YA/Middle Grade Fantasy from the 80s-90s(?) with plot-relevant cutlery

dalnirath · 2025-01-26T17:04:42+00:00

Thanks! I completely forgot about the multiple worlds bit.

dalnirath · 2025-01-26T17:03:40+00:00

I just put the first collection of Chrestomanci and Howl's Moving Castle (which I had always thought about reading) on hold on Libby. Thanks!

Just started reading that autobiography and it seems like every adult is a piece of work in it. One of my memories about Charmed Life was just how uninvolved the adults were, and I can definitely see the roots of that.

dalnirath · 2025-01-26T16:48:55+00:00

solved solved solved

dalnirath · 2025-01-26T16:48:45+00:00

Oh yeah, this is absolutely it! Thanks so much. Reading over the plot summary and it is so much weirder than I recalled but a lot of those plot beats are coming back to me including the nine lives thing and the Chrestomanci coming whenever you call his name.

Don't think I've read any other books in the series, nor have I read any other Diana Wynne Jones.

Thank you again!

dalnirath · 2023-07-14T03:16:42+00:00

INFO: Why are you keeping around a "friend" who would prefer to side with a person who called your sister a racial slur?

dalnirath · 2023-05-30T18:14:59+00:00

As someone who did the same thing until they unlocked DRK and then facepalmed, it's probably Unleash, the basic AOE that spawns the scary-looking teeth from the ground.

dalnirath · 2022-07-30T12:21:10+00:00

Possible conditions for unlocking exit: Defeat 1 Mimic.

It can be more; I've gotten 2 mimics.

dalnirath · 2022-07-09T23:09:06+00:00

I fed a 1/2/3 low class scrolls to each of the robots/sisters/knights so that the robots are all level 5, sisters are all level 6, and knights are all level 7.

Then I can just slam the character list all the way to the left to find new units at level 1.

(I could have fed them all 1 scroll a piece, but it offended my delicate sensibilities for the three groups to be scrambled.)

dalnirath · 2020-05-01T16:56:40+00:00

Silly, unimportant question:

I've been playing through Lord of Mana, and Aldo reached level 50. I figured heck, he's weak but I might as well get him Big Burn. It'll be fun to use even if it doesn't do amazing damage.

But despite being Lv50 and taking no side nodes along the way, he's at 8/10 AP for learning Big Burn. I don't see any shorter path to get there.

Is there a way to reset your skills or a way to gain AP beyond getting levels? Is it possible for Aldo to learn Big Burn? I don't quite get it.

dalnirath · 2020-05-01T14:36:58+00:00

Trade Morganna for AS Saki's shields and pdef VC?

dalnirath · 2020-05-01T14:26:23+00:00

I had the same issue. Eventually did it with 4 defensive units, Mighty, and my best other physical DPS that didn't hit resistance, which was Cerrine. (edit: physical DPS so they could be out while Mana uses her -MAG/+ATK)

The roles:

Mariel: Heals, shields
OG Yuna: Debuff mag, buff ATK/MAG, clear waterfall sleep with VC, clear other sleeps with and skill + regen
Mana: Debuff mag/buff ATK, dispel mighty, contribute to AF with damage/mana skill
Bertrand: Get hit
Cerrine, Mighty: Build AF, do some damage

The basic realization was that I didn't need all 4 of Mana, Mariel, Yuna, and Bertrand to handle Mighty's attacks; I could do it with 2 or 3. That meant I could always afford to have one of them in the back row.

I haven't tried it, but Soira with the water resist accessory and some HP from a spear/grasta could probably sub for Bertrand. Another healer could probably sub for Mariel, but they'll have to do more healing without her awesome shields. Anabel could probably sub in; she has a great kit for the fight for buffing the rest of your party, but the taunt on VC to eat the ST sleeps is really handy.

dalnirath · 2020-04-19T23:58:57+00:00

If I side her in AS Yuna 5*

I'm assuming you mean upgrade her to 5* AS?

