Final Fantasy V Challenge Megathread Part #78

Part 78: Ecks-Deff.

Chapter 29: Ecks-Deff.

”I want to play your game.”
“What are we doing in my game?”
”Walking’ round. ”
“Where are we walking to?
”All around. ”
“Do you know who the next bad guy is?”
“The last bad guy?””
“Ecks-deff is the last bad guy?””

I boot it up

“I’m watching you.” No it isn’t in a creepy way.

”Do you like these guys?”
“Yes.”
“Should we find Exdeath with these guys?”
“Yes.”
The die is cast for the final party then.

“Here it is.”
”Walk up ”

”Go all up. Go all the way up. ”

”It’s Ecks-deffs! ”

Look, Exdeath, we can play like maybe for an hour a weekday TOPS.

” He not turning into a tree bad guy yet? ”
“Not yet”
”Those guys waiting?” he points at our team. Polite JRPG protagonists never interrupt the villain.

”It’s the bad tree?”
“Do you know who that is?” I point to the face.
”Ecks-deff’s head?”
“His face, yes.”

He begins to suck people up.
”He using the void? That the void?”

”And he sucked the dragon into the void! He sucked our dragon into the void! ”

”And our bird!”

”And the kid and his grandpa!”
He’s gone from being concerned the first time we saw the endgame to laughing. I guess knowing it is all in good fun helps.

”Where Ecks-deff’s head go?”
“Its in the tree”
”And its a bad tree?”

”That the void? That big thing is the void? Let me see void.”

”This is the void?”
“We’re in the void now!”

”He back!” I am pretty sure he means Xezat.
“See? They’re going to help us.”

”Grandpa!

”These gonna get Ecks-deff? Who?”
“Our guys.”
”Our guys?”

”That Ecks-deff?”
“No, it’s King Tycoon. Lenna and Faris’ dad. He’s stopping Exdeath from putting us back in the void.”

“Are you ready?”
”YES!”

”Why he in the tree? He stuck in the tree?” He points to Exdeath’s armor on top of course.
“His armor is on the tree, but Exdeath IS the tree.”

”Where’s he mouth?”
I point.
”Where’s he eyes?”
I point.

We get right into it. Lenna gets this out of the way now, pops Golem too. We mighty guard up.

”She gray!”

White Hole! It’s fine. We pop her back up with Arise and a needle. Her break blade will keep. Half the party has Aegis Shields so this is the only one of the 4 White Holes that lands on anything. Mostly everyone is attacking or summoning big stuff.

He has a lot of the usual questions about Exdeath. I ask him what summon to use.

Good choice.

”Where Magician’s eyes?”
I pause a minute to point them all out.

He doesn’t get into panic mode.
”The void getting Ecks-deff?”
“He’s becoming one with it!”

”Ecks-deff saying’ that?”

”He so biiiiiiig!!”

Lenna lets loose with the first summon off the lamp.
”Mud on him? Why mud on him?”
“Oh, no, the breath just makes him look all black like that.”

Time for Samurai Faris to shine. She makes it rain for most of the fight.
”Why we standing there?”
“Us? We’re fighting in the Void!”
”This the last room?”
“It is.”

Magic Lamp #2.
”What are the bad guys in there?”
I take a minute to point out the horn dude, the ladies, the wolf thing, the lion guy, the dragon thing, the skeleton and the goat.
”No let me see goat”
I point out the goat.

Here comes the hammer!

“Do you think that stopped him?”
”Yes!”

He immediately reforms of course, sans one part.
“NOPE!”
”Nope!” He is loving the fight.
”Why all these monsters stuck?”
“The void stuck them all together with Exdeath!”

He begins the Grand Cross chant.
I don’t quite catch it, but Lenna drops the second part with her break blade air knife hit for 179 damage. 2 for 2 Lenna!

”His color.”
“His color is changing?”
”Yes.”
“It’s the Grand Cross!”
Instead of dropping it at the end of the chargup, he just drops the line and charges again, prompting this exchange.
”He say that again?”
“Again.”
”Again?”