Saint Rubenio

HAH! Yes! I am a badaaass! Don't party just yet. Lord Roy may have forgiven your mistakes, but I have not. I'll find the chance to get rid of you yet. Yes, yes, you just keep on thinking that, okay, old-timer? Rrgh... How can you be so nonchalant about Sir Bors' death, Ruben? I am not. Can't I, however, be happy for getting to keep my job? I suppose you are right, but... Hahah! Screw you two, oldies! I am winner! ... ...seriously, Wrys, why do you count such a cretin among your friends? He's shown me what he's truly capable of. Those stories of him winning wars and saving the world? They are not entirely false... ... ...they are just half truths... ... ...well, quarter truths... ... ...ahem... Part 4 - The law of Laus says to kidnap nobles at least once a year.

Well, taking a quick look at her averages tells me that you've gotten a severely HP screwed Lilina. She does have above average speed and skill, and the rest of her stats are more or less on their averages, but really, that HP kills her. It's likely that she'll be 1-shot quite often, and her speed is far too low to compensate for that. Give her an angelic robe, or use her as a backup healer, keeping her far away from the frontlines. That would be my advice.

... Is something the matter, Marcus? You seem rather distressed... I have a good feeling about today. ...I don't like it. I always have bad feelings about everything. Well, I think I'd best do well so this day can live up to your expectations! ... ... I've never liked you. Not since you arrived at Pherae and Lord Eliwood decided to give you shelter from the rain. And how you managed to beguile him into letting you stay at the castle... only a slimy blackheart would've taken advantage of a sick person's kindness like that. I doubt you even are a tactician at all. And one of these days, I will be proven correct. What? How dare you! What makes you think so? So far, our battles have been easy. And yet, you've managed to make a few grave errors already. Errors that could've costed good knights their lives. One of these days, it'll happen. ... Frankly, the only reason I haven't thrown you out yet is old Wrys. The man seems determined to follow you around, and I would hate to force him to wander aimlessly again. I don't understand what a good man like him sees in a scoundrel like you, Ruben. Maybe I am better than you give me credit for... I highly doubt it. Oh, there you are! Lord Roy would like to see both of you, post-haste! Has something happened? It is a bit too much of a long story for my old bones to endure without sitting, and I am afraid we have no time to waste lying around. Let us go, then. Part 3 - The extremely drawn out death of a Knight. One little detail I have to mention about the update: it is exceedingly long. I advise reading in various sessions so as not to remain five hours in a row looking at a screen. The next update will not come out in a couple days anyway.

Nice! I wasn't expecting it so early. Wha-- How?! I don't have such luck! I'd forgotten the guy's name. Eh, all things considered, he did well. He could've missed and taken even more damage. You should be grateful to the RNGoddess for this display of late mercy. Not just ROMhacks, remember how Knoll had 0 luck? Hahahah. Schadenfreude. So good. It's usually enough in the GBA games, which makes restore staves quite useless for the most part. Well, he did take out half her lifebar... but then again, this is Sandra we're speaking of.

Come now, you needn't be so mean to Wrys... What is it, Ruben? Why are you flustered so? Here, take a look. ... Ho ho ho! Looks like I'm causing sensation! But we spent years at sea! It's only normal you would grow old... er... they don't have to be such assholes! Then again, they don't know about that... It matters not, Ruben. I am not angry. I know I am not exactly a dashing young man. You, on the other hand, seem to have grown younger after our long journey! Heh, I suppose so... I do wonder though, who sent these letters to you? We have only been at Pherae for a few months, and with all the tension with Bern, we haven't been able to make many friends... Well, you see-- You there! Would you stop lazing around? We are going to rendezvous with the mercenaries, and Lord Roy wants them to meet his tactician as well! Okay, okay, I'm coming... hungh, what a hassle... MOVE IT ALREADY! I'M MOVING! LET ME STAND UP FROM MY CHAIR! OR WOULD YOU RATHER I CARRY IT ON MY ASS ALL THE WAY TO ROY?! Chair or no, if you don't hurry up... I CAN STILL USE A SILVER LANCE! YOU'D DO WELL NOT TO FORGET THAT! Heh heh! I'm looking forward to meeting these mercenaries... ohh, this all reminds me of when I was in Lord Marth's army, and Ogma and his group... Part 2 - I'm already sick of thrones, and we haven't seen any yet!

