Final Fantasy: Lost in Japanese

Way back on Bartz’s World, when we first entered the desert south of Karnak, we got ambushed by a ferocious creature that wiped us out before we knew what hit us. Tonight, we nearly had the same thing happen again.

We headed east from the Sealed Castle. We were looking for some sort of clue as to how to advance the story, but there doesn’t seem to be any structures left on our world map that we can reach on this continent. Finally, we come to a small forest. Inside, we come upon a Moogle, a small creature that reminds me of a jigglypuff. The creature flees, jumps into a hole in the ground, and disappears. Humm. Rather than follow him at the moment, I decide to continue a bit more past the forest.

Past the forest is a large desert, which we enter. As on Bartz’s World, we are immediately attacked by a vicious creature—a huge, stubbornly durable sandworm that casts a wind spell that reduces everyone in our party to just s few hitpoints. Eek!

I figure we’re dead yet again, but I decide to go down with a fight. I frantically revive our fallen party members when they go down, and we do our best to damage our tough foe. Almost every round we lose someone to a hit from the beast. We can’t build up any sort of hit point base, as the worm keeps casting that tornado spell that takes nearly all of our hit points away. I set Lenna to casting “Revive” spells as fast as she can, but no matter how much damage we put on the sandworm, the thing just won’t fall. After a bit, Lenna runs out of magic points, and we start burning through our valuable Phoenix Downs to revive our dead.

Finally, however, just as I’m wondering whether we can ever win, the creature falls to a nasty hit from Bartz! Whew! We hang on and win!

Thinking that further exploration in this desert might be a bad idea, we turn back to the Moogle Forest and head inside. We’ll jump down that hole and see where that leads tomorrow.

Status: Killing Stuff with a Purpose