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jecca_mehlota) wrote2009-06-14 08:57 pm
jecca_mehlota) wrote2009-06-14 08:57 pm
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Fool's Errand Runner
SO ONCE UPON A TIME JECCA STARTED PLAYING A VIDEO GAME.
I was sent to the Banks of the Nebra by some guy. I think he was at the outpost. I MARKED WHERE TO GO, NOT WHERE IT CAME FROM. Anyway, I’ve just found the tumbling bird that killed me! I recognize the name! Nekhbet! You will not be so lucky this time, bird!
Yes, that went much better… And now I feel better about it!
(REVENGE WAS MIIIINE.)
Ah! I gave her my flowering cactoid thing. NOW WE LEAVE. Wait, was there a save point? I need MP.
… MAGICALLY, A BOAT APPEARS IN THE TEN SECONDS I AM NOT IN THE VILLAGE. Hmmm! Investigate!
It is the boat of the missing people! COME, BOY WITH A STRANGE AND SOMEWHAT UNPRONOUNCABLE NAME! (Tchigri) Let us go after your father! /o.o/
Haha! Cactoid attack?! Hostages of the cactoids!? What? I am so confused! XD
… er. No, it seems they actually are! They are being made to run around and all over! And from Malboros, but honestly you’re just an idiot if you’re not running from a Malboro.
Dancing cactoids! A BIG CACTOID! With a flowery head! This is hilarious. Oh, man!
So, these cactoids, they’re looking for the missing son, Dran, who is trouble. Bounty on his head and everything. The big floweryheaded one wants to set him straight! (I am pretty sure I chopped him up and gave him to Dantro’s Wife – who has no name of her own, it seems – but I am not sure how to go about explaining that.)
Oh! The characters have all come to the same conclusion! But it looks like he re-sprouted from the flower. Or an identical cactoid sprouted, or whatever. I have a cactoid following me around now! Hee! *runs in circles*
This is so strange. XD
Wyrmfire shot? IS IT USEFUL? Not as useful as my sword. Sorry, Balthier. No gun for you still. (17 versus 59? I have to stick with the rainbow-sword of super damage.) (No, really. It’s rainbow. Red at the tip, blue/purple at the hilt, yellow and orange and green in the middle...)
And now she needs me to fetch seashells. Okaaaaay~ have found two, but there don’t seem o be any others… Oh, and now I need to go speak to her husband again.
AND NOW VALEBLOSSOM DEW FOR THE POISON? SERIOUSLY WHAT DID THIS IDIOT GET INTO? So we cross the river again.
Oh, wow. I can’t one-shot everything over here. XD Madness!
Oh, damnit. Wandering into a ??? put me right to the Wyrm’s Nest that I’d painstakingly avoided visiting earlier! LEAVING NOW. The map was weirdly distorted in there.
…! Wild saurians will aggro me now! Which is weird, because it’s a higher level than the Dive Talon. Maybe those just don’t aggro at all? Ow! He hurts. X_x Over 1000 exp, though, that’s nice.
BROWN CHOCOBO!
CHOCOBO IN THE WILD!
HELLO, CHOCOBO! ♥
(why brown? The feather tips are blueish.)
It is parading merrily through my battlefield.
I have found a War Hammer! IT IS EVER MORE AWESOME WITH THE DAMAGE THAN MY DEMONWALLSWORD. (Though, weirdly, the damage seems to vary a lot. Only double digits sometimes, and then over 1000 others. So possibly it’s not worth the occasional high number hit.)
So, dew collected… And now my great serpent skin? Ugh. OKAY GEEZ. Oh, yay! That’s all!
It is a Moogle! The recovering traveler is a Moogle! Haha, cool! Barheim key. For a Treasure Or Not Treasure. Hm… oho! I also got a Golden Amulet, which apparently doubles the LP I earn! That’s nice.
And now I will go investigate this Is It Treasure Or Isn’t It? thing.
Ahaha! Oh, man, the monsters here are all at least ten levels more than me. Run away! Come back another time!
(Also, I am a liar. FLEE! Let us explore while running for our feeble little lives!)
