South Figaro is a peaceful town with some very relaxing music. I use this respite from battle to heal up, explore, talk to peeps, and beef up my party. I get the strongest sword for Terra and Bio-Blaster foo Edgar. Edgar seems like a better choice for strong swords, but since his Auto-Crossbow seems broken this point in the game, I'll have him primarily use that. Also bought some defensive items for everyone and some Relics, including sprint shoes so I could move around more quickly.
I learn that my next destination is Mt. Colt. Apparently, some bad dudes are training martial arts there - time for a challenge! I make my way to and through the mountain, chasing a shadowy figure. Edgar's Tools and Terra's Magic make short work of the random encounters along the way. We finally reach the mysterious figure, which turns out to be Vargas, one of the leaders of these bad dudes. He mentions Sabin, which piques Edgar's interest, but we're thrown into a boss fight before we can question the bad dude.
It's us versus Vargas and his two bear guardian things. Vargas is freakin' huge and imposing in the battle screen - much different than the regular world screen where he looks just like us. This makes me wonder about something... how must we look to them? In the transition between regular and battle screens, puppies turn into enormous wolves and midget men become Greek gods. Maybe we look just as imposing! Probably not.
Anyway, the first portion of the fight ain't too bad, but then Vargas gets pissed and decides to lay waste to us befoooooore... SABIN FIGARO OUTTA ****ING NOWHERE. They argue about some karate kid crap and it's suddenly Vargas vs. Sabin to end the boss fight. I lose because I can't figure out when to enter the inputs for Blitz. I'll try again later.
Very short game sitting, but that's because it's time to work on my tan. I'll pick it up in a few hours.
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