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Episode 012 - In which Ravness and Nerraw deny probability time and time again. It's time for the news.  We've fought 9 so far  we murdered 62 things and 47 of those were Galgastanman, gently caress galgastan  The latest story events since the last time we looked here. Already covered so I'll be skipping over these. nothing new in them.  Two new news stories!  ...Front leader Cerya Phoraena vehemently denies any part in these killings. She states this is merely propaganda targeted at discrediting their cause.  "...from the Bakram." Might as well take this opportunity to invest our skill points, it'll be the last opportunity we get for a bit.  We invest some points for Levi into a fourth skill slot, and Harden1 (:giggity:) which ups his physical defence.  Lenneth invests into Knockback 1 which is useful for keeping enemies at bay.  In spite of HEALBOT having a decent number of skill points, she also lacks the level requirement for some of the more utility skills such as Channelling (-% cost of spells), Expand Mind (+Mana capacity) and Insight (faster % mana regen per round) so she keeps her points at the moment to invest later.  Nerraw invests in a fourth skill slot as well as a point into Spellcraft 1 which makes his attack spells stronger. As he's now reached level 6 he can use the indirect spells natively now without using scrolls so he just got that much more useful. Another level or two and he can start using the CC spells for his schools   Snipette's largest bane to date has been lovely accuracy, so we invest in a skill slot, as well as Trueflight 1 which buffs her accuracy. We also shuffle around her skills and give her Knockback 1 as well, just because I'm a fan of knockback.  Martine gets accuracy and a skill slot as well. Her accuracy is less of a concern later as we rely on Mighty Blow a chunk which grants her 100% accuracy, but this will make her not useless in the rain.  Canopus gets Strengthen 1 which by reports buffs physical damage. Whether that applies to ranged damage or not is open to debate, but I like to think that it does.  We invest Voltares few skillpoints into Rampart Aura and Knockback. To the Xeod Moors!  "A vast wetlands in the middle of the Coritanae Region, made rich by the flow of the Xeod."         Enemy Party Lv. 5 Archer [HP: 121] Lv. 5 Archer [HP: 119] Lv. 5 Beast Tamer [HP: 133] Lv. 6 Beast Tamer [HP: 157] **Boss Lv. 5 Berserker [HP: 163] Lv. 5 Cleric [HP: 103] Lv. 5 Enchantress [HP: 108] Lv. 6 Gryphon [HP: 193] **Boss Lv. 6 Gryphon [HP: 193] **Boss Lv. 5 Warrior [HP: 152] Lv. 5 Warrior [HP: 161] Lv. 5 Wizard [HP: 106]  Interesting enemy composition, briefly going to cover my overall strategy here: I hate Ganpp maps and I'm not going to gently caress about maxing EXP. The only good thing about Ganpp maps is that if you just focus on going for the throat, they tend not to last very long. That's it. I hate Ganpp maps, he's the worst. He's tanky as gently caress for a Beastmaster, does reasonable damage but the worst part is his pets the Griffins. Later maps introduce more gimmicks, more beasts, and in each map I am just going straight for the throat because gently caress those maps. Griffins ignore negative auras such as rampart aura because they can fly and thus your front line means nothing to them. They ignore your tanks and go for your casters. Like Dragons, they focus on TP and have a combination of TP based moves that also inflict status effects. The one that they love the most is numbing hook which does a shitload of damage to a single target and has a chance to inflict the stun status on them, giving them a chance of losing their turn. gently caress Griffins. EXP and Skill points earned are based on the number of enemies killed. The more you kill, the more of each you get, and for the most part I try to maximise the number of enemies I kill - except for maps where there's a shitload of beasts, until I get a later class. This is also the first time we're introduced to the reptile race - they use renamed humanoid classes, in my experience they're tankier than the humanoid versions, and harder hitting. I'm sure someone with more indepth knowledge of the game than me (OFS maybe) will be able to share more than that, but in my experience, they're slower and harder than your counterpart units so it may be worth investing in getting one later. Oh, and the two races do not share a levelling tree, so the reptile warrior counterpart etc needs to be levelled seperately.  Enemy team and ours move up, you might think back to the last map and go "hey cool, a swamp map, you can funnel them in" then you remember "gently caress griffins"   Ravness moves up past the front line / Levi and drops a spiritsurge on Tunda the Reptile Warrior.       