ronlyn

Let's assault the public Library

Learned Skills:

=Ramza=

Time Mage:
Daze*

=Agrias=

Summoner:
Carbunkle: Adds Protect/Shell/Regen/Reflect to targets
Fairy: Revives with 26% HP all targets 

"I know you're old, but christ you're all beat up"

".........Why are you a bonewalker?"

"We demons have the ability to possess nearby bodies to avoid death and it just so happen that a certain lackey of mine died not too long after my defeat"

"Okay...that actually brings more questions than answers, but I let it slide for now"

I dont know about Oersted, but I'm dropping you like a wet rag along the old fart as soon we end here, got it?

Today's match is against and old friend who didnt take the ass-whooping we gave him last time that well: Queklain it's now a ghost which means healing spells will wreck his shit and we just got two healers so this will be quick

I haste the team, but not before getting Othelos out of his dizzyness (As gently as sticking an arrow on his eye. Alma is a caring soul, you see)

Counter flood is one of those skills that could destroy you if the AI had a pretty abusable advantage. Otherwise, is a waste of slots to me

Flare star however will twist your nipples hard

Overall, I feel that Emmy just rush this one out: I mean yes he can be annoying, but even with just Alma and Simon, he's getting rekt so hard that it's not even funny. 

Oersted decides to visit his nerdy brother to touch a pretty sensible subject. I hope he knows what he's doing

Way to go. You must be a charm when it comes to terminal diagnostics 

Dude, I think his problem has more about "understanding" than anything

"Looks away"

"Wait, I-I'm didnt mean that.............."

"Don't get worked up: I finally know where I belong.......Out of this place"

Well.......didn't go that well, but hey, things can't possible get worse right?

OF COURSE THEY CAN 

Warning: This whole battle it's about to get trivialized

Learned Skills:

Agrias:
<Chemist>
Throw Item
Plume

<Time Mage>
Daze: Damaging skills have br% chance of delaying CT by 20

Oersted:
<Priest>
Mega Cure: Proc Regen (Range 4, AoE 1)
Giga Cure: Proc Protect/Shell (Range 4, AoE 2, Unreflectable)

...........................

"SHIT!!!!" *Falls off his ass*

"Heya Oersted!!!! Why you're on the floor?"

"Because of you frigging ninja, DON'T DO THAT!!!!"

"Pfff, what a sissy: And I was about to warn you about that strange heretic hunter"

"Yeah, Yeah just laugh at- Wait, did you say heretic hunter?"

"Alma......................WHY THE FUCK DIDN'T MENTIONED THAT IMMEDIATELY?"

"I did: You just keep looking at the landscape like some kind of retarded for like ten minutes"

"Just.....don't get killed, okay?"

Today's map it's a genuine battle of attrition: No one over there needs to be near you to inflict lots of damage and you must disable all the lackeys (including yet another ??? unit because haha fuck you) to do anything against Zalmo. Alma it's actually quite useful so do try to keep her alive

My first course of actions it's to back up and stack every single buff I have available (while learning Slow 2 from a very kind bomb )

Next step comes in the form of Reia winning the entire battle by confusing Zalmo like no one's business

More status effects: Dusk it's the perfect bait for berserk units

Reia dodges a killing blow and gets protected by the power of love (and reraise)

D'aaaawwwwww, he thought he was out of it 

From top left to bottom right:

-Agrias gets MA debuff despite the fact that she doesn't need that

- Dusk gets caught cheating the bomb with the baatezu and shit goes down

-Red bull gives us wings......but not enough to get past the frigging dragon blocking the door

-Agrias brings a sleep sword to a fight where EVERYONE it's inmune to it, thus decides to justify her deployment by missing several circles in a row

Alma gets tired of Oersted pacifist route and she gets to smack everything with her staff (with surprising results BTW). Daze also make his debut by completely shutting down Zalmo alongside slow/confuse spam

And with that I just completely shat on every single enemy. What I'm gonna do while waiting for Zalmo to get his ass off the upper wall? Well............

Look as this Tiamat manages to hit both his friends with a giant meteor...........................twice

What a sore loser

When the hunter becomes the prey

#Brothers (But really, WTF it's he's saying?)

Some kicking and healing later and Zalmo decides that we had enough and leaves, thus finish up this lame excuse of a boss

"My hair it's kind of burned and the whole church wants my head in a stick, but I'm swell"

"Why they're chasing you?"

"It's kind of convoluted but in resume: Our big brother it's kind of a dick while Zalbag needs some serious help from a doctor, Goltana wants to stop Dycedarg by taking control of this whole thing, the church's trying to get rid of both of them, the legendary zodiac stones exist and they can turn you into horrible creatures with tentacles and everyone's racist about me being just a half noble"  

"Huh. Well, about the stones bit......."