Hey, safety first, right? You take your time. Well, that does look like the cave Armads rested in. Which... was located at the western isles. Yeah, that does not work. I don't know, all I remember about this chapter from when I played this game is, we killed a random throwaway boss and we left. The next ones are definitely more interesting, if I recall correctly. I used her in my second run, which I didn't really finish, and she wasn't that bad. Weak, but that's to be expected from a Pegasus Knight. He's useful! I'm dumbstruck... Ah, okay, that's more like the Vince I knew and abhorred. It's never happened prior to now, right? Good on you, mounted healer! Not to mention, I really doubt one soldier, WTA or not, would've killed a 21 HP Thief that most certainly doubles him. Nope, I see no mistakes here. Moving right on. This... honestly looks pretty damn bad. Good luck with everything, and I hope to see the next update soon! As well as Flomi's survival, hopefully.

Part 1 - The beginning of something not very good. Probably.

So, remember the time I said I wouldn't do another LP any time soon because I was busy? Yeah. I lied. "And the fabled tactician who almost destroyed the universe, right after sending half of his army to their deaths". Although, I definitely hope things don't go so badly this time around. Remember me? I played FE12 and it was horrible! It almost feels like it was only last week. Now I'm here to bring forth another work of locomotive malfunction and consequent derailment. I initially considered playing normal mode. Then I thought of playing normal but increasing the enemy growths a little, so it would be like a "not so hard" mode. Then I thought "fuck it, the only good thing of my last LP was me failing". Hard mode it is! If we make it past chapter 7, I'll be satisfied. Ruben, didn't you say you wouldn't have time for this? The thing about FE12 was that it had a number of factors that made it rather tedious to LP. The two screens forced me to go through long, dragged out sessions of cropping, the character sprites going dark when not actively talking made editing harder than it needed to be, and the lack of assets for FE12 on the internet and highly detailed sprites forced me to cut corners weirdly when editing. FE6 does not have any of these issues, which should make things easier for me. Does that mean we'll get an actual schedule this time? I intend to at least update every 3 days. Not as rushed as the main campaign, but not as hilariously slow as the chronicles. Will we get another terrible, self-insert fanfic? Can't you see the tag? I didn't read the last LP! What's all this talk about destroying the universe? Should I call 911? Go ahead and read it! It's right there in my signature, along with a reader's recommendation. Eh? Eh? If you cannot be arsed, well, it's not that important. I plan to introduce some continuity, but it should be quite obvious to anybody with two eyes and a functional brain. Will we get a saying on anything that goes on in the LP? Routes, units, anything? No. Hahahah, okay okay, I mean, I'll try to play all routes in different save files. I'll probably do what I want for the most part, but feel free to suggest units or things to do. Just... not Rutger please... we've been over that. I think. So, that's it? Good. Then, without any further ado... It is time to wait a few days until I get around to writing down the update! Until then, I fare you all well.

I have finally beaten your game. It was one hell of a ride! I'll go over a few topics in detail now. I'll be complaining about some things, so please bear in mind, I loved the hack, and when I criticize something, I'm only doing it with the best of intentions. Also, for those who haven't played the game yet, expect spoilers in this "review" of sorts.

As a matter of fact, it does. I just hate how besast was looks so... wrong, in comparison to Energoin, while they're both great on their own. It is not right! What is your opinion on heights? Do they scare you? Or do you instead enjoy skydiving?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH A door? What is a door doing in this hellhole? Well, it isn't as if I have anything to lose... C'mon... almost... there... rrgh! Got--- GAAAH?! Part 5̬̲̺̼ͬ͒͂ͧͮ́1̐ͯ͑́ - The grand finale. You know the drill, battle music yada yada... God, I love this theme. And so, our tale draws to a close... And that was it! The LP is, at last, really over. It feels almost nostalgic. I'd like to thank everybody who's been with me during this trainwreck. In particular, KnightofNohr, Franp (I just noticed you quoted me in your signature. When did you do that? In any case, I am honored), Dayni and everyone else who's posted on the thread. You guys made this a great experience for me. Feel free to tell me anything you feel could be improved in a potential future LP. I wouldn't want the next thing to suck as much ass as this one. I can't think of much else to say now, so... I fare you all well until the next time we meet. And I sure do hope that I don't kill half the cast or the universe then.