Archers focus fire on Berda because she's the closest and the easiest target.     Ravness casually blocks all comers attempts at murdering her.   Vyce is attacked on our right flank and blocks it. Yknow, maybe I'm giving Vyce too hard a time, he blocks more often than he doesn't.   Ravness continues telling the enemy to come and have a go if they think they're hard enough. (Conclusion: They're not).    Levi and Voltare attack their closest beastmen.     Ravness continues her MVP streak of ruining enemies turns by blocking an attack from Orda (at least I think it's Obda) and then punching Tunda in the face and blocking on his counter.  More focus firing on Berda.  Vyce blocks another arrow.   Nerraw drops a cragfall on Berda for a nice bit of damage.     Vyce takes a massive fireball hit square in the face then runs up and punches an archer.    Yet more Berda focus fire. Got her to about half health   Martine takes a crossbow bolt in the shoulder.   Nerraw gets incredibly lucky and blocks a 93% shot that would have taken over half his health from Obda.   Which when combined with this attack, would have killed him.     Christ no wonder they keep missing, look at that chance to hit. She's not a super unit like Warren et all, so I don't know what's with her zen and the art of not taking damage bullshit.  Levi decides his chance to hit anyone's too low, so hits up Nerraw given that Berda's up next with a TP move.  Alas, t'was for nought, as Nerraw dodges the Numbing Hook.  The reptile warrior on our right flank moves back and slashes Vyce in the back.    Ravness takes a crit and falls into deep water doesn't stop her from countering though.   Ravness stays in the water and hits Tunda with a spiritsurge.  Nerraw moves back and lines up a Vulcan Lance into Berda.  The enemy wizard moves up and tries to put Levi and Ravness to sleep with Balmy Breeze. Fails both.    :whatthechrist:  :whatthechrist:      Later Vyce, you've been good lately, maybe I won't let you die in the next map.       We get Berda to sub 20% hp, so Ganpp freaks out and calls a retreat, his beasts flying in different directions and him teleporting out. We then slaughter the rest of his minions off camera.  
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Episode 0013 - an easy fight for once!  "A coal-mining town in the middle of the Bahm range; the houses here sprung up around the mineshafts."  It's raining.  Storming. Hard to see with all the movement from the rain. With the dark.  The lightning flashes, and we're seen.  We hold the high ground.  It's too late for the Galgastani. They should have had scouts.  They're outnumbered, and out powered.  This won't be an assassination, this will be a slaughter.  Thanks to our height, Canopus effectively has 5 additional range. Actual archers will have more thanks to their Great Bows.      Have we lost our innocence yet?   Vyce is so angry. He may have a good heart deep down, but he's got so much hate too. He's here to kill. Filled with a nationalistic zeal. So much resentment.   Ravness is the true believer. The one who believes that things should be done the right way, with consideration for your fellow man. A pacifist, at heart. To end the war as peacefully as can be established.      Who even knows why Canopus is here. At this stage I'm positive it's spite. The wings heal, but the wounds of the mind take much longer.   Sara follows from gratitude. She'd be dead by now were it not for us. She knows it.     Vyce is a fighter. He's not stupid, and he has a warrior's instinct. They might think he is, but he's cunning, and that's an intelligence all of its own.   The realm bleeds, and I fast find myself becoming cynical that I can spare the people of their suffering.  Voltare follows, because I command. He is grateful for his life, but he is a knight, and he is sworn to me. Where I go, he will follow. Even into the depths.  The enemy begin to fall. First one.  Catiua follows unwillingly. She longs only for a life of safety and quiet with her beloved brother, but I cannot stay quiet while the people suffer. I order her to keep Vyce alive. He deserves our support, he has earned it well enough.    The slaughter continues without incident. The enemy falls, ineffectually.  It was never in doubt. Firing uphill in the rain is a difficult task at the best of times. Made more difficult with enemies in your face.      They fall.       Literally.   Only two stand.  And they can do naught as their death bears down upon them.       One must fall.  Balmamusa is ours.     
