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In Progress Lets Play: Shining in the Darkness
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Played further again. Or tried to anyways. Game is getting fucking hard now, beyond just having to pay some attention and not be a retard.
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Haha, but that's when they're more fun to read, when the LPer is constantly getting his ass kicked.
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Update time!
We sell off that Worn Robe we found.
I'm sure anyone would be honored to own such a priceless artifact.
Time to fix up our busted sword.
Well it wasn't hard. Theres like 6 buildings in the whole town, and thats if you include this tent as a 'building'.
Obvious answer is obvious.
Which would have sucked. A lot.
Kinda pricey, but on the other hand, we have nothing else like it so...
Well, luckily we can just spend the night. If we had to gain a level or something while our sword was in the shop that'd be a nightmare.
So, now we know what our sword is supposedly worth, and that repairs cost 1/4 of an items value. Cool.
It turns out, using mithril to make a shield is WAY cheaper than our previous 2 requests. Go figure.
Ta-Da!
Codex needs 20 armor a lot more than 15 attack power.
Cool, we could make one for Pyra if we had enough ore.
Finally remembered to cast it here. Though now we can apparently pull off the spell on the next floor anyways, for a while at any rate.
Of course, these guys show up anyways, and pull cheesy shit like blocking multiple attacks in a row.
We abuse our own cheesy tricks.
Stupid spinner wasting my Peace spell with extra movements.
Well, there goes the end of easy street.
New shield is doing it's job well though, we don't need nearly as much healing for normal fights now.
Though stuff like this I still need to burn mana on.
Sweet!
Huh, it's weaker than the whip. The active probably makes it worthwhile though.
Brilliant deduction Milo!
Awww. Oh well, it's still like a free spell battery for some awesome burning action right? And we could definitely use a spell battery right now.
Cool.
It's only 8 MP and still targets a single group.
Thats... pretty lame. Blaze 3 does much more for the same price.
Argh. We don't have the MP to be using boost and shit. I want to look at that wall though, the gap here is strange.
Man dat armor is frigging awesome.
Oops. Jinxed us.
Lets try fighting this fucker. He can't be that tough right?
!
Wow, he hits harder than us. Pretty much immune to slow too.
And he's faster than Milo.
Double turn is not good.
So, there went not only the guy with the rez spell, but also the guy with most of our remaining MP.
Though, Pyra can actually tank this shit, scarily enough.
I decide to try pressing onwards anyways, I want to get at least a step further than last time.
Argh fuck off already.
Wait, that isn't blaze 3...
That's just blaze 2. We got fucking screwed!
I follow this up with the firesword to clear them out.
Even the armor upgrade isn't going to let us shrug this crap off.
Well, at least I got a look at the fork paths this time.
Next time I know to just go right.
Firestaff is only worth this little. I sell the piece of crap. I think the designers swapped the location of the sword and staff by accident.
He checks out the curse after we bring Milo back.
Incoming jewbill.
Wow, really? Cause we could afford like, 1000 times that.
Looks like this wouldn't be useful for Codex after all, it cuts attack power by 50%, not some flat amount.
Lets try this thing out. It's priceier than the cost of the mithril shield + it's ore, so it must be better right?
5 points weaker.
I guess thats fair, since the mithril items are of limited supply.
Doesn't even have troll power. I give it to Milo. I figure the attack power/armor trade is still worth it.
Wow, we actually won another of these from some mummies. What a lame prize.
This spell is way too ineffective to rely on. 1 out of 4... bah.
Hah! We got to the next floor this time, and nobody is dead or out of MP yet! Milo is attacked for being an infidel by one of Andhaira's friends.
Oh cool, our first level 4 spell. I wonder if this one finally heals the whole party.
Wow. I hope we never get injured to the point where casting THAT is a good idea.
I attempt purging protocols on the new reaper types-
But they're too strong and fast to stop. Luckily the spell failed.
Nice reward for just 2 enemies though.
Another mundane water basin. There's a lot of these.
Unlike the last reapers, these guys melee attack really hard when they don't cast shit.
Yeah we're pretty much sucked dry now. Time to bail.
At this point I realize I forgot to get a feather. Oops.
There's no way we'll make it back (in retrospect, I *might* have made it out if I used the map to jump down the right pit for enough of a shortcut) so we're going to be losing a lot of gold for this misadventure.
I explore as far as I can, though I can't map it properly since Pyra has no MP left for the view spell I use to doublecheck things.
Oh-ho?
Hell yes. This is one item I remember the purpose of. It is definitely worth picking up.
Same description as herb water for the first half. /facepalm
Still, once is better than nothing. Besides, I think more of these can show up later on, like the Magic Hood we got an extra copy of.
Technically the area at the start of floor 2 would be ideal for grinding xp/gold. Those mushrooms cough up a lot when they multiply. But that'd be boring to play and play past.
We have a wrecking ball too
Flail + boost is so awesome.
This fucker was so damned annoying last time, I approached the pit in the hall backwards and turned around underneath it to prevent the encounter. So he showed up here instead, where he never did before. Asshole.
I have no idea what this message indicates. They aren't defending, and don't seem to do bonus damage or counter attack or anything.
Another 18 MP down the drain to deal with this shit before they can hit us.
Really? You're a bit out of your league here buddy.
More MP burnt on nukes. Almost all the encounters up here warrant it.
And now not only do we need nukes, we need this one in particular because they're in 3 different groups, 2 of them are new, and Pyra is running dry.
Of course it doesn't kill any of them.
This guy hits like a truck and has way too many HP. Burst + Codex didn't knock him down.
These guys are tanky as fuck too and still hit pretty hard.
This manages to finish off non avian enemies.
At least they aren't spewing acid at us or anything.
Man those are big rewards. But the MP cost did not make it worthwhile.
I had to use the firesword here along with Milo's nuke to take the group out quickly, since Pyra was completely empty. Way less damage on these guys, but was enoguh to finish them off.
Well fuck. We can't really dick with that right now.
Once again I push us stupidly far because I'm sure a chest is just around the corner. But all we find are more new enemies. Probably stairs around the corner again.
At least this is the old ice breath.
Still hurts way too much.
Time to go.
I decide I want Pyra to be able to hit things after all, even if it's not much.
Dark Shield gets sold for a small fortune.
Magic Mail is bought to make up the armor gap.
Very healthy upgrade.
I swipe the Magic Shield off milo too, and we're actually pretty close to what we had before. We buy another Madu and Milo goes back to being more on the bruiser side. Hopefully this'll be more MP efficient in the long run, because our previous setup wasn't working all that well.
Floor 2 map is done!
Floor 3 map is not even close to done!
We sell off that Worn Robe we found.
I'm sure anyone would be honored to own such a priceless artifact.
