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ANDARC IS AN EMO WEENIE
Okay, more Suikotactoblog! (I swear I wasn't going to play any more this evening, but it SUCKED ME BACK IN AUGH.)
Anyway, they head out to sea with Hervey, only to find Sigurd and his crew pursuing them. There's a battle with Sigurd and his men, where the boats are next to each other and your guys start on your boat and his guys start on his. Your guys are the green ones - I mention this because I didn't realize this and had Walter kill "Rowdy Pirate" only to realize as he died that whoa, that was one of my allies! :O
This was immediately followed by rashly sending Kyril to dash in and attack and him promptly getting killed in two hits from enemy pirates. (...I'm not really stupid, I just act like it sometimes.)
Anyway, after winning the battle suddenly Sigurd's ship starts exploding. It's under fire from Pirate Steele, who's this jerky fat middle-aged guy in a pansy-looking waistcoat who's not very piratical, I'm afraid. Anyway, things look grim until another ship starts firing on Steele. Then we find out who's on it - holy crap, it's Kika! And Brandeau (pre-Rune of Punishment, back when he was still bathing regularly)! And...the captain, ZOMG IT'S EDGAR! Who's quite good looking, with kinda wild black hair. And his and Kika's relationship seems quite sweet and old-married-couply. XD
Oh, and Kika and Brandeau have the same VAs as in SuikoIV, which makes me happy.
Anyway, they save Walter's gang and Hervey and Sigurd and take them to the Pirates' Nest to rest up. Then Edgar and Brandeau decide to go after Steele, and Walter begs to go along. They finally agree, and he tells Seneca to stay behind with Kyril to protect him in case Walter doesn't come back. It's all very sweet and fatherly concern and AWWWW.
Kyril, of course, promptly ruins it by being A RETARD and sneaking onboard ship. When he reveals himself, Walter is less than pleased, but has no choice, so tells him to stay back and don't be stupid. Then there's a battle with Steele's men, which is not hard. After beating them, Steele is pissed off and signals one of his men to use the Rune Cannon on the nearest target...which happens to be Walter.
Walter ends up a creepy fishman-thing, and Kyril is running to him. But Walter lumbers at Kyril and Andarc dashes up and skewers Walter - kinda overhastily, IMO, because they didn't even know whether Walter was dangerous! (The other fishmanthing didn't seem to be.) Fishman!Walter dies, and everyone is all sad. Brandeau signals one of his men, Peck - a prettyboy teen pirate - to keep folks away from the Rune Cannon. Then comes a battle with Steele and his men.
Of course, Peck is busy guarding the cannon, so is no help to anyone. And Kyril merely stands there, bent over like he's suffering from massive stomach cramps, whining "Father..." and doing nothing on his turns. Psh, bitch, see if I ever use you again. You let me down in the crunch, jackass, and I don't care if you're the main character, you suck. >_<
Anyway, this battle seriously surprised me. 'Cause see, I'm going along just fine, kicking some pirate ass, when suddenly Steele gets a turn to attack. He promptly whips out the Rune of Punishment (!) on Edgar, almost killing him. And I'm all "WTF, man? But...when...how..." How do they keep the surprises coming, goshdarnit? :O
Anyway, I survive and kick all the other enemies' asses except for Steele. Steele gets pissed off and uses the Rune of Punishment, which basically destroys the ship. Afterwards, Steele is prone on the deck while a bloody Brandeau staggers upright and runs to Edgar. The Rune of Punishment leaves Steele and migrates to Brandeau, and Steele taunts him about how cursed it is before disintegrating to dust. Then Edgar promptly dies. Wow, sucky day for Brandeau, huh? XD
Then Peck stumbles out from wreckage, only since he was standing next to the Rune Cannon apparently it went off on him or something, because he now looks like a zombie or something and has a creepy voice. He begs Brandeau to let him stay with him, and Brandeau agrees. (I guess this explains the Assassin who appears with Brandeau in SuikoIV.) Brandeau's all "I can't see Kika, what would I say to her? In fact, I can't see anyone, I'll just go be angsty and alone so that I don't kill people with my Cursed Rune!!1!" Meanwhile, from the melodramatic and ZOMG HE'S DEAD way Brandeau's been acting with Edgar - both while he's dying and after he's dead - would totally make me think that Brandeau's in love with him. Of course, Kika's milkshake brings all the boys to the yard, so Edgar probably isn't doing anything about it. (Unless they're in a happy pirate threesome, which is entirely possible.) Still, some things make more sense in SuikoIV now. XD
Then we see Andarc, Yohn and Kyril floating on driftwood.
