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Sorry I'm late, but thanks for doing all this. You're a great person for sticking through all of this. "Pats back of computer to simulate patting Ragnar on the back" Good job. And good luck with the postgame, you're gonna need it! And for this celebration: Junpoll(s) of the day Which character do you think Ragnar wrote the best? As for me, I liked the way you write Collete. When this gets archived, I'm going to compile a list of how many games and anime you referenced. And... Which game would you like to LP after this, Ragnar?
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Junpei posted:Which game would you like to LP after this, Ragnar?  I dunno.
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Just flipped a coin, you're doing 4. Just kidding, your choice.
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alcharagia posted:I can't believe Flavio is loving dead. His corpse will serve us well when we need a shield...thinking about it now...if we combine Flavio's corpse with Trand hefting him around as a shield...does this mean we turn Bertrand into a dodge tank?
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Congrats on finishing the main story! I was worried that your quick pace would end up getting you burned out, but you seem to be doing okay. Finally, a new page! The last one was slowing down my computer whenever I loaded it.
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BlazeEmblem posted:Congrats on finishing the main story! I was worried that your quick pace would end up getting you burned out, but you seem to be doing okay. I am nothing if not persistent--or stubborn. Take your pick. In all seriousness, though, I was never really in danger of burning out, honestly. The only part of the LP that I consider tedious is typing up enemy introductions--everything else, from organizing the layout of a given update to writing narrative dialogue, I find pretty fun! It probably helps that EO2U is my favorite game in the series, as well.
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Congrats on finishing the main story Ragnar!!  What would you say was the most fun part of doing the LP?Oh, Dr. Fetus, your last update has the answer images ("It's nothing..."/It's a nice bath...") switched around.
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Booky posted:Congrats on finishing the main story Ragnar!! Narrative stuff, no question. It took me a while to get comfortable with it at the start, but after that, coming up with dialogue was by far the easiest and most fun part of writing any given update. Even outside of the updates themselves, Heavy, Efe and I still spent quite a lot of time brainstorming extra stuff about the narrative for fun. Pretty much none of that actually showed up in any actual update, though (with the exception of some slight hints at Jackie and her plan regarding Realga and Stardust). Might as well reveal some mysterious behind-the-scenes intrigue about the narrative while I'm at it:
Aside from the individual reasons listed above, the reason pretty much all of those never ended up materializing was because none of them had anything to do with the game at all, which is a pretty big issue.
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Sweet new portrait, dude! That behind the scenes stuff seems interesting, too. I feel that EO lends itself to a more humorous tone, but someone doing a more dramatic narative would seem interesting.
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Welp, I'm late for the end of the LP. Glad that I could have contributed at all, Ragnar, and I have to say it was definitely a blast following all of it, especially if you enjoyed it as much as I did Also didn't realize you were the guy that did the Star Force 1 LP. If you ever restart that, I'm definitely following that too. Or maybe the other Etrian LP that you might do, who knows?
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Booky posted:Oh, Dr. Fetus, your last update has the answer images ("It's nothing..."/It's a nice bath...") switched around. Oops. Fixed.
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Ragnar Homsar posted:Aside from the individual reasons listed above, the reason pretty much all of those never ended up materializing was because none of them had anything to do with the game at all, which is a pretty big issue. Yeah... I'm very glad you didn't do that stuff (although the April fools update cold have worked). That just seems a bit tedious to do for a game like this.
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This LP is great, your narrative was cute and funny while still being informative. Great job.
