Nyarlathotep's Dungeon: The Return! (Week 5)

[Nephrite]

"Whoops! I guess I made one a bit too difficult, didn't I. Oh well, what's done is done, let's see you come back next time. In the meantime... Someone steps in again, let's see what they can manage."


Team Yakumo vs. 6-0
Team Super vs. Lynx, Harle and Gafgarion 7-0
Team El Cid vs. Rune, Rika and Raja, 0-7


Team Laggy'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 Yakumo's Matches

Floor 2a: Generic Battle Music (Earlygame)

"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."

[/b]Boss Battle #2: Ramza and Vandalier Ash[/b]

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 Super's Matches

Floor 3b: Multiples (Before Midgame)

"Multiples, you say... Well, let's see how things work out for you when everything must be done to everyone at once."

*All ST is MT for this floor. ALL of it.

Battle #11: Nino

Nino: I'm sorry... I just can't let you through here.

Battle #12: Charizard, Venusaur, Blastoise

Pokemon Trainer: YOU CAN DO IT, CHARIZARD! DON'T GIVE UP, SQUIRTLE! LET'S GO, IVYSAUR!

Battle #13: Flik and Viktor

Flik: Hmph, this isn't even worthy of us.
Viktor: Ha ha! Let's go... we'll show these kids!

Battle #14: Nina1, Nina4

Nina1: For my homeland... I cannot lose.
Nina4: For my homeland... I c--hm. Ah well, you won't pass here!

Boss Battle #3: Lucca, Marle and Nils

Lucca: By my calculations, you won't defeat us.
Marle: Hah! I won't let you win.
Nils: Ah... I suppose I'm just here for support, then...


Team Laggy | Timelord, Jerin, FFT Ninja, Mia, Nall
[Floor 1]
Team Laggy vs. FF1 Garland and PC Bowser
Team Laggy vs. Kwanda, Onix, Humphrey
Team Laggy vs. Jogurt, Ramus, Euram Barrows, Big Joe, Gobi, Kelvena
Team Laggy vs. Luna, Ricardo, Lucia
Team Laggy vs. Boss Lynx, Boss Harle and Boss Gafgarion

Team Yakumo | Yuri2, Edgar, Claude, Aeris (Restore Materia), Mint
[Floor 2a]
Team Yakumo vs. Lorenta, Jelanda, Shiho, Mystina
Team Yakumo vs. FF1 Knight, FFT Knight, FF3 DS Knight
Team Yakumo vs. FF1 Black Mage, FFT Wizard, Vivi
Team Yakumo vs. Lucius, Serra, Renault
Team Yakumo vs. Ramza and Vandalier Ash

Team Super| Rika, Aeonless Yuna, Palom, Porom, Onix
[Floor 3b]
*All ST is MT
Team Super vs. Nino
Team Super vs. Charizard, Venusaur, Blastoise
Team Super vs. Flik, Viktor
Team Super vs. Nina1, Nina4
Team Super vs. Lucca, Marle and Nils

[superaielman]

Team Laggy | Timelord, Jerin, FFT Ninja, Mia, Nall
[Floor 1]
Team Laggy vs. FF1 Garland and PC Bowser (Antagonists who kidnapped Princesses)- Time Eclipse Bowser, Garland is Garland.
Team Laggy vs. Kwanda, Onix, Humphrey (Durable)- Mia has magic. Splat.
Team Laggy vs. Jogurt, Ramus, Euram Barrows, Big Joe, Gobi, Kelvena (Joke Characters)- The scrub swarm is far from scary.
Team Laggy vs. Luna, Ricardo, Lucia (Buffers)- TE Luna, Ninja+Jerin splatter Lucia.
Team Laggy vs. Boss Lynx, Boss Harle and Boss Gafgarion- Overdrive. TE Harle out,Time twister ninja (This gets gaf one rounded), and TE Lynx a couple of times to kill his speed.

