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followed the guy back and forth between the old man's house a few times, but I couldn't figure out how to steal the cider. maybe I have to go somewhere else to find/steal/buy some? for now I'm gonna see if I can find mt. kolts and this duncan guy.

found it. pretty fast, actually.

traveled through the caves, fighting martial arts guys, and I found a main gauche for locke to wield.

the gorgias in here are really dangerous, dealing around 40% of Locke's HP for each hit. they could quickly kill Locke or Terra if I'm not careful with healing/damage distribution. I actually noticed for whatever reason Locke tends to get targeted a lot, though. maybe the enemies really, really hate him.

on the way up, you can see a shadowy figure climbing as well. it looks pretty similar to edgar so I'm gonna guess this is his twin brother who was mentioned earlier.

found a save point which means maybe a boss or something coming up soon?

rather than wasting a tent to heal the entire party, I have Terra heal everyone and then use a single sleeping bag to recover her MP from casting Cure a bunch. dungeon crawling strategy!

I get into a few encounters after this, but mostly the type where I vaporize them all with auto crossbow before they can touch me. edgar gets poisoned along the way but I heal him with an antidote.

the guy we run into, vargas, is not sabin. but he does look like edgar/sabin a bit. and apparently he knows sabin. he knocks us all down with a cool backflip or something. then, a boss fight commences.

vargas has two meat shields in front of him which slightly diminish the 'blast everything with fire/auto crossbow' strategy I've been relying on up until now. it takes a few turns to burn through those two. after that, we start attacking vargas directly. locke manages to steal for the first time and gets... a potion.

bio blaster helps deal strong damage to vargas each turn, until he gets ready to unleash his ultimate technique. then, the real sabin shows up to interfere.

my main part gets literally blasted off of the battle screen. once again, loving this mid battle conversation and third wall breaking stuff. then sabin has to face off against vargas in a 1 v 1 duel. it was... really intense. I tried using the blitz command at first and of course nothing happened. I didn't know why at the time, but if you're reading this you've probably played FF6 so you probably know. so then I spammed attack.

the Doom counter is ticking down while I'm getting hit over and over. eventually the game tells me to use Blitz, but I waste like two more turns trying to figure out how to do it correctly. eventually I'm down to just 2 HP. Vargas attacks me and misses. finally, on my next attempt, I get the Blitz to work properly. with just 2 HP left and about 16 seconds left on the Doom counter, I take him down. what a comeback.

I get the rest of the way through the mountain pass and decide to take a break for now.
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Reality seems very harsh
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