Time to fix up our busted sword.
Well it wasn't hard. Theres like 6 buildings in the whole town, and thats if you include this tent as a 'building'.
Obvious answer is obvious.
Which would have sucked. A lot.
Kinda pricey, but on the other hand, we have nothing else like it so...
Well, luckily we can just spend the night. If we had to gain a level or something while our sword was in the shop that'd be a nightmare.
So, now we know what our sword is supposedly worth, and that repairs cost 1/4 of an items value. Cool.
It turns out, using mithril to make a shield is WAY cheaper than our previous 2 requests. Go figure.
Ta-Da!
Codex needs 20 armor a lot more than 15 attack power.
Cool, we could make one for Pyra if we had enough ore.
Finally remembered to cast it here. Though now we can apparently pull off the spell on the next floor anyways, for a while at any rate.
Of course, these guys show up anyways, and pull cheesy shit like blocking multiple attacks in a row.
We abuse our own cheesy tricks.
Stupid spinner wasting my Peace spell with extra movements.
Well, there goes the end of easy street.
New shield is doing it's job well though, we don't need nearly as much healing for normal fights now.
Though stuff like this I still need to burn mana on.
Sweet!
Huh, it's weaker than the whip. The active probably makes it worthwhile though.
Brilliant deduction Milo!
Awww. Oh well, it's still like a free spell battery for some awesome burning action right? And we could definitely use a spell battery right now.
Cool.
It's only 8 MP and still targets a single group.
Thats... pretty lame. Blaze 3 does much more for the same price.
Argh. We don't have the MP to be using boost and shit. I want to look at that wall though, the gap here is strange.
Man dat armor is frigging awesome.
Oops. Jinxed us.
Lets try fighting this fucker. He can't be that tough right?
!
Wow, he hits harder than us. Pretty much immune to slow too.
And he's faster than Milo.
Double turn is not good.
So, there went not only the guy with the rez spell, but also the guy with most of our remaining MP.
Though, Pyra can actually tank this shit, scarily enough.
I decide to try pressing onwards anyways, I want to get at least a step further than last time.
Argh fuck off already.
Wait, that isn't blaze 3...
That's just blaze 2. We got fucking screwed!
I follow this up with the firesword to clear them out.
Even the armor upgrade isn't going to let us shrug this crap off.
Well, at least I got a look at the fork paths this time.
Next time I know to just go right.
Firestaff is only worth this little. I sell the piece of crap. I think the designers swapped the location of the sword and staff by accident.
He checks out the curse after we bring Milo back.
Incoming jewbill.
Wow, really? Cause we could afford like, 1000 times that.
Looks like this wouldn't be useful for Codex after all, it cuts attack power by 50%, not some flat amount.
Lets try this thing out. It's priceier than the cost of the mithril shield + it's ore, so it must be better right?
5 points weaker.
I guess thats fair, since the mithril items are of limited supply.
Doesn't even have troll power. I give it to Milo. I figure the attack power/armor trade is still worth it.
Wow, we actually won another of these from some mummies. What a lame prize.
This spell is way too ineffective to rely on. 1 out of 4... bah.
Hah! We got to the next floor this time, and nobody is dead or out of MP yet! Milo is attacked for being an infidel by one of Andhaira's friends.
Oh cool, our first level 4 spell. I wonder if this one finally heals the whole party.
Wow. I hope we never get injured to the point where casting THAT is a good idea.
I attempt purging protocols on the new reaper types-
But they're too strong and fast to stop. Luckily the spell failed.
Nice reward for just 2 enemies though.
Another mundane water basin. There's a lot of these.
Unlike the last reapers, these guys melee attack really hard when they don't cast shit.
Yeah we're pretty much sucked dry now. Time to bail.
At this point I realize I forgot to get a feather. Oops.
There's no way we'll make it back (in retrospect, I *might* have made it out if I used the map to jump down the right pit for enough of a shortcut) so we're going to be losing a lot of gold for this misadventure.
I explore as far as I can, though I can't map it properly since Pyra has no MP left for the view spell I use to doublecheck things.
Oh-ho?
Hell yes. This is one item I remember the purpose of. It is definitely worth picking up.
Same description as herb water for the first half. /facepalm
Still, once is better than nothing. Besides, I think more of these can show up later on, like the Magic Hood we got an extra copy of.
Technically the area at the start of floor 2 would be ideal for grinding xp/gold. Those mushrooms cough up a lot when they multiply. But that'd be boring to play and play past.
We have a wrecking ball too
Flail + boost is so awesome.
This fucker was so damned annoying last time, I approached the pit in the hall backwards and turned around underneath it to prevent the encounter. So he showed up here instead, where he never did before. Asshole.
I have no idea what this message indicates. They aren't defending, and don't seem to do bonus damage or counter attack or anything.
Another 18 MP down the drain to deal with this shit before they can hit us.
Really? You're a bit out of your league here buddy.
More MP burnt on nukes. Almost all the encounters up here warrant it.
And now not only do we need nukes, we need this one in particular because they're in 3 different groups, 2 of them are new, and Pyra is running dry.
Of course it doesn't kill any of them.
This guy hits like a truck and has way too many HP. Burst + Codex didn't knock him down.
These guys are tanky as fuck too and still hit pretty hard.
This manages to finish off non avian enemies.
At least they aren't spewing acid at us or anything.
Man those are big rewards. But the MP cost did not make it worthwhile.
I had to use the firesword here along with Milo's nuke to take the group out quickly, since Pyra was completely empty. Way less damage on these guys, but was enoguh to finish them off.
Well fuck. We can't really dick with that right now.
Once again I push us stupidly far because I'm sure a chest is just around the corner. But all we find are more new enemies. Probably stairs around the corner again.
At least this is the old ice breath.
Still hurts way too much.
Time to go.
I decide I want Pyra to be able to hit things after all, even if it's not much.
Dark Shield gets sold for a small fortune.
Magic Mail is bought to make up the armor gap.
Very healthy upgrade.
I swipe the Magic Shield off milo too, and we're actually pretty close to what we had before. We buy another Madu and Milo goes back to being more on the bruiser side. Hopefully this'll be more MP efficient in the long run, because our previous setup wasn't working all that well.
Floor 2 map is done!
Floor 3 map is not even close to done!
Some badass enemies you've got there.
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This is the part of the game where the standard combat becomes really interesting, because on most groups I encounter I really am hemming and hawing over whether to burn MP on them or risk taking their special attacks, and which spells to use. The difference between wiping out an enemy for 8 MP with a single Desoul, vs wasting 16 MP on two that miss, + another 15 for healing, or just 5 on heals + 9 for boost, makes a huge difference in how far you get on a trip. I probably worry more about what I'm casting+ equipping here than I did in KotC.
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Played further again. Some epic win and fail occured.
Oh, you can farm mithril ore indefinitely if you want.
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Update time!
Well that's a shitty way to start things off. Well ok, technically things started off by me spamming peace over and over and skipping a ton of fights.
Luckily I brought healing items to save us a bit of MP this time.
Peace works even up here now. Even though all the cost is on Pyra, it's still a ebtter deal overall, especially since it's usually her spamming nukes to keep us alive in the first place. So we can explore a lot further with better health and MP this way. The tradeoff, of course, is we aren't getting any loot.
Peace finally fails when we hit the torch area of floor 3. Well, we still got over 50 MP and Milo has a ton left.
Plus most of the enemies up here don't pose major threats like desoul spells or paralyze or anything, so we can afford to slug it out and let Milo do all the healing. Especially since Pyra is whipping ass again.
XP and Gold rewards keep diverging further and further.
Of course, I fail to recall that these things resist blast, giving them a free round to rape us hard.
Assholes.
New enemy. Not too special though.
Hits hard, but thats about it.
The unexplored path I took meets up with where we were before, which is nice. Less nice is the fact that that whole chunk could have been skipped by walking through 5 moss tiles, which would have cost us way less MP.
Turns out these guys can cry for help. Could probably abuse this for grinding but... meh.
Whip + Blast 3 still coming in handy even this deep.
Not letting you off easy this time... whatever you are.
Shock!
Boss fight time!
Pyra has shit for MP so we're going to rely on the melee damage here.
Quick should help us out too, not just for defense but turn order.
Ok, JUST for turn order. Stupid giant turtle thing.
Wahaha!
Thats not terribly promising.
Run away! RUN AWAY!
Or, fall back on this. We'd probably die trying to heal more fficiently, we need Milo to be swinging as much as possible if we're going to win this. So we're betting it all on this spell.
Slow should help too.
Oh yeah, thats the stuff. Level 20 DnD cleric eat your heart out.
Could use some crits right about now.
You'd think he'd need to take a break once in a while.
Even Pyra is swinging.
Now thats how to melee shit.
Well, now we're kind of low on options. We use the last of our stashed healing items and let Pyra heal us a bit.
These guys hit really hard, but I don't want to use all of Pyra's MP... FIRESWORD time!
Wat.
My sword is gone.
But we didn't send it in for repairs either. And we had 4 healer fruits back in town along with this stuff, so it's been like this since we saved.
Blaze time it is!
Damn man that really blows. I must have missed the message that it got warped by the heat AND the message that it broke when playing last time, on top of just not noticing the inventory difference the whole time. ARGH.
Well, fuck it, nothing to do about it now. Onwards, pathetically weak cripples!
Not that it matters since we have no MP anyways, but I don't get the point of spots like this. I mean, is someone actually going to walk back there? I guess you could if you were anal about mapping or something...
Oh man. These things don't hit as hard as some of the other enemies, but they have both the ability to defend and the ability to shrug off attacks, making them take way too fucking long to kill. It is run the fuck away time. Though one nice thing about running away I didn't notice before: enemies don't all automatically get turns when you fail to run away. It's like the surprise round, where only some of them usually do.
This place just keeps going on and on and on...
Fuck it. Lets leave and come back less fucked.
Replacement weapon, the best we can afford right now.
Huh, I think thats actually more powerful than the firesword was. Of course, this thing can't cast spells.
MUCH better. God how did I not realize my attacks were too weak for me to have a weapon still?
Once again, peace gets us really fucking far.
I guess these guys have something going for them besides 100+ hp and hitting for massive damage. That spell landed on all of us btw. Maybe it depends on opposed IQ checks or something? I have no idea.
Die fuckers!
I try peace again after Pyra levels up. Success! We can skip even more fights now.
Though I decide I don't really care right now. These guys give lots of xp and mostly just melee us.
Hmmm, new guys. Well, new for us. They've obviously been around the block already.
Ah, I guess their thing is having obnoxiously high defense. Milo only lands ~17 damage hits.
Fucking knight crits WAY too hard.
Of course now peace won't work.
Fuck it. Lets use this fucker.
Ta-da!
Oh come on! Must be battle only.
Really, this deep?
Fuck it was way too hard to finish off the other guys so I could do this safely in case Milo cmes back with like 10 hp.
And I missed the revival message. Though it's the same as the spell.
Luckily they don't pop Milo like a zit.
And what is rope good for you might ask?
Yeah Milo, that's great.
Luckily, the guys designing the map knew the guy making the vision spell descriptions was a douche, and put a hole in the ceiling right fucking here, so if you try it right away-
THIS happens. Hell fucking yes.
Although right now I don't think we should be dicking around up here.
More lameness. But we got the rope already, so this trip was a success in my book, even if it did cost us that herb.
Fucker! You must have been the one that broke myknife FIRESWORD!
Time for some good ol' crab battlin'!
Take that, shittly named foe of gay colour!
Damn it hits hard for a gay crab.
Oh, thats what the level 2 ice breath desciption is. What, level 2 icebreath?
Though Pyra is oddly more resilient than the other two, for some reason.
Another one? But I still don't know what the first one does!
Hmmm, tough little buggers...
OHSHIT.
Wow, thats awfully pathetic. One guy for 30 damage between the 3 of them. I'm quaking in my mithril boots here.
Did you here something?
This wall... JEWS ARE HIDING HERE!
Luckily we still lug this thing around.
Wait, is this really the same type of demon as on the first level, even though it's palette swapped for these walls?
Yes, yes it is.
That was easy. But what was behind it (besides jews.)
JEW LOOT!
Hopefully this is better than the firestaff.
Well, damage is at least on par with the thornwhip. Though, we can just use it from inventory anyways.
Not enough MP left for boosting tactics this time.
Damn that is one effective spell.
Though without boost this is still going to take a toll on us.
Holy crap man.
We win though.
Ok fuck this shit.
Lets try this puppy out too.
Hah! at ice you-
in retrospect, using an ice staff on a monster attacking with freezing breath was not the best of plans.
This sure as fuck was though!
Heh. Though in the future, we will avoid these disgusting creatures whenever we can, by not walking past unnecessary left turns.
Huh, did I miss the screenshot of another door like this from the wrong side? Cause we found on of those earlier.
Fuck yeah!
Best damned helm in the game people, we just found it.
Thats right. Milo says that the legendary arms of light, for which the game itself is named and numerous in game sources alude to, is 'nothing special'. You know what I think? Milo is actually Dark Sol and he's just here to fuck us over. Thats why all these uber monsters keep showing up around us, but Dai got to the fucking cave of wisdom by himself even though he hits like a 4 year old girl.
