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xaq_the_aereonAs last night's bizarre dream would attest to.
Dreamt I was in an MMORPG based heavily off of Final Fantasy VI. I was taking part in a rather sizable raid in the World of Ruin, with "sizable" in this case translating a sixteen-hundred man group, all working to take out a creature out in the Veldt known as a God-Behemoth. As this all looked more like World of Warcraft than FF6, the pan-out shot my mind did to show this creature put it in very nice perspective...by the time it had zoomed out far enough to see all of this thing, you could see the entirety of the Veldt. This thing was gargantuan, it was worth a crapton of goodies, gil, and experience, and I was dead-set determined to kill it.
There was one minor miscalculation on my part, however...while I did have 1,599 other characters helping me try to take this thing down, they were all Lv 1 NPC Moogles with no equipment. (I myself was playing a Lv 67 Figaroan Engineer, having skills akin to Edgar.)
When we finally found the place where it spawned and initiated combat, I was fortunate enough (due to having the Haste-inducing Running Shoes equipped) to get the first move, but I had already seen its targeting cursor flash on the whole party, and immediately realized that whatever it was doing, this thing's first move was going to vaporize the whole lot of us even divvied up 40 ways squared. So, I cast the only thing I can think of to buy any amount of time: Quick. In a flash, the actions of the God-Behemoth and all the Moogles around me come to a screeching halt, giving me 2 free turns without anyone else getting an action.
First turn: Cast Scan on the God-Behemoth. Notice it has 8-digit HP, insanely high MP, and is only weak against Lightning-element attacks.
I figure I could try Bolt3ing him to death after my party gets wiped immediately following my last free turn, but then my thumb slips and my cursor jumps up to the slot dedicated to which Esper you can summon. It's then that I see the solution...apparently partway through this dream, I had decided to start teaching my character Carbuncle's techniques, meaning I could summon it and cast Reflect on my whole party. I figure that'll buy us enough time, perhaps, to get the hell out of there.
Then I remember a glitch in the game mechanics: When a spell is cast against multiple targets, and one of the weakened bits of the spell reflects back off one of them, the reflection hits at full force.
One Ruby Flash later, and Quick's time-freeze ends, allowing the God-Behemoth's action to go off...and cast Bolt4 (yes, I know it only went up to 3 in FF6) against the whole party.
End result? Sucker hits itself with the most powerful spell in the element it's weak against, at the greatest amount of power possible, one thousand six hundred times over.
The sky flashes, it crashes to the ground and fades away...and I wake up. Dammit.
Dreamt I was in an MMORPG based heavily off of Final Fantasy VI. I was taking part in a rather sizable raid in the World of Ruin, with "sizable" in this case translating a sixteen-hundred man group, all working to take out a creature out in the Veldt known as a God-Behemoth. As this all looked more like World of Warcraft than FF6, the pan-out shot my mind did to show this creature put it in very nice perspective...by the time it had zoomed out far enough to see all of this thing, you could see the entirety of the Veldt. This thing was gargantuan, it was worth a crapton of goodies, gil, and experience, and I was dead-set determined to kill it.
There was one minor miscalculation on my part, however...while I did have 1,599 other characters helping me try to take this thing down, they were all Lv 1 NPC Moogles with no equipment. (I myself was playing a Lv 67 Figaroan Engineer, having skills akin to Edgar.)
When we finally found the place where it spawned and initiated combat, I was fortunate enough (due to having the Haste-inducing Running Shoes equipped) to get the first move, but I had already seen its targeting cursor flash on the whole party, and immediately realized that whatever it was doing, this thing's first move was going to vaporize the whole lot of us even divvied up 40 ways squared. So, I cast the only thing I can think of to buy any amount of time: Quick. In a flash, the actions of the God-Behemoth and all the Moogles around me come to a screeching halt, giving me 2 free turns without anyone else getting an action.
First turn: Cast Scan on the God-Behemoth. Notice it has 8-digit HP, insanely high MP, and is only weak against Lightning-element attacks.
I figure I could try Bolt3ing him to death after my party gets wiped immediately following my last free turn, but then my thumb slips and my cursor jumps up to the slot dedicated to which Esper you can summon. It's then that I see the solution...apparently partway through this dream, I had decided to start teaching my character Carbuncle's techniques, meaning I could summon it and cast Reflect on my whole party. I figure that'll buy us enough time, perhaps, to get the hell out of there.
Then I remember a glitch in the game mechanics: When a spell is cast against multiple targets, and one of the weakened bits of the spell reflects back off one of them, the reflection hits at full force.
One Ruby Flash later, and Quick's time-freeze ends, allowing the God-Behemoth's action to go off...and cast Bolt4 (yes, I know it only went up to 3 in FF6) against the whole party.
End result? Sucker hits itself with the most powerful spell in the element it's weak against, at the greatest amount of power possible, one thousand six hundred times over.
The sky flashes, it crashes to the ground and fades away...and I wake up. Dammit.
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Date: 7/24/10 12:21 (UTC)no subject
Date: 7/25/10 06:19 (UTC)Still, screw the aftermath, I'm pissed that I didn't get to see any of the swag I got from that fight! D: