EOU2: Climbing a tree, 18F
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11F | B2 | 12F | 13F | 14F | 15F
B3 | B4 | 16F | 17F | 18F | 19F | 20F
21F | 22F | 23F | 24F | 25F | B5
26F | 27F | 28F | 29F | 30F (1) | 30F (2) | 31F
With a new floor comes new quests. Two of them. One is to find some gathering points, the other is to find some materials from enemies to make some food. I make a quick dive into 18F to get the former down, then go through the floor proper for the latter.
Also, in town, we get some cookies from Abigail. :3 And, NEVER FORGET.
Making special mention of this random encounter. It was annoying!! Not for the enemies - the thing in front is highly vulnerable to binds, so a Stigmata shut it down. But I needed to use Swap Step to make Devaki go before it, and it was just a slow annoying fight to deal with. I actually ran from it because the RNG decided it was going to make me fight it five times in a row. It was one of two new normal enemies. The other, called Deathstalker, was a normal version of those scorpions who freak out when they get to the front row. Or they would if I didn't bind their legs before that, and once they were there they quickly died to Vital Hit and Volt Rounds anyway.
By the way, fun fact: you can still use Wolf Fang when Head Bound. Ichigo only had a Grimoire for it for its special effect (Victory HP), but it turned out not to be that significant, so I'll probably swap it for something.
The floor also had some damage floors, these...weird green things, that I forgot to take a picture of at the time, so just have part of the map. I grabbed some Scout Boots from the shop to mitigate these, but they stopped appearing after the first area. Well, there's more coming up probably, so these will be appreciated.
Anyway, the next FOE...jumps off the tree? NO, NO. YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO DO THIS. I FORBID IT. Okay, so they respawn just after leaving and reentering, good.
By the way, I do have enough for this, but I'm going to refrain from purchasing this for now. For that matter, this plus a bit extra from selling some of the materials I had is enough to fully upgrade the town. You don't seem to get anything from this, however - and like I mentioned before, I'd prefer to wait on special events to occur in these locations (festivals, the king) before pulling the trigger, because that way I'll be able to get the event along with the special things showing up...although that said, I've had only one festival, and the King's only visited the South Ward, so RIP.
I also had a bit of fun trying to get a Bee Stinger drop. As it turns out though, that quest was put forth with the intent to use those materials for a deliciously murderous purpose, but Cass talks the wife out of it. Much fun discussion about how a simple gathering quest turned way too exciting for his tastes.
Now let's murderify these frogs.
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Actually, these were some of the more interesting FOEs, relatively speaking. They used their first turn to summon several smaller frogs, which could use an attack capable of inflicting Curse. Of course, the big bads themselves died instantly, and with Ichigo around to tank these hits, they weren't very threatening.
After the first of these, I actually went back and fetched Poison x2 food for what feels like the first time in forever. It came in handy not only to wreck these things, but also the scorpions.
These mini frogs really weren't all that strong. This from Kei - her buffed, them debuffed, Ichigo buffing her, and hitting a weakness, was nearly a one hit kill.
The final room sees you dealing with two at a time. Because Devaki misses on inflicting Poison, I have to deal with two back-to-back!! I almost have two on the field at the same time, but the other frog can't come in right away because there were too many enemies. Regardless, the party is up for it. Stigmata + Ecstasy still deleted the big frogs, just a bit slower, is all (didn't have Force there). And the little ones were no threat.
---
Also got this drop. Not too good for the Grimoire itself, but the added effect could be nice.
I was being more cautious, but was still running on fumes towards the end of this floor, TP-wise. I guess the TP regenerating food really makes more of a difference than one might expect - it really adds up over time. This fight was notable. It was an ambush, but after getting through the damaging first turn, I killed it with extreme prejudice - the two things in front were poisoned, I used Stigmata/Ecstasy on the stupid claw thing (it resists most ailments), and so on.
Right before the stairs some very rude deep voiced birdman comes in, spouting some of the same stuff as the one at the start. But I say the magic phrase, and he just leaves. Okay.
