The Princess and The Dragon

The title of this submission is a reference to the Princess and the Frog. Though, in this case, Natsu has draconic properties, so I altered the title to something more fitting.

Once again, Mashima doesn't disappoint. Two weeks ago, he sent GrayLu crashing down to the bottom of the cesspool of crack pairings with the reveal that Juvia was still alive. And now, he has set up E.N.D's introduction with the reveal that Natsu's tumor isn't some ordinary tumor. And that can only mean one thing: more NaLu. So, to celebrate, I decided to commission another hentai pic, this time, with NaLu.

Also, I promised ZN-Lover that I would have something commissioned for him as a birthday present. So, even though I'm a week late, happy fucking birthday, Douglas.

As for the pic itself, not really much to say, other than Natsu and Lucy having some hot anal after the war, and she's loving every second of it. And for whatever reason that even I can't fathom, Lucy even let him tie her up for that night.

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And once again, ZN, your pairing is dead, and that is a Capital Final. Hiro Mashima is the author of Fairy Tail, not you. You can't dictate who Mashima pairs with who. And Mashima basically confirmed NaLu in multiple interviews, including revealing the name of their child should they ever have one. And no amount of GrayLu, NaLi, LoLu, NaZa, or NaWen spam is going to change that.

ICYMI: NaLu is (basically) canon. GrayLu and NaLi are dead. Deal with it. Game fucking over.

EDIT: I will be sending this pic back to Kuroi Hoshi so it can get a color job next month when my Patreon payment comes in. So for those who want to see a NaLu anal pic in full color, this will be a treat! By the way, anyone wanting to obtain color commissions from Kuroi will need to pledge at least $5 to him on his Patreon each month.

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Fairy Tail is (c) 2006 Hiro Mashima.
All unit(s) are Lv18 or above.
This work was created by Kuroi Hoshi. Join him on his livestream every Sunday at 5pm EST/2 pm PST and you could get a pic just like this one.

Have a nice day.

Ice-Cold Rainy Passion

Well, we never thought we'd get this far, Fairy Tail fans. But here we are, on Chapter 500. And what better way to celebrate this momentous benchmark by commissioning a Gruvia hentai pic? It's especially fitting considering that Mashima drove the final nail in GrayLu's coffin in the last chapter (and, really. GrayLu had it coming. It's an illegitimate pairing fueled by high octane delusion and promoted as "semi-canon" by flamethrowers like ZN-Lover), while also revealing that Juvia survived her suicide attempt in the latest chapter. It also helps that Gray said previously that if Juvia wakes up, he would take her feelings seriously.

As for the pic itself, nothing much to say. Gray and Juvia are having anal sex, and Juvia is loving every second of it. Gray even decided to increase Juvia's arousal by tying her up, blindfolding her, and placing a magic suppression collar around her neck. Originally, Juvia was also tape gagged, but Gray eventually removed her gag so they could share a kiss.

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ZN-Lover, if you stumble across this pic and read this bulletin, the charade is over. Your pairing is dead and that's a Capital Final. And no amount of GrayLu spam is going to change that.

ICYMI: Gruvia is canon. GrayLu is dead. Deal with it. Game Over.

Fairy Tail is (c) 2006 Hiro Mashima.
All unit(s) are Lv18 and above.
This pic was drawn by Kuroi Hoshi. View his shit here.

Have a nice day.

ITT I Play Hector Hard Mode (part 14)

Chapter 20: Darin's Last Stand

Units Deployed:
Hector, Eliwood, Lyn, Raven, Oswin, Bartre, Canas, Lucius, Priscilla, Florina, Sain, Matthew

New Units:

Legault (Lv12 Thief)
Bases: 29 HP/9 str/13 skl/17 spd/10 lck/9 def/3 res/9 con Swd C
Growths: 60 HP/25 str/45 skl/60 spd/60 lck/25 def/25 res
Supports: Matthew, Isadora, Heath, Nino, Jaffar

Summary: Take Matthew, have him join 14 maps later with competent bases, and Legault is the result. While he isn't a total wuss at combat, it's still best to only field him when there's loot to be obtained on that map. One can only do so much with a thief.

