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FF6 time

locke and celes head north from southern figaro and I discover a few interesting things.

apparently there's some cottage out in the middle of the woods. I wasn't sure if this was always here and maybe I missed it earlier. I notice there's a path behind the cottage so I decide to go back and check the world map again before I proceed.

mt. kolts is blocked off, so I know I'm not supposed to go that way now.

of course when I come back, ready to explore into the woods, I find something else out. exiting the cottage map by taking the path behind the cottage, into the woods, just returns you to the world map. well I guess this isn't where I'm supposed to go either!

with only one route remaining, I go west, and back into the cave that terra, edgar, and locke used to travel from the desert to southern figaro. the enemies here simultaneously feel more threatening and less threatening than before due to the change in party members and levels of the party.

at the end of the cave is a pretty serious boss with no save point. granted, I was given the opportunity to heal before the boss, but yeah. if I had died, I would have gone all the way back to the beginning of the cave!

anyway, I battle this metal truck with a giant drill that can also cast magic. and this is of course the tutorial for celes' runic ability! I had a little bit of trouble with the timing, I couldn't tell when he was going to cast magic or use basic attacks. at first I was just spamming runic every turn, but then locke's HP started to get low.

of course right when I stop using Runic and I cast Cure, the enemy immediately killed Locke with Poison which is apparently a one hit kill. celes was not kidding about needing to stop this magic.

I used a phoenix down on locke, getting him back up. the enemy immediately attacked him with low HP. he blocked it. clutch!

after that I started to get a feel for the enemy pattern. it's something like magic -> attack -> drill - > attack -> magic,etc. if I'm not mistaken it seems to loop through these four actions? hard to tell because I killed the boss almost immediately after I started to feel like I understood the pattern.

either way, nice little section, and I guess I'm done with Locke's route already!

okay these routes are shorter than I was expecting based on the conversation in here earlier and I guess my expectations of other games with "routes."
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