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Update 51: Cooldown       Well, back to it, then.              None of these levels matter, honestly.  Everyone in town has special dialogue now that we've finished the main story. Let's start with Dubois.  Before we continue with dialogue, this is the Ducal Mark. It's a fantastic bit of equipment for Beasts, and kind of meh on everyone else.        Cass started talking as soon as we entered.  ...Well, both of those certainly look important. Let's focus on Calamity of Ginnungagap, though. In a bit. For now, we continue with dialogue.     Now that we've taken care of town dialogue, let's start Calamity of Ginnungagap.  Before we switch parties, this is what the Overlord's drop unlocks.  This party was decided completely by me--there was no post-Overlord vote. Everyone is pretty badly underleveled for Ginnungagap B5F, so let's take this time to gather a bunch of conditionals and level up.    Firstly, the Bound Root. This one can be a pretty big pain in the rear end, since the condition is to kill a Mandrake while it's fully bound. Mandrakes have 50% resistance to all types of binds, so doing them individually is annoying--especially with a Dark Hunter, since you risk killing the thing early.  I have no qualms using Stigmata to get it.   Easy enough.  Next up, the Blue Head Gem. Just kill a Gem Lizard while its head is bound.   Again, no trouble.   For the Sleeping Hoof, we need to kill the Nightmare while it's asleep. That's slightly annoying, and you only really get one shot at it, but not that bad. The King Gel, however, is another story. The Cursed Core requires that the King Gel kill itself with curse damage. FOEbucks was out of ingredients to make the Curse Damage 3x food, so I have to do this the hard way! HOORAY.  Rrgh.  And now we wait.  This is gonna take a while, huh?   Okay, one more action should cause the King Gel to kill itself.  Yes!   A little annoying, but nothing TOO bad. Like I said before, "kill with curse" conditionals were much worse in EO3 and EO4, where there were bosses with conditionals that required that.  And last on the list of Heavenly Keep conditionals I can easily get, Cowering Silver: kill an Undead Soldier whlie it's afraid.    That'll wrap that up for now.     The spoils of war.    I hope you didn't forget about Scylla. Her conditional is to kill her while she's asleep, which is easier said than done given her 25% resistance to sleep and the fact that, even ~20 levels after we fought her, her HP is still pretty high.     You'll forgive me for skipping over the uninteresting fight, I assume.     And lastly, this jerk.  Cursed Knight HP: 15669, STR: 62, TEC: 44, VIT: 46, AGI: 35, LUC: 45 Skills:
Disable resistances: A jet black suit of armor that wanders this world and the next, bringing death to all. I hate Cursed Knights with a passion. Note how, not only does it have more STR than both Juggernaut and the Overlord, but both of its skills are real fuckers. Dark Blade is almost guaranteed to hit you innately, and is literally guaranteed in almost every situation to blind whoever it hits, if it doesn't just kill them outright. Death's Edge is designed around that--it has lovely base accuracy, but that doesn't matter when blind disables your evasion. If that wasn't bad enough, the Cursed Knight also nullifies arm binds, so gently caress you if you rely on binds! Mercifully, it's at least weak to two debilitating ailments, and neutral to the rest.   I have Ranger use Transform immediately, since I need this thing dead very quickly.  My plan is to have Sophie inflict panic on the thing, bind its head, and then use Black Mist.   Phew.    So much for the Black Mist plan.  I have no idea if this is really the right action, but whatever.  Alright, looking good!  ...Never mind.  Worth a shot--I need to keep a debilitating ailment on the Cursed Knight, or else things will get really ugly, really fast.  Bah!   I find it kind of neat that Rheine is nearly matching Ranger in damage.  poo poo poo poo poo poo, the Cursed Knight's free to do whatever now.   Oh thank god.  Not pictured: Ranger has Accelerate active. I think the conditional's in the bag.   Phew.  Jackie's still working towards Double Action, after spending hew new skill points from earlier on getting all the Charged elementals maxed.   Next time: Ginnungagap B5F. Rea fucked around with this message at 01:41 on Jun 17, 2016 |
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You forgot to space down a row and add Regina's portrait after Freyja's dialogue. But yea, nice little update and I don't think I ever knew Stigmata existed when I was playing Story mode...I was loving baffled how I was gonna set up everyone to fully bind those drat mandrakes for their conditional.
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Kemix posted:You forgot to space down a row and add Regina's portrait after Freyja's dialogue. But yea, nice little update and I don't think I ever knew Stigmata existed when I was playing Story mode...I was loving baffled how I was gonna set up everyone to fully bind those drat mandrakes for their conditional. Fixed, thanks.
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There are quite a few conditionals that I just straight up could not be bothered to get on my first run of this game, but seeing what they unlock, I sorta wish I did. Then again, fully binding a Mandrake with the story party might as well have been a physical impossibility without the right grimoires or reclassing, the first of which I didn't have and the second of which I didn't feel like doing.