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  : We are not the enemy! Or are you so taken with your Galgastani masters you have forgotten? : There's no call for such rancor, Vyce. We should hear them out. : Suppose we do fight. What then? conflict will only lead to more suffering: At least here the winds of war do not howl in our ears, and our stomachs do not grumble.  : You are Walister! Where is your pride? : Leave as you came. Let us live out our lives in peace. Today it's the Resistance, tomorrow who-knows-what, but you all sing the same tune.  : We want no part of your fight. You're doomed to fail, any road. Galgastan is too powerul. Heroes you may be, but the pride always comes before the fall!     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsaKmMZ0eJM    : The duke foreknew this outcome. These are his orders. : But why this? If you know even one reason, I would hear it!: Because his grace...demands it.  : But the words of these children will not be enough to move them to take up arms. When they refuse, you are to kill them under guise of Galgastani agents. : Leave no survivors.  : If we are to defeat Galgastan, the Walister must unite as never before. : If it appears the Galgastani destroyed Balmamusa, our people in the remaining camps will rally to our banner.: But...your Grace...: Nor will opposition in the Galgastani ranks remain unmoved by such outrage.: Balbatos will be beset by foes without and within. we will finally have both the opportunity and the moral imperative to rid the world of the creature.: Levi and the others will not do this quietly.   There is Blood on my hands, How long till it lies on my heart? 1. I understand. We follow the Lawful word of our Liege Lord. 2. Stop this Lunacy! We reject our Liege lord and follow our conscience down the path of Chaos tithin fucked around with this message at 02:56 on May 14, 2017 |
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Having spent the entire saturday writing this up, and being probably the biggest game defining decision, I will leave this decision up for some time.
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Way to set the scene there in the lead-up battle! I could never bring myself to choose anything but chaos route when I played, plus that's the route the last LP took, so I guess we should choose the lawful route... ... Eh maybe I'll just abstain.
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Bifauxnen posted:Way to set the scene there in the lead-up battle! Thanks! Wasn't sure how it'd get taken - I generally try not to do ~RP~ stuff, but I thought it was kind of appropriate. quote:I could never bring myself to choose anything but chaos route when I played, plus that's the route the last LP took, so I guess we should choose the lawful route... Same, actually 
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Stop this Lunacy! It's one thing to be fighting soldiers of some kind but swording the old and young is a bit too far. We ain't no Darth Vader.
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I understand. If blood must be payed for our freedom, then we must be the ones to spill it.
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Sacrifices are always fun. Full Lawful
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If you don't kill the civilians then who will? You understand This also spares you from an ill advised death march much later in game
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I too have a hard time not choosing the chaos route. But, for the sake of this LP getting to stuff the old one didn't, I understand if we have to dirty our hands.
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Recall the words of the old woman. Her son once spoke of freedom and justice. He now lies dead, for all he had was his passion and righteousness. Thousands upon thousands of lives are being decided upon tonight, and not the residents here. The war is already in motion, and should our cause fall now, the Walister people will be decimated. Slaughtered. Thinned out to a handful of survivors who can never again rise up. Regardless of what we may think of our liege and his bid for power, Our actions up to this point have started consequences much bigger than this town. There is no such thing as a bloodless war. There is no such thing as a victory without sacrifice. There is no such thing as truly noble cause when nations and races collide. Only after are such labels given. I understand. Drakenel fucked around with this message at 22:34 on May 13, 2017 |
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I understand. Whats wrong with a little purge of the innocent here and there? Our parents got purged and we turned out Just fine.
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tithin posted:
Who's this Denam rear end in a top hat? Also, Law, because surely they can make Law seem infinitely more reasonable than SMT does.
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Sordas Volantyr posted:Who's this Denam rear end in a top hat? NO ONE YOU SAW NOTHING christ the law / chaos SMT breakdown's a can of worms, don't open it here or else tallgeese will come in here to say that Zelenin / Mastema did nothing wrong
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tithin posted:NO ONE YOU SAW NOTHING Well, my opinion on that.... Just kidding. I Understand mauman fucked around with this message at 04:20 on May 14, 2017 |
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Well, we're a kid and we're at war. Let's make some stupid decisions. We'll war crime! NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW!
