Class Mayhem! Let's Hack Fire Emblem + Sword of Seals!

That one's Eliwood's Tale only, and I'm pretty sure it misses a bunch of stuff. Serenes Forest provides a good transcript of Hector's Tale, but it stops right after Valor.

And it's under "Fire Emblem" because that's what the game was called in English. The Blazing Sword may have been the seventh Fire Emblem game, but as far as the West is concerned, it was the first.

http://serenesforest.net/forums/inde...ic=21426&st=20

Thanks, I'll be sure to use that.

No update today because I'm all burned out from rebattling Battle Network 4's final boss something like fifteen times so I could get a (bad) screen capture of his desperation move.

Heeding the archsage Athos's advice, Hector sets out for Bern. Bern: the greatest military force on the continent. The Lycian League has always enjoyed close relations with the kingdom of Bern. Recently, however, King Desmond has begun to flaunt his military strength. Lycian nobles can no longer move freely within Bern's borders. Hector and his group enter the country in the guise of simple travelers.

The next part may have been in Eliwood’s Tale, but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t.



There should have been nothing special about this stage aside from there being way too many enemies. Unfortunately for me, the enemies were cheating like crazy.

I got a Silence, an Earth Seal, and an Orion’s Bolt from the villages at least.





You have no idea how many times I had to reset until Florina dodged Geitz’s “55%” hit chance.



ARGH. *loads state*



ARGH AGAIN. *loads state*



SON OF A BITCH. *loads state*





May as well get some more money.





Freaking enemy phase level ups.



35% HIT MY ASS. *loads state*

… *loads state*





Welp, time to promote Kent.


Crazed Beast is another Hector exclusive chapter, and it has a new character.



But first, Merlinus promoted!



And so did Kent!



(HP: 75%, Str: 50%, Skl: 40%, Spd: 45%, Lck: 45%, Def: 25%, Res: 30%)

Anyways, new character. Farina is the last natural Pegasus Knight, and she costs 20,000 gold to recruit. I can just barely afford this, but it means I’m going to have to say goodbye to my current ranking.



*sigh*

Wow, and here I'd assumed Dart was kind of a jerk, playing dumb all this time.

Horsie girl into dragon girl if you choose to pick her up. But you don't have to. Normally the point of collecting all three is that delta attack nonsense, right? But we've clearly negated that aspect.

We need cavaliers, I think.

Fiora's doing a pretty nice job, though she desperately needs Strength.

Farina would make a bang-up Mage, I think. It's a shame you can't change her name to Lina and give her red hair. :V

In the name of Suwako Moriya, that looked /terrible./

It reminds me of terrible, horrifying things. I'm recounting the horrors of swordmasters duplicating themselves and cutting Hector in twain. Florina missing an archer with a 90% chance to hit, with no points for guessing what happens next (Hint: arrows that explode in a blazing, painful light after being twirled). REBECCA BEING ZAPPED INTO FRIED SNIPER BY AN ASSHOLE YOU CAN'T EVEN SEE WITH LONG RANGE MAGIC. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUU FOG OF WAR NOBODY LIKES IT GO AWAY

Hector Hard Mode is Hard.

Also, Farina -> Cavalier. You can never have too many. And... will the three sisters still be able to Triangle Attack?

I think they have to be Pegasus Knights to do that, but I might try it.

Also, as a completely random thought, for the FE6 run, would it be okay if I based the army around Roy and his many love interests? Because if FE6's ending works the way I think it does, I might be able to get Roy to marry all six of them. (Also Roy would be completely overpowered with six A Supports fueling him)

On a more serious note, I'd actually like to promote Roy earlier than the story does. Like, say, after Etruria? I won't be giving Roy the Sword of Seals, I'd just be changing his class.

I support this notion.

Fire Emblem Harem Mode? Sounds fun! And rather similar to Luminous Arc 2.

(Thanks to Charpig on the Serenes Forest forums for most of the script).

