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jecca_mehlota) wrote2010-11-19 12:49 am
jecca_mehlota) wrote2010-11-19 12:49 am
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THINGS THAT HAPPENED BEFORE I ACTUALLY WENT TO CHAPTER 12:
APPARENTLY THE GIANT SCARY-LOOKING THING IS TITAN. Really, really obvious in retrospect. I wasn't sure it wasn't a monster! That is my defense.
It talks!
Ooh, challenges. These'll end poorly. SORRY, GUYS.
Actually, I can take the Adamantoise (okay, I can take the small ones… I WAS SO EXCITED, and then I looked again and was like, wait, these are smaller and have no tusks… and then I was sad) and Juggernauts, so maybe it won't be too horrible?
BUT PROBABLY IT WILL BE.
Hey, at least I don't need to track them down over ridiculous lengths here.
Haha, shiiiit, I totally forgot to reset my paradigms from what I changed them into to defeat the tonberry. Whatever, these things are easy enough. I'll make it work.
Bit annoyed at how many times I'll have to beat that guy to get all the stones, though.
… Or not, since I just looked up some of those and MULTIPLE TONBERRIES = NO NO NO NO NO ABSOLUTELY NOT
On the bright side, I totally just got access to the shop I buy the ultimate weapons from. Sweet. Couldn't've planned that better if I'd tried!
So I've run through that twice, and I want to move on, so I guess I am going to spend a bit figuring out how to upgrade. (Yes, in a startling repeat of my strategy for FFVIII, I have gone the entire game thus far with the starting weapons. Though this time it's not because I lack screws and more because I just haven't bothered to play around with the Upgrade menu to figure out how it works.
… Apparently it's actually really freaking simple and I would feel dumb now except this way means I still have everything and so upgrading these things I just bought will be pretty simple. I just need the Thing That Adamantoise Drops – whatever it was called, trapezoid? Tetrahedron? Thing, anyway, I looked it up when I couldn't figure out what I needed next and SUPERTURTLE HAS IT is about all I remember - now. So, uh. Guess we'll be sitting at maxed out mid-level weapons for a while, then…)
MOSTLY I DIDN'T OPEN THIS BECAUSE I WAS JUST RUNNING AROUND MURDERING THINGS, THOUGH.
ANYWAY CHAPTER 12 NOW.
I'm not really done on Pulse, but I am kind of antsy to get on with the storyline, so. Hopefully I am ready.
… Oh, right, I should probably put Vanille back on Medic instead of going with ALL DESTRUCTION, ALL THE TIME.
… Pulse is pretty and sad and I will miss it. Though, uh, I am assuming/hoping I will be able to come back at some point? They'd be right bastards if they were like NO. THOSE MISSIONS YOU HAVEN'T DONE YET? TOO BAD. SUCK IT UP.
Not to imply SE is not full of bastards because of course we all know they are.
But, okay, geez, boarding the airship now.
MEANWHILE, IN EDEN. Man, they must be bored, having waited so long for us to finally get ourselves in gear.
XD And then we crash the races! WITH EIDOLONS, geez, way to make an entrance. Hahaaa, Snow, you idiot. WAY TO NEVER LEARN.
THIS IS AN AWESOME CUTSCENE. JUST SO YOU KNOW.
Aww, now it's over. :<
EEK JUGGERNAUT!
EEK ADAMANTOISE!
Cie'th meh.
Raines dies again… For reals this time? I dunno. Hard to be surprised, either way.
We can't fly, but we have flying Eidolons… OR WE CAN JUMP WHOO fun! Don't lose the baby chocobo! Thank goodness!
Hm. Right. I guess Vanille wasn't around when Lightning went diving earlier in the game, was she.
... MAN IN THE BEGINNING OF THE GAME SHE ALREADY HAD THREE ATB THINGS IN BATTLE. In retrospect, really should have cemented her as having been a l'Cie already a whole heck of a lot faster... Don't ask me why I just remembered that.
Bwaha, I just annoyed Snow. I got to the end of this stretch of road, then turned around 'cause I forgot to Libra a mob, so I went back to the save point, turned around, and then when I hit the end again, I ran too far off so I had to turn around again and he just goes, "…Really?"
Just for that, Snow, just for that, YES. Yes, really.
Lightning never got that memo about not playing in traffic, I suppose…
Oh! Okay. Geez. I was half afraid for a moment there that this Behemoth King was going to start the battle standing, which… ugh. They do so much more damage that way. DAMN YOU, SUNDER! (Though on the positive side, that way I wouldn't have to worry about it healing at 50%...)
Rosch does not want to get along.
Vanille, we cannot just work together because we are icky, scary l'Cie. Obviously.
