Let's Play Pokemon 'Diamond' - Keitai Denjuu Telefang

[bobandbill]

Part Twenty-Six: So I heard you like warp mazes
Or finding out how dumb the villagers are.

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Alright, greeny, let's see if you want to fight us.

Lab Theme

Fitting music continues to play!

Oh.

I didn't screencap the battle, because it was the same as a regular wild one - dead easy. =/

There was this though.

These guys don't usually jump at you if you get too close like the RESEARCH guys too.

Pity I can't just throw it...

Well you're doing a bang-up job!

These guys are here too, but again, Not-Sandslash outlevels them easily.

Alphabet fun with WARATA!

Oh. How annoying.

Silly WARATA. For those who forgot, 'attacked freely' means they attack automatically whatever opponent is showing up, regardless of what said opponent is doing.

Well that was effective.

...

Well put.

There are phones around the place, but you can't actually use them. Although everyone should have their own phones anyway...

Hmm.

These guards are terrible.

You are so bad at this I am just going to beat you up as punishment.

That was easy.

!

I think this is an easy choice.

Oooh, what is he going to look like now...?

SupMon! Now with a touch more height, that armour deal, and...

...and the same name as his first stage evolution.

What.

Believe me, I'm remembering it all too well.

I hope you don't go about trying to learn Fly, Not-Sandslash.

Oh hey, you!

RODANSA proceeded to use Dust.

I hate Dust when I can't use it but my opponents can. That takes up my turn!

'You come here!' 'No, you come!'

Ouch.

RODANSA can be pretty darn frail.

This is getting a touch annoying though - hard to hit this guy.

Especially now...

Let's look at Not-Sandslash's moves in the meantime. Assault and Crusader are pretty strong, and the others are the same as before.

What exactly is charging, anyway? What is e-magic? Or do I not want to know?

Not bad considering we're twice evolved and he's not (albeit RODANSA has the type advantage).

And he's being quick now!

Oh well, that taught him. I like how this wild e-monster battle was far harder than the battles with the guards.

This could be tougher yet.

So why would I give a dog-like beast a saw...? Because he has a friend?

I don't get your idea of friendship, e-monster world. According to you, friends beat each other up, harass them on the phone to buy them bombs, and then buy each other items they have no way to use.

Oh look a not-guard.

So you are just going to stand there? Sheesh.

...

The villager could have just used the warp panel to the right and walked straight down and he would be free.

Why

Go away.

Not there.

Gasp! A smart guard!?

He has a name?

A look at what, exactly?

Oh.

WARATA reacts well with that.

Hmm.

Oh hey, something that was useful!

This isn't useful.

Well, at least he said please...?

Oh hey we got one of these guys. Yay.

The excitement of the maze continues!

Well, you see...

...it's right there. =|

I guess two brain cells is better than one.

That doesn't quite make sense...

Are you protecting anything important?

VIP?

...There's no VIP here. >:[

The heck is this VIP? Very Important Point?

Looks more like a bow to me, if you can see past the sparkles.

That's one letter away from NIGERIA.

What.

We can't end this update now. Stop trying to break the fourth wall!

...No? I guess?

I'm not sure at all.

This is now one of my favourite lines in the game. Especially as it can be read as her being boring is why she got kidnapped.

Another green thing!

Great, even the guards don't know the way.

Maybe that's why they're so angry.

...And just standing in corners.

What 'guies'?

That's unfortunate.

Keep doing that, Not-Sandslash.

And suddenly I stumble on the end! But I don't want to go here yet as I'm pretty sure there's still some places to explore first. But at least I know where to go.

...release? Oh dear.

Everybody's gotta go~

What is a jet doing here anyway!?

Nothing but a broken phone here!

~Places~

Yes.

Okay.

Well, they actually acknowledged them. That's neat, I suppose.

I present to you the dead-end room.

See, he's all hit and speed.

Oh boy.

It's not you, I can say that much.

I find the existence of the he/she bit interesting, actually. Besides, this is an old game and I'm pretty sure it's addressed to Bek, not the player.

Wait what

I just

what

Either he meant lying, or...I didn't know he had those feelings for Bek.

Like, really, woah. Talk about sudden.

Oh yeah, I guess I decided to go beat up the boss now. The maze itself isn't very large, but it's dang annoying as it is.

Didn't we just pass them on the way here, Bek...?

Treat me as his player? Okay.

Let's do this.

Not a bad design, I suppose!

Boss Battle Theme

A pity he's Lake (water) type. Not-Sandslash might just be having a field day with his recent evolution.

I suppose so!

Learn with WARATA and friends.

Faster, but he's not doing too much.

Heh.

Yes, you were attacked.

...

Oh. Okay then.

Okay, have fun with your multi-turn charge attack.

Whoops.

I accidentally an entire boss.

Boing.

I really don't think there was any luck there. That was an embarrassing walkover. Sorta like the opposite in difficulty of this maze.

Ooooh, Bek's appying the salt.

Jump all you want, you still got smashed.

Huh. That's interesting.

Just what I was thinking, Bek.

Of course you can't.

Oh my. Bek is, uh, really aggressive right now. Maybe he thought about ****.

Aha!

Back to the name of Brag then, I see.

This SANARBA guy or group or whatever sound like a powerful influence.

'Let my people go!' Now I'm imagining the story of Moses with e-monsters.

...Okay.

Well, you saying that means everything is fine now...?

...

Uh.

Oh.

Well I guess that concludes the main plot of Bansis Village! Next we get to see the result of everyone being returned, apparently.[/hide]

 

[bobandbill]

And back!

Part Twenty-Seven: Conversing with Villagers
Or encountering an old friend.

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So last time we...beat up the evil guy in only two updates, and then whited out?

Or rather, just teleported back here. Well okay then. Let's... leave?

I guess not just yet.

I agree, air is pretty dangerous! As are [Sickle]s. And e-monsters. E-monsters are the worst.

Okay, let's leave- oh hey another phone call.

To be clear, this is Bek talking here. Because you normally respond with Hello?[my name] when you answer a phone call.

Wait what

Yeah, you tell them, Bek!

Now, let's...and then I get another phone call after taking another step.

Who is it now?

You know, even for Telefang this is pretty weird.

Uh-oh, Bek is getting angrier...

Bek angry! Bek SMASH!

:V

ROAR

...Oh.

Many being two. Well, three, if you include the [Sickle] discussion. I think it's fair enough to do so.

Again? =/

Haven't even moved off the island here and we're already getting the plot for the next area.

By not talking on the phone. :V

Huh, we're looping back to the third town we visited?

At least you get told where to go and how to get there.

And that's all there is to say on the matter. Never again does Bek get called about pizza though. The programmers just stuck in this part to show the problem and never keep it going afterwards. Which might be a good thing, but nonetheless it feels off.

Oh well. Let's explore this village before we leave.

We still can't go inside these. Pity, I wanted to see Not-Sandslash's crib.

No, I contributed, not contributes. Nobody gives me any money anymore for saving them. =(

I'll just take your word for it.

Yep, so we were told.

...I don't think they're very happy though. =/ Again - probably why the e-monsters there hate everyone.

In other words - wanted the rest of the treasure in here? Too bad! You can never go back now.

And here is- oh.

You.

Sir Bek? Boy, he's laying it on really thick here...

I am now imagining Mr Politician rolling around in the grass, singing to himself, while Bek looks on.

That's too many letters. Look at Bek's name. Short, only three letters. Uncle is only five and sounds kinda funny if you say it a lot of times.

Bek is trolling here, you can tell.

I guess this is a sore spot.

...Gourmand street?

Not this again...

Bek is thinking the same way as myself, it seems!

Evidence!?

Eat what up...? =/

Regardless of the risk though, let's take the plunge.

You know, this is also pretty weird, this whole conversation.

No Bek, it's just grass.

I can cook, so I'm telling the truth!

Do what quickly? Again, confusing statements!

What is serious about curry?

But I don't understand...

What

...

Nope.

Interesting typo there.

And that concludes the tales of curry guy. No, really, that's it. He'll stay here and say that he is the gourmand street a couple times when you talk to him, and that's it. What an odd conclusion.

