Thanks! I'll definitely check Chrono Trigger once I have time.
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Completed Let's Play Cthulhu Saves the World LP
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Thanks! I'll definitely check Chrono Trigger once I have time.
Part IX: Losing our Way
In which we'll walk into all the dead-ends we can find and explore a small dungeon.
We're continuing our adventure on a new part of the world map, leaving behind Dunwitch
Color-swapped enemies. But we'll still meet new faces to beat into the ground in this update.
See? I told you there would some variety.
Not this way...
The uglier they are...
Not that way...
Instead of going to the main quest, which is in a forest on the other side of those mountains, we'll explore a side-dungeon.
For the palette of this dungeon, we'll go with swamp green and grey. It's called the swamps of despair, so you know it's serious shit.
New enemies. We'll see a great number of werewolves in this cave and we'll often use insanity on them to speed up their elimination.
Not that way...
Half-horse, half-man, but barely a speed bump for Cthulhu & Co.
Not this way...
October got a fireball spell which will hit all enemies of the same type, which burned those snails in one turn.
We find a pretty good blade for our hovering sword.
We then reach the treasure of the dungeon when:
As you pull your treasure out of the chest, the guardian of the swamp appears - the dreaded Fire Whale! Watch out!
I tried to think of a joke either with Ishmael or a fire Landwhale, couldn't think of any.
We raise the combo meter so that Sharpe can deal a devastating blow against the whale. Victory followed soon after.
Now October can equip her new grimoire.
We've also had level-ups for everyone, with October getting a new poison spell, but I've forgotten to capture it. The rest is just stats.
We then move to the main quest, through the Ghost Forest.
Spooky ambiance
It's supposed to be a statue of Cthulhu.
What is this place?
A cult worship site. We should be on our guard.
But they worship Cthulhu, right? We should be safe, right?
Not necessarily. Cultists aren't known for being reasonable. They will probably attack everyone on sight, even their own god.
You have some weird followers!
You're telling me!
On one hand cultist going against their god might be original, but it still feel lazy. It would have been better to have the choice to fight or not, but that's not the type of game we're playing here.
I'll leave you with this riveting cliffhanger. Until nex time!
Edit: Yay for page 2!
In which we'll walk into all the dead-ends we can find and explore a small dungeon.
We're continuing our adventure on a new part of the world map, leaving behind Dunwitch
Color-swapped enemies. But we'll still meet new faces to beat into the ground in this update.
See? I told you there would some variety.
Not this way...
The uglier they are...
Not that way...
Instead of going to the main quest, which is in a forest on the other side of those mountains, we'll explore a side-dungeon.
For the palette of this dungeon, we'll go with swamp green and grey. It's called the swamps of despair, so you know it's serious shit.
New enemies. We'll see a great number of werewolves in this cave and we'll often use insanity on them to speed up their elimination.
Not that way...
Half-horse, half-man, but barely a speed bump for Cthulhu & Co.
Not this way...
October got a fireball spell which will hit all enemies of the same type, which burned those snails in one turn.
We find a pretty good blade for our hovering sword.
We then reach the treasure of the dungeon when:
I tried to think of a joke either with Ishmael or a fire Landwhale, couldn't think of any.
We raise the combo meter so that Sharpe can deal a devastating blow against the whale. Victory followed soon after.
Now October can equip her new grimoire.
We've also had level-ups for everyone, with October getting a new poison spell, but I've forgotten to capture it. The rest is just stats.
We then move to the main quest, through the Ghost Forest.
Spooky ambiance
It's supposed to be a statue of Cthulhu.
On one hand cultist going against their god might be original, but it still feel lazy. It would have been better to have the choice to fight or not, but that's not the type of game we're playing here.
I'll leave you with this riveting cliffhanger. Until nex time!
Edit: Yay for page 2!
Part X: The Spooky Forest
So last time we stopped, we've just entered a new dungeon, the Ghost Forest, frequented by cultist of good old Cthulhu.
For this dungeon, I mostly wandered around getting lost and killing a bunch of enemies.
New enemy types.
This whip allows October's basic attack to hit multiple enemies. But since her attack is weak, especially compared to her spells, it's a bit lackluster.
New enemies, including the aforementionned cultists hanging around this forest.
We get a level-up for Sharpe, giving him a new stronger attack.
Kill
Get Lost
Kill
Get Lost
Repeat as long as the exit is not in sight.
We got a tunic for Cthulhu. It's not a direct upgrade, more like a side-grade with more magical protection and damage.
Meh
The dungeon is separated in a few different maps.
So how do we get to the chest? By losing our way on the map and walking circle until we find it, of course!
Umi and Cthulhu get level-up, but only stats for Cthulhu.
Doing some gardening.
A new blade for Sharpe.
But it sucks compared to the one we already had, so I won't use it.
October got the last level-up of the dungeon, upgrading her fireball, making it more useful to clean-up trash mobs.
Some cult memorabilia.
We've reached the end of the dungeon, indicated by the glowing circle replenishing our magic points.
The Ape Princess. Don't let the princess title fool you - this this is one princess you do NOT want to date.
Speaking from personal experience, Cthulhu?
Um...
Grr.
The princess starts the combat with a protection spell on the wolves, lowering the damage received to next to nothing
Except for poison damage, allowing to remove the wolves.
Soon enough we've won. It still took me three tries before victory
.
Was that thing that just tried to kill us seriously an ex-girlfriend of yours?
Girlfriend? No! We just had dinner once or twice. It was nothing!
Watch out! Umi is seriously angry!
Let's gurry on out of this forest to the next town!
Grr!
And now we're free to go back outside on the overworld, to continue to the town of Providence.
