The Roger The Paladin Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Spoiler 13 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Turns out, Kaga was the mastermind behind Genjuro's evil deeds. He didn't want to do it, but he had to, because Kaga locked a very important thing behind selling women to slavery again. Genjuro's bravado was an attempt to provoke somebody to kill him, thus freeing him from his Kaga-induced misery. You know, you just referred to Sankuro as Genjuro... and accidentally defended the edgelord (who is probably a worse person than Sankuro regardless). But there's actually a sort of irony in what you're saying is half true. Sankuro was forced by another hand... that is that of the very edgelord in question (Genjuro). Hence the reason he shot him. See, Sankuro had 48 hours after hiring Genjuro to get what turned out to be an exuberant amount of money to pay him, or he was told he would be killed. The catch is both women he attempted to sell into slavery were the type that kicked his ass six ways to Sunday... so he not only wasn't able to capture them (if I were capable of getting Athena in my current LP, I'd have Ukyo be reminded of Charlotte due to certain similarities. Namely they're both women with a French accent in a foreign land with a skill with the sword and a strong sense of justice), but got a beating for it. It's also notable when one's playing Rimuru, he notes she's too young to sell into slavery... so he has standards. Low standards but standards nonetheless. Regardless, once Genjuro's shot, Sankuro ends up living a peaceful life with some of his subordinates. Genjuro on the other hand continues being an edgelord that would cut down men over looking at him funny and selling his sword to the highest bidder... until he canonically dies in Samurai Shodown 64-2 when the child of a man he had murdered knifes him in the back at what would have been the moment of his greatest victory. A lesson about the weed of crime bearing bitter fruit. 13 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Goodness, what have I created...? Remembering the seriousness of anything I use it for is null. It's just perfect for reflecting a psychotic tone to what's said. 13 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Axel's already good now, imagine when I get him a forged axe. It'd Axelerate the demise of his opponents. 13 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: With pleasure! ...Damnit, I don't have a gun! Foiled again...! I mean... you're writing a fanfic. Set in universe. Magic or crossbows exist. 13 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I mean, I think in all of his games the only archers that come close to sucking as hard as almost every post-Kaga archer are Luca, Tanya and Ronan. And even then, there are ways to make Tanya and Ronan work, so it's really only Luca that the likes of Wolt, Rebecca, Wil, Neimi, Rolf, etc. have a chance against. I'll have you know Wil is the best unit in FE7 because his name is punable. Also Rolf has access to the almighty three shoe beating. Which is broken. Spoiler 13 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I dare you to pun Gilgamesh. I double dare you! And no, making a pun with "mess" based on "mesh" alone doesn't work. Pun the whooooooooole thing. What do you call a net that catches fish by their respiratory systems? A Gil-ga-Mesh. What do you call an mermaid's ova? A Gil-Gamete. I tried to fit a pun straight into a sentence but none of them would Gilgamesh. Also if you killed the guy, he'd have been Gilgamashed. 13 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I like how you strategically ommited the last part of my comment in your quote. Was it strategic? Or was it merely clumsy? 13 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I don't think so. It was probably just an unrelated joke. Kaga most likely forgot about this man right after he created him. Years later, it turns out this guy was Kaga's self-insert and Slaver was just... slaver. 14 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: When I was younger, I studied abroad there for about five years. When I first got there, I was amazed at the city's magnificence and beauty... That's a long time to look at one woman. Also a very chauvinistic way of putting it. 14 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: D'awww... I wanted to know what Padolf's son is like. Does it start with a W, by any chance? Witch? No, he's male... so I don't think so. Wombat? No... that's a marsupial. Wretched? Yeah that works. 14 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: It went well, though I must say, he was not like I had imagined. He's quite an outspoken man. A daring and free spirit. He seemed to know you, as well. Yes... We've met... Found the woman he studied for 5 years. 14 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Wait, what are you talking about, Ward? How will she become the Duchess of Bornia? ...L-Lord Reese, you said it yourself, they're engaged... And yet, Tianna always claimed to be a non-combatant. She never spoke of any bouts between her and Lord Vester. ...Do... Do you not know what it means to be "engaged"? No, he doesn't. When Reese ends up with Lynette... because he misinterprets the engagement as agreeing to a fight. 14 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I'LL BE YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE IF YOU CONTINUE BEING SUCH AN INSOLENT, WORTHLESS MAGGOT. What if Gram's a cursed sword? It'd explain why he only started doing this after getting it. Maybe he's carrying the broken sword still. 14 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Yeah, they can have Gilgamesh. I can only hope he found what he came for... Yes. Gilgamesh found the Excalibur in your dungeon. Volcens thought it was a brilliant hiding place. 14 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: You know the drill, Erzie. I give you items, you give me money, the readers misspell your name. You beat me to the joke. 14 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Awwwww... Don't be too heartbroken, Cecily... At least you didn't fall for Reese. If it was Reese, he would've carefully read the letter from start to finish, and he'd still be convinced that it was an invoice. "How is taking your heart payment? Won't that kill you?" 14 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: ...Oh, God, this guy looks like a serial rapist... OH GOD HIDE THE CORNFLAKES. 14 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: ...You know, I considered editing his face here. Then I realized his standard portrait looks awful enough for this... ahem, this line. Incidentally, OH MY GOD HE REALLY IS A SERIAL RAPIST, RUN OH MY GOD REALLY HIDE THE CORNFLAKES! 14 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: But I've finally found you, Witch of Soleil! Fates has taught me that any mention of Soleil is traumatic to Ophelia. 14 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Oh, okay. Just... throw wild accusations at a person and then make no effort to explain yourself. Yeah, that works. Oooh. Sounds fun. Ophelia is a giraffe because they both have long necks... wait I did that wrong. I'm still more plausible than this guy. Let's try again. This guy is an asshole because they both vomit shit. Damn it I can't seem to get the hang of this. 14 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Me?! I can imagine Matthis saying this to Julian... except sober. 14 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: You might be no good... But you're good in my book. But no gettin' too friendly! No gettin' hitched or anythin', you got that?! Though... if he made friends with Julian by the end of New Mystery... I could sort of imagine him saying this if he got this drunk. You know, basic "look after my sister, but you're still a dirty thief so stay away from my sister" drunken logic. 14 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Always impresses me the extent of your knowledge when it comes to comics. An on and off side project of mine for the last few years has been creating a sort of index if you will. Assorted things, like a full chronological listing of appearances of characters (there's been attempts online at similar, but they tend to be flawed due to being abandoned mid-way through or errors stemming from inconsistent standards on what constitutes an appearance thanks to crowd-sourcing. I'd like to clarify a wanted poster or an image on a computer monitor with their face in profile is not, in my opinion a valid appearance, nor is a story they're not in that they're revealed to be the master-mind behind 20 issues later for the sake of it. However if they're in the issue in a disguise contributing to the story, it's a valid appearance.) Also things like taking membership on teams and showing who was active the most (examples being that Captain America has been in more issues of Avengers than anyone else, and Batman has been in more Justice League issues than any other member on that team). You know, stuff that no one ever had the time to fully compile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golb89 Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 (edited) On 7/13/2020 at 6:32 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Part 43 - Love problems. On 7/13/2020 at 6:32 PM, Saint Rubenio said: It's over, Anakin: Spoiler On 7/13/2020 at 6:32 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Oh, a new one! Average design, I guess. The extremely short skirt is very Japan, but the rest is okay. So average you forgot about her TWICE already, guess i'll have to fix that: On 7/13/2020 at 6:32 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Oh, it's pokemon! That series that I do not like! Actually, it's "Touhoumon". On 7/13/2020 at 6:32 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Grrr... You know, to this day I still don't know what this character's actual name is. I just call her Martel and hate her. I'll make her a shopkeep like I did the other Martel! You already did: (Kind of) On 7/13/2020 at 6:32 PM, Saint Rubenio said: I mean, why would there be? Fanservice with females sells more, and that's all they care about. Or so I'd imagine, given how little male fanservice there is in games of this kind. Personally, I could do without fanservice of any kind. But that's just me being stuck up, I guess. On 7/13/2020 at 6:32 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Ostia, anyone? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostia_(Rome) On 7/13/2020 at 6:32 PM, Saint Rubenio said: I have the high ground: Spoiler On 7/13/2020 at 6:32 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Oh, I'm sorry. Unfortunately, Tianna had some urgent business to attend to. I imagine she will return tomorrow, although... Oh, and after this absolutely unbelievable turn of events, Reese fails to see through Tianna's blatantly obvious bullshit excuse to disappear just in time to avoid Vester. Pretty sure he did, otherwise he wouldn't have called it "some urgent business". Maybe. On 7/13/2020 at 6:32 PM, Saint Rubenio said: I'LL BE YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE IF YOU CONTINUE BEING SUCH AN INSOLENT, WORTHLESS MAGGOT. On 7/13/2020 at 6:32 PM, Saint Rubenio said: ...So what does being "engaged" mean, then? Do you know, tactician? I know the basic concept, anyway... Something like this, i presume: Maybe... On 7/13/2020 at 6:32 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Ah... Every time he looks at me, it's like my body's about to melt... https://www.smackjeeves.com/discover/detail?titleNo=134083&articleNo=49 On 7/13/2020 at 6:32 PM, Saint Rubenio said: I like how it started to rain just in time for her to sink even deeper into a depression. On 7/13/2020 at 6:32 PM, Saint Rubenio said: He who is the only one who can do it right, ladies and gentlemen. Getting drunk off his ass. On 7/13/2020 at 6:32 PM, Saint Rubenio said: That's a boy though...? On 7/13/2020 at 6:32 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Okay, Sylvis. The bow is yours. The name probably gives you good memories. ...Have Sherlock's thunder god arrows too. No biases here. None. *Insert my own quote with that image edit i did LONG ago of which i no longer have the original and finding it or its source again would take way too much time and effort here* [Addendums] (Posted after the actual comment for various reasons) (And yes, there are two different links there) Spoiler On 7/7/2020 at 11:58 PM, Saint Rubenio said: On 7/7/2020 at 11:58 PM, Saint Rubenio said: I just want to point out the generic garbage bagman of the day. Err... I think you're lost, pal. The bridge mission is two chapters from now. On 7/7/2020 at 11:58 PM, Saint Rubenio said: 'Kay, let's ambush the gate. You see, I'm actually a bit afraid of this area because I know for a fact that there's a miniboss somewhere around here. And he's gonna fuck us over if we aren't careful. Eh, amateur: On 7/7/2020 at 11:58 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Gilgamesh, give us your best shot! On 7/7/2020 at 11:58 PM, Saint Rubenio said: On 7/10/2020 at 11:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said: All right... it's about time, I suppose. On 7/10/2020 at 11:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said: I just need to get lucky... If he hits and doesn't injure, I'm pretty screwed. If we can get an injury with this first blow, he'll be left with 2 HP from lightning. With a x2 cripple rate, that's more or less a guaranteed capture. I just need this to work...! On 7/10/2020 at 11:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said: On 7/10/2020 at 11:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Goodbye! On 7/10/2020 at 11:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said: He's ours! Might as well let Owen have him. I don't really want anyone else to retreat again. On 7/7/2020 at 11:58 PM, Saint Rubenio said: On 7/10/2020 at 11:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said: On 7/10/2020 at 11:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Well, fuck me... I don't think I'll be able to kill him now. And I mean, at this point he's tanked so many hits that the shield's probably not looking so good anymore. On 7/10/2020 at 11:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said: And it's over! Wow... That went really well! I botched up the end a bit, but at least we didn't waste anything more than an escapestone. And other than that, everything went perfectly! Amazing! On 7/13/2020 at 6:32 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Still kinda weird that she'd talk to a clone of herself... How self-centered do you have to be? (I guess this is why my previous post was so unnaturally short...) Edited July 14, 2020 by Golb89 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Rubenio Posted July 17, 2020 Author Share Posted July 17, 2020 Part 44 - Level-headed foes. Something absolutely unimaginable has occured. ...No, I haven't hired Volo. Not that unimaginable. ...Noooo, I haven't gone back to Path of Radiance. I'm never touching that game again with a ten foot pole. The truth is, I have decided that it is about time to get some closure on the "Saint Rubenio hates Three Houses" character arc. So yeah, I've picked that one up again. Third chance by now. I do hope this time I won't leave with such a sour taste in my mouth. Hard on a fresh file, obviously. I'd rather have an easier game than encountering another softlock. Besides, having experienced Echoes, Path of Radiance, Radiant Dawn and Mystery, I've gained a newfound appreciation for Three Houses's middling-to-easy difficulty. Could be worse, could be far worse... y'know, could be PoR. As for the route, I'm going Crimson Flower this time, because aside from Azure Moon it seems like the other route that isn't a waste of time (sorry not sorry Claude, you're going to die). Various things that might interest somebody out there: 1- I speed-recruited Ignatz so I could make him a mage. Again. I just like the guy a lot, okay? I'll also go for Lorenz so I can get the staff thingy for Hanneman, and Leonie because I still think it's a crime that she doesn't join male Byleth instantly like Sylvain joins female Byleth. She's Jeralt's nº 1 fan, the same kind of unit as Sylvain (a cavalier, only with more of a focus on bows), and her skill is literally the twin of Sylvain's. C'mon. It's like they knew Femleth's design is garbage, so they gave a free unit to the player if they picked her. That's why Maleth doesn't have a similar thing. It's supposed to be the incentive to using that shitty design. 2- I managed to kill the Death Knight in chapter 4 without Lysithea! It took some strategizing, but I managed to bring him low enough with gambits that Ferdinand (Von Aegir) could use Knightkneeler on him. Hubert immediately put the seal to good use after the chapter ended. It didn't come without cost, however: I lost a vulnerary. ...Also Caspar with the vulnerary, but he wasn't as useful as the vulnerary, so I can't say I miss him too much. I mean, I only brought him and Bernie as sacrifices to buy time. As for Bernadetta, I consider her defeat an upside. She doesn't actually die, so I don't feel like a monster, and I don't have to endure her presence ever again. Everyone wins. Except Bernadetta, but fuck 'er. 3- I've found myself cringing multiple times at certain characters and lines, more than in my past 1.5 runs. Dunno if it's because I'm predisposed against the game or what, but I suffered watching scenes like "haha Caspar unwittingly uses Dorothea's bra to wipe his sweat", "haha Manuela flirts with everything that moves" and... Just Sothis in general. I've facepalmed more times than I'd like to admit. Also, I feel a manner of primal rage within me every time Bernadetta opens her mouth. Suffice to say, Hanneman is still the best character in the game. That hasn't changed and it probably never will. It baffles me how much better than everyone else he is. I don't think I have such a clear-cut favorite in any other game in the series. 4- The graphics are still the worst I've seen in a long time. Not only does it run like shit, it looks like it could be a wii game. The textures, man. They're so bad. 5- I hate to admit it, but I'm having fun so far. Then again, that's also how I felt in my first run during the school phrase, and then I got to the war phrase and it all fell apart. Wish me better luck this time, maybe? We'll see if I have to update my FE rankings when I'm done. I doubt it'll go anywhere higher than FE5, but the third and fourth parts of RD were so miserable that I can see 3H beating it. 6- What!? I: Spoiler On 7/13/2020 at 8:23 PM, BrightBow said: Hide contents Let's not bring another blond guy into this conversation. With Reese's grey hair and Vester's blond, that's just gonna make things even more confusing.Actually, he's the only one whose sprite fits his portrait. So there's that. I take it you changed this one from "closet", or is there a more recent version of the patch then the one from the start of the year?Well... yes and no. You see, there isn't a new version yet, but Aethin has slowly been working on one for a while. The files he sent me, which I've referenced a few times in the past, include further fixes that were made after the version that is publicly available. I only showed the typos in TRS in hopes that if Aethin ever stumbled into the LP he could write them down, anyway. Since I am now reporting issues to him through DMs, there's no point in showing any typos. Thus, I've been fixing them for the LP. I'll only show particularly funny ones, like the Phantom Corpse. Not that anything could match The Roger The Paladin. Of course Rosalie would pay attention for signs of Tianna's relationship status.She's Rosalie. It's very much like her. If you find that crazy, wait until you find out who this mansion you're living in actually belongs to.Eheheh... Ah... Bahahahahahaha!!!Good joke, good joke. Not sure why he always keeps a lady chained next to him. But hey, I'm not judging. Not like I didn't keep plenty of chained up girls around back in the day... Sorry old friend, but could you please keep those memories of the past for yourself while you are in my bar. People insult this place enough as it is.It really is a weird setup, but the payoff is so good I honestly don't mind. It sounds like the name of the guy who kidnapped Lady Minas, but clearly he would have fled the city by now. Or at least changed his name.Barselphon's... not the brightest bulb in the shed. He's lucky Reese is even worse. No worries. Because it's Unforgettable.Hah! It's just a pile of stone. Where else have I seen a pile of stone? Oh yeah, on the grave of that blue haired girl. ...Jeez... I have no choice but to propose to you myself! She's not listening, is she? Oh well, maybe another time. Come now, can't we have one wholesome friendship without it turning into a yuri doujin? ...I hope I used the terms well... Careful. If you get any smoother, you'll slide down the street.Ahahahahah... Why didn't I think of that one? What am I even here for? I should just type down the dialogue and let you guys do the commentary. If you think she is defiling the city with her unholy presence, wait until you find out who sits on Roswick's throne.Hoo, boy... You seemed pretty eager to share your story when you broke down that door 10 minutes ago. Oh well, do as you will. Just don't come crying for help if you happen to get stuck in the desert later this chapter.Ah, yeah... That would be most inconvenient. (...Aposwhatnow?) That's definitely what's going through his head right now, yeah. I suppose if I have to decide between the guy who always makes me pay his tab or the girl who is literally putting food on my table right now... Cut to them getting drunk at the bar. Klamp isn't very responsible. Shit!!! Every time! No point fighting it, man.Yeah, exactly. Man, whatever a woman does, it's just never enough in this city, huh? May it be a genius alchemist or a brilliant engineer. I think she has other things going for her, buddy.In his (feeble) defense, he and Leon were both drunk off their asses. They didn't know what they were saying. They're still dickheads, but... Well, I guess maybe there's a chance they're not as much of a dickhead when they're sober? Reese is the one who was in complete control of his mental faculties when he dropped his whole "women are very important to the household" spiel on Sylvis! He's the real bastard here! Never at home... just hanging out at the bar all day... skipping dinner and shit, that ungrateful bastard!Ahahahahahahah... Oh, the irony... The whole family would've fallen apart if Bianca didn't exist. I mean, it's not gonna be to recruit Volo.Bwahahahahahahah... Said Brightbow, while aggressively frowning. Well, she likes beautiful women. So I guess she just wanted an excuse for a closer look....Good guess. But I live here. Can confirm. (Hic!)Hah! Good one. Also Volcens. Just saying.That goes without saying. Huh, did I tell you to do that?In a way. You're the one who always talked about how amazing it is. Well, whatever. It's a fantastic weapon. Just don't let it break like the Gram.If it breaks it'll disappear, so... I sure hope I won't let it. Just make sure you can handle the mini boss. Would be great if things could go better like with that whole Krishna debacle. Ehhhh... Well... On 7/13/2020 at 8:36 PM, Dayni said: Hide contents They did fix most of the other bugs in fairness. Oh, really? Good on them! Shame the DLC is still... hilariously not worth the price. I mean, hell, the best addition by far (an actual resolution to the Death Knight on the corresponding route) is free. Fanservice outfits? A garbage character that's by far the worst unit in the entire cast? They might as well rename the DLC pass "Cindered Shadows and all the fluff". Well, except for the classes. I find it rather scummy to lock such classes as magic flier and mounted healer behind a paywall. But that's just me. Jeez, I use that as a joke line and trigger you? Boy, when was Sothis Mongolian? Sorry. You know how sensitive I am when it comes to this game. 1. She disappears near halfway map wise and in terms of months passed. Still pretty sad that this character goes away after basically doing nothing but be annoying and grant Byleth the power of savescumming. 2. The idea that she was dead forever didn't seem to be the case, though I will agree that she should have been gone longer. It's not so much that she isn't gone long enough as she seems to come back whenever she pleases. It feels as though there weren't any real consequences to her sacrifice. I mean, she just randomly returns to marry Byleth. I can sorta see Byleth's awakening as some "fate" shit, but what the hell was that S ending? 3. I mean, I do think a scene could have been made that could express Byleth waking up alone. But I'd rather do that with a rewritten Byleth thank you. Byleth could use a ton of reworks, to be fair. 4. That S support was made to try and break me. S supports in general are pretty garbage in this game. You can't even conveniently ship characters with anyone other than yourself. It's nothing more than cheap pandering, through and through. Wanna know how cheap? They didn't even draw the characters correctly sometimes. For crying out loud, Hanneman loses his beard in his ending. How do you miss that? It's just a bunch of PNGs! How difficult is it to make sure that there's nothing wrong with a bunch of PNGs? That is an appropriate message to people you're being broken out. Yeah, that makes sense. I was thinking beyond Thoron. Though I didn't remember Thoron's look in Thracia (It's.... been a while). Beyond thoron? Hmmm... I can't say I can think of anything. Martin's worse. Part of it because of him being Taoiseach. Oh, right, I'd forgotten. There's a Martin in Ireland that was... uh, that. I'm not even going to attempt to pronounce that word. How would you get the stick out of him? I do not believe it to be possible at this point. Waldorf? ...Okay, you win this round. This is not fine ALERT ALERT When is anything fine in Berwick Saga, really? Well someone's happy to be mingling. Can't blame him for wanting to be free after jail. I mean, he's apparently been rotting there with Gilgamesh and Nielsen for months. (Also, Orson was triggered. Hell, Vester could possibly be a younger Orson.) Ergh... No, I really don't think so. Does Ward think she's a skank? The nerve! Ward was found dead the next morning. Or he'd be, if he wasn't the Endgame Beard. In truth, Ward and Rosalie fought the entire night, and then agreed to call it a tie. And Vester, maybe chill on thinking everyone wants to bang your fiance. This won't end for you if you chase everyone who might help you off with your flags a flutterin'. Hey, why don't you chill? It was a passing comment, and he reiterated his invitation when he left! Ward and Reese were the rude ones, whispering about how Tianna probably has ten boyfriends in the middle of the conversation! Oooh, self burn. Well, you know me... Not like I'm doing better. Well... I will not deign to get the appropriate response for this failure of a reference. Begone, may you never appear again. The face will definitely reappear. As for the name... (Imagine if units you captured and sold came back in later chapters?) That'd be pretty funny. Also counterproductive for Raze. I mean, who the hell would want to field Disaad again? Poor Bluck, missing his friend. R.I.P. THAT MOTHERFUCKER. IS THIS WHERE WE'RE GOING TO SEE HIS COMEUPPANCE? LET'S SEE HIM GET MACBETH'D TO DEATH Heheheheh... Patience, my friend. All in due time. (Also, considering what's going down with the FEtubers right now, Barselphon is definitely in the "not okay" camp for me right now) Ah... I've been following the situation(s) myself. I didn't really want to bring it up here, but since it came up, I suppose I'll say something. I've never been too into FE youtubers. I watch Mekkah very sporadically, I've seen some stuff from Deltre, Markyjoe and Dondon, and that's about it. I never liked Mangs or Chaz, I found them both to be quite obnoxious. And, frankly, I'm happy I never got too much into any of them. Because of that, I haven't been affected too much by the whole situation. It does surprise me that there are so many scumbags in our community, but I never cared for them anyway, so all I have to say is "good riddance, and goodbye." I suppose the lesson to take away from this is, don't believe everything you see. I'm not saying that everybody has skeletons in their closets, but it's all too easy for a person to appear cool and great when you only ever see them in short videos. Liking content creators is fine, but you shouldn't let your judgment be clouded because some guy on the internet is entertaining. These people shouldn't get any free passes just because they're kinda famous. As for what I think about the cases themselves, well... Good riddance to Mangs. He was always a creep. It just caught up to him, at last. For my opinion on Chaz, see my reply to @This boi uses Nino down below. Not as good as seeing a happy family. For once! Yeah, I agree. I'm seeing my daughter in statues. This is getting to me. Me: Fucking hell that's rough buddy. The poor guy... And this isn't even the last of his lines that will become extremely sad with Christine dead. I was not anticipating him having a story. He just seemed like his time was up. But now, with this? MY TIME HAS COME! Hahah... You underestimate Berwick Saga. Everyone gets a character here. Everyone. Even the NPCs. Even Leon. His arc just starts in chapter 10, but it does happen! ...Some are better than others, though, that much is true... Poor Dean got a shitty-ass, rushed-as-hell character arc. And wow, Teresa's being very rude. In fairness, she seems like she's seen this unfold a few times already. It's probably gotten old by now. Come on then, you pansy! None shall pass. My heart. Toddlerface Knight overhere protecting his innocence and purity. Lane can run off one already, he reads as a villain just by his look. And let's not even mention the "wet" line... (This is also in the fucking yikes camp because of the shit I mentioned earlier) I'm sorry... I can understand this was a poorly timed update. As some levity, this should be everyone's response to this guy. Hahahah... That's definitely what I'll do to Sylvain when part 2 arrives. And I murder him. Because I haven't the slightest interest on recruiting that piece of garbage. Funny how that works - I initially thought he was actually kinda okay, and Felix was just your average edgelord. Now I believe the opposite: Felix is half-decent for a Navarre, whereas Sylvain is a horrid Sain-type that's even more of a terrible person than Saul. More like 5. Jikes... Sherlock? Don't you think about sticking your head in there, you know what the priest told you. Do you want to end up like Holmes? Unfortunately, he's going to keep trying, because being the other half to Holmes, he shares his stupidity. And that's IRL yikes 3 from this update. Remember how I said that the situation hasn't shaken me up as much because I never cared for any of them? Yeah... In retrospect, I should've realized that wasn't a great comment to make at the present time. I apologize for the discomfort I may've accidentally caused you. I'm tempted to play 3H entirely to avoid this. (I've been kinda consumed by this shitstorm) Sure. The community and the games are two separate things. Heck, I'd argue the community as a whole and the youtubers are also pretty distant from one another. These assholes are nothing to lose your head over, they're not worth it. 20/10. Ahahahah... Well, I'm glad at least something about the update wasn't completely awful. Oh, don't feel so bad about the bar. Sometimes it's to badmouth you. (Tianna has to hide somewhere.) Ouch... Poor Alex... Arran and the gang really should be hearing about this shit and asking if they're really with the baddies already. We'll see... This part is honestly depressing. Pretty much, yeah. I'm sorry... On 7/13/2020 at 9:34 PM, Benice said: Hide contents May as well say Berwick Saga is good, really. It's a fact of life. Hah! Quite right. He'll slip and slide on this Banana peel! Ha ha ha! Slipping noises WHAT ARE YOU DOING!? Only if the player is named Benice, though. Kaga coded that on purpose, the asshat. I'm just glad the name isn't Saint Rubenio, for once. Maybe not my one call to weirdness. In my school's 80s day, I dressed up as Tchaikovsky because 1880. I respect your devotion to Tchaikovsky and to being weird. There is Scientific research about this, actually. ...You humongous son of a-- How could I fall for that? I can't believe it! Cease this at once! Cease! Heretic! Preposterous! Get off of my Kagarian minecraft server! Never! I'm here to stay! ...Honestly though, a Kaga minecraft server would be the coolest thing. I'm only this fond of her because she's about the only thing that's gone well in my run so far. I wasn't intentionally feeding her every kill, she just got them all. Heck, the only one who's really benefited from favoritism is Adel. Good ol' Adel. Favoritism is the only way he's ever promoting. Bold of you to assume that english would follow any sort of logic. Seriously, a germanic language based off of latin?! Why?! It's... It's a weird language, all right. True, because I have Florina to pick me up if it does! You got a point there... [Insert Czene's death quote here because the forums are being weird right now and I can't do it myself.] Why is the forum always falling apart for everyone except me? ...Then again, there was that business at the end of TRS when I couldn't post anything... And that one time I changed my internet provider and was assigned an IP that just so happened to be banned in the forum... And the one time a forum maintenance ate up an update... Hey now, Berwick Florina is also perfect! Leave her alone! I do like her better than Elibe Florina. That much is true. A victim of Obama's map in my run. Just as his character arc was being interesting! I just love how you keep referring to him as Obama. Although not gonna lie I don't like him very much. He's a really fun unit. As a character, though, he feels like a background character in his own arc. It's weird. Oh man, Astra'ing this guy's Ass was satisfying. Faye helpfully critted on all five attacks. Killing Dallas is always satisfying. He's among the worst people in the entire game, despite his one map of screentime. I'm honestly considering starting a new Berwick Saga run just because of how badly I messed up my first one... You can never play too much Berwick. Go right ahead! On 7/13/2020 at 10:16 PM, Golb89 said: [Addendums] Hide contents Okay... Not sure what the context for that's supposed to be in the original game, but okay. (Yet another one that should have been used elsewhere, but if that was in the past i don't remember it and if it'll be in the future i'll most likely forget about this so..) Supermarkets are pretty dangerous in this day and age, to be fair. (Same as above) What's with the completely unfitting characters that look like they come from Metal Gear? *Insert Ruben's quote with a pic of Adel & pals (including a soon-to-be-dead Czene) just waltzing fully armed into the