Tsk. A rocket launcher will take down a Tyrant? I WANT ONE.
Also, come on, guys, you can take a Tyrant and not an Adamanchelid (or, uh. However)?
… Yeah, I didn't think you were really gonna try and take us on alone after we decimated the turtle…
Oh, wow, it's those NORA people. I'd kinda figured they weren't gonna show up again. THEY OPENED THE DOOR FOR US yay. And now they disappear again. Goodbye! Goodbye! Everyone wave!
It's… uh. Man, what is going on? CRYSTAL BITS, anyway. They're very pretty! But probably a bad sign.
OH NO IT IS BARTHANDEALIOWHATEVERGUY…'s head, whatever. Talking to us and all. Go away, dude.
He is threatening us with Serah and Dajh! EVIL.
COME, l'CIE! FULFILL YOUR DESTINYYYY. Very nice. Stop rhyming.
HA! I just killed an Adamantoise! … No drop, damnit, but I killed it! Haha! Finally dropped one of you! (Someday, I like to imagine, I will kill one without just Death-ing it...)
Hiiii, Eden!
No, that's not our backup. We don't get to have backup. Backup is strictly for NPCs. Yeah, I know. It sucks a bit, doesn't it?
Juggernaut and Tyrant, though, man, what an unhappy place to be. Too bad they aren't our backup.
SUDDENLY: CIE'TH-IFIED. Man, that would be a bad day.
Oh, and they are called Sacrifices. Poor dudes!
Dah! Another boss battle! I was totally unprepared for this. GOING TO DIE.
… Let me rephrase that: if I weren't leading TEAM AWESOME, I probably would have died. But since I was, it was no problem at all. HA.
Well, I'm glad he's at least aware of this whole stupid situation. Geez. Even if it did take a while for him to catch on. Better than most others have managed. And, hey, he's calling them off my tail, sort of. Good man, Rosch.
… Guys, toss him a cure or something, at least, come on.
Or leave him to the Humbabas. Whichever.
MAN. I am, like. Three feet away from Chapter 13. SO NERVOUS.
CRADLE.
Oh! It's so pretty here!
Kinda creepy, too, and full of Cie'th. But pretty!
… And now falling in on itself and rearranging or… whatever is going on.
LIGHTNING DON'T TALK ABOUT DREAMS DYING IT GIVES ME FFX FLASHBACKS AND THEN I CRY. (Whatever, at least it wasn't "faded"?)
AUGH the datalog entry is so frustrating. Of course he always meant to turn them into Cie'th before they got close to Orphan, of course it was a trick to get us moving (well, I figured they'd just be killed, not Cie'th-ified, but close enough on that end), and now we're here and sahbdjfk.
As tempting as it is to go running back to Gran Pulse and kill Adamantoise until I get some freaking whatever-it's-called to upgrade my weapons with, I also really, really want to see the ending. I CAN ALWAYS GO BACK LATER. Also maybe later I will be able to beat the things without resorting to summoning to cripple them first.
… ah. Haha. So. Here I am, wandering through this maze, killing everything, following the… statue-thing. I get to the end of the, what, second stretch? And the statue's like POOF THINGS GO WEIRD again, and then, then, I run back and forth across the two end tiles trying to figure out why the elevator-platform thing isn't working.
Right.
Riiight. Look behind you, genius. I am so on top of this!
Hey, these guys again! Well, I say again. They're not exactly the same, they just share a form. What were they called last time? I don't recall. Not Enkidu, but something similar, I think?
IT NEVER ENDS, FANG. We're going to be stuck here foreverrrr. (Giving it the worst case of indigestion it's ever had? ... FURMANISMS, GET OUT.)
Ahaha, Hope is clever. (Maybe everyone is clever and figured out what was going on, but since Hope was the first one to voice it, he is the one I give credit to.)
For all that these guys want me to get to Orphan, you'd think they'd make the path a little more direct.
Floating monster-thing overhead and I can't get to it. Annoying. Also a bit unsettling and creepy. CLIMB THE RAMP AND GET ON EVEN GROUND WITH IT.
Hmm. Not working as I'd hoped. It is no longer hovering overhead (closer to the reverse, really, except I lack hovering capabilities), but it is still kind of eerie.
Hm, that is an interesting thought, though. What would Fang do if we went all Cie'th? Could she take us all out, or would we rip her to teeny little bits? MORBID THOUGHTS. I has them.
Oh, hey. I've seen this room before. It's from one of the promotional pics, Lightning sitting on one of these benches.
Oh, man, this is it, augh. WALK INTO THE LIGHT? Or run screaming from the room. … Choices.
Haa, the last box is an ethersol. Ugh. Well, useful for people who use their tech points.
