Part 17: The Empire's Comeuppance; Cape Caem

Somehow I forgot to post this one on here and for that I apologize. But it's here now.

We get into the base to get a basic overview of it and Noctis and co. formulates their plan of attack.

The idea is to pretty much 'apprehend' the commander. Ignis and Noctis will handle that while Gladio and Prompto distracts the base.

Once night falls the stealth factor comes into play again. Admittedly... I failed pretty quickly on my first attempt. I'm not really the best at stealth honestly. I like to just rush in, BEAT EVERYONE UP, then run out.

Either way I succeeded on my second attempt. Warp-killing is still fun though. After we 'apprehend' the commander Noctis joins back up with Prompto and Gladio to take down the base's generator and once that's done we learn that even though the commander was turned in to the local hunters, he somehow escaped and fled. WOW. THE HUNTERS ARE REALLY GOOD AT THEIR JOBS.

*sighs* Whatever. He'll get his I'm sure.

So we just walk out of the base.

lol Yeah right. We get confronted by someone who thinks they're a Dragoon. A woman by the name of Areanea who keeps calling Noctis a pretty boy. YEAH? WE'LL SEE HOW YOU FEEL AFTER I MESS YOUR FACE UP.

This fight... wasn't overly difficult. All you really have to do is block and parry her 'Jump' attack (SERIOUSLY DRAGOON WANNABE MUCH?) and she's vulnerable for an onslaught. That pretty much led to my quick victory. Well that, and, I'm still over-leveled.

She claims it's 'quitting time' and she won't make any gil, saying she wants to play again before leaving. THAT'S RIGHT RUN AWAY LIKE THE COWARD YOU ARE.

Afterwards we reconvene in Old Lestallum to pick up Iris and drive her to Cape Caem where we reunite with Cindy and Talcott. We also see... Jared's grave.

Talcott seems to be taking it well as he's still in good spirits and even helps out Noctis and co. with the 'Mythril' they apparently need for the ship.

But with Cape Caem visited A LOT of sidequests have been unlocked and I'm also considering doing another optional dungeon. Besides, looking forward in my walkthrough seems to suggest a certain party member will be temporarily leaving for quite some time so I'd better get the most of them now. Well that and I was worried once I started the next main quest I would be unable to do the other sidequests. So of course I'm doing the sidequests first.

As I did so, though, one of the Hunts involved Daemons, specifically LARGE ones called Iron Giants and a new theme played.

Spoiler

The Hunts are starting to become annoying now. I've gotten a few Game Overs during them. It's not as much as doing well in them that I am just surviving them but still completing them. Which happened for the Iron Giant one. So I may quit them for awhile. I have quite a lot of other sidequests I can do right now anyway.

Either way I don't like taking risks so I'll probably be doing the multiple sidequests that have now unlocked before moving back to the main story and some of them may involve another optional dungeon.

Next time:

Multiple sidequests and possibly another optional dungeon. But I promise I'll try to keep them to as much of a minimum as possible and move back to the main quest as soon as I can or as soon as I can get myself to stop being distracted by sidequests.