Chapter 1: A Dysfunctional Trio
Post 1: Welcome to Bugaria
Here! We! Go!
To summarize the beginning lore segment, an ant Queen visited the lands of Bugaria and established the first settlement there in hopes of finding the Everlasting Sapling- a plant said to make oneself immortal if you ate even one of its leaves.
She never did, and when her daughter took over the throne she created the Explorers' Association to find it.
Leading us to today, where we learn this story is being told by Kabbu, a beetle who hails from the north- and our first protagonist. While he is denied an Explorer's Permit, and therefore being an explorer, at first, he ends up teaming up with Vi, a bee who is our second protagonist of the day! While, with some context, it is clear that bees are artisans and artists in general, Vi here wants to be the first bee explorer.
Anyways, tutorial fight time, with and versus Maki- a praying mantis who just-so-happens to be the Queen's Blade. While we do lose horribly, he still grants us a Permit! And so we go off to Snakemouth Den- wait I haven't explained that yet.
So, Snakemouth Den is a place where, supposedly, an ancient artifact that can help find the Sapling is located. No bug who has ever set foot there returned alive... Or, at least, most of them don't.
Anyways, off we go to Snakemouth Den to find an artifact, defeating some low-level mooks (a term for enemies or mobs, if you haven't encountered it yet) along the way, where I learned I need to up my reaction time if I want to continue dodging enemy attacks and that the music for this game is awesome, battle theme's a bop.
Saved right at the entrance to it, and spent a slightly embarrassing amount of time trying to figure out where the exit to main menu button was located...
Don't worry, I figured it out eventually.
We continue tomorrow! Or maybe later tonight...
(fun fact: the game is split into chapters, which I'm using here. And, yes, Chapter 1 is called that ingame.)