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In Progress Lets Play: Shining in the Darkness

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I suppose SMT qualifies, though they weren't exactly blobbers. If you're going to include top down stuff and other genres SNES probably wins. Though I think the genesis put up a damned good elite set of titles. Master of Monsters, Herzog Zwei, Phantasy Star, Shadowrun...

Anyways, now that we're on page 2 I can finally update this bastard!
 
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He must be lurking our forums. He certainly looks like a deviant.

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So codex, what do you think? What should we buy? Where should we go? How many pages will this reach before it gets abandoned?
 

spekkio

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Hey, DR - why so seriouz?

:troll:

After all Commodore 64 > everything.

:obviously:

But on more serious note - sweet old times when every console got 20-50 high quality exclusives from different genres.
ATM maybe DS would qualify...

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Nice coincidence: I am just finishing the first Final Fantasy for the first time and felt like replaying this puppy. I remember having lots of fun with it back in the day.
 

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Look on the bright side, we never got around to grabbing that chest, so at least it can't break our knife.
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Jesus christ, it's looking right at us! We must flee from this cave demon.
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Our armor is useless, these massive claws could rip a tank apart! We need to use our herbs.
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Well thats better, now we can-
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Fucking christ! I- I don't think we'll be leaving this place alive.
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Maybe we have a chance after all. We just need to focus.
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But it's so fast! Alright. Lets do this motherfucker!
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Dear god!
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Agh it's got me! Arghhh! CRAB BATTLE! Olilolo! Urghhhhhhhh....... crab battle........
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crab....
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battle...
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Did it use a bucket?
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Yeah but now our only hope of getting laid is to move into a boarding school for cripples. That thing totally mangled us.
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I'd tell you to start praying then, but you seem to already have the right idea there.
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Half our gold is gone. If we'd simply backed out, we'd probably have had 500+ when we came back, along with that knife.
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Still, selling our club lets us scrape together just enough to buy a bronze saber.

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Pretty major upgrade. 15 weapon bonus compared to the 6 from the club. We buy one herb with our last bit of gold and head back in.
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There's no way this will be useful against that thing...
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Our saber lets us dish out a lot more damage now.
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And a level up boosts us even further along.
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The place of our demise. However, being a fractactical genius, we concoct a brilliant plan to sneak by! We turn around and walk into the next space backwards, preventing the crab from appearing. :troll:

Didn't see that coming did you game devs? So lets see what is beyond here...
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This is the hallway where the crab came from. These firey things are new.
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Other direction. Looks kinda ominous.
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Ends in a wall made of... whatever that is.
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As usual, searching proves fruitless.
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We've already made another 200 gold just getting here, we should probably walk back out and come back with more herbs and a leather shield or better body armor.
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But that would be kinda dull and logical.
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We meet again, my nemesis!
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We're ready for you this time! We used one of our 2 herbs before the battle and totally aren't going to waste a round fleeing this time!
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Take that, cave demon!
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Argh! Mustn't let it break our knife.
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Gah! Time to use our herb.
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It outspeeds us again! That was close...
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Hah! Now the tables have turned!
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:rage:
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Urgh! Gack! Blargh! We'll drown you in our blood if we must!
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Glorious victory is ours!
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Oh course, we have no more recovery items and can now be slain by a stiff breeze...
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But we got the phat loot!
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Time to head back.
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But first...
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Now, armed with the powers of trannydom, we will surely make it home safely!
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Tis merely a flesh wound!
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Tis merely a second flesh wound!
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Oh, wait, how many flesh wounds was that again?
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This is all part of our plan to seduce the sexy valkyrie. I'd show you guys pics of her but she doesn't exist is way too sexy to share.
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Might want to put us on speed dial.
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Technically this is the SAME day.
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Our gold is diminished again, but this crown must be worth something, right?
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Oh, it's actually related to the plot. Imagine that.
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And what, the princess robbed her mom's grave? I'm beginning to like this girl.
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Who the fuck is this?
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It isn't? Then why are you here?
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Sure why not.
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Oh, because you're making our ears bleed. (The screen is flashing red and shaking)

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Should have had you fight the crab. Anyways, lets do the honourable thing and pawn the crown jewels.
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Really? That furry guy recognized it right away.
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Hot damn! But we pass on this offer. Without the crown, we have no proof to bring back to the king.

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Everyone else says the same thing.
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So I've heard.
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Brilliant deduction, holmes.

