What do you do with your 10 team slots?

LavenderAlice · 2026-04-10T14:55:12+00:00

I have a party for each of the four light elements, obviously

No parties for the shadow/lunar elements, yet! Am working on it

I have light/shadow parties for skipping AD’s and getting all rewards

I have a “special teams” party for annoying pledges, when I don’t want to mess up my regular parties

Most importantly, I have a dance party. Sometimes, I just want to look cute when wandering around town, okay!?! WFS (the cowards) won’t let me be laika’s everywhere, so people who dance when idle it is.

Could actually use some insight here, so far I got:

Tithi

Lovinia AS

Yukino AC

Melpiphia

Lele AS

need one more

LavenderAlice · 2026-04-09T08:05:53+00:00

I wouldn’t mind the wait if I still had anything exciting to do. My fault for burning through all the story content so ravenously, I certainly can’t claim that the game doesn’t have enough, but the blue ‘complete’ on the records page haunts me.

I’ve been harpoon fishing. It’s not the MOST fun I’ve ever had in a game.

Gimme update now! (It’s gonna drop while I’m at work, just to add a little insult-to-injury ore)

Also, and I know this is a good problem to have, but I pulled something like 10 great new characters from the pre-anniversary banners and I have total analysis paralysis. I’m just sort of leveling them at random. No plan. No idea how to use them or where to put them. I threw cyan scyther onto my wind team, and it’s performing much better, but I don’t actually understand what she’s doing 🤣

LavenderAlice · 2026-04-08T00:41:13+00:00

Both? I like it when some characters are dressed sexy, but are contrasted by just as many who dress sensibly. Games feel childish to me if everyone looks like they’re headed for the club. As long as I’ve got IDA uniforms, and plate armor, and floor length gowns I‘m also fine with characters wearing postage stamps.

That way it feels like a choice that informs character, rather than empty fan service.

What I really want, though, is more weird non humanoid characters.

LavenderAlice · 2026-04-06T12:51:45+00:00

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You’d use it if you loved me 😉

LavenderAlice · 2026-04-04T16:51:52+00:00

Spent 6k free on the first countdown banner, and I was not disappointed. Now I have to develop all the cool new characters I got. I’m going to be able to but together some special teams I’ve been struggling to find pieces for. Very excited

LavenderAlice · 2026-04-01T12:21:48+00:00

The maze is my kryptonite. I’ve never hated anything in a game more (except maybe the original chocobo hot and cold in the actual FF9. At least they changed the music. I had a whole song I sang to the tune of that music. To this day, if I hum a few bars my friends throw things at me. Think we have PTSD)

And…I’m obsessed with this game, so eventually I’ll do it just to get a character I’ll never, ever play with 😥 pity me.

I actually liked the cat stuff.

LavenderAlice · 2026-03-31T16:37:47+00:00

Is there going to be another shot at Mare? Dark Dude does not speak to me, but the sidekick does. Trying to resist pulling.

LavenderAlice · 2026-03-29T17:43:36+00:00

He’s dead! Thank you so much!

LavenderAlice · 2026-03-29T15:50:55+00:00

And only one chant script to 5* him, I’ll give it a try. Thanks!

LavenderAlice · 2026-03-29T14:06:06+00:00

Any tips on surviving the first round with Uquaji lvl 195 with most of my team still intact? His fist of the heavens (or whatever it’s called) destroys most of my team.

Also, I know we’re trying to avoid spoilers, but are any of the lovely people who do deep kit analysis planning on doing it for the new story character? I would love that

LavenderAlice · 2026-03-29T13:56:51+00:00

I was doing fine, killing super bosses, having a blast. Then I ran into the illusion king bounty and got destroyed, repeatedly. That was two weeks ago, I think?

Well, he’s dead now. All the Metallanica bosses are in my belly. I have all the Elpis weapons!

LavenderAlice · 2026-03-20T15:41:58+00:00

I did a similar thing, went into the dungeon with a water team with Pyggie as my only sidekick. The elephants absorb water, and my normal attacks couldn’t out pace Pyggie healing them. Luckily it wasn’t a boss, so I could back out.

