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S01E25: POSTGAME Purgatory ESCAPE
Very few things left for this game. Most of them are somewhat time consuming things to play, but they won't result in all that much material for this update. Still, it probably will not be -too- short.
We've not done this yet, but we're free to explore the SankT Leona castle now.
See? Most of the guards in the first area on the battlements have very little of interest to say.
We'll be meeting Aerie's husband shortly.
The main guards area, after the battlements, is a large building seperated into three areas. Two are home to two rival... squads? of palace guards.
On a lower floor, we find a store room home to both an animal fighting ring and the woman buying Elder Scrolls. I sell her one on purpose, for two thousand, but talking to her again automatically sells the other. Oh well. I'll just edit in another one if it matters at all, which I don't think it will.
We'll come back to the animal fights later.
There's a bar on the lower floor too. Eva is apparently the best fighter among the Blazers.
Wandering around, we wind up on a lower level of the battlements, where they... keep chickens?
In the Blazers section, some dude wants the Evil Tower entirely erased. Random expresses doubt that could be managed for all the evil creatures and people residing there.
Also, we meet this jerk.
If we talk to him on the right side of the counter...
There's a reward for people defeating Eva!
Eva gets a lot of build up.
'reading.'
sigh
We're not going into the Blazers fight club yet, though.
lol
The third section of the main buidling is largely pointless. Two guards and a guy stand around in a big fancy room.
Though the backroom does have two pianos. The scene that follows plays out exactly the same as the one in that one guys house...
... except that while Wendie is jamming on the piano, the three guys from the prior room rush in one by one to listen to her. Even the dialogue is otherwise identical.
Wendie just thanks this guy.
She is less modest with the next dude.
And the last guy says she plays better than his wife and is like a goddess!
If you use either piano again...
Don't tease the cat, Sarah! He's probably too hung over or drunk to count notes right now!
We'll 'get in deep' with the patriarchy first.
There's a bard named Christian Laporte rambling about some random crap for some reason.
One Patriarch recommends we visit the bar to pick up a woman there:
You said it, not me.
We get a little bit of information about The Crusher.
"What are you going to do, crush me?" - Man who was Crushed by The Crusher.
The Crusher is not very talkative right now.
We do find a nice treasure behind him, though.
We have to talk to this guy to arrange fights with the Crusher.
We have Random fight him first, of course.
This guy only has two moves. An attack for decent damage, and passing a turn to do a lot of damage on his next attack. Amusingly, Random is probably the hardest person (besides Coryool) to win this battle as because neither of them have any buffs/debuffs and good healing. Because the charged attack does near half (over half in Randoms case) their total HP of either, they have to down Tonic Teas in alarming quantities, at high speed.
He has at least 5k HP, I'd guess. Oh and I forgot he does have a third ability. G-Wave. Which heals for 999 damage. He uses it somewhat infrequently, but he can do it.
We don't get anything for winning, really. This is purely for the challenge AND score.
If you beat the Crusher three times with either Random, Sarah or Luci, his dialogue changes. Here I did it with Random.
The fight is longer but easier for Sarah since she can debuff him and buff herself.
And when she wins...
I am imagining her using a monkey wrench to do this.
Luci's introduction is... weird.
At least she gets to say something interesting, unlike Random and Sarah (this is in response to the Crusher calling her foolish)
Again, easier than Random due to buffs.
Coryool's battle is a fucking chore.
He only does 200-300 damage with his decent hits and crits and like 70 damage with his normal attacks. It takes long enough that Crusher will repeatedly G-Wave and ugh. So...
Use the amulet here, to cast Skull Gazer. It does not do more damage than Coryools crits, but it does drain a lot of MP. A couple uses of it, and Crusher will have no MP. This becomes the standard first move of the rest of the characters.
Oh yeah, and of course, we have to fight Crusher with Coryool three times to see the dialogue update.
This was well worth five minutes of my time.
Before we move on to the rest of the party, I realised I forgot to grab something from the illegal animal fight club. When we win, we can get some stuff in a backroom to the backroom.
As I always say, good thing we're no where near Metrolia and will never go there!
The Tyrano Nails are Guanidia's best main 'hand' weapon.