For this dungeon, I mostly wandered around getting lost and killing a bunch of enemies.
New enemy types.
This whip allows October's basic attack to hit multiple enemies. But since her attack is weak, especially compared to her spells, it's a bit lackluster.
New enemies, including the aforementionned cultists hanging around this forest.
We get a level-up for Sharpe, giving him a new stronger attack.
Kill
Get Lost
Kill
Get Lost
Repeat as long as the exit is not in sight.
We got a tunic for Cthulhu. It's not a direct upgrade, more like a side-grade with more magical protection and damage.
Meh
The dungeon is separated in a few different maps.
So how do we get to the chest? By losing our way on the map and walking circle until we find it, of course!
Umi and Cthulhu get level-up, but only stats for Cthulhu.
Doing some gardening.
A new blade for Sharpe.
But it sucks compared to the one we already had, so I won't use it.
October got the last level-up of the dungeon, upgrading her fireball, making it more useful to clean-up trash mobs.
Some cult memorabilia.
We've reached the end of the dungeon, indicated by the glowing circle replenishing our magic points.
The princess starts the combat with a protection spell on the wolves, lowering the damage received to next to nothing
Except for poison damage, allowing to remove the wolves.
Soon enough we've won. It still took me three tries before victory
And now we're free to go back outside on the overworld, to continue to the town of Providence.
Part XI: Visiting Providence
In which we'll visit a new city!
We're leaving the woods behind us.
We meet some fellow travellers
And soon enough we reach a new city.
Welcome to Providence, birthplace of H.P. Lovecraft, whoever that is.
We go to visit the inn
But they are all boring, so we just replenish our MP and leave.
We swing by the armorer to buy some new weapons and armors. We got a new sword for Cthulhu and new armors for everyone else.
Then we visit the villages, meeting the inhabitants.
As do I.
This isn't the ocean, folks. Trust me, I lived there for countless aeons.
Ftghza Yzdvz Plzsdv.
Huh?
You should read it some time.
I love this book! So touching!
Hey, stop looking at me like that!
We have the ruler of insanity and she picks the sword to be afraid of?
Don't worry! I still think you're terrifying!
I don't need your pity fear.
Poor Cthulhu.
Maybe we should go on a quest to gather magical crystals! It's what all the cool heroes are doing!
Been there, done that. Crystals are overrated. Pass.
The cool heroes, like the ones we beat in the second update?
Now I wish I had my ball back. Oh why did I throw my sole source of entertainement into a stupid well!?
I hope it's another of those "I clapped because I know what that is", because, otherwise it's pretty stupid. Where on earth have you heard a children talking like this?
We should check it out! If there really is an alien invasion, you could become a true hero by foiling it!
Updated my journal!
We also visit the local tavern
.
No shirt can contain the awesomeness that is Cthulhu!
So it seems this alien story seems to be more than just delusion/moonshine abuse.
With that done we leave Providence and head to the other side of the lake.
which is reached quickly enough.
What adventures does await us in the ranch? We'll see next time!
And since it was rather short, I'll try to finish the next part this week-end or the may, 1st, since it's a national holiday here.
In which we'll visit a new city!
We're leaving the woods behind us.
We meet some fellow travellers
And soon enough we reach a new city.
We go to visit the inn
But they are all boring, so we just replenish our MP and leave.
We swing by the armorer to buy some new weapons and armors. We got a new sword for Cthulhu and new armors for everyone else.
Then we visit the villages, meeting the inhabitants.
The cool heroes, like the ones we beat in the second update?
I hope it's another of those "I clapped because I know what that is", because, otherwise it's pretty stupid. Where on earth have you heard a children talking like this?
Updated my journal!
We also visit the local tavern
So it seems this alien story seems to be more than just delusion/moonshine abuse.
With that done we leave Providence and head to the other side of the lake.
which is reached quickly enough.
What adventures does await us in the ranch? We'll see next time!
And since it was rather short, I'll try to finish the next part this week-end or the may, 1st, since it's a national holiday here.
Part XII: UFO Assault
So we're going to explore a new dungeon and meet some new people!
So we're at the ranch on the other side of the lake.
So we got those cows and chickens.
Aliens
? Ridiculous.
I wouldn't be so sure. I'm an alien myself. We should investigate.
Let's check out the cows!
We go and give a tap to one of the cow.
So it was aliens all right.
It can't be!
Aaaaah!!!
I'm too young to die!
This is kind of fun!
I've been waiting for you, Cthulhu.
Paws! Long time no see! How's life on your home planet of Ulthar?
Violent as ever.
Good to hear it. So what are you doing in this neck of the galaxy?
My people have sent this ship on a mission to take over this world. By abducting cows and injecting them with DNA mutagens, we have been creating an army of immense proportions. Before long, we'll have enought firepower to take this entire planet with ease.
We can't let you do that! Tell him, Cthulhu! You're a good guy now!
I'm afraid it's true.
I know. I've been monitoring you. That's why I've brought you here. I've grown tired of the Ultharian's constant warmongering. Please, lend me your aid in foiling their plans.
I thought you'd never ask! Why, it'll be just like our old college days! Fighting against the establishment, not taking guff from no one!
Indeed.
Paws the Alien Cat has joined your party!
We're letting a cat joins us now? What next?
Woah! I've never seen a cat do that!
NOT A CAT!
Stop it, guys. Paws is not a cat.
He's a big kitty!
Hiss.
You've haven't changed a bit. In order to stop the Ultharian from conquering this planet, we'll need to make it to the bridge. There are a series of electrical force fields we'll need to deactivate. Follow my lead.
Follow the kitty!
How the game work with more than four characters in our team.
