Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Part 43: Dame Alex's Storage in Elaice Highway
3While taking on a couple of Side Quests in Part 42, there's a third one that I decided show be in its own video.
This is the Side Quest "Enemies and Allies", where Alexandria invites Ouroboros to travel to Colony Iota's special secret storehouse.
I mainly travel through Elaice Highway to start this Quest. I was here previously, so there's no area introduction, but I was rather underleved and I kinda had to "sneak" through it a little bit, but now my party can take on more monsters here.
Elaice Highway can lead all the way back to Colony Iota from a different side, so I take a break here, gather more Info and such, and then continue "Enemies and Allies".
Before and after this, either way, I do a lot of exploring and battling in this area rather than just going straight for the objective.
One massive setpiece I take the time to do is make a huge climb of what Ouroboros doesn't know as the Mechonis' Fallen Arm from Xenoblade 1. Remember that the music that place in this area is a remix of the theme of the Hidden Machina Village from that game.
At its peak, you can go for a colossal drop into a pool that's conveiently hundreds of feet right under you.
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Getting close to Iota's storehouse, Ouroboros and Alexandria run into Rhyza, who guards the place. He is a man of few words, but Alexandria forces him to speak.
All Rhyza does is warn the party of monsters. Iota doesn't work with these monsters, but they do still help with dealing with potential theives.
Naturally, I do some exploring and fighting in here, too. There are split paths to be checked out, here.
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Eventually, the party reaches Colony Iota's Hidden Stash.
Per Alexandria's orders, Chelle here is to provide Ouroboros with goods that they can send to any other colony at their own leisure, but they still have limited resources to share with them, so its up to you to decide which colony or colonies get these goods and which doesn't.
This was all out of Alexandria's views of seeing other colonies that were freed from their own Flame Clocks as allies.
This Quest was proof to me that some Side Quests, even if they aren't Hero Quests, will be more interesting and more rewarding than others in this game.
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After all this is said and done, I finally decided to continue the game's main plot a little bit more by starting the climb of the Great Cotte Falls.