Mother Part #5 - Magicant Stop This Train

Part 5: Magicant Stop This Train

Update Five: Magicant Stop This Train

Welcome back, everyone! Last time, on Mother, Leo beat the holy living shit out of anything dumb enough to cross his way in the Cream Puff Zoo, and lassoed himself an alien, then sent back sumbitch back to where he came. Today, Leo's going to be wishing he could go back to where he came, so let's rock.

The Cream Puff Zoo sign makes an excellent marker for me; I did find the map. I am unimpressed with the map. Explosionface told me that "Start" brought up the map, even though I was sure I had tried that.

Either way, here's the map. Leo is pointed out by the helpful green arrow and those black dots are points of interest, such as the Cream Puff Zoo, which is to the left of Leo's arrow. Now, I should be glad I have a map like this, but modern games have spoiled me; I'm not sure what most of these dots are, but I could hazard a guess as to most of them, so it's not terrible.

I'm just unimpressed with it.

Over on this path, these guys blocked the way before. Apparently, Mother's Day was under martial law. And like, a twelve year old boy swung by and fixed all the problems in an afternoon.

They overreacted a little bit, if you ask me.

A little bit? I don't know a lot about martial law, but doesn't shit have to be, oh, I don't know, really goddamned bad? Like, zombies, a hurricane _{_{_{(although, martial law, as a term, doesn't actually exist in Louisiana, it was a state of emergency and blah blah blah)}}} or some other, "Holy fuck, we're all going to die!" kind of incident?

Well, yes, we do. I think. I don't know if I've ever actually used it before.

Alright, a real celebrity! We ain't no Friday famous!

With that, these fine gentlemen clear out of our way. We're free to go...To wherever the hell was blocked off.

it out.

The other cop has the dialog from just a bit ago, so with this, we're off to go cave exploring.

We're heading pretty far out of the way.

Like, really far out.

But, I didn't get into any encounters here, so whatever. I'm cool with that, as it doesn't interrupt my running around.

Looks like we found the cave that cop mentioned. I wonder what's inside.

Well, a thin walkway, over what I believe to be a bottomless pit.

...What in the hell is that thing? It kinda looks like strawberry ice cream. With, er, two Xs in it.

Leo's mind? Well, he's got a trick or two up his sleeve there.

If Charles Xavier has proved anything to me, it's that I should fear the fucking telepath. Sure, Wolverine could slice me up into a million bits, Cyclops can blow me away from hundreds of feet, Jean Grey can light me on fire or something, Colossus could throw me into the Goddamned sun, but Xavier?

As far as he's concerned, my mind would be but an ant under the boot of a God, and he could make me experience anything he wished. The others could easily kill me, yes, but Xavier? He could make me endure.

...Oops, sorry about that. Sometimes, people don't give Xavier enough cre--Fuck it, I have dialog to transcribe.

Anyways, the answer we're looking for here is in Leo's great-grandfather's diary.

"...That which was left behind by the ship that soars the heavens."

Well, what in hell does--

Uh-oh. Screen's fading to another color! And it's not white!

Oh, God, I broke something!

We're going somewhere new! I wonder--

...Well, this place doesn't look quite as fabulous as that fade to light purple had led me to believe.

What in the hell is that thing?

Well, that cleared things up nicely.

Buddy, unless you're about to offer me a Reese's, a Zero bar, or some Twix, I don't think I'm interested.

Well, Leo is gaining four times the exp he normally would, so yeah, I'd say he's strong as hell.

Over here, we find...Someone in a robe and wizard hat?

Leo, run, I think we teleported to a cosplay convention!

See, look at Leo! He is not amused by this bullshit!

Leo runs into a nearby house, hoping to find sanctuary. Instead, he finds another wizard. _{_{_{I wonder if his name is Harry}}}

Do shovels not exist here? Or do you have dainty-ass hands and can't dig one? Hell, follow swimming cat! He'll have to take a shit eventually!

The house we were in is to the north. We're now going to enter the house to the west.

Well, I guess I have some stuff I could drop off...

He makes sure that they'll get back to Leo's house. I drop off a few things and move on.

There are a lot of these strange houses around. Though, to everyone reading, would anyone have thought that if I hadn't mentioned it? After Earthbound, it's amazing what you do and don't consider weird.

Castle? Either this is a very well organized con or we're not in Kansas anymore, Bowser.

Inside of this house, we find a very interesting person.

For some reason, I imagine this line spoken in Groucho Marx's voice.

$3,362 in the bank. Use it wisely.

I save up real quick, and wonder how long it'll really take to gain that level.

I'll keep that in mind.

That, too, will be kept in mind. I'm not sure just how to make a cry from the heart, but I'm sure we'll figure it out.

In the nearest house, we find this guy offering us a big bag. As far as I know, it's free, so I'll take it.

My ATM card? I'm a little more hesitant on this one, but I'm sure if he tried to steal it, Leo could get it back easily enough, so sure.

Well, it is pretty cool. It lets me get all sorts of money.

...There's no big bag here! You son of a bitch!

Oh, never mind on that. Leo, lower your bat.

Magic Herbs restore about 30 HP when eaten, and apparently restore a few status ailments, too. There's 30 of them in the Big Bag, so I've got plenty of healing items at my disposal.

Outside of that house, we're going to head back north and go east this time.

There's a lot of houses around here.

This fountain sounds like it could be very useful. I wonder if we'll ever find anything we can toss into it.

Maybe we can upgrade a Boomerang or something.

...Or Red Weed into Magic Herbs. There's gotta be some other shit we can throw in there.

Heading east from there, we find someone who apparently doesn't have much experience with nightmares.

And another house. What wonders lie within this one?

Damn, Mother was using ocarinas for important shit before Zelda made it cool.

Unfortunately, the definition of "important" there is pretty loose. Other than listening to the melodies we've collected, the ocarina isn't very important.

That's all it does. How exciting.

Ooh, a purple door!

Huh, PSI powers have a use beyond murdering bad things and un-murdering our guys. Who'da thunk it.

Well, sure. It's a free heal.

The next morning, we're offered to come back again, for more free heals. I think I like this place.

In the next house over, we find this guy. And since we haven't encountered the philosopher who speaks about happiness, we tell her no.

...Er...No shit? Let's move on.

Oh, this house is owned by an asshole.

Before I learn how to gank that jerk, let's move on.

Well...Okay, yeah, I can kind of see it. It makes sense to me.

I don't think that's quite right, but, hey, it's your schtick.

He's kind of handsome...and a great poet, too.

Outside of that house, we find someone who has a crush. And a possible lead on another melody.

But, without more information, let's just keep on canvassing the area.

Yeah, I met that guy. He was kind of weird. But, it still makes sense to me.

I wonder why the houses look like sea shells. It didn't occur to me until just now.

That's right, folks! No bullshit here, we are in Magicant. It's a different Magicant than the one Nass visited, but it still is Magicant.

If you walk out that door, you'll figure out what I'm talking about. It's not a complicated concept, chief.

We're going to head north now.

More houses! Including one that looks like a medical center.

For whatever reason, we cannot give this guy our Ocarina. I tried using it, but Leo just played the melodies. I also tried eating it, but to no avail.