Let's return to Altair to see if there's something to do. It seems Hilda has a strange behaviour and Firion takes that chance to entice her, or is she the one who is interested?
TRAP! It seems the recued princess was an emperor's pet. After some failed confuse-inducing techniques the snake bites the dust. What an embarrasing situation.
Surprise, surprise, the real Hilda is in Palamecia. Let's rescue her and kill that evil emperor. Gordon insists in going with the group. I don't complain, Leila and Gordon are equally useless.
After a long trip through the desert, Gordon and his lackeys enter the colosseum. Another trap, the emperor releases a behemoth to fight the party. The poor critter dies in a matter of seconds.
After a failed attempt to assassinate the evil emperor the party is captured by the baddies.
Afortunately, they are rescued by
Lucca Paul. In their way out, the random ambushes give a littlae amount of problems.
Hilda is waiting in one of the cells. Love is in the air <3 <3 <3. Barret convinces the party that they should go in two groups, as that travelling all of them through the fields would draw the attention of the enemies. Gordon and Hilda exit the place together.
After a long trip, the party goes to Altair. Gordon and Hilda haven't been wasting time: the rebel army will retake Fynn. Gordon shows his super ultra deluxe tactics with a strategy that only one of the most intelligent people in the world could have thought. The empire is doomed with Gordon's skills.
The party get into the castle through
a series of tunnels, caves, mines and sewers the front door. After feeling empty for a grand total of five minutes, Leila fills the deep hole left by Gordon. The party finds and kills the castellan. He had a name so he should be some important person.
Next mission: Ultima
-Objectives: Waste time so the enemy can destroy things again.
-Real Objective: Get some ultimate magic.
-Quest chain: white mask + black mask =>crystal rod =>tower (tome)
Let's get some information about how to get the white mask hidden in the castle. Paul tells the troop where is the secret passage. He doesn't know that we aren't collectors, we're adventurers.
The mask is easily obtained. Next step: The black mask.
The party visits a cave in a faraway island. In the deepest depths they find a group of monsters guarding the mask.
Gotcha!
The party places the masks in a statue in Mysidia and in a doppelganger so they can get the crystal rod.
In this cave the legendary Osmose Tome is waiting for us. I think this spell is more relevant to my interests than Ultima, but Hilda wants some ultimate power, so the quest continues. At last, the crystal rod is ours.
The bad luck attacks the ship.
It seems Leila is dead, I'm sooooo sad. The party finds a good replacement.
Crystal rods are so easy to find, why did we have to do all those things to get one!!!????? The party defeats a worm and gets back their ship.
After all the misfortunes, the party goes into the Mysidian Tower.
Our heroes fight a series of transforming wizards during the ascent.
It seems Gottos is a species of monster and not a famous castellan, what a disappoinment. Is the White Dragon the first optional boss in Final Fantasy? I think it's weak to fire spells so I burninate it.
Minwu is waiting in the last floor and uses all of his vital energy to break a seal. It's sad dying for nothing as I won't use that Ultima spell much. Death counter: 5.
In the Ultima Tome room they find a series of stat booster orbs. Unfortunately, one goes to the new guy.
Let's tell Hilda our results. It seems that something bad has happened while we were in our leisure trip. Leila is alive but the arbitrary headcount limit repels her of our group, great!
The princess informs us of all the casualties caused by an evil cyclone created by the evil emperor. How evil! Let's get the legendary Boss-slayer sword.
With some proper equipment, the party calls the last wyvern so they can settle things with the cyclone.
The building is full of monsters and playful dragons. The party tames them all.
These are your last words, ya' murderer. Mateus is a coward, so he sends his minions to defend him. But that is useless, he is crushed like a bug.
YESSSSSSSSS! The emperor dies and everyone is happy.
Party time! Why are Gordon and Hilda in reversed positions? Is Gordon the real princess?
Happiness isn't permanent, a new enemy rises: Leon, the new emperor. The soldier without name pulls the switch and increases the death counter(6).
We need something to enter the castle, so we visit uncle Cid. The first Cid dies and he gives us an airship (7).
Thanks to Cid's gift the party can sneak into the castle.
The party reunites with Leon and the evil emperor. He's so evil that he tries to kill us all.
Ricard sacrifices himself so the others can scape, no!!!!!!!!! you were a good partner. This teaches us one lesson: if you are a crappy character, you survive. The pandemonium emerges in the place where Palamecia was.
Leon is the newest and last addition to the party. Our lovely heroes go to Deist and tell the woman and the kid about Ricard's sacrifice. The reward is the mighty Excalibur.
The group goes to defeat the emperor, but they have go through the jade passage if they want to go to Pandemonium. In this place, they find a series of magic chests with monsters in them. Thanks to the blood sword, they die easily.
The party reaches Pandemonium. They try to fight all the bosses in there, but the Iron Giant hides well.
The final showdown against the emperor, who will win? The blood sword makes this final battle easy.
You are no match for us, loser. That wasn't very climatic.
Everyone is happy thanks to the hard work of Firion, Maria, Guy, Leon and the dead partners. The alive can see for a brief time some Star Wars ghosts.
Woo, 1991, what a coincidence.
THE END
Next is FFIII. As I can't take direct screenshots, I think I'll update progress sometimes.