Punished Dayni Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Clearly so am I. That Frost is amazing. Matthis.... I'm a little confused. What's up with his forehead? 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: This seems to be from Ruben's OG timeline? Seems too good to be true. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Oh Marth, why would you start sending armies out to spread peace? Did you read up on that America after your Americartoons? You Ameriphile! 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Well, it does sound like what'd happen. Wonder if Frost is still worrying about his family. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Again, Sid you moron. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Oof, it's understandable from her to be that concerned. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU- So that's what's happening? Well shit! Wait what's happening? 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: I'll be honest, from when Humphrey showed up everything looks confusing. This cannot end well is all I can tell. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Sheesh... what, you live in the north pole? Still no, though I'm pretty sure it's gone by now. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: That's quite the noble cause. I can accept that. Noble? He's having to deal with yet more people fucking up. Fuckups are unacceptable in his world. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Now imagine if this was like the manga and he was akimbo wielding the Eckesachs and the Binding Blade... poor Cecilia. That sounds like something too OP for anyone's good. Or Brave Zephiel in Heroes. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: May I remind you he has the Armads? It'd take a while, but eventually, Zephiel would fall to Lot's overwhelming might. With that accuracy? I don't think it'd work out. And why does Eckesachs have infinite durability? 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Wow. That's... actually genius, and it never occured to me. Well, that's one plothole fixed by the fans. Good work, IntSys. Well it's that or Hawkeye to do it. Makes sense either way, I'll have the answer if it shows up in BS. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Pfffft. So, all along, Desmond did nothing wrong. Mind's officially blown. Desmond did everything wrong! 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Well, I'm a little autistic (Asperger's, to be precise) and I'm not taking any offense, so there's that. Stating a fact is not the same as insulting. Although, after 10 years of attending to a psychologist, the most my autism does at this point is make me play weird, boring games such as, I don't know, that stupid game where you move animes around a board and painstakingly watch and they fight by themselves. As well as to embarrass myself playing it in front of a forum full of veterans and pros. Still. My point stands. Well, I'm saying as another person with it. Feels a bit of a bad thing to bring up, like risking offending everyone else by doing so. Kind of letting the side down in a way. Those are appropriate descriptions for the series though. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Sue, kill Minerva? Bwahahahahahahahahaaaaaaah... don't make me laugh. You're not wrong. And I'm sure I already did by suggesting the impossible. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Well, then. It's been a long time since I last paid any attention to FE6's plot, so I'm ashamed to admit, I can't remember. I don't remember Jahn knowing Arcadia at all. Like I said, when Chapter 24 comes up. If this game isn't going to give build up to a villain I consider terrible, I won't give it for them. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Well... okay. He's depicted as a very erudite person, even before he went mad. Let's say that's it. Although, Hartmut? Why Hartmut? It was Athos that found the village, according to some fanfiction. Should Arcadia be described in documents regarding Athos, instead? Well I said related to Hartmut because he's the hero associated with Bern so they'd be more likely to have documents related to him. Athos would make more sense. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: ...bows > lances, how...? I mean, the weapon triangle doesn't make that much sense to begin with, but... It's Fates. Merging weapons onto the triangle was a weird thing. To be fair, Bows were the best counter to the Shurikens (which I consider overpowered), so I'm not too mad at it within Fates. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Oh my God, that's actually true. You see, the reason I didn't see the similarities is that I hate Light with a burning passion, while Raigh is one of my favourite characters in FE. As well as the fact that Raigh isn't actually such a bad person in reality. Light's a maniac and I hate him. Okay, maybe not with a burning passion, but I hate him. Not really because of what he does, but because I absolutely despise when main characters have their cocks sucked all the time, being oh so perfectly boring, everything goes their way and nobody gets even close to scratching them. C'mon, give him a damn flaw. Lelouch Vi Britannia was a much better character because of this, in my humble opinion. Sure, he can be considered too perfect. It's part of his god complex. But that makes him cocky to the point of being surprisingly sloppy at points. I feel I should point to a surprising analysis of the potato chip scene because it actually points out this flaw of Light's in a place which I hadn't expected. Besides, Light won with a literal Death Ex Machina. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Other than the fact that missur is just two huge bridges, a lone village and an old keep? The fact everyone's a judgemental asshole is why. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Damnit, are you blind?! Didn't you read the part where I especifically said I hadn't forgotten about the song yet?! Is this going to be the new running gag of the LP, "stupid Ruben can't remember Roundabout"?!?! I meant adding a link. I should have timestamped it though. Also, Ruben Forgets Roundabout Counter: 3 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: You called it. Although... I doubt that was what you had in mind. No. No I did not. What the actual fuck? 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Ooooooaaauuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurgh...! Uunnhh... that was far too close... So, this time we got lucky, but this is one thing I've never really thought much about: what if one of the gaiden-critical characters was to die in battle? It's a bit less of an issue with Tate here, since we'd only lose the chance to go to Ilia, but if Milady/Zeiss died, then what? Well, I've been thinking, and I think this is what I'll do when if the time comes: I'll just reset (I suppose adding a dishonorable reset to the counter) and discharge the unit in question for life, like Lance and Jerrot. If Tate/Sue are to fall in battle, I'll only bring them again for chapter 16x to boss-abuse Windham so as to be able to go to both routes, then bench them once more. This means they'll effectively be dead, but we won't miss the gaidens. In a true ironman run, I'd just have to press on, but we're here for the show, and I'm sure all of you want to see me trudge through the pain that is Jahn's chapter, right? I had a feeling this might happen, but I was still wincing. I thought this had been the case with Lilina, but still. Also, I think you might want to tate take a look at this.The experience gained is different from the total levels, at least I think it is. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Holy mother of fuck. That would be accurate. TRECK THE TANK ENGINE STEAMS ALONG. Next stop Zephiel's face? 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: W O R T H A S H O T This is the theme for every time this happens now. Hate me if you want, but it had to happen. I might need to do a shitpost of this too. Need something for video editing first though. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Ah, it's another one of the manga weapons. This one makes even less sense, since this guy is talking as if Al stood up to Bern a long time ago, while the manga supposedly takes place in parallel with FE6. BB canon that Al died early in Bern's insurrection and his sword was brought here? That or he's recently dead and this guy just picked up his sword here. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Lot, fed up with all the javelins, decides to prepare to sprint away. Or at least, I think that's what that pose is. Maybe he's just going to run a few laps around the village to train for the Olympics while the javelins fall. Well, it is a good training method to avoid projectiles. Treck could join in and practice javelin throwing for Ilia too. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Remember when I said I'd give Roy's Bois a breather? Well, Saul's not a Boi. He's judge Saul Frollo...! Saul Frollo longed to purge the world of nice and Shin? Nah, that doesn't work. He certainly wouldn't see corruption from within or wouldn't care though. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Good Lord, these enemy phases are so intense... especially after Ogier died exactly like this. Twice. Daily reminder Oujay sucks. Of course. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: You... you...! He's determined to be the speediest motherfucker around and nothing else, huh? Oh, well, could be worse. He could be like Ogier, getting skill and skill alone. He needs that speed to run from Dorothy's arrows. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Through a complicated trading scheme, Marcus manages to skewer the killing edger's crotch, which is very effective, thus killing him instantly. Well, it is one way to break a man. It's supposed to be a horseslayer though, not a manbreaker. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Wait, is Lot bitchslapping the Paladin? Seriously! If you use your imagination, that's sort of what it looks like! Lot: so badass he slaps axes into his enemies. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: My prayers... they have been answered... Tate's doing her best? It's certainly a good thing. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Hahah! Excellent! Lot senses the upcoming danger and prepares for it. He procc'd strength! Finally! 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: The cowardly Cavalier (notmy!Matthis?) keeps on fleeing the scene. I'm so happy for him. ... ...wait, did the fucking healers just... did they really dare to... ...I can't believe my eyes... ... ...GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Healeeeeeeeeeeeeeers! If this were that one chapter in Mystery I'd call that a resettable offence. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: You know, I'd like to take a moment to appreciate the fact that these guys just took on an entire army and won. I know, I know, that's very common in FE, but this isn't Perceval, or Minerva, or Rutger. These are axemen in one of the worst games for axemen in the series. Hahahah... when I had the idea to use these two (and later, Echidna), I certainly wasn't expecting them to become my MVPs. Guess life's nice sometimes. Well, this is coming from the guy who made Matthis relevant. I am unsurprised at this. It's not like I disliked using 2/3 of these before. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Before you ask, Dayni, no, Sue can't do anything. She barely doesn't get one-shot, which I appreciate, but I'd rather not risk the crit for such negligible damage. I wasn't going to. Sue still sucks, I was being sarcastic last time. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Perfect. For Echidna, this is perfect. 10/10? Almost, but it is certainly the best 1-stat level for her. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Good effort, but it was for naught, for his end is neigh. Yes! Jeigan's still got it! Same for Narcian then? 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Nonsense. You did well, given the circumstances. You weren't as great as Orlo, but you were still good enough. Thank you, Flaer, for not being another Morgan. At least you tried Flaer. RIP. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Look, another crit! Roy bent his sword, forming the shape of an "L". I wonder what that means... ...omigosh, Roy's L! Le shock! Then that means Raigh's his worst enemy... mind-blown. What is with the whip sword boi? L for lord? 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: This is level 20 Roy. Does this make him too good, or even just good? No, actually, he's still my weakest unit. If anything, he's surpassed Geese, and that's it. He's marginally less weak now, but he's still just a much, much worse version of Echidna who can't even use most swords without being weighed down. Congrats, it's this Roy for another ~10 chapters. Yay. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Here's the final turncount. Holy crap. Ah memories. That's about right. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: How's "now" finer than before? We don't have time now, if you want us to save your village! But Sophia needed to tell a man because..... Alright I have nothing, she needed to tell the player and knew it wasn't Cecilia. Also a reminder of yet another person who can marry boi despite it being utterly inappropriate (because she's older than Cecilia and because she's just the worst unit.) 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Zephiel did, though. For... whatever reason. And why wouldn't Eliwood tell Roy, especially if Ninian's his mother? Roy would probably be okay with knowing his lineage. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: ...what?! Oh, son of a-- *(in)Appropriate music. *More relevant music 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: AAAAAAAND FUCK AGAIN. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Humphrey? YOU MISSINGNO COPYCAT. YOU MANGALED FUSTERCLUCK. YOU ASP DISGUISED AS FIGS. YOU NAPOLEONIC ASSHOLE. YOU MICROPENIS! I don't think I got round to mouth off so verbosely at Humphrey, but this was a line crossed. Yes Raigh, his head should be off his shoulders. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: You know what kills me? It's the smile. It's offputting, making Lugh worse than he was. Congrats on bringing these two to places as dark as their parents by the way. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I think there might be something wrong with Marcus, did he have a stroke there? We're off to a desert chapter. Wohoo. 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Garlyle Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 (edited) 19 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I always have the same before Chapter 14, I bet it's not a coincidence. Edited March 13, 2018 by Garlyle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eclipse Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 Don't you DARE kill Raigh in-story. . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Franp3 Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 On 9/3/2018 at 12:27 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Please, Franp, I can see you coming from a mile kilometer away, don't make a Zephiel Gives His "Humans Are Assholes" Speech counter. On 9/3/2018 at 12:27 PM, Saint Rubenio said: I'm stopping before somebody decides to make a Ruben's Unfunny "Deaf Characters" Joke counter. ...although, that makes me realise, we've got enough counters to make a Counter counter. Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo... Ask and you shall receive. PS: can someone count the RU"DC"Js for me? This thread is way too long already. On 12/3/2018 at 10:06 AM, Saint Rubenio said: He remembers an 80yo man with a creepy grin who coincidentally had the same name as you. Also, didn't you say at one point that you wouldn't make that many references to that LP? sigh. It wouldn't be a Saint Rubenio LP without copious breaking of your own self imposed rules. On 12/3/2018 at 10:06 AM, Saint Rubenio said: New counter counter counter. Counter-inception counter. No, please. On 12/3/2018 at 10:06 AM, Saint Rubenio said: Maybe he's just going to run a few laps around the village to train for the Olympics while the javelins fall. The axe siblings could also compete in hammer throwing. They've got more than enough strength. WAScounter: 23 ZGH"HAA"Scounter: 1 RU"DC"Jcounter: TBC Countercounter: 7 Countercountercounter: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Rubenio Posted March 14, 2018 Author Share Posted March 14, 2018 Part 24 - I don't like sand. It's coarse, rough, and irritating... And it gets everywhere. You know, I've been taking a look at the first few updates again, and noticed a little thing... nothing very important, just that half of my portraits are gone. A while ago, I did a little fix to the "worried" face, erased the old version of the portrait I had uploaded to imgur, and uploaded the new one. The result is that now the first updates look like crap because I'm an incompetent fool who can't do anything right. On 12/3/2018 at 5:02 PM, DestructionDragon360 said: Holy Horror Stories, Jeiganman! Raigh's being haunted! Or going insane. Send him off to Arkham, boys, we got ourselves another villain for the gallery. Have you noticed his colour scheme is similar to the Joker's? On 12/3/2018 at 5:49 PM, Dayni said: Clearly so am I. That Frost is amazing. Hahah... thanks, man. I, too, feel very proud of that sprite. I spent around 3 hours to make it. Only the best efforts for the best character. Matthis.... I'm a little confused. What's up with his forehead? What, you've never seen anyone with a wrinkled forehead? I was actually expecting people to be more confused about his dark emperor-ish eyes and his smoker-coloured skin. This seems to be from Ruben's OG timeline? Seems too good to be true. Perhaps... Oh Marth, why would you start sending armies out to spread peace? Did you read up on that America after your Americartoons? You Ameriphile! Bwahahah, oh, lay off poor Marth, he meant well! Probably! Well, it does sound like what'd happen. Wonder if Frost is still worrying about his family. Most likely. He's a good man like that. Again, Sid you moron. C'mon, it would've been worse if he hid it from them. Oof, it's understandable from her to be that concerned. Yeah... FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU- Yep! So that's what's happening? Well shit! Wait what's happening? I'll be honest, from when Humphrey showed up everything looks confusing. Yeah, especially since, inmersed in the tension of the scene, you forgot to quote half the stuff you wanted to quote. What exactly were you reacting to? I mean, I know what, there only are so many things to react to in that part, but... This cannot end well is all I can tell. Well... Still no, though I'm pretty sure it's gone by now. You're "pretty sure"? How long has it been since you last left your home? Noble? He's having to deal with yet more people fucking up. Fuckups are unacceptable in his world. It's always a noble cause to make a fool out of Narcian. That sounds like something too OP for anyone's good. Or Brave Zephiel in Heroes. That one's even worse because it costs money! AAAUAAUAHUAAUAHUAAUH! With that accuracy? I don't think it'd work out. Eh, it's not like it would've taken that much longer than it already did. And why does Eckesachs have infinite durability? Because... legendary weapon? No, wait, that can't be it, the other weapons are brittle as Glass. Well it's that or Hawkeye to do it. Makes sense either way, I'll have the answer if it shows up in BS. Yeah, hurry up and get there. My first LP offered daily updates! Desmond did everything wrong! Heheheh... poor Desmond. He was just giving Zephiel some ol' tough love, preparing him for real life! He's almost as good a parent as Vernon Dursley and Frollo. Well, I'm saying as another person with it. Feels a bit of a bad thing to bring up, like risking offending everyone else by doing so. Kind of letting the side down in a way. Jeez, what's this, Autismcon 2018? Nah, in all seriousness, I don't know about anyone else, but I'm fine with it. If you want to use autism to joke around, as far as I'm concerned, go right ahead, I don't mind so long as it's used intelligently. Just, try to avoid behaving like a child on youtube, saying things like "HURR DURR I FUK U AUTISTIC MOM U AUTISTIC IDIOT BLEEERHG". Jokes are fine, it'd be stupid to get mad over a joke, but full-blown insults intended to hurt people... not so much. But I don't believe you'd want to do such a thing. Those are appropriate descriptions for the series though. Well, of course they are. Why wouldn't they be? You're not wrong. And I'm sure I already did by suggesting the impossible. Yep, looks like you did. I don't remember Jahn knowing Arcadia at all. Like I said, when Chapter 24 comes up. If this game isn't going to give build up to a villain I consider terrible, I won't give it for them. Admittedly, Jahn's pretty damn bad. Let's not talk about him until he appears. Well I said related to Hartmut because he's the hero associated with Bern so they'd be more likely to have documents related to him. Athos would make more sense. Yeah, but Hartmut had no way of knowing about Arcadia, either. It's a lose-lose situation however you look at it. It's Fates. Merging weapons onto the triangle was a weird thing. To be fair, Bows were the best counter to the Shurikens (which I consider overpowered), so I'm not too mad at it within Fates. Shurikens... that's something I didn't know about. I need to get up-to-date with this series. Sure, he can be considered too perfect. It's part of his god complex. But that makes him cocky to the point of being surprisingly sloppy at points. I feel I should point to a surprising analysis of the potato chip scene because it actually points out this flaw of Light's in a place which I hadn't expected. Besides, Light won with a literal Death Ex Machina. Go right ahead. Even if you don't want to do it here because spoilers, send me a private. If you could open my eyes to these flaws you speak of, I might actually gain some respect for his character. The fact everyone's a judgemental asshole is why. That, too. I meant adding a link. I should have timestamped it though. Yeah, I got it, I just wanted to rant is all. Also, Ruben Forgets Roundabout Counter: 3 Why, you little... No. No I did not. What the actual fuck? Heheheheh... I had a feeling this might happen, but I was still wincing. I thought this had been the case with Lilina, but still. Lilina's thing was partly the gaiden access, and partly the fact that my mistake was so stupid, I refused to accept it. That's why I still used Lilina afterwards. Also, I think you might want to tate take a look at this.The experience gained is different from the total levels, at least I think it is. You just saved my ass, Dayni. I was convinced the total levels were what was counted for the Ilia/Sacae choice. Now I know not to overlevel Tate too much. Thank you. That would be accurate. TRECK THE TANK ENGINE STEAMS ALONG. Next stop Zephiel's face? Hmm... when we get the Maltet. No need to hurry. This is the theme for every time this happens now. Hate me if you want, but it had to happen. I might need to do a shitpost of this too. Need something for video editing first though. Hahah, fine. As soon as you have it done, send it in response to a worthwhile shot. Rest assured, the game'll keep producing those. BB canon that Al died early in Bern's insurrection and his sword was brought here? That or he's recently dead and this guy just picked up his sword here. What a great guy... ah, Missur. Well, it is a good training method to avoid projectiles. Treck could join in and practice javelin throwing for Ilia too. He will... just, not in this chapter. Saul Frollo longed to purge the world of nice and Shin? Bwahahahahahahahah... poor Shin. Nah, that doesn't work. He certainly wouldn't see corruption from within or wouldn't care though. Good ol' Saul. Even worse than Frollo, yet he's one of the good guys. Daily reminder Oujay sucks. Of course. Stupid Oggman. Can't do anything right! He needs that speed to run from Dorothy's arrows. Good point. Well, it is one way to break a man. It's supposed to be a horseslayer though, not a manbreaker. Yeah, but he was hit in the crotch. That much is a fact. Lot: so badass he slaps axes into his enemies. He's the invincible Warrior! Tate's doing her best? It's certainly a good thing. Indeed it is. He procc'd strength! Finally! Yeah, well done, Lot. If this were that one chapter in Mystery I'd call that a resettable offence. Oh, God, that would've been so horrible... Well, this is coming from the guy who made Matthis relevant. I am unsurprised at this. Right. It's not like I disliked using 2/3 of these before. Let me guess, Lot and Echidna? I wasn't going to. Sue still sucks, I was being sarcastic last time. Of course, of course. 