Screencaps of Evermore--The Belly of the Beast
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Guten tag, everyone! Real life has been attempting to eat my face off lately, but I've managed to fend it off long enough to bring you a crisp, fresh batch of Delcaps! Don't you feel lucky?
Well, consider yourself luckier! IoAlbinaNeko has been kind enough to allow me to show her Secret of Evermore goodies to you! Gosh, I love audience participation.
First off, a set of save files from the previous owner of her SoE game. Yes, an actual cartridge. I'm amazed too. Quotage happens now:
First not-mine save. Pretty nifty; I wonder if that was the name of this person's real dog.
Second not-me save, and SOMEONE LIKES CAPS.
Third not-me save, and this is totally the awesomest! Actually, the one I wound up overwriting was pretty awesome too. It looked like someone's screen name, or original character names or something. Dammit, why didn't I overwrite the dumb all-caps one instead? >_>; Oh well...
See, this is what I was talking about! See what I mean about a glimpse into a stranger's mind? See the infinite variety of the human mind evidenced in a series of casual names? See the hidden world behind the hidden world of the average household gaming cartridge? ARE YOU FEELIN' ME, FOLKS
*cough* Sorry.
Anyway, there's also fanart courtesy of Io! Lovely fanart, too.
Io mentions she should ink and color this at some point. I agree, because I like color (color color color wheeeee), but it's quite nice as is, don't you think? Please note that voluntary wtf syndrome is apparently not limited to my version of Dog.
Shades of Dog, and of things to come! Awwwww, I wanna pet 'im, he's so cute and liable to tear my arm off possibly :D
SPREAD THE WORD THAT NOT BEING A SEQUEL TO SECRET OF MANA DOES NOT IN ANY WAY MAKE SoE STUPID >( AND THAT IT IS IN FACT AWESOME. SAUCE. AWESOMESAUCE.
We shall try, Io! Thank you for your sharination! Oh God I'm in Redd White mode now
Last week, our intrepid heroes were deep in a forbidding cloaca cave, facing down spinal dinosaurs, attack maggots, and AT LEAST NINE THOOOOOUSAND collapsing bridges. At long last, they saw a light at the end of the tunnel, only to find it blocked by something terrible. What could be worse than another trip down that danged slide? Time to find out!
Hey, that's not so bad. That's only a thirty-foot bug. It could've been a fifty-foot bug.
...WAIT A SECOND THIRTY-FOOT BUG OH SHI
Man, I love me some bugs, but that's still D:
Okay, let's do this. Battle With Thraxx kinda takes a backseat to the neat noises she makes, but enh. Pretty much the second the cutscene stops, Thraxx roars, which throws both Dog and Boy against the back wall and causes damage, so let's hope your RPG senses acted up at that forbidding door and made you heal up. As you can see, it knocked Andre into submission.
Perfect chance to show off the Dog Biscuit animation. Ooooo, shiny.
Andre: Ready to go, sarge! ...I guess.
Every time you kill the maggots onscreen, another three will drop from the ceiling. At least, I HOPE it's the ceiling they're dropping from, I don't want to think about the alternative. Anyway, since the boss herself is a bit complicated to do damage to, it's best to let the Dog deal with the crawlies while the Boy...
...marches up and plays Thraxx's ribcage like a xylophone. KNOCK KNOCK, ANYONE IN THERE
Of course, if you wanna knock on multiple targets (at least, at first), that's good too.
OW. Ohhh, she didn't like that. Look, though, did you see the ribcage open? Oh yeah, we are so crawling into that seething thorax.
Matt: wait, wut? In WHERE? D:
You heard :D
If we're not DISSOLVED WHERE WE STAND first, that is
Pshhht, the maggots hit harder than that. IN WE GO.
Aside from the Acid Rain spell, you're safe from Thraxx inside her chest cavity. Have the Dog hold off the maggots, and the Boy is free to charge up and...
WHACK! Right inna rocks! ...well, heart. Close enough.
She'll roar your party across the room every time you hit her heart, but with that kind of damage...
...cardiac arrest isn't far off.
And by "cardiac arrest", I mean "gigantic explosion". Insert "heartburn" joke...here.
