Or: The Chapter In Which Ben Sits On
His Ass And Makes Phoebe Do All The Work
There's a grand total of four
battlefields between the Bone Dungeon and Aquaria. I probably could
have handled the first couple with just Ben, as I'm sure was the
intent, but it's a good deal quicker and easier to get Phoebe in the
party first. She's in a place called the Libra Temple. We'll be
coming back there before too long, but for now, we're going to
backtrack and start with the battlefield west of the Bone Dungeon and
work our way towards Aquaria.
First, though, a few things I neglected
to mention last time. First up is that while we were watching the
crystal relight, Tristam was busy horking one of the final weapons in
the game: the Dragon Claw. He'll give us that later on in the game,
and it'll be really handy. Secondly, there's a treasure chest for
Ben to get as well. It's got something called the Sand Coin in it.
We'll need this, and three other coins like it, to get through the
Focus Tower.
When we first get into the tower here,
there's a secret passage
we can go through to get to the stairs that will take us to the door
we need to use. It's a little obvious, because there's a narrow part
in the wall right where it is. I went the long way this time, just
to be sure there was no treasure that I needed to talk about there.
Since there's not, it'll be a quicker trip to just take the passage
the next couple times through here.
The Old Guy's here, too, and he says
something about finding a dude named Spencer, who can help us, and
that we need to find Phoebe, too. As will continue to be his way, he
just buggers the hell off without explaining any of it
Another thing I think I have yet to go
into decent detail about is the treasure chests in this game.
There's brown boxes and red boxes. The brown ones are expendable
items and will respawn every time we re-enter an area. The red ones
are only there until we open them but have special, usually
event-related items in them. There's one of each in the part of the
tower we've got access to right now. The brown one's got bombs in
it. Kind of nice to be all stocked up on those, even though there's
no way in hell we'll ever run out of them, even if we use them as
weapons. Probably won't very much, because the attack gets split
between however any monsters are in the party.
There's also a red one with the game's
fire spell in it. This is just like the quake spell we got in the
Bone Dungeon. Just in time for it to be useful, since Aquaria's the
capital of the ice area.
But we're on our way to get Phoebe from
the Libra Temple. She's really valuable right now because she's got
a crapload of really strong magic. She's got the life, cure, and
heal spells for white magic, the fire spell for black, and a thunder
spell in a third category called Wizard Magic, and she's got at least
twice as many charges for those spells as Ben does. So we can just
use Phoebe to kick some serious ass going through those battlefields.
Two have extra XP when we clear them. The one in the earth area has
99 XP, the second one in the ice area has 100, I believe. The one in
between has 300 gold. The last one before the actual town of Aquaria
has something called the Magic Ring as its reward. This piece of
armor protects against the Silence status effect. Since we need to
reset the game anyway to get that defense to actually take effect,
I'll just use the Inn and call it a night here and continue with the
actual plot later.
Some notes before I wrap up, of course.
Since I was kind of going nuts with the magic this time, I used two
of the three seeds I got in the Bone Dungeon, one on Ben and the
other on Phoebe. And speaking of SeeDs, I'm listening to the group
LP that County Line Gaming's doing of Final Fantasy 8. I'm a little
behind on it. Just listened to part 4 before getting to work on
this, and I think I kind of got inspired for the title to the next
issue: Puppy Wylls. Not sure if CLG member Reki
Wylls is in on this LP, but the play on his user name is what's
going through my head right now, so I may as well use it for next
time.
And speaking of next time, until then,
stay safe, have fun, keep gaming, and DFTBA!
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