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Lan_Zero - I was wondering why I still had the statue pieces in my inventory. I saw the check marks but wasn't sure what they meant. Interesting. Yet, if I sell the Masumune to the mayor of Caldoaxa I'm sure it will go away forever. I guess I could try it and not save.
Yes, I'm stuck at Rizo. Admittedly, I got there at about 2 or 3 am last night and was too tired to put much effort into it. But it seemed I couldn't get to the girl at all to stop her keyboard playing - she just kept telling me to go away

. And it didn't seem like there was much else to do there.
It seems I'm near the end of the game, yet I'm missing a ton of recipes and still can't make a couple of the ones I have. I even spent some time levelling cooking up to 30, thinking that would unlock level 2 cooking - nothing. Plus when I look at the skills/abilities matrix there are a TON I haven't gotten yet. It seems they don't come easily.