All right, let's just go. NOT LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS I KNOW THEY ARE GOING TO KILL / CRYSTALIFY (at least you can get better from that…) / WHATEVER AT LEAST SOMEONE, I mean, come on, it's SE.
Oh, no! What are they doing here?! BAD FEELING
…. IT'S OKAY THEY WERE TOTALLY JUST ILLUSIONS OR COPIES OR SOMETHING EVERYONE IS FINE SHUT UP SHUT UP.
SEE, EVERYONE AGREES WITH ME. Totally a fal'Cie trick. Glad we settled that.
Uuugh, I have to fight him again? JUST GO AWAY!
Yay!
…He seemed a bit too happy to be killed…
…Remind me why we haven't killed that bird yet?
MY BUT ISN'T THIS A SHOCK. WE PARADE RIGHT UP TO ORPHAN AND THEN GET TRICKED INTO FIGHTING IT.
SHOW OF HANDS: WHO DID NOT SEE THIS COMING?
…
No one?
Yeeeah, that's what I thought…
Ouch, Orphan's tough. I DISLIKE MERCILESS JUDGEMENT. Owww.
Oh, look, here's one of those WE LIKE YOUR RACE BETTER 'CAUSE YOU'RE SO AWESOME WE ARE JEALOUS speeches. Meh. Sorry, Orphan, we're too busy being sprawled all over the place to care about your yammering.
Faaang, no. :< I have no idea what you're planning, other than to lose your mind or something wtf, but it seems to me that it is a bad idea. PUT THE SPEAR DOWN.
DDDD: Nuuuu! I am experiencing something akin to despair, but which is not quite, because SCREW HOPELESSNESS. Fal'Cie trick. Obviously. I WON'T BE FOOLED.
Fang is a shitty apocalypse-bringer. (THANK GOODNESS. D: D:)
DAMN IT so there's Vanille and it's all like. THERE SHE IS WALKING UP and for half a second my brain is like, wait, but where are the others and then, OH RIGHT THEY TURNED INTO CIE'TH AND THEN EXPLODED (only not really right okay) RIGHT. FUCK. I AM SWEARING A LOT ALL OF A SUDDEN GEE I WONDER WHY.
Run. Run where? Nowhere is safe, anyway, right now, Fang. >_>;
YAY EVERYONE I don't even know what is going onnn. HAPPINESS AND JOY AND LIGHT AND …were there rainbows and puppies, too, Snow?
So, but, wait, wouldn't Vanille's Focus still be active? Yay for everyone else, though.
Woah, creepy laugh. WOAH, CREEPY FACE. Kill it fast so I don’t have to look at it… DX!
OH HEY it's another Eidolon battle. (Well, basically. Obviously not quite, but with the Dooming and the Damage-dealing tricks and whatall.) OKAY I CAN DO THAT.
… CRYSTARIUM EXPANDED ALL RIGHT XDDDD
Ooh, wait, that must mean I get a New Game+ sort of thing! Nice. Though now I almost regret having everyone learn all the other three skills. I bet the next level is freaking EXPENSIIIIVE. (But, yeah, having access to all 6 jobs on all characters? That is too awesome to really fully regret it.)
HOW CAN YOU POSSIBLY PLAN ON SAVING COCOON WHEN YOU'VE DESTROYED EVEYRTHING THAT ALLOWED IT TO FUNCTION OKAY THIS HAS BEEN BOTHERING ME
We're floating? @_@ NO ONLY FOUR OF US ARE FLOATING. NO! COME WITH US WHAT ARE YOU DOING.
RAGNAROK? CONFUSED AGAIN.
Oh! Oh, I see, I get it. A non-violent or destructive sort of Ragnarok. … That is a hilarious sentence.
CRYSTALS? WAIT WHAT. WHY. Fortunately, they have lingered on this image too long for it to be the end. HA! Wise to you, Squeenix. (Also that would be kind of a shitty ending, so obviously it isn't.)
AAAA thank goodness you can pause the end cutscene. CAT JUST JUMPED ON THE REMOTE and I noticed in time to pause before we jumped over to another channel.
:D YAY SERAH AND DAJH COME BACK even if Fang and Vanille are apparently GONE that is unfair they were awesome and bestest nooo. :(
… No, they totally come out of crystal stasis, like, a day later. Haha, we totally had you going, didn't we? We're fine! Just took a while to crawl out of that mess in there. Yeah, it's all good.
Though if not, man, they are going to be so old if they ever get around to properly dying, and that would be kind of fun. Yeah, yeah, I'm totally, like, 3000 years old. I know, I look good for my age. (Technically, anyway. I mean, does being 500+ years old count if you're in stasis for… well, almost all of them?) Whateverrr.
