Nyarlathotep's Dungeon: The Return! (Week 4)

[Nephrite]

"Yet another! Hahaha! Perhaps you all aren't as good as you thought, hm? At least you have choices... Don't make the wrong ones!!"

Team El Cid vs Decus and Vesper, 13-1
Team Fnorder vs. Decus and Vesper, 0-10
Team Super vs. Lynx, Harle and Gafgarion 13-0

Team Yakumo's Matches

Battle #1: FF1 Garland and PC Bowser.

Garland: I, Garland, will knock you all down
Bowser: ...What kind of insult is that, idiot?! You should say something like 'I, Lord Garland, will steal your princess!!

Battle #2: Kwanda, Humphrey and Onix

Kwanda: You won't get past us! Iron Wall Kwanda will stop you here!
Humphrey: ............yep.
Onix: ONIX ONIX!!I am for a

Battle #3: Jogurt, Ramus, Euram Barrows, Big Joe, Gobi and Kelvena

Euram: While I may not have my elite guards with me any longer... I, the great Euram Barrows, will put you out of your misery! Let us go, friends!
Ramus: I need to go back to my shop...
Big Joe: I AM AWESOME!!
Kelvena: ...

Battle #4: Luna, Ricardo and Lucia

Luna: I do not wish to fight you, but I have no choice. Please, run while you still can.
Ricardo: This shall be where I sing your dirge! Adios, amigos!

Boss Battle, Battle #5: Viper Manor Lynx, PC Harle and Boss Gafgarion

Lynx: You're all fools to have entered this place. I won't let you get your grubby little hands on what awaits you at the bottom. Both of you, I expect you to help me.
Harle: Oui oui monseur Lynx.
Gafgarion: Ugh, I can't believe this... am I still getting paid?

Team Super's Matches

Floor 2a: Generic Battle Music

"So you want to try something Generic, huh? Well, let's see what you think about this, then!"

Battle #6: Lorenta, Jelanda, Shiho, Mystina

Lorenta: "I think it's time we go, everyone."
Jelanda: "Hah! These fools think they can defeat us?"
Mystina: "Yes, let's show them just how powerful our magic really is!"

Battle #7: FF1 Knight, FFT Knight, FF3 DS Knight

FF1 Knight: "Well, you're not Fiend, but... I guess I'll stop you."
FFT Knight: "For the might of Ivalice!"

Battle #8: FF1 Black Mage, FFT Wizard, Vivi

FF1 Black Mage: "Well, I guess if I have to bother with this..."
FFT Wizard: "Inscribe on the... something something. Whatever, Flare!"
Vivi: "I don't like this, but I have no choice!"

Battle #9: Lucius, Serra, Renault

Lucius: "We must persevere. Don't give in!"
Serra: "Whatever! They won't beat me!"
Renault: "Take it easy and we'll win, no rushing."

Boss Battle #2: Ramza and Vandalier Ash

Ramza: "You think just because you beat our army you can beat us? Hah! I'm a Beovule!"
Ash: "With the power granted to me by the gods I will strike you down! Let's go!"


Team El Cid's matches

Floor 4a: Reversal of Fortune (Midgame)

"Let's see what happens when your reality is turned upside down? Hahahahaha..."

*For this floor, all damage and healing is reversed. (Damage heals, heals damage) All status healing spells inflict that status at 100% (Including Life -> ID), all status-inflicting spells remove that status (ID -> Life) and all Buffs or debuffs do the opposite (Saner would reduce speed and evasion) These spells can be targetted at enemies or allies.
*All resources used for Healing are infinite, as well.

Battle #16: Fei and Bart

Fei: Let's go, Bart.
Bart: Okay, Fei!

Battle #17: Rosa and Cecil

Rosa: Cecil! Don't worry, we can defeat them!
Cecil: Of course, my love.

Battle #18: Shion, MOMO and KOS-MOS

Shion: You think you can beat us? Ha!
MOMO: Be careful everyone!
KOS-MOS: Analyzing threats...

Battle #19: Robo, Frog and Crono

Robo: Threats detected. We shall defeat them.
Frog: Certainly. Mine sword shall thrust at thee!
Crono: ...

