Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Day 87


Game - Final Fantasy XIII, Day 87
Hours Played/Hours Total - 4-1/2 hrs / 18 hrs
Starting Point - Palumpolum - The Metrostile.
Current Goal - Make it through Palumpolum and head for Eden. Do whatever it is that Sazh and Vanille are going to do...probably be wimps.

What Happened - This game is going so slowly, and I'm not looking forward to keeping up with it. Oh well! I must persevere and keep moving on. I just hope something will come along and make me go "Huh....I really would like to learn more." So far, that's a big fat "No". Anyways, enough of this, onward to find out how Lightning and Hope do! Probably not well if I were to guess.
     To bring you up to speed, we just entered Palumpolum, and the place was occupied by PSICOM soldiers. Our current plan was to sneak past the guards here, enter the town, and head to Eden via a train or airship. Rather than sneak past them though, I just fought them. There's no real penalty for fighting them instead, so...why not? We fought a couple guards, ran through some pipes, and reached our first goal! Hope pointed out a giant opening in a pipe as we came here, and he claimed that it would let us slip past the guards.
     That opening lead to a strange underground facility. As we come to the main area, we stop briefly for a small scene. Hope says he never found an exit in here, so he has no idea where it goes to. Lighting pushes him on though and figures we'll find it now. Shortly after that, I learned that this place is a food production plant that creates food for most of Cocoon. As we adventure through the place, we run into several mechanical monster hybrids that are all over for some reason. We come to the middle of the place, and Hope identifies the large glowing thing in the middle. It's the food production fal'Cie, Carbuncle. Creepily enough, the two of them contemplate actually KILLING the food production fal'Cie. Their reasoning was that they ARE enemies now, and killing it would be enemy-like. It'd cut off the food supply, and Cocoon would be in an uproar. The opt out of this though because it'd cause too much trouble. (Seriously, that's just messed up. The people get fancy tattoos on their bodies and suddenly become psychopaths.)
     Enough about that though, let's move right on through this food production plant. We float about, fight more enemies, and then SUDDEN REALIZATION MOMENT SCENE! They both look back at the fal'Cie Carbuncle and reconsider their life for a moment. Cocoon is full of fal'Cie that are all in place to take care of them and basically do EVERYTHING for them. Hope thinks that maybe they're all just like parasites living off of the fal'Cie, but Lightning realizes something more. They're not parasites...She thinks they are more like pets! She goes on to say something about them being on a leash and society and blah blah blah. There's a lot said here, but I think they're barking up the wrong tree. It's not a bad theory, but I can't see it as the right one...or at least as a good one.
     Anyways, after all this realization crap, Lightning tells Hope that they shouldn't just attack everything now and stop being all vengeful. She wants to cancel Operation Nora. Hope isn't too happy to hear this though. She's gotten him all ramped up and excited to fight, but now she wants him to abandon it all at a turn of a realization. Then...the scene ends and we move right along.
     Of course, it doesn't get too far before Hope brings up the next scene. He's all like "What are we supposed to do now!?!" Of course, Lightning was mostly trying to get Hope off his murder plans. She still plans for them to take up a fight, but she doesn't know against who at this point. Hope is all "GRR! l'Cie are ticking time bombs! What does it matter!?" She tells him that there is hope for them, and goes off to say something about hope because his name is Hope! (THAT IS SO CLEVER GUYS! I NEVER SAW THAT COMING! /end CAPSLOCK SARCASM) Thankfully, it breaks off of that bit and goes on to something slightly more interesting/not about Hope.
     Lightning explains to Hope why she calls herself Lightning and not her real name...which she doesn't reveal. When they were young, Lightning's parents died, so she had to take care of Serah. At some point, she figured that calling herself Lightning would change who she was. Of course, she quickly found out that was completely wrong and changed nothing. After explaining this, she has a weird flashback that takes place in real-life and right now. She sees Serah with Snow and realizes that only Snow believed her about being a l'Cie. Of course, Hope gets all worked up when he hears Snow's name, and he starts to go off. He didn't have time to think about all of this until they finally stopped here though, but he apologizes for getting all worked up. True translation of the entire scene? They both just now realized that they were completely wrong to go all RAAAAAAWR and try to attack and destroy Sanctum. Now they don't know what to do at all!