Another phone call?

I didn't sneeze at all...

How will I do with it? Well at least the question options aren't hard to understand, like A: Talk me.

Uh...okay, then.

In other news:

This happened.

But really, that's it for this boring town. Nothing else of note to see or do. We didn't even get a [Revolver] or anything.

So let's go on to the next village in the next update and figure out what's wrong and see if anyone is selling pizza.

(How do these teleportation trees work anyway seriously)[/hide]

 

[bobandbill]

Part Twenty-Eight: Tliba Village
Or investigating trees with problems.

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Right, we're in Alice, and we need to find a way to this new village.

These guys used to block this way! How nice of them to step aside now.

They don't say anything different now however. =/

...What a boring forest. =/

And stuff is pretty darn under-levelled here.

Hi, RODANSA.

That was quick.

And going into the cave leads you to...outdoors. And facing the wrong way. Well, okay then. Guess we'll just ignore that with everything else and try talking to peop-er, things.

That sure are problems.

...what, like swing on the branches yelling loudly? And what person? How unhelpful.

Okay, so the tree is big enough to have e-monsters live in them...does the teleporting part work? If so, what is the problem?

Okay, that makes more sense. Mind control or whatnot is never a good thing. (Unless you're in charge.)

The east end of the village.

For one, it has a funny name. Tliba?

Most of the houses have this.

To be honest it's like nearly every town has these trees as their symbol. That, or curry.

Anyone has something can be done and something can't be done.

Ow my head.

Missiles will make everything better.

And these too.

The heck is a Tayta? Well, some sort of rock or gem, but beyond that...

Actually going to buy pointless stuff because 65,000 balls is the most Bek is able to carry, apparently. Might as well use some of it!

o

Why must I? =(

I'm just going to say no because I don't trust anybody successfully telling a story correctly around here.

Apparently this means I was wrong.

Who is saying this? Bek or the green blob?

Yeah, the translation is pretty darn poor in this instance.

Of course, thou must talk to the human being before you can check out the tree!

This is a different e-monster saying the same thing. How original!

Oh hey a cool thing.

It seems that e-monsters from the Lake area are close by to arrive straight away. That's useful.

That was fun!

Hurrah, a guy who's weaker than everyone in the tree itself!

I guess this makes some sense.

I didn't do anything...?

How rude. >:[

And I'm disappointed in everyone else.

Is that a command? Come on, everyone, let's be disappointed with ourselves. It's easier than you think!

In the meantime let's check another shop.

You know, it doesn't look much like a spring to me. =/

L is for...what? Laser?

The heck

A-what

These shops suck.

Oh great.

;)

...

Oh look, the human being. Stay there so I can stare at you and be disappointed.

Yep, sure did a good job there. Just stuck you in a house I could freely walk into and all.

Boing.

Because they were disappointed!

No, Bek, the curry is responsible. -_-

Wait, ordered? And medicine?

Magic medicine, full of insta-grow.

Yes, you mentioned. And I was ordered to be disappointed in you.

THE JUMP OF DISAPPOINT

Not asked, ordered! Listen more, Bek.

Of course it is. At least the plot is consistent in that of late?

Because he's [SANARBA]. He can't just spend all his time running drug companies and discovering new worlds!

How convenient.

Sounds easy enough. Too easy. What's the catch?

What's the other catch?

No Bek, there's got to be another catch.

Exactly, too easy.

Here it comes.

Why not trust Not-Sandslash? Is it because he doesn't talk much? I think that's a pretty wise thing to do here.

Of course, there it is. Need to get to the top first. :V

On the way there:

Well you're a weird looking one.

No, I'm standing by the door.

Notice that we didn't get a key or anything, but we can access the tree now! You need to pick Yes, of course.

Well. It sure did grow.

Music of the tree

Standard evil dungeon theme for the game as of late. At least we didn't have some rubbish game to go through just to get here this time around. This is already an improvement!

Huh, and this guy is friendly too. So much for mind control?

Notice the weird panel on the top, by the way.

Run into it and you get sent the other way.

Two of these blobs here.

Nobody seems to. The guy who does just called it medicine too so he probably doesn't know either.

That's... notably less friendly than the other guy.

Yep, battle time. This guy is of the Land type and sure looks weird.

This is a good start! Doesn't say much about BUBARTI's defences though. But we are of a higher level.

Ew.

I would have guess it was a poison cloud, myself. Oh well.

Not-Sandslash doesn't stand for this nonsense.

...yes, I did.

Okay.

...But it's not okay. We can use phones just fine without a bigger one. In fact, the phone calls went badly due to this! You are dumb, killer pony.

Hi there, being with soulless eyes.

And even less defences.

At least he knows what to do.

Sadly, wild encounters are what you'll rely on in here in getting phone numbers.

But this cool guy is in the tree too. ~

But he didn't want to give us his phone number. This guy is more useful than the soulless eyes guy I suppose...

That's kinda neat in concept, but mostly creepy!

And check out these moves too! Saber is a good attacking one, we've seen Hypnotic..

What does this one do?

Um

Oh.

I daresay it is. BIBANAM, let's never argue, okay? :<

Yes, you do that. Or you get curses.

Same for you.

Good question! I don't think I want to know!

By the way, this is a neat little addition I think to this segment. This message starts to show up in the tree, suggesting something odd is going on with the e-wave.

Pity this guy has a pretty poor moveset. =/

Excellent, just what I wanted. He's not fantastic here, but he'll do better than the others.

And with that, we're set up for taking on the dungeon! That'll happen in the next update.[/hide]

 

[bobandbill]

Part Twenty-Nine: This tree has holes in it!
Or e-monsters shout at Bek, then apologise.

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Time to climb this tree!

A nice way to start the update. These battles are really simple, so there's nothing worth showing off here.

This, however...

You're a terrible thing that happened, so you're right there.

There's stairs, and more of those planks stuck on the walls too.

Our questionable friend here explains them - although you can't enter them from the bottom, you can run down from the other side and take a shortcut. So for anyone who needs to exit the dungeon, this is the fast way to do just that.

But that's just one gimmick of this tree.

That said, this is as exciting as many of the floors on the ground floor get.

Believe it!

The result of Not-Sandslash believing.

What a weird thing to say.

A strange man in a house.

Okay.

Great, dead ends!

That's... nice to know. Again.

Nooooooo

Other friends to call instead of me. But hum. If they are befriending the likes of Gerlin, that's not a good sign. =/

But I didn't say anything...?

I suppose it's the guy who we just spoke to then.

There's a few ways to get to the second floor, but sadly this isn't the right one.

Oh?

I assume they mean to not stand on the bad places rather than to take care and support these unfortunate places.

Gotta be brave to stand on the bad floor.

...Yes.

Another way up, which leads to...

This. Notice the off-coloured floor there.

Bek is great at demonstrations!

See?

This is a way to get down from higher floors quickly, but really they just serve as an annoyance. Because you really only want to go up here.

But... all I did was fall down a hole. =(

Hmm, that doesn't sound promising.

Half of everyone wants to get beaten up, it seems.

Anyways, that's enough pointless walking around on the ground floor. Time to show off the proper entrance to the 2nd floor, which needs some finding. This is the way to the right place!

Luckily it's pretty simple to see how to get to that treasure.

What the heck was that doing in the tree?

Bek fell down in shock.

Nobody saw anything.

Besides watching your step, you have the odd necessary battle to deal with in order to get past.

\o/

yes.

Range...?

But not everyone actually blocks your way here.

In fact, some will just talk to you. Not a very menacing dungeon...

This is the general premise of this floor. Don't step on the bad floor, and all will be fine.

Could you perform a jig, at least?

Again - why is there a blender in a tree?

I suppose this layout is tricker...

I didn't notice at all!

That was fun.

So... why did you battle me?

This'll be easy-

Spoke too soon.

What does this even mean!?

Ow my head.

The last challenge of this sort. Thank goodness, it's not very eventful.

So, what's the gimmick of this next floor? More 'bad floor'?

...Yeah, I suppose this floor is pretty bad too. -_-

Amazing variety!

It's a bit hard not to, to be honest.

