Day #85 Recap (FF IV: The After Years)

Current Game: Final Fantasy IV: The Complete Collection (The After Years)

Total Complete Collection Play Time: 33:21
The After Years Play Time: 2:40

Interlude Play Time: 2:34(finished)
Main Game Play Time: 24:48(finished)
Side Run Play Time: 3:19(finished)
Total Play Time - 179:22

Current Game Overs - 0
Total Game Overs:10

Where I Currently Am: Challenge Cave (Ceodore's Tale)
Bosses Killed Today: Tunneler, Adamantite Golem(x3)

Current Setup:

Hooded Man - ??? - Lv 32
HP: 1456 MP: 61
Str: 36 Spd: 25 Sta: 27 Int: 8 Spr: 20
Atk: 6x - 64 Acc - 97% Def: 4x - 34 Eva: 35% MgD: 0x - 4 MgE - 5%

Equipment: Large Shield, Falchion, Turban, Training Garb, Power Armlet
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Ceodore - Red Wings - Lv 32
HP: 1031 MP: 178
Str: 23 Spd: 24 Sta: 21 Int: 12 Spr: 24
Atk: 4x - 63 Acc - 88% Def: 5x - 36 Eva: 26% MgD: 1x - 8 MgE - 9%

Equipment: Mythril Sword, Mythril Shield, Steel Helm, Chainmail, Mythril Gloves

White Magic: Cure, Libra, Protect, Raise, Cura, Esuna, Float

Status + Notes:

First off, my apologies for this being a couple days late. We've been doing some renovations at my house, and we had to disconnect our internet over the weekend.

So, anyway, back to game events. Finished up Ceodore's Tale. Some good fun basic stuff, started the "postgame". Lemme explain how The After Years works. You are supposed to play through the tale, and then once your done, you can speak to "Challengingway" who opens up a dungeon that you can go through for a couple of reasons. 1. You can level the characters to cap (Level 50). 2. You can get some better gear by completing the dungeon... which you have to do 10 times. Yeah, the reason for this is that the chapters originally were released over time. So this gave you something to do while you waited for the new chapters to come out.

Also, there's a rare mob you can hunt that only comes out during a certain phase of the moon that has a very small chance of dropping a tail which you can trade in later in the game for a special accessory. Very similar to in Dimensions, I'm going to give this a try today.

Spoiler Alert... Sarcastic Plot Developments of the Day:

So, Ceodore, Hoodie, and Mage 1 and Mage 2 entered the Devil Road. Which is no longer a serene trip between Mysidia and Baron. Oh no, apparently someone decided to build a teleporter maze int here, and some kind of weird pathing maze... my money is on Palom. I bet he got bored and built all that stuff there, and let the monsters invade. So, after navigating that stuff, we end up in Baron Town. Ceodore walks up to the castle, and the knights in black armor are all like, "None shall pass!!!" and Ceodore is all like, "Yo, don't you know who I am!", But the knights say "None shall pass!" So, Hoodie, drags Ceodore away and says its no use. So, they head back to town and poke Cid's daughter until she gives up the key to the Baron Waterway.

Unlike the Devil Road, the Baron Waterway hasn't changed at all over the last 18 years. So we run through there and get to the castle. Ceodore runs off to look his family, and Mage 1 and Mage 2 are like, umm, "We were only hired to get you here" And Hoodie's like that's great, see ya. So, they leave, and Hoodie heads to the throne room, where he bumps in to Cecil. Cecil is like "Do I know you?". Hoodies's like "Nope." and leaves and bumps into Ceodore again. They run away towards the Mist Cave, while Cecil sends some unnamed lackeys after them... they probably are wearing red shirts too.

So, they head to the Mist Cave, and first run into Namingway, who's bored of naming things and has created a super secret dungeon, which he won't let us into until we destroy the PLOT WALL that's blocking us, oh well... So we continue on and discover that the Mist Cave has a basement!!! Where was that 18 years ago? After finding many secret passages, they get back to the Mist Cave we all know and love. except the lackeys have caught up! And apparently some lackeys came from Mist Village too, because as we all know, news travels faster than we do. They'd catch us, however, they do not expect the power of the DEUS EX MACHINA!!!! The mist, at that very moment decides to thicken and conceal Ceodore and Hoodie. Both sets of lackeys decide to run around the cave to find them... ya know, lets not bar the entrances or anything... and Ceodore and Hoodie escape to Mist. We'd find out what happens next except that it is now the END OF CHAPTER!!!!

TO BE CONTINUED!!!