     With that, the scene is over and I continue onwards to find an elevator. Lightning tells Hope that he should talk with his father and inform him of what has happened. Hope has daddy issues though, so he isn't so sure about that idea. However, Lightning makes a pun of telling him that he needs to find the hope that he was named for. She can help him stay alive, but she can't put the hope in Hope that Hope needs. The two ride up the elevator and it's now CUTSCENE TIME!
     Hope and Lightning ride the elevator to the surface and find themselves smack dab in the middle of "caught". Hundreds of PSICOM soldiers and ships drop down to meet them. Lightning tells Hope to make a run for it while she attempts to keep hundreds of soldiers busy. Then we suddenly shift to a different spot and see Snow has shown up along with the lady l'Cie from earlier on. He summons up the Shiva cycle and starts taking out PSICOM soldiers left and right. There's a bunch of shooting going on, but Snow takes them all down. As he comes to a stop, he is all like "HEY GUYS!"
     Lightning seems to have something else in mind though, and she randomly runs off. Hope is left there with Snow and random lady. The lady chases after Lightning, so now I'm left with my two most favorite characters in the game! Yay... However, before that, I get into another battle with more PSICOM soldiers. Snow is alone here, but I immediately start the battle on the Shiva Cycle and mess everybody up without much trouble. Once that battle was over, it's time for the dynamic duo of Hope and Snow to pair up and fight their way out of here.
     Snow explains briefly that he was picked up by the Cavalry and suggests that something much bigger is at work here. Of course, the game hasn't said what is going on yet, so I get to make another trip into Datalogs Land for the actual story. Basically, Cid Raines is the leader of the Cavalry. Due to the nature of their purpose, the Cavalry is free from both PSICOM and Guardian Corps. They are the sky police, but they're generally free from having to obey the others. Anyways, Cid Raines started gathering up Pulse l'Cie to deal with Sanctum. Why? Because he feels they're just blindingly followings the Sanctum fal'Cie and that something isn't right here. He knows there is bad dealings, so he's going to do something about it!
     Well, Snow and Hope decide that it's time to hightail it out of here. I fought through several groups of PSICOM soldiers and work my way up and out of the current area. I get to take all the lovely ice tunnels that Snow made with the Shiva cycle. This eventually leads me up and around to a random spot near the top of the area. The two of them head into a random alley, and we get a very ridiculous little scene between Snow and Hope. The two of them get to talk for just a bit, and Snow makes a complete ass of himself...Unfortunately for him, he doesn't know this right now. He talks with Hope about how the adults are all stupid for fighting this war and that they are all going to die because of it. On top of that, he mentions the name NORA although he's talking about the group NORA and not Hope's mom, Nora.
     Hope is just taking all of this the wrong way of course, so he's INSANELY mad about everything that Snow said during the scene. The kid even gets the knife out and ready, and it's looking like he's about to backstab hobo-san! (A new nickname I thought up for Snow.) Of course, before that happens, Snow pulls out some tiny little device and starts talking with the lady who went after Lightning. Of course, I might as well give her name now that it's all out in the open, and because she's becoming a main party member. Without further ado...
Thankfully just goes by Fang...
Oerba Yun Fang
     It's Fang! She's a lady with a spear and yet another ridiculously designed suit. Anyways, the groups talk over the communicator briefly and decide to meet up at Hope's house. I sure hope that Hope doesn't kill Snow...although I wouldn't care if he did. Hope talks with Lightning briefly on the communicator and tells her that he's going through with Operation Nora. Lightning doesn't get a chance to respond because their communicator is then jammed. Then the game throws a random shift in there to inform me that PSICOM is about to go all-out and basically ignore the safety of the city's civilians. It's many of the soldiers' hometown, so they aren't really for this, but they can't go against it either. Then we go back to Fang and Lightning.
