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Part 22: Lenna, Lost and Found.
World 3’s start is slow, of course. I’m not a fan of the party split but it is what it is. The session is a slow start too because my son is pretending he is me, and I am him, and thus HE wants to press the buttons. Not super tenable with a 3 year old and a laptop though. Eventually the fancy passes.
“We’re going to go in their home.”
“And there is going to be a party!”
He is initially not interested in the party. He is a little cranky because he didn’t sleep well.
But then I go to try and read the king’s diary and…
”No, go back to dancing.”
”Where that sound come from?”
“The music is from the party here.”
I show him the cute little flashback. “We’ll see little Faris and baby Lenna.”
”Where baby?”
I show him. It’s a cute little scene with a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it window.
”I want to find that chocobo.”
”That chocobo?”
“It’s his best friend!” he likes the little scene. He doesn’t call them moogles at least.
I try to leave but he wants me to go back in the cave. I go in a little, but not much because there is no point until we can get Syldra, really.
”Where other magicians?”
He noticed 
I explain we’ll get them back soon enough. He wants max magicians.
“Hey! There’s our airship! But we can’t get there. We’ll find it later.”
Oh right.
”Badguy!?”
“It is!”
“It’s the antlion!”
”What’s that music?”
“It’s the boss music!”
”And he boss?”
“Yeah. Not a hard one though.”
He gets a discord off on Bartz off the bat, but then I berserk him and start tossing up blinks.
“What’s that?”
”… … a rope?”
”Who say that?”
“Lets find out.”
”Why they standing there now?”
This is probably okay.
”We not need three.”
“You want four?”
He checks his fingers again, holds up four. ”Want four magicians.”
“We have to go through a pyramid first.”
”Who’s missin?”
“Lenna is missing.”
”Lenna is missing?”
Find Lenna. Where Lenna go?”
”He upside down?”
“Yeah!”
”Who’s song is that?” I mean, he probably knows.
“Exdeath’s song.”
”He made tiny splinter? that Ecks-deff’s song?”
”He suck up turtle?”
“No, that’s Lenna’s castle!”
“Lenna is in the castle!”
”But Ecks-deff is stopping Lenna too! And made a big hole! Big hole!”
“He’s using the void!”
”Ecks-deff beat turtle?”
“He knocked him into the water!”
”He not letting us get up.”
”He boom boom boom us down!” He doesn’t say boom so much as make boom-y noises and hand gestures to represent us getting hit with little cutscene zaps.
This scene is magical of course. He watches it, commenting too fast to get everything honestly.
“He sent us all flying away!”
”Ecks-deff too? All of us?”
“Exdeath went somewhere else I think.”
”Find Ecks-deff. I want to fight Ecks-deff.”
”Where Lenna? Find Lenna.”
I have to explain and re-explain (reassure, really) that we’re going to find Lenna. He wants his magicians back.
Lenna Lenna Lenna Lenna
“It’s the Guardian Tree! Look, it was all burned up but now the leaves are growing back!”
He listens, but you just know he is wondering where magician number four is.
”I like these two! They hard.”
I berserk+blink it through them. Pro strats.
“This is the pyramid. Should we look for Lenna in here?”
”Yes.”
He also asks what the song is in here a lot. I tell him a lot.
Also, Gaia does poison gas in here which is cool, but it heals the undead so it isn’t cool at all. Also dance is a liability for Krile. Blaah. He comments that they are hitting us. I point out they are walking on their hands.
“What’s that?”
”A badguy?”
”It mummy? Bad mummy?”
In the driver’s seat the missus makes sure he is saying Mummy, and not Mommy. I am pretty sure he knows the difference though. After I go outside and use another cottage then head in for the main path.
”No more mummies? What they?”
“Lamias! They’re half snake and half person!”
They drop one of their eponymous tiaras. A bit late to be useful.
”Snake.”
”New badguy?”
“Sort of. It’s a dragon!”
”They all bad guys?
“They’re trying to get to us.”
”Robot!”
“That is a robot.”
”Only a little big. He only a -little- big.”
He could be bigger, I grant. Fights with Mecha Heads are slow, but not super dangerous.
He counts the mummies. Three. Then two. Then one. Then no more mummies! The next crypt we open?
”More mummies!” The countdown begins again.
”Purple heads!”
“They got poisoned!”
”Green heads!”
This could be going better.
”I want to go back to robot place. I want to go back to the robot place”
”They trying stop us with their shields?”