The Bern royal family is a pageant of power, love, and hate. Eliwood finds himself embroiled in their troubles. He has been sent to recover the Bern family treasure: the Fire Emblem. It has been stolen from the palace vault. Relying on information that he has uncovered in the city, Hector heads south to an area filled with lakes and marshes.

The Kent - Fiora Support (which I’m using because Kent and Fiora have proved to be worthy of slots on my team) is kind of disappointing. The two are basically gender swaps of each other, so I guess I might be expecting too much, but the romance aspect of it is almost as shoehorned as the Sain - Rebecca Support. It’s kind of amusing if you mix it with the Kent - Sain Support though.

Sain then presumably arranged for both Fiora and Kent to get drunk, then locked them in a room together. Or something like that.

Seriously, what the heck happened between the B and A Supports? Anyways, back to the plot.



(Replace Matthew with Raven and you’ll get my formation)

The goal of this chapter is to seize those three fortresses (for this chapter only, any unit can seize a fortress by selecting Wait at the entrance). Nothing too hard, but there are a lot of enemies, and every few turns reinforcements will show up.

If you have Fiora and Florina in your team, special dialogue will play at the beginning of the chapter.





Oh wow, the boss moves. Also, check out Kent’s blue hair.





Visiting the village gets you a look at a future character. And no, nothing special happens if you have Bartre visit the village.

She gives an Elysian Whip.



There goes Pascal.



I guess a dead boss is worth a bad level up.



Two decent enemy phase level ups, and one terrible one.



At the beginning of Phase 5, Farina shows up.

After that, Farina will start moving towards Hector during the Neutral phases. That’ll take at least one turn, so let’s take a look at the battlefield.



This fort may as well already be captured.

This one will be down soon.



This one’s going to take a while.



If you refuse, Farina will just stand there doing nothing until you have Hector talk to her and agree to pay her.



After recruitment, Farina can talk with her sisters.

Okay, time to finish this chapter.



Okay, let’s see what remains of my Funds Rankin-



Bwuh? Uh, okay then.




(HP: 60%, Str: 40%, Skl: 40%, Spd: 40%, Lck: 30%, Def: 20%, Res: 35%)

Ugh, Louise. Her growths are actually superior to Pent’s in the stats that count, but they’re still pretty bad, and she doesn’t even get amazing base stats to compensate for them.

Oops, I forgot something.



Bartre promoted! I had to change his class to Pirate first though, and I just hacked in an Ocean Seal instead of using the one I have because I am not just going to waste 50,000 gold like that. And FYI? The HP cap is 60.

More importantly, next chapter I get a Heaven's Seal! Should I just use it on Eliwood, or Lyn?

EDIT: Ahahahaha wow. Even if they're not Pegasus Knights, Florina, Fiora, and Farina can still do the Triangle Attack.

We must see the animation!

It's nothing spectacular; the girl initiating the Triangle Attack just does her normal critical hit animation, only while she's doing the initial spin two Pegasus Knights attack.

I was kinda hoping there would be an accidental cavalier shoved in there somewhere.

Hector and his allies defeat the Black Fang monster, Pascal. However, they learn nothing of the Fire Emblem's location. To escape from the Black Fang, they disguise themselves once more. At Eliwood's suggestion, they head for the royal palace of Bern.

Dialogue differences between Hector’s and Eliwood’s tales are too minor for me to write them up. Just know that this time Hector couldn’t use the Heaven Seal.



I’m pretty sure it’s possible to finish this map early by killing Vaida, but doing so would mean not being able to recruit her. The village at the bottom gives a Hammerne staff (though you’ll have to rush to save it), and one of the houses has a NPC who reveals a bit about Mark’s backstory, namely that at some point he collapsed at Bern too.



Speaking of Vaida, I want that super Spear she’s holding. To get it,



I’ll need one of these.



The Mine item has a really odd bug. If you reset the game during its animation…



Once you resume the chapter you can control the enemy units.



