FEU vs FE Midori

As two FEU Let’s Plays come to an end (theoretically, at least), it is time for a new run to begin. Today, I am thrilled delighted happy cautiously optimistic to announce that our new LP will be…

FEU vs MIDORI!

Shouts of derision echo in the distance

Midori, as most of you are probably aware, is a Japanese FE8 hack that stars characters that are green*. It has a metric fuckton of ASM, including mag-as-res, a skill system (complete with manuals), and leadership stars. It was also recently translated (non-story stuff, at least) by yours truly. All in all, it’s actually pretty fun, if a bit on the long side. But that’s why we have multiple people involved: to spread out the suffering!
*Level of greenness may vary.

The following people will be playing:
Tequila
Darrman
Doc Letha
Smilies
Eliwan
McProductions

We decided to use random.org to figure out who plays what chapter, and it seems it had a bit of an agenda…

Which means the order is (yes, you play both routes in 1 run, with R = Eirika and P = Ephraim):

P	Doc
1	Darr
2	MC
3	Doc
4	Wan
5	Teq
5x	Wan
6	Doc
7	Doc
8	Darr
9R	Teq
10R	Wan
9P	Darr
10P	Wan
11P	Teq
12P	MC
11R	Doc
12R	Wan
13R	MC
14R	MC
13P	Teq
14P	Darr
15	Darr
16	MC
17	Teq
18	Smilies
19	Smilies
20	Smilies
F1	Smilies
F2	Smilies

Of course, there’s safe characters. In addition to the lords, the following characters must be fielded if possible and cannot be killed:

Teq: 		Boyd, Kyle
MC: 		Tiki, Lyn
Doc: 		Arden, Aion
Smilies: 	Bryton, Karin
Darrman: 	Sety, Safy
Wan: 		Rebecca, Nino

LET THE GAMES BEGIN!

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Hopefully we don’t get lost in fanfiction or caught in a timeloop. That timeloop was a pain.

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$5 says this is never finished and Smilies doesn’t get to play at all.

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Let’s get started boys.

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Sadness ahead, therefore try tongue

Who’s ready for die

I am

Pictured: someone I’ll never see.

Pictured: two people who will be dead within the day.

There’s one…

…and there’s two.

C’mon baby, Strength

WELP

Didn’t I kill you

Strength please

WELP

Gonna have to do this without Strength, fine game. Be that way.

IT

BEGINS

Don’t haunt me, it’s your fault for not dodging.

Good luck, Darr.

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And thus, the madness begins

NEVERMIND WE’RE GOING NORMAL






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Still got Sothe killed

You monster

Letha killed Sothe. Now I must face the consequences.

Chapter 1: A Jeiganless Run

Before my suffering begins, Cecilia gets 0% critted, joining Midir in the dubious 0% Club.

One princess versus a whole lot of soldiers.

Thankfully, she gets reinforcements.

So do they.

I’ll take this chance to point out cavalry have Canto proper, which always contributes to Horse Emblem. Unless Dismount/FE10 being FE10 are around, which they are not.

Then Eirika gets hit by a javelin and dies. This happens a lot.

After a while we ended up like this.

And what do you know, more reinforcements appeared. A cramped situation got even more so.

Eirika failing to OHKO this guy by 1 HP doesn’t exactly help.

Bors choked on a fort, but he couldn’t block the way entirely.

Then this happened. By then, I had turned on the ingame save option, so I didn’t lose too much progress.

Eirika was at 1 HP at this stage, so I had Bors rescue her to save me a potential death. I wasn’t taking any chances after that 20% hit.

Boss time! Eirika can deal with him well enough.

And that’s the chapter. As it turns out, no Jeigan = a world of hurt. Use the early paladin today, and your high difficulty FE will become a lot easier!

Frelia = Silesia, apparently. Levin’s probably wandering somewhere, and Sety… Oh ho ho…

Also this LP was going to get a cheesy poster a la CT, but Wan objected on the grounds of her having an actual sense of style. It’s my first chapter, so I’m posting it anyway.

posters

I hope you like squinting.
EDIT: Now in proper spoilers.

