Part 68: Valley of the Flying Dragon 1

... Hmm. By my count, this should be at the start of the next page. Time for an update!

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Welcome back!







That's some pretty scenery. Also looks nothing like what we've seen.



Oh, and I guess those chucklefucks survived. What a shock.



That... that's not where your hands go for CPR, Feena.



: Justin!

: Justin, are you OK? Are you hurt anywhere?



Yep. He wasn't knocked unconscious from the fall, it just took long enough for him to fall asleep. That's my interpretation and I'm sticking to it.

: Justin!



: YYAAAH?!

: Wha-what's the matter, Feena?! What's going on?!

: A ha ha ha! What a relief!



: I was wondering what I'd do if you had died right then.

: Don't you have a few Resurrection Potions on you?

: Hush, you, and let me be emotional.

: Yes, ma'am.

: Oh, now I remember....



: We fell from the top of the End of the World!

: Are you OK, Feena?

: Sure! I'm fine! Still a little dizzy, maybe.

: Hmm, what saved us from getting hurt?

: I guess we lucked out and fell onto this big leaf. What do you think...?





: Wow, is this a leaf? It's humongous, isn't it? Still, I wonder how...?



: Justin, look over there.



: What an amazing place this is. It looks like it's made for adventuring.

: Huh? Wait a second....



Oh dear.

: I haven't seen her yet. We got separated when we fell.

: But I'm sure she must be close by. Let's go find her!

: Right! I'm sure we can find her! Let's go, Feena!

And with that, we're given control.





"Most status effects wear off after battle, or have no effect outside of combat, but watch the fuck out for Magic Block. If you're playing a normal game, the Recover option also cures statuses."



You are one ugly motherfucker, you know that?

Plop Molds have an AoE poison skill, and can drop antidotes.



They're also plant-type enemies, so Justin can wreck their shit with a plant-bane axe.



Whoa!

... There's not much to say about these guys. They can hit someone, or use their tech attack to deal about twice as much damage.



Although this happens.

Midair Cut is Justin's bread and butter for most of the game. It's a powerful single-target attack, like V-Slash or W-Break, but it is ranged, so he executes it as soon as it's done charging, no running up to the enemy required.

It also deals more damage than W-Break.



Feena joins the 3-digit HP club.



Along the way, we find this Bamo Fruit. It's only usable in battle, for some reason.



So, Midair Cut. The animation kind of assumes you'll be using a sword.



At which point Justin channels Sonic the Hedgehog.



You know, I just realized that even Midair Cut attacks with a V-shaped slash.



But damn is it effective.



These guys' special attack is to throw the ball they're always juggling.



Slipples... uhh... they have an AoE attack? Few HP? They don't appear in the first area?

I got nothin'.

Anyway, continuing down the path...





Unfortunately, it's a key item, not the actual shoe-slot equipment that Sue had equipped.

In case you gave her your only pair of... Odd clogs? I dunno.

All of the enemies in this area can also drop Healthweeds, which restore 80 HP to a single character. In case Sue was your only healer.



Huh. I hope that doesn't come into play soon.



Now that's what I like to see.



The enemies here tend to drop items with a bit more frequency than usual. If you have no inventory slots free at the end of battle, you get brought to this screen to either dump or use something.

As we approach the end of the area....



: Hey... is that Puffy...?



: Wait... hold on.... Take it easy, Puffy! OK, now where's Sue?



: Pupuff Puff! Puff puffff!! Puff Puff PUUUUFFF!!

: Wait. Calm down, Puffy!

: Wait, Justin! We're not getting anywhere this way. Let's have Puffy lead us to her!

: Yeah. OK. Right.... OK. So take us to her, Puffy!









: Puffy! And Sue? Where's Sue?!

: Ju-JUSTIN! Look, over there! Next to the cauldron.



: Ju-Ju-Ju-JUSTIN! Are you thinking what I'm thinking?!

: I think so, Feena. But were are we going to find that many ice-skating elephants?

: Let's not be foolish! Now calm down, Feena!

: Yeah, but... but!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWN4cIwbrAY (Polsy link)

(Video contains voices! Skip down to "cutscene ends", as usual, to skip)





: Are you hungry? I'm afraid I ate it all. There's nothing left. (Buuuuurp)



: Feena!

: That does it!



: Hmph! You and I, in a duel? Well, how about that? I'll be glad to take you on. I am Gadwin, Knight of Dight!





And now we've got a one-on-one duel. With a guy who's about twelve goddamn feet tall.



And completely immune to anything we throw at him.



After three turns of guarding, he uses this.





Guarding even reduces the damage from instant-kill cutscene moves!

Anyway, having taken more damage than it's possible to have max HP, Justin passes out and the cutscene ends.



In the interest of not ending two updates in a row with the "Everyone's dead, game over" joke, I'm going to include this screenshot here. But no more than that because this update's getting a bit long.

Next time: Dinner! More talking!