In this episode, we wrap up some last sidequests before we head to Mysidia and witness the reality of the Mysidian Prophecy.

First up, a trip to some cave to give some creepy man a rat's tail, which we found just lying around in a barrel in Tomra.


He's super happy to recieve a rat's tail, so he gives us an Adamantite as (fair?) compensation. Hey... who needs an Adamantite?



Yes, you remember Kokkol of Kokkol's Forge, don't you? In the underworld? He was bedridden in a bit of a funk, but now we've given him a new metal to work with.

He quickly sets down the forge and gets to work. Unusually for an RPG, he isn't ready right away, so we have to come back. We'll return to Mr. Kokkol later to recieve our reward.

Back up to the surface then to head back to the Baron Castle. It's time to complete another sidequest that's been waiting in the wings for a long time.

A loooong time ago, we headed down here to meet the King of Baron. He told us to journey to the Feymarch first before meeting him. Well, we've done just that, so we head back to speak to him.



I did think it mighty strange that the King of Baron would still be alive after having his Castle taken over, so that clears up that particular mystery.

The King's turned into an eidolon, and he seeks to test our strength so we can summon him. By the Code, apparently. I'm getting Mass Effect 2 callbacks.




The battle actually ends up much like that GIF, to be honest.



So the King of Baron is actually Odin, in what might be his first appearance? FF Fact-checkers?

He's weak to Lightning so Rydia and Edge do some great damage to him through Ramuh and shurikens/Blitz respectively. He's dead by the time you can say 'Zantetsuken!'

So we gain Odin's power! The soul of the former King live on.



Our final stop in our sidequest journey involves Yang, who is still sleeping down in the Sylph Cave.

We decide to go speak to his wife and tell her the good-ish news.





Thus we get a glance into Yang's marital life.

So we take the frying pan and head back into the Sylph Cave to thwack Yang over the head with a frying pan just like in the good old days.


This isn't standard medical practice.



Shockingly, it works.



Yang wants to join us, and hey guess what we even have a space in our party for it, but the Sylphs are having none of it, saying he still needs to rest. Well drat.

This makes Edge's job security go through the roof.



Instead, the Sylphs allow themselves to be summoned in lieu of Yang going, so we get something out of it all along, yay!

Well, that along with saving Yang. That's its own reward!

Before heading topside we quickly head over to Kokkol's Forge to recieve our reward: turns out this guy's been working on Excalibur! Awesome! This immediately goes on Cecil.

Topside, we return the frying pan to Yang's wife, because we were always taught when we were little to return what we borrowed.



We get a surprisingly aggressive 'knife' as thanks.

We also go augment hunting. Back in Troia Town, there's a pub with some sort of gentleman's area (gag) which requires you to purchase a Member's Writ. Upstanding citizens we are, we purchase it and head on through the doors.

Inside, we subject poor, sweet Rosa to utter filth.



At the end of it all, we end up getting the Gil Farmer augment out of it, so it was worth something... right?


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Sidequests complete, let's head over to Mysidia to get back to the main story.

Upon arrival, the Elder greets us and takes everyone to the Tower of Prayer.



The Elder and six(!) mages pray for the Lunar Whale to return. The Mysidian prophecy is repeated once again:

Birthed from womb of Dragon's maw
And borne unto the stars
By light and darkness cast aloft
Are dreamtide oaths resworn
Moon is swathed in ever-light
Ne'er again to know eclipse
Earth, with hallow'd bounty reconciled

Yet fleeting is the reverie
When moon from shadow has egressed
Guided forth anew by light made manifest

Two bound by ties of blood
By Time and Fate when wrest apart
Unto lunar light and Gaian breast

They keep praying until...



The Lunar Whale appears! Streaked in a fairly menacing black and red but this is a good-guy ship, honest.



So apparently some voice spoke to the Elder and told him to tell us to go to the Moon and meet this... someone. On the entirety of the moon. I hope the Lunar Whale knows where to find him!

Tune in next time as head to the Moooooooooon!