pirates' hideout with the excuse of delivering Lumiere's ransom money here* Hah! [Actual comment] Hide contents Oh, wow, that's it? That was much shorter than i though (the [addendums] were even longer than the comment)... yet once again i find myself 1 update behind you: luckily now that i completed Isomer i should manage to read and reply before your next update. Maybe. Yeah, it surprised me also. Well, that's fine. [Bonus] Hide contents https://www.awkwardzombie.com/comic/locked-in-conflict Hah! And even still, nobody grew a beard. Just, nobody. None of them bothered. Yet another reason why Hanneman is the best 3H character. On 7/13/2020 at 10:17 PM, Dayni said: Slimier more like. Sweatier, too. On 7/14/2020 at 12:54 AM, This boi uses Nino said: Hide contents I could manage when it comes to Africa... but I think I can't visualize it without a map, I can do Europe without looking at a map, but with Africa I would fare better if I see a blank map of Africa with borders. Let's see (without using a map), to the south of Spain is Morocco and to it's right there's Libya and then Tunisia, there/s two countries betwen it and Egypt then which is to the most north-west... let's just go all the way down because this isn't very good. Where South Africa is, a bit to it's right there's a coral reef looking country called Mozambique and I can't without a map... Rather basic stuff, but still, good job. I do need to practice more when it comes to other continents, the United States' states is a dumb thing to learn anyway, because I'm not learning the states of Italy either so why should I for the US? Because the USA is the most important country in the world, amirite? But yes California to the west, NY and Washington to the east and Texas to the south. Good, I got it right. Central america is also confusing. Oh God, don't make me try to make heads or tails of that nonsense... I can locate Cuba, but that's about it. No, screw off. Oi!inb4 Ruben says I can't boss him around and decides to put a screw through me, only to realize that's not possible given the circumstances.Cease! Cease! Nah this thing is going to live again, and in essence I've won since you haven't quoted it since the last 2 times I mentioned you to, oh holy-bearded bastard. I must admit, I do like the nickname. Holy-bearded bastard... It sums me up pretty well. I thought you were confused and thought Volcens "appropiate response" would be to pussy out and teleport. Guess not. Nah, I was talking about the interaction as a whole. I can believe that Volcens's first instinct upon being contradicted would be to have the guy executed. Or, well, try to, anyway. True. Well warmongering empires are cool when... Charlemagne did it, and Alexander. Thing about these two is that they're titled 'the great' for something. They were very fat. Turns out, the "great" was referring to their size. Good for you. I simply can't stand the aspect of popularity in high school and just how arbitrary this system is. Neither can I. High school in general is pretty garbage. None of what you do matters shit, you forget everything you learn when summer starts, everyone's an idiot and then when you leave you don't ever want to see any of them ever again. It's an exaggeration, of course, but... Sigh... I have some good memories of high school, but I always found it funny when my family told me that "when I grow up, I'll wish I could return to my childhood". I was a depressed loner through elementary school, paranoid and closed off in the first half of high school, and a horny dumbass in its second half. Fuck all that, I've only grown happier and happier since then. Thankfully in these threads I've usually quoted you several times already. However if I erase or write anything on the authentic quote boxes, will it still notify you? Actually, it doesn't matter what you do in this thread, because, well, I follow my own thread, so I get notifications for everything anyone does here. Yes Giantess and... doms and... all that stuff. Was there any need to list off everything? Not that I'm ashamed of it, mind. Live and let live, I say. That applies to myself as well. Though I probably shouldn't be so open about it, should I... Pah, who cares. This is the internet, I am completely anonymous! Nobody knows even my name or my nationality! Well this is just awkward and I agree, how is Reese so dumb? Lynette must have fell for him because srpg romance. It's... poorly done, not gonna lie. Roy momento. I think even Roy knew what it is to be in love. Barselwho? Oh wait no you mean the guy that asked for that girl to be captured with a net? You catch on quick. Yeah, that's the fellow. This is about the one art I don't like too much from Berwick, the hair looks weird, every other character looks good but in this case the hair seems to just be superimposed. Then it's mighty fortunate that you don't like that portrait in particular, because it's not actually from the game. I made that one. The head wasn't originally on that body, and the hair was longer before I trimmed it, so that's why it looks weird, most likely. For the record, all four of those guys are my own edited portraits, as is my profile picture. I mean not that I don't know how to spell it. Prove it, then. Spell his name. I feel bad for Cecily now, but on Reese... yeah lol "love? how much does this cost? There's no price to the side..." I can see it. It's perfectly plausible. This is not going to end well. Berwick Saga in a nutshell. Sounds exactly like what Monica did to Chaz, you'll know what I mean if you've been following the FEtuber drama. I've been following the drama, yes. To be honest, I'd hesitate to defend Chaz in any way. It is true that the Monica thing was fake nonsense, from what I've gathered. But on the other hand, Chaz's defense against the so-called "proven liar" Indie was remarkably feeble, despite the fact that he apparently already debunked her a year ago. And then there's the fact that he rallied his group of famous friends to discredit and silence the mostly unknown Indie - the complete opposite of the way he handled the Mangs situation with Goose (who, incidentally, was among Chaz's cronies. What a wild coincidence, isn't it?). And then there's the FETruth account, which claimed to be neutral and impartial yet only contributed to shutting Indie down. It has also been proven to belong to another friend of Chaz's using an alt account to release private stuff without Chaz having to take responsibility for it. And then there's Chaz's own responses and behavior. He's acted like an arrogant asshole the entire way through. Even if Chaz turns out not to be a repulsive rapist, he's proven that he is a shady, two-faced, unapologetic shitbag. He's no better than Mangs (in fact, he might even be worse), and he deserves no support nor praise after his terrible handling of the situation. ...I think I've said all I had to say on that mess, between this and my reply to Dayni. Now, can I ask that we keep this out of the thread? This really isn't the place for this. I wouldn't enjoy watching my thread devolve into a fight about a situation that is very vagely tied to any of us. By the way, on what chapter are you? Are you anywhere near the end of the game? Chapter 7 of 15. The last few chapters are shorter, but there's the four paralogues on top of that. So... I'd say roughly a bit less than halfway through. On 7/14/2020 at 1:34 AM, Benice said: Hide contents NO U! LEAVE BERWICK FLORINA ALONE OR I WILL BREAK YOUR GRAM EVERY TIME YOU EQUIP IT! Chill, dude! I've done nothing! Aww, isn't that sweet? One day, when they have kids, I hope they name their daughter Penny so her name can be Penny Lane. ...W-Why... Why did you have to say something so awful!? You're the one who deserves to lose Florina! SAY HELLO TO MINAS FOR ME! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA! AND DON'T FORGET THAT I PAID YOU EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND GOLD AND MY FIRSTBORN CHILD THAT YOU'D MURDER BARELPHON!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAA That's... an appropriate reaction, yes. When I saw this event, I misread the preist as saying "That woman, like her father, has a filthy prostate" and I was deeply concerned. Pfffffft... Top 10 double takes. You are partially forgiven of your crimes. Why, you...! How come only partially?! Inb4 they get married unless Burroughs dies. Well... You'll see. Hold up. I never saw this scene! Urgh! Kaga, how dare you and your RNG-based capture system ruin your dialogue?! Hahahahah... It's a shame, the Erzheimer scenes are priceless. Still, how come you never saw at least one scene? 90% of the Erzheimer items can be obtained as droppables from enemies, inside chests, and other non-capture related means! I think it's just the general shield and the albatross that need to be captured. HOW DARE YOU QUESTION BERWICK FLORINA?! I'lL KiLl yOu! Oi! How dare you steal my running gag about threatening people with death? I came up with it first! I'll kill you! Time for an Addendum because I missed some stuff! On 7/14/2020 at 9:41 AM, The Roger The Paladin said: Hide contents You know, you just referred to Sankuro as Genjuro... and accidentally defended the edgelord (who is probably a worse person than Sankuro regardless). NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOW COULD IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII But there's actually a sort of irony in what you're saying is half true. Sankuro was forced by another hand... that is that of the very edgelord in question (Genjuro). Hence the reason he shot him. See, Sankuro had 48 hours after hiring Genjuro to get what turned out to be an exuberant amount of money to pay him, or he was told he would be killed. The catch is both women he attempted to sell into slavery were the type that kicked his ass six ways to Sunday... so he not only wasn't able to capture them (if I were capable of getting Athena in my current LP, I'd have Ukyo be reminded of Charlotte due to certain similarities. Namely they're both women with a French accent in a foreign land with a skill with the sword and a strong sense of justice), but got a beating for it. It's also notable when one's playing Rimuru, he notes she's too young to sell into slavery... so he has standards. Low standards but standards nonetheless. Regardless, once Genjuro's shot, Sankuro ends up living a peaceful life with some of his subordinates. Genjuro on the other hand continues being an edgelord that would cut down men over looking at him funny and selling his sword to the highest bidder... until he canonically dies in Samurai Shodown 64-2 when the child of a man he had murdered knifes him in the back at what would have been the moment of his greatest victory. A lesson about the weed of crime bearing bitter fruit. Sankuro seems kinda redeemable, actually, if only because he's so bad that he failed to carry out his criminal activities. Genjuro can die in a ditch, though. And, well... I mean, he kinda does, doesn't he? Remembering the seriousness of anything I use it for is null. It's just perfect for reflecting a psychotic tone to what's said. Yeah, of course, but... That's gonna give some people nightmares... It'd Axelerate the demise of his opponents. Ahahahahahahahahah! I mean... you're writing a fanfic. Set in universe. Magic or crossbows exist. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm... I'll have you know Wil is the best unit in FE7 because his name is punable. Maybe, but he still sucks compared to every Kaga archer except Luca. Which... I suppose means everyone in FE7 sucks hard compared to every Kaga archer except Luca. Also Rolf has access to the almighty three shoe beating. Which is broken. Reveal hidden contents Bwahahahahah... You always find the most outlandish connections, I swear. What do you call a net that catches fish by their respiratory systems? A Gil-ga-Mesh. ...... ...Well, I've been defeated. That is absolutely glorious. Congratulations, you win an imaginary cookie. You know what? Fuck it. Have my entire supply of imaginary cookies. You've earned them. You magnificent bastard. What do you call an mermaid's ova? A Gil-Gamete. I tried to fit a pun straight into a sentence but none of them would Gilgamesh. Also if you killed the guy, he'd have been Gilgamashed. These aren't as good, but after that first one, you had already won. Everything else was but a diversion. Was it strategic? Or was it merely clumsy? Well, you're the only one who knows for sure, aren't you? Years later, it turns out this guy was Kaga's self-insert and Slaver was just... slaver. Hmmm... That'd be cheeky, but I doubt it. See, he's not enough of a dickmove to be Kaga's self-insert. If something embodies Kaga, it is his assholishness. Kaga's self-insert is probably one of those chu-ko-nu crossbowmen with sniper arrows, Overwatch and Hide. That's a long time to look at one woman. Also a very chauvinistic way of putting it. Pfffft... Come now! Quit making fun of him, you Vesterd! Witch? No, he's male... so I don't think so. Wombat? No... that's a marsupial. Wretched? Yeah that works. I like how everyone sidestepped the most obvious response. Found the woman he studied for 5 years. Clearly she's not fond of his research, considering she disappeared just in time to not see him again after his rescue. When Reese ends up with Lynette... because he misinterprets the engagement as agreeing to a fight. Lynette just played along. To this day, Reese is convinced that he merely had wrestling matches with his sister every night, and that they took off their garments so as to avoid unfortunate tears and scratches during the fights. He still wonders who the father is, but he agreed to help her take care of little Reese Jr. in his place. ...Man, we haven't even seen Lynette's face and I'm already dragging her name through the mud... What if Gram's a cursed sword? It'd explain why he only started doing this after getting it. Maybe he's carrying the broken sword still. I mean, before he got the Gram, he showed some signs of emotion, back when he offered to have dinner with Maria and Luciana. Perhaps you're on the right track... Yes. Gilgamesh found the Excalibur in your dungeon. Volcens thought it was a brilliant hiding place. Bwahahahahahahahahah... Perfect. 10/10. You beat me to the joke. Hah! I am winner! "How is taking your heart payment? Won't that kill you?" "Miss Cecily, why have you taken off your dress? You'll catch a cold like this..." OH GOD HIDE THE CORNFLAKES. YES! OH MY GOD REALLY HIDE THE CORNFLAKES! YES! Fates has taught me that any mention of Soleil is traumatic to Ophelia. Okay... Oooh. Sounds fun. Ophelia is a giraffe because they both have long necks... wait I did that wrong. I'm still more plausible than this guy. Let's try again. Imagine if that was true. Sherlock's canon ship is with an animal. Sherlock is a furry confirmed. This guy is an asshole because they both vomit shit. Damn it I can't seem to get the hang of this. Not right. That last one is quite believable. I can imagine Matthis saying this to Julian... except sober. And still sporting that dumb smile of his. Julian considers talking back... But he recalls, Matthis is far too powerful. He must tread lightly around him... Though... if he made friends with Julian by the end of New Mystery... I could sort of imagine him saying this if he got this drunk. You know, basic "look after my sister, but you're still a dirty thief so stay away from my sister" drunken logic. They have a scene together with Lena after Medeus falls if they're all still alive, actually. Allow me to quote my first LP... Quote Nah, actually, she made the distasteful advances on Julian. She played him like a puppet, all while standing right next to Medeus and looking all frail and distressful! Who would've thought... Julian defends himself. I would watch my step if I were you. Matthis can one-shot you. With an iron lance. Quite, quite. Julian recruited your brother in your stead! Also Rickard just sort of shoehorns himself into the conversation. Let's ignore him. "I love you. More than I do my other 10 boyfriends." (Just including this one because I stumbled upon it while quoting the Matthis-Lena-Julian thing and I found it absolutely hilarious. Ahahahah... My first LP's a mess, but I had my moments in it.) An on and off side project of mine for the last few years has been creating a sort of index if you will. Assorted things, like a full chronological listing of appearances of characters (there's been attempts online at similar, but they tend to be flawed due to being abandoned mid-way through or errors stemming from inconsistent standards on what constitutes an appearance thanks to crowd-sourcing. I'd like to clarify a wanted poster or an image on a computer monitor with their face in profile is not, in my opinion a valid appearance, nor is a story they're not in that they're revealed to be the master-mind behind 20 issues later for the sake of it. However if they're in the issue in a disguise contributing to the story, it's a valid appearance.) Also things like taking membership on teams and showing who was active the most (examples being that Captain America has been in more issues of Avengers than anyone else, and Batman has been in more Justice League issues than any other member on that team). You know, stuff that no one ever had the time to fully compile.That's pretty rad, actually! Have you ever considered publishing the results of your efforts? On 7/14/2020 at 9:57 PM, Golb89 said: Hide contents So average you forgot about her TWICE already, guess i'll have to fix that: What can I say, most of these designs don't exactly inspire me with admiration. Actually, it's "Touhoumon". Right, I'd forgotten there's a Touhou version of everything. You already did: (Kind of) ...Oh, so she just says her own name there, is that it? Meh. Still gonna call her Martel. ...Oh my fucking god the format. I swear, all of your posts break when I try to reply to them. Now, pressing enter has deleted everything after this. Okay, here we go, I guess. The meme I have no idea who that is, and both designs look the exact same to me. The place Oh, so there's a real place in Italy named after a spanish swear word. Very good, I'm glad to see that reality surpasses fiction once more. Hide contents Pretty sure he did, otherwise he wouldn't have called it "some urgent business". Maybe. Or, he already forgot why she was supposed to be gone and is just making shit up. I like how you always manage to edit your things after I quote them, and then the things never match up. Something like this, i presume: Maybe... No, that's... not even close to it. https://www.smackjeeves.com/discover/detail?titleNo=134083&articleNo=49 Well, uh... that's kinda it I guess? It always gives me whiplash when you suddenly start sending normal music instead of the usual anime stuff. Good God, the format...! Grrraaaahh! Anyway, that's a new one, no? It's... well, it's as forgettable as the rest, I guess. Nothing too remarkable. Miniskirt for pandering, weird stuff that has no purpose for the sake of anime, the eyes... Anime/10, it is. THE FORMAT!! 1- What, is she alergic to beer or what? Is that why it's gonna end badly? 2- Super Mario Kart victory scene. 3- I just hope that isn't an official event. 4- Okay, so her character trait is that she's a drunkard. Check. That's a boy though...? No. No, it is not a boy. What, not used to anime women without dirigibles on their chest? No offense. But she does look like a girl. *Insert my own quote with that image edit i did LONG ago of which i no longer have the original and finding it or its source again would take way too much time and effort here* 10/10 [Addendums] (Posted after the actual comment for various reasons) (And yes, there are two different links there) Different is right. Your tastes are so broad! Hide contents Isn't this one new too? Her design is... unremarkable. Again. I can relate to... Nightmare? Nightmare, rope... Is there anyone with a normal name, like say, Maria? Or Penelope? Eh, amateur: Well, why don't you try it then if you're so tough? My favorite format! 1- The hell is even going on there. 2- Ah, I see. I don't know what it is, but something about her head is really off. Look at the way her head connects to her neck. That looks so bad, like I drew it. Okay, but why does she have a duck's head on her own head? Is this me in anime girl form? Get outta my way, I need answers! Is yellow girl me? ...Cliffheart!? How do they come up with these!? Yes. It definitely is. (And i suppose this is why my previous post was so unnaturally short...) Probably. Quote Quote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostia_(Rome) Oh, so that's where the two things ended up. God, I swear... I don't know how you do it, but your posts are always hell to reply to. Everything just breaks like a twig under a car's tire! Am: Spoiler Expecting Ferdinand Von Aegir? Too bad! Waluigi time! Anyway, here's a nice little detail I discovered by accident: if you idle at the abbey for long enough, Maria starts doing rounds, looking over the beds and occassionally walking to Luciana to talk. Neat. Visiting music. The team. I'm going to bring Saphira, because there are two teams and only one Owen. Might as well give the girl a spin, since I haven't done it yet. Hoo-wee, that looks like it's gonna be great. We're split into two teams, but that's not enough to cover the three paths. As we advance, four soldiers will appear escorting the prisoners. They'll try to make it past us and escape. If they do, that's bad, so let's try not to let 'em. Once the prisoners are safe, we must capture the stone fortress way back there. Especially those mercenaries we recruited for extra help... They act like thugs, sir... That's exactly why they're the best men for the job. I don't follow, sir... Our orders from the homeland are to relocate these prisoners, but the enemy has learned of our plans. The battle will be fierce, but alas, the prisoners will lose their lives, struck down in the chaos of battle... Wait, how do you know we've found you? And have some damn faith in me, Dallas! I'm not going to kill the prisoners, I know enough to at least tell green units apart from red ones! ...That's the script we're going to be following tonight. I don't care what the orders say. I'm not letting a single one of these Berwick trash breathe another day. Ohh... Then the reason we've been placed in our current formation is... For cleanup duty, of course. We want it to look convincing. I imagine the people back home will be willing to buy it, don't you? (He hired them just so he could slaughter all the prisoners...?) We've got four prisoners to "escort" this evening. I have men hidden at the pass up ahead to take care of them. Your job will be to clean up the mercenaries once everything's over. First: Wow, this guy's an asshole. Second: That's easier said than done. I think the only person in the enemy team that stands a chance against today's bounty target is Dallas himself. Heck, I think we're going to have trouble ourselves! Y-Yes, sir! Suddenly... Whoa, Hamilton had a ton of twin brothers, didn't he? Either that, or this exact attire is the hottest fashion in the Raze Empire. ...What was that noise? A deer...? ......! I-It's the Berwick League!? What are they doing here?! I have to warn the others...! Enemy raid! The enemy is here! There's our objective. We can also escape, apparently, but letting that rotten villain Dallas live would feel terrible. The Hamilton twin fled into the fog to warn his pals. Thus, Derrick leads the charge. First scuffle of the day. That wasn't productive. Neither was that! Oh, that's an Erzheimer item. And so conveniently placed, too! Time for a capture. Awesome! Only problem is... Lightning will kill him now. It can't be helped. We'll just need to hope for the best. Fuck, no! Goddamnit... Well, no matter. There'll be other dark maces to get. If I have to fail a capture, I'd much rather it be this one than Lyarc. Imagine trying to capture, say, Ortmann. Hah! Well, then. Experience for Faye, in that case. Get somethin' good, if you please! Well, speed is okay. Getting to level 10 is the most important thing, anyway. We really need to start recruiting people soon. It's about time we stopped forking half our budget over to mercs every chapter. Let's build a wall. No references intended. Down south, Elbert dismounts and proceeds forward. Oh dear, crossbowman... He doesn't seem to move. Everyone else follows Elbert. An Owen level. May it be a good one. Yes! Great! More HP means you die less easy and I can breathe more comfortably. Also, light points for better heals. Please don't make a fool of yourself, Kramer. Dodge. Excellent work! Eehhh... neutral work? Elbert spears a guy. Ahhh, about time! Please keep this up. Oh, please... Well, the crossbow guy can't reach, so... Worth a shot! Ahahahahahahahah... This is never not fun. This guy really doesn't seem like he moves. That's great. Puttin' that newly acquired accuracy to good use. Hazrij's unit, eh? That's a funny name. All right, Perceval. Time for another map's worth of missing everything. Thanks. Kills for Enid. Please, please, please please pretty please get magic next time you level up. More frontlining by Elbert. I initially considered bringing Marcel so both sides would have a heavy tank, but Elbert needs the action. Besides, we're soon going to need someone who can move fast. He has a francisca and yet he didn't use that against Elbert? How odd. Oh, my goodness... I mean, how can you blame me for liking Owen better when I have to endure this shit with the others? Owen can do full heals at base! Level already? For some reason she was at 99 experience from the beginning. What's up with that? ...... Oh yeah. So much better than Owen. This would've already been garbage back when she joined. Now it just reassures me that Owen is the right choice. No! They've a garbage man? Damnit... all that hard work to waste! Well then, Thaddy. Do your thing. Keep some heat off of Elbert. You're lame! GRWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!! You're up, Ruby. The time has come for you to get weapon skill points until you can promote. That's not it, and you didn't even scratch him, to boot. Pull together post-haste. C'moooooooon... My Derrick! How dare you scratch my Derrick? Faye'll do it then. And with that, Kramer and his three green clones achieve a victory. He, too, needs levels. Not bad, those are always handy. The first green unit has appeared. It's Fyodor! Thanks to his vision, we can already see that approaching the prison camp's going to be a pain in the ass. Look at that. Overwatch archer, Battle Cry knight, another Overwatch archer hiding under the textbox... The captor is carrying Fyodor in his pocket. I thought that was pretty hilarious. Derrick continues to lead. I am not taking any chances on the fog. See? See!? What's with you today, Derrick? Stop getting hit by everything! Ah, no matter. Your defense is godly anyways. Oh look, it's the guy from before. He's gone on the offensive. There are few ways to do worse than he just did. Congratulations. Two!? There are two of them!? Nope, that ain't happening. Faye, deal with that one before he can do anything. ...Sheesh... I believe in you, Faye! You can do it! Adept! Oh, come now... A crit, maybe? Oh! Hoo! Another Adept! Maybe, just maybe...! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Faye you useless sack of shit! Sorry, I didn't really mean that. ...you've got to admit, though, mighty terrible performance right there... Well, she's fast enough to counter the crossbow. If she doesn't get hit, that is. Which is impossible, I mean, look at his accuracy. On an enemy, that might as well be 100%. Oh! She actually pulled it off! Of course, I'm the same guy who misses popups that stick around for two seconds. How could I ever catch Faye running for half a second before disappearing? I still can't understand what that thrust's supposed to be, but it worked! He's dead! Exemplary, Faye. Very good. A level and a half, then you're all set. Not bad. This guy's still alive, to my great chagrin. Eh, could be worse. Let's do away with this man next. C'mon! Ruby! Oof... ouch... I'm sorry, brave steed... Thin as though you may've been, you served her well. I find it amazing that she's going to reach her S Shield threshold first, with a base of 0 and the lowest growth of the three skills. Kramer fares better that Ruby. Owen approaches carefully. It doesn't matter, anyway. First thing next turn, that knight is dying. I don't think we've ever seen soothe before. It's basically just sparkles, not worthy of a gif. The reason we haven't seen soothe before is that soothe is a worthless fucking orb that serves no purpose whatsoever. Elbert is attacked by the mercenary. He handles himself well enough, but both parties come out unscathed. And now, guess what: it's time for Percy to miss as always. Well, well. Color me shocked. Also color me pleased! Thank you, Perceval. And with that, Enid scores another kill. Hopefully. Yeah, good job. What's with the helmet? You too bad to protect your own head? Or maybe your mug is so ugly that you need to cover it so as not to scare your allies... YOU! HWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!! I really should take notes from this guy... Okay, so that's it. Fyodor's on the move. It's a good idea to wait for the escorts to advance before killing them. When they die, the NPC appears on the same hex and tries to escape. It wouldn't do to drop Fyodor in the middle of the enemy army. Sir Dallas! I-It's the Berwick League! They're attacking us! Well, well, well... What a curious turn of events! It seems my tall tale has come true! How very convenient... If nothing else, this'll help make tonight much more fun! I'd like to see you say that when you've got Derrick's axe buried in your eye. Go quickly, and let Hazrij know the League's forces are here. Y-Yes, sir... But can we count on him? I'll count on his sword arm, at least. Just tell him not to get carried away. I'll relay your orders, sir! Oh, no... Not a swordmaster, please! Oof... So, Hazrij has 17 speed, Adept and a strong sword with 28 skill. This is gonna be fun. We'll worry about that when it becomes a problem. For now, Elbert skewers a thing. Ah! Shit! I completely forgot about this guy! Even though it's been a whopping 2 minutes! Oh, for fuck's sake, he ran into the fog... That was such a stupid blunder! That, too, was a mistake, my friend. Hmmmm... Or is it... I mean, that pulverizing's more than likely gonna fail, and then Axel could get whacked... But then again, what else can I do? Attack him with Perceval? That's even less reliable... Bah, screw it. He has already moved, so Axel will be safe if he misses. C'mon, man! I'm counting on you...! Ahahahahah, yes! Axel, you're the best. This level is, uh... not the best, but I suppose I'll take the accuracy. Oh, please... Elbert's getting destroyed! What happened to the shield, man? It's your highest WpSkill! Sigh... Hoo, boy. Let's spring this trap so we can get closer and destroy him. Come now... Okay, no matter. We've enough units to deal with him. You son of a son! Stop protecting that one guy! What are you, in love? It's... truly heartwarming, but you're both still gonna die today! Next turn will be it for the overwatchers. Might as well get started on Fyodor. It'd be mighty embarrassing if I let them go too far, and then everyone missed and the captor got away. Today's just not your day, mate. ...In retrospect, I should've expected that this'd be the perfect time for a crit to screw everything up. Hoooo...! Okay, he's still alive. Thank goodness. Fyodor wouldn't survive in the middle of everything. I didn't mention it before, but the escorts in this map have escorts of their own. They'll try to remain in the vicinity of the NPC carriers, but otherwise they'll fire at will. You know, you could've critted this one instead, Ruby. Ahh, excellent! ...... You know, in retrospect, I probably should've checked this guy's movement range. You know, just a thought. But knowing what he'd do to you, I think you'll prefer being dead. Hah! Would you look at that. He's a more decent person than Dallas. Not that it takes much. Oh, please... OH, PLEASE! COME ON! I MADE A MISTAKE AND I WAS PUNISHED FOR IT, WHAT A LOAD OF BULLSHIT! Welp. There goes Faye again. It could've been worse, but... baaah, I wanted to field her in the next map! She's definitely coming to the next main mission. She needs to get to level 10 already. You know what the problem is? Faye was probably my best (well, more like least bad) shot at this guy. Kramer gets murdered by Adept, and he doesn't have Faramir to save him. As for Faye... Huh. At full health she actually survives getting Adepted. Let's build a wall, again. Ahhh, thought I'd forgotten about you again, did you? Too bad. Not this time! You've fallen right into my trap! I think Kramer can deal with him now. I believe this is the third turn we've spent on this one crossbowman. From afar, Owen patches up Derrick and becomes more skillful for it. About time you went down. It's not like it's, y'know, my fault it took this long or anything. Come now, pick your poison. ...To be honest, this is terrible. If he Adepts Ruby, she'll live, but then the soldier can finish her off... In the meantime, it'd be wonderful to kill this guy. Bleh. Oh-- Holy shit, he doubled. I cannot believe-- Well, actually, I can believe it, I mean, he's fuckin' speed blessed. The Visitor. More like "The Crossbowman". Jesus, is this guy ever going to die? Stooooooooooooooooooooooop! Nice. In two turns maybe you'll be able to heal him to full. Such a waste of a heal orb... But... Oh my goodness, this guy is the final boss or what!? Thank you! I didn't want to do this, but desperate times call for desperate measures. If you break the sword on this guy (it's at yellow by now), I'm going to be extremely vexed. But first, some Jeiganing, for those among you more adept in the art of math will notice that Enid can't kill. PERCEVAL God fucking damnit... Always! He never fails to fail when you don't want him to fail, the failing failure! Ahhh, how nice! This dude stole Hazrij's concoction for himself! I'm glad. Hoo, boy... time to hope for the best. ...To be frank, I'm really afraid. I haven't the slightest idea how I'm going to do this. With the rapier, she has respectable crit and a... not abysmal hitrate? It's the best I can come up with... Okay, Perceval. Time to try again. I am not giving him the chance to be healed again, so you may have the kill. If you thought you could compensate for your failings with a crit, you are sorely mistaken. This isn't nearly enough. Noooooo, not the shield! That's something, at least, but... It can't be helped. He'll have to pick up the good shield. Now, if you could please take care of this guy already...! Thank you, Derrick! Best unit as always. Now... Fyodor would get slaughtered by Hazrij. Since the guy isn't aggressive, I'll wait for him to circle around us before killing him with Kramer. Also, the spot next to Ruby is safe, so Owen can stop wasting physic uses. Sheesh... okay, let's just... equip a spare shield and wait. On the bright side, there's no way he's going after Derrick, he can't damage him. Good thing he's too stupid to realize that Derrick