Nyarlathotep's Dungeon: Week 42

[Nephrite]

Ah... I see... you truly are amazing. I enjoy this so much, let us continue and see how it goes.


Team Shale vs. Floor 7
Teams Piggyman and Commander vs. Floor 4



Team Shale's Matches

Floor 8b: Do you have the resources?

"So you wish to test your limits against mine? Fine, then. We shall see who will survive..."

Battle #36: Kyra, Artea, FFT Chemist and White Wizard

Kyra: I will not allow you to pass here!
Artea: Let's go, everyone... they won't win!
Chemist: I eat potions.


Battle #37: Alma, Nina4, Marle and Raja

Alma: I shall again protect the name of our family!
Nina: I won't give up yet!
Raja: Ha ha ha ha... Jokes!

Battle #38: Royce and Killer

Royce: Heh heh, you think you can win against someone like me?
Killer: Heh heh... die.

Battle #39: Jade, Luca Blight and Indalecio

Jade: Hah! I serve the mighty Myria herself!
Luca: Hoo hoo hoo hoo!
Indalecio: You will die here... by the might of the strongest of the Wise Men!

Boss Battle #8: Profound Darkness

Profound Darkness: *I* am that which encompasses all! Die, fools!



Team Djinn and Bardiche's Matches

Floor 1: An Introduction (The Beginning)

Ah, a new challenger... Well, I've decided to change things a bit since the last time you were here. Let's see what you can accomplish this time.

Battle #1: Rufus and Reno

Rufus: Reno, dispose of them.
Reno: Uh... sure, I guess.

Battle #2: Shuckle, Fred and Cecil

Cecil: Let us have an honorable battle.
Fred: For the Maximillian Knights!!

Battle #3: Alice and FFT Priest

Alice: Ah, Yuri... where are you?
Priest: Cure... power!

Battle #4: Solt, Peppor, Alenia, Zahhak and Miluda

Solt: Let's shake things up!
Peppor: I'll grind you to dust!
Alenia: Wh... why are we here with them...?
Zahhak: ...
Miluda: ...BROTHER?!?

Boss Battle #1: Lundgren, Zalmo and Baigan

Lundgren: Hah hah hah! You will never stop me!
Zalmo: HERESY!!!
Baigan: I am proud to challenge you.



---------------------------------------------

Team Shale | Rikku, Tidus, Millenia, Rand, Mint
[Floor 8b]
*Millenia has been granted a Fairy Egg!
*Rand has been granted the Seny and Solo (Holy and Earth) fusion!
Team Shale vs. Kyra, Artea, FFT Chemist and FF1 White Wizard
Team Shale vs. Alma, Nina4, Marle and Raja
Team Shale vs. Royce and Killer
Team Shale vs. Jade, Luca Blight and Indalecio
Team Shale vs. Profound Darkness


Team Djinn | Miakis, Arc, White Rose, Lyn
[Miakis: Lightning, Shield]
[Floor 1]
Team Djinn vs. Rufus and Reno
Team Djinn vs. Shuckle, Fred (S3) and Cecil
Team Djinn vs. Alice and FFT Priest
Team Djinn vs. Solt, Peppor, Alenia, Zahhak and Miluda
Team Djinn vs. Lundgren, Zalmo1 and Golbez


Team Bardiche | Maxim, Tidus, FFX-2 Songstress, Crowley, Raja
Team Bardiche vs. Rufus and Reno
Team Bardiche vs. Shuckle, Fred (S3) and Cecil
Team Bardiche vs. Alice and FFT Priest
Team Bardiche vs. Solt, Peppor, Alenia, Zahhak and Miluda
Team Bardiche vs. Lundgren, Zalmo1 and Baigan

[Clear Tranquil]

Did you FORGET about me again Neph!? ;p

Edit: Oh right you're doing people that haven't ever been in the dungeon before first <(^^)>

Team Shale -

Second fight:  Does Spellbinding Eye bypass status immunity? Nina4 has Diana's dress so ... and does Alma get a Ribbon?