Back to the Crusher.
Guanidia drops this on us right before the battle. Morphing?? When???
Anyway, since Guanidia's debuffs and Mind Jaws ALSO drain HP, the battle is actually easier for him than most anyone else.
He is very proud.
Herasia does very well too, thanks to the combo of his attack mode and Mind Jaws. He'd be lost without the Mind BioS stuff though.
Leanda's dialogue is completely unnoteworthy. She refuses to engage with any of it, and then debuffs Crusher to nothing, and the fight takes forever because she blows at damage.
Wendala actually forestalls the announcer guy to announce herself.
Wendie does very well with Love Me nuking Crusher's stats.
And... we have to beat the Crusher with Wendala three times to see the dialogue update again.
I am being slightly less sarcastic when I saw this was worth three minutes of my time.
Some of the people hanging around have new lines now:
Mmhm.
Wendie is talking to a woman who had been talking up The Crusher.
And Random brags to the guy who said Crusher could tear apart a shield. The guy then whines that that's impossible.
Also the bard tracks victories.
Time for more pokemon battles.
The guy starts talking shit about sludges and oozes and...
Random tells him off in his own Arena??? And he begrudgingly agrees?
It costs 100GP to enter, but we can win 1000GP in return.
And... we do just that. it's a very simple battle.
Guanidia fails to get us a bigger reward.
Luci talks some shit before Herasia's fight... Which also goes... mostly simple. Mind Jaws only just outheals the damage Herasia takes... untily uo put him in attack mode. Cinch from there.
And that's that. Got a couple thousand gold, and some more score.
On to the real hard part. Winning against the Blazers as every partymember.
We head on over.
This is Fedrinand, the slight speed bump.
Hm.
General Dacorn is friendly, at least.
And, surprisingly, despite Eva's prowess, there's a fair few winners.
More one on one fights but this time, it's a series of five battles.
We're put up against Ferdinand first.
A single Quadra Metal downs him.
Then, Samuel Le Bart.
He has much higher defense so it takes TWO Quadra Metals to take care of him.
Cyrillo used to be a thief apparently.
He goes down in one Quadra Metal.
Random then thinks I CAN'T DECEIVE HER!
Two Quadra Metals, but he does get a heavy blow on Random inbetween.
He flies into the wall with such force the screen shakes, and then it shakes again when he hits the floor. But he's okay, apparently.
Annnd... we lose. Thing is. Eva does half Randoms HP with her normal attacks... and she's faster than Random. So she just wins by attacking twice here.
Random is sent flying out of the arena with such force he should be dead.
He also says sexy.
I immediately go for a second try, and fight through the first four battles, and then...
So. Eva. Whatever she elects to do, it will occur before Randoms move. She can attack. She can charge(!) an attack. She can cast G-Wave. She can cast P-Bolt. The chance to cast P-Bolt is honestly a blessing. So is G-Wave. She doesn't have that much HP, so she isn't even fullhealing with it. Two Quadra metals still get her down if you manage to get her to not heal and survive two turns in a row. Kind of RNG dependent. You better have Random healing if he has less than half HP though or you'll have to sit through minutes of fights and dialogue again.
Random sends her flying into the ceiling and then onto Dacorns face. Both Eva and Dacorn seem amused by that.
Sarah loses her shit, as usual.
A guy that refused to speak to us earlier will do so now. Seems like he's hinting at something...!
And the list has been updated to include Random.
Dacorns dialogue updates if Random defeats him three times.
And Ferdinands updates if Random defeats him five times.
Now we head out for a moment to...
Random shows him a certificate Eva apparently gave him.
And we get our first reward!
We already had one of these but it casts a spell powered by... Well, I'll quote the thing. This one is noteworthy for not just one reason, but two that I cannot explain for spoiler reasons.
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* Ulm-Warrior
Appears in : Ulm Overcraft
Height and weight (as a sword) : 1m80 and 25kg
Very little is known about this living sword, supposedly son of the Apocalypsia, the Mother Sword. The Ulm-Warrior chooses who can equip it, and owns a spell dedicated to its glory.
This spell, Ulm Overcraft, unleashes the sword's fury, resulting in incredible damages on mostly any opponent.