Finally the scene cuts to the Pirates' Nest beach, where there's a big box lying on the beach surrounded by other stuff. Apparently Brandeau made a trip back to Pirates' Nest, because the box contains Edgar's corpse. Kika gets all emotional and collapses over the box, while we see younger Dario for the first time shooing the others away, all "you asses, she needs to grieve, get the fuck away!"
Anyway, this is the end of the pre-Suikoden IV part. Then we cut to three years later, after the events of Suikoden IV. Andarc is sitting by the campfire writing in his journal (in fact, it's pretty clear that the entire game is Andarc's journal in flashback). Seneca teases him about it, and it's all very cute and adorable. (I think she might like him...she certainly likes embarrassing him.) Also, I think Seneca is voiced by Wendee Lee, which totally explains why she rocks so much. XD
Anyway, Kyril's now somewhat grown up - though he's still voiced by the same female voice actor, who sounds like she's holding her nose shut when she voices adult Kyril. (This has the potential to get really annoying.) He's mostly recovered from the events of three years previous. In the meantime, Andarc has gone all angsty and emo...he's always writing in his journal and is constantly apologizing to Kyril about killing Walter, not taking better care of Kyril, the hole in the ozone layer, leaving the butter out to melt...you get the picture. Meanwhile, Seneca and Kyril are all "are you apologizing AGAIN? *eyeroll*" XD
Anyway, since Kyril is mostly recovered they go to the Razril backstreets in order to get him back into fighting shape. Kyril and Andarc fight a bunch of furballs, which goes well. And it turns out that it was a mission from the Quest Guild in Middleport. So next you have to go to Middleport to collect your reward.
En route, Kyril asks about why his father was so interested in Rune Cannons. Andarc tells him that Walter was an engineer (Seneca looks about to contradict him, but holds her tongue) and worked on Rune Cannons in their original homeland of the Scarlet Moon Empire (!). He was so interested in them that he came to the Island Nations, birthplace of Rune Cannons, to study them further.
Once they get to Middleport, they meet the girl who's the head of the Quest Guild, Lalacle, who tells them she's opened up an office now and you can go there to get a quest anytime. Kyril asks her about Rune Cannons, and she points to a man named Iskas who knows a lot about them. Iskas, who's kinda child-molestery-sounding, tells them that Rune Cannons everywhere are mysteriously vanishing, and says that he's buying up as many of the ones that are left in order to collect them. He tips them off to an Underground Path where they can find more about Rune Cannons. Then there's a cutscene where Andarc and Seneca talk about the "engineer" fib and how the real story is too complicated to tell Kyril.
Rather than go to the Underground Path right away, I go to the Quest Office. Most of the missions require sending someone off, so I can't do that yet - all my characters are core required characters who can't be sent off on missions - but there is one mission I can take: "Game On," which involves challenging that CHEATING HOBAG RITA to some new sadistic game she's dreamed up. >_<
Fortunately, her new game is not all that sadistic. See, using items or abilities you can give terrain elemental affinity - then someone of the proper elemental affinity standing on it becomes stronger and has auto-heal while on it, and conversely those of the worst alignment with it become weaker and take damage every turn. In addition, there are Elemental monsters that don't attack, but merely run around the battlefield changing every square they pass over to their elemental affinity. Rita's game basically involves you, her and four Elementals (two of your element and two of hers). After five rounds, whoever has the most squares of their elemental affinity on the battlefield wins. It's pretty easy, you just use the fire bead items every turn to change squares to fire (or, if you got the rage bead from an earlier battle, you can change a larger set of squares) and try to keep the amount of lightning ones as low as possible (by changing them to fire, if need be). Meanwhile, the elementals are running around changing as much as they can. Still, it's not particularly hard, and I beat her on the first try. She promptly joined, and the fact that Rita is the first person I recruited makes me feel dirty. Still, recruit w00t!