I wonder why no one has noticed this space ship other than the rancher.
That's easy to explain. The ship has a cloaking device that is only disabled when we activate the tractor beam.
Cloaking device? Tractor beam? Huh?
Forget about it.
So this is the new guy (gal? I'm not sure, I'll go with guy for now).
So we exit the dungeon through this warp gate.
Tractor beam, activate!
So the entrance to this dungeon is a cow. Well that's original, at least.
We have to deactivate a barrier to start progressing in the dungeon.
And then we're off to explore this UFO!
We meet and killed bunch of uglies. The cow are those abducted from the ranch below, at least this enemies have an explanation for their presence there.
Umi and our new pal Paws get a new level. Paws has been a little underwhelming, his biggest use so far is his very high agility and a spell inflicting insanity on all enemies, which we use during all the dungeon. Making sure that our first move in a combat is applying insanity on enemies make sure that all subsequent attacks lands on insane enemies, increasing the damage taken.
This chest was locked behind a force field, but the switch was just above, so it was a bit lame. The new weapon is good though, even if we didn't use Umi a lot in the dungeon, since Paws also has healing spells if needed.
The new multi-character combo are buffs for the combinations with Cthulhu, Umi and October...
... and a random attack with Sharpe. The buffs seems useless and the random attacks are not worth using the turn of two characters.
We meet a few more aliens, which are cats like Paws. I would have prefered Sectoid-like enemies, keeping a little bit of the retro feel.
The stairs are locked behind a barrier...
... which can be deactivated from the other side of the level...
...allowing us to progress.
The enemies in the middle give defense buff to the rest of the enemies, making them a priority target.
It look like a big yarn ball?
We have to deactivate a few more barriers to progress.
Even the members not on the team are getting XP, the lazy bastards. On the other hand, it meens we won't have to grind to level-up the other characters.
A pretty good sword for Cthulhu.
A kind of mini-boss, but in a random encounter.
More level-up, plus Sharpe and Paws (stats only). Having a spell targeting all the enemies is useful to remove a bunch of weak enemies at once and October's spell is more powerful than the other which were already available.
We reach another floor.
Cthulhu admires the view.
This book is for October and increase the damage her lighting spell. The one she had previously was increasing fire damage, but her fireball spell is useful to kill multiple weak enemies, whereas her lighting spell is better against a single target. So we'll be using this one, since the boss is not far.
We're visiting some kind of cat lounge? At this point, the 25 random encounters for this dungeon have been exhausted, so I can explore without interrupts.
A pretty good armor for Cthulhu.
And we reach the final boss, appropriately at the top of the ship.
I'll stop there, since I think we'll have again a bunch of dialogue and the update should be long enough.
So we're going to explore a new dungeon and meet some new people!
So we're at the ranch on the other side of the lake.
So we got those cows and chickens.
We go and give a tap to one of the cow.
So it was aliens all right.
How the game work with more than four characters in our team.
So this is the new guy (gal? I'm not sure, I'll go with guy for now).
So we exit the dungeon through this warp gate.
So the entrance to this dungeon is a cow. Well that's original, at least.
We have to deactivate a barrier to start progressing in the dungeon.
And then we're off to explore this UFO!
We meet and killed bunch of uglies. The cow are those abducted from the ranch below, at least this enemies have an explanation for their presence there.
Umi and our new pal Paws get a new level. Paws has been a little underwhelming, his biggest use so far is his very high agility and a spell inflicting insanity on all enemies, which we use during all the dungeon. Making sure that our first move in a combat is applying insanity on enemies make sure that all subsequent attacks lands on insane enemies, increasing the damage taken.
This chest was locked behind a force field, but the switch was just above, so it was a bit lame. The new weapon is good though, even if we didn't use Umi a lot in the dungeon, since Paws also has healing spells if needed.
The new multi-character combo are buffs for the combinations with Cthulhu, Umi and October...
... and a random attack with Sharpe. The buffs seems useless and the random attacks are not worth using the turn of two characters.
We meet a few more aliens, which are cats like Paws. I would have prefered Sectoid-like enemies, keeping a little bit of the retro feel.
The stairs are locked behind a barrier...
... which can be deactivated from the other side of the level...
...allowing us to progress.
The enemies in the middle give defense buff to the rest of the enemies, making them a priority target.
It look like a big yarn ball?
We have to deactivate a few more barriers to progress.
Even the members not on the team are getting XP, the lazy bastards. On the other hand, it meens we won't have to grind to level-up the other characters.
A pretty good sword for Cthulhu.
A kind of mini-boss, but in a random encounter.
More level-up, plus Sharpe and Paws (stats only). Having a spell targeting all the enemies is useful to remove a bunch of weak enemies at once and October's spell is more powerful than the other which were already available.
We reach another floor.
Cthulhu admires the view.
This book is for October and increase the damage her lighting spell. The one she had previously was increasing fire damage, but her fireball spell is useful to kill multiple weak enemies, whereas her lighting spell is better against a single target. So we'll be using this one, since the boss is not far.
We're visiting some kind of cat lounge? At this point, the 25 random encounters for this dungeon have been exhausted, so I can explore without interrupts.
A pretty good armor for Cthulhu.
And we reach the final boss, appropriately at the top of the ship.
I'll stop there, since I think we'll have again a bunch of dialogue and the update should be long enough.
Dayyālu
Arcane
Thanks for what.
Half of the update has the images borked, though. Is that normal? It's my browser?
It's a curse?
Dayyālu
Arcane
Should have gone with the traditional Nigger-man, but I seriously doubt the devs could manage to write it without collapsing.
That said, this got me to re-read Lovecraft's cat essay. The guy had a gift in trolling creatively.
