Something I forgot to mention last time
is the IceRod that the party finds in the Watery Pass. I only made
one copy of that so that both Rydia and Tellah, who joins the party
the first time here, can have one equipped. It comes in handy for
both of them to have one because there are as many monsters weak to
ice magic as there are weak to lightning magic in there, and I do
believe that using the rod to cast the lowest level ice spell does it
for free, and sometimes it comes in handy to do it twice in a battle.
Beyond that, it's not worth it to clone many of them, as they don't
sell for much. It's like this for a lot of these early rod weapons,
as well. In fact, should I need to come back to this part of the map
later in the game, when I have Edge, I'll just use him to hork the
basic Rod from an enemy in the area when I'm farming the Imp spell,
if I don't get it while I'm here now.
I think I also neglected to mention
that the Mad Toads in there can use the Toad spell. Cecil got
spammed with it hard in a couple fights before the end there, and I
just forgot to mention that before.
From where I left off, it's just a few
steps to the part of the game where Damcyan Castle gets nuked by the
Red Wings and Tellah buggers off to take on Baron and Golbez on his
own. Once I'm through with that, I think I'll spend at least a
little time farming for the Imp spell, since this is where I usually
go looking for it anyway. Might as well while I'm here, right?
One thing I did a little differently
this time is that I put the basic Rod back on Tellah before I went
into the castle for the little cutscene where the party finds Anna
dead and replaces Tellah with Edward. I'm not really sure if it
affects anything later in the game, mostly because it's been so long
since I've bothered to have any equipment on any party member,
really, when they left the party that I just plain don't remember.
Otherwise, I just ran around in the
desert around the castle for awhile, in hopes that I might wind up
getting the Imp summon for my trouble, or at least some Rods from the
TinyMages that are also common to the area. I didn't really get what
I was looking for, but my efforts didn't exactly go unrewarded,
either. I did get a Silver Ring that I put on Rydia. Too bad I'm
not sure off the top of my head what drops those in the area, but I
do have it narrowed down to three: Imps, StingRats, I believe, and
the aforementioned TinyMages, since that was the group of monsters I
got it from.
But, after getting Edward up to level
10, I decided to just get on with the plot and go ahead with the
Antlion cave in the next session. Maybe that'll be more interesting
than usual.
One thing I did try before going into
the Antlion cave was to see what happened if I tried to go through
Mount Hobbs before taking care of the Antlion and curing Rosa. The
game just says the path is blocked by thick ice. I can't recall
having ever tried that before, so now I know.
Going through the cave, I used the
clone trick to make up ten more Darkness swords. I think I mentioned
last time I did this that Edward got a weapon called the Charm Harp
in the cave. I didn't really take advantage of the fact that it
causes the confusion status effect on monsters about half the time it
hits. The Basilisks that wind up with this status effect wind up
using their Petrify effect on themselves, which takes a little longer
than just killing them outright, but was an interesting change for
once.
Otherwise, nothing too terribly
different from last time happened the rest of the way through the
cave. The same can be said of the cutscene in Kaipo with Edward and
the Water Hag. On the one hand, it's a scripted battle, so there's a
certain length it had to be, but at the same time, I think I got it
done in the shortest time I could have, considering that the ghost of
Edward's girlfriend Anna has to tell him to be strong and love the
people of his nation before fading into the ether.
Now that Rosa's in the party, I think
I'll start the next one of these with a little more grinding for the
Imp summon in the area of Damcyan Castle before moving on with the
plot. And that's where the next entry will start as well. See you
then, folks.
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