Partitio Single Story

Partitio Single Story (Inventorless Route)

Credit to YTreds for the initial inventorless route.
Also credit to fura for running it which led to me seeing it, and all the other runners / routers of this category (and solo Partitio), whose work this was built on top of.

If you want to follow along a video, this is my PB at the time of writing these notes. Note that the run was done with an older Garnet script, which used $30000 on the fight and mugged the old man in Cape Cold for money.

Route

Start Partitio

Oresrush (Partitio Ch.1)

Buy Fire S, Thunder S.
Hire closest guy.

Kill forced battle with Attack > Arrow of Fortune x2 twice.

Pick Light S.

Kill 1st battle with Attack > Arrow of Fortune x3

Heal before Giff if needed

Giff

Fire S
Thunder S
Attack x4 Giff (If needed, delay and Healing Grape)
Thunder S
Attack
Arrow of Fortune x3

(Might need to heal, fight isn't safe)

Go to Cropdale. Recruit Agnea.
Pick $1600. Tag Crackridge Harbor, warp to Oresrush.

Oresrush

Hire Smooth Talker
Go to Item Shop.

Purchase Ice M from lady in the corner.
Warp Crackridge Harbor.
Take boat to New Delsta Anchorage.

Go towards Cape Cold, get Osvald.
After getting Osvald, warp New Delsta Anchorage.
Take boat to Beasting Bay: Anchorage.

Beasting Bay: Anchorage

Purchase Bottle of White Powder from lady.
Take boat to Canalbrine.

Canalbrine

Get Castti.
Turn in Powder Quest, buy Wind M.
Warp Beasting Bay: Anchorage.

Beasting Bay: Anchorage

Walking this whole screen is a 7% chance of a double battle.
Head to Western Tropu'hopu Traverse, kill battle with Wind M.
Kill battle with Ice M. Pick Light M. Kill battle with Light M.

Enter Tropu'hopu. Warp New Delsta: Anchorage.

If you didn't get enough JP for Evasive Maneuvers, you can buy a Wind M from man north of Tropu'hopu entrance, and kill something on the way to Clockbank.

Walk to Clockbank

New Delsta Anchorage: Walk at end of steps near exit
Eastern New Delsta Highroad: Run after boat tutorial

With EM on, running on land subtracts 2 more from the step counter. "Running" on the boat only subtracts 1 more from the step counter. So on screen with both land and water where you walk part of it, you want to walk the part on land.

Western Clockbank Highroad: Run whole screen.
Southern Clockbank Highroad: Walk whole screen. Pick $6300. Enter Clockbank.

Clockbank (Partitio Ch.2)

Purchase Fire M, Wind M from Old Woman to the right.
Allure Haggard Man on the left for the Cat Quest.

Go to next screen, go left to trigger cutscene.
Buy Shadow M from Father by factory. Continue story triggers.
Before getting Clockite, buy Thunder M from man by Weapon Shop.
Turn in Clockite, then head to the west side of 2nd screen.

Talk to Lonesome Cat in top left corner to complete My Beloved Catharine.
Head to Thief Guild, pick Healing Grape Bunch on the way.
Get Thief License. Entreat Gold Pocket Watch, Dazzling Artwork from boy in Thief Guild.

Warp Oresrush

Oresrush

Go towards Wellgrove.
Southern Cropdale Train: Walk whole screen to avoid battle.

Northern Wellgrove Trail

Go towards Wind M in bottom right of screen. Switch to night a little before you get it. Pick Wind M. Clear battle with 2 Wind M. After clearing the battle, switch back to day and go to Eastern Wellgrove Trail.

Optionally pick a Pom L north of the sign.

The Demon Deer in both battles seems to do bigger attacks when it's lower HP. For the fight where you use Shadow M, if it's going to get an action off try to use the Shadow M after it gets it's action.

Take note of Partitio's Latent after the 2nd battle.