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Update 52: The Yggdrasil Project's Legacy Let's finish off Ginnungagap. The Calamity is the only thing lying between us and the postgame.     I cooked some stuff first, though. Tortoise Takikomi Gohan gives an 80% chance to add on 7 levels to newly-generated Grimoires. Do I really have to say anything about Grimoire-manipulating foods by this point? Triple Salisbury restores 3% of the party's maximum HP and 1% of their maximum TP at the end of every turn. It's a trash effect, but I went with it anyway just to show how trash it is.                     Here's everyone's builds. I rested Ranger to reallocate the 10 points he had in Elem ATK Up. Most notably, he has Force Reset maxed out, which immediately cancels the user's Force Boost, in exchange for refunding Force to the user. This is kind of meh on most classes, but on Ranger... Well, I'll leave that for the Calamity. At level 10, Force Reset costs 12 TP and refunds 35 Force. At level 20, it costs 18 TP and refunds 50 Force.      This door, which was locked when we beat Demi-Fafnir, is open now.       Metal Needle HP: 1210, STR: 51, TEC: 37, VIT: 40, AGI: 32, LUC: 34 Skills:
Disable resistances: A fearful scorpion with a body of solid steel and a needle well-worth steering clear of... Metal Needles got a pretty serious downgrade from their appearance in EOU's postgame. I mean, yeah, Steel Stinger still hurts like hell, but at least it doesn't inflict fear anymore.  Hell Papillon HP: 985, STR: 48, TEC: 39, VIT: 34, AGI: 43, LUC: 38 Skills:
Disable resistances: A butterfly from the underworld and the deadliest-known of its species. Hell Papillons are annoying, but not deathly so. Freeze's damage is fairly negligible (especially to Ursa), and the stun chance is low enough that it shouldn't be TOO troublesome. The only fully-annoying thing about it is that it's very, very fast.   Look how absurdly little damage Ursa took from that.       Leukocyte HP: 439, STR: 44, TEC: 36, VIT: 33, AGI: 34, LUC: 35 Skills:
Disable resistances: A micro-assassin of Ginnungagap, whose sensors register every organism as a threat. Leukocytes have the potential to be serious threats in groups, what with White Plasma being a basically-guaranteed petrify. Thankfully, 439 HP and a 10% speed modifier means you can probably kill all the Leukocytes before they can start ruining you.  See: Jackie killing two of them in one Charged Fire.   Whoops.  Also, yeah, that's how terrible the Triple Salisbury's heal is.     SYSTEM: It seems like the distended, grotesque eye of some enormous creature. The strange eye casts around, sticking out of a gap in the rubble, and its gaze suddenly fixes upon you... You decide to proceed onward...despite the unsettling stare of the bizarre eye. Irae are not FOEs, despite what the map icon might indicate. Notice how they have a range indicator for something. If we take a step backwards right now...        One turn after you trigger an Irae, it will send its tentacle down the range indicator, and grab the first thing in its path. If it grabs you, your party will take 100 damage, and be unable to move for 3 turns.   That thing is a Blue Glaucus, and aggros once you get within 2 spaces or so of it. It has the standard "chases you, taking one step for every step you take" movement pattern.   I fight one to show off something in a bit.   Blue Glaucus HP: 9294, STR: 59, TEC: 46, VIT: 43, AGI: 48, LUC: 48 Skills:
Disable resistances: A creature from deep within Ginnungagap that fights using wild, erratic movements. Blue Glauci necessitate a Hexer, basically. A Dark Hunter is not going to have an easy time trying to bind the thing's legs, and your genuine best option is to just throw Madness Curse on the thing while you try to bind its legs--and with 25% resistance to pretty much all disables, Creeping Curse comes in very handy here.   Oof. I got lucky that Crazed Dance only dealt 3 hits. Any more and Ursa could've died.     Jackie is really good at killing Blue Glauci, thanks to their 150% Stab resistance.   Binding the Blue Glaucus's legs is basically insurance in case the panic wears off quickly.  Bleh.   One of the rare times where Ranger's damage is "meh."    Not that bad of a fight, I think you'll agree.    That fight took a lot out of my Force. Let's just go back to town and sell some stuff.  I also bought Ranger a Sky Metal Blade, since it's basically designed for him.   ...Oh. Blue Glauci respawn every time you leave the room they're in, since they're required for exactly one puzzle on this floor.     Blue Glauci can be gripped by Irae, which removes about 33% of their HP, and stuns them for 3 turns, during which time you can walk in on it and get a preemptive.   There's a helpful shortcut to just bypass this.   Same thing here, except you just have to wait for the Blue Glaucus to walk over here from the other part of the room.   There's multiple Blue Glauci in this room. Just bait this one into the upper Irae...     And kill the other one, because why not.  Dauntless Order heals 100 upon activating now.   Killing the other Blue Glaucus gave me easy access to this.   Before I go back to town for now, there's a one-way shortcut over here.   Which leads to here.   Getting this by walking up from below is impossible, since you can't avoid the Irae without the shortcut.   This next puzzle is an absolute bastard. I start off by killing this Blue Glaucus in the middle.   After some fancy footwork, I get both of the remaining Glauci gripped by Irae.   Oh boy, my "favorite" encounter.  Red Corpuscle HP: 877, STR: 49, TEC: 38, VIT: 35, AGI: 36, LUC: 37 Skills:
Disable resistances: A micro-sentinel who seeks to rid Ginnungagap of all foreign intruders. Red Corupscles are basically Leukocytes except a lot more annoying. Instant death is harder to deal with than petrification, and not only that, they have double the HP of Leukocytes, and resist elemental damage.  They're just as susceptible to being disabled, though.   MotherFUCKER.   That encounter can very easily become a fast-track to a game over if you don't have a Hexer.     Not to give away too much, but in Story mode, this is the hallway that Fafnir walks down just before you meet the Black Guardian for the first time.   Next time: the Calamity.
