Part 8

So we're continuing on to Tanbel to meet up with Hilda I guess. Today I'm staying in Ruston, Louisiana! They're having their annual Peach festival, I had no idea I just picked a random town on the map halfway between Abilene, TX and Birmingham, AL.


I was pretty sure she was incapable of thinking about anyone but herself up to this point, wow.

I'm Maxim and this is Tia.

Hello!

Speak when spoken to bitch! *smack*

Thank you so much for what you did at the small shrine.


Wait isn't that. . . so her brother is. . . wait she's an IMPORTANT CHARACTER?! How fucking lame.

That silly blonde guy who couldn't possibly be anyone important, will be played by

Hilda, who are these people? Do they like swords?

They found the key when I was in trouble at the small shrine. This is Maxim and Tia.

Pleased to meet you.

This is my brother, Guy

I hear you helped my sister at the small shrine. Thanks.

Maxim please stay here tonight. I'll cook something special for you.

That's a great idea. I don't know about her swordplay or other abilities, but her cooking is pretty good.

What do you mean by that?!

Well, is there anything else you can do well? I can't think of anything, so therefore it's true!

Hey, I manage the inn, cook, clean, and do laundry! You can't do anything!

I can stab things! Besides, I do my own laundry.

If by laundry you mean tear your clothes to shreds!

. . .

Ha, Ha, Ha!

Men! They can't do a thing by themselves, but act lke they rule the world! Isn't that right, Tia?

Yeah I know what you mean.

Tia are you a lesbian?

What?!

I'll bet you totally want to do it with Hilda.

What!

Please stay the night, you two. Hilda why don't you go fix something up.

Coming right up. See you later, Tia
*she leaves*

I'll be in the back training. Why don't you join me later?

Sure I'd love to.
*Guy leaves*

They're so close. They appear to be pretty nice, too.

Yeah I can tell you really like Hilda.

!

Okay let's check out the rest of the town. Hah I think I've found a good gimmick for Tia.


Yeah good luck with that!


Wow, he must be a really good swordsman! Or on a high level, like me.


Flash is totally sweet and essential for an upcoming boss fight. Yes, elements actually matter in this game!

By the way:


Huh?


SOMETHING'S HAPPENING?!


He's class changed! Or evolved or something. I didn't take a picture of his status screen, but he has a ton of HP and attack.

Anyway

Hell yes I am.

LET'S DO THIS!



You'd better or you might end up getting hurt!

You're that confident, huh!? Okay, coming at you!


Suddenly, Maxim and Guy decide to reenact their favorite scene from The Matrix.

But it is quickly broken up by a guy who runs in!



Guy! Monsters! Monsters are in town!

Motherfucking monsters in my motherfucking town?!


Wait if the monsters are just warping in now, how did that dude know about them?


man that guy has funky hair. He's totally not important at all, seriously, but I'll give him an awesome emoticon to define him. And by awesome I mean

Who are you?

I'll introduce myself after, if you can get all my henchmen!


There's a clearer picture of the henchmen. DON'T BE A HENCHMAN! STAND ON YOUR MORALS! Wait no one is going to get that reference.

Good thinking! Let's clean up this scum!


Oh man these guys are SO HARD let me tell you. And by hard I mean they are pathetic and weak and disgraceful.


And they give shitty EXP damn it.


The worst part is you fight more later and they're just as weak. A waste of a bossfight.

What the? My men! BLAST!

Hey, you're next!

Rats in your eyes! I'll be back for you!

Some interruption! Well, are you ready?


I guess if you're weak and a coward you resort to cowardly tactics.

What, Hilda? The scumbag! He will taste the business end of my sword!

He ran to the Southeast Tower!

I'll go with you Guy!

That tower is full of monsters! It's dangerous, but not for you I'm sure! Let's go!


HELL YES! Second strongest character in the game. And of course, Guy can't use magic. But who would want him to, really?


He doesn't have spectacular equipment, but that's okay. I gave him the speedy ring and Jet Helm, and the Catfish Jewel to make up for his low AGL and MGR. And I also made sure to give both Maxim and Guy Kukri swords, which have the IP thunder attack, which is vital for the upcoming boss fight.