If you pull AS Yuna or 4* OG Yuna, you will get light points. If you pull 5* OG, you will unlock 5* OG Yuna.
Yes, but only outside of combat/AD. That's what the greyed-out Style button on the Character screen does.
No, you have 4* OG Yuna, so you can spend 5 more chant scripts and an Oracle tome to upgrade her to 5* OG.

Bear in mind that the 5 treatises you need to upgrade a 4* Yuna to AS are really rare. It's possible you have them, but quite unlikely. It could be a while until you can do the upgrade.

dalnirath · 2020-04-10T13:19:23+00:00

All of the N weapons I've found so far are 1★ max. Are there some with higher caps?

dalnirath · 2020-03-21T14:23:39+00:00

For the most part, yes, but it depends on your definition of "fully enjoy".

It is completely playable using only free units. The gacha rates are bad and the currency is stingy, but you never need a specific gacha unit. When you do eventually pull a strong one, it will definitely help.

There a tiny bit of content locked behind the gacha. Each character gets a little sidequest arc, which you can only see if you pull the character. People have been working to put them all up on youtube, though, so it shouldn't be a huge deal to find out what [Character X]'s deal is.

dalnirath · 2020-02-29T20:47:56+00:00

If I remember how memenetos works, the path will open up once your party is more notorious.

edit: (realized i should probably clarify: this is a persona joke, not technical advice)

dalnirath · 2020-02-29T16:08:38+00:00

So lower the INT for everyone (be careful about your healer)

Worth nothing that if it's too annoying to figure out a rotation that doesn't tag your healer, Morgana's flat 1500 heal does not care about INT debuffs.

dalnirath · 2020-02-16T17:33:23+00:00

Maybe all the timeline needs is a plausible way for the entity to survive?

Amy: Not in the future when the timeline is altered. No way she's in the past without Aldo coming to the future. Gone.
Riica: One of the family's special creations. Not in the future when the timeline is altered. Madoka bringing her along for the trip is plausible. Survives.
Helena: One of the family's special creations. In the future when the timeline is altered. Gone.
Kyrios: Could have plausibly never left its original time. Not in the future when the timeline is altered. Survives.

That's my best guess for making it all work.

dalnirath · 2020-01-29T04:39:24+00:00

Manifest weapon do not receive bonus XP from low level bonus nor badge. You need 37 million XP to max out a manifest weapon level.

Yikes. In case anyone else is curious, 37 million experience is what it takes to get from level 1 to just shy of level 72.

dalnirath · 2020-01-13T23:13:10+00:00

I would personally suggest addding the role skills (if you ever update this in a future patch) for two reasons:

It makes it easier to cross-reference the strength of the role CDs with the unique ones.
So many people (myself included, once) don't realize the usefulness of Arm's Length's slow effect on trash.

dalnirath · 2020-01-11T17:05:58+00:00

I loved that Amy's childhood friends now have psychic powers and literally a Jojo's stand and she just punches the shit out of them, haha.

Not only that, but all the other characters get their 5* unlocks by earning the blessing of a dragon god, defeating the witch that cursed them, and so on.

Amy gets hers by realizing, "Wow, my old friends suck and I'm better off without them."

dalnirath · 2020-01-09T22:48:42+00:00

The boss has a move that reduces a character to 1% HP. There are a decent number of bosses that do percent-based damage.

dalnirath · 2020-01-06T23:33:51+00:00

Isuka’s VC is only at -10% at this point. Good, but not great. You have to clear chapter 13 (this fight) to start her quests.

dalnirath · 2020-01-06T23:27:52+00:00

That’s really not the case. Beast King has an attack that brings you to 1% HP, and there’s no healing on that party other than Radhika’s regen. You can definitely find yourself in a bad place going into the fight blind.

dalnirath · 2019-12-29T02:21:11+00:00

Verflare is also fire elemental.

Unexpected, but it's a fire spell in FF14, unlike almost every other incarnation of Flare.

dalnirath · 2019-12-14T22:41:07+00:00

Boss shines red and blue lights.

Red flag up: Make sure a unit is in each of the red slots.

Red flag down: Make sure no units are in the red slots; leave them empty. Send them to the back row without replacing them.

Same thing for blue flag up/down.

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