Eastern Wellgrove Trail: Pick Magus Knife in top left corner. Kill battle with Shadow M + boosted ability on Demon Deer. Take right path, enter Wellgrove

Wellgrove

Warp Tropu'hopu.

Tropu'hopu

Entreat Marksman's Bow, Pretty Pearl, Light Nut L from Beastling by entrance. Go north to next screen.
Entreat Pom S, Gorgeous Sari, Empowering Bracelet from Artisan Lady.

Talk to Man Searching for Pearls at bottom left to complete Pearl Hunt.
Warp Clockbank.

Clockbank

Go to Tavern, Hire story guy. Go to Factory. Go to Factory again.
Kill battle with Thunder M. Pick Lychee M to the right before door if needed.

If you don't have full Latent, get it.
If you do, it's optional. Can be used instead of the Lychee L in Ch.4, but sometimes it won't be needed.

Kill battle with Fire M. Pick $7000. If ambushed and need healing, healing before Garnet.

Garnet 23000HP Spear, Axe, Fire, Lightning

Turn 1

Partitio: LATENT Collect x4
Agnea: Defend
Osvald: Armor Corrosive x2
Castti: Attack

Turn 2

Agnea: If alive, Healing Grape (Bunch) if anyone is 500HP or less.
Partitio: Defend
Osvald: Fireball
Castti: Attack x3

Turn 3

Partitio: HHB x4
Castti: Poison Axe if Garnet survived (should never happen)

Partitio should be full Latent after this fight

Tropu'hopu

Purchase Boat.

Sea

Pick Reinforcing Jam, $20000.
Warp Crackridge Anchorage.
Take boat, pick Sunken Golden Statue.
Warp Wellgrove.

Wellgrove (Partitio Ch.3)

There are a lot of optional options here, depending on how much time you want to sacrifice for safety on last 2 bosses. The core notes will skip everything that's not necessary, but will denote any optional options in blocks like this. The money routes for some of these variations can be very tight, so if you used any extra you could end up short.

You can optionally get Dancer Guild. If you do, give it to Castti before Thurston and teach her Stimulate.

Continue the story until the Hiring segment.
Hire Merchant in the top left, then Merchant in the tavern. Then go to the Weapon Shop.

Optionally Hire right soldier for Chivalry.

Hire 3rd Merchant, do story Purchases, go to Thurston.

This fight can be done using either $30000 or $45000. Your ability to buy Bracelets will change based on the amount used here. For fastest route, feel free to use $45000 here to save time, as you won't be buying Bracelets anyway.

There are a lot of different potential Thurston fights, I will try to cover more possible scenarios in the Addendum. Will list only basic ones here.

2 biggest goals in this fight are to get Partitio before the Steam Engine, and to break Thurston before his next turn. If you don't succeed, you will probably lose.

Thurston can open with a multitude of different attacks. Modify and Flammable Oil are freebies (assuming you can kill the Engine, the rest require adjustment / are losses (Throw Wrench).

Thurston 35000HP Sword, Axe, Bow, Ice, Wind

Steam Engine 7500HP Spear, Dagger, Fire, Lightning

Turn 1

Partitio: HHB x3 (HHV x3 if Reinforce)
Agnea: If before Partitio & Partitio is after Steam Engine, Stimulate Partitio. Else, Defend
Osvald: If before Partitio can Armor Corrosive Engine if it got Reinforced, else Defend. If after Partitio, Sword x2 or AC.
Castti: Before Partitio Defend, After can Attack x2, or Defend.

Goal of this turn is to break before Tank gets a turn.
HHB x4 on broken Thurston is a range (if you miss all 4 crits you don't kill.) You can try to cover this with Castti Poison Axe.
HHV x4 on unbroken Thurston with AC is also a range.
HHV x4 on broken Thurston kills without AC.