has absolutely no chance in hell to damage him in return, whereas Ruby stands a slim chance. Hmm... Oh! Oh, wait! I just had the most devious idea! Let's set this up for next turn... Oh, never mind, I can do it now! Absolutely wonderful! Your hair is stupid! Hm? Did someone say something...? Ah, no matter. Hahahah... Too bad you won't have Hazrij to back you up from here on out, eh, captor mate? ...Wait, what!? WHAT!? THE HELL JUST HAPPENED?! I PROVOKED HIM! ...okay, maybe I'm not too upset that it's come up like this, but... still! What the heck was that!? What on earth... Look! There it is, the provoked status! Why the hell isn't it working!? Oh fuck, there's Abus! This is the worst part of the chapter. Abus will be taken through the lower path, which means I have to haul ass forward if I want to stand any chance of intercepting them in time. Now we can see the lower fort, where more nice things are waiting. You! It's about time you died. Hazrij is too dangerous to be juggling him and you at the same time. That's it! Finally, we can see what the hell's in this chest. Material is fine. There's the piece of trash! Get 'em! Just a bit further... Now! Oof, almost! Ergh... From the only path that doesn't lead straight back to the camp? Anyway, here's Fyodor. He's at full health, so he can handle a couple hits, at least, but it's best that he gets the hell outta dodge quickly. You know what's hilarious? Holy is actually a legit good option against Hazrij... Except if Owen misses and gets Adepted, he's dead, and he gave the miracle charm to Enid, so I can't allow that. Really wish I could have Faye give Sakhalin's charm to someone else. She got it way back in chapter 3, and to this day she hasn't equipped it once because she has no need for it. Oh, well, when she's recruited... If I can stop getting her killed, of course. Well, actually - There's a bright side to her two deaths. If a unit is crippled (I'm pretty sure Faye dying counts), they get happiness to compensate for the maps they'll miss out on. So she's probably closer to her happiness threshold than Kramer, actually. Eh!? Wha... Where's Hazrij going now? I thought provoke didn't work! Is he really coming down now? I don't understand anything... is it because I freed Fyodor, because he's wounded, because Thaddy isn't hidden anymore? What's going on?! Oh boy, more green units. This one's going through the middle. Pfah. Good luck with that. Compared to the other two fort guards, this guy's pretty mediocre. He's also right next to Dallas, so there's no reason to kill him other than the 1000D. This asshole's covering the way to Abus... but if I don't hurry, he'll be taken away. I must take the risk. Elbert has Arrowbane. I'm confident he'll be able to-- Yeah, he did it. What? Thought because I cut my dialogue off, it meant he'd get hit? Well, he did fail to hit this Razite... even though there were three of him! I think I'll send Kramer with Fyodor. I'm pretty sure enemies might appear back there. Best not take any chances. Since Elbert failed, Perceval does something instead. Oho! Enid killed him! Not... sure how she did the sparkly sword trick in the dead of night, but hey! What matters is that he's dead and can't keep anyone else alive for 5 turns. Maaagic, maaagic, maa-- MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!! Yeah, why the fuck not!? Get this level again, c'mon! It's been three levels, and all three times you've gotten this fucking garbage! Hurray for you! You'll be the most accurate fencer in the history of mankind and nothing else! COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCK!! Derrick leads the charge part 3. Don't worry, Fyodor. I'll keep you safe. Ah... Shame 'bout the brother, but we'll deal with Dallas as well, if it's any consolation. Okay, I think Elbert can catch up to 'em. Maybe he'll have to mount, but he can do it. I'm just afraid of other enemies in the fog... Oh. There's Hazrij. Thanks for uncovering him, enemy captor. I... I haven't the slightest idea what he's hoping to accomplish. I do know that Saphira is in his range, though. That's terrible. At any rate, that's another turn gone by. First order of business, RUN LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT GIRL BECAUSE IT DOES Ah, Fyodor made it! NPC 1 of 4. ...He didn't attack Axel? Oh, goodness, he just gets more and more confusing... what the heck is he trying to do?! Is he trying to escape? Is he going for Thaddy? What...?! Well, anyway. Go get them, Elbert. Yes, that's it. That's a good question, actually. Why don't these guys threaten the hostages when we start killing them? Instead, they just continue running into the darkness, hoping we won't keep pursuing them. No! What? Elbert, what's this garbage!? Okay, so uh... about Hazrij. I still have bad memories of Krishna, so let's not give this guy a chance to kill my remaining thief, shall we? Perceval is just as bad as the rest against him, but he can do it from a safe distance, at least. I still find it hilarious how KagaSaga thunder mages cast lightining on themselves before they do the same on the enemy. You know what? That's as good as I could've hoped for. This is pretty nice as well. Elbert continues to dodge arrows like a champ. ...This is such a terrible idea. But... Oh my God you've no idea how tempting it is... At the same time, he can kill four units right now... Let's have Kramer walk back to the team while I come to a decision. ...okay, let me defend my choice. See, she has the miracle charm. If all else fails, she can use it to protect herself from getting Adepted. Still, if this actually works, I'm going to laugh so hard... BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! Hahahahahahah! Hwahahahahahahahahaha! Eheheheh... Heck yeah. I am fucking winner. If you'd helped us, you wouldn't have had to die. To Enid, too. But no, you just had to be a dickhead. 1000D, plus the cash Valery'll give us. Not a bad haul. Good work, Enid. I'm going to try to get Axel to catch up to Elbert, but... Oohhhh my God, this movement nonsense is so annoying... it's like the game goes out of its way to make sure units have to walk inside Overwatch range! No, but seriously, I hope there's nothing waiting for Elbert there. That'd be horrible. I remember otherwise, but Christine proved that my memory is unreliable. Trap springing time. Bah, you're still the mightiest warrior this side of Lazberia. I tried to wait for those two to walk past the cliffs before blocking the way with Derrick, but I ran out of moves. Elbert is under attack. But that looks easily dodged... Mate, if you fail here, I don't think you'll live to get flayed alive by Dallas. Oh, god fucking damnit... Sigh... He has no healing, you know. That's life, man. It ain't fair. Pfffft... See? That's what I meant... Oh, God, not Perceval! He has no defense! Literally! That's a pretty awesome line. Goddamnit! They turned him into a spring roll again! All these battle lines. These guys sure are talkative. If you'd focused instead of panicking, maybe you would've hit him. Okay, so uh... This is dire. Fuck's sake! Reinforcements for Elbert will have to wait. This guy needs to die yesterday. Imagine if he nailed the one guy with a 40% chance, and then missed-- ...... ...... ...... Gaaahhh, finally, something good! This is still a disaster, though... Surely he can dodge now. He better, there are no more vulneraries anywhere near him. Anyway, let's give the Abus captor what for. You know, if I were smart I should've had Elbert mount and canto away into the fog. But no. Nice, kill for Derrick! Let us celebrate with some patching up. I like how the situation is so desperate that I'm forced to use Enid as an actual combat unit instead of just feeding her kills. How ironic, that the one guy with the confident battle quote is the one whose bodyguard is wrecking havoc among my squishies. As good as I could've hoped for. You know what's the worst part? I know for a fact that there are enemies lurking in the fog. Abus is tanky, but I'm still afraid for his life, and Elbert alone can't protect him... Gee, if only I had a unit that could fly above the forests. Shame that's not a thing in Berwick Saga, eh? ...in all seriousness though, sending Larentia in there is suicide. I remember at least three archers. She'd get shredded. See? See?! Up north, we begin to take care of this fool. ...Who promptly runs toward the returning Kramer. Wonderful. Oh, come the fuck on! Really!? I'm going to get unlucky now, of all times?! Oohh, fuck me sideways... uurrrrghhhh...! Okay, Perceval. Thank you. He has the same dodge as TRS sages. I love these kinds of cape-plays. You know what's hilarious? If Elbert misses again and gets hit, he's dead. But I've no choice. NO! ARE YOU FUCKING SHITTING ME!? BLISTERING BARNACLES, WHAT!? Oh, and these guys have Deadeye. How long till I forget? Elbert badly needs help. This is the most dangerous guy. Provoke, provoke! You are also ugly! ...Mmm? Ah, probably nothing... At least with Arrowbane, these archers are far less of a hassle. It's that one soldier I'm worried about... Not so much now that he's provoked, of course, but... Axel to the rescue! Quickly! C'moooon, really!? There's no way he's getting past that in one piece... Perceval. For the love of all that is holy and unholy. If you don't hit this, you're kinda screwed, so pleeeeaseeee... OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Again, I'm forced to use Enid as a combat unit, because everyone around her is failing hard. Did you know Perceval has a support with her, too? Yeah! 4 hit, plus charisma's 3 hit. And he still manages to miss everything. Heck, I bet even if he had 100% chance to hit he'd still find a way to miss somehow! And what about Adept, huh? He has Adept, can you believe it? I can't either, because he hasn't used it a single time in this LP as of yet! Oooowwww.... guys, you're driving me to tears... Can you please get a grip? Pretty please? Thank you. Seems coating your sword in white paint and using it as a brush on the enemy works well. Guess that's what that guy meant when he went "Let me paint you a picture!" and then blasted the enemy to pieces. ...Wait, what? Ah, a level! Fuck it, I'll take it. It's as good as any. Now you just need two more, and happiness. Wow, this guy's angry. Derrick continues to prove why he's the leader of the D-team, by being more competent than everyone else. Ah! Ack! Oh yeah, screw Elbert, Axel's getting the hell outta there. I am NOT losing Axel. Clifford can take over Elbert's provoking. Axel is irreplaceable. And poor little Ciel if he died, too... This could work. Magnificent. Looks like those soldiers have trouble with the muddy patches. And the forest, but that goes without saying. WHAT!? WHAT THE FUCK!? NO! NO, FUCK YOU, BERWICK SAGA! THAT IS NOT FUCKING FAIR! HE'S PROVOKED! PROVOKED! I think this is the first time I've ever been legit mad at Berwick Saga. That's bullshit. If the enemy can't be provoked, why let me? Every other time an enemy follows a set path, they can't be provoked. It's just this one time that Provoke works, but it actually doesn't. Marvelous. What a way to friggin' dupe me. It's probably a glitch due to how these guys' AI works (stick close to the NPC escorts, but otherwise attack freely), but still... goddamnit. And now Elbert's fucked. He's not leaving this place alive. I just hope he'll be able to free Abus before he goes, at least... But first, Thaddy is gonna run to let Axel hide in his forest tile. That's... an awkward place to be, but if he moves any further the Overwatch archer is going to get him. Oh, please... More! More misery! How much worse could this map possibly get?! With my luck, Chaos himself's gonna pop up on top of the NPC right as he reaches the escape point. Good job, Elbert. You managed something. I am so proud of you. It'll probably be the last time I'm ever proud of you... Okay, Axel's safe. And now... You're fucked now. You're SO fucked now. But at least you're taking that one down with you. NO! NO! NO, NO, NO, NO! WHAT IS THIS SHIT LUCK!? UNBELIEVABLE! IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN! HOW MANY MORE TIMES WILL I BE PUT THROUGH THIS SONG AND DANCE!? That's not enough, that's not enough...! Hoo, boy... why is this happening to me?! Did the RNGoddess realize I was merely joking all those times I talked about sacrificing children in her name? Imagine losing Owen as well. Hah! Let's not. Please behave, Perceval. Thanks. Meanwhile, Enid is done killing the final captor. Yeah, yeah, but get magic, okay? You've enough sword skill. COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCK!! A thousand cocks upon a bottleneck! What in the everloving SHIT is this garbage!? Why is everyone blessed except the units that require stats to promote!? Baaaaaaaaaahhhhh! Get the fuck outta here. Deal with the Battle Cry guy, you! Very nice. I'm glad I can count on someone, at least. Elbert can still take a couple blows from the archers, but I think the soldiers can kill him if they get past the shield. His chances of survival are slim, but perhaps his death won't be in vain. Of course! Of COURSE this works! It only ever works when I don't need it to. When I desperately need things to go my way, they don't! Getting Lyarc was too much luck, now I won't ever get lucky again in this game! Enid's survival in William's map? Why, that was a bad thing too! They spared her just so she could drive me crazy with her terrible levels! Woulda been easier if she'd just gotten skewered then, the useless b-- Okay... Let's calm down. Let's... Let's calm down, yeah. Well. There goes Elbert. If he dodges, he can free Abus. if not, we're all done for. This guy's so dead... He's going to go to Christine's side soon enough...! Hah! Yeah, that's great. But you're going to die, so... ...He's not going to die. He's just going to get captured. I... Oh wow. That was so lucky, in a really morbid way. You know what the problem is? Now there's no chance in hell Abus is going to make it. I'd like to point out that this guy is still provoked by Thaddy. Yeah. Lotta good that did me. This guy's finally down... Can you tell I was not exactly happy when I played this? Honestly though, it's a sad day when the best performance of the map is Ruby's. She's barely gotten hit, she held her own against Hazrij and sent him running, she's nailed everyone she went up against... Quite impressing, but so depressive. At least the NPCs are alive. You know, all the ones that aren't Beard 3. Sigh... Well. Now I've no idea what's going to happen. The objective screen says the defeat condition is "all POWs defeated", so... Maybe there's a chance this won't cause a game over? ...It's going to cause a game over, isn't it... ...... Well. So, what now? Simple. The only way I can beat this map is to go back to the turn 10 save and... Make sure Elbert hits this. If he does, then I can nail him again next turn and escape back to the north. And pray two archers aren't enough to best Abus. Dunno, we'll see. As for what we'll lose in the process... I actually recorded everything that happened from Elbert's capture to Abus being taken away, but none of it matters now, so let's just go over the highlights. Ruby got this level. WpSkill is good, but kinda disappointing, after how good she's become. I won't miss this one too much. There's also this bad level from Kramer, the one he got earlier... ...Yeah, I don't think I'll be too sad to go back. Still, a capture's a capture. Just as kills before a reset still count, so do captures. Elbert's going on the capture count, and I won't use him until the next chapter. I'll figure out a way to get rid of some money to simulate the ransom, too. Something around 2000, perhaps. Try to make this as fair as possible. Next time, though. This update's already long enough. So yeah. Next time, hopefully the army won't be as shit as it's been today. Bye. ...Goddamnit, Enid... Death count: Christine Esteban Czene Faye x 2 * Unavailable Capture count: 2 (Daoud, Elbert) Reset count: 2 (Ward: 1, Abus: 1) Current perfect streak: Haha I'm never beating my record am I Best perfect streak: 6 maps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punished Dayni Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 Spoiler 1 minute ago, Saint Rubenio said: The truth is, I have decided that it is about time to get some closure on the "Saint Rubenio hates Three Houses" character arc. So yeah, I've picked that one up again. Third chance by now. I do hope this time I won't leave with such a sour taste in my mouth. Hard on a fresh file, obviously. I'd rather have an easier game than encountering another softlock. Besides, having experienced Echoes, Path of Radiance, Radiant Dawn and Mystery, I've gained a newfound appreciation for Three Houses's middling-to-easy difficulty. Could be worse, could be far worse... y'know, could be PoR. As for the route, I'm going Crimson Flower this time, because aside from Azure Moon it seems like the other route that isn't a waste of time (sorry not sorry Claude, you're going to die). Oho. Remember when I went on about playing 3H to distract from all the crumminess going on? Well, about that: went back to that maddening file and cleared 2 (Only a few tries, so I was happy), coming up to 3. Currently trying to get everyone except Byleth to level 5 before Chapter 3's main mission. Also, looking into recruitment because apparently you recruit mages early, physical units later and faculty later or something, I'm trying to find that info again. I asked Linhardt to assist because Physic is nice when Marianne hasn't gotten it yet, so no recruits yet. 3 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: 1- I speed-recruited Ignatz so I could make him a mage. Again. I just like the guy a lot, okay? I'll also go for Lorenz so I can get the staff thingy for Hanneman, and Leonie because I still think it's a crime that she doesn't join male Byleth instantly like Sylvain joins female Byleth. She's Jeralt's nº 1 fan, the same kind of unit as Sylvain (a cavalier, only with more of a focus on bows), and her skill is literally the twin of Sylvain's. C'mon. It's like they knew Femleth's design is garbage, so they gave a free unit to the player if they picked her. That's why Maleth doesn't have a similar thing. It's supposed to be the incentive to using that shitty design. Ignatz has been a good archer. No resets yet, decent levels and Rally Speed's neat too. And I feel like Leonie would just join Byleth regardless of gender (after working out her rivalry as well), but considering if you don't recruit in Part 1 she'll be an enemy and die, I kinda think in the five years she finds a motivation working for the Alliance besides Jeralt. As an aside, what about Dorothea joining M!Byleth automatically? I could see it syncing up nicely with her support chain. Then again, why wear the default clothes when dancer ensemble exists and is free? 4 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: 2- I managed to kill the Death Knight in chapter 4 without Lysithea! It took some strategizing, but I managed to bring him low enough with gambits that Ferdinand (Von Aegir) could use Knightkneeler on him. Hubert immediately put the seal to good use after the chapter ended. It didn't come without cost, however: I lost a vulnerary. ...Also Caspar with the vulnerary, but he wasn't as useful as the vulnerary, so I can't say I miss him too much. I mean, I only brought him and Bernie as sacrifices to buy time. As for Bernadetta, I consider her defeat an upside. She doesn't actually die, so I don't feel like a monster, and I don't have to endure her presence ever again. Everyone wins. Except Bernadetta, but fuck 'er. Press F for Vulnerarwrys. Caspar too I guess, he's not as bad as all that, but hey I've seen him body the DK alone, maybe I'm biased. Also, considering her abusive home situation, I should be mad. I'm not a Bernie stan, so I won't be. I would make complaints about the deaths in hard, but I've not seen maddening DK yet, I'm going to hold off. 4 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: 3- I've found myself cringing multiple times at certain characters and lines, more than in my past 1.5 runs. Dunno if it's because I'm predisposed against the game or what, but I suffered watching scenes like "haha Caspar unwittingly uses Dorothea's bra to wipe his sweat", "haha Manuela flirts with everything that moves" and... Just Sothis in general. I've facepalmed more times than I'd like to admit. Also, I feel a manner of primal rage within me every time Bernadetta opens her mouth. Suffice to say, Hanneman is still the best character in the game. That hasn't changed and it probably never will. It baffles me how much better than everyone else he is. I don't think I have such a clear-cut favorite in any other game in the series. I mean, I don't remember it being Dorothea's bra, so yes I can see you being a little done with the game. I stand that 3H has one of the better player casts and definitely the best of the last decade plus. Yep, I am going there. This technically includes NMotE and I know you'll be mad at that (See, I don't need Mongolians to piss you right off), but let me explain that this doesn't mean Arran's bad or anything, but I just feel like a lot of that cast is very bland. And I say this knowing Lena's there, that's hard on me too. 4 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Oh, really? Good on them! Shame the DLC is still... hilariously not worth the price. I mean, hell, the best addition by far (an actual resolution to the Death Knight on the corresponding route) is free. Fanservice outfits? A garbage character that's by far the worst unit in the entire cast? They might as well rename the DLC pass "Cindered Shadows and all the fluff". Well, except for the classes. I find it rather scummy to lock such classes as magic flier and mounted healer behind a paywall. But that's just me. Hence why I'm playing the waiting game on it. 5 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: It's not so much that she isn't gone long enough as she seems to come back whenever she pleases. It feels as though there weren't any real consequences to her sacrifice. I mean, she just randomly returns to marry Byleth. I can sorta see Byleth's awakening as some "fate" shit, but what the hell was that S ending? Stupid fanservice that didn't think with their heads for a second. 7 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: S supports in general are pretty garbage in this game. You can't even conveniently ship characters with anyone other than yourself. It's nothing more than cheap pandering, through and through. Wanna know how cheap? They didn't even draw the characters correctly sometimes. For crying out loud, Hanneman loses his beard in his ending. How do you miss that? It's just a bunch of PNGs! How difficult is it to make sure that there's nothing wrong with a bunch of PNGs? Moustacheless Hanneman sounds hilarious. 6 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Oh, right, I'd forgotten. There's a Martin in Ireland that was... uh, that. I'm not even going to attempt to pronounce that word. He's having a rough time of it right now. Had to sack a minister within three weeks, the party's been left with the tough departments and not really justifying the choices being made with regard to lockdown. I can't say I am sorry for him, but still. 8 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Ergh... No, I really don't think so. I mean, we only see Orson after he's hit his low point, he seemed to have been considered a decent skin before his wife died. 8 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Ah... I've been following the situation(s) myself. I didn't really want to bring it up here, but since it came up, I suppose I'll say something. I've never been too into FE youtubers. I watch Mekkah very sporadically, I've seen some stuff from Deltre, Markyjoe and Dondon, and that's about it. I never liked Mangs or Chaz, I found them both to be quite obnoxious. And, frankly, I'm happy I never got too much into any of them. Because of that, I haven't been affected too much by the whole situation. It does surprise me that there are so many scumbags in our community, but I never cared for them anyway, so all I have to say is "good riddance, and goodbye." I suppose the lesson to take away from this is, don't believe everything you see. I'm not saying that everybody has skeletons in their closets, but it's all too easy for a person to appear cool and great when you only ever see them in short videos. Liking content creators is fine, but you shouldn't let your judgment be clouded because some guy on the internet is entertaining. These people shouldn't get any free passes just because they're kinda famous. As for what I think about the cases themselves, well... Good riddance to Mangs. He was always a creep. It just caught up to him, at last. For my opinion on Chaz, see my reply to @This boi uses Nino down below. 10 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Remember how I said that the situation hasn't shaken me up as much because I never cared for any of them? Yeah... In retrospect, I should've realized that wasn't a great comment to make at the present time. I apologize for the discomfort I may've accidentally caused you. I mean, I wasn't particularly clouded in judgment when I heard what had happened. Mangs was particularly unsurprising with his way too open thirst. I'd argue when I hear about this stuff I go too far the other way and assume the worst. It's just disappointing to hear about people doing shitty things. As for what you said to @This boi uses Nino, yeah I'm sceptical about Chaz as well, it certainly reads at best like coercive behaviour. Not helped by how the defence for him acted too. I'm just depressed that people were acting the way they were, especially defending a potential rapist of a teenager and trying to shut her down for being inconvenient. Their being FEtubers is honestly incidental with some of the shit that went on, just meant I got to see the shitstorm up close as it happened and that's always draining. It's not your fault Berwick also chose now to have a very dour update that touched on topical shit, I'd blame Kaga if it weren't coincidental. 9 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Hahah... You underestimate Berwick Saga. Everyone gets a character here. Everyone. Even the NPCs. Even Leon. His arc just starts in chapter 10, but it does happen! Arc I presume you mean. Then again, some of these arcs I have to wonder. Though the game is still afoot after all. 9 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: And I murder him. Because I haven't the slightest interest on recruiting that piece of garbage. Funny how that works - I initially thought he was actually kinda okay, and Felix was just your average edgelord. Now I believe the opposite: Felix is half-decent for a Navarre, whereas Sylvain is a horrid Sain-type that's even more of a terrible person than Saul. That's the thing: I felt like Felix would stay my least favourite unit. Then I played each of the routes, saw more of his supports. I've come around on the guy and am pretty pissed at myself. Sylvain meanwhile I get why he acts as he does. In that regard he's like a Makalov I can actually stand (In that his flaws are very much central to his presentation, but thank fuck there's at least something beyond it and a reason for it. Though with recent events I feel like he might be pushed away for now.) 35 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Hoo-wee, that looks like it's gonna be great. We're split into two teams, but that's not enough to cover the three paths. As we advance, four soldiers will appear escorting the prisoners. They'll try to make it past us and escape. If they do, that's bad, so let's try not to let 'em. Once the prisoners are safe, we must capture the stone fortress way back there. This fucking map, I swear. 37 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: I imagine the people back home will be willing to buy it, don't you? (He hired them just so he could slaughter all the prisoners...?) We've got four prisoners to "escort" this evening. I have men hidden at the pass up ahead to take care of them. Your job will be to clean up the mercenaries once everything's over. Dallas, you are some motherfucker. You almost applaud that bastardry. They really are the baddies, good job. 38 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Let's build a wall. No references intended. -ALL AROUND DONEGAL- Wait, no that's also wrong. Off topic, I had to tear down a bit of wall today because it was in the way. The rocks were stupidly heavy, it was not fun. 40 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: And with that, Kramer and his three green clones achieve a victory. He, too, needs levels. Kramer's ghosts should not be haunting his enemies. 41 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Two!? There are two of them!? This is getting out of hand! Dammed overwatch! 42 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: I still can't understand what that thrust's supposed to be, but it worked! He's dead! It seems to be a forward thrust intended to make the stab have more force behind it. An attack with that much of your body push forward would have more impact. I mean I get it, but that's some odd approach especially because it likely wouild result in her pushing the bow guy over and end up falling over too unless she pulled the sword out or let it go. Also, it's not as cool as ending someone rightly. 50 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Well, well. Color me shocked. Also color me pleased! Thank you, Perceval. Colour him shocked too. 56 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: ...In retrospect, I should've expected that this'd be the perfect time for a crit to screw everything up. Berwick: FUCK THIS CRIT'LL RUIN EVERYTHING 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!! Yeah, why the fuck not!? Get this level again, c'mon! It's been three levels, and all three times you've gotten this fucking garbage! Hurray for you! You'll be the most accurate fencer in the history of mankind and nothing else! COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCK!! Reinhardt Perceval will be disappointed. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Thank you. Seems coating your sword in white paint and using it as a brush on the enemy works well. Guess that's what that guy meant when he went "Let me paint you a picture!" and then blasted the enemy to pieces. ...Wait, what? For one thing, that guy paints in shades of red. Also, Kramer doesn't seem to be an artist, so maybe a professional painter going around doing jobs for people? 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Wow, this guy's angry. He looks like he was in prison for sure. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: NO! NO, FUCK YOU, BERWICK SAGA! THAT IS NOT FUCKING FAIR! HE'S PROVOKED! PROVOKED! I think this is the first time I've ever been legit mad at Berwick Saga. That's bullshit. If the enemy can't be provoked, why let me? Every other time an enemy follows a set path, they can't be provoked. It's just this one time that Provoke works, but it actually doesn't. Marvelous. What a way to friggin' dupe me. It's probably a glitch due to how these guys' AI works (stick close to the NPC escorts, but otherwise attack freely), but still... goddamnit. And now Elbert's fucked. He's not leaving this place alive. I just hope he'll be able to free Abus before he goes, at least... ERIP: 1 I've not really been counting otherwise, so I'll be generous and say 1. But this song is the true response. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Good job, Elbert. You managed something. I am so proud of you. It'll probably be the last time I'm ever proud of you... At least he can see Christine if he does. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCK!! A thousand cocks upon a bottleneck! What in the everloving SHIT is this garbage!? Why is everyone blessed except the units that require stats to promote!? Baaaaaaaaaahhhhh! ERIP: 2 I didn't expect it to be so useful so soon. It's like she's Ogier again. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: I'd like to point out that this guy is still provoked by Thaddy. Yeah. Lotta good that did me. Real talk, so does Provoke work through hiding? 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: ...It's going to cause a game over, isn't it... ...... Well. So, what now? Simple. The only way I can beat this map is to go back to the turn 10 save and... RESETTI WILL BE ANGRY. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Still, a capture's a capture. Just as kills before a reset still count, so do captures. Elbert's going on the capture count, and I won't use him until the next chapter. I'll figure out a way to get rid of some money to simulate the ransom, too. Something around 2000, perhaps. Try to make this as fair as possible. Goodbye Elbert, you didn't die. I almost expected this to be done in one update. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Roger The Paladin Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 Spoiler 22 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: 2- I managed to kill the Death Knight in chapter 4 without Lysithea! It took some strategizing, but I managed to bring him low enough with gambits that Ferdinand (Von Aegir) could use Knightkneeler on him. I've done the same... minus killing off units to buy time. See, I had to precise damage plan the whole thing to get just enough to kill him. It was rather painful. 23 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Dunno if it's because I'm predisposed against the game or what, but I suffered watching scenes like "haha Caspar unwittingly uses Dorothea's bra to wipe his sweat", I'm pretty sure that was implied to serve another function... if you get me. 25 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Not that anything could match The Roger The Paladin. Every time I read this line... 26 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Come now, can't we have one wholesome friendship without it turning into a yuri doujin? ...I hope I used the terms well... *stares at Catherine and Shamir's A-support* Guess not. 29 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Oh, really? Good on them! Shame the DLC is still... hilariously not worth the price. I mean, hell, the best addition by far (an actual resolution to the Death Knight on the corresponding route) is free. Fanservice outfits? A garbage character that's by far the worst unit in the entire cast? They might as well rename the DLC pass "Cindered Shadows and all the fluff". Well, except for the classes. I find it rather scummy to lock such classes as magic flier and mounted healer behind a paywall. But that's just me. Not even a damn divided pay wall. It's literally all or nothing. I can't justify the purchase when I can actually get entire games for cheaper. 31 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: I can sorta see Byleth's awakening as some "fate" shit, but what the hell was that S ending? I like to imagine all Sothis scenes post "sacrifice" as literally being Byleth gone delusional from the fall. Shame no one will ever do a sequel where Byleth's a mad king who believes he's married to a draco-loli that's not even there. 