Thursday, August 7, 2014

FFIV After Years – Part 45: Evil Moon Cecil No More (The Crystals)

Summary: The appearance of Rosa, Ceodore, et al. shocks Odin out of his shackles, and he turns on his captors. Cecil wakes up as well, and our party endures another fight against Evil Moon Girl and her summoned Leviathan. We win, but more EMGs teleport in, and take the crystals away. We close out of this section on Cecil enduring a whirlwind of flashbacks, the aftershocks of mind control.

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Baron

-…The glow around Baron is gone! Just by virtue of a critical mass of Eidolons getting unshackled?

--Game won’t let me wander around the castle. Makes sense – things are kind of time-sensitive in the throne room.

-Odin awakens! Yesssss!!



-He remembers Cecil, Rosa, everyone!



-AND THEN TURNS AROUND ON EMC

-Wait.

-What?


Will the real Cecil please stand up?

-I thought Cecil was dead and this was his copy, not the mind-controlled version of the real Cecil.

-He called Golbez brother, and LOL at Golbez sassing him.

-EMG boss fight. And she summons Leviathan. I’m surprised she hasn’t busted out Bahamut yet.

-Such a relief to have a white mage in the party again.

-Oh. Shouldn’t have spoken. There’s Bahamut.

-And now EMG has a weird… bubbly… aura thing going on. She’s really throwing the kitchen sink at us, including Meteor.

-Rydia’s “Sylph” summon is very useful here for nice extra healing.

-BEAT HER. BARELY.

-Oh, right. Golbez rains on my parade, reminding me she’s one of many. Goody, that’s not hopeless at all.

-And the two more EMGs basically put capslock and exclamation points on what Golbez said by showing up.


Now it’s a party!

They take the crystals.

-Golbez confirms that the falling moon is different from the Lunarians’ moon. Time to travel back to the moon. MOON #2!

-Golbez calls down the Lunar Whale.

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Cecil’s Brain

-Flashback central here:

#1) Hooded Man meeting Evil Moon Cecil. He’s not sure if he knows HM, but has a tickle in his brain.

#2) Harley and Edward’s visit.

#3) The bombing of Mist with Kain, and how he could repeat that by giving Edward the same ring.

#4) The main party meeting of Cecil and EMG.

-Poor Cecil is really confused by all of this. Mind control sucks. It’s trippy, too. In these visions, he seems himself as a dark knight again.

#5) Cecil falling to EMG and Bahamut during the initial assault on Baron.

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Next time: To the (other) moon.