But... I'm already inside the tree. Right now. Talking to you. I'm standing in it.

This is stupid.

Yay stats.

So you want me to fix it after all?

They sure like whinging about us here.

What if I said please? Like, really nicely?

Oh, okay then.

But... I won.

If I lose, can I not worry about this place any more?

Whoops I won.

Do you count as a hobo then if you don't have a proper house? Even Not-Sandslash has a house!

Oh.

This thing is sitting on this side of the room.

But don't try to run into it, otherwise you'll rebound right into that hole.

No.

That's... what I am trying to do. Stop blocking my path!

Blah blah blah

GEIWUR is helping.

There was no reason to be angry in the first place! I'm here to fix things. Sheesh.

We made it to the end of the floor!

=/

Okay, what's here. Is all of the floor bad or something?

I don't like the sound of that.

Can I try yours instead?

E-monsters are very bad with understanding that someone who is here to fix stuff isn't the same person as the person who broke it in the first place. -_-

At least this guy offers to help afterwards...

Hmm, I don't think that was the right way. Bad floor everywhere there. So back to the previous room - you have two of those plank-panels to choose from.

And if you choose wrong... down you go. Multiple floors at times too, if you keep landing on bad floor tiles. =/

Luckily, if you hold the opposite direction straightaway you can get back to the previous room and avoid falling down.

...as long as you keep holding, that is.

There, easy! I don't know if that's actually intended to be possible by the game, and nobody mentions it, but it sure makes it a lot less annoying.

Bah.

Yes, sadly.

Is this one of those times?

Gasp, three choices!

I don't know. I was hoping you would...

Um...

A quick battle later:

But I don't know the right road!

Wahey! This seems like the right road.

...Or not.

A cruel move by the game.

While Bek worked his way back up:

The only sport for Bek is baseball, and he is not a girl. Last he checked anyway.

Bek doesn't know. He supposes girls also play baseball and it would be unfair to restrict them from such a wonderful sport...

How will this tornado with a phone depend on Bek? =/

Out of interest, nearly all the floors in this dungeon have this layout.

Anyways, we made it!

Yeah, yeah. I'm more worried about the amount of choices here...

Did... 'something'. I suppose make the tree a giant mess full of holes and panels, and now populated by e-monsters with mood swings, is something.

Bad floor, bad.

I don't know, but I hope I don't meet any of you again. >:[

I'm not really sure why there's some bad floor in the top right corner of this room...

Another suspicious guy.

He helped Not-Sandslash. =)

Oh, we must be nearly there!

So close...

...Well, I suppose a table makes this room more of a Research room than any other we encountered. Less holey too.

Next update, Bek shall attempt research![/hide]

 

[bobandbill]

Part Thirty: Let's meet characters to do with some larger plot!
Or battling some ugly bird thing.

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Let's check the table.

Yep, it sure is a table.

I don't know how he knows this, but let's just go along with it.

I like that it got a name like that.

And then suddenly this text. It makes no sense for this moment, so don't worry about that. And yes, supernal electric monster is a thing.

Hi there mid-jump screenshot of... whoever that guy is.

Uh-oh.

Only Bek is allowed to jump!

'For completely innocent and non-suspicious purposes!'

Huh? Are... you a celebrity?

I like those exclamation marks. And that instead of asking who he was, he just jumped straight into a battle.

Bring it!

That's... not the person, by the way. Just his e-monster friend. And it sure is ugly.

Boss Battle Theme!

It's a Sky type, so he's actually going to be a challenge against Not-Sandslash. So this time the level difference of 11 this guy has over us is significant.

This helps, though.

Wise words.

...No.

Why. Why does he use Fly. A boss battle, and it starts off by delaying everything. Talk about annoying.

Pretty much the only thing we can do until then.

You don't say.

SPEED

Nothing he can do, unfortunately.

Still? @_@

SPEED

DIVERGE

AAAAAA

...that's not a bomb. Those are arrows.

Ouch.

=|

Oh. Lucked out there. Rather than trying to kill everyone, he wants to wait multiple turns to do that instead. I'm okay with this.

Stop missing, guys. >:[

Sure, that's a not-very-effective attack, but also after two attack boosts. Certainly a tougher battle than previous ones.

Meanwhile, any monsters you recruit here are really going to struggle.

Yay.

This is how you make use out of the e-monsters from this area. :)

And thanks to SPEED, although he's barely hitting that thing, he's hitting often.

Damn.

That was useful.

Shush, he's helping.

Is there something stuck in your throat?

Ouch.

To clarify, he stopped his charge-up attack because I put him to sleep. Given how quickly it charged, I rather'd have stopped him one-hitting something and have a few extra turns anyway, at the risk of him killing stuff later.

Now it's red! :)

Ouch. Two, maybe three shots Not-Sandslash. That's why it's important to keep it busy. Or, well, asleep.

Because these guys won't last long without him.

\o/

I DON'T CARE TYPE CHART, IT WORKED

I sometimes wonder, do I use a large net or something to catch it in?

Yay.

What, only 'not bad'? =(

See, you should start out with this first.

...What?

Bek jumps while this guy leaves. With his name. Uh, okay, great use that'll do him.

Disgusting. I think that's the first we saw this word in the game.

Who was he though?

Hi there, text that was seen early in this section and shouldn't be in this part!

Man, I hate it when this happens. Really confuses you, especially when you are only... how old was I when I first played this? I think nine. This confuses you when you are nine or so. I don't think I got to here that quickly without restarting.

Oh yeah, that's Boundary.

Also the guy with the good music theme.

I don't get that it's noisy, but okay.

Yeah, who is he?

Oh.

Bek, you were told this. You can't know that it's true.

(Even though it is).

Good, that means we don't have to.

Yes, do that. I think.

Oh. Bek really wanted to ask him to a baseball match.

Is he, Bek? The last time we saw him he was trying to kill trees, Bek. Trees. Innocent, defenceless, teleport-power trees.

Yeah, like this one. That's the same animation as from before, by the way. Yay, reusing stuff. The key thing is:

That.

Damn.

Okay. I'll be sure to forget that then.

You are welcome, RESEARCH guy.

Wunan? Wait a sec... Bek called someone Wunan before.

Huh. They are certainly not the same person. That other guy had a hat. This is, well, confusing.

Oh well!

Sure, you...watch that tree.

Well, given they previous kidnapped and imprisoned this guy...

You are welcome. Do you have treasure?

That's not treasure.

That's a request. >:[

Stupid Bek.

Oh well. Fulaura sounds interesting though. Fulaura.

Fulaura~

Fu-la-u-ra.

Or is it Fu-lau-ra?

Fulaura.

Do you have treasure?

Does Fulaura have a tree? I am getting sick of them.

Let's find out in Fulaura in the next update.

Fu-la---

wait.

Oh.



Fu-wu-la~[/hide]

 

[sv_01]

So I read somewhere that a lot of the monsters is supposed to have plant names. That actually makes less sense than with the humans in Pokémon.

 

[bobandbill]

Woah a reply

Yeah, they were meant to, or at least in the original games, idk what they were going on with here (I mean, 'Ice Cream'?). I don't think it's too bad a motif even if a bunch of them didn't have anything to do with plants. The premise doesn't make much sense even if it was properly translated anyhow, haha.

Anyways, have an update!

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Part Thirty-One: Fu-wu-la~
Or learning how the standard villager of this town screwed up things this time.

Right, let's see what this town is like already.

That sure is a colour scheme I love. And with owls too.

A mining place, eh?

A mountain, I see. I guess that's different.

More owls.

Bad reception problems? Gee, haven't heard that one before.

Of course, Bek doesn't ever have problems besides the odd message as seen last village. Because of the D shoot. Somehow.

I don't know!!

Fine, turn your back on me. Stupid owls.

The catch is there's only a single store here.

More houses. We know to the north is the mountain, but what's south?

Figures, see water, get a phone call.

I don't understand, should I give it a thing or not? Why did you start by saying Bub as well are you drowning or something?

Hmm, this does seem familiar...

Yep, the village is also north of Liz Island.

And this is the right side of the water separating it from M-city's forest.

This happened while swimming/walking.