BAM! We are now heavily armored and 25% more badass.
ITS FUNNY BECAUSE IT'S ONE LETTER AWAY FROM BEING 'BATTLE AXE' HAHA GUYS I THINK BLOBERT MADE UP ALL THE ENEMY NAMES.
ACTUALLY THERE IS NO LOWER CASE FONT FOR ANY CHARACTERS OR MONSTERS OR ITEMS OR SPELLS AT ALL. OR ANYTHING IN THE MENU. THESE GUYS KNEW HOW TO MAXIMIZE CRUISE CONTROL BROS.
We're about fucked and ready to leave, but this hole was so far off the eaten path I wanted to see what was up here in case it was a treasure.
Thats odd (and awesome) it's just another pit right over here.
Must lead to the chainsaw.
Out of MP yes. Of of ass kicking death magic? No.
That is definitely level 3 freeze. Very handy.
New enemy has a new ability.
A MEAN new ability.
Thats a lot of dead guys. Where do all these ghosts and zombies and shit come from? How many people did they send in here holy fuck. I think this place was built on top of anindian jewish burial ground (indians don't have loot this good.)
Alas, the ice staff does not threash zombies very effectively.
But it does weaken them enough for Milo to mop them up.
And man, that is a lot of xp and gold.
Sweet.
Cool, new sprites.
Pity we can't try this out on them.
They're kinda tough too, though not as tough as the zombies.
But they hit REALLY hard.
Nice! Another spell we can't try yet.
These guys actually hit much harder when not using their special ability. Neat little reversal of a special advantage into a special drawback.
Gah, fuckers got Milo. Ah well, he was out of MP anyways.
Must get farther...
Just a bit more, theres barely any space left to explore and we'll have mapped this chunk of dungeon and we can go back, just around that corner...
Guess they don't want us going around that corner huh?
Maximum plan B in effect.
Blackbone does not approve of plan B.
Fuck he gets two attacks per round! And swings that hard!
ARGH.
That was kinda predictable.
That less so. Enemies take swings at dead guys sometimes I guess.
Oh come on!
Luckily Pyra's run command doubles as defense. We live!
Not that living helps us in this situation.
Well, our gold is fucked (again) and we lost the miracle herb, but we got some sweet new items and spells and can take a shortcut to get to level 3 now. Fucking sweet.
New level 3 map (I forgot to put an unknown marker near where we died, it's in the bottom center of the map, you can probably figure it out from the screenshots):
Well that's a shitty way to start things off. Well ok, technically things started off by me spamming peace over and over and skipping a ton of fights.
Luckily I brought healing items to save us a bit of MP this time.
Peace works even up here now. Even though all the cost is on Pyra, it's still a ebtter deal overall, especially since it's usually her spamming nukes to keep us alive in the first place. So we can explore a lot further with better health and MP this way. The tradeoff, of course, is we aren't getting any loot.
Peace finally fails when we hit the torch area of floor 3. Well, we still got over 50 MP and Milo has a ton left.
Plus most of the enemies up here don't pose major threats like desoul spells or paralyze or anything, so we can afford to slug it out and let Milo do all the healing. Especially since Pyra is whipping ass again.
XP and Gold rewards keep diverging further and further.
Of course, I fail to recall that these things resist blast, giving them a free round to rape us hard.
Assholes.
New enemy. Not too special though.
Hits hard, but thats about it.
The unexplored path I took meets up with where we were before, which is nice. Less nice is the fact that that whole chunk could have been skipped by walking through 5 moss tiles, which would have cost us way less MP.
Turns out these guys can cry for help. Could probably abuse this for grinding but... meh.
Whip + Blast 3 still coming in handy even this deep.
Not letting you off easy this time... whatever you are.
Shock!
Boss fight time!
Pyra has shit for MP so we're going to rely on the melee damage here.
Quick should help us out too, not just for defense but turn order.
Ok, JUST for turn order. Stupid giant turtle thing.
Wahaha!
Thats not terribly promising.
Run away! RUN AWAY!
Or, fall back on this. We'd probably die trying to heal more fficiently, we need Milo to be swinging as much as possible if we're going to win this. So we're betting it all on this spell.
Slow should help too.
Oh yeah, thats the stuff. Level 20 DnD cleric eat your heart out.
Could use some crits right about now.
You'd think he'd need to take a break once in a while.
Even Pyra is swinging.
Now thats how to melee shit.
Well, now we're kind of low on options. We use the last of our stashed healing items and let Pyra heal us a bit.
These guys hit really hard, but I don't want to use all of Pyra's MP... FIRESWORD time!
Wat.
My sword is gone.
But we didn't send it in for repairs either. And we had 4 healer fruits back in town along with this stuff, so it's been like this since we saved.
Blaze time it is!
Damn man that really blows. I must have missed the message that it got warped by the heat AND the message that it broke when playing last time, on top of just not noticing the inventory difference the whole time. ARGH.
Well, fuck it, nothing to do about it now. Onwards, pathetically weak cripples!
Not that it matters since we have no MP anyways, but I don't get the point of spots like this. I mean, is someone actually going to walk back there? I guess you could if you were anal about mapping or something...
Oh man. These things don't hit as hard as some of the other enemies, but they have both the ability to defend and the ability to shrug off attacks, making them take way too fucking long to kill. It is run the fuck away time. Though one nice thing about running away I didn't notice before: enemies don't all automatically get turns when you fail to run away. It's like the surprise round, where only some of them usually do.
This place just keeps going on and on and on...
Fuck it. Lets leave and come back less fucked.
Replacement weapon, the best we can afford right now.
Huh, I think thats actually more powerful than the firesword was. Of course, this thing can't cast spells.
MUCH better. God how did I not realize my attacks were too weak for me to have a weapon still?
Once again, peace gets us really fucking far.
I guess these guys have something going for them besides 100+ hp and hitting for massive damage. That spell landed on all of us btw. Maybe it depends on opposed IQ checks or something? I have no idea.
Die fuckers!
I try peace again after Pyra levels up. Success! We can skip even more fights now.
Though I decide I don't really care right now. These guys give lots of xp and mostly just melee us.
Hmmm, new guys. Well, new for us. They've obviously been around the block already.
Ah, I guess their thing is having obnoxiously high defense. Milo only lands ~17 damage hits.
Fucking knight crits WAY too hard.
Of course now peace won't work.
Fuck it. Lets use this fucker.
Ta-da!
Oh come on! Must be battle only.
Really, this deep?
Fuck it was way too hard to finish off the other guys so I could do this safely in case Milo cmes back with like 10 hp.
And I missed the revival message. Though it's the same as the spell.
Luckily they don't pop Milo like a zit.
And what is rope good for you might ask?
Yeah Milo, that's great.
