We see the twins formulating a plan on how to proceed forward. In their camp cabin, Lola is explaining to Lana her plan to help everyone find out what happened.
"Ok, so there has to be something at the apex of Mount Sativum that explains what the heck is going on. Lana, Lisa has left you 6 more utilitools in order to aid in your exploration of the surrounding area."
Lana opens the 6 presents in front of her.
Lana got the Entrancing Light Manipulator!
Lana got the Vibrant Erostick!
Lana got the Malicious Mask!
Lana got the Tear Ripening Gadget!
Lana got the Spin Switcher!
Lana got the Grappling Hook!
"Go to the top of Mount Sativum and try to find something that will explain what's going on."
"Ok ok, you don't need to explain it again, Lols."
Lana heads off to the top of Mount Sativum. Upon reaching the plateau where both her brother and her father squared off against the Mechanized Ursidae that had torn their family asunder, she notices a new path, opened by a lightning strike! The very same blast that deflected off of the Mechanized Ursidae and blew up that boulder. Lincoln's very first use of PK Thunder α. Lana heads onward for a while but is ambushed by 4 enemies! They appear to be illusory whirlwinds in the shape of scorpions, with a veil of sand covering them. Lana has no choice but to fight them and move on…
A Sand Scorpion and its cohorts attacked!
Sand Scorpion A is holding itself together!
Sand Scorpion B tried to snap at Lana!
Just missed!
Sand Scorpion C was scattered by the wind!
Sand Scorpion D is holding itself together!
Lana attacks Sand Scorpion A!
Sand Scorpion A takes 31 damage!
Sand Scorpion A flung itself at Lana!
Just missed!
Sand Scorpion B was scattered by the wind!
Sand Scorpion D was scattered by the wind!
You win!
Lana gained 0 experience points!
As Lana explores the surrounding area, she finds 2 beef jerkies, a yogurt and the Scorpio Charm, which Lana equips for 11 defense points! Eventually, after trekking the arid bluff of the Outer Sativum Promontory, she stumbles upon a high-tech outpost that is seemingly abandoned. Here, she takes the opportunity to rest up and recover from her journey. However, her dream is intrinsically linked to another Loud sibling, and a memory from 2006 begins to resurface…
"Washi gozen Passhon-san. Watashi ga ensō shite iru ongaku wa "Kazoku Mondai Ni-banme Idō." Tetteiteki ni kiku."
Hai {Īe}
私午前パッションさん私が演奏している音楽は"家族問題, 二番目移動." 徹底的に聴く.
はい {いいえ}
Koreha nani geijutsu-teki shitte iru-nani mos anata no yōna shutoku suru!
これは何芸術的知っている-何もあなたのような取得する!
Back to Lana's dream, a vantablack image of what looks like a silhouette of Lucy appears in a decrepit castle of old and it seems this shadowy doppelgänger is conducting beautifully melancholic music. Lana approaches the strange shadow and attempts to converse with this artistic maestra shadow of her sister.
"Hello, I am a part of your sister, Lucy. The music I'm playing is called Выстрелов в темноте (Vistrelov V Temnote). Please, take a listen."
"I'd rather just continue with my journey."
"No…I insist you stay and listen to this tune."
Lucy's Nightmare suddenly attacked!
Lana used the Malicious Mask!
Lucy's Nightmare's offense decreased by 16!
Lucy's Nightmare played a string octet!
Lana takes 12+9+3+8+6+11+5+7 (61 total) damage!
Lana used the Entrancing Light Manipulator!
Lucy's Nightmare fell asleep!
Lana attacks!
Lucy's Nightmare takes 42 damage!
Lucy's Nightmare is still asleep!
Lana attacks!
Lucy's Nightmare takes 43 damage!
Lucy's Nightmare is still asleep!
Lana attacks!
Lucy's Nightmare takes 45 damage!
Lucy's Nightmare is still asleep!
Lana attacks!
Lucy's Nightmare takes 51 damage!
Lucy's Nightmare woke up!
Lucy's Nightmare brandished her baton!
Just missed!
Lana attacks!
Lucy's Nightmare takes 49 damage!
Lucy's Nightmare is distracted playing!
Lana attacks!
Lucy's Nightmare takes 52 damage!
Lucy's Nightmare threw music sheets at Lana!
Lana takes 18 damage!
Lana used the Entrancing Light Manipulator!
Lucy's Nightmare fell asleep!
Lana ate the beef jerky!
Lana recovered 60 HP!
Lucy's Nightmare is still asleep!
Lana attacks!
Lucy's Nightmare takes 48 damage!
Lucy's Nightmare is still asleep!
Lana attacks!
Lucy's Nightmare takes 53 damage!
Lucy's Nightmare is still asleep!
Lana attacks!
Lucy's Nightmare takes 51 damage!
Lucy's Nightmare woke up!
Lucy's Nightmare is distracted playing!
Lana attacks!
Lucy's Nightmare takes 54 damage!
Lucy's Nightmare played a melancholic melody!
Lana's defense decreased by 12!
Lana attacks!
Lucy's Nightmare takes 49 damage!
Lucy's Nightmare played a string octet!
Lana takes 10+0+0+12+11+9+0+0 (42 total) damage!
Lana attacks!
Lucy's nightmare takes 51 damage!
Lucy's nightmare played a somniac lullaby!
Just missed!
Lana attacks!
Lucy's Nightmare takes 46 damage!
Lucy's Nightmare dissipated into thin air!
You win!
Lana gained 402 experience points!
Lana's level is now 22!
HP went up by 4
PP went up by 6
Offense went up by 5
Defense went up by 3
IQ went up by 7
Speed went up by 8
Lana wakes up from her slumber. She notices that she has somehow taken damage and decides to rest again to recover her health. Upon exploring the facility, she eventually finds Lisa's Database inside a present, which contains information about everything the Louds have encountered thus far! Unfortunately, it still doesn't have any correlation to what has happened.
That being said, Lana did manage to find a CD in the high-tech outpost. Upon placing it into a CD player, a song begins to play. It sounds like Billy Joel's famous novelty song, "We Didn't Start the Fire". Lana listens to the tune, because even if Billy Joel himself didn't like it, she's sure someone else would.
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, The King and I and The Catcher in The Rye
Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
Yuē sè fū Sī dà lín, Mǎ lín kē fū, Nà sài ěr, Pǔ luó kē fēi yē fū
Luò kè fēi lè, Luó yī nèi lā, Gòng chǎn zhǔ yì Jí tuán
Luó yī Kē ēn, Hú ān Bèi long, Tuō sī kǎ ní ní, Dí lún
Yuè nán yǔ shèng lì, Yán shí zhōu wéi de shí zhōng
Ái yīn sī tǎn, Zhān mǔ sī Dí ēn, Bù lǔ kè lín yǒu yì zhī huò shèng de qiú duì
Dài wéi Crockett, Bǐ dé Pān, Māo wáng, Dí sī ní lè yuan
Duó, Bù dá pèi sī, Á lā bā mǎ, Hè lǔ xiǎo fū
Gé lěi sī Gōng zhǔ, Pèi dùn Dì fang, Má fan zài Sū yī shì
Wǒ men méi yǒu fā dòng huǒ zāi
Tā shì hái shǎn liàng
Zuò wéi wǒ men xī wàng sǐ
Wǒ men méi yǒu fā dòng huǒ zāi
Bù, wǒ men méi yǒu diǎn liàng tā
Dàn wǒ men shì zì zhàn dòu tā
(约瑟夫斯大林, 马林科夫, 纳赛尔, 普罗科菲耶夫
洛克菲勒, 罗伊内拉, 共产主义集团
罗伊科恩, 胡安贝隆, 托斯卡尼尼, 涤纶
越南语胜利, 岩石周围的时钟
爱因斯坦, 詹姆斯迪恩, 布鲁克林有一支获胜的球队
戴维Crockett, 彼得潘, 猫王, 迪斯尼乐园
铎, 布达佩斯, 阿拉巴马, 赫鲁晓夫
格雷斯公主, 佩顿地方, 麻烦在苏伊士
我们没有发动火灾
它是还闪亮
作为我们希望是死
我们没有发动火灾
不, 我们没有点亮它
但我们试自战斗它)
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge on the River Kwai
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather occidendum spree, Thalidomide filii mutating cursim...
Buddy Holly, Ben-Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia's finale stultitia
Coxae circulis, Castro, Edsel nullus est ire
U-2, Syngman Rhee, Payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in Congo
Nos non initium quod ignis
Fuit semper ardere
Quia quod orbis' fuit conversus
Nos non initium quod ignis
Nihil, nos non lucem eam
Autem, nos conatus ut pugna eam
Hemingway, Eichmann, Främling i ett Konstigt Mark
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
Lawrence av Arabien, Brittiska Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston slår Patterson
Påven Paul, Malcolm X, Brittisk politiker kön
J.F.K. blåst bort, vad mer måste jag säga?
Vi startade inte elden
Det var alltid bränning
Sedan världens varit att vrida
Vi startade inte elden
Nej, vi inte ljus det
Men vi försökte bekämpa det
Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, Punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on da airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, Heavy metal suicide
Foreign debts, Homeless vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on da shores, China's undah martial law
Rock an' Rollah Cola wars, I can't take it anymore
Me n' mah niggahs didn't start da fire
It was always burnin'
Since da world's been turnin'
Me n' mah niggahs didn't start da fire
But when me n' mah niggahs is gone
It will still burn on an' on an' on an' on
An' on an' on an' on an' on...