Lovecraft said:
Well, I knew that someone was still following this thread and I wanted to acknowledge that.
I don't know, I haven't see any problem on my side. I'm using the steam screenshots, they should have been uploaded with public visibility.
Part XIII: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Finishing the UFO and moving forward.
So we've arrived to the end of this dungeon.
Another kitty!
Pawz! My evil one-eyed twin!
How, that's original. But I don't think he'll see the error of his way and join our party as a anti-hero with a troubled past, since the furry character slot is already taken in our team.
I never thought you'd stoop to working with humans!
Oh, hi, Cthulhu. Long time no see.
Hey.
Associating with humans has taught me that there is more to life than subjugating planets!
But we just met a few minutes ago...
I will not lose to the likes of you!
That boss has all the same offensive spells than Paws, which makes sense since they are brothers. But, compared to the previous boss, at the end of the ghost forest, this one was a total pushover, winning easily on our first try. I think we might be a little over-leveled, since few fights in this dungeon gave us any problems. Either way, between the best attacks of Cthulhu and Sharpe, the poison + debuff from October, we made short work of him. Paws just applied the initial insanity on Pawz and healed the rest of the party, he hasn't has any other usefull spells.
With the victory, everyone level-up, bringing the whole party to level 21.
Nooo!
Pawz disappears.
Now, all I have to do is push a few buttons and the space ship will be ours.
Don't worry about that! I already took care of it!
What did you do?!
I just pressed the big red button! Wasn't that right?
That was the self-destruct button, you idiot!
Everybody! Out of the space ship!
Everyone runs back to the teleport pads.
Teleport activate!
We may have lost a nifty space ship, but I saved the world, just like the game's title said I would!
Cthulhu has gained 50 hero points! But he's still not a true hero.
What?! I saved the world!
Only once though. Come back after you've saved it multiple times.
I'm starting to dislike you, narrator.
Hey look! The ship has blocked the river, revealing a new path for us to take! I guess crashing the space ship was a good thing, after all, right?
Don't talk to me, woman.
Onward! To glory!
Stupid narrator.
So instead of a flying ship to move around like in a classic jRPG, the designer/writer decided to crash it. Well, since I did not expect to have another mean of transportation, I'm not dissapointed. At least it opened the map in an interesting way.
Instead of going forward, we go back to the ranch:
Wow! Consequences! The world reacts to our actions! That's like the second time since the begining of the game!
Indeed. It's like something out of a video game.
And so we can follow the stream bed, conviently dried following our actions.
It's a bit short, but that way I can wrap that chapter of the game. I'll try to have the next part at the end this week. I liked the appearance of this dungeon, it's way better than the others, with more different elements and distinct rooms, like the cat lounge we saw last update. Also being in a space ship was cool.
Finishing the UFO and moving forward.
So we've arrived to the end of this dungeon.
How, that's original. But I don't think he'll see the error of his way and join our party as a anti-hero with a troubled past, since the furry character slot is already taken in our team.
That boss has all the same offensive spells than Paws, which makes sense since they are brothers. But, compared to the previous boss, at the end of the ghost forest, this one was a total pushover, winning easily on our first try. I think we might be a little over-leveled, since few fights in this dungeon gave us any problems. Either way, between the best attacks of Cthulhu and Sharpe, the poison + debuff from October, we made short work of him. Paws just applied the initial insanity on Pawz and healed the rest of the party, he hasn't has any other usefull spells.
With the victory, everyone level-up, bringing the whole party to level 21.
So instead of a flying ship to move around like in a classic jRPG, the designer/writer decided to crash it. Well, since I did not expect to have another mean of transportation, I'm not dissapointed. At least it opened the map in an interesting way.
Instead of going forward, we go back to the ranch:
Wow! Consequences! The world reacts to our actions! That's like the second time since the begining of the game!
And so we can follow the stream bed, conviently dried following our actions.
It's a bit short, but that way I can wrap that chapter of the game. I'll try to have the next part at the end this week. I liked the appearance of this dungeon, it's way better than the others, with more different elements and distinct rooms, like the cat lounge we saw last update. Also being in a space ship was cool.
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Thanks. I'm totally taking this for the first page.
I said the update would be this week-end, but I went back to playing XCOM and forgot. I'll try to do it tomorrow.
Part XIV: Cemetery Sequence
In which we'll explore acalm resting place.
We were going south. To the west we can go back to the area we crossed in update 9. Not that there is anything to do there now.
We fight some scrubs along the way.
Off with their heads!
As stupid as they are, the scream cone got a chuckle out of me. It sure beat killing darkspawn for the whole game.
We quickly reach the next dungeon...
... and enter the Graveyard of memories, which is optional, but I only realized this after finishing it.
At this point, we're finishing most fights in two turns, with Paws applying insanity to all the enemies, October burning a whole group each time with her fireball and Sharpe & Cthulhu finishing the stronger enemies with special attacks. Then there's usually one enemy left, which is pwned by the whole team.
Paws and Sharpe level-up. Paws get a tentacle attack, like Cthulhu, but it does less damage, so it does not improve his capabilities for dealing damage. Sharpe improve one of his attack, but increase his MP cost, which is a problem, since Sharpe is rather limited on that front, especially compared to the spellcasters.
There's a lot of graves in this dungeon, with a different epitaph on each one. A part of them has interesting enough text that I'll bother to copy it here (parts not in italics are remarks from me).
Patricia Wise
Got into the dark arts.
Then the dark arts got into her.
Milan Doyle
<Inset funny joke here>
Stephan Briggs
Money isn't everything, but let him buy this swell burial plot.
Magnus Gill
Failed to break his own record for holding his breath under water.
