Part 23: Chapter 16 – The Floating Eyeball Massaker

Chapter 16 – The Floating Eyeball Massaker



Welcome back everyone. I apologize for the downtime between updates but this chapter was the most boring and rage inducing slog immaginable. But more about that once we start the map. First of all we head towards Memel cave via Liguria Keep.







: Um... Why are you so polite to me, Mahter? You don't call the other girls 'Lady'...



: ...I suppose you're right... I'm sorry... I'll be more careful.

: Oh, Katri! Holmes is calling you.

: Oh, he is! I'm sorry, I have to go.

: ...Frau, don't take your eyes off of Lady Katri. Think of it as your mission to keep her safe!

: Huh? But why, Mahter?

: I'll tell you why when the time is right. For now, you have to do as I say.

: But that doesn't make any...

: Frau!

: Y-Yes! I'll do exactly as you say! ...... Sigh... It never matters what I think, does it...

Nothing we didn’t already know for about 12 chapters by now.







: La-la-... Huh? Why do you say that?

: Well... It's just that you always look like you're having fun.

: Hmm... Yuni's not having fun?

: Maybe not... I might not look like it, but I'm a girl with a lot of worries...

: Then let's sing together! La-la-la-... Singing is always fun.

: No, that's okay... I can't sing well like you. Here, I wanted to give you this. You can use it, right?

: Did you steal it?

: No! I found it on the ground outside the fort! Fine, I won't give it to you if you're gonna be like that!

: Don't be mad, Yuni. I'm sorry. You didn't steal it. So pretty please?

: Here you go.

: A staff? I wonder if I can use it? Ah! Did you see that? The staff just glowed all bright!

: Hmm... What a weird staff...



The Power staff is pretty nice, raising one characters strength by 10 for the entirety of the chapter it’s used in. Just imagine it on Narron or one of the sword masters





Time to start the chapter. It’s called Monsters from the Darkness.





: Yup, it's called the Arch Orps. It's a monster that lives in the swamps and eats human flesh.

: Holmes...

: Hey, don't worry. The Arch Orps like the queen of the hive. It lets its minions do the work, so it can't put up much of a fight on its own.

Fuck you Holmes...




Here is our glorious opposition fort he day. The general monsters are fast little fuckers that will double almost our entire team while being able to two shot about half of our team as well. On the bright side they give pretty nice experience points and don’t have the best hit. In other news however they can split themselves, cutting their Hp in half and spawning a new one besides themselves. Even with abyssmal hit if they throw enough punches at you, you will go down.




As fort he “Queen Ant“ It’s pretty beefy in its own right, Can oneshot about half of our team, will revive once upon death and can spawn up to four lesser enemies on its turn. Lots of fun. Given our team composition I have to take things exceptionally slow taking quite a bit of risks to finish the map. Luckily both monsters are weak to bows so Holmes can wreck them if he desires.

Presentation wise its going to be lots of level up screens seeing as the monsters barring the boss don’t have any animations.



Holmes takes first blood, as Samson missed it on his turn.





While slowly advancing, Sun starts wetting her Blade. By the end of this map she will have gained 17 levels... the power of Elite.



Meanwhile the boss isn’t fucking around and starts up the swarm production.







Katri turns into a dragon and starts Operation roadblock, while Attrom, Yuni, Frau, Sun and Plum start going the long way around the swamp to reach the chests and fight in a more controlled enviroment.





Alicia start of the leveling gallery by killing a weakened eyeball, that’s trying to reach her past the roadblock.



Katri covers her for the opposing turn.



Axe-units finally start to gain some strength



… Screw you…





Sun and Alicia kill off some weakened units hanging around.





Plum gains a level from dancing while we slowly move up.



Holmes certainly seems to have a good time killing monsters…





Sun baits an Eyeball into attacking her and gains a good level from it.







We’re slowly advancing further.



More strength! Also he learns Gale here. Unfortunately everythings ridiculously fast so it doesn’t come into effect.



Could be better...



We almost arrived at the first treasure chest







Team Exploration picks up a few more underwhelming levels.



Alicia fries another eyeball.



Sun now got Elite in addition to this great level. Let the leveling avalanche begin.





We grab our first chest which turns out to be a Knight Proof.



Sun needs some strength but otherwise I’m fine with this given that these are her reduced stats.



Stop with the ironic levels.



It doesn’t seem to end…







More strength and a great level for Alicia as well.



No comment…



Yuni start heading into the swamp fort he chest.



Meh…



A great level for Attrom wins me over.



We’re slowly getting towards the boss.





Another promotion item.



Team roadblock starts moving as well.









Two decent levels and two empty levels in a row…



Frau and Sun start clearing up the enemies to the north. Samson takes the southeast and Attrom takes the southwest. The result are a shit ton of levels.













Things look much nicer now but don’t make the mistake and let your weaker units get too close to the boss. He can still spawn more full HP enemies which, as mentioned before, will ruin their day. We clean up some more so another barrage of levels incoming.



























Holmes learns Rising Dragon here which is pointless until his promotion given that it can only activate in melee range.











I’ve had enough of the bosses bullshit and burn him and his minions to death.



He revives and summons more minions which I miss on the next turn

Afterwards I reteat since I don’t know how long the transformation is going to last.







We grab another promotion item from the chest to the north.



This has been going on for entirely too long and that ass is still spawning new stuff…







Some more levels from cleaning up the mess. Sun has made up for her two empty levels earlier on.



Yuni tries to get ot the last chest of the map since I need Holmes for distraction purposes and to ruin the bosses day.







Attrom kills an eyeball and receives the wrath of Queen Eyeball in return.



And Sun’s murder spree comes to a close for his map.







Here I make a grave miscalculation as a hit by the boss would have killed Holmes resulting in a game over. I was lucky he dodged and finished off the boss for good.



We pick up a Gatling Bow here.





And we finally get the item we need to finish this hellhole. I can’t decide whether this was worth it for the repair staff (the levels are a different matter).





: But you need a pretty high level of expertise with staves to be able to use it properly. I don't think you could handle it.

: Hmm, I wonder... But I'll try my best. I want to be able to help you like the others.

: Hey, don't worry about that. You're doing great.

: Holmes... ...Really?

: Of course not, I was kidding. Now get to work!

Please stay an ass all the time Holmes...

: What!? That's mean, Holmes!



One last cutscene for now.





: You don't look fine to me. Well, we've been pushing everyone really hard lately. Maybe we should go back to Brahd for some rest...



And that’s it fort his chapter. Next time we have an intermission and a return to Runan’s squad.