Great Forest of Moore
-Very pleasant music here.
-I feel like I have a broad enough job set that I want to master some of what I have. To start:
FARIS: Mystic Knight
BARTZ: Monk
GALUF: Black Mage
LENNA: White Mage
-The first part of the forest is small, but per the instructions of someone in the town, I checked the hollow of a tree. Some sparkly spirit thing came out and opened up an underground passage to the next section.
-IMPS! Grrr. These are the guys who cast “Confuse.” Not too tough, just annoying.
-I keep going back and forth on whether I want Galuf to master blue or black magic first. Leaning towards black, and then later I’ll do summoner and blue.
-Woot, nm! Just got him to 4th level Blue Mage, which mastered it. Black and Summoner next!
-Frigging mini magicians drain all my mana…
-Getting a bit lost in here.
-Seeing save points always raises my heartrate a bit, since it means something’s about to happen.
-Earthquake! And the happy forest music has been replaced with Exdeath’s music.
-WHAT – THE FOREST IS ON FIRE.
Tyger, tyger, burning bright/In the forests of the night.
THE WHOLE FOREST.
-A moogle! It appeared to open a hole in the ground to its moogle home. We follow.
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Moogle Cave
-Well, we’re safe. Chilling with the moogles.
-Waited a bit, recovered health/mana, then headed back out.
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Great Forest of Moore
-The forest is way different now. It’s discolored, devoid of leaves.
-Hm. Not really seeing where to go. Can’t go back, since the way’s been blocked… aha! Found the path to continue on.
-Found “Ash” in a treasure chest. Literally ashes. Will this be useful, or is it the remains of some awesome item I should’ve found before the fire? Probably the latter. Or maybe it was Excalibur, and Lone Wolf came and replaced it with ashes to screw with me.
-We find a GINORMOUS tree.
-The Guardian Tree, that protects “the seal.” WHAT SEAL?? SEALING WHAT? Are there 66 of them to break?
-We wave Ghido’s branch in front of the Guardian Tree, and it opens a path for us to enter.
-Going to explore the rest of this forest first.
-Found “Flametongue,” a sword, but it seems to be unusable by Faris at the moment a la Blood Sword. Maybe she’ll need the Knight job to wield it? Hm.
-Ok, ready.
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Guardian Tree
-It closed behind us. Inside are four blue flamey things. They converge on us.
-Boss fight! With… um… amorphous spiky blobs?
They’re not even named.
-Interesting. I cast Firaga on them, and one of them was healed while the others took damage.
-Thunder did nothing.
-One’s “Aqua Breath” really hurts. One casts “Earth Shaker.” Are these nascent elemental fiends?
-And one casts Aeroga, confirming my elemental theory.
-Success! Wow… and what success! 15 ABP as the reward.
-Dammit. Exdeath’s voice chimes in from behind. This can’t be good.
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Next time: Treeception! Confronting Exdeath inside the Guardian Tree.