Let's head to that tower (after building up Guy's low level and earning enough money to equip everyone properly, of course!)


Let the sprite recoloring commense! Hawks aren't much stronger than eagles. But whatever.


I guess Green Jelly would be copyright infringement. LITTLE PIG LITTLE PIG LET ME IN! Seriously though they suck what am I saying. I decided to test out my new ice spell, Gale, on them.


Wheee windy. Oh hey also, with new forms comes new power, and with great power comes great responsibility. Foomy is however a monster and doesn't give a shit about responsibility, so he learned how to headbutt.


It gets really powerful really quickly.


Imps are weak and not very remarkable.


Oh hey I have to go through this tower to continue.


As I walked in I was greeted by two new enemies, scorpions and newts. Newts, as I discovered, are weak to fire, but I can't figure out what bugs are weak against. Not fire as pokemon would have me believe.


Hmm, two doors. Luckily, I can only use the left one, because the right one


is blocked by these weird looking things, which I can't move yet, so I took the left door.


Hmm, a puzzle. When I step on the middle dark panal, buttons appear.


I can put these blocks on three of the buttons, but I can't pull blocks so I can't put something on the fourth one, hmm. . .


Oh hey a pot how convenient.


My amazing ability to turn around without taking a step proves more useful every update!


This goblin is standing on something that looks suspicious. I killed him and found a switch! By the way, these goblins are a lot tougher than the weaklings I fought way back on like level 5.


Look you can actually go outside here! And it looks damn cool! This is a cool device that they use a lot in this game.


You might think I should push this pillar onto the lighter switch because it matches up with the panal nearby. But actually, pushing it on the dark one let's you continue.


Because it opens both of these walls, not just the light one. Tricksy game.


More recolorings, these guys attempt to poison my people but fail miserably.


Yeah this isn't a difficult puzzle, you just push a pillar and move some pots and then ta dah


Door open!


Awesome I will certainly be coming back here more than once.


And rightly so, because I need to find out how to hit that switch down there so I can go across to that door. Guess I need to head back.


C. . . c. . . CRABS! FUCKING CRABS! DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE! Actually these crabs drop power potions, and drop them fairly often, so that's pretty great.


This skeleton makes a funny noise and a little dust cloud puffs up when I step on it. So I left a bomb on it and whoa man


another switch hey there are a lot of these.


Here's a puzzle, I know you can't hear it but here's how it works: You step on the music note switches from top to bottoms, it plays a noise, and you hit the pillar with whatever makes that noise. The first was the noise of a sword swinging, the second was an arrow shooting, and the third a bomb exploding. Pretty easy stuff.


See? No sweat.


Looks like an important key that I should hang on to.


Wow that switch looks easy enough to step on I'll just walk over and




Well if I walk up from the bottom, where the line around the edge of the carpet is missing, I can get to the switch.


Not too hard.


There, I got the bridge in place, I can go back and cross it to make the ladder grow I guess.


A callendar puzzle?


Hmm this looks kinda like a clock.


Oh I get it. Hey, changing dates. . . I wonder what will happen if I make it. . . MIDNIGHT?!


I say lad, a secret door


Awesome, secret equipment!


Yes he can use the MGR. Awesome.


9:00, doors are open


Sweet now I can reach the penthouse. I wonder if it has a swimming pool?


Yeah I have nothing funny to say about this. Maybe something about how it looks like a penis?


Keys are pretty useful.


Women, they act all independent and strong and suddenly they get kidnapped and it all melts away. I KNEW IT!


I only posted this screen so you could see what that evil dude looks like. He is pretty cool looking. Hey wait he never told me his name.

I applaud your efforts to have come this far.

Your grammar sucks, dude. Also, why did you take Hilda?!

Orders. You see, I had to test the abilities of certain men. . . I had considered your case a while. . . And came up with an idea - Kidnapping your sister! HAHAHAHAH! I knew you'd do anything to save her!

That idea will cost you dearly! Pick up your sword!

Noisy, aren't we? It's time to test out your real strength!


Apparently his name is Camu. He's pretty cool. I thought back to Lufia I, and remembered that guys in armor really hate lightning.