Chapter Summary:
I don't know about anyone else, but I think this is a pretty tough map. The layout of the map is designed to waste the player's time, particularly if one is trying to recruit Legault in a timely fashion. The corridor leading up to the throne is one tile wide in many places and two tiles wide at max, making it fairly hard to break through the group of cavaliers and nomads that will inevitably clog up the space. The cavaliers have 28-29 HP and 7-8 def with 7-9 AS while the nomads have 22-25 HP and 5-6 def with 9-11 AS, so most units will have issues ORKOing them.

One can obtain some pretty good items here, between the stuff in the chest and the items in the secret shoppe. However, while the chests are fairly trivial to obtain, the two secret shoppes are too out of the way to visit, and I can only get the VIP card on the final turn at the earliest.

Darin is somewhat hard to kill thanks to a meaty 38/16/14 bulk coupled with his throne bonuses. Thankfully, his class makes him really weak to armor killing weapons, so if Hector has uses remaining on the wolf beil, use it! Eliwood and Lyn can also use their prfs, but they are far weaker and less bulky than Hector is.

Turn By Turn Analysis:
Turn 1: Priscilla unlocks the door to the center building, allowing Raven to enter the room and kill the archer. Matt opens the door to the brave bow building, allowing Bartre to kill the archer there. Lyn and Eliwood help take down an armor knight.
EP: Eliwood kills another knight, and dodges a mage. Canas chips the killer bow archer.

Turn 2: Raven chips at the wall with his hand axe. Lucius kills the mage that attacked Eli. Sain and Eli take out the cavalier blocking Hector and Oswin's way while Matt grabs the brave bow. Canas kills the archer.
EP: Hector chips Cameron. A couple of nomads suicide themselves on Raven while the rest of the enemies go towards the corridor.

Turn 3: Bartre kills the knight that attacked Sain previously. Hector chips Cameron, allowing Eli to kill him. Lyn takes out the cav while Oswin kills the nomad. Raven kills the mercenary that spawned last turn.
EP: Oswin kills one of the remaining cavaliers, but fails to kill the others because the troubadour decided to move in the dead cav's spot.

Turn 4: Eliwood kills the troubadour after Sain opened the door and Oswin went inside. Hector, Lyn, and Florina help take out the last of the cavaliers.
EP: Bartre takes out two of the reinforcements. Canas chips one of the archer reinforcements. Oswin kills two knights and chips two fighters. Raven opens the door, at which point, I have Priscilla pick him up.

Turn 5: Priscilla unlocks the door, at which point, I drop Raven. Canas kills the archer he weakened previously.
EP: Raven takes out the four dark mages next to Darin. Canas and Bartre kill more reinforcements.

Turn 6: Raven engages Darin. Lucius chips the merc. Matt grabs the Luna chest.
EP: Raven and Darin trade blows. The merc reinforcement dies on Lucius, as do the fighter and archer reinforcements on Canas.

Turn 7: Eliwood kills Darin. Lyn recruits Legault, who then steals the VIP card. Matt grabs the blue gem chest. Bartre, Oswin, Florina, Lucius, and Sain finish off some scrubs. Hector seizes.

Turns Taken: 7/103

Ending Thoughts:
The good news is that Eliwood's level deficit has been lessened thanks to a couple of boss kills. The bad news is that he still has a deficit.

Also, Lv2 Oswin with B axes lol. Behold the power of the devil axe. But seriously, don't use it. 1 time out of 5 or so, it'll backfire and the user will only hurt himself. I've seen videos of people killing themselves using the devil axe on a wall.

Bartre, Canas, Lucius, Florina, and Sain are really shaping up quite nicely. Bet I'll be able to promote them soon.

Matthew is getting absolutely nowhere. He's the same level as Legault and yet has worse stats in every parameter except speed, and he only wins that by 1 (if we're taking con into account, Leggy has better AS anyway). So, yeah. Matt isn't getting fielded after this map, but his earlier contributions will not be forgotten.

