Ok, decided to do this chapter myself! Anyway, its short, and I wanted to do something special with it!
...and nothing came to mind. BLAST! So yeah, behold, a one post chapter update of BL done in normal Meeple Style or something.
Straight to the point, we get the Chapter name with no precursor nonsense this time!
...didn't you just...bah, whatever.
Translation: This is the Bahamut Lagoon equivalent of Mysidia, except Sauzer isn't as big a douche as Cagnazzo.
Also, you have to admit, Godland is a pretty courageous name for a country <_<
I think Melodia's excited. Just a guess.
...MORE Mini Devils? OH GOD! 2 was already more than enough, PLEASE! WE DON'T NEED MORE!
...well, no, they're actually not that bad, thinking on it. Now if you said "More Matelites"...
I...have no words. Well, I guess the best response to this would be "Pika?"
Hornet laying down the rules and such!
I think he doesn't like Mini Devils.
And suddenly, the image of Melodia throwing a Pokeball and Mini Devils popping out pops into my mind! I wouldn't be surprised if I'm the only one who got that image too.
Pichu-pi?
Mini Devils: 1. Hornet: 0.
And suddenly, the game makes a random shift!
Awww, did Rush have a nightmare and can't sleep?
I guess its time for a MANLY conversation across beds or something?
No, its not that weird; its only 8:30 PM. I don't know why Matelite has such a strict curfew either.
Oh, yes, they just HAD to choose the useless fat geek into this.
...thankfully, he's asleep, so we're spared the talk about mushrooms, growing up, and generally being a loser.
Good call.
3 useless text boxes, yay!
They're all complete morons and worthless bastards?
...ok, no, I'm sorry; Lukia and Jeanne actually have worth being Light Armors, and they're smart enough to ignore Donfan, at least.
Insightful.
Simple, just say they're morons and move on. Its not that hard, really!
Well, it is a rather predictable statement, all things considered.
...wait, what, feel...no, not going there.
I...think they lost me somewhere.
Yeah; they have these thick Scottish accents and such. I mean, how else do you think Donfan can think he's so suave? The only logical explanation would be that his voice is similar to that of your average James Bond!
I hope this shorthand for "Taicho, who fights cause he's an emo bastard who can't realize that it wasn't his fault for his wife's death, and was married to someone whose intelligence is probably lower than your average RPG Female Lead."
Ok, this comment has some value, I guess.
I don't know what's more pathetic...
The actual accuracy of this statement, or the fact that they are treating it like its a GOOD thing here...
Yeah, that's a great consolation for her. "Hi there, Jeanne! You're rather manly for a girl, you know that! But you're still cool!"
...that'd probably explain why I saw Rush's face stuffed in the garbage can outside of the female quarters on the Beat. Though, I do question why that garbage can wasn't already occupied by Donfan...
You already established that, and I already explained why!
...wait, this contradicts Bikkebakke's statement about being raised on the streets! Maybe he was speaking for himself and Rush truly was a soldier and...bah, guess Hatbot isn't quite as neglectful of his brother as Bikkebakke made it out to seem.
If that Elipse was replaced with a triple explanation mark, we could have the image of Rush screaming like Mel Gibson.
Could this be an insightful statement of how Freedom implies lack of security, and thus there are downsides to it? Or could it just be Rush being completely confused and not knowing what the hell he's saying again. YOU DECIDE!
See above!
That's the most intelligent thing that's been said this entire conversation!
You're asking a sleeping person a question with potential philosophical meaning, that's not the brightest of ideas.
Ok, before I move on...I'm going to say one thing:
If you haven't noticed already, pay attention to the lower 3 beds. You might notice something...interesting (and potentially disturbing) about them. Also, yes, apparently Zora's Son likes to sweep WHILE SLEEPING! I call that dedication!
Its also more proof that he is indeed a worthy adversary to Odin for Janitor of the Year.
Yeah, we're forced outside now. He sells the usual stuff, to continue playing, Sendak's at the far end of the ship, saying a generic 'Hatbot, shall we go?" or some such (and no, there's no innuendo.) ANYWAY, ONTO THE GAMEPLAY SECTION!
Our teams for this chapter. I hate you Tonfa, on that note.
I failed to take the screen shot fast enough (cause I figured the name would be longer and...yeah...)
But anyway, our starting positions! There's a total of like 6 enemies on this map...yeah, that's not what we call a lot. The Victory Condition is "Defeat of Radia."
