Romancing Saga 2 day 15: Carl the Samurai and his Fitness Celebrity Harem.

Okay, so in flagrant violation of the spirit of the game, I've loaded and brought my original party back to life, and I'm fine with this. This time Bear loses an LP clearing out floor 1, but otherwise I'm doing okay. We clear it and then save at the entrance to Floor 2 like I should've done in the first place. On our second try we manage to take out a couple of those damn Metroids, but the cost in LP is so great that it's not particularly worth it. So one more load, and we'll check out that other new area now!

This is the place in question.

Martial music plays as a team of identical fitness instructors assault practice dummies. They attack in unison, but standing behind them to talk to them messes up the pattern and they get well out of sync. I talk to each of them in turn to be certain they're completely disorganized and move on. There's a cave to their left with a number of staircases leading down.

At the bottom of the stairs is a door with dragons on it, which strikes me as a wonderful place to be saving the game.

Inside is a room full of dudes like the ones outside. I guess the ones at the gate are either the best or the worst students here, depending on how much nicer or less nice it is topside right now.

I stand behind each of them in turn until their synchronization is totally destroyed, because it amuses me to no end.

If I read the two guards' dialogue correctly, this is their leader and his name is Carl. I had a Samurai named Carl in Ogre Battle once. He kicked ass.

Crap. Carl asks me a question. I'll try answer 1. Whatever Carl says in return, it's sponsored by the word "Monster" and the number 2. But nothing seems to change, so tomorrow we'll head to Fort Pile o' Kanji!