Meh.

[jecca_mehlota]

'Cause why not.


SO YES. GRAN PULSE.

My accomplishments thus far include: FINDING SHEEP!; killing an unholy amount of Flan; nearly being run over by a stampeding pack of Gorgonopsid(?)… those wolf-like creatures (which did not actually attack me and instead just thundered past at a breakneck speed); becoming fixated on finding the marks / completing the Cie'ths' focuses; discovering that Goblins suck; running screaming from the Behemoth and Adamantoise, neither of which I have actually fought but both of which intimidate me RATHER A LOT (to which you make ask, if you've never fought one, why are you so certain they're Adamantoise, to which I ask, what the hell else are those massive turtles going to be?); losing my party members; getting lost, myself; and successfully going entirely the wrong direction even though the targets are clearly marked on the map.


Anyway, here is Hope reflecting on how CRAAAZY [Gran] Pulse is. What with the sky. And the … smells and stuff. (Yeah, really, though, this must be pretty darned weird for the Cocoon folk. AAUGH OUTSIDE.)

Vanille, I don't remember this, either. Stop making things up, it confuses everything and everyone. Now we are having a deep and meaningful conversation about lies and how they are necessary sometimes and. Stuff.

Well, that was cute, anyway.


Munchkins run away from me. (I do not fight them now because I'd feel bad.)


And now I've found some old, decrepit town-city.

Vanille is saying how she turned into Ragnarok and cracked Cocoon's shell, and Fang was just randomly there and turned to crystal and memory-wiped, but OH LOOK AT HER FACE she is totally lying again, isn't she? Who hadn't guessed that? SHOCK.

This place is overrun with Cie'th. (Guess that answers what happened to everyone… Depressing!)

Hey, look! Road signs and other traffic markers! I... was not expecting those, for... I dunno. Whatever reason. Wasn't.


So, here I am, mid-battle, and all of a sudden, I glance at the upper left side of the screen. I was checking my buffs, and if Signet was still up.

'Cause. You know. XIII has that. (WTF, I haven't even been in XI for like three weeks.)

Also, I just got another ATB level, so now my timing is all screwed up. I NEED TO RELEARN MY SECONDS. Or change leader. Something. (And there's Vanille still with just three…?)


… SHUSH FANG I AM TOTALLY NOT LOST. I was lost five minutes ago, yes, but we're okay now! Also, you can't yell at me for running off when you and Vanille are always disappearing off my screen and giggling. I dearly hope you're not trying to be subtle, because if so, you're rather terrible at it.


Another scene… A big… thing just flew past. Oh, it was a fal'Cie. So they aren't all big… mechanical-surrounded crystal… thingies.


… GRAN PULSE IS BIRD CAMP. (Non-FFXI players - ie, everyone: *don't get it*)



I HAVE FOUND CHOCOBOS!!! …they have… long… chin-things. Oh, what the heck is that word.

NO, Sazh, you are NOT allowed to leave the team mascot here with the wild chocobos. Bad. No.

See, it attacks you when you say such things.

And Fang is WATCHING YOOOU. Yay, bonding moments. Probably Vanille has been talking all about their crazy RUNNING AWAY NOW adventure.


… Wow, Sahagin are… oddly bird-like in this game. (I AM BATTLING TO CHOCOBO MUSIC it's a bit. I don't even know what it's a bit of. It's just. Weird.)


CHOCOBOS ARE ADORABLE WHY HAVE YOU DENIED ME CHOCOBO PRIVILEGES UNTIL NOW.

… I JUST OBTAINED A PLUSH CHOCOBO :DDD



FUCK.

CACTUAR.


KEEP IT AWAY.


SAZH, DON'T FIND THOSE.


… actually, apparently they give awesome CP and are not that hard. CARRY ON, SAZH.



Wouldn't that be nice, Cie'th stone? If someone else completing your Focus turned you back? Maybe then Gran Pulse would have a population of more than 6.



I figured whatever was behind that door was gonna be bad news, but I approached it, anyway. And now? JUGGERNAUT. IT DOES NOT DIE. But I did. Wheeha!

But because I am… I don't know, actually, but regardless, I have swapped my party around a bit and thrown myself at it a second time. (I do not plan on winning, but only trying once is just silly. AT LEAST TWICE. Only twice for now, on this sucker, but AT LEAST TWICE.) And I have just discovered that, not only have I not stocked up on Phoenix Down lately, but, in fact, my massive backlog of potions ran out last time I used one (whenever that was)…

… Uh. GOOD LUCK, HOPE. PLEASE DON'T DIE MORE THAN TWICE you're the only medic I brought. Shit, there he goes now. Yeah, that was another fail, there.


...So, there is a really great CP-grinding spot in Mah'habara. :3


AND NOW. HAHA, JUGGERNAUT! Third time was the charm. (I even got it staggered, but it proved Launch-resistant. That was disappointing.)


GO, CRAZY TUNNELING fal'CIE-THING, GO--- Snow, you want to ride it?? How would you – IT SPINS.YOU CANNOT RIDE IT.


FLOWERS! Yay!

Faaaang, do you really expect me to believe you've just randomly remembered everything? OH NO EIDOLON ATTACK 'bout time geez. (Vanille, your lies have been foiled. AND NOW EVERYONE KNOWS FANG DID IT ALL.)

What a weird-looking gestalt mode.

… Strange that they update Fang's datalog entry and not Vanille's.


Hope, are you playing with the robots again? UN-DEAD END THIS DEAD END FOR US! :D Or fall off a cliff into Atomos' path. Whichever. Maybe that's how we get on the thing.

… weird. Hope, please reprogram ALL the Juggernauts to be my friend for ever.

Oh, I guess it's just the outer pointy-thing that spins, not the entire guy. SO DISAPPOINTING.


It's pretty here!

Oh, hey, Cocoon. Having fun, hanging there?


Oh, hey, another flashback! Been a while. Serah and Vanille being friends in Bodhum.

Ah, now they've changed Vanille's entry.

AAA I JUST AGGRO'D BISMARK.

It, uh. Threw land-platform stepping-stones at me. I like this form of aggro!


You would think I would have learned not to approach doors like this by now. Die, Tyrant, die!


I like how everyone is talking to Serah now that we're down on Gran Pulse. FANG CALLS CAMP. Why? What are we doing tomorrow?! :D

… I bet Serah didn't tell you to nearly cut his head off. But it wouldn't be right without VIOLENCE AGAINST SNOW. Even if it was only a threat of violence. It was necessary.

… Cocoon sure is weird looking with those… icicle-looking stalactites or whatever hanging off the bottom.

ALSO THESE PLANTS ARE REALLY ODD BUT SO AWESOME. I want one. … I do not want it to grow that big, though, because then where would I put it?

Ah, I see. Tomorrow we climb a tower.


I suspect it's not so much that this chapter is freakishly long as it is that I am wasting amazing amounts of time. Eh. The plot will wait for me!