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Played a bit more last night. After getting changed, it's time to take that exam. Our team consists of Zell ("Lively? More like loud") and Seifer. Squall is extremely reticent on the ride over. Seifer is our team captain, and after a very nice cinematic of the ships pulling onto shore, it's time to start the exam.

One of the things that's immediately unsettling is how excited the SeeD candidates are to kill the enemy. Squall is included - for the most part, he's just bored and wants something to do. We (Group B) wind up storming in, with Groups A and C on the periphery, and quickly secure Central Square. Since that seems to have been too easy, we wind up running up Communications Tower (with some cool music!) to fight some more guys. Selphie, the girl from earlier, replaces Seifer seamlessly. (Seifer's gunbalde is more intuitive for me than for others.)

Biggs and Wedge are up there. They're trying to do some sort of weird summon thing? I go slowly through hack-and-slashing them until I finally get tired of it and use a few summons. During the fight, a massive boss sweeps them away, and I have to take care of it instead, which winds up netting me a new GF, Siren.

With his dying breath, Biggs/Wedge curses me with a giant mechanical Scorpion, for some reason. This thing has 5500+ HP and can't be beaten at my current strength, because it regenerates to 100% health after getting low enough. Zell tells me to run the first time, but I ignore it until it actually does regenerate; then I get the picture that it's a recurring enemy to damage and then run from. It's kind of a clever design, but not getting any exp from it is very unsatisfying!

When we hit the sub, Quistis winds up annihilating it with a machine gun, and then it's back to safe harbors. Seifer goes back in his car, and I'm stuck with Zell and Selphie again. We hole up in one of the beach town hotels and save.

I'm using Draw a lot. I didn't realize at first you could Draw on ???. Have Esuna, Scan, Protect, and Blizzard on some guys in addition to Fire and Thunder from before. I've also got the three GFs all on their Refine skills. Think some might have learned it. What do now?

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* Seifer says to save the EXP for one of the enemies for him. I don't intend to, but he actually does land the killing blow.

* It's hilarious how much of a tryhard Seifer is. He HATES when people wish him luck (though Quistis laughs this off) and he has a secret dream... a ROMANTIC dream.

* Zell is mostly kinda annoying for now. He's a character who I feel would work better with a sprite. Has potential though.

* I like the Chrono Trigger style of party members running around behind the lead character.

* I was bothered by Zell's teeth again.

* Cute dog is cute.
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness