Let's Play: Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones!

[MEKristian]

Yes. I was certainly talking about Lucius' value as a unit and not the fact that he is a blond pretty boy as opposed to Artur Weasley and the fact that quote is of the female persuasion and has already made coments about "hot guys" in this thread.

Nope, nope, not at all.

[QuoteMyFoot]

OH YOU MEAN THAT. Artur isn't pretty?

Eh, I don't like pretty boys. And I find him boring.

[Greybane]

I say go with Horsey dude over I-can-barely-walk man. Mobility is fantastic.

ALWAYS work on your first anima mage in my opinion, they win win win no matter what.

I think on my play through I went with Moulder, so I would like to support Natasha.

[Random_fan]

I will also put my vote in for Natasha, I'll also vote for Gilliam over Franz, and for Seth to have a couple of battles in the arena.

[bookwurm290]

I'll vote for Natasha over Moulder, Gilliam over Franz, and Awesome Hat Guy! (I like hats)

As for supports, I think I'll vote for Colm and Neimi, Natasha and Awesome Hat Guy, and hmm... Amelia and Ross.

[QuoteMyFoot]

Thank you for ending the tie. Natasha and Gilliam for keeps! Though there’s probably still time to change your mind on the healer if you want.

Also, hello bookwurm! That seems to have been your first post on the forums, so welcome and have a good time here.

Anyway, it’s time to test--

I think you’ll agree with me that it is singularly unimpressive.

Spoiler: show

Nice Hat Guy knows how to make the most of a bad situation.


...And he also doesn’t sound like someone I’d want to be on the bad side of.


I think the game might be setting us up for something here.

--CHAPTER START--


Hel-lo.


And generous too!

A Dragonshield will raise a unit’s defence by 2. There are two main options with these stat-boosting items. 1) use them immediately or 2) hoard them until the endgame and then make some randomer even more awesome. Personally, I prefer to use them right away. Oh, you can also sell them, I guess.


Everyone else gets moved around...


Enemy turn! Gilliam missed on his attack, so he’s off to a good start.


Sigh, bandits. Imaginative as ever.


Keep being awesome, Ross.


Gilliam attacked that Fighter, which I missed somehow, then Natasha did some healing with Mend. It heals more HP, so it glows more. Logic!


Vanessa left this guy with 2 HP. One more Str and she’d be one-rounding these guys. ;-;


DAMMIT GILLIAM!


DAMMIT COLM!


Eirika does just fine, thankfully.


More healan.


Ross kills this guy, doesn’t level.


DAMMIT LUTE!


Thank you, Neimi.


DAMMIT EIRIKA! At least she killed him, I guess. Even if the level up was pretty crappy.


Vanessa shows her how it’s done.


THIS IS JUST GETTING RIDICULOUS NOW.


Neimi duels at dawn with another archer.


On our turn, Ross does a bit of damage and doesn’t level up like I thought he would. Neimi finishes off.


Gilliam finally kills this guy.


Natasha runs away to heal someone else.


Enemy phase! Eirika damages some guy.


Gilliam took 8 damage from another Fighter and criticalled to kill him. I take back everything, Gilliam’s awesome.


...Can I take back my take back?


I missed the pretty fire again :( Oh and Lute killed a dude I guess. Not the worst level up I’ve ever seen.


More healing! Natasha does an awful lot of this in this chapter.


TAKE UP MY SWORD, LANCE-WIELDING PEGASUS CHICK!


It’s also ridiculously heavy and most sword users usually have low Con. SO YEAH. Might come in handy later though.


Enemy phase! ...A really boring enemy phase!

ALSO THOSE REINFORCEMENTS ARRIVED TOO SOON I’M NOT READY


I missed the pretty fire again!


Enemy phase, stuff happens to Gilliam. Note that he actually doubles that Soldier, even if he did miss one of his attacks. Yes, that’s right. Grado Soldiers are as slow as god damn zombies.


