07H: Until She Wakes

07H: Until She Wakes

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We cut back to Snow and Hope - who if you recall when we last saw them were busy falling to their death.  Well, maybe not death - but Snow is not looking too good and Hope is out cold!  Snow hoists Hope on to his shoulders, grabs the knife and tries to keep moving - the goal being to hook back up with Lightning and Fang at Hope's father's house. 

As Snow anders off in the general direction of the path we relocate back to Fang and get a Battle Order adjustment - we are back in control of Fang.  An announcement is broadcast over the public address system telling us that we are in a zone that has now been cut off from the rest of the city and any attempt to leave will be met by blah blah blah.  Right.

Use the nearby save point and then turn around and go up the first set of stairs (farther away from the save point) and move forward to engage the enemy soldiers here.  After you defeat them empty the Treasure Sphere that is here of the Tungsten Bangle - a dupe since we already have one of those - and then follow the green line around to take out the two PSICOM and the Orion you find there.

At this point if you have not already done so, you may want to apply any available CP to Fang's jobs, and see to their kit, upgrading weapons and accessories and checking to be sure that the best stuff you have is equipped.  An easy way to make sure that you have the maximum bonus multiplier for each item is to buy a stack of Sturdy Bones from the Creature Comforts store and apply them first to get the 3X multiplier prior to using any of your other resources. 

This will maximize the benefits that you get for the other stuff - always a good idea - and it is a cheap way to manage getting the top multiplier on your kit!  If you do all that be sure that you save while you are there to lock in all that progress!

Now fight your way along the path taking out the units that you encounter until you reach the stairs at the far left corner where there is a Treasure Sphere containing a Black Belt - another duplicate item I am sad to say, but hold on to those duplicates because they will be useful later!

Hit the save point ahead and then take out the Bombardier and the Lodestar Behemoth ahead - if you have not fully ID'd either of these be sure that you Libra them now right?  You should be adept at taking out these guys now so this will be a short fight, and an easy 5-star one at that! 

At the top of the far stairs you trigger another CS that takes us back to Snow and his struggle to escape the area.  He makes it onto a nearby roof with Hope on his shoulder and collapses there before continuing on - Hope wakes up and the back and forth between them continues.  Snow admits that he blames himself and tries to explain - not very well - but at least some closure is achieved.