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Let’s fucking go

Let’s go to Ide

Eirika, there’s a ghost behind you

Presenting Bench Juice and the mother I have to save

Fun fact, cursor is supposed to start on Sothe, not having him is making the game throw a fit at me

MONEY

Speed/10


Speed

Gogogo Eirika

Free Elixers are appreciated

Future Corpse joins the team

Future Corpse with a rather well known prf joins the team

Seems about right

SPEED

Rebecca joins, luckily for her, she’s allowed to live

SPEED

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD

Chapter won

I buy a few things and pass it on to the next runner

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Pleb. That’s the Walking Wind Nuke to you!
He also most definitively doesn’t join you later. No sir.

You do realize that Ced’s one of our safe units, right? Doc’s just saying that because his chapters are finished before Ced joins.

Pictured: the good people (and also Rebecca because I forgot she’s safe)

IT
BEGINS









to be continued in a bit

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continuing after a bit

Becky has been getting phenomenal levels. Lucky for Wan, I suppose.

Lugh saying hello and then promptly goodbye to his brother, Liquid Lugh.

Blood for the blood god

'Atta boy, Orsin!

A few supports later…

…Sothe still haunting me…

…Eirika dodging a lethal blow…

…Rebecca still being ridiculous…

…and Orsin gets the kill! I guess it was worth it?

Oh yeah and Wolt went back to grab this. With only one chest key use, it was either this or the monster killing sword, and Wolt can’t eat the latter so he took the former.

Fruity.

Meanwhile, at the Lair of Evil…

…nothing of importance was gained.

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screams
i hate you

In update news…


Cutscenes! I love them


Prep screen shows me reality

Dear @Doc: No.

but wait there’s more

This is after the prep screen ended and do you notice something

i have no cursor and i can’t spawn it in
the game was literally unplayable

there is also

This cruel joke

as if “not allowed to actually play the game” wasn’t enough

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[discourse hates me and doesn’t let me do half the things i want to do / think are necessary for a nice LP post so… sorry]

Chapter 4


wolt go zoomzoom!
do you see the thickets there, two tiles to the left of wolt’s attack range
well, there’s a SURPRISE around them: slim lance bonewalker .-.


after getting some Problems sorted this finally looks like it will be going good

…wait the only safe unit in the party is becky? huhm.


I don’t know if this level is canon or not because my screenshot intelligence is made of suck

raigh then hit his move growth twice in enemy phases but the last one killed him so i had to reset
thankfully, midori has battle save function, so that becky level was saved :>

and then raigh got his level even better

at this point i decided that i was going to power level eirika a bit because even i can see this trend line

ALL THE MOVE*

Wolt cancel-critted this monster like four separate times because I am good at strategy games


um
wolt
you can stop
any time

i need you to kill less so i can feed becky more

MOVE, BECKY
I WANT YOU TO GET MOVE

I was falling half asleep when I got this one
i had to rewind multiple times to catch it because i am very tired child

i usually don’t mind transcribing levels but for A N I M i feel i must screenshot it

the rewind thing is important because

Raigh levelled move again
but i couldn’t rewind to capture it because, y’know
rewind buffer emptied from eirika

i uh
don’t think this is quite right

between these two screenshots: six resets that I OVERWROTE THE SCREENSHOTS OF BECAUSE I AM DUMB
-Lance died and then Raigh died due to tanking a bit and due to being excessively squishy
-Eirika died (twice) due to counterkilling too good with free crits from the Rapier
-Elincia got critkilled by a Bonewalker with a Slim Lance nustled inside a thicket corner
-Wolt got pincered in such a way that the only way out would have had somebody die
-I was stupid and I ended turn with Rebecca instead of attacking so I reset because i hate misplaying

then i had LIFE get in the way

now to clear out these revena–

becky!

becky yes!

I was
going
to feed that to rebecca
but wolt decided to Cancel, then Critical, the revenant (yes again)
and then got this level
I WANT TO RESET THIS BECAUSE IW ANT TO FEED IT TO BECKY
BUT MOVEMENT

WHAT DID YOU FEED THIS BOY, DR LETHA???