Boss Battle #4: Rune, Rika and Raja

Rune: Heh... you think you can beat us? Think again. We have a secret weapon.
Rika: A secret weapon? Really?
Raja: Yaahoo! Let's go, you silly kids!

Team Yakumo | Yuri2, Edgar, Claude, Aeris (Restore Materia), Mint
[Floor 1]
Team Yakumo vs. FF1 Garland and PC Bowser
Team Yakumo vs. Kwanda, Onix, Humphrey
Team Yakumo vs. Jogurt, Ramus, Euram Barrows, Big Joe, Gobi, Kelvena
Team Yakumo vs. Luna, Ricardo, Lucia
Team Yakumo vs. Viper Manor Lynx, PC Harle and Boss Gafgarion

Team Super| Rika, Aeonless Yuna, Palom, Porom, Onix
[Floor 2a]
Team Super vs. Lorenta, Jelanda, Shiho, Mystina
Team Super vs. FF1 Knight, FFT Knight, FF3 DS Knight
Team Super vs. FF1 Black Mage, FFT Wizard, Vivi
Team Super vs. Lucius, Serra, Renault
Team Super vs. Ramza and Vandalier Ash

Team El Cid | Zerase, Emily, Bernadette, Rena, Mint
Floor 4a
*Damage/Healing Status/Status Healing and Buffs/Debuffs reversed
*Infinite MP for spells normally used for healing (i.e. Mint's)
Team El Cid vs. Fei and Bart
Team El Cid vs. Rosa and Cecil
Team El Cid vs. Shion, MOMO and KOS-MOS
Team El Cid vs. Robo, Frog and Crono
Team El Cid vs. Rune, Rika and Raja

[superaielman]

I chose the other path Neph.

[Yakumo]

Not voting yet, but I'd like to point out that I picked Yuri2, not Yuri1.

[Nephrite]

My apologies. The corrections have been made.

[superaielman]

Team Yakumo vs. FF1 Garland and PC Bowser- Claude OHKOs Bowser, that's fight.
Team Yakumo vs. Kwanda, Onix, Humphrey- Noiseblaster.
Team Yakumo vs. Jogurt, Ramus, Euram Barrows, Big Joe, Gobi, Kelvena- Autocrossbow kills Euram/Jogurt, Yuri kills Kel, Gobi/Ramus are worthless.
Team Yakumo vs. Luna, Ricardo, Lucia- Yuri/Claude pound Lucia into dirt, Edgar noiseblasters Luna, Ricarod can't do enough.
Team Yakumo vs. Viper Manor Lynx, PC Harle and Boss Gafgarion- Noiseblaster handles everyone but Lynx, who sucks.

Team Super| Rika, Aeonless Yuna, Palom, Porom, Onix
[Floor 2a]
Team Super vs. Lorenta, Jelanda, Shiho, Mystina- Shell Porom, win. Rika can blow a shot of ID at worst.
Team Super vs. FF1 Knight, FFT Knight, FF3 DS Knight- Think Deban prevents any serious damage from being done.
Team Super vs. FF1 Black Mage, FFT Wizard, Vivi- Should be okay. Haste, let Palom's status work it's magic. Leave one of them alive, stat downed so you can heal and revive up? Yeah.
Team Super vs. Lucius, Serra, Renault- ST damage against double healers.
Team Super vs. Ramza and Vandalier Ash- ID Ash, win.



Team El Cid | Zerase, Emily, Bernadette, Rena, Mint
Floor 4a
*Damage/Healing Status/Status Healing and Buffs/Debuffs reversed
*Infinite MP for healing
Team El Cid vs. Fei and Bart- Bern OHKOs Fei, Bart is useless.
Team El Cid vs. Rosa and Cecil- See above, replace Rosa with Fei.
Team El Cid vs. Shion, MOMO and KOS-MOS- Bern OHKOs Shion, Mint OHKOs KOS, Shion can't do enough alonet o make any kind of impact.
Team El Cid vs. Robo, Frog and Crono- ..Um actually, Cid may be in trouble here. Crono IDs Bern, Mint frags Frog, Rena... Rena's healing isn't full at any point in the game. I think Crono's team may well get off two full shots of healing, which is bad news.
Team El Cid vs. Rune, Rika and Raja- Nasar. Am I missing anything? That puts way too much pressure on the other team.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

... what? Crono does -not- have ID.

