And we finally get to engage a few
random monsters on the way out. Well, a few more, since we were
fighting Black Mages and Bandersnaches towards the end of the last
issue as well. On the way out, Zorn and Thorn try to trap Zidane,
Vivi and Dagger in the same trap they used on the party when they was
coming in before. Luckily for the party, Marcus and Blank show up
and suckerpunch the jesters, thoroughly putting their lights out so
that Zidane and the others can escape.
The plan for now is for the party to
get to Treno and figure out what to do from there. This, naturally,
means another trip by Gargant, and another boss fight with a snake
kind of thing. This one's green and a bit stronger than the one from
before. It's also got some armor for somebody and a new staff for
Vivi that I'll say more about in a bit.
Another difference is that this boss
doesn't keel over or run away once the party kicks its ass. Instead,
it gets up and chases the Gargant past Treno and makes it crash into
a rocky canyon a fair ways past the town. Dagger winds up pulling
something of a Cecil and gets knocked out for awhile, only to wake up
to find herself in a life-changing situation.
Before she does, though, we're treated
to a cutscene where Zorn and Thorn go try to tell Brahne that some
special guests have arrived. These guests are some axe-wielding lady
called Lani and a big red-headed guy who looks like he enjoys
punching things. The queen explains that their mission is twofold:
get the royal pendant back from Dagger by any means necessary and to
off Vivi as well. The punchy red-headed dude says he wants a piece
of Zidane and tells Her Yugeness that he's gonna go for that as his
first priority when he finds out he's with the party. Lani tells the
queen that they'll get the job done even if they don't seem to have
manners for royalty because manners aren't what they were hired for
and heads out the normal way while Punchy, as I'll call him until we
get to know his real name, jumps off the balcony. Zorn and Thorn,
meanwhile, realize that they're pretty much screwed without the
queen's support and go running off to figure out other plans after
letting the guests in.
When Dagger wakes back up after the
cutscene, Vivi explains that they're in a place called Pinnacle
Rocks, and that they need to find a way back to Treno so they can
hook back up with the Tantalus guys. As they discuss things, an old
guy floats in and introduces himself as Ramuh. Ramuh explains that
one of Dagger's eidolons was used to nuke Cleyra. Dagger knows it
was her mother that did it, now prepared to believe it. Ramuh says
whoever did it was evil, as eidolons are like summons from several
previous games and can only follow their masters' orders, and the
person who used Odin on Cleyra was full of greed and hate.
Ramuh goes on to explain that he'll be
the first summon Dagger can actually use in the game if the party can
get the story of Joseph from the Famicom version of Final Fantasy II
put together in more or less the right order. I'll get to that next
time, which might be awhile, because I want to refresh my memory of
that from Apple's
Let's Play of FF2 from several years ago now.
One last thing I want to get to before
I wrap this up, of course. Towards the start of this issue, I
mentioned a few thoughts about the equipment upgrades. Seems we're
getting them by the ton now, which is just as frustrating as being in
the opposite situation on the last disk. There were times,
especially towards the end of the last disk, that I would have given
my bottom gold for an upgrade in the equipment department, and now it
seems I've got more than I can use. I think part of it's in service
of the whole Synth Shop thing this game does. It's certainly not as
cumbersome a method for making and remaking equipment as I've seen in
other games, I'll give it that. Still, it's a hassle to manage all
this stuff that I need to learn spells and skills from and then hope
I can get it upgraded in a timely manner.
That's my thoughts on the matter for
now. We'll be getting on to one of the biggest links between this
game and one of its earlier cousins next time. Until then, stay
safe, keep gaming, have fun, and DFTBA!
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