Rayvan Floyd
He didn't realize he was dead until the next day.
Levin Hammond
Literally and figuratively died laughing.
Virginia Conner
No one is searching for her now.
Terminator, I guess.
Helen Guthrie
Studied the harp all through her life just to be prepared.
Reference to Orpheus, much more
.
This is the quintessential tombstone. Can't get more tombstoney than this.
Shannon Boyd.
Lover of sushi and cake, but not sushi cake.
Robert Boyd
Worked better under dead-lines
It might be relatives of the dev. Shannon is cited in the credits, in the special thanks part.
You see a completely ordinary tombstone. Yes, absolutely nothing unusual here. Keep walking.
Alexei Riddle.
She found a mistake in the map obstruction code and walked out of the game.
October
R.I.P.
Hey, you're not dead!
It's a necromancer tradition. Having your own tombstone is supposed to bring good luck.
Weird.
Ian Fleming
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
It's an actual quote from Fleming from one of the James Bond books, who might have taken it from Jack London.
Garrison Keillor
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
It's a portable tombstone! For when you really aren't exactly sure where someone is buried.
You look at the tombstone.
The tombstone looks back.
:Nietzsche:
Chances are there's buried treasure beneath this tombstone, but you're no grave robber.
Logan Britt
Self cannibalization is a bad idea. From on who knows.
Abigail Salas
Living until the very end.
Arda Blevins
I'm not dead yet! Honest! I just want to be prepared!
If you examine this tombstone 10 times, absolutely nothing special will happen.
But you're going to try anyway, aren't you?
I did check.
Zehra Branch
Crushed to death by her beloved cherry blossom tree.
Hugo Rivers
Famous science fiction writer. May you sail among the stars.
Reference to Hugo Gernsback I think, who gave his name to the Hugo awards.
Caden Cobb
Claimed he would never die.
My hatchet sure showed him!
Elanor Kramer
Really, we're all better off now.
We're still fighting undead, but they're not much of a threat.
Charles Burgess
Lived to a ripe old age.
Ripened even further when we failed to bury him for a month.
Aryen Valdez
Beloved father,
Friend to all,
Really awesome cultist.
Anna Cole
Prettier in death than she ever was in life.
This a lode bearing tombstone. Please do not remove.
I don't know if there's a mistake with lode instead of load, cause load-bearing means something and would explain the "do not remove".
There's a chest hidden behind those trees.
Jayden Graham
A cookie a day keepss the doctor very busy.
Lucy Ford
Died while crossing a river in the middle of Winter.
Felix Morris
Died in a random encounter. How lame is that?
Ruby Green
Died of embarassment from the name that her parents gave her.
Loot for October. A good upgrade, compared to her current weapon.
Your Name
That's right, this tomb has your name on it! Yes, you! The person with the controller! Scared yet?
Oliver Hill's hand
All that we found of him was his hand so that what's buried here.
A new armor for Sharpe.
Joshua King
Not much of a view, but the rent's cheap.
Sveld Linka
Drank and drank and drank some more, until he found he could drink no more.
Woody Allen
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
Actual quote. I would have thought it was the other way around, considering his job as a film director.
Mark Twain
The report of my death was an exageration.
Twain said that once. Then he died.
As you pull your treasure out of the chest, the guardian of the cemetery appears - the dreaded Living Tombstone! Watch out!
The Tombstone will raise the knights when they are dead. So Cthulhu and Sharpe will kill them at each turn, so that the Tombstone waste its turn, while the two remaining characters concentrate on killing the Tombstone.
The rest of the team gained a level after the boss fight.
And now we've finished this side-dungeon, we'll go back on the rails of the main quest.
In which we'll explore a
We were going south. To the west we can go back to the area we crossed in update 9. Not that there is anything to do there now.
We fight some scrubs along the way.
Off with their heads!
As stupid as they are, the scream cone got a chuckle out of me. It sure beat killing darkspawn for the whole game.
We quickly reach the next dungeon...
... and enter the Graveyard of memories, which is optional, but I only realized this after finishing it.
At this point, we're finishing most fights in two turns, with Paws applying insanity to all the enemies, October burning a whole group each time with her fireball and Sharpe & Cthulhu finishing the stronger enemies with special attacks. Then there's usually one enemy left, which is pwned by the whole team.
Paws and Sharpe level-up. Paws get a tentacle attack, like Cthulhu, but it does less damage, so it does not improve his capabilities for dealing damage. Sharpe improve one of his attack, but increase his MP cost, which is a problem, since Sharpe is rather limited on that front, especially compared to the spellcasters.
There's a lot of graves in this dungeon, with a different epitaph on each one. A part of them has interesting enough text that I'll bother to copy it here (parts not in italics are remarks from me).
Patricia Wise
Got into the dark arts.
Then the dark arts got into her.
Milan Doyle
<Inset funny joke here>
Stephan Briggs
Money isn't everything, but let him buy this swell burial plot.
Magnus Gill
Failed to break his own record for holding his breath under water.
Rayvan Floyd
He didn't realize he was dead until the next day.
Levin Hammond
Literally and figuratively died laughing.
Virginia Conner
No one is searching for her now.
Terminator, I guess.
Helen Guthrie
Studied the harp all through her life just to be prepared.
Reference to Orpheus, much more
.This is the quintessential tombstone. Can't get more tombstoney than this.
Shannon Boyd.
Lover of sushi and cake, but not sushi cake.
Robert Boyd
Worked better under dead-lines
It might be relatives of the dev. Shannon is cited in the credits, in the special thanks part.
You see a completely ordinary tombstone. Yes, absolutely nothing unusual here. Keep walking.