Unit Levels:
Name       Level   HP SM SK SP LK DF RS CN Weapon Level
Hector     16/ 0   34 18 13 11  9 20  4 13 Axe A
Eliwood    11/ 0   28 12 12 14 12  9  4  7 Swd B
Lyn        16/ 0   36 13 18 20 15  5  5  5 Swd A
Matthew    12/ 0   26  8  7 18  9  4  2  7 Swd C
Serra       5/ 0   19  5  6 11  9  2  8  4 Stf B
Oswin      18/ 2   42 22 16  9  7 23 14 16 Lnc A/Axe B
Bartre     13/ 0   40 18 12 13  6 12  1 13 Axe B
Priscilla   6/ 0   19  9  8  9  9  3  8  4 Stf B
Sain       14/ 0   32 18  8 14  8 12  4  9 Swd C/Lnc B
Florina    11/ 0   23 10 16 18 14  6 10  4 Lnc B 
Raven      15/ 2   44 21 21 23  9 14  5  9 Swd A/Axe D
Lucius     11/ 0   23 14  8 15  3  2 14  6 Lgt C
Canas      14/ 0   26 15 12 12 10  7 12  7 Drk A
Legault    12/ 0   28  9 14 17 10  9  4  9 Swd C 

Supports:
Hector x Lyn C

Swag List:
Brave bow
Luna
Blue gem
Celestial ring
Barrier
VIP card
Killer bow

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ITT I Play Hector Hard Mode (part 13)

Chapter 19xx: Secret Missing Chapter of Fire Emblem

Units Deployed:
Hector, Lyn, Raven , Lucius, Canas, Bartre, Priscilla

New Units:
None

Chapter Summary:
This is another fog of war map, so bring your torches and the like. Also, if one unlocks this chapter, this is the first map where the player encounters status staves, in this case, a troubadour carrying a sleep staff. At this point in the game, it isn't possible to obtain a restore staff, presumably because most players won't even reach this map in the first place.

The main reason one would consider going to this map, besides for plot reasons, is that the swag that can be obtained on this map is fairly good. In particular, there's a chest in the southeast corner of the map that contains a dracoshield and an Eclipse, but the thieves naturally start closer than the player to these chests, and if the player tries to intercept the thieves by heading down the corridor to the south, he is just asking for a unit to be killed, no doubt thanks to the 23 attack steel bow sniper, as well as a host of other 2 range enemies. On the other hand, the chest containing the talisman isn't under any direct threat from the thieves for a while. Which is probably a good thing, because these thieves are actually kind of hard to ORKO due to the highest leveled ones having 20 AS.

The boss is a druid carrying a siege tome; however, Teodor is a lot less menacing than Aion was, largely due to Eclipse having an atrocious hit rate. However, he is a monster at close range, packing 29 attack hitting resistance with his Nosferatu book, which also has the side effect of healing him.

Fun fact: The title of this segment is a reference to a series of YouTube videos made by the Barney Bunch using TTS software that claim to be a deleted episode of a random TV show and depict the characters engaging in explicit homosexual activity.

Turn By Turn Analysis:
Turn 1: Raven kills a thief with Lucius's help. Priscilla unlocks the door, allowing Hector and Lyn to pass through. The rest of my army follows suit.
EP: Lyn and Lucius each kill a knight. Priscilla gets hit by the ballista. Raven dodges a sleep staff and gets attacked by a mage.

Turn 2: Hector kills the troubadour. Canas chips the mage that attacked Raven. Raven uses his hero crest.
EP:  Lyn kills another knight. Matt dodges a mage while Canas kills the mage he chipped previously and gets his potion stolen by a thief.

Turn 3: Bartre kills the mage that attacked Matt. Canas and Lucius team up against the thief. Hector kills the ridersbane armor. Priscilla picks up Lucius, who then gets dropped closer to Hector and Lyn's position by Raven.
EP: Lyn gets attacked by 2 knights and a mage. Priscilla gets hit by another ballista hit.

Turn 4: Lucius and Bartre kill the two armors. Canas kills the ballista archer. Raven takes out the mage.
EP: Teodor attacks Lyn with his Eclipse. Two wyvern riders also attack Lyn. An enemy thief steals Matt's torch.

Turn 5: Matt and Canas team up on a thief. Lucius and Raven kill the wyvern riders while Hector and Lyn remove the E thief and archer, respectively.
EP: More eclipse shenanigans.

Turn 6: Matt steals the dracoshield, before being picked up by Priscilla. Hector engages the boss. Lucius and Canas kill the two thieves.
EP: Hector and Teodor trade blows.

Turn 7: Lyn chips Teodor, allowing Bartre to kill him.
EP: lol.

Turn 8: Matt grabs the talisman from the chest. Canas kills the knight inside the corridor. Hector seizes.

