Part 23: Boats, Dragons, and antennas
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Now that I have All The Money I can buy the equipment upgrades.
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I can't wait to hear what wisdom the sage-
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Oh.
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Darn it Exdeath why are you a jerk.
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OK on to other things.
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That's right, let the King here loot the good stuff.
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Which, OK is just a useful spell and song. Swift Song is tied for best song, really.
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Battle of the Big Bridge playing on a boat... OK...
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Another forced fight, however, Gobbledeygook can be captured, so no big deal.
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It's this guy again!
Boss Fight: Gilgamesh the Third
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This time I'm prepared. While last time Gilgamesh smashed me a lot, I have something to handle this.
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Golem. It blocks his physical attacks, giving me some breathing room and letting me have abilties other then Image.
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Next, there's Samson's Might. This Mix is made by combining a Holy Water and Antidote. What does it do? It increaeses a character's level by 10. With it Butz is now effectively level 15.
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As for the magic attacks? A few whacks of magic Hammer handle that.
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Oh yeah then the Ancient Sword hits again.
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After a few doses of drugs Butz is almost doing respectable damage!
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La-la-la keep reducing that MP to nothing.
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There we go! Expect me to be using Samsons Might in most fights now.
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Oh screw you Enkidu.
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Take that you jerk.
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Try and heal yourself now punk.
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Also take a Ramuh to the face.
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This really says so much about Gilgamesh's character.
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Now onto the Barrier tower.
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I want the loot. The loot within is awesome.
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The dragons in the chests here are pretty nasty peices of work.
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Luckily they're easy to handle.
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Control to hold it in place, then 1000 needles to cut its HP in half to catch it.
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The Blood Sword is pretty powerful and drains HP... but it's innacurate. There are ways to deal with that though.
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I pick this up too.
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Same thing, another red dragon.
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The Gold Hairpin cuts MP costs in half. Now I can cast, like, three spells!
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We reach the top of the tower....
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And find one of FFV's most infamous bosses.
Boss Fight: Atomos
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Atomos does two things.
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It casts Comet until something dies. Then it starts slowly sucking in the KO'd character to remove him or her from the fight.
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It's vulnerable to sleep, so that's useful.
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It's level 31, when you use Dark Spark to halve it, odd numbers get rounded down.
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So it's level becomes 15.
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Free dark matter for me!
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Then he dies. Which is sad, because he's cool.
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Next time: The best scene in the game