Once I’ve done this, I can have Vaida trade her Spear to the Wyvern Riders around her, and then Steal it. But I didn’t bring Serra and even if I did, she’d be too far away. My other choice is to have Vaida and her Wyvern Riders do a chain of trades until I can trade the Spear to an enemy units that can drop something. But since I did the Mine trick on the first turn I can’t get close enough.

I guess I should just reset and try again, but screw that. I have to live up to this micro LP’s title.



Much like how the main Lord is always slot 1, the enemy boss has their own special slot. Because of this, I can modify them as if they were my own character. I could change their class, change their stats, change who they are, make their items useless, or, more pertinently, give them infinite turns.

By the way, I used the word “could” for a reason. It might be amusing to make the boss completely harmless, but that would be lame.



But I feel like being lame right now, so I’m going to take advantage of Vaida’s infinite turns and the Armory on this shop to get some money by stealing all of the Wyvern Rider’s equipment and selling it.



And because I’ve still got total control of the enemy units, I’ll arrange them in absurdly stupid positions and rearrange their equipment so I can easily kill them off.



Nobody voted, so I’ll just promote Eliwood.



Yay. Now to give this to Farina and



Voila. To be honest though, the super Spear is pretty much just for show, since it only has 15 uses.

Anyways, time to actually start this chapter.



All the weaponless Wyvern Riders flew up here, so Eliwood’s riding up to catch them.





I was serious about the three sisters still being able to Triangle Attack by the way. It looks like it’s coded into their character data, not their classes.

Because this game doesn’t have any female Wyvern Riders to promote, the designers decided to not even bother keeping the FE6 promotion gains. As such, all Florina’s promotion does is boost her Constitution.

With the aid of codes though, I can manually boost Florina’s stats. According to Serenes Forest, a promoted female Wyvern Rider gets +5 to HP and +2 to everything else but Luck.



Guy is now ready for promotion. Jesus, he’s maxed Strength, Skill and Speed.




Normally you can only get one character from Pale Flower of Darkness, but with the help of codes I can get both.



(HP: 80%, Str: 35%, Skl: 30%, Spd: 40%, Lck: 20%, Def: 30%, Res: 25%)

First up is Harken. Holy shit, Harken. Look at those base stats; it doesn’t matter how crappy his growths are, Harken is never going to die with bases like those. Even better, he comes with a free Brave Sword! A god damned Brave Sword!



(HP: 70%, Str: 30%, Skl: 50%, Spd: 50%, Lck: 30%, Def: 10%, Res: 15%)

Then there’s Karel. Compared to Harken this guy is nothing, but I might as well get him.

Guy promoting into a class that wasn’t Swordmaster screwed things up so much the game decided to just skip the normal cutscene.

Because my melee units have a higher combined level than my magic units, I’m not going to be facing Kenneth like Tanto did. I’m going to be facing Jerme. The only dialogue differences are the conversations involving the bosses.



This map’s weather is a pain. Blizzards will start and stop without warning, and they essentially act like rain. Aside from that, there are a bunch of doors you have to unlock to defeat the enemies inside. If you’ve unlocked less than 4 by Turn 9, Harken will show up. But if you unlock more than 4, Karel will show up inside.

In other words, like how Kenneth’s version of Pale Flower of Darkness makes getting Karel easy, Jerme’s version makes it much more likely you’ll get Harken.



Check out FuSoYa Archsage Pent. I am going to be using the Physic he comes with as much as I can.

To recruit Harken, you just have to talk to him with either Eliwood, Hector, Marcus, Lowen, Oswin, or Isadora. I’m going to be recruiting him with Eliwood, but I decided to save state and reset to see what Isadora (Harken’s fiancée) has to say.

That conversation was interesting, but not worth using Isadora. Back to my actual playthrough.

So he has almost the exact same conversation with his lover and his lord? What? Anyways, I don’t know why Isadora and Eliwood were so worried.



Harken can kill anyone on this map with ease. Well, with his Brave Sword anyways. Without it he’ll just severely cripple everything he can’t double. And that’s a really good thing, since if an enemy doesn’t die, he’ll block other enemies from getting closer.