(eek! Giant turtle-thing! Run away! For real this time.)
And down the other path, the critters are at least twenty levels higher. SO WE WILL COME BACK LATER.
WHAT IS THIS GREEDEN AND WHY IS IT SUDDENLY HERE? WAIT, GUYS, DON’T ATTACK, I HAVEN’T SAVED RECENTLY.
Okay, I just looked it up and it doesn’t pop up any GOING TO KILL YOU RUN AWAY AUGH warnings. Fight!
Dude, seriously, what is this thing? It’s freaking weird looking! Like, it’s head is split in half or something, I don’t know.
You know what? I’m pretty close to Nalbina (despite being remarkably close in spelling to Selbina, I appear to pronounce them in different ways. How odd!). I will walk there, poke around, then go poke around the other city, and then actually go about my way. PROMISE. Progress. I can make it. Yes.
Gibbs? Deweg? … BIGGS AND WEDGE HAD NAME CHANGES? I DON’T KNOW HOW TO COPE WITH THIS.
…Whatever.
Hm. The Wild Saurian in the area outside town still doesn’t aggro, but it’s the same level as the other ones. SO CONFUSING WHY CAN’T THERE JUST BE ONE RULE OF AGGRO OR SOMETHING?
NOTHING NEW IN RABANASTRE, EITHER.
But while I’m here, I’ll take the ship to Buhjerba. Got a mark there I need to investigate.
AUGH I FEEL BAD I knew the Rocktoise was someone’s pet but I still feel bad.
…. That is better, though, because it doesn’t die, it just turns tiny again! Yay!
So, Giza. It’s pretty here when it’s raining! Even if it is full of elementals. They make me nervous.
(Croakadile has been dealt with, too, now. I AM KILLING EVERYTHING.)
There are old, withered trees. I can knock them over! That’s probably for something, so now I must find them all. And also where they are going. But meanwhile, since everything here is considerably weaker than I am, I’m going to trade party members for some of you underleveled folk. Horray for being sixteen levels behind! (My lowest two are thirteen, and my highest two are twenty-nine…) Oh! Here are where the trees are going!
But I have missed a few, apparently. Probably along the other side.
OKAY TREES ALL CUT NOW, or at least I can’t find any others.
… Yes, trees all dead. Here, have some high-level headless tortoises as a reward! RUN! Actually, their aggro range is pretty pathetic, so the only real difficulty here is remembering to hold down the trigger so my idiot party doesn’t try to attack any of them.
URN. Feather of the Flock! What is that for? I do not know. BUT I HAVE IT. (Apparently it makes me feel a strange bond with the cockatrices.)
Moving on. Ozmone!
PUFFBALL RABBIT THINGS! I remember you things!
And flying enemies. Bah! So back to a gun on Balthier. Basch, you… just have to deal with missing all the time. You have no ranged weapon abilities.
… Of course, if I didn’t have the gun equipped, you couldn’t have just shot that Mesmenir. If this were FFXI, it could have just run up the cliff at us! Instead, it takes the long detour around the cliff. Blame physics.
BLACK CHOCOBOS ARE ATTACKING. AAUGH NO DON’T FIGHT THEM. RUN. RUN NOW.
I have accidentally found both a jungle and what is supposed to be my destination (Jahara). I wasn’t done exploring, noo — oooh, maps.
And apparently no one here knows much about the nethicite, either. Bummer. And then Larsa shows up and they argue and … something, and Vaan expositions at us a bit.
… man, Vaan, I’m sorry, I’m just not feeling your angst and determination.
Whoo, party guest! Four-person party is awesometimes.
… oh good lord Jecca one of these days one of these days Okay so, the Zertinan Caverns! They’ve got entrances all over the place! And the monsters there are generally a higher level than me! Sometimes by a fair amount. I always enter, anyway. I usually end up fleeing for my life.
NO EXCEPTION, THIS TIME. I just stumbled across a … giant, flying… thingy with a BOSS bar at the top of the screen, and it can summon corpses and cast fire and which dropped half my party in one hit. Oops.
