And not the kind that Carl Sagan can
help with, either.
I know I said I was going to do some
Final Fantasy before I did more LOM, but things came out a little
differently than planned. Part of the reason is that I found a copy
of the first Sly Cooper game for five bucks at the local used-game
store. But more on that later. And before, too, but that's also
for another time.
What this is about is a quick quest in
the LOM's Jumi arc. In this case, I made the mistake of talking to
Elazul when I found him wandering around outside the house. It
wasn't a mistake because he's still the asshole I'm making him out to
be. Now that I'm actually seeing the story context, he's really not
that bad. He asked if I'd seen Pearl around. I said no, so he
whipped out this note from Sandra that pretty much said that Pearl
had been kidnapped. Too bad it left out where, exactly, the two had
gone.
Fortunately, though, the note itself
was that clue. A quick trip to the world map made the note go
fluttering around, with the place it landed being where Pearl and
Sandra are. I had honestly expected it to land at Geo again, but in
this case, it just went down at the Mekiv Caverns. I put that just
south of my house area, so it was really early in the game.
In this case, we've got a cutscene
where Elazul tells us he's got a bad feeling and can't quite get a
fix on Pearl. There's a stogie-smoking General Duck who tells us
that the people we're looking for went on the path to the upper
right. That takes us to a Sproutling who gives us some more
directions that lead to some hunchbacked dude who's name I didn't get
tells us it's straight on to the ladies we seek.
There's a cutscene where Sandra's
trying to get Pearl to shed a couple tears because they have healing
or life-giving properties or something, and spill a few other secrets
about the Jumi. When Elazul and I get there, Elazul does his heroic
act and Sandra scratches the life-giving gem core he's wearing.
Pearl gets pissy enough to get her shit
together and turns into a knight called Lady Blackpearl.
Blackpearl's a decent fighter and managed to do most of the damage in
the boss fight with the Jewel Beast that Sandra sicks on us.
After the fight, Blackpearl tells
Elazul that she can handle herself now and is also sorry for all the
trouble she's caused him before heading off to who only knows while
it's back home for me and Elazul. He wound up in the bedroom, so the
save point there is out of commission for the time being. After
talking to Lil Cactus, I went off to Domina to save the game.
This time, I'm pretty sure I mean it
when I say I'm going to do a little Final Fantasy before coming back
to LOM. See you soon, folks.
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