Turns Taken: 8/96

Ending Thoughts:
Raven is ridiculous.

No, seriously. He basically turns the entire midgame into a fucking joke. For starters, he can ORKO just about every unpromoted generic enemy for the next 7 or so maps with a hand axe, and his 43 HP/14 def bulk makes him only 5-6HKO'd at worst by even the strongest physical enemy units at this point in the game. I suppose his only weakness at this point is magic, and even that is mitigated by the fact that unpromoted magic users suck. For starters, monks in Chapter 21 have up to 12 atk, which only 7HKOs Raven. Mages and dark mages fare a little bit better, being able to muster a 4-5HKO against him, depending on what weapon they're using as well as fluctuations in their magic. However, promoted magic users are really threatening to him, with sages in Genesis packing 28 atk Elfires that 2HKO him, for instance.

Unit Levels:
Name       Level   HP SM SK SP LK DF RS CN Weapon Level
Hector     15/ 0   33 18 12 10  9 19  3 13 Axe A
Eliwood     8/ 0   25 10 11 12 10  8  4  7 Swd B
Lyn        15/ 0   35 13 18 19 14  5  5  5 Swd A
Matthew    12/ 0   26  8  7 18  9  4  2  7 Swd C
Serra       5/ 0   19  5  6 11  9  2  8  4 Stf B
Oswin      18/ 2   42 22 16  9  7 23 14 16 Lnc A/Axe D
Bartre     12/ 0   39 17 11 12  6 11  1 13 Axe B
Priscilla   6/ 0   19  9  8  9  9  3  8  4 Stf B
Sain       13/ 0   31 17  8 13  8 12  4  9 Swd C/Lnc B
Florina    10/ 0   22  9 15 17 13  6  9  4 Lnc C 
Raven      15/ 1   43 20 20 22  7 14  5  9 Swd A/Axe E
Lucius     10/ 0   22 13  8 14  3  2 13  6 Lgt C
Canas      13/ 0   25 15 12 11 10  7 11  7 Drk B

Supports:
Hector x Lyn C

Swag List:
Dracoshield
Talisman
Eclipse

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ITT I Play Hector Hard Mode (part 12)

Chapter 19x: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Magic

Units Deployed:
Hector, Lyn, Raven, Florina, Sain, Canas, Priscilla, Matthew

New Units:
None

Chapter Summary:
The mountainous terrain on the north side of the map is just asking for the player to perform a flier skip, but one impediment stands in the way, that being the boss. This asshole carries a Bolting book, giving him 27 attack hitting resistance at up to 10 range, which effortlessly 2HKOs everything in my party except Oswin.

However, he won't get much chance to use it, as on the end of turn 3 player phase, a new unit by the name of Kishuna will spawn from the fort next to the gate and emit a force field that expands 10 tiles away from him. As long as Kishuna is present on the map (he leaves after 10 turns), any unit within this force field cannot use magic or staves, and this includes the boss.

There is a secret side chapter after this one, but in order to unlock it, one must defeat Kishuna in battle. This is a lot harder than it sounds, since Kishuna has 25 AS, giving him a massive 50 avoid and making him impossible to double, and even if one can hit him, he still has a 52 HP/14 def buffer to fall back on. And if one does not defeat him within 1 turn of hitting him, he will rewarp himself off the map. There is another requirement to unlocking this gaiden; in Lyn mode, one must raise Nils to at least Lv7. This is an extremely time consuming task as Nils only gains 10 exp per action, requiring 12 actions on average every map that he's available for in LHM to reach Lv7.

And one last thing; bring Matthew. The boss is holding an item called the silver card. This item allows the player to buy items from any shoppe at half price, which effectively doubles one's money.

Turn By Turn Analysis:
Turn 1: Sain runs up and KOs a mage. Florina heads W. Hector and Lyn follow Sain. Priscilla picks up Canas and moves with the group. Raven parks himself on the mountains to deal with the peg squad.
EP: Raven and Florina kill the two pegs closest to my starting position. Sain kills one of the mages, but fails to kill a second because he missed.

