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Looks like I'll finish my draft either today or in the next couple of days. As my computer can't handle too much work at once, I'm probably cutting out Miranda commentary entirely (sorry) since it is a good deal of effort trying to look up quotes to use if I don't know them by heart (and I DO know plenty by heart, but not enough, and it would be forced). I'll try throwing in some Tiki-like commentary where I give my opinion on a chapter/it's place in the plot and such (love your commentary, Tiki! Love seeing everyone's commentary, really) but it'll likely be more about the chapter design so it's something a little different at least.

Onto the update!

In this segment I recruit probably my favorite of the second generation characters and start having her rock it!

Paralogue 17: The Threat of Silence
Turns: 7, 0 count
Total Turns: 51 still
Heroes: Lucina and Laurent

Seems I only go to the Paralogues when I NEED resources or abilities I don't have to complete the actual chapters. Otherwise, I'd go straight through the next main chapter and save the Paralogue for a rainy day. This was no exception; I'd have put Walhart in his place first, but to do it in the minimum number of turns I'd require a second Galeforce unit. Which means it's time to recruit Severa. Which means I need Cordelia and Lon'qu to get hitched ASAP. Fortunately, they're already close to it, so I did this Paralogue to have them go all the way. I wanted to focus on Lon'qu as much as possible since he hasn't even promoted yet and the more levels he gets, the higher Severa's base stats will be, and I fed him all I could, but unfortunately, the way this map plays leaves it partially out of my hands since the map is mostly Enemy Phase driven. He got as many kills as I could feed him on the Player Phase though, and DID get enough to promote to Griffon Rider once it was complete (and he also got to kill the boss). Lucina is the one who stole the show though. While I'm busy protecting Miss Tiki with the typical V-formation, damn near everything targetted her. I'm not sure why. There were certainly less harmful units, what with Lucina carrying that effective-against-dragons 14 mt Parallel Falchion of hers. She hit level 20, promoted, and then hit level 3 as a Great Lord. It was crazy. Her support partner was Laurent because he was who was available, but he did boost the extra damage she'd cause from Ignis, at least (and they unlocked their C support from the chapter). Retrospectively, I should've given her a Bronze Sword so she'd hopefully kill less and let Lon'qu kill more, but 20/20 hindsight, as always. Lon'qu and Cordelia finally tie the knot and Lon'qu hit level 10 and promotes finally. Off to get the fabulous Severa.

Map commentary in purple. For distinction (and for Plegia!), and because I'll miss the Miranda commentary. Awakening gets (quite justifiably) ragged on for only featuring Rout and Defeat Commander objectives. AND for lackluster map design. Well for a "Rout" map, the objective may as well be "Defend Tiki for 7 turns" (although I have heard of the chapter being one-turned on Hard mode with the right units). Even if you're in range, the enemies just ignore your units to hone in on Tiki if at all possible. This isn't the only map that plays more like a Defend map, either. There's Chapter 6 where you have to defend Emmeryn, and to a much looser degree, Brady's Paralogue has defend elements in it sort of, too. But Brady's can rather easily be one turned, being a Defeat Commander chapter (then again: so can 2-Endgame of FE10, which IS a Defend map). And arguably, a "Rout" objective works better here than some actual Defend maps in the series since there are examples like the 2-Endgame where the map ends early if you defeat the boss. So credit where it's due: Awakening DOES have a couple of Defend sort of chapters. The map is super open, which is typically criticized since that's pretty often the case with Awakening, but it's actually to this map's advantage. Choke points and such make Defend maps easier. The openness of this map actually forces you to ******** DEFEND Tiki. In the entirety of the FE series, I can think of very few Defend maps where it's not possible to go on the offensive leaving the throne or whatever it is you're defending completely unguarded and be more successful as a result of taking an offensive approach. Unless you're going for the tricky 1-turn of this map (I've never done it, myself), this map pretty much forces you to actually play defensively, so it's arguably one of the most successful "Defend" (by another name) maps in the series. And I've mentioned this before, but it makes things substantially easier if you Rescue Tiki to move her up a space (and ideally either more left or right so your formation can have at least one person standing on a Forest square).

Paralogue 10: Ambivalence
Turns: 13, 0 count
Total Turns: 51 still
Heroes: Lon'qu & Cordelia

Yay! Severa! My ice-queen of mean. I love Severa, so to be able to use her in a draft and have her be important to the draft is great for me. Before starting the chapter, I was figuring out what skill to have Lon'qu pass between Avoid +10, Vantage, and Strength+2. Vantage sounds like the most powerful skill, because it is, but I actually went with the Strength+2, which I find kind of hilarious. But it actually benefits me more than Vantage. I need Severa to be able to reliably kill things since she's my second Galeforce unit and you need to kill to activate it and more strength helps more than Vantage would to accomplish that. Got her to level 12 and had her kill the boss, too, since she'll be insta-promoted right after this level. I also got all the treasure (which included a Levin Sword much to my delight: this gives Anna great 1-2 offense for the rest of the draft, probably), unlocked Speed Rally on Cordelia and Magic Rally on Laurent and unlocked a Miranda/Lucina B support.



I just wrote the rest of this update with a lot to say, and it got deleted. ******** it. Here's the newly abridged version:

Chapter 20: The Sword or The Knee
Turns: 1
Total Turns: 52
Heroes: Cordelia and Severa

Miranda kills Cervantes (thanks for the Dracoshield), Severa kills Excellus (thanks for Bolganone), and Cordelia kills Walhart (thanks for the probably entirely unneeded extra gold). Moving on.

I talked s**t about the Valm arc and disappointment with this map design. Moving on.

Chapter 21: Five Gemstones
Turns: 1
Total Turns: 53
Heroes: Cordelia and Severa

Severa kills the boss and earned 2 level ups in the chapter. Anna/Miranda C and Cordelia/Severa B supports unlocked.

I went on and on about how this is my favorite chapter in the entire game for it's design. OH WELL.

Next update will be the last and feature character analyses.

This update happens a lot of it compared to gameplay due to the nature of the chapters, but I love seeing commentary and I love seeing opinions. For all y'all.
Don't worry FD, I'll give Valm a few knocks for you.

Muscles and Bustles: Dedicated to the memory of Mad King Gangrel

Gangrel was rude, crude, lewd, and one of the most honest characters in this game. He was the best villain, and we will all mourn his loss. May he cackle madly in the afterlife. Because he's dead. DEAD.

Paralogue 4: Supports include Chrom/Pickles S (SPARKLE SHOUJO BUBBLES) and Panne/Frederick

My goals are to get the chest that the thief steals from, that being the arms scroll, to get as close to a Frederick/Panne A support as I can, and to have Anna killsteal as little as possible. I have Chrom and Frederick team up to get to her quicker and recruit her. At least I’ll have her inventory. Panne and Frederick take out most of the chapter. Sully, Vaike, and Pickles get some love too.

Turns: 9 (I actually forgot to take the number down, silly me! But it was definitely not over 15. It was either 7, 8, or 9).
Total Turncount: 36

Chapter 11: No Panne/Frederick A, unfortunately.I do, however, get Vaike/Sully S (Sully puts these feelings in words for me. “I never would have thought… This is all so unexpected.. oh, hell with it, let’s get married!”), and Ricken/Pickles C. I have Panne use the talisman from last chapter, and I buy her a new handaxe. Sully uses the arms scroll.

We’re in surprisingly good spirits? TO SAY THE LEAST, Aversa!

Chrom acknowledges that Emmeryn did what she did for the Plegians, the people that Chrom “Couldn’t see.” Does he see now? Or does he just acknowledge this? Well…

It’s official. I’ve got a thing for Mad Kings. There’s Gangrel, setting up the comparison between them, and Chrom going back to the “I fight for my friends!” deal. It’s not entirely without warrant, though. Since the divide between where Ylisse and Plegia stand is pretty obvious, with Emm having pretty much won this fight for Chrom already. And I like their pre-fight dialogue. All of Gangrel’s dialogue is great, and so are his voice clips. Gangrel is doing the whole “search your feelings, you know it to be true” shpeal, but I feel it holds more water than usual because he’s actually using examples that we saw this ourselves instead of it being said to us. “Beasts do not stand behind beasts” is a line I really like. Chrom acknowledges the similarities, at least. I just wish that “friendship is awesome!” hadn’t been made into an all-purpose cop-out argument preventing deeper things from happening.

“Are you done? May I vomit now? Bwa ha ha! What a flowery harangue!”

Olivia joins the fray and with Ricken’s help she has Panne and Frederick get a head start. I break through enemy ranks as easily as I break wind, though it takes a few tries to get placement right, with a case of “one asshat left” syndrome. Once again, it’s a Panne and Frederick kind of day, with a good dose of Sully and Vaike, plus a small helping of Chrom and Pickles taking out the little leftovers with the aid of Olivia.

Ooooooh, Gangrel’s last words are almost chilling. Love ‘em. Your Levin Sword will be used in your name.

“We’ve won… somehow, I don’t feel like celebrating.”
The truth hurts, eh Chrommy boy? This was a two turn bloodbath and you know it. Gangrel’s ghost is laughing at you right now.

Wait… Chrom forswore the title of Exalt? Acknowledged, game. Very acknowledged.

With the Haldiom slowly recovering from the hardships it had suffered, Pickles and Chrom get married and live together in holy matrimony, their hearts having been set on one another since the very beginning. And the lived happily ever after.

The End.

Just kidding, to the surprise of no one! Though it might as well be, as we are about to enter a completely different game!

Turns: 2
Total Turncount: 38

Chapter 12: Valm! Valm is a thing! Go Chrom, go to Regna Ferox to talk about the thing! Glad to see Raimi again though, if only for a short time.