Alexei Riddle.
She found a mistake in the map obstruction code and walked out of the game.
October
R.I.P.
Ian Fleming
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
It's an actual quote from Fleming from one of the James Bond books, who might have taken it from Jack London.
Garrison Keillor
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
It's a portable tombstone! For when you really aren't exactly sure where someone is buried.
You look at the tombstone.
The tombstone looks back.
:Nietzsche:
Chances are there's buried treasure beneath this tombstone, but you're no grave robber.
Logan Britt
Self cannibalization is a bad idea. From on who knows.
Abigail Salas
Living until the very end.
Arda Blevins
I'm not dead yet! Honest! I just want to be prepared!
If you examine this tombstone 10 times, absolutely nothing special will happen.
I did check.
Zehra Branch
Crushed to death by her beloved cherry blossom tree.
Hugo Rivers
Famous science fiction writer. May you sail among the stars.
Reference to Hugo Gernsback I think, who gave his name to the Hugo awards.
Caden Cobb
Claimed he would never die.
My hatchet sure showed him!
Elanor Kramer
Really, we're all better off now.
We're still fighting undead, but they're not much of a threat.
Charles Burgess
Lived to a ripe old age.
Ripened even further when we failed to bury him for a month.
Aryen Valdez
Beloved father,
Friend to all,
Really awesome cultist.
Anna Cole
Prettier in death than she ever was in life.
This a lode bearing tombstone. Please do not remove.
I don't know if there's a mistake with lode instead of load, cause load-bearing means something and would explain the "do not remove".
There's a chest hidden behind those trees.
Jayden Graham
A cookie a day keepss the doctor very busy.
Lucy Ford
Died while crossing a river in the middle of Winter.
Felix Morris
Died in a random encounter. How lame is that?
Ruby Green
Died of embarassment from the name that her parents gave her.
Loot for October. A good upgrade, compared to her current weapon.
Your Name
That's right, this tomb has your name on it! Yes, you! The person with the controller! Scared yet?
Oliver Hill's hand
All that we found of him was his hand so that what's buried here.
A new armor for Sharpe.
Joshua King
Not much of a view, but the rent's cheap.
Sveld Linka
Drank and drank and drank some more, until he found he could drink no more.
Woody Allen
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
Actual quote. I would have thought it was the other way around, considering his job as a film director.
Mark Twain
The report of my death was an exageration.
Twain said that once. Then he died.
The Tombstone will raise the knights when they are dead. So Cthulhu and Sharpe will kill them at each turn, so that the Tombstone waste its turn, while the two remaining characters concentrate on killing the Tombstone.
The rest of the team gained a level after the boss fight.
And now we've finished this side-dungeon, we'll go back on the rails of the main quest.
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Part XV: Kingsport
Sorry for the delayreal life my nuXCOM addiction happened.
So after completing the last dungeon, we're back on the toward the next step of our journey!
We cross a mountain range, while fighting the local flora and fauna.
We find a castle, but when we try to enter:
We have no need to go there as of now.
Agreed. There is city to the northwest. We should go there before exploring strange dungeons.
The game kicks us back on the right way. No sequence breaking for us!
Going north, we reach a city.
What happened here?
The terrible disease broke out a week ago. Men, women, children - none are spared. Work in Kingsport has come to a halt. Even the port has closed down.
Cthulhu, we have to do something!
Let's look around town. Maybe we'll find a clue as to how this disease can be reversed.
Well, it's something else than investigating cattle abductions in a hillbillies' ranch. On the other hand, I hope finishing this quest has an impact on the city, at least in the dialogues.
Now please leave. There's a horrible disease going around the city and I'd hate for more people to catch it.
Crybaby millennials need to stop whinging.
That's weird, in a situation like this I would have thought that alcoohol consumption would increase, with the population drowning their sorrow in alcohol.
We find a chest cleverly hidden in a corner.
We go to the local inn, to reload our MP and see if there's anyone who has a quest or some information for us.
Hey, put that down! No cheating!
What an old text! People haven't believed the world is square in ages. Everybody knows the world is actually a rectangle.
Updated My Journal.
I've also checked, you don't have to talk to this guy before going to the shrine, once you've arrived to this city, you can enter it.
We take the time to visit the localgun sword runner. We buy a couple of weapons and armors, but most of what we've found in the previous dungeons is superior to what we can buy here.
GRIMDARK
We also interogate the local kids for information.
We sacrifice to the immemorial tradition of cRPG by taking everything that's not nailed down.
Leaving Kingsport, we can go to the docks.
Get out my way, maggot!
We can speak with the captain:
I'm sorry, but my crew is all sick. I can't set sail until someone finds a cure for that blasted disease that's afflicting people in Kingsport.
We quickly go back to where we were 15 min ago.
Sorry for the delay
So after completing the last dungeon, we're back on the toward the next step of our journey!
We cross a mountain range, while fighting the local flora and fauna.
We find a castle, but when we try to enter:
The game kicks us back on the right way. No sequence breaking for us!
Going north, we reach a city.
Well, it's something else than investigating cattle abductions in a hillbillies' ranch. On the other hand, I hope finishing this quest has an impact on the city, at least in the dialogues.
Crybaby millennials need to stop whinging.
That's weird, in a situation like this I would have thought that alcoohol consumption would increase, with the population drowning their sorrow in alcohol.
We find a chest cleverly hidden in a corner.
We go to the local inn, to reload our MP and see if there's anyone who has a quest or some information for us.
Updated My Journal.
I've also checked, you don't have to talk to this guy before going to the shrine, once you've arrived to this city, you can enter it.
We take the time to visit the local
GRIMDARK
We also interogate the local kids for information.