Turn 2

Agnea: Stimulate if needed / Ruinous Kick if needed / Defend.
Partitio: LATENT HHB x4 / HHV x4. If he needs to break, can do Bow x3/4 or HHM x3/4. Else Defend.
Osvald: Sword Attacks / AC
Castti: Attacks

Turn 3

Kill him with Partitio. If AC is needed and not applied, can Stimulate Osvald with Agnea to put him before Partitio.
Castti: If doing HHB x4, Poison Axe

Sample Fight

We'll assume turn order is Agnea, Engine, Castti, Partitio, Osvald. Assume Thurston did something harmless. And we're trying to save money for Bracelets.

Turn 1

Agnea: Stimulate x2 Partitio
Partitio: HHB x3
Osvald: Sword x2
Castti: Defend

If not trying to save money, can just have Castti do Axe x2 and have Partitio do HHV x4 T2.

Turn 2

Castti: Attack x2
Osvald: Armor Corrosive
Partitio: HHB x4 if after Osvald, else Defend.

Turn 3

Partitio: HHB x4 if you defended
Castti: Poison Axe x2 if still alive

Wellgrove

If trying to play safer, can enter Department Store and buy Empowering Bracelets from bottom floor top right merchant.

With Chivalry: Can buy 4 if you used $45000 on Thurston. Can 5 if you used $30000, 6 if you get a little bit more money. Need $26500 when done with shop.

Without Chivalry: Can buy 3 if you used $30000 on Thurston. Need $42000 when done with shop.

If you have no Lychee's, and Partitio is 0 Latent, consider buying the Lychee M from girl between Tavern and Inn. Costs $1000. If you don't break anything in Roque Factory, you will be short for Latent even with the Lychee L.

Warp Beasting Bay: Anchorage, go to Roque Island.

Roque Anchorage

Switch to Night at start of steps, kill night battle with HHB x3.
Walk rest in day.

Roque Island (Partitio Ch.4)

Go north for story trigger. Go to Tavern for story trigger.
Switch to night before entering Factory.

Roque Factory

Kill battle with HHB x3. Take note of Partitio's JP (Want 1000). Switch back to day.

Whether or not you have enough depends heavily on what battle you get here. There's a 30% chance to get a group of 2, in which case you will likely be short.

If needed, pick Lychee L. If you have 50% Latent and a Lychee M, it isn't necessary.

Travel Banter on second Ladder going down.
Pick Fire L.

You will want to walk a lot of the 2nd Factory Screen to avoid battles.
Pick $24500. Travel Banter to reset steps.

Note that you will likely die here, a lot. Bracelets help but still do not guarantee a win.

An important mechanic for this fight is the "Repair Counter". As soon as you kill a part, every Steam Tank turn advances the repair counter by 1. Once the counter is at 5, he will start repairing the other parts of the train. This is actually good for us, as he won't be attacking you. With most fights, you won't be able to kill before repairs start, so you'll be taking advantage of repairs to setup the kill.

The only threatening repair is the bottom one, which will use Drive Away. Drive Away goes through Sidestep, and removes a character from the fight. However, it will prioritize everyone else over Partitio, so you can Olive someone to tank it for you. The other 2 parts are harmless for their first action.

Steam Tank 70000HP Spear, Bow, Shadow

We assume that at most only Partitio & Castti are alive going into turn 2, generally just Partitio.

Turn 1

Paritio: If first LATENT HHV x4. If at end and dies to next hit, Sidestep x3
Agnea/Osvald/Castti: Fire L
If anyone else has a spare turn, can heal. If it's Castti, can Defend > Armor Corrosive x3

Assuming only Partitio survived, and Partitio was first. Also assuming all parts are dead.
This is more of a worst case fight, can speed this up if fight is good. Can also Olive L Castti at Counter 5 so she's very likely to get Armor Corrosive off. Downside is that with no Bracelets she can get single target crit and die.