"You know my conditions, brother *wink*"

".........I hate when you're right: FINE, JUST TELL ME ALREADY!!!"

"It's on the Library"

"Hmmm......."

*Grabs Alma's staff and toss it away*

"HEY!!!!!"

"Bye slowpoke"

"Alma 2 - Oersted 0"

"Shut up, Agrias"

And that's a wrap. Honestly you don't need advice outside of just spam confuse on Zalmo and berserk everyone else to avoid interference. 

Oersted looks kind of weak as priest and there's a reason for that: Since I just updated my game to 3.0, both Oersted and Agrias are now pretty much growth units and until they get some lvls under the belts, they will be behind in terms of HP/MP (They're even handicapped with -100 hp and -40/50 MP at lvl 99).

Any sane man would either stick with the previous version or just start anew, but that's not the case here: I'm basically doing hard mode so wish me luck

And we start off with a dragon getting bullied by a myriad of bloodthirsty monsters

NO SHIT SHERLOCK

This map bring to us quite a few issues: Those dragons will tear you a new hole (especially the one with equipment since you won't shut him down with status aside of sleep), aboleths are in the same pack with the extra of being extremely dangerous if left alone too long and the new fairies oddparents are amazing with their ability of being both an annoying magic user and some kind of cute flying hadoken dispenser (don't ask)

Status effect galore (And for a first the charm was actually quite lucky to land without any retry)

Debuffs are next and Gasper get's to experience frozen by first hand

Some killing and the faeries are my top priority now with those numbers going on

STOP!!!!

IT'S SPAMMING TIME!!!

Musty's doing some leg work while Gasper take a sip of the poor lady for his beauty treatment

Eye gouge actually does something good for me for once and doesn't miss

This looks like a one-sided battle but trust me: They will beat the living shit out of you the moment they get a spell out

And boom goes the dragon

"Huh......Fate it's a cruel misstress"

"???"

"Don't mind me"

And then he proceed to handshake his.....private parts (Vanilla animations are soo fucking funny out of context)

Bye dude: Don't step on those green spots on the world map or you're up for a nasty suprise

Overall, this is just a warm welcome from the game, so treat it as such. Please do not take this one lightly: One misstep and the team will fall like flies so mindful thinking is required. You absolutely must sacrifice Olan in order to archieve anything since these enemies will get turns before you and finally, that uber dragon will be a common thing so please do tooltip everything.

So.....you know who these dudes are? Because I'm pretty sure the game doesn't give a fuck about telling us

"Who's the one giving you orders"

"........My life will be spare if I do?"

"that would depend: if your words are to be trusted, you have nothing to fear"

".........That man"

So.....the dude like his tentacles,huh?

And then he dies by being high five'd waaaaay too hard, thus starting this cutscene:

Looks nice? that's because it's a cutscene, but in reality this whole plotdump can be summarized as:

"The queen got herself into jail because being a slut it's kinda ilegal in Ivalice, while Ovelia takes the throne because that's how it works (or at least Game of Thrones tries to shoehorn). Oersted's older bro decides that he also wants the throne, so he starts a war to "save" the queen (aka murder her ass off-screen) and take the wheel, thus the subtitle of this whole clusterfuck of a game"

Back to the plot.........

We're all the way back at the League of Evil headquarters. I could also try to be interested on this exposition, but Orlandu does his damn job and actually condese this whole situation in one screenshot:

Moving on................................(BTW, CH3 HYPE!!!!!)

We get some news pokemons to our collection except for a byblos because fuck them: I don't dance

Fortunately, this Minotaur will take his place instead, meaning than yet another one will hit the bench. And the choose one is....................................................

Silva. Whoever the hell that monster was (Really, this is like her third appearance and she was recruited waaaaaay back at CH2)

Your average bad/good cop duo

Party setup

The abomination in blood and flesh (literally)

Meanwhile.....

*steps*

Damn, and here I thought I was a dick

In short: The real princess just happen to be part of my roster now (She's still more useful than Algus)

"So.......you want to kill me?"

"I hope that pride of yours can get you far enough because once Larg put his hands on you, you're dead"

"........."

This would be more powerful if Delita didn't stare at her like some lost child

Agrias will do some heavy lifting and Oersted it's just his usual self

Learned skills:

<Agrias>

Thief:

Concentrate
Static: Inflict Don't act and Slow on attacker when the unit receive damage 

Getting surrounded out of nowhere it's basically CH2's motto at this point

These enemies scream "Fill me up with status effects" and I can only do but comply their needs

Thanks for the tip, man

Oersted cockblock Gaffy while Agrias finally gets to do some busting

Both expected and unexpected things are going on 

until Antigone goes Jihad on our asses (Agrias getting extra crisped by a well put fart by his friend)

#BloodSwordIt'sTheBestSword

For some reason, once I get this Goblin on critical, he decides to spam accumulate while hiding for me. Not that I'm complaining, mind you

Gaffy finally gets rid of dont act and it's coming for us 

But who cares about that: FREE LOOT!!!

