Golmore Jungle

PATHS OF CHAINED LIGHT > THE NEEDLEBRAKE

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Status ailments will come aplenty in
the Golmore Jungle, make sure all of your casters have the [ally: any
> ensuna] gambit setup near the top.

PATHS OF CHAINED LIGHT
First, get the map urn by following the path that leads east from the entrance.  Turn down the first right (it leads south).  Run down the stairs and the urn will be just west of the last step.

From the urn, travel east until you reach the eastern most part of PATHS OF CHAINED LIGHT.  Proceed down this path into...

THE NEEDLEBRAKE
Traveling south, continue past the opening on your left.  However, the next left will have the force field.  There are other force fields in the Golmore Jungle but only this one will trigger the cut scene.

Cut Scene: Fran says “The jungle denies us our passage.”  Ashe says “what have we done?” – guilty conscience Ashe?  Fran storms off and all bitchy like.  She tells Balthier that he has been caring too much about the nethicite – I think this is code for “you hang out with your friends more than you have been with me.”  She waves her finger around like she is in a rave and a grass field expands in front of her. 

She tells the party to talk to the Vierra (Fran’s people, or Fran’s
rabbits, or whatever) so that they can get past that force field.  Yup,
we are going into babe city.  Now, judging by all the forum posts about
what they want to do to her thong and what they want to stick in her
ears, Fran has a pretty big nerd following.  However, I have a hard
time getting it up for a character that I know was designed by a bunch
of otaku game artists during a late night character design meeting. 
Every time I catch myself staring at her digital rack I get these
pictures in my mind of greasy otakus drawing pictures of her in their Hello Kitty notebooks. 
That is the reason I am an Ashe guy: I have a feeling she was just
modeled after the cute secretary at the front office.

Fran will not be going with the clan, she is an outcast.  It is probably because of her relationship with Balthier. 

Proceed down the path to continue to Eruyt Village.  I don’t want to
get anyone’s hopes up but I think visiting Fran’s home world is
probably our best bet to see some partial nudity that the ESRB promised
us.