Quote Originally Posted by Cleretic View Post
I hate that we spend so little of the Garlemald content talking about the incidentally-liberated slaves down in the oil fields, but I also don't think the story ever actually had much scope to talk about them.
:laughs: I admit I'm particularly bitter about them not only because they're more sympathetic to me, that I'm more interested in the vassal states and former colonies of Garlemald than Garlemald proper (and of Garlemald itself, the culture and history of the Republic Era), but because of where I live, having the fantasy oil/natural gas refinery equivalent be regulated to a single side-quest series about getting the plant back online without more exploration of daily life and health impacts or its influence on political policy was deeply disappointing. Nor did they have any lines during the meeting with Vrtra to outline Garlemald's future. But that comes with living at one end of a port city's Refinery Row where there is more than twenty plants or installations of various sizes and output that I must drive past before reaching downtown. Outsized impact and all that. I'm sure if one of the subplots in Dawntrail is about environmental impacts of cerulean drilling, people will complain about yet another rehash of VII's Shinra. But I hope that if/when they do will also be when the story loops back to pull Jareck and the others of Tapper's Den back into the narrative. A single quest line objective where we ask for their opinions when learning about North Tural probably.