TIME TO LIVE DANGEROUSLY


Nothing gets past this girl.

“Yeah, Grado’s paying the bill.

This will make her feel better when she’s dead.


Extinguish all light from our lands isn’t relevant to your interests? No?


...She’s a cleric.


That’s cold, Nice Hat Guy. That’s cold.


CHARACTER GET!


Nice Hat Guy, aka Joshua. He’s a swordsman with an actual Con, which makes him pretty good to start off with. Like all myrmidons, Josh has excellent speed and skill, which means he’ll double a lot and critical pretty often. His strength is normally also decent, but his luck tends to be mediocre at best and his defences otherwise are poor. He’ll still dodge a ton, though.
He comes with a Killing Edge, which gives +30 to critical. This is only semi-reliable now, but when/if he promotes to Swordmaster, he gets +15 as a class bonus, +10-5 from his good skill, +more from supports... it quickly adds up. Even if we don’t use this guy, though, we’ll be using his sword. It’s probably one of the best offensive weapons in the game, especially early on. (Critical: the gift that keeps on giving.)
Joshua is pretty laid back personality wise, but he’s not kidding about that love for gambling. With some characters this is interesting. With others, it becomes funny.


Levelling up happens! That concludes Ross’ time as a Journeyman. Chapter 6: promotion to pirate!


DAMMIT EIRIKA!


Joshua gets a critical. Myrmidon critical is pretty darn epic, I must say.


With how Eirika’s been dodging I don’t trust that bandit to miss her... I’ll have to have Seth take him out after Vanessa gets some exp from him.


Stole this off Franz, thought I might as well. And bandit gets deaded.


Gilliam kills a guy. GET SOME DEFENCE, MAN.


More bandit reinforcements. These are the last ones though.


Vanessa and Eirika blocking the way, healing. Also giving up that Armourslayer to the convoy.


Aaand I’m actually glad Eirika doesn’t kill this guy. Her dying would be upsetting after all the work I put in here. ;-;


I’m not sure why I screencapped this at the beginning of the fight... meh, Soldier missed and Vanessa didn’t.


Gilliam finishes off that archer.


Ross visits the house. This is another stat boosting item. This one gives skill, which effects accuracy and critical. Like the Dragonshield, we can use this a little later.


Neimi gets a good level, Lute doesn’t get one at all.


Probably should’ve given him an iron sword, now that I think about it...


THANK YOU EIRIKA -- you even got me some Def as well as Str, how nice.


Good job he missed on our turn, because enemy phase -_-


She only had one use of the Slim Lance left, so there’s no x2. I thought I might as well use it up.


And... huh. I must have missed the enemy phase for this mercenary. Another mediocre level for Colm.


I FINALLY CAPPED THE PRETTY FIRE oh wait what level up. Yeah, that’s decent.


Vanessa steals things from small girls. Shame on her. This is Amelia, by the way. We’ll see her again later.


Natasha levels up after much background healing.


Since someone wanted to see Seth get some levels...


WAIT WHAT NONONONONO Berserkers get +15 crit boost I’m not risking that.

In the Arena, the more money you wager, the stronger an opponent you get given and the more likely you are to die. Arena death is just as permanent as any other death, so yeah, we probably want to avoid betting lots of gold.

Unfortunately it took Quote about 5 turns to remember this and so we lost a fair amount of money to start off with. >.<


750 sounds oka-- WAIT WHAT ARGH


This one didn’t turn out well either.


NICE! Assume Natasha’s healing between all of these bouts.


This only wagered about 640G, I believe, but fights against magic units are generally easy for physical units to win.


Like so! Pretty decent level up, really.


Another magic user. Slowly recovering monies.


...Sigh.


I took a bit of a risk here (by my standards, I’m paranoid about the Arena), but it paid off. ^^


WAIT WHAT AAAAH CRAP BACK BACK BACK

I was too busy panicking to cap it but these are guys you don’t generally want to fight in the arena. Druids are powerful and they use dark magic, which is more power on top of that. To put it in perspective, Seth did 13 damage to this guy’s 18.