And that's the end of the Suikoblog for today (for reals this time!). But tune in another day - same bat-time, same bat-channel.
CENTZON TOTOCHTIN
The Four Hundred divine rabbits of the Aztec pantheon that preside over parties and drunkenness. Bittersweet Mexican cocoa with rum, red wine, and a scent redolent of sacrificial blood.
In the bottle: Dark, rich chocolate and booze. XD
Wet: Chocolate (so dark that it's almost coffee-smelling) and red wine. Ooh, and there's the rum! Not quite getting the sacrificial blood. Oddly, it kinda reminds me of Sugar Skull 2005, though the notes are quite a bit different I think.
Dry: It's kind of what I wanted Tezcatlipoca to be. Not overpowering, just...strong. And not strong like "whoo, that perfume is strong," more that it's just a very very very intense scent. After a couple of hours the other notes fade back a little and the cocoa, which has sweetened up considerably by this point, takes center stage - still, it's a little too intense.
Verdict: Actually, I really like this but I don't think I could wear it all that often because it is so formidable a scent. I'm (probably) not going to buy a bottle, but I'll definitely enjoy using the imp when I'm in the mood to steamroll over someone. >D
WHITECHAPEL
A gentlemen's blend, possessed of dignity, charm and refinement, but in truth masking a corrupted, hideous, soulless core. White musk, lime, lilac and citron.
In the bottle: It smells citrusy.
Wet: Whoo, that's really nice...it's a fresh citrusy scent, very breezy and, well, fresh. (I know I already used fresh but there's no other word to describe it.) I dunno where the Jack the Ripper-esque "soulless core" comes in, because it's just so light and cheerful and sweet and citrusy.
Dry: The lilac really comes out, which kind of grounds the scent a bit, makes it a little less airy and a little more substantial. Still, it's a light floral, so it can't ground it THAT much - so it's still very breezy and nice and unisex even (lilac notwithstanding).
Verdict: I was expecting this to be like a slightly more citrusy Villain, with lilac instead of lavender, but it's much lighter and fruitier. (I think I need to just get every scent with white musk, because I seem to adore every scent I try with that in it.) I really really like it, and can easily see myself picking up a 10ml of this in my next order or two. >D
Let's Positive Linking!
- Laurell K. Hamilton apparently pulled an Anne Rice a few months ago. For those of you who aren't familiar with LKH, she's the author of the Anita Blake series of vampire novels, which I hugely enjoyed until it basically became softcore porn. And for the record, I've always disliked Richard and I still thought she'd gone way overboard with the sex. (Her recent book even had Anita being tag-teamed by a wereleopard and a werewolf - who partially shapeshift in the middle of sex. Can we say "furry fetish?") Also, it's hard to believe that a published author can be so woeful at spelling. I mean, come on..."privaledge?" XD
- And a parody of one of her more recent books FOR TEH WIN. Sadly, this is not all that far off. XD
- And while we're bashing fantasy authors, a rant on Robert Jordan and Terry Goodkind. Never read Goodkind (and after reading that, don't want to) but attempted to wade through the first Wheel of Time book and made it through like 50 pages before the snore-inducingness of it all made me give it up as a lost cause. Sounds like I'm not missing much. I know a lot of people who love the books though (like my mom, and I think![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rathershady reads them too), so YMMV.