Matt: HEY LOOK A SHARP THING :D
Matt: YEAH, THAT :D
Andre: get over here you twat
Matt: After some MANLY POSING :D
Andre: good gawd
Matt: WHEEEEEEEEEEEE
Matt: EEEEEoops.
Strong Heart: It's okay, it's not like I needed my liver.
Strong Heart: But your Strong Heart is in another thorax.
Matt: Did that line already, dude.
Strong Heart: That's what Mario said, too.
Plot point? POSSIBLY.
Matt: You WERE eaten alive.
Strong Heart: I was getting better!
Oh, it's...ingredients for the spell I didn't use. Gee. Thanks.
Into the daylight! Funny, looks a lot smaller from out here. You'd think that after crawling through a giant insect carcass, the opposite would seem true.
Ooh, a Mammoth Guard! That'll come in handy if I have to guard against any mammoths!
Hm, respectable. I like that it actually looks like a hollowed-out tusk because I'm a fag for details like that.
The route back to town takes place on a higher plane than 70% of the enemies onscreen, so it's nice and relaxed and you can even observe the wildlife without it breaking your ankles. Always a plus on return trips.
Hey, notice anything funny about this screen? Look close.
Yup, you can duck under here! This place is easy to miss if you're in a hurry...
...but you'll regret it. WHEEEEE LOOT
Oodles of alchemical ingredients, and...
...a dude!
Where were you like five minutes ago >(
Matt: Friendly banter promotes camaraderie :D
Andre: wtfever
Aweso--wait, did you say lava? Where does lava come into this equation? I didn't sign up for lava.
I never, ever use this, but I'll at least show you what it does later. I'm nice like that.
ASDJTL;IHDGJKL WHERE WERE YOU LIKE FIVE MINUTES AGO
BOY HOWDY WOULD I
Multiple saves! MULTIPLE SAVES ARE YOUR FRIEND. ESPECIALLY IN THIS GAME. NEVER FORGET THAT. There are a couple places where you can get stuck for good if you screw up. I'll be flagging these in advance for those playing along, BUT IT'S STILL A REALLY GOOD HABIT TO GET INTO SO DO IT ANYWAY. CAPS.
Whoa, I ranted myself straight into the next screen. Sorry.
R.I.P. Steve "Two Ribcages" Johnson. He died from rockin' too hard. And also being built funny.
Oooooo, kudzu! You can hack and slash as much as you want with the Bone Crusher, but this stuff is impenetrable.
UNTIL NOW, THAT IS >D
Your Skelesnail a'splode :(
But hey, it's full of Petals! Does everything bleed Petals?
I AM THE LAWNMOWER MAN
:O! Another one! I forgot about this little guy. PROBABLY BECAUSE I CAN'T DO ANYTHING WITH HIM EITHER AASDKHHLKT;J I'M RIGHT NEXT TO HIM AND I STILL CAN'T DO ANYTHING WHYYYYYY
*cough* Sorry.
D'hurrrrr, chopping down the only barrier between enemies and my tender young flesh when I'm down to 5 HP is fun :D :) :B
Hahaha, I walked straight into the weakest enemy in the game and died for the first time. I'M BRILLIANT.
So yeah, Game Over. If you get killed in the jungle by something besides raptors before you name the dog, it just shows up as "(boy) and his dog never returned".
But I can cheat, so lol j/k
This area is, ummm...oh yeah, we'll be coming back here later. Like, later later, once you've all forgotten about it.
No sense in not looting it now, though :3
DEATH BY FLOWER REDUX Man, I was really firing on all four cylinders at this point. It was late and I was tired, bite me.
DAAAAH DAH DAH DAH TRIUMPHANT RETURN TO THE VILLAGE AND SUCH
DAH DAH DAH DAAAAAAH DAH RABBID CHORUS DAAAAAAAAAAAH
DAH DAH DAH DAAAAoh hell it's always SOMETHING with you people, isn't it >(
:D
D:
THERE THANK YOU THAT IS WHAT GRATITUDE IS SUPPOSED TO SOUND LIKE
Hmmm, I'll make a note of it. Thanks, kid.