We sacrifice to the immemorial tradition of cRPG by taking everything that's not nailed down.
Leaving Kingsport, we can go to the docks.
Get out my way, maggot!
We can speak with the captain:
We quickly go back to where we were 15 min ago.
Nice find. I haven't though of looking for fanart of the game until now, but I've seen a few that I might use. This one would have been perfect for the ufo sequence.
Part XVI: Dungeon diving
So we continue where we left off, in front of the Shrine containing the Pool of Magical Healing Water™!
As we enter, we meet someone:
Hey! Old Man!
Who is this guy?
Dacre is the name! I'm too...
Yes, yes, I heard you. You're off your rocker
Aye, the brain is a wee bit addled from the years. Brain
, shbrain. Ho, ho, ho!
To help the sick people in Kingsport.
No, that's not it.
Something about sick people in Kingsport.
A party? Why, yes, I like parties.
Old man, Dacre, has joined your party!
We don't have much time. We must find that magic pool of water before more people die.
It's a good thing we showed up, Dacre. Your offensive capabilities are minimal - you wouldn't be able to defeat the monsters here in the Water Shrine by yourself.
This old man has a few secrets up his sleeve. Ho ho ho!
Santa for sure.
So we're joined by a new party member, Dacre.
He's a healer, with a wider range of healing spell than both Umi and Paws, two debuff (blind and seal) but no offensive spell. We'll take him in our party and see how it goes.
We can now start exploring the WaterTempleShrine.
We quickly meet the some of the local creep.
We switch Dacre out of the team, replacing him with Paws and Sharpe is replaced by Umi. Having only healing spells, Dacre is not very usefull to kill the random encounters. In that regard, Paws is very usefull for them, since he can apply insanity right at the start of the first turn, ensuring that all our subsequent attacks lands on insane enemies and benefiting from the increase damage.
Finishing combats as quickly as possible is important, since it allows the team to recover more MP (shorter fights = more MP recovered). But on the other hand, his lack of good spells limits his utility for the boss fight, so I'll switch back Dacre in for the final fight.
Sharpe is very good at dealing damage but his limited MP pools makes him less useful for random fights. So I replaced him by Umi, which has decent spells to deal with the randos and a big MP pool. Again for the boss I'll switch back Sharpe in, since he has a better damage capability and we'll have Dacre as a healer.
Or I could use any party, the game is on normal and I've rarely had any problem with the fights (last time was in the ghost forest 3? dungeons ago), especially since I'm doing all the side-content, so I must be a little overleveled. On the other hand, I've tried restarting the game on hard, I got killed on the third fight and abandonned the idea.
So we cross the first area to this lever. Swtiching lower the water level and opens up new paths.
We continue our progress. The switch will have to be done a few more times before the end of the dungeon.
A few examples of the local monsters.
A good armor for Umi.
Since the bridge are made of wood, they rest on the ground when there's no water, blocking our path.
Rising the water rise the bridges with it, allowing us to progress again.
A new attack, quite strong considering that only a few monsters in this dungeon have more than a 1000 HP.
Dacre gets a defensive buff, but its usefullness would depends if it applies on base stats + equipement or just base stats. And since there's no way to check...
We continue to make our way through the dungeon.
A good sword for Cthulhu.
We find a new weapon for Umi. Except we found the same, like four or five dungeons ago and now it's useless.
After the last switch, we reach the MP refill station, indicating that the boss is next.
After changing our party to the one we intended to use, we get close to a big statue of a mermaid.
I'll just scoop a bit into these water bottles...
Booh!
Ahh!
No!!!
NO ONE lays a finger on my groupie!
The boss is killed very easily. He wasted his first two turns by poisoning everyone, which is countered by Dacre's Regen All spell, which heal the whole party every turn. October applies a debuff and poisons him, Cthulhu and Sharpe unload their most powerful attacks and the shoggoth goes down quickly.
The rest of the party level-up, bringing everyone to level 25.
Here you go.
Cthulhu has saved the day yet again! Cthulhu has gained 100 hero points! But he is not yet a true hero.
Fhtagn! There is no pleasing you! 
Also, you have a bit of magic water left over. You have gained 5 potions!
Thank you again for saving me from that awful Shoggoth.
Think nothing of it. I couldn't let my number one fan get shoggothed after all. Besideds, you have a certain Umi-ness to you that I wouldn't be able to find elsewhere.
Thank you!
Methinks Umi's crush may not longer be unrequited.
Shut up, sword man!
I don't know what's happening but I don't care. Onward to adventure!
To the port!
We then go talk around the city:
Well, this city seems filled with teetotalers! We'll get drunk elsewhere then.
Well, I couldn't have done it without my new friends!
Yes! Take that, stereotypical heroes!
We then leave the city for the port and our next adventures!
So we continue where we left off, in front of the Shrine containing the Pool of Magical Healing Water™!
As we enter, we meet someone:
So we're joined by a new party member, Dacre.
He's a healer, with a wider range of healing spell than both Umi and Paws, two debuff (blind and seal) but no offensive spell. We'll take him in our party and see how it goes.
We can now start exploring the Water
We quickly meet the some of the local creep.
We switch Dacre out of the team, replacing him with Paws and Sharpe is replaced by Umi. Having only healing spells, Dacre is not very usefull to kill the random encounters. In that regard, Paws is very usefull for them, since he can apply insanity right at the start of the first turn, ensuring that all our subsequent attacks lands on insane enemies and benefiting from the increase damage.
Finishing combats as quickly as possible is important, since it allows the team to recover more MP (shorter fights = more MP recovered). But on the other hand, his lack of good spells limits his utility for the boss fight, so I'll switch back Dacre in for the final fight.