Which is her right here! Ok, I believe Radia is the first to do this (that or I've been really absent minded/killing bosses before their support), but that support she has? She'll actually resummon it instantly if you kill both of them. This does not take up a turn, so its actually somewhat abusable for items and such. However, of course, to attack them without harming her, you'd need to initiate a battle, which is to say, she'd be attacking you as well. Furthermore, she can only respawn her support when you actually activate a battle with her, so...yeah, this can't be abused as easily as it sounds.
Ok, you CAN attack her by casting White Drug on her, and not do damage, since they are undead (she won't get healed, mind; BL Healing, if I didn't tell you already, as well as damage, has a fail safe intelligence feature, which turns off friendly fire or enemy healing, etc, barring a few specific moves which are pretty much all Dance related.)
New kind of enemies this chapter! They were also the boss of Granbelos Fortress side quest this chapter. Anyway, Blade Guards and Magic Guards are among some of the most annoying enemies in the game. Why is that? If its not obvious by the name, Blade Guards are immune to physicals and Magic Guards are immune to Magic. Mind, Magic also counts for Physicals that use Rods (so any physical used by a Summoner, Wizard or Priest, basically.) What makes this FURTHER annoying is that Dragons can't notice this immunity either. See, at high Wisdom, Dragons are intelligent enough to not use elemental attacks that won't work, such like Fire vs. a Fire random (furthermore, if they're Wisdom is high enough, they'll use an attack that hits a weakness, or even try something as complex like Heal Allies while hurting undead enemies at the same time!) However, this little hidden feature is not something the Dragon AI will notice ever. So, naturally, they do a good job of killing those Blade Guards...but they'll constantly try to kill those Magic Guards with Magic, unless they have not enough MP (at which point, they'll finally start using physicals.)
So basically, yes, total quirk enemy and all that.
Ok, see that Odd Flower there? Well, that's your standard terrain feature of BL again! These flowers can be destroyed with Lightning Magic. Now why bother? Well, destroying said flowers yields interesting results, like...
That! Yeah, you can get items from these things.
If you're curious, Nimbus Robe is something we have a few of already, being a non-store bought Robe, and is better than just about everything we can get at this point for Mages,...barring maybe that Aurora I picked up from killing a stronger Presenter (yeah, same name and sprite, but different palette!!!), but that's an aside (actually didn't check what's stronger, I gave it to someone who wasn't using a Nimbus Robe). That Maximillian is a store bought Armor somewhat later in the game, think its available around chapter 18 or so?
...even then, however, its inferior to the stuff we have. Yes, Matelite Armor is that damned good, despite baring the name "Matelite."
However, you can also get...
Something like that ghost enemy popping out of them. Yeah, that's why there are few enemies. If you try to get treasures and such, you end up often unleashing these guys. Mind, if you memorize exactly what flowers have goodies and what flowers have items, you can avoid it entirely, barring Dragons being morons, but there's a lot of flowers, so either you're using a FAQ, or frankly, its just easier to destroy them all and kill enemies that pop up.
What's this? Priests doing something that can be considered damage? Yeah, it kind of shocked me too; I really never expected Starfall to do that much damage.
Then again, been a while since I used level 40 Starfall. Typically, by this point, I've stopped using 4 Priests, or have already had Holy/Dark Dragon forms, and thus been casting their superior Holy/Dark spell.
If you're wondering, regarding Dragon development, all 6 Dragons have 100 in Fire, Ice, and Lightning, and thus, level 10 of those elements and Earth is available. Fireman also has about 235 Strength, and maxed out healing, as has Cutman with the Healing thing.
No, I'm not showing favoritism with them! Just Fireman I've been raising towards a specific build, while the others I've been kind of randomly feeding stuff I have along the way (so they have higher Vit, Mind and Dex, I believe). Cutman maxing Recovery is a result of him having natural growth in that stat.
Anyway, back to flower smashing! After destroying a few more flowers, something...interesting popped up...
Namely that thing! See, this guy is basically a boss in and of himself if you can't tell by his stats (well, the HP anyway.) He's annoying cause he has a field attack *AND* MT damage in battles, and takes a while to kill. He's probably immune to instant Death too, so you can't really cheese him out with Return Life either. Simply put, he's a bit of a surprise. Mind, I think he's a level 3 random at least, so he has a good chance of dropping some really awesome items.
Boss Death Quote away!
Don't really have much to say about it; frankly, Persona's was better <_<
"Different from the other Lagoons!"
So basically, are you saying people are INTELLIGENT on this lagoon?