Granted. Your free Oyster Card should be delivered to you shortly. I do hope you live in London. I wish I had never wished for this:

Your wish has been granted: I hereby give you this ticket for "Wilderness", the 2006 movie. It's rated as high as 25% on rotten tomatoes. Enjoy! I wish I weren't such a terrible FE player.

What do you mean, you can't use staves?! But I thought you used a warp staff to escape Archanea! Twice! That was just dumb luck! All I did was wave the staff around, pretending to write my home address on the air! Well, maybe that is how you use a staff... you made it back home both times, did you not? Actually, the first time I don't even know where I landed. It wasn't my room, that's for sure. It just so happened to be yet another videogame nerd's room. There was some weirdo behind the couch, but other than that, I could at least play some games before Rody dragged my ass back. I guess the second time was just pure dumb luck. Great. That's... great news. While I figure out how to use this thing... there is one thing I would like to know. Yes? Before you... left... you were telling the chump and I how you ended up working for Marth... could you finish the story? ... It happened a long time ago, when I was a knight for my old kingdom. There was a rebellion and my liege ordered me to suppress it. But what I met was no army... They were poor peasants, unable to survive the harsh winter due to the poor harvest. They didn't intend to fight. But, in order to survive... they had no choice but to make themselves heard. My liege understood that and ordered me to slay them to set an example. And I... followed that order. !! That's... I used to think absolute loyalty to one's liege was a knight's most important duty. But, I was mistaken. So, I left my liege and spent a long time wandering... You didn't have much of a choice, did you? So why blame yourself? I... can't forgive myself. "I was just following orders... It wasn't my fault..." I could tell myself that endlessly, but deep inside I'd never be convinced. And it would not erase my sins. I can't forgive myself more than anyone. ... A liege I could swear loyalty to from the bottom of my heart... I searched far and wide for such a liege and finally I found him. Prince Marth is my liege. As long as I fight for him, I can be a true knight. I see... A knight isn't a puppet that blindly follows orders. That is not loyalty. To fight for a cause I believe in, under a liege I believe in. That is what it means to be a knight. ...that was beautiful... O-oh! It's reacting! I can see that! Are you sure it's going to get us back? I-I have no idea! I forgot to wave it around! It just started to glow for no reason! What!? Be c-- DAAAAAAMN IT AAAAAAAAAAAAALL!!! Part 50 - Time-space mayhem A couple of things. Yes, I did forget to give the last update a title. Screw me, unnnh... Also, that dialogue with Arran was copy-pasted directly from his base conversation. I figured, since I'm utterly desecrating his character, I might as well use this as a second chance to show off his amazing supports. Go and read the real thing on serenes, I had to remove a couple lines for continuity's sake. Archanea's cast may not be as well fleshed out as those of the other games in the series, but in my humble opinion, Arran is one of the best, if not the best, "loyal knight" kind of characters in Fire Emblem, and definitely one of the highlights of FE12's base conversations. He's so great, even him dying before the end of the game concludes his story in a satisfactory way. And they just couldn't let this end well, right? They just had to fuck it up. Because it's fair that ctr+z works two times just fine, enough for me to forget about the chance of it erasing half the update (why that's a thing is beyond me) but then BOOM, right at the end, half an hour worth of work is gone and THAT, of course, cannot be undone. Can somebody bring a glass to me so I can break it?

Urk... my face... Think positively, my friend! At least this time we were not separated! It's easy for you to say it, considering you and Arran fell on that river overthere... I almost drowned with all the heavy armor. Right, but does your face hurt? It does not, am I right? sigh in any case, where are we? Hmm... Ah! Quickly! Find a place to hide! What's wrong? Look there! What? Who's that? Bad news, I'm afraid... Stop arguing and follow me into that forest! We should be safe there! Urk... and here I thought I was the most fortunate man in the world... then again, I am supposed to be dead...