47 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Neither can I. High school in general is pretty garbage. None of what you do matters shit, you forget everything you learn when summer starts, everyone's an idiot and then when you leave you don't ever want to see any of them ever again. It's an exaggeration, of course, but... Sigh... I have some good memories of high school, but I always found it funny when my family told me that "when I grow up, I'll wish I could return to my childhood". I was a depressed loner through elementary school, paranoid and closed off in the first half of high school, and a horny dumbass in its second half. Fuck all that, I've only grown happier and happier since then. All I remember of high-school is one big head-ache. Literally. Chronic migraines. Missed more days than I attended consequently. Actually, there were some other antics I remember... but yeah. Mostly the headaches. 55 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Genjuro can die in a ditch, though. And, well... I mean, he kinda does, doesn't he? Best thing about Genjuro. Where the Fire Emblem edgelord will disappear into the wilderness post-game... Genjuro, being the scumbag he is literally dies because of his scummy actions. Not even a glorious death (unless you're revelling in the karmic factor). He gets stabbed in the back by a kid before he can strike down a renowned swordsman to add to his reputation. Nothing else. Though to be fair, Genjuro's shown as nothing but a scumbag mercenary, gambler and murderer from start to finish. He's about as much of a douche, or often more so than the actual final bosses. I mean, the game he debuted in had a genocidal evil spirit bent on the destruction of humanity... but considering her origins she was almost sympathetic. How else could you feel about an evil spirit that's only a spirit because when she was alive she was almost drowned by her mother in a famine, then raised by a village that found her and used as a frigging sacrifice to end the famine when she turned 11? Because if that was my experience with humanity, I'd probably want them all dead too. The big difference being said evil spirit ends up finally seeing the positive side to humanity, and leaves for the afterlife after it's plan is stopped. Genjuro on the other hand is a piece of shit because he's a piece of shit. Likewise, the final boss of the first game does a full heel-face turn to help stop that vengeful spirit in the second... and dies in the process. This is despite him having been a mustache twirling demon-summoning sorcerer prior. The warlord Sankuro worked for may have made a deal with demons for power, but he honestly was fighting for the betterment of Japan... in his beliefs. He considered the caste system a problem and wanted it gone. My point is, most of the series villains had redeeming qualities, a motivation, a backstory. Something to explain why.... and Genjuro was an exception. The only character more edgy than him was the demon who constantly ranted about blood until getting decapitated at the end of the game it debuted in. Not that I got that decapitation, because censored in the western release. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: I like how everyone sidestepped the most obvious response. Come on, he's not William. You already killed him. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Clearly she's not fond of his research, considering she disappeared just in time to not see him again after his rescue. "Oh no. I remember where that research left off and I want no part in a damn vivisection". 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Okay... It makes more sense if you've seen the Soleil x Ophelia support chain in FE Fates. tl:dr version Soleil is like the Saul/Sain type of character... but with the twist she's a girl. So it's okay that she sexually harasses Ophelia to the point of tears. Or not. Point is one of the more... shall we say, controversial, supports from the game. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Not right. That last one is quite believable. Also I keep screwing up and accidentally including an argument behind my conclusions. So I'm just completely failing at the "spewing out garbage with no explanation". Must be because I keep doing stupid ones for conspiracy theories. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: They have a scene together with Lena after Medeus falls if they're all still alive, actually. Allow me to quote my first LP... I meant I'm imagining a version of that scene where Matthis is drunk... and decides Julian's all right. I remember the scene. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: That's pretty rad, actually! Have you ever considered publishing the results of your efforts? I'd need them in a far more finalized state than I have. Mind, technically with new comics releasing constantly, I'm not even sure if there'd be a market for an effort that technically ends off in 2012/2011 (depending on the company). One of my more ironic moments in the whole thing was when I (reading them as I went) gathered up a list what issues each feature in the british anthology 2000ad (the series is a sci-fi one, with 2,180~ish issues as of now. It started so long ago it's name used to be a "far flung future year" but it's now kind of... 20 years ago. There was talk of changing it around then, but it never happened). Now given the book has around five features an issue, and features change regularly... there's been hundreds of features to go through the series. Shortly after I finished my list.... I found out 2000 AD already had one on their official website. Virtually identical to mine.... with the difference being theirs was alphabetized whereas mine was by the chronological debut of a feature. Bright side being, I don't need the internet to access mine. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Expecting Ferdinand Von Aegir? Too bad! Waluigi time! Where's "not Waluigi" when we need him? 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: The captor is carrying Fyodor in his pocket. I thought that was pretty hilarious. If he captured Owen, would that make him a pocket medic? 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Well, well. Color me shocked. Also color me pleased! Thank you, Perceval. He achieved it. Two consecutive hits. By sheer Percyverence. 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: What's with the helmet? You too bad to protect your own head? Or maybe your mug is so ugly that you need to cover it so as not to scare your allies... YOU! HWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!! I really should take notes from this guy... Personally, I'd have asked if he knew helmets make their user go bald. Just to mess with him. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: OH, PLEASE! COME ON! I MADE A MISTAKE AND I WAS PUNISHED FOR IT, WHAT A LOAD OF BULLSHIT! WTF is that? How do you get punished for your mistakes? Didn't they test this game before they released it? 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Kramer gets murdered by Adept, and he doesn't have Faramir to save him. As for Faye... Huh. At full health she actually survives getting Adepted. I like that slip-up where you say Faye when you clearly mean Ruby. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: What on earth... Look! There it is, the provoked status! Why the hell isn't it working!? What a expletive load of another expletive. (original insult template, donut steel) 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: If a unit is crippled (I'm pretty sure Faye dying counts), they get happiness to compensate for the maps they'll miss out on. So she's probably closer to her happiness threshold than Kramer, actually. "I'm so happy I got crippled". I guess it makes sense... you'd be happy too if you got crippled instead of dying in a war. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: 1000D, plus the cash Valery'll give us. Not a bad haul. Good work, Enid. Imagine if it turned out that last level was the exact difference between that working and failing. 2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: ...He's not going to die. He's just going to get captured. I... Oh wow. That was so lucky, in a really morbid way. You know what the problem is? Now there's no chance in hell Abus is going to make it. That's.... very ironic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrightBow Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 (edited) Spoiler 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Bwahahahahahahah... Said Brightbow, while aggressively frowning. So I'm a Volo fan now? News to me. I know people like to put him in top tier but personally I prefer to put him on the bench, 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: The Hamilton twin fled into the fog to warn his pals. Thus, Derrick leads the charge. No Larentia? Interesting strategy. 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Level already? For some reason she was at 99 experience from the beginning. What's up with that? Bench EXP? Happens if someone is not deployed for a whole chapter. But you can't actually increase in level that way, so she got stuck at 99. 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Two!? There are two of them!? This is getting out of hand. Fortunately neither of them moves. 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: ...you've got to admit, though, mighty terrible performance right there... You were advertised two attacks and got two hits. Sounds good to me. 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I still can't understand what that thrust's supposed to be, but it worked! He's dead! She would be unstoppable if she knew how swords worked. 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I find it amazing that she's going to reach her S Shield threshold first, with a base of 0 and the lowest growth of the three skills. Meanwhile my Ruby is at lv 13 and has yet to hit 20 shield. 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: The reason we haven't seen soothe before is that soothe is a worthless fucking orb that serves no purpose whatsoever. Besides being a cheap way to build up Light rank? 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Well, well, well... What a curious turn of events! It seems my tall tale has come true! How very convenient... If nothing else, this'll help make tonight much more fun! Oh please. What bumbling idiots do you take these guys for? I mean, you are right. But it's not like you would know. 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Oof... So, Hazrij has 17 speed, Adept and a strong sword with 28 skill. This is gonna be fun. Great. Now you just need to capture this guy and you have a Scimitar for the Harperia. Yeah, it's generally easier to just buy one when given the chance. 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: This level is, uh... not the best, but I suppose I'll take the accuracy. And he's probably got the best non-skill growths in the game too. 40% for HP, Strength and Speed. 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Again? If you make her bleed so much, I suppose I can see why her tunic has gotten pink by the time she promotes. I always thought she simply put her tunic and her scarf in the washer together. 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: He must be judging you so hard right now. ...to think you still intend to fight Chaos. Those kids from the lower streets could beat you up. 😵😵with ragnell i can defeat the black knight and save my twin sister fana 😵😵 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: WHAT!? THE HELL JUST HAPPENED?! I PROVOKED HIM! Uhhh....??? 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: You know what's hilarious? Holy is actually a legit good option against Hazrij... Except if Owen misses and gets Adepted, he's dead, and he gave the miracle charm to Enid, so I can't allow that. You could just have him use Thunder from 2 range. 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: First order of business, RUN LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT GIRL BECAUSE IT DOES No, it doesn't. She's still playing casual mode. 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: ...He didn't attack Axel? Oh, goodness, he just gets more and more confusing... what the heck is he trying to do?! Is he trying to escape? Is he going for Thaddy? What...?! He was still provoked on the last screenshot, so his provoked status would have only worn off after moving. So he wouldn't have been able to attack anyone but his provoker. ...at least in theory. Evidently Hazrij doesn't give a shit about how the Provoke rules work. 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: No! What? Elbert, what's this garbage!? That seems like one of these times where it might be better not to use Elbert's crappy Spear rank. 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: That's not a nice thing to say from an Allied POW. Wonder why he is labeled that. 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Oh, god fucking damnit... Sigh... He has no healing, you know. You send him out all the way here without any healing? Guess you really want him to reunite with Christine. 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: All these battle lines. These guys sure are talkative. No need to panic, Allied POW. Help has arrived. 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Reinforcements for Elbert will have to wait. This guy needs to die yesterday. Wouldn't it be better to let Perceval run past Saphira? He'd be out of range there. 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: You know, if I were smart I should've had Elbert mount and canto away into the fog. But no. Eh, there are only archers down there. I think if you let that final archer waste his sole Rajin Arrow, they can't even kill Albus before he escapes. 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: ...in all seriousness though, sending Larentia in there is suicide. I remember at least three archers. She'd get shredded. It's not like she is more vulnerable to archers then anyone else. They are also all in the East part, so Larentia can easily free Albus long before they actually get there. 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: NO! NO, FUCK YOU, BERWICK SAGA! THAT IS NOT FUCKING FAIR! HE'S PROVOKED! PROVOKED! You know, with Hazrij I would have figured it might have been because Thaddy wasn't in anyone's sight range. But in this case, he actually is in 3 range of an enemy. Sure, they still can't see him since he is hiding, but using Provoke out of hiding normally works just fine. 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: It's probably a glitch due to how these guys' AI works (stick close to the NPC escorts, but otherwise attack freely), but still... goddamnit. I guess that could be it. Presumably the game only checks where the escort is allowed to move right when he is actually about to move. So as far as the game is concerned, the Soldier is allowed to move anywhere as long as it's anyone else's turn, hence he can still be targeted by Provoke. That theory wouldn't explain Hazrij, though. Considering he came all the way down to the middle. And I'm pretty sure he is not actually tied to a convoy, because he has been harassing me in the middle without me even trying to Provoke him. Edited July 17, 2020 by BrightBow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanes Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 Spoiler 9 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Rather basic stuff, but still, good job. And about that, I know a few more african countries but can't properly tell you how many countries south or east or etc of another it would be. 10 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Oh God, don't make me try to make heads or tails of that nonsense... I can locate Cuba, but that's about it. Yeah a freaking island in the Caribbean lol. Well I do know where Belize is in central america, it's like a small vertical rectangle that borders Mexico to the south. 10 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I must admit, I do like the nickname. Holy-bearded bastard... It sums me up pretty well. Finally I was wondering when you would say something about it. Holy comes from the "St." in your name and bearded is self explanatory. I was thinking on putting fat there but three words roll of the tongue better. And yeah I do roll my tongue when reading or typing something, though not everything, that was just a figure of speech. On that note, do you ever slightly move your tongue when you think of a word? For example I have to practice utilizing my dental fricatives (the two 'TH" sounds in English) and whenever I try to think the word and "hear" it (another peculiarity, do we hear things when we think of them? It's weird but try to remember your favorite song and yiou get the feeling of hearing sth despite there being no sound) I move my tongue to make the "th" sound even though I'm not gonna say it and I keep my lips shut. Weird. 10 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: They were very fat. Turns out, the "great" was referring to their size. They were fat? They don't look like it. 10 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Neither can I. High school in general is pretty garbage. None of what you do matters shit, you forget everything you learn when summer starts, everyone's an idiot and then when you leave you don't ever want to see any of them ever again. It's an exaggeration, of course, but... Sigh... I have some good memories of high school, but I always found it funny when my family told me that "when I grow up, I'll wish I could return to my childhood". I was a depressed loner through elementary school, paranoid and closed off in the first half of high school, and a horny dumbass in its second half. Fuck all that, I've only grown happier and happier since then. It honestly is. Though for me not so much that I forget everything since I do like learning. And what I meant by arbitrary high school popularity is that how the community ranks everyone on coolest to uncoolest is stupid, greatly biased and basically just a circlejerk. If a group manages to get viewed by others as the popular kids, they have essentially established a dogma circlejerk that can decide one's life (literally, affect their mental state) on a whim and there's nothing you can do to stop them... well you could deestablish it if you create a mass controversy if for example you are a woman and get raped. But since that's tedious and boring I say BURN IT ALL! MWAHAHAHAHA! VALAFLAME! VALAFLAAAAAAME!!! VAAAAAAALAAAAAFLAAAAAAAAAAMMEEEEE!!!!!!! Oof, sucks to hear that but it's also nice to hear you've grown better. I honestly don't think I'll miss high school. It sucks. 10 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Actually, it doesn't matter what you do in this thread, because, well, I follow my own thread, so I get notifications for everything anyone does here. Makes sense but still, do you know if altering the authentic quote boxes nullifies the notification sent to someone? I guess I could start a thread and quote you there but change the contents inside to see if it would notify you. 10 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Was there any need to list off everything? Not that I'm ashamed of it, mind. Live and let live, I say. That applies to myself as well. Though I probably shouldn't be so open about it, should I... Pah, who cares. This is the internet, I am completely anonymous! Nobody knows even my name or my nationality! I... um... sorry... Por supuesto, Ruben de Aragon de Castilla IV, nadie sabe que eres espaniol! ... Well ok who cares lol, everyone likes their shit. Nobody is 100% vanilla, everyone has their distinc ""taboo"" likes. 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Then it's mighty fortunate that you don't like that portrait in particular, because it's not actually from the game. I made that one. The head wasn't originally on that body, and the hair was longer before I trimmed it, so that's why it looks weird, most likely. For the record, all four of those guys are my own edited portraits, as is my profile picture. Well I figured but they were atleast Berwick looking or really I thought they were simple edits and not splicing. 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Prove it, then. Spell his name. Erzheimer. 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: ...I think I've said all I had to say on that mess, between this and my reply to Dayni. Now, can I ask that we keep this out of the thread? This really isn't the place for this. I wouldn't enjoy watching my thread devolve into a fight about a situation that is very vagely tied to any of us. Huh, well I only was joking from my comment but sure. I'll respect your decision to keep this forum clean, especially since I don't care either. 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Chapter 7 of 15. The last few chapters are shorter, but there's the four paralogues on top of that. So... I'd say roughly a bit less than halfway through. And this is part 44! WOW! 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Expecting Ferdinand Von Aegir? Too bad! Waluigi time! Man Waluigi's pinball is super fun... I like MArio Kart DS soooo much... 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: ...What was that noise? A deer...? ......! I-It's the Berwick League!? What are they doing here?! I have to warn the others...! Enemy raid! The enemy is here! But Dallas already knew the Berwick League was here... 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Yes! Great! More HP means you die less easy and I can breathe more comfortably. Also, light points for better heals. Wow he has a decent amount of HP... though no defense I guess... but still. 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Worth a shot! Ahahahahahahahah... This is never not fun. Holy hell! How much more damage does pulverize make you do? Wow!! 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Kills for Enid. Please, please, please please pretty please get magic next time you level up. That's way too hopeful, even if 20% is decent for Berwick's standards, it's still 20% in the eyes of the universe. Hey I mean not to get your spirits down but if my Serra refuses to level up a 50% growth... then I doubt a 20% will ocurr and that I will see it. 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: You're lame! GRWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!! Lol this guy has issues. 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Faye you useless sack of shit! Damn those are strong words... 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Well, she's fast enough to counter the crossbow. If she doesn't get hit, that is. Which is impossible, I mean, look at his accuracy. On an enemy, that might as well be 100%. Oh! She actually pulled it off! Of course, I'm the same guy who misses popups that stick around for two seconds. How could I ever catch Faye running for half a second before disappearing? Oh right you can counter ranged attacks this way... And yeah enemies with a 70% hit will always hit. 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I find it amazing that she's going to reach her S Shield threshold first, with a base of 0 and the lowest growth of the three skills. Don't jynx it! 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: The reason we haven't seen soothe before is that soothe is a worthless fucking orb that serves no purpose whatsoever. Hey look it's Serra's healing! Or actually no, literally everyone in FE11 and 12 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Well, well. Color me shocked. Also color me pleased! Thank you, Perceval. Perceval redemption arc!!! 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: What's with the helmet? You too bad to protect your own head? Or maybe your mug is so ugly that you need to cover it so as not to scare your allies... YOU! HWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!! I really should take notes from this guy... Elbert lol. 11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Ahahahahah, yes! Axel, you're the best. WOOOOO GO AXEL! 12 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: OH, PLEASE! COME ON! I MADE A MISTAKE AND I WAS PUNISHED FOR IT, WHAT A LOAD OF BULLSHIT! Welp. There goes Faye again. It could've been worse, but... baaah, I wanted to field her in the next map! She's definitely coming to the next main mission. She needs to get to level 10 already. Damn that sucks. 12 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: PERCEVAL Lmao 12 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Your hair is stupid! Hm? Did someone say something...? Ah, no matter. Thaddy step up your game! 12 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Oof, almost! I feel like I've seen this happen a million times by now. You get so close to a level but not yet. Also you only get exp from killing right? 12 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Yeah, he did it. What? Thought because I cut my dialogue off, it meant he'd get hit? Your tricks have deceived me once more... Holy-bearded bastard... and I am quite amused! 12 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!! Yeah, why the fuck not!? Get this level again, c'mon! It's been three levels, and all three times you've gotten this fucking garbage! Hurray for you! You'll be the most accurate fencer in the history of mankind and nothing else! COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCK!! My prediction was spot on. Also who yells cock like that? I guess you just want to use it like "Verga"? 12 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! Hahahahahahah! Hwahahahahahahahahaha! Eheheheh... Heck yeah. I am fucking winner. If you'd helped us, you wouldn't have had to die. To Enid, too. But no, you just had to be a dickhead. Well finally some good news from Enid! 12 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Imagine if he nailed the one guy with a 40% chance, and then missed-- ...... Well the cutting off sentences does seem to work now... 12 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Okay, Perceval. Thank you. He has the same dodge as TRS sages. I love these kinds of cape-plays. So like the Rodeo thing? "Ole!!" 12 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Can you tell I was not exactly happy when I played this? Sucks... hey do you do these editd screenshots as they happen? Or rather... do you write this LP while you are playing the game? BTW I have a signature that shows my record of beaten FE games... what do you think? I'm extra proud of beating FE7 HHM, I'll beat FE8 Ephraim HM next... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrightBow Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 (edited) Alright. Ruby hit level 16 and she finally got S.Shield 20. I wonder how people end up in a situation where that whole "needs to gain a level after recruitment for promotion" is even an issue. She should hit level 10 way earlier then all of her weapon ranks level 20. She gets Adept at level 17. Cute, but I think she should learn Pursuit instead. Btw, I made a little mistake when calculating the damage of the Pike. If you use a spear, you already get the first charge bonus against an adjutant enemy. Presumably because you are moving onto an enemy's tile to attack at 0 range. Which means that if a dismounted Spear unit takes it's full 4 movement, they get 6 + (5x2) = 16 damage from the Pike and 12 + (5x1) = 17 damage from the Longspear. So the Longspear still always wins, but it''s user needs to walk 3 tiles rather then 2 tiles to match the max power of the Pike. You would need 6 movement or more for the Pike to have some sort of advantage. Edited July 19, 2020 by BrightBow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golb89 Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 (edited) [Addendums] Spoiler On 7/7/2020 at 11:58 PM, Saint Rubenio said: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OWEN YOU SLOWPOKE! IZERNA AND SAPHIRA STILL WOULDN'T HAVE MADE A DIFFERENCE BECAUSE THEY'RE JUST AS SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW! Okay, okay, let's not lose our heads... There is still one thing we can do to save him. And that thing is: Maybe. On 7/13/2020 at 6:32 PM, Saint Rubenio said: It's over, Anakin: I have the high ground: On 7/13/2020 at 6:32 PM, Saint Rubenio said: I mean, why would there be? Fanservice with females sells more, and that's all they care about. Or so I'd imagine, given how little male fanservice there is in games of this kind. Personally, I could do without fanservice of any kind. But that's just me being stuck up, I guess. On 7/14/2020 at 9:57 PM, Golb89 said: On 7/13/2020 at 6:32 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Okay, Sylvis. The bow is yours. The name probably gives you good memories. ...Have Sherlock's thunder god arrows too. No biases here. None. *Insert my own quote with that image edit i did LONG ago of which i no longer have the original and finding it or its source again would take way too much time and effort here* On 5/5/2020 at 11:02 PM, Golb89 said: Source *Insert Ruben's quotes about Reese and Marcel's capes here* https://www.awkwardzombie.com/comic/billow-fight *Insert Ruben's quotes about Dire Thunder being Percival's personal orb here* *Insert Volcens here* On 7/17/2020 at 5:08 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Part 44 - Level-headed foes. On 7/17/2020 at 5:08 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Quote Aegir Purestream Weedy Description The Aegir have the traits of various aquatic creatures ranging from cetaceans and fishes, although these are barely noticeable. They are named after Ægir, a jötunn associated with the ocean in Norse mythology; the word itself means "sea" in Old Norse. Spoiler These are most definitely Aegirs too, but are classified as "Unknown" for various reasons (i.e. Aegir is quite literally not-Atlantis😞 Deepcolor Glaucus Skadi Specter On 7/17/2020 at 5:08 PM, Saint Rubenio said: I: Spoiler On 7/17/2020 at 5:08 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Okay... Not sure what the context for that's supposed to be in the original game, but okay. (I'm not sure either, actually) On 7/17/2020 at 5:08 PM, Saint Rubenio said: What's with the completely unfitting characters that look like they come from Metal Gear? (Same as above) On 7/17/2020 at 5:08 PM, Saint Rubenio said: ...Oh, so she just says her own name there, is that it? Meh. Still gonna call her Martel. Oh really? On 7/17/2020 at 5:08 PM, Saint Rubenio said: The meme I have no idea who that is, and both designs look the exact same to me. Just the OPest character in the whole game atm, with his default and Elite2 promotion arts. (Also, check the addendums above if you hadn't already) On 7/17/2020 at 5:08 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Anyway, that's a new one, no? No. On 7/17/2020 at 5:08 PM, Saint Rubenio said: 1- What, is she alergic to beer or what? Is that why it's gonna end badly? 2- Super Mario Kart victory scene. 3- I just hope that isn't an official event. 