Luckily, the guys designing the map knew the guy making the vision spell descriptions was a douche, and put a hole in the ceiling right fucking here, so if you try it right away-
THIS happens. Hell fucking yes.
Although right now I don't think we should be dicking around up here.
More lameness. But we got the rope already, so this trip was a success in my book, even if it did cost us that herb.
Fucker! You must have been the one that broke my
Time for some good ol' crab battlin'!
Take that, shittly named foe of gay colour!
Damn it hits hard for a gay crab.
Oh, thats what the level 2 ice breath desciption is. What, level 2 icebreath?
Though Pyra is oddly more resilient than the other two, for some reason.
Another one? But I still don't know what the first one does!
Hmmm, tough little buggers...
OHSHIT.
Wow, thats awfully pathetic. One guy for 30 damage between the 3 of them. I'm quaking in my mithril boots here.
Did you here something?
This wall... JEWS ARE HIDING HERE!
Luckily we still lug this thing around.
Wait, is this really the same type of demon as on the first level, even though it's palette swapped for these walls?
Yes, yes it is.
That was easy. But what was behind it (besides jews.)
JEW LOOT!
Hopefully this is better than the firestaff.
Well, damage is at least on par with the thornwhip. Though, we can just use it from inventory anyways.
Not enough MP left for boosting tactics this time.
Damn that is one effective spell.
Though without boost this is still going to take a toll on us.
Holy crap man.
We win though.
Ok fuck this shit.
Lets try this puppy out too.
Hah! at ice you-
in retrospect, using an ice staff on a monster attacking with freezing breath was not the best of plans.
This sure as fuck was though!
Heh. Though in the future, we will avoid these disgusting creatures whenever we can, by not walking past unnecessary left turns.
Huh, did I miss the screenshot of another door like this from the wrong side? Cause we found on of those earlier.
Fuck yeah!
Best damned helm in the game people, we just found it.
Thats right. Milo says that the legendary arms of light, for which the game itself is named and numerous in game sources alude to, is 'nothing special'. You know what I think? Milo is actually Dark Sol and he's just here to fuck us over. Thats why all these uber monsters keep showing up around us, but Dai got to the fucking cave of wisdom by himself even though he hits like a 4 year old girl.
BAM! We are now heavily armored and 25% more badass.
ITS FUNNY BECAUSE IT'S ONE LETTER AWAY FROM BEING 'BATTLE AXE' HAHA GUYS I THINK BLOBERT MADE UP ALL THE ENEMY NAMES.
ACTUALLY THERE IS NO LOWER CASE FONT FOR ANY CHARACTERS OR MONSTERS OR ITEMS OR SPELLS AT ALL. OR ANYTHING IN THE MENU. THESE GUYS KNEW HOW TO MAXIMIZE CRUISE CONTROL BROS.
We're about fucked and ready to leave, but this hole was so far off the eaten path I wanted to see what was up here in case it was a treasure.
Thats odd (and awesome) it's just another pit right over here.
Must lead to the chainsaw.
Out of MP yes. Of of ass kicking death magic? No.
That is definitely level 3 freeze. Very handy.
New enemy has a new ability.
A MEAN new ability.
Thats a lot of dead guys. Where do all these ghosts and zombies and shit come from? How many people did they send in here holy fuck. I think this place was built on top of an
Alas, the ice staff does not threash zombies very effectively.
But it does weaken them enough for Milo to mop them up.
And man, that is a lot of xp and gold.
Sweet.
Cool, new sprites.
Pity we can't try this out on them.
They're kinda tough too, though not as tough as the zombies.
But they hit REALLY hard.
Nice! Another spell we can't try yet.
These guys actually hit much harder when not using their special ability. Neat little reversal of a special advantage into a special drawback.
Gah, fuckers got Milo. Ah well, he was out of MP anyways.
Must get farther...
Just a bit more, theres barely any space left to explore and we'll have mapped this chunk of dungeon and we can go back, just around that corner...
Guess they don't want us going around that corner huh?
Maximum plan B in effect.
Blackbone does not approve of plan B.
Fuck he gets two attacks per round! And swings that hard!
ARGH.
That was kinda predictable.
That less so. Enemies take swings at dead guys sometimes I guess.
Oh come on!
Luckily Pyra's run command doubles as defense. We live!
Not that living helps us in this situation.
Well, our gold is fucked (again) and we lost the miracle herb, but we got some sweet new items and spells and can take a shortcut to get to level 3 now. Fucking sweet.
New level 3 map (I forgot to put an unknown marker near where we died, it's in the bottom center of the map, you can probably figure it out from the screenshots):
Yeah, Fire Sword breaks (= melts) after a certain number of uses. You just shouldn't overuse it. 
(Just wait until you find a
on level 3, and then another cool sword on level 4.)
Also, I saw a gay crab the other day. Horrible creatures.
(Just wait until you find a
Storm Sword
Also, I saw a gay crab the other day. Horrible creatures.
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We repaired it though so it should have been recharged. But yeah, there'll be other artifact swords of doom to abuse in the future.
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Milo is an absolute pro troll.
Also man, losing that sword randomly kind of sucks. Especially since you lost a lot of money between two deaths.
Also, two questions:
1. So when you get a higher level spell, you can't cast the lower level anymore?
2. Isn't spamming peace kind of ineffective on the long term, since you're falling behind in level to the areas? Or does it scale?
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We can still cast the lower level spells. If we couldn't, we'd be pretty fucked after learning HEAL 4
Spamming peace means we fall behind in levels, but it also means we get to chests sooner. Sometimes chests are more important than levels, and with new items we can take on new enemies worth much more xp. We're still only gaining ~3 defense per level up, so a new piece of armor (like that helm) is equivalent to many levels gained for defense.
Next update might take a while. I'm.... kinda stuck.
Spamming peace means we fall behind in levels, but it also means we get to chests sooner. Sometimes chests are more important than levels, and with new items we can take on new enemies worth much more xp. We're still only gaining ~3 defense per level up, so a new piece of armor (like that helm) is equivalent to many levels gained for defense.
Next update might take a while. I'm.... kinda stuck.
I have to add that I find your commentary more amusing than the game itself.
Not sure if
spekkio cannot into
why am I not surprised?
*dungeon crawling = RPGs
P.S. But the commentary is really good, yeah.
Fun fact: I just saw that the Japanese release of this game is called Shining and the Darkness.
Yeesh
Magister
I game for the drama, but I stay for the triple rape.
Also,
Living dead?. Don't you HATE it when a 20 year old game hops on the latest zombie fad bandwagon?
Also,
Living dead?
. Don't you HATE it when a 20 year old game hops on the latest zombie fad bandwagon?