10/10? Almost, but it is certainly the best 1-stat level for her. Honestly, I would've liked defense better. Her durability needs help right this instant. Same for Narcian then? Perhaps. Only time will tell. At least you tried Flaer. RIP. He's at least better than his boss when it comes to not being the worst thing ever. What is with the whip sword boi? L for lord? L for "Le Swordmancer (who cannot lift)". Congrats, it's this Roy for another ~10 chapters. Yay. Don't remind me... but at least it's better than having a level 12 Roy for another ~10 chapters. Ah memories. That's about right. Yeah... and not a single support, which is the weirdest part about it. But Sophia needed to tell a man because..... Alright I have nothing, she needed to tell the player and knew it wasn't Cecilia. Stupid plot! Also a reminder of yet another person who can marry boi despite it being utterly inappropriate (because she's older than Cecilia and because she's just the worst unit.) Nonsense. The only ship I accept for Sophia is with Raigh. Those two were made for each other. Eh, character-wise. And why wouldn't Eliwood tell Roy, especially if Ninian's his mother? Roy would probably be okay with knowing his lineage. Because FE7 isn't canon, of course! Eh? Eh? *(in)Appropriate music. Oh, God, that sounds so low-quality... it's works so perfectly as a technical difficulties song, it's quite amazing. *More relevant music That one... not so much. AAAAAAAND FUCK AGAIN. Yeah, I really wasn't done screwing around with your mind yet. Humphrey? YOU MISSINGNO COPYCAT. YOU MANGALED FUSTERCLUCK. YOU ASP DISGUISED AS FIGS. YOU NAPOLEONIC ASSHOLE. YOU MICROPENIS! I don't think I got round to mouth off so verbosely at Humphrey, but this was a line crossed. Yes, I... might've gone slightly too far there. Yes Raigh, his head should be off his shoulders. Ugh... You know what kills me? It's the smile. It's offputting, making Lugh worse than he was. That was my intention. Congrats on bringing these two to places as dark as their parents by the way. I'm not sure if I should say thanks, but uh... thanks. I think there might be something wrong with Marcus, did he have a stroke there? Oh, for the love of-- I make this huge, plot-heavy update with all the plottwist that drops Matthis and Frost into the story and all the drama and the action and the tension, and then I ruin it all with a stupid typo. Damn it all...! We're off to a desert chapter. Wohoo. Not only a desert chapter: a FoW desert chapter with a time limit, no less! More on that later. On 13/3/2018 at 9:16 AM, Garlyle said: I always have the same before Chapter 14, I bet it's not a coincidence. Heheheh... clever. I like it. 11 hours ago, eclipse said: Don't you DARE kill Raigh in-story. . . All in due time, milady Minerva my friend. Let's not get ahead of ourselves. I don't want people to find out that, as always, I have no idea where this is going yet the events that shall soon come to pass. 7 hours ago, Franp3 said: Oh my God, my sides. Ask and you shall receive. Stop it! My sides have left the planet already! PS: can someone count the RU"DC"Js for me? This thread is way too long already. No. Do it yourself. 3, if I remember correctly. But make sure before you do something you'll regret. He remembers an 80yo man with a creepy grin who coincidentally had the same name as you. God damnit, stop poking holes on my crappy fanfic! Also, didn't you say at one point that you wouldn't make that many references to that LP? Eh... I did say that, didn't I... but wait! I also said I would include some continuity, but it would be very self-explanatory! Great Matthis is in my signature, anyone with a brain should be able to make the connection. Hah! I beat you! sigh. It wouldn't be a Saint Rubenio LP without copious breaking of your own self imposed rules. Heh, yeah, it's part of the charm. Although it was more epic in the last LP. I had way more rules, and somehow managed to break 'em all. Oh, for the love of-- I can't even remember what the ATAOD counter is! And where's the "stupid Ruben forgets Roundabout" counter?! That one would be at 3, by the way. The axe siblings could also compete in hammer throwing. They've got more than enough strength. Nah, hammer's are too inaccurate. Also, what are you talking about? Lot's strength isn't that good. It's his speed and defense that makes him amazing. WAScounter: 23 ZGH"HAA"Scounter: 1 RU"DC"Jcounter: TBC Countercounter: 7 Countercountercounter: 1 Hoo, boy... Spoiler Believe me, I wish he wasn't such a gentleman. As opposed to Merlinus, who doesn't believe her story because his favourite hobbie is not believing things. You know, this makes me wonder... take a look at the map. The desert is between Missur and Etruria. Now, was Cecilia forced to cross the desert to get to Missur? If so... maybe that's why she was all alone facing Bern. The desert took the lives of the others. So, first of all, let's use a few of our benchies to carry stuff. Cath takes the torch we bought last chapter. Right out of the gate, I made a mistake. Can you spot it? I'll tell you what it is soon enough. But first, the plot. Ah, Igrene. Such a fine woman, with an even finer personality and backstory. For those who don't know, Igrene actually manages to get Saul to act like a real priest in their support. Not even Dorothy, man. She's that depressing. Fae also exists. Jeez, Igrene, she's tiny, give her a br-- No, wait, she can turn into a chickendragon, what's this nonsense about being tired?! Use your damned dragonstone! ...on second thought, don't! It has few enough uses as it is. She was captured, and then she was moved all the way to Missur and put in a cell inside the castle Cecilia was holding (remember, we never saw Sophia being brought into the castle after Cecilia's defeat). Just so she could be there to lead Roy here. How very convenient... For... whatever reason. Pfffft... so blunt. This woman. Ergh... aren't you supposed to be hurrying? Why drop this random comment for us, the audience? Yes, hurry. If you got killed, I'd get another deployment slot for a real unit in the finale, but alas, you're a little, adorable kid and people would give me crap if I were to kill you. Besides, quite honestly, I've never had the heart to get her killed just to get another deployment slot. Only a videogame character, I know, but jeez, my conscience would not be clear. Spoiler alert: this will give us trouble. Even more character introductions! Gee, I wonder which of these Bernian gentlemen will be our throwaway boss today? Wait, but you already have the village seized! Not to mention, Oates and his troops have already broken into Forblaze's shrine and are currently attempting to retrieve the tome of legend. As things stand, you've no reason to expect anybody to attack you, much less to try to take the village back. I really don't understand what odds you want to have tipped in your favour, Randy. There aren't any odds, you've already won! We're going to contest that victory, but the truth is that you have! But Aquleia is where Narcian is, not the king! Why aren't you making any sense, Randy? Is it just me feeling unusually picky today?! But only for 30 battles. Then they become glorified civilians. This means we won't be seeing Zeiss in this chapter, and I'm glad we won't. Having to recruit Zeiss here would just add one more problem to the already huge pile of problems of this chapter. No, thanks. Another annoying thing about this chapter is the sand. Indeed, it gets everywhere, especially when you're trying to take screenshots. It definitely looks better when it's moving. Use your imagination, everyone! Ah, that's good, thank you. Because obviously, here in the Middle Ages of Anime, Roy can totally know where the northeast is by simply looking at his compass. Actually, he could, because compasses were invented in China between the years 300 and 200 BC. They were brought to Europe in the Middle Ages, circa 1300. I don't know about the Middle Ages of Anime, though. This is your only hint for the treasure, by the way. Anyhow, because I'm too stubborn to steal the treasure map from the wiki... Here's this one I half-assedly made. Unlike in FE12, here, only Thieves are guaranteed to find the items once they step on the correct tiles. Everyone else has a low chance, 10% if I'm not mistaken. Aside from that, this chapter's... very harsh. Not only do we have a 25 turn limit to get Roy's slow ass to the gate (not too little, but not too much either: chapter 12 this is not), we also have to worry about what feels like a thousand Wyverns, Dragons hidden in the mist, what doesn't feel like but actually IS a thousand Brigands spawning from the south and west after a few turns, a sleep Bishop and an army of Mercenaries and Heroes. All while babysitting one of the worst units in the game. And if you thought you could just let her stay in a corner? Nuh-uh. First, Brigands will appear everywhere at some point, and I do mean everywhere: the only spot in the entire map that becomes sort of safe at some point is the village area. But that's not the main reason: the main reason is that, in a gargantuan dickmove from the developers, the guiding ring, the last free item to promote Mages until almost the end of the game, can only be obtained by Sophia. Much like the Thieves, she's guaranteed to get it once she gets to the village's entrance, which is... merciful, but doesn't take away from the fact that she needs to survive almost all the way to the seize point. All in all, this chapter isn't as bad as chapter 7, but it's pretty bad still. I won't pretend there's anyone here who doesn't know about this chapter's new recruits, but I want to rant, so let's talk about them. Ah, Cecilia. Cecilia's stats are horrible (Marcus had better bases. Jeigan!), but she has 8 move, C staves and A magic, which means she can be a pretty decent chipper and staffbot. Her growths are weird. 45% skill? Why? If only they swapped her skill and speed growths, she could've been salvageable. Still, she's a decent utility unit. Really, the absolute worst thing about her is her joining conditions. They gave us a mounted unit in a desert chapter. She joins after the chapter begins, because of course she would. Why give us the chance to keep her away from the sand, like all the other riders and Knights? They could've excused her not joining in this chapter with a simple "General Cecilia is still recovering from her wounds" line from, I don't know, Merlinus! I'd like to know what they were thinking when they decided this was the perfect time for her to join. Most likely, something similar to what they were thinking when they decided... this, was a good idea. You see, I could go on an endless rant about why she's the worst thing ever, how her bases wouldn't have worked even all the way back in chapter 1 (she would've gotten doubled by some of the Fighters there!), how her growths do not even begin to justify her pathetic excuse for bases, how her con is even lower than Raigh's (and Raigh already has trouble because of his con)... But, you know what? As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words, and by that logic, I figure a moving picture with sound would be worth more than a MILLION words! So, here, this is how Sophia as a unit feels like. Just... this. Damn, now my rant on Wendy feels very underwhelming compared to Sophia's. But that's about right, as I consider Sophia to be just a tiny bit more painful to use than Wendy. Wendy has 8x, where she can actually train pretty easily, even in hard mode, as I proved back in the day. Sure, she died the following chapter, but my point stands: she got 7 levels, if I recall correctly, and survived the chapter. Sophia has absolutely nothing: at this point in the game, even the enemies in 14x are too much for her to handle. To summarize, while using Sophia feels like, well, that video, Wendy's """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""merely""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" this. I know, I know, once you get them somewhere, Sophia's got potential to be better than Wendy, since she uses magic and gets staves after promoting, but... why am I doing this? Why am I trying to compare the worst units in the game? They're both unusable! In her defense (God forbid!), though, I'll say that this isn't true for them as characters, as while Wendy's personality is also hilariously bad, Sophia's actually a pretty interesting character. Her support with Raigh is good. Too bad it's already extremely painful to get her to the guiding ring, let alone stick her to the side of the one who completely outclasses her in every single way for three hundred turns. Even so, much like with Wendy, I'll try. Wish her luck, everyone... Now, about the mistake I mentioned earlier... this is Cecilia's starting inventory. I usually like to give her a less expensive tome, and a restore staff, so she can try to do something despite her low move. But since I can't reset, and I forgot to give Roy the items... what you see is what we're getting today. Damnit, me... Okay, let's move out. Thanks to our two Thieves with torches, we can actually see much of the map. Most importantly, we were able to uncover the Wyvern Riders to the north. We'll have to tread carefully around those guys. First round of desert combat, people! Saul's going to be today's heavy lifter, as the only unit who can move more or less freely (he still needs Dorothy to support him, though) and doesn't die if something looks his way in a funny manner. Which is why I should've made Roy hold on to another light tome along with Cecilia's goodies, in case Saul's ran out of uses, instead of a bunch of useless statboosters. Jeez... what was I thinking? What in the world were you thinking, past!Ruben?! Sigh... Cecilia, everyone. Yeah... that aircalibur of hers will be useful, though, since I didn't bring Lilina. Honestly, why didn't I bring Lilina instead of Raigh? Neither she nor Raigh can really take more than two hits, and Raigh's speed is actually worse than Lilina's, yet I brought him, the guy who can't instakill Wyverns. Again, what was I thinking? Well, this time, I actually do have an answer! favouritism ˈfeɪv(ə)rɪtɪz(ə)m/ noun 1. the practice of giving unfair preferential treatment to one person or group at the expense of another. Ah, such a wonderful thing... we humans are great. Well, might as well let Cecilia feel useful, since her movement barely allows her to reach Tate after she kills the Mage. I really like her sprite, it looks really good. First item of the day: the talisman! It's okay, a few of our units could use the res. But this is far from being the main prize to be obtained in this chapter. Saul moves forward, uncovering a Mage. Yeah... Tate'd best be careful. You know what really pisses me off about desert tiles? While I can wrap my head around Knights and Horseriders being severely impaired by the desert... why Warriors? Seriously! All other infantry units get 3 move, half of their total, when promoted, but Warriors only get two, and Fighters, a whopping one. That's Knight-tier mobility. Why? Is this IntSys' way of punishing people for using Lot and Wade instead of... Minerva?! Bah, whatever. I made yet another mistake. Try to spot it. Not a very grave mistake, admittedly, but a mistake nonetheless. I definitelly didn't intend this to happen. Gonzales also deemed it prudent to rub salt into the wound. Aaaaaargh! I know you've 7 skill, man, but your chance of hitting there wasn't bad at all! Some misguided souls attempt to foolishly bring down the Bishop of Sin. Needlessly to say, they failed horribly. Oh, look, a healer. Yey... Here comes the sleep asshole. Predictably, Sophia falls prey of the foul man of the cloth into a deep slumber. Save her, Cecilia! It's not like you could reach the Wyverns anyway. Hmph... this better hit. Ah, excellent! I knew I could count on you, Raigh. Another fight, and he'll level up. Not too shabby. I didn't screenshot this battle, but I doubt there's any need for it. Cath, ladies and gentlemen. Second only to Wendy and Sophia in terms of being bad at fighting. Get outta there, girl. I still have work for you. Gonzales! Gonzaleeeeeeees! I'm feeling tempted to post that video yet again... hrrrghhhh...! Since Gonzales has failed, the Western Reapers may perform emergency maneuvers. Aha, like so. This does mean they cannot advance this turn, but alas, acceptable losses. Ergh... seems like I hadn't saved Sophia yet. Meh. Well, I did now. Oh, you can't be serious... Well, then. Let's assess the situation. There's this guy, who can reach Cecilia, and the other guy, who can also reach Cecilia. Eh. It should be best to get rid of the bigger threat right now, although I reaaaaally don't like risking Tate's life like this. Okay, she didn't miss. Thank Elimine, or Naga or whoever for that. Astolfo finds a pair of boots that lack proper grammar buried in the sand. That'll be annoying for whoever wears them, but otherwise, this is quite the find. I'll have to think this one through... I know, boots are buyable in this game, but honestly, I don't usually take advantage of that. Having an army with overkill movement isn't, in my opinion, as much fun as... This, or... This. Although, our Marcus might just get there on his own, he's that good. Anyhow, that's the turn. I... I have a feeling we might lose somebody very soon. Ah! Astolfo! Fuckin' hell, three turns, and Arcadia's already beaten all of our chapters since 10B in terms of bad luck. They couldn't have picked a worse time to crank my unluck meter all the way up to its maximum level! Aaaaargh! Oh, God, the Mage can reach him... the mage can reach him... nooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-- --OOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow... ...fuck... my heart... my heart... backup, backup! It's a miracle, everyone. A miracle! A goddamned miracle! My luck turned around just when I needed it to! Fuck yeah, let's celebrate your survival by burning your head. Hmm... there's the Hero. Good to know. I wouldn't want to bump into him with a weaker unit by accident. I mean, Sophia dies to, quite literally, everything on the map. Raigh, not so much, but the Hero would definitely kill him. Uhh! Bah... the foul luck's returned. Maybe it only had to go pee or something. For that, I am grateful. Thank you very much, RNGoddess' urinary system. These guys are quite the non-issue. Eh, here. If you didn't notice, there's an area around the village that isn't desert. This means that, while this pack of Mercenaries isn't very threatening, the next one will be. Now, let's kill this Wyvern. Nice! Although, even if he missed, it wouldn't have been such a big deal. Dorothy's right there. Eh... he could use the HP ans skill, but I'd really like some more speed better. Then again, it might be better for plot!us if he didn't grow much stronger. Since Raigh did well, Dorothy's free to destroy the Wyvern who dared run Astolfo through. Perish! And thus, Astolfo's out of danger. Very good! Gonzales will be heading north. When I have some free time, I'll send a Thief overthere, but if Gonzo could snatch the silver card before that, I'd be really happy. Speaking of snatching... nice! I can think of quite a few units who could really use this one. And it's back to safety with you, Cath. I'll try to get her as far away from the bandit's reunion point as possible while we still have time. Other than that, we're just moving forward. The Mage attempts to do what he couldn't last turn, but to no avail: it seems he's cursed. Ah, the Bishop reveals himself! Also... what's up with that Priest? Is he... chasing us? What? Aw, drat. Wake up, Cecilia! This isn't the time nor the place! Third time's the charm, as they say. The Mage is finally successful in his intent to electrocute Astolfo. For all the good it did him. Yes, I did have to use the nosferatu there: in retrospect, it wasn't a very wise move. Eh, no pain, no gain. Tate finishes what she started while doubling as a protective wall for Sophia. You know, I've a funny little story regarding the word "double". Allow me to tell you: years ago, when I first started to play FE and my english wasn't so good, I thought hand axes and javelins were supposed to always double enemies when used from afar, as if they were brave weapons. It baffled me how they didn't. The culprit? Yeah. I'm not joking. Anyway, back to the present. Defense! Yeah! Great work, Tate! That's it. No bandits...? No bandits, cool. No, seriously, what's this guy's plan, exactly? Uh... he wants to silence our mages? No, that doesn't make sense, if that's what he wanted to do, he would've done it a long time ago. He has enough range for it. ...any ideas as to why a Priest is running after us, people? Maybe he's a Horseman in disguise, and intends to destroy the village, Arcadia. Foul wretch! We can't let him do it! But first, get up. Such a shame this girl's so bad. Her sprite is great. Not as great as Raigh's, though. Hmmmm... I wonder... Ah! Worth a shot! C'mon, worth a shot... ...worth a shoooooot... Baaah! Okay, then, let's get serious now. Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Saul! Not you too! Although, I'll admit, that's a very nice looking lightning frame. Nice catch, past!me! Okay, thank you. We're in turn 6, and Roy's half way to the village. Not bad, but we've just gotten started. Also, who was it that bet Sophia would last only 3 turns? Dayni? Hah! You've been foiled! How's that feel, huh?! Very well... next up, defeat Garlyle and his 16 turn bet. A more realistic bet, but nonetheless, it shall not come to pass! Well, I don't expect this to work, not just yet anyway, but... A bizarre worthashot right here. Add it to the counter as well. We're making rapid progress. Let's keep it up. TOO rapid! Gaaah! Durr, I wonder if I could feed this promotee kill to Sophia! May not look like it, but rest assured, he's dead. Some all-around healing later... even Saul's getting tired of all these boring healing shots. See? He isn't lifting his staff that much. I should probably do like intellingent people and disable healer animations, but that would mean not ever seeing Saul's hat again, or Cecilia's great palette, or Raigh's badass Druid sprite, and I refuse. I could also not show all the healing, but hey, it might prove to be important! Let's see if there's anything else worth seeing amidst the mist. Doesn't seem like it. Let's instead make sure that insolent little Priest doesn't chase us any further, shall we? Hahah-- oh shit! Tate lost control of her pegasus?! Noooooooo-- Aaargh! ...aaaaaaaaaaah! I underestimated him! Revengeeee! Okay, I had my fun, enough silliness now. Worth a shot #2. Let's see how many it takes for Gonzo to get the card... or for my patience to run out and send Astolfo to get it instead. Oh, no, they're here. So, these are our generic bandit leaders of the day. Their gimmick is that they're gay and stupid. Aaaaand that's it, pretty much. I think Japan's trying to tell us something here. Something along the lines of "we have multiple writers and some of them are far worse than the others; see Orlo", I wager. Yes, please do that so I don't have to endure your presence. Oh, doggone it... Oh, dear, they've been ambushing travelers?! That's not nice! Well, would you look at that, Dunderhead here has a plan. Yes! A marvelously wonderful idea! Genius! Except for the part where you still cannot return home because we won't be there to lead you back out of the desert. Yeah, don't waste time, my generic idiots. I look forward to adding your heads to Lot's kill count. Since one of our new guests has already left the safety of the sandstorm, we can take a look at his stats. he's... not that great. He wouldn't take more than a turn of Wade and Lot's combined efforts. That said, we don't want to risk a critical hit. He could probably one-shot everyone in the army if he got lucky. Assuming he didn't just one-shot himself, of course. The fact that he's got a chance of killing himself makes him a tad less dangerous than his dear Maggie, whom we'll soon see. Speaking of Maggie, let's drop Cath so we can have a look-see. Also, things are going to get messy, and I don't want Cath inconveniencing the Western Reapers. Like so. His stats are better than roses in the areas that count (skill), and he has a weapon that doesn't kill him, which makes things worse for me. Way to be a dick, though. Halberd, really? As if we didn't have enough reasons not to bring a Paladin to this chapter... Before I forget, Echidna, please equip your sword. It'll serve you better than an axe in this situation. Well, that's it for the southern flank. Let's move on to Roy's Bois. Just some healing and lightning flingling. Nothing out of the ordinary. B rank! Amazing! And we haven't even gotten Aureola yet! If I can keep this up, I'll prove that light magic is, in fact, viable in this game. If only because Saul, along with Dorothy, are my second best units after the Western Reapers. Treck gets the bronze medal. Sorry, he needs to work on his speed. But hey, he made it into the top 3! Anyhow, Raigh's been getting quite lucky with his low accuracy as of late. I guess he's just siphoning everyone else's luck. Although, seeing how Astolfo was saved by... whatever, I suppose I shouldn't be complaining too much. That's that. Turn end. Here comes the Hero, rushing to his untimely demise. Good boy. The Western Reapers are being attacked from two sides, but as long as they can make it just a little further, that will stop being an issue. See that spot Cath is standing on? That's the only maneuverable tile in that narrow part of the path. If I can get Lot to block it, we'll only have to deal with one guy at a time, along with an avalanche of hand axes, of course, but considering these are all Gonzo clones, they probably won't even have a chance to hit at all. Meanwhile, might as well start taking on the bosses, seeing how they're the only truly dangerous ones here. His chance of hitting should be low enough, given Echidna's high speed and WTA, and since the crit dice is rolled after it's been decided the attempt to hit will be successful (I think, correct me if I'm wrong), I'm not too worried. I'm not too worried, but I'm worried. It's always best to be worried when it comes to FE. More torching. Visibility's very important. Jeez, killing edge? This guy's going down right now. Saul! C'moooon! I can't fix your horrible magic, energy rings barely exist at all in this game! Meh... maybe Raigh? Oh, well, it was bound to happen eventually. It could've happened with the last few unpromoted scrubs, instead of here, but let's not complain. Hey, that's good, at least! And thus, the Hero falls. He did nothing of note, and will not be remembered. Aaaaaargh! Better. Well, then. Let's hope for the best. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! WHAAAAAAAT!? YOU SON OF A BITCH! GARGANTUAN CESSPOOL! ASS OF AN ASS! CHERNOBYLIAN HELLSPAWN! TREACHEROUS SWINE! ROTTING BRAINS! FLAMIN' BAG OF SHIT! POOPYHEAD! WHAT WERE THE CHANCEEEEEEEES?! Of COURSE we wouldn't be able to get out of Arcadia without any casualties! Of course something would go wrong! It's fucking Arcadia! If it doesn't ruin someone's day, it's not happy! Well, you know what, Arcadia? I'm not fucking happy either! I'm going to beat you, and I'm not going to reset! You won't defeat me, accursed chapter! You hear me?! YOU HEAR ME?!?! I laughed to keep from crying when this happened, but I'm not fuckin' laughing right now, as I rewatch these events and try to write a comedic rant to make people happy! TIME TO GET SERIOUS! Hah. Not a chance, shitheads. Not with Dorothy. Oh, you two are going down... you're dead! FUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!! Whoa, Wade was angered by Echidna's death as well, eh? Hahah... good, good. That speeds things up. Just be glad Lot didn't smack you with the Armads. Although, that would've been a faster death than the world's mightiest arrow, probably. In conclusion, fuck you, Maggie, go to hell. Are you serious!? Hmmm... nope! Instead, Lot attacks the Brigand below Wade. Agh! Flashbangs! Stop it, Cath! I swear, if somebody else dies because of you... Whoa... would you look at that! Not a single foggy tile in sight! I must be dreaming... Also, yes, before too many Brigands appear around the silver card area, Astolfo's going to get it. That's the plan, at least. Saul and Dorothy team up to kill a guy and that's about it. Rose can reach the axe siblings... but what are the chances of that happening again? ... ...can I reset now? Just kidding. Wade got hit, but not critically so. Aha... your last mistake, Rosey! Argh! What's that?! Eh, whatever it was, I'm sure it wasn't anything important. In other news, Wade levels up! Hm. Not bad, not bad at all. I appreciate the skill. A whole lot of dodging later, we're finally free to move again. Hmmm... Bring in the mighty Armads! My foolish friend, don't look so down. You shall soon join your beloved... in death! Die! Hahahahah! Bold, but futile! Down you go! Holy shit. The Armads ruined that dude's face... Echidna's death has been avenged. In flying colours! Hahahahahahah! Yes! I think this is a good enough place to end the update. Next time, we'll hopefully leave the desert without any further casualties. Until then... ...feel free to suggest a sword user. Seriously. We've lost literally all the dedicated sword users in the game. Even the most bizarre one, Noah, has bitten the dust. I'm at a loss as to what to do with the durandal now... help me out! Where was I? Ah, yes. Until then, don't you dare fare bad! What do you mean, the kid's behaving strangely? He is. Back before we left Missur, I found him standing alone on one of the big bridges. What is so strange about that? I heard voices. One of them was definitely not his. He was not talking to himself, I can assure you. But when I arrived, there was nobody else. Did you recognise the other voice? No... it felt familiar, somehow, but despite that it wasn't like any voice I've ever heard. It felt... distorted, in a way. Do you think it could be bad news, Sir Marcus? I do. That's why I've waited until they left for Arcadia. I don't want him to know I noticed more than I initially let on. ...what are we to do? Hmm... for now, let's be careful. I don't think he knows about your... situation, Ruben, and we certainly don't want him to. One of us should keep an eye on him, both in and out of the battlefield. If he plans to do anything, we must know in advance. I'll do that. I know how to move around a battlefield without being noticed. And because of my wounds, I've nothing else to do. He shouldn't be suspicious of a bored, washed up knight. After all, he didn't even bother asking me about Ruben. That sounds like a most sensible plan. Indeed. I entrust this mission to you, Lance. I knew I could count on you, despite your injuries. I am honoured, Sir Marcus. I shall not disappoint you! Good... now that we've some free time, we must discuss a certain matter, Ruben. What is it? Stop falling asleep during our nightly prayer! Have you no respect?! O-oh but uh I... No excuses! Tonight, I want you to be the one to say it! But... it already is tonight! Exactly. You have five minutes to carve this into your memory. Then, we'll be off. Aw, c'mon... I don't... sigh... ...this is going to be fun... Really? Did you really just say that? Yes, as a matter of fact, I did. Now move. You've four minutes. ... To be continued. Death count: Bors Wolt Deke Lugh Rutger Noah Clarine Lance Jerrot Fir Wendy Ogier Treck Barth Bartre Elen Echidna *Discharged *Retreated after being wounded *Only dead in route B *Only dead in route A Reset count: 5 Dishonorable reset count: 1 Merlinus death count: 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punished Dayni Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 3 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Yes, yes it did. I'm still trying to understand what happened. 3 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: So they're now Shove BFFs? 4 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Frost, who was it that trusted Humphrey? He looks like he's the leader of the John Wayne Gacy fan club. 5 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Yeah, this scene is good. So of course Louise would kill someone like that. Imagine if they acted like that in BS..... 6 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: That's going to be a shit family reunion. 7 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Yeah, especially since, inmersed in the tension of the scene, you forgot to quote half the stuff you wanted to quote. What exactly were you reacting to? I mean, I know what, there only are so many things to react to in that part, but... Well, like I said I wasn't able to get what was going on much at all from that point. Pointing to a specific point wouldn't work here. 8 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: You're "pretty sure"? How long has it been since you last left your home? Outside? Definitely today. 8 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: That one's even worse because it costs money! AAAUAAUAHUAAUAHUAAUH! Or you're FTP like me and can still get most of what you're looking for. Except Celica. Or seasonal tome users. Or Legendary Heroes. Forget what I was saying. 9 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Because... legendary weapon? No, wait, that can't be it, the other weapons are brittle as Glass. You're right? Is Hartmut in the-no wait, he's in the BB I think. And you had to bring him up. Fine, I missed an opportunity there. 10 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Yeah, hurry up and get there. My first LP offered daily updates! True. You'll see more regular updates soon, I had an interview recently (As in, the day of this update). 11 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Shurikens... that's something I didn't know about. I need to get up-to-date with this series. Hideen Weapons are something that came out of Fates. They annoy me in Fates. 13 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Jeez, what's this, Autismcon 2018? Nah, in all seriousness, I don't know about anyone else, but I'm fine with it. If you want to use autism to joke around, as far as I'm concerned, go right ahead, I don't mind so long as it's used intelligently. Just, try to avoid behaving like a child on youtube, saying things like "HURR DURR I FUK U AUTISTIC MOM U AUTISTIC IDIOT BLEEERHG". Jokes are fine, it'd be stupid to get mad over a joke, but full-blown insults intended to hurt people... not so much. But I don't believe you'd want to do such a thing. Why would I want to do that and hurt myself as well? 14 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Go right ahead. Even if you don't want to do it here because spoilers, send me a private. If you could open my eyes to these flaws you speak of, I might actually gain some respect for his character. Link here for the video. Keep in mind it's a point in the video, not all that it's about. 14 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Bwahahahahahahahah... poor Shin. Then Sacae are the gypsies in this version? 15 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Let me guess, Lot and Echidna? Right you are. Wade was just too slow for me. 15 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Nonsense. The only ship I accept for Sophia is with Raigh. Those two were made for each other. Eh, character-wise. Well, I guess we'll see the supports. If Sophia can live that long. 16 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Oh, for the love of-- I make this huge, plot-heavy update with all the plottwist that drops Matthis and Frost into the story and all the drama and the action and the tension, and then I ruin it all with a stupid typo. Damn it all...! No, it's part of the tragedy of the old generation dying off. Marcus will end up more like Allen by the end, I know it. 18 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: As opposed to Merlinus, who doesn't believe her story because his favourite hobbie is not believing things. I recall him being a religious zealot before. 19 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Right out of the gate, I made a mistake. Can you spot it? Giving Miredy only restore? 20 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Ah, Igrene. Such a fine woman, with an even finer personality and backstory. For those who don't know, Igrene actually manages to get Saul to act like a real priest in their support. Not even Dorothy, man. She's that depressing. Fae also exists. Igrene is a sad person. Makes sense when she never really knew her parents all that well and has to defend a village on her own. 21 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Ergh... aren't you supposed to be hurrying? Why drop this random comment for us, the audience? I can't really say here. Maybe they noticed some unobserved spot in the desert and Zephiel said "Kill them all, let Elimine Idoun decide." 21 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Yes, hurry. If you got killed, I'd get another deployment slot for a real unit in the finale, but alas, you're a little, adorable kid and people would give me crap if I were to kill you. Besides, quite honestly, I've never had the heart to get her killed just to get another deployment slot. Only a videogame character, I know, but jeez, my conscience would not be clear. She's also needed for the best ending. Fae can be a problem unit. 22 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Wait, but you already have the village seized! Not to mention, Oates and his troops have already broken into Forblaze's shrine and are currently attempting to retrieve the tome of legend. As things stand, you've no reason to expect anybody to attack you, much less to try to take the village back. I really don't understand what odds you want to have tipped in your favour, Randy. There aren't any odds, you've already won! We're going to contest that victory, but the truth is that you have! That's what Zeiss is reacting to. He's there asking himself "Why is Randy going on like this, we have Arcadia?" 22 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: This means we won't be seeing Zeiss in this chapter, and I'm glad we won't. Having to recruit Zeiss here would just add one more problem to the already huge pile of problems of this chapter. No, thanks. Considering who recruits him, not too much. If you brought her. 23 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: It definitely looks better when it's moving. Use your imagination, everyone! I can barely see what you're saying Roy! 24 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Ah, that's good, thank you. Because obviously, here in the Middle Ages of Anime, Roy can totally know where the northeast is by simply looking at his compass. Actually, he could, because compasses were invented in China between the years 300 and 200 BC. They were brought to Europe in the Middle Ages, circa 1300. I don't know about the Middle Ages of Anime, though. Huh, neat. 25 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Here's this one I half-assedly made. Unlike in FE12, here, only Thieves are guaranteed to find the items once they step on the correct tiles. Everyone else has a low chance, 10% if I'm not mistaken. Aside from that, this chapter's... very harsh. Not only do we have a 25 turn limit to get Roy's slow ass to the gate (not too little, but not too much either: chapter 12 this is not), we also have to worry about what feels like a thousand Wyverns, Dragons hidden in the mist, what doesn't feel like but actually IS a thousand Brigands spawning from the south and west after a few turns, a sleep Bishop and an army of Mercenaries and Heroes. All while babysitting one of the worst units in the game. Well, with a glitch you can guarantee it every time. Besides which, it's time for this lovely chapter and the lovely limits. YAY. 26 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Ah, Cecilia. Cecilia's stats are horrible (Marcus had better bases. Jeigan!), but she has 8 move, C staves and A magic, which means she can be a pretty decent chipper and staffbot. Her growths are weird. 45% skill? Why? If only they swapped her skill and speed growths, she could've been salvageable. Still, she's a decent utility unit. Really, the absolute worst thing about her is her joining conditions. They gave us a mounted unit in a desert chapter. She joins after the chapter begins, because of course she would. Why give us the chance to keep her away from the sand, like all the other riders and Knights? They could've excused her not joining in this chapter with a simple "General Cecilia is still recovering from her wounds" line from, I don't know, Merlinus! I'd like to know what they were thinking when they decided this was the perfect time for her to join. Because at last one level designer had their principle as "HAHA Fuck you." 26 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: You see, I could go on an endless rant about why she's the worst thing ever, how her bases wouldn't have worked even all the way back in chapter 1 (she would've gotten doubled by some of the Fighters there!), how her growths do not even begin to justify her pathetic excuse for bases, how her con is even lower than Raigh's (and Raigh already has trouble because of his con)... But, you know what? As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words, and by that logic, I figure a moving picture with sound would be worth more than a MILLION words! So, here, this is how Sophia as a unit feels like. Just... this. I think it's more like shooting yourself in the foot: Pointless and only hurts your cause. 28 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: In her defense (God forbid!), though, I'll say that this isn't true for them as characters, as while Wendy's personality is also hilariously bad, Sophia's actually a pretty interesting character. Her support with Raigh is good. Too bad it's already extremely painful to get her to the guiding ring, let alone stick her to the side of the one who completely outclasses her in every single way for three hundred turns. 28 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Now, about the mistake I mentioned earlier... this is Cecilia's starting inventory. I usually like to give her a less expensive tome, and a restore staff, so she can try to do something despite her low move. But since I can't reset, and I forgot to give Roy the items... what you see is what we're getting today. Damnit, me... THIS IS WHY YOU BRING MIREDY, SHE HAD IT. 29 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Cecilia, everyone. Yeah... that aircalibur of hers will be useful, though, since I didn't bring Lilina. Honestly, why didn't I bring Lilina instead of Raigh? Neither she nor Raigh can really take more than two hits, and Raigh's speed is actually worse than Lilina's, yet I brought him, the guy who can't instakill Wyverns. Again, what was I thinking? Well, this time, I actually do have an answer! favouritism ˈfeɪv(ə)rɪtɪz(ə)m/ noun 1. the practice of giving unfair preferential treatment to one person or group at the expense of another. Ah, such a wonderful thing... we humans are great. Yes, favouritism leading you to pick so many slow units over enough mages to survive. Least you were honest. 29 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: You know what really pisses me off about desert tiles? While I can wrap my head around Knights and Horseriders being severely impaired by the desert... why Warriors? Seriously! All other infantry units get 3 move, half of their total, when promoted, but Warriors only get two, and Fighters, a whopping one. That's Knight-tier mobility. Why? Is this IntSys' way of punishing people for using Lot and Wade instead of... Minerva?! Because fuck using these guys, they're a pitfall. 