LogFAQs > #953676359

Finally decided to resume after several days of VGMC bracket and new Hearthstone content.

And my first battle is with a bunch of bees that dodge like crazy. My second battle is with a bunch of bees that hit Rean for 7k and one-shot him from full health. Uhhh...wtf?

You know what else would be fantastic? If there were a recharging station *anywhere*. Or if I had the art to resurrect people, which I thought I had in duplicate before, but now isn't anywhere in my group. I find some creepy optional dungeon -- still no station -- and clear the entire area, subbing in Machias, up to what I presume will be a boss, and finally I can revive Rean. But he didn't gain a scrap of xp for all that.

Boss turns out to be pretty easy, though. Just three stand-still dudes who I have a strong suspicion will get stronger if I focus one of them down, and they're easy enough to deal with, so I split my damage until I can kill them at once. Easy stuff. I get 3 AP and a flashback to some event with a king or prince of yore upset over civilian casualties in war. I warp up top and NOW there's a freaking charging station at the beginning like I was expecting.

Garrelia Fortress go boom. Or as Fie puts it, "It's like someone took a giant ice cream scoop to it."

According to Toval, Crossbell has some big ultimate power thing that is powering a giant bubble over the city, and let them do whatever happened to the fortress. I wasn't aware Crossbell was involved in the attacks with the Noble Faction. Somehow I have my doubts. But I haven't played Ao/Zero, either. Celine says it's Ouroboros.

Time to fight Fie's old squadmates....who absolutely wreck me the moment one of them uses his S-craft. Two people go down, one's at a couple hundred, and I'm thinking this must be a story loss, but no. It's game over. Well, then. Also, they're immune to being slowed, so I've got no clue how to approach this.

Second time: Javelins are placed around Elliot and detonate before he gets an action. He dies. Revive. Genocide Rain hits and wipes the party, except for Toval, who apparently has some kind of status effect that means he's basically dead, anyway. I got *one* of them to 90%.

Third try: The *other* guy uses his S-craft, knocks two people out after I blow all my S-crafts. I recover a little, and I'm trying to not fall behind, when they punch out two people again. And then the battle suddenly ends?

Oh, and it's megazord time. Dude is like an entire province away, but sure, those soldats can just stand there and wait for him to fly here from the national park, across the town, past the blockade, all the way to Garrelia Fortress. No big. Never mind that he's had basically no time to recharge or anything. And they'll just wait for Rean to get inside to pilot, too.

Okay, so punch one dude out, grab a sword, and magically Fie can now support me in battle. Kay, whatever. Then we slash apart two more bots, and the other five are just standing back waiting their turn. Rean taunts then, the commander's like um uh we can still do this guys...guys? And then Elliot's dad shows up with the cavalry...er...armory...whatever you call a platoon of tanks. Oh, hi, Captain Claire!

Still, seriously, wtf was with that battle with Zephyr?

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