Day #292 Recap (Final Fantasy IX)

Current Game: Final Fantasy IX

Current Play Time: 7:54
Total Play Time - 608:38
Current Game Overs - 0
Total Game Overs: 59

Where I Currently Am: Gizmaluke's Grotto
Stuff Did Today: Finished digging up Chocographs in the Chocobo Forest and then found the first two related treasures. Next, I went over to Qu's Marsh where I met Quina and caught a frog for it. It's chef friend told it to go see the world. Vivi wondered if it knew his grandpa. So, we went around and ate some enemies and Quina learned some Blue Magic... then we headed over to the entrance of Gizmaluke's Grotto

Current Setup:

Zidane - Lv 13
HP - 617 MP - 64
Equipped Passive Abilities: Beast Killer, Add Status, Flee-Gil, Insomniac, Bright Eyes, Bandit
Equipment: The OGre, Steepled Hat, Glass Armlet, Leather Plate, Coral Ring

Speed: 24 Strength: 26 Magic: 22 Spirit: 26
Attack: 24 Defense: 8 Evade: 10 Magic Def: 9 Magic Eva: 10

Learned Active Abilities: Flee, Detect, What's That, Soul Blade(L)
Learned Passive Abilities: Bird Killer, Undead Killer, Beast Killer, Steal Gil, Add Status, Protect Girls, Flee-Gil, Antibody, Bright Eyes, Jelly, Bandit

Vivi - Lv 10
HP - 310 MP - 75
Equipped Passive Abilties: Add Status, Antibody
Equipment: Mage Staff, Steepled Hat, Glass Armlet, Cotton Robe, Desert Boots

Speed: 17 Strength: 18 Magic: 30 Spirit: 21
Attack: 12 Defense: 10 Evade: 12 Magic Def: 11 Magic Eva: 7

Learned Active Abilities: Fire, Blizzard, Thunder
Learned Passive Abilities: Add Status, Antibody

Freya - Lv 13
HP - 623 MP - 55
Equipped Passive Abilties: HP +10%, Cover, Level Up, Insomniac
Equipment: Javelin, Iron Helm, Silver Gloves, Linen Cuirass, Germinas Boots

Speed: 21 Strength: 24 Magic: 20 Spirit: 24
Attack: 18 Defense: 10 Evade: 12 Magic Def: 7 Magic Eva: 5

Learned Active Abilities: Lancer
Learned Passive Abilities: Bug Killer, Man Eater, Cover, Level Up, Insomniac, Antibody, Bright Eyes

Quina - Lv 11
HP - 446 MP - 63
Equipped Passive Abilties: High Tide, Millionaire, Antibody
Equipment: Needle Fork, Steepled Hat, Glass Armlet, Bronze Vest, Yellow Scarf

Speed: 15 Strength: 24 Magic: 23 Spirit: 13
Attack: 34 Defense: 9 Evade: 10 Magic Def: 11 Magic Eva: 7

Learned Active Abilities: LV3 Def-less, Aqua Breath, Mighty Guard, Limit Glove, Angel's Snack, Frog Drop, Vanish, Mustard Bomb
Learned Passive Abilities: Add Status, Antibody

Not Currently In Party:

Steiner - Lv 6
HP - 183 MP - 25
Equipped Abilities: Bird Killer, Bug Killer, Antibody
Equipment: Iron Sword, Bronze Helm, Bronze Gloves, Bronze Armor

Speed: 18 Strength: 25 Magic: 13 Spirit: 22
Attack: 16 Defense: 9 Evade: 8 Magic Def: 6 Magic Eva: 2

Learned Active Abilities: Minus Strike,
Learned Passive Abilities: Bird Killer, Antibody

Dagger - Lv 5
HP - 159 MP - 54
Equipped Abilities: None
Equipment: Rod, Leather Hat, Leather Wrist, Silk Shirt, Moonstone

Speed: 21 Strength: 15 Magic: 24 Spirit: 18
Attack: 11 Defense: 7 Evade: 7 Magic Def: 6 Magic Eva: 5

Learned Abilities: Shiva, Ifrit, Atomos, Odin, Bahamut, Cure, Panacea, Protect(L), Shell(L)

Tetra Master:
6x Goblin 0P00
5x Fang 0P00
Skeleton 0P00
4x Flan 0M00 - 0M01
Zaghnol - 0P00
5xLizard Man 0P00
Zombie 0M00
2xBomb 0M00 - 1M00
Ironite 1P10
Sahagin 1P00 
Mimic 0M11

Chocobo:
Type - Yellow
Beak Level - 17
Chocotreasures dug up - Streamside, Between Mountains
Chocograph Inventory - Uncultivated Land, Healing Shore, Abandoned Beach, Cold Field, Faraway Lagoon, Bird's Eye Lagoon, Small Beach

Status & Notes: 

So, actually, a less productive day than initially thought. Couple of reasons. Right around when I was planning on beginning my evening play session, our power went out for an hour... not exactly sure why... but anyway, after it came back on, I decided to try out Diablo III v2 for a bit, since it came out yesterday. I have to say they made some big improvements in that game, and I'm looking forward to Reaper of Souls and trying out some of the new game modes and what not.

Again, also, I REALLY underestimated the amount of time I was going to need to spend on sidequests here. Makes sense though, you're starting out on probably two of the biggest sidequests of the game, learning all the Blue Magic and digging up all the Chocotreasures. Starts you off with a big chunk, and then you continue gradually throughout the game, as you will see.

So, goal for today is to get through Disc 1, and maybe even start Disc 2 a bit... and maybe to play a little more Diablo III... we'll see how it goes...