Also: Galuf: "Plus, I know I've gotta get to that shrine...I feel it in my bones. You've gotta take me with!” Hell yeah hipster old man.
Boko The Chocobo <333-- LOL. I’ve seen forcefields and magic barriers preventing characters from going backwards or leaving an arena, but never before has the ground literally disappeared to let me not go back. And aww, no fighting with Boko as a teammate :(
Oh of course “The shockwave from the meteorite’s impact caused landslides...”, Apparently the big gaping hole in the ground was ‘rubble’ okay.
Also the cave to the north seriously came from no where. The first time I rode Boko up, it was just a rocky enclosure. Now there’s an offset grassy knoll and a cave. But it’s chill because our hero Bartz blames nature shifting on the earthquakes which derive from the meteorites. Earthquakes must have something to do with the wind stopping as well. Bartz is our team’s scientist.
Oh s- devil crab x2 battle here we go
Slash Slash Slash VICTORY!
40 gil and 4 EXP. If it’s around a million EXP to hit level 100, then I only need to fight another half a million devil crabs here to be the very best.
After receiving 40 more gil and 4 more EXP I decided to press on. I found a recovery spring to heal me from my near-death encounters with the devil crabs, and in the next room I’m fighting Steel Bats and Stropers. Steel bats are pretty self explanatory, but the only way I can describe Stropers is....uh. Well it’s like the hunchback of Notre Dame mated with an ugly plant and this is the outcome. It’s pretty ugh.
I watch a pirate give me a demonstration on how to open doors, and Thomas Edibartz takes credit for the discovery that we weren’t really researching. I open a chest and obtain a leather cap. I am pleased. Three more steel bats later and I’m through the door. Captain Bartz notices a ship through an opening in the wall and ponders the question of how it sails without wind. I proceed to walk through the hole and the location of the hole doesn’t allow a view of the open sea at all as its surrounded by mountains
Conclusion: Bartz is a psychic and a scientist.
The next room is filled with signs of pirate’s home decorating extreme. Galuf suggests we steal a ship from the honest hardworking people. Lenna and Captain Bartz agree. Unfortunatly this doesn’t work as pirates are inclined to notice the one thing they legitimately own start to go missing. Faris gets pissed and Lenna reveals she’s a princess. Bartz has the next awesome line
“Hey! Leave her alone, you degenerate, lecherous, piratey...pirate!”
Faris tosses them to the brig but by the use of a clever plot advancement she unties them and they set off for the wind shrine. Lenna asks how the ship moves without wind, and Faris tells her it runs on the blood of dead children I mean this underwater dragon named Syldra.
Shall you steer the ship instead of me? Absolutely not, I want to drive it.
I’m enjoying this game and the translation so far, the start isn’t dragging on at all like some FF games (coughFF7cough)
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