Yeah, that was an actual thing on Real
Ghostbusters the last few seasons, but fortunately, I can't remember
how many episodes or which ones.
It's just too bad that Mark isn't a
character who's in the battle party for this dungeon, because having
a fourth player character would have come in handy when we finally
got to the boss at the end. And now that I'm trying to think about
it, this might have been the first “real” boss battle of the
game, too, instead of just having a required regular battle at a
specific point. More on that later, though.
There's actually quite a lot of
treasure to be had in the Haunted Cave that we're exploring here, and
not all of it can be found in treasure chests. There are weapons and
armor that the monsters drop that tends to be better than what can be
bought in stores or found in boxes at this point. I only got one of
the swords this time around, and gave it to the hero. It's a
somewhat rare drop from one of the possessed sword monsters in this
dungeon. There's also a haunted armor monster that will sometimes
drop armor, too.
And if the name of the dungeon didn't
give it away, this is a ghost- and spirit-themed dungeon. All the
monsters in here are ghosts, possessed objects, and other paranormal
entities. A lot of them are hard, and the final boss is a self-named
Phantasm that had possessed Reyna because it wanted the Hope Ruby.
When the party plus Mark shows up, the Phantasm releases Reyna and
tells us all this. I sort of feel deprived because there was no
“There is no Reyna”
line here, but at least there was a decent boss fight to make up for
it. Too bad I couldn't have kept Aguro alive for the end of the
battle, because there was enough XP to put him over to the next
level.
Once the Phantasm is defeated, we take
Reyna back to Kirof, where her father is happy to have her back and
well again. Mark tells us that if we're looking for Elfrea, there
might be somebody who can help us in a place called Belgen. He also
explains that the way there is through a cave to the east of Medan,
and that Belgen is southeast of there.
Since there's no save point in Kirof,
and Medan's in the direction I need to go anyway, I decided I'd just
go save there. When I got into the castle town, the princess was
explaining to her people that the ruby was a fake and that she and
the king had set up the whole ruse to keep the town afloat on tourism
money after the jewel mine that had been funding the country ran out
of enough jewels to keep them going. The citizens appreciate the
princess's honesty so much that they decide that they were as much to
blame as the royal family and decide to buckle down and make Medan a
thriving place again without either the ruby or the mine.
I think there might be another plot
point I have to get through here, but I can't remember if it's before
or after I go to Belgen. As it's getting kind of late as I do all of
this, and I have things to do in the morning, I think it best that I
just save the game for now and come back to it when I've got more
time and energy.
Stay tuned for Part Three: Belgen
Waffles, in which there may not be much in the way of waffle.
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