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11F | B2 | 12F | 13F | 14F | 15F
B3 | B4 | 16F | 17F | 18F | 19F | 20F
21F | 22F | 23F | 24F | 25F | B5
26F | 27F | 28F | 29F | 30F (1) | 30F (2) | 31F
With a new floor comes new quests. Two of them. One is to find some gathering points, the other is to find some materials from enemies to make some food. I make a quick dive into 18F to get the former down, then go through the floor proper for the latter.
Also, in town, we get some cookies from Abigail. :3 And, NEVER FORGET.
Making special mention of this random encounter. It was annoying!! Not for the enemies - the thing in front is highly vulnerable to binds, so a Stigmata shut it down. But I needed to use Swap Step to make Devaki go before it, and it was just a slow annoying fight to deal with. I actually ran from it because the RNG decided it was going to make me fight it five times in a row. It was one of two new normal enemies. The other, called Deathstalker, was a normal version of those scorpions who freak out when they get to the front row. Or they would if I didn't bind their legs before that, and once they were there they quickly died to Vital Hit and Volt Rounds anyway.
By the way, fun fact: you can still use Wolf Fang when Head Bound. Ichigo only had a Grimoire for it for its special effect (Victory HP), but it turned out not to be that significant, so I'll probably swap it for something.
The floor also had some damage floors, these...weird green things, that I forgot to take a picture of at the time, so just have part of the map. I grabbed some Scout Boots from the shop to mitigate these, but they stopped appearing after the first area. Well, there's more coming up probably, so these will be appreciated.
Anyway, the next FOE...jumps off the tree? NO, NO. YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO DO THIS. I FORBID IT. Okay, so they respawn just after leaving and reentering, good.
By the way, I do have enough for this, but I'm going to refrain from purchasing this for now. For that matter, this plus a bit extra from selling some of the materials I had is enough to fully upgrade the town. You don't seem to get anything from this, however - and like I mentioned before, I'd prefer to wait on special events to occur in these locations (festivals, the king) before pulling the trigger, because that way I'll be able to get the event along with the special things showing up...although that said, I've had only one festival, and the King's only visited the South Ward, so RIP.
I also had a bit of fun trying to get a Bee Stinger drop. As it turns out though, that quest was put forth with the intent to use those materials for a deliciously murderous purpose, but Cass talks the wife out of it. Much fun discussion about how a simple gathering quest turned way too exciting for his tastes.
Now let's murderify these frogs.
---
Actually, these were some of the more interesting FOEs, relatively speaking. They used their first turn to summon several smaller frogs, which could use an attack capable of inflicting Curse. Of course, the big bads themselves died instantly, and with Ichigo around to tank these hits, they weren't very threatening.
After the first of these, I actually went back and fetched Poison x2 food for what feels like the first time in forever. It came in handy not only to wreck these things, but also the scorpions.
These mini frogs really weren't all that strong. This from Kei - her buffed, them debuffed, Ichigo buffing her, and hitting a weakness, was nearly a one hit kill.
The final room sees you dealing with two at a time. Because Devaki misses on inflicting Poison, I have to deal with two back-to-back!! I almost have two on the field at the same time, but the other frog can't come in right away because there were too many enemies. Regardless, the party is up for it. Stigmata + Ecstasy still deleted the big frogs, just a bit slower, is all (didn't have Force there). And the little ones were no threat.
---
Also got this drop. Not too good for the Grimoire itself, but the added effect could be nice.
I was being more cautious, but was still running on fumes towards the end of this floor, TP-wise. I guess the TP regenerating food really makes more of a difference than one might expect - it really adds up over time. This fight was notable. It was an ambush, but after getting through the damaging first turn, I killed it with extreme prejudice - the two things in front were poisoned, I used Stigmata/Ecstasy on the stupid claw thing (it resists most ailments), and so on.
Right before the stairs some very rude deep voiced birdman comes in, spouting some of the same stuff as the one at the start. But I say the magic phrase, and he just leaves. Okay.
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