Precocious and mysterious cave-child ho!
ha ha I actually get that now :B
So much like an axe you'd think that maybe we'll be palette-swapping to actual axes at some point, at a matter of fact! Man, spiders would be in trouble if they actually had axes for claws. They'd just sit on the edge of their webs going "Gosh, I wish I could climb out there and eat that bug without accidentally cutting him free. Man, I'm hungry :B". Poor bastards, victims of an overly aggressive evolutionary trend. What next? Centipedes with cannonball feet? Butterflies with javelin proboscii? The Amazing Spring-Loaded Chakram Pillbug?
...sorry, were we talking about something?
Oh. Quite right. Moving on, then.
Matt: YOU'RE NOT EVEN LOOKING >(
Yay!
Crap!
I blame global warming. IT'S COME OUT THE OTHER SIDE, DON'T YOU SEE
Matt: Isn't that, uh, kinda how it works?
Fire Eyes: >(
Matt: Geez, sorry I asked.
Wow, I never would have guessed. Occam's what?
Ahh, that explains why the Cro-Magnon Squad sounds like they've been to grammar school. Nice.
Matt: Well, I must say you've aged very well, ma'am.
Fire Eyes: >(
Matt: Whaaaaat?
Outside Influences: Does this bug you? I'm not touching you! Woooooooo!
Matt: I like a girl who can alliterate :D
Fire Eyes: >(
SAUCE PLZ?!!?!1elventy
Fire Eyes: Pay no attention to those ruby slippers.
I think I've had this conversation before. (P.S.: Zombie vampires = total awesomeness thxvrymch)
Great! Now where are my Booty Call Beads? :D
I habitually hoard these like crazy like I hoard everything else like crazy, but I will use them eventually for you guys, promise. Eventually. Even though I might really need them later MUST HOARD MUST HOARD
Matt: You're a GIRL, you know >(
because her BRIGHT EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYES BUUUUUUUUUURN LIKE FIRE sorry sorry I held out as long as I could man
Matt: Done so :D
Hm. I've often seen a girl without glasses, but never glasses without a girl. Except...uh...I kind of have. Dang, that sucked. Sorry. Move along, nothing to see here.
Matt: Well that was lame--
Explosion: KRACKITYBOOM
Matt: GREAT GOOGALY MOOGALY
Andre: pshhht
Matt: Well, at least she didn't say--
Fire Eyes: --bee-YOTCH.
Matt: CRAP!
A couple fresh elements show up around the firepit after the spell.
Not hard to guess which ones.
~La dee dah, continuing to ponce about the village instead of healing despite that I'm only currently held together by tendons and spit, la dee dah
all right already jeez
Okay, so not only do we have a bee named Buzz Buzz, we have the ancient ancestor of the spinning signpost lizards in Mother 3. FREAKING AWESOME!
Talk to him again, and...
T'hee hee :D These bits are what stick with me, for whatever reason. IT'S LIKE I KNEW THEY WERE MOTHER-RELATED EVEN THEN FATE FATE I TELLS YA
*cough* Sorry.
It's because my intestines are hanging out, isn't it? IT'S ONLY A FLESH WOUND.
Woohoo! I was probably supposed to get these earlier, actually, but I was in too much of a hurry |D
Okay, I guess I'll rest up. I guess. If you're gonna be HP Nazis about it.
Never can have too many save states :D
I don't like the sound of that D:
Now that I have some cash, I can finally get equipped.
Oooo, nice sizable stat-bump there. WELL WORTH MY TALONS, SIR.
south to see Strong Heart blah blah blaaaaah
HACK
SLASH
Oh shi--I JUST BOUGHT A HAT >(
Dangit. This is why you should never buy equipment too fast.
Matt: Look, I'm telling you, you were totally--
Strong Heart: LA LA LA NOT LISTENING
Unlike Final Fantasy, in SoE, Cure cures you and Heal heals you. A NOVEL CONCEPT. Seriously, has anyone else ever wondered about that? It's so very...Square.
Gonna come in handy soon.
Never too many save states :D what I'm not traumatized WHAT
Stupid expensive hat >(
Okay, we are so totally ready for those palette-swapped flowers now :D WE HAVE MOVED UP.
