HenroidMexican kicked from Immigration ThreadCentrism is Racism :3Registered Userregular
edited May 2010
Fuck being jailed, I'm gonna update anyway!
Just quote it and preview it; you don't have to do any 'favors' in quoting it and posting it again because that's going to fuck me when I try to view the thread again.
Edit - The best part is that you guys almost get to see these updates like I do minus the bbcode showing up front. I have awesome imagination.
You can't ever promote him, Henroid. Just bring him in from time to time so he can help.
If anyone pisses me off, they get replaced by Pika. It's a deal.
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HenroidMexican kicked from Immigration ThreadCentrism is Racism :3Registered Userregular
edited May 2010
Let's Play Part 25
TOTALLY JAILED AT THE TIME OF POSTING THIS: TO READ, QUOTE IT AND PREVIEW IT I'm here! I'm coming! Yes, Mr. Creed? My collection is rather noisy today. Oh, yes... ah... What? No, I... I added to your collection today. You did what?! I'm sorry! I tried to stop them, but they jumped through the magic door. You didn't lock the door, did you? I told you to always lock that door!
Right away, sir!
I heard something. Are you Mr. Creed? Oh, someone from my collection is talking! You must be one of the people Goliath was talking about. We came to see you. Please return us to our original size. You came to see me? Hmmm... why? Make us bigger. My neck hurts from looking up at you! Oh, sorry. Abra kadabra! 1-2-3!
Let me double check here to make sure I'm back in full. *tonk* Boys. Now, why did you want to see me? Oh, yes! We want to know about Zeon! Zeon?
The King of the Devils who is sealed in Arc Valley? Did something happen to Zeon? Has he revived?
No way! You're kidding! I can't believe it! Noisy fairy! Be quiet! Is what you say true?
So, Zeon will appear again.... He will destroy everything.
I know. How...? It doesn't matter how! No, go away! Wow, we got pushed around by that guy? Wow! I can't believe this is happening! You know, Grans Island is covered by a dark cloud. At the same time, North Parmecia has had no rain. South Parmecia is OK, but.... That's because of Volcanon. I fear for Mitula....
Invulnerable to everything but Zeon can actually harm them? Indeed... Zeon is extremely powerful!
Goliath! What are you still doing here?! Let him have it, Mr. Creed! I have no time to scold you now! The Evil Spirit may know something.
I guess we're suppose to follow him! You okay there, Goliath? Arc Valley was unsealed and Zeon woke up? This is a nightmare! You should've killed Badman when we found him, Sollah. I'm biding my time, don't worry.
x_x
This guy certainly has an interesting selection of literature.
I always thought this was just a stereotype. It's a pop-up picture book. Looks like it is.
Sollah, wait for us up here. What? But I want to come with! We've had a lot of surprises here, wait here and bail me out with the others. Alright, but be careful. Oddler, take this. Keep an eye on h- um, you know what I mean. ... is this your staff?
This is a little eerie. (... Wait the others are still tiny!)
Evil Spirit, come. Hey, Evil Spirit is appearing!
Creed, what do you want? Zeon. Zeon?! The King of the Devils? Yes. He was unsealed. What is he doing now? What is he going to do? I need to know anything about him. Anything! I've got something.
What is he doing now? He's channeling his mind into the nature of all things. Oh well that sums it up just all dandy. Shhhh! Be silent. He's got something.
The barrier around Grans Island is too strong. I can't see anything. Please try again! If I touch something of his, maybe I could contact his mind better....
Is this true, Henroid? Okay yes, but before you blame me for unsealing Zeon it was some rat person. That's one of the magic jewels used to seal Zeon. Give it to me. But, we can't remove it.
Let me see it. Whhoooa! What's that light? There are two! The other one is... ... ahhh... they called it, the Jewel of Light. What?! Henroid, do you have both of the legendary jewels? Snatched the Jewel of Evil before it made it to the other world. I can't remove them. The chain is made of Mithril. So how do I get it to that big head up there? Show them to him. They might help him.
Yeah, I feel it... I feel it...! I think I can do it now. Let me try again. Hmmmm.... Hmmmm... mmmm.... Arc Valley was opened and Zeon was revived.
(What's with the sepia tone? Zeon's devils are coming to Parmecia from the sky. Hmmm.... Where are they heading? North Parmecia. Something has happened to Mitula.... I can't see Zeon. What do you mean? He's still in Arc Valley. He has revived, but he has not recovered his full strength yet.
