We made it safe and sound to Lindblum where Maybee wishes to see her uncle, the king, about her mother.



Unfortunately her uncle is now an oglop.



Steiner takes exception to this and punches Maybee's uncle in the face. WATCH THE STACHE! We're told that long ago Cid was cursed into an oglop and after the situation with the queen is explained (btw it was Cid who hired Baku to capture Maybee) we're invited to a feast. I decide to go out to the town to eat because smurf free food!



While there I bump into an old friend whose name is... Whose name is... Trout.



Oh, I have to type her name in before I can remember it. I guess I can keep her name the same as the EoFF user-- wait.

*Flashback*
Freya: Kansas sucks!

.........



Pettiest revenge in forum history.



After catching up with Fukari I decide to take a look around town.



You know what they say about spiky hair guys with big swords? After I'm done exploring I decide to return to the castle to check up on Maybee. Just one problem.



She's not there and Steiner is using this as another excuse to pin the blame on me. You know, rusty, there are other bandits and bad people in the world. I'm not responsible for everything that goes wrong. We part ways and begin looking for the princess. I hear some singing upstairs so I beat up a guard and take his armor to sneak up to the top floor to find Maybee.



Who isn't the least bit happy to see me. What did I do?

We talk about things, and stuff, and other things before looking through a telescope. I ask Maybee when she wants to take that ride on the airship only to remember I made that promise to another girl. I am now in the doghouse. But don't worry, being the clever rascal I am I somehow turn this conversation around and get Maybee to agree to a date if I win first prize in the Festival of the Hunt. I'm so good I scare myself.



btw Vivi I signed you up too because I thought you'd do good with your black magic, please don't hate me, bai!



Everything is going well until this big ugly butt here starts terrorizing the children! Who left their kids out here, anyway? Fukari comes to help, but I tell her to save the last punch for me since I have a date with Maybee on the line!

Fukari: What? You're ridiculous. Very well.

We take out the monster and I manage to get the very last strike. Time runs out on the clock and... and... and...!?



Suck on THAT, Gryffindor!



We return to the castle to celebrate.



The celebrations are cut short when a knight from Burmecia informs us that the city is being attacked by an army of Black Mages. He dies shortly after. I think it's safe to say the party is over.



Fukari decides she's going to go out ahead and I insist on helping. Vivi is also going to come because he wants to learn more about the Black Mages. Maybee wanted to come too because this has to do with her mother, but I think it's too dangerous for her. Cid agrees! Maybee is not the least bit happy about this, but I'm sure she'll come to see it my way.



Or not.