Huh, what's this? This hole was a little bit to the west of the beach...

Nothing. Guess we can just forget about this place then until it's relevant! :V

And a dead end if you continue in either direction. How boring.

I don't know, if you are trying to order pizza then maybe it will help you lose weight?

Okay.

Why don't you just swim? Or heck, fly there?

These guys are lazy. THEY ARE OWLS THEY CAN FLY. PROBABLY.

I do not know why they refer to the mountain like this a few times when it has another name that's used in the map and all. And it doesn't even have cherries or bags of them there.

See, there's the name. Bebli.

'Until you are told to fix stuff, then it's okay!'

...what? A devil is in the mountain? Okay...

HMM. Gee, I wonder what the plot of this part of the game involves.

But before we confirm our fears...

What? is right. For myself, anyways.

I really do not see. But I'll pretend otherwise.

...No? :/

Here's the plot continuation house. Starts with the standard villager monologuing.

Bek, this whole world is strange. Many somethings have happened on this adventure, all of them strange.

Scream. Alternatively, pay attention to me.

Some jumping and more of this continues... so let's skip that.

Well, we kind of already observed a bunch of owls complaining about phone reception, Bek. Doesn't get much more complicated than that.

See, there you go. Owl removes seal on mountain, phones stop working. Unless you're a protagonist.

That question is better.

[there was a devil living in the mountain]. Sounds like a thing an owl would say I suppose.

As you do.

Bek is referring as to why he removed said very big rock.

Did they say please, at least? If they asked nicely than that makes it perfectly understandable that you would REMOVE A GIANT ROCK SEALING AWAY A DEVIL.

The lesson you will have learnt from this update is that 'owls are dumb'.

You know, that guy.

It is a bit odd, actually, that it was him.

Firstly he forced a guy to do it, here he just bribed someone. Oh well, whatever works I guess. I suppose if you threaten an owl they'd just fly off.

Hands up if you didn't see that coming!

Or that stock standard response from Bek!

Thank you for helping us with our mistakes. Derp, we sure do mess up a lot by ourselves!
But before that, let's check out the rest of this village.

A typo there. Not that it's unusual or anything.

Friends do the strangers things! Let's check the shop.

Hum. I don't see any rocks.

Also a saw to the left. Pretty darn cheap, really.

After this section of the game you can go in here!

Well, for yourself anyway.

As we've heard.

That's new, though. Visional forest?

Encouraging!

Really, no more villages after this? This can only bode well!

Yes, please stay here. Don't remove any large rocks.

So why did you let the other owl up there?

Would you rather we not go and let a devil run loose?

Whelp. Let's get going.

That's a mountain alright.

Wonder what's up?

As we approach the e-monster blocking the path, a battle starts!

Oh hey an evolved one. Type sand. We've seen his pre-evolution ages back, in the second cave of the game.

Remember him? He's the only one who'll reach us in three turns, and is a good 26 levels lower than our opposition. It's kinda important for the moment that we get at least one 'friend' here.

Considering Not-Sandslash is great at attacking and at a higher level, that's really not bad of a defence there.

Okay.

Well.

Yeah, you're not going to do anything here.

Well, I guess if BUNIDE(R) hit it again...

Oh hey, you arrived.

You're six times better than BUNIDER!

\o/

More coherent and descriptive than other entries we've seen.

Permission from who?

...

Fine, be like that.

Bugger.

Whatever that actually means. Sounds like a marvellous character though. 'Hey man there's this marvellous guy, he's great, he loves GUN.'

Moving right on.

SCORPION FIGHT
Increase is a decent attack, Pricker is a weak one that may inflict poison. TITTLE is the charge up move.
I've continued north for a moment.

To show you this wonderful door.

Oh. Well that was boring.

Hi flaming bird.

Bye, BUNDIE(R).
As an aside, the names get shortened like this because of character limits that don't pose the same problem as Japanese. And it's really the assigned nickname of the e-monster. That's right, in the real games you could nickname stuff, but you can't here. But that's also why RANBRAGE became 'o!'. Because that was its filler nickname. For... some unknown reason.

That's after two hits, and may I remind you Not-Sandslash is weak to birds.

Mr. Scorpion here however tanks stuff like a boss.

And while not as strong offensively is still respectable.

Yay!

This made me laugh more than it probably should. 'Alas, it is on fire.'

Anyways, that's enough fooling about for now.

Next update, we're taking on this mountain of joy.[/hide]

 

[sv_01]

Yeah, owls aren't the smartest birds and there probably isn't any raven-based E-monster. "Hey dude, want this piece of tech?" "Sure." "Well then release the Devil for me." "Whatever you say, creepy guy in a suit."

They clearly haven't met the old lady near Ilex Forest.

 

[bobandbill]

Yeah, owls aren't the smartest birds and there probably isn't any raven-based E-monster. "Hey dude, want this piece of tech?" "Sure." "Well then release the Devil for me." "Whatever you say, creepy guy in a suit."

They clearly haven't met the old lady near Ilex Forest.

And it was probably something common or of no use to the owl e-monster as well. Or even something available from the local shop.

 

[bobandbill]

Part Thirty-Two: Welcome to the freak show
Or why Bek hates mountains.

[hide=]

Hi there, bald guy.

Bebli Mountain Theme

What better way to explore a mountain than with this tune playing on loop?

...Well, it'd probably be better without e-monsters, for starters. It's somewhat unlike any other we've heard before, and an interesting beginning. If you get up to here in the game this'll play a lot.

Oh. So I guess we can expect to fight a bunch of them here. This guy however doesn't fight you! How nice.

Taking the lower route leads to the first treasure chest.

But what OS does it run?

Oh no, there's scorpions in this computer! D=

Did you notice something by the way?

Suddenly this first encounter we see, who's a stage evolution below Not-Sandslash, is hitting as hard as him.

There's been a level spike - by about 7-8 levels just by walking inside. Whoops! That means even this scorpion is of a higher level than our reliable starter, who is by the way level 45.

All things considered, we're actually lucky other monsters didn't show up first.

Well, you're helping.

And our one is seven levels lower. And no poisoning occurred. =(

That helps though.

Thank goodness for one hard hitter.

The fight is as good as ours now - even if it has a good special attack stat, it won't have time to perform that move.

Anywhere near enough time, actually.

Sadly, he didn't give us his phone number. =(

That's not good - basically I need to grind here to get someone's number, or the trainer battles will wreck me. And as said, some of the natives will be dangerous anyway.

This... is not one of them.

But heck is it a creepy thing. What is going on with this monster? Do I even want it on my team? =/

Aaaaa!

Which end is- nevermind.

As said, it's a weaker monster than others that could have showed up. The only real threat it offers is to our eyes.

Yes, good idea. Kill it quickly.

Uh

Well, you are better than nothing...

Horrible, horrible science did this.

On that note, while you can evolve stuff yourself, this guy doesn't evolve for anything, nor evolves further. So at least kids don't have to feel responsible for this thing.

Let's not talk to him more than we have to, Not-Sandslash.

This guy is pretty neat looking. Less bony and mouth-y.

And at least our mouse friend has a type advantage as well.

Mind you, RASEN is one of those that would have been dangerous to encounter straight up.

He's not a happy chappy either.

Well, that helps. Starting with the long-setup move? I'm okay with this.

And he is kinda frail too.

Oh.

Oh again.

Wayaa indeed! We've failed to hit twice and got one hit, and he's already nearly ready to attack with the charge-up attack! Which normally takes several turns.

That's the danger of RASEN. Not really strong offensively, nor defensively. But he's fast as heck. Encounter this with an underlevelled monster, perhaps a slower-than-average one if you swap out regularly, and nobody nearby (and remember, Not-Sandslash was over-levelled in the previous dungeons too), and he may well just outspeed you.

For sake of example, one incident I recall when playing as a kid had RASEN move six times in a row. Six!

Thank goodness he chose the charge-up move, huh?

Yes.

He's the hill kind, and he'll take lib. Whatever that is. Its dex entry tells us it 'Attack by violent flame.'.

Oh look, another one.

Respectable, but it is just as well we used some P-cards on Not-Sandslash ages back so he's not so under-levelled here.