Huh. Wonder why they call it that.
Oh :B
Rescue Team Alpha Andre GO :D
Andre: >(
Seriously, folks, watch out for these things. They have a long reach, and while one hit will free you, your partner isn't always terribly on the ball. Don't be afraid to swap and smack.
Gee, think we'll be coming back to this later? I WONDER.
A cave!
With a dude! This is a theme in this world, you might have noticed.
asdklfjklt;th if you try to sell me a hat I will stab you in the FACE.
Okay, that's reasonable. Stabbing will wait...for now.
I'll be back for you later, rock >(
D: To those new to my journal, I have a phobia of elephants. Surprisingly, I spent a long time here (a LONG time, more on that in a second) when I was a kid without being bothered, and only recently went "Wait...MAMMOTHS ARE LIKE ELEPHANTS D:", but THE DAMAGE HAS NOW BEEN DONE.
I'm not scared of spiders, though :D Hi, guy!
Although that's annoying.
Poison works the same as it does in any RPG, little bits of damage taken off over time. It'll wear off eventually...
...but what the heck, we have a new spell to use.
I caps gud |B
Pshhht, right. You're just a dinky little--
AAAAH SPIDER MAFIA RUN RUN YOU FOOLS
Okay, stop for a bit here.
Remember I mentioned how there are places you can get stuck for good in this game if you're not careful? I did once. A boss two worlds away, hours and hours, brought my game to a screeching halt. I did everything and anything, couldn't beat it. Unfortunately--wacky little thing here--I saved in a spot where the only enemies around were quick-moving rats, at four EXP a pop. That's less than the flowers around here give. I had to start MY ENTIRE GAME OVER FROM SCRATCH. HOURS AND HOURS OF GAMEPLAY LOST.
Needless to say, I was...a little traumatized. I started my game over again, but decided to level-build like crazy long before the Verminator reared his ugly head.
So I sat here in the Graveyard and popped spiders at 40 EXP a go. Looking at my stats now, that's twenty-six spiders just for level 9, with EXP needed appreciating with each level.
I made it to level 30 before leaving.
THIS IS THE KIND OF THING VIDEO GAME TRAUMA WILL DO TO YOU, KIDS. Although, come to think of it, this was shortly before I was diagnosed with textbook obsessive-compulsive disorder... :B
On the plus side, I totally owned his ass later...and the ass of every boss in between :D
Anyway. Bug goop! Man, that looks poisonous.
So I'm going to eat Petals out of it. Everything bleeds Petals, huh?
Whoops walked into a cutscene
I'd rather not be here, believe me D:
oh God i'm gonna have nightmares D:
Vipers! Funny, I was expecting something less...feetier?
Still got the ssss ssss down, though.
Okay, let's try this thing.
WAIT A SECOND THAT'S THRAXX'S ATTACK
YOU DOUBLE-DEALING--AAAAH
Does crap damage, too >(
Every once in a while, the gray guy rolls down and whacks you if you're not careful. You know, this is totally what I think of when I think "Viper", is rolling spikeballs with feet. That's sound biology, that.
Palette swap = superiority. Again, sound biology.
Not THAT superior, though >D
YEEHAW! The Spear is the strongest of the basic triptych of weapons you get in every world--at least, until we get my Poosh back. That's a long time comin' :<
KREEGAH! KREEGAH BUNDOLO!
*whine*
Matt: They had FEET.
Man: Biology teachers haven't evolved yet, okay?
WHY, IN MY DAY, WE USED EVERY DANGED PART OF THE MAMMOTH[/Larson]
Or maybe melt, seeing as the core of a volcano is a BAD THING
BUUUUURNING LIKE FIIIIIIRE no no no FOCUS
Oh no, I'm fiiiiine. MY FEMUR IS STICKING OUT OF MY SPLEEN OF COURSE I WANT YOU TO HEAL MY WOUNDS
YES!
Oh boy oh boy
oh boy oh boy
OH BOY :D This is gonna hold us from now until the last tenth of the game. USE IT WELL.
And so we leave Boy and Dog in a horrible, horrible boneyard, grimly awaiting their coming sidequest.
...what, you didn't think we'd reach the Volcano THAT easily, did you?