… You know. I mean. We blew up a lot of the fal'Cie on Cocoon and all, but, really, who's to say that in a couple thousand years the fal'Ci of Gran Pulse don't decide to try such a thing all over again? That's a bit of a depressing thought.
Now would be when I go OMG TIME TO HUNT FOR POST-GAME FIC except I don't trust the Final Fantasy fanfic base at all, so I will not. (Though! If anyone has any recs… :3 NOT EVEN NECESSARILY POST-GAME. Also, ooh, I just remembered about that Episode Zero. It's a place to start, anyway.)
No spoilers for XIII here on out, even though I'm going to mention the game a few more times. A bit after my cat jumped on the remote and changed the channel, my brother turned up. He just went on break today, so. Long drive! I made him wait in the kitchen while I plugged in some headphones and watched the rest. We hung around a bit, then went out to find dinner, and mostly had a very long, hilarious discussion on how much of a wreck XIV is turning into (his prediction is that SE's going to have to give yet another free month, since the December overhaul/massive update isn’t until late in the month, and if they want people to stick around or come back, they're going to have to let people see what they've done), then moved on to the other games in the series. Lots of VII, I don't know why that was suddenly coming up.
Uh. How did it start. He reformatted his computers before coming back, and he tried installing XIV on his laptop, but, as with beta (and the benchmark), it simply does not run on that machine. We do not really understand why. That's what kicked off the mock-fest of XIV. He was glad to hear I had found XIII a whole lot of fun because, though he has never played XII (… ha, should I drop the numerals?), he has heard more than enough from me on the many things wrong with that game. Mostly about the plot collapsing in on itself as soon as you think about it (though since it's stretched so thin and far apart, you don't notice it too much during the game itself. Small saving grace, that) and the main character not having any purpose other than to go "Huh?" and tilt his head in bewilderment whenever anything happens.
Anyway, the conversation somehow turned to FF7 and us – mostly him – coming up with an entirely new plot for Dirge of Gerbils, because, let's face it, that game needed serious help. His idea included Jenova coming back (again, because that's just how these things go, you know?) and, rather than Vincent againstthe world Deepground, with occasional back-up from the WRO, it would be some thing where – to continue from Advent Children, ShinRa has been continuing to try and turn themselves around. But when Jenova returns, AVALANCHE had to team up with the Turks to stop her. And there would be whole areas of the Planet redesigned to be infected with Jenova-stuff, all weird monsters and, hey, it turns out I really want to see that, because, seriously, doesn't that sound kind of cool? Maybe not, I dunno. I THINK IT DOES, and either way it sounds better than poor Dirge ended up being. You're "so sorry"? YOU'RE NOT SORRY ENOUGH.
Oh, he also had some whole thing where, of course, Sephiroth shows up again, too (worse than a cockroach, that one), only sans Jenova-influence-whatever (… this takes that whole "Sephiroth is controlling Jenova and not vise versa" thing and shoves it off a cliff) (EDIT: Actually, I suppose it doesn't have to, he could just have gone back on the whole Gone Mad And Hellbent on Destruction thing. 3x defeat at Cloud's hands = return of something resembling sense? Or something), and then there's an epic showdown and then they probably both die in the end, but that part, eh. BUT MAN YES WIDESPREAD JENOVA INFECTION. (And yes, yes, yes, "Jenova doesn't work like that" blah, blah, it could still be cool.)
That whole conversation was a bit odd to me, though, because, really, FF7 doesn't come up that often in conversation anymore, but just a few days ago, someone, somewhere, linked to this fic, and I was bored and bookmarked it and just last night, after deciding I'd run around in FF13 enough for the day (and pretty sure that I couldn't go much farther without running into the final boss, and really not feeling up to dealing with that), I started reading it.
… And then I got all OH NO I HAVE TO SEE HOW IT ENDS IT HAS TO HAVE A HAPPY ENDING because the stupid thing started hitting all of my Crisis Core traumas (because apparently I have some, god damn, that game, it messed me up – in a good way, I mean? I am never going to recover. I loved it, but I am pretty sure I am not ever going to be capable of replaying it. Thinking about … a lot of it makes me flail in despair, which I know is pathetic, okay, you don't have to tell me), so I ended up staying up until, uh. 7 am? IT WAS AN ACCIDENT. And then my brother called around 11 am to tell me he was on his way, so I am exhausted and going to bed now, regardless of whether or not this entry is wrapped up. It probably isn't, but I'm too tired to be able to tell properly.