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Update 53: The Calamity Time for the second final boss of the game.       Why yes, I did optimize Ranger and Rheine for maximum TEC (which involved buying Ranger his ultimate armor). You'll see the results very shortly. You might also notice that Ranger's Grimoires have been heavily optimized, including two passives he didn't have last time. Force Energy passively restores a static amount of TP plus a percent of Ranger's max TP while he's in the Force Boost state (12 + 2% at level 10). He doesn't have it naturally yet, but frankly I kind of went crazy with the murder optimization after a bunch of failed test runs. Limit Break... Let's just say it's better to show than tell here.   SYSTEM: You can feel the numbing pressure of an unimaginable power on the other side of this door... SYSTEM: You hesitate, faltering at the growing sense of dread in your stomachs, and hear a familiar voice.  Unknown adventurers... I leave the fate of this world...in your hands...SYSTEM: The voice's final words...are a sorrowful, barely-heard apology. SYSTEM: You know that the voice must have used all the power it yet retained, in order to give you these final words. You can open the door and confront the Calamity here and now, or you can head back to town and prepare as necessary.    The music cuts out here.    https://zippy.gfycat.com/ExcitableOrdinaryBoaconstrictor.webm   SYSTEM: Your knuckles whiten on your weapons. Noticing your presence, the Calamity whirls its tentacles towards you... And, with a shrill, keening shriek from the Calamity, your ultimate battle now begins!    VIDEO: Boss Battle: Yggdrasil Core I highly recommend you watch this battle in motion.    Yggdrasil Core HP: 25000, STR: 55, TEC: 40, VIT: 40, AGI: 35, LUC: 55 Skills:
Disable resistances: The Calamity that was sealed for a thousand years. Its awakening is a destructive omen... I omitted the Yggdrasil Core's AI pattern because the research I'd previously done didn't match up with what happened in my test runs. The Yggdrasil Core is the second final boss of the game--in Story mode, the credits don't roll after Overlord, they roll after this thing. It's certainly a doozy of a fight. For one thing, notice how none of its skills use any body parts. That's a pretty big jerk move, huh? It wouldn't be too bad, though, except for...   Cell Membrane. This thing will completely make the Yggdrasil Core invulnerable to all damage and disables while it's active--which is to say, until we kill the Core Irae and Core Odia. It wouldn't be Atlus without some arbitrary "gently caress you," though, so even though the Yggdrasil Core is invulnerable while Cell Membrane is up, it is still targetable, meaning that random-target attacks or attacks that get redirected due to their original target dying will still try to hit the Yggdrasil Core. What are the Core Irae and the Core Odia, you might ask?  Core Irae HP: 2500, STR: 55, TEC: 36, VIT: 60, AGI: 40, LUC: 52 Skills:
Disable resistances: One at a time. The Core Irae are the physical damage dealers of the Yggdrasil Core. They're not terribly threatening on their own, but later in the fight, it's possible to have both them, the Core Odia, and the Yggdrasil Core active at once. That's not a situation you want to be in, I'm sure you can guess. Oh, and don't leave both Core Irae alive for long later in the fight, or else you'll find yourself on the receiving end of Root Cyclone, which is only good if you want your party taking the Number Nine.  Ursa's primary job is to tank, same as always.  Ranger will do something unorthodox--feed himself an Axcela. You might think that my brain has leaked out of my ears, but pay attention to his Force gauge.  Ursa's not really in any serious danger of dying to the Core Irae, but I'd still rather make her tanking job as easy as possible.  Jackie has nothing to do other than deal damage to the Irae.  Lastly, Rheine will use Attack Order.    It's not a big chunk of Ursa's HP, but that's still "ouch" territory for a normal attack.  Auto-Heal is, as always, Ursa's best friend.  Ooh, that was pretty lucky.   Could be worse.    I trust that the Core Irae won't kill anyone, and Sophie has nothing else to do.  Poison Dust is coming out this turn, so I have Rheine put a stop to the poison part.   Pfft, the Irae tried to hit the Core, and got blocked by Cell Membrane.    Notice how Ranger has an extra part to his Force Gauge. That is Limit Break at work--Limit Break lets Ranger's Force gauge go above 100 in battle. At level 11 (which it's at right now), it lets Ranger's Force gauge go to 155. You'll see why this is amazingly good later. For now...  In all likelihood, the Core will probably eat a lot of hits, but oh well.  