Turn 2: Hector kills the mage that Sain failed to kill. Priscilla trades Canas over to Florina and heals Sain, who then kills the swordreaver bandit. Florina flies Canas over the mountain and drops him on the other side.
EP: Canas kills the four armors carrying javelins and kills two mages, chipping another three. Florina dodges a bolting, and draws in the dark mage and a mage. Sain gets attacked by two mages, chipping one.

Turn 3: Florina heads E to pick up Raven. Matt kills the mage that Sain weakened. Hector and Sain kill an armor knight and the second mage, respectively, respectively. Canas kills another mage.
EP: Lyn kills a knight while Hector chips another. Hector also draws in a bandit, dark mage, and mage.

Turn 4: Sain kills the knight that Hector weakened. Hector moves onto the fort to heal. Matt kills the bandit.
EP: One of the mages dies on Sain, the other attacks Priscilla. Another knight dies on Hector.

Turn 5: I kill the remaining enemies near the gate. Florina picks up Raven and flies over the mountain.
EP: lol

Turn 6: Florina drops Raven on the other side and flies back to the tent. I move the rest of my units to engage the boss.
EP: lol

Turn 7: Matthew steals the silver card. I then pick him up and kill the boss with Lyn. Raven chips one of Kishuna's snipers. Florina flies S to grab the lucky charm.
EP: lol

Turn 8: Raven kills the sniper. Hector and Sain help chip the knight. Florina grabs the lucky charm ruin.
EP:  Hector kills the knight.

Turn 9: Raven kills the sniper. Priscilla and Sain drop Raven next to the second knight.
EP: Raven kills the knight.

Turn 10: Sain chips Kishuna, allowing Raven to kill him with a KE crit. Lyn initiates a support convo with Hector, who then seizes.

Turns Taken: 10/88

Ending Thoughts:
First support of the run!

On another note, Raven is almost Lv15 and one away from capping strength. Spoiler warning; he's promoting next map.

Unit Levels:
Name       Level   HP SM SK SP LK DF RS CN Weapon Level
Hector     14/ 0   32 17 11 10  9 18  3 13 Axe A
Eliwood     8/ 0   25 10 11 12 10  8  4  7 Swd B
Lyn        15/ 0   35 13 18 19 14  5  5  5 Swd A
Matthew    11/ 0   25  8  7 17  9  4  2  7 Swd C
Serra       5/ 0   19  5  6 11  9  2  8  4 Stf B
Oswin      18/ 2   42 22 16  9  7 23 14 16 Lnc A/Axe D
Bartre     10/ 0   37 15 10 10  5 11  1 13 Axe B
Priscilla   5/ 0   18  8  7  8  8  3  7  4 Stf B
Sain       13/ 0   31 17  8 13  8 12  4  9 Swd C/Lnc B
Florina    10/ 0   22  9 15 17 13  6  9  4 Lnc C  
Raven      14/ 0   38 19 18 20  7 11  3  8 Swd B  
Lucius      7/ 0   20 11  6 13  3  2 10  6 Lgt C 
Canas      12/ 0   25 14 11 11  9  7 10  7 Drk B

Supports:
Hector x Lyn C

Swag List:
Fire
Swordreaver
Lucky Charm
Silver Card

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ITT I Play Hector Hard Mode (part 11)

Chapter 19: Hawk-Eye Uhai

Units Deployed:
Hector, Eliwood, Lyn, Matthew, Oswin, Bartre, Raven, Canas, Lucius, Priscilla, Florina, Sain

New Units:

Dart (Lv8 Pirate)
Bases: 34 HP/12 str/8 skl/8 spd/3 lck/6 def/1 res/10 con Axe B
Growths: 70 HP/65 str/20 skl/65 spd/35 lck/20 def/15 res
Supports: Rebecca, Wil, Geitz, Farina, Karel

Summary: Dart would be amazing if it were not for the fact that the item that he needs to promote is really valuable. Seriously, the gold obtained from selling it could mean the difference between recruiting Farina and not being able to. Which sucks ass, since his offensive parameters are top tier if trained.

Fiora (Lv7 Pegasus Knight)
Bases: 21 HP/8 str/11 skl/13 spd/6 lck/6 def/7 res/5 con Lnc C
Growths: 70 HP/35 str/60 skl/50 spd/30 lck/20 def/50 res
Supports: Eliwood, Florina, Kent, Sain, Geitz, Farina, Pent

Summary: Fiora is basically Florina if she joined later with her average stats at 8/0. Like Flo, her starting combat is kind of bad, and having worse growths in str/spd does not help. Still, she flies. That helps.