     The lady duo continues on for a ways, fights off a couple soldiers, and then another scene drops down. Lightning finally asks Fang who she is, and she gets the full answer...mostly. Fang says that she is a l'Cie much like the rest of the group (although her mark is frozen/faded for some reason). The bigger reveal here is that Fang...ISN'T FROM COCOON! (Dun dun duuuuuun!) She actually comes from the world below called Gran Pulse (Cocoon people's call it just Pulse.), and she also lets us know that she was with a Vanille, who is also from Gran Pulse. Of course, I already figured this out basically forever ago, but now I get to hear all the backstory to it!...at a later time.
     Now, I'm switching back to Hope and Snow. Their path takes them into a fairly different scenario. They come upon a group of PSICOM soldiers escorting civilians through the city. Snow is pretty sure that they'll be treated badly and most likely purged because of all this. Of course, he plans to help all of them. Hope is just at the side and still angry. I run through the streets and fight off quite a few soldiers before coming upon a large group of civilians. This is where Snow enacts one of his many great spur-of-the-moment plans! He runs up and knocks out the only soldier around here. Then, he proceeds this by shouting out "I AM PULSE l'CIE! I AM GOING TO KILL YOU ALL!"
     This scares everybody off, and one might question his sanity, but he's doing it for a reason that becomes apparent immediately. As soon as everybody runs off, PSICOM soldiers fly onto the scene and shoot up everything. Snow informs Hope that they would have opened fire on everyone because they don't care about civilian casualties at this point. With the scene over, I end up fighting a couple of the PSICOM flyers before we head on. Despite our "protecting" them, the people have all come back to pick a fight because...all they see is Pulse l'Cie here.
     It's your generic angry mob going with random pieces of anything as weapons. It would be menacing...If we didn't have magical superpowers. Snow brings them all to a halt by using some magic to bring down a nearby sign. Realistically, it's only a slight hindrance, but it definitely stopped the mob. Then, Snow grabs a nearby flying unit thing, and the duo flies up and off! PSICOM soldiers come on the scene just as the two take off, but of course, none of these guys have jetpacks/whatever to follow after them. Snow and Hope manage to get a short ways above it all, but they crash land on the top of a nearby building.
     From there, it's another lovely scene. Snow is trying to boost Hope's hope. He tells him that he plans to save Serah and all of Cocoon despite the citizens wanting to eliminate them right now. Of course, as Snow is giving his pep speech, Hope rains down with negativity. As usual, I'm going to summarize what he said in 3... 2... 1... "WE HAVE NO HOPE! A QUICK DEATH IS THE BEST OPTION FOR US!" And...that's pretty much it for that scene. Time to move right along!
     We run along the rooftops and fight off more flying PSICOM soldiers and a couple of flying motorcycles. We're progressing fairly well and getting pretty close to Hope's home. Before we get there though, have another small scene. Hope confronts Snow with an interesting question. He asks Snow about his wanting a family and what he'd do if that was taken from him. Snow responds that he'd do whatever it takes to get them back, but then Hope further pushes and asks what would happen if it couldn't be taken back. Snow doesn't really have an answer to this though, and he doesn't get the opportunity to answer it. Because then a giant flying red dragon robot flies in! BOSS BATTLE TIME!
     Well, it's a red robot dragon, so it just flies around and uses Fire to attack. Unfortunately for him, Hope has the Barfire spell, so that makes most of this battle incredibly easy. I didn't even have to take much time to heal anybody. I just kept pounding away at the monster's health and quickly beat it. Barfire did most of the work here (as far as helping out is concerned), and once I staggered it, the battle was basically over. With the battle done, it's ANOTHER SCENE!... and this is a big one.
