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freshfeelingThe fifth session of play in the quest of the voweless knights was played on January 14, 2022. I am going to do this particular entry a bit differently, owing to the little subtitle you can probably see here on the embedded YouTube video:
You can see there it says, "Zero Progress". This session was nearly 3 hours of unsuccessful attempts at the Temple of Fiends of the Past without grinding, so the team was still around level 18 as they were in the previous session. Consequently, I'll be brief here, itemizing the attempts - in some cases linking to a timestamp in the video where that attempt ended - rather than embedding a ton of images.
Attempt #1 happened in the previous session.
Attempt #2: I reset in the second battle when four Frost Ds got an ambush on me and started with a high-damage Blizzard. This is actually pretty close to normal when you start from a fresh power-on.
Attempt #3: I reset on the 2nd floor when Gas Ds opened with a bunch of high-damage Poison attacks. I realized this was going to keep happening because of my hard resets, which I'm going to try to manage going forward.
Attempt #4: We passed the Phantom in good shape. When we encountered unrunnable, physical-oriented enemies like Worms and Earths, I did a combo of White Shirt and healing itemcasts to get our HP back up. Lich's NUKE damage was on the high end but we all pulled through. Kary smacked No A around but we pulled through that, too. Everyone survived Kraken, too. Then out of nowhere, all four knights got instakilled by Sorcerers on the air floor.
Attempt #5: Phantom used ZAP! and killed No I and No O.
Attempt #6: There was a pretty interesting fight with Mages and a Fighter where we got to see two different buggy spell effects play out. Lich NUKEd us but we all survived. Kary wasn't much of a problem. A pack of Waters killed No I immediately before Kraken, which also meant I absentmindedly left No A in the top slot for the Kraken fight. Then Kraken one-shot No O on round 1 from full HP. With No O and No I dead, we've lost access to all of our in-battle healing. Kraken still killed No E before No A was able to beat him. No A was killed by Tiamat.
Attempt #7: We beat Lich without a NUKE this time. Kary nearly defeated No A, but not quite. We stalled quite a bit in the Kraken battle and pulled through without any casualties. For the first time we, we got the Masmune - and with all characters alive! The very next battle was seven Sorcerers who Tranced the entire party before we could get a command off, and then instakilled all four knights. Immediately after getting Masmune.
Attempt #8: No I got affected by the Phantom's ZAP! and I decided to restart.
Attempt #9: The team got wrecked by Gas Ds' Poison attacks before Phantom, including No O dying. I decided to restart.
Attempt #10: We got ambushed by Mages and a Fighter who used RUB successfully on No I before Phantom, and I decided to restart.
Attempt #11: We got affected by Gas Ds' Poison almost right away, including No I dying. I said, "We're not taking a loss this early."
Attempt #12: No O (the Excalibur guy) got affected by the Phantom's ZAP! and I decided to restart.
Attempt #13: Finally, we got to see Lich with four knights again! And we managed to circumvent NUKE too. We beat Kary in one round, although she got a FIR3 in. Kraken swatted No A and killed him, despite ample health and evasion boosts, but the rest of the team was in good enough shape. We got Masmune for No I and then headed back toward Tiamat. With Tiamat, we cast ALIT right before she used Thunder, which was quite satisfying. Tiamat used BANE and killed No I, but was defeated by No E and No O. I should've remembered to move the Masmune from No I to No O, but I didn't.
We got to Chaos for the first time! Unfortunately, only two knights were alive. No O was defeated by elemental attacks after a few rounds, and No E was affected by SLO2. I let it play out and, well, No E didn't win. The CUR4 that Chaos used certainly didn't help.
Then I said... "One more run, but the run only counts if all four characters are alive by Lich."
Attempt #14: Phantom was no problem. No I was petrified by GrMedusas before Lich, but we got that fixed up. Lich hit us with NUKE, and it was quite damaging but we all pulled through. Kary used RUB on turn 2 on No O successfully, which was bad. I didn't even know Kary could do that. Kraken took out the rest of the team with its mighty tentacle blows.