Chapter Summary: 
The objective of this map is to defeat the turd named Uhai, who is tucked away in the southeast corner of the map in an area covered with forest, making him fairly difficult to get to quickly. It also doesn't help that most of the enemies in this area consists of cavaliers and nomads, which typically have enough AS to avoid getting doubled by the player's cavalry. There is also fog of war on this map, so bring torches and/or thieves.

Turn By Turn Analysis:
Turn 1: Raven and Lucius head E, taking out a pirate. Bartre breaks down the snag on the central island with his hand axe, allowing Oswin to move onto the island. Hector and Lyn move S.
EP: Raven gets mauled by two pegs and two nomads (this was a very dangerous EP for him as he needed to dodge at least 1 attack at ~60 hit rates). Oswin takes out a nomad and chips a cav. Lyn kills two cavaliers.

Turn 2: Lucius and Raven take out the two NE nomads. Florina removes the lone peg to the N of the island. Dart breaks down the snag, allowing Oswin and Canas to take out a cavalier, Sain to take out a pirate, and Bartre to chip the longbow nomad.
EP: Sain takes out two pirates, chips two cavaliers, and gets shot at by two nomads. Lyn kills two pegs.

Turn 3: Hector kills one of the center isle cavaliers from across the river. Canas and Oswin help clear out more of the enemies, allowing Sain to KO the thief. Florina recruits Fiora after the latter was rescued by Eliwood and Priscilla. Fiora then picks up Raven.
EP: Matthew gets shot at by one of the nomads, while the other attacks Lyn. Sain kills a cavalier and whiffs a monk.

Turn 4: Fiora gives Raven to Hector. Oswin kills the monk that attacked Sain. Lucius and Eli kill a pirate reinforcement while Florina takes out a peg reinforcement. Lyn trades her vulnerary to Sain, who then heals himself.
EP: Sain draws in a samurai and three nomads. Florina and Eli continue to fight the reinforcements.

Turn 5: Raven, Oswin, and Sain help clear out the enemies near Uhai's position. Eliwood kills another pirate.
EP: More reinforcement killing. And some more nomads attack Lyn and Sain.

Turn 6: Lyn and Raven take out two of the remaining nomads. Oswin throws a hand axe at the boss, but misses. Canas gets ferried southward by Bartre and Fiora.
EP: Not much happens here.

Turn 7: Lyn chips at Uhai with the MK. Canas chips at the nomad. Raven kills Uhai.

Turns Taken: 7/78

Ending Thoughts:
Raven just needs a couple more levels so he can cap crucial stats in preparation for his promotion.

Eli is 'starting' to catch up, but how soon I can get him to a competent level remains to be seen, especially considering that I need the levels of my lordlings to add up to 50 by a certain map.

Unit Levels: 
Name       Level   HP SM SK SP LK DF RS CN Weapon Level
Hector     13/ 0   31 16 11  9  9 17  3 13 Axe A
Eliwood     8/ 0   25 10 11 12 10  8  4  7 Swd B
Lyn        14/ 0   34 12 17 19 13  5  5  5 Swd A
Matthew    11/ 0   24  7  7 17  8  4  2  7 Swd C
Serra       5/ 0   19  5  6 11  9  2  8  4 Stf B
Oswin      18/ 2   42 22 16  9  7 23 14 16 Lnc A/Axe D
Bartre     10/ 0   37 15 10 10  5 11  1 13 Axe B
Priscilla   5/ 0   18  8  7  8  8  3  7  4 Stf C
Sain       12/ 0   30 16  8 13  8 12  3  9 Swd D/Lnc B
Florina    10/ 0   22  9 15 17 13  6  9  4 Lnc C  
Raven      11/ 0   35 17 17 19  6  9  3  8 Swd C  
Lucius      7/ 0   20 11  6 13  3  2 10  6 Lgt C 
Canas      11/ 0   24 13 11 11  8  6  9  7 Drk B 
Dart        8/ 0   34 12  8  8  3  6  1 10 Axe B
Fiora       7/ 0   21  8 11 13  6  6  7  5 Lnc C

Supports: None

Swag List:
Torch (staff)
Torch
Light
Orion bolt

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ITT I Play Hector Hard Mode (part 10)

Chapter 18: WE ARE

Units Deployed:
Hector, Lyn, Oswin, Raven, Bartre, Priscilla, Canas, Matthew

New Units:
None

Chapter Summary:
Another defense map, with the secondary objective of killing the turd named Zoldam. While powering one's way to the boss is relatively easy, even without Marcus, the boss himself is quite threatening, wielding a 15 atk, 26 crit Luna book that negates resistance. At this point in the game, a Luna crit will OHKO pretty much anybody one has without a doubt, so watch out for that.