Turn 2 (Counter: 2)

Sidestep x3 (Latent HHV x4 if you did Sidestep 1st turn)

Turn 3 (Repair Counter: 3)

Reinforcing Jam

Turn 4 (Counter: 4)

Sidestep x3

Turn 5 (Counter: 5)

Collect x4

Turn 6 (Repair 1)

Olive Castti

Turn 7 (Repair 2)

If Castti gets a turn, AC x2 Tank, skip Ruffians part of script. Assuming she doesn't get a turn.
Partitio: HHR x4

Turn 8 (Repair 3)

LATENT HHV x4

Turn 9

HHV x3 / Defend and HHV x4 next turn.

HHV x3 can fail sometimes. If short money, can also finish with HHB x4, but not sure how consistent it is.

Hire Roque, skip cutscenes, end timer at Credit Screen. GG!

Addendum

Caits and Puffs

These all assume you're not buying Bracelets. If anyone wants to work out the Bracelet differences and have me add them here, let me know.

Not listed below are the obvious changes that come from extra EXP / JP, such as guaranteeing Hang Tough and being less likely to die to random battles, etc.

Cait

There are 2 timings for this, before and after Osvald. If before, I'm not sure it's worth killing. But if you decide to, after Osvald you will want to warp Crackridge Harbor and purchase the Ice M there.

Assuming you get a Cait on the way to Tropu'hopu (and skip the next Tropu'hopu battle), here is what changes.

Changes

Entreat all the stuff in Tropu'hopu right away.
Can skip Magus Knife chest.
Garnet: Agnea can't die anymore. Osvald still needs Bracelet, barely can't tank a Bite with Gorgeous Sari. Castti should be safe now.
Garnet: Partitio will barely not refill full latent from Garnet Soulstone + Break. Unless he got latent from T1, will need to use a Lychee before Thurston.
Thurston: Can probably teach Castti Hale & Hearty. Castti can tank 1 Wrench (maybe 2 if full HP?).
If you picked up the Magus Knife and only used $30000 on Thurston, you should barely be able to skip the $24500 chest.

Puff

Gives $1500, 500XP, 300JP

Changes

Entreat all the stuff in Tropu'hopu right away.
Can skip Magus Knife
Can teach Boost Start + Hale & Hearty before Garnet
Garnet: Agnea barely can't tank Bite still. Castti can tank it even without healing Hale & Hearty HP.

Cultured Cait

Gives $10000, 1250XP, 400JP

Changes

Can skip both Magus Knife & $7000 in Ch.2. In test save had $101700 after Garnet.
Can teach Boost Start + Hale & Hearty before Garnet. No need to heal Castti.
Garnet: Once again, Partitio won't fill Latent unless he gets hit T1
Garnet: Osvald can tank a Bite (unless 2.5% crit). So no need for Bracelet, can just go on Partitio. It doesn't change Latent thresholds for Partitio either, he will either get Latent or need a Lychee M regardless.
You don't level off Garnet, so will need want to heal before Thurston. Maybe just heal Partitio & Castti? Don't know if Agnea can tank anything, might be close.

Queen Puff

Gives $3000, 500XP, 750JP

Changes

Can skip Magus Knife (barely).
Can teach Boost Start + Hale & Hearty right after kill.
Garnet: Damage ranges & Latent management are the same as normal puff.

Chubby Cait

Gives $50000, 2000XP, 1000JP. Kill with HHV x3

Changes

Can skip $24500 Chest.
Don't know how much it helps on Train.

King Puff

Gives $25000, 1000XP, 1500JP. Kill with ???

Changes

If killed with HHB x3 can skip $24500.

Garnet

Elemental Barrage script

Here's an alternate script YTreds made. I choose not to use it because Elemental Barrage can hit the same element with every hit, so it's possible to just get Ice and fail the fight. But the odds are exceedingly low, so it's worth putting in here. Can maybe be used as a backup to Castti getting hit by a crit Bite.

Below is copy and pasted from discord :)

My Elemental Barrage strat in Garnet battle is below.
Unless very bad luck Elemental Barrage, Garnet shields will be reduced to 3 or less.
If Castti Bite crit, to break Garnet.

