lilyr wrote:

Raphael is definitely one of my, if not the, least favorite characters in the game. Quinn annoys me but I can tolerate him in small doses.  The less I see of Raphael the better IMO.

Or is Triffledore the con artists?  Triffledore is the one who asked for the money for the portraits and the money for the friend to move to the kingdom?  Maybe they're in it together.
 

On my PC, i've reached teh part where I'm looking for those Orbs for the area behind that door in the castle.

On my iPad, I'm working on the Yura quests.  I've got the same bug that I had with the Crash Quests, the quests don't stay open when you exit the game and start it up again.  The quest show up with thebouncing "new" beside it and any progress you made teh session before is lost.  I'm at teh quest where you have to "find" 6 fairy dresses and it will take an entire energy bar to search each of the 3 locations twice.  If at any point I don't "find" a dress, I'm screwed.  I'll need to use food or hope I can level up to get more energy, since I have to finish the quest in 1 session.

lilyr wrote:

I've read posts in the forums about having to finish these quests in one session or lose the progress.

It's going to take almost 24 hours for my energy to recharge enough.  I'm not happy.  I've got stuff for today's diary, but tomorrow's might be a bit short.
 

Part of the flying through the game now is the much improved dropped rates.    I haven't had to play a scene 10 times to get 1 collectible.  I have 116 crystals.  Not sure how many I accidentally tapped away upgrading the Orchard to level 3.

I had no problem with the Yura Quests on the PC, but something must have changed in the programming code used for timed quests when they added the crash quests.  I wish the timed quests would show at the top of your quest list.  I've got 23 quests open.  It's a real pain to remember to scroll through everything to check and make sure the timed quest has been opened and no longer says new.

I just used my entire bar full of energy (which took 23 hours to fill) trying to get fairy dresses at Coral Cove, Apricus Plaza, and Rose Garden.  I need 2 from each location and I found exactly zero.  I have them in my inventory, but the quest is a "find" and thanks to the programming error I have to find them all at the same playing session.  If I had made any progress whatsoever, I would use food or cash in some sets to level up, but I don't want to waste them and play again to get nothing.  So I've got nothing to write about tonight except whatever I can make up.  I won't have enough energy to play another HO scene for 3 hours.