     After all this running and action, our heroes are a bit tired, so they stop for a short break. This scene is mostly about Hope, so...you've been warned. Otherwise, Hope finally comes out about everything during this scene. He does so through very well thought out questions aimed solely at Snow. Hope asks Snow what he plans to do again, and we get the same thing as before. He wants to save Serah, save Cocoon, and have a big happy family. Snow says it'll all work out, but then Hope asks him what will happen when others get involved. What about when it ruins their lives? What if someone DIES? During this, Snow has all these flashbacks of his friends in NORA and finally of Hope's mother, also Nora. This seems to finally hit home with him, and Snow breaks down. He admits that he doesn't have a clue what he should do and wishes he did. He goes on to say that there is nothing he can say or do to fix what has happened, but he has to move forward regardless. Then Hope tells him that there isn't an answer, but that Snow deserves the same fate! Hope explodes with magic rage energy that pushes Snow off a nearby ledge. As he hangs from the ledge, Hope approaches him to finish the job. He FINALLY tells him what he's all angry about as well. He reveals this his mother was Nora Estheim, and she died because of him. Snow suddenly realizes that this WAS the kid (droids) he was looking for!
     This emotionfest is quickly interrupted by a PSICOM airship flying in though. It comes down and shoots a couple missiles at the two. This blows up the area, and the explosion flings Hope off the ledge. Snow goes after him, grabs him, and protects him from the fall. They slam through a couple random glass awnings before they smack right into the ground. And...Snow is pretty beat up from it, but we don't get to see any more for the time being. The game jumps back over to Team Ladies.
     Lightning and Fang are just talking here, and it seems that Fang has brought her up to speed on what is the happenings. We get another rendition of the flashback days with DAY FIVE! Fang says that her and Vanille woke up and couldn't remember what they were supposed to do. They're both Pulse l'Cie, but neither remember what their Focus was. The video that takes place at this point shows them walking around an area and just trying to figure things out. They're arguing over the situation at hand, and there's quite a bit thrown back and forth here. However, Fang tells Vanille that their main goal is to figure out what their Focus was. She pushes Vanille into a nearby elevator and sends her up while Fang deals with some local guards. The last thing Fang told Vanille was that she'd come and find her...and the flashback ends there. Time to hit up the ol' datalog for more info!
     Yet again, I'm having to refer to the datalog for all the information. You don't HAVE to read the datalog every time, but there have been points where the game just kinda throws random information at you and never explains it. The datalog is to clear up like 80% of what is said and not explained basically. Moving on. Like previously stated, the two ladies, Fang and Vanille, are from the world below known as Pulse. They woke up from being Crystals but had completely forgotten their Focus. Upon their awakening, they actually opened up the giant tower where the Pulse fal'Cie was laying dormant. This ended with Serah being branded by the Pulse l'Cie as well. The two made sure that Serah was okay and got home alright, but they felt bad because the fal'Cie Anima had created a new l'Cie.
     At the same time, Fang's l'Cie mark seemed to be scorched and faded, but Vanille's was the same as before. Fang doesn't want Vanille to become a Cie'th, so the two set out to try and remember their Focus. The first thought here was to attack an enemy (Sanctum) fal'Cie, and that would cause them to remember. They went to the energy plant where the fal'Cie Kujata lived and attacked it. Unfortunately, this just caused the fal'Cie to lash out and brand the only available human around, Sazh's son Dajh. This attracted unwanted attention, and it had unforeseen results. This is the part the video showed of them running and arguing. After Fang dealt with their pursuers, she tried to find Vanille, but she never located her. She ended up being caught by the Cavalry and joined with them since she had no real other choice. /end datalog
     Now we are here! Fang seemingly told Lightning all of this, but the game didn't show that part. Lightning wasn't too happy and ended up slapping Fang for this. Fang said that she felt bad for getting more people involved in the whole fal'Cie thing, and her passing on the story and doing what she has is all she can do to apologize. She added that Snow knows all of this as well, but that it gave him a renewed hope for Serah being released from her crystal form. With all that out of the way, the two set out on their own path to Hope's house. We fight off several groups of PSICOM soldiers before reaching another scene.
