Let's Play the BEST GAME EVER!!! (FFIX)

[Pumpkin]

Okay so we have a big info dump this update. Pretty interesting stuff though

Honestly I kind of drag my feet around this part. It's my least favourite of Disc 1. The beginning does the stage setting and in Dali and the airship you really get to see your group binding and everything. After this part the story really starts to pick up. But Lindblum at first just kind of doesn't make me as excited about the rest and the Festival of the Hunt is always a source of stress for me.

BUT ANYWAY

Let's get some info, shall we?
(SPOILER)

Cid VIII was the regent before the current one. If you notice an image of the airship in my last update, it wasn't flying above the clouds but above very thick mist. That's why it's called the mist continent! So using it as a resource was something special.

Beginner tip: Head to the aircab area. It won't let you leave the castle yet, but you'll get an extra little scene!

Before going to see the regent, we meet an airman.

Uh oh, what's going on here?!

Zidane doesn't care though and just starts flirting with her instead.

PRIORITIES

She quickly makes her escape and we head to the elevator where Dagger heaps praise on to the regent.

So we head upstairs but something seems amiss.

In case you can't tell, the throne is a little on the small side.

Also the regent seems to be an oglop (those bug things we saw before).

Steiner doesn't take well to this and punches him across the room, which I'm pretty sure is grounds for beheading.

For some reason though, no beheading is done and we are told that this IS, in fact, Regent Cid. Steiner, being Steiner, does not believe it and thinks that the Princess is being mocked.

Vivi with the best commentary.

And Regent Cid is positively identified by his moustache, which leads to Steiner backing off a bit.

But why is the regent an oglop?!?! you might be asking. WELL they're about to explain that!

After remarking how crazy that is, Dagger tries to get to the point of why she came to Lindblum. Cid urges them all to rest first after their journey and have some lunch.

Zidane decides that the castle food is not up to his absurd standards and heads to a bar in town instead.

After exchanging some familiar words with the bartender, indicating that he regularly patrons this establishment, he starts flirting with a waitress.

Apparently Zidane is ovulating or something because his flirting has been excessive lately. This also annoys someone at the bar.

Dose racial slurs tho D:

Thems fightin words.

Turns out that Zidane and the woman are actually friends and he takes this time to tease her a bit.

You get the idea. Eventually he drops the act and we get to name our next playable character!!!

I didn't know her race was actually Burmecian. I mean I know that that's where she's from but I didn't know that's what they were called. Better then rat-people, I guess? What about the Cleyrans, are they also considered Burmecians even though they are also rat-people but live somewhere also? I dunno, Steam FFIX has raised more questions for me. The graphics are excellent though, I can actually see details now, which is super nice.

ANYWAYS, Zidane and Freya sit down for a chat.

Aw They share that it's been 3 years since Zidane and Freya last saw each other and Zidane asks what brings her to Lindblum.

Ugh that festival. UGH TIME LIMITS. UGH.

So Zidane offers her some words of encouragement regarding finding her boyfriend and asks if she's going to return to Burmecia.

Meanwhile at the castle, Dagger and the regent are discussing the happenings.

Dagger says she's worried her mother is up to no good and starting to make trouble in the neighbourhood, but when she tries to tell anyone, they just chalk it up to grief over losing her father.

But as it turns out, the theater ship was going to kidnap her.

Turns out the regent and Baku go way back.

He states that while he knew something sketch was going on, he couldn't act directly or it would start a war.

He assures her that he will help as her Uncle Cid.

After that, they head for the airship docks, which are very much empty.

That means they could go to places where there was no mist. Dagger asks if the ship was taken by the man who attacked him.

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(His wife is named Hilda)

And thus we get to hear the TRUE story of what exactly happened to Regent Cid and his airship.

Cid agrees that once the Hilda Garde 2 is up and running, they'll go speak to Queen Brahne.

The next day, Zidane and Vivi wake up at the Inn.

Zidane explains to Vivi that people come to Lindblum from all over the world to pursue careers in art and engineering. He also shares that he doesn't even remember when he first came to Lindblum.

He says he's going to go check out their HQ and invites Vivi along, who politely declines, saying he wants to go explore the city by himself.

Also Ruby gets in touch.

Stay tuned next time when we slaughter monsters that are released on the town for sport and points!