Various Thoughts

The fourth episode has the newly formed climbing group beginning their journey to the top of the tower. Shortly after their first enemy encounter, where does markedly better than in his first battle with Neeba’s group, Ahmey realizes that she’s the only one in the group who has any experience with the tower and proceeds to fill the others in on its makeup and geography. The scene eventually shifts over to Neeba’s group where Fatina has a strange encounter with an apparition of a blue-haired girl. Neeba seems to recognize who she’s talking about and wanders off alone to meet the apparition who’s seemingly working under Druaga and on very familiar terms with him. Elsewhere, Gilgamesh’s almost-assassin is making his way through the tower with a delivery of some sort and sends a group of minotaurs right at Jill’s party for no apparent reason other than that he can. While Ahmey insists that she should stay behind and give the others a chance to escape, Jil sees fighting this group as a way to make up for his utter failure against the minotaurs back in the first episode.

The fifth episode has the groups traversing a stretch of land filled with magical traps that drastically change the appearance of anyone that trips them. Jil’s group first gets turned into a bunch of 2D sprites, and then Melt steps on a gender-changing trap which turns him and Jil into women and Ahmey, Kaaya, and Coopa into men. The Uruk army gets turned into a group of mice, which both Kaaya and Ahmey find extremely cute, while Neeba’s group gets turned into furries. And at the end of the path lies a… hidden talent contest. Melt, Ahmey, Coopa, and Kaaya all fail miserably and repeatedly at convincing the door-judge to let them through, and when Jil finally thinks of something to do, he’s rejected as well because the judge had already seen his act; Neeba used it to get through the door just before they arrived.

Episode six has Jil’s group reach a gathering place that doubles as a town some distance up the tower. They get embroiled in the plight of a retired climber and his grandson after Melt fires Coopa and she ends up somewhat involved with the grandson in question and he searches for his dead father’s lost spear.

I didn’t mentioned this earlier, but I really like the opening scenes for this series. When I first saw it I was somewhat confused and thought that the series was about modern-day kids who played a virtual reality version of the game. After having watched a few episodes it made more sense and works fantastically well.

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