Let’s take a break before Quote’s heart gives out.





{Quit laughing at me!
I’m not laughing! You just haven’t changed much. You still exaggerate a lot.}




... :3 These two are cute~
B SUPPORT GET


Lance vs. sword could’ve turned out badly, but it didn’t. Seth got a good level out of it.


And so did Natasha!


I decided to quit while I was ahead with regards to the arena, so Vanessa did some weakening of the boss to level her up. Pretty decent one here.


Lute killed him but was unfortunately 6 exp off a level. :(


What?!
I...Is there something wrong?
Oh, I’m sorry. Just... another cute blonde from Grado. I’m keeping count.
...Maybe you should just share your story, Sister.


Mentor Occupational Hazard strikes again.


They executed him.”


What... sort of method of execution was this, exactly? You were that close by?
...Artistic licence.


Big Bad’s plan revealed in Chapter 5... huh, not bad.


Yeah, so we’ve heard.


Um, hello? I’m standing right here.





What? No, of course n--



To be fair, you did virtually the same thing in front of me and Neimi.
Shut up.


What a jerk. :(
Actually, dehumanisation has proven quite expedient in maximising enemy casualties whilst minimising psychological damage. It’s a common war tactic.
Do you even know what those words mean?
Duh! I’m a prodigy.
*sniff* It’s so sad...
Oh nice one, mage lady.


Please, you must go quickly.”


Well this merry band of ours numbers about fourteen, so you may be waiting a while.
Shut up! Negativity is for wusses!


PRESENTS!!

[This can be used to promote a magic unit later -- Lute or Natasha, in our case.]


...Should we have said something during that discussion?
No. I’m fairly sure all this talking is a Renais thing.

Chapter done!

NEXT TIME ON FIRE EMBLEM: THE SACRED STONES

Time for something completely different.

Spoiler: show

Setting change!


Mercenaries = the mooks of the mooks in FE.


Well, I mean, I guess... I don’t think guerrilla tactics were really recognised until Napoleon’s occupation of Spain, so this being innovative vaguely fits, but...


Valter genuinely freaks me out.


HOW MANY CREEPY UNDERTONES CAN WE FIT INTO ONE CONVERSATION


Oh great, a traitor is exactly what we need.


Really, you have to wonder how they’ve held out this long.


~mind reader at work~


I’ve heard that the capital has fallen.”


This conversation suddenly took a turn for the depressing.


THAT’S YOUR CUE!


How are you gentlemen!!


I think Orson needs fattening up. I can see cheekbones, and not in the Benedict Cumberbatch sense of the word!


Gone horribly right seems an appropriate trope right now.


...It must run in the family.


I was just thinking the same thing!


Soz grumpy.


You want a list? Top of the list is ‘death’.


Yeah, he’s not lost all of his self-preservation. Sheesh, knights!


Look, this might be a good plan if you had more than four people to hold the fort.


Forde: this chapter’s Seth.


Logic, this Prince has it (?)


...You forgot your list already?
Eh, my memory’s a little fuzzy sometimes.


I sense an opportunity for exp harvesting!


Oh, that’s a point. This is the only chapter in the game where death isn’t a permadeath (with all non-Ephraim characters, not just Orson). So yeah, I might be a ~little~ reckless here.

No chapter map because we don’t get a prep screen. :( This chapter is basically pretty easy, it’s just long.

New characters! Tell me who you want me to focus on. My defaults right now are Ephraim and Kyle, because one’s a Lord and Flux wanted a Kyle/Lute support. Note that these won’t join the main party for another few chapters yet.

Spoiler: show

This is Ephraim. It’s almost impossible for him to turn out bad, and we have to use him anyway. Reginleif is his version of the Rapier, only he doesn’t get the opportunity to find another. It’s awesome, so I will probably be using it sparingly in this chapter.
Not much to say here.