Sophie has this thing on for Bind Up, but why not?  I have Rheine extend Attack Order's duration.   Oof.      Just my loving luck, the Core ate half the hits. Oh, whatever, one of the Irae died.  This is how much Force Energy restores, by the way.  Ranger will focus down the last Irae...   While Sophie and Jackie heal Ursa as best they can through the Poison Dust debuff.  Rheine will keep Jackie's TP topped off.    ...Yeah, uh, the Yggdrasil Core fight has more than its fair share of strange bugs. A Core Irae shrinking isn't even the weirdest thing I've ever seen--I've seen a Core Odia completely vanish while casting a skill. By far the weirdest, though, was Ursa trying to cast HP Up on herself, and then dodging some unknown attack.  Now that we've killed the Core Irae, the Core Odia can be targeted.  Core Odium HP: 4000, STR: 50, TEC: 55, VIT: 42, AGI: 30, LUC: 52 Skills:
Disable resistances: The Core Odia are considerably more dangerous than the Core Irae, since 100% TEC damage with 55 TEC is around 150 damage to most of our party--we can't survive that for long.  I have Ursa turn on Desperation just so she's guaranteed to be safe for the next 3 turns.  I want Ranger to get as many turns of Transform as possible.  Sophie'll try to bind one of the Odia's head, since that'll amplify TEC damage and stop one of the elementals for a few turns.  Rheine finally has time to contribute some damage.     ...Uh, okay.    Pitiful.    Hot drat. The benefit of stacking as much TEC as possible.  Aaaagggh.       Honestly, Jackie is the least-bad target for Calamity Eyes. I got lucky.  The Core keeps eating half the loving hits of Thunder Wave.  And it's affecting Link Order's damage!  ...gently caress it. Sure.  Sophie'll fix Jackie right up (aside from the defense debuff)...  And Jackie will keep Rheine's TP at a comfortable level.  I'm expecting Ruinous Curse after the Odia die, so I have Rheine put Prevent Order back on everyone.     THE loving CORE KEEPS EATING HALF OF THE loving HITS EXACTLY I DON'T UNDERSTAND IT    I have absolutely no clue how True Endurance did that much, but whatever, I'll take it. Both of the Odia are dead now, which means...    Ranger has one turn of Transform left, so I have him use Force Reset. You'll see why this is incredibly important very soon.  Panic is the most reliable debilitating ailment, and it's not like the Yggdrasil Core's less resistant to other ailments.  I'm just unloading everything I have.   Bllllllleeeeeehhhhhhhhh.  Just in time, phew.   Oh, right, Jackie lost Attack Order to Calamity Eyes, huh.  Oh. Would you look at that.  BACK-TO-BACK TRANSFORMS. Limit Break requires a significant amount of skill point investment for good loving reason--in combination with high-level Force Resets, you can immediately Transform after ending one with Force Reset, because if you have at least 150 Force when you Transform first, and use a level 20 Force Reset, you will end up with at least 100 Force after ending Transform. It can get even crazier, albeit impractical--a level 20 Limit Break, in combination with 200 Force, can let you Transform 3 times in a row.   ...     Holy god. That's basically 7000 damage. The Yggdrasil Core has 25000 HP.  With at least one more turn of the panic sticking, the fight's as good as over.  All damage on deck, go go go!    It's, frankly, kind of insane how many effective turns of Transform you can get.  Might as well amplify TEC damage, even if it won't stop any skills.   Oops.     It's time to finish this.     SYSTEM: With this beast dead, and the voice's last wish fulfilled, High Lagaard will at last know true peace, free from danger. You may never know who the mysterious voice was...or for what reason the Calamity existed... However...you, your allies, and the heavens above have borne witness to your final victory to save all living things. While it may not be recorded in the annals of history, it will survive forever as a tale of true heroes... When ready, you should return to town and report your success...or rather, your completion. Return proudly to those who wish your safety, and herald the arrival of a new age of peace in the world! That's the last we'll ever have to see of Ginnungagap.          Passives.  Dauntless Order now has a 70% chance to activate on mortal damage, and heals for 125.  Anyway. This quest is extremely important if you want to do postgame content.     We'll take care of this next time. Rea fucked around with this message at 04:58 on Aug 17, 2016 |
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Jesus, you go through these updates quick. Don't want Fetus to catch up any time soon, huh? Honestly, I love the track that plays here, especially the beginning. IIRC they used it for the Fafnir Knight's character trailer, and it's stuck to me ever since. Too bad Betting It All overrides it 