4- Okay, so her character trait is that she's a drunkard. Check. Guess you weren't paying attention. (i.e. read the first comment, the one with all the spoiler tags) And she's more of a lightweight drinker (and borderline yandere) than an actual drunkard. (Also, the "beer" served in that specific bar is actually a drink made with syntethic ingredients that sorta tastes like beer, at least if i understood that game's lore correctly) On 7/17/2020 at 5:08 PM, Saint Rubenio said: No. No, it is not a boy. What, not used to anime women without dirigibles on their chest? No offense. But she does look like a girl. The only size that matters to me in girls is their hair's lenght, and she definitely fails imo. And her face totally looks like a boy's too. (Also, how exactly do you know she doesn't have dirigibles too? You can't really make it from her pic) On 7/17/2020 at 5:08 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Isn't this one new too? Her design is... unremarkable. Again. OH REALLY? (You actually saw her before too: she's the one who took axeman's ice axe) On 7/17/2020 at 5:08 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Nightmare, rope... Is there anyone with a normal name, like say, Maria? Or Penelope? As i mentioned multiple times already, THEY ARE CODENAMES! Heck, she EXPLICITELY said it herself: Quote And i did too, sort of: Quote On 7/17/2020 at 5:08 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Well, why don't you try it then if you're so tough? I already did: <br /> (That's not actually my case, but i DID beat Isomer nonetheless) On 7/17/2020 at 5:08 PM, Saint Rubenio said: 1- The hell is even going on there. This: On 7/17/2020 at 5:08 PM, Saint Rubenio said: 2- Ah, I see. (Ironically, there is absolutely no reason to do that, as that boss can be easily avoided and even at full power she isn't particularly strong) (That said, due to reasons she is NOT flagged as a boss, thus if she kills any of your units they will lose affection) (The same applies to her sister, who is the one that got recycled as the Va-11 event's final boss where you actually HAD to fight her for real) On 7/17/2020 at 5:08 PM, Saint Rubenio said: I don't know what it is, but something about her head is really off. Look at the way her head connects to her neck. That looks so bad, like I drew it. As a matter of fact, i agree. On 7/17/2020 at 5:08 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Okay, but why does she have a duck's head on her own head? Quote Liberi Astesia Bibeak Ceylon Elysium GreyThroat Hellagur Magallan May Orchid Plume Ptilopsis Silence Snowsant Description The Liberi have avian-like traits, which can be easily seen by their hair that resembles feathers. Their name is derived from the Latin word for "free", liber[10]; possibly referencing the idiom "free as a bird". Hope that answered your question. On 7/17/2020 at 5:08 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Oh, so that's where the two things ended up. God, I swear... I don't know how you do it, but your posts are always hell to reply to. Everything just breaks like a twig under a car's tire! If that makes you feel better, it usually takes no less than 2 whole hours to make this posts: sure, a good portion of that is getting the source materials, but this froum's tool makes everything else (copy-pasting, quoting, formatting etc) an awful chore, and let's not mention how it can mess up stuff AFTER you post it (the Aegirs and Liberi sections above for instance were supposed to be oriented horizontally, but they get oriented vertically after submitting the post and editing them back is useless) and then tells you that it can't be edited anymore after just 1 minute has passed (though other times it lets you do that after a whole day...) On 7/17/2020 at 5:08 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Am: Spoiler On 7/17/2020 at 5:08 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Down south, Elbert dismounts and proceeds forward. Oh dear, crossbowman... On 7/17/2020 at 5:08 PM, Saint Rubenio said: (Honestly not sure why she has this quote when her powers are all based on ice, but eh) On 7/17/2020 at 5:08 PM, Saint Rubenio said: On 7/17/2020 at 5:08 PM, Saint Rubenio said: The captor is carrying Fyodor in his pocket. I thought that was pretty hilarious. Not as hilarious as stuff like this though: https://www.awkwardzombie.com/comic/rescue https://www.awkwardzombie.com/comic/rescue-do-over Or this: https://www.reddit.com/r/girlsfrontline/comments/ai8ryl/천솜향s_gfl_comic_15_the_reservebound_type_100/ On 7/17/2020 at 5:08 PM, Saint Rubenio said: You son of a son! Stop protecting that one guy! What are you, in love? It's... truly heartwarming, but you're both still gonna die today! On 7/17/2020 at 5:08 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Long lost siblings? On 7/17/2020 at 5:08 PM, Saint Rubenio said: On 7/17/2020 at 5:08 PM, Saint Rubenio said: *Insert pics of everyone missing their hits here (Elbert in primis)* On 7/17/2020 at 5:08 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Oooowwww.... guys, you're driving me to tears... Can you please get a grip? Pretty please? On 7/17/2020 at 5:08 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Next time, hopefully the army won't be as shit as it's been today. On 5/5/2020 at 11:02 PM, Golb89 said: Next time on "Rubenknights": Don't miss it! (Except the part with the "stolen axe", obviously) [Bonus] Spoiler Edited July 19, 2020 by Golb89 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benice Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 Spoiler On 7/17/2020 at 8:08 AM, Saint Rubenio said: I speed-recruited Ignatz so I could make him a mage. Again. I just like the guy a lot, okay? Good taste. On 7/17/2020 at 8:08 AM, Saint Rubenio said: Ha ha ha! Slipping noises WHAT ARE YOU DOING!? *Musical interlude maybe because I forgot the rest of the words oh hecc* On 7/17/2020 at 8:08 AM, Saint Rubenio said: Kaga coded that on purpose, the asshat. I'm just glad the name isn't Saint Rubenio, for once. So I went ahead and named my second file Benice as well. ...Adel's iron spear broke in its first hit at green in chapter 1's main mission. ...As did Adel's second iron spear... And Ruby somehow managed to break a harpoon in green despite failing to use it! That girl is talented! And I've also already had to restart chapter 2 after beating it because my 13-turn LTC strats got me to miss Czene talking with Reese, so... On 7/17/2020 at 8:08 AM, Saint Rubenio said: I respect your devotion to Tchaikovsky and to being weird. On 7/17/2020 at 8:08 AM, Saint Rubenio said: ...You humongous son of a-- How could I fall for that? I can't believe it! Cease this at once! Cease! Ladies and Gentlemen. We got 'em. On 7/17/2020 at 8:08 AM, Saint Rubenio said: ...Honestly though, a Kaga minecraft server would be the coolest But the villages would all have poisoned milk that changed baby villagers into dancers! On 7/17/2020 at 8:08 AM, Saint Rubenio said: Good ol' Adel. Favoritism is the only way he's ever promoting. One of the few good things about my second run (aside from not buying "Hope") is that Adel's already at 9 spear skill and he's still level 2. On 7/17/2020 at 8:08 AM, Saint Rubenio said: I do like her better than Elibe Florina. That much is true. Why...WHY YOU- Actually, all Florinas are good. I support love for every Florina out there! On 7/17/2020 at 8:08 AM, Saint Rubenio said: As a character, though, he feels like a background character in his own arc. It's weird. Yeah, they needed to Klamp down more on focusing on him. Eh? Eh?! Although (Spoiler) Spoiler Klamp still does get arrested as a spy even if Burroughs is dead. Wonder what's up with that? I'll have to find out this playthrough... On 7/17/2020 at 8:08 AM, Saint Rubenio said: Killing Dallas is always satisfying. He's among the worst people in the entire game, despite his one map of screentime. Those who tried to abduct Penny Lane were also fun to stab. On 7/17/2020 at 8:08 AM, Saint Rubenio said: Chill, dude! I've done nothing! Don't try to deny it! On 7/17/2020 at 8:08 AM, Saint Rubenio said: ...W-Why... Why did you have to say something so awful!? You're the one who deserves to lose Florina! Because it sets up me being Shoqq over Mr. Lane actually being not nice then create a headcanon child named Penny [Marcel's last name] I headcanon that his last name is Laise so his name is Marcel Laise. Which makes me think of the 1812 overture.) I wish he got his OP prf BEFORE the map, though... Speaking of which, DON'T BRING BASE LEVEL MARCEL TO THAT MAP IF YOU CAN AVOID IT. It sucked. On 7/17/2020 at 8:08 AM, Saint Rubenio said: Why, you...! How come only partially?! I sense more Faye-Sacking in the future.... On 7/17/2020 at 8:08 AM, Saint Rubenio said: Still, how come you never saw at least one scene? 90% of the Erzheimer items can be obtained as droppables from enemies, inside chests, and other non-capture related means! I think it's just the general shield and the albatross that need to be captured. Ain't the crooked axe also a Erzheimer capture item? Point is that Erzheimer's kind of lonely in my first run... On 7/17/2020 at 8:08 AM, Saint Rubenio said: Oi! How dare you steal my running gag about threatening people with death? I came up with it first! I'll kill you! no u! On 7/17/2020 at 8:08 AM, Saint Rubenio said: Welp. There goes Faye again. On 7/17/2020 at 8:08 AM, Saint Rubenio said: If the enemy can't be provoked, why let me? If you provoke someone who's out of range, the enemy seems to go willy-nilly. On 7/17/2020 at 8:08 AM, Saint Rubenio said: A thousand cocks upon a bottleneck! What in the everloving SHIT is this garbage!? Enid.txt. She did this for me too. Totally useless. On 7/17/2020 at 8:08 AM, Saint Rubenio said: ... ...He's not going to die. He's just going to get captured. I... Oh wow. That was so lucky, in a really morbid way. Hah! Oh you poor, innocent soul. Don't you know that enemies kill your crippled units randomly? On 7/17/2020 at 8:08 AM, Saint Rubenio said: WHAT?! WHY?! YOU-YOU'RE SO LUCKY THAT HE DIDN'T DIE! EVERY SINGLE TIME ONE OF MY UNITS GETS CRIPPLED, THEY GET STABBED. IZERNA FRICKIN' DIED BECAUSE THEODORE DECIDED TO STAB CRIPPLED CLERICS! AND THEN IZERNA DIED CANONICALLY THE NEXT TIME BECAUSE THAT HECKING PORTRAIT GUY LIKES TO GET STABBY! AAAAAARGH! On 7/17/2020 at 8:08 AM, Saint Rubenio said: Enid.png Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Roger The Paladin Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 11 hours ago, Benice said: And Ruby somehow managed to break a harpoon in green despite failing to use it! That girl is talented! "Instructions on how to use harpoon unclear. Snapped over knee to demonstrate my might" On 7/18/2020 at 3:12 AM, Dayni said: Caspar too I guess, he's not as bad as all that, but hey I've seen him body the DK alone, maybe I'm biased. I mean, thanks to Wild Abandon, I've had him literally one shot the Death Knight on his/Mercedes Paralogue. Mind you, there was a very good chance of a miss resulting in him getting one-rounded. All the same... I decided it was a hilarious opening move... and seeing as it wasn't a no-divine pulse run... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punished Dayni Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 19 minutes ago, The Roger The Paladin said: I mean, thanks to Wild Abandon, I've had him literally one shot the Death Knight on his/Mercedes Paralogue. Mind you, there was a very good chance of a miss resulting in him getting one-rounded. All the same... I decided it was a hilarious opening move... and seeing as it wasn't a no-divine pulse run... Me and Killer Knuckles+ would sorta agree. What weapon were you using with Wild Abandon? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Roger The Paladin Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 3 minutes ago, Dayni said: Me and Killer Knuckles+ would sorta agree. What weapon were you using with Wild Abandon? Killer Axe+. The sad thing is I had over 80 crit from memory. Catch being the 57~ish hit. Meaning the crap shoot went from "landing a crit" to "landing the attack". But I had nothing to lose... except a (forced) divine pulse. Besides... I'd get a hearty laugh, a level... and as I realized after the chapter a nice weapon out of the deal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Rubenio Posted July 20, 2020 Author Share Posted July 20, 2020 Part 45 - A magical update. Hello, I have a new hack recommendation. Sun God's Wrath has just been released. It's a hack with capture. Capture is awesome. Go play it. ...What, you want more? Well, it also has an absolutely bonkers class system, good difficulty, witches on brooms, revamped magic where every spell has some sort of special effect and every mage gets every magic type, leadership stars, move and con growths, an insanely fast-paced story, new monsters, evil Moulder... It's almost Kaga-like in how crazy it gets at times. But it's good crazy. Oh, and it's also supposed to be a sequel to Corrupt Theocracy. I know, I know, that one's, uh... questionable, but the author himself acknowledges that CT was poor, and the story ties to it consist mostly of characters returning and events being mentioned. In other words, nothing too major. I assure you, this is a far cry from its predecessor. This one is, from the few chapters I have played, a legitimately good FE. It gets my recommendation. It's a good time for FE hacking. So many good hacks being released. More to come, I hope. It's a me: Spoiler On 7/17/2020 at 7:12 PM, Dayni said: Hide contents Oho. Right? I knew it'd happen at some point. There's too much I like about the game, as much as I hate the other stuff. Remember when I went on about playing 3H to distract from all the crumminess going on? Well, about that: went back to that maddening file and cleared 2 (Only a few tries, so I was happy), coming up to 3. Currently trying to get everyone except Byleth to level 5 before Chapter 3's main mission. Also, looking into recruitment because apparently you recruit mages early, physical units later and faculty later or something, I'm trying to find that info again. I asked Linhardt to assist because Physic is nice when Marianne hasn't gotten it yet, so no recruits yet. Congratulations. I didn't think my recruitment through too much. I just went for characters I like and Lorenz so I can give Hanneman the Thyrsus. Thyrsus? Was that the name? Ignatz has been a good archer. No resets yet, decent levels and Rally Speed's neat too. No man. Ignatz is a mage. That is his destiny, and I don't care what he thinks about it. ...Seriously though, Rally Speed is legitimately amazing. He also gets Rally Strength, but S authority is so late, sadly. And I feel like Leonie would just join Byleth regardless of gender (after working out her rivalry as well), but considering if you don't recruit in Part 1 she'll be an enemy and die, I kinda think in the five years she finds a motivation working for the Alliance besides Jeralt. Well, either way, she's godly. Defense, speed, strength, you name it, she has it. Hanneman did a better job with her than I did with Ferdinand, he sucks ass. As an aside, what about Dorothea joining M!Byleth automatically? I could see it syncing up nicely with her support chain. That'd mirror Sylvain pretty well, I guess. I do find Dorothea to be better than the likes of Sylvain, Hilda and Manuela, but... Eh. Incidentally, while we're talking about recruits, I nabbed Ashe! I've... no idea how, to be honest. I never even spoke to him, but then during the fishing tournament I walked up to him, pressed "recruit" for the heck of it, and he went "oi professor, I know we don't know each other, but can I join ya?" At first I figured I'd just bench him, but for some reason he had training in axes, so I decided to make him into an old-school warrior with axes and bows. Not much in the way of defense, but his offensive stats are solid, so I think I'll keep him around. Hanneman did a good job with him. ...What do you mean, Hanneman couldn't have trained two units from two different houses at the same time? Well, obviously he had to, because Manuela was off fucking some knight. What, you think I'm going to admit Manuela trained that godly Leonie? Not a chance! Everything good about Three Houses is Hanneman's doing. That is LP canon. Then again, why wear the default clothes when dancer ensemble exists and is free? Because the object is to not roll my eyes every time I see Byleth? Press F for Vulnerarwrys. Caspar too I guess, he's not as bad as all that, but hey I've seen him body the DK alone, maybe I'm biased. Maybe he would've worked, I mean, he's in Three Houses. Everyone is good. I just didn't care for him or his character. It's amazing that I found a use for him. If it weren't for the DK he would've just hit the bench for life. Also, considering her abusive home situation, I should be mad. I'm not a Bernie stan, so I won't be. I don't hate her as a person (you know, a fictional one). I hate her because she's a garbage character. "Hello, I'm Bernadetta! I only have one character arc that I go through in all of my supports. I have a sob story that is used to excuse the fact that my crippling social anxiety is more often than not used for shits and giggles. Please relate to me and feel sorry for me." Frankly, I think Marianne makes for a better Bernadetta than Bernadetta. At least her depression is portrayed as something awful, and not... well, "look how quirky and awkward Bernie is! Isn't she cute when she refuses to leave her room?" I would make complaints about the deaths in hard, but I've not seen maddening DK yet, I'm going to hold off. The thing is, they were not results of my mistakes. I deliberately got them killed so I could kill the DK early on, simply because I hadn't prepared for the encounter but didn't want to let the dark seal go. If I wanted to, I could've beat the map with no casualties, no sweat. In fact, aside from that chapter, the only other time I reset was in chapter 8, when Jeralt decided to kill himself on Solon after I had exhausted my divine pulse charges fighting the DK again. It's still far from the borefest that is FE9. It really was a good thing to try out so many new FEs before returning to this one. It allowed me to see just how much worse 3H could be. It's nowhere near my favorites, but compared to some of the other shitters that people worship because "muh story", it's been... bearable. I mean, I don't remember it being Dorothea's bra, so yes I can see you being a little done with the game. Actually, The Roger surmised that it's probably her panties. And don't be like that, man. It's painfully obvious that's what they were going for. Dorothea loses her underwear, and in the exact same chapter, Caspar just so happens to comment on this pretty blue rag that he found that's just amazing to wipe his sweat. And as if that wasn't blatant enough, Byleth goes "......" before the end of the scene. The only reason to add that interjection is for the player to go "ooohhhhh, it's Dorothea's thing, haha that is so funneh". I'm not about to go on a mad rant on how modern FE has RUINED the franchise like the real elitists, but the "high school harem anime" moments are definitely more common these days than ever before. That is an undeniable fact. I mean, just the fact that we get a marriage system that serves no purpose other than player pandering speaks volumes of the shift in tone with the modern entries to the series. I stand that 3H has one of the better player casts and definitely the best of the last decade plus. Yep, I am going there. This technically includes NMotE and I know you'll be mad at that (See, I don't need Mongolians to piss you right off), but let me explain that this doesn't mean Arran's bad or anything, but I just feel like a lot of that cast is very bland. And I say this knowing Lena's there, that's hard on me too. I'm inclined to agree with you, honestly. I have a huge soft spot for New Mystery's cast, but I cannot say it is superior to Three Houses's. That said, even in its greatness, I believe it is rather overrated. People parade these characters around as if they're incapable of flaw, and that is just not true, when you've one-note shitters like Bernadetta and blatant waifu-baits like pre-timeskip Dorothea, Manuela and Hilda. Yeah, I went there. They're less overt about it than Camilla, perhaps, but c'mon. Dorothea and Manuela are obvious, and Hilda's demeanor and her post-timeskip attire leave no doubt in my mind that she's supposed to be the "won't you do things for me? I might reward you UwU" kinda waifu. And, well... As far as I know, that's all there is to her character. Dorothea at least grows a character after the horny garbage, but Hilda and Manuela... Bleh. Now, I am not saying the cast is bad. The cast is good, it's just not as flawless as everyone seems to be convinced it is. In my opinion, at least. But then, what do I know. I'm the madman whose favorite is Hanneman, the guy absolutely nobody ever talks about. Unless it's to creep on him. Yeah, he has creeps of his own, somehow. "Silver fox" this, "daddy" that... Come now, he has so much more to him than just his godly design. Hence why I'm playing the waiting game on it. At What Cost? is the best part about the DLC, really. It's the piece that's convinced me that music is the only aspect where Three Houses isn't ten times worse than Berwick Saga. Yeah, sorry. I'm liking the game better now that I've played, like, four FE games that are even worse, but it still pales in comparison to Berwick. Seriously, though? A bunch of fanservice outfits, the worst unit in the game, a mediocre sidestory and a handful of classes isn't what I'd call worthy of 25 bucks. I'd give them 5 bucks for all of that. 10 is the highest I'd go. 25 is just... no. For crying out loud, that's more expensive than Vestaria Saga! Do yourself a favor, and get Vestaria Saga instead of the Three Houses DLC. Stupid fanservice that didn't think with their heads for a second. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. It's why I like to play a game I've dubbed "Let's Skip Sothis". It goes like this: whenever a Sothis scene starts, I say "Let's Skip Sothis" and press the + button. If that doesn't work, I hold the B button. I'm sorry, but the concept of "sassy, bossy technically-legal-loli in fetish gear" makes me fuckin' gag. In a way, I'm thankful she's so underused, because it means I barely have to stand her. Moustacheless Hanneman sounds hilarious. If they didn't draw his moustache I would've gone to Japan to kill them. Nah, they missed the beard. Which is still pretty damn horrible. Shows they didn't even bother to spend 10 minutes looking at the PNGs before they sent them to the programmers. He's having a rough time of it right now. Had to sack a minister within three weeks, the party's been left with the tough departments and not really justifying the choices being made with regard to lockdown. I can't say I am sorry for him, but still. He certainly has a full plate, it seems. I mean, we only see Orson after he's hit his low point, he seemed to have been considered a decent skin before his wife died. He was clearly a trusted knight. I wish they'd had the balls to let him be playable for longer. Something like Zieg, let him be around for half the game so the player grows attached before he goes traitor. I mean, I wasn't particularly clouded in judgment when I heard what had happened. Mangs was particularly unsurprising with his way too open thirst. I'd argue when I hear about this stuff I go too far the other way and assume the worst. That's also not good... It's important to strike a middle ground. As to where that middle ground is, well... That's a more difficult issue. It's just disappointing to hear about people doing shitty things. Absolutely. But, as I said, I never cared much for them, so it wasn't too difficult to wave them goodbye. I imagine it'd be way harder if I had spent years thinking these guys are the queen's beans. As for what you said to @This boi uses Nino, yeah I'm sceptical about Chaz as well, it certainly reads at best like coercive behaviour. Not helped by how the defence for him acted too. It's just too many factors together that give him a bad look. The case is, admittedly, weaker than the one against Mangs, but that's only because Mangs had a mountain of evidence against him. A truckload is less than a mountain, but it is still pretty damn damning. I'm just depressed that people were acting the way they were, especially defending a potential rapist of a teenager and trying to shut her down for being inconvenient. Their being FEtubers is honestly incidental with some of the shit that went on, just meant I got to see the shitstorm up close as it happened and that's always draining. That's what I meant in my prior response. Fame gets to people, both the famous and the fans. It's not often acknowledged, but fame is a great deal of power. When you're famous, you get to rally a bunch of equally famous people on your victim, and the people will support you because they like you and refuse to believe you're a dick. To be honest, I'm impressed by how many people haven't let this stand. I would've expected a lot less heat on Chaz after he almost succeeded in silencing his victim. Something good about the situation, at least. It's not your fault Berwick also chose now to have a very dour update that touched on topical shit, I'd blame Kaga if it weren't coincidental. Berwick gets pretty dark at times, to be fair. Even if we didn't catch this, we could've caught the Barselphon request, or Thaddy's friend getting kidnapped, or Lumiere about to be sold to some sicko... Too many moments for us to just happen to miss them all. Arc I presume you mean. Yes. Then again, some of these arcs I have to wonder. Though the game is still afoot after all. I'll admit, some take a real long time to get going. But they're worth it, in my opinion at least. That's the thing: I felt like Felix would stay my least favourite unit. Then I played each of the routes, saw more of his supports. I've come around on the guy and am pretty pissed at myself. That's the thing: I felt like Three Houses would stay my least favourite game. Then I played each of the routes, saw more of its supports. I've come around on the game and am pretty pissed at myself. ...it's alarming how well that works for me. Though I'm definitely not going through all the routes. Claude can go fuck himself after I murder him. And the supports are still extremely tedious to get through. Sylvain meanwhile I get why he acts as he does. In that regard he's like a Makalov I can actually stand (In that his flaws are very much central to his presentation, but thank fuck there's at least something beyond it and a reason for it. Though with recent events I feel like he might be pushed away for now.) I get that there's a reason, but he's still a piece of misogynistic trash. I won't be sad to murder him. This fucking map, I swear. Doesn't it look just marvelous? Dallas, you are some motherfucker. You almost applaud that bastardry. They really are the baddies, good job. Dallas is pretty unapologetic in his badness. -ALL AROUND DONEGAL- Wait, no that's also wrong. Off topic, I had to tear down a bit of wall today because it was in the way. The rocks were stupidly heavy, it was not fun. I don't see how that should be hard. Just use a sword on the wall. Works for Arturo! Kramer's ghosts should not be haunting his enemies. Kramer's ghosts can do whatever they want. This is getting out of hand! Yes! Yes! Dammed overwatch! Yes, too. This is every Berwick player's catchphrase. Or, well, at least it's mine. It seems to be a forward thrust intended to make the stab have more force behind it. An attack with that much of your body push forward would have more impact. I mean I get it, but that's some odd approach especially because it likely wouild result in her pushing the bow guy over and end up falling over too unless she pulled the sword out or let it go. It's her prefered strike, too. It's the one I see her perform most often. Also, it's not as cool as ending someone rightly. That'd be hilarious, but I bet if we let Perceval try, he'd just miss with the pommel. Colour him shocked too. Hah! Berwick: FUCK THIS CRIT'LL RUIN EVERYTHING Then it didn't. Just about. Reinhardt Perceval will be disappointed. Magic is everything indeed, in her case. Without magic she's a garbage unit. For one thing, that guy paints in shades of red. Honestly, he turns into a legit badass in the war phrase. His war design is my second-favorite in the game, after guess who. And then he goes "I wasn't about to let you go", and I think "dude, who hurt you?" Also, Kramer doesn't seem to be an artist, so maybe a professional painter going around doing jobs for people? That's more like it, probably. He looks like he was in prison for sure. Heck, he's angrier than friggin' Fyodor, who watched his brother die for no reason at all! ERIP: 1 Do I dare ask what this stands for? I've not really been counting otherwise, so I'll be generous and say 1. But this song is the true response. Ahahahahahah... I have no idea what I just watched, but I agree. At least he can see Christine if he does. Frankly, I'd rather see him die than, say, Enid. As angry as Enid is making me, she's absolutely instrumental. For a reason that you might not be able to guess. ERIP: 2 Not really. I'm angry at Enid, not Berwick Saga. I didn't expect it to be so useful so soon. ...Though this still works, that much is true. It's like she's Ogier again. No, she-- ...Oh, for crying out loud, you're completely right. I hate it, but you're right. Now she just needs to die twice. Real talk, so does Provoke work through hiding? It did the last few times I tried it! It's just this one map where it's wonky! RESETTI WILL BE ANGRY. But I saved! How can he be angry when I saved? Goodbye Elbert, you didn't die. Let's not party just yet. He can still die in the second run, trying to save Abus. I almost expected this to be done in one update. It would've been, if... you know, all the shit hadn't gone down. As it stands, this is the very first sidequest that will take two updates. On 7/17/2020 at 7:37 PM, The Roger The Paladin said: Hide contents I've done the same... minus killing off units to buy time. See, I had to precise damage plan the whole thing to get just enough to kill him. It was rather painful. My problem is that I couldn't do the precise damage without buying time. Blame Ferdinand for being bad. He's already hit the bench, anyway. Hanneman produced a better cavalier in Leonie. I'm pretty sure that was implied to serve another function... if you get me. ...Oh, goddamnit, it's even worse than I thought Every time I read this line... It changed your very life. Or, y'know, just your username. But it is more epic to say that it changed your life. It inspired you to become a greater man. The Roger The Paladin. *stares at Catherine and Shamir's A-support* Guess not. Ahahahahahahah... Well, having some of those doesn't hurt. I just want both, and in all fairness, there's also Annette and Mercedes in Three Houses. Good job, Three Houses. You did it. Now you just need to fix your immense pacing issues and your questionable map design. Not even a damn divided pay wall. It's literally all or nothing. I can't justify the purchase when I can actually get entire games for cheaper. Three Houses's DLC is terrible, honestly. They didn't divide it because they knew nobody in their right mind would waste 5 bucks on the fucking student suit for Byleth. I like to imagine all Sothis scenes post "sacrifice" as literally being Byleth gone delusional from the fall. Shame no one will ever do a sequel where Byleth's a mad king who believes he's married to a draco-loli that's not even there. That's... better than what's in the game. You're a genius. Turns out Byleth was insane all along. All I remember of high-school is one big head-ache. Literally. Chronic migraines. Missed more days than I attended consequently. Actually, there were some other antics I remember... but yeah. Mostly the headaches. Oof... I'm sorry... Best thing about Genjuro. Where the Fire Emblem edgelord will disappear into the wilderness post-game... Genjuro, being the scumbag he is literally dies because of his scummy actions. Not even a glorious death (unless you're revelling in the karmic factor). He gets stabbed in the back by a kid before he can strike down a renowned swordsman to add to his reputation. Nothing else. Though to be fair, Genjuro's shown as nothing but a scumbag mercenary, gambler and murderer from start to finish. He's about as much of a douche, or often more so than the actual final bosses. I mean, the game he debuted in had a genocidal evil spirit bent on the destruction of humanity... but considering her origins she was almost sympathetic. How else could you feel about an evil spirit that's only a spirit because when she was alive she was almost drowned by her mother in a famine, then raised by a village that found her and used as a frigging sacrifice to end the famine when she turned 11? Because if that was my experience with humanity, I'd probably want them all dead too. The big difference being said evil spirit ends up finally seeing the positive side to humanity, and leaves for the afterlife after it's plan is stopped. Genjuro on the other hand is a piece of shit because he's a piece of shit. Likewise, the final boss of the first game does a full heel-face turn to help stop that vengeful spirit in the second... and dies in the process. This is despite him having been a mustache twirling demon-summoning sorcerer prior. The warlord Sankuro worked for may have made a deal with demons for power, but he honestly was fighting for the betterment of Japan... in his beliefs. He considered the caste system a problem and wanted it gone. My point is, most of the series villains had redeeming qualities, a motivation, a backstory. Something to explain why.... and Genjuro was an exception. The only character more edgy than him was the demon who constantly ranted about blood until getting decapitated at the end of the game it debuted in. Not that I got that decapitation, because censored in the western release. Holy shit, that guy sounds like a real piece of work, huh? Come on, he's not William. You already killed him. ...Okay, I give up. I'm doing the obvious response myself: It's Warren, obviously. "Oh no. I remember where that research left off and I want no part in a damn vivisection". "Vivisection"? Is that how kids these days call it? It makes more sense if you've seen the Soleil x Ophelia support chain in FE Fates. tl:dr version Soleil is like the Saul/Sain type of character... but with the twist she's a girl. So it's okay that she sexually harasses Ophelia to the point of tears. Or not. Point is one of the more... shall we say, controversial, supports from the game. Considering the amount of fans Sylvain and his predecessors have, I'd say it doesn't matter if you're a sexual predator, period, so long as you're an attractive anime waifu/husbando. Also I keep screwing up and accidentally including an argument behind my conclusions. So I'm just completely failing at the "spewing out garbage with no explanation". Must be because I keep doing stupid ones for conspiracy theories. That's right. You should be ashamed of yourself. You're terrible at being terrible. I meant I'm imagining a version of that scene where Matthis is drunk... and decides Julian's all right. I remember the scene. Ahahahah... That'd be hilarious, too. But I doubt Matthis would get drunk, he doesn't seem like the type. I'd need them in a far more finalized state than I have. Mind, technically with new comics releasing constantly, I'm not even sure if there'd be a market for an effort that technically ends off in 2012/2011 (depending on the company). One of my more ironic moments in the whole thing was when I (reading them as I went) gathered up a list what issues each feature in the british anthology 2000ad (the series is a sci-fi one, with 2,180~ish issues as of now. It started so long ago it's name used to be a "far flung future year" but it's now kind of... 20 years ago. There was talk of changing it around then, but it never happened). Now given the book has around five features an issue, and features change regularly... there's been hundreds of features to go through the series. Shortly after I finished my list.... I found out 2000 AD already had one on their official website. Virtually identical to mine.... with the difference being theirs was alphabetized whereas mine was by the chronological debut of a feature. Bright side being, I don't need the internet to access mine. What a curious story. Where's "not Waluigi" when we need him? Expecting not Waluigi? Too bad! Waluigi time! If he captured Owen, would that make him a pocket medic? Ahahahahahahahahahahahahah! Perfect! This one made my day. Thanks for the awesome reference. ...Oohhh, too bad I can't try it, though. Owen has the hidden Robust. He achieved it. Two consecutive hits. By sheer Percyverence. Oh, Jesus... If only he'd Percyvere more often, I wouldn't be forced to Percyve him as a bad unit! Personally, I'd have asked if he knew helmets make their user go bald. Just to mess with him. The perfect stratagem. WTF is that? How do you get punished for your mistakes? Didn't they test this game before they released it? Clearly not! I sometimes miss when my hitrate is above 70% and I get hit when it's under 30%! I call hax. ...No, but seriously, this is a complaint I've seen about Berwick Saga. C'mon... seriously? I might get complaining about low hitrates, but complaining that the RNG is broken? Please... I like that slip-up where you say Faye when you clearly mean Ruby. Gee, I wonder what Ruby'll do against Hazrij. Maybe he'll sic her lapdog on him? But no, can't risk that, we need Faramir to mantain her casual mode. Ruben from the future here: As I proofread the update, I realized that by complete accident I made the exact same mistake again, only with Ruby this time. I will leave the line unchanged because it's funny that I'm so dumb. What a expletive load of another expletive. (original insult template, donut steel) I think I'll steal "donut steel" instead. That's a wonderful rendition of the age-old phrase. "I'm so happy I got crippled". I guess it makes sense... you'd be happy too if you got crippled instead of dying in a war. ...You know, I suddenly get the feeling that we've had this exact interaction before. Is this gonna be the "Zeiss and the prepscreen" of this LP? Are we just gonna go over how cripplings work a thousand times? Imagine if it turned out that last level was the exact difference between that working and failing. That's... a really sad prospect, not gonna lie. That's.... very ironic. In his survival, Elbert squandered our final chance of victory. How positively ridiculous. On 7/17/2020 at 10:35 PM, BrightBow said: Hide contents So I'm a Volo fan now? I would assume you are, considering you're, y'know, an actually good player without my irrational biases. Oh right, you hate Owen for... God knows what reason. I almost forgot. No Larentia? Interesting maneuver. Fixed it for you. Bench EXP? Happens if someone is not deployed for a whole chapter. But you can't actually increase in level that way, so she got stuck at 99. Huh. You never go to bed without learning something new. I had no idea that's a thing. This is getting out of hand. Wait, you too? Between you and Dayni, that makes... !! This is getting out of hand... Now there are two of them! Fortunately neither of them moves. Overwatch is enough of a dickmove without movement. You were advertised two attacks and got two hits. Sounds good to me. You cheeky-- You know full well what my problem is! She would be unstoppable if she knew how swords worked. Ahahahahah... Well, it's kinda difficult to defend her here, but... Hey, she got the job done! Until... Until Hazrij destroyed her... Yeah... Meanwhile my Ruby is at lv 13 and has yet to hit 20 shield. That's because you don't have faith in her. You're always "use good units and weapons" this, "you're not doing things right" that... But me, I've devoted my LIFE as a FE player to bad units. And now I reap what I've sown: a below-average unit. ...... Besides building up Light rank? You can build up light rank with the other orbs and actually heal people at the same time, as a bonus. Oh please. What bumbling idiots do you take these guys for? Yeah, exactly! I have no idea-- I mean, you are right. But it's not like you would know. ...Did you... Did you just... Call me a bumbling idiot...? ...Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah Brightbow's being mean to me again...! Unless you meant Reese. Then allow me to join you in verbally abusing him. Hahah, the buffoon! Great. Now you just need to capture this guy and you have a Scimitar for the Harperia. Yeah, it's generally easier to just buy one when given the chance. What if I told you I don't give half a shit about the Harperia? Hmmm? How's that? And he's probably got the best non-skill growths in the game too. 40% for HP, Strength and Speed. Don't remind me... Again? If you make her bleed so much, I suppose I can see why her tunic has gotten pink by the time she promotes. And what am I supposed to do? Cover her in confetti when she dies? I always just thought it was because she put her tunic and her scarf in the washer together. Pffft... I wouldn't put it past Faye, to be honest. He must be judging you so hard right now. ...to think you still intend to fight Chaos. Those kids from the lower streets could beat you up. 😵😵with ragnell i can defeat the black knight and save my twin sister fana 😵😵 I'll prove him wrong in the end. And you. You'll see. You faithless, I will prove my mettle once and for all... And then I shall be recognized for my true talent! Ah hahahahahahahahahahahcough cough cough... cough cough... haaack... water...! Uhhh....??? Yes. That was my exact reaction. You could just have him use Thunder from 2 range. Except he gave his thunder orb to Perceval and I didn't have money for another one. No, it doesn't. She's still playing casual mode. Well, I mean... Still a bad look to let her die in her one deployment. He was still provoked on the last screenshot, so his provoked status would have only worn off after moving. So he wouldn't have been able to attack anyone but his provoker. ...at least in theory. Evidently Hazrij doesn't give a shit about how the Provoke rules work. That doesn't explain why he went after Ruby at first. In fact, the fact (urgh, there's gotta be a better way to phrase that) that he was hurt fighting Ruby leads me to believe that provoke never did anything at all, he was just in escape AI by that point and happened to flee towards Thaddy and his group. That seems like one of these times where it might be better not to use Elbert's crappy Spear rank. He doesn't have swords... because I'm an idiot. Happy? How many more times must I make this reference before you are, in fact, happy? That's not a nice thing to say from an Allied POW. Wonder why he is labeled that. It's a mistake that I forgot to patch up because the update was taking long enough already. In earlier versions all the captors were labelled "allied POW". Aethin fixed most of them, but these two must've slipped by him. You send him out all the way here without any healing? Guess you really want him to reunite with Christine. I didn't have time to give him healing! Abus would've been taken! No need to panic, Allied POW. Help has arrived. Yeah... Too bad it's only going to help him to the afterlife. Wouldn't it be better to let Perceval run past Saphira? He'd be out of range there. I would've done that if he got hit again. But I still wanted to hope I could kill the guy before having to resort to having Saphira dodgetank. Eh, there are only archers down there. I think if you let that final archer waste his sole Rajin Arrow, they can't even kill Albus before he escapes. Yeah, the difficult part is freeing Abus. After that he can take care of himself. ...Wait... Albus?! And now, the reference for the more cultured among you: It's not like she is more vulnerable to archers then anyone else. They are also all in the East part, so Larentia can easily free Albus long before they actually get there. She's not vulnerable, but I mean, she's pretty weak in general... I'm just afraid, all right? This is an ironman run, and I'm too garbage of a player to ensure her safety! You know, with Hazrij I would have figured it might have been because Thaddy wasn't in anyone's sight range. But in this case, he actually is in 3 range of an enemy. Sure, they still can't see him since he is hiding, but using Provoke out of hiding normally works just fine. The next turn Thaddy left his hiding spot so Axel could take it and still the soldier continued to pester Elbert. I believe my guess is probably closer to the truth. I guess that could be it. Presumably the game only checks where the escort is allowed to move right when he is actually about to move. So as far as the game is concerned, the Soldier is allowed to move anywhere as long as it's anyone else's turn, hence he can still be targeted by Provoke. That sounds plausible. That theory wouldn't explain Hazrij, though. Considering he came all the way down to the middle. And I'm pretty sure he is not actually tied to a convoy, because he has been harassing me in the middle without me even trying to Provoke him. Err... Hazrij is just weird, let's leave it at that. He's dead now, anyway. By Enid's hand, no less. On 7/18/2020 at 5:59 AM, This boi uses Nino said: Hide contents And about that, I know a few more african countries but can't properly tell you how many countries south or east or etc of another it would be. That's understandable, I suppose. Yeah a freaking island in the Caribbean lol. Well I do know where Belize is in central america, it's like a small vertical rectangle that borders Mexico to the south. I'll be completely honest: I didn't even know what Belize was until you brought it up. Finally I was wondering when you would say something about it. Holy comes from the "St." in your name and bearded is self explanatory. I was thinking on putting fat there but three words roll of the tongue better. And yeah I do roll my tongue when reading or typing something, though not everything, that was just a figure of speech. Hah, that's pretty funny... Wait, why did you think about putting "fat" in there? I'm not fat, and even if I were, me being fat has never come up! Where'd you get that? On that note, do you ever slightly move your tongue when you think of a word? For example I have to practice utilizing my dental fricatives (the two 'TH" sounds in English) and whenever I try to think the word and "hear" it (another peculiarity, do we hear things when we think of them? It's weird but try to remember your favorite song and yiou get the feeling of hearing sth despite there being no sound) I move my tongue to make the "th" sound even though I'm not gonna say it and I keep my lips shut. Weird. Not really, but that's not such an awful thing to do. They were fat? They don't look like it. Well, did you ever see them in person? They just demanded that the paintings portrayed them positively. It honestly is. Though for me not so much that I forget everything since I do like learning. And what I meant by arbitrary high school popularity is that how the community ranks everyone on coolest to uncoolest is stupid, greatly biased and basically just a circlejerk. If a group manages to get viewed by others as the popular kids, they have essentially established a dogma circlejerk that can decide one's life (literally, affect their mental state) on a whim and there's nothing you can do to stop them... well you could deestablish it if you create a mass controversy if for example you are a woman and get raped. But since that's tedious and boring I say BURN IT ALL! MWAHAHAHAHA! VALAFLAME! VALAFLAAAAAAME!!! VAAAAAAALAAAAAFLAAAAAAAAAAMMEEEEE!!!!!!! That escalated quickly. But yeah, high school is garbage. Oof, sucks to hear that but it's also nice to hear you've grown better. I honestly don't think I'll miss high school. It sucks. To be fair, my experience with college was also crap, but at least I didn't have to stand 6 years of that. Instead, I quit after 3 months. Good thing I finally found my place, because for a while I feared I'd have to take a shitty minimum wage job to justify my existence. Makes sense but still, do you know if altering the authentic quote boxes nullifies the notification sent to someone? I guess I could start a thread and quote you there but change the contents inside to see if it would notify you. As long as it says "X user said", I'm pretty sure they get notified. I... um... sorry... Don't worry about it. Por supuesto, Ruben de Aragon de Castilla IV, nadie sabe que eres espaniol! Eh!? But my cover...! ... Well ok who cares lol, everyone likes their shit. Nobody is 100% vanilla, everyone has their distinc ""taboo"" likes. See? You get it. Well I figured but they were atleast Berwick looking or really I thought they were simple edits and not splicing. Well, they are rather simple splices. My profile picture is the one that took some real effort. Erzhimmer. See? You got it wrong. I was right. Huh, well I only was joking from my comment but sure. I'll respect your decision to keep this forum clean, especially since I don't care either. I must say, though, it surprises me how completely out of the loop Serenes has been. Vincent released a statement really late into the ordeal, and I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere else in the forums. Heck, I even saw a couple of Mangs memes well after he admitted his guilt. Random threads aren't the place for this kinda discussion, but perhaps someone should make a thread about this in a different sub. And this is part 44! WOW! Yeah, this game is really long. Man Waluigi's pinball is super fun... I like MArio Kart DS soooo much... It's a fun game, I agree. But Dallas already knew the Berwick League was here... Not really. He was going to pretend the Berwick League attacked and the prisoners died in the battle. Nothing more than an excuse to watch blood flow out of bodies. It just so happened that the real Berwick League arrived at the same time. Wow he has a decent amount of HP... though no defense I guess... but still. To be fair, I did give him the HP booster, but still, as far as mages go, he's probably the bulkiest in the game (or, well, more like least fragile). Holy hell! How much more damage does pulverize make you do? Wow! Double the might. Simple as that. Turns out when you're strong enough to deal over 20 damage normally, getting to double that means you kill everything. That's way too hopeful, even if 20% is decent for Berwick's standards, it's still 20% in the eyes of the universe. Hey I mean not to get your spirits down but if my Serra refuses to level up a 50% growth... then I doubt a 20% will ocurr and that I will see it. Actually, there's a bracket system in this game. Basically, units can only deviate so much from their averages. Eventually, the game will force Enid to get magic. The absolute latest I'll be able to promote her (taking into account the statbooster I'm saving for her) is level 16, give or take one or two levels. I'm hoping she'll get it before level 11, though. That's when she loses Paragon. Besides, if Derrick can get two speed in a row on a 20% growth, then Enid should be able to do the same with her magic. Lol this guy has issues. Which one? Damn those are strong words... And what else am I supposed to do? Oh right you can counter ranged attacks this way... Only if you've enough speed, which Faye of course does. And yeah enemies with a 70% hit will always hit. And then he didn't. Go figure. Don't jynx it! Yeah, I had better not. Hey look it's Serra's healing! Or actually no, literally everyone in FE11 and 12 I have to give it to DSFE: they actually made recover a useful staff. In pretty much every game up until then it was worthless because mend did the same thing 95% of the time. Perceval redemption arc!!! If only. But he needs far more than one lucky shot. Elbert lol. That's been him the entire LP, according to me. Makes up for the lack of a character arc, I guess, since Christine died with it. WOOOOO GO AXEL! You've now joined Team Axel. There seems to be quite a few of us here. Damn that sucks. Thank God for that casual mode. Lmao Perceval ain't no laughing matter! He's an unreliable prick! Thaddy step up your game! He had better... He was so bad, the provoking didn't even work! I feel like I've seen this happen a million times by now. You get so close to a level but not yet. Also you only get exp from killing right? Yeah... That's what makes it so annoying. You can't just chip someone to get the level, you have to go out of your way to get the guy another kill. Your tricks have deceived me once more... Holy-bearded bastard... and I am quite amused! Heheheheh... My prediction was spot on. Also who yells cock like that? I guess you just want to use it like "Verga"? I yell cock because there are only so many swear words, and about a thousand things go wrong every update. Eventually I'm bound to run out of ugly words, no? Well finally some good news from Enid! It's something, all right. Well the cutting off sentences does seem to work now... I duped you twice! So like the Rodeo thing? "Ole!!" Hah! Kinda. But... No, wait, rodeos are a Texan thing! Sucks... hey do you do these editd screenshots as they happen? Or rather... do you write this LP while you are playing the game? When I miss a popup I usually do the edit immediately so I don't forget. That's why they're so shitty. Well, that, and I think it's kinda funny. Otherwise, I play the whole mission, then write the updates over the next few days. BTW I have a signature that shows my record of beaten FE games... what do you think? I'm extra proud of beating FE7 HHM, I'll beat FE8 Ephraim HM next... How dare you not beat FE1. The timeless masterpiece! By the way, I love how halfway through the list the color code completely falls apart. On 7/19/2020 at 7:32 AM, BrightBow said: Alright. Ruby hit level 16 and she finally got S.Shield 20. I wonder how people end up in a situation where that whole "needs to gain a level after recruitment for promotion" is even an issue. She should hit level 10 way earlier then all of her weapon ranks level 20. Well, uh... In my second run I was lucky enough that she hit all her thresholds in her paralogue. So I had to feed her one more level before she promoted. That being said, it's still not that huge a problem. I mean, it's just one level. She gets Adept at level 17. Cute, but I think she should learn Pursuit instead. Agreed. That'd make her a lot better. Btw, I made a little mistake when calculating the damage of the Pike. If you use a spear, you already get the first charge bonus against an adjutant enemy. Presumably because you are moving onto an enemy's tile to attack at 0 range. Which means that if a dismounted Spear unit takes it's full 4 movement, they get 6 + (5x2) = 16 damage from the Pike and 12 + (5x1) = 17 damage from the Longspear. So the Longspear still always wins, but it''s user needs to walk 3 tiles rather then 2 tiles to match the max power of the Pike. You would need 6 movement or more for the Pike to have some sort of advantage. I never knew that first part. Huh. This game has so many tiny intrincacies... On 7/19/2020 at 5:54 PM, Golb89 said: [Addendums] Hide contents And that thing is: Maybe. Well, I guess, kinda... Star Wars memes. Never gets old. Yes. Exactly. *Insert Ruben's quotes about Reese and Marcel's capes here* https://www.awkwardzombie.com/comic/billow-fight Ahahahahah... Well, Marcel and Reese don't have that kinda cape, nor do they need it. They don't need to break the laws of physics to be cool. *Insert Ruben's quotes about Dire Thunder being Percival's personal orb here* Worst part is, the other thunder users (Owen and post-promotion Enid) are even worse at it than Perceval. *Insert Volcens here* Bwahahahahahahah... Friggin' Volcens, man. When will he do anything right? Hide contents These are most definitely Aegirs too, but are classified as "Unknown" for various reasons (i.e. Aegir is quite literally not-Atlantis😞 Deepcolor Glaucus Skadi Specter They may be Aegirs, but are they Ferdinand Derrick Von Aegir? No, but seriously. What do you do with your posts for them to be this fucking terrible to reply to? What even is happening to the text here!? Hide contents (I'm not sure either, actually) Let's go with fanservice. That seems to be a pretty good guess with these games. (Same as above) The red spy's in the base?! We need to protect the briefcase! Oh really? Yes. She summons wasps to attack, is that it? Ahh, no, she just kills them. Just the OPest character in the whole game atm, with his default and Elite2 promotion arts. Good ol' gacha powercreep Ah, so they were the exact same person. Huh. Figures. (Also, check the addendums above if you hadn't already) Yep, that's a gacha all right. Gotta keep paying so as not to fall behind the broken units. No. Oh. Guess you weren't paying attention. (i.e. read the first comment, the one with all the spoiler tags) And she's more of a lightweight drinker (and borderline yandere) than an actual drunkard. (Also, the "beer" served in that specific bar is actually a drink made with syntethic ingredients that sorta tastes like beer, at least if i understood that game's lore correctly) Wait... Then, let me see if I understand this correctly... So her two character traits are being a light drunkard and... Senator Armstrong? 10/10 best character ever. Would play college ball again. The only size that matters to me in girls is their hair's lenght, and she definitely fails imo. Pah. Pah, I say! I turn my shoulder to you in disdain for your proclivities! And her face totally looks like a boy's too. Eh... I wouldn't say that. I've met real women who looked far more like boys than this girl. In fact, back when I was in college, I spent all three months convinced that this one girl was a boy. It was ridiculous, almost an anime moment in real life. Thankfully I barely spoke to her, because at some point I would've screwed up royally. Hide contents Oh God, I'm the one who broke it this time. Turns out, when you're writing in quotes, if you try to insert two returns, the quote breaks in half. And I'm terrified of pressing ctr+z and having half the update eaten up, so... Yeah. This is our life now. You can't scare me with this face. I draw scarier faces for jokes! (Honestly not sure why she has this quote when her powers are all based on ice, but eh) Honestly? Sounds like a textbook case of bad translation. Not as hilarious as stuff like this though: https://www.awkwardzombie.com/comic/rescue https://www.awkwardzombie.com/comic/rescue-do-over Ahahahahah... See, this is why you couldn't rescue horsemen in Thracia. Or this: https://www.reddit.com/r/girlsfrontline/comments/ai8ryl/천솜향s_gfl_comic_15_the_reservebound_type_100/ Oh. Hah! That's one way to rescue, I guess. If only this were how people behaved in TF2. You have to learn to fight for yourself, because people refuse to turn around while some doofus Spy cuts you to ribbons. Long lost siblings? Ahahahah... That'd be such a funny twist. Oh, goddamnit! I pressed return one too many times and shattered the quote instead! [Bonus] Hide contents No, nobody cares about Martel. She can go away. Quote Ah, here's the stuff that broke. *Insert pics of everyone missing their hits here (Elbert in primis)* Yes. That's me every time I play this game. (Except the part with the "stolen axe", obviously) Quote (Also, how exactly do you know she doesn't have dirigibles too? You can't really make it from her pic) I'm just guessing. Is that such a crime? OH REALLY? YES (You actually saw her before too: she's the one who took axeman's ice axe) Why are half the chicks in this game so edgy? They beat Kelik at his own game! Incidentally, here's the hot take of the day: Jeritza is edgier and has less character development than Kelik. Kelik has legit trust issues (and no wonder, given what happened to him) but mostly grows out of them by the end of TLP. He's still kind of a dick, but he's learned some things and even calls Siegfried a friend. Jeritza is basically just "kill, kill, kill" because dark experiments except he loves Mercedes kinda? As i mentioned multiple times already, THEY ARE CODENAMES! Then how do you come up with these codenames? Heck, she EXPLICITELY said it herself: All this reminds me of is that one time in TLP when you recruit an assassin and he goes "call me Shadow, my real name is Thanatos but I prefer Shadow, there's a reason I don't want people calling me Thanatos." In other words, hilarious. And i did too, sort of: Ahhh, I get it... I already did: <br /> (That's not actually my case, but i DID beat Isomer nonetheless) Well, why don't you do it again if you're so tough? This: (Ironically, there is absolutely no reason to do that, as that boss can be easily avoided and even at full power she isn't particularly strong) (That said, due to reasons she is NOT flagged as a boss, thus if she kills any of your units they will lose affection) (The same applies to her sister, who is the one that got recycled as the Va-11 event's final boss where you actually HAD to fight her for real) Wait, so if units are killed by bosses, they don't lose affection, whatever that's supposed to be? How peculiar. It's like in this game, where you gain happiness from getting crippled. As a matter of fact, i agree. See, that's better. Except she's humping a penguin plushie, which is worrisome for entirely different reasons, but hey, her neck looks fine here! Hope that answered your question. I think so, yeah. If that makes you feel better, it usually takes no less than 2 whole hours to make this posts: sure, a good portion of that is getting the source materials, but this froum's tool makes everything else (copy-pasting, quoting, formatting etc) an awful chore, and let's not mention how it can mess up stuff AFTER you post it (the Aegirs and Liberi sections above for instance were supposed to be oriented horizontally, but they get oriented vertically after submitting the post and editing them back is useless) and then tells you that it can't be edited anymore after just 1 minute has passed (though other times it lets you do that after a whole day...) It's kinda weird, but I suppose we'll just have to deal with it. 21 hours ago, Benice said: Hide contents Good taste. Thanks. *Musical interlude maybe because I forgot the rest of the words oh hecc* "We're number 1" multiple times is a pretty good guess. So I went ahead and named my second file Benice as well. ...Adel's iron spear broke in its first hit at green in chapter 1's main mission. ...As did Adel's second iron spear... Hoo, boy. And Ruby somehow managed to break a harpoon in green despite failing to use it! That girl is talented! This is hilarious. I can totally imagine her just... sort of dropping the spear on a rock and it shattering. And I've also already had to restart chapter 2 after beating it because my 13-turn LTC strats got me to miss Czene talking with Reese, so... Jikes. Wait, why'd you have to restart the whole thing? Why not just go back to a turn save, have them talk and do the last 3 turns again? ...You made her escape, is that it? You poor fool... Hah! Good music, yes. Ladies and Gentlemen. We got 'em. Grrr... I shall have Faye killed for that! But the villages would all have poisoned milk that changed baby villagers into dancers! Pffft... One of the few good things about my second run (aside from not buying "Hope") is that Adel's already at 9 spear skill and he's still level 2. Whoa, that's good! May you be determined enough to promote him, because I sure as hell won't. Why...WHY YOU- Actually, all Florinas are good. I support love for every Florina out there! That is very respectful of you. I respect your respectfulness. Yeah, they needed to Klamp down more on focusing on him. Eh? Eh?! Pffffhwahahahah... Although (Spoiler) Reveal hidden contents Klamp still does get arrested as a spy even if Burroughs is dead. Wonder what's up with that? I'll have to find out this playthrough... (Another spoiler) Spoiler Burroughs is barely involved in Klamp's character arc, anyway. He does his stupid plan and gets exiled without Burroughs's intervention. That's what I meant when I said Burroughs feels like a background character in his own arc. He's not even needed, because it's more about Klamp and Bianca than him. Heck, he barely does anything beyond annoy Bianca! Those who tried to abduct Penny Lane were also fun to stab. Of course! Don't try to deny it! Okay, then. I'll admit to... whatever it is I'm supposed to have done. Because it sets up me being Shoqq over Mr. Lane actually being not nice then create a headcanon child named Penny [Marcel's last name] I headcanon that his last name is Laise so his name is Marcel Laise. Which makes me think of the 1812 overture.) I wish he got his OP prf BEFORE the map, though... Oh, absolutely. That prf alone makes Marcel so much better. Speaking of which, DON'T BRING BASE LEVEL MARCEL TO THAT MAP IF YOU CAN AVOID IT. It sucked. It's funny. If you're not going to use Marcel, it's better to kill him off so he isn't a liability in that map. I mean, heck, even when trained he's still kinda garbage. I'm pretty sure he has just enough movement to intercept the boss, and that is risky due to other factors... But, more on that later. I sense more Faye-Sacking in the future.... Well, how is it my fault that Kaga designed Faye as the perfect bait? Ain't the crooked axe also a Erzheimer capture item? No, it's dropped by an enemy in Seamus's map. Point is that Erzheimer's kind of lonely in my first run... Poor dork. All he wanted was things. All the things in the world. no u! What... what does that even... that doesn't work as a response to what I said! Oh, screw you. It was a simple mistake. I've made countless, and she's gonna live anyway, so why are you so upset? If you provoke someone who's out of range, the enemy seems to go willy-nilly. Didn't work that way in this one map! Enid.txt. She did this for me too. Totally useless. She isn't, that's the worst part! I know what lies just up ahead, but she won't cooperate...! And what are you complaining about? You have it easy! Just set it up so she gets a level right after a turn save, and savescum the magic levels! I can't do that, not in good conscience! Hah! Oh you poor, innocent soul. Don't you know that enemies kill your crippled units randomly? Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah! You know who got crippled and then murdered in my very first run? Axel. You know, favorite character? Favorite unit? Favorite character arc? Favorite scenes? Yeah. Most heartbreaking death since Treck, and it wasn't even in an LP. I never had the heart to mantain a death after that. WHAT?! WHY?! YOU-YOU'RE SO LUCKY THAT HE DIDN'T DIE! EVERY SINGLE TIME ONE OF MY UNITS GETS CRIPPLED, THEY GET STABBED. IZERNA FRICKIN' DIED BECAUSE THEODORE DECIDED TO STAB CRIPPLED CLERICS! AND THEN IZERNA DIED CANONICALLY THE NEXT TIME BECAUSE THAT HECKING PORTRAIT GUY LIKES TO GET STABBY! AAAAAARGH! I'm really not sure what causes enemies to kill cripples. I'd say maybe only Imperials capture, but then again, your experiences as well as mine (Axel...) prove that they aren't above murdering cripples, either... Enid.png Again... Ruben: Spoiler 'Aight, we're back here. First step is to use a vulnerary. I don't want a death in my hands, after we so narrowly avoided one last time. Ruby gets shot. I've seen this before. Now... please. Elbert. Don't squander this second chance. DON'T START ALREADY, GAME...! I SWEAR TO GOD! That's still no good... Bah... Hey, funny little detail: I completely forgot to have him equip a shield. Again. Let's see how long it takes me this time, shall we? Derrick takes the first life of the update. Axel... Sigh... Axel fails me. No matter, no matter. You're still great, Axel. Only two chapters now, and then I'll get to show why you're my favorite character as well as my favorite unit... Running past the Battle Crier, Ruby presses her luck against an archer. She needs to get spear point at some points, no? That is not how you do it, Ruby. People on both sides retreat. It's all right, I think I can still kill the Abus escort. It... really annoys me that this is looking exactly like last time, but... I have faith. I was extremely unlucky last time. Elbert will fare better this time. ...Or, y'know, he'll die for real. But I do hope it doesn't come to that. Just as before, Enid is the best combat unit. All those sword skill levels, put to good use. Also like before, this guy runs towards Kramer. Moment of truth... Wish us good luck...! Nice! Not this time, you foul bastard! Everything is coming up aces this time around. Beautiful. I could potentially free Abus right now. Is it too much to ask? Pfah, of course it is... More arrows for Ruby to dodge. I'd hope she got hit to raise her shield level, but her defense isn't good enough to justify getting hit by that. Why, you...! Piece of shit! Shoot Ruby! It's all right. Down in the middle, Axel has nailed this guy at last. It's arrowbaning time. Elbert! That is... preposterous! See, this is why I hate dodgetanks. They're not reliable. Fucking hell, he had a 63% chance to dodge, and an additional 63%, more or less, if the attack would connect thanks to Arrowbane! And the fucker still got his arrow through both numbers and reached his leg! Also, Ruby continues to fail. And Overwatch isn't like Battle Cry, you need to hit to cancel it out. Oh, boy... Kramer can't kill. Wonderful. Well, next time it is. Enid, I swear to God. You do not want to hear the words I'll have for you if you get sword skill yet again... ...... I think I would've liked sword level better Percy time. At least Elbert is dodging the soldier's thrusts this time around. It'd be so frustrating if he didn't... Ah, finally! Took me long enough. Okay, something good, finally! This "old man" has 12 defense. The archers can only do 1 damage to him - if they hit him, that is. Of course, because Kaga was already too merciful, he's also wounded for no reason. 18 HP is all he has. Still good enough to tank the arrows, but I dread the soldier... Bah, I'm sure everything will be all right. For now, Elbert needs to get out of there. I am not losing him again. Jesus! Gwaah... So much damage...! Damn you, Berwick archers! Finally! Had to switch to a sword, though... Abus is assaulted by two archers. He gets hit only once. Like I said, 18 HP, only 1 damage from the archers. There we go, that guy's done now. May it be better than last time's. It's... it's okay. Percy time again. Wow, he's being uncharacteristically accurate today. I'm impressed. But it's only been two thunderbolts so far. Okay, that looks good. The middle team has nothing more to do, so perhaps I'll have them advance. By sticking close to the thicket, they can avoid the Overwatch archer. If this works, I'll laugh my ass off. I shall now proceed to find my ass so I may reattach it. C'mon, where'd you go... Healing for Ruby. OOOOAAAA why do they always gravitate toward the Overwatch archers...! Damned movement paths... Hoo! Okay, Abus is fine... Derrick has been leading the charge all chapter. And can you blame me? Jokes aside, he's my sturdiest unit, and in the fog, you never know what may be lurking... As he advances, he attacks this guy. More of this. I think she's dodged more arrows than Elbert... Oh, boy... General movement. That bit of mud destroyed his ability to put one leg ahead of the other, apparently. Thankfully, he, too, is better at dodging arrows than the man with Arrowbane. Speaking of, he needs to back Abus up. This guy has to go if I want Abus to have any chance of survival. Nice! But 4 HP still means he can skewer Abus... Dangit! This is just like last time. Thankfully. It's about all that went well last update. Yes! Great! Guuuuhhhh... Ahh, that damned soldier! Elbert, hurry...! Ruby is under attack. May she fare well. Sheesh... As planned, the middle team advances towards the fort-- ...Okay, that may've been a mistake. The enemy Derrick went east this time instead of north. Oh God, Thaddy and Perceval are both in his range. Thaddy gets one-shot. He has to run, fast. AAAAAAAAAAAHHH! AXEL! At least Abus is getting ever close to the escape point. You know what sucks about this? He's moved far enough that the soldier is hidden in the fog. Now Elbert can't finish him off. Bwaaaagh... Oohh, that hurt to watch... Oh, no... Not again! Okay, so this turn I'll throw a francisca at him, with any luck it'll get through the shield, and then next turn I can try pulverizing him? Maybe? ...Hoo, boy... This is going well... Oh look, there's another archer right there. That must be the raijin arrow guy Brightbow mentioned. Hurray Saphira. Light level 3. Hah. Sorry, but you can't-- AAAAAAAAAAAAAHH! NO! Oh, fuck! This is going to hell in a handbasket real fast! Run! Run, Elbert! Do... Do something! Anything! Oh, goddamnit, Ruby's dying too... Okay, I forgive you. And now, you're okay. Perceval, you gotta run. Cripple is bad enough already, I'd rather you don't get captured on top of that! Ahah! That's great, that's good. That's bad, that's terrible. ...I lost again... I've lost more in this one map than every other map in the game so far, combined! I mean, granted, prior to this I only had a single reset, but... It's technically true! We've double the failures in this place, folks. Okay, attempt nº 3! Let's fucking go. Sigh... Why am I so bad... Oh, and in case you think I'm about to go easy on myself, Perceval's crippling still counts. I won't sacrifice any money because he didn't get captured, but he's not getting used for the remainder of the chapter. Not again... Please... Good. Thanks. Doggone it... No! Dodge something! Urrrghh... Why, me? Why can't you be good? Why do you gotta be bad? Uuuuurrrrrrggghhh... Aaaand it's this again. Well, then, let's have the shitty level. With my luck, it'll be completely empty... Sigh... I hate that I'm so terrible... I LOVE THAT I'M SO TERRIBLE! YES! I'VE BEEN REWARDED FOR MY STUPIDITY! WOOHOO! Now we just need to get to the turn 15 save, and then I can die happy. I'd... I'd rather not, but I could. I have to figure out how to make this work this time, though... Very good start, for a change. For now, let's try to avoid the soldier. Being in the archers' range is far preferable. Up north, Derrick kills a soldier. Here, have some healing, Perceval. Let's not waste the vulnerary, now that the soldier that was accosting him is dead. And has given Enid her magic level in the process. I still can't believe that happened. And now, he shall go after the captor. Oh, please... Why can't he dodge arrows? I thought that was supposed to be his forte! See? Ruby jeigans the NPC carrier so Kramer will only need one attack to down him. In retrospect, the crit could've been bad, but... It worked out well. Hmmm... A bit early to free Abus, but the sooner I can pull Elbert out of there, the better. Healing for Ruby. Yeah, that's the way I want you to go. Toward Kramer. New turn time. Elbert is successful in killing Abus's captor. You better run for your life. That damn soldier is too dangerous. Ah! Flashbang! It always amuses me when people miss Derrick. He doesn't move, he just stands there and the sharp things fly by him. NPC is free. 