31 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Astolfo finds a pair of boots that lack proper grammar buried in the sand. The period is after the boots themselves. They want you to not ignore the boots by stopping at the period before them. 32 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: --OOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow... ...fuck... my heart... my heart... backup, backup! Astore needs to find Igrene so that we can all cry later on. Don't die man! 33 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Uh... he wants to silence our mages? No, that doesn't make sense, if that's what he wanted to do, he would've done it a long time ago. He has enough range for it. ...any ideas as to why a Priest is running after us, people? Because he silences people be whacking them over the head? 34 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: We're in turn 6, and Roy's half way to the village. Not bad, but we've just gotten started. Also, who was it that bet Sophia would last only 3 turns? Dayni? Hah! You've been foiled! How's that feel, huh?! I'll stick to that bet, even if it doesn't happen this time. Also, dammnable priest, why did I hire him for it? 35 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Aaargh! ...aaaaaaaaaaah! I underestimated him! Tate died. 36 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Yes! A marvelously wonderful idea! Genius! Except for the part where you still cannot return home because we won't be there to lead you back out of the desert. Clearly they expect to take over and just live here. 36 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Like so. His stats are better than roses in the areas that count (skill), and he has a weapon that doesn't kill him, which makes things worse for me. Way to be a dick, though. Halberd, really? As if we didn't have enough reasons not to bring a Paladin to this chapter... The one time they went "Seriously, don't use horses" 38 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: YOU SON OF A BITCH! GARGANTUAN CESSPOOL! ASS OF AN ASS! CHERNOBYLIAN HELLSPAWN! TREACHEROUS SWINE! ROTTING BRAINS! FLAMIN' BAG OF SHIT! POOPYHEAD! WHAT WERE THE CHANCEEEEEEEES?! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 38 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Of COURSE we wouldn't be able to get out of Arcadia without any casualties! Of course something would go wrong! It's fucking Arcadia! If it doesn't ruin someone's day, it's not happy! Well, you know what, Arcadia? I'm not fucking happy either! I'm going to beat you, and I'm not going to reset! You won't defeat me, accursed chapter! You hear me?! YOU HEAR ME?!?! I laughed to keep from crying when this happened, but I'm not fuckin' laughing right now, as I rewatch these events and try to write a comedic rant to make people happy! TIME TO GET SERIOUS! We don't like sand. It's rough, coarse, irritating and it gets all over our favourites so we can't use them. 39 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Hm. Not bad, not bad at all. I appreciate the skill. Good jobe Wade, keep the gymnastics alive. 39 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Holy shit. The Armads ruined that dude's face... That's one way to get ahead. Also ruined might be a understatement. 39 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: In flying colours! Hahahahahahah! Yes! I think this is a good enough place to end the update. Next time, we'll hopefully leave the desert without any further casualties. Until then... ...feel free to suggest a sword user. Seriously. We've lost literally all the dedicated sword users in the game. Even the most bizarre one, Noah, has bitten the dust. I'm at a loss as to what to do with the durandal now... help me out! Where was I? Ah, yes. Until then, don't you dare fare bad! Good on Lot. As for swords, you're left with Allan or Percival sadly. I know, you'd rather not want either of them. 40 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: I'll do that. I know how to move around a battlefield without being noticed. And because of my wounds, I've nothing else to do. He shouldn't be suspicious of a bored, washed up knight. After all, he didn't even bother asking me about Ruben. Why didn't Raigh bother asking him? Also, OH BOY I CAN SEE THE REUNION ENDING WELL. Next time, Arcadia is saved? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranger016 Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 So, you lost Echidna too... that reminds me, most of the sword users died in the previous LP too... looks like swords are cursed, don't use them. For sword users you still have Percival... or Astore maybe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punished Dayni Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 6 hours ago, Dayni said: 7 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Aaargh! ...aaaaaaaaaaah! I underestimated him! Tate died. Fucking christ, when what you wanted to link gets mislinked: Again, Tate Died. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Franp3 Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 13 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Please give Sid a break. God knows he deserves it. 13 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Let me guess, Lot and Echidna? You had the chance to say "Lot me guess". Just saying. And I had the chance to say Ein got Ein-nihilated, which is why i'm saying it now. 14 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: 3, if I remember correctly. But make sure before you do something you'll regret. Noted as 4, just in case. 14 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I can't even remember what the ATAOD counter is! Armads, Thunder Axe Of Durban counter. 14 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: The desert took the lives of the others. That makes no sense. She's a Valkyrie, she would have been the first to die. 14 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Fae also exists. Fae is the cutest manakete to ever grace this series. That is a fact. 14 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: If you got killed, I'd get another deployment slot for a real unit in the finale, This, sadly, is also a fact. 14 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Use your imagination, everyone! I don't need to. This chapter has been drilled into my brain by sheer terribleness. 14 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: we humans are great. :Zephieling intensifies: 14 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: RIP Echidna. It's a female name btw. 14 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I'm at a loss as to what to do with the durandal now... help me out! uuuuhhhh... ...Zeiss? WAScounter: 28 SRFRcounter: 3 Countercounter: 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punished Dayni Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 On 3/14/2018 at 11:37 AM, Saint Rubenio said: In her defense (God forbid!), though, I'll say that this isn't true for them as characters, as while Wendy's personality is also hilariously bad, Sophia's actually a pretty interesting character. Her support with Raigh is good. Too bad it's already extremely painful to get her to the guiding ring, let alone stick her to the side of the one who completely outclasses her in every single way for three hundred turns. I missed this one too, couldn't edit the post I was intending to use as my corrections so: I'm now curious. Still expect Sophia to die, but still. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Rubenio Posted March 15, 2018 Author Share Posted March 15, 2018 Part 25 - We can't get a little knife-happy with Randy. 'Cause everyone who used knives in this army is dead. Reference! 22 hours ago, Dayni said: Yes, yes it did. I'm still trying to understand what happened. C'mon, it's not that hard. So they're now Shove BFFs? Is that a reference I'm not getting because Path of Radiance was too slow for my liking? Frost, who was it that trusted Humphrey? He looks like he's the leader of the John Wayne Gacy fan club. Holy crap, that definitely wasn't intentional, but now that you mention it, the resemblance is uncanny. Yeah, this scene is good. So of course Louise would kill someone like that. Imagine if they acted like that in BS..... Hey, they just lost their daughter, and have grown old. Cut 'em some slack. That's going to be a shit family reunion. Yeah... keep in mind, Klein still has no idea Clarine is dead. Well, like I said I wasn't able to get what was going on much at all from that point. Pointing to a specific point wouldn't work here. I get it, don't worry. Outside? Definitely today. I doubt that. Or you're FTP like me and can still get most of what you're looking for. Except Celica. Or seasonal tome users. Or Legendary Heroes. Forget what I was saying. Honestly, I'd just be happy with a Raigh - Cecilia - Wrys - Sheema - Lyon team, but considering I haven't heard much good talk about Raigh... seriously, they add my favourite dark mage in the series, and they make him crap. Although, if my understanding is correct, that's mostly because of the powercreep. You're right? Is Hartmut in the-no wait, he's in the BB I think. That's right. The BB is still a 20-user, so... your point doesn't hold, sorry. And you had to bring him up. Fine, I missed an opportunity there. Heheheh... True. You'll see more regular updates soon, Bah, don't worry too much. I was just joking. Do it when you can. I had an interview recently (As in, the day of this update). Ah, as in, job interview? If so, I pray for the best! I've been praying for the best since I first read these lines, the day you posted your reply. Hideen Weapons are something that came out of Fates. They annoy me in Fates. Ah, Fates! Why would I want to do that and hurt myself as well? Exactly. Link here for the video. Keep in mind it's a point in the video, not all that it's about. I see. Thanks for the video. Then Sacae are the gypsies in this version? Yeah... which means, Sue... oh, no. Right you are. Wade was just too slow for me. Well, he is slow, that much is true. Well, I guess we'll see the supports. If Sophia can live that long. Maybe she will. No, it's part of the tragedy of the old generation dying off. Marcus will end up more like Allen by the end, I know it. Oh, no. Not... no! I refuse to believe it! Noooooooo! I recall him being a religious zealot before. The only thing he believes in is annoying Roy. Giving Miredy only restore? Ding ding ding, we got a winner. Although, Saul did have another one. Igrene is a sad person. Makes sense when she never really knew her parents all that well and has to defend a village on her own. Although, for whatever reason, she still takes the time to put on lipstick every day. Seriously! Don't even try to tell me that's her normal lip colour! It's not natural! I can't really say here. Maybe they noticed some unobserved spot in the desert and Zephiel said "Kill them all, let Elimine Idoun decide." Hey, he's Zephiel. Maybe he was worried that there might be a human or two lost somewhere in the desert. What if that man/woman was to escape the desert? Then his plan for total annihilation of the human race would've been foiled! He can't allow that to happen! She's also needed for the best ending. Fae can be a problem unit. She's got multiple problems. That's what Zeiss is reacting to. He's there asking himself "Why is Randy going on like this, we have Arcadia?" Maybe he was just having Vietnam flashbacks to ten minutes earlier, when they were still trying to secure the village in the middle of a sandstorm with dragons and humans alike pushing them back. Given the nature of this chapter, I can relate. Considering who recruits him, not too much. If you brought her. Stupid game, forcing me to use Minerva. Although, quite honestly, the fact that she's randomly required for 21x does balance things out slightly. She's great, for sure, but if you use her regularly, you risk losing the game. That's a pretty damn great risk to take. That's the case in Ironman runs. In a regular run, she's still an insult to the very idea of "balance". I can barely see what you're saying Roy! Like I said, it REAAAALLY does get everywhere. Huh, neat. Well, with a glitch you can guarantee it every time. Yes, but this is an honest playthrough. As in, I'm not going to cheat unless I'm particularly mad about it. Then it's fine, so long as I go to great lengths to ridicule myself for it. Besides which, it's time for this lovely chapter and the lovely limits. YAY. Whoo... Because at last one level designer had their principle as "HAHA Fuck you." At least one?! I think it's more like shooting yourself in the foot: Pointless and only hurts your cause. Yeah, that's part of it. Only, you forgot to mention that bullet contains acid and salt, thus leading to the epic scream from the video. It hurts so much, it transcends the game and makes you scream through your daily chores! THIS IS WHY YOU BRING MIREDY, SHE HAD IT. I won't bring Minerva, damnit! Raigh's more important! Yes, favouritism leading you to pick so many slow units over enough mages to survive. Least you were honest. Yeah, except for the part where, if I brought Lilina instead of the Western Reapers and Dorothy, we would've lost, because nobody could take a hit. I agree, however, that Gonzo had nothing to do there. I should've swapped him out for Lilina. Because fuck using these guys, they're a pitfall. If using these guys is a pitfall, then I'll gladly walk into it! The period is after the boots themselves. They want you to not ignore the boots by stopping at the period before them. I actually hadn't noticed the period, but that's not what I was refering to. Think about it for a second. "Got a boots". As opposed to "got the boots" or "got some boots". "Got a boots". Astore needs to find Igrene so that we can all cry later on. Don't die man! And considering he's pretty much my last bet for a swordsman... jeez, that's sad. Because he silences people be whacking them over the head? Who knows. I'll stick to that bet, even if it doesn't happen this time. I'll be sure to disappoint. Also, dammnable priest, why did I hire him for it? Ah, so it was you! I can blame you for Tate's death! Foul Dayni! This dishonorable reset is on you! Tate died. I... I don't get it. I did get it when you actually explained that you fucked this one up. Thanks for that. Now I do get it. Clearly they expect to take over and just live here. Eh, I suppose they could. Arcadia's not a bad looking village. They got a rad pyramid. The one time they went "Seriously, don't use horses" There's also that time Seth gives you a tutorial on not using horses in desert chapters in FE8. Personally, I prefer this version of the tutorial. It's far more direct. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We barely knew you, Echidna. You will be remembered as my last attempt at having a swordswoman. Alas, 'twas not to be. We don't like sand. It's rough, coarse, irritating and it gets all over our favourites so we can't use them. Shit, she was one of your favourites? Of course she was, she's everyone's favourite! I'm so sorry... but again, what were the fuckin' chances?! Let's do a little half-assed math: So she had a 30% chance to get hit and a 26% chance for that hit to be critical. That means, even if we don't account for true hit, which would lower the odds even further... this had a 0.078% chance of happening. Aren't I just the luckiest FE player in town. Assuming there isn't some overly complicated way to calculate this that I don't know of and I'm just embarrassing myself once again. Good jobe Wade, keep the gymnastics alive. This team's hit, but not down yet! That's one way to get ahead. Also ruined might be a understatement. I was referencing something, but you're right, it's still an understatement. Good on Lot. Yeah, good on him. As for swords, you're left with Allan or Percival sadly. I know, you'd rather not want either of them. Or Astolfo, but uh... Why didn't Raigh bother asking him? Because he's forgettable. You said it yourself. Also, OH BOY I CAN SEE THE REUNION ENDING WELL. You can see everything ending well. Only time shall tell if you're right, however. Next time, Arcadia is saved? From my ire? Doubtful. 20 hours ago, ranger016 said: Ah, so you've finally decided to make yourself known, after being a pretty early follower for both LPs! Yes, I did notice you there, silently following the threads. Took you long enough. Welcome abroad! So, you lost Echidna too... that reminds me, most of the sword users died in the previous LP too... Hmmm... well, I did lose everyone I tried to reclass into swordmaster, but Athena existed, so it was less ludicrous than this. looks like swords are cursed, don't use them. Yeah... Bern favours lances anyways. It's not such a huge loss. For sword users you still have Percival... or Astore maybe? Hah, Perceval. Nope. Roy might as well send Eliwood the Durandal back. 9 hours ago, Franp3 said: Please give Sid a break. God knows he deserves it. War gives nobody a break. You had the chance to say "Lot me guess". Just saying. Dangit! And I had the chance to say Ein got Ein-nihilated, which is why i'm saying it now. Dangyou! Noted as 4, just in case. Fine. Armads, Thunder Axe Of Durban counter. Right. I'm counting on you to keep count of all our counters. That makes no sense. She's a Valkyrie, she would have been the first to die. She's also Cecilia. Cecilia's great. She wouldn't have let a little desert take her down. Fae is the cutest manakete to ever grace this series. That is a fact. Too bad I don't care much for Manaketes in general. Why did they have to make them such bad units in general, again? This, sadly, is also a fact. Yeah... I don't need to. This chapter has been drilled into my brain by sheer terribleness. Heh... I think everyone who's played it can relate. :Zephieling intensifies: Relevant. RIP Echidna. It's a female name btw. Don't remind me... uuuuhhhh... Whoa, your laptop's low-res. Also, using the wiki in 2018. Bwahah! ...Zeiss? Zeiss? Zeiss?! You're really suggesting that I grab a unit that joins the team in chapter 16, promote him, and then get him from E to S rank in swords?! ...fuck swords, honestly. WAScounter: 28 SRFRcounter: 3 Countercounter: 8 Yeah, good. 1 minute ago, Dayni said: I missed this one too, couldn't edit the post I was intending to use as my corrections so: Triple-posting, eh? Well, it's not as bad as posting an update out of the spoiler box. Twice. I'm now curious. Still expect Sophia to die, but still. Well, if she dies, you can just go to serenes and read the support. I intend to make them support eachother, but if it doesn't come to pass, do that. Spoiler So... here's the deal. When I attacked Maggie with the Armads, it didn't occur to me that now, these idiots will throw themselves at it, wasting even more uses. Bah, it should be fine. We'll get hammerne in two chapters, and most of these buffoons have hand axes anyway. Uh... this one should go for Wade. Wade's hurt and can't retaliate, after all. Whoa! Nice job, Gonzo. That's convenient. Back to the frontlines with you, Astolfo. One of these is not like the others. Hmmm... I wonder... HAH! Yes! Sophia got a kill!! Not quite a level, but that's okay. She'll have time for that. Honestly, Sophia doesn't suffer as much as Cecilia from being recruited in this chapter, but don't think she doesn't get screwed over by it at all, either. She'd have a much easier time to have kills spoon-fed to her if most of Arcadia's enemies weren't Wyverns she can't reach, and Mercenaries she can't hit. Really, everything about this chapter's thought to be the worst. Anyhow, let's hope Lot doesn't break the Armads. 2 uses down. 4 uses down. Goddamnit, Lot, couldn't you have critted sooner? Okay, g-- No! You absolute dumbass! Sigh... 6 uses down... Predictably, the rest either go after Wade or throw a hand axe at Lot from afar. Eh. Not bad, all things considered. Very well, these two should be completely safe now that the bosses are gone. We suffered a loss, but it could've been worss. Let's check the turn count. Turn 12. Not bad, but I fear Randy might take longer than I'd like. Also, 30 enemies. 