Oh, and Fiora promoted.



haha oh my god those idiots are attacking harken



And the western line of Wyvern Riders/Lords all decided to attack Bartre because… I don’t know, they were suicidal? Also, enemy phase level ups can go to hell. Seriously, two levels without Strength?





Jerme is, how you say, completely screwed.





After I unlocked my fourth door, I hacked the turn number back to 9. Karel showed up, and I recruited him.

The after-chapter dialogue has a new scene.




(HP: 55%, Str: 50%, Skl: 55%, Spd: 60%, Lck: 45%, Def: 15%, Res: 50%)

As this game’s Est, Nino has some amazing growths. Unfortunately, she’s also way to damn fragile for me to use. Sorry.



(HP: 65%, Str: 15%, Skl: 40%, Spd: 35%, Lck: 20%, Def: 30%, Res: 30%)

Jaffar, on the other hand, is the only Assassin in the game worth using. Like Pent and Harken, he can get by on his base stats alone.

Also, Geitz, Louise, Harken, and Karel are still up for voting.

Two assassins in the employ of the Black Fang move in. They've been set loose in the palace to murder the crown prince, Zephiel. Hector hurries to prevent them from fulfilling their contract.

The Guy-Karel Support just doesn’t work if Guy can’t use a sword. Then again, Guy’s sprite doesn’t appear in battle anyways, so I guess it wouldn’t be that much of a problem if I gave him the ability to use a sword…



(Battle Before Dawn’s map is awkwardly large, so I’m better off just borrowing the image from Serenes Forest. It‘s all just Fog of War anyways.)

This chapter can go right to hell. It’s pretty much entirely luck; you need to hope Nino and Jaffar survive long enough for you to recruit the former and talk to the latter, and the entire time you have to hope that Ursula doesn’t get a lucky shot in with her Bolting. And if that wasn’t bad enough, there are a total of four chests I need to open, and I only have one Thief.



Did I mention that Harken starts with a B in both Swords and Axes? Because he does, and it’s totally awesome.





Damn it. Jaffar killed him on the counter attack, but this is the second time he’s been hit because of a Reaver weapon and some bad luck.



I don’t have a clue why the computer thought it would be a good idea to attack a lance user with a Swordreaver though.



SON OF A FEMALE DOG. Oh well, at least I can just load state and try again.



RNG manipulation isn’t just for level ups. If the next set of random numbers is going to result in Jaffar dying, I just need to burn through them and try again.



It worked. Jaffar dodged one of the Swordreavers, so he managed to get a way and heal. Even better, he’s blocking the enemy Thief from entering the chest room.



Only three damage? What the heck is this guy’s Resistance?



what the christ



Good thing Bartre’s here.



Before I recruit Nino, I have to kill Ursula.



That’s really easy though. You just need to lure her into using Bolting, then rush her. The weight of the Bolting tome will almost guarantee a double attack for you, and though Ursula’s Resistance is capped her Defense certainly isn’t.



Second priority now is to block the entrances to the treasure rooms until Serra gets over. I also have to hurry up and send someone to protect Zephiel.



Alright, got Nino. Now to save Jaffar.

DAMN IT. *loads state*



I love how the Harken-Isadora Support starts off completely contradicting the Harken-Isadora recruitment chat. It’s like the game designers knew that nobody would use Isadora ever. Anyways, pretend Marcus was watching.



Getting Jaffar to Nino was easy. Florina rescued him, then moved as far right as possible. Bartre then ran over, took Jaffar from Florina, and dropped him. Fiora and Harken proceeded to do the exact same thing.



Where do you think you are, Tellius?





I used the trick from earlier to get Serra over to the eastern chests. In total, I got a Brave Lance, some Boots, a Delphi Shield with Florina‘s name on it, and a Rescue.