Despite being quite fast and mobile, Gaffy tends to beeline toward the highest MP unit with Ignite, so I bait him with Genryu, keep him lock out with Stop & roll/Arm aim and finally hit it till it dies. Just simple as that

And dead he is

In this picture we can appreciate Oersted talking to his past self about his recent achievements ( that or Emmy just messed up with the potraits, but who knows Amrite?)

Last time, Agrias became part of the crew, and surprisingly enough, she wasn't turn into a Moogle or something, so we have a really unique character for once (In a world where your average citizen have six tentacles or a tail of course)

Sadly, this means another monster has to hit the bench, and Helligor got the call. Sorry buddy

Going in expecting the worst.

Learned Skills:

<Oersted>

Priest:
Reraise: Cast reraise on target (Range 3, AoE 1)

<Agrias>

Ranger:
Bulletproof

(I'm not displaying the description of skills I have already learn with Oersted, so better check it out on early entries if you wanna know)

*mumble* 

"HOLY CRAP, AND YOU KISS YOUR MOTHER WITH THAT MOUTH!?!?!"

"Ohhhh god: it's Gafgarion, The Almighty Black Knight. Please everyone, try to not roll your eyes"

"Will you cut the crap and get to business?"

Everyone's sassy here, but do they have the muscles to support their words?

THEY DO

If you despite Vanilla for make this battle a joke, please do try and play this mod now because this place can chew and spit you out rather fast: they will always get the first turn and they will hurt you like a truck, Gafgarion can only get more powerful as the time goes and you're handicapped in a 5 vs 8 match,  you better be prepared beforehand for the slaughter

My approach consist on one single basic: Avoid ANY kind of sandbagging

CRAAAAWLIIIIIIIING IN MY SKIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I kinda regret leave Oersted as his canon zodiac since Gaffy can destroy him by blinking at him, but boy does that help with the status game

IcyHot action (Sadly, the girl didn't take his sexiness that well)

Gotta keep those heals coming

When confused units do better things for you than any charmed enemy

Arioch gave "his seed"

Quick shenanigans (Props to this battle: it actually gives you a reason to use that spell)

Goddammit Pineapple: I thought we had something special

Just because of that, I'm adding your friend to my museum

My heart skipped for a second there (MP damage doesn't knock out confusion/sleep/charm thankfully)

More killing and Gaffy doesn't discriminate when it comes to throw off his attacks

Sasha however, has a place in my heart now

You have to love how undead units can revive and say "peekaaboo" to their surprised victims

The last ninja decides to toss repel boosted with amplify to Darvos, but has an unexpected death cause by Agrias Rough Skin 

"Your brother, Dycedarg said he'd forgive you! Come on, wake up!!"

"I won't be involved in wrong doings anymore: I've run from the truth long enough, and now it's time to make amends!!!"

"Then be it: Next time I will make sure my sword slice your throat.......Even if it cost my humanity!!!!!"

*leaves*

The self-destruct quota and CT management let us conserve Arioch

..................................

Why you do this to me, game?

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand done

"But before that: Agrias I know what your heard from Gafgarion, but please try to-"

"I knew you were a Beoulve this whole time"

"But.......How?"

"Beoulves have a mark that proves their relation with the Zodiac heroes. And one night you were careless while in your sleep and I saw your left shoulder"

"Heh.......I better check my door before sleep at night then"

"Are we done here? We need to save the princess"

"Right"

Let me repeat myself once more: Be prepared for a lot of resets here. Once the battle starts, you're getting overwhelm quickly and you must prioritize who's the most threatening units for your party setup:

- Dragons with a good sandbagging potential (Fairy) and nuking power (Holy)
- Ninjas that will put down units with easy and make harder comebacks (Boomburst)
- Chocobos that are annoying because they can do both (Meteorite/Mana bomb and Wish)
- Gaffy who can potentially one shot people reliably (Geomancy and hell, even his attack can hurt like a bitch)

The saving grace its that outside of Gaffy, everything can die in two hits, so if you manage to get on your feet, they will drop down quickly

I kinda hate how Oersted has been thread as "mildly annoying" up to this point, I mean we kinda kicked their butts several times by now



This is becoming more cartoonish as the time goes by



*Leaves*

"What the- WHY ARE YOU LEAVING ME BEHIND!?!?!"



"W-What are you doing with that sword, cardinal?"

