Lashiec

He stopped me when I was unprepared, but will he stop me when I'm at full power?

Yes. Yes, he will.

This dude is hard, and I'm pretty sure I only won because of luck. He has three moves but rarely ever uses his sleep spell. Usually, he uses a lightning attack or AnotherGate. Both of these hit the whole party and can two shot everyone. Buff up on round one. Wren's Barrier is the most important here, but I read Kyra's Warla is good, too. Rika should up our agility at least once. From here, Wren should be using Recover every turn, so he doesn't die. Rika will use GiSan, so the humans don't. Kyra isn't good here, but her Medicine can help in a pinch, and any damage is better than nothing. Chaz and Rune will be attacking as often as possible, combining Crosscut and Efress for Grand Cross. Chaz may need to revive Rune because Rune sucks. As I said, I got lucky. On my fifth attempt, the boss tried to use sleep three times. It didn't work against Wren, so I got a free turn. I upped magic defense with another Barrier, and Rika finally got an attack. At about 2/3rds HP, he'll cast a buff on himself to up all his stats. Use the Psycho Rod on him and end this. It took an hour with the help of save states, but I did it!

As he dies once more, he tries to take the Eclipse Torch into the lava around him. He promises that we'll die too, but he'll come back. As long ad "He" lives, so shall Lashiec. However, Rika, and her catlike reflexes, snatches the Torch from his hands, and Lashy dies again. The Air Castle begins to collapse, so we all get out to see the last vestiges of Palma explode.

We return to the temple that I'm not gonna try to spell, and the priest gives us the go ahead to use the Torch. We head to the evil forest, use it, and see all the trees burn to ashes. I wonder if we can use the basement now?

We enter the tower, and floor one hurts my head. It has a strange filter that makes seeing hard. The rest of the place is fine, but it's a long maze in of itself. There are a few triggers to open up passages, but I wound up getting lost. The mobs are similar to the Air Castle, but the encounter rate is terrible. So I had to back out, and I'll finish this...

...tomorrow!

Lashiec is the final boss in PSI, and I kinda love all the callbacks in this franchise. I don't understand them, but it makes me want to experience the whole series. I may end up doing that! Does Rune suck there, too?