I have two gold hairpins at this point. Tule didn’t sell any and I forgot that Surgate is just north of the library. They miss every cast of Break though.
”Go down slide. Water slide?”
“It’s a sand slide.”
”No, go down slide up there!”
“We have to go down this slide though.” Gotta loot, kid.
”Oh no it’s him!” He seems more amused than worried when she summons this dude. I can never seem to run from these encounters normally though.
”What she do?”
“We’re running away with smoke.”
This place is so long. I never run into Sekmet though.
We slog on through. He asks about the music of course. Nothing about these shifting platforms though
Nor any comment on the elevator.
“It’s sinking!”
He doesn’t immediately start asking for Exdeath for once when everything starts to shake.
”He a badguy?”
“No, Bahamut is a good dragon. He’ll help us if we can beat him later.”
”Because he bad guy?”
“He looks like a bad guy, huh?”
We disagree about which way to proceed, here.
”She went that other way.”
“We already looked over there. I feint a few steps away to ‘check’ before hitting the forest.
”It’s a wind drake? Why? What the wind drake doin’?”
”The dragon has found Lenna. She down?”
”Who got Lenna?”
“Melusine!” He tries to sound it out once.
”ECKS-DEFF THERE? IT’s his song! dun-duuuh!” He sort of sings along to the song. Hums, well. Ish. Doot-de-doos.
This guy loves his work.
”His big hit!”
Well that’s not Vacuum Wave or Almagest but yeah, that is a big hit.
“It’s sucking them all up!”
”Sucking EVERYONE into the void?”
He is very entertained by all this.
”What dragon do?”
“He’s knocking the monster out of Lenna!”
“He so big! Big like you!”” Does he mean she has a person shaped sprite instead of a little magician one? He reacts to her barrier changes by asking why she came back as she slides in and out of the screen. Also he constantly calls her a “he”.
I react to them by not bothering to change my strategy. I keep firing the H-bow for rapid fire procs that ignore her defense and using 1000 needles. I shell up to take the bite out of her spells. Krile dances after that and gets a few tempting tangos and sword dances of relevance.
”He have snakes? He like snakes?”
“She does have snakes!”
”What zero mean?”
“It means the attack didn’t hurt.”
”What four mean?”
“Bigger numbers mean bigger hits.”
We win! Dat AP.
”Lenna down?”
“Let’s get her up and heal her up.” I do so.
“How we doin?”
”They doin’ good.”
”Lenna back! We have four magicians!”
Bad tree and bad snake!”
”Eck-deff put a hole in the water?”
He did do that. He used the void.”
got water stuck in the void? Why? Hole in the water.”
”We flying.”
”Ecks-deff!” He listens to ‘him’ monologue about the void.
”Power of the void is gone? Sucked into the void is gone?”
”He got the co-co-bos! Co-co-bos gonna be stuck in the void!”
He’s really into the entire void sequence, grinning.
”What dark means?”
“It means they’re getting sucked into the void!”
”We flying? Looking for Ecks-deff?”
“He’s flying mad.”
“Lets get these guys weapons.”
”Want get her weapon!” He means Krile.
I get the Sage’s Staff.
The bow. I feel okay getting this one for now. Bartz has equip bows I guess.
And the “samurai sword”. He actually doot-de-doos along with the triumph music. Cute. Make your samurai a time mage! Faris has Equip Katanas but generally I’d always want Blue. It’s really good if we stick with a samurai though.
I forgot about this one. Every time I forget about it.
”These Ecks-deff’s guys? These Ecks-deff’s bad guys?” He loves all these dudes.
“Yes!”
”They gonna try get us? Try get girl?” He means Krile.
Okay then! A nice party for the endgame so far…
”Want change his costume. Want her be bad guy magician.” He points to Lenna.
“We don’t have any bad guy magicians yet.”
He settles on ranger, so I guess she gets the hand-me-down bow. It was a good ride, Mystic Knight. Man I should have told him Time Mages were bad guy magicians. What was I thinking? We got White 6 now, though I wouldn’t be surprise if he never un-cats Krile. I don’t really care about getting Ianuki. I don’t dare to dream I could get !Rapid Fire. Watch me get it and then get changed to a time mage or a berserker. As for Lenna, probably going to keep summon but it is nice to have the option to swap to spellblade if needed.
Next time: Probably a lot of faffing about in World 3.