"Just cleaning up the dirt in my boots"



I would be more impact by this scene if FFXIII didn't ruined this cliche




Swiggity Swooty, I'm Coming for That Booty:

Learned Skills:

Thief:

Steal Armor/Helmet/Shield/Weapon/Accessory: Self explanatory




Mulligan: I didn't put Basic skills on you!!!





This is basically a race against time: Disable at least half of the people out here or die





Ehem, I'm trying to comment in this LP if you don't mind



The only heavy-RNG reliant move I used (Charm it's VERY situational, so just use it once at the beginning and work around it)



Agrias it's in a bad spot: her sword skills do jack shit and her tankiness it's non-existent with the lack of plume, so I let her be my cheerleader



Charm it's already paying off



Confuse,Don't act,Stop............pick your poison



How this is even possible? What, Dracula was bored and made some robots?



Kill it. Kill it with fire




For once, healing it's kinda pointless since everything can 1HKO reliably unless debuffs are into play



Also, these fuckers can haste themselves and their buddies to exponentially raise my hate towards them




OH, SO NOW YOU WANT TO USE ULTIMA!!!!!! (For the record, you can get Ultima while being in the squire class. Good luck trying though)





And thus the Adventures of Dante Von Vlad have begun



Get sniped



"You're reposted in the wrong battle, sucker!!!"



You know that you suck at job when you're supposed to be a frontliner and the team rather have you as support




Dante Von Vlad for MVP





Emmy didn't said I couldn't made some salty rages from their tears





And down it goes. I must say: Steel Giants are designed to piss off people, so shut them, shut them in the god damn head (Ironically, Dragoons with guns are you best bet). The White Knight can also put the pain rather fast so better stop him in the act before things get hectic (being a special class he's also immune to most debuffs, so don't get cocky).

Oersted it's going back to the black & white theme

"UGH, I can't stand being an entire day in the sea"

That's a little harsh Delita

"You're even wanted by the Boy scouts for god sake!!!"

Today's map it's what I call: I hope you like other stuff aside of punch things to death

Oersted decides to give Delita a friendly lick to break the ice (Hey, I didn't say it was a good approach of the situation.....)

I can't take seriously this map anymore after seeing this

Since I saved my pudding to another time, I just went the other way around and buffed my party up the creek

That doesn't mean this is a walk in the park however: Mr.turtle over here can nuke everything on this map fairly easy

The most important thing in the whole fight it's reflect. Otherwise Hyper Beam shenanigans are in place

Mimes are one if not the best thing in the world with amplify: Here I just showing you an Amplify Bad bracelet

Sadly, not everything's going as I planned..........

Just a joke: I have it in the bag already

even more buffing and Oersted got a thing against poor Zelda (Maybe he was expecting link?)

This is basically me playing with them like a toy

If I don't make Darvos blow off at least once when it gets deploy, the battle it's a failure in my books

Dully note here: Break skills can bypass defensive attributes from units, otherwise Genryu would have done 25 damage at best

THE DISRESPECT

Oersted finally gets what he's deserves and I cut it here just because (I forgot o take more pics) I'm lazy. I kinda feel bad for them: I just steamroll trough it, but on the other hand, given the chance I would be definitely got blow out by Hyper beam so no harm's done.

Oersted channels it's inner comedian

Learned Skills:

Geomancer:

Flood Ball: Use Element/Status proc from User's tile (Magical Damage)
Seismic Wave: Use Element/Status proc from target's tile (Physical Damage)
Terrain Mastery: Can move around every tile without penalty

"Maybe it was a bad idea to send him for some booze"

Dammit Mustadio: You had one job

"huh........what a little bastard....."

*Throws Stone at the man*

"That's for the tip, young man. Now......."

This would be pretty scary if didn't just get an uber Goblin to my side

Today's battle it's kinda dull: Everything here outside of uribos can be confused/poisoned/Stopped so there is no excuse to not use Mustadio. Also, take note at this little guy over here:

Your best way to lure out everyone here it's to use Oersted with an accessory that block any status effect so they are forced to use charged spells to take him down (Of course, all these actions should happen AFTER Mustadio get his ass out of there)

Next step: Cut their horns

Don't you love when the game derp that much that  ends up giving you the upper hand?

Self-destruct Abuse, HOOOOO!!!!!!

This would help you if I didnt kill you already, bud

Aaaaaand I just won this battle (For the record: These two were confused/stopped)

This is why Oersted it's such a murder-machine: Moxie it's a skill you can get which grants you +1 MA/PA when you kill someone. It's beautiful

This Pudding somehow manages to be more annoying while confused than he is without it

I decided to get this critter to the brink of death

Just to blow him up along half my party because #YOLO

Since Oersted it's out of pokeballs, someone must hit the bench

[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khmudXrDemU[/media]

"I don't wanna sound like a dick but.........WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU TWO!?!?!?"