AND TOMORROW STARTS HELLWEEK. Nooo, Thanksgiving, why do you exist…
Also, a year ago today (well, last night, since it's after midnight) was when I had my huge freakout at my father and told him to start treating me like an adult and with the respect due to a sentient being or to leave me the hell alone. (He opted for the latter, but then went back on it, and it's perhaps a bit wrong that I was more sad when he decided to start speaking to me again than I was when he was avoiding me.) Though at least the events leading up to that explosion put my mother and brother on my side, and they now don't let him get away with treating me like crap all the time. Small steps.
THINGS THAT HAPPENED BEFORE I ACTUALLY WENT TO CHAPTER 12:
APPARENTLY THE GIANT SCARY-LOOKING THING IS TITAN. Really, really obvious in retrospect. I wasn't sure it wasn't a monster! That is my defense.
It talks!
Ooh, challenges. These'll end poorly. SORRY, GUYS.
Actually, I can take the Adamantoise (okay, I can take the small ones… I WAS SO EXCITED, and then I looked again and was like, wait, these are smaller and have no tusks… and then I was sad) and Juggernauts, so maybe it won't be too horrible?
BUT PROBABLY IT WILL BE.
Hey, at least I don't need to track them down over ridiculous lengths here.
Haha, shiiiit, I totally forgot to reset my paradigms from what I changed them into to defeat the tonberry. Whatever, these things are easy enough. I'll make it work.
Bit annoyed at how many times I'll have to beat that guy to get all the stones, though.
… Or not, since I just looked up some of those and MULTIPLE TONBERRIES = NO NO NO NO NO ABSOLUTELY NOT
On the bright side, I totally just got access to the shop I buy the ultimate weapons from. Sweet. Couldn't've planned that better if I'd tried!
So I've run through that twice, and I want to move on, so I guess I am going to spend a bit figuring out how to upgrade. (Yes, in a startling repeat of my strategy for FFVIII, I have gone the entire game thus far with the starting weapons. Though this time it's not because I lack screws and more because I just haven't bothered to play around with the Upgrade menu to figure out how it works.
… Apparently it's actually really freaking simple and I would feel dumb now except this way means I still have everything and so upgrading these things I just bought will be pretty simple. I just need the Thing That Adamantoise Drops – whatever it was called, trapezoid? Tetrahedron? Thing, anyway, I looked it up when I couldn't figure out what I needed next and SUPERTURTLE HAS IT is about all I remember - now. So, uh. Guess we'll be sitting at maxed out mid-level weapons for a while, then…)
MOSTLY I DIDN'T OPEN THIS BECAUSE I WAS JUST RUNNING AROUND MURDERING THINGS, THOUGH.
ANYWAY CHAPTER 12 NOW.
I'm not really done on Pulse, but I am kind of antsy to get on with the storyline, so. Hopefully I am ready.
… Oh, right, I should probably put Vanille back on Medic instead of going with ALL DESTRUCTION, ALL THE TIME.
… Pulse is pretty and sad and I will miss it. Though, uh, I am assuming/hoping I will be able to come back at some point? They'd be right bastards if they were like NO. THOSE MISSIONS YOU HAVEN'T DONE YET? TOO BAD. SUCK IT UP.
Not to imply SE is not full of bastards because of course we all know they are.
But, okay, geez, boarding the airship now.
MEANWHILE, IN EDEN. Man, they must be bored, having waited so long for us to finally get ourselves in gear.
XD And then we crash the races! WITH EIDOLONS, geez, way to make an entrance. Hahaaa, Snow, you idiot. WAY TO NEVER LEARN.
THIS IS AN AWESOME CUTSCENE. JUST SO YOU KNOW.
Aww, now it's over. :<
EEK JUGGERNAUT!
EEK ADAMANTOISE!
Cie'th meh.
Raines dies again… For reals this time? I dunno. Hard to be surprised, either way.
We can't fly, but we have flying Eidolons… OR WE CAN JUMP WHOO fun! Don't lose the baby chocobo! Thank goodness!
Hm. Right. I guess Vanille wasn't around when Lightning went diving earlier in the game, was she.
... MAN IN THE BEGINNING OF THE GAME SHE ALREADY HAD THREE ATB THINGS IN BATTLE. In retrospect, really should have cemented her as having been a l'Cie already a whole heck of a lot faster... Don't ask me why I just remembered that.
Bwaha, I just annoyed Snow. I got to the end of this stretch of road, then turned around 'cause I forgot to Libra a mob, so I went back to the save point, turned around, and then when I hit the end again, I ran too far off so I had to turn around again and he just goes, "…Really?"
Just for that, Snow, just for that, YES. Yes, really.
Lightning never got that memo about not playing in traffic, I suppose…
Oh! Okay. Geez. I was half afraid for a moment there that this Behemoth King was going to start the battle standing, which… ugh. They do so much more damage that way. DAMN YOU, SUNDER! (Though on the positive side, that way I wouldn't have to worry about it healing at 50%...)
