Lines in the Fog

Contents

  1. 1. Today's Thoughts
  2. 2. An Unusual Reward
  3. 3. Some Sage Advice
  4. 4. Flying Away
  5. 5. Gaia
  6. 6. Dragon Caves
  7. 7. Conclusion
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Final Fantasy I - A Rat's Tale

Part of the series: The First Step: Final Fantasy I

An Unusual Reward

We pick up with the Warriors of Light as they stand outside of the Citadel of Trials, Rat's Tail in hand, looking for the sage to show it off to.

I decide that our first thing to explore more fully is this landmass, to see where we can get to on foot/canoe. The enemies near the Citadel seem to be similarly levelled to those inside, so I'm comfortable enough moseying around a bit.

There's not much on the greener areas nearby of note, but we do have an entrance to a bit of a desert. Looking at the world map, it might just be a taster of what's to come, but the Sand Worm we fight there is no match for Rukus, as he and Clair reach Level 37.

Clearing the desert though, we encounter 4 Barettas - armoured-dog-looking things and we might be a bit out of our depth:

  1. Kaili: 4
  2. Glitz: 4

The Barettas hit our softer party members for over 150HP a pop, and a couple of hits to Glitz take him from the low 300s to downed. Kaili also takes a beating, but gets away with it for now.

This is also far enough down for us to see that we can't access the giant desert this way too, so we might be in a bit of a dead end. I decided to double back and use our boat to scout for locations.

My first instinct is that the Sage we met may have gone to meet the others in Crescent Lake, but no joy. Thinking back to what the sage said, he noted that I had the Crown, which I acquired in Elfheim - perhaps that area might be good to check.

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Part of the series: The First Step: Final Fantasy I (20 posts)
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  • 2. Final Fantasy I - Out into the World
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  • 3. Final Fantasy I - Elfheim
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  • 4. Final Fantasy I - Heavy is the Head
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