A lot of behind the scenes stuff happened, and I didn’t play much tonight. I’ve decided I'm gonna start winding down this playthrough, and I won’t be going for most of the extra stuff. Sorry. I don't think the Chocobo Breeding rewards much for the job challenge, nor do I even like it. And I hate grinding for Omnislash.
What we did do today was continue to procrastinate on going to Cosmo Canyon! First, I went back to Bone Village to look for a key. On the second dig, I found the Key to Sector Five, which allows me to return to Midgar. There’s not much here, but we pick up Tifa’s best weapon, Premium Heart, and see the ghost of Aerith in the church. She’s still there, tending the flowers. As though nothing happened. The ghost disappears as we get close, and the two children in the room say nothing about it.
Unable to wait any longer, I replace Cid with Red and return to his hometown. We climb up through the caves, and into the observatory at the top, to hang out with the oldest man on Gaea. We ask him how to save the world. He can't answer and offers us a riddle, which the three characters in the party are unable to guess, so Cloud calls the whole party in. The party begins to reminisce about Aerith until Bugenhagen suggests we take a trip to where Aerith died. He thinks it might lead to a clue to what she was planning when she left. Before leaving, we store the Huge Materia there, examine them, and get Bahamut ZERO (the non-diet Bahamut). We leave Cosmo Canyon and return to the Forgotten Capital.
We find an old amphitheater looking thing where Bugenhagen finds some barely translated text of Cetra Script. It mentions a key where the sun doesn’t shine. Taking the sub to the one place we haven’t been, finds a key in an ocean cave directly under the capital. I stop by and get Vincent’s beat weapon and limit break and return to Bugenhagen. He sticks the key in a nearby receptacle, and water crashes down from above, creating a waterfall around us. It turns into a projector, making us relive Aerith's death. It also shows the “useless” Materia that dropped into the water. It’s glowing and means it’s currently active. Bugenhagen magically knows that it’s the fabled spell Holy, the only magic that could stop Meteor from crashing into the planet. But why isn’t it working? Sephiroth must be stopping it. As the party plans to head to North Cave, an earthquake happens, and Diamond Weapon rises from the sea.
As it begins marching towards Midgar, Cait Sith spies on Shinra and informs us what happened to the Mako Cannon on Junon. It was moved to Midgar to use all the Mako Reactors' energy as a mako bullet and shot the barrier over North Cave. Scarlet renames it "The Sister Ray" for reasons. For more reasons not entirely clear, the party decides to fight Diamond.
In a fight I didn’t fully understand, I managed to defeat it and gained about two levels and nearly 10k AP. I don't feel like I earned it, seeing as I accidentally beat it. Plus, I didn't even kill it. After the fight, Diamond, “sensing murder in the air”, begins to retreat. We cut back to Shinra as Rufus gives the okay to fire...at the North Cave. Fortunately, Diamond is directly in the way of the blast. Before being struck, Diamond fires a barrage of his own back at Midgar. As the mako bullet pierces Weapon, killing him and knocking him back what might be a full mile, it continues until it strikes it's intended target. Keep in mind the Weapons are the size of a mountain. Has anyone thought about shooting Meteor with it? Yes, I’m aware that makes me sound very American. No, I won’t apologize (for that, at least). The barrier over North Cave dissolves, and we can now fight Sephiroth.
But first, we see Rufus, alone in his office, as the explosions Diamond shot strike the Shinra HQ. It’s implied he dies, but Advent Children shows that he is alive and well. For now, though, everyone loses contact with the President and begin to go rogue. Including, Hojo. We cut to Hojo, on the Sister Ray, planning another shot towards the North Cave. Using the cannon, he plans to 1.) give more mako to Sephiroth, and 2.) destroy Midgar by draining its' energy too fast and too soon after the last shot. The party makes plans to return to Midgar, rather than defeat Sephiroth for now. En route, Cait Sith and Barrett exchange wards. Barrett calls out Cait, who we know now is Reeve of the Turks, over his hypocrisy about saving the world while being with Shinra. Reeve then reminds Barrett about all the people he killed bombing the Mako Reactors. The argument ends when everyone yells at both of them, so this argument is never concluded.
And sadly, it never will because we have to go skydiving tomorrow. Back to where the game began, Midgar. In order to kill Sephiroth, we first need to finish off Shinra and Hojo.
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