In Progress Lets play Brigandine: The Legend of Forsena

[procrastinator]

Too bad I won't live to see it then. Haven't brofisted a single MHC post

 

[Damned Registrations]

K, I've got the prepwork for the next update done, just have to write the actual post now.

 

[Damned Registrations]

Son of a FUCK. I was two thirds of the way through writing the update and my browser crashed. Fucking hell. It was taking forever too, for some reason this time it was lagging heavily when I typed.

 

[Azira]

A single bro-tip then:
I always type up my updates in a simple note-editor, once everything is nice and orderly, I then copy-paste the whole shebang.

 

[Edward_R_Murrow]

I didn't originally use anything other than the reply window, but when BG2 updates were getting ~2000 words...then I figured it was high time. I also wouldn't even imagine trying to wrangle with the WYSIWYG posting nowadays, but that's more because of my obstinacy in using outdated browsers.

 

[Damned Registrations]

I actually find the editor useful though, since it lets me see the screenshots while I'm writing shit up. If I could find some other tool that would let me paste an assload of linked pictures at once into and then start typing commentary between them, I'd gladly use that.

 

[dextermorgan]

http://www.autohotkey.net/~digit/ahk/AGUsAHkBBCodeWriter702/AGUsBBCW+digit2go.zip

Doesn't render pics in the edit window, but it does render your posting in a separate one so you can see what you're doing. Worked pretty good for me while I was working on the RE2 LP.

Courtesy of Bee.

 

[Azira]

So, how're you doing DR? Will the LP resume at some point, or has the browser crash soured you?

 

[Damned Registrations]

Eh, I made half the update using the program linked above about a week ago and just haven't felt like finishing it since then for some reason. I can't imagine just stopping here though, after putting this much time in already, not just for this update but for the thing in general.

 

[procrastinator]

Hey, DR, if you don't want to post next update because something bad happens to procrastinator, then don't worry. I'll take it like a man.

 

[Azira]

I have faith in you, Damned Registrations.

 

[Azira]

Pretty please?

 

[procrastinator]

Yeah, it's about time.

 

[Damned Registrations]

Update time!

This time we'll just skip by the boring opening portion of battle completely.

Bam! Poor Camden. What asshole told him to stand on the front lines?

Seems the enemy is following my example and moving it's own glass cannon to the front.

Even though that is completely unecessary to attack Dryst. Who dodges arrows like the troll he is.

Procrastinator risks everything by enduring the initial attack of the sexy demon. Is it a trap?

Apprently not, because attempted tentacle rape follows.

Lightbane makes an attack on their weakest unit. The hit and away ability makes this essentially a free attack for us.

Zemeckis enters the fray next.

Again with the futile targetting of our dear leader.

Thats actually almost respectable damage, but it would have been far more severe against various other targets (like Camden.)

They go after Lightbane too. Of course, given Lightbane's level advantage, he comes out pretty much on top even with his previous minor injury from the fishman.

Well, now we've mostly finished forming the giant clusterfuck of units.

Giant lizard vs giant chicken.

I think I mentioned this before but this works out to our advantage, since the Gryphon is an anti ground unit, while the wyvern is anti air.

Calling in tranny reinforcement.

SMA was in a rather awkward position so we have to use venom instead of Curse. Still going to be fairly effective; griffons are white aligned and have low int.

Now to deal some real damage. We'll throw Power on Azira.

Nice, free level.

Time to show this bitch who's boss.

Err,

Fuck man. Way to drop the ball.

Camden will show us how to get shit done.

He's got a funny hat so this totally isn't a sin.

Death to the jews!

Having him on the front lines like that means this spell reaches nearly the entire enemy army.

The total damage results in a huge xp reward even with no killshots, so he gets a level up.

Reinitiating tentacle rape.

Great success! The demon shall quiver there helplessly until we finish it off.

Comte makes an attempt but can't quite get the job done. But having free kills like this set up is nice for leveling weaker units up.

I had original moved our dragon here to breathe down the enemy line but then fucked up and put a knight in the way decided it would be more interesting for everyone to fight without that overpowered tactic.

So instead our dragon flosses his teeth on this unlucky cunt.

Heh, she even misses the counter attack. Another nice fat chunk of xp set up for us to pick off.