You can sort of see the lightning crashing down on top of his head. . . it kind of blends in with the window. THE POINT IS


It does a LOT of damage.


Using IP attacks, Guy and Maxim were able to deal out tons of damage.


Even Foomy was able to lay on the hurt. Overall, it wasn't a difficult fight, except that if he ever hit Tia I had to heal her right away because his physical attack took off more than half her HP. Anyway.


He at least gives awesome exp, unlike his gay followers. Oh yeah, he can summon followers during the battle but I killed him so quick he wasn't able to.



But don't. . . overestimate. . . yourselfs. . . th. . . the time. . . will. . . come. . .

What are you talking about?

This world. . . will soon be ruled. . . by Sinistrals. . . Soon, just wait. . .

Sinistrals? What do you mean? Do they like swordfighting? Are they Left handed?

Hahaha, you people will never leave here. . . no need to know. . .


He locked the door, with MAGIC!

The door just closed!

Ha, ha, ha! You cannot escape!
*he warps away*

Is he trying to bury us with the tower?

Let's try to get the door open! Guy, go to Hilda!


Yeah yeah sappy reunion let's just get going.


We really need some kind of clone smiley but wearing one of those sorceror's hats shooting stars out of a magic wand or something, that would be way awesome.

Suddenly the door opens and a mysterious green haired woman rushes through.


Man she has good timing how convenient!


Opps sorry I'll shut my mouth.


She's magical, that's for sure.

She once told me I was destined to travel and fight. Also she has a great rack.

What a weirdo! But she saved us, I guess I should thank her. . . hey where is she?

She's gone.

What. . . is. . . she?

In any case, let's bring Hilda home. She's a little hurt.


Yeah man, I'm sure she'll be okay.


Don't you mean finally asleep?

How's hilda doing?

She'll live. She wasn't hurt very badly. She'll be out for a while, though. So Maxim, who was that woman at the tower? Seemed like you knew her.

Well she told me I'm destined to fight.

Just what kind of woman is she, I wonder.

Who knows. I know that she must be good, because she knew how to open that door and helped us.

What's your next move?

To keep going. I got wind of something that. . . bothers me.

You talking about the Super Beings out to rule the world?

You've got it. If they really exist, I'm going to have to meet them.

And what are you going to do if you do meet them?

Well if their aim is to destroy the world, I'll destroy them first!

We're talking about Super Beings here, you can't just walk on them like bugs, or women.

Sword to sword I can. And you, Sir Guy? Don't you feel the same!

Of course! I won't be ordered around by anybody! Be ruled? No way, Maxim. Not me.

So I thought. But we need to be moving on soon.

Already? Well I could. . . nah I should lay low here a little longer.


A red-haired girl comes upstairs.

Jessy. . .

What a beautiful woman! Who is she, Guy?

I knew you were a lesbian!

A girl can say another girl is pretty! You asshole!

She's my. . . you know. . . uh. . .

Why can't you just come out and say it? Hi, I'm Jessy, I'm

MY GIRLFRIEND!

Wow that's wonderful, so nice to meet you!

Sir Guy's Girl, huh?

What, a guy's allowed ot have a girlfriend, right? You're just jealous because she's MY GIRLFRIEND. Sorry, MY GIRLFRIEND and I are going to go have sex because she's MY GIRLFRIEND and she's hot.

I didn't mean anything by it.

So Jessy what did you mean when you asked if I wanted to go?

You want to go too, right? It's written all over your face.

Well it's just. . .

If it's HIlda, don't worry I'll take care of her.

But, you and I. . .

I'll miss you, for sure, but you have to do what you have to do.





Apparently they are psychicly linked.

Well anyway long story short, Guy wants to come with.


Yeah yeah I get it.


Okay well we have another of the four main characters, which is awesome. Next we will pass through the tower, collecting those mysterious treasure chests I couldn't get on the top floor, then check out the next town, and fight the hardest boss in the game!





Also I'll probably use the new capsule monsters I get, at least for a little while, just to show them off, unless you all object to me showing off the game mechanics. You can't object, because I already have the next update prepared and I get a new capsule monster.