Kyle’s got good Str and Def, and his speed is above average if I remember right. I haven’t used him very much, but he’s a solid unit all round. Can be a little slow if you’re unlucky, I think.
Kyle’s kinda like a male, tanky Vanessa. I think he falls into Comically Serious a lot; I haven’t used him much before, so I don’t really remember.


Forde is generally faster than Kyle. His Str turns out decent, so he makes a good offensive unit. His Res is also okay, I think (as opposed to abysmal). He’s more a dodging unit than defensive.
Personality wise, he’s a laid back painter. No, really. He falls asleep in the middle of battle sometimes. He’s quite a cool character in my opinion, even if Haar made snoozing look better.


Orson. He’s Seth, but worse. I’ll be stealing that sword and that’s about it.

...Not much to say for these guys in general. Gimme a break, I’m tired. :(

The main party right now: (Starred* = focus)
Eirika - Lord, level 7*
Seth - Paladin, level 20/4
Franz - Cavalier, level 4
Gilliam - Knight, level 8*
Vanessa - Pegasus Knight, level 6*
Moulder - Priest, level 5
Ross - Journeyman, level 10*
Garcia - Fighter, level 4
Neimi - Archer, level 4*
Colm - Thief, level 5*
Artur - Monk, level 2
Lute - Mage, level 4*
Natasha - Cleric, level 4*
Joshua - Myrmidon, level 5(*?)

Supports (And you can find the options HERE.)
Colm/Neimi -- +MEK and gman, bookwurm
Franz/Amelia -- suggested by Flux [Franz dropped]
Kyle/Lute -- also suggested by Flux
Amelia/Ross -- suggested by bookwurm
Natasha/Joshua -- suggested by bookwurm

Don’t forget we also have a Secret Book (+2 Skill) and a Dragonshield (+2 Def) to distribute next time we’re around... Some suggestions:

Secret Book: Ross, Gilliam
Dragonshield: Lute, Natasha, Eirika, Vanessa. Gilliam is a possibility too, if you want to take his Def from good to awesome.

[Random_fan]

I think Joshua should be focused from our main group, and I agree with focusing on Kyle for this chapter.

Loving this let's play so far Quote.

[Greybane]

Josh in main group fo' sho'. Those characters have the most fun criticals.

I would say give the Book to Ross and the DShield to Lute.

Amelia/Ross support has my vote.

[Flux_Blade]

Yeah, if we're not using Franz, then the Ross/Amelia would be good. Well, how often do you get your mages attacked?

[serbii]

Use Blondie this round, I approve of his decidedly uncommon Common Sense.

Yeah, keep Joshua in, I have vague memories of him being one of my front line guys will his awesome killing skills.

[QuoteMyFoot]

Right then, let’s get this show on the road. I need consensus before I can use the SBook/DShield, but as this is probably going to be the last update for a while (I move into uni on sunday), there’s no rush to decide.

Also, I have to apologise to Serbii, ‘Blondie’ aka Forde didn’t see much use in this chapter because a] I’m an idiot and didn’t realise you meant that blondie (which really I should have done, the ‘common’ sense thing and all. I can only apologise for my stupidity) and b] I’m and idiot and... well, wait and see. I’ll try to get him a level or so next time he shows up.

Time to prove that we have an--

...You think of something witty that segues into such an awkward phrase.

Spoiler: show

Well, Ephraim’s off to a good start.


Kyle’s Iron Sword didn’t one-round him either, so I just stuck with this. *shrug*


And Forde attacked that archer.


Soldier attacks Kyle, Kyle kills soldier! Oh, and the archer.


Turns out that the Mercenary doubles Steel Lance!Ephraim. Oops. Eh, no harm no foul.


Forde weakens the merc for Kyle to finish off whilst Ephraim one hits a Knight. Reginleif!Ephraim is pretty broken.


Kyle finishes that guy off, gets a decent level for his trouble.


Forde decides not to dodge that huge axe. Kyle takes care of it for him instead.