"I'm Mustadio, and this is my dad: Besrodio"

"THEN WHY DO YOU LOOK LIKE A GOBLIN!?!?!?"

"I don't know.........herpes?"

"Hmmm.....................I can live with that. Now, back to the topic"

"Why you think that?"

"Remember what happen at the church"

*Flashback*

"Okay then: Let's me show you something"

*Put red stone on the table*

"it's this what troubles you?"

"Then it's true: The Zodiac Braves did exist.....Then Bart......."

"it's decided then: You must bring back that stone to the church so we can protect it"

"But what if Bart's Company found it first?"

"I'm going with you: You can pay me later if you like"

"Thanks, Oersted"

"It's seems this is our cue. Thanks for everything, Oersted: Please be safe"

"I will, Agrias. Take care of Ovelia"

*End of the flashback*

"They are the only ones who could have told Bart about the whereabouts of the stone: There it's no doubt"

"The people it's tired of both monsters and monarchy: This is their big chance"

"Then......what we can do now?"

"Let's contact an old friend of mine"

And there's the end of that.

I was kind of disappoint: I was prepared for a gruesome battle and then I found up myself with a big handicap out of nowhere.......Speaking of extremely lucky. But the battle itself wouldn't be that different however: Just spam the regular dosis of status effects and you have it in the bag.

And here it is my last unit to fully saturate my roster of pokemons monsters. For now on, I will kick out people in favor of adding new ones

Captain Planet it's back, and now it's packing some heat:

Learned Skills:

Mediator:

Caution: Reduce CT by 25
Mimic Daravon: Inflict Sleep on target (AoE 1, Bypass reflect)
Praise: Inflict Reraise on target

Summoner:

Teleport: The unit can move almost anywhere instantly. chances of success are reduce by 10% each step you're exceed from your maximum movement

<Wizard>

Fireball: Fire elemental (Range 5, AoE 2)

<Dragoon>

Interrupt: Cancel skill/spell charging on target (Range 4)
Leg Aim: Add Stop (Range: Weapon)
Arm Aim: Add Don't Act (Range: Weapon)

"Yes, I got some time to relax. But what should I do? Hmm.........Maybe I should hit the bar and-"

You can always take freebies when I don't update this threat, dude

Gonna be honest here: This battle kicked my ass so much that I had to watch Augestein's Lp in search of ideas (Don't worry: I didn't copycat his run on this one)

First of all: I'm shutting down as many dragoons I can while cock-blocking these two Plagues with confusion song 

Arioch kinda save my bacon now and then with clutch Interrupt landing on the right moment

Aaaaaaaand this is why going all status on their hides doesn't pay off that well: Plagues have synchronize so any status inflict on them will be transferred to our units and Byblos have shed skin so they can shrug off things like poison or berserk like nothing most of the time. Of course, this doesnt mean you don't want status effect here: Trap the soul can easily shut down anyone here and they can't do anything to cure the unit hit with it and Oersted can also mined their efforts with a good Leg/Arm Aim

Did I mentioned that Byblos can die on a fire?

Dragoons are gone from the picture

Serene Grace (Doubles proc rates) can be such a beauty and a horror when it happens......

some reflect shenanigans later and now I got to deal with Ramuh once again (for the reference, Innocent WILL fade off if you take too long to end these battles)

ONE PUNCH MAN STRIKE AGAIN!!!

I'm amazed with Arioch: He missed three 80% hits IN A ROW. it doesn't help that the Byblos can end someone's life with Bio 2 if this keeps up

Thanks god the other Byblos decides to be dumb and dies from a counter magic proc

Please, I need to end this so my wounds can heal!!! (Also, DAT 20% Shield Block)

And Gasper comes back with a vengeance (Really, Ghosts are you best bet against Plagues since counter magic cripples them with Life drink reversing on undead units)

Aaaaaand Done. My thoughts? It was as painful as the first time I did this whole thing (And bare in mind that on 2.29, this battle was nerfed because it was outright impossible without heavy RNG on you part). My suggestion it's to bring someone who can block the plagues since they are the most mobile units of the bunch. Dragoons are a joke since Sleep/Trap the soul can deal with them quite nicely and Byblos are bards with Black Magic so beware leaving them alone for too long.

"Dad, I'm gonna out in search of a demon!!!"

"Sure son, have fun"

This setup it's brought to you by The legend of dragoons:

Learned skills:

Dragoon:

Seal Evil: Add Petrify (Range: Weapon)
Limited Wish: Revive target with 1-20 Hp (Range:2)

Thief:

Concentrate: Physical attacks have 100% accuracy

Monk:

PA Save: +1 PA each time you receive damage

Why Ivalice has a fucking radioactive swamp that can potentially poison you it's beyond me

Believe or not, this battle doesn't need any kind of heavy RNG manipulation to avoid shit like Ghostly Touch, just lots and lots of patience

Speaking of them: They're really won't lose any time into charging up Dark Holy to nuke out units. For some reason one of them decides to go melee

Not that I mad about it......

