Side Quests on the MOON!

The Lunar Whale is a ship that has its own interior map. It houses a robot Fat Chocobo, four (not five) stasis pods for sleeping, a square wheel to pilot it, and a shiny, glowing crystal in the middle to take us to the Red Moon of the Blue Planet.

Before doing what we're supposed to do on the Moon, I fly around and find other stuff. The easiest to do is the Hummingway Cave. It's filled with people who look like Namingway, but they only hum a-pitched song at us. There are three who speak our language, and they seem to indicate Namingway is from here. I wonder how, though. Guess we'll have to find his Rainbow Pudding!
The hardest thing up here is the Lair of the Father. It's a cave on the eastern side of the map. Rydia's menu thought wonders if this is what Leviathan meant... It's nearly impossible to get to the bottom at this point as we're weak little baby heros. The random encounters are hard enough, but there's also a mandatory behemoth fight on the second floor. The randoms are women mages and warriors. The warriors are pretty simple, but if the mages spam their spells, we're done for. The worst part is they're not even worth the effort. 5000 EXP for this much of a hassle... We just can't hang yet, so we'll finish this up later. You can find four pieces of Genji gear if you venture down now, though, which is worth the excursion.
The last place to go is the giant palace. Landing on the Moon sucks, so we need to walk a while. We'll pass through two caves. Each cave is filled with the same mobs: Flans and various giant single celled organisms. Multiple thought bubbles have our characters wondering how anything is alive up here, and Cecil's are how he feels like he's been here before. Each path has its map completion award, so we might as well get them. It's a surprisingly hard walk, even with the Genji gear. In time, we will enter a shimming room, and the FF Prelude plays.

To either side are healing springs, but up the middle is where we need to go. There we see a man with a long beard waiting for us. This is Fusoya, and he tells us the truth of this world and the Moon. Long ago, there was war, and the survivors of it went to our home, the Blue Planet. However, the planet already had life on it, so many did not want to live there just yet. They, instead, put themselves to sleep to awaken when our world and theirs in better harmony. But not everyone felt this way; one man wanted to wipe out all life on the Blue Planet. That man was Zemus. Zemus' power was so overwhelming that the rest of the Lunarians forced Zemus into slumber. But even then, his power grew. It infected the hearts of man and allowed him to control them. Wanting to limit Zemus' power on the planet, one man when to Earth. There he taught the civilizations certain advanced technologies such as the Devil's Road and airships. We also fell in love and had two children. That man was a Paladin and Cecil's father, Kluya. There is more to this story, but Golbez has all the crystals and will soon open the way for the Giant of Babil to wipe all life on our planet. Through Golbez, Zemus will win. Fusoya joins the team, and we return to Earth.

Fusoya is Tellah on steroids. He knows every White and Black Magic spell, including Meteor, but his physical stats are just as terrible. He was more MP than Tellah, but it's still pretty bad compared to Rosa and Rydia. He's Kluya's brother, so his early menu thoughts are him wishing his younger brother could see how noble his son became. His special command is Bless, which grants a Regen like status for MP.

As we return to the planet, we land near the Tower of Babil. But we're too late. We see the magical energy around the tower billow as it summons the destroyer, Giant of Babil. The robotic Giant stands as tall as the Tower behind it, and it shoots lasers from its hand, razing the landscape around it (but not really). But there is hope still! Dwarfs in their tanks begin to fire upon it from the ground! The Sylphs, as well as Yang, are nearby too for some reason. Cid and the Red Wings begin to fire from the skies, as does Edward and the Torians. The Mysidians and the cured Palon and Porom have a ship as well. The combined force of every nation on and under the planet manage to damage the Giant, which gives us time to enter it. Cid comes down and takes us to the Giant's mouth, and we now much destroy the destroyer.

But that's a story for tomorrow.

Also, I got the Knife from Yang's Wife, Sheila. She got a name in the After Years, so I'm gonna use it here since we'll never see her again. Also, also, there's no Save Point at the start of the Giant of Babel, so the early part of tomorrow's blog will be from tonight. Let's just say some stuff happened...