Ephraim manages to hit the Fighter he has ~60% hit against [not shown] but misses the bloody mage. Looks like I’ll have to resort to Elixir use. *too lazy to move people around too much*


Holy level up, batman!


He follows this up with a critical. Because he’s the goddamn Prince of Renais.


Kyle picks off the mage! The Fighter dropped a chest key also, I just didn’t get it I’m afraid.


Orson took the chest keys off them and picked up stuff. We also got another Elixir, always helpful.


Kyle heals up to bait that axe guy, Ephraim does a bit of that himself, as does Forde. It’s times like these that I really miss healers.


Kyle does his job and sets up a kill for Ephraim, who decides to critical. Again.


After advancing some Kyle nabs the javelin off Ephraim and baits an archer for the joint-worst level up of the game. Dammit, Kyle.


He takes his pain out on the archer again.


Ephraim continues to disbelieve the concept of ‘overkill’.


After the epic level up of last time, I’m honestly not too bothered by this.


That was another Knight... emphasis on was.


Kyle baits the Soldiers so we can have Ephraim murder more ponies. Friendship ain’t no magic here folks.


...The third one did attack him but I missed it for some reason. He only doubled one of these guys, which does worry me a little, even if he is equipped with a super heavy weapon.


One Soldier goes for Ephraim, I’ll leave it to your imagination how that worked out for him.


Ghoooost~


Still no speed, but I think we have a tank on a horse developing here ladies and gentlemen, let’s not complain. Better Str and Def than Gilliam on the same level, dammit RNGod!


You have no chance to survive make your time


...Eh.


A wild shaman appeared! I love dark magic, it’s kinda cool, but these guys can be annoying. Look how much damage he does!


Kyle takes a leaf out of Ephraim’s book and criticals the hell out of him. Take that, Mr. Shaman.


Healin’ and waitin’


Doesn’t take much effort to kill the monk.

[Leaving Ephraim where he is for now because there’s a Fighter I want to lure away from him first.]


Forde, really, do you have to just sit there?


Kyle finishes off for a... passable level up I guess.

AND THEN


As I said, I can only apologise for my stupidity/apparent inability to see archers.


On the plus side, he’s not technically dead. I would have offered to replay the chapter anyway except UNI ON SUNDAY OH GOD and I wanted to get back to the main story for my next update. Also this chapter kinda kills by soul.


Kyle takes revenge. For Forde, not my soul.


Arrow goes ‘tink!’ as it bounces off Orson’s armour.


Kyle takes more revenge.


Ephraim continues to be awesome.


Archer does a shocking amount of damage, Kyle is really upset about that scratch in his new armour and kills him [with the javelin, because of that mage guy].


Still awesome.


ARGH WHY CAN I NEVER GET THE FIRE. Also, decent level up.


Ephraim, miraculously, did not critical here. However he did manage to double an archer when holding a ridiculously heavy weapon, which doesn’t speak too highly of the guys in here.

Also, loot!


Kyle baits a Knight for Ephraim, kills a Soldier... restores HP because he’s going to have a go at the next two guys and one of them is magic.


Now that I’m thinking about it, I probably should’ve just killed the Soldier and used Orson to bait the shaman. LIVE AND LEARN.


I wanted Kyle to weaken the boss for Ephraim because pffft, use healing items? Like NO.


Wasn’t gonna risk that. WAIT PLEASE.


Good start.


...Bad finish.


Let’s try this again.


Thank you Ephraim!


Oh snap. Ephraim gets a good level from you just to rub salt in the wound.


I’m glad someone finally noticed this.


...What.

“Prince Ephraim, things have

Just, you know, whilst he was resting up that wound he received because Quote is an idiot.


WHAT?!


Oh god, they suddenly became competent! What’s gone wrong with the world?!

{We should probably leave now.}


“Deny everything” is obviously not a saying in the Fire Emblem universe.

Who, me? I’m just a tourist. Yeah, I guess I do look like him.


