And maybe Back
To The Future, too?
It occurs to me that I've been doing a
lot of nothing in this Text Play. It's not because Legend of Mana is
a slow or boring game or some shint. It's because I've got too many
choices, really. There are a lot of things I could, and really
should, be doing in this game. Unfortunately, I have to pick which
one I want to do at any given juncture, and usually just wind up
sandboxing instead.
In this bout of running around, I
figured I'd go back to Polpota Harbor, just because I'd done a little
work there recently and thought there might be more. I was kind of
hoping for another full-on mission there, but instead got one of the
little vignettes that are another reason I have trouble deciding
where to go next. In this case, Flameshe and the Flowerling by the
docks at the inlet to the town's namesake harbor say that a soldier
bought a flower and went to the inlet. Upon checking that out, I
discovered that it was Thoma, paying tribute to his fallen fellow
troopers.
Of course, soon as he sets the flower
down, the scenery opens up and a skeleton guy comes out. It seems
Thoma knows him as a fellow warrior named Thona. Yeah, that's not
confusing in the slightest there. But anyway, both these guys work
for some entity called Deathbringer, which may make them part of the
Dragoon Arc, too, but we'll get to that soon enough. Thona
references a Bone Dungeon and the Underworld before horking the
flower Thoma put out and running back to the Space Between Spaces.
The whole thing reminded me of a
little scene from near the end of Ghostbusters.
Yeah, I kinda know where I need to go
from here, and I've got some idea of how to get there from where I
am, but it just wouldn't be me if I didn't jack around with other
stuff for a bit first, so I went to the lounge in the Polpota Hotel
to watch Basket Fish and Thoma swoon over Ravenshe the Dancer for a
bit. Turns out the fish guy's a five year old who has to work
because loosing the Blue Eye has made him poor. After that, I ran
off to Gato, just for the hell of it. I knew there was nothing going
on there but went anyway.
And then I went back to the Duma
Desert, in hopes that would be where I was supposed to go. I pretty
much knew better, but again, went anyway. At least I got a few
levels out of it, and a soldier's helm and a pegasus helm from
beating up monsters.
The other place that I went was Medora,
North Dakota... er, Madora Beach, that is, where we met the
lovestruck pirate penguins. I was just about right in my thinking
that there would be nothing there. I did get an aquatic egg out of
all this, but that's about it.
At least there was one good thing here:
I got to hear Flameshe the Mermaid sing for a bit in Polpota when I
went there. She's pretty good.
Due to issues IRL, I'm not sure exactly
when I'll get back to this again, but when I do, it'll be off on a
decent adventure for a change. Until then, have fun, stay safe, and
keep gaming!
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