Has anybody found anything yet? Nothing just yet. No luck... and this place is huge! No wonder everyone always speaks so highly of Khadein... so many useless magical trinkets and artifacts! At this rate, we'll be here all day, and we don't have all day! Hm, perhaps this oddly shaped box... YAAAH! What sort of bad joke is that?! This thing almost shaved my nose off! Hush... I think I have found something we could use. Excellent! What is it? A warp staff. There's a whole bunch of them here. Whoa... an efficient player's dream... let's just borrow one, shall w-- Hold on, are they supposed to glow like this...? Yow! It's a trap! The staves were set up to all trigger at once if unwelcomed hands tried to steal them! What is going on!? AAARGH! NOT AGAIN! UUUAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRGHHHH!!! To be continued Imgur has been acting up again. I tried to upload the images twice last week, and another two times this week, and every time, Imgur went ape-shit and jumbled all the pictures without any rhyme or reason. The good news is, I've finally been able to get it to work, so this weekend I'll be able to push the update. I could've just waited 'til then, but I didn't want to leave you guys hanging for two weeks. So here, have this tiny interlude. I apologize.

W This is a horrible plan! It will never work! Come now, Ruben. Have some faith in me. Tend to the child while I'm away, will you? But we have no idea how to-- Speak for yourself. I have some basic knowledge on how to mend wounds. I should be able to keep him breathing until you return, Wrys. Excellent. In that case, I shall be off before they notice his absence. Good luck. Hold on! Merric's going to freeze to death without his oversized garb! Just cover him with my own clothes, they're quite warm! Cough! Cough cough... haaack... sniff! A-arran! Not now, of all times... Fret not, for it's no more than this accursed sand. It got in my nostrils somehow, ugh. Please, did you really think we would have brought him back just for him to perish to his sickness shortly after? The Aum's wondrous power cured his disease perfectly. ...but he's got blood pouring out of his mouth and nose... Oh, so that's still there? I haven't had any time to wipe my face clean, and I'm afraid hygiene was not on top of my list of priorities after coming back to the world of the living to begin with. Oh! The others are heading into the castle! I must hurry. Please, Ruben, help me lead these people. ...sure, I'll try. You take care of Merric. Of c--cooough haaack! Wretched sand...! This wasn't supposed to happen again! Part 48 - The good sorcerer. Ha ha ha ha Ja ja ja ja Huehuehuehue Also, pretend* Ahhhh, revenge is a dish best served cold! BWAHAHAHAH! Also, KnightofNohr, this is the kind of thing you're supossed to prevent! Seriously now, i am really honored that you quoted me in your sig. That's two people that have quoted crap you said in this thread in their signatures. How interesting. I can think of a couple people off the top of my head. I mean, the map zooms in on the reinforcements when they show up. Kinda hard not to see them. Then again... I was told the genderless pronoun can also be used with animals! Ha! Take that, Nyna! Fuckin' Nyna, she's even more hateable than Est! Ruben, you've been grinding your teeth for the last month or so. That can't be good for you. Meh, after the first week I got used to it. Please don't. It's way more entertaining like this. Well... okay, I suppose? PS: Yay, convoluted time travel shenanigans! My favorites! Everybody seems to be happy with this turn of events. I wonder just how badly will I let you all down when the time comes... PPS: NO WAY IN pluscuamperfect HELL AM I READING THE ENDING OF THE CHRONICLE. I refuse to put myself through more of Nyna's iconoclastics. Meh. You tried. But I can understand. Neither have I nor would I have done it, either.

Lugh. It just strikes me as obvious for some reason.

...very well. Tonight, we will set our plan into motion. Does that sound right? ... ...yes, that sounds good enough. I'm sure this'll convince those two to help me kill Etzel and Athena. Sadly, I doubt our strength alone will suffice. Besides-- ACK! Don't startle me like that! For how long have you been eavesdropping on me talking to myself?! My apologies. I simply heard my name and thought you'd called me. Do not worry. I have the key to getting out of this little predicament of yours. Tell me! Just do as they say. It doesn't look so hard! It's hard as hell! Are you kidding me?! He's right, though. And besides, we have neither the strength nor the will to battle one who has lost his child, and the only one bold enough to have dared to approach him in such sorrowful times. So you're leaving me behind, is that it? Not exactly, we're just giving you another chance at redemption you'd have lost had we helped you with your twisted plans. Of course. Just when I thought I had found some allies. But of coooourse you won't help me murder two people in order to save my own skin and get away with my crimes! Very well then! I shall try, and when I fail and die, it'll be your fault! YOUR FAULT! Hey Etzel! C'mere! Warp me away! Let's finish this! Why, you-- you are in no position to talk to me so rudely! Athena... Heheh, finally! It's been two hours since the last time... ...I fear for the future. Something foul shall soon befall. Let us go after him. I, personally, wouldn't want to see either of them dying so soon after the war. Part 47 - Fuck the Chronicles. Man, I never thought writing lame self-insert fanfiction would be so much fun. It's the best part of the whole thing for me! I doubt you guys like it as much as I do, but eehhh...

