Shoruke: You know what guys? I think it's time for another new emblem.
Aqizzar: What emblem?
Shoruke: Berserk. You can get it too. Glycinia, come here.
Glycinia: What?
Glycinia: Ohhhh crap-
Shoruke: Yup. *WHAM*
Glycinia: *bleh*
Shoruke: Woot! And a 1-hit KO means...
*if anyone's wondering, ArcAngel is there because he was getting his Knight's Certificate*
*Okenido was also getting Heavenly Spirit*
Aqizzar: My turn?!?
Shoruke: Yup.
Aqizzar: God DAMMIT.
Shoruke: yeah... lame... I shouldn't have let her level up. Well, let's try this... Aqizzar, ditch your equipment.
Aqizzar: Oh god not this.
Shoruke: Yup, sorry.
Aqizzar: But I LIKE my hammer!
Shoruke: Yeah I know, and it dispels the sense of... sameness from everyone having the same weapon (namely fists). Also, for some reason, I feel like hiring another noob idiot cheaply and then training him a bit.
Okay. So the problem is, we now have 9 combatants for an 8-man fight. So. How do we choose who to keep back? I'm not available to be left behind since I'm the 'main character' and all (technically this is a story battle because we've never been to Bison before). So we could put it up to a vote, or I could just cycle through the whole group repeatedly to see who stays back... I hate to single you out bud, but ArcAngel is the only normal soldier...
In the meantime, TRAINING SPAM!
Shoruke: Alrighty then! Everyone is coming to training this time.
Glycinia: Well that's new.
Shoruke: Shut up pansy-ass. Now, I'm going to kill every single one of you a few times. You can all soften each other up a bit while I work my way over to you. Got it? Go!
Duke: ...Wait what?
ArcAngel: Haha your guard is down! *whack*
Duke: *counter* *hits 2 people*
Duke: Huh. Weird.
Shoruke: Yeah now if only you were a woman, you could be a Valkyrie.
Okenido: Hey no fantasizing about the soldiers.
Shoruke: My bad y'all. Anyway...
*much carnage and chaos and stuff later*
Shoruke: I got it! The BullPen Ace! Let's see it.
Shoruke: ...I'm offended.
Glycinia: You think that's insulting? Check this out...
Shoruke: Maybe so. But unlike me, you deserve it.
Ivanna: Heh, burn.
Shoruke: Shut up, you suck too.
Anyway, to make the failed update longer and to get some extra kills in, let's just do a random encounter.
Forward- MARCH!
Well that was fast.
Shoruke: Crap. No dragons.
Vlynndar: What's so great about fighting dragons?
Shoruke: Not a whole helluva lot. Except that you get an emblem from killing 5 of them, which lets you become a dragoon. And dragoon is an AWESOME name. Anyway, you're going to be getting most of the kills in this fight, since you're going to be a warlock and you need a special emblem. Okay, I think I'm supposed to stick around because I'm the leader, Vlynndar needs his emblem, Dragoobl and ArcAngel need a bit more training and I don't want them to get Bogus Hero, and Aqizzar can fly... and for some reason I thought that we could only bring 5 people along for the encounter, and I realized I was wrong just after I hit start.
Vlynndar: Way to go.
Shoruke: Gah. So anyway...
Up difficulty, whammy, broken string, inverse bar, double note GO!ArcAngel: ...wut?
Shoruke: Um... ... charge?
Aqizzar: O-KAY!
Shoruke: Everyone leave the kills for Vlynndar! And Vlynndar, make sure you kill them will spells or specials!
Vlynndar: Huh? 'kay...
(see? One of the enemies is gone)
Shoruke: Okay. Now we just need to do that three more times.
Vlynndar: ...Could be worse...
Shoruke: Okay... wrong emblem...
Vlynndar: Huh? What happened?
Shoruke: Okay. The emblem you're going for is called The Pen and The Sword, which you get by getting 4 kills with magic or specials, plus 4 kills in melee. It lets you be a warlock.
Vlynndar: Okay...
Shoruke: You just got the Centurion emblem by getting every kill in the fight. It increases your strength.
Vlynndar: ...And that's bad?
Shoruke: No not really. But you still have to get 4 more kills.
Vlynndar: Aww.