Part 15

betaraywil posted:

Does "Garland" have some obscure and sinister meaning in Japan or something?

I looked it up and apparently Garland is a type of christmas wreath! GIS garland, seriously.

So when I got Randolph I was like fuck yeah tough old man, but then I noticed he had as much HP as Seena. Yeah. Maybe I should've saved every one of my life seeds for him, because holy shit. Sure, he has amazing strength, but his CON and hp are shit, and with a two handed weapon he has no shield, so his DEF is shit. I was thinking about giving him the Gades Bracelet, but I like Marco being ridiculously overpowered, honestly. He isn't terrible, he can hit hard, he's just slow. Although once he gets better equipment he's better, it's just for right now he sucks.


Yes so we were heading up to the top of this tower. There are no more scrolls, which is lame, but whatever. Actually I need to go farm more scrolls from earlier dungeons, but that won't be until later. . .


This made me laugh because I live in Buffalo, and the people in the city itself say BAFFLO.


I'm pretty sure these guys could drop good armor. . . or maybe I can cook them into good armor why didn't I think of that? I'm so going back into this dungeon and trying that.


More new enemies. . .


This place is like 12 floors high, not too bad. Although it's lame not to get ancient texts after like three floors, fuckin jerks.


They are generous enough to give me a healing pad


This is like the Undead Ring, although you can cast a different spell, and it gives you slightly less of a stat bonus. However it still makes you undead which is bad.


Holy shit, she's fighting that bug. . . by herself?!

Princess!

Randolph?! Am I glad you're here! This one is strong. I need help!

At once!

This isn't how I imagined a captured Princess would be. . .

Me neither.

Don't just watch, we have to help!

Oh, right.

BATTLE TIME! Let's prepare first and


holy crap


Name: Melphis
Class: Princess, Cleric
Weapons: Staves, Rods
Likes: Formal dinners, bubble baths, nipple clamps
Dislikes: Athletics, tuna, scheming ministers
about : Melphis is the best healer in the game. She comes with Stronger and Champion, which heals your whole party. She has insanely high INT and WIS, and tons of MP. The only problem is, she can only equip rods and staves (which don't increase magic power like crystal balls do) and her HP and CON are really low, meaning she's very fragile. She's a third row support/healer/magic tank.

I rearranged my party like this:

Randolph needs the extra RES and shit, although it's annoying having to skip Aima's turn to steal, so when I get another new character I'll change it around a bit again.


This guy isn't super hard. In fact, I don't even remember the battle much, because it was so easy. I did steal a HOLY CAP from him, which is nice.


I wish bosses gave more LP. . .



Thank you Randolph. It's all thanks to you.

Sir Marco and his friends deserve the thanks. I would have died were it not for them.

I see. Thank you very much.

No biggie. By the way, what are you doing here?

It's a long story, but we were deceived by Deraf, Minister of the Kingdom. Deraf used to be a good man. . . what has happened?

We all used to live in harmony. What could be happening on Lidal Continent?

There must be something. . . we must uncover it and take back the Kingdom from Deraf!

But to return now would be suicide. . .

Yes. . .

We must find the reason behind this. We cannot just return to the Kingdom.

You are right. What should we do?

You should come with us.

Pardon me?

We beat Gades, the Sinistral of Destruction, on Epsis Continent. It seems there's three more guys in his gang. They might have something to do with the sudden change.

That is possible. . .

What is your will, Princess?

We should ask them for help. We do need more people.

Then we're set, I'm Marco, and this is Seena, Dei, and Aima.

My name is Melphis. I am pleased to make your acquaintance, Sir Marco.

Nice to meet you, Melphis.

Y-you can't talk to the Princess like that!!

It's okay. We're not "Servants," we're "Pals"!

Y-you're pals?! H-H-H-HOW DARE YOU!

Randolph, it's okay. . . so will you let me join you?

Of course! But none of this sir business, just call me Marco.

Yes, Marco.

Alright, we need to gather some info and get your Kingdom back!

Any idea where to start?

The kingdom is getting more and more weapons now, and it seems Pirates have something to do with it.

Pirates. . . we should go check that out.

YOU GUYS I DIDN'T GET ANY LINES THIS WHOLE UPDATE!

We should indeed go check that out. Also:


SECRETS!

The most obvious course of action now is the cast escape and go back to Caan to upgrade equipment and ask around for info. The people will tell you that apparently the port town of Tomis has been having trouble with pirates raiding all of their cargo ships. Hmm, Tomis. . . Tomis Cave. . . sounds like a good place to start. Also, before I forget:


The upgraded world map.


Ah, here be Tomis cave.


way too strong!

Yeah, another optional cave. This one is used in a sidequest later, that I will be doing because the reward is pretty awesome.


Here's Tomis. . .



They seem to know exactly when our ships leave. People are saying that there might be a spy. . .

So let's say that, theoretically, we wanted to meet these pirates. How could we do that?

Meet the pirates?! What are you, insane? But I guess if you wanted to, you could take the ferry, they show up like clockwork. You can buy tickets at Keit's house.

Cool, let's explore a bit.


are so rude!

Stuff it grandma, I'm stealing both your Sanity Ring (which is shit) AND your Lucky Earring (which raises a girl's luck by 5). SO SUCK ON IT!

There are two very important spells to get in this town:

Warp is ESSENTIAL now that we're on multiple continents, you can quickly jump back whenever you want.


Rally is another essential, since revives only revive you with 5 hp, fuck that.

Also around town you can find (if you look hard enough):

- X-potion
- Wisdom Seed
- Potion
- Revive
- Magic Pot
- SmallBoomer
- BoltBoomer

Okay anyway:

hooray I'm gonna meet Pirates!



be closed for a while.

Why's that?

There's a rumor that the next ship going out will be raided by pirates.

Awesome, we have business with those pirates.

Business with pirates?! You might not come back. . . are you sure you want a ticket?

Fuck yes I am sure.

Okay fine, don't say I didn't warn you. . .


Listen little boy I know you're young and fantasizing about life on the high seas and raping and pillaging but seriously Pirates are bad news and there are no totally sweet suave pirates with blue hair who use big axes so don't even think they exist.

Okay next time we will get captured by pirates on purpose maybe. . . I don't fucking know!