…This scene tugs at my heartstrings, no matter the mommy. I’m not afraid to admit it.
“Lissa and I had Emm of course, but we lost our parents when we were young. I want Lucina to grow up with her whole family around her.”

OOOH, RIGHT IN THE GUT! There’s some second playthrough pie for ya!

I’m actually fond of Virion as a character, but I have unfortunately not put the time into using him and getting his supports. I like that he gets more storyline development and dialogue, and I absolutely love his voice and voiced lines. But now’s not the time for that. I’m more interested in his ladyfriend! Yes, it’s Cherche, the last non-kid member of my team! Cherche is actually one of my favorite characters. I like her voice, I like her design (which was apparently the first finished Awakening character design), I like her simple yet varied personality, her tendency towards sarcasm, and her caring, motherly nature. I initially paired her and Virion up since they already act like a married couple. She has some great conversations too, and she doesn’t rely on a gimmick, unless you count Minerva, which I don’t on account of Minerva’s own significance in Cherche’s conversations, and I actually love seeing Cherche and Gerome talk about her. While she may not be the best Wyvern rider, and she’s certainly not Panne, she will still be quite useful to my cause. After all, another pair of wings is always welcome.

Anyway, let’s begin this chapter already! Only one this time, Panne/Frederick A (o mai). And speaking of Panne, she gets my new master seal and classes up into a Griffon Rider! Mmm, I can smell the +2 movement from here. And she was a level 16 Wyvern rider already. Sweet. The Spirit dust goes to Pickles, and I get a new handaxe and thunder tome.

Panne and Frederick do their thing. Cherche and Ricken pair up and do what they can with a hammer. It’s all I ask of them. Chrom and Pickles are able to clean up those earlier cavs. Pickles learns delicious Ignis. The biggest problem in this chapter was trying to manage Panne’s handaxes since she burns through them like crazy. I guess that’s why the story blurbs are so much longer than the chapters. :B

To Plegia! Chrom is reluctant to go and ready to start war with Valm and blah blah blah you get it already nothing too new here.

Chrom: level 12 Lord
HP: 34, Str:13, Mag:1, Skill:17, Spd:14, Luck:13, Def:13, Res:2

Pickles: Level 5 Grandmaster
HP:40, Str:16, Mag:20, Skill:20, Spd:22, Luck:15, Def:17, Res:11

Frederick is the same. Though he’s close to another level.

Sully: Level 3 Great Knight
HP:41, Str:22, Mag:3, Skill:20, Spd:15, Luck:14, Def:22, Res:7

Vaike: Level 11 Fighter
HP:38, Str:15, Mag:1, Skill:12, Spd:11, Luck:8, Def:11, Res:3

Ricken is the same, though he’s about to get a little more action

Panne: Level 3 Griffon Rider
HP:54, Str:32 (And that’s without the +2), Mag:3, Skill:30, Spd:30, Luck:19, Def:22 Res:13

Olivia is Olivia.

Cherche: Level 13 Wyvern Rider
HP:31, Str:15, Mag:1, Skill:13, Spd:11, Luck:8, Def:15, Res:2

I haven’t been adding in the skills to the stats, so why start now, I guess.

Finished my draft yesterday. So here's the final update for it. Going to post a Character Analysis seperately, though, so it's not my last draft-related post at least.

Chapter 22: An Ill Presage
Turns: 1
Total Turns: 54
Heroes: Miranda and Cordelia

I managed to get Gungnir, Falaflame, Yewfelle, and Balmung all before slaying injuring Aversa to be a boss again shortly. Yewfelle is useless to me, no one has an A rank in Swords, surprisingly (or not so surprisingly: they lack reliable 1-2 range weapons that can be obtained easily), but Gungnir and Falaflame are huge improvements for Cordelia and Miranda, respectively. They don't exactly have a ton of uses to them, but then, there aren't exactly a ton of chapters left either.

Chapter 23: Invisible Ties
Turns: 2
Total Turns: 56
Heroes: Cordelia and Kellam

Miranda kills Validar on turn one so Cordelia can kill her on turn two. Flavia and Basilio were both pretty useless. Severa really holds her own here taking the bottom of the map for the most part with her daddy, while Cordelia goes across the middle until I can Rescue Miranda to clean up the rest. I also unlocked the following supports this chapter: Miriel/Laurent B, Cordelia/Kellam A, and Severa/Lon'qu B.

Chapter 24: Awakening
Turns: 2
Total Turns: 58
Heroes: Cordelia and Kellam

Another rout chapter. I've got the fliers and the 1-2 range to deal. Moving on. Worth noting that I think Miranda got RNG screwed a little, considering how many levels she's been pumped. She needed Falaflame to (reliably) one-round a Paladin when she didn't have Rainbow Rally on her.

Chapter 25: To Slay a God
Turns: 1
Total Turns: 59
Heroes: Cordelia and Severa

NOW we kill Aversa See you in your Paralogue, home-gurl! Really happy to be able to be using Severa seriously in a drafting context and having her be of value, although it was her mother who got the kill with Gungnir.

Endgame: Grima
Turns: 1
60 Turns Overall
Heroes: Chrom and Miranda

Miranda and Chrom (work that Exalted Falchion!) go in and work it out. I spammed the following Rallies on them: Rainbow, Magic, Skill, Speed, Luck, Movement. Not a bad accumulation of Rally skills to aquire in such a short time frame, if I do say so myself.




And there you have it: 60 turns overall. That's an average of 2.222222 turns over the course of 27 chapters that counted for turns (25 numbered, plus the Prologue and Endgame)! Pretty happy about it. Looking forward to watching everyone else complete their drafts. Especially looking forward to seeing how close Tiki and I get with turn counts: whoever does it in less, I think it's going to be super close and right down to the wire! How electrifying! Looking back, I can think of plenty of things I'd do differently, too that probably would have been more efficient and such, but 20/20 hindsight, as always. I'm sure we all can think of things we could do better if given a second chance, though.

Hope you enjoyed, in spite of the quality drop due to me moving. Character Analysis coming soon!

There are only 2 goals for this playthrough. 1) Chrom must not marry Maiden. The only marriage candidate I have for him is Olivia (or MU, but MU is male this run), meaning that Lucina and Inigo are going to be siblings. 2) All kids must marry. Considering the kids are Morgan, Lucina, Inigo, Owain and Noire, MU must marry one of them as there are an odd number of them. As he is male, he must choose between Lucina and Noire. However, because of this royal trinity (Owain, Lucina, Inigo, and a Morgan sitting in MU's loins), one pair of children will have to go with the companionship route.

And so it begins.

Part 7: You May Call Me Fauder

Chapter 13:
After a week of being unable to anything (the town they needed Seals to make Gaius and Gregor relevant again was under siege by those bears), our heroes finally get what they need and head to Pledge! But first, promotion time! Gaius becomes a Trickster (cuz he’s so tricky) and Gregor becomes a Hero!

Bought a Bronze Sword for Tharja and a Bronze Axe for Gregor. We also give Gaius a spare Heal staff we had lying around (I think I may have purchased it, or maybe it was a drop. I don’t remember).

Also, support time! Gaius and Tharja finally hit their S support, in which Gaius says ‘hey, your little hexes charmed me despite your antidote. Let’s go hit the shack’ and then Tharja ends up loving him too (because of some sexy candy magic of his own) and they do indeed hit the shack.

Okay, now back to our featured presentation.

Our heroes finally make it to Pledge Castle to discuss with the new leader named Fodder on what they’re gonna do to help with their campaign to protect the continent’s best food chain. While they don’t get any chefs soldiers, they do get the necessary funds and ships to go sailing to Alm and fight Walmart and his armies of superstores. But… what’s this? Isn’t this Fodder guy the same one they fought off during the assassination attempt? And… what the heck?! Two Midas?! There can only be one Wincest Hero! However, before our heroes can inquire further about this madness, negotiations end. Disgruntled, they leave and camp for the night.

Unable to rest because of the thought that he may not be the real Wincest Hero, Midas takes a small walk, only to find Fodder waiting for him. And thus, his faith in the very foundations of society is shattered with five short words.

Fodder: “Midas, I am your Fauder.”

Midas: “I wasn’t aware that you were my fodder.”

Fodder: “No, your Fauder. Faw-der.”

Midas: “Yes, my fodder. I don’t see where you’re going with this.”

Fodder: “No! I am your Father!”

Midas: -checks the script- “Oh, that’s where we were… I mean… No, that can’t be true! That’s not possible!”

Fodder: “Search deep within your heart… you know it is to be true.”

Midas: “No!!!”

And then Chromnomnom comes to save the day, stopping the poor Grandmaster from jumping off a cliff to avoid going with Fodder to rule the galaxy as Fauder and Son. And shortly after a talk about this plot twist, bears Risen attack the camp, forcing Freddy Krueger, Chromnomnom and Midas to return to help the others fend off the enemy. However, just as they’re about to begin the fight, a storm of bears swarm in bringing in our final first gen ally, a puntastic dark mage named Teddie.

Turns spent: 10 turns
Midas: Level 20/4 -gains SKILL, LCK, RES; gains HP, LCK- B rank swords
Chrom: Level 20/3 -gains HP, STR, SPD, LCK, RES- D rank lances
Lissa: Level 20/3 –gains HP, STR, LCK, RES – D rank axes
Donnel: Level 15/11 –gains HP, STR-
Gaius: Level 20/2 –gains STR, SKILL, SPD, LCK-
Gregor: Level 20/2 –gains HP, STR, LCK-
Tharja: Level 20/3 –gains LCK, RES-
Olivia: Level 11 -gains HP, SPD, LCK, RES; gains HP, STR, MAG, SKILL, RES; gains HP, MAG, SPD-
Henry: Level 15 –gains DEF; gains HP, SKILL, SPD, DEF; gains HP, STR, MAG, SPD, DEF-

Items found: N/A

We babied Henry and Olivia this round to give them some levels, especially since Olivia is still below double digits. Gregor and Lissa soloed the top area (also gave Gregor the boss), Midas handled the right on his own after Gaius and Tharja cleared the way. Henry, Olivia, Chrom and Donnel went west with healing support from Gaius and Tharja. Chrom and Donnel also handled the enemies that spawned from the forts.