Rosch does not want to get along.
Vanille, we cannot just work together because we are icky, scary l'Cie. Obviously.
Tsk. A rocket launcher will take down a Tyrant? I WANT ONE.
Also, come on, guys, you can take a Tyrant and not an Adamanchelid (or, uh. However)?
… Yeah, I didn't think you were really gonna try and take us on alone after we decimated the turtle…
Oh, wow, it's those NORA people. I'd kinda figured they weren't gonna show up again. THEY OPENED THE DOOR FOR US yay. And now they disappear again. Goodbye! Goodbye! Everyone wave!
It's… uh. Man, what is going on? CRYSTAL BITS, anyway. They're very pretty! But probably a bad sign.
OH NO IT IS BARTHANDEALIOWHATEVERGUY…'s head, whatever. Talking to us and all. Go away, dude.
He is threatening us with Serah and Dajh! EVIL.
COME, l'CIE! FULFILL YOUR DESTINYYYY. Very nice. Stop rhyming.
HA! I just killed an Adamantoise! … No drop, damnit, but I killed it! Haha! Finally dropped one of you! (Someday, I like to imagine, I will kill one without just Death-ing it...)
Hiiii, Eden!
No, that's not our backup. We don't get to have backup. Backup is strictly for NPCs. Yeah, I know. It sucks a bit, doesn't it?
Juggernaut and Tyrant, though, man, what an unhappy place to be. Too bad they aren't our backup.
SUDDENLY: CIE'TH-IFIED. Man, that would be a bad day.
Oh, and they are called Sacrifices. Poor dudes!
Dah! Another boss battle! I was totally unprepared for this. GOING TO DIE.
… Let me rephrase that: if I weren't leading TEAM AWESOME, I probably would have died. But since I was, it was no problem at all. HA.
Well, I'm glad he's at least aware of this whole stupid situation. Geez. Even if it did take a while for him to catch on. Better than most others have managed. And, hey, he's calling them off my tail, sort of. Good man, Rosch.
… Guys, toss him a cure or something, at least, come on.
Or leave him to the Humbabas. Whichever.
MAN. I am, like. Three feet away from Chapter 13. SO NERVOUS.
CRADLE.
Oh! It's so pretty here!
Kinda creepy, too, and full of Cie'th. But pretty!
… And now falling in on itself and rearranging or… whatever is going on.
LIGHTNING DON'T TALK ABOUT DREAMS DYING IT GIVES ME FFX FLASHBACKS AND THEN I CRY. (Whatever, at least it wasn't "faded"?)
AUGH the datalog entry is so frustrating. Of course he always meant to turn them into Cie'th before they got close to Orphan, of course it was a trick to get us moving (well, I figured they'd just be killed, not Cie'th-ified, but close enough on that end), and now we're here and sahbdjfk.
As tempting as it is to go running back to Gran Pulse and kill Adamantoise until I get some freaking whatever-it's-called to upgrade my weapons with, I also really, really want to see the ending. I CAN ALWAYS GO BACK LATER. Also maybe later I will be able to beat the things without resorting to summoning to cripple them first.
… ah. Haha. So. Here I am, wandering through this maze, killing everything, following the… statue-thing. I get to the end of the, what, second stretch? And the statue's like POOF THINGS GO WEIRD again, and then, then, I run back and forth across the two end tiles trying to figure out why the elevator-platform thing isn't working.
Right.
Riiight. Look behind you, genius. I am so on top of this!
Hey, these guys again! Well, I say again. They're not exactly the same, they just share a form. What were they called last time? I don't recall. Not Enkidu, but something similar, I think?
IT NEVER ENDS, FANG. We're going to be stuck here foreverrrr. (Giving it the worst case of indigestion it's ever had? ... FURMANISMS, GET OUT.)
Ahaha, Hope is clever. (Maybe everyone is clever and figured out what was going on, but since Hope was the first one to voice it, he is the one I give credit to.)
For all that these guys want me to get to Orphan, you'd think they'd make the path a little more direct.
Floating monster-thing overhead and I can't get to it. Annoying. Also a bit unsettling and creepy. CLIMB THE RAMP AND GET ON EVEN GROUND WITH IT.
Hmm. Not working as I'd hoped. It is no longer hovering overhead (closer to the reverse, really, except I lack hovering capabilities), but it is still kind of eerie.
Hm, that is an interesting thought, though. What would Fang do if we went all Cie'th? Could she take us all out, or would we rip her to teeny little bits? MORBID THOUGHTS. I has them.
Oh, hey. I've seen this room before. It's from one of the promotional pics, Lightning sitting on one of these benches.