Third fight: Can Millenia, Rand, Mint get ID protection? I allow Rikku/Tidus Deathproof

[Bardiche]

Team Bardiche | Maxim, Tidus, FFX-2 Songstress, Crowley, Raja
Team Bardiche vs. Rufus and Reno - Songstress kills their accuracy, then the rest just whack 'em. Maxim and Raja both have Healing at this point, so.
Team Bardiche vs. Shuckle, Fred (S3) and Cecil - Crowley nukes.
Team Bardiche vs. Alice and FFT Priest - Both Maxim and Crowley can use Magic, and Maxim and Tidus can handle physicals. Songstress can kill their spellcasting ability and it all goes downhill from there.
Team Bardiche vs. Solt, Peppor, Alenia, Zahhak and Miluda - Team of physical fighters VS Blind.
Team Bardiche vs. Lundgren, Zalmo1 and Baigan - Crowley nukes.

Floor 1's not a problem at all~

Team Djinn passes as well, because Floor 1 and has sufficient resources et all.

Shale. Hm. Early fights notwithstanding, can they manage against Jade, Luca Blight and Indalecio at the same time?

[Taishyr]

My gut is all three pass. Tidus speed games + Millenia can disable one of her choice on fight 4 (not sure which) + Rand's damage/speed register now (some). The primary issue is the massive lack of offense, unless the Fairy Egg assists there.

[Clear Tranquil]

Thing is ... Killer is pretty fast irrc~ I've not sure even hasted Millenia gets to act before him. That's bad news if she doesn't have both ID + Silence protection!

Spellbinding Eye probably takes care of Jade + co providing the team gets that far intact~

[Random Consonant]

Teams Bardiche and Djinn pass easily enough, abstain on Team Shale.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Thing is ... Killer is pretty fast irrc~ I've not sure even hasted Millenia gets to act before him. That's bad news if she doesn't have both ID + Silence protection!

Killer's first turn is average speed more or less. He gets fast on his subsequent turns, due to QH effect, but I don't know how much this increases his speed. And Hasted Millenia would be something like 180% average speed - you'd have to be a WA4 boss to go first against that, and there's always initiative Hastega.

[SnowFire]

Everyone passes.

Specific comments: Team Bardiche passes, but I would like to point out that Blind vs. the scrub swarm isn't THAT great.  Zahhak has a fire attack that isn't completely awful, Alenia will be spamming awful MT sleep anyway, and CC characters can use level-1 attacks for increased accuracy along with elements which generally ignore evade.  That said their offense is too inept to get around the fact that Maxim has Strong and Raja can heal too, so unless Alenia gets incredibly lucky and sleeps like half the team, he wins anyway.

Team Shale: Oh, fun, Millenia is now a reviving all-healer too now.
Team Shale vs. Kyra, Artea, FFT Chemist and FF1 White Wizard - I think only Chemist and White Wizard can revive?  SBE White Wizard so it can't play any games with FOG2, beat up Chemist through autopotion and Artea, win.  Tidus's Hastega/Slowga should ensure that the turns line up.  After Chemist is dead, kill White Wizard, then collect victory.  Unless Kyra's MT paralysis is something to respect?
Team Shale vs. Alma, Nina4, Marle and Raja  - Tricky.  Obviously this team doesn't really do offense, but Shale has to win here, and Rikku definitely has limited items (even if MP isn't really an issue thanks to Mix-Megalixer).  Still, keeping up after Hastega / Slowga should be hard.  Marle can get rid of the Slow with Haste, as can Alma, but Alma has limited MP, so forcing her to spend it is good.   Meanwhile the team should beat up Raja repeatedly so he doesn't get a turn to use Ataraxia on Alma.  Ideally either A) the team concedes the Slowga on the team or B) Alma runs out of MP and Marle has no way of keeping up with Tidus.  Still, kiling will be hard- probably something like Millenia SBEing Nina4 and Marle, re-killing Raja, then killing Marle.  If Alma was smart and saved MP she can throw a wrench into this via MBarrier2ing people, but Rikku is still getting those Mixes disgustingly quickly, so worst comes to worst the team has to try three times to finish the job or something and blows 3 Megalixers on filling Millenia back up.  That's not going to run Rikku out.
Team Shale vs. Royce and Killer - SBE Royce.  Killer can easily be dealt with when backed by three Hastegaed healers.
Team Shale vs. Jade, Luca Blight and Indalecio - Wow, this would be really really hard for most teams.  Luckily nobody has a Dispel effect here, so the magic of Hastega'ed healers vs. bosses once again rules.  SBE Jade I guess, heal off Luca's attacks, then work on him with Quick Hits or whatever.  Indy's Star Flares are neutralized by Mint's group healing.  Jade will take forever to kill, but Millenia can keep him SBE locked when backed by the occasional Megalixer, and even if he started BoltXing people, Shale has three revivers.  Indy will be the trickiest to fight, as his Earthquake can arguably OHKO everyone except Rand, and Team Shale is pretty inept on offense (though damage from EQ was pretty inconsistent in-game, in fairnesS).  Still, the magic of SBE-lock takes the day again.  I think that about 10 Megalixers total for this floor sounds fair, and it shouldn't put team Shale over the limit to lock down Indy here.
Team Shale vs. Profound Darkness - Don't even bother with SBE lock, he can't deal with Healers, let alone three hasted healers.

