Let's Play DQ9 Part 1: Days of our Celestian Lives

Where we last left off, I made us a main character, and now she was off to go do wonderous things! But... what SORT of things? (heads up: gonna be using dis color for LP commentary. )

"If you're there, say something. Show yourself."

I'm here! I'm here! You...you just can't see me! Yep, definitely can't!

"Thus do the mortals plead, ever hopeful of our existance.
For how long have we watched over their realm...?
For how long have we Celestrians existed?"

I hope long enough so that we could have ridden a dinosaur! That would be fun! Wait...

(This is raaather image heavy, sooo I'll be typing out some of the dialogue as I go along. Sometimes I'll just skip it altogether and summarize. Fair enough, eh?)

Welcome to town, where two angels are watching everything you do. EVERYTHING. EEEEVERYTHING

 I did? I did. Yeah, I did... What did I do again? How'd I get this far, anyway? Why do you remind me of this kid from DBZ?

 I didn't even do anything! Its the first hour of the game, you weirdo!

Baldy: When Apus Major bade me, 'Aquila, take Sonia as your apprentice,' I never imagined that I would see you bloom so. You are worthy of your title indeed, Sonia, Guardian of Angel Falls.

That doesn't sound like suspicious foreshadowing at all. Nope, not at all. And wait, your name is Aquila? It rhymes with Tequila! Teehee! (Shoot me.)

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Whaddya mean, "Hm?" Whats with that look on your face? What is going-

*FLASH*


Tequila Aquila gets some vision or farsight or something ,and we zoom in on...

 Goddamn, Aquila, you have odd tastes. 


Who's this Erinn girl he's talking to, anywa-

Aquila, why the hell are we spying on a touching moment between a girl and her grandpa? You're not checking out dat ass, are you?

...He's not answering me, guys. This could be bad.

Some monsters pop out of a bush and hide behind a rock. Weird...

So a cucumber and a blob are checking those people out. Wait, why the hell does the cucumber have legs? WHY IS IT EVEN ALIVE?!?

 I solemnly swear that they are up to no good.  And they look pretty happy about that. That cucumber scares me, though.

 You say that as if I was going to let them hurt a girl and her grandpa! Come on, lets kick some ass!

We spread our wings like angry, angry birds and fly our asses over there, posthaste-

 
Hello, my name is Sonia. You're about to hurt my people. PREPARE TO DIE. Oh yeah and there's Aquila over there.

*BATTLE TIME*

 ENEMIES ENCOUNTERED:

Angel Falls Slime (8 HP. Gives out 2 EXP. Difficulty: Easy)

Cruelcumber(10 HP. 3 EXP. Difficulty: Easy)

And now we have our wonderful battlescreen!  Ain't it lovely? Although green doesn't suit me. I'll change that eventually, though. At any rate, this is the first screen you get to once you get into a battle.You have four options here: Fight, Examine, Flee, and Misc. Fight and Flee are self-explainitory. Examine allows you to examine the enemies and see what statuses they have or see any cues they may give for their next attack. I don't really use it much, though. Misc options allow you to change your equipment (weapons only), change whether you're in the front line or back lines (ala Final Fantasy), and also give orders to your other party members. We can't order Aquila around since he's our superior and all, so lets go ahead and select Fight.

 
 Now we have a ton more options. Well, sorta. Most are self explainatory, but there's a difference between spells and abilities. I'll go into more depth about it later, but basically, it boils down to "Spells are learned by mage-types, Abilities can be learned by all." And Coup de Grace... Well, for now, think of it as a One-time-use ability thats really, really awesome.

We can't do much else aside from attack, so lets start swing-

OOOOOW. You asshole! How dare you!

 Take THAT, you awkward, weird-looking, stupid vegetable!

And while I wasn't looking (read: forgot to screenshot some of the action cuz I slow), Aquila murdered the slimes. Its safe to say that he one-shots everything in this battle, based on the fact that HE'S LEVEL 20 WHAT THE HELL.

Just seven EXP and 13 measly gold for our good deed. Hmph, no respect! None at all! I also got an antidotal herb out of it, but I won't be needing that for a long, long time. Or ever.

And with that done...

                                                                 Hi guys hows it going?
 
*Aah, I honestly believed that I'd never set my tired old eyes on the place again. But here we are at last. Home.
Erinn: Oh, don't be so melodramatic, grandpa! The village Guardian will have been watching over us all the way. Nothing bad could have ever happened to us.

Unless I was taking a coffee break somewhere up in heaven. I mean, I can't watch over you guys all the time! An angel's gotta eat, too!

But but but I'm right over THERE. LIKE TWO FEET AWAY FROM YOU.

 Holy shit this thing spawned out of that girl's chest. Did we just steal her soul or something, Tequila? 

Aquila: No, we did not. Also, my name is not Tequila. :I

A benevo...what? Can I just call it a McGuffin? 

Baldy then goes on to explain that its the kind of essence we try to get out of people so we can give it to this world tree called Yggdrasil and make it bloom. I don't know how the hell some shit that spawned out of some girl's torso is gonna help that tree, though. Souls for the soul god? I don't know. But apparently its so important that now we must deliver it unto the heavens.

SONIA PREPARE FOR LIFTOFF

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Next time: We actually get to control our heroine and talk to some other people, as well as go over some stats! I know that this would probably do better in a video format (like a lot of things), but Hypercam doesn't really agree with me most of the time and this game is laggy. I don't want to lag it too badly. I have patience issues.