That's a fucking hugeass sword. It's taller than Random and weighs half as much.
When we enter Sarah, Eva immediately calls her out and Sarah is like huh how did you know??
Well... apparently you just admitted to it. Good job dumbass.
Sarah makes her way through the first four battles easily enough but I lose the first attempt at Eva.
Here's Eva launching Sarah into the wall at lightning speeds.
On the second attempt, Sarah wins. No real special tactics really. If a character can debuff Eva's attack or speed a lot, or do a lot of damage in two turns, or buff their defense a lot then you can win with a little luck and a bit of thought.
I do want to note that Random actually enthusiastically cheers Sarah on and even says she's awesome and he loves her (which she returns.)
When getting the reward, Sarah uh.... That's a hell of a typo (? she might mean sword strokes.)
She didn't say anything even hinting at sex, you lunatic!
Meanwhile, despite this line no one cheers on Luci and she has no real dialogue. The tourney is really easy for her but amusingly she has to bash people with her rod most of the time due to them all having extreme elemental resistances.
The counter dude, after his intiial shock at Luci's victory, quickly becomes infatuated with her.
Ahah, it's the spell that's bugged so no one can cast it unless they have the Sword of Scrolls equipped (and they have to learn it first.)
Next up is Coryool.
Coryool actually gets a bit more to his scenes with the first fighters, where he launches Ferdinand into the ceiling...
... then does the same with Samuel...
And sends Cyrillo -through- the roof apparently, as there's TWO crashes and he never comes down until we start a new tournament.
Coryool is still a horrible caricature of a Chaos Uncle.
Sarah tries to calm him down by saying scrolls are valuable, but...
lol.
I told you this guy was a jerk. He's also a creep. You could tell at the very outset by him being the kind of guy that gets upset about talking to him behind the counter even though its not like a place of business or something. Who gives a fuck. Asshole. I hate this nameless NPC.
Jesus, he just goes straight for that, huh.
Anyway, Guanidia deals with the first four fights easily, but I feel like Eva is either impossible for him without extremely leaning on the RNG which would take forever, and hoping Eva casts P-Bolt a lot. Which is how Errant did it. We did discover later that she has a weakness to berserk which.. P-Bolt inflicts and the pet only battle item Wail Pod casts that. That might be the intended way.
However I just taught Guanidia the cheat spell we got from Lazandra's Library and it does most of Eva's HP in one hit and also debuffs her a ton.
Eva is as confused as we are by this line.
At the rewards dude... The dude refuses to believe a sludge could win.
I've actually never seen this dialogue before because this LP is the first time I've ever won the Blazers with the harder characters.
But it is my much long hoped for proof that Wendie is genuinely fond of Guanidia, who across the series is probably the only character who regularly gets along with her when they banter or go off together.
Guanidia's spell is a pretty lame ass one.
Herasia's battles go by without much of note to report on.
The guy is super excited Luci's cat won though.
lol. Anyway. Leanda is next.
She seriously does not stand a chance.
Leanda is completely stonewalled by Cyrillo, the third battle. I doubt there's any way for her to win. The only way we could devise was to have her use one of the scrolls we previously won. We only have two because of Lazandra's Library. Anyway, Ulm Overcraft does 999 damage to him and he's done.
Leanda can handle Dacorn well enough, though...
But then Eva... is even more impossible for her than Cyrillo.
Thanfully, Eva's extremely weak to Paralysis so hopefully you have not used the single paralysis scroll in the game before now (or the second from wherever I got it. Lazandra's Library?)
And then use another of the reward scrolls to do most of her HP in one go. I think that's the only one that'd do enough damage to be worthwhile. Lord of the Dance also debuffs, not that its needed. It only does just a bit less than her max HP.
quote:
* Psyrak Grebir, "Psyrak"
Appears in : Lord of the Dance
Necromancer in his living days, Psyrak quickly became one of the most important entity related to Air spells. But his natural ways of betraying friends, despising rules and rebelling against higher gods, were the cause of his banishment from the Air Community. Psyrak then continued improving, creating terrific spells, and helping anyone whose interests were in killing.