[Excal]

Snow, Floor 4 is bizarro floor.  Damage heals, and healing hurts.  Part of this means that Tir would be the ultimate healer as Deadly Fingertips would now restore allies to life, and Black Shadow would be decent MT healing.  Crono's Life spell on the other hand, is now pure unmitigated death.

[dude789]

El Cid loses, that last fight is really hard, it doesn't help that Emily is not a heavy with these rules set in place. The other two make it

[074]

Team Yakumo | Yuri2, Edgar, Claude, Aeris (Restore Materia), Mint
[Floor 1]
Team Yakumo vs. FF1 Garland and PC Bowser - Claude and Yuri smash Bowser.  Alternatively, Edgar gets his Confuse on.  lol garland.
Team Yakumo vs. Kwanda, Onix, Humphrey - Noiseblaster.
Team Yakumo vs. Jogurt, Ramus, Euram Barrows, Big Joe, Gobi, Kelvena - lol scrub team
Team Yakumo vs. Luna, Ricardo, Lucia - NOISEBLASTER
Team Yakumo vs. Viper Manor Lynx, PC Harle and Boss Gafgarion - Lynx sucks.  Noiseblaster handles the rest.

Team Super| Rika, Aeonless Yuna, Palom, Porom, Onix
[Floor 2a]
Team Super vs. Lorenta, Jelanda, Shiho, Mystina - Rika and twins versus VP mages.  I don't think it's going to be too hard for them.
Team Super vs. FF1 Knight, FFT Knight, FF3 DS Knight - Saner, Protect, Deban, whatever.  Slow fighters hate this group.
Team Super vs. FF1 Black Mage, FFT Wizard, Vivi - "I HAVE A POINTY HAT WOOHOO!".  ...enough said.  Saner or Haste, kill.  Possibly leave to heal up.
Team Super vs. Lucius, Serra, Renault - Saner.  Versus.  FE.
Team Super vs. Ramza and Vandalier Ash - ID Ash.  Ramza sucks.

Team El Cid | Zerase, Emily, Bernadette, Rena, Mint
Floor 4a
*Damage/Healing Status/Status Healing and Buffs/Debuffs reversed
*Infinite MP for spells normally used for healing (i.e. Mint's)
Team El Cid vs. Fei and Bart - Gang up on Fei WITH HEALING.  Bart is useless at this point.
Team El Cid vs. Rosa and Cecil - Gang up on Rosa WITH HEALING.
Team El Cid vs. Shion, MOMO and KOS-MOS - MOMO and Shion need to be killed straight off.  Thankfully, I'm pretty sure this team can manage that.  KOS' otherwise awesome damage can't do SHIT on this floor.
Team El Cid vs. Robo, Frog and Crono - Crono's offing somebody before they can act.  Thankfully, Robo and Frog's healing aren't exactly the best at this point...
Team El Cid vs. Rune, Rika and Raja - This is just sick.  Infinite MP/uses for healing means that Raja can spam Miracle all day long, regardless of whether or not he's allowed Nasar or Gisar or Regen.  Nevermind the fact that Illusion on this floor is an EVEN BETTER SPEED BUFF THAN SANER ON NORMAL FLOORS IS.  And that Rune has healing, sleep, and ID (The latter thanks to Arows and Rever), Raja has effective ID (Rever, and if you're taking endgame skills, Regen), and...dear god.  Though it makes me wonder how Wren's and Demi's immunity to healing spells and all forms of status would translate here...aside from the inability to do anything aside from what is normally a self-healing effect.  Though Medic Power would be hilarious to watch.

