Part 16: The life and death of boating

Chapter 14: The life and death of boating
Pardon the departure from my usual style; There's a lot of talking, I mean a lot of talking that just bores me to death.


Cid's all


So Mid comes in and starts smacking the shit out of that old man.


He only pauses to deliver an inspirational speech.

Silly old fool! You always told me not to be afraid of failing... That if you messed up, you just had to start over and try again... What happened to that!?


Cid agrees, likely to save his own skin.

It's not over. The earth crystal is still out there!
Yeah, but where?
That I don't know. But we've got to find and protect it! And to do that...


So Mid shows Cid the magic sailing method and they fix the boat and I hate this part because it's so boring.


At least this scene has real relevance to the plot.


SNES amnesia= blurry screen.










Right, so Seeing Cid getting beaten up by his grandson reminds Galuf of getting beaten up by his granddaughter. Galuf just lost 17 man points for this.






I warped here through a meteorite from another world. Because... the evil we'd sealed thirty years ago was beginning to reawaken... So I came to stop it...
Evil is reawakening?




Galuf and his buddies used the power of the crystals to seal X-Death/Exdeath/Exodus/Superevildemonkill in a fancy spot with obelisks representing each crystal. That was 30 years ago, and Galuf looked exactly the same.


And Lenna comes to the obvious conclusion. Burtz would've gone and said "Sealed with the crystals?"


So Cid and Mid talk endlessly even after waking up. All we need to know? They're hanging around the Library of the Ancients.


With our new enslaved monster-powered ship, we can sail anywhere to a few select locations!


So, we could go to Jachol or Istory, but the trip is long and monsters prowl the seas. Our real destination? Crescent Island.


Huh, a temple completely surrounded by mountains with no known means of access.


Thunder Anemones absorb lightning for no other reason than to be annoying.


So here we are at Crescent Isle! Let's just stop in town and


Oh crap!


Oh crap!


I think we're firmly in oh shit. Might as well explore the island.


Bows and Harps, which none of our classes can use.


Mighty March! If any of our classes could sing, I'd have to find a different excuse to not use it!


Also, a piano.


Roadrunner cartoons? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!


There's gotta be a better way to develop these serial killers...

Yeah, I could farm some death axe thing off of the harvesters, but that really wouldn't be worth the effort. Nothing about Berserkers are worth the effort.


A chocobo. I want it.





He should be able to fly...


Except it doesn't work as planned and he crashes.


Faris smacks some crystal shards it had in its throat or something, I don't know.

They're the crystals for Ranger, which can use those bows and summon woodland creatures, and Bard, whose specialties are singing and hiding and dying.


The Black Chocobo can fly over mountains, opening up a world of possibilities!

NEXT TIME: Possibilities!