With the enemy defeated, our heroes try to catch a small breather. But just then, a wild bear assassin spawned to take our lord’s life, but the Unmasked Chick from before appears and… wait, did she just call Chromnomnom Fauder? Everyone’s becoming a Fauder now! The daughter(?) of Chromnomnom takes him aside to explain that she is actually Canilu from the future after showing him her weird eye! Oh damn, our heroes have the power of the future on their side now! With double the Pointy Demonspanker power to boot! After a tearful embrace, Chromnomnom is called out by Pink and Midas for cheating (hugging a crying woman and being all alone, you scamp!), but it is soon revealed to the rest of the army that the mysterious girl is in fact his daughter. And the future is exposed… a world without the Genghis Khan Restaurant filled with monsters summoned by the Dark God spoken of in legend. After another tearful embrace (this time between Canilu and Pink), they finally head back to FE ROX.

And so, with the first of the five promised children in our possession, we can now begin the Wincest Hero route.

Chapter 14:
But first, supports! Chromnomnom and Canilu have a mock battle. After the battle, Canilu went to town and got her mother a dress of questionable fashion and they end up deciding to go to town together next time to avoid future disasters. After that, Pink finds Teddie trying to help out a hurt puppy and she calls him a puppy killer, thinking that he was gonna sacrifice it to his dark god. Teddie actually likes puppies and thinks Pink is a crazy lady. The dog never got treated. Meanwhile, Lissa is getting over her fear of sausage by grabbing Russia’s sausage I mean WHAT millipedes and to celebrate, Russia prepared a special bear stew.

Pink is reclassed to a Myrmidon so that she can be a little more useful in combat and keep her swords.

Our heroes finally set sail from Port FE ROX, blazing their choice of music to make the journey a bit more tolerable (the Great Sea from the game LoZ: Wind Waker that Midas still never got around to returning). The lords and Midas speak for a little while, and he finds it curious that Canilu came to the past to change it, yet she herself says she didn’t want to ‘risk altering history any more than necessary’. So wait, rather than just flat-out change her own horrible Risen-infested world, she just wants to change what she felt was ‘necessary’? It almost sounds like she wants the future to actually happen rather than preventing it…

They soon come upon the Almese ships and Midas, in a brilliant display of stupidity (he was practically fed the answer by Flavor, Freddy Krueger, and Samuel L. Jackson) decides to set their ships on fire and send them into the enemy ships. The only ship to be spared is a little dingy that they will all
escape on.

Turns spent: 12 turns
Midas: Level 20/4 –no levels gained - A rank tomes
Chrom: Level 20/3 –no levels gained -
Lissa: Level 20/5 –gains HP, STR, MAG, SKILL, LCK, RES; gains HP, SKILL, SPD, LCK, RES–
Donnel: Level 15/11 –no levels gained- C rank swords
Gaius: Level 20/3 –gains HP, SKILL, DEF-
Gregor: Level 20/2 –no levels gained-
Tharja: Level 20/3 –no levels gained-
Olivia: Level 11/7 –gains SKILL, SPD; gains HP, STR, SKILL, SPD, DEF; gains SPD; gains HP, STR, SKILL, SPD ; gains HP, STR, SPD; gains HP, SKILL, SPD, LCK– C rank swords
Henry: Level 18 –gains HP, STR, LCK, DEF, RES; gains HP, SKILL, SPD, DEF, RES; gains HP, STR, SKILL, LCK, DEF, RES- B rank tomes
Lucina: Level 17 –gains HP, SKILL, LCK, DEF; gains HP, SKILL, SPD, DEF; gains HP, STR, SKILL, SPD, LCK, DEF; gains HP, STR, SPD, LCK, RES; gains HP, STR, SKILL, SPD; gains HP, SKILL, SPD, LCK; gains HP, STR, SKILL, SPD, RES-

Items found: Dying Blaze

This only took so long because I wanted the reinforcement experience. This chapter was mostly spent feeding Olivia, Henry, and Lucina delicious experience to catch up to the others. Henry/Tharja went south to the bottom boat, Olivia/Donnel went to the east boat, and Lucina/Midas, and Lissa/Gregor went to the west boat with Gaius/Chrom floating around south and east. The armorslayer was put to good use on Olivia and helped her gain a ton of (poor) level ups, while Lucina worked that rapier. Lissa got Rally Luck and all chests were opened. I fed the boss to Lucina after having Henry get the first hit in.

And sure enough, our heroes follow through with their plan of destroying their ships to wipe out the remaining Almese ships. Now on their dingy, they sail on towards Alm! But boy, it sure is cramped on that boat…

Chapter 15:
Sometime during the voyage, the boat had sprung a leak and everyone was desperately trying to keep their dingy afloat until they reached port. When they finally did reach Alm, they abandoned the boat and swam to shore. Surprisingly, the dingy remained afloat after they had all jumped ship, meaning that someone had fixed the leak when no one was looking. Oh well, they made it to Alm safe and sound, and that was all that really mattered. However, it seems like the Almese are after a woman. Well, an enemy of our enemy is our friend or so the saying goes, so our heroes go help her out.

But first, supports! Primadonna is apparently a bad singer and gets singing lessons from Pink. Meanwhile, it seems like Teddie has a fan in Twilight (originally Tharja, deciding that she got renamed after her marriage with Sugar (who is Gaius)). It also seems like doom is edible.

Turns spent: 10 turns
Midas: Level 20/5 -gains HP, MAG, SKILL, LCK, RES -
Chrom: Level 20/4 -gains STR, SPD, LCK, DEF-
Lissa: Level 20/5 –no levels gained-
Donnel: Level 15/12 –gains 2 HP, STR, MAG, SKILL, DEF, RES-
Gaius: Level 20/3 –no levels gained-
Gregor: Level 20/2 –no levels gained- A rank sword
Tharja: Level 20/4 -gains HP, MAG, SKILL, SPD, RES-
Olivia: Level 11/11 -gains HP, STR, SPD; gains HP, STR, SKILL, LCK, DEF; gains HP, STR, MAG; gains HP, MAG, SKILL, SPD, LCK, RES-
Henry: Level 20 –gains HP, STR, DEF; gains HP, SKILL, DEF- -> Promoted to Dark Knight
Lucina: Level 20 –gains HP, STR, SKILL, DEF; gains HP, SKILL, LCK, DEF; gains HP, STR, SKILL, SPD, LCK- -> Promoted! B rank swords

Items found: Reeking Box, Sweet Tincture

This only took as long as it did because I was trying to get Lucina and Midas to support, so she got fed a number of kills even after promotion. Both Lucina and Henry do hit 20 and promoted immediately (Henry went with Dark Knight because the stats granted going that way were a lot better than a point in MAG and two points in RES more going Sorc, and plus, mounted bonus for movement). I had Henry and Tharja solo the beach enemies while everyone else went inland. I did my best to feed the promoted units to Olivia which did work in my favor as she finally hit double digits. I could promote her and Donnel now if I wanted to, but let’s squeeze a few more levels out into her. We also saved Say’ri and got all the village items.

So the swordmaster our heroes happened to save was named Sorry, a Princess from Chosen, and she happens to be the so-called leader of the ‘Ma and Pa Shop’ army. However, it seems as though her troops refuse to do anything because they’re all too busy enjoying the superstores Walmart and his men have opened up. With a million shops, what good is it to fight them?! It promotes the economy! But the Genghis Khan Restaurant is on the line here, so our heroes have no choice but to march to Wall Street.

Chapter 16:
Sorry tells our heroes about her plan to get the people unified under their flag. It has to do with winning the Voice competition, a singing competition that people actually seem to care about in this country. They are also in luck, as not only are auditions beginning, but they also have Pink, who is their group’s best chance to win. The winner of the contest wins their very own Tiki! Unsure of what good having a Tiki would do, our heroes have no choice but to try to win this contest.

Primadonna buys himself a Steel Sword while they’re still in town and promoted Pink to Swordmaster. Also fed Gregor an Arms Scroll so he can use D axes. So let’s stop and give him Hammertime!

But first, supports! Master Russia and Lissa finally get hitched! Which… is still kinda awkward considering he’s like twice her age, but this is a ‘free’ world and you can love whoever you want! Lissa still wants him to deal with any large bugs and lemons they encounter (whatever you do Lissa, don’t go to Lemon Party) as he helps her with her bucket list… which she wiped out an entire forest just to get the paper to make such a list. I knew it was a bad idea to give her an axe. Meanwhile, Canilu talks to Midas about how important his one job as Tactician is and how not to ******** up.

And now on with the show.

Our heroes make it to Million Tree where the Voice competition is taking place, and it’s in absolute chaos! It seems like the Duke of Beards, CostCo, has taken over the competition! Cue shenanigans as he rambles on about his world famous facial hair and the correlation between kicking a** and the girth of one’s face hair. Our heroes have no choice but to take down this fashionable Wallace and bring order back to the Voice competition after Sorry had psyched them up so much for it!