Much overthrowing.

Oh look, it moved again already.

Musical?

I don't like this singing.

That's pretty minor, but what a weird name for a move.

Whoops. Needless to say we won.

Let's skip a bit more of the grinding to meet this fellow:

He's the evolved form of a guy we used in a lab a while back!

RASEN was unable to overthrow RAIGARIN.

Hum, that's a pretty good hit.

I don't like RAIGARIN.

He can hit hard too. Again, meet one of these early on and you could lose. And I'll remind you that with the pirated versions of Telefang that if you didn't switch off before going past the game over screen, your save file got wiped. :<

Thank goodness for backup!

Yes, you do that.

It does seem a bit too big for him...

Uh oh, now my head will feel heavy.

No.

This happened. Yay, we're catching up!

Noooo

...Okay?

We encountered another friendly bald guy. What's with this SANARBA group?

At least this one didn't run on scorpions.

Moving...? The heck is that?

Well, let's get moving. Another two path deal, and there's a guy above there, so maybe we...

Oh, let's face it, every choice here will be wrong. I guess I have enough choices around to take them on relatively comfortably...

Because he'd much rather something bad happen to owls than himself.

Heeler? That's not right, this sprite has hair!

Wow, that thing looks dangerous.

And it's careless? I bet a lot of accidents happened there...

This guy is one of the evolutions of KOKIA. You know, that bird monster in the wild around Tulunk Village right at the beginning. Not a bad way to turn out!

...but how does it fly?

And here are its friends. Take lib, erties!
Trainer Battle Theme!

No, don't wait, else it'll-

Oh.

Well, that's the easy part out of the way.

=/

I like how the status sign for confusion is 'Hi!'. Pretty fitting actually when you think about it. 'Hi there, thing that just jabbed me with its horn!'

Sober? Did you just make our heavy-headed friend drunk?

Well, that's a nice critical, especially as he was attacking the guy which resists his attacks.

I'm okay with this.

If you haven't yet guessed, RIGODEN is also fast.

Bugger.

That's what confusion does - you're more likely to fail in attacking.

Not really doing much there...

...Yeah, that happened. Type advantage and all, but how about that, stuff can OHKO your starter here.

Let's get rid of the guy who can murder our remaining two monsters then.

Now to chip away with mouse-thing.

Dang, that was... pretty darn close. Would have been in serious trouble if that did any more.

No, stupid mouse thing, you're suppose to hit spikey bird thing!

Yay! Thank goodness for backup hard-hitter.

You're all right for a guy with a giant head.

As it was the last e-monster to get defeated, we get its number. Which is why I left the most dangerous monster alone until the end, if you were wondering.

It did pay off in the end, didn't it? =p

Well said.

Claws?

Let's continue on and find the next guy to fight.

Not too loose, I hope.

Hi, KAMERAN!

At least he isn't called ICE CREAM. We've seen the others before as well.

Whole bunch of hard hitters here.

Seeing he can paralyze us, it's the bigger threat.

Besides, KAMERAN is a coward.

That was easy.

Oh, I thought you were going to exploit your type advantage by actually attacking.

That wasn't a wise decision, talking... whatever-you-are.

I told you.

Unfortunately we have to wait for KAMERAN to reappear first.

Edge-bird isn't very defensively strong either, but that's okay.

Yay.

Yay!

I guess that's alright.

Yay!

Fense.

On to the next one.

So they do know about Bek.

Alas, lots of fire.

Two fast birds and a snake. Gee, I guess they do get on well these days.

Now, really, I should have chosen RASEN because of his own speed and type advantages. But I dun goofed and pressed A too quickly, and then decided, hey, what the heck let's see how this battle goes.

And yes, this was a 2-on-3 fight.
Trainer Battle Theme!

No, don't wait.

He's the fastest, but luckily not quite as hard hitting as the other. Still, that's about half my health gone!

Dang, just needed a bit more. Blame that on still being on a lower level than the other guys.

Yay.

Oh, he hit. =(

Not bad, just need a KO.

Wait what
Did he just
Uh.

Yes, that snake, which we've seen since, what, the second dungeon - smashed him. Sure, type advantage, but that's scary.

Uh-oh.

...Okay, now both of them are charging up. I could survive maybe a regular hit from one, but not a charged up attack.

Oh thank goodness, a critical hit in my favour

Oh god

You...poisoned me?

Well, not yet - this message displays first, then you take the damage after performing an attack. This is problematic though - the snake is a bother, but I'm going for the birds first.

See how quickly it charged up its attack? Dang!

Chip damage, really, but every bit counts...

I'm trying!

Oh dear oh dear oh dear

Oh thank god that was lucky.

Wait how did you charge it up so quickly you are the slower of the two birds! C'mon HIT

YES

Shut up game I'm doing things my way!

Yeah, I'm not taking your spunk, game.

Oh yeah, poison.

No stop that snake

41 points? Dang, where did you get so strong, SURUGEM? D=

Oh dear, I don't know if it applies after knocking out something, and I still have to hit first!

WHELP

Oh goodness, I won.

Good grief, that was close.

Yes, thank you.

I hate you.

Well, I... think that's a good a time to end an update. Remember kids, mountains are dangerous. I got lucky there and that's after getting a decent start in recruiting monsters too![/hide]

 

[bobandbill]

Woah what this place has proper spoiler tags as well? WOW THAT'S HELPFUL I'M GOING TO USE THESE EVERYWHERE NOW

Part Thirty-Three: Navigating the Mountain
Or revealing the second difficulty.


[hide=]

Last time, I demonstrated the capability of the game to ramp up in difficulty here with the battles. But that's not all! Time to continue.

Bebli Mountain Theme
Oh, and we mustn't forget the music of the place too.

I'm not SANARBA. Unless you're talking to him by phone...?

Not that you were making much sense anyway.

It's the Reject Crew!

Oh.

Yay, you're a sitting duck now for several turns.

But you're just annoying, so let's try to get rid of you first.

Oh.

I think I have a dumb RASEN. =(

RAIGAR knows what to do.

But I don't want to be stabbed!

Uh, okay.

Not Sandslash has a fear of being stabbed. And licked.

HE'S HELPING GUYS

That's more like it.

A light touch. Man, I really did get a bad RASEN. =/

Not much danger in this battle now.

That's mildly annoying.

Yes, we gathered.

NIGERA is a rather bulky thing.

But it can't do very much either save for that Lick move which can be good for status.

Yay.

As it was the last one we defeated, we got its number.

Oh look, another guy! Note that I'm actually backtracking right now to battle these guys.

Which is the odd one out...

>Get angr
>Get angr
>erties!

Such a cheerful guy.

How annoying. Oh well, at least it isn't killing me right now.

Got to hit something, I suppose.

And drill-bird-thing finishes that job.

Keep doing that.

Type advantage there. =/

And here's my type advantage. Goodbye, friendly ARMORY.

Still? You can come down you know, we killed your friends already!

Not much else I can do right now...

He has no stat-up moves. =/

Of course.

Yay - show, but hits like a truck.

Oh.

Noooo come back down

This is pretty pointless!

But so is that. See what I meant by FLY being an annoying move?

This is even more frustrating. =/

No EXP for Not-Sandslash.

Quite the violent move!

Seeing it's shared between two monsters now, that's a fair chunk.

Yay, I suppose.

I do.

Not as funny as its other form. =(

Ah, here we go. The first significant choice of Belbi Mountain. Right, or down?

I'll show what happens when you go down first, then backtrack.

Well, not exactly exciting.

A moment during the wild battles on the way. Seems awkward.

Oh, another one of these guys...

Huh, he just wanted to say that.

Oh, you can tell we'll have to fight this dude though.

Led what up?

GERON are never cool. >:[

This is cool, though!

Not too bad - worse at attacking than the deformed drill, but faster so it may get more hits in.

RAIGAR just hits.

Already went again, as you can see!

Yay.

That was a... very easy battle. Yay taking the time to fight the previous trainers!

That old chestnut...

Bah.

Installations...? Are you referring to the computers lying about?

How exactly do they stretch out...?

What awaits us upstairs?