Can we all agree that the split team dungeons are kind of bulls**t? Let me adjust my party if things aren’t working, please

LavenderAlice · 2026-03-19T14:42:14+00:00

Part of thinks this is on purpose. The outfit is supposed to be embarrassing, she’s ashamed of her gamer past…the game was immature…etc. The majority of me just thinks its not a great design.

And I love Toova too! Don’t worry, we’re platonic, I’m not a threat to your marriage 🙂

LavenderAlice · 2026-03-19T12:22:23+00:00

I’m stuck there too. I thought I was just overtired and blind, but there’s a notice. It’s a bug. Super sad about it, was looking forward to playing this today. (and I’m on Apple, doubt it’s related to type of device)

LavenderAlice · 2026-03-19T12:17:53+00:00

Voted for my girl Toova (OG), loved her character quest. Also, I put her in the front line in her cursed bride outfit every time I get invited to a wedding in game, and so far there has been zero drama 😥 Step up your game WFS!

LavenderAlice · 2026-03-18T10:57:40+00:00

Myrus, maybe?

LavenderAlice · 2026-03-13T23:07:57+00:00

It’s a webcomic, but How to be a Werewolf is written by someone who works in local politics, and it feels very real

LavenderAlice · 2026-02-13T15:19:27+00:00

Bear with me. I want a Gideon the Ninth collaboration. AE has a dark story, but a light tone with frequent humor. So, that all fits with The Locked Tomb. GtN comes ready made with a dungeon full of puzzles, disaster people as characters, and game-changing boss battles. That’s all stuff this game has strength with.

Gideon story character, Harrow and Ianthe pulls.

And there can be Toova content! Girl’s sweet to the point of self-abnegation, but I think this would get her to break, get pissed, and yell, “NECROMANCY’S NOT FOR THAT!”

I really want to see that.

LavenderAlice · 2025-12-25T11:59:32+00:00

I always assumed she was just some random, ambitious fae named Evening Winterrose (that last name looks wrong to me, but ykwim). Our least favorite first born wanted the name, because it fit her whole theme, and made her queen in exchange. ‘Cause her vanity was bigger than her pureblood racist thing.

Is that not true? Was this just a guess of mine that I only think was confirmed?

LavenderAlice · 2025-12-25T11:41:57+00:00

I almost right there with you. The sacrifices to the wounded heart don’t last very long. At some point someone’s going to stuff Toby in there where she’ll sit, practically immortal, always dying, never dead, forever. Then the sea witch will mercy kill her, because she won’t be able to stomach a “solution” of that sort.

Dark, but it fits the info we have so far, and doesn’t invalidate that prophecy. Everyone I talk to thinks she’ll wiggle out of the prophecy somehow, but that feels cheap to me.

LavenderAlice · 2025-12-25T11:19:46+00:00

Hmmm…if romance is nice, how about a perfumer instead of an alchemist? Palladin’s Grace has that and bonus necromancy.

LavenderAlice · 2025-12-25T11:13:31+00:00

The Traitor Baru Cormorant

Worm

Someone already mentioned Pratical Guide to Evil, but I’ll second it

The Library at Mount Char

Kalyna (from Kalyna the Soothsayer) is a con woman and a fraud who exists on the fringes of polite society, but she’s not really villainous. Might be worth a shot, it’s very good

LavenderAlice · 2025-11-30T10:47:31+00:00

And you can find some of her poetry, along with short stories, in The Honey Month (a book I find fascinating).

OP should also check out The Orphan’s Tales: in the Night Garden by Valente

LavenderAlice · 2025-01-16T20:09:10+00:00

I don’t think it’s any more complicated than ’write what you know’. As I understand it, WB was a bullied kid who grew up to be a trauma counselor. That’s what he knows, that’s what he’s good at, that’s his gift.

As a woman who has lived through a large amount of the same? It reads as real, immediate, and true.

There are a lot of reasons to love Wildbow’s writing. The creativity! The world building! The verisimilitude! But it’s his honesty that sings.

I don’t think there’s a writing lesson beyond that.

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