Is he that powerful? He is. His power... His power what? Hi...s...pow...er...
Nice to meet you! What's this?! Who's contacting me? Do you want to die? Holy crap, terminate the transmission! Ggggooo... I see a jewel. The Jewel of Evil! He's seeing us through the eyes of Evil Spirit! Impossible!
Wh... how do you know my name... wait, King Galam told you?! Listen, Henroid. Bring that jewel to Arc Valley. Why should we?! I'll return Elis to you in exchange for the jewel. Come to Arc Valley... Ggggooo...! What's he doing? Watch out!
No! Evil Spirit exploded! Like... with just a thought. That's Zeon's power.
Creed, how reliable was he, I mean, Evil Spirit? Very. Why does Zeon want the jewel? And how does he know me?! No more questions... ...without Evil Spirit.... Creed? Creed! Hey, don't leave me here! Wait for me!
Whoa, gotta let my eyes adjust. What happened down there? Mr. Creed looks bothered. I'll tell you on the way. I need to see Creed for a sec.
Storytellers in Tristan might know something. Tristan... I've heard that name before. Where is it? Tristan is in North Parmecia. Well, we'll be on our way. Use some uh, magic to contact us if you find something. Oh hello Fairy. Um, you're blocking the doorway. Well wait, Fairy, one of the dwarves at the mine out east got sick and needs you. Oh, is a dwarf sick? Really? OK, I think I can help him. Bring me to him.
Oh it's you again Goliath. What is it now? My master would like to help you, Henroid. Please choose one. Hey those are the people from Desktop Kingdom and Floor World. I'm Kaseius, a knight. I was looking for a magic sword. I would do anything for Mr. Creed! Please, choose me. Hee, hee... I'm not only a dwarf, I'm Khavall. I'm known as the strongest warrior of my people. I'm Olivaw, a mage. I studied magic in Ponpei. I'll miss my friends, but if I can be of help, I'll go with you! I'm Frostey, a priest. I think I'm rather young for my profession.... I don't want to stay in this awful place forever. Choose me! I only get to choose one? What the hell is with Mr. Creed and this creepy collection he's running?
CHOOSE ONE INDEED. Readers, it is vote time again. This is a big vote however and not a classic yes-no vote. Here's the deal - I'm going to leave this vote open until Wednesday morning, to allow discussion to happen and people to do some reading and catch up as needed. Each of the characters above has described their class, and the short of it is that all of them are more powerful versions of currently enlisted characters. When voting for a character, color your post in the following ways: Kaseius votes are in lime. Khavall votes are in orange. Olivaw votes are in yellow. Frostey votes are in deepskyblue.
HenroidMexican kicked from Immigration ThreadCentrism is Racism :3Registered Userregular
edited May 2010
I set the vote to end on Wednesday because I've been trying to get people to read this bitch, and to let some people catch up and because it's a holiday weekend and people might not be around to read stuff 'til later. Wanna let people have a say.
Well, let's first strike out Kaseius and Khavall - too many knights in this game, and warrior/barons/gladiators are one of the more boring classes for me.
Olivaw works well as a Wizard, better complementing Adus as a Sorcerer. But by this time with promotions and leveling, I have Badman, Henroid, and Sollah as battle-mages (Blast-3 is a fairly decent whack), so having a second full time mage isn't as necessary.
Frostey, on the other hand, provides a useful role as a second healer, able to help maintain the party without depending entirely on Sollah. She also has Blast, so she still adds to the offensive slot. Her talents also don't require her to be promoted, so you can keep her as a priest until you get the second Vigor Ball if you like (though this may cause you to wait forever for Aura 2). I think Frostey adds the most to the team. Yes, she's overpowered, but if I left her behind, when you get her again, I'd rather not power level her to add her to the party, that's kinda having your cake and eating it too, by having two Creed's Mansion characters.
Rent I always keep you in my party! And I even give you the cool promotion item, too!
Now vote for Olivaw
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HenroidMexican kicked from Immigration ThreadCentrism is Racism :3Registered Userregular
edited May 2010
Well putting Pika into that last battle was because it was funny. :P
But seriously, the character Chester loses momentum. His only good stat gain is his HP, which isn't enough to save him from dying. I'm not kidding when I said he was taking 22-ish damage in that rat fight while leveling. I'd otherwise accept it if his attack output was amazing but it's not. It's on par with the group's medium range of attacks and it doesn't compensate for his fragility.