'Kay, it's time for Kramer to level yet again. Make it a good one? If this is the sacrifice to make for this to be the winning run, so be it. Better you than Enid's magic. Oh, they're going after Elbert instead of Abus? I'm glad. Good job! That's some exemplary dodgetanking. For once. Enid-- D'oh! Hwoh! Okay, in the end, it worked out. Eyy, there's the sword skill level she missed! You can get as many points as you like, girl. Just... not in your actual level ups. While fighting is fine. Percy time. That's the last of the NPCs. Again. Perhaps I'll have her top him off with soothe next turn. Now, for the archer. Like last time, Derrick will be taking a potshot at him. If it works again, I'll laugh my ass off. Hah! Well, guess I'll go looking for my ass again, then. Eek! That one didn't fall for the Elbert bait! Good thing Abus is agile, despite his age, his injuries and his lack of an eye. ...Hmmm... Elbert bait... I wonder... First, Derrick leads the charge. I want that knight to go up to him. For this reason, the middle team will wait before advancing any further. Like before, Derrick whacks the second archer as he advances. He, in return, shoots Ruby. Yes, that's it. Shoot Elbert! Now, here's my idea. We know Provoke doesn't do anything when you use it from the other side of the map, because these guys like to stick close to their escortees. However, Elbert's right there. I wonder... if I provoke from this short a distance, will the soldier be tricked into going after Elbert? Worth a shot! Oh, what a brave knight you are, going after the unarmed old man! I can totally understand, don't worry. If you can't even hit him, what chance do you stand against me? Grrr... You killed my best friend! I'll put your head on a pike, and then the old man's too! Yes! Continue to go after Elbert! He can take it! All I need is for that soldier to fall for it, and then Abus will be mostly safe. That asshole archer near the exit only has one thunder god arrow, and with just 7 damage he won't be able to stop Abus in time. It's just a matter of luring the soldier away...! This is the only way for Ruby to deal enough damage to kill. Predictably, it doesn't work. Yes! He fell for it! The gambit worked! NO! IT WORKED TOO WELL! GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH GET OUT GET OUT GET OUT Last move of the turn, heal Percy. Okay, so... this is absolutely terrible. Oh my God, and his horse... Look at the horse's HP! Poor thing survived by, like, 1 HP! I swear, if they make it past the map, I'm not waiting for the horse to die. I'm retiring it right then and there. It'll have earned it. That's a thing I haven't mentioned before: if you give a new horse to a unit that already has one, the previous horse isn't stored anywhere, but rather just disappears. It's a bit annoying, but well, what can you do. This trooper deserves to live, have you seen the shit it's gotten Elbert through? You know what's garbage, though? Elbert will die if he stays there. But to get out, he forcefully has to trigger an Overwatch archer. In other words, he can die on his way out too. Better to pray for one dodge than three. C'mon, Elbert...! This isn't the time to fool around! The chance that he'll succeed is minimal! Ooooooohhwooooo... Hah... Okay, he's good. He's good! He's fine, he's great. Excellent... Phew... Now, here's the deal. Enid still has her vulnerary. I'm going to do a bit of a trading chain to get it to Elbert. Then he can drink it next turn, and he'll be saved! With any luck, the soldier will pursue Elbert instead of Abus, and then he'll be saved, too! Spot the mistake, by the way. Though... To be honest, it wasn't as much a mistake as it was an inevitability. Oohhhh, c'mon... That wasn't the mistake, by the way. That was an affordable loss that I accepted because getting Elbert outta there was more important. Keep moving, Abus...! D'oh... That's okay, he can still take 16 arrows. Or, well, 9 arrows and a THE THUNDER GOD D'awww... What a shame. Well, I suppose something was bound to go worse than the other attempts, after all that luck I had just now. Abus, no! Dodge something! I mean, I'm pretty sure you'll make it so long as the soldier follows Elbert, but still... It'd be good for my heartrate if you dodged more stuff! Kramer can't kill the archer with his longsword, so he borrows Ruby's broadsword. It was a futile effort. Sword. Derrick, too, goes after the overseer. More like overasshole. The time has come. Commence operation SEPH (Save Elbert Post-Haste). Notice, by the way, that the soldier is indeed chasing Elbert. I'm glad. That means Abus is as good as gone. It's just Elbert's life on the line now... Okay. A dodge will do fine. Dodgetanks! So reliable! So much fun to use! I take all the sarcasm back. You're great, Ruby, don't let the pros convince you otherwise. A reward for your efforts. And there we go! Now he just needs to-- EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!! NO, NOT NOW! WE'RE TOO CLOSE FOR HIM TO DIE NOW! Hwaaaaaaaaaaaaahh... haaahhh... huff... Okay... Okay, breathe... Breathe... Pheww... Oh man, that was too close... He would've died without Arrowbane, too! Sheesh... Okay, I think that's the end of that. Yes, new turn! First order of business: Elbert heals up. I almost can't believe he made it. That was so close on so many levels. Kuuhhh, goddamn... Not Owen. Leave Owen alone, you freaks! At this point, I'm pretty sure it's impossible for them to stop Abus. Even with the muddy terrain, he'll only need two more turns to leave. Not enough for them to chip him to death, even with the raijin arrow. ...Let's not party just yet, though. I could be wrong. Finally! About time that guy went down. So annoying... Drink up, mate. You're too important to die. Goodness! Stop hitting her, damnit! Have you no shame? At least give her shield points if you're going to do that! Yeah, she's getting out of there. I need a real plan to deal with that bastard. Ahah! About time someone joined Fyodor in... Safety? Wait, what? Enemies just appeared right there, after the NPC left! The heck... More light points. She grows rather fast, I'll give you that. But Owen is only slightly slower, and his base is ten times better. ...Actually, no, that's not right. Her base light is 0, so Owen's base isn't any times better. Anything times 0 is still 0, after all. Ahhh, that fool ran next to the hidden Axel! Can you guess what's going to happen next? Why... He'll just Axel him a question, that's all! Bwahahahahah... If he gets hit with the raijin arrow, he'll have 8 HP left. Fairly certain it'll still be enough to survive, but he'll be cutting it close... Ah, that makes things easier. Thanks, Abus. You're great. Yes, turn 15! That means I finally get to save Enid's magic level. I'm glad... It'd hurt too much to lose it. Not that there's any way we could, at this point. The NPCs are all well on their way to escape. But still. Power could've gone out in my house, something like that. I'm just glad I got a savefile where Enid's gotten magic, y'know? Now, first order of business, save Ruby. Next up, it's Derrick against Derrick! Hah! Pathetic! Doggone it... Hah! As if Derrick could be caught by such simple tricks! Yeah, yeah, whatever. You've lost at this point. Now, is it too much to ask that we finally deal with this idiot? Oh please... Ah! Ahah! Yes, a critical injury! Could it be that I'm gonna get a capture today? I hope so! Awesome, sword level too. That... could not have gone any better. Hah! You embarrass yourselves. It'd be better if you just turned back and tried to kill us instead. At least then you wouldn't be losing to a wounded, unarmed old man. 'Kay, let's see if we can make this work. Clearly not thanks to Kramer. Excellent! Absolutely marvelous! I knew Derrick could do it! A most pitiful attempt to escape. You're ours now! Another NPC escapes, and immediately enemy soldiers spawn right on top of the escape point. Are we sure these were real POWs? I wonder if we have been bamboozled... Well, it doesn't matter. Fyodor and Abus are (mostly) safe, and that's what matters. Now, about the knight... Let's see if I can't trick him. There it is. They're always so quick to fall for the trap. That orb was so useful. I shall have to buy another one from Yumil. More of this? Capture goes to Derrick. I considered doing the, you know, optimal thing and giving it to Kramer. But Derrick's earned it. I like this. It's decent gear. I think I'll die if he gets speed again. D'awwwwwww... I mean, this is by far better than speed, he needs the accuracy. But... shucks, man. I wanted him to get more speed than strength. Now that would've been maximum hilarity. Are they all gonna get a turn before Abus finally leaves? With Evil Derrick up there, the time has come to spring the trap. I know, you're probably sick of arrows by now, but no worries. You'll get a map of rest after this. ...hmmm... Okay, worth a shot. I cannot believe what I see. Think I'll have Thaddy retreat and scout our rear. See if he can find those enemies that are on their way. Nothing just yet. That is good. Now... I'm kinda afraid of doing this, but I'm fairly certain there shouldn't be any enemies around. The crossbowman and the heavy knight are both stationary, so... Besides, she has the miracle charm, and at some point she has to level up. You've got to be kidding me... Okay, then. Attempt nº 2. I hate having to leave her on a cliff like this for a full turn, but this guy has to die. Ah! Enid, you useless moron! Your miss left Owen vulnerable! Phew... Abus is out at last! That's all the NPCs gone. S-Sir Dallas...? ...Get moving... No, seriously, why are all of my edits insane faces Whoa! Stop screaming, man, he can hear you! FIND THOSE SNEAKING RATS WHO DARED TO RUN FROM ME! IF YOU DON'T COME BACK WITH THEIR HEADS, I'LL HAVE YOURS PUT ON A PIKE! Y-Yes, sir! Oh God, does this mean... Is everyone going to charge at me!? No... Enid is too vulnerable...! Huh... Well, Elbert can't provoke anyone, so I'm pretty sure that means they're all still going to stay put. Still, it's high time we took control of the camp. Let's go! Owen can have the knight. The others will take far too long to kill him. Call me mad, but lower accuracy be damned (and I mean, 76% is not too shabby), having the ability to nuke a knight for almost his entire health bar is pretty good utility that Izerna and Saphira do not have. Haha funne number xD Ohhh, Perceval... PEEEEEEEEERCYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY There they are! Hmm... They still have a long way to go. Oof... Dang it, poison! Arrowbane, Elbert! What happened to Arrowbane! Two enemies, huh. They're both pretty standard weaklings. Nothing to lose our heads about. Or to. Jikes... Somebody needs healing. Finally, kill for Perceval. He really needs to get some. At the very least, I want him to reach level 7 so he can pull off that wonderful lightning + mercy combo. Owen is too powerful for his own good, when it comes to capturing. Please... Ah! Where'd you come from?! Oh, phew... Who said you can't dodge on cliffs? GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH! O-Oh, my goodness... no...! Die! Die! Perish! Oh, boy, these guys have caught up to us already... Also, it's turn 18. It kinda crept up on me, but we only get one more Owen heal before all we have is Saphira and her pathetic 8 HP bandaids. Well, anyway. Dallas has been uncovered. Let's see what he's all about. Dallas is a rather vicious fighter, with powerful gear all around and protection against arrows. However, he does have a distinct weakness to magic. Thunder magic, in particular. He cannot retaliate against it, and he has no defenses against it either. We could fight him up close, but I mean, we'd be risking a crit or getting a faceful of this. Sheesh, 17 might... Kramer goes to meet the enemy reinforcements from the north. It... doesn't work. Elbert retreats. I think the final Owen heal of the day will go to him, he's in pretty bad shape. Again. Today's just not been his night, has it? Oof... Saphira gets him started. OOOOUUURGH! WHAT!? THEY'RE... Oh, for fuck's sake... I get it now! Every time I checked with provoke, these guys were all stationary, but then they proceeded to stop being so the next turn, one by one! Kaga knew! Kaga knew the player would check with provoke, so he made them begin moving gradually over a few turns so as to trick them! And it has worked! This map, man. This fucking map. How I look forward to getting out of this motherfucking map. Shhhhhhiite! Aaaaack! Okay, she's alive... Honestly though, Saphira has saved us. Had she not been there, both archers from last turn, as well as this guy, would've zero'd in on Enid. And that wouldn't have been pretty. See, just like that! Oh, please... I'm losing control of the situation again! Give it back! Noooo... It doesn't help that nobody seems to know what the concept of "dodging" means! Thankfully, neither does the enemy. Unfortunately for Elbert, we need to deal with these guys right now, so Owen can't stop to heal. I'd like to see Saphira or Izerna pulling this off. Incidentally, I don't think I've ever made a hellfire gif, have I? No, I'm pretty sure I made one for fire, but not hellfire. Well, that's easily fixed. I was too busy shitting my pants to make one while I played the chapter, so let me just go and quickly... There we go. It's basically fire, only nuclear. The visual glitches on the sky aren't there in the game. Must be some artifacts from the conversion to gif format. And now, to finish with the world's thinnest thunderbolt! May it be a good one. Sheesh, Perceval... You don't just miss your attacks, you also miss your growths! Money! Money to pay Elbert's simulated ransom... Sigh... Ruby continues to do her best. There we go. We're running low on medicine, and Owen has to leave, so we had better wrap this up soon. I hate this. Half my army is injured, I don't even know where to start! Enid. We start with Enid. Hwooh...! Good hop, Axel. Can I count on you, Ruby? Thanks. Ahahahah, thank you so much! I was afraid she'd miss out on the spear level she got in the other attempts... With this, I think this is officially the best attempt in every way. Heh... Turns out being bad has its perks. Attacking Axel shall be your last mistake! Now, before he leaves, Owen will leave his heal orb in Saphira's care. 2 heals might not suffice, I don't want to take any chances. So long, mate. And now, on to the offensive! Kill these guys before they can even tell what hit 'em! ...Okay, maybe Elbert alone can't deal with that. Just maybe. He dismounts as he goes for the finisher. That horse really doesn't deserve to die. Not after it's come so far. Spear level? Goddamnit, Elbert! I think Elbert might develop a PTSD trigger from arrows after this mission. Hoo, boy... This is all the healing we'll get for the rest of the mission... ...huh. That's legitimately good. 4 more like this and you'll match Owen in... exactly one aspect. Ah, Elbert. If only you'd get as many spear points as shield points... Fucking hell... Kramer, you're starting to resemble Perceval! And noone wants that, so get a grip already! That is better. Noooo... Not Axel, you hear me? Not Axel! Good! About time. Next kill will be it. Then one more level and he'll just need happiness. A ton, I imagine, since I've barely deployed him. Productive. It's about time we begun working on Dallas, don't you think? This is... pretty shit odds, but there's only 4 uses left of Dire Thunder, and it cannot be repairstone'd. So, might as well throw them at Dallas and see if it works. You're going to pay for what you did to Fyodor's brother. And... well, no doubt a plethora of other crimes, as well. ...Perceval does not agree, clearly... He's going to run now, because there are enemies nearby. I don't want him getting crippled again. I'm too much of a coward to deal with Dallas in a fair fight. As for the rest of the cannon fodder, Axel is on it. So is Kramer. If it's a good one, I'll be happy, but it's not too important. What matters is that your level becomes 10. Still... kinda hurts to see this. Percy is back to full! Now, Thaddy is going to return, because I have an idea. Four shots. On a 54% chance. And he only got one through. Perceval... I think I'll craft another one when I have the chance. All jokes aside, it's a damn useful orb when Perceval isn't missing half the shots. Saphira does her thing. Regular thunder time. This... might take a while. And I don't like it, because I'm fairly certain I heard more enemy reinforcements coming. To speed things up, Ruby picks up a pilum from Thaddy. No, I've no idea why he had it instead of one of the units that can actually use it. Here's the deal: she's gonna toss a pilum at Dallas, then run next turn before he can retaliate. Thankfully he doesn't have Prepared... Bwaaaah... Go, run for cover! Ergh... over Derrick? Yeah, sure. He probably can't even feel anything under all that armor. Ah! Ahahah! Yes, an injury! Man, capturing Dallas would be the finest irony... Oh, boy. Bahhh... Well, you know what? Shame about the equipment, but Dallas doesn't deserve to live anyway. Besides, the injury serves another purpose... I won't just murder him, I'll murder him in a humilliating way! Go, Enid! He's all yours! Hah! And that's just the cherry on top of the pie! Kaboom! So long, sucker! Woman...? If she gets the second point of magic she needs to promote right here, I'm going to be the happiest man alive. D'aww... well, you know what? You got one. I cannot complain about this. Not... not this time. Do not repeat this mistake, however, lest I be forced to insult you once more. The steel is ours. There are still enemies left to the southern fort, as well as an overseer. And the reinforcements, too. But I value my emotional health over experience, and... I'll be entirely forthcoming with y'all, I am SO sick of this map. I'll be damned if I risk the lives of my team for some scraps of experience. We're leaving. Well! That was a disaster. Percy, Faye and Elbert are all out the rest of the chapter, and I need to figure out a way to get rid of some 2000D for Elbert. Wouldn't be fair otherwise. Next time, we return and tell the visitor that our own visit to the prison camp was successful. Err, more or less. Fare as well as you can, for my sake if not yours! Byeee~! Death count: Christine Esteban Czene Faye x 2 * Unavailable Capture count: 2 (Daoud, Elbert) Cripple count: 1 (Perceval) Reset count: 3 (Ward: 1, Abus: 2) Current perfect streak: Haha I'm never beating my record am I Best perfect streak: 6 maps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrightBow Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said: Well! That was a disaster. Percy, Faye and Elbert are all out the rest of the chapter, and I need to figure out a way to get rid of some 2000D for Elbert. Wouldn't be fair otherwise. I think you can save yourself the trouble with the ransom. I once had someone get captured on this map and I got them back immediately after seizing. Presumably if you seize on this map, you get back everyone who is currently captured. Or at the very least the ones of the people who got captured on this map. Unless there were some entirely different factors at play in my game. But I don't think there is. I mean, it makes sense: It IS a POW camp. There would be a good chance for your guys to end up here. Edited July 20, 2020 by BrightBow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punished Dayni Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 Spoiler 8 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Congratulations. I didn't think my recruitment through too much. I just went for characters I like and Lorenz so I can give Hanneman the Thyrsus. Thyrsus? Was that the name? I thought it was Thrysus once. But you are correct. 21 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: No man. Ignatz is a mage. That is his destiny, and I don't care what he thinks about it. Speaking as someone who made him a Mortal Savant in my first run, he was alright with magic. It's just that bows are really good in 3H and having three users from the start's nice. 9 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Incidentally, while we're talking about recruits, I nabbed Ashe! I've... no idea how, to be honest. I never even spoke to him, but then during the fishing tournament I walked up to him, pressed "recruit" for the heck of it, and he went "oi professor, I know we don't know each other, but can I join ya?" At first I figured I'd just bench him, but for some reason he had training in axes, so I decided to make him into an old-school warrior with axes and bows. Not much in the way of defense, but his offensive stats are solid, so I think I'll keep him around. Hanneman did a good job with him. ...What do you mean, Hanneman couldn't have trained two units from two different houses at the same time? Well, obviously he had to, because Manuela was off fucking some knight. What, you think I'm going to admit Manuela trained that godly Leonie? Not a chance! Everything good about Three Houses is Hanneman's doing. That is LP canon. Guess you were using lances and got enough charm (which is easy) then. Me, I ususally get a shit ton of support points and try to abuse B support recruitment if I know I'm not using that type of equipment. Like Ferdinand. Because fuck using armour. And frankly having a bow-using Wyvern lord is always nice. 9 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Because the object is to not roll my eyes every time I see Byleth? I mean, I roll my eyes far less with the dancer ensemble. 10 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: The thing is, they were not results of my mistakes. I deliberately got them killed so I could kill the DK early on, simply because I hadn't prepared for the encounter but didn't want to let the dark seal go. If I wanted to, I could've beat the map with no casualties, no sweat. In fact, aside from that chapter, the only other time I reset was in chapter 8, when Jeralt decided to kill himself on Solon after I had exhausted my divine pulse charges fighting the DK again. To be fair to me, I mean that it's shouldn't be much of an issue at all, unless it's maddening. That is going to be terrifying if I get there. Lysithea should have Dark Spikes thankfully, but even that alone won't be enough because everything has too much Charm for gambit purposes. It's going to be a fascinating madness. 13 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Actually, The Roger surmised that it's probably her panties. And don't be like that, man. It's painfully obvious that's what they were going for. Dorothea loses her underwear, and in the exact same chapter, Caspar just so happens to comment on this pretty blue rag that he found that's just amazing to wipe his sweat. And as if that wasn't blatant enough, Byleth goes "......" before the end of the scene. The only reason to add that interjection is for the player to go "ooohhhhh, it's Dorothea's thing, haha that is so funneh". I'm not about to go on a mad rant on how modern FE has RUINED the franchise like the real elitists, but the "high school harem anime" moments are definitely more common these days than ever before. That is an undeniable fact. I mean, just the fact that we get a marriage system that serves no purpose other than player pandering speaks volumes of the shift in tone with the modern entries to the series. ...... Can I just move on from the point where I admit I was clearly too innocent to realise that after hearing the line 5 fucking times? Because that's the only reason that makes sense. It truly didn't help that they made a school a central part of the game with this one. The pandering is something we could all do without. 14 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: I'm inclined to agree with you, honestly. I have a huge soft spot for New Mystery's cast, but I cannot say it is superior to Three Houses's. That said, even in its greatness, I believe it is rather overrated. People parade these characters around as if they're incapable of flaw, and that is just not true, when you've one-note shitters like Bernadetta and blatant waifu-baits like pre-timeskip Dorothea, Manuela and Hilda. Yeah, I went there. They're less overt about it than Camilla, perhaps, but c'mon. Dorothea and Manuela are obvious, and Hilda's demeanor and her post-timeskip attire leave no doubt in my mind that she's supposed to be the "won't you do things for me? I might reward you UwU" kinda waifu. And, well... As far as I know, that's all there is to her character. Dorothea at least grows a character after the horny garbage, but Hilda and Manuela... Bleh. Now, I am not saying the cast is bad. The cast is good, it's just not as flawless as everyone seems to be convinced it is. In my opinion, at least. But then, what do I know. I'm the madman whose favorite is Hanneman, the guy absolutely nobody ever talks about. Unless it's to creep on him. Yeah, he has creeps of his own, somehow. "Silver fox" this, "daddy" that... Come now, he has so much more to him than just his godly design. That's what happens when there's 75 characters and most only get moments with a void. And I obviously think more positively about the cast than you do. But. It doesn't mean I think it's amazing, I would argue Byleth in some ways is worse than Corrin (Yep, that's a thing), some characters are more gimmick than would be liked (Bernie, Raph, Sylvain, Cyril for 4 examples) and the baiting is very much an issue that I wish they just stopped (not the Jojo hat. You know what I mean). Hilda does have a dynamic where due to her older brother's ability and the expectation on her to prove herself she tries her best to avoid the pressure that brings, while also having a weird idea that by getting others to do things they're able to build their own self-esteem (This is far from the best way to explain it, this is me thinking about it for a minute and not searching. I know there's more, and likely counterarguments too.). You know, it might have been nice for that brother to show up in person. Manuela..... others have made a better case than I could. 15 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Seriously, though? A bunch of fanservice outfits, the worst unit in the game, a mediocre sidestory and a handful of classes isn't what I'd call worthy of 25 bucks. I'd give them 5 bucks for all of that. 10 is the highest I'd go. 25 is just... no. For crying out loud, that's more expensive than Vestaria Saga! Do yourself a favor, and get Vestaria Saga instead of the Three Houses DLC. SRPG studio is a true compatibility antagonist. 16 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: I'm sorry, but the concept of "sassy, bossy technically-legal-loli in fetish gear" makes me fuckin' gag. In a way, I'm thankful she's so underused, because it means I barely have to stand her. On that last part of the quote, really not helping when that's a DLC costume. I could like with something looking younger than their age, it's not unique to Japan. It's just too obvious a trope and they should take a step or twenty back. Archanea may be many negative things to me, but one thing it does the best is the dragon tribes and setup. 16 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: That's also not good... It's important to strike a middle ground. As to where that middle ground is, well... That's a more difficult issue. Can you blame me with the way so many people have had their accusations dismissed entirely due to their not being as popular and how so many of those in positions of infulence so easily can obscure the reality and act like that totally didn't happen? Point being, the Catholic Church might have instilled in me a personal reason to take abuse vitctims seriously. By fucking doing the exact opposite. And on the evidence, I don't think my taking that testimony would be jumping much to conclusions. 18 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: I get that there's a reason, but he's still a piece of misogynistic trash. I won't be sad to murder him. Not saying you have to like him. He's still in the bottom half of the cast for me as well. Killed him in my first run for sure and that was because he chose to ambush me, the ass. Also I clearly have little to no respect for him considering he's an easy option for dancer enirely because I can't think of something else for him to do. 19 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: I don't see how that should be hard. Just use a sword on the wall. Works for Arturo! I mean, rocks as long as your arm (ok, not your full arm. Or mine.), some of which are actually heavier because they're denser rock. And it'll have to be built again. Joy. 22 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: It did the last few times I tried it! It's just this one map where it's wonky! Is it Fog of War then? Is that the reason? 23 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Elbert! That is... preposterous! See, this is why I hate dodgetanks. They're not reliable. Fucking hell, he had a 63% chance to dodge, and an additional 63%, more or less, if the attack would connect thanks to Arrowbane! And the fucker still got his arrow through both numbers and reached his leg! >Remembers how some tanks haven't been half as reliable for himself. Just fuck tanking, right? So why did the community even refer to it as dodgetanking? 24 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: ...... I think I would've liked sword level better Are we sure you aren't getting Speed more than Attack? For everyone? 27 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: ...I lost again... I've lost more in this one map than every other map in the game so far, combined! I mean, granted, prior to this I only had a single reset, but... It's technically true! We've double the failures in this place, folks. I knew this was trouble when we walked in. 28 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: I LOVE THAT I'M SO TERRIBLE! YES! I'VE BEEN REWARDED FOR MY STUPIDITY! WOOHOO! Now we just need to get to the turn 15 save, and then I can die happy. I'd... I'd rather not, but I could. About time, eh? 30 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Okay, so... this is absolutely terrible. Oh my God, and his horse... Look at the horse's HP! Poor thing survived by, like, 1 HP! I swear, if they make it past the map, I'm not waiting for the horse to die. I'm retiring it right then and there. It'll have earned it. That's a thing I haven't mentioned before: if you give a new horse to a unit that already has one, the previous horse isn't stored anywhere, but rather just disappears. It's a bit annoying, but well, what can you do. This trooper deserves to live, have you seen the shit it's gotten Elbert through? I will have to agree with your decision. AND NOW WITH THIS WE MOVE TO MY FAVOURITE SEGMENT "BERWICK, BUT LESS OF A BERDICK." Why isn't there a place to stable the horses after you've bought them? It seems like such a missed opportunity. I mean, you could keep a certain amount of horses (which could be upgradeable) there could be a cost to their upkeep and the people you meet there could be their own characters as well. And no, this shouldn't mean you couldn't release horses. And if there could be horse HP restoration there it could be very limited unless you spend serious money or leave them there for longer. 32 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Safety? Wait, what? Enemies just appeared right there, after the NPC left! The heck... He was so angry they decided to leave him alone. This map, right? 33 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Ah! Ahah! Yes, a critical injury! Could it be that I'm gonna get a capture today? I hope so! It looks so casual as well, Ruby just slapping the shit out of the overseer with a light swing. Dayum Ruby. Clifford could learn a few things. 34 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: ...hmmm... Okay, worth a shot. I cannot believe what I see. Objection! You said yourself he would not be fighting the rest of the chapter. 37 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Oh, and in case you think I'm about to go easy on myself, Perceval's crippling still counts. I won't sacrifice any money because he didn't get captured, but he's not getting used for the remainder of the chapter. AND YET HERE HE IS FIGHTING DURING THIS VERY MAP. He proceeds to break the Dire Thunder after the period where he should no longer be fighting. You expressly said as much. This map is part of the chapter, so therefore he is fighting after he shouldn't be. The prosecution rests. 39 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Dallas is a rather vicious fighter, with powerful gear all around and protection against arrows. However, he does have a distinct weakness to magic. Thunder magic, in particular. He cannot retaliate against it, and he has no defenses against it either. Killing edge huh? That honestly fits. Dallas is a Dasshole. 39 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: OOOOUUURGH! WHAT!? THEY'RE... Oh, for fuck's sake... I get it now! Every time I checked with provoke, these guys were all stationary, but then they proceeded to stop being so the next turn, one by one! Kaga knew! Kaga knew the player would check with provoke, so he made them begin moving gradually over a few turns so as to trick them! And it has worked! This map, man. This fucking map. How I look forward to getting out of this motherfucking map. ERIP: 3. 40 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: There we go. It's basically fire, only nuclear. The visual glitches on the sky aren't there in the game. Must be some artifacts from the conversion to gif format. Yeah, that's gifs for you. Also, neat fire. It's a bit exccessive for it to spiral upward when you think about it, but that's similar to Elfire in main FE. Only more elaborate because of the spirals. 42 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: ...huh. That's legitimately good. 4 more like this and you'll match Owen in... exactly one aspect. Well someone had to get it. 43 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: Woman...? Wonder who that is? Perceval's sister? 