Saturday, August 30, 2014

FFV – Part 6: Take to the Sky


Summary: After heading to Carwen for information, we learn that no ships for Walse are available because of the dead wind. Rumor has King Tycoon's wind drake, Hiryu, is in the area though, so we head to the North Mountain where he was sighted. We fight off an ambush by wind drake poachers and help save the wounded Hiryu. Gonna fly now.

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Overworld

-My blue mage still hasn’t learned any frelling blue magic. WTF.

-Wandering.

-Found a town, south and east of the graveyard.

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Carwen

-Walse is south, beyond the sea. No ships since the wind slowed.

-Do I smell airship time on the horizon? Does Cid live in Carwen or something?

-Mama said FF dungeons are like a Pandora’s box of chocolates.



You never know what conditions you’re gonna get. So I stocked up on antidotes, mallets, about 10+ of everything.

-Oh, maybe not an airship! Rumor in town is that a wind dragon is sighted. Is King Tycoon’s drake flying around?

-Purple flowers on the north mountain are poisonous. Good to know.

-This game is just overloaded with flavor text that makes me smile.



-A wind drake (note to self: not a dragon) flew to the north mountain. I know where we’re headed next.

-Gotta take this time to say that yet again FFV’s music is awesome. I LOVE THE CARWEN THEME!



How do you hear this and not get up and dance a jig?

-There’s dragon grass and poison grass both on the north mountain.

-Lenna recognizes the drake’s description as her dad’s wind drake, Hiryu.

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Overworld

-Booo!!! Tried using a “Frost Rod” I found as an item. It cast Blizzaga, but unlike any prior FF game, the weapon shattered after doing so. Not a fan of single-use items.

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North Mountain

-GAELICAT! New enemy, and it’s a kitty with wings!



I THINK IT’S WEARING A BELL AROUND ITS NECK LOLOLOL

-Hee! “Headstones.”


GET IT?? *poke poke*

-Interesting. Higher on the mountain, I found the purple poison flowers, and when I walk over them, it poisons my party.

-King Tycoon’s helmet! Is he alive? Or is he dead, and Hiryu brought his body or something like that?

-A poisoned arrow hits Lenna?!? The earth somehow opens between the fallen Lenna and the party, and a person named Magissa appears. A wind drake poacher.



-Note: do NOT try to out-sass Faris.


New bucket list item: use this insult.

-Faris JUMPS ACROSS THE CHASM TO SAVE LENNA

-AND FALLS OFF

-AND CLIMBS BACK ON

-FARIS YOU ARE AWESOME AND CAPSLOCK WORTHY

-She proceeds to make a bridge for her party to cross with a rope. Aaaaand it’s BOSS TIME!

-Magissa is tough. She soon summons her husband, Forza.


The family that slays together stays together.

-Hey. Magissa and Forza. Stop killing Bartz. kthx

-Victory! And Galuf learned Aero, his first blue magic spell.

-Hiryu at the summit. Lenna walks over a bunch of poison flowers to get a dragon flower to heal him. She’s awesome too.

-LOL Galuf: “My stars and garters!”

-They use the dragon flower to cure Hiryu, who proceeds to return the favor by licking Lenna and somehow curing her of poison.

-And Bartz reports that he’s afraid of heights just as they’re about to hop on the wind drake.


The party is very supportive.

-Airships? Who needs airships? I got me a WIND DRAKE!

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Next time: we fly the friendly skies to somewhere else. Walse perhaps.