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Overworld
-I popped out of the meteorite portal on the eastern continent.
Zu, the FFIV raven mob, returns.
-Killed a Grass Tortoise and got an item: “Turtle Shell.” Apparently it’s used for alchemy, but I didn’t know that was a thing in this game.
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Town of Karnak
-The town’s (sort of) on fire. There are flames just kind of sitting around town, but I’m not sure if it’s disaster or decoration.
New report says fire is hot. News at 11.
-The members of the Library of Ancients tried convince Queen Karnak to shut down the machine amplifying the fire crystal, but no luck. She walled them off.
-Tried to buy a weapon in the store and some dude ran in: “There they are!”
-Oh. They saw me come from the meteor, and think I’m an invader. I’m under arrest. Bogus.
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Jail
-An old man next to our cell explodes our cell wall by mistake.
-who
-CID!!!!! HI!!!
-This time, he’s professor Cid, who engineered the crystal amplifiers.
-He made the amplifiers because he read that the crystals used to be much more powerful and wanted to get the world back to that condition.
Sweet mustache.
-Experimented on the crystals at Tycoon, Walse, and Karnak. Does that mean that the earth crystal is unamplified? And where is it anyway, I wonder.
-Wait. It can’t be just the machines shattering the crystals. The meteors falling right before they shatter can’t be a coincidence.
-A chancellor comes into the jail, telling Cid that the fire crystal cracked.
-A fire-powered ship (COOL!) is leeching power from the crystal.
-The chancellor thinks we’re
-wait, am I reading this right?
-Yeah. The chancellor thinks we’re in cahoots with a werewolf. FFV HAS WEREWOLVES.
-Cid pulled a favor by saying he needed us out of jail to help him stop the fire-powered ship from cracking the crystal.
-Fires around the jail are b locking lots of treasure chests. Definitely gotta come back here.
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Castle Karnak
-The crystal’s cracked and shooting out fire, but not shattered yet.
-The fire-powered ship doesn’t need wind to sail. This sounds promising, after the death of Syldra.
-Again with the werewolf. He’s after the crystal but apparently hasn’t attacked the town. Maybe the wolf’s friendly.
-The werewolf came from the meteorite. Maybe it’s Lone Wolf, the thief from the prison!
-The queen’s missing from the throne room, and nobody knows where she is.
-…is the queen the werewolf? That could be some Doctor Who bullshit right there.
-Werewolf at the castle gate! It runs away.
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Fire-Powered Ship
-We meet Cid on the ship. He says we need to shut down the engines. But (of course) the ship’s somehow now packed with monsters. lol ok
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Next time: to the engine room of the Fire-Powered Ship.