Turns spent: 11 turns
Midas: Level 20/6 -gains HP, LCK-
Chrom: Level 20/4 –no levels gained-
Lissa: Level 20/6 –gains SPD, DEF, RES-
Donnel: Level 15/12 –no levels gained-
Gaius: Level 20/5 –gains HP, MAG, SKILL, SPD, LCK, RES; gains HP, MAG, SKILL, SPD, DEF-
Gregor: Level 20/5 –gains HP, SKILL, LCK; gains HP, STR, SKILL, SPD, DEF; gains HP, STR, MAG, SKILL, LCK-
Tharja: Level 20/5 -gains HP, STR, MAG-
Olivia: Level 11/11/3 -gains HP, STR, SKILL, LCK; gains HP, STR, MAG, SKILL, SPD- B rank swords
Henry: Level 20/2 –gains HP, SKILL, DEF-
Lucina: Level 20/4 –gains HP, STR, SKILL, LCK, RES; gains HP, STR, SKILL, SPD, LCK; gains HP, STR, SKILL, LCK-

Items found: LOG

Lucina/Midas and Olivia/Henry went left while Gaius/Chrom, Tharja/Donnel, and Gregor/Lissa went right. I managed to get all the items and once there was a notice for reinforcements, I had everyone but Lucina and Tharja’s group fall back to deal with them to get some extra levels. Chrom dealt damage to Cervantes and Lucina/Midas took the kill. Tharja just… kinda sat where she was once she hit level 5.

CostCo: I am but a single tiny hair on the beard of a flea in his great moustache! … See how my moustache flows in the wind! Prepare to learn the meaning of the word “beard”. …Fear. I mean fear!

Poor CostCo. Bearded Science played him for a fool.

Defeating CostCo somehow makes Pink the champion of the Voice competition (because she was the only competitor left) so our heroes ascend the Stairway to Heaven to acquire their very own Tiki! Tiki happens to be half dragon, half songbird, and she sings of the Emblem and how one must collect the six remaining dragonballs four remaining shiny rocks to unleash the true power behind the Emblem. And it just so happens Tiki had one of those shiny rocks! Two down, three more to go before the Emblem has power! UNLIMITED COSMIC POWAH! And speaking of power… it seems like Midas has power… just like Tiki’s. Well, of course! He is the Wincest Hero of Legend! Who… might actually be a bard, actually. Quick Midas, use Bardic Knowledge! After all, the bards will be singing of the day when you and the other heroes defeat Walmart and the other superstores and return peace to the country.

Next time, our heroes will finally get some kids. Yay.

Total turn count: 166 turns
Stats as of end of Ch. 16:
Grandmaster Midas: 38/18/26/19/19/21/16/12
Great Lord Chrom: 42/24/2/23/27/23/19/8
War Cleric Lissa: 37/11/17/18/18/28/16/20
Mercenary Donnel: 48/24/10/27/25/33/23/12
Trickster Gaius: 40/20/9/33/31/13/14/9
Hero Gregor: 48/26/3/27/21/17/17/6
Dark Knight Tharja: 45/16/23/17/25/9/18/11
Swordmaster Olivia: 43/21/8/27/30/13+4/9/11
Dark Knight Henry: 43/13/16/23/13/12/26/9
Great Lord Lucina: 47/25/3/31/28/25+4/17/11

Muscles and Bustles: Man, I guess I should finish this, shouldn't I?

Since it's been a while, I've decided to finish up all the Valm stuff in one long update!
Paralogue 13: Only Chrom/Frederick A this time (That was actually not bad… until it got bad. I HATE THAT MUSIC ARUGHG. FREDERICK WHAT U DOIN TO MAH WIFE PAKLES)

Yarne comes with Luna and Deliverer, and it is never too early to get your fliers and fliers-to-be. I could have gotten him earlier, but Rival Bands was causing my army a bit of trouble. Even though, as I will explain, I could in theory beat chapter 16 in one turn right now, I want to prevent as many casualties as possible. Plus, Yarne needs to start leveling as soon as he can.

Yarne’s a bit one-note as far as the children characters go. He has the right to be, since in his time, he’s the last of his race in world that wants to see him dead. Still, he can get a bit annoying and some of his sillier lines are fun to listen to out of context, but in context I doubt he’d be poking fun at himself like “My foot’s good luck!” Especially when I can do that for him! I sort of like how much he and his mother compare and contrast, though. Panne is very down to earth, while Yarne is very jumpy and overly paranoid. Panne won’t let any son of hers be a coward that teams up with thugs for safety, and I’m happy to see her happy for her son. Yarne is proud of his heritage, which is the other side of the last taguel coin. You wouldn’t see any interactions like this in Tellius, for obvious reasons. Of course, in this timeline, I don’t think Yarne has anything to worry about. With Panne as strong as she is, I don’t think the Taguel will be wiped out so easily.
I team up with the red army and grab a beastslayer and a dracosheild from the villages. Levels are gotten all around, including one for Yarne. Sully especially gets some good mileage.

Turns: 6 (paralogue)
Total turncount: 45

Chapter 16: Supports include Cherche/Ricken S (And suddenly, marriage: A casualty of the support system), Frederick/Yarne C, Panne/Yarne C (Naaw), and Lucina/Morgan B (Still adore this set of supports). Yarne reclasses into a wyvern rider, buys a new bronze axe, then uses the dracoshield.
I just now noticed that Cervantes’ portrait has him prodding his own moustache.
Between my two deliverers, great knights, Olivia and such, reaching Cervantes’ range and killing him with within a turn is very possible. The question is, can I position everyone so that they can take everyone out and not die for one enemy phase? Leaving the still quite vulnerable Olivia within the range of many enemies, some promoted, is not a good idea.
I tried this a few times and made the perfect configuration, where no one could hurt Olivia as she waited out a turn for Cervantes to kill himself on Panne and Frederick. For my reward, I get happy feelings of fandom and speculation! We ascend to the top of the tree and meet with Tiki! I actually wrote up a thing about Awakening!Tiki, but I think I'm gonna skip out on that since this is a draft, no place for that, and like with chapter 10 I'll probably address it elsewhere.

You’ve gotta wonder how the orbs got scattered again, too. You’ve also gotta wonder what sort of “Schism (complete with capital S)” happened in the past. I don’t know if I missed something or if it doesn’t really get elaborated on, but since all the nations get united under Akaneia and Marth, I’d guess that as time went on different factions didn’t agree and split, especially with Ylisse and Plegia containing such different theologies. Those who worship Grima wouldn’t want to live under the holy capital Akaneia or whatever it became, especially since we’ve already heard of events such as the crusade Chrom’s father lead. A history of oppression wouldn’t surprise me, and if there are any more nuggets about this, please let me know.

I’m glad that Pickles didn’t pop up when Tiki mentioned the closer looming threat of Grima’s presence. “You have power… like mine” is far less on the nose, and doesn’t necessarily refer to being the dragon’s vessel, especially since Tiki doesn’t have that ability. Yeah, I still could have done without things like that but hey, it could have been much worse.

Turns: 1
Total Turncount: 46

Chapter 17: No supports, sadly. I buy a Master Seal for Morgan.

Factions of the resistance are already uniting under Tiki? Well golly! I can’t wait to see them! Say’ri, I love ya, but you keep talking about inspiration and that Chrom and pals are inspiring, but does it make it so? After all, you’re just one person. I won’t think that they are being inspired unless I am shown something instead of told it.

Pheros’ design might be a bit excessive, but I feel it suits someone like her. She used to worship Naga and Mila before serving who she sees as a physical god in the process of uniting the world like no religion ever could. I got her conversation with Chrom in my last playthrough, and I like that she compares the unifying abilities of Emmeryn and Walhart to one another, while Chrom of course argues that Walhart is a tyrant who unites through force instead of peace. Both are convinced that theirs is the right way, and the conversation is short and sweet. I’ll give this to Valm, it has more memorable boss characters that even get to interact amongst themselves.

Getting a good two turns on this chapter was way easier then I was expecting it to be. Then again, now that I have a few deliverers, the restrictive team spacing and large maps seem much less scary. Though I wish I had a rescue staff user. Man, wouldn’t that have been nice and turn reducing. But nope, it’s gathering dust in the convoy as my advantage starts to shrivel up.

I guess this chapter wasn’t designed for the speedy player story-wise. After all, Chrom and Say’ri immediately start talking about the “former resistance” that was supposed to show up, along with Excellus, even though we beat Pheros before the events happened. According to the script, Excellus appears at turn 6 and has his little dialogue with Pheros, and the reinforcements show up at turn 8. Now I’m even less invested then I was the first time around! Wow! By the way, I was not invested at all since yeah, what Say’ri thought were allies turned out to have turned on her, but I never say hide nor hair of any of these guys prior to this. I only had her word to go on, so I had nothing beyond that to substantiate this scene. With every line, I feel more and more how many corners the game cuts to get this whole arc to fit into Awakening. I’m not saying they couldn’t have done it, but they just didn’t do it well.

The strategy that Pickles devises is pretty much identical to the assault on Fort Pinell and Fort Nados from the tail end of FE9. Unlike Tibarn, though, Basilio knows that there is a crazy strong guy covered in bulky armor waiting for them. After all, that’s the reason why they’re going. Lucina telling Basilio that he is destined to die there just furthers it.

Turns: 2
Total Turncount: 48

Chapter 18: No supports.
Basilio and Flavia do deserve some credit though. Their back and forth dialogue nice, especially in the harsh conditions presented. Ooh, and there’s that “barbarian roots” line that suggests that the Feroxi are descended from those barbarian assholes that bothered Marth and pals on Anri’s Way, which Regna Ferox encompasses. Now’s not the time for history, though. Honestly, I do think it is a tad over the top that Walhart is there all by himself, but whatever.

“…Impressive. You’re the first since Yen’Fay to survive beyond a single stroke.”

Hey now! Didn’t notice that line first time through! I’ll just put it in my pocket for later…

Welp, Basilio is dead and apparently he had Gules with him all along! ‘Aint that convenient! I guess he knew we’d need it… somehow… At least Flavia’s voice actor can sell the screaming of his name.