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Drakenel posted:There is no such thing as a bloodless war. There is no such thing as a victory without sacrifice. To risk your life and limb is bravery. To risk those of the unwilling is barbarism and treachery. Stop this lunacy. I fully expect Law to win this one and it'll be nice to see an LP actually go that route! Does mean you'll miss out on the Worst Escort Mission Ever, but so it goes. The dilemma is good, either way.
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tithin posted:NO ONE YOU SAW NOTHING Well yeah, Mastema did indeed do nothing wrong. Also, stop this lunacy. The Duke is not almighty Filarhh, they don't get to make this kind of call. Tallgeese fucked around with this message at 08:07 on May 15, 2017 |
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Lawful. Since the other LP went the Chao route. Also, I usually hate warcrimes and what not in my RPGs, but what happens after this decision is actually quite good.
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theshim posted:How easy it is for one to speak of sacrifice while spilling another's blood. How necessary, and expedient it may seem, to win a war bought with the lives of others. Oh god, I forgot about that one. I usually think of the rescue mission of the chapter 4 sidequest person as "the worst ever" because even my post game party had trouble with it from time to time.
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Tallgeese posted:Well yeah, Mastema did indeed do nothing wrong.  Anyway, I'll give it about 2 more days (because I'm busy irl)
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Voting for Stop this Lunacy. We can't slaughter our own people. We have to be /better/ than this. If we justify things 'for the war' and 'for the greater need' then we go off the slippery slope.
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Voting I Understand because I've never seen the Lawful route in the remake, and I'm not grinding enough to do it myself.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OW0pb-psRQ&t=167s In case the video didn't link to the right time, skip to 2:47 for a very dramatic SO BE IT With official votes as follows: Law: 14 Chaos: 4 Abstain: 1 We are going to commit some war crimes... ...tommorow.
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Thank God. for brief second, I thought we were going to go the "generic boring jrpg hero" route again. Law Denim is FAR more interesting then Chaos Denim (and don't get me started on Neutral Denim). Actually, now that I think about it, Law has a better story and set of characters too. Everything is better on the law path, and all it requires is the low, low price of one genocide.  That would have happened anyways mauman fucked around with this message at 01:53 on May 19, 2017 |
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Yeah while my heart lies with the Chaos route I feel that the game was written with the Law route in mind. Also Neutral exists purely to screw you over and punish you for being a wishy washy rear end in a top hat. 
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Alkarl posted:Yeah while my heart lies with the Chaos route I feel that the game was written with the Law route in mind. As it should be, god knows what drives a man to barbarous neutrality.
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Logicblade posted:As it should be, god knows what drives a man to barbarous neutrality. I wanted the guns (because I didn't know they were crap)
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Working on the update now, however the next update comprises some 370 screenshots so I may not get it done tonight
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Episode 0014 - It lies now upon my heart Blood is the price that must be paid for our freedom, and we will be the ones to spill it.  : Don't worry. We'll not let their sacrifice be in vain. Vyce looks more dignified, more regal.  : The Duke gave such an order, Leonar? And you would carry it out? : Open your eyes. We cannot win if we are unwilling to dirty our hands.: Ours is to follow orders. I swore an oath before the Duke. Before the Realm. The most cutting insult he can find, thrown in my face. : The Duke would sacrifice these people as a piece in some great game. Our lord has betrayed us all. To think I was willing to give my life for such a man. : What a fool I was.  : drat right! These people have done nothing. Where is the justice in killing them!? : I break no faith. I renounce the Duke.... I renounce you all!: I always thought to find you at my side the day the Walister won their freedom. : But if men of our own blood would stand against us, why should I expect more of you?: Am I not Walister?: Walister descended from Galgastani stock. But the fault is mine. I should not have placed such faith in one of mingled blood!: How dare you!: Every victory comes at a price. Can't you see that? People are dullwits! The sacrifice must be great to wake them from their languor![Suddenly Leonar slices at Vyce, who only barely escapes the knight's sword. Also I didn't capture it - Sorry.]   : I...I will ever stand with Denim!   ....we should have had scouts. They hold the high ground!   The craven fled into the night.  Vyce has fled into the night to fight against us.   : A man who places ends before means treads a dangerous path. The shame is mine for daring to hope. : On my honor, you are my foe, Levi! Ravness stands before us, her Will her armour, her spear does not waver. ---------------------------------------------  As a general rule, this can be a hard fight, but often is not with preparation. There are several things to bear in mind. 1/ While hostile, Ravness's death is not a requirement for the map, though the Galgastani factions is. The game actively tries to trick you in the previous screenshot as it focusses on her, as it would with an assassination mission. 1.1/ Ravness is on a seperate faction to the Galgastani and hostile to them, as they are to her. They will take shots at her if she's an easier target. 2/ There are sufficient story rewards down the track for not killing Ravness. 3/ This map therefore becomes about not letting Ravness flank your frontline to get to your rear line as she has the capacity to murder them without effort. 4/ Galgastani Faction 1x Berserker 1x Knight 2x Warrior 2x Valkyrie 2x Archer 1x Wizard Ravness Faction Ravness (Valkyrie)   : You feel yourself betrayed? You'd heed blood over word and action? : Can the light of deed not pierce the shadow of one's birth?: I believe it can. I will not believe otherwise! Ravness throws herself into the fray. We form a defensive line with Lenneth, Martin, Levi and Voltare. By placing Voltare on her left flank, combined with his rampart aura, it's more action efficient for Ravness to attempt to pierce Lenneth and Levi (though it didn't work out thanks to the rain).  Just to give you an idea of the raw power differential - check out the difference in stats though they're the same class and level. Ravness literally hits harder and more accurately at 25% strength (given counterattack 1 is only 25% melee damage), than Lenneth does at full strength.   : I myself am not of the common race...though I can't say as I've met misfortune on that account. Just luck, perhaps.: I...hadn't considered that.: Time for considering later. We've more pressing matters.    Canopus begins to soften up the enemy frontline, but his work's immediately undone. Enemy Wizard tries to stun him and fails. He's a target now.   We're now somewhat in trouble - we've got Ravness blocked in. She can't flank, but we also can't progress, and our archers are next to useless - right now. The vague plan of attack is to send them up the stairway next to Catiua (currently healing Martine) however they'll have to do it sans support, because casters cannot jump for poo poo.   Martine takes a Spiritsurge to the face, it stings, but it's not crippling.   The enemy melee have reached Canopus - he's a claw user and smacks him in the back for 39 damage.  We buff up Martine with Instill Light because there's not much else for Levi to do at this stage. That Ravness has moved back up is good because now our line can move forward and relieve Levi of babysitting the cliff drop.    Zell (hotdog anyone?) is out of range for an arrow, so we hit up claw guy instead. Their knight undoes it with a heal, which is very poorly captured here.     As the only valid target, Canopus is starting to take a little bit of a kicking, so I'm going to move him back in range of our heals (which completely ignore verticality)   Ravness takes another semi succesful shot at our frontline, hitting Voltare, but not Lenneth. Lenneth moves up to hit one of their incoming warriors with a very low damage Deadshot. I may choose to change her spell school in the future to lightning for reasons.    Canopus really taking a kicking here. Our archers as you can see are finally getting to the same level as he is right now, so they should be able to contribute soon.   Anys tries to take off Martine's head straight at the neck, but Martine's having none of that bullshit.  Someone (???) heals Voltare.      starting to get into the meat of the action now as my frontline, the galgastani front line, and ravness all clash at the top of the stairs. Lenneth takes a regular hit from the enemy Berserker, Canopus, meanwhile at 1/3 health, drops a crit on Anys and knocks her away from Martine in front of Lenneth. The enemy knight moves in on Canopus but is knocked back with a regular arrow shot from Snipette, knocking his rear end back to the pavement. Someone (I think it's Catiua in this case) heals Canopus (again due to indirect spells ignoring verticality).   Snipette gets out of dodge from a Deadshot from one of the enemy valkyries.   Due to Anys now being in front of Lenneth, Ravness skewers Lenneth and Anys both for a fuckton of damage.   Nerraw takes his first offensive action of the fight and finishes off Anys.   Snipette takes a bit of damage from an iceblast.  Just an overall view of our health levels. You can see Lenneth's moved back to the back lines. Can you see a big mistake I made here? (hint, look at where Lenneth's standing).   Voltare heals Lenneth, and Donnalto Canopus.  Our front line is now completely secure between Lenneth, Martin and Voltar so I move Levi back towards our ascending archers to provide them support. He drops an Instill Light on Canopus.  Lenneth is topped up by HEALBOT     Sara shoots Jayne, meanwhile Martine takes some damage from Reginald.      Enemy Knight heals Sara's damage to Jayne via a mend leaf, meanwhile the enemy archers finally start unleashing their volleys. Ravness is no stranger to incoming damage and blocks both the arrow, and the axe from the berserker.   Canopus's damage is blocked by Jayne which is unfortunate.       Finally get to unleash some damage.   Ravness does us a solid by assaulting the enemy. Sure she tried to kill us too but missed. It's the thought that counts?    We're finally in a position to take out their squishiest members, though at the rate we're going we'll probably kill the frontline before the archers.       The enemy Valkyries (Coven?) spread out the magical hurt by hitting up Snipette and Martine knocking both to around half health respectively.   Donnalto and HEALBOT heal up Martine, while Voltare puts an Instill Light on Lenneth. Not exactly optimal, but it's the best he can do for the moment. the enemy keep filling Snipette with arrows    Sara and Canopus finally complete their long awaited crossover issue and take out Reginald from downtown.   Nerraw takes an arrow in the direct centre of his brain    Zell decides that if he's going to die, he's going to take lessons intra-franchise and drops a loving meteor on Snipette (tier 1 darkness school indirect spell, like cragfall etc, but cooler because it's a big assed meteor).   Martine holds the door against the enemy.    Eagle eyed viewers will have spotted this coming a while back. I didn't see it until it was too late  Thankfully it was Catiua's turn immediately after Ravness, so she helps to patch up Nerraw.    Martine and Nerraw team up to take down the Galgastani Berserker to half health    Snipette is dead, Levi only got to the bottom of that staircase by the time she was focussed to death.   Nerraw's back to full  we're in something of a unique position, if you look at the above screenshot. Their melee can't engage us, so they're reliant on ranged attacks which for the most part are ineffective. They can't scale down the cliff so they can't engage our squishies, and without their archers support they can't focus fire them down. This is ~partly~ why I was ok with Snipette going down because the longer their archers are distracted, the more we can focus our own fire on their front line.  Anyway, Voltare gives the Valkyrie coven the middle finger and heals Martine back for more damage than was dealt.  Our archer contingent need no patching up, so I have Levi buff Sara with Instill Light. Every little helps.    Zell dies, while sara becomes the "nicer" target for the enemy archers, she then dodges a shot.   Sara goes for the downtown dunk but fumbles   Ethelia the archer then shots Nerraw in the brain again, we'll see down the track whether this has any long term damage.    Lenneth and Nerraw both take the full brunt of the hit from Ravness knocking both down to 1/3 health. Like before Catiua heals up Nerraw to circa 2/3 health.    Meanwhile Martine blocks more damage from the enemy frontline. Good job Martine.  Donnalto heals up Nerraw to full again.   Nerraw's loving pissed about being used as a pincushion and drops a boulder on Bellinda to relieve some stress.     HEALBOT heals up Lenneth removing her from oneshot territory. She then takes a Deadshot and an Iceblast for her troubles, but immediately undone by Voltare.   Martine can't move from her current position without also opening up a path to our healers, so she strikes the Knight with a Mighty Blow.    Canopus has enough TP for a Dark Weight and I decide to use it on the Galgastani berserker. There's other targets but I wanted to clear the field and this was the only one that was a guaranteed kill.  Sara or Canopus drop an arrow onto the Knight Jeger bringing him to ~1/2 health.   Sara takes 20 damage from an arrow. It is not sufficient.  Lenneth and Nerraw get brought back to full health.  That's a bit more damage than I would expect.   Ah, poo poo. I forgot she did that.  Seeing the action bar at the bottom I elect to use the second last of my mend leafs to heal Lenneth up a bit to give her a bit more of a buffer. A lot of my, the Galgastanis next actions revolve around Lenneth.        I'd sooner Donnalto and Nerraw take the damage than Lenneth at this point tbh - the fact that Lenneth blocked that first attack meant she would have survived the iceblast and spear if both had been levied at her.   Levi finally reaches Snipette - it says 1 Snipette round has passed since she went down which is ~kind~ of misleading, I don't know by what factor, but downed allies turn timers slow down a lot. It's very generous with its time to revive. Levi revives her to 10%hp with a Blessing Stone.     We've almost completely wiped away their frontline and the Galgastani have no healing capacity left, other than their knight who's barely standing as it is.  : I would have your reasons, if you've any worth repeating! You'd give your blessing to this sacrilege? : Or have you chosen to turn your back on the light, on the very teachings of the Great Father? Is revenge your calling now, Abuna? : The blood of your sworn enemy flows in my veins! Why not slay me, too?: Since ancient times, there has been a word for one who sells his soul to the devil. They call him "ogre," a demon who eats the flesh of men!: I see now the many you will consume in your lust for power. : You are an ogre in truth!      Donnalto tops off Nerraw and Sara moves back to use the last mend leaf on Snipette. Sensing blood in the water, the two enemy archers take a shot at Snipette, the first one missing entirely, and the second one critting, leaving her at 5hp.    Nerraw brings their knight to critical HP, while Ravness skewers Martine and one of their Valkyries. The second Valkyrie then follows up with an Iceblast on Martine. She theoretically could have gone back and hit Snipette from where she's standing, but I'm glad she didn't because Martine can take the punishment.   The first Valkyrie's turn is back up and he skewers Lenneth and Nerraw both, unfortunately it's too little too late and without focus firing the enemy cannot keep up with our healing.    Martine gets a heal just in time to take a hit from their knight, who's then killed off by Sara.  Just to give you an idea of health levels. That archer with nothing on her health bar is Snipette.   Donnalto heals Snipette to bring her out of critical, and HEALBOT heals up Martine. Off screen Canopus and Sara both take shots at the first Valkyrie in range of Lenneth and Martine, but they both miss.   Martine doesn't, bringing him to 1/3 hp.    Levi removes any lingering doubts about Snipettes current mortality. The enemy archer realises that he may in fact be mortal and at risk, so takes a shot at Levi that's blocked. He legs it.  Nerraw continues punishing the first Valkyrie.   Ravness finishes him off and (off camera) the second valkyrie swoops in and steals the card that he drops!   Martine gets buffed with more damage again.  The Galgastani are now down to One Valkyrie, and two archers, one of which is fleeing from Levi, the other is unable to affect the battle outcome at this point. Skipping to the end...   loving card!   Ravness teleports out  "Congratulations"      This ends Chapter 1, you fine law abiding citizens you. tithin fucked around with this message at 12:08 on May 19, 2017 |
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As an aside, I hope no one minds when I do a "skip to the end" thing - I only do it when there's nothing interesting that could possibly occur. Storyline stuff etc will still be covered, I'm only going to do it when there's chaff left over that need to be killed and there's a never ending series of blocks misses and dodges
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May 19, 2017 12:06
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Apart from the whole war crime thing, the other thing I hate about the Law choice is it lets loving Vyce start acting all high and mighty and lording it over us like he's all Mr Moral Compass now. I piss on his noble cause!
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May 19, 2017 12:25
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I mean we are only killing old people, and old people in JRPGs exist only to either die or be bad rear end blind swordsmen. I don't see a oroblem with our choice.
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May 19, 2017 15:29
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waah posted:I mean we are only killing old people, and old people in JRPGs exist only to either die or be bad rear end blind swordsmen. I don't see a oroblem with our choice. Winning this battle only to find Leonar and his troops lying in a pool of their own blood and surrounded by vengeful blind seniors holding sword canes would have been a pretty amazing twist and a great follow up battle.
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Canpous is a cool dude and I'm glad they keep giving him lines throughout so many story battles. It's been a long time since I played last, but I thought they did a pretty good job at having side characters have in battle banter.
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