Yeah, it's been my experience that the RNG can be particularly harsh with Chester. He can either end up okay, with an attack and HP level that kind of offsets the low defense, or he can wind up awful, with a decent HP, average attack, and terrible defense.
It gets even worse for rent. Typically when you promote a knight to a pegasus knight they gain 5 def over the course of their career vs going for a Paladin in order to make up for the lack of terrain bonus....
Yeah, it's been my experience that the RNG can be particularly harsh with Chester. He can either end up okay, with an attack and HP level that kind of offsets the low defense, or he can wind up awful, with a decent HP, average attack, and terrible defense.
New advances in cutting the game to pieces show that this really isn't the case. The game has two mechanisms to do this.
1. The "target value" mechanism. Character progression is stored based on a starting value and a target value(within random values when you turn the cart on, but not that random). The chance that they will gain a bonus to an attribute is based on what their average value for the level should be and whether they're above or below it.
2. Promoting ignores ALL current statistics. Instead you get new stats @ 85% of the average value for your current level.
So if you do happen to have below average stats due to consistently bad rolling when you promote that will all go away. It also means that all stat boosting items are useless until you promote.
I do enjoy cutting games to pieces to find stuff like that out.
Poor Rent. Poor, poor, Rent. Even the game is against you Rent.
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HenroidMexican kicked from Immigration ThreadCentrism is Racism :3Registered Userregular
edited May 2010
New page benefits me from not having to allow images to load yay. Also here's the votes so far. Not many now but that's why I'm letting the vote continue into the week when people are reading at work. 1 Olivaw 2 Frostey 1 Kaseius None for Khavall
Aw, now I feel bad about my vote against Rent. Though to be fair, I was just giving him a hard time and it was more a vote for Kasieus because someone needs to handle all this raw danger.
Aw, now I feel bad about my vote against Rent. Though to be fair, I was just giving him a hard time and it was more a vote for Kasieus because someone needs to handle all this raw danger.
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HenroidMexican kicked from Immigration ThreadCentrism is Racism :3Registered Userregular
edited May 2010
I could always replace you, Adus, if it makes you feel better.
Are there any impressions you think you're missing from the game, gameplay wise?
I really don't know how anything works. I keep on hearing stuff about terrain bonus, terrain movement modifiers, and turn order, and promotions, but I don't know what any of that does
I mean, I can guess being a devout RPG fan, but still I really have no idea
What do you think of the OMG STORY so far?
Looks pretty dull and generic tbh, just your everyday RPG story
I read this LP because your commentary is great and I like seeing the inside jokes/forumer characterizations, not for the story
The game looks kinda fun though, where can I get it
Rent on
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HenroidMexican kicked from Immigration ThreadCentrism is Racism :3Registered Userregular
edited May 2010
In the next possible update I'll include something to more thoroughly explain things, then, as well as retroactively fit like the first update or the OP with that same information.
Edit - After some thinking, Rent isn't being removed at this juncture. Someone else on the team is getting the axe.
This is what I'm doing in my current game. Reason being is for a lot of the same reasons why you cut Rent - Chester's levelling path loses too much momentum compared to Rick and Eric. If I'm going to pick either one of my two knights, I'd rather pick the one with the better stats. At the same level of pre-promotion, Eric has the same attack, and 2 points higher defense, where Rick has 2 points lower attack and 4 points higher defense than Chester. That's a net of 2 higher stat points for both of them.
Tyrin was going to be my 2nd choice, but with Slade/Bowie/Sarah as pseudo-casters, having a full-time mage just isn't as important. Freyja will be joining my group shortly, so Karna's not so important. I hardly ever pick Randolf, as I have so many better fighters anyway.
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Just quote it and preview it; you don't have to do any 'favors' in quoting it and posting it again because that's going to fuck me when I try to view the thread again.
Edit - The best part is that you guys almost get to see these updates like I do minus the bbcode showing up front. I have awesome imagination.
You can't ever promote him, Henroid. Just bring him in from time to time so he can help.
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If anyone pisses me off, they get replaced by Pika. It's a deal.