Oh oh OH! So the turncoats only made a show of opposing us! Well, isn’t that nice to hear about instead of see, especially since I didn’t even get to see them come out this time! Plus, Say’ri, how do you know that the dynasts don’t just know we’re going in Yen’Fay’s direction and that he’s approaching us? You even say that this is still entirely self-serving behavior they are showing! Chrom is even worrying about having to defend two fronts…Augh!

I won’t hold my two-turn victory in the previous chapter against this one as far as Excellus goes. After all, there’s plenty of ammunition left. You see, Yen’fay isn’t much for words, so we need Excellus to do all the talking for him! Oh joy.

Gee do I wish I had a rescue staff user. I could totally see myself being able to one-turn this if I had a rescue staff user. The combined talents of Panne, Frederick, Cherche, and Olivia could conceivably reach Yen’fay within a turn, it’s just that the way the enemies and paths are configured is such that there aren’t enough characters to get them out of the way. Oh hindsight, I have a feeling you and I will be talking so much more often. Two-turning it is easy-peasy, but it’s still one turn too many!

At least Yen’fay is a total joke. He leaves me behind a sword no one can use in protest of his crappy role, but also a sword that we can use in honor of me believing in his potential.

I’ve expressed my displeasure at the following scene enough, so I won’t do it for long. Excellus comes on and muahaha’s about why we should feel bad about Yen’Fay. Why create a stoic character like Yen’fay who doesn’t even explain himself to his sister, only to have Excellus spew exposition about it to us? It’s not like I would have preferred it if Say’ri never found out, since her pain relating to her brother that she keeps bottled up is where the drama is. I think there is something in this. I see what the Valm arc could have been, especially in regards to Say’ri. Lines like the one I pointed out at the beginning of the chapter speak much more than an exposition dump ever could. Believe it or not, despite all the mud I’ve thrown at them, I really like our royal Chon’sin siblings. That’s why I throw as much mud as I do.

R.I.P. Yen’fay. We hardly knew ye. Seriously, we hardly knew ye.

Turns: 2
Total turncount: 50

Chapter 19: No supports. I buy Panne a silver axe.

Grieving for Basilio is all fine and good, though it doesn’t really bring anything up that I hadn’t said before. Lucina’s grief is necessary too, I just wish she had more variation in her lines, once again.

Whaddya know! We’re going to the imperial capital to fight off Walhart where the tiny team failed! Who’s the forseer now?

Okay, time to give Valm some credit again. Excellus is overly confident in his seedy persuasion, and Cervantes has hair in his ears and doesn’t care for whatever Excellus has to say. Walhart, meanwhile, finds Excellus’ tactics dishonorable and is all about glory on the battlefield. Excellus doesn’t care for Walhart, and Cervantes and Excellus both see the other as below them. More than anything else I’ve seen so far, these conversations between bosses show (emphasis on SHOW) why Walhart’s army is destined to fail. Walhart has brought them all under his rule by force, but they are not unified. Factor in all the dynasts who only look out for their own interests, and this problem grows in scale. Since we know that the unified army is our army, we know who is going to win this battle, despite that pretty great image of Walhart and his army looking all big and intimidating.

If by “unity” you mean me using the same four units I always use in small defeat commander chapters!

Paralogue 11: Still no supports! I class Lucina up.

Time for a little buffing! There are plenty of promoted units on this map, but first I recruit Mel’s Hearthrob and the final member of my team, Gerome.

I’ve never been one for the gravelly voiced overly serious dead to the world guys of the fictional world. Gerome on his own is… boring to me. He has some decent conversations, but I think he’s often not the most interesting part of those. To be fair, he does sort of give off an air of lower self-worth that makes him a bit more interesting, but I’m not a fan of the His conversations with Cherche I quite like, even their little clips in the barracks. I feel like while they did try to play up the whole “super srs guy who acts silly with his wyvern” thing, I like when he talks about her more seriously, like he does at the end of the chapter. I kinda feel for him when he talks about Minerva deserving better than him.

Kjelle is actually suprising me. Her defense is great and the zeal skill she inherited from Vaike sometimes makes all the difference, especially since I have her using a killer lance. I’ll stick her with Gerome more than Yarne, since Gerome will be able to class up right away and not need to wait to get to level 10 like Yarne. Better to start building supports now. Yarne himself gained some good levels with some help from Lucina dualstrikes. Morgan also teams up with Chrom to get some great levels, leading him closer to Rally Spectrum and a real niche. Cherche got some use, and Pickles teamed up with Panne for supports and levels. Some good stuff all around.

Turns: 10 (paralogue)
Total Turncount: 51

Chapter 20: Supports include Chrom/Morgan B, Sully/Kjelle B (Huh, I want to see where this goes), Cherche/Gerome C, and Ricken/Gerome C (Ricken’s all “Oh, that boy o’ mine,” While Gerome seems considerably older in all ways. It’s kinda weird.). I buy two handaxes and a master seal to promote Gerome into a Wyvern lord, as he already has deliverer.

Oh look, we have our own cool army image, accompanied by glorious cheering! It’s a good “oh s**t” moment for the enemy, and I see what was trying to be done here, but the dynasts rallying with us still doesn’t hold any water for me for the same reasons as before.

Get a load of that throne back there. It’s as spikey as Walhart’s armor. Hmm… love of battle thrills, one man army, spikey armor, obviously evil, social Darwinism… This must be what Ashnard looks like to people who don’t like Ashnard. Unfortunately for this game, I am quite fond of Ashnard, and know that Walhart just doesn’t measure up, or even have the time to. To think I actually joked about wanting to bed this guy, augh. Though I do like how he invalidates all of Excellus’ posturing. All these webs of deceit are nothing if everyone’s dead. It’s not like Walhart is a bad villain, he’s okay. Just… okay. Richard Epcar, on the other hand, now he's awesome. He's one of my favorite VAs and he is perfect here.

Hey look! The three of them are disagreeing more! These are the best parts of Valm! Talk about a… boss fight!

Man, look at that long hallway. And with guys in my way, even. Oh well, at least the extra turn will make for good expies. Morgan and Chrom get Cervantes, Panne and Frederick get Excellus, levels are to be had and Cherche’s extra levels did her a lot of good. It’s not silly how quickly Panne takes down Walhart. It’s silly how little exp she gets from the fight.

Guys, stop spelling out the obvious, we got the whole “might vs. right” comparison form Miss Pheros in a much more organic way.

“Your father suffered from beliefs similar to Walhart, and his legacy is plain to see…”

Wait… was this why the story went here? You could have done a comparison like this without uprooting and going to a totally different continent and shoehorning a rushed as heck story into a few chapters. Also, it doesn’t exactly hold the same connotations since it wasn’t targeted at a specific group of people. If that was the goal, I guess the thought counts for something, but like so much here it just wasn’t used beyond being mentioned at the end. Maybe if the Valm arc had a few more chapters where we could see things develop…

“Mmm… these are matters too weighty for the moment.”

NO THEY AREN’T!

Turns: 2
Total turncount: 53

Chrom: level 7 Great Lord
HP: 46, Str:21, Mag:1, Skill:24, Spd:22, Luck:17, Def:18 Res:7

Pickles: Level 13 Grandmaster
HP:47, Str:21, Mag:24, Skill:27, Spd:27, Luck:20, Def:23, Res:12

Frederick: Level 8 Great Knight
HP:36, Str:19, Mag:2, Skill:16, Spd:12, Luck:12, Def:18, Res:5

Sully: Level 12 Great Knight
HP:50, Str:26, Mag:6, Skill:24, Spd:18, Luck:19, Def:27, Res:9

Vaike: Level 3 Warrior
HP:51, Str:23, Mag:1, Skill:20, Spd:16, Luck:8, Def:15, Res:6

Ricken: Level 6 Dark Knight
HP:39, Str:11, Mag:16, Skill:12, Spd:11, Luck:19, Def:18, Res:11

Panne: Level 12 Griffon Rider
HP:65, Str:38, Mag:3, Skill:36, Spd:36, Luck:23, Def:28 Res:13

Olivia: Level 8 Dancer
HP:24, Str:8, Mag:4, Skill:13, Spd:15, Luck:10, Def:3, Res:5

Cherche: Level 8 Griffon Rider
HP:46, Str:21, Mag:4, Skill:23, Spd:21, Luck:15, Def:22, Res:8

Lucina: Level 2 Great Lord
HP:40, Str:18, Mag:6, Skill:22, Spd:21, Luck:17, Def:18, Res:9

Morgan: Level 11 Grandmaster
HP:48, Str:24, Mag:27, Skill:29, Spd:26, Luck:25, Def:20, Res:16

Kjelle: Level 5 Great Knight
HP:46, Str:23, Mag:2, Skill:18, Spd:17, Luck:14, Def:22, Res:5

Yarne: Level 9 Wyvern Rider
HP:50, Str:27, Mag:3, Skill:23, Spd:19, Luck:19, Def:20, Res:7

Gerome: Level 1 Wyvern Lord
HP:40, Str:20, Mag:4, Skill:15, Spd:16, Luck:12, Def:20, Res:7

After all this time, I emerge from Valm a day late and a turn short! NOOOO!
But that's alright. I'm still going to finish this out in as few turns as possible, as I feel I get better every time I complete a draft. I’ve still got a game to finish, a turncount to round out, and plenty of critiquing to do.

There are only 2 goals for this playthrough. 1) Chrom must not marry Maiden. The only marriage candidate I have for him is Olivia (or MU, but MU is male this run), meaning that Lucina and Inigo are going to be siblings. 2) All kids must marry. Considering the kids are Morgan, Lucina, Inigo, Owain and Noire, MU must marry one of them as there are an odd number of them. As he is male, he must choose between Lucina and Noire. However, because of this royal trinity (Owain, Lucina, Inigo, and a Morgan sitting in MU's loins), one pair of children will have to go with the companionship route.