Turn 1

Partitio: Latent Collect X4
Agnea: Defend or if Castti Bite crit, Ruinous Kick
Osvald(HP+500): Elemental Barrage x2 (x1 if Castti Bite crit)
Castti(Thief): Attack x2

Turn 2

Agnea: If alive, heal(Healing Grape Bunch) or Ruinous Kick (or Attack)
Partitio: Defend or Attack
Osvald: Fireball or Elemental Barrage x1(or2) (or Attack)
Castti: Armor Corrosive

Turn 3

Partitio: HHB x4

If very good luck Elemental Barrage and good T2 order, break Garnet and Armor Corrosive > HHB x3 (however not refill latent power in the battle)

Osvald Death Script

If you decide to greed and not give Osvald a Bracelet, and only Osvald dies T1 to Bite (before he gets his action), here's a backup. If it's after his action, can just have Agnea Ruinous Kick T2. Note that Partitio won't get to break to fill Latent.

Garnet 23000HP Spear, Axe, Fire, Lightning

Turn 1

Partitio: LATENT Collect x4
Agnea: Defend
Osvald: Dead
Castti: Attack

Turn 2

Agnea: Ruinous Kick
Partitio: Attack x2
Castti: Defend

Turn 3

Castti: Attack x4
Partitio: Olive Osvald
Agnea: Defend

Turn 4

Agnea: Stimulate Osvald
Osvald: Armor Corrosive
Partitio: HHB x3

Thurston

There are a lot of variations to this fight, so I want to go over some general kill patterns / scenarios.

General Thurston Kills

HHB x4 (Break) > Armor Corrosive > HHB x3
HHB x4 (Break) > Pom S > HHB x4
Break > HHV x4
Break > Armor Corrosive > HHB x4 (If no crits, can be short 400-800, try to finish with Poison Axe)
No Break > AC > HHV x4 (No idea what this range is)

Scenarios

Thurston attacks & kills Osvald

If you also had Agnea Stimulate T1, you will need someone before Thurston T2 to win. Else, you can have Agnea Defend, Castti Defend, Ruinous Kick + Attack x3 to break, and Latent HHR x2 into HHB x4 next turn. Anyone else dying should be simpler to recover than Osvald dying.

Thurston Reinforces the Engine

T1 Partitio HHV x3, then you break, apply AC, and go for HHB x4

Can't trust Attacks to knock off shields anymore, so try to break with Partitio HHM x4 or HHB x4.

Thurston does Throw Wrench

Just die :)

Sticky Flower

In rare cases, you can use a Sticky Flower (drop from Tropu'hopu battles) conoct to either fix turn order, or guarantee(?) crits for Beastlings. Be mindful of when you use it though, as it only lasts one turn. If Castti has Latent can use that to get multiple casts in 1 turn.

Money

If you aren't buying Bracelets and you skip the $24500 chest, you are about 2.2k short for the 3rd Vets on Train (Assuming 1 Ruffians). Can probably skip the chest with a Cait.

Steam Tank

The fight in the notes is the worst case / slow fight. But it can be sped up, and can even kill before repairs start. Here's an example fight.

Steam Tank

Turn 1

Partitio: LATENT HHV x4
Agnea/Osvald: Fire L
Castti: Defend

Turn 2

Castti: Armor Corrosive x3
Paritio: Sidestep x3

Turn 3

Partitio: Reinforcing Jam

Turn 4

Partitio: Collect x4

Turn 5

Partitio: Latent HHV x4

Turn 6

Partitio: HHV x3

Changelog

2/23/24

Properly remove Cape Cold from the notes (sorry Sanjan LOL)
Add text to recruit Agnea

2/9/24

Added Cait/Puff notes to addendum
Added Osvald death backup to addendum
Added backup for being short for EM

2/8/24

Initial upload