Oh, man, this is it, augh. WALK INTO THE LIGHT? Or run screaming from the room. … Choices.
Haa, the last box is an ethersol. Ugh. Well, useful for people who use their tech points.
All right, let's just go. NOT LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS I KNOW THEY ARE GOING TO KILL / CRYSTALIFY (at least you can get better from that…) / WHATEVER AT LEAST SOMEONE, I mean, come on, it's SE.
Oh, no! What are they doing here?! BAD FEELING
…. IT'S OKAY THEY WERE TOTALLY JUST ILLUSIONS OR COPIES OR SOMETHING EVERYONE IS FINE SHUT UP SHUT UP.
SEE, EVERYONE AGREES WITH ME. Totally a fal'Cie trick. Glad we settled that.
Uuugh, I have to fight him again? JUST GO AWAY!
Yay!
…He seemed a bit too happy to be killed…
…Remind me why we haven't killed that bird yet?
MY BUT ISN'T THIS A SHOCK. WE PARADE RIGHT UP TO ORPHAN AND THEN GET TRICKED INTO FIGHTING IT.
SHOW OF HANDS: WHO DID NOT SEE THIS COMING?
…
No one?
Yeeeah, that's what I thought…
Ouch, Orphan's tough. I DISLIKE MERCILESS JUDGEMENT. Owww.
Oh, look, here's one of those WE LIKE YOUR RACE BETTER 'CAUSE YOU'RE SO AWESOME WE ARE JEALOUS speeches. Meh. Sorry, Orphan, we're too busy being sprawled all over the place to care about your yammering.
Faaang, no. :< I have no idea what you're planning, other than to lose your mind or something wtf, but it seems to me that it is a bad idea. PUT THE SPEAR DOWN.
DDDD: Nuuuu! I am experiencing something akin to despair, but which is not quite, because SCREW HOPELESSNESS. Fal'Cie trick. Obviously. I WON'T BE FOOLED.
Fang is a shitty apocalypse-bringer. (THANK GOODNESS. D: D:)
DAMN IT so there's Vanille and it's all like. THERE SHE IS WALKING UP and for half a second my brain is like, wait, but where are the others and then, OH RIGHT THEY TURNED INTO CIE'TH AND THEN EXPLODED (only not really right okay) RIGHT. FUCK. I AM SWEARING A LOT ALL OF A SUDDEN GEE I WONDER WHY.
Run. Run where? Nowhere is safe, anyway, right now, Fang. >_>;
YAY EVERYONE I don't even know what is going onnn. HAPPINESS AND JOY AND LIGHT AND …were there rainbows and puppies, too, Snow?
So, but, wait, wouldn't Vanille's Focus still be active? Yay for everyone else, though.
Woah, creepy laugh. WOAH, CREEPY FACE. Kill it fast so I don’t have to look at it… DX!
OH HEY it's another Eidolon battle. (Well, basically. Obviously not quite, but with the Dooming and the Damage-dealing tricks and whatall.) OKAY I CAN DO THAT.
… CRYSTARIUM EXPANDED ALL RIGHT XDDDD
Ooh, wait, that must mean I get a New Game+ sort of thing! Nice. Though now I almost regret having everyone learn all the other three skills. I bet the next level is freaking EXPENSIIIIVE. (But, yeah, having access to all 6 jobs on all characters? That is too awesome to really fully regret it.)
HOW CAN YOU POSSIBLY PLAN ON SAVING COCOON WHEN YOU'VE DESTROYED EVEYRTHING THAT ALLOWED IT TO FUNCTION OKAY THIS HAS BEEN BOTHERING ME
We're floating? @_@ NO ONLY FOUR OF US ARE FLOATING. NO! COME WITH US WHAT ARE YOU DOING.
RAGNAROK? CONFUSED AGAIN.
Oh! Oh, I see, I get it. A non-violent or destructive sort of Ragnarok. … That is a hilarious sentence.
CRYSTALS? WAIT WHAT. WHY. Fortunately, they have lingered on this image too long for it to be the end. HA! Wise to you, Squeenix. (Also that would be kind of a shitty ending, so obviously it isn't.)
AAAA thank goodness you can pause the end cutscene. CAT JUST JUMPED ON THE REMOTE and I noticed in time to pause before we jumped over to another channel.
:D YAY SERAH AND DAJH COME BACK even if Fang and Vanille are apparently GONE that is unfair they were awesome and bestest nooo. :(
… No, they totally come out of crystal stasis, like, a day later. Haha, we totally had you going, didn't we? We're fine! Just took a while to crawl out of that mess in there. Yeah, it's all good.