Well... that's that for now. I have to consider some balance of how worthwhile it is to level up and how much patience we have for these attempts. We only actually reached the endboss once.
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You can see there it says, "Zero Progress". This session was nearly 3 hours of unsuccessful attempts at the Temple of Fiends of the Past without grinding, so the team was still around level 18 as they were in the previous session. Consequently, I'll be brief here, itemizing the attempts - in some cases linking to a timestamp in the video where that attempt ended - rather than embedding a ton of images.
Attempt #1 happened in the previous session.
Attempt #2: I reset in the second battle when four Frost Ds got an ambush on me and started with a high-damage Blizzard. This is actually pretty close to normal when you start from a fresh power-on.
Attempt #3: I reset on the 2nd floor when Gas Ds opened with a bunch of high-damage Poison attacks. I realized this was going to keep happening because of my hard resets, which I'm going to try to manage going forward.
Attempt #4: We passed the Phantom in good shape. When we encountered unrunnable, physical-oriented enemies like Worms and Earths, I did a combo of White Shirt and healing itemcasts to get our HP back up. Lich's NUKE damage was on the high end but we all pulled through. Kary smacked No A around but we pulled through that, too. Everyone survived Kraken, too. Then out of nowhere, all four knights got instakilled by Sorcerers on the air floor.
Attempt #5: Phantom used ZAP! and killed No I and No O.
Attempt #6: There was a pretty interesting fight with Mages and a Fighter where we got to see two different buggy spell effects play out. Lich NUKEd us but we all survived. Kary wasn't much of a problem. A pack of Waters killed No I immediately before Kraken, which also meant I absentmindedly left No A in the top slot for the Kraken fight. Then Kraken one-shot No O on round 1 from full HP. With No O and No I dead, we've lost access to all of our in-battle healing. Kraken still killed No E before No A was able to beat him. No A was killed by Tiamat.
Attempt #7: We beat Lich without a NUKE this time. Kary nearly defeated No A, but not quite. We stalled quite a bit in the Kraken battle and pulled through without any casualties. For the first time we, we got the Masmune - and with all characters alive! The very next battle was seven Sorcerers who Tranced the entire party before we could get a command off, and then instakilled all four knights. Immediately after getting Masmune.
Attempt #8: No I got affected by the Phantom's ZAP! and I decided to restart.
Attempt #9: The team got wrecked by Gas Ds' Poison attacks before Phantom, including No O dying. I decided to restart.
Attempt #10: We got ambushed by Mages and a Fighter who used RUB successfully on No I before Phantom, and I decided to restart.
Attempt #11: We got affected by Gas Ds' Poison almost right away, including No I dying. I said, "We're not taking a loss this early."
Attempt #12: No O (the Excalibur guy) got affected by the Phantom's ZAP! and I decided to restart.
Attempt #13: Finally, we got to see Lich with four knights again! And we managed to circumvent NUKE too. We beat Kary in one round, although she got a FIR3 in. Kraken swatted No A and killed him, despite ample health and evasion boosts, but the rest of the team was in good enough shape. We got Masmune for No I and then headed back toward Tiamat. With Tiamat, we cast ALIT right before she used Thunder, which was quite satisfying. Tiamat used BANE and killed No I, but was defeated by No E and No O. I should've remembered to move the Masmune from No I to No O, but I didn't.
We got to Chaos for the first time! Unfortunately, only two knights were alive. No O was defeated by elemental attacks after a few rounds, and No E was affected by SLO2. I let it play out and, well, No E didn't win. The CUR4 that Chaos used certainly didn't help.
Then I said... "One more run, but the run only counts if all four characters are alive by Lich."
Attempt #14: Phantom was no problem. No I was petrified by GrMedusas before Lich, but we got that fixed up. Lich hit us with NUKE, and it was quite damaging but we all pulled through. Kary used RUB on turn 2 on No O successfully, which was bad. I didn't even know Kary could do that. Kraken took out the rest of the team with its mighty tentacle blows.
Well... that's that for now. I have to consider some balance of how worthwhile it is to level up and how much patience we have for these attempts. We only actually reached the endboss once.
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