     Fang tries to contact Snow with a communicator they used earlier, but it's still jammed. So...the two decide to talk a bit instead. The biggest thing revealed here is that both sides seem to believe the same thing about the other. By both sides, I mean Cocoon and Pulse. Cocoon views Pulse as the enemy, and Pulse sees Cocoon as the enemy. Also, Fang refers to the world below as Gran Pulse, instead of just Pulse. Fang can't remember anything about her Focus no matter how hard she tries. She says she can remember everything before and up to it but not the actual Focus itself. She is determined to figure it out though because otherwise Vanille will become a Cie'th. Time to move on! (Random datalog that I looked up, our two Pulse friends were locked in stasis HUNDREDS of years ago!)
     We fight through a few more battles and that leads to more talking! Fang brings up that she knows a lot about l'Cie marks and tells Lightning about it. She takes a quick peek at Lightning's l'Cie brand and knows she has quite some time left. Apparently, the brand slowly grows in size and eventually turns into an eye. When the eye fully opens, the l'Cie is turned into a Cie'th. After the short explanation, Fang gives out her master plan for what she is going to do. She plans to find and help Vanille with their Focus, and then she will return to Gran Pulse with her. Lightning feels bummed out hearing this because Fang has a plan while she...does not. Lightning doesn't know what she'll do, and even if the group destroys Sanctum, what's left? Fang encourages Lightning to keep going and to live for Serah's sake.
     As this little moment of encouragement ends, they spot some airships flying overhead. That's followed by an explosion in the distance, so the two stop talking and head straight in that direction. Then we get a nice little jump back to Snow and Hope. Snow is waking up from this massive fall that probably should have killed him. Then he crawls over to Hope and picks him up. Despite Snow being all broken up, he manages to carry the kid and start moving. Hope's unconscious body drops the knife that Lightning gave him. Snow seems to recognize it and grabs it before moving along. Then we shift back to the lady duo.Fang and Lightning are heading towards the explosion from earlier, but there's nothing really added storywise at this point. We fight a couple battles before heading off into a scene change back to Snow and Hope.
     Snow managed to climb a ladder up the building he just fell off of. Not only did he manage that, he did so with a super-broken body and carrying a knocked-out Hope. A lot of emotion takes place in this scene, but I'm going to just cut to the point of it all. Snow apologizes to Hope for all that has happened, and he says that he wishes there was a way to make up for it. He knows there isn't anything he can do though. Hope asks why Snow saved him, and Snow tells him that he made a promise to Lightning and his mother to protect him. Snow admits that he was just running away and leaves his overall fate in Hope's hands. Then he hands Hope the fancy knife that's important because it is. The finally, at that very moment, Hope realizes something... Wanting revenge and taking it won't change what has happened or bring his mom back, so he just needs to move past it. (Congrats kid. Took you long enough...)
     Despite this new reasoning he found, Snow tells Hope that he is to blame and wants Hope to take it all out on him. Snow puts Hope down (he was still carrying him), and the kid is fine. Snow is all messed up though and just falls over. They stop to rest briefly, but then we get another PSICOM mecha-dragon! Snow leaps up to fight it, but he's out of it and gets knocked away immediately. I'm switched to control of Hope and BOSS BATTLE TIME!... with a single party member. I'm going to hope that this is a joke because as far as I could tell, I was going to lose horribly. I go a few rounds against this robot dragon thing (electric-type) and barely scratch the surface. Eventually, the battle drops out and into a cutscene. Fang and Lightning run up and join the fight! BOSS BATTLE TIME - REBOOTED!
