Two in a row where the title is a
parody of one from the original
Star Trek series. I've really had that on the brain lately.
In this case, though, it's not a
gateway through time so much as it is a trip back to the underground
via the Tower of Bab-Il and an introduction to our penultimate new
character and the party in it's final form, pending two or three more
party changes.
But I'm getting ahead of myself.
There's a ton of other stuff that needs to happen here, some of which
at least set up the sequence of obligatory side quests I always go on
starting at about this part of the game.
Sure, Cid's toast, at least presumably,
but his guys will still help us. They'll put a tractor beam, or more
properly, a grappling hook on the Airship Enterprise so that we can
take the Hovercraft other places than Mt. Hobs, which is where we
left it when we were on the way to Fabul. The first place I'm gonna
take it is Silvera so I can go in the mine on an island near the
town. There's a dude in there that collects animal tails. That'll
come in handy once, if you play the way I do, and twice if you're
willing to put in about a billion hours into fucking around in the
final dungeon. I know CLG's
Apple used
cheat codes in his last Let's Play of the game to get the excessively
rare items that came from that side quest, but god help me if I can
remember if he said they were any good or not, and sadly, that LP got
deleted when the CLG YouTube channel was hacked a couple years ago.
But anyway, let's get on with the game,
shall we? Just for good measure, I went to talk to the guy in the
mine by Silvera. The mine's called Grotto Adamant. I don't think
you actually have to go there and talk to the guy right now. The
miner's kid says that the head guy, the only other one there, has
found a funny rock and collects tails. Talking to the man himself
doesn't do any good. It just brings up a sub-menu where you can give
the guy something, but nothing happens if you try. It's just
something to remember for later.
So, off we go to Eblan. There's the
castle, of course, but I'll go in there later. There's some cool
stuff to be had in there, but it can wait for awhile. In the cave,
called Cave Eblana, we find a few items, most interestingly a
throwing star, listed as a Shruiken. This is one of two we'll be
finding in quick succession. It's a clue to what kind of character
will be joining us shortly. This isn't a very long cave. The next
room is the town where the ninjas of Eblan went after Rubicant nuked
the castle, which is empty, but not nearly in as bad a shape as
Damcyan after Baron bombed the crap out of it. But at least there
are a couple monsters in Eblan.
The ninjas say they're in bad shape as
a result of the attack, but it seems things aren't as bad as the
people are saying because the weapons and armor shops are charging an
arm and a leg for things you've already found. Well, except for the
Black Shirt, which is reasonably priced and something I don't think
we find, so it's worth it to buy one for Ryddia.
Go into the tunnel the guards say the
prince went down and eventually, you'll catch up with the guy. The
prince is named Edge, and he's about to get his ass handed to him by
Rubicant. Seriously, Edge just walked up to Rubicant and tried to
pick a fight with the Fiend of Fire. They hit each other once, then
Edge casts Flame on Rubicant, who says “Oh, you mean this shit?”
and does Glare on Edge, which fucks him up pretty bad.
Rubicant goes away after telling Edge
to grow a pair. The party comes over to help and tells Edge that
they can help take Rubicant out. Rosa heals Edge, and he joins the
party.
I'd go on from here, but that's a bit
more than I want to do right now. There's a bunch of fun stuff
coming up here. There might be a side quest or two coming up next
outing, but that'll have to wait until next time, when we go to
Bab-Il-on Two!
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