Jude Episode 2 is in Ha Mill, and starts out with... more cooking! What is this, I don't recall cooking having such importance in other Tales games, save for Rebirth and memetic peach pie. Maybe it's to make up for not having... an actual cooking function.
Jude asks Ludger, since he's into cooking and all that, if he knows anything particular for a special occasion. We get a choice of "...Well, peach pieOH NAMCO IT WILL NEVER DIE" or "I know lots of recipes with tomatoes...". As fun as Ludger's seeming addiction to tomatoes is, I can't pass up peach pie, so I choose that and oddly raise Jude's affection. Hey, whatever.
Jude notes that he's heard that's a specialty among the people of Elempios for occasions, and says the biggest stock in the Ha Mill area are parenges, and says that parenge pie is pretty close to peach pie. Mira says both sound good, but Vel calls then to let us know about another Alt World, located near Tatar Caves which is/or was a little side dungeon in Elenpios with no plot relevance.
Jude: Agent's work again, huh. I'll help out; we can't leave the Alternate Worlds as they are. Mira: Hm... You're an awfully nosy person.
Jude admits it and that he can't help it, and Mira mumbles exasperatedly before saying she's not a nosy person but she'll help too, since more people is better.
So we go to Alternate World #F4218 and start to search for the Time Factor in the caves. It looks like there was some sort of cave-in or monster attack or something, since a lot of npcs are on the ground or helping others, some of them ClansCorp Agents.
--OH MY LORD victory pose where Elle runs up and gives a hesitant Mira a high five before they peace sign each other hnnnngh they are too cute
We go down a level and find A LOT more injured people, and most importantly the Alternate of Jude's father, Derek Mathis, and he's surprised when Jude uses Spirit Artes to heal the injured. Seems this Derek never got trapped in Rieze Maxia with Arc Noah, met Ellen and had Jude. A man from the lower levels of the caves runs up and tells Derek that they have to go before "it" gets back, but Derek is a doctor and refuses to leave the injured behind. Jude offers us to get rid of whatever "it" is, and we get a choice: "Let's go beat the monster" or "Jude, you stay here and help". I choose the latter so Jude can have time with his not dad, and he leaves the party.
Down on the next level, we find the Time Factor; it's aggravated its monster host to the point of extreme violence, and since we have to kill it anyways... It's boss battle time o9
Jude comes up after us, along with Derek who thanks us, and Jude especially, and generally is warmer to Jude than his own father. Jude nods to Ludger to destroy the Time Factor, and when Derek asks Jude's name, he hesitates, so Derek takes it as being rude since he hasn't introduced himself yet. He does so, and as Ludger rips out the Factor and the world starts to crumble, Jude gives his full name which shocks Derek before everything is destroyed, and Jude takes half a step towards where Derk was before black out.
We're back in Ha Mill, as Elle cheerfully informs us, but Jude is a little down. We get a choice of "What's wrong; are you hurt?" or "His name was Mathis. Could he be...". Taking the second since we're not stupid here, and Jude nods, saying it was strange yet nice to see his father in a nicer light, since they've never really gotten along. Ludger tells Jude to visit his parents every once in a while.
Jude gets an urgent call from his team, and tells us to head to Helioborg immediately and that he'll explain on the way. So away we go... and find that they've recreated the Origin Celsius what. The particular terminal connected Celsius, needed to stabilize Origin Spirits, explodes and she starts freaking out about they keep bringing her back, and turns on Jude' helpless assistant. Timed choice to get the hell out of Celsius' way, or to actually get between the two comes up and with the second, Jude and Ludger get in front of Celsius, who tells them to move. Jude tries to calm her down but she screams that as a Spirit she won't be a slave to humans anymore, grabs her busted terminal and disappears.
Balan scolds the assistant for acting on her own, even if a Greater Spirit class Origin was necessary for progressing research. And now that one of the limited terminals is gone, and Celsius will be in pain until they can find her and fix it. Ludger and co. tell Jude and his team not to get get discouraged, though, and the rather long episode ends.