Since the only thing to worry about it's those flying nuisances, I better buff myself before the shitstorm comes to me

"Sorry, but my planet needs me......"

Petrifying moves are kind on the lower end when it comes to hit, but since my whole team sans Zelda can petrify at will, it's just a matter of time before getting what I want here

And this somehow manages to miss. Sometimes I wonder if I'm playing Thracia 776 all over again

*And here we have my newest exhibition of statues. I call it "When the RNG goes wrong"

Licking your way out won't happen here, buddy

For those who disregard the bow gun as "useless": here it's your proof of why it exist

And down he goes. My opinion? this place it's overrated as "fucking annoying" since you don't need to move your ass to achieve any result here, just look at this "master plan":

- Wait for Ghosts to approach the team (they will, don't worry)
-Petrify the fuckers
-Lure out the flans and morbols (Ovelia would be ideal for that)
-All-out-Attack
-Profit

Yeah, you can try and hit them till they die, but that's even more dangerous since you're probably leaving a ghost in critical, which cause 90% of the time their use of Ghostly touch to avoid death so just rely on statuses and be done with it

Meanwhile............

Nah dude, the only thing I got from the old man was some stinky pants

Well, fuck you too

"BTW, I was ambush by some tentacles on my mission, it has something to do with you?"

Foreshadowing........ (Not a good one, but the thought it was counts in the end)

Ramza decides to steal some booty this time

Since CH2 started, this is actually the only compelling reason why I should get my hands dirty (Mustadio doesn't count: We're pursued by Bart's company because no one could say no to a morbol that just joined three battles ago)

Geomancers are NASTY: They can completely obliterate you and the rest of the enemies won't make reach them easier

The damage here it's not my concerning: That petrify proc it's doubled by Serene Grace (which it's an innate of the class), so I'm facing a 60/40 chance of lose someone either by damage or the status when geomancy it's used.

Status it's the key: especially when you have someone with 100% chance of inflicting one of these

PLEASE, JUST DO SOMETHING!!!

And then I just miss a 75% stop. Thanks for the tip, Musti

Being hit by Titan it's this game answer to my previous LTC on Zaland 1

This battle it's exciting, I can tell

But in the end, everyone's here it's a victim of the RNG (I win thought)

Let's take note as Mustadio just disregard space-time continuity and teleports inside this joint to open the door

I like this one: 40% chance of shut one someone without killing it's quite horrible, so you should deal with everything outside their range and then go YOLO until they die. Just leave someone outside to heal the fallen ones and you're peachy

Since the original friendly ghost wasn't available, I just brought a cousin of him

The arcana it's the mean which all will be revealed...........

"We won't accept your demands: A random morbol ask us to take him along!!!!"

"..............Are you hearing yourself, Agrias?"

THIS PLACE IT'S OUTRIGHT UNFORGIVING FOR FIRST TIMERS: You will need several scouts before find out the little secret behind this fight, so please tag along and try to take notes so you can avoid as much suffering as you can

This is by far the only heavy RNG-reliant action in this battle: Airburn can land his status effects twice, so I decided to bring him along to shut down one behemoth while Agrias makes sure to throw on him a Plume (Why Leg Aim? because if I landed petrify, the AI would prioritize healing the damn thing with Energy and I need at least one turn to set up without his meddling)

Both demons decided to pull their attention into killing Airburn, so Xypha takes a run for it an target two foes with Stop and roll (this is the only spell that any of them cannot resist without involving Oersted). Mustadio does his job perfectly and now I just need to deal with the trees and bezekira

Sadly, one Taiju decides to be a dick and remove reraise from Airburn, so Oersted waste some CP making sure that he survives Dark holy

Everything's going according to keikaku*

After some clean-up, Oersted begins my sinister plan of drug the blasted things with Temazepam

MUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDA!!!!!

OHHH CRAP, THAT BEHEMOTH GOT FREE OF STOP I'M SCRE-

............................................

Just................Just go back to sleep, buddy (To be fair, his friend was charging Stone Edge but still IDK why the AI expected that I wouldn't go and kill him before that happens)

Even thought I took control of this joint, Taijus are well know as annoying as fuck, so they can make a full comeback if I let them (like here for example, that hellish Behemoth was charging a three-turns Hurricane, for the love of god!!!)