Nowadays, Psyrak appears old, hunchbaked, with a distorted face, but his dreadful powers remains the same, and even his lowest apparition "Lord of the Dance" is an awesome damaging spell, feared by all.
Fucking seriously.
The rewards guy tries to troll us which combined with all the other lines makes me think Indy realised Leanda winning was impossible without those powerful scrolls.
Honestly have no idea what Quiridoo is.
These two are immediately at each others throats, and later Eva is even inwardly pissed when Wendala defeats the first dudes.
Wendala does the same thing as Coryool where she hurls the first three combatants into the ceiling and Cyrillo never returns.
She also talks shit to Dacorn.
She's uh... really into it.
Then they fight and Wendie wins. Kind of... touch and go with her, but manageable.
She's really throwing out the bitches here all of a sudden arr harr harr harr wow im so sorry that was chaos uncle level bullshit
Yeah yeah.
Anyway, when you look at the list of victors and get to Wendies entry, she says she wants to fight Eva again and Random tells her she 'is a hot temper.'
Can you try to not lose your shit about this
Same, I think, Leanda. God, what's wrong with me I must be terrible.
Anyway.
Wendala clears her throat and is about to correct Sarah when Random decides to be a shithead and says I'LL GIVE AN ORDER TO EMBARASS YOU IN FRONT OF EVERYONE HERE IF YOU TALK SHIT TO SARAH
And then Sarah jumps in with talking about making Wendala do all the housework at the HQ.
Seriously. But also you need to chill out, lady.
Luci thanks him and...
Uhm...? He really likes being thanked for something minor?
We go speak to the guy that mentioned the thing before.
This thing.
Everyone's like oh this must be Yveen. We didn't realise because she gave us a good reward this time.
lol
I feel like ending your divine message with 'Bye Bye' undercuts it somewhat.
Anyway, the guy does not remember what happened but Random thanks him for the book, regardless. The book is a real goodie. It teaches the really powerful spells from the scrolls we've been getting. Overbolt, is of course bugged so only Random and Luci can use it, when the Sword of Scrolls is equipped. Some of the spells import to LP2 and 3 on -specific- characters and there's no prior indication which. Some don't import due to bugs. And some don't seem intended to import at all. And there's an oddity in one case the spell imports all the way to LP3, which has a stronger version of the same spell that is separate from the LP1 version. And another where the only two characters that can import the spell learn it in LP3 anyway. So, that's a minefield.
We leave.
We can check out the castle throne room but the gardens are still close off to us. What a world.
lol. shut up random.
Another palace guard talks about how awesome the party is and then:
:/
Just to be a huge fucking dickhead, in a side room, Random orders Wendala to help a beleagured woman with the laundry... in her underwear.
You know what really gets me about this game is how there's two completely different waifus that shit on each other a lot and are also told off by the others and are also both mistreated at times and the characters will question the protagonists actions mentally if not aloud. I honestly do not understand the motivation behind all of it. Like, usually your self-insert is completely in the right somehow and his love interests are usually also completely in the right unless they suddenly need a fall-from-grace arc like cheating on the self-insert or something.
Also there's a palace guard around here that asks out Wendala, who laughs and makes fun of him and says she can't because she belongs to Random, and that MAYBE he'll get lucky because if Random told her to strip off and bare her breasts in public, she would do it. Random says he can't tell if she's joking or not, but definitely considers it. I also cannot tell if she's joking. I think she -is- because she complains about far less egregious things being Random abusing his power. But like, really, Random doesn't really have any real power over her. Like, you're an adult dude.
Look, it's horny teen writing nonsense. It's fascinating to try and discern what the intent and motivation are, for me.
For some reason there's just a big rock covering some stairs in the throne room. We smash it but do not descend just yet.
Back of the line, creep.
The Prince is a huge dickhead and is all hurr dad shouldn't have rewarded peasants just doing their duty, the old man is losing it.
The Prince's outward reaction is to threaten banishment, but internally...
Then, if you talk to him again he warns Wendie to watch her tongue and she just says he should use his.
I have no idea if I'm reading too much into this conversation or not. It is honestly hard to tell.
I would love a goat medal tbh.
Anyway, we go down these stairs first.
