Let's Play FF6 3: The Revenge

[Kerensky287]

Sorry, guys, next update will be delayed till Saturday. A bunch of stuff came up that I didn't anticipate and I just won't have time.

I don't feel like shit as much as I normally would though because I've had like 5 consecutive updates and we're almost done anyway.

Still, sorry. Saturday. Super-certain.

[Lord Setheris]

Originally Posted by Kerensky287

Sorry, guys, next update will be delayed till Saturday. A bunch of stuff came up that I didn't anticipate and I just won't have time.

I don't feel like shit as much as I normally would though because I've had like 5 consecutive updates and we're almost done anyway.

Still, sorry. Saturday. Super-certain.

I can't wait for the next update. It is going to kick ass.

Also:
Loli for president.

[Kerensky287]

So it turns out I forgot how super-busy I tend to be when I'm home over the weekend. Every free hour is usually spent with the family, but I thought I'd have a bit of time free to go do chapter 42. It turned out that THIS WEEKEND happened to be the one that my family prepared the house for the upcoming move (ie. making it look nice for potential buyers), and I helped out, not wanting to seem like the good-for-nothing son that lives off his parents nickel without a word of thanks.... and so on.

Deeply sorry about the lack of two promised updates. Next one WILL be on time.

P.S. Sorry as well about the lack of coherency, I'm still kinda tired from return-travel and the aforementioned intense cleaning.

EDIT: Photobucket's bulk uploader is a piece of utter shit that almost NEVER uploads all the files you select... but the regular uploader only lets you do 50 at a time. I guess what I'm saying is that Photobucket is ass.

Chapter 42

No relation to any ultimate answer to anything.



Okay, that's enough levelling up. I think we've finally got enough magic to take on the FANATICS' TOWER.

And if I don't, then I never will, because Bitch literally knows every spell it is possible for my party to learn at this point.



Let's prepare before we go in.

First, everyone needs a Reflect Ring so they bounce almost every spell back. That will make a magic-only level pretty easy.
Second, everyone needs a Ribbon because some of the only spells that aren't bounced are status spells. Also, Eunuch is still holding that damn Cursed Shield.
Third, everyone needs whatever equipment will give them the best spellcasting power. That means Magus Rod, Enhancer... whatever you can get.

And then we're ready... hopefully.

Let's climb that staircase!



.......and those 50 other ones.

Oh man, it's FF7 all over again.



Plus there are random encounters all around. Normally I skip through them by holding A, but in this case it just makes me cast Cure on a random enemy because Reflect bounces it off of Bitch.



But Firaga bounces off just as well, and as an added bonus a reflected spell is not affected by an opponent's Reflect.

So that's pretty much it for the tower ascent.



Except for a few super-rare, super-powerful treasures and/or tools for Eunuch.



And a Holy Dragon.

HOSNAP IT'S A HOLY DRAGON.



You know, this whole time I had been using Ethers to replenish my MP. I forgot I had this little gem that takes the enemy's MP and gives it to you. So now I'm pretty much unstoppable.

This is how the fight goes:



Holy dragon casts Dispel to get rid of Reflect.



It fails because Reflect is an item effect.



Holy Dragon casts Holy. Long cat casts Long.



It bounces back and heals Holy Dragon.



Repeat. Somewhere in there Eunuch gets killed by Doom and then revived with a Phoenix Down, and we're casting Firaga/Osmose in between.



I dunno, maybe I was expecting a little more damage than ZERO. Especially considering that it's a giant dragon.



We get a lance I'll never use...



An immersion-breaking message...



And an item with a name that makes me think Thou or Silly could use it.

Then monotony.



Finally, the top! It had better be worth this damn climb.



Ohoho, and it is. The Soul of Thamasa is a relic that gives you Dualcast - the ability to cast two spells per turn. Combine this with the Quick spell, which allows you to take an extra action, and you have a seriously broken item. Ultima/Quick, then Ultima/Ultima and Ultima/Ultima (because casting Quick as another Quick action automatically fails) adds up to 5 awesome spells in a single turn.



