*phew* made a lot of progress today in my FFVI playthrough, got to the floating continent, realized I was pretty underlevelled, ran from pretty much everything after wiping a few times, and then jumped on the airship and peaced the hell out.
flew back to the esper meeting cave on crescent island and ground up my levels and my spells some, then came back with Celes, Cyan, and Locke and just completely wrecked everything. stole a genji glove from a dragon, got the hardened knife from the monster-in-a-box, and even took down atma weapon without losing anyone.
Kefka booted Gestahl off the island, and started blowing everything up, so I rolled outta there, but had to give my boy Shadow some time to get out. Frankly, I hate shadow so much in this playthrough because he's almost never in my party, so he's chronically underlevelled. Even still, I had enough skeins to throw at people so he was still pretty worthwhile and I look forward to picking him up in the WoR.
Speaking of WoR, so Celes wakes up a year later, starts calling Cid grandpa, and I have to run back and forth to get fish like 80 times to feed this guy, and he STILL died!
After Celes failed at suicide, I got a raft, so that's pretty cool. Took it to albrook, talked to people, and heard about people who haven't given up on life yet. Sounds like party members to me! Run up to Tzen, walking right past Vect--er, Kefka's Tower, and with Sabin's help, saved a kid from a collapsing building, helping myself to all the goodies within. I'm such a mercenary.
This is my first time actually getting to the world of ruin, so the game has gotten significantly more interesting for me now. I might even update on the regular now that I've gotten this far!