And so it begins.

Part 8: The Crazy Kids Next Door

Paralogue 5:
Apparently our heroes forgot they were still in the middle of a war, as they’re just now returning from all the honeymooning they’ve been doing. Like with Vegas, what happens on the honeymoon, stays with the honeymoon. Gods forbid we ever hear about what sorts of shenanigans these people were on. Those that were still single at this time had no choice but to mill about like sheep, waiting for everyone to come back so they can do things. All the parents pray that their children will be normal, and that they can be a normal, not-crazy family.

But first, supports! Chromnomnom and Sugar head out to experience the nightlife now that they’re married men. Several strip clubs, juggled flaming hams, and a knife fight later, Chromnomnom finally admits that he had fun and that he should stop wallowing in self-pity. Sugar offers to go again if Chromnomnom foots the bill, to which the lord is… hesitant, if only because his daughter already came out all messed up. Heaven forbid another child of his shares a similar fate.

And unfortunately, all the wishing everyone put into their lucky stars comes out in vain (at least for Master Russia and Lissa), as their son Owain (with stage name Nightmare) is in fact a rather… unique individual, if you can get past the theatrics and soul-devouring. This is why you don’t let your child watch so many Shakespearean plays or play so much Soul Calibur, Rulissia. His sword hand hungers. Better feed him some souls.

Turns spent: 6 turns
Midas: Level 20/6 -no levels gained-
Chrom: Level 20/4 –no levels gained-
Lissa: Level 20/6 –no levels gained-
Donnel: Level 15/13 –gains 2 HP, STR, DEF-
Gaius: Level 20/5 –no levels gained-
Gregor: Level 20/5 –no levels gained-
Tharja: Level 20/5 –no levels gained-
Olivia: Level 11/11/4 – gains HP, STR, LCK, DEF, RES-
Henry: Level 20/2 –no levels gained-
Lucina: Level 20/7 –gains HP, SKILL, SPD, DEF; gains HP, STR, MAG, SPD, LCK; gains HP, STR, SPD, LCK-
Owain: Level 11 –gains HP, STR, MAG, LCK-

Items found: Alm’s Blade

This was possibly the easiest of the children Paralogue chapters considering all the unpromoted enemies here. I fed Owain some kills (including an assassin), and he got his unique weapon, the Soul Edge Missiletainn. Some of the villagers inevitably died thanks to the Silver Bows from the assassins, but I did make sure to get their items before they surrendered their souls to Owain. Lucina took the boss down (because Owain wasn’t close enough), and she and Midas were MVP.

Owain has the same mark on his arm that Canilu has on her eye, proving that he is in fact of royal blood. Lissa has tears of joy, but the mark on the boy may actually prove to be something more… sinister.

There are lots of supports from this chapter. Midas and Canilu talk about the Future of Despair some more (in which Midas fails in his quest to become the Wincest Hero). Lissa and Owain talk about the name of Lissa’s weapon, because all heroic weapons need a name. Just look at the weapon they picked up last chapter! It’s Alm’s Blade! BAM! Far mightier than your average blade! However, Lissa did not name her weapon, much to Owain’s surprise. After that, Owain succumbs to the power of his sword hand and confuses his father Russia, who thinks he’s either got a bad disease (Hero Syndrome caused by the blood of scions) or cursed (again from the blood of scions). In the end, Nightmare! Owain makes an appearance and Russia goes to fetch Lissa to cure the boy of his mischief. Elsewhere, Twilight makes Primadonna her gopher and makes him fetch all sorts of cursing tools. Finally, Pink confronts Teddie about the blood on his shirt, to which he claims came from making bears explode with dark magic. Why he would go after his friends is unusual, but considering his personality it wouldn’t be surprising. The blood turns out to be from the dog they tried to help earlier, and Pink gets mad at Teddie. Once she hears about his troubling past (he went to Hogwarts after living in a cupboard under the stairs for so many years), she believes his behavior actually comes from that neglect. Teddie just thinks she’s crazy.

Paralogue 15:
Heading back to FE ROX, our heroes stumble upon a pair of forts in the snowy wastes, where a group of slavers are trying to capture a red-headed woman. Surprisingly enough, it’s not Anna. Instead, she is the spawn of Twilight and Sugar, named Schizo. Years of abuse caused her to develop a second personality she calls her dark side. This is why you don’t get pregnant in the Twilight Realm, Twilight, and then ditch her there to fend for herself. And Sugar is now a Sugar Daddy. Now they have no choice but to help their daughter and fight off all these powerful promoted units.

Turns spent: 8 turns
Midas: Level 20/9 -gains HP, STR, MAG, LCK, RES; gains HP, MAG; gains STR, MAG, SPD, LCK-
Chrom: Level 20/5 –gains HP, SPD, LCK, DEF-
Lissa: Level 20/7 –gains SKILL, SPD, LCK-
Donnel: Level 15/14 –gains 2 HP, STR, DEF-
Gaius: Level 20/6 –gains STR- D rank staff
Gregor: Level 20/5 –no levels gained-
Tharja: Level 20/6 –gains STR, SKILL, SPD, LCK; gains HP, MAG, LCK, DEF- A rank tome
Olivia: Level 11/11/5 –HP, SKILL-
Henry: Level 20/3 –gains HP, STR, SKILL, SPD, DEF-
Lucina: Level 20/9 –gains SKILL, SPD, LCK; gains HP, STR, SPD, LCK, DEF-
Owain: Level 15 –gains HP, SPD, LCK, RES; gains HP, STR, SKILL; gains HP, STR, SKILL, SPD, LCK; gains HP, STR, SKILL, DEF, RES-
Noire: Level 12 –gains HP, STR, MAG, SKILL, SPD; gains HP, SPD, LCK-

Items found: N/A

This was actually kind of an impressive turnout. I tried doing this level before Owain’s, but that ended in failure (Olivia died instantly). I sent Tharja and Donnel up to help Noire, who was picking off the flying units (not fast enough to double, but could still do some serious damage) while the others went across the bridge. There were a few close calls (looking at you Lissa), but no one died. Noire and Owain were babied for kills. Good news is, Olivia finally learned Astra, so we can go get Inigo now. Midas killed off the boss, earning him and Lucina MVP once more. I understand that Lucina and Midas are getting seriously fed, but we are trying to get the two of them to hit the shack and open up the Wincest route. That won't happen yet because they didn't support at the end of the chapter. Even if we do Inigo's chapter, they'll still be short a support for the final child.

Schizo meets her mother at last and unleashes her twisted dark side by activating her talisman, but Twilight confiscates the trinket like a good(?) mommy should. Like Owain, Schizo has some serious problems. Chromnom and Pink can only hope their other child isn’t as weird as the previous two children who joined the party…

Paralogue 6:
Unfortunately, no amount of wishing will save them.

But first, supports! Lissa adds needlework to the list of things she sucks at. Fortunately, Dr. Sugar bandages here up and even teaches the Princess how to knit because honestly, there’s no way she can effectively make Sunil out of yarn (she was trying to make a kitty cat) and have him meet his lifelong dream of getting to Yarnya. Outside the room where the fourth wall was just torn asunder (from Lissa’s attempts at jousting per Sugar’s suggestion), Sugar goes to cheer up his daughter, who is suffering from the ‘three-day runny nose’ curse. That’s 72 hours, guys. That’s enough time to drop a moon on a certain world. Sugar offers her a candy wrapper to blow her nose on before going to confront his wife about the curse. Shortly after the father goes off to look for Twilight, the woman in question encounters her daughter and is upset about her being a copycat. However, it seems like Schizo developed a habit of copying her mother since she was too busy cursing people’s eyeballs to get revenge for Sugar’s death (in the Future of Despair). Twilight is intrigued by this and makes her daughter once more into a guinea pig. Literally.

Back in the mountains of Alm, our heroes encounter the third non-forced child, the Dread Pirate Roberts. Instead of pillaging boats on the seven seas like his predecessors, he has taken to land and instead tries to plunder some ‘booty’. Not treasure like he’s used to. Oh no, he’s after the ladies. All of the fine a** he could possibly want, without having to wait until his ship reached port to frequent the brothels!

Turns spent: 9 turns
Midas: Level 20/13 -gains HP, LCK; gains HP, MAG, LCK, DEF; gains HP, STR, MAG, SKILL, RES; gains HP, MAG, SKILL, SPD-
Chrom: Level 20/6 –gains HP, STR, LCK, RES-
Lissa: Level 20/7 –gains SKILL, SPD, LCK-
Donnel: Level 15/15 –gains HP, STR, MAG-
Gaius: Level 20/7 –gains HP, STR, SKILL-
Gregor: Level 20/5 –no levels gained-
Tharja: Level 20/6 –gains STR, SKILL, SPD, LCK; gains HP, MAG, LCK, DEF- A rank tome
Olivia: Level 11/11/6 –HP, SKILL, SPD, LCK-
Henry: Level 20/6 –gains HP, STR, MAG, SPD; gains HP, MAG, SKILL, SPD, LCK, DEF, RES; gains HP, STR, SPD, DEF- A rank tome
Lucina: Level 20/9 –gains SKILL, SPD, LCK; gains HP, STR, SPD, LCK, DEF- A rank sword
Owain: Level 18 –gains HP, SKILL, SPD; gains STR, SKILL, SPD; gains HP, MAG, LCK, RES-
Noire: Level 13 –gains HP, STR, MAG, LCK, RES-
Inigo: Level 11 –gains HP, SPD, RES-

Items found: Seed of Trust

So uh… Inigo only got one kill. Owain was a meatshield in the fort with his father against a pair of assassins and a sorcerer. Said sorcerer was the one kill Inigo got. Chrom/Olivia and Donnel/Lissa guarded the entrance to the fort against the flying enemies. Henry had a crit party, thus earning him and Tharja MVP. Midas Ignis’d the boss for the kill.

