(As I said earlier, there are no screencaps for parts 1 and 2, but I definitely intend on bringing them for part 3)
After this scene, Berele returns to his Chocobo and we begin riding back in the direction we accidentally went in the first place. Suddenly Boco stops short, throwing Berele off. Rivka laughs.
Boco makes fun of Berele for a bit, and then we continue riding northwest until - the ground opens up under us! We jump! We are attacked by more goblins!After defeating the goblins, we continue riding forward, jumping over pits that open up below us, and Berele starts crying.Originally Posted by Rivka
The reason you don't remember that part is because I'm talking about the real Berele. I calm him down and return to the game (good thing this isn’t a video Let’s Play).
Then we find Lennaand Galuf, and offer to join them.
She definitely wouldn't be this enthusiastic if it were Galuf’s father we were saving.
And now we enter a cave! We begin exploring it, and are attacked by steel bats, white snakes, and other monsters.I'm starting to get worried about how enthusiastically she's saying this.
We come upon a pirate, and find a treasure chest with a leather cap inside. I ask Rivka which character she wants to give it to, which I will do for all new weapons (so long as the answer doesn’t entirely matter, like right now, before we have job classes). She gives it to Lenna. Of course.
We enter the pirates’ secret hideout.A pirate almost catches us,and Galuf and Lenna decide they want to steal the pirate ship. So we begin sneaking past the sleeping pirates-Yes. So we begin sneaking past the-Yes, Rivka, pirates. We begin heading towards the pirate ship.
But it won't move, and we get capturedby Faris and hispirates. There's a mention of Lenna’s medallion.
The scene reopens with all of our characters tied up in the hold. I point out to Rivka the wave-like noises being produced by the game, and remind her that she heard those noises when I last took her to the beach.She’s really becoming invested in the story here!
We are called up on deck and suddenly released. Faris has deci-Faris has decided to help us get to the Wind Shrine! Lenna asks how it’s possible the ship can move if there’s no wind, and Faris calls out for Syldra to reveal herself. The great beast’s head rears up out of the water and gives its cry, and Rivka is impressed. “Again!” she demands, and gets upset when I tell her I can’t replay the cutscene.
The pirate navigates for us to the Wind Shrine. When we get there, I ask Rivka where she wants to go (in case she prefers heading to a town first or whatever). But she points directly to the Wind Shrine, so in we go.
When we enter the Wind Shrine, we can see a staircase to the right, and people to the left. Rivka has not been raised on the universal laws of RPGs that say “Talk to everybody”, and says to go straight for the staircase. We climb the stairs, and Rivka guides us through the dungeon, until we reach the first save point.
What.
I ignore Rivka's demands not to save and do so over her continued protests (I'm certain she has no idea what saving is, but she wants nothing to do with it). We continue climbing the stairs.As we climb the stairs, we find a leather cap which Rivka gives to Berele, and then there's a little figure of a flying creature that I initially mistake for the Hiryuu and am thus surprised when it turns out to be a boss. We defeat the WingRaptor handily.
When we reach the next and I ask Rivka where to go, she points to a random corner in the room where there is nothing. I go there. There is still nothing. (The irony is that I've just discovered there's a secret passageway on that very floor - but in the exact opposite corner of the room.) Then she points back to the stairs we just came in by.
We go back down the stairs and go backwards through the dungeon. I save again at the save pointand Rivka takes us all the way to the entrance. Just before we have to choose between leaving the building and talking to the group of people to the left of the entrance, Rivka changes her mind and decides she wants to go back up the stairs. So in we go, past the save pointand all the way back until we finally reach the top floor, and enter the crystal's room. I remind Rivka that this is where we last saw King Tycoon.
Berele comments on the fact that the crystal shattered, and I remind Rivka that we saw it explode at the beginning of the game. And then, flashes of light! We see the other crystals! Starting with the fire crystal.
Then we see the water crystal.
Then the earth crystal.
And we finally get our first jobs! I open up the job screen for each character in turn and ask Rivka to choose who gets what jobs. She selects as follows:
Galuf: Blue Mage
Berele: White Mage
Faris: White Mage
Lenna: Blue Mage
Huh. That... probably isn't good.
Lenna points out that there's a warp portal to the outside of the building behind the altar, and I start heading there, but Rivka won't hear of it. She demands we take the stairs, and take the stairs we do - walking alllll the way down, floor after floor, until we reach the save pointand past the save point to the first floor.
When we reach the first floor, Rivka finally agrees to talk to people! We talk to three of the random people wandering around (and I give my characters some desperately-needed healing from the healing vessel they have with them), but NOT to the important-looking guy in the middle of the room. I'm sure that won't come back to bite us at all.
With all Rivka's intentions in the Wind Shrine complete for now, we head out the door, and I save again.
STAY TUNED FOR OUR NEXT EPISODE: I wish I had a clue what will be in it.
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