Part 72: Battle on the Big Shrine
Chapter 23: Battle on the Big ShrineI do some of the boring scutwork of World 3 offscreen. I stopped in Moore to buy an Air Knife, and in Mirage to get some spells and equipment. I also did the chocobo circumnavigation but didn’t claim the prize nor did I get the black chocobo. I basically the less time doing tedious things with a 3 year old the better. We still have some busy work ahead, but at least it is busy work with some zazz.
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I explain that Exdeath combined the first map and the second map.
”Ecks-deff make new map?” He might be saying two map. He has me point out where we are, and where Exdeath is.
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We go get Syldra.
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”He dragon?”
“Sort of a dragon. Like a dinosaur that swims.”
”Dinosaur helping us?”
“She is!”
”stay in the hole,” He makes me stay in the cave a little and show off Syldra.
”We got another new hit?”
“Shall we get another new hit?”
”No i don’t want another new hit”
Okay, fine. We’ll get the knife instead of Odin next.
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”He say that?” I pick the Chicken Knife lets be serious here.
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”He bad guy? We gonna fight him?”
“Nope. He’s just a skeleton making chicken noises.”
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Could use some work.
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I go to Bal Castle before hitting the Jachol Cave because I am nearly out of Gold Needles. He has me go to the top and look around. He asks what she is looking at, and I say the water. Then later the wind drake. If you talk to it you can ride it it seems. Or gives the option. I don’t at this point anyway.
”Dragon is Wind Drake?”
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We climb up!
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”Pop it.”
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He nods in response to this question!
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”Look at him!” Also guess whose accessories I didn’t notice changed when I gave them spell blade?
He Odin, what do you and me in World 2 have in common?
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WE’RE BROKE.
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Score. On the way out, he has questions about the ground.
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”Why it has holes? ”
“the floor? Why do you think it has holes?”
“It got wiggly broken?”
“An earthquake you mean?”
”Uh-huh. Ecks-deff do that?”
”Ecks-deff broke it to pieces?”
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I offer to show off Odin some more but he wants me to use “Purple fire” instead so I do. Getting closer to !Rapidfire. I can’t believe he loves ranger so much. Tiny hats, man.
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”We back in here?”
“The cave we were in connects to the castle!”
We move on to the next stop. I want to take Boko to the waterfall but he doesn’t want to ride Boko. I ask if he wants to see a Black Chocobo and he says yes. Off to Mirage.
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There is a lot of ”Find black chocobo. Where black chocobo?” as we make our way there.
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“He gave us a vest!”
He asks what the Mirage Village song is. I tell him the mysterious town song.
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”Black Chocobo!” The second we take off though he wants off. He doesn’t want that song now. He wants the black chocobo to fly away. I explain he won’t, but we can. We scoot to the next.
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I said I’d do it later!
”What song is that?”
“It’s a piano song.” What song IS that?
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”Let me look at them.”
“We’re looking for a certain bad guy here.”
”Lake bad guy?”
“Yes.”
”And these not him?”
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”That lake bad guy?”
“We need to learn something from him.”
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”Magicians flying!” He loves it.
“Yeah! They’re floating!”
”Want them stay floating.”
Well, son. I have Mighty Guard now. We can do that. We can do ANYthing.
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To assure him they are still flying I show him the feather icon. He wants to look at it for awhile.
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But eventually, “We found the big bridge again!”
”The big bridge?”
He is going to be so disappointed.
”Step on there.”
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”They hard?”
“Well they’re made of stone, so they probably are hard.”
I hit TOO hard and one comes back.
”Magicians don’t want him come back?”
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“Fire! Fire is on the page!”
“Yep.”
“One fire.”
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”What that for?”
“Lets walk in front and find out.”
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We get sucked around, flip switches, get loot.
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Trigger this monster in a box.
”He looking at us?”
“Yes.”
”And magicians looking at him?”
“We’re looking at each other!”
I pop Golem. (”Robot help?”)
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”They not looking at us?”
“They’re jumping away, I guess.”
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”Why we fighting him here?”
“He was in the box!”
”He was in the box? Why we fighting him here?”
Later we fight a random encounter near a chest and he asks the bad guys there were in the chest. I tell him no, they were just near it.
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”Why they red?”
“They’re a different color from the other backwards guys. There are a lot of them.”
”That a lot of guys.”
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”We beat a lot of guys?”
“How did we beat them?”
He thinks. ”With our new hit?”
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”Why we in here”
“What happening here?”
“what do you think?
”These things stick on them?”
“These green things?
“Yes.”
“They’re vines. Plants!”
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”He so big! Why he different color?”
I try to explain pallet swaps to him. Coloring the same picture in different colors.
”Why we fighting him wrong color?”
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If at the start you had told me my first mastered class was going to be ranger I wouldn’t have agreed
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“He mastered the green magician clothes! Now he can always do four hits!”
”Four hits? He can do four hits? Four hits!” I show it off a little.
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”No! Don’t fall down there.”
“Sorry.”
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Krile masters White Mage. This I was expecting. I wouldn’t be surprised if I keep this through Exdeath. Her secondary abilities are kind of meh, but White Mage is super good on its own.
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He merely watches this exchange.
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”No shadows? And they floating? Not touching the ground?”
“Maybe they have no shadows because they’re ghosts?”
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Mighty Guard! Golem! WHATCHU GOT WENDIGO?
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I explain the idea of the fight to him. We have to guess the right one. It isn’t interesting as a fight. He asks about the music, and about the shadows, and why we floating. I realize Rapid Fire maybe might be a terrible idea here.
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”First one is down!”
The rest of course follow swiftly.
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And we win.
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“Now we can get into the tower and get the most powerful magic, and save Cid- Grandpa.”
”Not yet!”
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”Who said that?”
“It’s written on the tablet.”
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”Walk on bridge.”
He wants me to cross it, so I do. He asks ”Why there land?” When we get into a fight on it and there is a grasslands background. I got nothing kid. Sorry.
“Time to get some new weapons, in case we change jobs.”
”Want to keep these magicians. Keep these magicians.”
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It’s practical. A lot of classes use daggers.
He asks about the music here, of course.
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Magus wand. Again, a lot of classes can work it.
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He… liked Dragoons?
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”Want look at feather.”
We wrap it up. I am almost tempted to try and encourage more class change. He’s been indifferent to soft encouragement to change it up. But our first mastered classes!
Next time: Fork Tower probably.