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Progress! Also figured out why I was having more trouble than seemed normal.
This is gonna be good.
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Update time!
Lets test this shit out.
Oh cool, they turn into little bird things just before they leave the screen.
92 damage? Yeah that seems passably useful. Maybe.
Blaze isn't quite as strong, but unlike Blast 4, Blaze 4 hits everything, not just one group.
Wait, why the fuck are we in the Cave of Strength?
Because there was a pit we enver got past.
And it had shit hidden behind it. Win!
Wow, that is eerily convenient. We probably couldn't afford that if I hadn't fought shit on the way to the treasure. Though we could jsut sell shit I suppose.
Ta-da!
That's... not actually that impressive.
Why can't Codex wear a hood? Also, why doesn't this thing have that 'blessed with power' dealie the light robe and mithril shield had? :itisamystery:
Time for some more rope action!
Remember all those pointless landings on floor 2? Turns out they're not so pointless.
Very nice. Not a huge damage boost, but it still hits twice, unlike other weapons.
Blast is fucking scary.
More secret shit courtesy of the magic rope.
Holy fuck dude. And I thought the fire sword was too useful.
Yeah, we won't be breaking this one.
Codex has so many HP now Heal 3 is actually becoming efficient.
You know, couldn't we just use this thing outside the labyrinth, to at least get to that walkway on the second floor and skip walking there?
Statue fightin' time!
Should have picked a hallway without a chest in it to guard dude.
Holy fuck, he means business.
And he means it twice per turn. This may not have been a good idea.
Thats our damage AFTER casting boost.
Yeah this does not bode well.
Maybe slow works on this fucker?
At least he wasted a turn attacking a dead guy.
Alas, this does not revive dead party members.
Neither does this. I have no idea what this does.
Desperation move is not successful.
Probably not going to cut it.
Yeah he's got at least a few hundred hp.
And Milo does not.
Last chance!
No dice.
Well, we're up some crazily strong equipment and down some more gold. I guess thats sort of a win, even if it's kind of a big waste of time.
Burn fuckers!
Chumps got nothing on us when we're willing to burn MP to handle them.
New plan: spell nuke the shit out of this asshole!
Burn!
Bleed!
Die!
Fry!
Thats... pretty lame. Bolt 2 only? The Firesword was Blaze 3.
More fire!
Well shit, Pyra got focused down.
Attacking does more damage than the bolt spell
Luckily, we have OP shit like revive
Fucker!
Holy shit.
And it's STILL not dead.
Well, someone is probably gonna die, but if we can do this a few more turns we can probably eek out a win-
Good, Milo has full hp.
!
Yeah... that was not the plan.
Next trip I give up on fighting that bullshit machine. And we find another staff!
Weird name and appearance.
Well no shit.
Really?
If it can't cast spells and it's stats are this bad, it's probably just a cursed piece of shit. Fuck it.
Peace won't work up here.
Though nukes sure do.
Quite well. Though these guys are also quite tough.
And hit really hard.
But man the xp reward.
Cool.
Nice, the map of floor 3 is filling out a bit more now.
Last one before we bail.
Bleh.
Thats a lot compared to what we used to need, but not much compared to battles forking over 5k.
Holy water is just for removing curses. Except it's also worth like, 8k or some shit. SOLD.
Selling this garbage too, since it doesn't seem to work.
And that enduro staff is nearly worthless. Definitely a cursed item then.
Icestaff is cheaper than I expected. Now we know it'll be cheap to repair, so using it freely isn't a problem.
Storm sword is quite valuable on the other hand.
As is that great flail. Obviously we aren't selling these things though. Just getting an idea of how valuable our loot is.
This we are selling!
Because it's time to make shit. Protip: if you want armor for Milo, make it for Codex. Just as Pyra can wear the robe made for Milo, Milo can wear the armor made for codex. And the armor is much stronger.
Wow, it's cheaper than the robe. Thats pretty
BAM!
I think this is actually a slight downgrade from the magic mail. But it does have that 'blessed' crap, whatever that means. Hopefully it's status resistance or something, cause those are becoming ever more common.
Statue douchebag in profile. He won't fight until we face him.
New plan. Buff time.
Quick is mostly so Milo can heal people before they fall over dead.
Ow. We live on however.
And hit back HARD.
Pyra doesn't have much else to do, Milo is too busy healing to be worth boosting, and this thing seems immune to status spells.
Hehe.
Perfect.
Another wasted turn from the enemy.
All goes according to plan.
Well, not quite. He actually dealt precisely the amount of damage needed for a kill there.
But then he died. So who cares. Milo catches up in xp a bit.
ITEM GET.
What. Pyra can't equip it?
And it's weaker than the Mithril hood.
We shuffle the mithril hood to Pyra so Milo can equip the new item.
Milo reveals that Pyra is not an elf, apparently. I guess those pointy ears are just because she's a trekkie.
At least it has this bonus, whatever it does.
Love this thing.
See, shit like this is why I spam Peace. If these guys drain our MP even once thats more MP than Peace costs anyways.
I end up firing off Blaze 4 just to avoid us getting drained a whole bunch.
Pf course they're fire resistant. Cunts.
Kewl.
Seems like as good a chance as any to try it out.
Attacks the whole group, kills nobody. Fail.
turns out those griffin things use blast magic in addition to hitting really hard.
Actually, this is a lot gentler than it's melee attack.
Argh.
Kinda tough, but not as much as the zombies were.
The other thing died before it got a turn.
Trolls hit decently hard too. Still, Milo has a ton of MP now, so damage this small isn't important.
KFC* (Kodexian Frozen Cocks)
New wizard types. Annoyingly hard to kill.
Especially since they heal.
And call for help in the same round!
Although they just call in crappy zombies, not more Necromancers.
Better this than some fucking Desoul spells or evil shit like that.
Zombies have lots of hp and decent defense.
Also hit really hard and cause poison.
Lots of XP to be had from these fights though.
Ah, one of these fuckers finally got a turn. Hits for less than I expected...
But then it attacks a second time! Guess this is going to be a popular new enemy trait.
Still gets popped like a zit though.
Here we are again. Of course, we could turn around and try to sneak by the skeleton thing here.
But that'd be fucking lame right?
Lets do this bitch!
Same plan we used for the guardian.
Such a nice spell for only 5 MP.
Especially the effect on Pyra.
Bastard still hits hard, but he skipped his second turn this time. Feeling lucky?
Ichigeki hissatsu!
Well, another basin filled with radioactive monster piss. Joy.
Another set of stairs up. Guess these are the 'real' ones, because the other ones didn't go anywhere except back down to level 3.
Real level 4 baby!
Quite the warm welcome for us.
Sweet.
Probably shouldn't have stuck around after that last fight. Desperate attempt to sleep some of these fails completely.
