This one's going to be a little shorter
than the last part, but some things still do happen.
Most importantly is getting the well to
work so we can move to the next lower level of the mine. Gotta pull
the lever down three times in quick succession to make that happen.
Exploring around from the save point I left off at last time, there
are two Gaia Gear armors to be found, I believe, and two fixed-point
battles that happen after certain triggers are met. I think I did
them backwards because the one I did first is the one at the bottom
of the well. There's also one that happens on some scaffolding on
the way back to the save point when the party goes down the path to
the right, and I think I would have missed that one had I not decided
to go exploring that way. Both these battles are against pairs of
Red Dragons, which are above average difficulty for this area, but
not quite boss level.
The interesting thing that happened in
the one I did first was that I actually got one of the more
interesting status effects in the game off Steiner's flame sword to
take effect on one of the dragons. In this case, it's kind of a
callback to some of the status effects in Final Fantasy 6, where
there was one that would freeze a character to death. In this case,
it's one called Heat, which causes the character affected with it to
burn to death with their next action. It made that particular fight
a good deal easier. When it was finished, I figured I'd go back and
save again, just to be safe.
From there, I decided to go check out
the path to the right of the save point. It's a good thing I had the
Add Status ability on Vivi, too, because I had him outfitted with
equipment that would let him be healed by the kinds of attacks the
dragons did and still have his Trance meter fill. The second battle
with the Red Dragons would have gone way worse than it did otherwise,
because the rest of the party got wiped out. The attack that did it
made Vivi go into trance mode, which lets him do two spells per turn.
I got really lucky because two high-level ice spells were enough to
pretty much nuke the dragons. Vivi got a level up out of it because
he was the only one left alive.
From there, it was back to the save
point to revive everybody else, use a couple tents, and save the
game. I'll at least try to finish off this area next time, but for
now, it's time to stop because I'm at this way too late again. It's
actually worse this time on account of my being on the mend from a
nasty head cold. Anyway, I'm going to wrap this up for now.
Until next time, stay
safe, have fun, keep gaming, and DFTBA.
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