Dig dig dig dig dig dig dig!
Kilika village looks peaceful, but there's a lot of tension. Rumors that fiends are flooding from the temple have reached the sea, and opinions are mixed. A few people worry about their loved ones, some think New Yevon deserves it, and a few others want to help for the sake of preserving human life. Regardless, the Youth League has the hates locked again, and we can't get past it. Go find Dona in her house. After a quick conversation, in which she claims she doesn't care about Bartello, she formulates a plan. She'll distract a guard, and we have to sneak through. To do so, we have to watch three viewpoints. Wait until YL opens the gate and for Dona to have her guard looking away. When you get the chance, take it. Your reward will be an accessory to let you use samurai skills. But we don't have the dress sphere for that?
All paths are blocked in the forest, but you have to inspect them. After three fails, the girls remember that Dona told them about the secret path. It's above us, so the Gullwings turn into dragoons. That path takes us past the forest to the stairs before the temple. Why is the fire blue? While Buddy and Shinra randomly show up to negotiate our fee, we make our way into the temple. It's being guarded, but recourses are low because of the gates. Inside the Cloister; is a wounded Bart. He'll be fine, but he misses his wife. "The age of summoners is over, but I'm still her guardian." How cute. After we've saved him, he gives us a clue on how to advance. Blue flames die whenever we kill a mob. So inspect the sconces and defeat the Daeva it spawns. Don't forget to pick up the samurai dress sphere after you fight two of them.
Beyond everything is another aeon. As you'd expect, it's Ifrit. He's probably the easiest aeon so far. With another town saved, we'll get our reward, and Spira is at peace! Or it would be if the Machine Faction could hold the fort!
Djose is calling for aid, but Brother doesn't want to help. Rikku tells us there's a rivalry between them. Yuna decides we'll just overprice them, but Rikku asks about a discount. There's definitely something lovey dovey between them.
The Al Bhed are guarding the doors, but it's not as good as it was. Gippal has gone missing. Him, Nooj, and Barelai are gone? Hmm...
Anyway, make your way in, and this is the shortest temple. Push the leftmost pillar to shut off the electricity. At the fayth is Ixion, and he's really strong! Paine says it's merged with the local machina, and I think that's what explains the ending. Haste will be essential because of how fast Ixion is. Protect and Shell are wise, too. Aerospark seems scary, but it no longer removes buffs. It also works more like gravity damage, so just heal after.
In every Chamber of Fayth was a massive hole, identical to the one in Bevelle. Djose is no different. The girls wonder where it goes, but no one wants to go down again. As they go to leave, the body of Ixion enters. We never saw it turn into pyreflies... Ixion explodes, and the girls are blown aside. Yuna, either by accident or choice, falls into the hole.
As Yuna falls, she hears a voice. It's him! She comes to in a field of flowers surrounded by mountains. From the mist is the boy of Yuna's dream. Wait, no. It's the guy from the sphere! He calls himself Shuyin, but he calls Yuna Lenne. He says they disappeared together, but Shuyin's been looking for her ever since. During the last 1000 years, he's seen humans remain exactly the same. They're still fighting, killing, and dying over nothing. But now he had Vegnagun. His voice grows deeper and more evil as he speaks. Shiyin goes to hold "Lenne," but Yuna, to herself, doesn't want him to touch her. He does, but she doesn't fight back. Yuna has been in her songstress outfit the whole time( and bursts into pyreflies. Yuna wonders who's feelings these are? Her's or Lenne's?
Suddenly, a voice pieces through the confusion. Nooj screams at her to wake up. Yuna pushes away Shuyin and returns to her normal clothes. Shuyin, meanwhile, transforms into Barelai, whose voice echoes with Shuyin's. Whoever he is, He opens a portal and goes through it, saying something foreboding as he does. Nooj and Gippal go after him, but only after giving Yuna two Crimson Spheres. They want Paine to see them, so Yuna asks how they know each other. Gippal just says, "the four of us go back a long way."
Yuna is alone, and the lights have gone out. She says she's scared and confused, but she's mostly just mad. After a quick walk around the platform, she resigns herself to her fate and pops a squat. She passes out, I think, and is woken up by Buddy via walky talky. She's where we fought Bahamut, but chapter three ends before we learn why.
We're sixty percent through the game, and Paine finally has a reason to exist! I'm only at fifty six percent, but I'm feeling good about it. That doesn't matter, but I am curious again about how Paine and the rest of the story. I'm mixed on the game, but I am enjoying it when I'm dealing with bloat.
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