Well, now that we’ve got introductions out of the way...


You should always introduce yourself to your foes, so they know which name to swear vengeance on. It’s only polite, after all.


~mind reader at work~


Huh... I thought Kyle was smarter than that. Mind you, with his defence, I might be a little reckless too.


Yeah, well, so’s your mother.


I don’t know, the evil laughter makes me kinda reluctant to believe him. What do you guys think?


Show me how Renais dogs grovel.”

So’s your mother’s face!

{Nah, I don’t feel like surrendering right now.
What.}


COME AT ME BRO


Just so you know, Valter, if your gigantic flying lizards don’t succeed here, I will lose all respect for you.


I like this plan!
I would be more excited to be part of it if we weren’t trying to outrun flying lizards.
If life didn’t challenge us every now and then, you’d be just as bored as the rest of us.
I guess that’s true, isn’t it? Come on then, I’ll race you.


Are you two going to stand there all day or what? I can’t end the war all by my lonesome, you know!

I would probably fangirl Ephraim if he was a little more interesting. He’s pretty badass even so.

NEXT TIME ON FIRE EMBLEM: THE SACRED STONES

Back to our regularly scheduled program.

Spoiler: show

{The group passes through Serafew.}

Guess how well this works out for them. Go on, guess.


This doesn’t sound good.


Can’t touch this~


DON’T PANIC


...Presents? :-|


“DIABOLICAL LAUGHTER”


Burn.


“DIABOLICAL ACTING”


So he’s not a sore loser this guy, then.


Wai--wha-- where did you come from?!


Well that’s not creepy at all.


Seth, we know the bracelet looks fab and we got Colm and Neimi out of that side quest, but this is going a bit too far now.


Quite right. I’d never find an accessory this good anywhere else! It’s not my fault your Emperor has no style!


I can’t imagine Ephraim meekly awaiting anything. He’d probably take over the dungeon with a toothpick or something.


Wow, Eirika actually has a temper.


Obviously, this guy has never played a Persona game.


Bring me the child.”


I hate it when the bad guys cheat like this.


It’ll really only take a sec--
Seth.
...Your Highness. Do... what you feel is best.


Well, as long as you promise not to--
Aaaand that’s where I draw the line.


You demand too much of us.”


We’re not sure we can say the same for Grado.


Arachnophobic Quote is so very, very glad this is a GBA game.


You can start planning how to kill him now.


Only if you are allowed to get away with it.


I somehow never realised just how much of a complete monster this guy is before. This almost crosses the line into parody.


And wouldn’t that be an awful thing. With friends like these...


ULTIMATUM HAS BEEN DELIVERED. HOW DO YOU RESPOND?


No! I will never allow that to happen!
Nor will I.

Wrong choice, Novala.


Tried to capture the weird teleport spell that none of our units ever use, was mildly successful.


I think he’s getting a bit too into this...


Oh god there’s a whole family there we must save the children ;-;


MOOD WHIPLASH MUCH ROSS


:3 Now we have a pirate!

JUST IN TIME FOR THE MOST AWFUL CHAPTER OF THE GAME

So, you guys remember when I said there were escort missions in our future? Well, I lied.

It’s worse.

Spoiler: show

Unit selection. I’m assuming this is who we’re taking into the chapter, let me know any changes you want to make.


Formation, gap between us and the hostages. Why yes, this is a fog of war map. Don’t worry. THAT’S THE LEAST OF OUR PROBLEMS.

At some point cavalier reinforcements will start showing up somewhere to the left of our starting position. Of course there’s a bunch of forest there, so we’ll be slowed down so much that we can’t get away from them. But don’t take your time! The giant spider Boss Guy mentioned can easily one-round that entire family, and guess what? It eats the little girl first! After she spends a turn or two begging for help!

(Are you feeling guilty yet?)

