Various Thoughts

The seventh episode introduces the dragon that gave Neeba his ‘dragon-slayer’ title. It’s lair is directly in the path of the way to the next level, and the Uruk army is attempting to kill it. Neeba decides to wait until the Army has been decimated before attempting to finish it off, a course of action that Jil refuses to accept even though he admits it’s probably the correct one. He manages to gather several groups of climbers together to attack the dragon from the side with the help of the others on his team. Though even with the combined help of the climbers the dragon isn’t defeated, and Neeba appears just as it looks like it will finish them all to give Jil and Kelb the opening and information needed to kill it.

In the next episode Kaaya pretends to have a terminal illness in order to convince Jil to search out some sort of mysterious stone slab. The exchange goes something like this; “Kaaya! What’s wrong?”, “I have an incurable illness called {insert gibberish name here}.”, “I’ve never heard of that illness.”, “That’s because it’s incurable.”, “What was it called again?”, “{insert slightly different gibberish}.”, “That sounds different that the first time you said it…”, “It is such a terrible illness it cannot even be pronounced twice”. I’m not quite sure why Jil goes alone, but whatever. The place she sends him to is none other than the old 60-floor original Tower of Druaga, which is conveniently situated behind a hidden door a few feet over to the side of the path. The entire old tower turns out to be an in-Anime version of the original game, with Jil as Gilgamesh and Kaaya able to control him from the outside via an arcade-like machine. Eventually, many of the people from the last episode wander by and start taking turns controlling Jil inside the mini-tower… though most of them seem to be far worse at it that Kaaya is and Jil ends up ‘dieing’ numerous times. Eventually the rest leave, and Neeba makes a parting comment that indicates he also knows the real purpose of the stone tablet Kaaya’s that seeking. Upon finally reaching the top of the mini-tower, Ki materializes and warns Jil about three betrayals he will face in the future.

Episode nine begins with the various groups fighting a large group of monsters that look something like a cross between a slime and a roper. After a short time, all the monsters self-destruct; collapsing the various walkways the climbers are fighting on and sending them plummeting down to places unknown. Jil wakes up and finds himself with Fatina, as the fall ended up separating the various groups from one another. They set off to find the other members of their groups. Kally and Utu end up with Coopa, the Uruk army gets separated from Kelb and Ethana, Kelb ends up with Ahmey, Ethana ends up with Melt, and Kaaya ends up with Neeba. There’s quite a bit of foreshadowing going on here. Most of the groups decide to head for a nearby settlement so that they can hopefully meet up with one another, but when Jil and Fatina reach the settlement they find it upside-down and abandoned. Elsewhere, Kally stumbles across the evil mage Pazuz’s dropped coffin and seems to understand what he plans to do with it. Pazuz attacks him while Uta and Coopa retreat. As everyone else finally makes it to the settlement, Neeba and Kaaya have a poignant discussion before they part and the mysterious blue-haired girl appears to her shortly after and warns her that this is her last chance to turn back before she’ll be forced to betray someone.

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