Part 25: Recommended: Monologues on Motivation
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I try to get Eldena Reflex, but I get bored and stop.
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Anyway, I should really get to this mission.
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Oh okay.
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Haha, me neither! I've already bought everything and I still have 200K gil sitting around!
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Thanks for reiterating the point.
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Compliance.
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Maybe important detail: This mission is about people who forge brand-name clocks, like these guys are making Rolex knock-offs.
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Making knock-off Rolexes involves manipulation of space/time and a guy who flings Molotov cocktails.
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Proof.
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"No one firebombs you back in the real world."
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Do you see the size of her rapier?
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It's all ornate and shit. All she has back home are snowballs.
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Shara's well off, too. Shara isn't a very Viera-y name. Now she's Shjr'j.
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Ramza murders the Alchemist and goes right back to bickering with Ritz. They really ramp up the talking as we're, believe it or not, getting to the endgame.
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Blah blah blah "wouldn't you do it too" "how about Doned" blah blah blah.
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Seth makes the sun explode so everyone will shut up.
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It isn't a very big deal.
But they start talking some more once the battle ends!
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Blah blah blah "We'll turn you in if we have to" blah blah blah emotional rift between Ritz and Ramza blah. Ramza walks off leaving Shjr'j and Ritz alone.
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But the scene doesn't fade so time for ~*~Character development!~*~
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Kinda cold to ditch your friends and family, yo.
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Did she leave behind a cancerous tumor? Did her mom and dad beat her every day? Does having an ornate rapier make people ignore her immense forehead?
No, it's... wait for it...
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Her offensively bright hair is her reason for staying!
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Ritz's mom would
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Yeah, that's it. Her hair is naturally superred, and the magic of Ivalice makes unhappy traits like "white hair" and "pussy with 8 HP" vanish.
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Speaking of Mewt...
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"Y'know, despite being the only person fighting that invasion by the Redwings that's happening. Right now. As we speak."
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"If I can get outside for all the Redwings swarming out there, that is."
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Hurry or the world will break. Holy shit does Cid not realize the magnitude of that?
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Mewt collapses into Babus before the poor guy can even leave to summon Remedi. Also, Mewt may have more than 8 HP but he's still a wuss.
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Muscadet, the Viera village, is placed nowhere near a forest.
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Ramza reasons that there are 5 crystals total because there are five races.
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...Man, the Gran Grimoire sucks at creating whole peoples sometimes.
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Then Ezel shows up to tell Ramza about some plot!
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But Cid said towns...
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Ezel's still our friend...
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No new missions are available so...
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I prepare Ramza for a fight that I rightly can't know exists yet and...
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Walk on to Muscadet for the next boss fight.
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Beating women and kidnapping Eeyore, all in a day's work for the judges.
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"The Moogle has a gigantic smile on his face at all times. Oh, and he works deep magics to shoot people."
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So the judge starts to take away the moogle, despite that moogle having but only wry grin.
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My bullies never had the power to teleport me to jail.
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"I'll have to steal the judge!"
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While that would be interesting, it, sadly, can't happen.
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The judge is all "okay" and summons some dudes.
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Make sure Ramza is in the clear when it comes to the laws.
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One of the Templars has a Genji Armor. This is important.
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There's seven dudes so I have to go in one short. Norma gets a break because she's so high level.
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Now the battle finally begins.
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Grab the loot.
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Break some bones.
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Circumvent the law.
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Blow up the sun again.
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Well, that's it for the first part of the mission.
NEXT TIME:
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Ramza argues with people and punches fruit in the meantime. Stealing is involved.
Anyone not clear on some mechanic? I haven't had a subject for a Mechanics Chat in ages.