Summary: Wandered around the world a bit, stopping in Istory, before meandering over to the Crescent Isle. Our ship off the coast there, but we hopped a black chocobo (who literally coughed up the bard and ranger jobs) to fly to the Library of the Ancients to meet Cid and Mid. Off to the Desert of Shifting Sands to look for King Tycoon.
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Overworld
-Sailed north to a town, and mobs are much tougher around here.
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Istory
-There’s a waterfall to the east, which we heard about back in Jachol. The road to get there has been blocked by fallout from a quake. It may hold treasure behind it.
-The armor shop is REALLY expensive. It sells three rings for 50k which enhance certain kinds of power (e.g. fire) while simultaneously making us vulnerable (e.g. to frost). Too rich for my blood at the moment.
-A “monster dressed like an old man” is in the east woods. He’ll zap us with lightning? …is it, um… what’s his name, the lightning Eidolon? That’s what I’m betting. This area is too high level for us right now, but I’ll have to remember to go check that out later.
-A bard in town sang us “Romeo’s Song of Love” to soothe beasts. Maybe I’ll have the Bard job sooner rather than later.
-Even better than the song itself though is getting to the bard. The bard is over a fence, with no normal road or path open. We have to find a pissed-off sheep, smack its butt, and get it to kick us over the fence.
The more baaad puns, the better.
Have I mentioned that I enjoy this game?
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Overworld
-There’s a city I see on the world map in the northeast. I tried sailing to it, but it’s hemmed in by mountains.
-Time to head to the Crescent Isle in the southeast.
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Crescent
-As soon as I step into town, an earthquake hits.
-NO!! The ship is sinking into a whirlpool! Leviathan? In this series, I’ve learned that whirlpools and sinking ships often are due to Leviathan.
-Apparently, quakes are common recently, along with whirlpools.
Not the most sympathetic of townsfolk.
-Interesting. The island grows crops easily without rain or fresh water. The town spring bubbles, even with little rain. Sounds unnatural to say the least, but perhaps the thing underneath the island isn’t all bad.
-UNLESS IT’S DAGON.
Lovecraft teaches us that deals with Dagon can often result in (short-term) gains for a seaside village.
-Lots of talk of chocobos in this town.
The newest AND MOST XTREME addition to the X-Games!
-The Ruins of Ronka are on the western continent. I’m guessing that those ruins are different from Jachol Cave. This island has the same artifacts found there. The Ronkan empire must’ve been pretty widespread.
-Bows and a harp are sold in the shop. Ranger and Bard must be on the horizon. I learned “Mighty March,” a regeneration song, from a town bard, which solidifies this guess.
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Chocobo Forest
-THAT’S RIGHT! There’s practically nothing on the island that I can access, no caves to get down below to whatever lies beneath, but there is a chocobo forest. With chocobo-y music
-A black chocobo. Time to fly.
-LOL maybe not so much. Bartz got him in the air, but the chocobo crashed down shortly after.
-The chocobo is choking on something. Ok.
-IT’S TWO CRYSTAL SHARDS. TWO. BARD AND RANGER HAHAHAHA
Power, with a side of phlegm.
-This is stretching belief a bit, even for this game, but I guess the chocobo caught some Karnak-crystal on the wind or something? Anyway, now with that out of his throat, we can fly.
-Trying Bartz as ranger, Lenna as bard for now.
-Oh. My. God. The black chocobo’s dance. I wish I knew how to gif it, because this chocobo knows how to shake its tailfeathers.
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Overworld
-Not sure where exactly to go. Back to the library I suppose.
-There’s an island smack in the middle of the ocean between continents. It is almost wholly covered by mountains. The one part of it that’s not covered is a temple. Something tells me something epic will happen there. Maybe that’s even where Exdeath is locked up.
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Library of the Ancients
-Dialogue between the party and Cid/Mid, who’ve been studying here.
-wait
-really??
-King Tycoon is still alive!!! He was last seen in the Desert of Shifting Sands, that place that stymied me earlier. And HE WAS FLOATING. WHAT.
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Next time: back to the Desert of Shifting Sands.
Uphill both ways.