Team Yakumo | Yuri2, Edgar, Claude, Aeris (Restore Materia), Mint
[Floor 2a]
Team Yakumo vs. Lorenta, Jelanda, Shiho, Mystina- Actually.. can anyone on this team buff MDef? Edgar is going to get killed in the first round if not, and his team is in trouble in that case. Let's assume Claude+Yuri go first and paste a mage. Heal up, survive.
Team Yakumo vs. FF1 Knight, FFT Knight, FF3 DS Knight- FFT and DS Knight should block noiseblaster. Doesn't matter a damn though, FF1 Knight is the only one with offense here. Aeris handles healing and it should go smoothy enough.
Team Yakumo vs. FF1 Black Mage, FFT Wizard- CT makes FFT wizard slow, so Claude+Yuri get a hold of him. The question is, does BW ID anyone? I'm leaning yes, while his MT ID sucks, it's still MT.. and I don't see how the team prevents him from acting off the top of my head. Yuri can't really buff Mdef unless you think Edgar+Claude kill FFT Wizard.. which I bet they do actually, he really had awful HP. Thinking Claude dies to the ID since he has the worst MDef.
Team Yakumo vs. Lucius, Serra, Renault- MDef buff Edgar so he can't die, let Noise Blaster take care of the rest.
Team Yakumo vs. Ramza and Vandalier Ash- Noiseblaster handles Ash, Ramza can't unconfuse him without risking a brutal counterattack.

Yakko's team is coming awfully close to losing this floor. Damn.

Team Super| Rika, Aeonless Yuna, Palom, Porom, Onix
[Floor 3b]
*All ST is MT
Team Super vs. Nino- Nulblaze. Nino can't really scare anyone on the team with anything else. She baps everyone with a book, Porom heals everyone up, she dies horribly.
Team Super vs. Charizard, Venusaur, Wartortle- Elminate MTed. Splat.
Team Super vs. Flik, Viktor- Deban+Nul thunder makes this a joke.
Team Super vs. Nina1, Nina4- ID Nina1, Nina4 can't really scare a team.
Team Super vs. Lucca, Marle and Nils- Elminate. Reflect on Palom just to be sure he gets a turn- Quake is brutal offense at this point.

[VySaika]

Team Laggy | Timelord, Jerin, FFT Ninja, Mia, Nall
[Floor 1]
Team Laggy vs. FF1 Garland and PC Bowser (Antagonists who kidnapped Princesses)
Team Laggy vs. Kwanda, Onix, Humphrey (Durable)
Team Laggy vs. Jogurt, Ramus, Euram Barrows, Big Joe, Gobi, Kelvena (Joke Characters)
Team Laggy vs. Luna, Ricardo, Lucia (Buffers)
Team Laggy vs. Boss Lynx, Boss Harle and Boss Gafgarion

Nall+FFT Ninja is neat. Since Ninja will die alot, but just get brought back, and will usually get off a turn in the next fight before dieing again. This early, Ninja's offense isn't wonderful, but it's still a good punch. Timelord, like any mystic, is badass early, and Laggy easily takes this floor.

Team Yakumo | Yuri2, Edgar, Claude, Aeris (Restore Materia), Mint
[Floor 2a]
Team Yakumo vs. Lorenta, Jelanda, Shiho, Mystina - hashed this out in chat. Yuri/Claude kill Jelanda before the mages move, that stops any PWSing, then it's Noiseblaster and cleanup from there.
Team Yakumo vs. FF1 Knight, FFT Knight, FF3 DS Knight - Edgar goes before FFT and 3DS Knight, Noiseblaster. And that's that.
Team Yakumo vs. FF1 Black Mage, FFT Wizard, Vivi - Hmm, Yuri/Claude kill someone before they move again, and as Noiseblaster is letting Aeris and Mint do the healing thing before moving on to the next fight, the remaining 2 aren't getting a kill.
Team Yakumo vs. Lucius, Serra, Renault - Easy enough fight here.
Team Yakumo vs. Ramza and Vandalier Ash - Hmm, Vandalier is nasty, but Yak is going into this with a full party, so I'm giving him the nod. 

Team Super| Rika, Aeonless Yuna, Palom, Porom, Onix
[Floor 3b]
*All ST is MT
Team Super vs. Nino
Team Super vs. Charizard, Venusaur, Wartortle
Team Super vs. Flik, Viktor
Team Super vs. Nina1, Nina4
Team Super vs. Lucca, Marle and Nils - Yeah, MT Elim shannanigans ensue.

Holding off on Super's matches for now.

[superaielman]

I am not sure Claude goes before the mages myself, it's not like he's fast.

[Mad Fnorder]

Laggy passes- they can't take out Timelord for good, TimeEclipse takes most of the threats out anyway, and Overdrive solves the last room clean.

Super's floor... is weird. Firstly, the last room is a rather odd choice of fighters, either being not that scary or broken beyond belief. MTing Marle Haste? Whatever. But if Nils is MT'd, including himself, then as soon as Nils gets a turn, you lose, as his team goes infinite.