7 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said: It's a me: Rubenio: I COULDN'T IGNORE THIS Damm you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pengaius Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I need to figure out a way to get rid of some 2000D for Elbert. You're gonna have to buy, then toss 2000D worth of useless crap from the pawnshop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golb89 Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 (edited) [Addendum] Spoiler On 7/10/2020 at 11:24 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Everyone is hidden! Quote I'm hiding behind leaves. You can't see me. https://gamepress.gg/arknights/news/arknights-cn-new-operator-announcement-scene-talent-skills-art-gifs 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Part 45 - A magical update. 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Hello, I have a new hack recommendation. Sun God's Wrath has just been released. I remember playing that one when it started, and a while later too: story and writing were just as bad as its prequel's, the class and promotion systems were a convulted mess (and who the heck thought it was a good idea to reintroduce the "Social Knight" class?!), difficulty made the gameplay akin to a puzzle with no room for errors and skills were broken af, making the whole thing an awful RNG-fest where you either obliterated the enemies or they wrecked you. Admittedly, that was years ago and the hack might have improved in the meantime, but somehow i doubt that's really the case. (Incidentally, did you know someone made a complete english translation of japanese version of PoR? Well, now you know) 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: It's a me: Ruben: Spoiler 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: It's a me: Spoiler 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Yes. Exactly. Take 3: 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Bwahahahahahahah... Friggin' Volcens, man. When will he do anything right? Volcen's dad: Maybe. 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Yep, that's a gacha all right. Gotta keep paying so as not to fall behind the broken units. Actually you can get him for free, and rather easily too: even i have him, but due to my strict waifu>meta policy am not using him. (That, and half of my friends have him at E2 among their support units, which is much more convenient than raising my own...) 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Wait... Then, let me see if I understand this correctly... So her two character traits are being a light drunkard and... Senator Armstrong? 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Guess you weren't paying attention. (i.e. read the first comment, the one with all the spoiler tags) Anyway, collab aside, she originally was an elite unit and part of the proto-version of the Anti-Rain team (i.e. the protagonists) alongside Elaine M16, but was such an @sshole that she got kicked out... which is probably the best thing that could have happened to her, as it allowed her to avoid taking part in the operation that's the origin of all the sh*t happening in GFL and she also got spared the usual treatment the protagonists tend to receive in this game. That, and she got to be part of 404 instead of AR. For all intents and purposes her (present) personality consist in trying to prove to everyone (herself included) that she really befits her elite status (though unfortunately that doesn't translate too well in the actual gameplay...) Also, remember her? She's one of Arknight's villains but her design was originally meant to be another AR member in GFL, most likely the one taking 416's place in the team. 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Then how do you come up with these codenames? 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Well, why don't you do it again if you're so tough? Because i gain nothing from it, and if i did that i couldn't afford to spend literally hours reading and replying to this LP. 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Ruben: Spoiler 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Now we just need to get to the turn 15 save, and then I can die happy. I'd... I'd rather not, but I could. 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: This "old man" has 12 defense. The archers can only do 1 damage to him - if they hit him, that is. 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Eek! That one didn't fall for the Elbert bait! Good thing Abus is agile, despite his age, his injuries and his lack of an eye. Basically yet another M16. 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: He'll just Axel him a question, that's all! Bwahahahahah... 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Call me mad, but lower accuracy be damned (and I mean, 76% is not too shabby), having the ability to nuke a knight for almost his entire health bar is pretty good utility that Izerna and Saphira do not have. (And unlike Gloria/Nightmare she really is a healer who can cast, instead of a caster who can heal) (But she's new on CN server, so it'll take months before she comes on EN too) 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I think Elbert might develop a PTSD trigger from arrows after this mission. 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I think I'll craft another one when I have the chance. All jokes aside, it's a damn useful orb when Perceval isn't missing half the shots. 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Hah! And that's just the cherry on top of the pie! 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: [Bonus] Spoiler Edited July 21, 2020 by Golb89 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranger016 Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Well! That was a disaster. Percy, Faye and Elbert are all out the rest of the chapter, and I need to figure out a way to get rid of some 2000D for Elbert. Wouldn't be fair otherwise. Next time, we return and tell the visitor that our own visit to the prison camp was successful. Err, more or less. Fare as well as you can, for my sake if not yours! Byeee~! That was one of the toughest maps to beat for me too, you were pretty lucky nobody died here. As for the money, just recruit Volo or Clifford in the next chapter but don't use them. Or spend them on food for those who don't need it like Ward or Reese. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Roger The Paladin Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 Spoiler 14 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Well, either way, she's godly. Defense, speed, strength, you name it, she has it. Hanneman did a better job with her than I did with Ferdinand, he sucks ass. Meanwhile: Spoiler 14 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Maybe he would've worked, I mean, he's in Three Houses. Everyone is good. I just didn't care for him or his character. It's amazing that I found a use for him. If it weren't for the DK he would've just hit the bench for life. Only characters I've consistently failed to make anything of are Manuela (who served more of a backup healer role and thus was over-shadowed), and Cyril. The latter of whom is simply an argument for bases over growths. Because every time I used him those growths refused to go my way. The only time he turned out good was when I was using him as an adjudant for supports.... and by the time he got good there it was chapter 18. 14 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Actually, The Roger surmised that it's probably her panties. And don't be like that, man. It's painfully obvious that's what they were going for. Dorothea loses her underwear, and in the exact same chapter, Caspar just so happens to comment on this pretty blue rag that he found that's just amazing to wipe his sweat. And as if that wasn't blatant enough, Byleth goes "......" before the end of the scene. The only reason to add that interjection is for the player to go "ooohhhhh, it's Dorothea's thing, haha that is so funneh". If only. It were that simple. See I read a theory once (on this very site yet) the implication may well have been it was the medieval equivalent of a certain feminine hygiene product (hence the English phrase "on the rag" and Dorothea's embarrasment). Mind even if the theory is wrong... and it is underwear... well we still have a harem anime moment. 14 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Hilda's demeanor and her post-timeskip attire leave no doubt in my mind that she's supposed to be the "won't you do things for me? I might reward you UwU" kinda waifu. And, well... As far as I know, that's all there is to her character. Hilda's character twist is supposed to be she manipulates people into doing all the work for her because she thinks if everyone thinks she's inept then they won't have expectations she'll fail to live up to. Basically she's got this phobia of being a failure in other people's eyes but ignores the obvious flaw to her plan. Namely to act inept she ACTUALLY has to be a failure in their eyes. Double-think at it's finest. Catch is, being Three Houses, this only really comes into play in supports. So like Claude's schemes never amounting to anything gameplay/storywise... Hilda's manipulation doesn't really matter. Unless her giving sidequests post-timeskip Golden Deer counts. Which means Caeda already did the "manipulating people" gimmick better in that it had a gameplay affect (in my opinion at least). Regardless.. I find the notion that a fear of inadequacy causing one to act inadequate is an oddly self-fulfilling prophecy. Kind of like the whole Bernadetta being abused by her father into her present state... so that people would think she was the perfect wife (resulting in people actually waifuing the character). I don't know if the writing team were really good at ironic content... or this just happened. A lot. 14 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: My problem is that I couldn't do the precise damage without buying time. Blame Ferdinand for being bad. He's already hit the bench, anyway. Hanneman produced a better cavalier in Leonie. Whereas my Ferdinand ended up being MVP in most maps. The guy had a metric ton of strength and defense. 14 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: ...Oh, goddamnit, it's even worse than I thought It's even worse than you thought was even worse 14 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: It changed your very life. Or, y'know, just your username. But it is more epic to say that it changed your life. It inspired you to become a greater man. The Roger The Paladin. Though it does lead people to assume cavalier/paladins are my favourite class. Useful as they are... I have a thing about axe-infantry. Quite a contrast really given one's consistently one of the best (if not the best) class... and the other's a candidate for the worst. Definitely has given me some appreciation for other things though. Like this song. Spoiler Before you ask, no, I've not played so much as 1 second of Chrono-trigger. My knowledge of the game almost entirely stems from four youtube videos out of "the musical". Three of which revolve around Frog/Glenn, and the other of which has a nod to his theme in it. Also of note, this particular one inspired the idea for the whole Matthis/Ukyo friendship in my LP (Matthis being the "pupil" that'd surpass his mentor was pretty much planned... and then on finding a PS2 version Samurai Shodown V I realized there was a sort of precedent for this with Ukyo and an individual by the name of Yumeji so I have plans to do things with that). 14 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: That's... better than what's in the game. You're a genius. Turns out Byleth was insane all along. It helps keep ME from going insane to think that way on it. 14 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Holy shit, that guy sounds like a real piece of work, huh? To be fair, that's the intent behind the character. The crime of making an overly edgy character is drastically reduced when the point is to show how shit a person they are as opposed to doing it so they can be the "anti-establishment guy who is edgy but inexplicably does the right thing for reasons". From a canonical perspective the guy never even comes close to doing "the right thing". 14 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: ...Okay, I give up. I'm doing the obvious response myself: It's Warren, obviously. He's certainly declared Warren the safety of travellers. 14 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Considering the amount of fans Sylvain and his predecessors have, I'd say it doesn't matter if you're a sexual predator, period, so long as you're an attractive anime waifu/husbando. I find it InSain how many people condone such behavior. Quite honestly it's inSaulting. 14 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Ahahahah... That'd be hilarious, too. But I doubt Matthis would get drunk, he doesn't seem like the type. Maybe not. But it's a fun thought. 14 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Ahahahahahahahahahahahahah! Perfect! This one made my day. Thanks for the awesome reference. Rule of humour. Knowing your audience. 14 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: ...No, but seriously, this is a complaint I've seen about Berwick Saga. C'mon... seriously? I might get complaining about low hitrates, but complaining that the RNG is broken? Please... It comes up a lot actually regarding any unexpected RNG. There's a reason one of Mekkah's "pitfall" videos did a section on blaming the RNG. That's the thing... people forget high and low probability ultimately mean you can guess more accurately.. but you can't guarantee anything. It's why I tend to plan for every enemy attack to hit... regardless of whether their hit percentage is high or low. Which is why I'm not big on dodge-tanking.. because they look pretty terrible if everything's assumed to hit. 14 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Gee, I wonder what Ruby'll do against Hazrij. Maybe he'll sic her lapdog on him? But no, can't risk that, we need Faramir to mantain her casual mode. Ruben from the future here: As I proofread the update, I realized that by complete accident I made the exact same mistake again, only with Ruby this time. I will leave the line unchanged because it's funny that I'm so dumb. I can't tell if this is a meta-joke or just a mistake that turned out great because it's the inverse of the mistake I was referencing. Either way... excellent. 14 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: ...You know, I suddenly get the feeling that we've had this exact interaction before. Is this gonna be the "Zeiss and the prepscreen" of this LP? Are we just gonna go over how cripplings work a thousand times? I thought I remembered it. But next capture, I fully intend to do it again. 15 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: The fact you're Barlowe is so many kinds of poetic. 16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Elbert! That is... preposterous! See, this is why I hate dodgetanks. They're not reliable. Fucking hell, he had a 63% chance to dodge, and an additional 63%, more or less, if the attack would connect thanks to Arrowbane! And the fucker still got his arrow through both numbers and reached his leg! When you realize I just did a rant about dodge-tanks... only to get to this. Well I'm glad someone agrees with me. Then again... after doing iron-man runs it's going to give one a different perception on dodge-tanking as to more casual play. 16 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Percy time. There's no mercy when you use Percy. 17 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: ...I lost again... I've lost more in this one map than every other map in the game so far, combined! I mean, granted, prior to this I only had a single reset, but... It's technically true! We've double the failures in this place, folks. One reason I like Shadow Dragon so much. No fog of war. Have I ever established I don't like fog of war? 17 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: (and I mean, 76% is not too shabby Better than the cursed 75%. 17 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Oh, for fuck's sake... I get it now! Every time I checked with provoke, these guys were all stationary, but then they proceeded to stop being so the next turn, one by one! Kaga knew! Kaga knew the player would check with provoke, so he made them begin moving gradually over a few turns so as to trick them! And it has worked! Did Kaga just pull the Three Houses Petra trick on you? KDIF. 17 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Go, run for cover! Ergh... over Derrick? Yeah, sure. He probably can't even feel anything under all that armor. Why am I imagining this as a jump into Derrick's arm's like in the old Scooby Doo cartoons where he's scared? 17 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Woman...? Why do I get the feeling he's not talking about Enid critting him? 17 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: There are still enemies left to the southern fort, as well as an overseer. And the reinforcements, too. But I value my emotional health over experience, and... I'll be entirely forthcoming with y'all, I am SO sick of this map. I'll be damned if I risk the lives of my team for some scraps of experience. We're leaving. I'd complain... but I also left a bunch of reinforcements alive on the update I was working on when this dropped. I feel like we've had this conversation before about something else and like it's going to be a running gag where we unwittingly do the same thing on completely different chapters in completely different games and advertise our LPs on each other's LPs like this. But the fact it's a coincidence makes it funnier to me. Now I guess I better see if Benice does something similar... seeing as we all dropped updates about the same time somehow. SCU synergy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanes Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 Spoiler 20 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Hello, I have a new hack recommendation. Sun God's Wrath has just been released. It's a hack with capture. Capture is awesome. Go play it. ...What, you want more? Well, it also has an absolutely bonkers class system, good difficulty, witches on brooms, revamped magic where every spell has some sort of special effect and every mage gets every magic type, leadership stars, move and con growths, an insanely fast-paced story, new monsters, evil Moulder... It's almost Kaga-like in how crazy it gets at times. But it's good crazy. I have heard about it. It's a weird one but also good? Huh. 20 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: It's a good time for FE hacking. So many good hacks being released. More to come, I hope. I hope so too, on that note I should get to work on mine too. It's very small in scope though. 20 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I'll be completely honest: I didn't even know what Belize was until you brought it up. Lol, I think they speak English? It was a former hold of the British Empire iirc, or nvm probably spanish. 20 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Hah, that's pretty funny... Wait, why did you think about putting "fat" in there? I'm not fat, and even if I were, me being fat has never come up! Where'd you get that? I vaguely remembered the drawn portrait in the TRS lp, it did look well more like a wide rectangle but my memory fuzzied out things I'm sure. 20 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Well, did you ever see them in person? They just demanded that the paintings portrayed them positively. I guess that does make sense. Doesn't explain why they did draw Charles the 2nd's huge Habsburg Jaw (which was a result of inbreeding) Spoiler 20 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: To be fair, my experience with college was also crap, but at least I didn't have to stand 6 years of that. Instead, I quit after 3 months. Good thing I finally found my place, because for a while I feared I'd have to take a shitty minimum wage job to justify my existence. Would you mind telling me what that place is? I suppose it's like a cool job. 20 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Eh!? But my cover...! Como te lo dije, Ruben IV de Aragon de Castilla, no se que eres espaniol..... aunque quisiera saberlo 20 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Erzhimmer. See? You got it wrong. I was right. GOD *PUNCHES WALL* FUCKING *PUNCHES TABLE HARDER* DAMMIT! I KNOW HOW TO WHY DID I MISS THAT STUPID EEEEE? E-r-z-h-e-i-m-e-r ... why did I make an absolute fool of myself... Spoiler 20 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I must say, though, it surprises me how completely out of the loop Serenes has been. Vincent released a statement really late into the ordeal, and I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere else in the forums. Heck, I even saw a couple of Mangs memes well after he admitted his guilt. Random threads aren't the place for this kinda discussion, but perhaps someone should make a thread about this in a different sub. I am surprised too at that. SF just kept shut about it until way later and it was essentially just saying what happened. And yeah about the memes, honestly I'll keep doing them even with what happened. Because that was some good content he made. 20 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: It's a fun game, I agree. I also heard in a YT video that Mario Kart DS is considered to be the best competitively and there's some fanmade servers online to keep the game's online features running. To me personally I never got my DS to connect to the internet, and I don't know why. 20 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Actually, there's a bracket system in this game. Basically, units can only deviate so much from their averages. Eventually, the game will force Enid to get magic. The absolute latest I'll be able to promote her (taking into account the statbooster I'm saving for her) is level 16, give or take one or two levels. That is a pretty good addition to have. 20 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Which one? Well obviously the one that got so worked up over being told they were lame. Oh hey and while I scrolled back to my replies to find what you replied 'Which one' to, I stumbled across my spelling of Erzheimer... AND I GOT IT RIGHT YOU FUCKING FAT ""HOLY"" BEARDED PAELLA LOVING SUBMISSIVE SISSY SON OF A BITCH BASTARD! 20 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I have to give it to DSFE: they actually made recover a useful staff. In pretty much every game up until then it was worthless because mend did the same thing 95% of the time. That is true, and even if Mend didn't top someone off, it would still put them out of danger and if not then that was just the healed unit being frail. 20 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Your tricks have deceived me once more... Holy-bearded bastard... and I am quite amused! Heheheheh... You know, quite amusing and all... except for that time you tampered the evidence to make me seem wrong! Erzheimer Erzheimer Erzheimer! scru yu! 20 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I yell cock because there are only so many swear words, and about a thousand things go wrong every update. Eventually I'm bound to run out of ugly words, no? I mean what why? 20 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Hah! Kinda. But... No, wait, rodeos are a Texan thing! I mean the thing with the bulls, and I've never heard or seen it in Texas. Nope it's a Spain thing though maybe I used the wrong word. 20 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: When I miss a popup I usually do the edit immediately so I don't forget. That's why they're so shitty. Well, that, and I think it's kinda funny. Otherwise, I play the whole mission, then write the updates over the next few days. Over the next few days? Holy crap this LP takes a long time. 20 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: How dare you not beat FE1. The timeless masterpiece! By the way, I love how halfway through the list the color code completely falls apart. I am planning on beating it some time. Well I'm colorblind! From a distance they seemed ok... I'm sure I clicked on the correct color box for each green (I had to press more colors because green isn't in the small list). I've updated it now and it should look good. 20 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: If this works, I'll laugh my ass off. I shall now proceed to find my ass so I may reattach it. C'mon, where'd you go... Lol. Derrick has it, he kicks ass. 21 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I LOVE THAT I'M SO TERRIBLE! YES! I'VE BEEN REWARDED FOR MY STUPIDITY! WOOHOO! Yay Magic! 21 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Hah! Well, guess I'll go looking for my ass again, then. Where do you even lose it? 21 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Why... He'll just Axel him a question, that's all! Bwahahahahah... Hey! FE1 LP reference! Yay! 21 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: But still. Power could've gone out in my house, something like that. I guess it's not a laptop you work on then? 21 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: I cannot believe what I see. Perceval let's go! To be fair, Perceval does look like a good unit, it just seems you've been woefully unlucky. 21 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Owen can have the knight. The others will take far too long to kill him. Call me mad, but lower accuracy be damned (and I mean, 76% is not too shabby), having the ability to nuke a knight for almost his entire health bar is pretty good utility that Izerna and Saphira do not have. Woah that's amazing damage! 21 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: PEEEEEEEEERCYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY damn... 21 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: However, he does have a distinct weakness to magic. Thunder magic, in particular. He cannot retaliate against it, and he has no defenses against it either. Is Magic also res in this game? And how do you know it's specifically only thunder magic? 21 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Beautiful as always. 21 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: Saphira does her thing. Hey look atleast she's growing that Light very quickly. 21 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said: If she gets the second point of magic she needs to promote right here, I'm going to be the happiest man alive. D'aww... well, you know what? You got one. I cannot complain about this. Not... not this time. Do not repeat this mistake, however, lest I be forced to insult you once more. Oh she only needs 2 points of magic to be leveled up? Huh interesting. Also you mocking my Erzheimer spelling probably is why you got such bad luck this map, as retribution for I mean. Eh who cares I forgvie you. Knowing you however while replying to this you are still tweaking all my Erzheimer's to Erzhimmer or some variation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrightBow Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 (edited) Spoiler On 7/20/2020 at 10:23 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Oh right, you hate Owen for... God knows what reason. I almost forgot. Still don't hate him, I'm afraid. If it seems like I pick on him, it's really more because of how defensive of him you are. On 7/20/2020 at 10:23 PM, Saint Rubenio said: You can build up light rank with the other orbs and actually heal people at the same time, as a bonus. Yeah. But Soothe is cheaper and exists in larger quantities, so it's good for all those paper cuts that crop up where using Heal would seem like a waste. On 7/20/2020 at 10:23 PM, Saint Rubenio said: What if I told you I don't give half a shit about the Harperia? Hmmm? How's that? Don't ask me. It's your run. You are the one who has to live with the lack of good weapons. On 7/20/2020 at 10:23 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Probably should have replaced Ellis with Perceval, since he is the one without memories. ...or maybe with Reese since he is the one without emotions. On 7/20/2020 at 10:23 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Best out of 5! Let's go! On 7/20/2020 at 10:23 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Oh, boy, these guys have caught up to us already... Also, it's turn 18. It kinda crept up on me, but we only get one more Owen heal before all we have is Saphira and her pathetic 8 HP bandaids. Might have been better not to kneecap all the healers who can operate after turn 20. On 7/20/2020 at 10:23 PM, Saint Rubenio said: I'd like to see Saphira or Izerna pulling this off. Starlight? On 7/20/2020 at 10:23 PM, Saint Rubenio said: ...huh. That's legitimately good. 4 more like this and you'll match Owen in... exactly one aspect. Only one aspect, eh? I suppose that means you consider turning red after turn 20 to be a plus. Edited July 21, 2020 by BrightBow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benice Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 Spoiler On 7/20/2020 at 1:23 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Hoo, boy. HAHA CZENE'S BEEN DEPLOYED IN TWO MAPS AND HAS BEEN CRIPPLED BOTH TIMES AND HAS ONLY BEEN HIT TWICE KAGA WHY DO YOU HATE ME On 7/20/2020 at 1:23 PM, Saint Rubenio said: This is hilarious. I can totally imagine her just... sort of dropping the spear on a rock and it shattering. "Instruction manual not included." On 7/20/2020 at 1:23 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Whoa, that's good! May you be determined enough to promote him, because I sure as hell won't. It's happening. Just like Czene having a secret lover in the Raxe empire. Seriously, I have no other explanation as to how she gets crippled so much. She was above 8 hp both times! On 7/20/2020 at 1:23 PM, Saint Rubenio said: That is very respectful of you. I respect your respectfulness. Respect the Florina. (But if I'm being honest my favorite waifu is Laura. Florina's just saved me in my HHM ironman so far.) On 7/20/2020 at 1:23 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Heck, he barely does anything beyond annoy Bianca! At least that's what Klamp thinks. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) On 7/20/2020 at 1:23 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Oh, absolutely. That prf alone makes Marcel so much better. Singlehandedly took down Gardy's horse! It only took him over one hundred turns! On 7/20/2020 at 1:23 PM, Saint Rubenio said: And what are you complaining about? You have it easy! Just set it up so she gets a level right after a turn save, and savescum the magic levels! I can't do that, not in good conscience! Hey now, the only think I will rig is captures of important enemies so that I can actually get character arcs! (Also, fun fact: The In pursuit of Thieves merc who talks about wanting to leave the bandits doesn't have a capture quote.) On 7/20/2020 at 1:23 PM, Saint Rubenio said: You know who got crippled and then murdered in my very first run? Axel. Feels bad man. I think Kaga designed the game to analyze which characters benefit from favoritism and those get killed rather than captured. On 7/20/2020 at 1:23 PM, Saint Rubenio said: I'm really not sure what causes enemies to kill cripples. From what I can tell, most enemies will kill if the unit in question attacked them-for example, the legendary cripple, Czene was killed rather than captured by Portrait guy. In general, that seems to happen, in fact. I saw that roughly ten times in Minas' chapter. ...And also enemies love killing healers, from what I can tell. Heck, Gardy could have killed Marcel with about 90-ish percent certainty, opening up the way to kill Aegina and Reese, but instead he went for Saphira who had, thanks to the miracle skill, roughly 70% chance of surviving. ...You have one guess as to what happened, but that's beside the point. On 7/20/2020 at 1:23 PM, Saint Rubenio said: More light points. She grows rather fast, I'll give you that. Having her as my only healer because Minas killed Izerna and the priest who recruited Owen dying the turn he was supposed to recruit Owen because of a bad roll for poison, I can firmly say that what keeps her from being good is her miserable light cap at 30 and her late promotion that is, from what I've heard, chapter 12, I think. She totally destroys that cap and can use higher level light magic pretty quick. Not sure what Owen's promotion/Light cap is like, but I can say that if you keep using Saphira on the side, she becomes pretty great. Plus the fact that I think she gets a horse and a broken prf upon promotion and she's avaliable after turn 20... Point is, she's a growth unit with great potential but a bad start, from what I've seen. On 7/20/2020 at 1:23 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Safety? Wait, what? Enemies just appeared right there, after the NPC left! The heck... "Look, there's a guy in a Berwick uniform running away from the camp. Should we get 'em?" "Why would we? We're supposed to execute the ones IN the camp, dummy." "Oh yeah..." On 7/20/2020 at 1:23 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Dallas is a rather vicious fighter, with powerful gear all around and protection against arrows. However, he does have a distinct weakness to magic. Thunder magic, in particular. He cannot retaliate against it, and he has no defenses against it either. Levin Sword Astra is almost a guaranteed ORKO. On 7/20/2020 at 1:23 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Art: "Satisfaction" On 7/20/2020 at 1:23 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Woman...? Hi Eliwood. On 7/20/2020 at 1:23 PM, Saint Rubenio said: I need to figure out a way to get rid of some 2000D for Elbert Buy art:Hope or something, I guess. Wait, nevermind, that's over 10k IIRC. Why is furniture so expensive? Jonathan's up to a bigger racket than Valery! On 7/20/2020 at 1:23 PM, Saint Rubenio said: Faye x 2 Anyways, great update, looking forwards to the next death one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golb89 Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 On 7/21/2020 at 7:20 AM, ranger016 said: Or spend them on food for those who don't need it like Ward or Reese. https://www.awkwardzombie.com/comic/hunger-pains Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punished Dayni Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 (edited) On 7/20/2020 at 10:19 PM, BrightBow said: But I don't think there is. I mean, it makes sense: It IS a POW camp. There would be a good chance for your guys to end up here. I'll be honest it's a bit weird to me. Seems like logically they wouldn't be brought to a camp that was being besieged. I mean, they'd have enough of a job dealing with the ones they have already and fighting the attackers, much less sorting out new prisoners. And even more so when this camp is taken by the enemy after the battle. Also Kaga being nice to the player like that doesn't sound right. Edited July 23, 2020 by Dayni Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.