Sharpe is very good at dealing damage but his limited MP pools makes him less useful for random fights. So I replaced him by Umi, which has decent spells to deal with the randos and a big MP pool. Again for the boss I'll switch back Sharpe in, since he has a better damage capability and we'll have Dacre as a healer.
Or I could use any party, the game is on normal and I've rarely had any problem with the fights (last time was in the ghost forest 3? dungeons ago), especially since I'm doing all the side-content, so I must be a little overleveled. On the other hand, I've tried restarting the game on hard, I got killed on the third fight and abandonned the idea
.
So we cross the first area to this lever. Swtiching lower the water level and opens up new paths.
We continue our progress. The switch will have to be done a few more times before the end of the dungeon.
A few examples of the local monsters.
A good armor for Umi.
Since the bridge are made of wood, they rest on the ground when there's no water, blocking our path.
Rising the water rise the bridges with it, allowing us to progress again.
A new attack, quite strong considering that only a few monsters in this dungeon have more than a 1000 HP.
Dacre gets a defensive buff, but its usefullness would depends if it applies on base stats + equipement or just base stats. And since there's no way to check...
We continue to make our way through the dungeon.
A good sword for Cthulhu.
We find a new weapon for Umi. Except we found the same, like four or five dungeons ago and now it's useless.
After the last switch, we reach the MP refill station, indicating that the boss is next.
After changing our party to the one we intended to use, we get close to a big statue of a mermaid.
The boss is killed very easily. He wasted his first two turns by poisoning everyone, which is countered by Dacre's Regen All spell, which heal the whole party every turn. October applies a debuff and poisons him, Cthulhu and Sharpe unload their most powerful attacks and the shoggoth goes down quickly.
The rest of the party level-up, bringing everyone to level 25.
We then go talk around the city:
Well, this city seems filled with teetotalers! We'll get drunk elsewhere then.
We then leave the city for the port and our next adventures!
I think you can if you're Cthulhu.
Part XVII: Sea Travel & Ice Cave
Now we can travel by boat, since the sailors are healed.
We've crossed the sea.
I love sailing! The smell of the sea, the roll of the waves...
So...very...sick.
How does a sword get sea sick anyway?
I'm don't know...ugh!
And yet you don't get motion sickness when you're slicing up bad guus? Strange.
A seasoned warrior never loses his lunch on the battlefield. Gurgh!
Do you think there's even anything behind this door?
Probably not.
I bet the developer was too lazy to make another map so he just stuck a sailor in front to block the door.
Shoot! We've been found out!
Well, it does not seem that different from the other side.
The warlocks are very annoying, since they have resistance to fire and have a very powerfull fireball that will hit all of our group.
We take a path in the mountains and reach a new optional dungeon, the Ice Cave.
The ice cave: Exactly what it says on the tin.
Local enemies.
This group managed to defeat me, with the three warlock dropping fireballs on the whole group, doing too much damage for us to recover. At least I learned and the next times, the warlocks were priority targets.
With this, Sharpe is now even more of a glass canon.
The layout of the dungeon was very labyrinthic and since all the backgrounds were the same, it was annoying to explore.
An upgrade for Umi
A sword for Cthulhu. This sword applies insanity to all enemies as soon as the combat is started, so Paws become useless and I replace him with Umi, who has a nice selection of spells.
We leveled up like crazy in that cave, 4 levels for Dacre and 3 for the rest. I don't know why since, apart from the warlocks, it wasn't too hard. In any case, the rewards seemed too high for this dungeon.
We've reached the final chest and the associated boss fight.
As you pull your treasure out of the chest, the guardian of the ice cave appears - the dreaded Fallen Angel! Watch out!
We failed the first time, with the Fallen Angel using spells damaging the whole party and with only Umi having healing spells, I couldn't heal fast enough. So I restarted, having switched Umi with Dacre, who has healing spells which are more powerfull, allowing us to survive the spells from the Angel. With this taken care of, the boss dies easily.
With the dungeon being so annoying to go through, I quick travel back to Kingsport and cross the sea again to save time.
With this done, next time we'll continue exploring this new region.
Now we can travel by boat, since the sailors are healed.
We've crossed the sea.
Well, it does not seem that different from the other side.
The warlocks are very annoying, since they have resistance to fire and have a very powerfull fireball that will hit all of our group.
We take a path in the mountains and reach a new optional dungeon, the Ice Cave.
The ice cave: Exactly what it says on the tin.
Local enemies.
This group managed to defeat me, with the three warlock dropping fireballs on the whole group, doing too much damage for us to recover. At least I learned and the next times, the warlocks were priority targets.
With this, Sharpe is now even more of a glass canon.
The layout of the dungeon was very labyrinthic and since all the backgrounds were the same, it was annoying to explore.
An upgrade for Umi
A sword for Cthulhu. This sword applies insanity to all enemies as soon as the combat is started, so Paws become useless and I replace him with Umi, who has a nice selection of spells.
We leveled up like crazy in that cave, 4 levels for Dacre and 3 for the rest. I don't know why since, apart from the warlocks, it wasn't too hard. In any case, the rewards seemed too high for this dungeon.
We've reached the final chest and the associated boss fight.
We failed the first time, with the Fallen Angel using spells damaging the whole party and with only Umi having healing spells, I couldn't heal fast enough. So I restarted, having switched Umi with Dacre, who has healing spells which are more powerfull, allowing us to survive the spells from the Angel. With this taken care of, the boss dies easily.
With the dungeon being so annoying to go through, I quick travel back to Kingsport and cross the sea again to save time.
With this done, next time we'll continue exploring this new region.
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