Dread Pirate Roberts finally meets his mother, and they both want to see the other dance but are too embarrassed to be doing any dancing. His father was instead embarrassed watching this scene, and tells his son to quit being a manwhore.

Lots of supports this time too! Midas tells Canilu to stop pushing herself so much by trusting no one, and she begins to fall for him as he offers to support her. Heading outside to catch some fresh air, she finds her brother screaming like the pansy he is because oh snap a bear bug was after him. The big sister, despite how powerful she is, is no match for the flying bear bug and in the end Chromnomnom has to save them both. After a scolding, the siblings felt like a normal family for once. Dread Pirate Roberts runs into his dad again a short while later and is upset with him stopping the boy from scoring one with the ladies (for once). However, Chromnomnom is still upset with his son (not because of the bear bug) because the only thing on his mind are the three Bs: boobs, butts, and babes. The lord storms off to cool his head, and the Dread Pirate wanders around camp a little more before running into his mother, who asks him where he’s going in the middle of the night. While the boy claims to be going out to practice his dance and dance the night away, his mother believes he’s going to a bar and pick up some poor drunken lass and have his way with her. Flabbergasted at the fact that she figured him out so easily, Roberts gives up and retires for the night. Pink realizes she’s late with her frowning lessons with Teddie and goes to make fun of him teach him how to be a sad panda. However, before things get too far, she keels over in laughter at Teddie's inability to make a face that wasn't laughing or smiling. Apparently she was hit with a curse that would cause her to laugh to death. Teddie quickly dispels the curse with his own magic, but she becomes non-responsive. Uh oh, did he use the wrong spell? As he’s yelling at her to stay out of the light, she recovers and points out that he’s no longer smiling. Aw, the psychopath was worried about her! Teddie calls her crazy once more and heads out of the room only to run into Twilight, who was probably responsible for the curse on Pink. The dark bear-mage is cursed with Twilight’s magic and is interrogated about the truths of the world. Once she got her answers, she leaves, but forgets to dispel the curse on him. Oh well. Outside, Russia is upset with Owain for the show he gave earlier (Russia: Stop being a Nightmare! Gregor is not happy with Gregor’s son pretending to be Berserker! He is myrmidon! Use small, pointy sword! Not big hunk of fleshy metal!). However, the father-son moment is cut short as Russia takes an arrow to the knee for his son. Trauma clutches Owain’s heart as he gets his father to safety and, after fetching his mother to tend to Russia’s wounds, goes after the snipers themselves.

He will show them… the GREATEST Nightmare, improvised.

Next time, our heroes will actually return to plot. Hopefully Canilu and Midas can finally hit the shack so that the final child can join the party and the Wincest Route can begin.

Total turn count: 166 turns
Stats as of end of Part 8:
Grandmaster Midas: 44/21/32/21/21/25/17/14
Great Lord Chrom: 44/25/2/23/28/25/20/9
War Cleric Lissa: 37/11/17/19/19/29/16/20
Mercenary Donnel: 53/27/11/27/25/33/25/12
Trickster Gaius: 41/22/9/34/31/13/14/9
Hero Gregor: 48/26/3/27/21/17/17/6
Dark Knight Tharja: 46/17/24/18/26/11/19/11
Swordmaster Olivia: 46/22/8/29/31/15+4/10/12
Dark Knight Henry: 47/16/18/25/17/13/29/10
Great Lord Lucina: 51/28/4/33/33/29+4/19/11
Berserker Myrmidon Owain: 39/18/9/25/23/22/13/12
Archer Noire: 35/18/10/21+2/23/13/13/7
Mercenary Inigo: 37/16/3/20/23/16/11/6

There are only 2 goals for this playthrough. 1) Chrom must not marry Maiden. The only marriage candidate I have for him is Olivia (or MU, but MU is male this run), meaning that Lucina and Inigo are going to be siblings. 2) All kids must marry. Considering the kids are Morgan, Lucina, Inigo, Owain and Noire, MU must marry one of them as there are an odd number of them. As he is male, he must choose between Lucina and Noire. However, because of this royal trinity (Owain, Lucina, Inigo, and a Morgan sitting in MU's loins), one pair of children will have to go with the companionship route.

And so it begins.

Part 10: The Fall of the Super Stores
Yahtzee has fallen. Sorry finally sees that her brother gets his Chosen burial: a funeral pyre. Honestly, they could have saved a lot of money if they just used Death Mountain’s lava, but then again they wouldn’t have ashes left when it was done. It’s a shame. He was the Chosen One, but he doesn’t get an end like Anakin Skywalker in Episode III, but more like the one in Episode VI(whoever he is).

Better buy a Bronze Sword for Schizo and a Heal for the convoy for future use. Morgan also promotes, as promised. Equipment is also passed around (Lissa upgrades to Steel Axe, Russia inherits her Iron Axe, Primadonna inherits his Bronze Axe, Chromnomnom upgrades to Iron Lance, Canilu gets a Javelin, Owain inherits Pink’s Steel Sword, etc.).

Chapter 19:
Our heroes waltz right up to the gates at Wal-Mart HQ, but what’s this?! None of the stores are open for business? Is it a holiday or something? As they ponder about this unusualness, CostCo and Xtra discuss today’s tactics. Xtra seems to think everything will go according to plan. After all, he is a brilliant tactician. Why should he dirty his hands when he can just use the Ma and Pa Shop Army to do the work for him? As he suggests bear tea (huh, apparently they have that brand in Alm too), Wal-mart appears and tells Xtra that he’s nothing more than a blabbering idiot and that there is no glory in his silly tactics. Xtra doesn’t seem very happy about that, and even more so when CostCo ranks him below even handlebar mustaches. Oh, the burn. After he goes off to handle today’s grooming, the toad-faced tactician talks to himself about all his elaborate schemes and how he’ll end up winning no matter what. Sounds like someone’s just signed himself a DEAD END.

And so our heroes face Wal-Mart and his might outside of the HQ.

But first, supports! We have a lot of supports today! Morgan tries her hand at traps and attempts to trap her Fauder, but he sees right through her. The ‘Pull Me!’ rope is far too obvious of a trap, and there is no Party Ball hanging above them with awesome new toys. Only bears. After that disappointment, Morgan goes to talk to her Mother about the ‘whole invisible bond-link… thingy’ and the two attempt to help Morgan remember Canilu. Meanwhile, Dread Pirate Roberts is about to head to the market to pick up ladies that are just ripe for the picking, but Schizo goes after him to make sure he doesn’t do that. Shenanigans ensue, and it ends with the young playboy screaming like a little girl as he runs for his life, arms flailing about. While the two lovebirds chase each other around, Lissa decides to give Primadonna some schooling. But apparently he knows more than she thought he did and the young princess storms off. Unfortunately, she twists her ankle after she’s pretty far from camp and is now panicking at the thought of being ‘eaten by a bear or a lumberjack or something!’ Apparently lumberjacks are cannibals. Who knew? Primadonna finds her pretty quickly in his tractor and he gives her a ride back to camp. A little while later, Russia asks Twilight for help. While she isn’t willing to give it, Russia’s packing the Selective Hearing skill, allowing him to hear only what he wants to hear and ignoring everything else. Hooray for being old! But it turns out the reason why she’s not willing to help him is because her magic won’t work on him. She storms off after some teasing, and Russia goes after her as he still needs her help.

Turns spent: 9 turns
Midas: Level 20/16 –no levels gained-
Chrom: Level 20/9 –gains HP, STR, SKILL, LCK, DEF, RES-
Lissa: Level 20/11 –gains HP, MAG, SKILL, SPD, LCK-
Donnel: Level 15/20/3 –gains HP, MAG, RES; gains HP, MAG- -> Promotes to Hero! –gains HP, SKILL, SPD, LCK, DEF; gains EVERYTHING-
Gaius: Level 20/9 –gains HP, STR, SKILL, RES -
Gregor: Level 20/8 –gains HP, STR, SKILL- C rank axes
Tharja: Level 20/9 –gains HP, SPD, DEF-
Olivia: Level 11/11/7 –no levels gained- A rank swords
Henry: Level 20/7 –no levels gained-
Lucina: Level 20/13 –gains HP, STR, SPD, LCK, DEF; gains HP, SPD, LCK, RES- D rank lances
Owain: Level 20/7 –gains HP, STR, SKILL, SPD; gains HP, STR, SKILL, SPD, LCK, DEF; gains HP, STR, SKILL-
Noire: Level 20/2 –gains HP, MAG, SKILL, SPD, LCK, RES- B rank bows -> Promotes to Bow Knight –gains SKILL, RES-
Inigo: Level 20/1 –no levels gained-
Morgan: Level 20/5 –gains STR, SPD, LCK, DEF, RES; gains HP, SKILL, SPD; gains HP, MAG, SPD, LCK, DEF, RES; gains HP, SKILL, SPD-

Items found: N/A

There is nothing more impressive than a string of critical hits. Lucina did nothing but crit in EVERY. SINGLE. FIGHT. Also, I have reason to believe that Walhart’s armor actually isn’t red, but it’s red because of how much blood he’s spilled onto it. It’s probably some weird ritual he has. He is inexorable. Chrom settles the battle against the lobster in one round, with a critical at the second half of Aether. The good news is that now everyone is a promoted class of some sort. Donnel became the hero he always dreamed of becoming, and Noire became a Bow Knight for additional movement and for some way to attack from close range. Weapon ranks galore as well. Probably for the first time in this draft’s history, an enemy survived the battle. Heroes are Donnel and Olivia for handling the entire left side of the map on their own, with some small support from Lucina and Midas.