At this point everyone starts repeating themselves, so we leave and come back.
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Yeah. Also, a giant man eating crab had it. She's probably been eaten by it already.
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I am NOT entering any 'Labyrinth of Prosper'
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So you're going to send Tristant and Melvyn with me, right?
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Cool, I choose those two guys.
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Right.
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You're not letting me take any of you guys are you?
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As opposed to what, using a ladder? Ladder might be quicker dude.
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We if he's not coming along he damned well better enlighten me.
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I hope it's not filled with more crabs.
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So you're saying you haven't invented ladder technology yet.
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Sounds incredibly easy and totally something we have time to do before the princess dies.
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They probably just went home after you offered them a shitty ass 100 gold to risk their lives.
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Might also want to pray I don't just pawn the crown and retire.
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That reminds me, you're all humans huh? King is a real racist bastard isn't he?
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If we had any of those qualities I doubt we'd be here still.
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Then why do you assume beating them gets you into the labyrinth's penthouse suite?
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Again, dude probably took off. You guys are real assholes you know?
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Indeed, I'm a righteous and noble warrior, ready to receive my fair reward-
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:incline:
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:rage:
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Wow, bet I could hire some strong mercenaries if I still had that fucking crown, you douchebag.
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Because I don't want my friends to die horribly in a monster infested labyrinth?
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Someone who isn't a god damned land whale you mean?

We head back to town. Actually, we reload, don't talk to Tristan, letting us keep the tiara, and then head back to town.
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Eww. He's turning to leave.
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Indeed. Islam has the answer in this case, I'm afraid.
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Other than the gut-wrenching terror I feel at the moment, I'm fine!
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Forget that, how did she even get inside the town walls!
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Gah! Surely she'll use our balls to make stew if we refuse her now.
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Our ranks have been infested by this magic using tranny. Things will never be the same again.
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Alas, that is no longer an option.

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SMA Pyra bashes into some innocent stranger on the way out of the tavern.
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I love this guy's expression. 100% :troll:
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'Girl' huh? I guess our IQ is an average score in this world.
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Indeed, save yourself before it's too late, noble... whatever you are.
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Oh wait, Pyra is racist? Maybe this isn't such a bad addition to our team after all.
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What did they pay you? I'm apparently the best knight in the kingdom and I got just enough to buy a butterknife. You getting paid in fishing bait?
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Gypsy used evil eye! It was super effective!
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Implied murder over bumping into someone on the street? Nice!
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If we must.



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That number sure climbs quickly.
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Oh fuck, she's level 1 isn't she?
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He going to tell us about how you totally haven't been molesting him all these years?
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God, he looks like some kind of greasy fat chinese kid. Do fat chinese kids even exist?
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Good, I can sacrifice you to this thing that is following me. Remember to wear shittier shoes than me in case we need to run away.
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He's that much of a burden huh?
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Well great. What are the stats on these bastards anyways?
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:hmmm:

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Well, that at least is promising. Note that 'Attack' simply means it can be used in battle, whiles 'others' can be used outside of it. Heal is in both categories.
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They look so much more attractive in silhouette.
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Now fireballs huh? Also, now we have a way of viewing a map without bring items along. Though it'll cost MP, which is obviously pretty valuable in and of itself.
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We pawn off the crown. We can buy it back later for an extra 250 gold over what we're getting now, and we can get a lot more use out of 750 gold worth of items right now than 250 worth later on and a single nice helm for now.
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Ooh, another deal.
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Holy shit dude. You're just trying to make us feel bad aren't you. If this LP isn't abandoned before we get that thing it'll be a miracle.
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Tristan totally doesn't give a fuck about the missing tiara, nor does anyone else.
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Yeah, so how can we possibly do that?
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Wait, you had a key to another part of the labyrinth this whole time, and didn't give it to me? What if the clue we needed had been in that part? You're a total fucking moron!
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Yay! Another inventory slot gone. At least we have a couple packrats with us now.
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Thanks minister, but I still think you're a dick.
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More words? Are they relevant?
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Don't we have to do that anyways?
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Yeah defeating anything and everything total sounds easy.


New map:
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I like how the mercenary dude is actually quite polite considering Pyra's obnoxiousness, and he's still gonna die a horrible death because fuck you I have magic.

