God Save the Queen, Indeed: Let's Play Long Live the Queen!

[aberratio ictus]

Don't worry, your life comes first, we all understand that.

[CarpeGuitarrem]

Originally Posted by aberratio ictus

Don't worry, your life comes first, we all understand that.

Nonsense! I propose that we offer Deme a very simple choice...

Death...or cake.

[Deme]

Uh, how about you offer me votes? So we can finish this game?

[Selpharia]

But democracy is haaaard! Flexibility and Reflexes I suppose. Oh and I'd also suggest cake

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I'm not sure I remember right, but isn't the rest of the game kind of a coast to the finish after Togami?

[Tavar]

Flexibility and Reflexes, though I'm not sure at the moment what mood alteration would help with that.

[CarpeGuitarrem]

I vote Ciphering and Archery.

[tyckspoon]

Sense and Resist Magic, assuming we can max them both out with a single lesson. Because I don't think learning anything new is going to make an actual difference to the rest of the game at this point, and it'd be nice to have a category of skills fully completed.

Edit: Weekend activity is anything that keeps us Willful to aid the above lessons.

[TheEmerged]

Originally Posted by Selpharia

But democracy is haaaard! Flexibility and Reflexes I suppose. Oh and I'd also suggest cake

Flexibility and then reflexes, to be exact.

[Deme]

Originally Posted by Selpharia

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I'm not sure i remember right, but isn't the rest of the game kind of a coast to the finish after Togami?

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Yes, yes it is. So this is just sort of goofing around stuff.

[Sinfonian]

Originally Posted by tyckspoon

Sense and Resist Magic
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Edit: Weekend activity is anything that keeps us Willful to aid the above lessons.

This sounds good. The only reason I didn't vote earlier was because it seemed almost as if the next week's lessons were already determined.

[Sanguine]

I'm gonna third Sense and Resist Magic.

[Eldariel]

Sense Magic and Resist Magic 'til they're full.I happen to prefer that ending.

[Deme]

Chapter 47, Week 38, Mood: Willful
or
Antepenultimate! That's a fun word

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Alright! Sorry for the delays, boys and girls.


Let's even things out a bit...


And a quick look at our skills because...I've gone mad with the power of convenient screenshots.


And now we're super-durable!


And we now know everything we can learn about magic...
I sometimes suspect that 100 in a skill doesn't make Elodie a master of it; just someone with skill completely unexpected of a 14-year old girl who's been studying this for less than a year.


I dunno, game. You tell me.


Ooh, it looks like we can talk to Julianna about something. That may be a fun diversion for these final weeks.

Our mood. Things are almost wrapped up. Would you believe that this is our penultimate vote?
My, how time flies...

[Terraoblivion]

Don't think I've ever tried talking to Julianna here, so try that.

[Vauron]

Julianna, than dance the week away.

[Aidan305]

Julianna, then double public speaking

[Forum Explorer]

Jullivana then dance

[TheEmerged]

Visit Julianna

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I forget, did we get the dialog about the priestess being a lumen? If not, that's likely it. If so, it might be something about EvilDude.

For training, do Flexibility and then Dance.

[CarpeGuitarrem]

Visit Juliana, and learn Ciphering and...

DECORATION!

[The Fiery Tower]

Just wanted to let you know I found this page around when you first started and have been lurking pretty much daily for new updates. Thoroughly enjoyed the Let's Play.

Guess I should give input at least once...
We should Visit Julianna. Then go with dance. Because why not.

[Kizor]

Originally Posted by Selpharia

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I'm not sure I remember right, but isn't the rest of the game kind of a coast to the finish after Togami?

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For the most part, but I've managed to wind up in trouble by botching a particular act of retaliation. I'm pretty sure it happened entirely after the invasion.

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Identifying the poisoner but letting the poisoner massacre Elodie's agents caused a popular revolt. Picking another option would prevent the revolt. I just loaded a save from week 36, and there the botching didn't cause a revolt.

Fortunately I could

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wade into the crowd of rebels, killing them in droves, until the survivors broke and ran.

Then the people cheered at my coronation.

[Gadora]

Visit Julianna, then train Public Speaking so that we can give a nice speach at the coronation.

[SlyGuyMcFly]

Originally Posted by Gadora

Visit Julianna, then train Public Speaking so that we can give a speech that doesn't completely suck at the coronation.