Anyway, they head out to sea with Hervey, only to find Sigurd and his crew pursuing them. There's a battle with Sigurd and his men, where the boats are next to each other and your guys start on your boat and his guys start on his. Your guys are the green ones - I mention this because I didn't realize this and had Walter kill "Rowdy Pirate" only to realize as he died that whoa, that was one of my allies! :O
This was immediately followed by rashly sending Kyril to dash in and attack and him promptly getting killed in two hits from enemy pirates. (...I'm not really stupid, I just act like it sometimes.)
Anyway, after winning the battle suddenly Sigurd's ship starts exploding. It's under fire from Pirate Steele, who's this jerky fat middle-aged guy in a pansy-looking waistcoat who's not very piratical, I'm afraid. Anyway, things look grim until another ship starts firing on Steele. Then we find out who's on it - holy crap, it's Kika! And Brandeau (pre-Rune of Punishment, back when he was still bathing regularly)! And...the captain, ZOMG IT'S EDGAR! Who's quite good looking, with kinda wild black hair. And his and Kika's relationship seems quite sweet and old-married-couply. XD
Oh, and Kika and Brandeau have the same VAs as in SuikoIV, which makes me happy.
Anyway, they save Walter's gang and Hervey and Sigurd and take them to the Pirates' Nest to rest up. Then Edgar and Brandeau decide to go after Steele, and Walter begs to go along. They finally agree, and he tells Seneca to stay behind with Kyril to protect him in case Walter doesn't come back. It's all very sweet and fatherly concern and AWWWW.
Kyril, of course, promptly ruins it by being A RETARD and sneaking onboard ship. When he reveals himself, Walter is less than pleased, but has no choice, so tells him to stay back and don't be stupid. Then there's a battle with Steele's men, which is not hard. After beating them, Steele is pissed off and signals one of his men to use the Rune Cannon on the nearest target...which happens to be Walter.
Walter ends up a creepy fishman-thing, and Kyril is running to him. But Walter lumbers at Kyril and Andarc dashes up and skewers Walter - kinda overhastily, IMO, because they didn't even know whether Walter was dangerous! (The other fishmanthing didn't seem to be.) Fishman!Walter dies, and everyone is all sad. Brandeau signals one of his men, Peck - a prettyboy teen pirate - to keep folks away from the Rune Cannon. Then comes a battle with Steele and his men.
Of course, Peck is busy guarding the cannon, so is no help to anyone. And Kyril merely stands there, bent over like he's suffering from massive stomach cramps, whining "Father..." and doing nothing on his turns. Psh, bitch, see if I ever use you again. You let me down in the crunch, jackass, and I don't care if you're the main character, you suck. >_<
Anyway, this battle seriously surprised me. 'Cause see, I'm going along just fine, kicking some pirate ass, when suddenly Steele gets a turn to attack. He promptly whips out the Rune of Punishment (!) on Edgar, almost killing him. And I'm all "WTF, man? But...when...how..." How do they keep the surprises coming, goshdarnit? :O
Anyway, I survive and kick all the other enemies' asses except for Steele. Steele gets pissed off and uses the Rune of Punishment, which basically destroys the ship. Afterwards, Steele is prone on the deck while a bloody Brandeau staggers upright and runs to Edgar. The Rune of Punishment leaves Steele and migrates to Brandeau, and Steele taunts him about how cursed it is before disintegrating to dust. Then Edgar promptly dies. Wow, sucky day for Brandeau, huh? XD
Then Peck stumbles out from wreckage, only since he was standing next to the Rune Cannon apparently it went off on him or something, because he now looks like a zombie or something and has a creepy voice. He begs Brandeau to let him stay with him, and Brandeau agrees. (I guess this explains the Assassin who appears with Brandeau in SuikoIV.) Brandeau's all "I can't see Kika, what would I say to her? In fact, I can't see anyone, I'll just go be angsty and alone so that I don't kill people with my Cursed Rune!!1!" Meanwhile, from the melodramatic and ZOMG HE'S DEAD way Brandeau's been acting with Edgar - both while he's dying and after he's dead - would totally make me think that Brandeau's in love with him. Of course, Kika's milkshake brings all the boys to the yard, so Edgar probably isn't doing anything about it. (Unless they're in a happy pirate threesome, which is entirely possible.) Still, some things make more sense in SuikoIV now. XD
Then we see Andarc, Yohn and Kyril floating on driftwood.
