Part 21: Forget The Title Just Get The Damn Update Out

Hello again, my friends! This update will involve Cave On The Veldt and the Opera House and stuff. You know, those places!



We've got quite the crew stacked up here!



First though, let's stop off and spend a little of our hard earned moolah. I only checked for the Espers, I'll need to go back and see what other items are available later.



Not..terribly impressive. Zepeli is the only one that can equip Zoneseek and no one gets Golem. Ice 3 isn't a bad spell to have, especially on someone so low level. Strength +2 is alright but stats aren't nearly as good as levels are for increasing damage. Someday, Zepeli, someday.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dloxl9M9W8s
Secret of Mana - A Curious Happening

Remember this guy? I always wonder how he ad-libbed the second half of an opera that went so...poorly. I also find it hard to believe that there's much demand for operas in this post apocalypse world but never underestimate rich assholes from Jidoor.



This is a very sturdy stage, I'm honestly impressed with whomever bult it.

Anyway, come watch me murder a dragon.



Anyone know White Dragon's gimmick in vanilla? It literally only ever casts Pearl and Dispel there, and is normally fought in the Fanatic's Tower. Where you're probably already wearing Wall Rings.

Guess who tried to fight it without Wall Rings and got horribly maimed?



Here you can see the healing it does on itself with reflected Pearl and how much damage Cave In does, which is Dispel's replacement. Cave In is annoying, dealing 75% of my current HP and giving them Seizure. It goes from a free easy win to one where I have to pay attention somewhat.




I got these old standbys here, doing some heavy work. The only bad thing about X-Meteo is that I have to Slots manipulate to guarantee it which makes for an annoying video.



Videl brings the healing, hard. Pearl Wind to heal the party for the amount of HP Videl has, and Wild Bear for massive healing and recovering from a ton of status effects (that the Dragon doesn't use.)



I got so distracted trying to Slots manipulate that I didn't even notice this Grav Bomb hitting for max damage! Shame it didn't come out more often.



It was honestly a pretty easy fight. You may notice I went back in save states and killed it again; I wanted the other item it drops instead of an Economizer.



Normally, I'd be all over the Economizer because it reduces all MP costs to 1. Except that I can still get an Economizer from another boss, and this is the only Force Shield in this seed. It bets at the Coloseum for a Cursed Shield, which is also the only place I can get one of those unless I steal one from Goddess. I'll definitely take a Paladin Shield over an Economizer!



What, no payment? I'm never coming back here again!

At this point I remembered the existence of the rich people's house in South Figaro so I went and robbed them of the stuff in the basement. None of it was any good.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYRdsBd4eU0
Chrono Trigger - Rhythm of Wind, Sky, and Earth (Veldt)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uReCQgogjV8
Final Fantasy IV - Into The Darkness (Cave)

For some reason, I never liked this place as a kid. Probably the encounter rate and it annoyed me that enemies still showed up in the room with the dudes around a fire. Why aren't they fighting, dammit!



Lead on, Lassie!



Ah, these guys don't seem so bad! After all, there's only one of them.



Jesus Christ!



These particular assholes have an Imp special but also only 1800 HP so they never really got a chance to do it.



Some weirdness with Beyond Chaos; if one of your characters has the Throw command, that means there is an enemy SOMEWHERE in the world that also has the Throw command.



Holy shit! Yes, Throwers will absolutely ruin your world.



Unless you're in the back row with enough defense to negate them



Battle Clock stands firm, ready to drag some corpses out of the cave.



God dammit.




Someone better than me can probably turn this into loss.



Is it Sir Behemoth or Senior Behemoth?

Or maybe just ..uh ...hmm. Whatever, just watch the fight.



Instant Death protection at work. Not gonna stop me like that!



This is actually Zepeli using Mimic. They're doing about 2/3s the damage that Popuko does with that same attack. Still formidable!



3rd level spells are scary.



Well, not to everyone.



I'm not impressed at all.



Zounds! It became a big muscle dude instead of a big muscle monster!



Around the same HP but it can only Battle and Wind Slash, no biggie.



Alright, well, I guess see ya later? Nothing a night of rest can't heal in this world.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THnp_PHpdMM
Seiken Densetsu 3 - High Tension Wire

I honestly love this place. You can get a good number of rare items by betting other rare items. You have to be careful though, since enemies can be assholes. Running Away (if you can) will give you back the item you bet but dying means you lose it. Permadeath runs spend a lot of time here figuring out what bets for what. For my purposes, the text file has a list of what bets, and I can save state if I lose.

I've actually been coming here on and off, I just haven't shown it off yet because I haven't found anything major besides the Cursed Shield potential. I did have to bet a Wing Edge to get the Striker; the only one available in a chest is in the Phoenix Cave.



So far I've always brought Serena. ?-Aero does decent damage and Rage will eventually get me something that will win the fight. While messing around, I even got several 14-16 Aeros in a row! It was pretty impressive even though the enemies I was fighting didn't get killed by even that much damage.

In this shot, our character is named Ukyo; Fazie is just the enemy you would normally fight when betting a Striker.



Oh also Serena can equip Ragnarok for those sweet sweet Ultima procs.



I'd be mad too.



Finally, a Tools user! Most of the Tools are very good and Ukyo has decent stats. Not the most powerful in our arsenal but a welcome addition.

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ALL TREASURES
Trump
DaVinci Brush
Kung Fu Suit
800 GP
Shadow Edge
Mithril Claw
Gold Hairpin
Heavy Shield
Dragon Claw (Has the Better Steal effect)

Purchased
Tents (4000g!)

South Figaro is the ONLY place that sells Tents in the WoR and they cost FOUR THOUSAND GP. Sleeping Bags are "only" 490 but you can't use them on dead characters.

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Please VOTE for which location we should aim for next from this list:

Mt. Zozo
Owzer's House
Doma Castle - Since I have no idea what Magitek Armor skills are in this game, I will be taking Zepeli to this place. They are our Terra replacement and so will have all eight available Magitek skills instead of just four.
Phoenix Cave - I GUESS
Ancient Castle - Somehow I've been forgetting about this location.

Fanatic's Tower is still off limits because I need our Relm replacement to snag the Strago replacement there.


Please ALSO VOTE for the four characters we will bring with us, with any changes that are noted above.







We're getting closer to the end! Voting will last until this Sunday, October 6th 2019. I'm going to try and get updates out a bit faster, I don't like waiting so long between them.