     For this match, I was in control of Fang with Hope and Lightning as my secondary members. Really, this wasn't a very hard fight once I had three people. I only had to switch my Paradigms around to heal up people as necessary. The boss seemed to just lay all his hate on Lightning for most of the battle. I was able to beat away at it while it wasted it's time on a secondary member. (If they die, I just have to revive them. If I die, I get to fight the whole darn thing again.) Things went fairly well overall, but then it turned on Fang for the last portion of the fight. I just barely killed it as it was about to lay a final blow to kill Fang. It was an easy battle really, but I lucked out on that last hit. Anyways, with the boss out of the picture, the team hooks back up and prepares to move out.
     Hope tells Lightning that Operation Nora didn't work. Lightning is more than okay with this and hugs Hope. She tells him that she promises to protect him, and he tells her the same. Lightning helps Snow get up, and the group moves on. Then...a small time lapse and we're officially at Hope's home. Time to figure out what all the fuss was about! Hope rings the bell, his dad answers, and Hope just immediately throws out the bad news. Another small time lapse, and Hope is having a family moment with his dad. I get to wander around the house briefly as Fang, but there isn't much to do other than turn on a TV. Quick version of the "news report" is that everybody is freaking out and another purge is most likely on the way. Then I get to check in on Lightning and Snow.
     The two are in a separate room, and Snow suddenly wakes up. He tries to get up, but Lightning tells him to lay down and rest. He did fall down a building after all...With that settled, the two talk for a bit. Snow sees that Lightning has the survival knife again, and she explains that Hope gave it back. He doesn't need it anymore because he finally got past that whole "issue". Then...Lightning breaks it on down. She apologizes for overreacting to everything back there, feels bad about how she acted about Serah, and asks Snow for forgiveness. Snow says he might be able to give it if she'll tell him her name. Lightning tells him that he'll have to ask Serah. After their brief talk, Hope comes around and informs the two that his dad wishes to speak with them.
     The first thing that happens is Snow getting on his knees and begging for forgiveness. Hope's dad, Bartholomew, gives it to him because of one thing...Snow fulfilled Nora's last wish. She asked Snow to bring Hope back to his home, and he did it. For that, Bartholomew forgives him. The group then moves on to other business and start talking about the current situation. The people are afraid of the l'Cie despite their non-existent difference and the oncoming Purge business. Snow says that he'll destroy Sanctum (or as he calls them, the fal'Cie's puppet), but Bartholomew tells him that it won't be that simple. Snow hasn't considered what will happen if he destroys Sanctum. If he did that, people will simply freak out more and try to kill him even MORE. Their fear of Pulse will simply drive them to kill. Without the government, the people of Cocoon will break down and revolt. Bartholomew realizes that he is now in with them. He let them into his home and will be considered tainted (or whatever), but Hope's dad really wants to help them out. Of course, that's where this conversation ends because the ball drops.
     The power goes out, and PSICOM people are starting to surround the house. Snow wants to get in on the fight, but he's still out of it from his injury. He ends up taking Bartholomew and hiding. The other three band together to fight off the PSICOM insurgence. There isn't anything to special to deal with here, and I quickly eliminate all the soldiers. We try to leave the house next, but there is still a large squad of them out front. Snow and Bartholomew rejoin the group as we're hunkered down from enemy fire. Snow takes a leap of faith and "surrenders" himself. He tries to reason with the PSICOM soldiers, and for a moment there, it almost works.
     Snow just makes a short speech about how the l'Cie aren't their enemies and that Cocoon is their home as well...Why would they destroy it? Everybody seems to agree with him except their commander. The commander, named Rosch, steps in to talk with Snow. He agrees with Snow and understands what he is trying to say, but he believes that doesn't excuse what they are. It is left to him to execute all of the l'Cie. Snow seems okay with that because he's a l'Cie, but he demands that they stop the Purge. Rosch explains that the Purges are only enacted because the population is afraid of possible taint, and that sacrifices have to be made to restore order. Of course, that's when the order just falls apart. Someone throws a grenade at the group there, shots are fired, people are killed. The nearby soldiers are either gunned down or retreat. Rosch looks on in horror as everybody, including himself, gets all shot up by someone.
