Azure_Horizon posted:

This game is dull as watching grass grow, but I'm looking forward to the actual interesting story bits.

UmbreonMessiah posted:

Goddamn, why is it that Roland is such a dick? I just realized so much of the awful stuff that happens to Hugo would have been averted if he weren't such a dick.

yokaiy posted:

Unless I'm mistaken, the Clans were to all send separate messengers. They're all allied with each other, and technically part of the same nation, but they don't have a central government to speak of -- just Clan meetings where their leaders will all get together and chat. It's not too strange for them to all send their own, in that case. The game is a little vague about that, though.

What is, strange, however, is how only two Clans sent messengers. Unless the others happened off screen, that leaves the Duck Clan, Chisha Clan, Safir Clan, and Alma Kinan Clan unaccounted for. Well... the first three, anyway. Alma Kinan doesn't get involved in this stuff.

I think, also, there was some miscommunication on everyone's part. If Hugo had been a bit slower and met with Dupa on the way, or if he'd realized who he was talking to sooner to give the message to Chris instead of trekking all the way to Vinay (and Roland had been less of a dick, in that case), then he could have just been done as soon as he reached Brass Castle.

As it turned out, everyone's timing was a little off. Chris left Vinay too early for Hugo to talk to her there, Hugo realized who Chris was too late at Brass Castle to give her the message, and Dupa arrived at the castle too late, which then let him pass his message off to Chris instead of having to go to the Council. (Though I think the Lizards wouldn't mess with the Council anyway; he'd have tracked Chris down even if he had to do it in the capital.)

Poor planning on everyone's part?

_{Did that all make sense?}

Glazius posted:

"We're trapped behind enemy lines! What do we do?"

"Hmm... MURDER CIVILIANS."

That wasn't even like the dude's fallback plan, that was his first option.

UmbreonMessiah posted:

Getting a bit more focused on where the game is going...

I started with Geddoe when I first played Suikoden III. Actually, to be honest, I bought Suikoden III because I'd heard about how amazing Suikoden I and II were, but had never played them. So Geddoe wasn't just the first character I picked, but he was really my introduction into the Suikoden world.

I don't think I picked wrong

Vil posted:

These events, and this line in particular, stuck with me really well, even long after playing the game myself.

vilkacis posted:

For a while there I was going to agree with Cecile, but this has a certain appeal. No one's going to want to invade it with a name like this.


You are a terrible person.

vilkacis posted:

Raitzeno posted:

IIRC the way you achieve Nirvana (through the Eightfold Path) in the first place is repeated reincarnations, and the more evil you do in any given life, the further down the chain you get kicked; humans are fairly close to the top, though they're divided by castes, and cows are one of the final stages before just being done and chill forever. On the lower side of things, being an rear end in a top hat gets you reborn as poo poo like rats and snakes.

Yuber's taking the dudes that aren't going anywhere, celestially, for a while and putting them to work doing what they clearly like. (Maybe if you kill these new lifeforms before they have a chance to do evil, you're helping them out? Seems a little too involved for a throwaway reference.)

E: Other than having some tenuous connectino to Yuber we have approximately zero idea of what Permerga's Deal(TM) is.

E2: vvv I'm an idiot, and Buddha was a smart guy.

Rirse posted:

Team Geddoe needs to be his crew of Ace, Joker, Queen, Aila, and Jacques.