That's a perverted title. I apologize
to Calvin and Hobbes fans.
Fortunately, nothing quite as perverted
happens in this game. So, on to the matter at hand, huh?
In this case, it's the trip through Mt.
Hobs. Technically, I've been spelling it wrong until that last time.
Now, the pass is blocked by a glacier
on the Damcyan end. This is the first of a few times that the use of
a spell is required to advance the plot. In this case, it's Rydia
learning the Fire spell. The plot-related reason she hadn't yet is
because she's afraid of fire after her village was destroyed by it.
Eventually, the rest of the party talks her into it and she learns
fire magic so they can use the trail and maybe save the nation of
Fabul on the other side.
There are lots of goodies to be had
along the way, provided that you're willing to do a little exploring
and deal with a few ghosts and skeletons in the process, and go a bit
out of the way.
Upon reaching the summit, the party
sees a karate fighter engaged in combat with a band of monsters.
After taking out a handful of imps, the karate guy is accosted by a
bomb monster. This is a boss monster sent by the Kingdom of Baron to
kill off Fabul's main fighting force so that Baron can swoop in, hork
the crystal there, and kill as many folks as possible.
The party goes to the man's aid as he
fights the monster, called MomBomb. After the fight, they find that
the man's name is Yang, and that he's the chief monk from Fabul.
When the others explain the situation, Yang joins the party and they
go dashing off to Fabul in hopes that they can get there in time to
avert disaster, which is where we'll pick up next time.
I know this was kind of a short entry
in the series, but there's a reason for that. You see, I've been
doing each of these entries roughly after every boss fight I've
encountered thus far. Sadly, it's starting to reveal the downside to
doing this with a game I've been through so many times over the
years. The only really interesting thing I have to note here is that
this is probably the first time in the 20 years I've been playing
this game that I've actually made good tactical use of Edward's Hide
option, during the boss fight with MomBomb. There's a part of the
fight where the monster will do an explosive attack that hits all
party members. I'm just surprised that it didn't occur to me before
now that I could get one character out of the way of that.
Otherwise, nothing really impressive happened this outing.
Perhaps that will change next time,
when Cecil gets to Paint It
Black to fight Baron and its monsters.
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