30. And Randy was worried. To be fair, however, half of those aren't actually Bernians. Remember when I mentioned I should've made Roy hold on to an emergency tome? Yeah... the Arcadian shop sells tomes, but we've still a ways to go before we reach it. Well, then. Make those 8 uses count, Saul. ...or not. Ah, there comes another Hero. Also, notice Cath down there? Before you ask, no, I have no idea what to do with her. You know what? As soon as we've the situation under control, I'm just going to skip all the boring Brigand fighting. I mean, it's not like they have the slightest chance of defeating these two, right? Especially not now that they can't even reach Wade without turning themselves into big shooting targets. While Cath's there, might as well get some enhanced visibility. Hm... Wyverns. That's not very nice. Also, two Dragons, one for each piece of treasure. The silver blade's usually of not much use to anyone, let alone this, the swordless army, so I won't even bother with it, but the warp staff's something I'd really like to get my hands on. Okay... okay... c'mooon another kill for Sophiaaa... Bullshit! Raigh gets the kill, as usual. Hmmm... oh, dear. That's not something I'd really like to risk. We've lost people to lesser odds than that. Okay, the Hero should try to stab Tate. The other two can't reach her. Ack! Good. Ack! Good. Also, are they serious? I could almost understand Rose using a halberd, so as to dissuade people from leaving Cecilia at the starting point, but an armorslayer? Here? What kind of Knight would make it this far? Well, he didn't take the bait, but at least it didn't cost anybody their lives. Also, fuck, but at least he should still get some WEXP out of that. Ah. Shit. They're going after Cath. I mean, ah! Shit! They're going after Cath! These two are still going at it. Thought I'd show this screencap because the pose's funny. What the hell is he doing? Would you look at that. So much free experience waiting to be claimed by the axe siblings. Hmm... would it be too much to ask... Yes, yes it would. Eh, at this point, promoted kills for Sophia would be more wasteful than anything, even if she managed to get any. She can't get more than 100 experience, after all. Raigh will make better use of it. Good! Speed's good. I'd like to get him to level 20, but even if I can't, he's still going to promote today. Now, let's get Sophia outta there. And Cath as well... ...ergh, after she gets the silence staff. You know, if for whatever reason she dies, I'd rather lose the talisman and the silence than the speedwings, so she'll be sending that to Merlinus. Hmmm... this is a bit of an awkward situation, but it shouldn't end with anybody's deaths. Sure, I could've stopped the Mercenaries from attacking Roy and Astolfo by placing Tate in the way, but take a closer look. The Mercenaries can't reach either of our swordies from two sides at once, meaning they'll only be taking one attack each. Don't worry, I made the math: neither can get doubled and killed. Tate getting attacked twice, though... I'd rather not risk that one. This is still happening, too. Ah! Gonzo! I'd completely forgotten about him! Although... that might've been a good thing. Had I remembered to move him forward last turn, these guys would've fallen right on top of him. This goes as planned, except for Roy dodging. That, I hadn't foreseen. Good job, Boi. Looks like the grinding's serving you well. As in, now you don't die to everything. Well, Tate needs to her get out of there ASAP now. No more waiting can be afforded. Hm... okay, as long as I get him running, Gonzales shouldn't be in any real trouble. Like so. Okay, but this does mean we've one less unit to throw at the Mercenaries. Thankfully, I got lucky. Oh, shit. Well, I don't think any of these guys has a javelin, so we should be fine...? Might as well burn the last use of the torch while we're at it. Look, it's Randy! Stats, please. Randy's not bad at all. He can double half our army, and he's got a mighty punch to deliver. However, his weapon can't do more than 10 damage at range because... reasons. That's convenient. He shouldn't be too much trouble, aside from the fact that he'll take turns when we really don't have turns to spare. Please don't die, people. Okay, perfect. Ah! Not so perfect! But at least nobody else can reach him... Jesus Christ, Tate. Can you stop getting killed by everything? This is the second time you've lucked out of a horrible death. I'll end up having to give you the dragonshield. Also, there goes Tate's speed. Joy. Gonzo dodges, again. I might skip this one, too, until he gets hit, at least. Okay, time to rely on low hitrates again. This is honestly really bad. Saul's the best damage dealer of the bunch, along with Dorothy. Wyvern Lord's been taken care of. Nice, nice. Good level up, Dorothy. Aaaaaaaand great. Thank you, Raigh, for not sucking ass like some others. And that's it. Left alone, the Wyvern Rider shouldn't pose too much of a threat. Although, he does impede us from moving forward this turn. Let's see... 9 turns to go. Not bad. The Mage's going after the Western Reapers? Hah! Poor fool! His end is at hand! Yeah, definitely skipping the rest of these. Cecilia combat! For Jeiganing purposes, no less. Oh, fuck you, Sophia. That wasn't such a low chance to hit. As usual, Raigh does what his fellow Shaman couldn't. Hand over the torch, girl. Hmm... good, I can't see anybody. Well, aside from that random Brigand, but Arcadia's too big a village for him to plunder. Maybe it he was a Horseman. Good thing he isn't, eh? Slowly but surely, we approach the end of this fuckfest. Thank goodness... The Mage has his head split in half. Now his robes really are red! Gonzo just keeps on running. The poor guy! But he can't hit to save his live, so there's not much else he can do. Showing this because absolutely nothing else happened in this enemy phase. Hey, let's give Astolfo a kill. He's done well today. Flashbang.png Eh, it's dodge. If it means he'll have an easier time surviving boltings, then I'm happy. This should be as good a time as any. Commence operation RTW! (Retrieve The Warp) But first, give back the torch. You won't need it. And now it's gone! Neat frame. Looks like Cecilia's horse is looking at Roy in disapproval. I wonder why... "Maybe because he wants h--" NOPE! Not acknowledging that again. Shut up, moving on. Run, fair Gonzales! Run for your life from your red twins! ...which are also spawning next to Arcadia, because... that's legit, I guess? Someone made it to Wade! I'm so proud of this random Bandit. You get no guesses as to what his reward will be. But first, level 20, everybody. Hype! Is the RNGoddess trying to mock me, now? Meh. he's slightly speed, skill and def screwed, and would also be HP screwed were it not for the robe, but it's fine. A promotion should fix all his problems for now. Those bastards... I cannot send Sophia in they're there! Cath, distract them! Hm... the warps somewhere around the cursor. But the fog is too thick. I can't see anything! Oh, no, not Wyverns! Okay, Cath's alive. That's... good, I suppose. Guess what, I forgot to move Gonzo again. Well. he's still not in too much trouble. These guys are about as bad at hitting as he is, but with even worse weaponery. This guy was alone, for whatever reason. No longer, though. Now he may join all of his colleagues in death. I'm taking huge risks with Cath here, but the hitrate's so low, can you really blame me for rolling the dice? Yes, you can, given what happened to Echidna, but this is Cath we're talking about here. She dies? Big whoop. Oh please. No harm done, at least. OH PLEASE. NO HARM DONE, AT LEAST. That's five turns to go, and we're very far from having the village under control, and the worst part about it is, it's not because of Bern, it's because of the fuckin' random Bandits. Don't worry, Sophia isn't in danger. Barely. We need to get her somewhere safe yesterday, but there isn't such a place in here... and we need her alive for both Raigh's ring and the gaiden... Oh, gosh darn it... Better. Would be even more better if Saul still had his tome, but alas... Also, before somebody corrects me, yes, that "more better" was intentional. I can see you guys coming from a kilometer away. Now, here's the part where I have to make... ahem, a "difficult" sacrifice. 'Cause you know what, we're already struggling to kill two brigands with one of our two damage-dealers deprived of his weapon, if we let even more swarm the village, we won't stand a chance. Therefore... if anybody is to die, then it might as well be Cath. Now I'm very happy I recruited her, after all. She's proving to be useful, in the end. Saul and Dorothy retreat into the village, taking down one of the Brigands there in the process. Cath'll take care of everyone else. Finally, the damned ring! Sophia gets a tiny bit of unique dialogue with it. Truly beautiful, itsn't it? Well, you can't keep it. I'll buy you one in chapter 16 if you last until then. And now... uhh... Hmm... well, that's not very accurate to reality, since Roy has a forest here, but even without it, he shouldn't be in too high a risk of dying. Certainly not enough that the enemies would pick him over Cath. Okay, let's do it. Cecilia takes her off his hands and runs away as far as she can. Urk... not good enough. Okay, that's much better. Thanks to Cath, we should have one more turn to take Randy out. Two, if we're lucky and she dodges everything. Hmph... not the best odds, but this being Arcadia and all, I'll take it for what it's worth. Astolfo and Tate have made it to the warp staff. They can't really afford to linger down there for too long, though. Not that they need too: just the time for Astolfo to walk into the warp tiles, and Tate'll bail him outta there. Lot got another level up off of the Brigands! Capped HP, 18 defense and 11 resistance, ladies and gentlemen. I daresay this guy is completely invincible now. I'm so glad I decided to use him. He's still behind in strength and skill, but who cares about that when he can simply outlast everyone? Still running here. He's soon going to run out of space to run, though. Yeah... Randy better not take too long to beat, or else everything's going to go to hell in a handbasket. Nice! Nice! She lived! Good. I couldn't have asked for a better enemy phase. Shopping time. A couple aircalibur and nosferatu tomes (not that I can afford more if I want to recruit Hugh) and a new lightning for Saul. The armory only sells steel weapons, so I don't buy anything there. How does that tome feel, Saul? Can you feel the power of the gods? Good, get to work then, we're on a very tight schedule here. Randy's yet another one of those guy's whose weapon represents his whole personality, aside from being a paranoid doofus. Perfect! Excellent work, Saul! Now, if Dorothy could hit both her shots, it'd be swell. ...or not, because she didn't even get to fire a second arrow. Stupendous! No, that's not a flea killing him, it's just the world's weirdest arrow, okay? (Also, if you tried to wipe your screen there, let me tell you, I don't know where that dot over the "h" of "honor" came from either) Excellent. We can now just leave without suffering any more casualties. ...but why do that, when we can take another turn to get some more experience? Okay, no, that's not the actual main reason. The main reason is that I simply cannot leave because Astolfo can't reach the warp staff yet. If Astolfo dies there, I swear to God... Well, at this point, we really can't lose Roy, but we still can lose Astolfo and the warp. I know, I've already said that, but... dang it, I'm worried, okay?! Cath... doesn't do quite as well this turn. Still hanging on, though. You can do it, girl! Buy some more time for your superiors! Nice. That's perfect. It would've been a real bummer if he got hit with such a low chance of such an unfortunate outcome coming to pass. Other than that, Cath levels up! Get speed and skill, girl. It should be easy, given your 85% and 50% growths in speed and skill respectively. Do that, and you might live yet-- ...you will not survive this. Gonzo's hit as well, but he won't die. We'll seize before that can happen. Can it be? Will we survive the chapter without any more casualties? Of course not. But you know what? That could've been Astolfo getting hit by a Mage and an extremely unlikely hand axe. This, I'm fine with. Nah. You didn't "goof", I just didn't care enough for your life. So long, you little shit! Have fun being annoying to recruit into the afterlife! Don't worry, don't worry, we're seizing this turn, no matter what. But first, let's take what we came down here for. The warp's ours! Now, let's leave before the Dragon's gets to roast Astolfo. But before that... some quick level ups! Awesome! Bleh. Sophia! That was perfectly doable! Sigh... fine. WEXP for Saul is good too. Let's also promote Raigh right now so he doesn't have to waste a turn doing so next chapter. Wave that magnificent purple/green palette goodbye, for... ...wait, what? "Shouldn't he be looking more like this?", you're probably thinking. Well, no. You see, I cheated. I tampered with the game and assigned Raigh's unpromoted palette to his promoted self. I was so impressed by the lack of glitches and by how good it looked, that I decided to just leave it like that forever. I've been using this palette for a while, and I intend to use it in this run. Unless, of course, somebody threatens to report me and my thread because MUH PURITY. If so, well, guess I'll just change it back, his normal Druid palette is also good. That issue addressed, let's look at his stats. His durability is comparable to Saul's, but he trades staves and speed for a crapton more magic and a better magic type. A little more speed, and he should surpass Saul's combat prowess. Dorothy, Lot and Tate snatch a few more bits of experience while we're still here. Don't worry, don't worry, I'll seize after this. Wait, what's Tate's pegasus doing? AAAAAAHHH! Tate! Of course, it doesn't even get a good level up out of that! Let's just leave before somebody else gets hurt... Ladies and gentlemen, Roy didn't react so obnoxiously to this chapter as he did to chapter 12. Ah, fine, let's just forget about the villagers and talk about doors. A thing that shouldn't be here, according to some fanfiction. Sad thing is, an actual fanfiction does a better job at explaining this than what I refer to as "some fanfiction". I know, you all read the last update, you also know this, but you know what? If I'm given shiny new ways to shit on FE7, I'll gladly take it. Le shock! Who could have foreseen that?! Yes, let us. "Us" does not include Sophia-- Wait, it does. I almost forgot, I want to use her. I don't know, man, next chapter will be our introduction to siege tomes... Whatever the case, there's not much we can do other than to confront the bolting head-on. Next time, we'll do that. See you then! To be continued. Death count: Bors Wolt Deke Lugh Rutger Noah Clarine Lance Jerrot Fir Wendy Ogier Treck Barth Bartre Elen Echidna Cath *Discharged *Retreated after being wounded *Only dead in route B *Only dead in route A Reset count: 5 Dishonorable reset count: 1 Merlinus death count: 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punished Dayni Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: I like this captain. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: WHAT. PRETZEL? NOT A CORPSE? 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Huh. So Etzel didn't do too badly. Pretzel still lives though, so we're down a bit. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Oh, I might have been okay with hearing more from Frost. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Is that a reference I'm not getting because Path of Radiance was too slow for my liking? Tellius is the one part of the series I haven't touched. More familiar with it because Fates and Heroes. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Holy crap, that definitely wasn't intentional, but now that you mention it, the resemblance is uncanny. He just looks the part. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Honestly, I'd just be happy with a Raigh - Cecilia - Wrys - Sheema - Lyon team, but considering I haven't heard much good talk about Raigh... seriously, they add my favourite dark mage in the series, and they make him crap. Although, if my understanding is correct, that's mostly because of the powercreep. Powercreep's a bitch, but Raigh is pretty mediocre, mostly because his stats are very even, which is not helpful for quite a few units in Heroes. Not Odin bad, but still. He does have is uses as a counter cav, it's just the tome sucks at base level. I've gotten the guy some merges to catch up and he's been more useful than some of the supposedly more optimal units in places. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Ah, as in, job interview? If so, I pray for the best! I've been praying for the best since I first read these lines, the day you posted your reply. It was the day you posted. I can't tell if it'll go anywhere. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Yeah... which means, Sue... oh, no. But that means it'll end well, Saul dies to a dragon in the end and Roy becomes the Phoebus? Nah, I was never a fan of those two together. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Oh, no. Not... no! I refuse to believe it! Noooooooo! Oh great, I left a typo. I meant Allan. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Hey, he's Zephiel. Maybe he was worried that there might be a human or two lost somewhere in the desert. What if that man/woman was to escape the desert? Then his plan for total annihilation of the human race would've been foiled! He can't allow that to happen! Well, that is one reason to go there. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Yes, but this is an honest playthrough. As in, I'm not going to cheat unless I'm particularly mad about it. Then it's fine, so long as I go to great lengths to ridicule myself for it. It's barely a cheating glitch. Though I understand. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Yeah, except for the part where, if I brought Lilina instead of the Western Reapers and Dorothy, we would've lost, because nobody could take a hit. I agree, however, that Gonzo had nothing to do there. I should've swapped him out for Lilina. Yeah, more move is useful here. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: If using these guys is a pitfall, then I'll gladly walk into it! Well, don't say I didn't warn anyone. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: I actually hadn't noticed the period, but that's not what I was refering to. Think about it for a second. "Got a boots". As opposed to "got the boots" or "got some boots". "Got a boots". Eheh..... Course I don't think about that. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: And considering he's pretty much my last bet for a swordsman... jeez, that's sad. I don't think he can use it. Just more shafting of thieves. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Ah, so it was you! I can blame you for Tate's death! Foul Dayni! This dishonorable reset is on you! Sure, the fact that Tate is still flying is my fault. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: There's also that time Seth gives you a tutorial on not using horses in desert chapters in FE8. Personally, I prefer this version of the tutorial. It's far more direct. And in keeping with the "HA, Fuck You" way. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: So she had a 30% chance to get hit and a 26% chance for that hit to be critical. That means, even if we don't account for true hit, which would lower the odds even further... this had a 0.078% chance of happening. Aren't I just the luckiest FE player in town. Assuming there isn't some overly complicated way to calculate this that I don't know of and I'm just embarrassing myself once again. .183*.26 = 0.04758 (Using the true hit table for this) So that's a 4.758% chance. Pretty crap sure, but that high crit prevents it being too absurd. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: I was referencing something, but you're right, it's still an understatement. I thought you'd see the pun, but oh well. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Or Astolfo, but uh... I forgot Miredy also can. As can Tate. Also Roy. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: So... here's the deal. When I attacked Maggie with the Armads, it didn't occur to me that now, these idiots will throw themselves at it, wasting even more uses. Bah, it should be fine. We'll get hammerne in two chapters, and most of these buffoons have hand axes anyway. Does it count as a dishonourable reset if a weapon breaks? 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Not quite a level, but that's okay. She'll have time for that. Honestly, Sophia doesn't suffer as much as Cecilia from being recruited in this chapter, but don't think she doesn't get screwed over by it at all, either. She'd have a much easier time to have kills spoon-fed to her if most of Arcadia's enemies weren't Wyverns she can't reach, and Mercenaries she can't hit. Really, everything about this chapter's thought to be the worst. This chapter: making things harder than it needs to be. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Hm... Wyverns. That's not very nice. Also, two Dragons, one for each piece of treasure. The silver blade's usually of not much use to anyone, let alone this, the swordless army, so I won't even bother with it, but the warp staff's something I'd really like to get my hands on. Oof, that image. I never like this corner of the map. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Ack! Good. Also, are they serious? I could almost understand Rose using a halberd, so as to dissuade people from leaving Cecilia at the starting point, but an armorslayer? Here? What kind of Knight would make it this far? By flyer drop? 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: You know, if for whatever reason she dies, I'd rather lose the talisman and the silence than the speedwings, so she'll be sending that to Merlinus. This is why you leave crap on her. I can't see it ending well. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Randy's not bad at all. He can double half our army, and he's got a mighty punch to deliver. However, his weapon can't do more than 10 damage at range because... reasons. That's convenient. He shouldn't be too much trouble, aside from the fact that he'll take turns when we really don't have turns to spare. Man who can lift better than boi holds the gate. So it's a matter of how it ends. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Run, fair Gonzales! Run for your life from your red twins! ...which are also spawning next to Arcadia, because... that's legit, I guess? Brigands: they come back quickly and in greater numbers. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: I'm taking huge risks with Cath here, but the hitrate's so low, can you really blame me for rolling the dice? Yes, you can, given what happened to Echidna, but this is Cath we're talking about here. She dies? Big whoop. She still is a thief. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: OH PLEASE. NO HARM DONE, AT LEAST. Worth a shot +2? The video will come when I can record some footage for it. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: That's five turns to go, and we're very far from having the village under control, and the worst part about it is, it's not because of Bern, it's because of the fuckin' random Bandits. Brigands are like so many ants. At some point it's too much. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Still running here. He's soon going to run out of space to run, though. Gonzy's got trouble! 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: No, that's not a flea killing him, it's just the world's weirdest arrow, okay? The actual words: Gurg Grugl Splik 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: ...you will not survive this. Disappointment, thy name is Cath. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Of course not. But you know what? That could've been Astolfo getting hit by a Mage and an extremely unlikely hand axe. This, I'm fine with. Nah. You didn't "goof", I just didn't care enough for your life. Bye Talisman, you could have been useful. Oh, the Silence staff too I guess. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: "Shouldn't he be looking more like this?", you're probably thinking. Well, no. You see, I cheated. Huh, didn't think too much about it. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: I tampered with the game and assigned Raigh's unpromoted palette to his promoted self. I was so impressed by the lack of glitches and by how good it looked, that I decided to just leave it like that forever. I've been using this palette for a while, and I intend to use it in this run. Unless, of course, somebody threatens to report me and my thread because MUH PURITY. If so, well, guess I'll just change it back, his normal Druid palette is also good. I'm not. I doubt most will either. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: That issue addressed, let's look at his stats. His durability is comparable to Saul's, but he trades staves and speed for a crapton more magic and a better magic type. A little more speed, and he should surpass Saul's combat prowess. Well look at him, Raigh's got some power now. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: AAAAAAHHH! Tate! Tate the Lady Lance? 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Of course, it doesn't even get a good level up out of that! Well that was underwhelming. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Yes, let us. "Us" does not include Sophia-- Wait, it does. I almost forgot, I want to use her. How can she sense it? Does her part-dragon heritage means she can feel a weapon that was made to murder her? 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Wait, is Raigh thinking for a second? 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: You've come to the wrong series Raigh. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Oh look, Wrys might help- 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: *Sigh. Dangit Humphrey. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Because he's not the Hulk? aka Super Sain? 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Of course he just nopes out of there. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Yeah Raigh, I can see it. But his head should not be there. It's not a good sign for anything coming back if it looks like that. So, we're down too many units and the next Gaiden chapter is full of annoying tricks. We'll see how bad it really is next time on The Bolting Blade! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Rubenio Posted March 16, 2018 Author Share Posted March 16, 2018 (edited) Sneak peek to the next update, everyone. H It might take slightly longer than usual. Make of this what you will. Edited March 16, 2018 by Saint Rubenio Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asmont Osborne Posted March 17, 2018 Share Posted March 17, 2018 On 15/03/2018 at 5:03 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Nah. You didn't "goof", I just didn't care enough for your life. Honestly, I take pride in the fact that I love Cath. At any rate, I didn't expect her to last much longer anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Rubenio Posted March 17, 2018 Author Share Posted March 17, 2018 ...is that all, son? Yes. I've told you everything I know. Hm... 'tis a disturbing tale, indeed. To take the appearance of a child and deceive his brother... despicable. I still don't know what to think about it. Sir Lance... why didn't you strike him down? What do you mean? Unbeknownst to him, you were hidden there, witnessing everything unfold. You knew that he was not my brother. I knew that he was not my brother. So why didn't you rid this world of him? I... Don't be foolish, child. He may not look so menacing, but the one who lurks within your brother's body is a very powerful sorcerer. If Lance had risked taking him down... who knows if he and you would be here right now. But if he's so powerful, why hasn't he attacked yet? If he can take down an army, why doesn't he just come and take us down? He has a weakness. There is one man he fears, for he is powerless against him. Who is that?! Bring him here! ... ... ... ...what? ...this man we speak of... uh... He's the one. He caused your brother's death, Raigh. ...! Ru-- Hush! ...what? He deserves to know, people! Besides, it's up to me whether to tell him or not! No, it's not! I'm here as well! Oh, shut up and man up-- uh, lady up! ...what's going on here? Listen, I'll tell you. But you need to understand one thing before I do. The man who caused your brother's death... he meant no harm. Perhaps he was... an incompetent fool, a stupid braggart who was way in over his head, but... he didn't... he didn't want that to happen. And to this day... he still regrets it. He still regrets all the pain he's caused. That's why... he will do anything to earn everybody's forgiveness! He'll do his best to ensure the war comes to as happy a conclusion as possible! ...Ruben... ... ...I believe you. ...! Really, you do?! Even if I didn't, there are bigger things than you and I happening here. Tell me everything. We'll find a way to stop him. We must find a way to stop him. Thank you, Raigh. Truly. ... ...such bravery... this bastard's full of surprises. Indeed... Part 26 - It was all going so well... perhaps too well. Beware the loud noises, don't suffer a heart attack or anything. If I kill anybody else with this, I'm... I don't know what I'll do. On 15/3/2018 at 6:35 PM, Dayni said: I like this captain. That's good to know. WHAT. PRETZEL? NOT A CORPSE? Nope, doesn't seem like it. Unless Frost is lying, but why would he do that? Huh. So Etzel didn't do too badly. Pretzel still lives though, so we're down a bit. Indeed. Oh, I might have been okay with hearing more from Frost. I too, but alas, he's the least likely character to join Heroes right now. Even Glade has more of a chance, thanks to the memes. Tellius is the one part of the series I haven't touched. More familiar with it because Fates and Heroes. Ah, I see. He just looks the part. Jeez... Powercreep's a bitch, but Raigh is pretty mediocre, mostly because his stats are very even, which is not helpful for quite a few units in Heroes. Not Odin bad, but still. Stupid IntSys. Now you'll tell me Sophia's better than him. He does have is uses as a counter cav, it's just the tome sucks at base level. You mean that unpronounceable piece of crap they gave him instead of Apocalypse, for whatever reason? I've gotten the guy some merges to catch up and he's been more useful than some of the supposedly more optimal units in places. Eh, small victories, I guess. It was the day you posted. I can't tell if it'll go anywhere. Good luck. But that means it'll end well, Saul dies to a dragon in the end and Roy becomes the Phoebus? Nah, I was never a fan of those two together. Obviously Dorothy'd be Phoebus. She fits perfectly: a good person who has to take orders from a perverted piece of crap, betrays him eventually, and gets the girl. Oh great, I left a typo. I meant Allan. Jeez! You're not making things better! I was almost thinking you meant Arran, which is good, even if he ended up dying. I'd take a dead good character over a living bad character any day. Well, that is one reason to go there. Not a very good one, but... It's barely a cheating glitch. Though I understand. Good, good. Yeah, more move is useful here. Sure, but we need power too. Well, don't say I didn't warn anyone. Warn me about what? Replacing my best unit with Minerva? Eheh..... Course I don't think about that. You're forgiven, dude. I don't think he can use it. Just more shafting of thieves. Right, S rank can only be reached by promoted units. Dang... Sure, the fact that Tate is still flying is my fault. It is indeed! And in keeping with the "HA, Fuck You" way. That's always very important. .183*.26 = 0.04758 (Using the true hit table for this) So that's a 4.758% chance. Oh, fuck my life, I forgot to multiply by a hundred when I made my maths. Shit! I'm the absolute worst! Pretty crap sure, but that high crit prevents it being too absurd. You don't know how mad this makes me. I thought you'd see the pun, but oh well. Don't explain it. It'd lose its charm if you did. I forgot Miredy also can. As can Tate. Also Roy. Roy? Roy!? Pfah! Does it count as a dishonourable reset if a weapon breaks? It probably will. This chapter: making things harder than it needs to be. As usual. Oof, that image. I never like this corner of the map. Why? There's not much going on there. By flyer drop? Why go through so much trouble just to get him slaughtered by an armorslayer? This is why you leave crap on her. I can't see it ending well. It obviously wouldn't have, if I hadn't accounted for it. Man who can lift better than boi holds the gate. So it's a matter of how it ends. Yeah. Brigands: they come back quickly and in greater numbers. They're a plague! Exterminate them! Where are my antibriganotics!? She still is a thief. And will forever be, because FE6. Worth a shot +2? Indeed. Franp, add 'em to the counter. The video will come when I can record some footage for it. Lookin' forward to it. Brigands are like so many ants. At some point it's too much. This "some" point you speak of wouldn't happen to be last update, would it? Gonzy's got trouble! He'll live. I'm fairly certain of it. The actual words: Gurg Grugl Splik Splik? That's weird, Randy. Disappointment, thy name is Cath. More like "fourth worst thing in this game". Bye Talisman, you could have been useful. Oh, the Silence staff too I guess. On 15/3/2018 at 5:03 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Those bastards... I cannot send Sophia in they're there! Cath, distract them! Pay attention! Huh, didn't think too much about it. Excellent. I'm not. I doubt most will either. Good, that saves me some trouble. Well look at him, Raigh's got some power now. If only he also had speed. Tate the Lady Lance? Ba dum, tssss! Well that was underwhelming. Very much so. How can she sense it? Does her part-dragon heritage means she can feel a weapon that was made to murder her? It's because she's oh so mysterious. Wait, is Raigh thinking for a second? Yeah, he is. You've come to the wrong series Raigh. Perhaps. Oh look, Wrys might help- *Sigh. Dangit Humphrey. Such foul timing! Because he's not the Hulk? aka Super Sain? Ergh... Of course he just nopes out of there. I mean, how's he going to explain all the contradictions, exactly? Yeah Raigh, I can see it. But his head should not be there. It's not a good sign for anything coming back if it looks like that. Hey, cut him some slack, he just wants his bro back. So, we're down too many units and the next Gaiden chapter is full of annoying tricks. We'll see how bad it really is next time on The Bolting Blade! If all the hints didn't make it clear, then here it goes. Spoiler alert: really bad. 2 hours ago, Goddess Serra said: Honestly, I take pride in the fact that I love Cath. Live and let live. I shall let you live despite this very despicable fact. At any rate, I didn't expect her to last much longer anyway. Hey, I'm sorry, but even if I did like her character, she's so useless as a unit, there's nobody better suited to be sacrificed for the greater good. Still, if nobody died in that chapter (or in this one, for that matter), I would've been far happier. Spoiler Which is my new most hated place. Seriously, with chapter 7 and 14 I knew what I was getting into, at least. This one caught me off-guard. No, seriously, throughout most of this chapter, I had the most "I'm done with life" face I've had in the entire LP. That's how much I "enjoyed" this thing. Guess now's the time to vent out that frustration... "Roy and company are hot" is a funny line, especially now that Cecilia's joined. Trading. Tate's getting the dragonshield because I'm tired of her dying to everything, like I said last time. God, I can feel my good humour melting away just remembering what I am about to be forced to witness once more. That's the boss, by the way. As if to mock me, they made the boss of this chapter what's possibly the oldest guy alive in all of Elibe. Not even my Wrys looks this pitifully decrepit. Apparently these guys require manpower to break a piece of stone. You wish. It's also a very white place, according to the background. Oh, and it happens to be hell on earth, as well. And the reason Sophia and chapter 14 exist. Everyone, let's join hands and thank the heavens for this plot water. Yeah, I'd like to know too. So I can rip him or her apart for putting me through the torment that have been both of these chapters! Son of a-- What other Athos is there? In the Middle Ages of Anime, surnames don't exist, so there can only be one person for each name. Except Ruben. Ruben's an awfully common name, I hear. Nice. Another fuckin' inconsistency with FE7. Blistering barnacles, let's do this. Quoting the FE7 script here. Athos: “A moment, lad… Yes, I suppose you’ve a right to know…… I first met Nergal some 500 years ago, wandering the Nabata wasteland. Like me, his only drive was the search for truth in this world. We were equals in power and knowledge, and we became fast friends. We believed we could solve the mysteries of the world. We truly believed…” Lyn: “So what happened?” Athos: “A…disagreement, made at the height of our quest. One day, as I charted the mysteries of Nabata, I came across the most amazing village… It was unbelievable, but in that place, humans and dragons lived together in cooperation.” -- Athos: “…As you wish. They had refused to fight humans in the war, and instead, they retreated to this wasteland. They desired nothing but to remain hidden from the outside. Nergal and I crafted a barrier and created an oasis for them. Upon their invitation, we lived there with them. Our life there… It was calm and satisfying. At some point, the village became known as Arcadia, a place of perfect peace for travelers gone astray.” So... Athos brought everyone to the desert, then forgot he brought everyone to the desert and found them again later? And the oasis didn't come from the plot, ahem, sorry, a nearby source of groundwater, but was conjured by Athos? And the sandstorms that made my life miserable in the last update were supposed to be this so-called barrier? I admit there's a chance this shit might just be due to the translation, and that in the original japanese it makes perfect sense. But you know what? I need excuses to delay what's to come, and what better excuse than these perfectly reasonable questions I pose to everyone interested in defending some fanfiction? Also, if there was ever any doubt that it might've been Pent or whatever that put the Forblaze back in here... yeah. There you go. Care to explain that, somebody? Seriously! Someone explain this to me! I'd like to believe IntSys actually did re-read their notes when making FE7, but I just have many more reasons to believe the opposite! No, he didn't say that! He said "Spoilers about FE6, Bern will be the bad guys, your son will save the world, Eliwood"! Okay, that was just nitpicking. He probably just said that before leaving Arcadia the last time. With the tome in his posession. Amazing. That's the most explanatory explanation to have ever been explained. Thank you, Sophia, for unveiling the secrets behind this mystical place. The floor sinks, BECAUSE IT WANTS TO, OF COURSE. MAKES PERFECT SENSE. IT'S A MAGICAL SENTIENT FLOOR. If I sound angry, that's because I am, and you're going to find out why and get mad as well. Don't you dare cease your reading! You will suffer, just as I did! Except less, because with all this build-up you can probably more or less guess what's coming! So, the chapter. If you don't make it to Oates in 10 turns or so, perhaps a little more, the floor sinks and you have to wait, I'm not even joking although I wish I was, 15-20 turns for it to come back. Also, there almost are no enemies. This chapter is honestly no more than a sneaky bastard that prays on your boredom and winded down attention after the shitfest that was the last chapter, and the very easy past gaiden chapters. And I walked straight into the trap! Another nasty trick is that this guy and the boss have boltings. Sure, that looks scary, and the meager 10 weight is just unreasonable, but how powerful can this decomposing mummy possibly be? The answer is, obviously, a fucking lot, almost as much as Lot. What a joke. Heh. Okay, that was a neat sentence to write. I feel slightly better now. Other than that, here are the main nasty/annoying factors to come into play. We move forward, they move forward, we move forward but not as forward as the last time. Okay, good... Relevant... I know, this won't make sense for anybody who doesn't know the meme, but I don't care. This is the best thing I could think of to express my feelings on this matter. Buckle up, everyone: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Well, that's been the LP, folks. See you in hell. Death count: Bors Wolt Deke Lugh Rutger Noah Clarine Lance Jerrot Fir Wendy Ogier Treck Barth Bartre Elen Echidna Cath *Discharged *Retreated after being wounded *Only dead in route B *Only dead in route A Reset count: 5 Dishonorable reset count: 1 Merlinus death count: 8 So yeah! That's what happened! I lost Treck to the same exact thing that killed Echidna! Why?! Why, because I can't have nice things! Is this divine punishment for not using Minerva?! Well, is it!? Answer to me, someone! I need answers! Well, I shall not be defeated! I'll press on, no matter the cost! I'll kill Zephiel, then Idoun, and then I'll hit walls with a devil axe until either no more walls are left in the world, or I die! In that order! Oh, look! Sophia got a kill! What a great consolation prize for losing Treck! Yeah! Speed you can't use because your lightest means of attack weigh you down by 2 points! Treckdiedforthis out of Treck-fucking-diedforthis! Get the hell out. Marcus will use his axe to take on the Wyvern, but something will go wrong because of course it will. I can see it coming so bad. Will Raigh die too? Maybe suddenly I'll trigger, I don't know, a 0.000000000000000000000000000001% chance of steel axes turning into ranged... Armads! And he'll die, and then my computer will explode, but not kill me in the blast, because that would be, Satan forbid, merciful! ...Satan forbid. ...bwahahahah, okay, that was so edgy, it made me smirk. Nice! Good, too! Well, I'm feeling very slightly better. If we can go for one turn without everything going down the crapper, then I might just be able to pull the knife away from my throat. I can't see any reason why anything shouldn't go as planned. Don't worry, that was planned. I perhaps tempted fate too much by risking a 3% crit, I mean, it's not 0%, that means it's, what, 88%, given my luck?! This is the best shot of Saul's crit I could take. Bishop crits are horribly hard to screenshot. Wait, what's all this rubbish doing here? Oh, it's another little thing I wanted to comment. Nothing too important, y'see. It's just that, in my rage, I quit the game. This is a little hard to explain, so let me give you an example: Let's say I take 4 screenshots in one session of playing without closing VBA, named 1, 2, 3, and 4. I don't like 3, so I delete it. Now, I quit the game, and come back later without moving 1, 2 and 4 from the folder where the emulator places all the screenshots I take. So, what does VBA do? Pick up from 5 and name each new screenshot continuing from that number on? Well, NO! YOU KNOW WHAT IT DOES?! IT CREATES A NEW 3! WHICH MEANS THIS TIME, I DIDN'T EVEN NEED IMGUR TO SCREW UP THE WHOLE UPDATE! FOR EVERY TIME I DELETED A FAULTY SCREENSHOT, ONE OF THE POST-TEMPORAL RAGEQUIT SCREENSHOTS WAS LOST IN THE SEA OF MISERY THAT IS THE EARLY PART OF THE CHAPTER! And guess what! Something did go wrong this turn! Amazing! Friggin' genial! I didn't even notice this, you know why? Because after I lost Treck to the worst streak of bad luck imaginable, I just put on auto-pilot and played like that for the rest of the chapter, just barely paying any attention to the game at all! But can you blame me?! It took literally all of my willpower not to just hit ctr+R, erase all the screencaps I'd taken up to that point, and pretend it never happened! I even had to do that thing professional players do of keeping a save file of previous chapters, because if I completely, irrevocably overwrote the state of things prior to this catastrophe of a chapter, I wouldn't have had the heart to continue on at all! I needed that lingering hope of being able to go back and fix it, despite the fact that I obviously won't! It's a psychological thing, it makes sense in my head! This is probably the time I got the most upset over a death in both of these LPs. I really am not joking, I sat in front of the screen for like 5 minutes, trying to fight back the urge to reset the game. Nice! Great job, Sophia! I wager if you were told to eat shit and die, you'd miss and eat the damned International Space Station instead, and then you'd fail to stab yourself in the neck and instead hit the one behind you in the eye! Okay, let's calm down. Here's... something, I don't know if to call it a plan. Cecilia picks Marcus up, Raigh gets healed because I don't want to make Saul move north... ...the game mocks me with this... backhanded... Baaaaaarrrgh! Of all times to get magic, you finally get it now!? When I can't even appreciate it?!?! Raigh kills the Wyvern, Tate uses the dragonshield, and that's it. Let's see how many of our units die in this next turn. I'd say about 10. Probably. I'm being optimistic here. Of course. OF COURSE. THAT'S NICE. BILLIONS OF BILLIOUS BLISTERING BARNACLES IN A BLUE BARREL IN BERDO'S BOUTIQUE OF BAD BLEACH, WHAT HAVE I DONE TO DESERVE THIS NONSENSE!? You obviously can't tell, but this is being rather hard. Sometimes it's obvious when a screencap doesn't belong there, but other times... suffice to say, I dread the moment I reach the point in the update where those misplaced screenshots actually took place and I have to figure out what to do. Anyhow, healing. All of our efforts, rendered moot. You can pull a few of your punches, you know, Arcadia's underground? My feelings are already a bloody omelette here. Oh my God. When did anybody think this was a good idea? I love FE6, but this... this just... this! Just this! Just look at this! This sums it all up! Now we have to rely on Jeigan staying blessed until the end of the game. Oh, Jesus Christ... Argh! Stop it! Have fucking mercy, game! Blistering barnacles! Augh... noo... all I wanted was to have fun... I never asked to be tortured! I don't like being tortured! I'm not one of those guys! ...not with a very non-female, inhuman and unintelligent entity known as "videogame", at least... Ahem. Cough. Which of these is the actual thing that happened here?! I'll just post both, and you guys do the thinking. Eh. I suppose it's the poison guy, then. Either way, future or present, they're both dead. Hangin' by a fine thread here, guys, but hanging on nonetheless. We might still be able to press on. Oh, Saul and Roy didn't get hit? I'm so shocked and appalled! Oh, but of course. They won't let Roy die. If they did, I might would succumb to the temptation of letting Treck live. They can't have that, now, can they? Saul gets attacked by an eclipseman. Such a waste of time... Oh, great! Amazing! Genial! Marvelous! Stupendous! Magnanimous! Brilliant! Awesome! Enjoyable! Fuckin' A, I took too long and the floor sank! This might just be the most pathetic, pitiful, sad screenshot of the entire LP. Take a goooood, loooong look at it. Whatever the case, Cecilia levels up. C'mon, babe, don't disappoint me... Fine. She got magic. Good. At least nobody will be left swimming for their lives yet. Tate can save Marcus, and Dorothy can hop back to firm floor. Oh, please. Well, they're not leaving that tiny line of tiles any time soon. Their situation is slightly less dire than the main team's, though. I use that term very loosely, given both Roy and Sophia are there. Okay, we're still alive. Sadly, though, so are they. Oh, I can't believe it... I stand corrected: that wasn't the saddest screenshot of the entire LP. This is. So this is the situation. We have a full team of slow magicians to take down three heavy-hitters, and an equally slow flier (because I lack foresight) to deal with a Pirate next to a Sniper who can't even run away. It's not like she's going to die any time soon. It's just... God, this is so stupid. Are you tired of seeing pros doing everything perfectly? Have you had enough of LPers that make no mistakes? Does resetting for the slightest instance of bad luck seem boring to you? Worry not, then, for here I come to balance things out with what's possibly the worst run of this chapter ever! Greatalicious! I'm so happy for you all, laughing behind your screens! And now you'll tell me you aren't laughing at all! That I have also failed as an entertainer! And then I'll be free to off myself! Whoopity-fucking-doo! Ah, there's the floor again. This might not take so long after all... Sorry, that was a foolish statement. Of course it'll take long. The path to Oates is already disappearing. Maybe Sophia will be able to contribute? ...with nosferatu. Why do I even bother? I'm dumb! Okay, that's it. At least nobody's in any danger of dying now, right? Right...? Let's just farm some more experience for Tate while we're here. Can't do much else, anyway. Good. Not as good! Seriously!? AH! NO! OH, I SHOULD'VE KNOWN! I SHOULD'VE KNOWN A PIRATE WOULD SWIM UP, UP A WATERFALL TO KILL SHITIA! THAT'S A VERY LOGICAL THING, THIS THAT JUST CAME TO PASS! You win, everybody! I lost Sophia! Are you all happy!? Huh!? WELL, ARE YOU?!?! ARE YOU FUCKING HAPPY?!!?!?!?! Argh. And of course, the damage Lilina dealt at the expense of her physical well-being has been undone. It should be easily redone, at least. Her physical well-being, I mean. To redo the damage, we'd need to get lucky with the dice rolls, and what's the chance of that happening? Oh, for fuck's sake... WHAT!? I DON'T HAVE ANY OTHER HEALERS! I'M GOING TO LOSE RAIGH AS WELL! TO THE RNG, AGAIN! I can't make heads or tails of any of this. This is exactly the order in which these are arranged in this chapter's Imgur folder. It's like the update is trying to match my mental state. Okay, we're back to the present, I think. ...wait, what? So, Dorothy killing that Pirate actually happened now? The Pirates vanished...? What? At least this proves Raigh won't die to the Pirate. These events are supposed to take place later on, after all. Oh, not a flashbang! I can't understand what's going on without your help, thank you! And uh... the pirates are still nowhere to be found... Oh, of course, I get it now. This is the point where I have to go back, find all the misplaced screenshots, and put them where they belong. Great. Okay, so Roy gets attacked... yes, I can remember this, it comes right before Raigh's death. Then Raigh miraculously dodges death, and... oh, for crying out loud... The one major good thing that happened in the entire damned chapter, and I can't even build up to it or celebrate it properly because of the chaotic pandemonium that is this update's folder! Blistering fucking barnacles! Hey, Ruben from what, from the point of view of last sentence's Ruben, is the future. I've been searching all over the folder, and I have come to two conclusions: 1. That's the best I can do. The rest of the action is probably too generic and blends in with everything else, and I can't be arsed to re-read everything in detail. 