FFV – Part 44: Null and Void

Summary: Exdeath unleashes the Void on Castle Tycoon, obliterating it. Ghido uses his ninja turtle skills and sass to fight Exdeath, but he wins this round. We head over to the Library of the Ancients and learn that we must find four tablets, open a sealed city, and get legendary weapons to kill Exdeath.

Ghido’s Cave

-We see the Void open over Castle Tycoon, and it looks really cool.

The todash darkness.

-Castle Tycoon gets OBLITERATED.

Lenna

-Exdeath is kicking our asses, but Ghido shell slams him. Yay, Ghido!

-EPIC SHOWDOWN BETWEEN GHIDO AND EXDEATH! Ghido is the master of turtle-style martial arts it seems.

GHIDO: “You think I sat around seven centuries, munching on pizza?”
EXDEATH: “You should have! You’ll find no such tasty diversions in the afterlife.”

Best. Trashtalk. Ever.

When trees and turtles clash.

-By the way, Exdeath’s “mwa-ha-haing” is in rare form this session.

The fight ends, and he ports away, leaving us in the overworld.

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Overworld

-Ghido sees the Library of the Ancients nearby and is taken aback. This is a really historically significant place. The geography of this merged world is going to take some getting used to.

-Ooh! It contains a book on beating Exdeath! Convenient.

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Library of the Ancients

-Back to this wonderful music.

-The Surgate scholars are already here, and happy to have found the other half of that mysterious book.

-Strategy session time. Mr. Turtle presiding.

-The Void is trying to break free from “the Rift.”

-…wait. The Rift? THAT’S WHERE GILGAMESH WAS SENT! There’s still hope of more Gilgamesh. Yay!

-Bartz wants to bust into the Rift to take down the Void head on, but Ghido again chides him.

Monsters sealed in the rift are really tough, too tough for our party. I smell final dungeon! Time to break out the legendary weapons.

-LOL GHIDO. He always gets annoyed with Bartz repeating stuff Ghido says in a shocked manner. He’s finally fed up:

-The book gets put back together: “When Nothing’s power again does peak, to Light Warriors this book shall speak.” The Nothing I guess is the Void. That’s our cue, though not sure this’ll work without Lenna.

-The book starts to speak…

Ok. We need to get into Kuza, The Sealed City, a.k.a. Shield Dragon Central. To get through whatever the Seal is, we need four tablets scattered around the world.

1)The first rests alongside spirits of the past, blessed by the soil.
2)The second is in an island shrine, kissed by wind. Perhaps this is in that island in the middle of the ocean from Bartz’s world we couldn’t access before.
3)Beneath the ocean’s floor, engulfed by flames. No clue. Maybe we’ll need the submarine to reach it.
4)Beyond the river’s torrent, protected by water. Maybe this is what was beyond the Istory Falls that we couldn’t reach before. The ones near where we foud Ramuh.

Plus, “servants” are sealed with the tablet who will guard them. Four elemental-style bosses I imagine, and I’m really excited to see them. Which will be new, and which will be from prior games.

-OHO!!! Leviathan and Bahamut are among the guardians! Or perhaps they’re super guardians of some kind, like after we beat the four main guardians. Either way, cool to see them back.

-Have quest, will travel! I didn’t understand the first clue, but we learn that it’s that place in the desert we couldn’t get into before.

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Next time: Our first quest is to the Desert of Shifting Sands, but I want to explore a bit first, and see if we can pick up Lenna. I don’t believe she’s dead. Galuf is dead, so FFV definitely might kill her, but I don’t think they’d do it so unceremoniously as dying in the castle when the Void came.