...Outside-ness, I see. Hum.

Nothing to the right...

What's this way?

Another hole!

Look at that bald guy, just running around the room.

'Totally not suspicious guy'.

Two panels and a button. (Yes, it's a button).

But before we press it, let's see what was missed if we went right.

On the way back I encountered this guy! But he didn't want to give his number. =(

Anyways, back here, let's go.

To that mountain? We're IN a mountain. =/

So both ways has at least one trainer battle, hum. EXP, yay.

Minor annoyance during this battle.

Quickly solved.

Another annoyance.

Here's FAIKKE's moveset, by the way. CRUSADER is a good enough attack, and GOGGLEAT is a nice status move to abuse as well.

I would not give a knife to RAIGAR.

KAMERAN are pretty weak, really...

Let's never use you. Heck, you're only level 43!

Yay.

Found one of these, but no number either. Bugger, I rather like him.

You're yelling at my foot. =|

Oh, more flying types, joy.

Making sure to bring you to this fight then!

That's a nice change.

Hum, RASEN is good enough to land a critical!

Not-Sandslash will struggle in this fight, sadly. I could have always just switched him before the fight, but where's the fun in that?

FAIKKE likes attacking without being commanded to.

Works for me!

Oi, this other one has the wrong idea. >:[

Almost...

He went again, but didn't follow. Sigh.

That's more like it.

Just enough.

Yay, another drillbirdthing!

You know, the design of this is kinda obnoxious. Down a lot, up a lot again, and trainers in the way of the narrow passages.

Well... yes, it would. You'd probably confuse the poor thing, evil as it may be.

Three land types this time.

This battle was really boring, so here's the stats of a few of our guys instead. Interestingly they all have pretty similar fend (defense) stats.

Anyways, I won.

I suppose them all knowing FLY was annoying...

Do de do.

Yes, I think so.

Mine, all mine.

Huh... didn't someone near the start say that? Oh well, let's see what the exit holds.

...Hang on.

That's right - a dead end. Even with all the trainers, and a chest along the way... the game decided that hey, if you went that way and kept going, it was all for nothing in terms of actually progressing! Have fun walking ALL THE WAY BACK!

And you can't even blame this on the Engrish, this is how it was in the original too. And thus I have started to reveal to you one of the challenges of the game that only starts to show up now - the map design.

Because really, making me go all the way back like this is cruel. Stupid mazes.

Oh boy.

Wha-never mind, I'm just going to ignore what you just said. Scream, is my advice.

Annnd back to the fork.

And back to this part too!

So the button opens one of the doors. At least we're not forced to pick again. Interestingly, it's a time limit thing too - take too long and the door falls down, and you have to step on the button again.

And here is where we will leave it. You can rejoice though - we're finally on the second floor of the mountain!
[/hide]

 

[sv_01]

Counterfort? Did somebody build a fort out of a counter to go to the imaginary world?

 

[bobandbill]

Counterfort? Did somebody build a fort out of a counter to go to the imaginary world?

I'm afraid I don't follow that comment, was it in response to a comment I made or a picture I forgot about?

But who knows, given the game's weirdness in setting and premise and all it's possible. =p

 

[sv_01]

The 'Totally not suspicious guy' says something about a counterfort. Alright, maybe the conterfort is the two pannels and a button. But it sounds like a fort made of counters.

 

[bobandbill]

Ah, I see now. And now you've provided an amusing mental image. XD

Meanwhile:

Part Thirty-Four: Keep on Climbing
Or being unable to move.

[hide=]

Let's continue with... this.

Bebli Mountain Theme
Can't forget the music! Settle yourselves in, this update's a long one.

Can't forget that these things live here too.

At least they have exp.

Anyways, continuing on this path leads to... this. A room of buttons.

The gimmick of this room is that you have to wait on a button for it to be pressed down - keep moving and nothing happens. Each button press opens that door... very slightly.

And you don't have to press them all to open the door! Of course, if you press one button too many, then the door closes and you have to do it again. It's... very straightforward however, and to this day I don't really get the point of this room.

That's all there is beyond it - another button

Whee!

The quick way back. :V

Evidently I was too quick.

Oh, really? Well, maybe they can help out too.

...you know, this is possibly the first useful and comprehensible phone call we've gotten thus far. Huh. Save for the 'came back to life' deal, it really just got released. But that's a good effort, BANLES! You've been studying.

Anyways, the effect of pressing that button means that now the other gate opens. So that was a very short and boring diversion.

An electric monster...that's evil?

Hey man, I honestly haven't a clue myself. I hope it's not an owl though. They're the worst.

Two flatworm things and a driller.

Although the bird has a weakness to the driller, our scorpion has an advantage against the GEDEJIAs.

Or well, when it isn't hiding anyway.

Good start.

Oh. Okay, thanks for making this fight trivial.

Or not. Mostly just delaying the inevitable, but it's kinda annoying.

Revenge.

=/

=/

Two down. You're soloing this, drill-bird!

...

C'mon.

WHAT

Good grief.

...wait, that's it?

Huh. DORIA's stat for special attacks must really suck!

Stop being paralytic.

WHERE ARE YOU JESUS

Well, at least you can move.

Not much damage was dealt.

Imagine if I hadn't had the good start earlier!

FINALLY

Pity it takes up the whole turn...

Let's just buy some time.

My status attack failed.

I just

...It's almost more frustrating than before, that while I can't hit it, all it does are frankly ineffective attacks.

THERE WE GO

You're not earning your keep, Mr. Scorpion. >:[

Take that!

Screw you.

Oh... I will...

The next room gives this. I've stood on the button, and those panels to the left and middle appeared.

Notice that they move - basically you have to time your crossing.

This was also straightforward.

If only I could combine them... But then I'd probably just film myself screaming, while unfitting mountain music plays.

Hi there.

Don't worry, I won't scream.

AAAAAAAAAAA

Three of them! Sounds like fun.

You better attack.

For those who paid attention to the mobile reception... this is another 2-on-3 battle. Oh boy.

Good start!

Hardly did a thing, but that's more than enough with the status. =/

...Oh no, I can see where THIS is going.

At least with this choice of monster, they can barely touch me damage wise. I just... need to have a chance to hit.

Huh, that's an improvement.

Hmm. At least it's by the one already damaged. And hey, that's one less that can paralyze me right now!

Oh.

Yay!

That's okay with me.

Good...

Excellent!

Hah, it's even attacking the one it won't hurt much.

Oh.

Oh.

Good!

It paralyzed both of my monsters by itself? D=

...

To rub it in, it re-paralyzed my scorpion. Yes, that can happen.

We know, we know.

Oh thank goodness.

Pieces of rock proceeded to break on screen.

Still not a bad hit, considering it's hitting a tank and with a type disadvantage...

Arrgh! At least Not-Sandslash can hit now.

WHAT

I hate GEDEJIA.

I hate them so much it materialized into a cure for paralysis.

I'm... I'm okay with this!

...Not that, though.

C'mon...

PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF PASTRIES HIT IT

YES

I DON'T CARE I KILLED ONE OF YOUR KIND

HAH

HAH!

COWARD!

God dang it, at the very end, I have to wait.

No point doing anything else anyways.

...why couldn't this have happened earlier?

Readers, this is how annoying battles can get here. Not very hard, but very, very tedious.

I am never going to use you.

Not another one...

Huh, he doesn't actually want to fight. Thank goodness!

Huh, another one of these.

An example of failing - wait too long on the zig-zagging panels and you have to try again.

How obnoxious.

And the guy tries to get in the way too!

Pa-trolls is right!

No...more birds...

I'll counter with my own bird and RASEN. Thank goodness I can choose three for this fight!

Dang, this bird is smart.

But so am I.

That's good too.

And this too, I'll be able to knock it out before then... touch wood.

...Of course.

Oh. Well, he still hit something anyway!

RASEN you are still drunk go home.

Man, I'm not very lucky.

That was silly.

Yay!

Yay again!

That's a nice bonus as well.

Sorry, I already have a drill-bird!

Nice to battle you too.

Hmm, what's down?

Of course. Treasure and battles.

Why not? :<

NIGERA... look kinda nasty.