To be continued
Guten tag, everyone! Real life has been attempting to eat my face off lately, but I've managed to fend it off long enough to bring you a crisp, fresh batch of Delcaps! Don't you feel lucky?
Well, consider yourself luckier! IoAlbinaNeko has been kind enough to allow me to show her Secret of Evermore goodies to you! Gosh, I love audience participation.
First off, a set of save files from the previous owner of her SoE game. Yes, an actual cartridge. I'm amazed too. Quotage happens now:
First not-mine save. Pretty nifty; I wonder if that was the name of this person's real dog.
Second not-me save, and SOMEONE LIKES CAPS.
Third not-me save, and this is totally the awesomest! Actually, the one I wound up overwriting was pretty awesome too. It looked like someone's screen name, or original character names or something. Dammit, why didn't I overwrite the dumb all-caps one instead? >_>; Oh well...
See, this is what I was talking about! See what I mean about a glimpse into a stranger's mind? See the infinite variety of the human mind evidenced in a series of casual names? See the hidden world behind the hidden world of the average household gaming cartridge? ARE YOU FEELIN' ME, FOLKS
*cough* Sorry.
Anyway, there's also fanart courtesy of Io! Lovely fanart, too.
Io mentions she should ink and color this at some point. I agree, because I like color (color color color wheeeee), but it's quite nice as is, don't you think? Please note that voluntary wtf syndrome is apparently not limited to my version of Dog.
Shades of Dog, and of things to come! Awwwww, I wanna pet 'im, he's so cute and liable to tear my arm off possibly :D
SPREAD THE WORD THAT NOT BEING A SEQUEL TO SECRET OF MANA DOES NOT IN ANY WAY MAKE SoE STUPID >( AND THAT IT IS IN FACT AWESOME. SAUCE. AWESOMESAUCE.
We shall try, Io! Thank you for your sharination! Oh God I'm in Redd White mode now
Last week, our intrepid heroes were deep in a forbidding cloaca cave, facing down spinal dinosaurs, attack maggots, and AT LEAST NINE THOOOOOUSAND collapsing bridges. At long last, they saw a light at the end of the tunnel, only to find it blocked by something terrible. What could be worse than another trip down that danged slide? Time to find out!
Hey, that's not so bad. That's only a thirty-foot bug. It could've been a fifty-foot bug.
...WAIT A SECOND THIRTY-FOOT BUG OH SHI
Man, I love me some bugs, but that's still D:
Okay, let's do this. Battle With Thraxx kinda takes a backseat to the neat noises she makes, but enh. Pretty much the second the cutscene stops, Thraxx roars, which throws both Dog and Boy against the back wall and causes damage, so let's hope your RPG senses acted up at that forbidding door and made you heal up. As you can see, it knocked Andre into submission.
Perfect chance to show off the Dog Biscuit animation. Ooooo, shiny.
Andre: Ready to go, sarge! ...I guess.
Every time you kill the maggots onscreen, another three will drop from the ceiling. At least, I HOPE it's the ceiling they're dropping from, I don't want to think about the alternative. Anyway, since the boss herself is a bit complicated to do damage to, it's best to let the Dog deal with the crawlies while the Boy...
...marches up and plays Thraxx's ribcage like a xylophone. KNOCK KNOCK, ANYONE IN THERE
Of course, if you wanna knock on multiple targets (at least, at first), that's good too.
OW. Ohhh, she didn't like that. Look, though, did you see the ribcage open? Oh yeah, we are so crawling into that seething thorax.
Matt: wait, wut? In WHERE? D:
You heard :D
If we're not DISSOLVED WHERE WE STAND first, that is
Pshhht, the maggots hit harder than that. IN WE GO.
Aside from the Acid Rain spell, you're safe from Thraxx inside her chest cavity. Have the Dog hold off the maggots, and the Boy is free to charge up and...
WHACK! Right inna rocks! ...well, heart. Close enough.
She'll roar your party across the room every time you hit her heart, but with that kind of damage...
...cardiac arrest isn't far off.
And by "cardiac arrest", I mean "gigantic explosion". Insert "heartburn" joke...here.