In more concrete issues, I'm questioning if Yuna goes before Flik. If so, yes, the floor is over after Nulthunder, but if not, the team gets positively rocked for some potential KOs, especially considering the twins durability, as well as Yuna's evade being her strong suit. ONIX WOULD BE IMMMUNE, LOL. Can Rika revive at this point, too? Round robin revival probably works amazingly well on this floor. No vote at the moment.

Tentative nod for Yakumo at the moment. Will await further arguments.

[Nephrite]

As far as I am aware, Rika can never revive.

Also, Nils would not work on himself, since his turn wouldn't theoretically be used up.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Team Laggy | Timelord, Jerin, FFT Ninja, Mia, Nall
[Floor 1]
Team Laggy vs. FF1 Garland and PC Bowser (Antagonists who kidnapped Princesses)
Team Laggy vs. Kwanda, Onix, Humphrey (Durable)
Team Laggy vs. Jogurt, Ramus, Euram Barrows, Big Joe, Gobi, Kelvena (Joke Characters)
Team Laggy vs. Luna, Ricardo, Lucia (Buffers)
Team Laggy vs. Boss Lynx, Boss Harle and Boss Gafgarion - Free pass.

Team Yakumo | Yuri2, Edgar, Claude, Aeris (Restore Materia), Mint
[Floor 2a]
Team Yakumo vs. Lorenta, Jelanda, Shiho, Mystina - Willing to give Edgar the benefit of doubt for speed here.
Team Yakumo vs. FF1 Knight, FFT Knight, FF3 DS Knight - Um, yeah.
Team Yakumo vs. FF1 Black Mage, FFT Wizard, Vivi - More yeah. MT Confuse in this floor is brutal.
Team Yakumo vs. Lucius, Serra, Renault - And again!
Team Yakumo vs. Ramza and Vandalier Ash - Another place where the Confuse is cruel. Confused Ash can do horrible things to Ramza, so he has to keep status healing while the rest of the team pummels merrily.

Team Super| Rika, Aeonless Yuna, Palom, Porom, Onix
[Floor 3b]
*All ST is MT
Team Super vs. Nino
Team Super vs. Charizard, Venusaur, Blastoise
Team Super vs. Flik, Viktor
Team Super vs. Nina1, Nina4
Team Super vs. Lucca, Marle and Nils - This is horrible murder. Rika now has enough shots of Elim to spam it in half the matches - particularly, Flik/Viktor, Marle/Lucca/Nils and the Pokéstarters become laughable jokes due to ACCURATE MT ID THAT EVERYBODY IN THIS FLOOR IS VULNERABLE TO. And I'm guessing Neph meant Blastoise, since Wartortle is the first evolution of Squirtle. Blastoise is the last. >_>

[Nephrite]

You're right, I did! I'll fix that. Not that it matters.

[Smashy]

Team Super| Rika, Aeonless Yuna, Palom, Porom, Onix
[Floor 3b]
*All ST is MT
Team Super vs. Nino
Team Super vs. Charizard, Venusaur, Blastoise
Team Super vs. Flik, Viktor
Team Super vs. Nina1, Nina4
Team Super vs. Lucca, Marle and Nils - This is horrible murder. Rika now has enough shots of Elim to spam it in half the matches - particularly, Flik/Viktor, Marle/Lucca/Nils and the Pokéstarters become laughable jokes due to ACCURATE MT ID THAT EVERYBODY IN THIS FLOOR IS VULNERABLE TO. And I'm guessing Neph meant Blastoise, since Wartortle is the first evolution of Squirtle. Blastoise is the last. >_>

This. Also saying that Laggy passes, and abstaining on Yak for now.

[VySaika]

I am not sure Claude goes before the mages myself, it's not like he's fast.

Eh, I'm willing to give Claude the tiebreak vs VP PCs, myself.

[074]

Team Laggy | Timelord, Jerin, FFT Ninja, Mia, Nall
[Floor 1]
Team Laggy vs. FF1 Garland and PC Bowser - lol time eclipse
Team Laggy vs. Kwanda, Onix, Humphrey - lol magic
Team Laggy vs. Jogurt, Ramus, Euram Barrows, Big Joe, Gobi, Kelvena - lol scrub team
Team Laggy vs. Luna, Ricardo, Lucia - lol time eclipse
Team Laggy vs. Boss Lynx, Boss Harle and Boss Gafgarion lol time eclipse

Team Yakumo | Yuri2, Edgar, Claude, Aeris (Restore Materia), Mint
[Floor 2a]
Team Yakumo vs. Lorenta, Jelanda, Shiho, Mystina - Oh god Noiseblaster.
Team Yakumo vs. FF1 Knight, FFT Knight, FF3 DS Knight - Holy Shit
Team Yakumo vs. FF1 Black Mage, FFT Wizard, Vivi - FF6 Confuse
Team Yakumo vs. Lucius, Serra, Renault - Is Obscene
Team Yakumo vs. Ramza and Vandalier Ash - On This Floor.