Oh, and there’s several Knights hiding in the fog between us and the hostages. Also, in case you wanted to send Seth, since he’s pretty much guaranteed not to die? Don’t bother, he can’t cross those mountains! Gilliam then? Oh yeah, one of the few weapons super-effective against armour is in this chapter, and guess what? It’s an axe. Weapon triangle working against us, hell yes!

Technically you don’t have to save the family to beat the chapter. But if you don’t? Good luck promoting Neimi any time soon, because they give you the item to promote archers if you rescue them!


There’s also a bunch of units to the north here, including more Cavaliers, Soldiers, an archer (or two?) and several Fighters, one of whom has the aforementioned armour-effective weapon, a Hammer.


The boss is up in this corner here.

Serenes Forest has a map of the chapter, minus fog, on this page here. Just click ‘Chapter 6’.

Can you tell that I hate this chapter yet? I hate this chapter. This is easily That One Level for me. Hit me with directions and hopefully no one will die.

The main party right now: (Starred* = focus)
Eirika - Lord, level 7*
Seth - Paladin, level 20/4
Franz - Cavalier, level 4
Gilliam - Knight, level 8*
Vanessa - Pegasus Knight, level 6*
Moulder - Priest, level 5
Ross - Pirate, level 1*
Garcia - Fighter, level 4
Neimi - Archer, level 4*
Colm - Thief, level 5*
Artur - Monk, level 2
Lute - Mage, level 4*
Natasha - Cleric, level 4*
Joshua - Myrmidon, level 5*

Supports (And you can find the options HERE.)
Colm/Neimi -- +MEK and gman, bookwurm
Franz/Amelia -- suggested by Flux [Franz dropped]
Kyle/Lute -- also suggested by Flux
Amelia/Ross -- suggested by bookwurm, +Greybane, Flux
Natasha/Joshua -- suggested by bookwurm

Secret Book: Ross? (Greybane)
Dragonshield: Lute? (Greybane again)

[bookwurm290]

This is a tricky level. I usually split the party, but I use both healers, so that's probably not a good idea here.


My suggestion is to send everybody down to rescue the villagers and then sweep the map from the top, leaving Seth, Gilliam and Vanessa to bring up the rear while carrying the villagers.

I think I'll second Ross for the secret book. For the dragonshield; does Natasha or Lute have a lower defense? I think whichever is lower should get it.

[serbii]

Also, I have to apologise to Serbii, ‘Blondie’ aka Forde didn’t see much use in this chapter because a] I’m an idiot and didn’t realise you meant that blondie (which really I should have done, the ‘common’ sense thing and all. I can only apologise for my stupidity) and b] I’m and idiot and... well, wait and see. I’ll try to get him a level or so next time he shows up.

No problemo

...You think of something witty that segues into such an awkward phrase.

... something to do with this song? Hmm... you're right, it is hard.

LIVE AND LEARN.

Ahahahaha... Quote darling, please don't apply that attitude to future chapters.

Such an unforgiving game.
Well, except in the dialogue, "Sure! You can join our rag tag bunch of misfits!"

I'd like to think that kid he's threatening is actually his niece and she's been promised a new doll if she plays along.

Dragon shield for Lute.

Hmm, wurm's splitting the party with both healers may be an idea. I'd probably rush towards the family with everyone and play defensively from then on, keeping the group fairly tight. It'll probably take ages and it'd either be fairly safe or screw us completely if reinforcements build up too much.

[Flux_Blade]

If you have someone that is decent at dodging, like maybe Joshua, have Vanessa rescue him over there, those two combined might be able to handle the spiders, as the creatures do take their time to get there.

That's my suggestion.

Yeah, I can see Lute might want the draco shield, that way to avoid some of the chancier fights. Don't forget that Colm can see really far. You don't have any torch staffs do you?

[QuoteMyFoot]

FORGOT TO MENTION THAT! Yeah, Natasha has a Torch staff, and thieves have ~super~ eyes or something. Also Vanessa picked up that Torch from last chapter.

[Greybane]

*poke poke*