After opening the sealed gate, we decided to investigate where the espers where going. There was a chocobo stable hidden in the forest so the trip was quick and painless.
We were soon greeted by chaos and panic in a burning Vector city. Strangely, Arvis was pretty quick to tell us that
it was like that when he first came here. Not suspicious at all...
Eventually we talked to Emperor Gestahl and he told us with teary puppy eyes that he was so sorry for causing a world spread war and how he was embarassed that mystical creatures were now free and torching the world. HE'S VERY SORRY GUYS. He had no idea that dangerous looking creatures with huge amount of mystical energy would be a threat. Doesn't sound like an hypocrite at all.
We had to sit at his banquet where it was possible to answer his questions with ridiculous answers. Beforehand, we also had to convince some his soldiers to stop bein evil or something. I have this strange feeling that it was possible to get rewards from this...
We eventually agreed to help his hyporcitical highness to track the espers and sign a truce with them. During the boat trip Terra had a serious need to find love.
We arrived at the village of Thamasa where all inhabitants are trying to make us believe they have no idea what magic is even though they are all casting spells in the town. We met some old senile fool who is supposed to be a great Magic Warrior even though
he doesn't start with any magic spells at all except 3 blue magics. The town was so boring that we eventually went to sleep only to be woken up in the middle of the night by the old senile guy. Apparently, his granddaughter is trapped inside a burning house and he's too old to go inside himself.
The inhabitants try to shock us by casting magic spell in plain sight while trying to douse out the flames but we remain stoic as they were already casting spells in front of our eyes before this incident. Apparently, the fire is resistant to spells because there are many fire rods in the house (see picture below)
"Fire Rod"
We eventually go inside the house and find a magical monster responsible for the blaze. Strangely, the battle didn't last long.
With Shadow's help we eventually escaped this burning mess and finally got Strago to help us with our investigation. With then set course for the generic magical mountains to the west because espers are *gasp* apparently attracted to magic. Once inside we tried to not see Relm following us even though she was often at mere centimeters from us.
We reached some magical statues which have the blessing of the espers. Unfortunately, that annoying octopus was there trying to steal them. For some reason, we couldn't defeat him even after spamming Fira and Thundara each worth 1400 HP damages. To beat him we had to have Relm paints Ultro's portrait. When Ultros realized he was actually a generic octopus,
because he had no idea he was that boring before, he ran away by diving into the ground.
Yes, by diving into the ground.
We eventually found the espers and they were quite happy to see us.
We all went back to town as a big happy family. Everything was perfect before that insane clown barged in. Kefka and Leo then had a
shocking duel.
Soon after, Kefka unleashed his most amazing magic spell ever. A spell that makes the screen flash with all of the colors of the rainbow in quick succession. After we recovered from a severe seizure, we eventually realized that Kefka had transformed every espers into magicites. The clown also ran straight to the sealed gate to find
even more mystical statues.
Soon after, we had a team reunion where everyone seemed quite happy to accept the new members in.
As we climbed aboard the airship, we saw a super magical island of doom in the sky! We even heard Kefka's diabolical laughter even though he was thousands of kilometers above us in the sky.
Since we have no better things to do, we decided to chase him there. I mean what could gowrong when exploring a magical island of doom that contains statues powerful enough to ruin the world's balance?
to be continued...