Team Super| Rika, Aeonless Yuna, Palom, Porom, Onix
[Floor 3b]
*All ST is MT
Team Super vs. Nino - Elim
Team Super vs. Charizard, Venusaur, Blastoise - Is.
Team Super vs. Flik, Viktor - Godly.
Team Super vs. Nina1, Nina4 - Rape.
Team Super vs. Lucca, Marle and Nils - Here.

...dear god.  Even worse.  Time Eclipse on this floor. *shudder*

[Magic Fanatic]

Team Laggy | Timelord, Jerin, FFT Ninja, Mia, Nall
[Floor 1]
Team Laggy vs. FF1 Garland and PC Bowser
Team Laggy vs. Kwanda, Onix, Humphrey
Team Laggy vs. Jogurt, Ramus, Euram Barrows, Big Joe, Gobi, Kelvena
Team Laggy vs. Luna, Ricardo, Lucia
Team Laggy vs. Boss Lynx, Boss Harle and Boss Gafgarion - Yeah, not a whole lot is surviving TimeEclipse or the Ninja's damage, so...  Ow?

Team Yakumo | Yuri2, Edgar, Claude, Aeris (Restore Materia), Mint
[Floor 2a]
Team Yakumo vs. Lorenta, Jelanda, Shiho, Mystina
Team Yakumo vs. FF1 Knight, FFT Knight, FF3 DS Knight
Team Yakumo vs. FF1 Black Mage, FFT Wizard, Vivi
Team Yakumo vs. Lucius, Serra, Renault
Team Yakumo vs. Ramza and Vandalier Ash - I'm pretty sure that Yuri2 can improve MDEF with his light fusion's first spell.  Speed with his first wind fusion spell.  Whether or not you give him his first fusion is all up to you.  Still, glorious slaughter.

Team Super| Rika, Aeonless Yuna, Palom, Porom, Onix
[Floor 3b]
*All ST is MT
Team Super vs. Nino
Team Super vs. Charizard, Venusaur, Blastoise
Team Super vs. Flik, Viktor
Team Super vs. Nina1, Nina4
Team Super vs. Lucca, Marle and Nils - ...Eliminate, Stop, Life...  Take your pick.  Each rapes this floor rather badly.

[dude789]

All three make it.

[Unoriginal]

Super smashes his floor, abstain on the other two.

[superaielman]

Need more votes! *Cracks whip*

[Excal]

Yeah, I'll give a pass to all three team here. 

Super gets by on Rika being absurdly good there with MT Eliminat. 

Edgar against only one middling person with status defense also breezes his team by, though there is a bit of a scare in the fact that Ramza is one of the best people for curing confusion with his Rock Throwing Powers! 

Finally, Timelord + Ninja against floor of scrubs does the job nicely.  Especially with a mage to get by the tanks who would give the ninja trouble otherwise.

[Yakumo]

Huh, thought I'd voted already. <_<

Anyway, Super can spam Elim on the rounds it matters, and Nino isn't really a threat.  Don't really know the Ninas but I doubt Super really has too much trouble there since he barely needs any resources but Elim for anything else on the entire floor.  Besides, they're mages and Doubleslash ought to be really good damage at this point in PS4, right?  Yeah.  Easy enough.

Laggy... uh, don't know what kind of equipment is available to the Ninja in early FFT, but Timelord is brutal and the others aren't useless, so he ought to be able to make it.

[074]

I believe Ninja can use daggers, for all that matters.

Two of them, of course.

[Sierra]

Everyone makes it. Team Laggy is on floor one, Team Yakko has Edgar against an entire floor of PCs, Team Super mostly just status haxes through things.

[DjinnAndTonic]

All three pass.

Yakumo has FF6 confusion against a floor susceptible to confusion.

And Super has MT accurate ID off of great speed against a floor that doesn't resist ID.

Those two chose good teams for these floors. Congrats.

-Djinn