i've been breaking glass in your room again

[muladhara]

I accidentally gained two levels doing a sidequest in The Last Remnant, and I think that that actually helped a bit with the final portion of The Seven!

(Also I was expecting a part of it to be difficult-ish, and it wasn't at all, which was a relief as three large fights (two of them actual boss fights) without saving is incredibly mean, and if I'd have died at that point, I think I would've screamed and thrown the controller out of the window).

(Thankfully, that did not happen).

I think it was appropriate that Rush got the final hit in that took down Colossus. Given that it was his summon and everything.

Then I did the next boss fight after that (oy, seven boss fights in a row is blerrrrrgggghhhh), but that went way easier than the preceding six. Which was something of a relief.

I feel like I am near the end of the game now. I don't know for sure, but I sort of hope I am, just from the POV of finishing a game. I've been trying to beat this one for nearly six months, this is ridiculous!

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Jackie bought me a present!

We both drink herbal teas (she more than me, and it's the only kind of tea I will drink). Last week when I was at her house, she was telling me about this one she bought that smells exactly like fireball jawbreakers*. She made me a cup of it, and it was lovely.

Anyway, I went round there today because I needed to get out of the house, and I also took her some chai teas (because her kids drink it as well as her, so there's never any in, but I had some spare). It turned out she'd bought me a whole box of the fireball teas! Which was really nice of her!

(She thought it was hilarious that we swapped teas).

Which was a nice thing, because I've had a fairly bad day for one reason and another. Which continued to get worse when I thought my phone had reset itself! It hadn't, luckily. What it had done was switched to the guest account, all by itself (I think I put it back in my pocket without locking it) and I didn't realise it. I was all set to write an angry email to Sony, too! I don't know why my phone has user accounts - it seems like a really weird thing to me. I sorted it out, eventually.

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*I suspect these are a UK only sweet? I used to love eating these when I was a kid. Fireballs are my faves, then the sour ones (I love sour sweets). These are gobstoppers with bubble gum in the middle. Though they never stopped my gob for long.

Comments

[the_rck]

We have things we call fireball jawbreakers here in Michigan, but they do not have gum in the middle. They're just mouth burning cinnamon all the way down. The ones I've seen in the last decade have all been very small compared to what I remember from my childhood in the 1970s. I'm not sure if that's because they're meant for giving out at Halloween (most of those candies are smaller than the usual run).

[worlds_of_smoke]

Yup, those fireballs are a US thing, too. :) Love them to death.

[muladhara]

I think I know the ones you mean, and I think we get them here, too. And I think they're smaller than they used to be (I stg all the sweets I ever ate are smaller than they used to be, and it's not just because I'm bigger now).

Ooh, I never twigged that Hallowe'en sweets were smaller! What a swizz.

[airchord]

I found you searching the digital devil saga tag and I like reading your stuff! We like a lot of same games so can I add you?

[muladhara]

Thank you! Of course you can add me, that's fine.

(I need to replay DDS, it's my favourite Megaten and I can't remember much about it :( )

[airchord]

It's my favorite too! Why can't it come to PS4 already...

[muladhara]

I think the SMT games get shafted sometimes ¬_¬

[airchord]

More like every time lol. But maybe with Golden Week coming up there'll be some SMT game sales on the vita. *dusts it off*

[helvetica]

aw it's so sweet when people make kind gestures like that! I definitely had those jawbreakers around when I was a kid in Canada, I loved them!

[muladhara]

They are the best. I've been on a mission to find some ever since for old times' sake :D

[kehleyr]

(She thought it was hilarious that we swapped teas). Quite a sweet idea actually :-D.

[muladhara]

It is, rather. And it was all completely by accident!