Matt: HEY LOOK A SHARP THING :D
Matt: YEAH, THAT :D
Andre: get over here you twat
Matt: After some MANLY POSING :D
Andre: good gawd
Matt: WHEEEEEEEEEEEE
Matt: EEEEEoops.
Strong Heart: It's okay, it's not like I needed my liver.
Strong Heart: But your Strong Heart is in another thorax.
Matt: Did that line already, dude.
Strong Heart: That's what Mario said, too.
Plot point? POSSIBLY.
Matt: You WERE eaten alive.
Strong Heart: I was getting better!
Oh, it's...ingredients for the spell I didn't use. Gee. Thanks.
Into the daylight! Funny, looks a lot smaller from out here. You'd think that after crawling through a giant insect carcass, the opposite would seem true.
Ooh, a Mammoth Guard! That'll come in handy if I have to guard against any mammoths!
Hm, respectable. I like that it actually looks like a hollowed-out tusk because I'm a fag for details like that.
The route back to town takes place on a higher plane than 70% of the enemies onscreen, so it's nice and relaxed and you can even observe the wildlife without it breaking your ankles. Always a plus on return trips.
Hey, notice anything funny about this screen? Look close.
Yup, you can duck under here! This place is easy to miss if you're in a hurry...
...but you'll regret it. WHEEEEE LOOT
Oodles of alchemical ingredients, and...
...a dude!
Where were you like five minutes ago >(
Matt: Friendly banter promotes camaraderie :D
Andre: wtfever
Aweso--wait, did you say lava? Where does lava come into this equation? I didn't sign up for lava.
I never, ever use this, but I'll at least show you what it does later. I'm nice like that.
ASDJTL;IHDGJKL WHERE WERE YOU LIKE FIVE MINUTES AGO
BOY HOWDY WOULD I
Multiple saves! MULTIPLE SAVES ARE YOUR FRIEND. ESPECIALLY IN THIS GAME. NEVER FORGET THAT. There are a couple places where you can get stuck for good if you screw up. I'll be flagging these in advance for those playing along, BUT IT'S STILL A REALLY GOOD HABIT TO GET INTO SO DO IT ANYWAY. CAPS.
Whoa, I ranted myself straight into the next screen. Sorry.
R.I.P. Steve "Two Ribcages" Johnson. He died from rockin' too hard. And also being built funny.
Oooooo, kudzu! You can hack and slash as much as you want with the Bone Crusher, but this stuff is impenetrable.
UNTIL NOW, THAT IS >D
Your Skelesnail a'splode :(
But hey, it's full of Petals! Does everything bleed Petals?
I AM THE LAWNMOWER MAN
:O! Another one! I forgot about this little guy. PROBABLY BECAUSE I CAN'T DO ANYTHING WITH HIM EITHER AASDKHHLKT;J I'M RIGHT NEXT TO HIM AND I STILL CAN'T DO ANYTHING WHYYYYYY
*cough* Sorry.
D'hurrrrr, chopping down the only barrier between enemies and my tender young flesh when I'm down to 5 HP is fun :D :) :B
Hahaha, I walked straight into the weakest enemy in the game and died for the first time. I'M BRILLIANT.
So yeah, Game Over. If you get killed in the jungle by something besides raptors before you name the dog, it just shows up as "(boy) and his dog never returned".
But I can cheat, so lol j/k
This area is, ummm...oh yeah, we'll be coming back here later. Like, later later, once you've all forgotten about it.
No sense in not looting it now, though :3
DEATH BY FLOWER REDUX Man, I was really firing on all four cylinders at this point. It was late and I was tired, bite me.
DAAAAH DAH DAH DAH TRIUMPHANT RETURN TO THE VILLAGE AND SUCH
DAH DAH DAH DAAAAAAH DAH RABBID CHORUS DAAAAAAAAAAAH
DAH DAH DAH DAAAAoh hell it's always SOMETHING with you people, isn't it >(
:D
D:
THERE THANK YOU THAT IS WHAT GRATITUDE IS SUPPOSED TO SOUND LIKE
Hmmm, I'll make a note of it. Thanks, kid.