     So, by some blessing, we're able to move on! Hope ties up his dad so that he isn't included in all of this. Hope tells him that he can't live here now, but that he shall remain safe. He apologizes about running, but Bartholomew tells him that it's not running if it's a good choice to make. He believes his son will survive and do what needs to be done. Hope thinks that his father is referring to his Focus, but the man tells him to follow whatever he believes. Heartfelt moment time~ (Wait a few seconds...Back to the game.)
     Snow is completely unharmed despite all the gunfire and chaos that just went down. He's okay for the moment, but we aren't out of the fire yet because BOSS BATTLE TIME! We get to fight a giant airship that's fully ready for battle! First thing to say...This was a very annoying battle. Challenging? Yes, but also really annoying. Being in the sky, you can't attack it with melee strikes. Of course, every job (including the commando) has some form of a range attack, so this problem is basically moot.
     The airship is composed of five parts: the body, two turrets, and two hull pieces. You can attack the main body, but you don't do a lot damage that way. Instead, you have to focus on destroying the other four parts first. Once you destroy those, the body loses like 90% of its enormous health, and then you are left with just staggering it and blasting it. The airship has a pretty powerful set of attacks and likes to launch groups of missiles that REALLY mess up your party. Thus, I had to constantly switch between attacking and defense with healing. It was just an overly lengthy process regardless of how you go about it, and you have to be fairly careful or it'll just blow your team away. Regardless, I managed a win!
     The airship went down, and we're ready to get on the move. Then another airship pops out of nowhere and crap. The group realizes now that this is probably going to be endless, but then another ship flies in and blows up the one that just popped up. Most likely, this is a Cavalry airship. A group of PSICOM soldiers pop out along with one named soldier called Rygdea. He offers the group a ride, and Fang seems to recognize him. So...we good to go! We hop on the ship and fly off into the distance. Now's the time to check up on the other two!
     That's what I would say if the post weren't so long already. It's been too long since I've done a post, so I decided to cut it off here and end it with this. Vanille and Sazh are now in the Nautilus place, and they're hoping to avoid trouble. Will they? Probably not, but let's find out how they don't avoid the trouble. It's the start of Chapter 8, but it's the end of this post! That is all. Thank you to all ten of you who have remained patient and constantly checked my blog for new posts. This one...was for you.


Ending Point - Nautilus - Nautilus Station.
Current Party -
  • Sazh - Commando Lvl 2, Ravager Lvl 2, Synergist Lvl 2
  • Vanille - Ravager Lvl 2, Saboteur Lvl 2, Medic Lvl 2
Goals Accomplished - Snuck into Palumpolum and finally met up with Snow and mysterious lady, Fang. The party then re-split up but into different groups. Made it through with Snow and Hope and they got past their issues. (FINALLY!) Lightning and Fang rejoined Snow and Hope and reached Hope's house.
Next Goals - Explore Nautilus with Sazh and Vanille. Hopefully get them involved in the actual story rather than they just constantly run away. Make it back around to the rest of the crew. Complete their Focus I guess.

P.S. - A final note I'd like to make. My current goal is to beat this by the end of July. Yes, I realize I'm naming NEXT MONTH as my goal time, but this game along with work and other games I want to play has ruined my finishing anything in a timely fashion.
     As for the second chapter of my story, I'm getting ever so closer to finishing it. If you've ever written anything, you should know that writer's block is a bitch. I don't know if what I have is writer's block, but it's pretty darn close. I can really only motivate myself to write here and there, and I've undergone several revisions of current bits. I keep disliking what I write and then start over. Regardless of that, I've managed to make some progress and just purely improve it overall. There's a small chance I'll be adding yet ANOTHER chapter number to it all, but I'm going to try and avoid that. WISH ME LUCK!
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~May the Crystals Guide Me~

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