Forget elves, orcs, and everything else. what makes fantasy hard to swallow is how magic users are usually allowed to go around unchecked. Shouldn't they be regulated, or something?






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Er, nevermind.

Yeah defeating anything and everything total sounds easy

remember, you're such a badass that they didnt deem it necessary to actually provide you with equipment and soldiers.
 

Jasede

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Insert Title Here RPG Wokedex Codex Year of the Donut I'm very into cock and ball torture
Well, keep it up. I remember getting bored half-way through the second dungeon.
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Well, keep it up. I remember getting bored half-way through the second dungeon.
:decline:

XD you're not alone, I'm reading this LP and felt...well....at least the thread starter is the one suffering through this. He deserves a brofist.
 

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I'll probably be doing the Shadowrun update next, so you guys will have to settle for watching this other person's rendtion of my epic fight with KAISERKRAB.

 

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What mapping software did you end up using by the way? It appears to be stupidly hard to find a software that lets you add squares with colours and whatever symbols you want.
 

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Used this: http://www10.caro.net/dsi/DungeonMaker/

I custom made the floor and wall tiles, and used the wall tiles as background to cover everything so it wouldn't make the ugly 3D walls wherever I put floors down. I'm still having trouble with the doodads though. I've just been replacing existing ones to avoid having to dick around the the xml file, but getting the positioning right is tricky.
 

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Ah, thanks. I might want to play with that when I finally decide to start the Wizardry serie — or not, since the PSX version has automapping, muahahahaha! Again, finding a simple program like that seems harder than it should be.
 

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Yeah, I went through like, 5 of them. There was one I liked a lot more but it only had 16x16 tile maps at most, which struck me as being incredibly retarded.
 

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16x16? What sort of dungeons can you map with that? A living room, kitchen, bathroom and bedroom?
 

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I just realized, if I combined the one I currently have with a tileset ripped from somewhere else (Probably a dwarf fortress one I'm thinking) it would make for an awesome all purpose dungeon mapper. Going to steal some stair graphics right now in fact.
 

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Major update time!

We check out a tavern a bit first.
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Liked I'd tell you.
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And everyone is supporting me blah blah yeah whatever.
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Lupo is the only guy in town that gives consistently useful/correct advice.
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Though it's often pretty obvious stuff.
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Oh, so you weren't dead yet after all.
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You know, I'm thinking the risk/reward would be better if you just robbed the castle if thats what you're in this for.

We go shopping next with our delicious jewgolds. I grab a bunch of armor first, since I don't want these two keeling over before they've even gained any xp.
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He shows us this new item after we look around for weapons. Nothing really worth buying though.
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Even 900 gold doesn't go very far. I manage 2 items for each of my minions.
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Even with the upgrades Pyra is especially squishy and has no melee power.
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First battle in the dungeon agaisnt a trio of slimes reveals an interesting fact: We don't split the xp. Everyone gets a full amount. Leveling them up should be easy then, and fighting battles when they're dead should be avoided, since it'll waste the xp.
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FUS ROH
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DAH! (Am I doing it right?)
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New enemies! Perfect for getting our level 1 idiots killed. I have Milo defend, since he'd just be useless anyways.
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Pyra however, tries out her slow spell.
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Hmm, it only hit one of them, but thats a decent defense/speed drop, if our stats are any good for comparison.
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Holy shit! Spellcasting slugs of doom!
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Ouch. Armor doesn't help us here.
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Though pointy objects sure do the trick.
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Argh. Milo only takes 6 damage though. Not sure if that's because of better resistances or just a shitty roll.
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Nice xp/gold for that fight, and they both gain levels.
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Stats sure raise quickly.
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We patch up Milo with his heal spell. It's at least this strong for just 3 MP, so this will let us stick around much much longer once he's gained a few levels and has like 30+ MP.
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Pyra can't do jack on offense.
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And Milo can't shrug off their attacks yet either, though he's not dropping like a fly either. Shield is helping out a lot.
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Milo at least does more than 1 point now. And he's still only level 2 after all.
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Pyra learned a new spell when she levelled up. Escargot time!
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Or not. That's pretty weak, even for the weakest possible spell. Maybe if we had her along when we first started and were fighting slimes still it would have been nice.
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Kewl. What does this do (Pyra's View is just a spell version of wisdom seeds.)
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Targets an item?
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Ah, identify! Not very useful to us at the moment.
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The cheapass weapon we bought in town is completely mundane? Imagine that!
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Holyshitthisisnotgood. Chances of Pyra living through this seem pretty low, even if she defends.
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We gamble on slowing him down, maybe it'll miss when it tries to hit her? She's already outspeeding Codex on some turns.
The stat drops are a lot bigger this time. They must be taking a way a fraction of the enemy stat.
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Defending helps us out a ton here. Between that armor and defense, milio isn't even on deaths door even after a crit.
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Slow spell is helping us dish it out a lot. 13>22 damage is a huge boost.
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The bastard still hits fucking hard though.
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Shit! And this one is attacking twice per turn! Must be because we have a party now. Now our odds of just surviving are looking slim, never mind keeping everyone alive. Our MP is gone too.
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Fuck yeah!
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Revenge is sweet and the reward is sweeter.
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I think we ought to do that ourselves. We limp back to town without going a step further.
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Thankfully we get separate rooms, keeping us safe from our fillthy minions.
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Oh, Dai seems to be gone.
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Technically, you could also ask someone to go help him.
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What could possibly go wrong?
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In this update we learn that Gnorn is a muslim.
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Yeah Gnorn seems pretty inane.
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Many codexers in this tavern it seems.
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Stupid bastard shows us this beauty AFTER we dump 330 gold on an axe for Milo. *sigh* We'll have to save up and buy it next time. For now we grab an angel feather and head back in to the dungeon.
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HP/MP totals are actually kinda respectable now.
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Milo can one shot scavengers now, if he rolls well. Very helpful.
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Pyra gains her next level before Milo. She seems to require less xp to level up. Probably to offset the likelyhood of her kicking the bucket and missing out on xp.
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Milo gains his level in the next fight, and we get yet another spell. This will be nice in the long run, so we don't need to care poison cures around.