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
Vi startade inte elden
Det var alltid bränning
Sedan världens varit att vrida
Vi startade inte elden
Nej, vi inte ljus det
Men vi försökte bekämpa det
"That was a pretty amazing song. I didn't expect it to be in 5 different languages. I should show this to Lola so that she can listen to it. Maybe Luna would enjoy it as well, since she's a connoisseur of music."
Next to it is a page of all the lyrics. Lana scans the page and notices that most of what are considered to be bad foreign policy events by Americans are written in red ink. Things like China turning communist, the Soviet Union leaders, the Suez Canal crisis and the Twin Towers attacks. Even so, homeland crises like the Starkweather murder spree, the Watergate scandal, the war on drugs and the AIDS mass hysteria pandemic are also penned in red. And that's just a few of them! Lana decides to take the CD and note with her.
Eventually, after leaving the outpost and searching the surrounding area for a while, she stumbles into an alcove with a face in it. Upon examining it, Lana can hear the wind whistling from behind it. However, she is not strong enough to get past the rock face. In the middle of the room is a shiny object. Lana grabs it.
Lana got the Antiquated Chamber Pot!
One backtracking excursion later…
"Lana, did you find anything?"
Lana hands her the lustrous item.
"What is this?! Is this a CHAMBER POT?! LANA! What the heck?! You were supposed to find something that would give us some answers! How stupid are you?! Seriously, were you lollygagging around all this time?! You clod! No, I take that back, even a clod is smarter than you, Lana! I am ashamed that we're twin sisters!"
Lana is cowering in fear and is on the verge of crying. Lola tries to punch her for her dumbassery but Lana has a faster reaction time, thus blocking Lola's strike!
"Please, stop abusing me!"
"Then please, stop irking me."
Lola sighs and shakes her head.
"It seems it's up to me, the better twin, to help you find something that can help us out. I really had expected more from you, Lana. But it seems you can't do anything without me! It's up to me to find the answers and I'll do so, with or without your help, Lana!"
Differences Between Decadence and Mother 3:
Mother 3: In the original game, Duster is supposed to go to Osohe Castle and retrieve the Egg of Light.
To get to Osohe Castle, Duster had to go through the Sunset Cemetery and had to fight off zombies.
Duster had to get the Rope Snake to get to Mr. Passion's room, where the halfway point of Osohe Castle is.
Decadence: Osohe Castle is replaced with the Outer Sativum Promontory. An extension of Mount Sativum, this region is a desert-like arid bluff with a seemingly endless expanse of sand. Notable landmarks are the high-tech outpost and the alcove where the Antiquated Chamber Pot was.
The zombies that attack Duster in chapter 2 are replaced with Sand Scorpions.
Mr. Passion is replaced with Lucy's Nightmare and she is only fought in the dreamscape. This encounter is forced because Lana resting in the high-tech outpost's bed is a cutscene.
Lana finds a quintilingual version of Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire".
Author's Note: The seven tools Lana got each correspond to one of Duster's Seven Mystical Thief Tools. They are:
Wall Staples
Entrancing Light Manipulator/Hypno-Pendulum
Vibrant Erostick/Tickle Stick
Malicious Mask/Scary Mask
Tear Ripening Gadget/Smoke Bomb
Spin Switcher/Siren Beetle
Grappling Hook/Rope Snake
The Sand Scorpions act like a more aggressive variant of the Soot Dumplings. They attack more often but are easily scattered by the wind. You don't get any experience points if they've scattered.
The first flashback occurs and it is the first encounter with Mr. Passion. He uses washi as his Japanese "I" because washi is reserved for people who're old or slur their words. Since Mr. Passion is based on Ludwig van Beethoven, he's old. In fact, he's so old, he's dead!
Lucy's Nightmare, Mr. Passion's replacement, also makes compositions based off of classical composers. Her battle theme is composed of 2 compositions by a certain Russian composer. That is also why she refers to this composition as Vistrelov V Temnote, as that is Cyrillic for what the title of her opus is.
After the encounter with Ms. Poser, Lana finds Lisa's Database, the Decadence version of the Battle Memory. It even functions just like the original!
The Antiquated Chamber Pot is the Decadence version of the Noble Spittoon.
When Lola goes ballistic on Lana, it's supposed to parallel when Duster gives Wess the Noble Spittoon instead of the Egg of Light. Wess' response is to flip out, shatter the Noble Spittoon and call Duster a moron several times. Lola tries to punch Lana for failing but Lana reacted fast enough to block it. Lola calling Lana a clod would've been the equivalent of Wess calling Duster a moron but Lola thinks even a clod would be smarter than Lana. And if we're talking about a certain other series, she would have been right.