Though if not, man, they are going to be so old if they ever get around to properly dying, and that would be kind of fun. Yeah, yeah, I'm totally, like, 3000 years old. I know, I look good for my age. (Technically, anyway. I mean, does being 500+ years old count if you're in stasis for… well, almost all of them?) Whateverrr.
… You know. I mean. We blew up a lot of the fal'Cie on Cocoon and all, but, really, who's to say that in a couple thousand years the fal'Ci of Gran Pulse don't decide to try such a thing all over again? That's a bit of a depressing thought.
Now would be when I go OMG TIME TO HUNT FOR POST-GAME FIC except I don't trust the Final Fantasy fanfic base at all, so I will not. (Though! If anyone has any recs… :3 NOT EVEN NECESSARILY POST-GAME. Also, ooh, I just remembered about that Episode Zero. It's a place to start, anyway.)
No spoilers for XIII here on out, even though I'm going to mention the game a few more times. A bit after my cat jumped on the remote and changed the channel, my brother turned up. He just went on break today, so. Long drive! I made him wait in the kitchen while I plugged in some headphones and watched the rest. We hung around a bit, then went out to find dinner, and mostly had a very long, hilarious discussion on how much of a wreck XIV is turning into (his prediction is that SE's going to have to give yet another free month, since the December overhaul/massive update isn’t until late in the month, and if they want people to stick around or come back, they're going to have to let people see what they've done), then moved on to the other games in the series. Lots of VII, I don't know why that was suddenly coming up.
Uh. How did it start. He reformatted his computers before coming back, and he tried installing XIV on his laptop, but, as with beta (and the benchmark), it simply does not run on that machine. We do not really understand why. That's what kicked off the mock-fest of XIV. He was glad to hear I had found XIII a whole lot of fun because, though he has never played XII (… ha, should I drop the numerals?), he has heard more than enough from me on the many things wrong with that game. Mostly about the plot collapsing in on itself as soon as you think about it (though since it's stretched so thin and far apart, you don't notice it too much during the game itself. Small saving grace, that) and the main character not having any purpose other than to go "Huh?" and tilt his head in bewilderment whenever anything happens.
Anyway, the conversation somehow turned to FF7 and us – mostly him – coming up with an entirely new plot for Dirge of Gerbils, because, let's face it, that game needed serious help. His idea included Jenova coming back (again, because that's just how these things go, you know?) and, rather than Vincent against
Oh, he also had some whole thing where, of course, Sephiroth shows up again, too (worse than a cockroach, that one), only sans Jenova-influence-whatever (… this takes that whole "Sephiroth is controlling Jenova and not vise versa" thing and shoves it off a cliff) (EDIT: Actually, I suppose it doesn't have to, he could just have gone back on the whole Gone Mad And Hellbent on Destruction thing. 3x defeat at Cloud's hands = return of something resembling sense? Or something), and then there's an epic showdown and then they probably both die in the end, but that part, eh. BUT MAN YES WIDESPREAD JENOVA INFECTION. (And yes, yes, yes, "Jenova doesn't work like that" blah, blah, it could still be cool.)
That whole conversation was a bit odd to me, though, because, really, FF7 doesn't come up that often in conversation anymore, but just a few days ago, someone, somewhere, linked to this fic, and I was bored and bookmarked it and just last night, after deciding I'd run around in FF13 enough for the day (and pretty sure that I couldn't go much farther without running into the final boss, and really not feeling up to dealing with that), I started reading it.
… And then I got all OH NO I HAVE TO SEE HOW IT ENDS IT HAS TO HAVE A HAPPY ENDING because the stupid thing started hitting all of my Crisis Core traumas (because apparently I have some, god damn, that game, it messed me up – in a good way, I mean? I am never going to recover. I loved it, but I am pretty sure I am not ever going to be capable of replaying it. Thinking about … a lot of it makes me flail in despair, which I know is pathetic, okay, you don't have to tell me), so I ended up staying up until, uh. 7 am? IT WAS AN ACCIDENT. And then my brother called around 11 am to tell me he was on his way, so I am exhausted and going to bed now, regardless of whether or not this entry is wrapped up. It probably isn't, but I'm too tired to be able to tell properly.
AND TOMORROW STARTS HELLWEEK. Nooo, Thanksgiving, why do you exist…
Also, a year ago today (well, last night, since it's after midnight) was when I had my huge freakout at my father and told him to start treating me like an adult and with the respect due to a sentient being or to leave me the hell alone. (He opted for the latter, but then went back on it, and it's perhaps a bit wrong that I was more sad when he decided to start speaking to me again than I was when he was avoiding me.) Though at least the events leading up to that explosion put my mother and brother on my side, and they now don't let him get away with treating me like crap all the time. Small steps.