There are also some nice items to steal here, in particular the elysian whip held by one of the starting pegasus knights to the northwest of the player's start point and the celestial ring that is held by the boss, so look out for those.

Also, the shoppes located on the central boat are the last shoppes that the player can visit before Chapter 21, so make sure to stock up. I decided to sell the lucky charm and one of the secret books to garner enough cash to buy what I need.

Turn By Turn Analysis:
Turn 1: Oswin and Lyn each chip a mercenary for Raven and Canas to kill. Hector kills a dark mage. Bartre parks himself in the range of two pegs.
EP: Hector kills another dark mage. Bartre kills a pegasus knight. Oswin chips one of the mercs on the E boat. Lyn dodges an archer.

Turn 2: Matt steals the elysian whip from the peg,w ho is then killed by Bartre. Lyn kills the archer she wss attacked by last round while Hector kills one of the pegs. Priscilla heals Raven, who then kills the archer. Oswin kills the E shaman. Canas kills the merc that Oswin weakened.
EP: Oswin kills the longsword merc and chips a second merc. Canas chips another one of the mercs while the rest of the enemies attack Hector.

Turn 3: I take out the remaining mercenaries on the central boat with Bartre, Canas, and Raven. Lyn and Hector move in to board the W boat.
EP: Hector chips one of the nosferatu dark mages, and fails to counter because I forgot to put his other hand axe in the second slot.

Turn 4: Matt kills the dark mage that Hector chipped. Canas enters the shoppe and buys four hand axes and two javelins, as well as one more of each steel weapon. Hector takes out the second dark mage.
EP: Oswin kills the armor cutter samurai. Hector kills another dark mage.

Turn 5: Hector and Bartre kill two of the peg reinforcements. The rest of my party heads for the boss.
EP: Hector kills both of the shaman reinforcements. Bartre and Oswin kill more peg reinforcements.

Turn 6: Matt steals the celestial ring and gets picked up by Priscilla. Canas runs into the vendor and buys two heal staves and a light book. Raven kills the boss.

Turns Taken: 6/71

Ending Thoughts:
Bartre and Canas have both reached Lv10, thereby making them eligible for promotion, but I'm actually going to wait a bit before either of them promote.

As for Raven, he's almost Lv9, and managed to get a couple of defense procs on the side, which is kind of nice.

Oh, and if it means anything, Oswin reached D axes.

Unit Levels:
Name       Level   HP SM SK SP LK DF RS CN Weapon Level
Hector     13/ 0   31 16 11  9  9 17  3 13 Axe A
Eliwood     6/ 0   23  9  9 10  9  8  3  7 Swd B
Lyn        13/ 0   33 12 16 18 13  5  5  5 Swd A
Matthew    10/ 0   24  7  7 17  8  4  2  7 Swd C
Serra       5/ 0   19  5  6 11  9  2  8  4 Stf B
Oswin      18/ 2   42 22 16  9  7 23 14 16 Lnc A/Axe D
Bartre     10/ 0   37 15 10 10  5 11  1 13 Axe C
Priscilla   4/ 0   17  7  7  8  7  3  6  4 Stf C
Sain       11/ 0   29 15  8 13  6 12  3  9 Swd D/Lnc C
Kent        9/ 0   26  9 11 14  2  7  5  9 Swd C/Lnc D
Florina     9/ 0   21  9 14 16 12  6  9  4 Lnc C  
Raven       8/ 0   32 14 15 17  4  8  3  8 Swd C  
Lucius      6/ 0   19 10  6 12  2  2  9  6 Lgt C  
Canas      10/ 0   23 12 10 10  7  5  9  7 Drk B

Supports: None

Swag List:
Longsword
Flux
Elysian whip
Celestial ring

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