2. Life sucks. Let us move on now. The Druid, tired of drowning, climbs out of the water and... whatever moving there was meant to accomplish? Wave our LTCing potential for this chapter, everyone. It's undoable now. Thanks, 14x. God, this chapter is so horrible. It's not horribly hard like 7, or horribly overwhelming like 14, or horribly Douglas like 16. It's just horrible. Absolutely fucking HORRIBLE!!! Tate dropped Marcus, but it proved to be unnecessary, since she decided this was the perfect time to hit the guy critically. For some reason, I feel like the game's trying to make fun of me here. Well, she got even more defense now! That's... that's great, I want my flier to be good. Cecilia helps Lilina move faster. The whole army moves forwarrd. Not Roy, though. Roy's not coming yet. I don't want to move him. Why does this picture exist? I'm positive things are no longer messed up. This definitely belongs here. What the hell? Raigh heals Saul. Remember? He got hit by, what, a 1% axe thrust, accounting for true hit? Marcus almost gets killed. Dodge? What's that? Is that thing that requires luck in order to occur? Another flashbang. Good. Lilina gets a kill and, subsequently, a level up. C'mon... cheer me up, girl... you can do it! MAKE YOUR FATHER PROUD! MAKE ROY PROUD! MAKE ME PROUD! MAKE THE ENTIRETY OF ELIBE PROUD OF OSTIA'S HEIR! WE'RE ALL COUNTING ON YOU! ...ooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGHHH! To be GODDAMNED continued. Death count: Bors Wolt Deke Lugh Rutger Noah Clarine Lance Jerrot Fir Wendy Ogier Treck Barth Bartre Elen Echidna Cath Sophia My sanity *And my will to live. *Discharged *Retreated after being wounded *Only dead in route B *Only dead in route A Reset count: 5 Dishonorable reset count: 1 Merlinus death count: 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punished Dayni Posted March 17, 2018 Share Posted March 17, 2018 10 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: The man who caused your brother's death... he meant no harm. Perhaps he was... an incompetent fool, a stupid braggart who was way in over his head, but... he didn't... he didn't want that to happen. And to this day... he still regrets it. He still regrets all the pain he's caused. That's why... he will do anything to earn everybody's forgiveness! He'll do his best to ensure the war comes to as happy a conclusion as possible! Bless, he's(you're?) trying. 11 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Even if I didn't, there are bigger things than you and I happening here. Tell me everything. We'll find a way to stop him. We must find a way to stop him. Well this is a surprise. Could have gone a lot worse. 11 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Stupid IntSys. Now you'll tell me Sophia's better than him. Uh, sort of. She's got a higher attack which is better for using the blade tome in one attack, but her speed is so awful and her defence isn't much better so her trying to tank multiple enemies isn't very viable. Raigh can work on either phase, fair is fair. 12 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Obviously Dorothy'd be Phoebus. She fits perfectly: a good person who has to take orders from a perverted piece of crap, betrays him eventually, and gets the girl. But what if she's Quasimodo? 13 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Why? There's not much going on there. Again, the dragons at a time where I can't trust many units to be able to tank them in the face. The desert movement limits being able to get anyone out of there. 17 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Athos: “A moment, lad… Yes, I suppose you’ve a right to know…… I first met Nergal some 500 years ago, wandering the Nabata wasteland. Like me, his only drive was the search for truth in this world. We were equals in power and knowledge, and we became fast friends. We believed we could solve the mysteries of the world. We truly believed…” Lyn: “So what happened?” Athos: “A…disagreement, made at the height of our quest. One day, as I charted the mysteries of Nabata, I came across the most amazing village… It was unbelievable, but in that place, humans and dragons lived together in cooperation.” -- Athos: “…As you wish. They had refused to fight humans in the war, and instead, they retreated to this wasteland. They desired nothing but to remain hidden from the outside. Nergal and I crafted a barrier and created an oasis for them. Upon their invitation, we lived there with them. Our life there… It was calm and satisfying. At some point, the village became known as Arcadia, a place of perfect peace for travelers gone astray.” So... Athos brought everyone to the desert, then forgot he brought everyone to the desert and found them again later? And the oasis didn't come from the plot, ahem, sorry, a nearby source of groundwater, but was conjured by Athos? And the sandstorms that made my life miserable in the last update were supposed to be this so-called barrier? I admit there's a chance this shit might just be due to the translation, and that in the original japanese it makes perfect sense. But you know what? I need excuses to delay what's to come, and what better excuse than these perfectly reasonable questions I pose to everyone interested in defending some fanfiction? Let's see what I can dispute: So the fact he says this wasteland makes the argument more difficult. I will say that as is they've kind of written all over themselves. Saying they met the village here and elsewhere is a contradiction, plain and simple. There's another thing to add however. It's Roy who says they went into the desert from somewhere else, not Sophia. He could be assuming he found them elsewhere when they were here in the first place. Any retcon could argue Sophia might not have the full extent of the history, but still. 17 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Also, if there was ever any doubt that it might've been Pent or whatever that put the Forblaze back in here... yeah. There you go. Care to explain that, somebody? Seriously! Someone explain this to me! I'd like to believe IntSys actually did re-read their notes when making FE7, but I just have many more reasons to believe the opposite! Well, I think I'll make the point this doesn't necessarily contradict anything again. Athos did do so..... Until he pulled it out and died afterwards. It's possible that Sophia doesn't know that it was returned by someone else. Again, out my hole. 18 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Sure, that looks scary, and the meager 10 weight is just unreasonable, but how powerful can this decomposing mummy possibly be? 34 attack with Bolting. HO NO. 19 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.......................... Sorry, I had to get some water there, my throat got hoarse again. Too easy with a cold, but still. 20 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Well, that's been the LP, folks. See you in hell. Can I join you? 21 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Will Raigh die too? Maybe suddenly I'll trigger, I don't know, a 0.000000000000000000000000000001% chance of steel axes turning into ranged... Armads! And he'll die, and then my computer will explode, but not kill me in the blast, because that would be, Satan forbid, merciful! ...Satan forbid. ...bwahahahah, okay, that was so edgy, it made me smirk. Well, the devil and mercy are rarely in common. 22 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Oh, it's another little thing I wanted to comment. Nothing too important, y'see. It's just that, in my rage, I quit the game. This is a little hard to explain, so let me give you an example: Let's say I take 4 screenshots in one session of playing without closing VBA, named 1, 2, 3, and 4. I don't like 3, so I delete it. Now, I quit the game, and come back later without moving 1, 2 and 4 from the folder where the emulator places all the screenshots I take. So, what does VBA do? Pick up from 5 and name each new screenshot continuing from that number on? Well, NO! YOU KNOW WHAT IT DOES?! IT CREATES A NEW 3! WHICH MEANS THIS TIME, I DIDN'T EVEN NEED IMGUR TO SCREW UP THE WHOLE UPDATE! FOR EVERY TIME I DELETED A FAULTY SCREENSHOT, ONE OF THE POST-TEMPORAL RAGEQUIT SCREENSHOTS WAS LOST IN THE SEA OF MISERY THAT IS THE EARLY PART OF THE CHAPTER! I know that feeling. 23 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: And guess what! Something did go wrong this turn! Amazing! Friggin' genial! I didn't even notice this, you know why? Because after I lost Treck to the worst streak of bad luck imaginable, I just put on auto-pilot and played like that for the rest of the chapter, just barely paying any attention to the game at all! But can you blame me?! It took literally all of my willpower not to just hit ctr+R, erase all the screencaps I'd taken up to that point, and pretend it never happened! I even had to do that thing professional players do of keeping a save file of previous chapters, because if I completely, irrevocably overwrote the state of things prior to this catastrophe of a chapter, I wouldn't have had the heart to continue on at all! I needed that lingering hope of being able to go back and fix it, despite the fact that I obviously won't! It's a psychological thing, it makes sense in my head! This too. 24 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Anyhow, healing. All of our efforts, rendered moot. You can pull a few of your punches, you know, Arcadia's underground? My feelings are already a bloody omelette here. I'd think it's more like your feelings got stuck in a blender with a pile of sludge and nuclear rods. 25 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: This might just be the most pathetic, pitiful, sad screenshot of the entire LP. Take a goooood, loooong look at it. 25 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Oh, I can't believe it... I stand corrected: that wasn't the saddest screenshot of the entire LP. This is. That hurts to look at. This map is infuriating and I don't know why I didn't mention that elsewhere. 26 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Are you tired of seeing pros doing everything perfectly? Have you had enough of LPers that make no mistakes? Does resetting for the slightest instance of bad luck seem boring to you? Worry not, then, for here I come to balance things out with what's possibly the worst run of this chapter ever! Greatalicious! I'm so happy for you all, laughing behind your screens! And now you'll tell me you aren't laughing at all! That I have also failed as an entertainer! And then I'll be free to off myself! Whoopity-fucking-doo! No, by the end of it I'm more like this for you: Just, the sheer misery this chapter wrought. 27 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: You win, everybody! I lost Sophia! Are you all happy!? Huh!? WELL, ARE YOU?!?! ARE YOU FUCKING HAPPY?!!?!?!?! I saw it coming. I wasn't baying for her blood so much as predicting it. 28 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Lilina gets a kill and, subsequently, a level up. C'mon... cheer me up, girl... you can do it! MAKE YOUR FATHER PROUD! MAKE ROY PROUD! MAKE ME PROUD! MAKE THE ENTIRETY OF ELIBE PROUD OF OSTIA'S HEIR! WE'RE ALL COUNTING ON YOU! That. That right there is just the right type of fuck you to end this on. I was expecting dead Raigh, but well clearly it's building up to something. 29 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: My sanity *And my will to live. Is this what breaks this playthrough? So I have to guess, tears are what the next update is made of? 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eclipse Posted March 18, 2018 Share Posted March 18, 2018 I'm. . .I'm sorry man. As for a swordie, uhhh. . .dust Alan off? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Franp3 Posted March 18, 2018 Share Posted March 18, 2018 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: You mean that unpronounceable piece of crap they gave him instead of Apocalypse, for whatever reason? Raudrwolf. Don't worry, that's far from the least pronouncible name in Heroes. Valaskjálf is an example. Also, Sophia doesn't have Apocalypse either, which is a relief. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Right, S rank can only be reached by promoted units. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Indeed. Franp, add 'em to the counter. Aaand that is 30 shots that were also worth shotting. Astounding. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Also, if there was ever any doubt that it might've been Pent or whatever that put the Forblaze back in here... yeah. There you go. Care to explain that, somebody? Seriously! Someone explain this to me! I'd like to believe IntSys actually did re-read their notes when making FE7, but I just have many more reasons to believe the opposite! Easy. Sophia is just making shit up. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Off to a great start. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: God, this chapter is so horrible. It's not horribly hard like 7, or horribly overwhelming like 14, or horribly Douglas like 16. Horribly Douglas. Fear not, you haven't falied as an entertainer yet. 5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: My sanity Oooo, colors. That's how you know someone is messed up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deskita Posted March 18, 2018 Share Posted March 18, 2018 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: You win, everybody! I lost Sophia! Are you all happy!? Huh!? WELL, ARE YOU?!?! ARE YOU FUCKING HAPPY?!!?!?!?! Well I guess the effort that would've went into Sophia could now go into training Alan as one of your underlevelled units. After all you need sword units and you need cavaliers and he fits both criteria. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DestructionDragon360 Posted March 18, 2018 Share Posted March 18, 2018 B-best cav... Sophia... good level ups on lilina... why?! Why must the good die young?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asmont Osborne Posted March 18, 2018 Share Posted March 18, 2018 Roy, can you please die? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garlyle Posted March 19, 2018 Share Posted March 19, 2018 Sophia's dead? I saw that coming... Actually I'd be more surprised if she survives this chapter. Don't worry Ruben, it's not that a big loss, just bury her next to Cath. But wows for that Lilina level up. How can you get so unlucky with her when she's the best character in the game? Although her Mag is already capped, so prepare that Guiding Ring you digged up last chapter. It will change your LIFE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Rubenio Posted March 19, 2018 Author Share Posted March 19, 2018 Hmmmm... Hm... no, not telltale, I still want games. ...minesweeper? Perfect! Ah, rats, windows 10 doesn't have that. Curse you! Okay, let's check out my steam library... perhaps there, I shall find the answer I seek. Lego games! Perfect! No way I'm losing in those! Welcome, everyone, to this new Let's Play of Lego Star Wars: the Complete Saga! I have a file at 55% already, let's go with that one so we don't have to sit through the story missions. I always liked Qui-Gon. He's a cool jedi. Die, Anakin! I've stopped the Original Trilogy from happening! Die, volatile materials! Die, bin! Die, random innocent people! Die, alien cosmonaut-- Uh... Let's... just move on. What are you laughing at, Solo?! You-- Crap! I almost dropped a major spoiler-bomb! Good thing I re-read this... nothing that can't be fixed, though! Spoiler died a pathetic death in the new movies! That's far more disgraceful than failing to kill an alien with a collar larger than his head! ...Sabre Knight alien? Wow. Mind-blown. Today, my totally original OC (original original character), the great jedi master of legend Wan-Obi Nobi, stronger than any other, will face off against Count Dooku. Before I forget, let's enable the stud magnet. No time to waste focusing on grabbin' coins! Prepare to face Wan-Obi Nobi's wrath, Count! No! I died? How could I have died!? These games are so easy! Okay, made it. Totally didn't die a bunch of times between these two screenshots. Now, DIE, COUNT DOODOO! I'VE SAVED THE GALAXY!! Oh, that caused the level to reset? I can't kill him right now? How stupid. Okay, fastforwarding a bit... That's got to be how he dies. He'll be left behind to die in the lava while my superior Original Character, Wan-Obi Nobi, stands victorious on this weird tower overhere. Yep, no reason at all to worry. Let us holster the lightsaber now. What?! How did you make it here?! Shit, he threw me off the tower! Oof! R-Regardless! It is irrelevant! Shove me around all you want, for it won't save you! I'll kill you with Wan-Obi Nobi's own two hands! Perish! Hah, he tried to block my strike, but he missed. These games are so easy... and so buggy! I'm clearly stabbing him through the crotch, yet he isn't taking any damage! Oi, get back here! Cowardly old fool! Cease your defiance of the laws of physics! Ow! Y-you're still more wounded than I am! Bullshit! I'm not losing! Not in a lego game! That would be... the ultimate... aaaargh! Stop flipping around, get back in my lightsaber's way, and DIE!! In whatever order you want, so long as the result is your DEATH!! Wait, what?! Where the heck do you think you're going, floor?!!? The floor below me sank into the lava!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! ... You know what? Let's just go back to FE. At least there, it is to be expected that I suffer and fail like an idiot. ... ...auuurgh... Part 27 - I could use some bOates. Heck yeah, at least that pun was a victory. Point for Ruben! On 18/3/2018 at 12:40 AM, Dayni said: Bless, he's(you're?) trying. Good on him. Well this is a surprise. Could have gone a lot worse. It could've indeed. Uh, sort of. What? She's got a higher-- She has a higher SOMETHING than Raigh? Blasphemous piece of software! Underhanded tactics to slander Raigh's good name! But what if she's Quasimodo? She's ugly enough. Hah! Sorry, Dorothy. I really am. Again, the dragons at a time where I can't trust many units to be able to tank them in the face. The desert movement limits being able to get anyone out of there. Eh, fair enough, although there still is no reason to go there at all. As I proved, the warp isn't that hard to get. You don't even have to fight the dragon if you play well. Let's see what I can dispute: So the fact he says this wasteland makes the argument more difficult. I will say that as is they've kind of written all over themselves. Saying they met the village here and elsewhere is a contradiction, plain and simple. There's another thing to add however. It's Roy who says they went into the desert from somewhere else, not Sophia. He could be assuming he found them elsewhere when they were here in the first place. Any retcon could argue Sophia might not have the full extent of the history, but still. So, FE7's plot relies on Shitia being a crap historian. I can live with that. Well, I think I'll make the point this doesn't necessarily contradict anything again. Athos did do so..... Until he pulled it out and died afterwards. It's possible that Sophia doesn't know that it was returned by someone else. Again, out my hole. Eh... 34 attack with Bolting. HO NO. Ho yes! Fire motherfucking emblem SIX, bitches! And it's only going to get better from here! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.......................... Sorry, I had to get some water there, my throat got hoarse again. Too easy with a cold, but still. Your throat died. It's an understandable reaction. I also wanted to die, but here we are. Can I join you? No. Get out of Lyn's mode before wishing death, at least! Well, the devil and mercy are rarely in common. I suppose that's true. I know that feeling. This too. Good to know I'm not alone here. I'd think it's more like your feelings got stuck in a blender with a pile of sludge and nuclear rods. Jeez, that's brutal. About par for the course, I'd say. That hurts to look at. This map is infuriating and I don't know why I didn't mention that elsewhere. Oh, you'll get to feel my pain... I don't know when, but some day, you'll reach the FE7 counterpart of this chapter... and that night, I shall fare you well. No, by the end of it I'm more like this for you: Hahahahah... once again, it's a perfectly reasonable reaction to pretty much everything going awry, from the game itself to the god damned technical side of things. Just, the sheer misery this chapter wrought. And we're only half way through it! I saw it coming. I wasn't baying for her blood so much as predicting it. Grumble grumble... That. That right there is just the right type of fuck you to end this on. I was expecting dead Raigh, but well clearly it's building up to something. Oh, no, they're saving Raigh for a better ocasion, no doubt. They've already broken me, they don't want to finish me just yet. The RNGoddess preys on suffering, not death. Is this what breaks this playthrough? So I have to guess, tears are what the next update is made of? Actually, no. More on that later. On 18/3/2018 at 1:31 AM, eclipse said: I'm. . .I'm sorry man. Thanks, Eclipse. Truly appreciate it in these dark times. As for a swordie, uhhh. . .dust Alan off? I want to cry. Care to lend me a shoulder? On 18/3/2018 at 4:19 AM, Franp3 said: Raudrwolf. Don't worry, that's far from the least pronouncible name in Heroes. Valaskjálf is an example. What the hell was wrong with just giving him Apocalypse!? Also, Sophia doesn't have Apocalypse either, which is a relief. And what did they give her? OAENGUOPAERNBEIRGJLAKERNGIUADNLVALDIBVXZKLCVAIUWERFLWB? Excellent. So... low-quality. Lovable! Aaand that is 30 shots that were also worth shotting. Astounding. Aren't I just the luckiest FE player or what? Easy. Sophia is just making shit up. Refer to my response to Dayni saying the same thing in a more... civil way. Off to a great start. Sniff... Horribly Douglas. Fear not, you haven't falied as an entertainer yet. Heheh. Thanks, man. Oooo, colors. That's how you know someone is messed up. Epilepsy! The horror! The horror!! On 18/3/2018 at 9:35 AM, deskita said: Well I guess the effort that would've went into Sophia could now go into training Alan as one of your underlevelled units. After all you need sword units and you need cavaliers and he fits both criteria. Oh, God, you're right... you're fucking right! No! Not Allen! Anyone but Boringman! May I make up a storyline excuse to send Lance back into the frontlines? At least Lance is green... I like green. 19 hours ago, DestructionDragon360 said: B-best cav... Sophia... good level ups on lilina... why?! Why must the good die young?! Because I can't win, that's why. If I were to win, I don't know, something would happen. I would be happy, AND WE CAN'T HAVE THAT, NOW CAN WE, FE6?! 19 hours ago, Goddess Serra said: Roy, can you please die? What? Do you want to ruin me? I need Roy to seize! Now seriously, why'd you say that? He didn't do much of note in the last update, aside from being part of the conversation that pointed out one of FE7's plot craters. 8 hours ago, Garlyle said: Sophia's dead? I saw that coming... Actually I'd be more surprised if she survives this chapter. Don't worry Ruben, it's not that a big loss, just bury her next to Cath. Right, we still got Raigh. But wows for that Lilina level up. How can you get so unlucky with her when she's the best character in the game? Her Mag's-- Although her Mag is already capped, Yeah, exactly. so prepare that Guiding Ring you digged up last chapter. It will change your LIFE. Hate to rain on your parade, but... Yeah, Lilina'll have to wait until chapter 16. Spoiler So, after the last update, only the worst of tortures can be expected from this one, right? Well, no. You see, I'll let you in on a little secret. Ahem. No more major dickmoves will happen in this chapter. Yes! Indeed, the worst of the tortures mankind can fathom: boredom! Once again, this chapter has found a way to disappoint us, because Lilina getting an empty level is the last of the epic middle fingers of the chapter! From here on out, it's just ordinary stuff, more or less. Still, don't skip the update. Just because it's not as impressive as the last one doesn't mean there isn't interesting stuff waiting ahead. And there's also important plot at the end, wink wink nudge nudge. Oh, right, I forgot. There is one somewhat interesting thing that'll happen. I'll try to train Cecilia. Yeah. After losing so much, I just... did whatever for the rest of the chapter. I wasn't really paying much attention to what I was doing. Naturally, however, the Mercenary survives because I hate this game, but not nearly as much as it hates me. Gotta get Tate outta here... but not yet. First, Saul may take care of the Mercenary. Go ahead, then. Shoot! It won't save you! Poor fool. I was refering to myself, obviously. Well, at least the floor trolled the enemy for once. Small victories... For the love of all that is holy and unholy... At this point, I checked Saul's inventory and noticed his tome was, once again, almost gone. I take it back, Roy, you're coming with us. Now's when the floor sinks again. Wouldn't that be just fun? Finally! Not quite a level yet, sadly. I make everybody move forward. I fear that tiny bridge will disappear. Like the one Roy's still trying to cross! Run, run with haste, Boi! Get out of there before you drown! Fliers! Disgraceful cheaters, they don't have to struggle with this chapter's horrible gimmick! Also, he has an axereaver and capped strength. Why do I like this game, again? Marcus'll face the enemy. Hah! Not fooling me this time, asshat! I... I don't even... urk... Dorothy takes out the axereaver's companion. Thank you, Dorothy, for not letting me down like the rest. The Wyverns have fallen. Now, we just have to figure out... ...what to do about this sad display of utter despair. The answer is, obviously, to wait until the game decides to give me my floor back. Once the time comes, Roy allows Saul to have a new tome, as we aren't out of the woods yet. Nice. Now we just have to wait for the game to allow us to reach the boss. I'm having so much fun with this game! Gah! The Sage can reach Roy! Not Oates, though, so he won't die. Hmm... well, while we're here... We might as well get that guy to waste his tome. Hm. Maybe this isn't as much the game trying to bore me to death as it is the calm after the storm. Maybe I should be positive. Yes... let's... Beautiful level up. Everything he needs and more. Lacks defense, but he's a mage with access to nosferatu. I'll live with that. Okay, that's it. Look, an enemy! Marcus, do your thing. I don't know, after the Pirate that hit Saul in the last update, I don't think there's anything left in this game that can impress me. Also, the floor came back just in time for Roy to almost get nosferatu'd. Do I regret arena-abusing him to level 20? No, I don't. This game won't pull its punches, I won't either. Grrr... The ladies rain down death upon this dumbass. I like Raigh's staff. It's got an emerald on top of it. It's cool. See? Light magic has its uses. Dorothy's weaponery is in a rather dire state. But iron is all her great stats need. Oates! Stop it! Haven't you done enough damage to us already? A magic, and we've 3 full chapters before we even get Aureola! Almost there, everybody! That won't save him. Give up, and perhaps I'll spare your lives. Cecilia levels up again. Remember? She leveled up last update, in between bursts of misery. Eh... I don't really like it. Lead the charge, Marcus. He still hasn't critted once with that lance, but that's the least of our tragedies here. Besides, it allows Cecilia to get some experience. Sure, training a prepromote with subpar growths isn't exactly the brightest idea, but, once again, I wasn't really paying much attention to anything after the emotional pouding I received in the first half of the chapter. For the next few turns, we'll be tricking Oates into running out of thunderbolts, much like his peer. Oh, not another weird Priest. Oh, he whacked her over the head. For one damage. ...moving right on. Might as well get some experience out of that. And the undocumented bolting blast she took after that. Revenge! Sort of, because Lilina can't aim! Okay, next turn, if Lilina decides to hit the guy... Very good. If only your bases weren't so stinky. That's what crossing a desert twice and dying thrice does to you, I guess. No more bolting, people! Rejoice! You can't see him, but there is a Pirate on approach. Another happy kill. Once again, you can't see it, but there's an Archer coming for us. At this point, I wanted nothing but to end the damned chapter, so... Hahah, he got trolled by the ground. It's so much fun when it's not me. Cecilia'd like some dead mini-boss right now. Care to provide her some, Marcus? Cooperate, you doofus! That's not cooperating, you artichoke! Bashi-bazouk! Bougainvillea! Cachinnating cockatoo! Flaming Jack-in-the-Box! Fourlegged Cyrano! Freshwater spaceman! Orangoutang! Well, it works. Another level up for Cecilia. Get speed, perhaps...? Still best girl. Besides, she got defense! Could Clarine have gotten this? Well?! Some healing in preparation for bossman. Ergh... Maybe if we wait long enough, he'll die of old age? Ah, what am I saying, Kaga wasn't involved in the making of this game. That's not happening. Of all this game's bosses, Oates is perhaps the one who suffers the most from FE6's "minor bosses can't have unique palettes" policy. I refuse to believe that guy who's attacking Dorothy at the present time is the same as this: Maybe that's just Oates' bodyguard, and the man himself is sitting behind him on the throne, leading the troops? And this bodyguard is mute, which is why Oates speaks for him? That would also explain why he's standing up instead of sitting on the throne as depicted on the overworld map. And when he dies, Oates... Oates dies because they were knit together by a magical bond, which allowed the bodyguard to use Oates' vast magical power, which he could no longer employ by himself, as his body was too old and frail. Yeah. This is definitely it. Makes perfect sense. It's LP canon now. In other news, this'll take a while, isn't it? Nice! Amazing! Formidable shot, Dorothy, truly remarkable! And now... The blood you have spilled, Oates... Randy was but a warrior, a low-ranking soldier under your command. Echinda... Cath... Treck... Sophia... you are to blame for their deaths! Okay, not Cath's, that's entirely on me, but, uh... shut up and let me continue! You employed such underhanded tactics to defeat them. You sold your soul to the RNGoddess, rigging those highly unlikely crits to bring down Echidna and Treck! You hacked life, allowing your troops to swim up waterfalls and throw axes through walls to behead Sophia! And now... it's time for retribution! 4.758% CHANCE, YOU BASTARD!! HOW DOES IT FEEL, HUH!? HOW DOES IT FUCKIN' FEEL!?!?! HOW DOES POETIC JUSTICE FEEEEEEEEEEEEL!?!?! Hah... huff... puff... Hell... yeah... I can now... die in peace... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HE HAD THE LAST LAUGH! MY BEAUTIFUL OIFEY'S GOTTEN A JEIGAN-ISH LEVEL UP! Augh... As a side note, before somebody comes saying "hurr durr but that wasn't a 4.758% chance, that was actually a 7.626% chance", evidently, I know that. But 4.758%'s the meme. The old-timer's dead, and that's what counts, I suppose. Let's clean up the remnants of his army. Like... ...so. Let's see if I can get Raigh another level up before the end of the episode. But first, flying horses. I skipped a turn there, by the way. Cecilia healed Saul, Tate positioned herself to lure in the Mercenary, said Mercenary took the bait, and then Cecilia healed the wounds Tate sustained in her battle with the sleeveless swordsman. Man, I really had my head in the clouds that day. Crappers. Better. Thank you, Raigh, for not dying to a 1% critical hit. Okay. That should be pretty much it for the chapter. But before that, supports! Why did I do this? I have no idea. I could've done a support triangle with Lilina, Gonzales and Garret, but now I can't because... I don't even know. Eh, it's not a big loss. Garret sucks and Gonzo can't hit anything. Instead, we get to see Cecilia's beautiful face once more. And Lilina. She already is unrivaled. Because her competition died. And is now a villain. Nice, that's sweet. Okay, let's get to the meat of the support now. ...the statboosts! It's +1 attack and defense for the two of them, and a little bit of the rest. Not too bad, although Cecilia still needs speed. But it's fine, I'll give her the speedwings if I must. Everything for my favourite Mage General... ...what? I didn't say my favourite retired Mage General, did I? Anyhow, are you ready for the last fuck you of Arcadia? Yeah. Remember the sneak peek, where there was a "desperation counter" with only one point to it, which involved Raigh in some way, and led Dayni to believe he'd get killed? Yep. This is it. Don't you just love it when this shit happens? After suffering so much in this chapter, they leave me with this. Excellent. And after 47 turns, none of which were actually spent building up supports but waiting for the floor to be arsed to serve its primal function... At last, we leave Arcadia behind. Ah... it feels so good to be able to finally say that. We leave so many good men and women behind (and Cath)... but we're finally out, and that's what counts. And next chapter's a laugh, to boot! ...then there's the horribly Douglas chapter. Augh... let's not think about it until we get there. Since Sophia's dead and all, we get to behold a wondrous sight: branching dialogue. In the "Shitia died" ending, we get to see this generic who mistakes Roy for his friend, Lo, Lombriz to the public. Some people? We have... some people available? Why aren't "some people" actually helping in combat and dying instead of Echidna, Treck and Sophia?! But Sophia told you that you could use it so long as it was for the good of mankind... before she died... were you listening to her at all!? And so, Roy walked all the way to the green pastures of the Lycian/Ilian border (notice those snowy mountains in the background? That's Ilia), the generic hot on his tail, to keep talking. I don't think anyone was supposed to ever see this scene. Luna was better. No kidding, these things break far too easily! And it's back to Arcadia for us. Thank God they didn't make me play through chapter 14 to get back to the village again. That would've been so... urrrgh... shudders. Here's this rude old man who's very thankful that we saved his village. Gee, you're welcome, I only lost two of my best troops and one of your own villagers to save your sorry hellhole, there's no need to thank me so profusely. Yes, Roy was the one whose troops drove off Bern's soldiers all that time ago. It's only normal you've forgotten, though. To go to the Lycian/Ilian border and back, it must've taken a few months, at the very least. I forgive you, old guy. Hmmm... this guy is reminding me of someone... The elder of Arcadia is a recolour of a generic old citizen that can be found in random houses and villages. Why am I not surprised. So... are you a dragon? I mean, you can ditch your dragonstone like Xane, Bantu after FE12, and Lord Inconvenience the Pompous, and consider yourself a human if you want, but... then just say "no"! Give me a straight answer, old man! I've no patience for games or tests after the torture I went through to help you! Roy clearly shares my sentiment. Ah, yes, the reason next chapter happens at all. I've got to thank her for that. Otherwise, we would've gone straight to Douglas. She's almost as tall as Roy and you, though. Technical limitations are so much fun sometimes. I'd complain that Elderman here seemingly didn't "sense" these guys like Sophia, but they actually explain that later. Gasp! And yet here's Roy, a quarter of a dragon depending on Eliwood's choices. What a world we live in. Ah, Igrene, there you are! Please, get the stinky recolour out of my face. "By the way, Lord Roy, she headed into Forblaze's shrine with you, did she not? Where is she now? I'd like to speak to her." "..." See, they actually explain it! Le shock! How positively rare! Let's enjoy this display of competence while it lasts. I can't even remember anything in FE7 that contradicts this! It's beautiful! Can, is, gives, says... jeez, Roy, don't you think it's about time you told them? Oh, no, he's a Merlinus... ...not quite. Please say yes, Roy, we need women like that after Echidna's death. What?! What now, Merlinus? It's a trap! Be careful, Lord Roy! I don't trust her! She could be an enemy! Yow, it's an enemy ambush! Merlinus, could you please calm down? I don't believe she's an enemy of ours. It's quiet... too quiet! DO A BARREL ROLL, LORD ROY! USE LEGENDARY WEAPONS WISELY! USE THE VULNERARY! USE THE SPEEDWINGS TO GET THROUGH! YOU'RE BECOMING MORE LIKE YOUR FATHER! TAKE CARE OF THE GUY BEHIND ME, LORD ROY! TRY CRITTING! INCOMIIIIIIIIIING! KNOCK IT OFF, LORD ROY! GOOD, I SEE THE ENEMY BOSS! DESTROY ALL THREE ENEMY HEALERS! DON'T LET 'EM GET TO THE VILLAGE! WHERE IS THE SECRET SHOP!? ... Is he always like this? Well... Yes. ...I see... Usually he calms down after an hour or two, let's just ignore him for now... Great! We got a new Sniper. You should, you're far better than Bartre and Klein. Shame Dorothy is so good. We don't really have much use for you. Uh... thanks, I could use some more storage units. Oh, c'mon, don't be so grumpy... That can only end well. And so, the Forblaze is ours! I hope I remember to show it next chapter. Speaking of next chapter, a little bit of a breather awaits us. I couldn't be any happier about that. Until then, I hope you all fare as well as you possibly can. To be continued. Death count: Bors Wolt Deke Lugh Rutger Noah Clarine Lance Jerrot Fir Wendy Ogier Treck Barth Bartre Elen Echidna Cath Sophia *Discharged *Retreated after being wounded *Only dead in route B *Only dead in route A *??? Reset count: 5 Dishonorable reset count: 1 Merlinus death count: 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punished Dayni Posted March 19, 2018 Share Posted March 19, 2018 3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Welcome, everyone, to this new Let's Play of Lego Star Wars: the Complete Saga! This again. 3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: She has a higher SOMETHING than Raigh? Blasphemous piece of software! Underhanded tactics to slander Raigh's good name! Higher Res too. Her speed is one of the lowest in the game. And in a meta that's only now shifting away from high speed..... 3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: No. Get out of Lyn's mode before wishing death, at least! More in the way of Kent or the jester from King Lear. 3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: And what did they give her? OAENGUOPAERNBEIRGJLAKERNGIUADNLVALDIBVXZKLCVAIUWERFLWB? Fenrir. It's the silver tier weapon for dark magic in the game (It's.... a... whole thing I won't go into). Suffice to say, her weapon's worse, but that's more because it has no effect by default. 3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: No more major dickmoves will happen in this chapter. I don't know if I can believe that. Also bit of a buzzkill. 3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Also, he has an axereaver and capped strength. Why do I like this game, again? Why do you? It's the game of axe's nadir, the worst desert map, 3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Hm. Maybe this isn't as much the game trying to bore me to death as it is the calm after the storm. Maybe I should be positive. Yes... let's... Beautiful level up. Everything he needs and more. Lacks defense, but he's a mage with access to nosferatu. I'll live with that. Well, is this a death sentence? 3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Oh, he whacked her over the head. For one damage. ...moving right on. *Bonk! I guess he just couldn't stay down and wanted to be noticed. 3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Still best girl. Besides, she got defense! Could Clarine have gotten this? Well?! She could dodge! If you hadn't left her to die early on.... No, no, at this point it's bait. 3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: HOW DOES IT FEEL, HUH!? HOW DOES IT FUCKIN' FEEL!?!?! 3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: But first, flying horses. Cecilia: The levitator? 3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Yeah. Remember the sneak peek, where there was a "desperation counter" with only one point to it, which involved Raigh in some way, and led Dayni to believe he'd get killed? Yep. This is it. That's not too much of a dick move though. 3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: And so, Roy walked all the way to the green pastures of the Lycian/Ilian border (notice those snowy mountains in the background? That's Ilia), the generic hot on his tail, to keep talking. I don't think anyone was supposed to ever see this scene. Ilia and Lycia don't even border each other who thought of this as a good choice for background? 3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Ah, yes, the reason next chapter happens at all. I've got to thank her for that. Otherwise, we would've gone straight to Douglas. A surprising comment. It's also the time to get best Percival so I'm thanking her too in advance. 3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: And yet here's Roy, a quarter of a dragon depending on Eliwood's choices. What a world we live in. I actually wish this could be acknowledged in an Elibe remake. Make it so if you have a file with EliwoodxNinian that it would have additional scenes and other benefits. 3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: What?! The music in Merlinus's head. In reality. 3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Well that's a good sign. 3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Get away from him you bitch! 3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: That..... that's no good. 3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO- 3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO- 3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Well that Ruben's dead. I'm not sure if you can come back from whatever that was. 3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: This..... seems to suggest Humphrey's got some help for this monstrosity. Not sure who could be helping. Maybe he stole Niime's research or something? 3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO- Alright, finally got that out of my system. No, you lied about there being no more dick moves. The trouble is that this is on you. I'll leave it there, might as well get used to no more Wrys. So Wrys is gone, a bunch of info from timeline 2 is likely gone and we're not even out of the desert. Good thing there are timeskips. Until next time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DestructionDragon360 Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 Glad to see Humphrey the Humongous Asshole doesn't have total dominion over Lugh! Though, I'm not sure what Ruben and Ellen did to stop their combined dark magic attack. Also: NOOOOOOOO! WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYS! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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