Wait i know what you fed this boy you fed him two people

(Letha swears he only fed Wolt one people but we all know he had Eirika keep Sothe’s body for Wolt to snack on)

I was going to rig Bors a level (he’s been absorbing enemy ire and I somehow never screenshotted it) but Becky got fog ambushed and died

but this is fine because

becky please never calm down

also what is her magic growth i feel like this shouldn’t have happened a second time even considering

…it is at this time i realize nephenee isn’t a safe unit

are these gains normal

am i just deer-in-headslighting because i think characters shouldn’t be gaining 4-7 stat levels on average

no really is this normal

NO REALLY IS THIS NORMAL

So at this point I realize uh

I don’t have any surviving screenshots of the map

but generally it was relaly slow because DO YOU SEE ALL THOSE FORESTS

it wasn’t even particularly painful i just crawled through it and enemies spilled out of the woodworks and then i shot them all dead
i still don’t regret my request that we play on Normal :nobully:


we’re all the way over here now, yes

THAT SAID SEEING AS NEPH GAINS 91 EXP FOR COMBAT WITH THIS GUY AND LIVES WITH 1 HP REMAINING I’M GRINDING HER TO LEVEL 10










. . . . . . .
:elbert:





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YOU’RE STILL DEAD, SOTHE

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Chapter 5

Hello Joshua, you’re looking a little…green?

For here lies the way of the general, without any funky knight business.
I’ve never actually gone the super recruit route, now that I think about it. Perhaps I should at some point.

Absolutely amazing promotion bonuses.

Chapter 5 is completely redone. There’s still 4 villages to visit, and a shop and an armory, but there’s enemies conveniently parked on top of them, so you cannot see their wares. Very clever.
(It’s actually the same as vanilla fe8, and is the same on the world map, so I don’t buy anything.)

Our second safe unit! She comes with a hammerne; from what I remember, this is the only one you get (not that that matters to me because I never end up using it). Typical healer bases. For now she’s kinda frail, but holy crap that strength and magic are going to go up. She doesn’t have any skills, but she doesn’t need them.

Didn’t take a picture of the starting crew, so here they are. Elincia is here to visit houses and rescue people, Safy’s forced, Becca and Eirika kill things, and Orsin has a very important task this chapter.

These brigands still show up, and this time, they’re right in the middle of your units.

Nice fence you got there.

Oh yeah, did I mention this guy? He’s got bolting and he moves. Needless to say, that is a teensy bit annoying.

Elincia can run around his range, thought, and gets a nice tome for…Nino?

Wan gets absolutely ridiculous levels. Time to return back to reality.

This one’s actually really good for her.

More brigands. Funnily enough, the fact that the houses are occupied on this map makes everything easier, since the units on houses will only attack in range.

Forgot to screeny before, but staves give more exp than vanilla FE8. Which is basically mandatory, since the level cap is 30 and you can’t promote before 20.

Yep, business as usual.

When I’m ready, Becca lures out the bolting mage…

…and promptly deletes him.

Also gets a very nice level for her troubles.

Takes a couple of farewell potshots at these brigands before being rescued out by Elincia.

Safy’s first level is…disappointing.

With nothing else to do for the moment, Orsin offers himself as a punching bag for the enemy (to give Safy experience).

Oh, I’m sorry, Br. Brigand…were you planning on looting this house? Really? Well, too bad. Sucks to be you!

Becca caps speed.

Good stuff!

I’ll let someone else decide who this goes to.

Safy’s second level is…also disappointing. Sigh.

You don’t really need anything, so…yeah, sure.

Becca’s gonna lure Guy in. Unlike FE8U, Joshua attacks Natasha in FE8J, and this is a Japanese romhack…so Safy would be completely and utterly destroyed.

Becca doesn’t get doubled, and would survive even 2 crits (Guy has Adept).