Precocious and mysterious cave-child ho!
ha ha I actually get that now :B
So much like an axe you'd think that maybe we'll be palette-swapping to actual axes at some point, at a matter of fact! Man, spiders would be in trouble if they actually had axes for claws. They'd just sit on the edge of their webs going "Gosh, I wish I could climb out there and eat that bug without accidentally cutting him free. Man, I'm hungry :B". Poor bastards, victims of an overly aggressive evolutionary trend. What next? Centipedes with cannonball feet? Butterflies with javelin proboscii? The Amazing Spring-Loaded Chakram Pillbug?
...sorry, were we talking about something?
Oh. Quite right. Moving on, then.
Matt: YOU'RE NOT EVEN LOOKING >(
Yay!
Crap!
I blame global warming. IT'S COME OUT THE OTHER SIDE, DON'T YOU SEE
Matt: Isn't that, uh, kinda how it works?
Fire Eyes: >(
Matt: Geez, sorry I asked.
Wow, I never would have guessed. Occam's what?
Ahh, that explains why the Cro-Magnon Squad sounds like they've been to grammar school. Nice.
Matt: Well, I must say you've aged very well, ma'am.
Fire Eyes: >(
Matt: Whaaaaat?
Outside Influences: Does this bug you? I'm not touching you! Woooooooo!
Matt: I like a girl who can alliterate :D
Fire Eyes: >(
SAUCE PLZ?!!?!1elventy
Fire Eyes: Pay no attention to those ruby slippers.
I think I've had this conversation before. (P.S.: Zombie vampires = total awesomeness thxvrymch)
Great! Now where are my Booty Call Beads? :D
I habitually hoard these like crazy like I hoard everything else like crazy, but I will use them eventually for you guys, promise. Eventually. Even though I might really need them later MUST HOARD MUST HOARD
Matt: You're a GIRL, you know >(
because her BRIGHT EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYES BUUUUUUUUUURN LIKE FIRE sorry sorry I held out as long as I could man
Matt: Done so :D
Hm. I've often seen a girl without glasses, but never glasses without a girl. Except...uh...I kind of have. Dang, that sucked. Sorry. Move along, nothing to see here.
Matt: Well that was lame--
Explosion: KRACKITYBOOM
Matt: GREAT GOOGALY MOOGALY
Andre: pshhht
Matt: Well, at least she didn't say--
Fire Eyes: --bee-YOTCH.
Matt: CRAP!
A couple fresh elements show up around the firepit after the spell.
Not hard to guess which ones.
~La dee dah, continuing to ponce about the village instead of healing despite that I'm only currently held together by tendons and spit, la dee dah
all right already jeez
Okay, so not only do we have a bee named Buzz Buzz, we have the ancient ancestor of the spinning signpost lizards in Mother 3. FREAKING AWESOME!
Talk to him again, and...
T'hee hee :D These bits are what stick with me, for whatever reason. IT'S LIKE I KNEW THEY WERE MOTHER-RELATED EVEN THEN FATE FATE I TELLS YA
*cough* Sorry.
It's because my intestines are hanging out, isn't it? IT'S ONLY A FLESH WOUND.
Woohoo! I was probably supposed to get these earlier, actually, but I was in too much of a hurry |D
Okay, I guess I'll rest up. I guess. If you're gonna be HP Nazis about it.
Never can have too many save states :D
I don't like the sound of that D:
Now that I have some cash, I can finally get equipped.
Oooo, nice sizable stat-bump there. WELL WORTH MY TALONS, SIR.
south to see Strong Heart blah blah blaaaaah
HACK
SLASH
Oh shi--I JUST BOUGHT A HAT >(
Dangit. This is why you should never buy equipment too fast.
Matt: Look, I'm telling you, you were totally--
Strong Heart: LA LA LA NOT LISTENING
Unlike Final Fantasy, in SoE, Cure cures you and Heal heals you. A NOVEL CONCEPT. Seriously, has anyone else ever wondered about that? It's so very...Square.
Gonna come in handy soon.
Never too many save states :D what I'm not traumatized WHAT
Stupid expensive hat >(
Okay, we are so totally ready for those palette-swapped flowers now :D WE HAVE MOVED UP.
Huh. Wonder why they call it that.
