Part 12: Four! Job! Fiesta! 2019!

Last time, we cheated a little and got all of our jobs ahead of time by tweeting everything at Gilgabot at once. I like having all my jobs ready to go, you know? Today, we're going to rush through the Wind Shrine and beat the shit out of Wing Raptor, then we're off to Tule!

It's so nice that the game gives you a boat so early, so we ca- why is everyone looking at me like that?

IT'S FIESTA TIME, BABY!



Alright alright, fine, we'll go to the regular update. Last time we cheated at a game of chance to convinced a kidnapper to instead take us to the Imperial City.



His airship doesn't have much special for sale though Warp Stones are kinda cheap.



Albrook is the nearest town and is pretty disappointing.




Out of all this stuff, I only buy a Czarina Ring to see what it does.



Low HP Shell/Safe aren't useful at all but +10% MBlock is pretty nice.



Oh no, a Monster in a Box! We're dooooooomed!



Just kidding these things are suckers. Let's got see what's out in the wild.



Suggs is the horned beast that looks like it can barely move. Ensn Faisi are the robots that are shy about their feet. Suggs has a pretty decent amount of HP for this part of the game but is otherwise unimpressive. Reflect??? is an amazing Rage though! Normally it's a Lore. It casts Blind, Silence and Slow on any enemies that have Reflect status, unless that enemy is immune to one of those statuses.

No, you're right, it's actually pretty shitty.



Blow Fish is a good Lore for certain things, and horrible to receive at this level. If this guy had a lot more HP or defenses it could just kill a person per round.



Instead, I turn it into the second best piece of heavy armor in the game. The defenses are slightly lower but hey it was free!



Like I said, enemy locations are weird. These little things are supposed to be in Zozo and the Phantom Train, not here. They don't like asteroids.



Final Fantasy Mystic Quest: Fossil Labyrinth - I rented this game as a kind once and hated it. I actually didn't like RPGs at all until a friend loaned me his copy of this game for my birthday and I fell in love.

We made it in one piece!



Fuck you, grandma.



Take your shitty guards on out of here.



Times are tough at the item shops. If you carry stuff that's too good, you'll probably get carted off to jail. Carry shitty items like these, and you'll go out of business.



Hmm, what's this place back here? Looks heavily guarded.



We take advantage of an old man having a stroke to sneak our way through.



THIS is why we're here. To free all the captive Espers and really stick it to The Man.

Star Ocean: The Second Story: Rescue Operation - While this music is pretty good, nothing can beat the original Magitek Factory theme.



We're immediately set upon by some LARPers, mostly the red Dowes and their cardboard katanas. Dowe really doesn't like someone named Ray. Probably their boss at the office job. I feel like the Dinox is just being lazy and reusing their Narshe Guard costume.

Final Fantasy VII: Fighting - They do come with their own music! I'm honestly not sure what triggers it but it's attached to certain formations.





Neither of the first two are all that impressive. Little bit more attack on the Cards and slightly worse defense on the helmet. I'm still curious who my Gambler is going to be because I would love to give them those Trump cards. They're actually 21 Bat.Pow lower but have a small bonus to speed and a nice bonus to Evade that the regular ones don't have. 25% chance to kill something that isn't immune to Death is just icing.

I also found:
Two X-potions
Two Bio Blasters
More Cards
Poison Rod
Vanilla Earrings



And this handy little fella! A few extra points of damage but also a negative to MBlock. Attack procs like Shiva there, if they are normally Multi Target, should only target the person you hit with them. I had a Guardian dagger once with Merton as a proc. Hell of a thing to have as early as Mt. Koltz.



This is normally the best Heavy Shield in the game. The other three are Heavy, Golden and Diamond Shields. All the really good ones are considered universal because everyone but Umaro can equip them. This one is a bad example of a Crystal Shield, lower in everything but the Evade.



I'm not sure why but ProtoArmors seem to always show up here no matter what your seed is. Might be one of those weird edge cases where they can't be randomized out. I could've farmed them for Tack Stars but I didn't feel like it.



This place is a mess. Do they really thrown organic stuff in with the metal and plastic recycling? That's just going to be a problem for whoever has to empty the dumpster.



D'awww lookit the little cutie! I just want to eat it all up! Into items!



Regal Crown is fine, who cares. The Coin Toss is the new hotness here. GP Rain is pretty nice but not as nice as another Mind Blast + Quasar user! I'll definitely be throwing this onto Ranma when I have them in a party.



YEOWCH!



This fight can be very very obnoxious if you aren't prepared to deal with the elemental damage. Fire 2 and Blaze really put on the hurt.



Fire 2 does somewhere around 20% of my HP to everyone but Pipimi who has fire immunity from an item. Ifrit casts it pretty often.



Ifrit is also immune to Pearl.



But not asteroids! Go Quasar go!



Nice.



Shiva doesn't like asteroids either and responds with...a Fire Beam?



That is reasonably significant damage at this point.



The real hardcore strategy for this fight is to...run away. Yes, really. It counts as a win as far as the game is concerned.



These assholes have Dread, which Petrifies, and Magnitude8, a smaller version of Quake. Terrible things to encounter in Perma Death runs.



The first pack did Magnitude8 as a death counter, the second fight used Dread





(This is what happens when those hanging sentry sprites in vanilla get replaced)



The Darts are a poor replacement for the usual elemental sword you can find here. Straight downgrade from normal.



Nothing special about them.



They ate shit.



Strap in everyone, we're doing three bosses (relatively) in a row.



Let's dismantle this thing.



Taiga punches it.



WuFei brings the light of god down upon it.



Nice x2.



Must've been an obsolete unit!



Kefka's sprite is way too excited.



Just imagine this for the next few minutes.



This sprite is so freaky looking. I don't even know what it's supposed to BE.

Maybe it'll go down smooth like the other guy.



The arm doesn't appreciate being punched but the main body looooooves some Pearl action.



Sprites are silly sometimes.



Bolt 3 has a kickin' rad animation and sound effect.

This boss had some decent skills but didn't really use them to full effect. Which is fine, I hate the minecart section.



I wonder what the odds of getting three brand new monsters in one formation is. The Femiur is the Narshe Guard that lost his LARP buddy, Onser Zil is the flying dinosaur and Veggy is the decidely not vegetarian worm/centipede thing. Veggy is super dangeous with Atomic Ray, Blaze, Exploder AND Fire Ball. I kill it first.



Time to go!



Aw sonuvva bitch!

Please let go of my ship.

The left Crane is the Level 23 one. They both have ridiculous skills, including that attack x4.5, Giga Volt and Fire 3.



We have a Tools user! Control is also a good thing to have. Many dangerous creatures can be neutered with that command.



I said they were dangerous but I didn't mention their relatively low HP count. These Cranes go down like chumps.



We made it! I can't believe we made it!