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got the burning fist

encountered dadaluma(?), some sort of boss or at least a mini boss. I just overpowered him with raw damage pretty quickly. by the time he summoned adds, I was already killing him with aura blast in the same turn.

finally on the top floor, I find the Hermes Sandals. they seem pretty good, but I'm not sure if I can put them on anyone right now. everyone is already wearing artifacts for other things.

terra is still some kind of weird yellow monster but she's not glowing, not flying around, and she is just laying in a bed. well, time to see what happens. hopefully it's not a hard boss fight since I have literally not saved since before entering this dungeon.

no boss fight! at least not so far.

Ramuh, one of the Espers, shows up and explains some of the DEEP LORE to me. the truth behind the war of the magi, gestahl, and how things got to be the way they are now.

if I'm understanding correctly it sounds like:

the humans and the espers fought together before.
the espers didn't want their powers to be abused so they made a separate dimension and went there.
20 years ago, gestahl discovered this place.
gestahl knew that he could use the espers power to create an unstoppable army.
the empire captured some of the espers and brought them to magitek research facility.
ramuh escaped and has been hiding out among the humans since then.

finally, ramuh sacrifices himself to create "magicite." the methods that gestahl and the empire have been using lead to weaker espers and esper-based powers, but the magicite is the most pure form of esper power which will lead to greater strength. ramuh offers himself as magicite so that locke and the others can try to rescue the espers who are currently trapped, and hopes that those will be able to heal terra and return her back to her original form.

additionally, there are three other magicite stones which were recovered from the espers who died during the original battle with gestahl.

the others are Cait Sith, Kirin, and Siren.

I'm not exactly sure how to use these yet. I guess the game will explain it to me when I need to know.

here we meet Edgar. the party basically goes over everything they've learned, then forms a new party as they get ready to leave this place. I decide to swap Sabin for Edgar. I feel like I will use Edgar and so I don't want him to fall too behind in levels. plus, right now, I'm a little frustrated at how often I miss Rising Phoenix. Edgar will be a much more reliable AoE attackers, while I still have Cyan for single target.

I... probably will not use Gau...

there's a ghost here who offers to teach me more about espers. hmm... maybe next time! I'll save and quit for today.
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