The Bahamut isn't going to level up any time soon from attacks like this though.

More hopeless potshots.

Miguel doing his job. The cavalier line is kind of boring but very reliable between their solid defenses and ability to heal.

We've brought ponies along to do the healing for now though.

They take forever to level up unless you get a chance to feed them a kill somehow. In retrospect I should have sent Korgan up to finish off the paralyzed demon.

Kaiserin is in a better position than SMA, however...

I don't want to waste a Curse on this weakened bird. And the juicier targets aren't in range. Instead we set up another easy kill.

Lightbane seems like a good candidate to take the shot.

I think the hellhounds have the best looking breathweapon by far. Aside from the flame itself, their posture is pretty badass.

Not exactly a devastating attack, but damned good for his cheap cost.

And it's more than enough to secure the kill.

And net him a level.

Or two even. Nice bonuses on the second.

Zemeckis' turn again. Why the fuck is this guy supposed to be so scary again?

Oh, right. The lightning shit. I totally didn't forget about that.

I lined up these 5 important and/or vulnerable units as a stratgic bait. Yes. Definitely.

At least Azira and Dryst can mostly shrug it off between their hp pool and bit of red resistance.

This shit, OTOH, not going to be terrible easy to shrug off.

Especially not by this poor fucker.

Ow.

Well, at least he put up a bit of a fight.

Enemy also has their hellhound ready to breathe fiery doom onto...

2 unimportant cannon fodder units that resist the element? Ok...

Not sure why I even took a screenshot of something this irrelevant.

They both take hardly any damage.

This, on the other hand, seems kind of important. In a bad way.

Dryst starting to get whittled down as well, though he still has a decent buffer.

Hmmm, this could be bad.

Or catastrophic.

Yes, you are. I have no idea how you managed to be defeated while under our glorious and peerless leadership. Begone!

Well shit, now we have to actually keep fighting to avoid losing him. Though he is just a ghoul...

This would be kind of nasty except...

The only target in range is a fucking huge badass dragon.

Maybe if you had another 10 turns and triple your mp I'd be mildly concerned.

Protect gets thrown up on the enemy leader. We weren't really planning on focusing him down anyways though.

There are much softer targets to be had.

Demons actually hit fairly hard in melee, considering their hefty spell potential. Well, they are insanely expensive after all.

Even a critical counter attack leaves the Centaur much worse off.

Ah, the joys of having giant lizards at one's disposal.

Lots of crits lately.

Centaur can't get a break today.

We send in anus pounder to finish hitting this ass and leg.

Another solid level up. +2 STR is nothing to sneeze at by any means.

Azira gets a chance to redeem himself with a crushing deathblow-

and fails miserably again.

And then gets critically countered.

At least he makes a decent damage sponge.

We'll patch him back up. I'm not terribly eager to try and level up another giant to level 9.

Andyman working on his promotion slowly but surely.

Next we send in golem bro.

Hydras have an evasion penalty on the ground, which makes golems a fairly decent counter.

He doesn't come out ahead in relative terms, but golems cost half of what hydras do anyways, and level up a lot faster. In terms of xp needed anyways.

Realistically the hydra will level faster by breathing shit to death and being able to engage in more fights with it's higher hp pool and heavier damage.

Woo! Another level. This is proving to be a fruitful battle.

Time for Dryst to return the favour to this annoying bitch.

Arrows are for chumps.

Nothing says 'fuck you' like fiery death.

Getting close to the point where we can finish her off for a fat xp bonus. Pity Azira never landed those hits.

Procrastinator picks up the demon.

A nice chunk of xp for such a defenseively oriented unit.

Enough for a level up.

Camden's turn again. I suppose it would be prudent for him to heal himself, or maybe another unit, rather than-

BURN THE JEWS! AGAIN!

Fuck you and your fake tits you deceptive bitch!

Mel Gibson Camden gets another fat chunk of xp for his efforts.

And Hellraiser gets to pick off a tempting target for some free xp.

See? Thats how you use a fucking bow.

Nice, more xp than Camden even got.

Obvious result of said xp.

Gnid takes a potshot too, but there aren't any super weak targets in range any more.

Thats ok though, we moved our dragon over here last turn where nothing is in the way of our breath attack.