Amusingly enough, if Millenia were to go berserk on the fourth fight, that could screw the team over by having double Fallen Wings set off Indy's Time of Trial, but whatever.

[superaielman]

Team Bardiche | Maxim, Tidus, FFX-2 Songstress, Crowley, Raja
Team Bardiche vs. Rufus and Reno
Team Bardiche vs. Shuckle, Fred (S3) and Cecil- Blind works fine.
Team Bardiche vs. Alice and FFT Priest- overwhelmed easily enough.
Team Bardiche vs. Solt, Peppor, Alenia, Zahhak and Miluda- Crowley OHKOs Miluda, Maxim OHKOs Alena. There goes any kind of threat.
Team Bardiche vs. Lundgren, Zalmo1 and Baigan- Blind the fighters, slaughter Zalmo. Raja uses Blessing, and that is that.

[Bardiche]

Arguments on Shale sound solid enough. Pass to all three teams, then.

[ThePiggyman]

Arguments on Shale sound solid enough. Pass to all three teams, then.

[superaielman]

Team Shale | Rikku, Tidus, Millenia, Rand, Mint
[Floor 8b]
*Millenia has been granted a Fairy Egg!
*Rand has been granted the Seny and Solo (Holy and Earth) fusion!
Team Shale vs. Kyra, Artea, FFT Chemist and FF1 White Wizard-How do you control a fight like this? Blitzing! What's can Tidus do?? BLITZING.  (Artea has MT 4HKO, everyone else is worse.)
Team Shale vs. Alma, Nina4, Marle and Raja[/b], MT damage blitz.
Team Shale vs. Royce and Killer
Team Shale vs. Jade, Luca Blight and Indalecio- Am I missing something? Jade's slowable and Luca and Indalecio likely are as well. SBE on any of the bosses is painful death and Indaleico really blows before ToT.
Team Shale vs. Profound Darkness

Still thinking about Team Djinn. That team does not look good on paper though.

[VySaika]

Shale and Bard pass.

I'm also unsure on Djinn, though.

[DjinnAndTonic]

If nothing else, Arc2's ridiculously high starting level, even scaled, should be enough to handle this floor, not even mentioning Miakis Lightning Rune damage.

I think the frailest person right now is probably Lyn as she doesn't have evade hax quite yet. And WhiteRose is lucky enough to have revival thanks to SaGa's weird healing spells system, so I don't think floor 1 is all that scary here.

[Clear Tranquil]

Djinn's starting with perma Miakis not temp Miakis I think which explains why she has two rune slots and why her stats are pretty good~

Also thanks Snow <(^^)>

Pass to Team Shale - Think most of the healers/revivers block Killer's MT Silence and with his ID only being able to take out one at a time that gives them the leeway to deal with it well with Royce being the SBE target.

Pass to Team Bardiche

Dungeon vs Djinn

[superaielman]

I don't give Arc a level advantage. Djinn fails. The Alice fight likely nails WR, and the final fight kicks his ass otherwise.

[dude789]

All three pass.