... Psst! Hey! ...who is it? It is I, the murderous tactician! Oh, good night! Forgive and forget is the golden principle of life. Please, feel free to come out of the dark. Of course... ...what? It was not a trap? Why would it be? A-anyway, I need your help. Is there any way to repair an aum staff? I... am deeply sorry for what I did... and I want to bring him back. That will be my atonement. Maybe after Pretzel is back I'll be able to forgive myself! You also fear Etzel. No, I-- Don't worry about it. Well, the hammerne staff can repair it, although it is more difficult than usual due to the Aum staff's awesome power, which is why most mages cannot use it while war clouds their minds. Good to know, good to know. Well, the war is over. Thanks to me, I might add. Sadly, our hammerne staff is broken. What?! How!? We used it to revive a few of our fallen soldiers. There you are, Father Wrys! It truly is wonderful to be alive again! I don't think I have thanked you yet-- ... M-my! Arran, I'm delighted to see you alive once again... You sent me to my death. ...please don't call Etzel... But you did defeat Medeus. For that, I thank you. You need not tremble in fear. T-too late for that, I-I'm afraid... I am aware of your situation. While I do not condone of your rather extreme way of taking care of the problem... that boy was not a good influence to Prince Marth. And Etzel has obviously been driven insane by his grief. I am willing to aid you. Likewise. As I said, forgive and forget. And you did say you wish to fix what you did! Thank you, truly. Very well, then-- No! Not now... GUAAAAAGH! So you thought you could escape, did you? It's too bad that I still have the rescue staff, right? Athena... With pleasure. I was not trying to escape! Where could I have gone, huh? If I wanted to escape, I would've gone for the warp staff! Ve don't care. Take this! FIRE! UNNNHHH! Gah... You are improving, Athena. I'm glad. And now, back to work. ...that staff has to go... I need to see Wrys again... Part 46 - Redundancy. To be entirely honest, this update sucks ass and you should skip it, but please refrain from doing so. Reading replies is the best part of this whole LPing schtick. I screwed up and wrote almost the entire update out of the spoiler box. I don't really care, though, it emphasizes the update's crap factor. Enjoy! Jeez, I'm a slow learner, aren't I? What was I thinking, over two weeks ago when I played this? You are too late, Ruben! Your screenshot is ruined! I vent out my frustration by sending Belf to murder this upstanding citizen. His efforts are rewarded with a ridersbane. The next enemy phase went rather well. Well, for Leiden and Belf, that is. Robert, though... (Yes, I did just poorly copy-paste his death edit from the main game, why?) Again. Nice! That's about the best level-up he could've gotten. Come now, past me! Why haven't you pinned down the correct strategy yet?! Are you braindead!?! Well, if present me's IQ is any indication... Two dodges and two crits in a row! Absolutely marvelous! Setting things up. Camus is also heading back north, at last. This is going well. Too well, almost. This is what Camus' fights look like. He's inmensely powerful. And he's getting better. Defense and HP are probably the best stats Camus can get. He has enough offensive stats to murder everything with his silvers: all he needs is the ability to survive it all. He dodged this one, but he would've been in trouble had he not. That's why I like giving him the robe and dragonshield. More Sabre Knights combat. It doesn't go quite as epicly as last time, but it's okay. Also, I think I missed something, because I don't think that's how Robert's hair looks like. And then I do a hilariously retarded move. You see, at this point in time, I still had no idea the Gradivus could be used to heal oneself. Yeah. It took me 3 main game runs and 4-5 attempts at the Beginning chronicle to notice possesing the Gradivus made the "use" command pop up in the menu. Well, we've at least confirmed the whole matter of my brain's deathness. Past me promptly proceeded to murder this man in another hilariously dumb decision. He would come to regret it in three... twoonenoooooooooooooooo...w? Okay, two still. ...one point five? Ah, forget the countdown. This level is useless, Robert! You needn't anymore speed. Oh, amazing! The brigands are down! If only I wasn't such an idiot... the Cavaliers are upon us because of my failure to leave Camus behind. Oh, look everybody! I finally noticed Gradivus' healing power! Joy. Okay, they should't be able to hit Nyna where she stands (behind Camus and Leiden, just so you know). Of course. And she got doubled, too. It was too much to ask, wasn't it? It was too much to ask that you dodged a 75% to save your life, wasn't it, you empty-headed bashi-bazouk?! Urk... you know how this LP has made me grow fond of characters such as Matthis, Frost, Athena, etc.? Well, it's also led me to hate Nyna's guys. She's just so useless and stupid! Understandably at times (I may have whined at the time, but I do understand that leaving your father behind to die a gruesome death would be a pretty harsh thing to be forced to do, especially without any time at all to prepare for it), but then there's stuff like this chronicle's opening that is, quite bluntly, unforgivable. And then there's the fact that she's a walking event flag in these damned bonus chapters! Learn to ride a horse, you whore...se! Huhuhuh coughcoughcough. Again, again, again! Leiden speeds up once more, which is what