Poison doing the honors

It seems like someone has been taking classes with Delita about being edgy and stuff

Wow, this battle surely took a tool on me: Most of my resets were cause by those Taijus healing everyone by obscene amounts of HP, thus nullifying my meager attempts of a clean run. The secret behind this place? Bring people who can cast stop and sleep: killing it is not your priority here, you must shut down 3 or 4 units before you're even think about try it because again, Taijus are on the loose. Still, I don't mind that much since once I got pass that gruesome start, everything went smooth.

Today's team. I'm not including Oersted's setup since he's the same as last time

Why in hell are you laying our path towards the church? I got the feeling that almost all CH2's fights are because they are using the map backwards

On this battle, we have the one simple objective: Get rid of the world most dangerous race...................

Yeah....... feel their wrath!!!!

Since we got the time, why not?

This chemist here decides to try out Dance Dance Revolution, thus provoking several seizures and epilepsia on my folks

Trying to drop out a Moogle once it's cured from petrify it's quite the ordeal: They can resist almost any status effect, so magic it's the only way to get rid of them (Poison can also deal with them since they can't heal themselves thankfully)

Let's burn the witch!!!

Don't worry little creature, Agrias will release you from that pain very soon.........

Since I forgot to take more battle pics here's the resume: Hyper Beam was the MVP

Ovelia go to the swamp, you're drunk

"Can't someone hear people's talking about their deep secrets in peace?!?!?!"

Funny fact: Since my epsxe cannot reproduce all sounds, Ovelia it's the only one making any sound at all. LOL

Overall, I feel like Zaland 2 it's supposed to be the place where you learn about special conditions: Yeah the moogles are petrified but once the're cured from it, you cannot put themn back to extinction unless you nuke them out, so better avoid dealing with them at all (easy said than done)

Sorry, my bad. Fixed

On my way into the next battle, I caught this beauty. I won't change her name because LMAO (Yes, it's a she)

Oersted goes full anime this time:

Summoner:

Moogle: Heals Hp ( AoE: 2, Proc:Reraise, Damage undead)
Titan: Earth Elemental spell (AoE: 2, if target has float --> Heals Hp, Proc: Protect)

Time Mage:

Haste 2:Accelerate CT gaining by 50% (Range 3, AoE: 2)
Float: Adds Float on target (AoE: 1, Range 4)

#YOLOTactics

IDK why we get a choice here since this is a "But thou must" situation, but hey we get to stab some dudes/dudettes

This place it's AWFUL: Unlike Sand Cellar you got both a height and position disadvantage, thus be prepared to be bombarded by several spells before you even reach Mustadio

Not that he will survive long enough to do something................

I kinda mind-fucked the AI: Since most of my team it's weak to confusion, the dragons decided to throw confusion song, thus putting themselves right in front of this wall, where Dusk was waiting with a nice and warm mimic daravon, while Agrias baits someone else to avoid any meddling. I love being miles ahead the enemy for once

Boco's Geomancy and +2 range kinda owns (especially with these kind of procs)

This is how I beat this chapter:

Titan+ Sheer Power + Short Charge + 13 MA =

A lot of corpses

How cute, he thinks I will let him heal himself

Since you can already guess how it went, let's go back to the plot

"Not that I had a choice........"

"Did you say something?"

"NOTHING!!!"

"WOAH THERE!!! That was.............sudden"

"It's not like I don't trust you, but Titan it's right behind you and I can't stop him from break this joint unless you talk, so....................."

And then Agrias spoils the fun

Let me say this straight: DON'T TRY TO PUSH YOUR WAY INSIDE THE CITY!!!!!!!!!!

Just react to their behavior accordingly, kill them off fast with AoE spells (Like Titan here) and forget Mustadio: his fatass was destined to get nuked since the word go, so avoid rely on him

I decide to leave him as Time Mage since Short Charge and 8 speed can dominate pretty much the entirety of CH2

Learned Skills:

Time Mage:

Short Charge: Halves CT charging of spells

Oracle:

Blind: Inflict Blind on target (AoE 1, Range 4)
Paralyze: Inflict Don't Act on target (AoE 1, Range 4)
Sleep: Inflict Sleep on target (AoE 1, Range 4)

...................Should I call the police or the PETA?

"I'm telling you this isn't the right way- huh?"

I would be surprised if I didn't know that he's an asshole thought and thought

"SHUT THE HELL UP YOU TWO!!!: I'm tired of follow everyone's wishes and neglect my own will. I'm saving that Morbol because I WANT TO, ALRIGHT!?!?!?"

Today's map it's quite dynamic: Gaffy dealing scary amounts of damage, Squids pilling up status effects, Priests being annoying as balls and Morbols are just a whole different level of dangerous with a AoE party wide nuke attack 

First off: Oersted puts to sleep half of their team (That poor Morbol got petrified by a random proc from Delita's counter flood triggered by Gaffy's Night sword)

Thanks god I did plan ahead of time, because otherwise I would had to deal with three confusing song, two holy and maybe a bad breath on top of that

Let's waste their turn, shall we? (This will bite me in the ass later, so keep that in check)

Hasting the whole team and Airburn goes kamikaze before going down like a boss

>Delita use "If I were a boy - Beyonce"

> IT'S SUPER EFFECTIVE!!!

