octopath Hardcore mode log 1

So I'm doing pre-session and first session in one post bc first session was on a plane. These are just going to be somethings I was thinking about before trying the challenge.

If you don't know the rules/challenge I posted them here.

Pathing. I started out as Alfyn, not for any strategic advantage but because I like Alfion and want those two to be my main pair. I'll be parring of the party so I can Lv and manage easily. My goal is to do Tressa's and Cyrus in one go and then follow Cyrus's trail to noblecourt. This should knock out Cyrus's, H'anaat's, Primrose, and Therion's chapter 3s. Tressa leads to Olberic and Olberic matches with Therion. The only thing I'm worrried about is Ophilia and Alfyn circling eachother. it's probably something poetic with the healers but to me its annoying. This means we'll have to backtrack to Golden Shore or the river place (Can't remember name right now. Alfyn chap 3).

Provisions. Because Therion is my second main I chose the steal option, meaning I can't buy things from the shops. We're stealing everything that's not nailed down. Items are more scarce and chest will be our best friend.

Boss fights. Primrose's boss fight is supposed to be the hardest first chaps to do alone. Because of my desire to keep Alfyn and Therion together Primrose is the last character I'm grabbing, all of the chapter ones will be filled with dread.

That's all for pre-game. My first session was on a plane so unfortunantly these aren't live reactions but here are some thoughts I had.

Man is Octopath 2's writing is so much better than octo 1. Don't get me wrong I like octo 1 but the exposition doesn't flow as easily.

Alfyn's dungon is hard alone. These stupid snails are draining all my Sp.

items items items. I need items. Any piece of armor I can scrap

Didn't Alfyn's boss have adds? I was sure he had adds. Where did they go?

Side quest. Side quest are going to be hell. No guide, no mini map, no fast travel. I need to get them done asap. Meryl, we need to talk.

Nice! most borderland things die to axe!

Is the player character so insistant on helping Therion that he literally can't say no? Amazing, go Alfyn, go.

*Opens writing notes* Therion is a little bitch... Got it.

JOBS! Jobs are going to be hard. I can't teleport back so I have to be level for them. I'll probably get them all going into everyone's chapter 2s. No idea how octo 2 will work though. We'll cross that bridge when we get there.

forgot to mention 1st chap dungeons in the first post, Gonna say Alfyn can't do anything in here.

Did Therion's fight always have adds?

DO THEY GET HARDER???

OH NOOO

Please be based off of people in party and not level or members collected.

I've robbed everyone in this town blind except this one STUPID CHILD that made me have to restore my reputetation! XP

I've spent 5 hours looking for this egg only to remember her fucking egg is in the riverlands. I'll get it when I circle back.

DON'T DIE DON'T DIE DON'T-

we made it.