Observatory

The Observatory (天文台) is one of the facilities located in the uppermost areas of the First Tower of Ar tonelico, and it's situated halfway between the Blast Plate and the Prism Garden. As its name indicates, it's a location that serves for astronomical studies, which is why its equipped with cutting-edge techonology devices and a large telescope. There's also a large number of books in this place, as well as a Dive Machine, and it's here that the security protocols and authentication mechanisms of the Tower can be found, where they are supervised by the Maid Droid Meimei.

History
This place was chosen as the ideal spot for building an observatory due to being beyond Ar Ciel's atmosphere, which allowed an easier observations of the planets and stars without the visual obstructions and hindrances caused by light refracted by the air.

During the events of Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia, Lyner Barsett and his friends arrived at this placed after passing through the Blast Plate, and inside its main room, they found Meimei peacefully sleeping. Lyner thought she looked somewhat familiar, to which Krusche Elendia replied that he didn't remember how many underaged girls he has asked to go in dates with him. Immediately, Meimei awakened, and got all flustered due to not noticing she had customers. She introduced herself, and then Lyner remembered where he had seen her: an hologram of her appeared everytime he autheticated at the Dividing Gates. She then proceeded to recite the logs of Lyner's recent acceses to the Dividing Gates, revealing she had an extensive catalog of the all the activity in the Tower, to which Misha Arsellec Lune replied that most likely she would know if Aurica Nestmile had been sneaking off to see Lyner at night.

Radolf Schnaizen then asked if there was anything in the logs about Shurelia, but Meimei replied that there wasn't any recent activity, revealing that Shurelia had deleted them. Lyner then asked about his father, Leard Barsett, who had been taken away by Shurelia at the Symphonic Reactor, and Meimei answered that he had recently accesed the S.P.U.: the room where the Tower's Mainframe was located. Upon learning this, Lyner and the others ran off from the run and began climbing the Prism Garden.

Later on, when Shurelia had joined the party, and they were traveling around the part to learn about Mir and find about Ayatane Michitaka's whereabouts, the party briefly visited Meimei once again here. They found her sleeping once again, and upon awakening, she happily notified them that she was full of Symphonic Power thanks to her naps. Shurelia then asked her about Ayatane's recent accesses, and Meimei answered her with the worst thing they could have imagined: Ayatane was currently at the Plasma Bell. Shurelia explained what was the Bell's function, and what would happen if Ayatane managed to destroy it, which made the party promptly board their airship and descend to the Wings of Horus as fast as possible.

Layout
The Observatory doesn't actually count as a dungeon due to its small size and because of lacking enemies, so there isn't much to say about it. However, there's a note that can be added about it: room number 3 in the map has a semi-hidden lift in the center of the platform, which leads to a treasure chest containing an Aegis Protector Grathnode Crystal.

Treasures

 * Optical Camo Robe
 * Aegis Protector

Talk Topics

 * About the Telescope at the Observatory
 * About the book that was at the observatory