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Dark Crystal Age of Resistance Tactics liveblog pt 7

So after wandering around the desert for a while, beating up random people to prove my mettle, I finally get back to the plot where I beat up random people to prove my mettle.

But I also. Finally. Get to the circle of the suns! And beat up some more people!

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Desert Ambush

Windswept Waste

"The heroes are sent on a final task for the elders. They must complete it quickly. A storm brews on the horizon."

I like the final task part. Sounds like I'll get to meet SkekGra and urGoh soon.

Eesh thats a lot of darkened Nurloc.

This looks like a job for Alyadon, Rian, Brea, and Rek'yr. That works out pretty good in terms of people actually involved in this part of the show and also Alyadon is there.

Annnnnd. Died again. Maybe I do need to barfight level grind?

I think my downfall was when I let the baby nurloc summon help instead of immediately beating it to death...

Trying again but with Deet because Deet makes everything better.

And indeed Deet made everything better! By poisoning everything!

Huh.

Sweet! Alyadon and Rian levelled up. But I also got a Sand-Etched Tabar! A tabar is apparently a saddle axe. And is the axe of the Dousan clan!

I don't really like axes because they increase the time between turns for the character that equips them but its nice to have. I'm starting quite a collection between this and the Crystal Cutter, dagger of the Dousan clan.

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And the game pulls me right into the Heretic and the Wanderer's puppet show. Doesn't explain the context of these two at all. Weird priority, game.

You really are expected to already know the story if you have this game. WHICH TO BE FAIR.

Ah, well. At least the Dual Glaive makes more sense in video game logic. Super cool endgame sword. I can dig it.

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Did the non-random encounter by Chamberlain's coach.

Fought some spiders. Got some level ups.

Rek'yr learned Vault which taught him to do a sweet jump. Hup learned Discipline. Boggi learned Ankle Bite. Brea learned Thorns which turns her into a prickly customer. And Deet learned Blinding Light. Which lets her make a light, to blind.

And I scored some Aged Hides! Gonna slap Alyadon in these so she stops dying as much!

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Shattered Reflections: Circle of the Suns

"The heroes' visit at the Circle of the Suns is interrupted by a familiar foe. Luckily, this time they have help."

Okay here I go! Gonna beat up the Hunter for the second time!

WHY DOES HE HAVE SPIDER- oh right the Arathim were working with the Skeksis at this point. Not sure how the Hunter found out and recruited a few but look, he'd look silly being alone.

Especially because I have urVa the Archer WHAAAAAT

I get an urRu!?

Good god, this guy

He's only got two abilities and both have infinite range. Because archer. He can mark targets. And he can shoot them really hard.

And I hope there's a mechanic where him shooting the Hunter hurts himself. You gotta have that. You just gotta.

Not that I WANT bad things for urVa. Its just that thats how things work and it'd be neat to see that in game.

Fittingly, even though he has infinite range, urVa can only move two spaces a turn and doesn't get as many turns as others. Because urRu are slow.

Although with how things are, I wouldn't be surprised if there was an urRu specifically called the Jogger. There's a Swimmer.

So of course I have to go with Rian, Deet, Brea, and Hup. They’re in an elite club I call “actually present for this in the show.” Since I get one more, Boggi. Good fizzgig, best friend.

SkekMal: "I've come for my trophy! There's no place in Thra you can hide from me!"

Rian: "The Hunter is too powerful! The Arathim... Target them first!"

Weirdly aware of game tactics, Rian.

Oh. And the victory condition is just the beat all the Arathim. I guess they didn't beat the Hunter in this part of the story. He just got shot a lot, by himself, while the Gelfling flailed about.

urVa: "Gelfling, my bow is at your command! Mark any target and I shall strike it with my arrows!"

Oh, so that's how this works.

Wait, did I bring anyone that has Mark in their abilities? ... Dernit.

Then urVa just goes ahead and marks the Hunter. So. I guess. He knows what he's doing.

Of course Hunter does his big jump on his first turn.

So I killed most of the Arathim pretty quickly and figured I'd save one and then just start beating on the Hunter to see if anything fun pops out.

He summons more spiders. Why are there so many spiders.

I've been hitting SkekMal for a while and it doesn't seem to affect the Archer. Ah well.

Poor Boggi, a victim of my own hubris. I've been dragging this on so long.

And Brea gets the last hit on the Hunter with firemoss. Try kidnapping her now!

Apparently beating up the Hunter sufficiently is a secret backup win condition because the level ends.

I sure did it.

Ooo and I got the Hunter's Cloak!

Another Skeksis who lost their clothes. Chamberlain is just glad it wasn't him a second time.

Hunter's Cloak. "SkekMal... He is violent. Savage! Handsome, once." - Aughra. I had forgotten about the comment she made in the show.

Simmer down, Aughra.

Rian learned Reckless Blow (decreased accuracy, increased damage), Brea learned Cascade (blows up everything on every diagonal from Brea, goodness gracious).

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And we automatically go over to Stone-in-the-wood for a cutscene about the Stonewood being taken by spiders. Maudra Fara is not pleased.

The slightly uncanny art style for Gelflings really works for this. Spider!Tavra is creepy.

Wait, I have a sudden suspicion that this is going to be used to justify why I'm still beating up Gelfling in the latter half of the game.

TACTICS! -shakes fist-

Archer: "Search for the Dual Glaive... where the three brothers dare not shine"

Deet: "The Caves of Grot! Let's go! I can show you all my home!" -map pans over to big obvious cave-

Also, I now have to Unite the Clans

Brea: "We'll need a strong warrior to persuade the Drenchen"

Gurjin: "I know just the one"

Brea: "Exactly! So, Naia, what do you think we should do?"

Hahahah poor Gurjin

Hmm. It seems like sidequests. Uh. More proving my mettle? The available missions are Mistaken Identity where I have to investigate missing Drenchen or Bogged Down where I investigate rumors of a Skeksis Lord.

Iiiiits Chamberlain. Still wandering around after that drubbing I gave him. There's even a little cutscene, fresh material not from the show. Some Drenchen find the Chamberlain and not knowing about the age of resistance, offer to help them. While he's all moohaha mustache twirl, gonna drink these people after they help me back to the castle.

That's our Chamberlain.

There's also the Threaded, where we seek out the Dual Glaive.

There's a lot of choices right now. Like choosing who gets the cloak.

I'm going to give it to Rian. It won't make up for the dead dad thing but it might help.

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