Oh, except these two partially leveled units that are both moderately expensive and require a decent amount of xp to level up. I guess we'll settle for a melee attack instead right?

Err, right?

WTF man. Why did I do this.

Damn we kicked this shit out of those enemies.

And ourselves.

I'm sure I won't regret this at all.

That xp makes it seem almost worth it though.

Thats a nice fucking level up.

Time for Comte to reveal his worth s a promoted level 10 unit.

Fuck yeah, a crit!

Well.... he can beat a centaur at least?

At least he's dirt cheap and levels up quickly.

--This is where I pick the update back up. I haven't played what happened in these screenshots in months so I got barely a fucknig clue what is going on.--

I think we're winning though? Comte regening up.

This seems bad.

Yeah this is fucking bad.

I wish Dryst's critical hits looked that badass.

Fairwell almost-couatl.

Also apparently the golem dies too. Shit.

And Dryst takes insignificant damage again.

Comte tries to get these motherfucking snakes off this motherfucking plain.

But he is a wee bit outmatched.

And who the fuck is this guy attacking?

Oh. Well sucks to be him.

More than a slight disadvantage here. Actually I'm surprised he attacked, would have expected the enemy to be in retreat mode by now. I guess they figure it's still 2v2 so it's all good.

Monster wise we seem to outnumber them about 2 to 1 though.

Oh sure, pick on the old guy, just because he's being super agressive and casting spells on the front line.

Fucking jerk lizard.

Oh yeah that'll turn the tide. What can we do now, one of their 5 units is kinda harder to kill.

All we can do is restore half of this guy's missing hp.

Also the fire magic. We can do that too.

After the cooking is finished, the meat is sent to the rat people living in the mountains.

Out of MP now though.

Can Azira finally hit something?

Wait, the fucker lived?

Mission accomplished though.

Enemy leader also out of magic points.

Commence annoying long ranged attack.

Great success!

A lizardman was never more aptly named.

Quite the profitable day.

Yessssss. Moar STR.

Comte vs Pony. Round one. FIGHT.

Comte opens by cuddling with the pony. It seems very disturbed.

Note that it actually dealt more than 38 damage, but the game factors in the lifesteal ability of the ghoul and does the math for us.

More triflingly small xp rewards.

Alright, enough of that shit.

No kills judging by that small xp amount.

Ah, here they are.

BAM.

Plantman would do fuck all damage with an attack vs protected Esclados so we'll just have him wait here I guess.

Camden gets off of death's doorstep.

Pointlessly small attacks for 100$, Alex.

Tick-

-tock.

Parting potshots.

Ghouls are pretty survivable for their cost.

And the easy level ups are nice.

Free level gains all around!

Congrats to horseman!

Now both faithful readers are level 10.

Also, level 10 centaurs kick ass.

Like, seriously, you're gonna see how rape these are the next time they fight.

And yet another ghoul almost level 10. Wait, he got abandoned, and still gets victory xp? What a bro for sticking around and making our victory that much better.

Oh fuck, I have to dig out the quest dialogues. Where the fuck did I save that shit?---

Daffy steps into the cave carefully.

Inside, it was deeper than expected, and there are marks that reveal that someone has been here. Having walked for a while, something wet fell on top of Daffy... Daffy quietly looked around, but found nothing. As the torch lit the area, Daffy could see that the ceiling was damped... However, as Daffy was staring, a pitfall opened up underneath! It's a trap! Daffy barely survived. However, it will take a month to heal...

... fucking Daffy.

Teath met a traveling merchant in the course of the voyage.

They were able to get along through conversation, and decided to travel together part of the way.

Merchant: It's sad to leave you, but we have to part here. I'll give this to you.

The merchant handed the Fire Amulet to Teath.

Merchant: I had just acquired it. But I like you, and you may need it. Well then, take care.

Teath parted from the merchant after exchanging a handshake.
Teath obtained Fire Amulet.

Now that's more like it.

Alright, time for some management stuff.

Daffy is fucked up and arrives at the castle our almighty leader is at. He's got no troops with him. Must be a quest whore.

Teath, OTOH, has a fucking Tiamat with him. Not sure if he was sent to Deliver it or pick up troops. Probably deliver since his rune power is shit.

Fucking upgrades time!

Azira has been augmented.

