More exciting stuff (and no, what the hell is a "chicken dagger"???)

*The group, in serious need of cash, makes a trip up to Mist. There, a Tiara is found that solves all their money issues for now.
*Using Josh's key, the group slips into Baron through the sewers. Once into Baron, they all cram into Satsui's bed for a good night's rest.
*Baigan joins, but after his dick move at the start of the game, did ANYONE think this was for real? The battle goes well, though Satsui eats a Fire2 spell from Fernin by mistake. I thought the Wall was still up...
*Back to the bed, then a quick fight against Cagnazzio. And I mean quick. Bolt2, Bolt3, Bolt2, Bolt3...
*Syd joins up, but Fernin and Hawk make a noble sacrifice. This is probably the saddest part of any FF game. Fuck off, Aeris.
*The party sees a show in Troia, while it's all guys, before any female party members make it awkward.
*We have a chat with Arlock, who's still recovering from the effects of the attack. Doc talks a little smack at him about how he'd "just be a burden". He gives over the TwinHarp anyways.
*The Magnetic Cave...oy. Cecil learns Cure2 just before it, which helps. He gets a GreatBow and sits in the back to pretend he's Rosa for a while. Syd just uses that hammer he came with. It's actually kind of easy this time. No Vampire Bats showed up.
*Dark Elf gives no trouble at all, once he's been Harp-ified. "Berserk on Satsui" is the key to so so many boss fights in this game...

Status: Just outside Magnetic Cave; Satsui, Syd, Josh, Doc; 4:55

SSNintendo wrote:

If you really want an easy time against the Dark Dragon (Dark Elf's final form), cast Tornado/Weak against him, and then one hit after that he's done.

Yeah, but he has a chance of resisting it, and I've never been able to do it. He's easy enough.

In fact, should be clear sailing up until Calcobrena.

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EDIT : Are Palom and Porum really only 6 years old?!?

Nope. Five.

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PS : if you do it with ffIX, i want eiko

Well, cripes, I guess I kind of have to do FF9 now...since EVERYONE is pretty much called.

Interestingly enough, when I do the rename thing in FF9, Eiko always gets named "Sara". I don't know a Sara or anything. She just seems like a Sara.

Anyways, the game I'm currently actually playing is getting harder.

*We go and get Syd a full set of Mithril stuff in Mithril Town, then storm the Tower of Zot. And man, this place is hard. Like, hard hard.
*Magus Sisters go down easier than normal. Manage to kill them all at pretty much the same time (2 at once with Syd's Gaia Hammer, and the third went down on the next hit before she could cast Life)
* Doc dies for good, but we get BMan and Ruthee back. Good trade.
*Valvalis is kind of a bitch this time. I have a pretty solid strategy for her: Have Satsui cover Ruthee, , then have Ruthee spend all her time healing Satsui. He automatically covers everyone who gets hit with a Weak spell. Usually works well, unless she nails Satsui with a Weak, then hits him as she un-spins. She did, and then nailed BMan to kill him too, at about the same time Jeff got turned to stone. I'm surprised I pulled it out, to be honest (once I got BMan and Satsui up, Ruthee got KOed too...tough fight).
*Agart bugs me. For one thing, there's no reason to go there at all other than plot related things, the stuff sucks. Another is that you blow a HUGE FUCKING HOLE in the local mountain, and nobody seems to care.
*Syd leaves. He's really the only party member I'm ever sorry to see go.
*I know a trick with the Calbrina dolls. They only form up into the big doll (and get a full set of HP) when you either kill all the Cal, or all the Brina. The Cal (the ones in front) die in one hit, so kill 2 of them, get all the Brina in the back, then you can kill the last Cal quickly before it formed the Calbrina. Which is good, because Calbrina is the one of two bosses I can't consistently beat.
*Golbez is the other one I have trouble with (Calbrina also has a habit of beating the crap out of Satsui, making this battle an auto-loss). BMan gets lucky and Jumps out of the way of the HoldGas, meaning he's available to help when Nekoru shows up. 3 people make this fight much easier.
*We take a break in the Developer's Room. Snag an interesting magazine.
*Into the Tower of Babil, which isn't nearly as hard as the Tower of Zot.

