{"id":47,"date":"2012-05-11T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stackofshame.com\/blog\/?p=47"},"modified":"2012-05-13T16:15:58","modified_gmt":"2012-05-13T21:15:58","slug":"final-fantasy-the-farmer-of-destiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stackofshame.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/final-fantasy-the-farmer-of-destiny\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Fantasy: The Farmer of Destiny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I seem to have overestimated my characters&#8217; levels.<\/p>\n<p>That is at least according to the magic shopkeepers in Melmond, the aforementioned town that was trashed by a vampire. They won&#8217;t sell me level 5 spells because my levels are <em>too low<\/em>. It&#8217;s possible that this game is going to get much harder as I go.<\/p>\n<p>Also in Melmond was a guy who told me simply, &#8220;I&#8217;m just a farmer.&#8221; <em>Holy shit.<\/em>\u00a0Good to know, dude.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stackofshame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Photo-May-10-6-51-10-PM.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-74\" title=\"I'm just a farmer.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stackofshame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Photo-May-10-6-51-10-PM-300x165.jpg?resize=300%2C165\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stackofshame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Photo-May-10-6-51-10-PM.jpg?resize=300%2C165&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stackofshame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Photo-May-10-6-51-10-PM.jpg?resize=1024%2C566&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stackofshame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Photo-May-10-6-51-10-PM.jpg?resize=500%2C276&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stackofshame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Photo-May-10-6-51-10-PM.jpg?w=1168&amp;ssl=1 1168w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stackofshame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Photo-May-10-6-51-10-PM.jpg?w=1752&amp;ssl=1 1752w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My head spinning with the knowledge that this guy was a farmer, I headed west to find a cave called &#8220;Giant&#8217;s Cave.&#8221; There I found (you&#8217;ll never guess) a GIANT. This giant did its best Gandalf impression, informing me that I couldn&#8217;t pass. He didn&#8217;t give me a reason. He just bellowed that I shall not pass. Someone in Melmond mentioned that I need to feed it rocks or gems. So I guess I&#8217;ll come back later.<\/p>\n<p>I headed south and was ambushed by some ghouls and ghasts. They paralyzed all my characters and beat up on them for a few minutes. Finally Yurto snapped out of it and blew the shit out of them with a Fira spell. It was at this point that I decided that it was Yurto who had the 100-yard stare, whose wife had been eaten by a goddamn unicorn. The things he&#8217;s seen\u2026 Dark shit, son. It changes a man.<\/p>\n<p>Then I found the Cavern of Earth.\u00a0I&#8217;ve played part of this game before (it&#8217;s in the stack of shame, right?), and I remember something from this cave. There&#8217;s a section on the first level, to the west, where you get into a fight with every step. You get a good amount of gold and xp for each fight. So I&#8217;m going to do that for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I&#8217;d be remiss if I didn&#8217;t mention the dwarf I met in Melmond:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_82\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stackofshame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Photo-May-10-6-51-52-PM.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-82\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-82\" title=\"I\u2026 what?\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stackofshame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Photo-May-10-6-51-52-PM-300x168.jpg?resize=300%2C168\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stackofshame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Photo-May-10-6-51-52-PM.jpg?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stackofshame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Photo-May-10-6-51-52-PM.jpg?resize=1024%2C574&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stackofshame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Photo-May-10-6-51-52-PM.jpg?resize=500%2C280&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stackofshame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Photo-May-10-6-51-52-PM.jpg?w=1168&amp;ssl=1 1168w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stackofshame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Photo-May-10-6-51-52-PM.jpg?w=1752&amp;ssl=1 1752w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-82\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ah dunnae woot the fook yea be say&#39;n, Snaezae.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I seem to have overestimated my characters&#8217; levels. That is at least according to the magic shopkeepers in Melmond, the aforementioned town that was trashed by a vampire. They won&#8217;t sell me level 5 spells because my levels are too &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stackofshame.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/final-fantasy-the-farmer-of-destiny\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,16,9,8],"tags":[10,12,11,13],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-final-fantasy","category-final-fantasy-i","category-playstation-portable","category-roleplaying-games","tag-final-fantasy-2","tag-playstation-portable-2","tag-psp","tag-roleplaying-game"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stackofshame.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stackofshame.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stackofshame.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stackofshame.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stackofshame.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/stackofshame.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"https:\/\/stackofshame.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stackofshame.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stackofshame.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stackofshame.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}