PREVIOUSLY ON THE FOUR JOB FIESTA…Having inherited a...

PREVIOUSLY ON THE FOUR JOB FIESTA…

Having inherited a great deal of badassery from her grandpa, the young Krile found herself having to bail out the heroes a few times, even while staving off a space cold… but in the end, her attempt to protect the heroes from Exdeath himself proved to be a little too much for her.

And so began FF5′s pivotal moment, where Galuf unleashed his stellar grandpa powers by taking on Exdeath alone, taking Comet, Holy, and Meteor to the face, all while ignoring the fact that he had zero hit points. As any smart villain would do in this situation, Exdeath ran away.

Looking over his shoulder and seeing his granddaughter safe, Galuf cracked a smile, hatching lines started to appear all over his body, and he clenched both of his fists, dying while standing up.

Having proven herself more than worthy, Krile absorbs Galuf’s space grandpa powers, and becomes the new member of Team Jerry. Our heroes bid their fallen comrade a solemn goodbye, and head toward Exdeath’s castle.

…After stopping briefly to kill a few more statues.

Castle Exdeath proved to be tricky but manageable, for the most part. The floors of lava left them wishing, for the first and only time in this playthrough, that Gilgabot let one of them be a Geomancer… but a pile of Hi-Potions turned out to be enough to help them through it. All was going well…

And then a Red Dragon showed up and cast Heat Ray twice in a row.

After reloading from the save, Jerry’s party begrudgingly redid their trek through the first half of the castle. Thankfully, the Red Dragon did not spawn this time, and everyone had a good laugh when they discovered there was a save point one room away from where they died.

They tiptoed past a sleeping Carbuncle, stepped around a few trap floors, and found themselves in a huge room with an empty chest. Jerry was incensed, knowing that every treasure box item on the planet was rightfully theirs. So who took this one? Why, it was none other than our old friend Gilgamesh. With the mighty weapon he callously stole, he challenged Jerry & friends to another fight. And this time, he was stronger than ever.

What Gilgamesh did not count on, and indeed, what Josh had completely forgotten about until then, was the raw power of the Blood Sword + Rapidfire. The Blood Sword is a weapon that steals HP, with the caveat that it determines its damage from the magic stat (which Jerry’s team lacked), and the much bigger caveat that it misses every 3 of 4 swings.

For whatever reason, the Rapidfire ability changes things so the Blood Sword’s power is determined from its rather high attack stat… plus it makes the weapon hit 100% of the time, instead of 25%. It seems Rapidfire is an ability that turns a useless weapon into a superweapon, capable of unleashing a fierce attack that completely heals its user.

Soooo, Gilgamesh went down, mostly by the assault of Faris, who was working as the Knight at the time. After watching their good friend get sent to another dimension, they saw that it was time. The Exdeath fight was here. Jerry was pretty worried about this fight… While his party did have a set of Wall Rings to protect them from Exdeath’s magic, they had nothing else in the way of support… nothing but raw power. The plan was to hit him until he died.

Faris looked down at Blood Sword she was holding. This weapon cheesed Gilgamesh pretty good, she thought… But can it do the same to Exdeath himself?

The answer is yes, it could. Exdeath kinda went down like a chump, with well over half his HP being absorbed by Faris. As she danced and rolled around in his blood, laughing, the others looked at the crystals with unease, feeling something was amiss. Indeed, Exdeath was not done yet.

The party once again became jarred by the sound of shattering crystal, and darkness followed. When they awoke, they found themselves in the third and final world of Final Fantasy V.

World 3… it’s two good worlds that go great together! It’s a much more open world with only two mandatory dungeons, and in a game where only four jobs are allowed, PARTICULARLY four physical-based jobs, the need to explore everything is diminished quite a bit. It looks like Jerry & co. will have some interesting choices to make.

What will they be?

LET’S FIND OUT!

The archives of the stream are here (about 18 hours of video)

You can learn about the Four Job Fiesta here.

The official FJF page (with donation link to Child’s Play) is here.

And if you wanna chill and watch a comic artist play his favorite RPG, watch the stream here! I’ll be starting in about 10 minutes.

This will probably be the second-to-last stream before it’s over.