Chapter Eight: To An Undiscovered Land

And so we crashed. The Goddess tells Alouette that now is not her time. The screen goes black, and we hear the party members rumbling about. Everyone seems fine, but they can't find Alouette. Croix spots her unconscious as the screen opens up to reveal we're in a vast jungle. Alouette wakes up, and Croix, "not wanting to be ungratefu,l" scolds her for performing another miracle. I guess Homard isn't as good of a captain as he thinks. The whole team might have died if Alouette wasn't so pious. Everyone else, though, thanks her. But we're lost in a forest with a task to save the world at hand. We still need to find that path to Fatima, so we quickly get our things in order and head out. Homard joins us, but I forgot to use him. He keeps most of his cats back to repair the ship. We can return here to shop, send monsters, and talk to a few remaining who aren't the generic Chocolates who are with us for some reason.

But now we're exploring the Jungle.
Wilderness is Stage One. There are new mushrooms and a plant monster here.
Next up is the Wilderness. It has the same mobs.
The Second Stage, Unexplored Jungle, has the same mobs, plus a bear. It's called White Devil, which is a bit offensive. I purified it to join m team, and I'm now sad I'll be sending away my best friend at some point.
The Third and final Stage (yes, final) takes place after a nice picnic. Colette gives everyone lunch, but Homard and Eclair have an aside. They start by talking about the weather, as one would. Homard is concerned that Eclair can't handle this, seeing as she was a well-to-do Princess a few days ago. She assures him that all of her studying means she can deal with it. But Homard has no interest in bookwork. He thinks one can't really learn unless they get their hands dirty. Since this is Eclair's first time out of the castle, he's worried she'll break. She tries to remind him of his place in the world of royalty, and the butterfly girlfriend, Papillion, enters the chat. She tries to tell the young girl something, but Homard stops her, so she joins the rest during the picnic. He apologizes, and the two of them have their "don't be formal" introduction. The chat ends cordially as Papillion comes back. Homard calls the child pretty, and his butterfly girlfriend hits him. With the picnic over, we can enter the battle that is Explorer's Bones.

It has the same mobs, plus a new dragonshroom. It's a bigshroom and acts like its continental cousin.

After this, we transition to the Cave of Ruins. It's less of a cave and more of a ruined passage, so it's half right. Homard and Alouette each give their suggestion as to why it was built, but Eclair wonders why her book didn't say anything about this. Homard scolds her for trusting too much in written words. She's not happy about that since that's kinda all she knows. Homard convinces the naive Princess to trust in his experience and intuition, and she does so with only minor reluctance. Prier and Croix tell each other that that was odd. He says a Princess is now taking orders from a sky pirate while Colette thinks to himself that they just don't get it.

And with that, I finished tonight. I got a late start, but a new area is as good as any to update. I looked ahead, and there are five battles tomorrow. Definitely a good idea to break here.

Alternatively, I'll watch the Utah State Aggies make a comeback against the Washington State Cougars. Gotta love football!