Status is: Inside the Tower of Babil (first save point); Party is Satsui, BMan, Josh, Nekoru, Ruthee; Time: 6:53

I will NOT be doing 7.

lavalarva wrote:

What are your character levels? You seem to go really fast compared to me (though my time got inflated quite a bit because I always forget to pause), and that could explain why I can kill stuff you have trouble with (tower of Zot)without any kind of strategy, apart from healing when at low HP.

Not sure exactly, everyone is around 23 or so. And Zot is just a difficulty spike in the game. It happens.

I'm probably a bit low on levels (I really want Rosa/Ruthee to have Cure3 now), but I should pick them up in the Tower here. I don't have to do any hardcore level-ups until before the Sealed Cave, when I need to go after the Summons and Sylph.

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lavalarva wrote:

Eblan Castle... I ended up there trying to find where the fuck the passage to the Underground is. Those monsters in the treasure chests are so fucking long to beat. It took like 10 minutes to kill those 3 giants. Only Yang could do significant damage, but he did like 3000.

I probably should have looted Eblan by now, come to think of it...

More adventures:

*At the top (middle?) of the tower, Lugae and Balnab go down easy, though Balnab explodes all over Ruthee for about 4000 damage. Lugaborg is also very easy, except for one very nasty attack he can't really hurt you, and while he has a ton of status effects, he also heals you (?).
*Josh dies for the second time. Syd dies unnecessarily while saving everyone else (just THROW the damn bomb down, would ya?).
*Eblan Castle gets looted. I forgot to go heal up, though, so the monster chests almost get me.
*Eblan Cave is a lot of running from bats. Not because I can't beat them, but because they take too long. Gish joins the party and proceeds to become the biggest asshole in the game.
*Back into the Tower of Babil on the overworld side, which is a challenge. Rubicante is one of my favorite bosses. I use the "Fire spell on him, Life spell on our party" trick more than once...and really, except for Scorch, he doesn't have much in the way of strong attack...plus Kain and Cecil still have their Ice weapons. And he inexplicably cast Ice2 on himself while the cloak was open.
*Hmmm. So Syd has the Enterprise, but Gish goes with the Falcon? No wonder they don't get along. We steal an airship, then have Syd, who's not really dead (a common theme in the game), pimp it out so it can fly on lava.
*We go to Tomra, that other dwarf village nobody ever remembers the name of, and pick up a whole bucnh of Diamond gear.

Time: 8:53; Party is Gish, BMan, Nekoru, Satsui, Ruthee, location is outside Tomra.

I'm at the point where I sort of have to do some serious leveling to handle the Sealed Cave, plus I want to go get the other Summons (well, the first half of the Sylph Cave. Can't get back to Fabul yet). Also, I haven't solved the "Edge in front or back?" dilemma totally yet. Any opinions?

And some more:

*Lots of leveling up, in all three Underworld caves. The damn doors, as damned as they are, are easily the best way to gain levels...so I take them all out (and I also have a bit of fun with the Reflect item too). I also learned if you cast Exit on a damage square, it counts as walking on that square about 50 times and nukes your HP. Fun.
*Once Ruthee learned Float, I went and chatted with the Sylphs. Looks like Josh cheated death again.
*Once she learned Wall, it was off to the Land of Summons. Asura went down very easily as always (she was nice enough to heal my party, thanks to that Wall spell). Leviatan was also easy, but took forever...lot of HP on that sucker. But hey, the summon is so worth it (Asura, not so much).

10:52, same party as before, in the Land of Summons.

SoldierHawk wrote:

*cheers Usa on* Can't wait to see it!

...you won't

Not recording it, remember?