Hmm, good thing those other guys died or we wouldn't have room for these upgrades.

Now tentacle raping men is an option too, I guess.

Fuck yeah.

Camden not quite 20 yet, alas. Thats a badass team though.

Some of our troops waiting with wounded knights.

Cleve is ready for action though.

Mexican standoff?

Oh fuck thats way over in the west. Look at all that glorious yellow land.
Although, maybe Leonia is busy up north.

I think we have to temporarily abandon some shit, not enough knights to defend against so many countries on so many places.

Only 2 knights down here.

Nope, we let them take Asten.

And another turn goes by. Guess I'm waiting to heal guys up or something.

Asten now actually garrisonned.

Team mobile fuckers is ready to go kick some ass.

Not sure if this was what I wanted.

Probably not.

Fight?

Nope, was just occupied by a wounded guy.

I keep wanting New Almekia to invade here. Maybe they won't though, as part of the peace treaty they won't take a caerleon territory even after it gets taken by someone else, unless Caerleon is wiped out?

Losing territory all over the place. We got mana reserves to last a long while though.

While on a journey, Lucia became lost in the a forest. Time passes by as darkness starts to embrace the area. While wandering around in the forest, a voice comes out from nowhere...

Excuse me.

!!!

What on earth are you doing in the forest on a night like this?

Lucia explains what has happened.

Ha, ha, ha... So you're lost in the forest?! I'm sorry. And you want to know the way out of the forest... Well, too bad... I can't tell you. Why? I'll tell you why. I am lost myself. That's why. Ha,ha,ha......

Huh?

My name is Hyude. I'm an adventurer. There is nothing we can do right now. I guess we'll have to spend the night here.

They sat down by the fire and told each other about themselves. As they talked, it became clear that Hyude had the ability to be a Knight. Lucia suggested to Hyude that he should become a Knight.

I don't know how I could be of any help. I only know about adventure.

Don't worry!

Lucia encourages Hyude to at least meet with Lucia's lord...

Well... You've convinced me. I'll met with your lord.

The next morning, Lucia found the way out of the forest with help from Hyude and headed for home.

I brought a freelance Knight.

My name is Hyude, the adventurer. I don't like to stay in one place for a long time. I never had a chance to become a Knight before. But from now on, I'll work hard to be of use to you. I'm on my way out to investigate the situation of other countries.

Hyude left on a journey.

Dryst: .........

(It looks like) Hyude has joined.

Lucia is back! With a boyfriend I guess?

And Cortina is ready for action.

Thats all for now though...

Next time we'll get this map fixed up.

 

[procrastinator]

Imma pretty flower.

Uh-uh. I see... Paralyzed by procrastination and some more procrastination. Clever.

 

[lightbane]

This LP is back!! And my avatar is even good! Awesome.

 

[Azira]

I was almost too ashamed to post here after seeing those awful misses by my avatar, but gum darnit, good show Damned Registrations! Good show!

 

[damicore]

Why are you playing this version instead of Grand Edition. I'm just asking as I was thinking of playing this game.

 

[Damned Registrations]

Grand edition was never translated. Actually I think there is a partial translation out there, but it's buggy or something anyways.

Which is a shame, because that version had fucking multiplayer. I'd have killed for a chance to play this with some friends.

 

[damicore]

Grand edition was never translated. Actually I think there is a partial translation out there, but it's buggy or something anyways.

Which is a shame, because that version had fucking multiplayer. I'd have killed for a chance to play this with some friends.

Indeed, what emulator are you using by the way? The latest version of epsxe doesn't seem to work, it hangs when I try to start a new game

 

[Damned Registrations]

pcsx I think? I wiped my computer since last time I played (the saves are still around) so none of them are configured. But thats the newest one I have installed based on which folder it's in, so it was probably one I grabbed to get brigandine to work.

 

[procrastinator]

Indeed, what emulator are you using by the way? The latest version of epsxe doesn't seem to work, it hangs when I try to start a new game

If you mean black screen that comes after nation selection, then I had this problem too. Fixed by changing video plugin to Pete's OpenGL Driver 1.77.

 

[Damned Registrations]

Fought the next battle. Will update soonish. I think.

 

[Azira]

Fought the next battle. Will update soonish. I think.

 

[procrastinator]

This calls for a new page.