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[KoShiatar]

I recovered the Crystal Rod and went through Leviathan, and now I'm climbing the Mysidia Tower. Can anyone tell me how far I am from the end of the game? There's only 8 days left and I need to know if I am to finish in time. No spoilers please

[BG-57]

You have about 1/4 left to go.

[KoShiatar]

Good, I went all the way up the tower, Minwu kicked the bucket (did he really have to in such a stupid way? =_=) and I need to go back to Fynn and check the Yoshi egg and whatnot.

[Leeza]

I was on the 4th floor of Paramekia Castle last night when I was defeated by two Sargeants. I didn't think they were that tough. :/

[Captain Maxx Power]

Onward says I!



Yknow this is how Dubya got into power. You may have noticed something odd about this picture. Yes, there are indeed two Gordons. It seems the programmers didn't have the foresight to replace the "active" party member sprite with another should one of your members leave the party to walk about. This happens a lot since I tend to have only the last member slot active. So now Gordon has left us (the deserting bugger), we're off to sail the seven seas to save a serpent or something similar.



Yeah I mean what's the worst that could possibly happen? We get attacked by a bunch of NPC pirates?



Ah for fudge sake.



Pirates! Like many things in the world, it turns out they're weak to fire. As it happens Square got it wrong here, as Pirate are immune to fire. And any other element. Infact, if this was realistic the party should've lost automatically.



Static images cannot describe how cool this is, so let me try to use words; Pirates dancing on the poop deck. Awesome.



With Leila now in tow I spent a LONG time levelling her stats, namely her HP, in order to reach here; Mystidia. And look who inhabits this place. Red Mages....sort of. Well they're mages in red, but we all know they're just Black Mages whose clothes are at the laundromat. Still, Mystidia offers two very useful spells; Change, which is crucial for quick levelling, and Holy, which is the most powerful spell you can get at this point and allows you to grind Soul for a more potent Cure spell. Since it lowers Strength and I'm not using physical attacks it also has the benefit of leaving my Vitality stat intact, which would otherwise be ravaged by continued use of Black Magic spells.

So once I had the Change spell I could carry on using it just outside of Altae to get guaranteed HP and MP increases allowing me to reach the heady cap of...



9B5 MP? Yes, for those who know you're computing, this is a case of a display overflow. B is the hexadecimal representation of the value 11. So what I have here is 1015 MP. That means the cap may be 1024, at which point an MP increase could cause my MP to roll back to 0, which wouldn't be a good thing. Ergo I can only level my characters using this method so far.

So anyway, time to find dragons.



...I think that's a dragon. Kinda looks like Sloth from the Goonies. Wouldn't that be awesome though, if Sloth joined your party? He'd have a special spell that would play a digitised version of "HEY YOU GUYS!". Wickedcool.

Deist Cavern was an ARSE to get through. It took three attempts, not because it was particularly hard, but because my emulator has this annoying habit of loading the wrong save state by accident (I only ever use save states in places where I'd normally be able to save in the game i.e. the world map because the ROM takes an age to get past the title screen for some reason and it's quicker), so I ended up loading a save state before the dungeon was finished. Ergo I had to traverse it all over again. Thank goodness for the turbo button, otherwise I would have lost my rag.



Darn it, why does this always happen to me?



You'll notice my MP count in this battle. Yes, this dungeon was so hardcore, I used up over 800 MP just to get to the end. I have no idea how the later, decidedly longer and harder dungeons will go. Most likely I will have to stock up on Elixirs or get the Osmose spell to keep myself afloat.



Boom-chicka-waa-waa!



O look, it's Kary from FF1. I had to revive my other party members because the game wouldn't let me advance without doing so, but I just ended up killing them off with Guy's own Fire spell. This was a close battle due to Layla getting Conf. all the time, which I presume means confragulated.



Is there a cash alternative available? Yes Hilda needs saving, AGAIN. Also there appears to be yet more clones here.

And that's round about where I am. Right now I'm using the Chng spell to get Gordon as close to 9C4 MP as I can before taking on the Arena, which is the last of the "short" dungeons in the game. I've still got a loooooong way to go.

[rubah]

oh you're amazing. I hope I can get such mp as you!

[KoShiatar]

Ok, I'm in Cyclone.

[oddler]

My peeps just got two masks and I assume we're headed for this supposed tower in the middle of the sea now. How much further do I have left?

I'm rather enjoying this game this time through. Thanks, EoFF!