The pink things still aren't dangerous!

Note that I have a type advantage here. Those things are Lake (water) type, based on sea urchins. With...tongues.

Not very effective. But just enough to knock that one out!

He stabbed me, and I was stabbed.

NIGERA are actually pretty darn defensive.

Well that was silly.

Anyway - after all, 70 for a super-effective hit isn't much for Not-Sandslash.

You do that too much. =/

That's much better than being paralytic!

I know, I know. Mountains are ****.

I like that these two guys just decided 'hey, we found this treasure. Screw actually doing our job, let's guard this instead'.

Seems straightforward.

Good start.

Not bad either!

Uh-oh?

Oh, never mind. It's just OBANA, they suck in attacking.

It's a start, I suppose...

Bah.

Despite that though:

Twice the finisher!

Now, let's see what they were guarding.

...A pan called Flying, and a pencil.

Seriously?

Huh, really?

Statues. Or coffins. Never really sure about these.

Oh look, a red one and a green one. And they're not people, nor are they owls!

Let's talk to them and see what's up in the next update.

[/hide]

 

[bobandbill]

Part Thirty-Five: Let's do that again!
Or why the mountain really sucks.

[hide=]

Let's talk to Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

This is the map of the level we've come through, by the way.

...You'll notice that it says Bebli foot. As in, foot of the mountain.

Staring at this map. Am I there yet? Please tell me I'm there yet.

Oh. Well, apparently you haven't been doing a good job of that.

...Good question, actually.

Oh. But I thought an owl did it...

~Be a man!~

Okay. Just one fighting me at a time, but I'm only allowed two monsters.

Let's go with the tank that has the type advantage.

Boss Theme

GEIWURUS are fast. Luckily, he chose the e-magic option.

Good start!

...Not as good.

Notice how quickly his attack has charged up. =/

At least we got him in the end. And yes, the battle only lasts that long.

It had a name?

I'm not called Stupid. >:[

Take two!

...It starts the same way? That's unusual.

Well, okay then.

Yay, you hit this time.

And it basically ends the same way as the first battle.

Well, besides that detail.

And this detail.

Evolution

Behold, the reason why I like using the scorpion here. It naturally evolves here! That means I can enjoy a buffed Pokémon now along with Not-Sandslash.

Said Bek.

Kinda amusing. After a curb-stomp, they decide maybe Bek isn't so bad after all.

I think Bek is saying that, as he jumped first. But nothing's really happening here. Just standard mis-translation - I think he's meant to say that he is going to go seal him.

That's... good to know.

I'm not sure if I really care myself, but okay.

And they disappear.

Oh.

Do question sound stupid? [Yes No].

Bek is a man. Did you not pay attention to the Disney song reference?

What.

Grumble grumble, stupid LILIAOB calling Bek a child.

We'll show that stupid water thing who can seal demons.

Uh, once we figure out which way to go.

Hang on...

Why are there three accessible paths!?

Go away, you're not helping anyone.

Hey, KINGPIN, you live here, do you know the way?

He has great defense (fend) and now a more respectable attack stat too.

Anyways, everyone is unhelpful, so here's a preview of the first couple rooms for each option.

One has a choice required to make straightaway - neither option leads directly to a dead end with treasure. Darn.

This doesn't, but it's also not an obvious dead end option.

Notice too that there's no trainers, just monsters here. I guess those two guys did actually stop people from getting past. Somehow.

And the third option is like the second.

And these three entrances don't even count as being on the same map. =/

This is also why the mountain sucks. After all that, the horrible realisation sinks in - there's so much more to see.

And at the risk of sounding like a used car salesman - and that's not all! For instance, there's still this going on:

Bebli Mountain Theme

As a reminder, this is the fourth update since we've entered the mountain.

Luckily, I am here to show you all available options and what they lead to. We start with the rightmost side.

Clearly, we aren't welcome here.

These battles are really boring in general as it's effectively just more 2-1 or 3-1 wild battles, and they happen all the time anyway. So I shall not focus on many.

Also, let's skip all the alleyways leading to rooms of note like this one. Hint: there's a lot of them.

Buttons are fun and spawn moving floor panels over black voids from nowhere!

I guess they're not that fun for Bek though. At least you just go back to the previous room you came from when you fall. This is an important note; it's not like the Tree in the previous village where if you fell you went down a level. And could have kept falling.

Basically, this puzzle is a butt. Easy, just tedious as it takes the long way.

What is even the point of these statues?

Get out of the way, mutant mouse thing.

Supernal electric monster? Why does that sound familiar...?

Can he kindly stop coming back to life? It's scaring the owls.

Fine, we'll do it your way.

Really, in terms of battles the first part of the mountain is by far and away the hardest.

Drillbird wants to say something, hmm.

How are you calling us? Your limbs are either drills or saws!

Hmm, a panel. There's been a few of them here and there.

I don't get the point of it here.

Oh well. Oh, and note the jerk move dead end to the right to that statue.

Oh hey, you're different.

Different is... something. Whatever you are. Some sort of worm?

A magic work, I see.

You don't know many good tricks, do you. =(

I suppose that's useful.

That... looks awkward. But okay, whatever suits you. I'll just stick to RAIGAR AND KINGPIN mostly anyway.

Finally, stairs!

More paths!

A person? Huh. How did you get here?

Aw, poor guy. I bet he was making conversation with the statue until we got here.

Here comes the ugly crew!

Bye, ugliest of them all.

See, KINGPIN hits decently now! :)

But that was fun. For myself, anyway.

The wonders of a well-leveled team...

Grinding while navigating these annoying twist and turns helps, I suppose.

Another fancy door panel, and a person.

If only I had a car...

So basically you're just stealing stuff?

Two Land types and a Hill. Gee, who do I have that has an advantage over the Land types?

Well, when they're not hiding anyway. =/

Kill them!

Really, this battle was also uneventful.

Onwards!

Ah...

Wait. Why....

This is an earlier part of the mountain. =|

It's this stupid room with the switch that opened the right door first, then the left one. Yes, the game does have a path that just winds back here.

If you look really closely, you'll see black outlines on the section of wall just south of the right statue. That's where that golden panel from the previous room leads to. And you can't go back from the way you came, somehow.

So you have to walk all the way back from that point. OH WELL. But there you go - the mountain continues to suck. But I'm sure you've come to expect that.

Let's try this way then. What is the gift?

Aw, he gave us experience points! How sweet.

Love you too.

Okay.

|
Hey we just met,
And this sounds crazy
But ow you are hurting me,
Shit! Remember it!

Huh. Another one of these?

Also a tedious one. Note that it can be confusing due to the similarities if you came this way or not! Thank goodness the presence of e-monsters running about indicates you haven't yet fought them...

At least you had the decency to call after we crossed that abyss...

WHAT DO YOU THINK I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO DO

Why is there a panel on this side of the room and not on the other? And all these statues too, bleh.

Not with that attitude!

...I guess that's an improvement?

Treasure!

Oh.

I can do what I want! You're not my dad (thank goodness), you aren't the boss of me!

Maybe this is just how people usually say goodbye here? Imagine if that was the case in real life. "Nice meeting you!" "Yeah, shit! Remember it!"

Two wheels to go until the dream of an automobile is realised.

Oh hey, you're new too! Sadly this guy didn't join, but he's type Sand.

These twists and turns are annoying. Above is the stairway from the previous path, by the way.

Hmm. Here is a minor detour along the path.

Who hides a pencil in a treasure chest in the middle of a mountain?

Whoops.

Yay, Not-Sandslash is catching up!

Yes, goodbye.

Another staircase!

I kind of already have, actually. It's not very memorable ever since that room with moving panels.

I do, I do...

Outside at last. Where does this lead then?

This looks good!

Why did that whole lead us to a tree.

Oh. Well, going back into the tree leads us back here, so it's clearly meant to do that...

I'm confused. Why are we in a tree now. That's not how mountains are supposed to work.

Well, there we are on the map. Previously we were at the very top-middle of the map. Now we are to the west of the mountains-wait.

Look to at the cursor showing where we - and the tree - currently are. We've been south of this tree too.

