There's a character in the game who's
going to be a little unwell for awhile.
There's also a character at my keyboard
who's been a little unwell and may continue to be for awhile as well.
The difference is that while we can talk about Princess Dagger's
issues here, my own will hopefully be a little easier to solve.
With regard to the game, it turns out I
didn't mess up as badly as I thought I had last time I did an issue
of this, nearly a month ago now. We can have Zidane go looking
around Lindblum Castle a bit, but ultimately, we're going to have to
go talk to Regent Cid in the throne room to advance the plot. I did
manage to talk to all the major characters I could find along the
way, though I'm not sure how important that really is.
The most major development there is
that we begin to see that Dagger has lost her ability to speak after
all the shock and trauma she's been through lately, what with the
recent passing of her mother and the essential nuking of Alexandria
shortly after she took the throne. It's understandable, of course.
All that would be enough to give just about anybody a serious case of
PTSD. Dagger isn't really sure who to blame for all that's happened
and winds up putting it on herself even though that's probably the
worst place for it right now.
After I found Dagger by the telescope,
I found the rest of the party in the conference room. They were all
happy to see Zidane, of course, since he's the man of the hour. But,
as is all to common in games like this, we've actually got to go up
to the throne room to talk to the man. He says we need to go back
down to the conference room to have a meeting about what to do.
In the course of this little meeting,
it's decided that we need to go get Kuja and make him pay for
basically screwing up the world. Naturally, this means we're going
to need transportation, which is something we're lacking at the
moment. After a mandatory Active Time Event where we see Dagger
putting the blame on herself, Cid says he saw Kuja on the Hilda Garde
1, the steam-powered airship he made for his wife before she turned
him into a bug and ran off, as they were escaping Alexandria, and
there were conscious Black Mages onboard with him.
Everybody agrees that they need to do
something fast, which will require an airship. The Hilda Garde 2
isn't ready yet, and Cid can't do anything to get things moving while
he's stuck as the bugaboo his wife turned him into. The idea the
party gets into its head is to try some old-tyme potion to turn him
back to a human so he can work on it because it's not yet time to
find Hilda. It would have been nice to have more than just Zidane in
the party to gather the ingredients for the potion, but it's just
him. We're told that we need Strange Potion, Beautiful Potion, and
Unusual Potion. Cinna has one at the Tantalus base in the theater
district; the second's hidden in the budding artist's workshop
nearby; the third is owned by Alice the item shop owner.
Before we can gather it all, though, we
run into our friends Kal and Wei, from Burmecia. They say that
things may finally be beginning to look up for them and the remaning
people of Burmecia. They're sad because so many have died since all
this started, but Wei has had her babies, so they've got cause to be
positive. And yes, that was babies, plural, because she had five.
Not sure if that's common, but then again, Burmecians and Cleyrans
are anthropomorphic rats, so it may be.
After making the potion for Cid, it
turns out that it doesn't work, turning him from an Oglop to a frog
rather than a normal man. Since this does not improve the situation
any, the only thing to do is go another route and search for clues in
other places.
This means taking the sailing ship that
the gang horked from Alexandria and going to the Outer Continent to
look for clues. The first place we're going is the Black Mage
Village, as there may be a connection because of finding them on
Kuja's airship. Getting to the Outer Continent wasn't that difficult
a task, but finding my way to the village likely will be. So, I'll
be leaving off on the shore I landed on for now, and will try to get
back to it before so much time goes by.
Given all the weirdness going on in my
personal life, plus the fact that life in our real world is imitating
art in this game right now, we'll see what happens. Either way, stay
safe, have fun, keep gaming, and DFTBA.
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