After the superstore had his a** handed to him, he retreats back into the HQ to recover. Before our heroes could give chase, the Ma and Pa Shop Army appear at their backs. Is it another battle?

Chapter 20:
Nope! They actually joined us. Xtra’s plan has just gone down the metaphorical drain. Speaking of that toady, he seems to want to escape. However, Wal-Mart cuts him off and forces him to stay in the castle and fight to the death. It looks like Xtra’s plans only worked if they had Yahztee to back it up, but since he’s ashes right now, there’s nothing stopping the Ma and Pa Shop Army from doing as they please. Apparently Xtra had other secrets, but nothing is hidden from Wal-Mart. He knows about the blackmailing, and… wait, what?

Why does he have a list of the three sizes for all our women in our army?

…

That b*****d!

Wal-Mart is not amused either, and has just downgraded Xtra from tactician to court jester. He’s also been nominated to lead their forces against our heroes. And so, there is now a triple boss treat for our heroes.

But first, supports! Owain shows off his playwright and theatrical abilities to Morgan by stating that they were fated to meet, that there was something connecting the two of them. Morgan states that she’ll only believe they were partners in another life if he can prove that he’s capable of cooking. And so, he must do battle against his greatest challenge yet: the kitchen.

Turns spent: 13 turns
Midas: Level 20/17 –gains STR, SPD, LCK-
Chrom: Level 20/11 –gains HP, STR, DEF; gains HP, SKILL, LCK, DEF, RES-
Lissa: Level 20/13 –gains HP, SKILL, SPD, LCK; gains HP, SPD, LCK- B rank axes
Donnel: Level 15/20/4 –gains HP, STR, MAG, SKILL, LCK, DEF-
Gaius: Level 20/10 –gains STR, SKILL, SPD-
Gregor: Level 20/10 –gains HP, SKILL, SPD; gains HP, STR, SKILL, LCK, DEF-
Tharja: Level 20/10 –gains HP, STR, SPD, LCK, DEF-
Olivia: Level 11/11/7 –no levels gained-
Henry: Level 20/7 –no levels gained-
Lucina: Level 20/14 –gains HP, STR, SKILL, SPD, LCK-
Owain: Level 20/9 –gains HP, STR, SKILL, LCK, RES; gains HP, STR, SPD, LCK-
Noire: Level 20/3 –gains EVERYTHING BUT RES-
Inigo: Level 20/4 –gains HP, STR, SKILL, SPD, RES; gains HP, LCK; gains HP, STR, SPD, LCK-
Morgan: Level 20/8 –gains HP, STR, MAG, LCK, RES; gains HP, STR, SKILL, SPD, LCK; gains HP, STR, MAG, SPD, LCK-

Items found: N/A

Cervantes: Like a flimsy belt around the waist of defeat, you shall buckle here! –OHKO’D-
Excellus: You think I’m afraid? OF YOU?! Come, then. COME AT ME, BRO! –ORKO’D-
Walhart: You think that’s what you’ve done? What your sister did before you? No, she shouted some nonsense and leapt off a rock! Suck weakness! Come then, flea, and die for your peace! –ORKO’D-

Uh… where is challenge? Chrom killed both Cervantes and Walhart. Midas killed Excellus. Lots of people hit level 10. All chests opened. I waited this long for the reinforcements, and the kids got some levels off of them. Inigo also pulled an impressive feat of critting three times within an Astra in a row (out of three. The enemy didn’t last after the third hit). That pretty much sums up the chapter.

The war’s over. Oh, Chromnomnom also get another shiny rock from Sorry to add to the Emblem, as thanks for their efforts. Just one more and then they can summon the dragon and get their wishes granted be prepared for the events leading to the Future of Despair.

After returning to their home, Chromnomnom works his mind to try to learn how to perform the ritual after he sends Freddy Krueger to find the whereabouts of the last stone. Canilu eavesdrops on the conversation he has with Midas about the ritual and tries to stop him, but before they could get any further on the matter, Freddy Krueger returns to inform them of the whereabouts of the final stone.

Fodder has it, in Pledge. It looks like our heroes have business with them once more.

But first…

Paralogue 17:
Our heroes return to Alm one last time to check out the local scenery, and they find a rather peaceful location that’s been untouched by the war. Some of them even want to kick back and take a load off (and partake in romantic couple things). According to Sorry, it’s called the Cradle. Huh. So this is where babies come from. The songbird they won a while back can perform a ritual here to gain power. Things aren’t quite as calm as they would have liked, as bears Risen riding wolves. Oh gods, Midas’s dream from a long time ago came true! flying beasts come to crash the party. Their target is the songbird. Can our heroes keep her safe long enough for her to power up and go Super Saiyan?

But first, supports! Holy crap we got a lot of supports last chapter! I guess we’ll start from the top! Teddie finds Lissa and asks if she got over her sleepwalking problem. She did, but when she found out what’s been done to help her, she gets mad at him and bans him from using cute forest animals as sacrifices to help her get a good night’s rest. Meanwhile, Russia is still trying to get Twilight to listen to his request. She’s still pretty mad about her curses having no effect on him, though. She does listen to his one request after enough pestering, and it seems like Russia wants to speak to a dead guy. It will take a while to get the materials to pull this off, though. Speaking of bad juju, it seems like Schizo is still hunting the Dread Pirate Roberts. However, he one-ups her and catches her by surprise. She ends up confessing who asked her to keep an eye on him whenever he went to go pick up girls: his Fauder. The Dread Pirate Roberts does seem to always pick up a troublesome girl. If it isn’t the lady-thief Cath causing trouble, it was the female cutpurse with the glass eye, or the female arsonists, or the band of nudists… The list goes on. Schizo threatens him to make sure that he’s as apologetic as the severity of his crimes before letting him off. She is one… feisty lady. Shortly after those events, Pink approaches Primadonna and asks if he would want to see her dance. However, he would need to sing while she danced. One hot lap dance later, the two of them are in tears from how good it was, and apparently Pink is up for one more dance if Primadonna wants to see. Sounds like someone’s cheating~ Elsewhere, Owain successfully prepares the most epic meal of all time. Who knew he was a culinary genius? The meal is so grand, so magnificent, and so delicious that it needs a name. A name that will give it even more power and fuel the devourer with such strength that not even a god could defeat them. Unfortunately, he wasn’t able to name it because Morgan ate it all. Round one of wooing the lady cleared. Now he must find two gemstones to swear loyalty to. Sounds like marriage…

Turns spent: 7 turns
Midas: Level 20/18 –gains MAG, SKILL, RES-
Chrom: Level 20/13 –gains HP, STR, SKILL, DEF; gains EVERYTHING-
Lissa: Level 20/13 –no levels gained-
Donnel: Level 15/20/4 –not in combat-
Gaius: Level 20/11 –gains HP, STR, SKILL, RES- C rank staves
Gregor: Level 20/12 –gains HP, SKILL, SPD; gains HP, STR, MAG, SKILL, DEF-
Tharja: Level 20/10 –no levels gained-
Olivia: Level 11/11/8 –gains HP, SKILL, SPD, DEF-
Henry: Level 20/7 –no levels gained-
Lucina: Level 20/14 –no levels gained-
Owain: Level 20/10 –gains HP, LCK, RES-
Noire: Level 20/5 –gains HP, STR, SKILL, SPD, RES; gains HP, STR, MAG, SKILL, RES-
Inigo: Level 20/4 –no levels gained- B rank swords
Morgan: Level 20/10 –gains HP, MAG; gains HP, MAG, SKILL, SPD, LCK-

Items found: N/A

The first few turns I had everyone spaced out (two pairs on the left, two on the right, the remaining two pairs and the lone person cover the middle), but once it became waves of 3 or more, I tightened up the formation and set it up so that they could never reach Tiki. I call it the Pentagon Formation. Of course, this meant that the two people I had on either side of the bottom point were prime targets for the enemies. It was just my luck that the ginger fathers were in those positions. Well, they still did pretty well despite being constant targets. Gregor stayed alive with Sol and Gaius just dodged everything. I need to feed Noire and Inigo more levels so that they can keep up with the rest of the children. Chrom and Lissa were the MVP. Noire and Inigo killed the boss.

The songbird has power now and she joins our heroes to save the world. But she is no ordinary songbird. Oh no, indeed she isn’t, for she has the power to turn into a dragon. Shame it isn’t the wishing dragon, but still pretty cool. But there is no need for busty child dragon, so she gets boxed in Bill’s PC with the rest of the non-draftees.

Next time, our heroes will venture to Pledge. Confrontations will be had, incest may occur, the sword-hand will probably twitch and most of all, there will be blood. Yay, blood!

Total turn count: 214 turns
Stats as of end of Part 10:
Grandmaster Midas: 46/24/36/25/24/26/19/18
Great Lord Chrom: 51/30/3/27/30/29/26/12
War Cleric Lissa: 43/12/19/23/24/34/16/23
Hero Donnel: 65/32/18/33/30/36/32/18
Trickster Gaius: 44/26/9/38/33/13/14/12
Hero Gregor: 55/31/5/34/23/19/20/6
Dark Knight Tharja: 49/19/24/18/28/12/21/11
Swordmaster Olivia: 47/23/8/31/32/16+4/11/12
Dark Knight Henry: 48/16/19/25/18/13/30/10
Great Lord Lucina: 56/32/6/35/38/33+4/20/13
Swordmaster Owain: 53/27/12/35/31/30/19/18
Bow Knight Noire: 51/25/15/32+2/34/16/18/13
Hero Inigo: 53/26/6/29/34/23/18/12
Grandmaster Morgan: 58/31/34/32/34/33/20/19