We get the second worst sidequest in the game here. Return 13 'cinders' to their rightful grave. You remember the graves I've shown off across the game???
Random has no imagination and thus cannot imagine a huge reward.
Sarah is already happy with hers which is sweet. And highly upsetting.
Eyes on Luci.
Chaos Uncle is a chaos uncle.
Boring.
And Wendie has no real motivation or will to do anything with her life so she can't envision anything.
That's a tomcat for you.
And Guanidia is much smarter than I am.
If you talk to the old man again, Sarah will bring up an idea:
Luci and Random both disapprove:
"MY cinders!"
He's capable of empathy!
Now, if we go back up and to the stairs I unblocked just earlier, we find... a mini dungeon!
Somewhere in it there is a fairy. Elsewhere in it is a grave with a flower collar on it. You have to find that and give it to this fairy. You are not really told this.
Not this grave tho. I don't know what this is about.
It's this grave. We return to the fairy. The random encounters here aren't as bad as the postgame dungeons we've been doing but... the high encounter rate still makes it painful. I'm leaving most of it out, but this minidungeon is still pretty sizeable and is a mazey confusingly laid out 2 floor dungeon.
The fairy is happy to get her flower collar... back? She then says she loves giving gifts (like Charly, Wendie mutters) so--
whoa whoa, where's this coming from? I don't even know what the fuck point he's trying to make here. Whatever it is, it's bad.
Anyway we get to choose who learns Oceans Wrath and I select Luci.
After that, I use the 13 Cinders item in our inventory to see what's what.
You may notice that it says restored there. You get a menu where you can select ALL, RESTORED and MISSING and I picked ALL. I took these screen shots -after- I'd visited the graves.
lol.
I may as well put this here, since we never used 666.
quote:
* Drachknor, also known as the Dragon Lord
Appears in : 666
Weight (as a summonable creature) : 5900kg
The Necromancer Ulga'Har, author of the 666 incantation, needed some creature to be able to contain its huge and living amount of dark energy. The Dragon Lord Drachknor was the answer to his researches.
Gifted with powers overcoming those of most dragons, Drachknor knows exactly how to deal with the 666 demoniac symbol, and can unleash a destroying breath of dark energy on the whole area. Merciless, angry and hungry, Drachknor never fails and his victims can hear before their death his loud roar.
Uhhhh... Is the implication that these are his last words and that Gudar thought Barandos the Red was a Titanix, which he'd already defeated once before apparently? The Titanix we fought was easy but it'd make a chump of Barandos. Weird.
... Well, let's get going.
No one knows who this guy is so there's not much discussion.
No one knows who Marthus in Merthuns' Cave is either, just that the grave is extremely old.
Luci, surprisingly, is more negative about Gudar than Leanda is.
"civilised towns."
Horacio was apparently a great politician that tried to unify humanity and other races.
Luci also wonders why such a great man would be friends with someone like Gudar.
Oh yes. TWO of the graves are in the Tangar Mountains.
"led his army to many victories."
Azkards is at least easy to find, being near the start.
Random says he'd hate to die like that.
When the 'cinders' are restored, theres a bit of a racket and Random says the ghost said thank you or something.
Luci says being a ghost must be pretty boring then.
R.I.P.
This fucking grave though, took me like 20 minutes to find my way to.
Bye. We stole your bow ages ago.
Wasn't even that good.
Granit Tower has another mystery man.
:/
SankT Leona Valley has two.
Wendie says every follower of Yveen can't be a perfect goody goody.
And Sarah throws a shitfit at St. Joseph's skeleton.
Anyway, this was a traitor angel, who if you recall way back, hoped to merge dark and holy magic, which resulted in Sarah calling him a nerd. I guess that was the 69 spell. Luci says she doesn't like him for some reason.
In the mountains near GandJe Proud...
Maczo then apparently had Wendies grave moved here to be buried alongside him.
She specifies this goddess was NOT Yveen. Perhaps it was Magdalena.
Wendie restores the cinders here herself.
And the torches do in fact light themselves.
And Sarah restores one in thie SankT Leonian mansion.
Then waaaay to the east of the SankT region...
lol owned.
