Part 63: Grandpa on the Big Bridge

Chapter 14: Grandpa on the Big Bridge


Double Samurai and Time Mage. Legit, kid. See if it lasts.


Stranded on the island, I grind up 4 more tents just to have some. Also gets these classes all to level 1. Nothing spectacular. He likes saying time mage. I tell him he uses clocks, and he asks why. “Because they make things go faster and slower.”


”What he doing?” He points to Bartz.
“He’s sleeping while they talk.”


”A bad guy a blue one!"
“He’s taking them!”


”Want all magicians back.”
“I am working on it!” If there is one thing he cannot abide is an insufficient magicians.
Hurricane misses so I dunk the abductor handily with a two-handed katana.


Chest proof!
“Who do you think took them?”
”Blue badguy?”
He… isn’t wrong.


“See they’re locked?”


“See there in Ecks-Deff’s castle!!!”
He is bouncing. Pretty much this entire sequence is him being over the moon because Ecks-Deff.
”Fight Ecks-Deff!” He asks/demands this a lot.


“TWO OF THEM!”
“FIGHT TWO DEM!”


”Giant mirror? Mirror?”
“He has a giant mirror!”
When the monster wheels it out I point it out as such.
Later after we get home, in the yard, he has me be Exdeath and I tell him to bring me a giant mirror and he pretends to.
Then he pretend gets me a small mirror. I demand WHAT AM I TO DO WITH A TINY MIRROR and he just shrugs and laughs.
Then he showed me/exdeath all the flowers and said it was his garden. I said it was nice, but should I suck it all into the void?
"No Ecks-deff don't suck my garden into the void." All calm matter of fact. "Well okay then."



I point out Grandpa there, but he is still in Exdeath/mirrorchat.


“Who is up there?”
”Ecks-deff… … … and all them.” he gestures to the party.
Galuf orders the fallback.
”Why?”
“Because he is worried Exdeath will hurt them!”


”Fight Ecks-deff!”


”See they’re coming!”
HERO TIME GALUF!

We bust in. He demands Galuf find Exdeath. A lot. I am half-way through then…
”I want sword dancer.” A swo- oh I do not have a dancing dagger. Oh dang.


”Sword dancer!” ”…and a bear.”
”Want all be sword dancer.”
Ohhhh dang.


”See! He fighting him?”
!Dance is not cooperative. I have to pop a hi-potion. I eventually revert to black magic instead.


BUT I WIN.

His everyone be swordancers edict doesn’t fall on everyone. Bartz becomes a dancer and subs control but I guess Lenna’s dancer costume doesn’t seem sworddancery enough for him. I ask if he wants the unicorn magician again and he does. Score. She subs Gaia. With Faris he wants the ‘long magician’. I have no idea what means, but I have an idea.


”Want long magician”
”Blue magicians are the longest magician.”
“They long?”
“Yes.”
He nods.
Yesss.


”Fight the castle!”
“Just… fight the entire castle?”
”Yes.” Dang, kid.
“We’ll be back.”



I hit some weird tear-in-space dudes that are apparently chock full of blue magic. Well good.

“Do you know what time it is?”

”Big… bridge? Battle on the big bridge song!?”
He asks about the song a LOT. It was the first FFV music he asked the name of and then later requested.


He talks about the sword dancing a lot too. Dancers are made of tissue paper. I have to burn some phoenix downs. When we fight the sahaguin or whatever I ask if they like lightning. He says yes.

“Who do you think is behind this door?”
”A… badguy?”

“GILGAMESH!”
”He badguy?


”Has feet!”
“He does.”
This fight is kind of nasty actually. I waste a lot of actions with bad dancing. I manage to tag Gilgamesh with old (ancient sword) and blind (flash). I need to lean heavy on white wind and burn ethers to keep Faris able to cast it when he goes into overdrive.


I mostly use Titan for offense. It works, barely. We eke it out.


”That a badguy?”
“Well, -a- bad guy dd it.”


“They’re sending us flying!”
”Want them get back on the bridge.”


”She back?”
“Yeah. She’s looking for her Grandpa, but we all went flying.”


“Go to bad guy castle.”


”They went down!”
Gaia sometimes is pretty good, dang. When it isn’t semi-uselessly proccing ignis fautus.


“Funny badguy!”
“All them funny!”
As you can see dancers are made of glass and we are hardly well equipped.


”Want see bad guy castle.”
He is unimpressed. I do some shopping but don’t have near enough bucks.


“He’s having a drink!”
”Why? Where are they?”
I explain he is at a restaurant, relaxing. Sometimes you are just tired!


“He shaking hard!
Gaia gear Titan. Yesss. We spend a little bit of time semi-sped-up getting enough gil to get all the spells in case. We gear up too so we’re less terribad. Oh ALSO





Our state of the party. He wants us to go to the bad guy castle.
“We’re… getting closer.”

Next time: Getting closer.