Stats for our merry band now:
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They're both faster and smarter than CODEX already. Luckier too, and Pyra has better base defense (!) However, our base attack puts them both to shame. We hit like a truck compared to them.
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Pyra's new spell sucks up 4 MP per cast.
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But it hits an entire group. Effect rate must be decent too, since it got all 3 on the first try. Only one of them woke up at the end of the round.
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Aha! We backtrack a bit though. Might as well finish mapping out this level as best we can.
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We find a trio of chests with crappy items inside. And now we're done with first floor of the Labyrinth of the next little while. Here's the map:


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I tweaked some things on it a bit more. Starting to look almost halfway proper now.

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Weaklings need not apply.
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Yeah, we won't be needing these. I brought the Angel Feather so we didn't need to waste time backtracking through the dungeon.
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As you can see, the layout looks like it's going to be quite different from the Labyrinth.
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New enemies! Perfect subjects to test Pyra's new spell.

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This shit was fucking impressive back in the day.
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11 points isn't bad. The spell isn't terribly expensive either. Only 3 MP.
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These guys aren't all that tough, we take them out quickly.
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MOAR levels. Excellent.
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Though Heal level 2 might be overkill, since level 1 does the job just fine with one cast on each of us.
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Oh yeah, cashola time! Wait, that glow looks a little weird...
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Uh-oh.
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This is probably not good.
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I use the same tactics we did on the crab when these guys were still level 3.
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Well, at least it was Pyra.
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That fucking hurt though, considering he was defending.
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Maybe this will help.
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Well that can't be good.
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Fucker is just as strong defensively as the crab.
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And he hits WAY harder. Holy fuck. Crits from the crab weren't this bad, and this is just a normal attack. At least he's only going once per turn.
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Second attempt at slow fails. Seems like he's just immune, rather than it being a failed cast.
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Holy shit, he one shotted Milo while he was trying to heal us.
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We try magic. Magic ought to be good for fucking up a high defense enemy right?
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Fucker is nearly immune to ice? SHIT!
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Eat fire then, fucker! Even if it is a weaker spell.
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Which you are also nearly immune to, apparently.
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I suppose that is better than killing someone.
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We won't fall for such lame things. Of course, our tranny-mage passes out immediately.
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Well, I'm starting to think maybe we won't win this guys. Pyra is still passed out.
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But she wakes up after the enemy wastes a turn doing this!
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Fuck yeah!
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Or not.
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It seems running away counts as defending to, otherwise she'd surely be dead from that.
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*crosses fingers*
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Success!
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This thing turned out to be a life saver. Well, for Pyra anyways. But the inn will fix that up right? 3 rooms please!
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Apparently they don't rent rooms out to buckets of corpse. We'll need to seek help elsewhere.
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Creepy.
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Darkunderlord is truly a noble admin.
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Fuck thats a lot of jewgold though! Maybe we should go to the SA forums instead...
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But that wouldn't be the same.
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Milo sucks up the remained of our cash. We're penniless.
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Thats not much.
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And thats even less. CODEX needs ~240.