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Hmm. For reference, this was the attack pattern I found out.Dr. Fetus posted:Okay, so the Yggdrasil Core has a couple of phases, and it won't move onto the next phase if you don't kill off the limbs. At the same time, mind you. Because the main body will revive the dead limb 1 turn after you kill one. If it's wrong, I'll do a bit more research and look into things. But during my fight, I did 't notice anything off with the attack pattern.
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BlackPersona posted:Honestly, I love the track that plays here, especially the beginning. IIRC they used it for the Fafnir Knight's character trailer, and it's stuck to me ever since. Too bad Betting It All overrides it At the End of the Labyrinth's actually a remix (rearrange?) of Bloody Fight! I can't really articulate it, but it's most noticeable with the part about 1/3 into AtEotL--right after it swells, goes down, and picks up again.
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That encounter with the three Leycolytes and three Corpsucles is a very, very bad encounter. Especially if you get blindsided by it. Like I did. I nearly quit the game forever after that happened on my first run. Anyway, good job on clowning another boss that gave me hell. With how quickly you tear through all these, it makes me wonder if just played terribly on my first run (probably yes).
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Update 54: Quests. Yep.    SYSTEM: There, a mysterious voice rings in your ears, as if entering your mind directly... The voice acknowledges your presence in the room. You hear the sound of clanging metal... The Strange Shard received from the Minister has disappeared from your hand! At the same time, a silver object hangs in the air, defying the laws of gravity. It is a grail, crafted from black silver and emitting an ominous light... SYSTEM: Carved into its surface are faces contorted in pain, their eyes laid with jewels. SYSTEM: Captivated by its radiance, you quickly snatch the grail and stow it in your bag.  SYSTEM: This completes your quest. All that remains is to go back to the bar and report to Cass of what happened.       Welcome to... Heaven? The Garden of Eden? I'm not really sure.            Oh, hey, new DLC quests.  Nope.  NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE  This is too weird to not investigate immediately.  Right after some bar patrons. Marmott: Man with a smarmy smile: Freckled boy:    The chicken is in the giant room where the dinosaurs were.       SYSTEM: Do you remember the quest involving a talking bird rampaging in the Labyrinth? This must be the bird in question. However, it doesn't seem to be much of a rampage. The bird shows no signs of moving, nor does it seem hostile. Staying on guard, you decide to carefully approach the bird monster.  SYSTEM: It then slowly opens its great beak... SYSTEM: To your surprise, the crested bird speaks in human tongue! Not only does the giant chicken talk, he has voice acting. I don't know who his English voice actor is, but I distinctly remember people talking about his Japanese VA being a really prolific anime and game VA, or something along those lines. You'll see his voice when I get around to fighting him on video. SYSTEM: At your question, the bird looks wistfully off into the distance. SYSTEM: The crested bird then turns its gaze to one of you as it opens its beak again. This isn't just grandstanding, as the bolding may indicate. In addition to a standard item drop, Master Bird also gives us an accessory every time we defeat him, and the accessory gets better and better depending on how big your party is. You get the lowest level for a 3 to 5 man party, the middle for a 2 man party, and the best for a "1v1 me mid." Fighting Master Bird one-on-one at this point is absolute suicide, barring maybe taking Nadia along and hoping she gets very lucky with a bunch of RNG. Two-on-one would possibly be doable with maybe Nadia and Colette. It's definitely possible with Freyja and Sophie plus Stigmata, but I'm not doing that again. A five-on-one is perfectly doable, but I didn't have my normal audio-recording setup during this, so I opted to back off for now.   Let's do some cursory examination of the 6th Stratum.     SYSTEM: However, it does not seem to trigger any reaction. You walk away, feeling slightly disappointed. Fun fact: in the dun_26f text archive internally, this is the only entry.     Asterii have invisible spawn points, and will spawn when you walk on the same horizontal or vertical axis as the spawn. If there are multiple Asterios spawns in the same room, triggering one will trigger all of them.       Walking on this spot triggers this event immediately. SYSTEM: You feel as though you are being watched by someone... A sword is on the far side of the room. Its blade pierces the ground, and a strange magical circle has been formed around it... However, your fear of the unseen presence is so strong that you can't get near the sword. It seems as though there are steps you must take before claiming the sword. You decide to walk away for now and rethink your strategy.  Imminent destruction is next. Like The other grail, if you want to go any further into the 6th Stratum than we did just now, this quest is very important.   Lastly, Old scars, flaring anew:     Our actual destination is the giant empty room at the end of the secret area.    Anyhow, let's take care of Imminent destruction.     SYSTEM: You find a number of winged ones trying to move something. You remember being asked to help with the relocation of the treasure. You approach one of the winged ones...  SYSTEM: You tell him that you have spoken with his leader, and that you are to assist in the evacuation. At your words, the winged one smiles. SYSTEM: He leads you to what appears to be a destroyed wall. Inside, you see all manner of shining objects and artifacts, old documents, and scrolls. SYSTEM: Following his direction, you hurry to move all the treasure to safety before the vault collapses. SYSTEM: The winged one is interrupted by the roaring of monsters... From the sound, they may be just outside the room! SYSTEM: A great deal of treasure is resting just outside the room, where you had set it down during your work! With no time to think, you dash out of the room to confront the threat!   SYSTEM: The lizards are trying to eat the gems! At this rate, the winged ones' treasure will be seized by the monsters. You ready your weapons and charge at the lizards!     SYSTEM: The winged ones immediately hurry to assess the state of their treasures...but aside from some extra grime, all seems well.  SYSTEM: To finish what you started, you take the documents and head back towards the leader of the winged ones.     SYSTEM: You tell him of your successful evacuation of the treasure, and of the documents you have brought back to him. SYSTEM: The leader expresses his thanks in his own peculiar way, and begins looking over the documents you have recovered. This completes your quest! All that remains is to go back to the bar to collect your reward.      Finishing Imminent destruction opened this quest up. This is the last quest we need before we can go any further into the 6th Stratum!    SYSTEM: Canaan gazes at the sky before he speaks again. SYSTEM: Canaan looks sadly at the clouds as he continues to speak. SYSTEM: Canaan looks directly into your eyes... You may cooperate with him, or refuse to go. SYSTEM: Canaan smiles joyously as you nod your assent. SYSTEM: His words remind you of the other grail you obtained, which is still in your pack. SYSTEM: Seeing that you don't understand, Canaan continues to explain. SYSTEM: The chief of the winged ones spreads his wings and flies to the forest below. You may defeat the guardian now to begin the sacrifice, or return to Lagaard to prepare.     Jesus.  Might as well get the conditional while I'm here.  Incidentally, Link Order has a special animation if it activates on Fire/Ice/Volt damage, like Burst Shot or Akashic Nova.   And that's all the strata boss conditionals taken care of.  SYSTEM: The liquid soaks into the cup as if the grail is drinking the blood! After the blood has fully soaked into the grail, it glows a faint, malevolent red... SYSTEM: Is this what Canaan meant by the awakening of the grail? The chief's request has been fulfilled... Go to the 21st floor to deliver it to him.     SYSTEM: You give the grail to the chief. He gives it a look of approval before speaking again. SYSTEM: Canaan spreads his wings, and goes aloft with the grail.  SYSTEM: The quest is complete! Report your success to the bar when you return to Lagaard!     Mmm, yes, pile on the Amrita IIs.     More passives, woo.  I can't think of anything else I'd really want on Rheine, so I just opt to level up Prevent Order so I can get its duration up eventually.  We'll close out on the thing made from Juggernaut's conditional. Next time: ...I dunno. Depends on what happens with the vote. Rea fucked around with this message at 04:23 on Jun 19, 2016 |
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It's vote time! Namely, what to do next? There's a couple things we can do right now:
One vote per person for this. Once I finish whatever's voted, I'll hold another round of voting, until all four of these are done, at which point we will explore 26F.