Jaffar and Nino, Black Fang assassins. Although Hector cannot forget his hatred for Nergal's former henchman, Jaffar, Hector allows him to join the group, with Nino at his side. That night…

There’s only one notable difference in the script.



I used to think this map was hard. Then I played the FE6 version. Anyways, this map is an excellent source of experience, so I’m going to be using it to help everyone promote. Farewell, Funds ranking.



First up is Rebecca. I’m glad to say her new sprite has finally decided to put on some clothes.



These assholes over here need to die before they start spamming Berserk.







Lyn uses her a bow for the first time and gets a critical. Beginner’s luck?

I originally intended to just charge through the chapter, but at some point a strategy of sorts formed.



Jaffar, Rebecca, Harken, and Wil are following the path as far as possible, with Hector and Nino a bit behind them.



Florina flew straight to the Bishops to murder them, and along the way drew the attention of everyone with a Bolting. Thankfully, none of them can hit her.



Bartre is just taking a straight path to Sonia. It’s going to take a while since he’s killing everyone in the way.



Finally, Lyn, Guy, and Farina are parked at the entrance, killing nearby spawning enemies. Raven is there for support, since Rebecca has her own Heal stave. FYI, I tried leaving Nino here, but everyone else was too strong to leave any opponents just weak enough for her to kill. Also, I was busy enough raising Farina.



Sonia is the only one that actually has a chance at hitting Florina.





Did I already post that Support?



Bartre does not need puny Killer weapons to critical. While I’m at it, neither does Wil, though in his case it‘s because of his A Support with Rebecca. (Does anyone want me to explain Supports?)



I don’t even remember where I got that Chest Key. Oh well, at least I used it.

Um, Sonia? Could you raise a few walkways? Most of my army can’t do a damn thing until you do.



Thank you.





Hear that Sonia? That’s the sound of death approaching.

Sisterly love, death threats, forbidden lore, family obligations, and then YAY COOKING! This game, man.

Also, from what I understand, each unit has an affinity, and it "passes on" the bonuses of this affinity to units it supports. Each one boosts three or four different stats, and these boosts are multipliers, very powerful and cumulative, meaning that they can make a subpar unit workable and a good unit invincible. For example, Wallace's Lightning affinity improves defense, chances to dodge, and crit-related stuff for any unit near him with a support with him.

Not quite. You are correct that Support bonuses are determined by affinity though.

Whenever two Supporting units are near each other (I think it's a 3 panel radius?), the bonuses their affinities grant them are added up and applied to both characters. Let's take a look at what Kent (Anima) and Fiora (Wind) get.

Anima boosts Attack/Defense by 0.5 and Avoid/Critical Evade by 2.5. Wind boosts Attack by 0.5 and Accuracy/Critical chance/Critical Evade by 2.5. Added up and rounded down, that's +1 to Attack, +2 to Avoid/Accuracy/Critical chance, and +5 to Critical Evade. Pretty lame, huh?

That's where Support levels come in. If the units have a B Support, everything is multiplied by two before addition. And if they have an A support, everything is multiplied by 3 before addition. Since Kent and Fiora have an A Support, they get +3 to Attack, +1 to Defense, +7 to Accuracy/Critical chance, and +15 to Avoid/Critical Evade. Add that to their base stats and their own equipment, and you can get some absurd things.

Is it a bad sign that I'm still surprised whenever I see someone besides me posting in one of my LPs?

EDIT: Out of curiousity, I decided to crunch some numbers and see what Roy would get if he got an A Support bonus from every single one of his possible wives. That would be Fire plus Light, Anima, Darkness, Wind, Wind and Thunder. He got +7 Attack, +4 Defense, +37 Accuracy, +30 Avoid, +45 Critical Chance, and +37 Critical Evade.

And if you count Wolt into the picture (which would give the remaining element, Ice), Roy gets +7 Attack, +6 Defense, +45 Accuracy, +37 Avoid, +45 Critical Chance, and +45 Critical Evade.

It's a shame that the majority of Roy's harem (not talking about Wolt) can't Support with each other though.