And hey, now that we're done here, we can switch our equipment back to normal. Cocke has the Lightbringer and Ultima Weapon as well as the above relics, which means he gets 8 attacks with incredibly strong weapons. Woohoo!

Now time to teleport out of here!



...Damn.



Oh, DAMN.



Oh, heheh, this treasure? W-well, Kefka's a god, he doesn't need Dualcast, right? I mean, the fact that it's at the top of these billion fucking staircases means he probably doesn't need it that much-



...So you're saying that if we dual this ghost to the death, then we can keep the treasure? Fine by us!



How intimidating.

Lucky for me, Cocke is the only one with a moveset that's any different from normal.

But now he's optimized for attack commands... gee, how do I fix that?



Answer: I don't need to.





^Times four.

Normally the Magic Master is pretty hard to beat. He uses Barrier Shift to change his weakness constantly and he only uses spells that he is immune to (and thus is immune to reflections) so you have to either cast Libra a whole bunch or use non-elemental spells.

Or do what I did there.





Just gotta use Osmose a few times to restore my MP, then cast a few choice spells on Cocke (including Haste and Reflect), and I'm pretty much invulnerable for the rest of the fight. Now to sit back and watch the Cocke sword-chuck his way to victory.

But the Magic Master has one final trick up his sleeve...



OH SHIT!



He casts Ultima upon death.



OH FUCK IT BREAKS THROUGH BARRIERS



...

...Jesus FUCK that was close.





Hah, just kidding, it wasn't at all. Reraise was one of the spells I cast on Cocke earlier.



Hurray for the survivors!

NOW to teleport out of here.



....

ARE. YOU. FUCKING. KIDDING ME.



*sigh*



At least we have Dualcast this time around, and the aforementioned broken combo.







...etc.

*half an hour later*



Ugh. I fucking hate that tower and its staircases and its magic-only-ness and that STUPID CHEERY YELLOW AND PURPLE COLOUR SCHEME.



Hey guys, since I killed your leader, I guess that makes me the new boss, doesn't it?



Guys?

...Screw you guys, I'm never coming here again.



One last item of business.



Hmm. No giant monster here.



Did you see a giant monster recently? No? I didn't think so.



Maybe she should name it Humbaba because there is no one alive right now with that name.



Yeah, you'll be okay because there is no massive green monster threatening you.



HUMBABA IS DEAD, AND WE HAVE KILLED HIM.

NOW STOP SUGGESTING I GO KILL HIM. FUCKIN' SERIOUSLY.


...I guess it's the Hidon quest next, right?

[corronchilejano]

Sorry, I had this game and passed it lots of times on the SNES, and I swear I came back to kill him since he ran away after fighting him with Terra.

Other than Hidon, there's pretty much nothing else to do, unless you want to beat the Dragon's Den before going against Kefka. If you're going this way, I recommend getting Marvel Shoes for everyone.

[Amake]

Magi Master always uses spells he's immune to? That's new to the advance version. Sort of defeats the purpose of randomly changing his immunity if he gives it away one would think. But then, it would also make the fight deathlily easy: Just keep the reflect rings and let him run out of MP.

(Note to self.)

Now, about Dragon's den, I'm torn between having it played for me and letting Kerensky get done this year. . .

[Si Civa]

Eh, eventhough using reflect rings and making Magimaster casting spells upon himself is stellar idea, you should remember quake and spells like that. They can't be reflected.
That's why float and gaia-armor are nice things.

And Bitch survived from Ultima?
Bitch survived from Ultima?
Bitch survived from Ultima!

[Amake]

But he only uses reflectable spells. Unless there's even more changed about him in this version. >_>

(Not counting Ultima of course.)

[Si Civa]

I remember him casting W-Wind and that ain't reflectable at all. Or then it is and I sound silly when I say this.
However, knowing my memory I can be wrong too.

[Amake]

Well, I don't remember him casting W-Wind. Guess we'll have to play ourselves and check it out. >_>

[Kerensky287]

He didn't cast White Wind, and even then, it only affects himself. Why would White Wind's barrier-piercing qualities matter if he doesn't have a barrier?

I mean, you CAN cast reflect on him, but then he starts bouncing top-level spells off himself, and that's just a bad thing all around.