Revenge!

The enemies in Nurvus are no joke. The assortment of mechanical mobs and humanoids will wreak your face. The encounter rate seemed high, they have a lot of HP, and they spawn in large numbers. It's closer to a fair fight sown here with plenty of five-on-fours. It's a long walk with plenty of even longer dead end paths. Usually, there's treasure at the end, but some are just traps. And the new claw for Rika is way out of the way.

But at the end is Zio. He tells us he'll finish us off this time, and we get right down to the fight. As he did before, he'll call out to his god and cast Mag Barrier on himself. This time, though, we have the Psycho Wand. I assumed it was useful, but I didn't bother to check. This nullifies all buffs on Zio, which is the effect that had us doing one damage. Because Rune is slow, use this round to buff up. From here, Zio will do one of two things. He can attack the whole party for a big chunk of damage or one massive blast with the dragon that killed Alys. Fortunately, Zio goes last if you use Saner. Rika has San, a weak team heal, and Demo has Medical Power to complement it. Make sure she uses Recover or a repair kit because healing magic doesn't affect her. The battle is long, you'll be hearing a lot, but I managed to keep my whole team alive ( on my second attempt, which gave me more EXP somehow).

As his arms begin to disparate, he wonders how we could be killed by mere mortals. His last words seem to be calling out to someone, but I'm sure it's nothing... Behind him is Motavia's main computer, Nurvus. It's malfunctioning, but Demi knows what to do. If she fuses with it, she can gain control. She does, and Demi shuts everything down, saving the planet. Not all is well, though, as the main satellite over the planet is also sending bad information. The only way to fix that is to go there ourselves and talk to an old friend of Demi and Rika, Wren.

Demi opens the path to the space hanger, where a spaceship is waiting for us. It's a bit ex-machina, but whatever. Gryz, however, does not join us for this. He got his revenge on Zio and is worried about his sister (not brother). He leaves our party, so now we're a three piece. We board the plane, and Rika, using the knowledge Sees taught her, pilots us to Zelen, the orbiting control station.

It's a perfect landing, so we all casually walk up to the hulking man/android in black armor. Despite his looks, he's on our side. He informs us that the malfunction goes beyond even this station. We need to go higher, to Kuran. He joins the team, we collect the new items in the station, and we head back to space.

En route to Kuran, the engine starts to break. Investigation reveals we're under attack. A boas fight happens that oddly easy, especially for the amount of EXP he gives. Unfortunately, the damage was already done. We now are forced to crash on the nearby planet of Dezolis.

It's a cold world made even more fridged by our first encounter. Raja is an old priest who's upset that we crashed on his temple. There's some minor bickering between the two parties, but it all blows over after an explanation. Raja has an odd sense of humor us Motavians (and Earthlings) can't pick up on. He offers us knowledge on a new spaceship but only on the condition that he joins the party. Wren sees no alternative, so Chaz okays it. Far to the north is the town of Tyler, named after a character from a previously PS entry. En route, we see that this planet's climate is buggy as well. It's been experiencing a massive snowstorm for three straight months!

In Tyler, we find long lost Matovians, inspect a massive gravestone, and find the new spaceship, Landale.

But I'll show this off tomorrow!

I did some more guild quests, so tomorrow was the wrong word to use. Wren functions like Demi but is even tankier. Raja is a pure healer, so I'm a big fan!