[Yakumo]

Man, my team's going to suck in a floor or two when the fact that I somehow completely forgot to put earlygame revival in there comes back to bite me. >_>

Not going to vote on myself, looks like... hmm.  Yeah, Rika can handle Ash for Super's team and the rest is cake, Cid's floor is batshit insane and probably needs to be toned down, no team is likely to have enough healers to handle that if they want to have enough damage to get that far.   So Super passes, Cid dies a horrible, horrible death.

[Mad Fnorder]

It doesn't help that the boss team of Cid's floor has double revivers with Negatis and Elim, which kind of hurts alot considering they all have ID. Plus RAJA CAN BUST MP. Cid dies, Yakumo and Super win.

[VySaika]

It seems to me that Cid's floor basically *requires* a team to have ID(to be reversed into revival). And while a team needing revival is kind of a duh in the dungeon...I strongly disagree with effectively forcing a team to have Instant Death.

[Mad Fnorder]

You don't need ID, just like you don't need revival if you're strong enough to get by without it. For example, Purim makes an unholy mess of this floor with chaincast Remedy, inflicting every single SoM Status at a perfect hit rate, No ID needed.

[VySaika]

Uh, not really. Hell, Crono goes before Purim, unless I'm forgetting something here, and just offs her. Then the rest of the team fries to the boss most likely unless they can bring Purim back.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

To Excal: okay, I got it. <_< With that in mind...



Team Yakumo | Yuri2, Edgar, Claude, Aeris (Restore Materia), Mint
[Floor 1]
Team Yakumo vs. FF1 Garland and PC Bowser
Team Yakumo vs. Kwanda, Onix, Humphrey
Team Yakumo vs. Jogurt, Ramus, Euram Barrows, Big Joe, Gobi, Kelvena
Team Yakumo vs. Luna, Ricardo, Lucia
Team Yakumo vs. Viper Manor Lynx, PC Harle and Boss Gafgarion - Uh, it's floor 1. Edgar and Yuri should be enough to play hell with it, and they have enough healing to get past the fights anyway.

Team Super| Rika, Aeonless Yuna, Palom, Porom, Onix
[Floor 2a]
Team Super vs. Lorenta, Jelanda, Shiho, Mystina - Rika gets ID around here! She needs to save it, though, since she has like 1-2 shots of it. Regardless, they shouldn't have much trouble here. There is enough firepower in this floor to kill two of the mages here, and Illusion also does wonders.
Team Super vs. FF1 Knight, FFT Knight, FF3 DS Knight - Uh, yeah? FF1 Knight OHKOs the twins and Rika doesn't have Deban yet, which could be troublesome... but Yuna gets Life at floor 2 to me. Soooooooo.
Team Super vs. FF1 Black Mage, FFT Wizard, Vivi - Kill Wizard first, since he's the one who's threatening here. Everybody else is lulz.
Team Super vs. Lucius, Serra, Renault - This is horrible.
Team Super vs. Ramza and Vandalier Ash - THIS is what Rika saves Eliminat for. Elim Ash and everything is trivial.

Team El Cid | Zerase, Emily, Bernadette, Rena, Mint
Floor 4a
*Damage/Healing Status/Status Healing and Buffs/Debuffs reversed
*Infinite MP for spells normally used for healing (i.e. Mint's)
Team El Cid vs. Fei and Bart
Team El Cid vs. Rosa and Cecil
Team El Cid vs. Shion, MOMO and KOS-MOS
Team El Cid vs. Robo, Frog and Crono
Team El Cid vs. Rune, Rika and Raja - I don't even think El Cid makes it to Rune/Rika/Raja. Crono in a setting like this is really broken, unless the rules on the reversal are expanded to be a bit more restrictive. As is, this is an outright horrifying floor, and -needs- some tweaking.

[Excal]

Team Yakumo | Yuri2, Edgar, Claude, Aeris (Restore Materia), Mint
[Floor 1]
Team Yakumo vs. FF1 Garland and PC Bowser - I give Claude the phase gun for the first fight, and he's faster than Bowser.  Garland, as usual, fails, making for an easy victory.