I’ll have to come back in a few levels and see how it goes then. For now I should probably get over to the jungle.
Judges…. Talking about Vayne! And Larsa. Gossip in the ranks!
Back to the land of bizarre force-fields.
I think Fran’s had more lines in this scene then the rest of the game so far combined. I guess annoying the trees makes her talkative. I like how no one is listening to Vaan as he tags along babbling after them.
Also, I am having trouble coping with Treants being non-aggressive. Those suckers are mean in Vana’diel!
ERUYT VILLAGE. KIND OF AWESOME. And full of anti-Hume sentiment. ALSO KIND OF AWESOME. Only, you know, not really.
vaan what is wrong with your torso it looks weird I thought it was just the in-game graphics being a bit odd (as they do), but it’s there in the cutscenes, too. Huh.
Anyway, backtracking now… Handing off my potions. (Sure you only need one? Not like I ever use the things…) CHOCOBO. Whoo.
… Well. This gathering of corpses bodes ill.
AND THEN SLIMES FELL ON MY HEAD.
Mines and doors in mines. And bats. Swapping out the higher levels again. AND ANOTHER SLIME AMBUSH AUGH
SO MANY.
Time to banish the newbies. COME BACK HIGH LEVEL CHARACTERS I DO NOT WANT TO DIE.
More dead bodies. Crazy Viera. Dialogue on screen not matching dialogue being spoken is distracting….
Hee, the Advisories amuse me.
… Tiamat?!
D:
… Or maybe I’m still ridiculously overleveled. Hm.
Fran is holding an arrow in her teeth. Is … does she always do that during the CONGRATULATIONS screen?
Oh, yay, they aren’t making me walk all the way back through to the jungle.
And with that family reunion and farewell, we can get on our way and pass through the barriers aaaand … I dunno. I am done for today.
Hopefully it won't be another, um... six months? Oh, dear. Hopefully less than that until I play some more.
I was sent to the Banks of the Nebra by some guy. I think he was at the outpost. I MARKED WHERE TO GO, NOT WHERE IT CAME FROM. Anyway, I’ve just found the tumbling bird that killed me! I recognize the name! Nekhbet! You will not be so lucky this time, bird!
Yes, that went much better… And now I feel better about it!
(REVENGE WAS MIIIINE.)
Ah! I gave her my flowering cactoid thing. NOW WE LEAVE. Wait, was there a save point? I need MP.
… MAGICALLY, A BOAT APPEARS IN THE TEN SECONDS I AM NOT IN THE VILLAGE. Hmmm! Investigate!
It is the boat of the missing people! COME, BOY WITH A STRANGE AND SOMEWHAT UNPRONOUNCABLE NAME! (Tchigri) Let us go after your father! /o.o/
Haha! Cactoid attack?! Hostages of the cactoids!? What? I am so confused! XD
… er. No, it seems they actually are! They are being made to run around and all over! And from Malboros, but honestly you’re just an idiot if you’re not running from a Malboro.
Dancing cactoids! A BIG CACTOID! With a flowery head! This is hilarious. Oh, man!
So, these cactoids, they’re looking for the missing son, Dran, who is trouble. Bounty on his head and everything. The big floweryheaded one wants to set him straight! (I am pretty sure I chopped him up and gave him to Dantro’s Wife – who has no name of her own, it seems – but I am not sure how to go about explaining that.)
Oh! The characters have all come to the same conclusion! But it looks like he re-sprouted from the flower. Or an identical cactoid sprouted, or whatever. I have a cactoid following me around now! Hee! *runs in circles*
This is so strange. XD
Wyrmfire shot? IS IT USEFUL? Not as useful as my sword. Sorry, Balthier. No gun for you still. (17 versus 59? I have to stick with the rainbow-sword of super damage.) (No, really. It’s rainbow. Red at the tip, blue/purple at the hilt, yellow and orange and green in the middle...)
And now she needs me to fetch seashells. Okaaaaay~ have found two, but there don’t seem o be any others… Oh, and now I need to go speak to her husband again.
