Part 83: Episode LXII: This is a Story About Purging Dissent Militants and Burying War Crimes for Noble Ends
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Music: Strumble
It wouldn't be an Intoner Sisters Prologue without a campfire scene. Decadus and Gabriella join us in today's bonfire side chat proceedings in the Land of Forests. Gabriella will continue on to the next mission. So let's see what Decadus has to say beforehand.
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Four, I think he just wanted to take a nap since you've all traveled clear across Inverted Europe since the last mission. I'm starting to see why you're the only Intoner that has never gotten laid.
Anyway, Gabriella will begin the second verse of Four's pious prude party. So let's get on with that...
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I'm glad Gabriella is here to clown on Four's prissy bullshit. I don't think I could take an entire chapter of Four putting on a holier-than-thou act and Decadus reforming her statements into the form of a question and moaning.
Verse 2: Cleaning Up Messes
Music: Registance ~ Battleground
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We find ourselves back in once more in the Land of Forests. They're not even bothering to flip the recycled map for this DLC go around. Branch B of Zero's adventures already drained that well quite dry. On the positive side of things, I do believe this is the second to last time we ever see a Land of Forests map ever again in the LP. I will not miss this sickly green region one bit.
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Gabriella will be joining us as a sidekick for most of the campaign through the woods routing leftover evil lord troops. While she won't quite be cleaning house one-shotting everyone in sight like the very well low level run min-max balanced Mikhail of the tail end of Branch C...
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...She can hold her own fairly well just flinging enemies hundreds of feet into a stunned status for Four to mop up in her wake. Decadus is also here for the battle... in theory.
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As you can see, the last holdouts of the old regime are all thrilled to see one of the liberating Intoners returning for another pass through the district. I wonder if there are any career military families that had their descendants survive the entire through-line of Evil Lord rule to the Intoner regime to Cult of the Watchers possessed fanatics Empire to the gulags under the Union Knights of the Seal. ...Probably not.
A light jog through the woods later...
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The first major challenge of Four's woodland purges is to take on an ambush of 30 infantrymen, mostly of the basic sword wielding variety with a handful of archers lending cover support.
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Well you weren't wrong, faceless mook #4182. Such is the fate of all those who share the curse of the generic soldiers who cannot even earn a subtitled dialog box.
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Following the thwarting of the lackluster ambush, a path further into the woods reveals itself. That was the last of the normal evil lord aligned troops in the area. Up ahead is lousy with Three's zombified Enhanced Soldiers shuffling about. They never did really specify exactly when Three started making meat puppets out of troops under her command so sure... I guess it's alright to sprinkle some in as filler combatants in the forest.
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The far end of the zombie tunnel opens up to a field with some new friends of Three's to contend with beyond the disloyal soldier purging.
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You really could have tried helping, Four. Do you even have the slightest inkling of the time it took Three had to carve up fifty-six people to get satisfactory results in crafting her Greater Gigantes. If you had just pitched in like a considerate younger sibling, she easily could have hit her results in the thirty-two to thirty-seven casualty range. Disgraceful conduct, really.
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Four and Gabriella (as well as Decadus... in theory...) are tasked with taking on a pair of undead gigantes alongside a gray cerberus. The field we're given to deal with this unlikely alliance grants more than enough space to coax the trio apart to take down individually.
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Failing that, Gabriella will run up and fling any one of the sorry looking mid-boss enemies about 100 yards with her tailspins as well as stunning them for Four to get some nice licks in.
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And barring all that nonsense, cerberus and gigas baddies all bleed buckets with every blow dealt. Even with fists and feet as the primary damage sources. So Intoner Mode is a frequent option to shorten the length of the fight and the lives of Three's lovely leftover dolls.
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Past another hollowed out tree cave the Gabriella-Four alliance comes to the final challenge of the area. Six imps being their usually irritating little shit selves. Alongside them are twenty rotting meat tin zombies stumbling around to be a minor nuisance while chasing the damn imps flying out of reach from Four's kicks. Jerks.
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So does bitchgrass come in dragon size portions?
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Regardless, with a little bit of effort all of Three's rogue imps are swatted from the sky and her most recent war crimes quietly buried and classified before becoming public knowledge. Well, at least as far as we know. It's not like we ever get to see much of the civilian side of a bunch of rampaging magic girls popping up one summer and systematically assassinating all the heads of state and their armies to seize power.
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As the last of the imps and the enhanced soldiers fall a path opens up to an abrupt mission ending because we've once more run out of map to cover. Alright then!
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Music: Aethervox
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And that takes us to the half-way point in Four's Prologue. Tune in next time for more adventures of the Ice Queen Intoner and the Dragon Who Could Not Give Less of a Fuck.


Video: Four's Prologue Verse 2 Highlight Reel

Early Four Concept Art - I kind of like the more pirate looking pistol-knife look she had going on.