Meanwhile, to the south, this village doesn’t seem to have anything interesting for us…

…unless you visit it with Orsin. Meme axe obtained!

Might as well give Becky some more exp, and Safy can patch him up once she recruits him.

“Thanks for the killing edge, now go and sit on the bench.”

Final house yields a skill book. Someone else can decided who gets this.

Becky takes out Saar and ends the chapter, netting an ok level.

And we get this for saving all the villages. Onwards!

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Oh, whoops. I actually focus more on the pictures than the… sorry, gonna sit back here and enjoy the suffering. By the way, gonna reccomend something for before you guys get to that chapter, and no, it’s not Beran’s chapter. Not gonna spoil it yet.

Relevant

His smiling quote is used here, and it’s both funny and horrifying at once.

Ch 5x


I already hate this


WHY IS IT SO BIG


best skill worlds


This Archer and the fighter in the other alcove have chest keys, which i have been requested to not use


This Knight: Two-use Door key


This castle has a lot of random water and I just don’t understand it from an archetechtural standpoint


and what’s even the point of this spot up here


ephyephy yes yes


you: not safe unit
arden: unlimited power
also is safe unit.

let the meatgrinder begin

arden defense
defense

Though with that one point of str he now is doubling the soldiers

ACCOST


also arden

ephy and kyle shall Do Things


i am stupid
very stupid


um
ok


ephy deletes the cav whee


these battle stats
arden pls get defense


ARDEN
THAT’S NOT DEFENSE


thank you

turn ten
and I’m still not advancing
aagggggggggg

meatgrinding because kyle is also a safe unit so i want to make sure he gets good levels but
apparently
anna doesn’t like kyle
:<


totally not chokepointing


arden you are going to cap ram your move
stop


ok
i get it universe

today is the day of weird things

I decide to not do this because, well, it looks problematic
instead i have ilios run up and give ephy the vulnerary


on enemy phase i am rewarded with this beautiful thing


is this legal
i don’t think this is okay


on the other hand I probably shouldn’t be doing it seeing as now he has only 1 HP
BUT
Ephy has an elixir so this is totally Optimal

ARDEN
STOP


also i have made a mistake
i need to loop kyle and arden back around to the south
[i thought for some reason ephy had more movement]
or… i guess… this guy doesn’t move?


ummm

WELL

it is time for strats

strategy


WHAT IN UNHOLY
WHY WHY WHY
…if arden had two more defense he’d be invincible to these guys


HEY WAIT
WHEN DID THIS OPEN
they can’t damage ephy i don’t care


seriously this feels like cheating


kyle kills the knight for a great level


arden this is ok
needed that

ground myrmidon is a good snack


kyle does not think ground pony is a good snack
or maybe he thinks it’s a great snack
i’m really not sure what sort of levels i’m supposed to be expecting

kyle gets his fair share of grinding down in this chapter too at least

STILL NOT DONE, I’D LIKE TO REMIND YOU

this is my only option for baiting enemies at this point
Kyle and Arden and Ephraim all have less than ten HP
and I need to save Ilios for the other mages

multiple turns of walking later, i find out this knight doesn’t move :<

By Popular Request by my mates I have elected to not open this door
and get those chests
For the Greater Good we shall hold back our kleptomania

[serious on the “i need to save HP”: I’m trying to help here by not running through all the consumables!]

THANK YOU EPHY
NOW YOU’LL ONLY BE FALLING BEHIND TWO TILES A TURN INSTEAD OF THREE


Baiting these soldiers out one at a time; Arden trades the Steel Lance to Kyle because I made a mistake

then Ilios baits down the two mages and I find out Kyle can’t one-round the Shaman, so Ephraim takes it

Then Kyle gets to beat up this one |D

(the level up was +1 HP, +1 Spd, +1 Def, +1 Move)
and also eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Do I just do this, or do I try and do something neat with it
eh, lazy


bbboooooo ephy pls


WHAT DO YOU MEAN ARDEN ISN’T THELORD


well, at least he’s on the throne in the ending events :>

fwiw: this chapter took 25 or 26 turns .>.





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