THIS IS WHERE IT LEADS US

Just look back to four updates back. We've been at this very point before we actually went inside the mountain.

Well great. I guess we made a shortcut from the beginning? Let's just...go back all the way through that tedious path we just came from then.

WHAT

WHY

To recap for you fine readers - one of the paths you take from about halfway through the darn mountain sends you back to an Antenna tree, from a cave entrance, no less. This is a Antenna tree you can get to the outside of from the very beginning of this section of the game, but cannot actually access because the door is locked.

And despite coming from the other side, you still cannot access it from the door.

Yes, really.

And now think back to a short moment ago:

That's right. This guy knew. He asks you flat out 'seen that way you just took?'. Because he knew you've just spent the whole time going through that path, only to go back. Hey, I hope if you were playing this as a kid you remembered how to get back to that part in the first place!

Ah, but some people who save often may say 'ah, if I saved before going out the door from the Antenna tree, I can just walk back along that path, saving myself from backtracking from the very beginning'. Yes, that's all very well if you save just beforehand.

Except it isn't.

Remember this little panel, in the room right after the abyss?

Yeah, let's just try falling down.

YOU JUST END UP ON THE WRONG SIDE AGAIN.

But why is that? Well, I did say this was important:

At least you just go back to the previous room you came from when you fall. This is an important note; it's not like the Tree in the previous village where if you fell you went down a level.

Ergo - you actually can't backtrack along that path. In fact, if you tried to, you get to go all the way back again to the very beginning of the mountain.

It's no wonder that I'll choose here to end the update. I'm sure that for many players before and after I played this part of the game had an inclination to just take a break and lie down for a while.

Being T-Mildew is suffering.
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Ohh... Monk statues and owl statues! The Master sure likes owls!

 

[bobandbill]

Ohh... Monk statues and owl statues! The Master sure likes owls!

One hopes so with the latter, otherwise that nearby town full of owls is in trouble.

 

[bobandbill]

Part Thirty-Six: Remembering
Or back the way we came.

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Last time, you got to witness the magnificent pain one can experience in this mountain.

Bebli Mountain Theme

Oh, we're not done yet either. But first, back to where we were. The few things of interest on the way back:

Free? I''m not free. I'll never be free of this mountain. I'll be stuck climbing forever as this music plays over and over.

I...guess you can?

(You can.)

I don't have any idea either.

Go away.

That's the first floor!

Got this guy too. Not sure how he extends those claws, but okay.

Just as exciting the second time around!

And we're back. Now for this entrance!

Too bad, I already arrived.

As I mentioned way back when, this entrance begins with a choice on where to go already - up or right. We'll go with the first choice.

Still just as windy as ever.

He says that, and then attacks me. I suppose this might have been sarcasm?

Okay.

Hammertime!

That's no good.

Is that how he made it horri-nevermind.

Huh, whole bunch of statues, and more stairs. Where does this lead?

Oh.

I'm not even mad. I'm just disappointed.

That only leaves one route!

How about a dance-off?

Fine, be that way.

Darn good reception in this mountain, despite all the problems in the town nearby...

Injection? What injection...? Whatever.

No...

...

what

...My thoughts exactly.

I need to start recording these phone calls and report them to the authorities. Maybe those wood police guys.

I choose to go home.

Dang, it didn't work.

I dislike choice.

I prefer treasure however!

Too bad, we've been here long enough to be able to call ourselves masters.

Sums up the translation work!

We already got these earlier! =/

No, I don't care anymore.

That's better.

Go away.

Yay! \o/

...wait, that's no good.

Seriously, why are these guys supporting the master or devil or whatever he is called? He sounds like a right douche.

Doesn't even share his cameras and hammers with anyone.

Choices are the worst. Luckily these ones don't last too long for you to realise it's a dead end or somesuch.

Like this one.

What is a Moving?

But he's going to wake up anyway?

Whatever.

Does he also want to talk about horrible things?

Well, to be fair, you look hella weird.

You deserve it.

Dang, that wasn't what I wanted.

More statues or coffins or whatever these are!

Not an immediate dead end!

NOOOOOO

CHOICES

I HATE CHOICES

Bah humbug.

I go where I want.

If only you could fly in this game...

This makes no sense.

It'll be harder to forget at this point.

Huh, we reached the stairs quicker than before.

Okay, so this leads to here...

Where does that go exactly?

Oh.

This place

is the worst.

A short bit of backtracking later...well, what about this place?

Looks exciting.

Wait

the top!?

Dare I hope!?!

...Except this isn't even the highest place...

More coffin/statue things with owls!

Owls.

OWLS

OWLS

Not an owl.

...Probably for the best.

No and I don't want to hear it.

I'll pretend I remember that, despite having just said I never heard of it.

For a sloth he caught on pretty quick I wanted him to stop talking.

OWL-

Huh.

Guys, I think we made it. [/hide]

 

[bobandbill]

Part Thirty-Seven: Conversing with devils
Or how to be a hero.

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Well, we made it. Let's take a step forward!

Oh look, it's the devil.

Looks kinda small.

Idk, you're also kinda small, Bek.

Hey, that's not right. You're all the strange ones!

How polite. 'Please go back to bed for a few hundred years or something. There's absolutely nothing you're missing out upon. I heard it's even going to rain today.'

Something like that.

Life tree?

Good question, Bek.

It isn't?

Oh, okay.

Yes, we are fighting a koala. Maybe he's a relative of drop bears?

Boss Battle Theme

Let's do this.

He's type Land, so this isn't a bad combo for us at all. We have no weaknesses, and one advantage who takes hits like a... kingpin.

And it's three against one. That'll help the fact he outlevels us by 11.

...Huh, good start.

Really? Lowing his attack?

And it didn't even work!

Well, I guess that evens that out...

Huh, even with his not-great-attack, that's not half bad either.

Oh.

After that whole mountain... after all that climbing, getting lost, getting sent back to the start...

...it took us maybe half a minute to win!?

Most certainly a case of the dungeon being FAR harder than the boss.

Hurrah!

Boo hoo.

Straight to business, Bek.

Powerful tree? Huh.

How... does that even work?

And if you'd care to recall something familiar from ages back:

Spoiler

Yes, this game has had more than one bit of foreshadowing in it, if you can call it that.

Yeah, yeah, stop whinging.

Stupid koala.

...Wait.

Waaaaaaaaait.

You're kidding me.

After seven updates in this mountain alone, we finally make it here, curbstomp this boss, and then he just runs off?

Well put, Bek, well put.

Bebli Mountain Theme

The sound of pain.

I think there's a lot of use in regretting. All that pain...

Thankfully, the game realises it would be a tad too mean to expect you to go all the way back down yourself.

Where could he have gone?

Oh. Hi there.

The what what? We've heard this term before too. Life trees, supernal e-monsters...

Trees and supernal monsters, of course. What do YOU think about, Bek?

Being the worst hero ever.

Also appearing to levitate when I capture him in mid-jump.

Uh.

Why aren't you asking questions then?

Yep!

How rude.

Yeah, and we'd have to remember it and all.

Actually, I'm pretty sure that given your people were inside, and that you were by the mountain laughing manically about supernal electric monsters the moment the so-called devil e-monster escaped from here, it might very well be your business. Just a guess.

What a jerk.

Of course, you can't do anything but stand there and watch. Like a heroic hero.

And then you get a phone call.

Always with problems, Sungki.

I guess...

Kill us all, it seems.

Of course, that's how it is.

Naturally Bek agrees.

Whelp, let's get going, I suppose.

Back here first though, let's see what everyone says.

Whenever SANARBA people leave, stuff works again. Odd.

Must have? Uh...

I don't like that people seem to be tense still...

Oh boy!

...You don't even have arms!

I think that just makes sense.

Outcurve ball? That's not basketball. How could that option be wrong?

And why is one of the options missing the A?

How do you even throw a ball to us over the phone? @_@

Ow my head. Again.

Oh cool, that's neat, the construction work finished during our adventures in the mountains.

Screw you.

Let's begin the great backtracking then. All the way back to Liz Island!

~Memories~

And there! Let's see what all the fuss is about next update. [/hide]