And we get the reveal that yes, even Random thinks Sarah is a dumb airhead.
We have one last Cinder left but no grave.
Thankfully it actually tells you to go back and talk to the guy who gives you the quest.
R.I.P.
The party quickly mix their ashes together and a butterfly appears.
Oh yeah and we still get our reward. The wife chides Sanders for mocking us.
That's not the worst tbh. The HP and MP boosts, at least, are definitely helpful.
Still, the way RPGMaker stats work by default, it's nowhere near as huge as it sounds either, though.
How.
Anyway... we're finally here. Time to end the game.
Let's visit score dude one last time.
It might say only 19 hours here, but the timer system Indy set up does not track time in battles. so it is at least twice that given the very high encounter rate.
It's 2500 for everyone.
Damn, that's two grades short of max. Bear is the normal highest rank for a grade, but Mithril has a special dragon rank to basically say yeah you 100%'d it.
Hm.
Wait what.
WHAT. I- Oh my god! I either loaded the wrong save at some point or something and have done all this without Coryool not having his best weapon and didn't even notice. I know I put the arm wrestling in an update, I even checked. Wow. Wonder if I forgot to save/it crashed or I loaded the wrong save. Man, Coryool's tournament fights weren't hard but they did take a while. If he'd been doublehitting for more damage they would have been way less long and tedious. Fuck!
I'm so glad I checked this because it would have made part of Laxius Power 2 obnoxious if he didn't have the Diamond Fists.
Just getting the Diamond Fists gets us to Mithril Bear.
There's one of these for each party member.
Hahah, didn't fool the score system with my cheats. We'd likely be at Mithril Dragon if I had done the fights legit, btw.
So yeah. Did literally everything except keep our poor, poor Apricot Tree alive.
So, next I use all the stat increasing items I've been hoarding, and spellbooks too.
The Azur Constellation gets a special interface where you go through the spells one by one and pick from eligible characters. Only Random and Luci can learn Ulm Overcraft and I give it to Luci. Most of the spells go to Luci.
Luci.
Luci. Not that it matters.
Luci.
Luci.
I actually give this one to Guanidia.
I think this was the Zapoos spell? I give it to Leanda, since it doesn't even import.
Wendie's the only option for this one.
There's also a spell named Necromogon from a different book that we never used.
quote:
* Ozur Karmalaļev, also known as the Dark God
Appears in : Necromogon
Measurements (as a humanoid God) :
2m35 == 780kg
Though never considered as a genuine god, Ozur was so dreaded and powerful a lot of his fidels (and enemies) quickly assimilated him as a god.
Ozur was responsible of many onslaughts, and the Gods' Council even had to stop him calling some Master Bounty Hunters.
Ozur wasn't killed, but the Gods' threaten somehow forced him to calm down. As a creature, Ozur has no kindgom or particular status, but he created amazing spells that usually reflect his propensity to destroying, butchering or tearing.
Ozur only comes up once, briefly, in the main series but (and pretty much the opening scene establishes this) he's the main antagonist of the prequel, 3 Stars of Destiny (available on Steam!)
One of the artifacts we're missing is rather infamously unimplemented but still on the list. Lady Deen's Bow or something. I believe we get it in LP2. The Relic was a random drop (75%!) from the Lazandra Library battle I didn't even realise I did not get until later and tbh I don't care.
So. That's this game down. As gross and problematic as it is, I do think I still like it a bit. It has... some redeeming qualities at least, and a lot of effort and passion put into it. That does not excuse the crap that shouldn't be in there, but people do and write stupid crap when they're young.
He's definitely improved in all regards over the years, though the Laxius series seems like... it's his very own Paladin of Shadows series where he just lets his Id go nuts. To less terrible extents than LP1 (and John Ringo, by far) as it goes on, but it's still there.
As is usual for the end of year holidays, I'm going to stay with my parents for a month or more as of next Tuesday. This may be bad for the LP. It may be really good for the LP, I cannot guess in advance but either way, we're starting the worst Laxius game in terms of both gameplay AND story. It's also, mercifully, by far the shortest. Seriously, it will probably take only ten hours at most.
So please very warmly kindly hopefully look out for:
the end