I.........I got nothing: She's just that DUMB

At least she can keep Delita "lubricated" if you know what I mean ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) (Also, Agrias stop doing that: You're getting Copyright)

I just LOVE how Gaffy decides to unceremoniously wake up, snark at us and then get back to sleep. It's just a perfect example of how I see senile people on a battlefield

So.....I stop/petrify this dude, then Othelos throw Esuna to cure Airburn's poison and hits Ovelia by mistake, who had reflect previously set by Agrias, thus bouncing off the spell all the way back at the Morbol, healing his petrify/stop

And this is why you won't see me abusing reflect

Gaffy get destroyed by all the sins he carries (and a well put eclipse), but ends up escaping

And thus, it all depends on this little fella over here. YOU CAN DO IT!!!!

(spoiler: He doesn't make it)

Rule 34 got

I'm kinda curious now that you ask

Ohhh Delita, you're such a charm!!!!

Overall, I like this: Status effects are quite dangerous now and being bombarded by all of them at once let's you realize how useful reflect has become (or how annoying reflect shenanigans can get further ahead). I suggest to bring someone with 8 speed so you can at least disable Gaffy since Moxie can turn anyone into a murder machine (let alone someone with geomancy)

EDIT: I kinda brain-farted at Oersted image of badassery at the start of the battle, now it's fixed

Learned Skills:

Monk:

Chakra: PA based Hp and Mp healing (AoE 1 around target, heals undead units)
Stigma Magic: Heals Several status effects (AoE 1 around user)

Note: From now on, I will do a random battle in-between battles to even out lvls between party members

Cut-scene: Some monsters are discussing if chocobos could be use at KFC

That "OMG" really ruins the whole scene, thought

This battle it's filler: Those dudes can't do jack shit until they're near and the Taiju it's the glue that keeps everything going here (not that she will do a good job at all but whatever)

#BashTheChicken

I'm starting to recall why I don't use dragons at all

Let's see: Raise, Divine Intervention, Arise.............Nope, you're screw buddy

They decide to do something resembling a threat and target both attacks on Agrias. The bad new? it would kill her. The good news? They're put themselves in front of me

Taiju comes to the rescue.........and then she gets stopped

And down she goes. Man, I starting to wonder if I should add more restrictions............(spoilers: I won't since that's outright suicidal)

"That dude was speaking nonsense about using common sense and stuff. He was badungus!!!"

Hey Chikka: Guess who's going back to the barn

I don't even need to explain this: Just be aware that Taijus are magic tanks and you're fine

"Speaking of fishy: You were standing right there looking into the lake for like an hour, did something happen?"

"I......."

*Door opening*

*light steps*

"Excuse Agrias, where's Ovelia?"

"..............Do you realize I'm a knight with a sword, right?"

It's not like you have choice, little fella: She pays you for something

While Oersted dwell into his past year, all the monsters manage to digivolve growth into their adults forms. We also gain new allies (As to why Murkton was replaced, let's just say his taste was quite intriguing............)

Oersted decides that the best way to deal with life's problems it's to punch them until they disappear:

Chemist:

Light Curtain: Adds Protect on target
Lunar Curtain: Adds Shell on target
Mirror: Adds reflect on target
Ether: Restores 50% max MP

Monk;

Spin Fist: Attacks targets around the user (AoE 1)
Wave Fist: Attack target from affar (Wind elemental, Range 3)
Revive: Revive target with 33% Max HP (Range 3)

"Shhh: I can hear some people talking......."

"(Hmph: A least someone recognize my real value here)"

"OH, COME ON!!!"

"It's them, ATTACK!!!"

Today's battle it's a pain in the ass: everyone can revive each other (or even worse: apply reraise/protect/shell). dragging the battle until you get screw by the RNG eventually. Not dealing with that

Since both Gaffy and Agrias got Item/throw item combo, I just park myself there an buff my units

Both chocobos decides to mana bomb my party, so Helligor goes in with a paralize, also hitting a nearby thief (Sadly, Agrias doesn't get the same luck)

Things like interrupt can take you far here

thanks for the clutch HP restore: Let me repay your kindness

And down he goes

"............Would you care to explain where the hell are we going? I'm not exactly a Psico"

"So you wanna-"

"DON'T YOU DARE, XYPHA"

I would like to upload more images but this battle was that easy: Chocobos can't deal well with things like sleep or confuse, and thief are only dangerous at turn 1 since they move first, but they are as tanky as Edward, so there's that too