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I didn't have as much time to play today. The next town was a Shinra port, and the water around it was so polluted that monstrous fish regularly swim ashore to accost little girls and friendly dolphins. This was the hardest fight in the game so far, mostly because I was an idiot. The fish encased Cloud in a bubble. I tried attacking the bubble and it did 0 damage. Then I tried using magic and it just hurt Cloud without destroying the bubble. I figured it would pop on its own at some point, so I kept healing him to prevent drowning. Then Yuffie got caught in a bubble too and I finally realized... oh, Cloud and the bubble are different targets. I needed to cast the spell on the bubble! Whoops. After freeing everyone, the rest of the battle went fine.

The friendly dolphin helped Cloud climb higher into the city. A lot of Shinra military forces were putting on a parade in honor of Rufus, and stealing a uniform allowed Cloud to participate. There were a few marching minigames, and I hilariously failed at every single one of them. The second one where I had to do the same drill moves as the other two guys was especially stupid because the prompts were confusing. [OK] [MENU] [SWITCH] [CANCEL], man, I can't instantly remember what button those are. I got a score of 40 and everyone was disappointed in me. At least, while everyone was berating me, the rest of the party used that distraction to sneak aboard the boat Rufus was taking to the next area.

It was fun finding everyone disguised on the boat. Yuffie had some wicked seasickness and Red XIII had transformed into a human... somehow? The fun and games didn't last long, though, because it turned out Sephiroth was onboard too. I switched back to Cloud/Aeris/Tifa because Yuffie was still seasick, and then I went down below and fought some sort of manifestation of Jenova. Sephiroth was there too, but he mostly just seemed confused before flying away. Once the boat reached port, everyone headed into the city, getting away from the dock just before Rufus and Heidegger exited. Rufus was disappointed and reprimanded Heidegger for letting seven people sneak onto the boat. Heidegger was so angry that he started chucking sailors into the ocean, which was a funny visual.

I ran around the beach town checking out what the people not in my party were doing. Red was playing soccer with some kids (aww), Yuffie was helping out at a store (what a helpful person), and Barret was... hiding in the Inn's a bathroom trying on his sailor outfit. He pretended not to like it before, but Aeris called it cute and I guess that must've struck a chord with him! I also found Professor Hojo chilling with some babes on the beach. This guy is clearly evil, but when Cloud was about to attack, Tifa told him not to. But why not, Tifa? He's evil! We should kill him! But we didn't, so oh well. I'm guessing he'll become a big problem later.

I didn't progress any further, but I did run around the new world map a bit seeing what I could find. The only enemy in this whole area is an evil Matryoshka doll, which was annoying to fight and only gave middling experience. Ah well, hopefully I'll be strong enough to continue without grinding next time.