AND NOW VALEBLOSSOM DEW FOR THE POISON? SERIOUSLY WHAT DID THIS IDIOT GET INTO? So we cross the river again.
Oh, wow. I can’t one-shot everything over here. XD Madness!
Oh, damnit. Wandering into a ??? put me right to the Wyrm’s Nest that I’d painstakingly avoided visiting earlier! LEAVING NOW. The map was weirdly distorted in there.
…! Wild saurians will aggro me now! Which is weird, because it’s a higher level than the Dive Talon. Maybe those just don’t aggro at all? Ow! He hurts. X_x Over 1000 exp, though, that’s nice.
BROWN CHOCOBO!
CHOCOBO IN THE WILD!
HELLO, CHOCOBO! ♥
(why brown? The feather tips are blueish.)
It is parading merrily through my battlefield.
I have found a War Hammer! IT IS EVER MORE AWESOME WITH THE DAMAGE THAN MY DEMONWALLSWORD. (Though, weirdly, the damage seems to vary a lot. Only double digits sometimes, and then over 1000 others. So possibly it’s not worth the occasional high number hit.)
So, dew collected… And now my great serpent skin? Ugh. OKAY GEEZ. Oh, yay! That’s all!
It is a Moogle! The recovering traveler is a Moogle! Haha, cool! Barheim key. For a Treasure Or Not Treasure. Hm… oho! I also got a Golden Amulet, which apparently doubles the LP I earn! That’s nice.
And now I will go investigate this Is It Treasure Or Isn’t It? thing.
Ahaha! Oh, man, the monsters here are all at least ten levels more than me. Run away! Come back another time!
(Also, I am a liar. FLEE! Let us explore while running for our feeble little lives!)
(eek! Giant turtle-thing! Run away! For real this time.)
And down the other path, the critters are at least twenty levels higher. SO WE WILL COME BACK LATER.
WHAT IS THIS GREEDEN AND WHY IS IT SUDDENLY HERE? WAIT, GUYS, DON’T ATTACK, I HAVEN’T SAVED RECENTLY.
Okay, I just looked it up and it doesn’t pop up any GOING TO KILL YOU RUN AWAY AUGH warnings. Fight!
Dude, seriously, what is this thing? It’s freaking weird looking! Like, it’s head is split in half or something, I don’t know.
You know what? I’m pretty close to Nalbina (despite being remarkably close in spelling to Selbina, I appear to pronounce them in different ways. How odd!). I will walk there, poke around, then go poke around the other city, and then actually go about my way. PROMISE. Progress. I can make it. Yes.
Gibbs? Deweg? … BIGGS AND WEDGE HAD NAME CHANGES? I DON’T KNOW HOW TO COPE WITH THIS.
…Whatever.
Hm. The Wild Saurian in the area outside town still doesn’t aggro, but it’s the same level as the other ones. SO CONFUSING WHY CAN’T THERE JUST BE ONE RULE OF AGGRO OR SOMETHING?
NOTHING NEW IN RABANASTRE, EITHER.
But while I’m here, I’ll take the ship to Buhjerba. Got a mark there I need to investigate.
AUGH I FEEL BAD I knew the Rocktoise was someone’s pet but I still feel bad.
…. That is better, though, because it doesn’t die, it just turns tiny again! Yay!
So, Giza. It’s pretty here when it’s raining! Even if it is full of elementals. They make me nervous.
(Croakadile has been dealt with, too, now. I AM KILLING EVERYTHING.)
There are old, withered trees. I can knock them over! That’s probably for something, so now I must find them all. And also where they are going. But meanwhile, since everything here is considerably weaker than I am, I’m going to trade party members for some of you underleveled folk. Horray for being sixteen levels behind! (My lowest two are thirteen, and my highest two are twenty-nine…) Oh! Here are where the trees are going!
But I have missed a few, apparently. Probably along the other side.
OKAY TREES ALL CUT NOW, or at least I can’t find any others.
… Yes, trees all dead. Here, have some high-level headless tortoises as a reward! RUN! Actually, their aggro range is pretty pathetic, so the only real difficulty here is remembering to hold down the trigger so my idiot party doesn’t try to attack any of them.