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Jude asks Ludger, since he's into cooking and all that, if he knows anything particular for a special occasion. We get a choice of "...Well, peach pie
OH NAMCO IT WILL NEVER DIE" or "I know lots of recipes with tomatoes...". As fun as Ludger's seeming addiction to tomatoes is, I can't pass up peach pie, so I choose that and oddly raise Jude's affection. Hey, whatever.Jude notes that he's heard that's a specialty among the people of Elempios for occasions, and says the biggest stock in the Ha Mill area are parenges, and says that parenge pie is pretty close to peach pie. Mira says both sound good, but Vel calls then to let us know about another Alt World, located near Tatar Caves which is/or was a little side dungeon in Elenpios with no plot relevance.
Jude: Agent's work again, huh. I'll help out; we can't leave the Alternate Worlds as they are.
Mira: Hm... You're an awfully nosy person.
Jude admits it and that he can't help it, and Mira mumbles exasperatedly before saying she's not a nosy person but she'll help too, since more people is better.
So we go to Alternate World #F4218 and start to search for the Time Factor in the caves. It looks like there was some sort of cave-in or monster attack or something, since a lot of npcs are on the ground or helping others, some of them ClansCorp Agents.
--OH MY LORD victory pose where Elle runs up and gives a hesitant Mira a high five before they peace sign each other hnnnngh they are too cute
We go down a level and find A LOT more injured people, and most importantly the Alternate of Jude's father, Derek Mathis, and he's surprised when Jude uses Spirit Artes to heal the injured. Seems this Derek never got trapped in Rieze Maxia with Arc Noah, met Ellen and had Jude. A man from the lower levels of the caves runs up and tells Derek that they have to go before "it" gets back, but Derek is a doctor and refuses to leave the injured behind. Jude offers us to get rid of whatever "it" is, and we get a choice: "Let's go beat the monster" or "Jude, you stay here and help". I choose the latter so Jude can have time with his not dad, and he leaves the party.
Down on the next level, we find the Time Factor; it's aggravated its monster host to the point of extreme violence, and since we have to kill it anyways... It's boss battle time o9
Jude comes up after us, along with Derek who thanks us, and Jude especially, and generally is warmer to Jude than his own father. Jude nods to Ludger to destroy the Time Factor, and when Derek asks Jude's name, he hesitates, so Derek takes it as being rude since he hasn't introduced himself yet. He does so, and as Ludger rips out the Factor and the world starts to crumble, Jude gives his full name which shocks Derek before everything is destroyed, and Jude takes half a step towards where Derk was before black out.
We're back in Ha Mill, as Elle cheerfully informs us, but Jude is a little down. We get a choice of "What's wrong; are you hurt?" or "His name was Mathis. Could he be...". Taking the second since we're not stupid here, and Jude nods, saying it was strange yet nice to see his father in a nicer light, since they've never really gotten along. Ludger tells Jude to visit his parents every once in a while.
Jude gets an urgent call from his team, and tells us to head to Helioborg immediately and that he'll explain on the way. So away we go... and find that they've recreated the Origin Celsius what. The particular terminal connected Celsius, needed to stabilize Origin Spirits, explodes and she starts freaking out about they keep bringing her back, and turns on Jude' helpless assistant. Timed choice to get the hell out of Celsius' way, or to actually get between the two comes up and with the second, Jude and Ludger get in front of Celsius, who tells them to move. Jude tries to calm her down but she screams that as a Spirit she won't be a slave to humans anymore, grabs her busted terminal and disappears.
Balan scolds the assistant for acting on her own, even if a Greater Spirit class Origin was necessary for progressing research. And now that one of the limited terminals is gone, and Celsius will be in pain until they can find her and fix it. Ludger and co. tell Jude and his team not to get get discouraged, though, and the rather long episode ends.