Overworld
-Found a forestnear the massive desert to land my pink chocobo.
-Will try Lenna as mime. She gets THREE abilities now, possibly substituting one out for !Item.
-!Mimic copies the last ability casts, be it Fira, Curaga, basic attacks, whatever. Really interesting.
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North Mountain
-!Mimic also mimics the cast, not the exact thing. Like, if she mimics !Gaia, the initial caster may get Stalactite and Lenna may get Windslash.
-Summit. Oh shit, here comes Bahamut.
He’s huge!
-Attempt #1: I reflected myself early, but there was no countdown when Mega Flare went off and by the Reflect had worn off.
Ow.
-Attempt #2: Success! Mostly. Got Reflect up on Lenna JUST before Mega Flare hit, and won the next turn. I now have Bahamut. [As I write this up, I realize I forgot about Carbuncle for that quick group Reflect.]
-Let’s head to Phoenix Tower in the south next.
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Phoenix Tower
-Initially just one floor, no stairs. I walked into the pillar in the middle, and got
-huh? Soul Cannon? Like, the boss guarding the floating city?
-Each floor is set up the same way. I walk into the middle pillar, and have a 50% chance of opening a stairway with no problem, or opening a stairway guarded by a boss.
-…I’m now fighting a Magic Pot. A gremlin sitting inside a pot. He’s got the Moogle Village music as his theme. Can’t hit him, but he starts asking for Elixir. I give him a couple.
Who wouldn't love an elixir?
He then flees. AND I GET 100 ABP WHAT.
-Oen of the random monsters, Parthenope, casts Roulette. It sucks. The indicator finger spins from character to character like a roulette wheel, gradually slowing. Whoever it lands on dies.
-Another Magic Pot. I’m glad I saved all my elixir!
-One of the floor bosses is now Liquid Flame from Karnak.
-AND ANOTHER MAGIC POT! This place is like Candyland.
-I repeat: fuck Roulette.
-Already on my third Magic Pot on the 20th floor. How high does this place go?
-Finally. Krile’s Red Mage hit mastery, 999/999. The new ability was totally worth the wait. It’s Dual Cast. It’s amazing.
-Bartz’s ranger hit mastery also, and Rapid Fire is astoundingly good too, distributing less damage per hit four times, ultimately for way more damage.
-29th floor looks different…
-Summit.
-HIRYU!!! I thought he was dead! Or is he? There was that flavor text earlier about someone seeing a dead dragon come here or something. Is he a spirit now and about to come back to life?
-Hiryu start to fly away. Or rather, to fly down. He dives down the tower. Starts dropping fast, and GETS SET ON FIRE.
IS HE A PHOENIX NOW??
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Flashback
-Young Lenna learning her mother’s going to die. The only cure for her mom is a wind drake’s tongue.
-HOLY SHIT. Lenna grabbed a frigging KNIFE. She ran off to kill Hiryu and cut out his tongue. LENNA.
-You have to be kidding me.
-This game just gave me the choice of brutally murdering a beloved and innocent wind drake (the last of them) or allowing Lenna’s mother to die.
-Dude, this is pretty fucked up right here. What a fun and wacky game!
-I say no. I wonder what happens if you say “yes.”
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Phoenix Tower
-Hiryu rises. He expended the last of his energy to help Lenna, help us, by becoming a summonable phoenix.
-Lenna is crushed.
-We teleport out.
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Next time: the search for the final tablet.