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We pawn Pyra's clothes for an angel feather. She has a straw robe anyways.
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We hand over some healing items to her too, in case we need to use them in battle.
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Slugs get one shotted by FREEZE. Not too shabby. Note Pyra has no MP since we never got to use the inn.
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Fuck this place has a lot of open space. Going to be annoying to map.
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Yet more space.
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Torches! Now with friendly pink sconces!
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We continue our brave quest and fight of the darkies. Even Pyra can do over 1 point of damage in melee now. We'll give her our saber once we get a better weapon for ourselves.
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Oh come on! Both chests?
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Not feeling too lucky this time either. It fails of course.
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Holy shit. At least he lived.
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I try having Milo heal himself. I was planning to have CODEX defend, but he can't actually defend; that icon is taken up by the fleeing option.
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Lets see what 5 MP worth of healing gets us.
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Hot damn, thats pretty good.
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Codexer lands one hell of a hit too. Maybe we can pull this off with heal spamming and some luck.
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Feeling lucky, I try and see if Sleep will work on this bastard.
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Eh, it was worth a shot.
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Nicely done.
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Shit, should have had her defend.
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We keep pounding away while spamming heals.
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Much MP later, we have won! The reward isn't amazing (60/85 and no item) but at least only Pyra died. After heading back and rezzing her and resting up, we made a meager profit of under 200 gold. However, we cleared out that annoying trap, and have a chunk of the cave mapped now, along with some xp.

First map for the Cave of Strength:
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Shining in the Darkness! Update time!
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Well, nothing new in town and we're penniless, so it's back into the cave for some more looting.
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The minions are starting to catch up but even so, Milo still can't one shot the tougher enemies like these Clevian monstrosities. And Pya is basically useless still.
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Finally a chest that isn't a deathtrap. Of course, it's also hardly worth opening.
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These guys aren't much of a threat. Even on a crit, they only do 13 damage to CODEX.

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Pyra gains a level and some spells.
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It's the same heal Milo gets, but it looks like hers is going to cap out at level 2.
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Milo's can get to level 4.
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Pyra starts the BBQ!
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Though it hits the whole group, the damage is rather disappointing.
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Another new enemy.
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These can actually hurt us a bit too, even on normal attacks.
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We wind some water basins along a hallway. They don't seem to do anything though.
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And we find a hole in the ground. A rather obvious 'trap', more of a warning of things to come I think.
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Well so far we've earned a decent chunk of gold again, but we still have lots of MP left to use. ONWARDS!

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Putting these guys to sleep is probably a better deal than eating all their attacks at this point.
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Hmmm, and someone learned yet another new spell.
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Another chest. Better heal up in case it's a trap.
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I'd kinda prefer a trap to an herb, honestly.
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Rather than walk all the way back to the last unxplored area, I try jumping in the hole in the ground.
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Guess this is the second level? We don't seem to have been injured by the fall.
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Cool, something worth looting. Those cost 100 gold in the shop... but what do they do exactly?
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We channel the powers of the gods to ask this inane question.
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We get an inane answer.
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We encounter some new enemies and I have Pyra fire off Blaze while the meatheads focus on them. It burns goblins much better than slugs apparently.
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Fuckers can heal!
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They hit kinda hard too.
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Rewards are nice though. Thats even better than what we got from the crab.
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Milo tries out his new spell on this horde of jew haters.
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Pyra's spell is faster though, but it only softens them up.
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:yeah:
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Suck on divine wrath bitches!