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Jun 19, 2016 03:59
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Salamander is by far the easiest boss to take on at this point. Any later, and it'll be taken down by a sheer level advantage.
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Jun 19, 2016 04:13
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Going to go with Salamander.
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Jun 19, 2016 04:22
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Here's a couple typos because I'm slow and only just now getting to the Overlord update. And congrats on beating the game by the way!Ragnar Homsar posted:
that Ragnar Homsar posted:https://zippy.gfycat.com/BlankPreciousGlassfrog.webm (No GIF version available) Since you've got a gif of it now, isn't that superflous?
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Jun 19, 2016 05:14
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RareAcumen posted:Since you've got a gif of it now, isn't that superflous? To the first part: hat guy is very much intentional. It's Medic 3 and his drunken group of friends that comprise the Adventurers in matching gear. Secondly, that's a WebM, not a gif.
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Jun 19, 2016 05:16
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Ragnar Homsar posted:It's vote time! Namely, what to do next? There's a couple things we can do right now: Original Sin.  But seriously, Salamander.
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Jun 19, 2016 05:29
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Ragnar Homsar posted:Fighting Master Bird one-on-one at this point is absolute suicide, barring maybe taking Nadia along and hoping she gets very lucky with a bunch of RNG. That's your only option in Story mode, bar reclassing. This boiled down to roughly 20 turns of being RNGesus. It's hell. If anyone else here is playing Story mode, do yourself a favor and don't do this, find another way. My vote goes to Wyvern.
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Jun 19, 2016 05:30
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Efe posted:That's your only option in Story mode, bar reclassing. This boiled down to roughly 20 turns of being RNGesus. It's hell. If anyone else here is playing Story mode, do yourself a favor and don't do this, find another way. With the right setup, it's easy to solo Master Bird in Story. I'll demonstrate that when I get to it.
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Jun 19, 2016 05:50
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Ragnar Homsar posted:To the first part: hat guy is very much intentional. It's Medic 3 and his drunken group of friends that comprise the Adventurers in matching gear. Oh. Ragnar Homsar posted:Secondly, that's a WebM, not a gif. I just use them pretty interchangeably so I didn't think anyone would care to make the distinction.
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Jun 19, 2016 05:54
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Golem.
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Jun 19, 2016 05:56
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Jun 19, 2016 06:05
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Salamander. Time to get rid of it.
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Jun 19, 2016 06:51
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Dr. Fetus posted:With the right setup, it's easy to solo Master Bird in Story. I'll demonstrate that when I get to it. Well then, I'll eagerly await that update because Ragnar can attest to the pain I went through to beat that drat bird with Flavio. My strategy involved maxing Blind Arrow, Hazy Arrow, Multi-Shot, Trick Step, and Chain Dance, getting a Pre-Initiative grimoire, and eating the Blind Effect Up food. I also learned very quickly that this strategy revolves around not binding Master Bird's legs, so Bow Mastery had to be at level 9. I think I also maxed Sleep Arrow, but I can't remember if I used it during the fight (I ended the fight with it, but that detail isn't as important as it sounds).
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Efe posted:Well then, I'll eagerly await that update because Ragnar can attest to the pain I went through to beat that drat bird with Flavio. My strategy involved maxing Blind Arrow, Hazy Arrow, Multi-Shot, Trick Step, and Chain Dance, getting a Pre-Initiative grimoire, and eating the Blind Effect Up food. I also learned very quickly that this strategy revolves around not binding Master Bird's legs, so Bow Mastery had to be at level 9. I think I also maxed Sleep Arrow, but I can't remember if I used it during the fight (I ended the fight with it, but that detail isn't as important as it sounds). I am not kidding when I say, for a solid two weeks, I'd come home from class to see that I'd gotten new messages from Efe, relaying the pain and frustration of trying to solo Master Bird this early in Story. He only won after Fetus learned what the Blind and Paralysis foods actually did.
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