Pyra can't hit them that hard either.
But they aren't hitting so hard either, so maybe we'll be fine.
Apparently they took offense to that comment.
Time to bail. Look ma', I'm rich!
Not really necessary but whatever floats your boat.
We can probably get that in under 10 battles on the 4 floor. We'll have full spellbooks on our casters in no time.
Fuck yeah! You're a new party member right? With spells and useful shit?
His name is off centre because the screen is shaking and I can't be assed to animate an epilepsy inducing gif for you guys. Sorry.
Once again Theo dissapears. Plot dump time!
I think you missed dude.
Ah. A challenger appears!
Thats ok, we know MUDDLE doesn't do fuck all anyways.
Duh, can't you see his hat? He's clearly a wizardly pimp. He's collecting from his hos.
Oh, or that.
Wait, Melvyl is Dark Sol?!? WHAT A TWIST. BEST RPG STORY EVER GUYS.
Damn, I want that spell, it looks cool.
Emo Lord does not approve. You know, he had an actual (albeit cheesy) name in the japanese version.
My mad screenshotting skillz failed to capture the epic grey fireball that PWNS Xern here.
Shouldn't we be like, attacking him right now? I mean, he's totally surrounded and outnumbered like 10 to 1.
Not like he'll be easier to kill in the labyrinth.
Apparently DARK SOL is so badass the game needs not just one, but two silent protagonists to face him.
Wait, what? Time out. Why do we not know about the previous champion. I call shenanigans.
Well duh. Were you expecting Dai?
Hell yes! I owe these guys so much payback! And you got the chick right? With the tits?!? Pyra is totally flat.
Railroad'd.
So hopeless! How can we hope to face the dark lord that beat up an old man with a cane!
Only if this LP gets bumped more. I'm totally abandoning this shit if I have to put 1000 images on one page.
If you say so Gandalf.
Unlike my totally noble lust for jailbait royalty and awesome jewgolds leading me to the same place.
Did anyone ever tell the ancients they couldn't just replaced a bunch of those doors with walls to keep things where they're supposed to be?
Because killing shit makes you strong! Also, none of the monsters use bows, so we don't risk taking any arrows to the groin, eye, or other vital locations.
Oh noes! But they totally need to be leashed! They'll crap on our lawns if they aren't leashed!
Again, why the fuck aren't you guys giving us this shit earlier?
Plot device GET.
Ahhhhh.
Right, and then?
FUCKER. I've been walking back there this whole fucking time! Guess I forgot to check back at the castle when I should have.
What, thats it? You're not coming? Asshole.
Gee, not us! *Hides glowing magical lightning sword and fabled ancient light helm*
Was probably a SLOW spell. Our slow spells are grey too.
Cool. I want one of those.
Well if he isn't the bad guy, Theos is at least working for him. Totally frigging suspicious.
Oh who cares, you're probably like, level 5. We could rez you for less money than we charge for an autograph.
I can beat him, but my plan involves fucking every beautiful virgin girl in the kingdom. Will you help me?
You'd make a great clown. You should try that.
As opposed to their usual state of retardation? Not much of a loss.
Only once, so I can screenshot it and for the guys reading this to suffer along with me.
New toy! YAY!
Yeah we already know that.
This'd be more impressive if you weren't with us when XERN explained this shit.
New level 3 map:
And beginnings of a level 4 map:
Lets test this shit out.
Oh cool, they turn into little bird things just before they leave the screen.
92 damage? Yeah that seems passably useful. Maybe.
Blaze isn't quite as strong, but unlike Blast 4, Blaze 4 hits everything, not just one group.
Wait, why the fuck are we in the Cave of Strength?
Because there was a pit we enver got past.
And it had shit hidden behind it. Win!
Wow, that is eerily convenient. We probably couldn't afford that if I hadn't fought shit on the way to the treasure. Though we could jsut sell shit I suppose.
Ta-da!
That's... not actually that impressive.
Why can't Codex wear a hood? Also, why doesn't this thing have that 'blessed with power' dealie the light robe and mithril shield had? :itisamystery:
Time for some more rope action!
Remember all those pointless landings on floor 2? Turns out they're not so pointless.
Very nice. Not a huge damage boost, but it still hits twice, unlike other weapons.
Blast is fucking scary.
More secret shit courtesy of the magic rope.
Holy fuck dude. And I thought the fire sword was too useful.
Yeah, we won't be breaking this one.
Codex has so many HP now Heal 3 is actually becoming efficient.
You know, couldn't we just use this thing outside the labyrinth, to at least get to that walkway on the second floor and skip walking there?
Statue fightin' time!
Should have picked a hallway without a chest in it to guard dude.
Holy fuck, he means business.
And he means it twice per turn. This may not have been a good idea.
Thats our damage AFTER casting boost.
Yeah this does not bode well.
Maybe slow works on this fucker?
At least he wasted a turn attacking a dead guy.
Alas, this does not revive dead party members.
Neither does this. I have no idea what this does.
Desperation move is not successful.
Probably not going to cut it.
Yeah he's got at least a few hundred hp.
And Milo does not.
Last chance!
No dice.
Well, we're up some crazily strong equipment and down some more gold. I guess thats sort of a win, even if it's kind of a big waste of time.
Burn fuckers!
Chumps got nothing on us when we're willing to burn MP to handle them.
New plan: spell nuke the shit out of this asshole!
Burn!
Bleed!
Die!
Fry!
Thats... pretty lame. Bolt 2 only? The Firesword was Blaze 3.
More fire!
Well shit, Pyra got focused down.
Attacking does more damage than the bolt spell
Luckily, we have OP shit like revive
Fucker!
Holy shit.
And it's STILL not dead.
Well, someone is probably gonna die, but if we can do this a few more turns we can probably eek out a win-
Good, Milo has full hp.
!
Yeah... that was not the plan.
Next trip I give up on fighting that bullshit machine. And we find another staff!
Weird name and appearance.
Well no shit.
Really?
If it can't cast spells and it's stats are this bad, it's probably just a cursed piece of shit. Fuck it.
Peace won't work up here.
Though nukes sure do.
Quite well. Though these guys are also quite tough.
And hit really hard.
But man the xp reward.
Cool.
Nice, the map of floor 3 is filling out a bit more now.
Last one before we bail.
Bleh.
Thats a lot compared to what we used to need, but not much compared to battles forking over 5k.
Holy water is just for removing curses. Except it's also worth like, 8k or some shit. SOLD.
Selling this garbage too, since it doesn't seem to work.
And that enduro staff is nearly worthless. Definitely a cursed item then.
Icestaff is cheaper than I expected. Now we know it'll be cheap to repair, so using it freely isn't a problem.