URN. Feather of the Flock! What is that for? I do not know. BUT I HAVE IT. (Apparently it makes me feel a strange bond with the cockatrices.)
Moving on. Ozmone!
PUFFBALL RABBIT THINGS! I remember you things!
And flying enemies. Bah! So back to a gun on Balthier. Basch, you… just have to deal with missing all the time. You have no ranged weapon abilities.
… Of course, if I didn’t have the gun equipped, you couldn’t have just shot that Mesmenir. If this were FFXI, it could have just run up the cliff at us! Instead, it takes the long detour around the cliff. Blame physics.
BLACK CHOCOBOS ARE ATTACKING. AAUGH NO DON’T FIGHT THEM. RUN. RUN NOW.
I have accidentally found both a jungle and what is supposed to be my destination (Jahara). I wasn’t done exploring, noo — oooh, maps.
And apparently no one here knows much about the nethicite, either. Bummer. And then Larsa shows up and they argue and … something, and Vaan expositions at us a bit.
… man, Vaan, I’m sorry, I’m just not feeling your angst and determination.
Whoo, party guest! Four-person party is awesometimes.
… oh good lord Jecca one of these days one of these days Okay so, the Zertinan Caverns! They’ve got entrances all over the place! And the monsters there are generally a higher level than me! Sometimes by a fair amount. I always enter, anyway. I usually end up fleeing for my life.
NO EXCEPTION, THIS TIME. I just stumbled across a … giant, flying… thingy with a BOSS bar at the top of the screen, and it can summon corpses and cast fire and which dropped half my party in one hit. Oops.
I’ll have to come back in a few levels and see how it goes then. For now I should probably get over to the jungle.
Judges…. Talking about Vayne! And Larsa. Gossip in the ranks!
Back to the land of bizarre force-fields.
I think Fran’s had more lines in this scene then the rest of the game so far combined. I guess annoying the trees makes her talkative. I like how no one is listening to Vaan as he tags along babbling after them.
Also, I am having trouble coping with Treants being non-aggressive. Those suckers are mean in Vana’diel!
ERUYT VILLAGE. KIND OF AWESOME. And full of anti-Hume sentiment. ALSO KIND OF AWESOME. Only, you know, not really.
vaan what is wrong with your torso it looks weird I thought it was just the in-game graphics being a bit odd (as they do), but it’s there in the cutscenes, too. Huh.
Anyway, backtracking now… Handing off my potions. (Sure you only need one? Not like I ever use the things…) CHOCOBO. Whoo.
… Well. This gathering of corpses bodes ill.
AND THEN SLIMES FELL ON MY HEAD.
Mines and doors in mines. And bats. Swapping out the higher levels again. AND ANOTHER SLIME AMBUSH AUGH
SO MANY.
Time to banish the newbies. COME BACK HIGH LEVEL CHARACTERS I DO NOT WANT TO DIE.
More dead bodies. Crazy Viera. Dialogue on screen not matching dialogue being spoken is distracting….
Hee, the Advisories amuse me.
… Tiamat?!
D:
… Or maybe I’m still ridiculously overleveled. Hm.
Fran is holding an arrow in her teeth. Is … does she always do that during the CONGRATULATIONS screen?
Oh, yay, they aren’t making me walk all the way back through to the jungle.
And with that family reunion and farewell, we can get on our way and pass through the barriers aaaand … I dunno. I am done for today.
Hopefully it won't be another, um... six months? Oh, dear. Hopefully less than that until I play some more.
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I didn't think Wild Saurians ever attacked without provocation. Oh, no, wait: I've just looked it up, and apparently it's just that the Saurians north of the Nebra are hostile. I have learnt something today!
The Feather of the Flock allows you to understand cockatrices. I always feel a bit guilty about killing the wild ones after hearing the tame ones speak.
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I UNDERSTAND THE LANGUAGE OF THE (TAME) TUMBLEWEED TURKEYS? ... hm. I guess this will just give me more of an excuse not to kill the wild ones (unless they kill me first Nekhbet I am looking at you). Roll freely, you demented little creatures!