So, here we are at the fair. Not much for something the whole kingdom... ah! Here's a unique sprite calling himself a swordsmith named Melchior. Let's see what he's ...oh, silly me. Of course he wouldn't have anything we can afford from beating up birds and mushrooms. He says he Up a screen and we crash into a girl in the most unconvincing manner that sixteen bits will lives on an eastern continent. Might be important once we get a means of transportation. allow. We crash so hard, in fact, that the pendant that I will assume was tied around her neck goes flying off. MAKE SURE you talk to the girl before even looking at the pendant, this will be important later.
Well, you pick up the pendant anyway and hand it to her. She wants to tag along for this festival and we input her name. Obviously a PC. Her name is Marna.
Her stats are much more magically inclined than Tempo's, which will start to matter when the game bothers to give magic to us. There is a waterdrop next to portrait on the equipment screen, by the way. She uses bowguns, which depend on accuracy, not strength. I suppose it makes no sense for bowguns to increase in power with the users strength.
There is a cat on the far left of the screen. Bring it to the girl on the far right. Don't ask why, just do it.
Go to the upper right and you find people dressed as cavemen dancing. They call it "prehistoric" but it must be made up, since no one could remember a dance for tens of thousands of years (at the least).
Return to the earlier screen, try to go up, and Marna wants candy. Do not move at all while she's doing this. Afterwards, talk to Tusca and she shows off her transportation machine without a hitch. Talk to Marna and the second trial goes off significantly less hitchless. Her pendant reacts to the procedure and she gets sucked into some blue hole in space. Since this game this not be less than an hour long, you pick up the pendant and do the same machine accident.
after fighting some imps and finding treasure along the way (including a Power Glove, of all things), we come to the same continent we were before, but with slightly different land and a lot more fog. Might be good to buy some stuff at the market while we're at it.
Go through the forest (past a source of infinite shelters if you're patient/masochistic enough) to the castle. There, we meet a queen exactly... okay, IS Marna, that's pretty obvious. She tells us as much when we meet up in the right tower. Then the screen gets green before Marna bounces a lot before disintegrating.
Go downstairs and Tusca meets up us, having apparently taken the same ride here. She explains a theory of hers: Marna is the descendant of the real queen, Leene. Her family's genes were remarkably similar enough over the generations that she was confused for her ancestor. It's likely that her ancestor was kidnapped, with the search being called off when Marna showed up. Thus, Leene likely died and Marna got paradoxed away by never being born.
Tusca joins up. Like Marna, her stats are magically oriented and she uses weapons (guns) that use accuracy. Shame, since her accuracy will end up FAR lower than anyone's strength. Unlike Marna, there is a fire next to her portrait.
And with that, it's off to save the queen (and, by extension, Marna)!