Team Yakumo vs. Kwanda, Onix, Humphrey - Edgar + Noiseblaster = Win

Team Yakumo vs. Jogurt, Ramus, Euram Barrows, Big Joe, Gobi, Kelvena - See above

Team Yakumo vs. Luna, Ricardo, Lucia - More status bait PCs?  Buffing won't help when you buff the wrong side.

Team Yakumo vs. Viper Manor Lynx, PC Harle and Boss Gafgarion - Poor, poor Gaff.  Wishes he had better status immunity.  With Harle and Gaff kept in check by Edgar, it's easy for the rest of the party to pick off the rest of the battle with ease.

Team Yakko wins with ease.


Team Super| Rika, Aeonless Yuna, Palom, Porom, Onix
[Floor 2a]
Team Super vs. Lorenta, Jelanda, Shiho, Mystina - Onix dies horribly.  Aside from that, Rika might get hurt a bit, but this is a team of mages and healers, meaning that VP mages cannot do anything worth noting to the rest of them.

Team Super vs. FF1 Knight, FFT Knight, FF3 DS Knight - Rika needs to use one of her Eliminats here to get rid of FF3 Knight.  After he's gone, Porom dies to the FF1 Knight, and Yuna brings her back.  Meanwhile, the FFT Knight does his best to hurt Yuna who doesn't have godly evade yet.  Rika gets Saner up on the second round, and Palom eventually whittles down their foes, but with his elemental resistance and insane durability, a good chunk of resources is eaten up here.  Palom is the one character who emerges refreshed, having never actually managed to get a turn.

Team Super vs. FF1 Black Mage, FFT Wizard, Vivi - These next two battles are the reason that there's no reason to bother reviving Onix.  Regardless, magic against this party tends to fail, and Rika's kept alive by Palom.

Team Super vs. Lucius, Serra, Renault - See above.

Team Super vs. Ramza and Vandalier Ash - Rika uses her other Eliminat here, and Ramza needs Ash to buy him time to scream.  Lacking that, he falls in short order, Aegis or not.

Team Super wins.

Team El Cid | Zerase, Emily, Bernadette, Rena, Mint
Floor 4a
*Damage/Healing Status/Status Healing and Buffs/Debuffs reversed
*Infinite MP for spells normally used for healing (i.e. Mint's)
Team El Cid vs. Fei and Bart - These two are not hot on healing, nor that much on status protection from what I recall, which means a quick bye for them.

Team El Cid vs. Rosa and Cecil - Cover isn't so good when you're getting nuked with magical death.  That said, Rosa will probably get off one Cure 4 on the party before dying herself, and Zerase's MT isn't as good.

Team El Cid vs. Shion, MOMO and KOS-MOS - Again, not overly strong.  Just enough to deplete his party a little bit more before perishing.

Team El Cid vs. Robo, Frog and Crono - Erm...  yeah.  A dead party member is gone forever here.  And Crono starts off with nuking the enemies with Life.  Frog and Robo can do their best to keep Crono alive (their MT Magic is good for healing) and hope he gets another turn.

Team El Cid vs. Rune, Rika and Raja - Yeah...  Rune has his choice of MT Revival for his party, or ST Death for Cid.  Rika is also a superb reviver, meaning that both Rune and Rika need to be killed in order for Team El Cid to have a chance.  Especially considering Rika's assortment of stat buffs and debuffs.  And while they're trying to get Rika and Rune under control, they've got Raja blasting off MP Draining attacks that'll deplete their ability to do anything offensive.

El Cid fails.

[superaielman]

Excal, FF3 Knight is slower than the twins. Rika's best bet is to defense buff while Palom stops FF3 DS KNight.

[Sierra]

Yakko and Super make it.

Man, this floor sounded so much easier when I first heard the description. Even if I make it past Crono, it won't be with a full team, and anyone who dies is stuck that way. The boss fight is a slaughter. Proof that the PSIV team can be more broken!

[superaielman]

On the bright side, the toned down version of the floor would have whipped you anyway. Your team's poorly suited to the floor style.

[VySaika]

Suppose I may as well vote.

Cid dies horribly, other pass.

[Magic Fanatic]

Pass to all but Cid, who pretty much explodes, is brought back, and then turned into sawdust.