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9 points? To just one guy? Ugh. I guess 2 MP worth of divine wrath doesn't get you very far.
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We make it back up to the first level through a set of stairs, and a quick casting of pyra's VIEW spell shows that we're right near known territory. I get back onto a partially explored path and find another chest.
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These are in the store too. Guess we'll have tot ry them out at some point to find out what they do. They're way too cheap to raise dead, so probably a cure for paralysis or something?
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Or MP is starting to run low, but our HP is still high. I figure we can afford to check out at least a *little* more.
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Now that the level gap is smaller, you can see the relative stats start to take better shape.
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Though it's a fairly predictable spread, aside from Pyra's wierdly high natural defense.
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We backtrack over a puddle we already walked through, but this time something different happens than the usualy mundane splash.
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Well fuck. That looks creepy.
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Plan 'slow the fuck out of it' is not successful.
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Though it seems to have poor defense anyways.
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Yeah, this thing seems like a pretty minor threat, we can probably-
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It casts what? :rage:
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Damn, fucker hits hard!
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And the whole party at once!
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Even Pyra is taking full damage from it.
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Plan 'kill it with fire' is a bit more effective.
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Though ultimately it's our trusty CODEX that finishes it off.
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A kind of lame reward considering how bad the spell hit for. But it was over quickly anyways. Also, this is like the only time an enemy has dropped more xp than gold so far, I think.
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We open one last chest before bailing. Another decent find.
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Damn, we're rolling in it now.
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We pick up that nice flail.
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Apparently it's also just a mundane weapon, despite being a special deal. Well, it was only 350 gold. We equip it on Codex, and it's 3 points better than the saber, which we hand off to Pyra.
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Milo gets a wardrobe upgrade as well, boosting his armor to crazy levels. He's well past CODEX now.
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The crab pops out on our way to the cave again. I guess these guys are just random encounters at left turns.
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Milo still barely hurts him. Well, he isn't slowed this time.
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Codex tears him a new one though. Our minions both gain a level out of it, but no new spells.
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We go looking for that thing that killed us before, but I guess it vanished when we fled. Oh well, the one we killed didn't drop an item anyways.
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More crab battlin'!
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Even on a crit, it can't hurt Milo too badly.
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Bastard.
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I try slowing him twice to see if the effect can stack, but is has no further effect.
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More new enemies.
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And familiar ones pull a new trick.
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Poison sticks around after battle. It only hurts every few steps though, for 1 point. It's not a big deal if you can cure it, and we can, so we do.
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Who keeps these things burning all the time anyways?
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More new enemies. Must be getting near the boss, deeper in the cavern.
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With Pyra dishing out damage too, things are dropping pretty quick.
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But fuck thats a lot of hurt. Time to fire up the spells.
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We put the multi headed dicks to sleep. Or try to. I think it only caught one.
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Little bastards really hurt!
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That sounds new.
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:rage:

Thats like, 100 hp worth of healing right there!
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Fortunately they don't pull off any more shenanigans.
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And damn, that's a nice reward.
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And another nice reward. Pity everyone is already wearing the same or better.
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Ugh, we can't avoid this since we got ambushed.
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Cheapass fuckers!
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At least we're filthy rich again.
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Oh come on!
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More surprise buttseks. Though whatever it was doing failed.
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Kill the pink fuckers! They're probably gay!
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I'd rather not deal with them healing whatver these new guys are.
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Apparently they feel the same way. Ours works better though.
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Son of a bitch!
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With Milo drained, Pyra is on healing duty. Should probably warp out soon, but she's still got a bit of healing left. Might as well check out that corner.
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Oh fuck. That looks big. Like, boss battle big.
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Wait, what?
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We certainly weren't looking to loot your bloody remains, good sir.
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Really? You ought to be more careful then! We're all in this together after all. We certainly didn't cast a curse on you at all.
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Well, no reason not to. Worst case scenario, he backstabs us and we get to rid the world of a horribly furry.
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Hop aboard! We were just leaving anyways.
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Indeed!

This is the point at whichh I realize I never actually replaced the Angel Feather we used last time.
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We are balls deep in the Cave of Strength, Our healer has no MP left at all, and our secondary healer is nearly out too. Also I ditched like half the herbs we had to make room when I was selling stuff in town. This could be interesting. If we make it back out we'll be even more filthy rich than we already are, too.

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I recall he at least attacks; I'll explain more in the next update. It's been so long I forgot what exactly he did.
 

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I meant to mention this in the update, but I very nearly got lost a couple times in there, despite my elaborate mapping. Seeing the whole thing laid out like this with all those details really makes me appreciate how awesome the dungeon was in this game. And we're not even at the tricky stuff yet. I was worried this was going to be a slog but doing the mapping is actually kinda fun, now that I have my custom doodads mostly set up.
 

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