Finally the scene cuts to the Pirates' Nest beach, where there's a big box lying on the beach surrounded by other stuff. Apparently Brandeau made a trip back to Pirates' Nest, because the box contains Edgar's corpse. Kika gets all emotional and collapses over the box, while we see younger Dario for the first time shooing the others away, all "you asses, she needs to grieve, get the fuck away!"
Anyway, this is the end of the pre-Suikoden IV part. Then we cut to three years later, after the events of Suikoden IV. Andarc is sitting by the campfire writing in his journal (in fact, it's pretty clear that the entire game is Andarc's journal in flashback). Seneca teases him about it, and it's all very cute and adorable. (I think she might like him...she certainly likes embarrassing him.) Also, I think Seneca is voiced by Wendee Lee, which totally explains why she rocks so much. XD
Anyway, Kyril's now somewhat grown up - though he's still voiced by the same female voice actor, who sounds like she's holding her nose shut when she voices adult Kyril. (This has the potential to get really annoying.) He's mostly recovered from the events of three years previous. In the meantime, Andarc has gone all angsty and emo...he's always writing in his journal and is constantly apologizing to Kyril about killing Walter, not taking better care of Kyril, the hole in the ozone layer, leaving the butter out to melt...you get the picture. Meanwhile, Seneca and Kyril are all "are you apologizing AGAIN? *eyeroll*" XD
Anyway, since Kyril is mostly recovered they go to the Razril backstreets in order to get him back into fighting shape. Kyril and Andarc fight a bunch of furballs, which goes well. And it turns out that it was a mission from the Quest Guild in Middleport. So next you have to go to Middleport to collect your reward.
En route, Kyril asks about why his father was so interested in Rune Cannons. Andarc tells him that Walter was an engineer (Seneca looks about to contradict him, but holds her tongue) and worked on Rune Cannons in their original homeland of the Scarlet Moon Empire (!). He was so interested in them that he came to the Island Nations, birthplace of Rune Cannons, to study them further.
Once they get to Middleport, they meet the girl who's the head of the Quest Guild, Lalacle, who tells them she's opened up an office now and you can go there to get a quest anytime. Kyril asks her about Rune Cannons, and she points to a man named Iskas who knows a lot about them. Iskas, who's kinda child-molestery-sounding, tells them that Rune Cannons everywhere are mysteriously vanishing, and says that he's buying up as many of the ones that are left in order to collect them. He tips them off to an Underground Path where they can find more about Rune Cannons. Then there's a cutscene where Andarc and Seneca talk about the "engineer" fib and how the real story is too complicated to tell Kyril.
Rather than go to the Underground Path right away, I go to the Quest Office. Most of the missions require sending someone off, so I can't do that yet - all my characters are core required characters who can't be sent off on missions - but there is one mission I can take: "Game On," which involves challenging that CHEATING HOBAG RITA to some new sadistic game she's dreamed up. >_<
Fortunately, her new game is not all that sadistic. See, using items or abilities you can give terrain elemental affinity - then someone of the proper elemental affinity standing on it becomes stronger and has auto-heal while on it, and conversely those of the worst alignment with it become weaker and take damage every turn. In addition, there are Elemental monsters that don't attack, but merely run around the battlefield changing every square they pass over to their elemental affinity. Rita's game basically involves you, her and four Elementals (two of your element and two of hers). After five rounds, whoever has the most squares of their elemental affinity on the battlefield wins. It's pretty easy, you just use the fire bead items every turn to change squares to fire (or, if you got the rage bead from an earlier battle, you can change a larger set of squares) and try to keep the amount of lightning ones as low as possible (by changing them to fire, if need be). Meanwhile, the elementals are running around changing as much as they can. Still, it's not particularly hard, and I beat her on the first try. She promptly joined, and the fact that Rita is the first person I recruited makes me feel dirty. Still, recruit w00t!