he needs the most, even though I would appreciate some defense and strength. I don't feel like cropping this screenshot. See that title? Yeah. This could almost be considered a dance, if you employed some imagination. Man, I'm now picturing myself riding a horse inside one of those claustrophobia-inducing discos that teenagers like me love so much doing that shit while listening to this. If only... I wouldn't abhor those places so much if I could do that without being thrown out and laughed at. Enough of that, it's time to keep on slaughtering peopl-- CAMUS IS DOWN THERE AGAIN? PAST MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! Some more coordinated dancing later, people don't die because the Sabre Knights have low stats to balance out their incredibly OP jackets. Camus also wastes time. Urgh... Then Robert failed miserably to do what I wanted him to do, which was to kill that guy. C'mon! I especifically positioned you so that you would retaliate and kill him! We're going to lose again, but here you can see why giving Camus the ridersbane isn't that useful. I suppose giving him the energy drop would work, but even then I'd have to pray the Paladins didn't spawn with one more point of defense or HP. It's not too reliable. It, again, is too much to ask that you dodge, isn't it? By the way, now that I'm seeing her statsheet again, I realise she actually does have a metric fuckton of luck. Huh. She's so bad at dodging, I'd thought she didn't have any. Anyhow, I didn't even wait for somebody to kill Nyna and resetted inmediately. Déjà vu, anyone? Oh, my! Can it be? I cannot see Camus anywhere! Maybe I finally figured out the strategy! Yeah, I did! Astounding! This here is "the stabbin' ". I'm pretty sure this is a dance people actually do at the disco. And here we witness Leiden's horse getting scared by a spider that's on the floor. No, I'm not running out of ideas, where did you get that idea? These shots of Robert shooting at ruffians are the hardest to comment. There's nothing to say about this! Maybe... the health counter is lying to us! Look, it's empty, but it says 1! I CALL BULLSHIT ON THE INTERFACE! Camus.jpg 95% HP growth. Every other stat not called resistance or magic at 50% or higher. And he gets NOTHING. Curse my luck, I swear to God... how many of these have I gotten? Often times, people go entire runs without ever seeing one of these, save for Jeigans and the like. I've seen, what, four? And this is FE12: Everyone Has Amazing Growths. Unnnhhh... Okay, good. At least he lived. I'm so sorry for the lack of cropping. Oh my God, that Bandit is using the dark-- No, wait, I've already used this. Although, I also have used every single joke because I am very one-note. But hold just a second, maybe I am not as one-note as my severe lack of self-esteem makes me believe. In any case, let's contemplate another non-cropped screencap that reveals Leiden didn't get any levels this time around. As well as Robert using his bow to shield his upper waist. For once, Belf did a better job at dodging and killing than Leiden. Good work, Vergil. And then Leiden dies because the world hates me. I just don't know how to react anymore. I'm afraid I exhausted all my reaction points back in chapter 23. I think I'm going to add a reset counter for this chronicle alone. Jeez. More of this. See the title? Yeah. Fret not, however, we will beat the chapter eventually. More miscelaneous fighting. I think I'm just going to skip all the boring crap I have stored in the Imgur album. Level. Relevant. This, too, is relevant. Speedwing... Fighting... Dancin'! Failing miserably... Nyna surviving a round of combat! Now that's a rare occurence if there ever was one. Stats. These are all great. One more point of speed and I believe he'll double Bulzark. Also, I finally noticed the village. Stats, strats and suckass. Trats. It also seems like the silver lance ran out of uses. Will I remember to equip the sword and save the Gradivus for heals? Mirrored worlds. To answer the question I posed two paragraphs ago: of course I forgot to equip the sword! But at least Camus one-shots these two fools. All things considered, that wasn't so bad. The Horseman sword animations are so weird. What's going on? Is Robert dabbing? Now I'm not so sad he died in the main game... Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand there we go, the mistake that would screw everything up. But not all is lost. She does have 17 luck! She might dodge yet! NOOOOOOOOO BELF STOP WASTING MY LUCK AWAY WITH UNNECESSARY CRITICAL HITS! Well. Luck be with us... This also happened, but at this point, if Nyna lived, I would've just kept on going. Screw the village, this chapter has enough things to be worried about as it is. Of course, that's a pretty big "if", considering this is Nyna we're talking about. I can't really summon any sort of emotion now, two weeks later, looking at all this misery, but if you can't tell by the particularly gruesome death edit, I was really, REALLY mad at the time. And that's it. Remember when I said we would beat the chronicle eventually? "Eventually" is not today. I'm sorry for wasting your time, everyone. I promise the next update will be better. Reset count: 18 (Pretzel: 7 - Marth: 4 - Chronicles: 7 - Fucking Nyna (her negative influence is to blame for every other death in the Beginning chronicle): 6) Death count: Linde Samto Navarre Arran Norne Roger Cain Wrys* Frey Cecille Abel Etzel Sedgar Wolf Robert Dice Matthis** Yumina** Ymir PRETZEL *Retreated. **Honorably discharged.