CHOOSE ONE INDEED. Readers, it is vote time again. This is a big vote however and not a classic yes-no vote. Here's the deal - I'm going to leave this vote open until Wednesday morning, to allow discussion to happen and people to do some reading and catch up as needed. Each of the characters above has described their class, and the short of it is that all of them are more powerful versions of currently enlisted characters. When voting for a character, color your post in the following ways:
Kaseius votes are in lime.
Khavall votes are in orange.
Olivaw votes are in yellow.
Frostey votes are in deepskyblue.
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Because nothing is better than a second healer at this point.... not to mention the all round usefulness of Boost.
Items can (and should) pick up the slack for any healing that you need, and it's ages before you get another Vigor Ball, plus
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Olivaw works well as a Wizard, better complementing Adus as a Sorcerer. But by this time with promotions and leveling, I have Badman, Henroid, and Sollah as battle-mages (Blast-3 is a fairly decent whack), so having a second full time mage isn't as necessary.
Frostey, on the other hand, provides a useful role as a second healer, able to help maintain the party without depending entirely on Sollah. She also has Blast, so she still adds to the offensive slot. Her talents also don't require her to be promoted, so you can keep her as a priest until you get the second Vigor Ball if you like (though this may cause you to wait forever for Aura 2). I think Frostey adds the most to the team. Yes, she's overpowered, but if I left her behind, when you get her again, I'd rather not power level her to add her to the party, that's kinda having your cake and eating it too, by having two Creed's Mansion characters.
So let's add Frostey to the party.
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Just for that I'm voting Rent off the island. Also I play my hidden immunity idol which I found without any clues.
I was gonna vote for Olivaw or Khavall because they're cool people
Et tu, Adus?
There's a possibility that LewieP will be the next character to go after that. Or it might be JJ.
WHAT HAVE I DONE TO DESERVE YOUR IRE HENROID
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But seriously, the character Chester loses momentum. His only good stat gain is his HP, which isn't enough to save him from dying. I'm not kidding when I said he was taking 22-ish damage in that rat fight while leveling. I'd otherwise accept it if his attack output was amazing but it's not. It's on par with the group's medium range of attacks and it doesn't compensate for his fragility.
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Rent/Chester loses 5 def
New advances in cutting the game to pieces show that this really isn't the case. The game has two mechanisms to do this.
1. The "target value" mechanism. Character progression is stored based on a starting value and a target value(within random values when you turn the cart on, but not that random). The chance that they will gain a bonus to an attribute is based on what their average value for the level should be and whether they're above or below it.
2. Promoting ignores ALL current statistics. Instead you get new stats @ 85% of the average value for your current level.
So if you do happen to have below average stats due to consistently bad rolling when you promote that will all go away. It also means that all stat boosting items are useless until you promote.
Poor Rent. Poor, poor, Rent. Even the game is against you Rent.
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1 Olivaw
2 Frostey
1 Kaseius
None for Khavall
*This may or may not reflect Reynolds' actual opinion.
Edit - Oh hey, okay images should load properly now.
His weapons have a range of 2.
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Frostey-chu!
Happy Rent go
Are there any impressions you think you're missing from the game, gameplay wise?
What do you think of the OMG STORY so far?
I really don't know how anything works. I keep on hearing stuff about terrain bonus, terrain movement modifiers, and turn order, and promotions, but I don't know what any of that does
I mean, I can guess being a devout RPG fan, but still I really have no idea
Looks pretty dull and generic tbh, just your everyday RPG story
I read this LP because your commentary is great and I like seeing the inside jokes/forumer characterizations, not for the story
The game looks kinda fun though, where can I get it
Edit - After some thinking, Rent isn't being removed at this juncture. Someone else on the team is getting the axe.
This is what I'm doing in my current game. Reason being is for a lot of the same reasons why you cut Rent - Chester's levelling path loses too much momentum compared to Rick and Eric. If I'm going to pick either one of my two knights, I'd rather pick the one with the better stats. At the same level of pre-promotion, Eric has the same attack, and 2 points higher defense, where Rick has 2 points lower attack and 4 points higher defense than Chester. That's a net of 2 higher stat points for both of them.
Tyrin was going to be my 2nd choice, but with Slade/Bowie/Sarah as pseudo-casters, having a full-time mage just isn't as important. Freyja will be joining my group shortly, so Karna's not so important. I hardly ever pick Randolf, as I have so many better fighters anyway.
Mmmmm....toasty.
I have never chosen the centaur. Which means I am going to vote for him
I don't know why you can't too Kaseius