And that's the end of the Suikoblog for today (for reals this time!). But tune in another day - same bat-time, same bat-channel.
CENTZON TOTOCHTIN
The Four Hundred divine rabbits of the Aztec pantheon that preside over parties and drunkenness. Bittersweet Mexican cocoa with rum, red wine, and a scent redolent of sacrificial blood.
In the bottle: Dark, rich chocolate and booze. XD
Wet: Chocolate (so dark that it's almost coffee-smelling) and red wine. Ooh, and there's the rum! Not quite getting the sacrificial blood. Oddly, it kinda reminds me of Sugar Skull 2005, though the notes are quite a bit different I think.
Dry: It's kind of what I wanted Tezcatlipoca to be. Not overpowering, just...strong. And not strong like "whoo, that perfume is strong," more that it's just a very very very intense scent. After a couple of hours the other notes fade back a little and the cocoa, which has sweetened up considerably by this point, takes center stage - still, it's a little too intense.
Verdict: Actually, I really like this but I don't think I could wear it all that often because it is so formidable a scent. I'm (probably) not going to buy a bottle, but I'll definitely enjoy using the imp when I'm in the mood to steamroll over someone. >D
WHITECHAPEL
A gentlemen's blend, possessed of dignity, charm and refinement, but in truth masking a corrupted, hideous, soulless core. White musk, lime, lilac and citron.
In the bottle: It smells citrusy.
Wet: Whoo, that's really nice...it's a fresh citrusy scent, very breezy and, well, fresh. (I know I already used fresh but there's no other word to describe it.) I dunno where the Jack the Ripper-esque "soulless core" comes in, because it's just so light and cheerful and sweet and citrusy.
Dry: The lilac really comes out, which kind of grounds the scent a bit, makes it a little less airy and a little more substantial. Still, it's a light floral, so it can't ground it THAT much - so it's still very breezy and nice and unisex even (lilac notwithstanding).
Verdict: I was expecting this to be like a slightly more citrusy Villain, with lilac instead of lavender, but it's much lighter and fruitier. (I think I need to just get every scent with white musk, because I seem to adore every scent I try with that in it.) I really really like it, and can easily see myself picking up a 10ml of this in my next order or two. >D
Let's Positive Linking!
- Laurell K. Hamilton apparently pulled an Anne Rice a few months ago. For those of you who aren't familiar with LKH, she's the author of the Anita Blake series of vampire novels, which I hugely enjoyed until it basically became softcore porn. And for the record, I've always disliked Richard and I still thought she'd gone way overboard with the sex. (Her recent book even had Anita being tag-teamed by a wereleopard and a werewolf - who partially shapeshift in the middle of sex. Can we say "furry fetish?") Also, it's hard to believe that a published author can be so woeful at spelling. I mean, come on..."privaledge?" XD
- And a parody of one of her more recent books FOR TEH WIN. Sadly, this is not all that far off. XD
- And while we're bashing fantasy authors, a rant on Robert Jordan and Terry Goodkind. Never read Goodkind (and after reading that, don't want to) but attempted to wade through the first Wheel of Time book and made it through like 50 pages before the snore-inducingness of it all made me give it up as a lost cause. Sounds like I'm not missing much. I know a lot of people who love the books though (like my mom, and I think
rathershady reads them too), so YMMV.
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Yeah...uh...I tried reading Terry Goodkind and died of the boredom. Bad fantasy authors scare me.
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And actually I'm just describing it very in-detail - I'm not actually that far into it, as you can probably tell from the fact that I've only recruited one character so far. XD
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