Part 66: Interlude 19 - Great King Rat

Melly joins with both Shellbust Stab and Blastar Punch, which gets Helmets. She can't target a character without the proper piece of equipment to break. Incidentally, this makes her a lot less useful against monsters.


There's a lot of terrible comments I could make here but I just like this quote. It's cute in a way.


Beowulf gets her sword for the protect. I like Beowulf being an impregnable fortress of a man.


This swamp pops up between Bethla Garrison and Limberry. It actually has Uribos sometimes but I think I've been in exactly one encounter here in all the countless many times I've played FFT.

It's been years, the map has become less of a representation of a swamp where noseless people fight colorful monsters walking along an invisible grid acting only when a number that's supposed to represent the abstract qualities of agility and swiftness reaches an arbitrary threshold. It's become a concept, a place of sharp blue, of striking white, of humble green, existing but never really being, as I can never be quite sure that that one battle wasn't just a dream. It's so distant, so foggy, it might just be nothing but a quirk of my mind trying to explain the strange dot between Bethla and Limberry.





...I decided to fight all the rare battles so I'll get to this fucking place eventually.


Igros is a red dot now. That doesn't bode well. I mean, someone's gonna threaten Ramza and Dycedarg as Ramza calmly explains why the stone is bad and Dycedarg realizes the error of his ways and joins us, right?

...Right?

_...right?


For WoTL players, there's a battle here involving Meliadoul and the Shrine Knight sorcerer Kletian. Sorcerer is an enemy-only job with a command called All Magic that never holds more than 5 or 6 spells and I don't think takes much from White Magic anyway. There's, like, 5 or 6 versions of it.


Try to step off of Limberry and cutscenes play!


Ovelia, now queen of Ivalice, as Orinas escaped overseas, is looking out a window at Zeltennia Castle...


Suddenly, the sounds of fighting catch her attention!



: You search over there!




Suddenly a man enters the room! It's...


Olan! He's quite wounded, and collapses to his knees.



: What an awful wound. Be strong...



: Please... Listen to me... My stepfather Orlandu didn't murder Lord Goltana... Suspected of conspiracy, my stepfather escaped Bethla with Ramza Beoulve... Now, he's fighting to stop the High Priest's evil plot.
: I trusted Uncle not to start any rebellious movement...



: Highness! Are you safe?
: Please, open this door!

: Then...who? Who killed Lord Goltana?
: It was...

But the knights finally break the door open!



: Here he is!


Delita, now wearing a glorious cape matching his glorious position as Duke of Zeltennia, enters. He addresses his knights:



: Huh?
: I said, leave this room!
: B, but...
: I'll not say it again!
: Y, yes...

As the knights leave, Balmafula enters and Delita goes to talk to Olan.





: Oh, please. You know you wanted this too. Look around. See anyone who's really saddened? You should thank me for 'killing' your father...now nobody will be after him.
: Stop that nonsense!
: Why, why did you do such a thing!

Delita turns to Ovelia.



: You don't trust me?
: ...
: Well, Ovelia?
: I'd like to trust you... But...
: I must talk to Olan. Go to your room...
: Please... Be gentle with him...
: Ok, I promise...


Ovelia descends the staircase to her room.


But when she gets there, she opens the door, then closes it to give the illusion of departure.



: Do it in one deathblow...



: I refuse, even if it means death!
: You cannot refuse. I'll bring down the Hokuten and build Ovelia's kingdom.





: I'm sure you know I'm right. What I'm planing to do is completely justified. A former squire, now in control of Knights, and restoring order to the world.



: Is that wrong?


Having heard this, Ovelia runs into her room and slams the door, not caring if anyone hears at this point. Delita, regardless, addresses Balmafula.



: I know the High Priest sent you as an 'assassin'! And if I betray you, you'll kill me, right?

Delita begins to draw near.


But Balmafula draws a knife! Delita is... unimpressed.



: What's the matter? Go on... If you don't kill me... I'll kill you!


Delita lunges at Balmafula!


A woman's scream echos through the hall...


Meanwhile, on the Beoulve Estate...





The camera rotates to show a massive grave.



He turns to speak to the chemist.




He goes to the side and picks something up.

: This...


He tosses a lump of mold to the chemist.



: It's poison really isn't that deadly, though.
: No wonder...


The chemist chucks the mosfungus into the water.

: Mister, we'd best be going.
: Why are you so scared?
: Don't you know? Mosfungus only grows on corpses... And tombs with Mosfungus corpses are major bad luck. They say Mosfungused corpses mean the end with that family's generation.
: Ok... You may go now.


Zalbag throws the guy his pay.




The chemist then leaves.




Buying. All. The hats.

I've bought like four of the last three hats each. I must be a TF2 player for my obsession with hats. Hot damn.


I also spend a pretty 10K on all the X-Potions consumed by Auto-Potion.


Since I have gil left and the last thing to buy was the Thief Hat, let's buy a bag!


Well, after the failed Great Morbol Gambit, I'm tired of considering rare poaches, so off you go!


And since that's the case and I have five fucking chantages and two ribbons, Buff Drinklots gets the boot.


And, finally having served her life's purpose in stealing from Elmdor...







...Aw, who am I kidding? Reef Blastbody gets to stay. She's still cool in my book.


But you! You are a Hydra so you suck. Get out!