Part 25: Part Twenty-Five: Castle Hein Postgame Show

Part Twenty-Five: Castle Hein Postgame Show


Here we are, just outside the Enchanted Forest or whatever.


We have to go north to Castle Argus, but there's a mountain in the way, so we have to take the long way around.



On my way, I take a second out to switch Golbez from Scholar to Geomancer. Geomancer is probably the better class at the moment. More sustainable, anyway. Terrain is better than Study, too, but Study is pretty bad, so that's not saying much.


It does have the side-effect of leaving him basically naked, though. I don't have any equipment for Geomancers right now. Whoops, should have planned ahead.


This is what we want. We need to use the Enterprise again.


We'll be done with it soon, though. If you'll recall, our entire goal since losing our last airship has been to get a new airship.


And hey, there's Castle Argus, where the airship man is. Let's go talk to the airship man.


Yup.


It's a littler livelier around here this time. Folks aren't all out chilling in the tree castle.



They're not very helpful. I don't know what the second guy is talking about, either, we don't really have a reason to worry. The king seemed pretty alright last time we saw him and the castle wasn't under any sort of attack.




This guy is pretty cool. I won't be using Elixirs for a long, long time, though. They're not worth it for HP restoration until you have thousands of HP.


I think he means this more on the scale of "about ten years from now" than "by the time this game ends".


Look at this table. Obviously an important table.


I wonder if King Argus minds Sephy just standing there and staring at him. Do you say anything if the person doing that just saved your life? What's the etiquette here?


We'll come back later and ask him.


This is bullshit. We didn't need brains, we just needed a bunch of ill-gotten items.


I wish we could have seen the soldiers being actively evil, but all we get is them dragging the kids away and chilling in various castles. Well, I guess there was that one who turned into a Demon, but he wasn't a very compelling example.


Did Hein not look like a skeleton the whole time, then? I prefer to think that he was just chillin' out, lookin' like a skeleton, and nobody decided to question him on it. That was just Hein's thing.


If you were wondering why Argus knows about airships, there you go. There's your answer. Also you have weird priorities.


This guy is the last guard around here, and he's almost certainly talking about Desch, who is 100% dead and burned.


Your welcome, random soldier. It's nice to be appreciated.


We already knew this one.



Sometimes I think the devs decided to add more NPCs than they actually had ideas/lines for. These guys don't really make sense here.


This is the answer to a question you might have in the near future. It also points out that they had a better name for the item being discussed, and didn't go with it because of reasons.


Let's talk to a king.

King Argus: Here, take this with you.

He is a good king, and just, who gives me my reward straight away.


If it's a box, why would you call it a wheel? What's the process there, man?

King Argus: Bring it to Cid in Canaan.

Hey, you can't do that! Don't give me a reward just to deliver it! I'm not a courier, hoss!



The camera in this game has some problems with just showing everyone involved in a conversation, sometimes.


It's not a huge issue, but it's a weird thing.


Anyhow, let's go see Cid and get a SWEET NEW AIRSHIP!


This little turdfish attacked me on my way to Canaan.


What a chump.


Anyway, Canaan.


I have no idea where Cid's house actually is, so I ended up back in Salina's place.


Desch is dead! I wonder if there's a scene where I tell Salina that her crush is a pile of ash.




Well, sort of. The game doesn't really make a big deal of it, I guess. Oh well, c'est la vie.


After about five minutes of pissdicking around, I found Cid's house.


Mrs. Cid isn't exactly a stunning conversationalist, so let's see about that new airship.


This is a fairly decent angle for getting everyone in there, but it's not really pleasing to the eye. By the way, I have no idea what's going on with Jecht's head.

: The Wheel of Time! So you've met King Argus!

Well, we didn't find it in the Goodwill.

: All right, then! It's time to get to work! I'll turn your Enterprise into a brand new airship!


Fade to black, and...


...Just like that, we have a new airship!

: Remember, though, that you can only land in water. It was a sea ship to begin with, you know?

That reads like it's reasonable, but it doesn't really make sense. Does he mean that the old airship wouldn't have floated in water?


Oh, and it's drama time, I forgot to mention.


This is the drama. Also of note: how bored Kuja looks in this screenshot. She doesn't care about drama, she just wants to cut things. She's gotten a taste for blood now, and she'll never be sated.


Golbez, you smug douche, what are you even looking at? Look at him, he's making a smug face at the ceiling.

: ...I guess it's time you knew the truth. You four and I are not from this world...this floating continent.


The scenery changes suddenly.

: Ten years ago, I was flying my airship, filled with passengers... It seemed to be a day like any other, until...



Cid runs over to the edge of the ship to see what's wrong.


And it explodes. Like, it fades out and fades back in on this.

: Next thing I knew, my airship was in pieces. We had crashed, and things were aflame everywhere I looked... The only survivors, aside from myself, were you four... You probably don't remember--you were only little kiddies then.

So, uh, were they already chosen by the crystals at that time? I mean, they were either picked because of their similar origins or have similar origins because of spectacular, amazing, next-to-impossible luck. But if they were picked because of their origins, you have to ask: did the crystals have a role in killing all those people?

Are the crystals super assholes?


The game is not concerned with this issue.

: But you...you must go and find out! You've been chosen as the Warriors of the Light! I know you'll make it!


And that is just the straight-up end of the conversation.

By the way, if you'd been paying attention, you might have predicted this. The Wind Crystal refers to Sephy as being "from the land of darkness", so you might have seen that, seen that this is a floating continent, &c., &c., and sussed this plot twist out.

On the other hand, it never comes up again, so let's go do something else.



Like fly our boat around!

NEXT TIME: We fly our boat around!