Storm sword is quite valuable on the other hand.
As is that great flail. Obviously we aren't selling these things though. Just getting an idea of how valuable our loot is.
This we are selling!
Because it's time to make shit. Protip: if you want armor for Milo, make it for Codex. Just as Pyra can wear the robe made for Milo, Milo can wear the armor made for codex. And the armor is much stronger.
Wow, it's cheaper than the robe. Thats pretty
BAM!
I think this is actually a slight downgrade from the magic mail. But it does have that 'blessed' crap, whatever that means. Hopefully it's status resistance or something, cause those are becoming ever more common.
Statue douchebag in profile. He won't fight until we face him.
New plan. Buff time.
Quick is mostly so Milo can heal people before they fall over dead.
Ow. We live on however.
And hit back HARD.
Pyra doesn't have much else to do, Milo is too busy healing to be worth boosting, and this thing seems immune to status spells.
Hehe.
Perfect.
Another wasted turn from the enemy.
All goes according to plan.
Well, not quite. He actually dealt precisely the amount of damage needed for a kill there.
But then he died. So who cares. Milo catches up in xp a bit.
ITEM GET.
What. Pyra can't equip it?
And it's weaker than the Mithril hood.
We shuffle the mithril hood to Pyra so Milo can equip the new item.
Milo reveals that Pyra is not an elf, apparently. I guess those pointy ears are just because she's a trekkie.
At least it has this bonus, whatever it does.
Love this thing.
See, shit like this is why I spam Peace. If these guys drain our MP even once thats more MP than Peace costs anyways.
I end up firing off Blaze 4 just to avoid us getting drained a whole bunch.
Pf course they're fire resistant. Cunts.
Kewl.
Seems like as good a chance as any to try it out.
Attacks the whole group, kills nobody. Fail.
turns out those griffin things use blast magic in addition to hitting really hard.
Actually, this is a lot gentler than it's melee attack.
Argh.
Kinda tough, but not as much as the zombies were.
The other thing died before it got a turn.
Trolls hit decently hard too. Still, Milo has a ton of MP now, so damage this small isn't important.
KFC* (Kodexian Frozen Cocks)
New wizard types. Annoyingly hard to kill.
Especially since they heal.
And call for help in the same round!
Although they just call in crappy zombies, not more Necromancers.
Better this than some fucking Desoul spells or evil shit like that.
Zombies have lots of hp and decent defense.
Also hit really hard and cause poison.
Lots of XP to be had from these fights though.
Ah, one of these fuckers finally got a turn. Hits for less than I expected...
But then it attacks a second time! Guess this is going to be a popular new enemy trait.
Still gets popped like a zit though.
Here we are again. Of course, we could turn around and try to sneak by the skeleton thing here.
But that'd be fucking lame right?
Lets do this bitch!
Same plan we used for the guardian.
Such a nice spell for only 5 MP.
Especially the effect on Pyra.
Bastard still hits hard, but he skipped his second turn this time. Feeling lucky?
Ichigeki hissatsu!
Well, another basin filled with radioactive monster piss. Joy.
Another set of stairs up. Guess these are the 'real' ones, because the other ones didn't go anywhere except back down to level 3.
Real level 4 baby!
Quite the warm welcome for us.
Sweet.
Probably shouldn't have stuck around after that last fight. Desperate attempt to sleep some of these fails completely.
Pyra can't hit them that hard either.
But they aren't hitting so hard either, so maybe we'll be fine.
Apparently they took offense to that comment.
Time to bail. Look ma', I'm rich!
Not really necessary but whatever floats your boat.
We can probably get that in under 10 battles on the 4 floor. We'll have full spellbooks on our casters in no time.
Fuck yeah! You're a new party member right? With spells and useful shit?
His name is off centre because the screen is shaking and I can't be assed to animate an epilepsy inducing gif for you guys. Sorry.
Once again Theo dissapears. Plot dump time!
I think you missed dude.
Ah. A challenger appears!
Thats ok, we know MUDDLE doesn't do fuck all anyways.
Duh, can't you see his hat? He's clearly a wizardly pimp. He's collecting from his hos.
Oh, or that.
Wait, Melvyl is Dark Sol?!? WHAT A TWIST. BEST RPG STORY EVER GUYS.
Damn, I want that spell, it looks cool.
Emo Lord does not approve. You know, he had an actual (albeit cheesy) name in the japanese version.
My mad screenshotting skillz failed to capture the epic grey fireball that PWNS Xern here.
Shouldn't we be like, attacking him right now? I mean, he's totally surrounded and outnumbered like 10 to 1.
Not like he'll be easier to kill in the labyrinth.
Apparently DARK SOL is so badass the game needs not just one, but two silent protagonists to face him.
Wait, what? Time out. Why do we not know about the previous champion. I call shenanigans.
Well duh. Were you expecting Dai?
Hell yes! I owe these guys so much payback! And you got the chick right? With the tits?!? Pyra is totally flat.
Railroad'd.
So hopeless! How can we hope to face the dark lord that beat up an old man with a cane!
Only if this LP gets bumped more. I'm totally abandoning this shit if I have to put 1000 images on one page.
If you say so Gandalf.
Unlike my totally noble lust for jailbait royalty and awesome jewgolds leading me to the same place.
Did anyone ever tell the ancients they couldn't just replaced a bunch of those doors with walls to keep things where they're supposed to be?
Because killing shit makes you strong! Also, none of the monsters use bows, so we don't risk taking any arrows to the groin, eye, or other vital locations.
Oh noes! But they totally need to be leashed! They'll crap on our lawns if they aren't leashed!
Again, why the fuck aren't you guys giving us this shit earlier?
Plot device GET.
Ahhhhh.
Right, and then?
FUCKER. I've been walking back there this whole fucking time! Guess I forgot to check back at the castle when I should have.
What, thats it? You're not coming? Asshole.
Gee, not us! *Hides glowing magical lightning sword and fabled ancient light helm*
Was probably a SLOW spell. Our slow spells are grey too.
Cool. I want one of those.
Well if he isn't the bad guy, Theos is at least working for him. Totally frigging suspicious.
Oh who cares, you're probably like, level 5. We could rez you for less money than we charge for an autograph.
I can beat him, but my plan involves fucking every beautiful virgin girl in the kingdom. Will you help me?
You'd make a great clown. You should try that.
As opposed to their usual state of retardation? Not much of a loss.
Only once, so I can screenshot it and for the guys reading this to suffer along with me.
New toy! YAY!
Yeah we already know that.
This'd be more impressive if you weren't with us when XERN explained this shit.
New level 3 map:
And beginnings of a level 4 map:
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I'll contribute to this noble cause of princess saving.
DO NOT ABANDON THIS
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