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Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
The obligatory Tales revelation that someone's loving with the spirits seems to have come out weirdly early.

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Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Somehow it really amuses me that Milla calls the foundational energies of the world a bunch of bickering in-laws. It's like meeting someone on a first-name basis with, like, gravity, and who calls it a total drama queen or something.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
I do like how Maxwell has somehow completely understood the way of the sword in a single afternoon.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Ah, it's not a proper RPG party until a grade-schooler is involved somehow.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Huh. She actually got out of joining our party for a decent while, there.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Welcome back to LPing. It's absolutely hilarious that the butler talked all those guards into walking into a trap.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Oh brilliant, they've already got it man-portable. You don't even need an evil lab to destroy the entire planet forever! NOW how much would you pay?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
It's odd how everyone thinks Jude's concern for the people he travels with is somehow weird and inexplicable.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Public assassinations. Wow, they must be really confident in their ability to seize control and suppress rebellion.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
I wonder if she's expecting to reincarnate?

That aside, it's a pretty amazing move to try to take someone else with your own explosive collar or collar-equivalent.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
This makes me wonder how many incarnations of Maxwell are holed up in some kind of Nethack graveyard, because they went on a mission and didn't stop for anything and died of gangrene.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
I do like that justification for having her around for the boss fight, at least. Can't wait to see how this goes over with the folks at home, though.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Good f'ing lord, is the entire world conspiring to destroy itself?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Oh hey, they made even more advances in man-portable spirit murder than I thought! That's... a tribute to human ingenuity.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Yes, everyone wants the nuclear launch codes and they're not taking no for an answer. Because what do they care what happens to the land or people, they're the kings!

It's a horribly unfortunate ethical calculus, but at least (?) it's consistent.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Oh, they've got a dragon on interdiction. Air power is enough of a threat in this setting to do that?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Yes, yes, everyone who'd rather not be consumed in the runaway war machine is just a loving tryhard, well spotted, crazy villainness.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Oh, so it's a Mana Cannon that also opens dimensional rifts. Because those things needed more ways to cause the world to spiral into destruction.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry

Sindai posted:

I like Milla's reaction to a protagonist dream. Uh huh. Yeah. Sure. Doing that already.

Milla! Stay determined...

You are the future of humans and spirits!

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
I have to say, this game is really good about making you suspicious of drat near everyone.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Man, I would have thought that there'd be a bit more of a fuss from the ridiculously technological superior opponent after we boosted one of their blot-out-the-sky number of airships.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
So basically the other world hit peak mana and is now reduced to eating their seed corn, so to speak?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
I don't think we really spent long enough with Muzet to be surprised she turned out to be evil. Or at least megalomaniacal.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
What's that, sandvich Maxwell? Kill them all? OOOOOOOKAY!

On balance you're probably preventing a messy self-destruction by getting there first, so it's not the worst default.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Has Alvin beaten Kain's record for party joins/betrayals yet?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
To be fair to Original Maxwell, "gently caress you and die" is a pretty good response to whoever comes up with the Mana Cannon or local equivalent.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Gaius feels like nothing right now so much as that one guy in your RPG group who always wants to be doing special things so he'll try and run off with the doom artifact or whatever just when you're ready to wrap for the night.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
You'd think they would have twigged to what was going on about the time they realized there was no wood.

Then again, you can get used to just about anything faster than you'd think.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
...wait, so the actual solution to this was right there in Elympios the entire time and nobody noticed?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
An isolated house in the middle of nowhere can't be a safe location, but all the same I wonder how they destroyed it.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
So how early in the game were you collecting these jewels that you had no idea what they did, now that you're up to 21?

(At least Dragon Quest gave you some interstitial rewards for turning in Small Medals.)

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
So their evil plan was to sit still and mention there were like thirty lost things and assume the heroes would just find them and bring them there.

What a masterwork of diabolical insight.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
You know, in a different series, the golden mage knight would be the actual end boss.

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Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Leaving the end boss around to come back if he doesn't like what you've done is certainly an interesting protagonist choice, I'll give it that.

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