Fixed and seconded.

[Sanguine]

Visit Juliana and double up on Public Speaking.

[TaRix]

"Fight, fight, fight, fight, fight the nasty goblins..."
One demeanor, one speaking.

[Deme]

Chapter 48, Week 39, Mood: Willful
or
Hey, are we going to cut next chapter in half to end on 50?

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Alrighty, let's see what Julianna's got for us, or what we've got for Julianna.


Ah, Elodie noticed something...
And neglected to tell us. Naughty, naughty Elodie! Bad viewpoint character!
How are we supposed to operate when you don't tell us what you know?

"What is it?"

"Wait a second," you may be asking...Actually, you won't be, since at least half of you have already seen this scene and don't need to ask anything, "What priestess?"
Well, remember that time a loooong time ago, towards the beginning of the LP, when Elodie saw Julianna with some priestess and they were holding hands?
That priestess.
...
Ok, so that's a little obscure. So I've reached into my files for a picture, since we'll never see her face here.

This is Selene. She comes and asks you to let Julianna out of prison if you put her there, sometimes mentors you, helps you sinks ships with magic (she's the easiest third Lumen for your team, but with Lucille, you can have 4 Lumens going at once) and tells you about Krakens you may have unleashed upon your kingdom and what to do with them. (She's doing the last of these at the time of this screenshot).
I feel like aiding in the establishment of her character now, for something in the next update.

Back to the present, however.

Now, here is a question for you:
Julianna is all but explicitly stated to be a lesbian according to our various gossip tabloids/lessons. We have seen her holding this lady's hand as they talk in the garden, and Julianna uses the pretense of her classes with us to teach us magic. While this is apparently a secret relationship, even Elodie should be smart enough to realize that they know each other.
So why is Elodie telling her teacher, the one who taught her how to sense a Lumen, that her teacher's friend (Elodie's version)/ secret magical girlfriend (The Version of Thinking People) is a lumen, like this is a thing the teacher did not already know?

The logical one is that Elodie is just not smart, but that's waaaaay too easy. Maybe Elodie just thinks she's better at magic-sensing than Julianna.
But she's probably just dumb.


Or this. But, uh... Lumens sort of get rocks thrown at them in certain ending paths, Elodie. Just think about that.

"You didn't need to know."


I feel like there is more to that last line than we'll probably ever know. Oh, well.


Oh, yeah. There is that.
Well, it's not like crystals can be destroyed.
"Except for your ancestor."
And yours, Elodie. Don't forget that bit.
And apparently Lucille's.And several other members of the nobility, including a few more family members...But we don't learn about those on this path (one we kind of don't learn about in general). We're on a happier path.
Not to mention foreign Lumens like Togami...
And there's that criminal guy we killed...

Actually, a better question is 'who doesn't have a crystal/Lumen potential?'


And then Elodie sulks off to her room.

I bet some of you are a little confused. This scene isn't linked to time. It's linked to scores and activities. First, you need a very high (I dunno if it's 100 off the top of my head, but it's close) Sense Magic. Then you need to go and do some religious activities, namely Attending Service. Then you can get this prompt to talk to Julianna.
The game tell you none of this, of course!

Anyway...
We have a tie!
Sort of.
We've got, like, a half-tie.
Today, I'm splitting the difference.


Wee, bouncing!
Also, a new costume! We shall try it on for our coronation!


Ooh, getting somewhere, I see.


But we're just gonna buzzkill.

Eh, who needs to worry about things looking nice? We're almost out of the game!


Well, it's not going to be for a while, right?

Whew!
If we were not engaged, we could pick our future most likely husband (if we hadn't pissed him or his family off) now, and under certain circumstances, we could break it off, possibly to marry someone else.


And then it's the weekend! Hi, weekend.
You're the last weekend. The very last.
How the time flies....
What shall we do with our last choices of the LP, everyone?
What's the best way for us to see Elodie off?

[Forum Explorer]

Lets get her cheerful if possible and finish by doing nothing at all for classes

[Terraoblivion]

Okay, the conversation did what I hoped it would. Pretty sure this is part of getting the best ending for Julianna.

[Aidan305]

Attend Court and double public speaking.

[Starbuck_II]

Attend court, public speaking and decoration.