Start of Act II
Fade in to the candle and the “Special Edition Brady Games Ivalice History and Plot Guide.” I have narrowed it down, it is the Marquis who is narrating all of this. All of the Empire’s 8th fleet was lost by that nethicite explosion. In light of that blow to the Empire, the Marquis readies the resistance. Meanwhile, Ashe returns to Rabanastre to play super secret, super hiding princess so she can further build up the resistance. They will need to be strong because we know that if Fleet No. 8 blew up, there has to be at least 7 more just as strong. Did you just see that math I did?
Crane shot of the Arcadian Capitol’s buildings and cars. It actually looks like one of those 1950s educational films about how transportation will look in the year 1988.
The Imperial Senate discusses the aftermath of the Leviathan explosion. The Empire was actually hard hit by this explosion. Furthermore, it was Vayne’s ambitious deployment of that fleet that is putting the Empire in a precarious position now. The Senate urges the Emperor to punish him. Furthermore, the Senate suggests that Larsa be the next Emperor. They say that Larsa’s efforts to undo the problems Vayne causes prove that he would make a good Emperor. That and he is a really good speller. The Emperor agrees to remove Vayne from Dalmasca and put him back in Arcadia for time-out.
Ashe stands looking out among some cloudy cliffs. Stop right there because that is an almost copy and paste of a famous painting by 19th centry German painter named Caspar David Friedrich. It is shocking how similar the two are. The painting is called “Wanderer Above a Sea of Fog” and depicts a lone figure escaping the craziness of urban life in order to contemplate on the raw, scary, awesome power of nature. It seems like Ashe would be trying to do the same thing at this point in the story and I think that is why the designers used this artwork as their model.
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Ashe in the cloudes
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Friedrich's - wanderer above the sea of clouds |
Ashe turns around and is startled to see her husband’s ghost. He gives her the Dawn Shard back then disappears. Vayne comes walking up and is all “hey, ah... would you like to get a bite of coffee; I mean a coffee cup meal, the cup of coffee some time?”
Back at the party’s super secret hideout, Ashe is staring forlornly at her wedding ring. Wow, is a side effect of Deifacted Nethicite and increase in suppleness and fullness because Ashe looks like she just leveled up with a +2 breast size. Basch finally puts all the complicated pieces together to realize that it was “the Dawn Shard that brought down the Imperial Fleet.” Balthier condescendingly mocks him by saying “You know your stuff.”
Basch recants a similar explosion. The Nabrudians (Ashe’s husband’s homeland) used the Midlight Shard to stop the invading Imperial Army. It killed everyone – and been a solemn subject ever since. The Imperials were invading to get that Midlight Shard. It seems as if all the past invasions by the empire were to get the various shards. They surmise that Vayne is trying to collect them in order to harness their destructive power. Currently, he has the Midlight Shard. Vaan gave the Empire the Dusk Shard when he handed it over to Judge Ghis in the Dreadnaught Leviathan (which he stole from the palace). Ashe holds the only one left – the Dawn Shard. To further build suspense, Balthier reminds that the Empire has the technology to manufacture this stuff.
Ashe gets this really bad idea to use the Dawn Shard against the Empire. She recites a poem that seems to justify Dalmasca’s right to use weaponized nethicite. I think it was by Machiavelli. Long pause as the clan thinks of a way to tell Ashe she is wrong without using the word “fascist.” Changing the subject, Fran suggests that they all go see the Garif people who may know how to use it. Balthier will escort Ashe to these people but asks for her wedding ring as payment. Balthier will give it back when he “finds something more valuable.”
|| Hour - 16:37 ||
I took a few hours to level up here. Use the following as a guide for what you need to get
-- Shopping List –-
- Levels: 16
- Visit the Clan Provisioner moogle named Montblanc to receive the rewards owed to you.
- Stop by the Gambit shop and get everything they have – you never know when you are going to need a special gambit and they are only 50 gil each.
- Upgrade your armor and weapons
- Be sure to have Aero black magick.
- If you need gil, go back to Ogir Yensa Sandsea and chain those sand people
|| Hour - 18:58 ||
When you are ready to proceed go out the southern exit of Rabanastre.
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