Oh :B
Rescue Team Alpha Andre GO :D
Andre: >(
Seriously, folks, watch out for these things. They have a long reach, and while one hit will free you, your partner isn't always terribly on the ball. Don't be afraid to swap and smack.
Gee, think we'll be coming back to this later? I WONDER.
A cave!
With a dude! This is a theme in this world, you might have noticed.
asdklfjklt;th if you try to sell me a hat I will stab you in the FACE.
Okay, that's reasonable. Stabbing will wait...for now.
I'll be back for you later, rock >(
D: To those new to my journal, I have a phobia of elephants. Surprisingly, I spent a long time here (a LONG time, more on that in a second) when I was a kid without being bothered, and only recently went "Wait...MAMMOTHS ARE LIKE ELEPHANTS D:", but THE DAMAGE HAS NOW BEEN DONE.
I'm not scared of spiders, though :D Hi, guy!
Although that's annoying.
Poison works the same as it does in any RPG, little bits of damage taken off over time. It'll wear off eventually...
...but what the heck, we have a new spell to use.
I caps gud |B
Pshhht, right. You're just a dinky little--
AAAAH SPIDER MAFIA RUN RUN YOU FOOLS
Okay, stop for a bit here.
Remember I mentioned how there are places you can get stuck for good in this game if you're not careful? I did once. A boss two worlds away, hours and hours, brought my game to a screeching halt. I did everything and anything, couldn't beat it. Unfortunately--wacky little thing here--I saved in a spot where the only enemies around were quick-moving rats, at four EXP a pop. That's less than the flowers around here give. I had to start MY ENTIRE GAME OVER FROM SCRATCH. HOURS AND HOURS OF GAMEPLAY LOST.
Needless to say, I was...a little traumatized. I started my game over again, but decided to level-build like crazy long before the Verminator reared his ugly head.
So I sat here in the Graveyard and popped spiders at 40 EXP a go. Looking at my stats now, that's twenty-six spiders just for level 9, with EXP needed appreciating with each level.
I made it to level 30 before leaving.
THIS IS THE KIND OF THING VIDEO GAME TRAUMA WILL DO TO YOU, KIDS. Although, come to think of it, this was shortly before I was diagnosed with textbook obsessive-compulsive disorder... :B
On the plus side, I totally owned his ass later...and the ass of every boss in between :D
Anyway. Bug goop! Man, that looks poisonous.
So I'm going to eat Petals out of it. Everything bleeds Petals, huh?
Whoops walked into a cutscene
I'd rather not be here, believe me D:
oh God i'm gonna have nightmares D:
Vipers! Funny, I was expecting something less...feetier?
Still got the ssss ssss down, though.
Okay, let's try this thing.
WAIT A SECOND THAT'S THRAXX'S ATTACK
YOU DOUBLE-DEALING--AAAAH
Does crap damage, too >(
Every once in a while, the gray guy rolls down and whacks you if you're not careful. You know, this is totally what I think of when I think "Viper", is rolling spikeballs with feet. That's sound biology, that.
Palette swap = superiority. Again, sound biology.
Not THAT superior, though >D
YEEHAW! The Spear is the strongest of the basic triptych of weapons you get in every world--at least, until we get my Poosh back. That's a long time comin' :<
KREEGAH! KREEGAH BUNDOLO!
*whine*
Matt: They had FEET.
Man: Biology teachers haven't evolved yet, okay?
WHY, IN MY DAY, WE USED EVERY DANGED PART OF THE MAMMOTH[/Larson]
Or maybe melt, seeing as the core of a volcano is a BAD THING
BUUUUURNING LIKE FIIIIIIRE no no no FOCUS
Oh no, I'm fiiiiine. MY FEMUR IS STICKING OUT OF MY SPLEEN OF COURSE I WANT YOU TO HEAL MY WOUNDS
YES!
Oh boy oh boy
oh boy oh boy
OH BOY :D This is gonna hold us from now until the last tenth of the game. USE IT WELL.
And so we leave Boy and Dog in a horrible, horrible boneyard, grimly awaiting their coming sidequest.
...what, you didn't think we'd reach the Volcano THAT easily, did you?
To be continued