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“Of course, Kamau. What’s on your mind?”
“I’ve just been thinking…”
“With how serious things have been getting, with the elemental gate, and the increasingly dangerous places we’ve been going…”
“Well, you remember what we talked about before?”
“About my wi… about Saffron. And Yasmin, our daughter.”
“Of course.”
“Well, I’ve been thinking about them.”
“And I want to talk to Saffron.”
Kamau wants to talk to his ex! What are our bets on where she is? IIRC she was decently wealthy before Kamau married her, like upper-middle class if not minor nobility outright?
So she could either be: a) still at their old home from Kamau’s champion days, b) at her family’s estate, or c) she’s being held at some sort of top-secret Imperial facility. Or she’s somewhere else entirely, d), and Kamau’s somehow tracked her down. Possibly with the help of Paws?
emperor’s daughter
Kamau has been with us the longest i vote we do his bond dungeon before anyone elses.
I agree, I think we should do the Bond dungeons we have unlocked in the order that we got the related characters in. So Kamau’s dungeon, the library for Mac, Botanya’s dungeon, and then Amadeusz’s mysterious side-mission.
If we do macs first, Kamau will have the manor buffs (gamer table, comfy couches etc) for his bond dungeons
Mac’s Dungeon: “All of us will go with you. If we keep all the monsters in the upper levels busy, the two of you can focus on searching the library.” Thus probably no buffs from the manor after Mac’s dungeon.
They didn’t say how they would keep the monsters busy; maybe they’ll invite the monsters over to the manor to hang out on the couches and play DND?
In all seriousness, this is probably just an instance of gameplay and story segregation. I’d expect our other characters to get those bonuses regardless of the fact that they technically were helping us offscreen.
I think doing Mac’s dungeon first is a good shout either way, especially since we have been keeping him in suspense for two dungeons now.
Ideal order, considering rest buffs:
Ama -> Kamau -> Mac (Botanya TBD depending on conditions).
Ama definitely has his rest buff, and definitely isn’t removing anyone else’s. This would give Kamau his rest buff for his dungeon, which has a good chance of being solo. It would also mean all but Kamau are rest buffed for Mac’s, in case that actually ends up mattering.
I really think we’re overthinking the bit about Mac’s Bond dungeon involving all the other characters fighting monsters while Ricki and Mac do their solo mission. I don’t think there’s any reason to believe that the rest of the party being buffed will matter when it comes to Mac’s dungeon; they’re certainly not going to be under our control, and I doubt that they’ll be mechanically involved in the background. At most, I think we’ll just need to be mindful of any time limits involved, like we were with Lara’s dungeon.