LET'S PLAY FINAL FANTASY IV

[Pumpkin]

Party: Cecil lv.12, Palom lv.17, Porom lv.17, Tellah lv. 23
Window Color: Yellow

So we head in the path towards Baron and arrive in the town to hear a bunch of people fussing about what a jerk the king has become. We head to the bar (of course) to find Yang associating with some Baron soldiers. We ask him what's up and he seems to have completely forgotten about Cecil, other than him being a traitor. So we fight the soldiers and then

Boss Fight: Yang

This fight was the toughest so far. Attack with Cecil, bluff and black magic with Palom, Cure/Cura with Porom, and Black Magic/White Magic with Tellah. After a while, he goes down.

After the fight, Yang seems to have regained his memory. He tells us he doesn't know what happened to Edward, and Rydia was swallowed by Leviathan. We sadface. Introductions are made. Yang joins us.

Yang joins party: Lv. 18.

He also conveniently has the Baron key on him. So we can unlock the weapons shop and spend ridiculous amounts of money. Then we can use the key to unlock the tunnel to the castle. So off we head and do some cave exploring and treasure gathering. We enter the castle and we do some more exploring and treasure gathering. Then we run into Baigan, who was the one who ratted me out at the beginning of the game. He pretends he is on our side until the twins call him out on his obvious lies, which leads to

Boss Fight: Baigen, Baigen's arms

So I first defeat the creepy arms while Palom bluffs a few times to get some strength up, using Tellah to cast Black Magic, Cecil and Yang to attack, and Porom to heal. Well the arms grow back, which is fine, because Palom got some good bluff time in. I then defeat Baigen's body and then his arms are somehow left floating there attacking me. I defeat one and the other one self destructed.

Then we head on our way to the throne room to encounter the king. But as it turns out, it isn't the king, but instead the water dude Cognazzo, who looks like a turtle. He apparently was imitating the King the whole time. Good times, good times.

Boss Fight: Cognazzo

Cognazzo is weak to Thunder (who would have guessed) He puts up a water thing and a few turns after that uses Tsunami, which attacks everyone (didn't make that mistake twice) and casting Thunder/Thundara/Thundaga neutralizes it, so you don't have to worry about it. He spent most of his time attacking Yang, which is fine because Yang has the HP for it. Then it was the regular, Bluff with Palom, Thuder/Thundara with Tellah, heal with Porom, attack with Cecil and Yang. After 4 or 5 bluffs with Palom, he did ~3000 damage, and that was the end of the fight.

With him defeated, Cid bursts in and fusses at me. He and Tellah get into an old man argument, and introductions are made. He tells us he will bring us to his airship and help rescue Rosa.

There is another Meanwhile moment somewhere in here where Kain tells Golbez to make Cecil get the Earth Crystal for them, because apparently it is proving difficult. Kain gos to bargain with Cecil and tells Rosa that one day she will see that he is superior to Cecil.

So we go to leave but Cognazzo has another trick up his sleeve. The doors lock and the walls start coming in, about to crush us. Then, in an act of complete braotterly, the children Palom and Porom, turn themselves to stone to stop the walls from caving in. Tellah tries to Esuna them but fails. He calls them fools, saying he's the old man, he otter have been the one to do it. I nearly cry. They were my favorites . We promise to avenge them and go on our ways.

Cid takes us to a secret area and we find his airship, the Enterprise. We leave the castle and are greeted by one of the Red Wings ships, and Kain. He tells Cecil that he will exchange Rosa for the Earth Crystal. Cecil decides to comply, so off we head to the Northwest (apparently) to get the Earth Crystal, with a hole in our hearts.

RIP Palom and Porom