LAST TIME... When did Athena learn to use magic?! Ve vere taught by good friend Etzel. Now ve can hurt you from far. Etzel, why would you do such a thing? You still need me! Really? Well, then. Tell me. How fares your quest thus far? Have you finished that Thief's little story? ...let's say, hypothetically speaking, that I have not. I mean, he's not relevant to this continent's history at all. Just how badly could leaving him behind to die impact life as we know it...? How am I supposed to know? I see... Well, I'm off. The past isn't going to right itself, right? Heh... HAH! Stupid manchild stopped my lightning with his sword! You've much to learn. This is how you do it... Don't you DAREE! Part 45 - I underestimated this chapter's plot. Well, at least somebody enjoyed it. Just kidding, I loved making those.

The guy whose LP introduced me to this game is now watching me play this game. We've gone full circle, have we not? Or, well, more like a... uh... sort of a half-circle...? Either way, I am glad to see you of all people reading my LP. I should've given up on Pretzel being a Mage, just as you gave up on Steve... Just a heads up to y'all, I haven't died. Last week I just sort of... forgot to upload my pictures to imgur. All's well this time though, so be prepared, for this saturday at the latest you will see the first normal update in ages. Maybe two, even, I've enough material for it... although it does get quite redundant around the end. Make of that what you will. Stupid chronicles...

Look at her with my own avatar's reassuring facial expression.

Very well! It's been a tiresome week, but I'm finally home. Isn't that great, Etzel? I'm finally going to be able to continue with our quest! Go on, hurry up. I've places to go. Oh, really? Where? That is none of your bussiness. Heh heh heh heeeh... I bet I know-- !!! ...what? You look pale all of sudden. N... I... it's... ...nothing, nothing! It's all fine! I can do the update, it's totally not ruined at all! Really, now? Then what is the problem? Why aren't you on your way already? B-because, you're supposed to warp me!! To the past! Don't be silly, you know we already did that. All that is left is that you go to that tent over there so you can write up your report. You've already been at the past. It's time for the report. Okay, mr. tutorials. Warp me over to the tent. Can't you walk there yourself? I'm already late. Then by all means, be on your way! ... :) ...what...? "Smileyface"? Is that some sort of arcane spell from your homeland? Be wary, if you try anything fishy, I will unleash the Starlight upon you. ...just gooooo... ...I want that report tonight. Or else, you will face the might of the Starlight. ... WITH (ONE OF) MY LAST BREATH(s), I CURSE IMGUUUUUUUUUUUUUUR! Part 44 - Utter misery.