Wildbow Poaching
In an older post I talked about how I managed to squeeze the awesomeness that is Final Fantasy Tactics onto my not-so-awesome netbook in all it's glory. I've been playing it on and off ever since - in the past two days I've been playing it pretty much non-stop. Once you get passed the first few battles you're imagination when it comes to team building makes the game highly addictive. I wouldn't be surprised if I was reaching double-digits on my game completion count in this little gem but I still run into hiccups here and there. Today, I ran into a rather big one. If you're not some kind of Final Fantasy Tactics idiot savant you can ignore the next few paragraphs. If you are, kudos and weep with me brother.
It's important to note that I'm kind of a purist when it comes to this game. I want all the special characters (including Rad, Alicia, and Lavian), all the special abilities, and all the unique equipment. This leads to a lot of second-guessing and hair-pullery.
Problem the First: For whatever reason, I thought that you had an extra character slot in your roster for another generic. I attribute this to the fact that I was ignorant on how to obtain special characters in my young, foolish days. So, I did what any self-respecting tactian would do - I went strait to the Soldier Office and picked up the first 80+ Brave, Scorpio, renamed him after myself, and molded him into an amazing soldier who stole the Genji gear from the Silver Ogre, one of many amazing feats of awesomeness. I started to notice things getting a little cramped when I picked up Meliadoul after absolutely handing it to Zalera and his posse of undead warriors. I counted two, not one, two, characters yet to be added to my roster. Stupid Byblos. So long super king Secret Hunt / Steal ninja thief. You will be missed. This also ties into my second problem.
Problem the Second: I want all the rare items. All of them. Even the shitty ones. Even the ones that you'll never touch because a superior version exists. Even the FS Bag. What's the FS Bag you say? Never heard of it you say? Well, it's pretty much the holy grail of uselessness in Final Fantasy Tactics. There is a beast in this game that is so rare that you never, ever see one in a random battle or a story battle. The only way to see the majesty that is the Wildbow is to breed one of it's lesser siblings, Uribo or Porky. Unfortunately for me, in all my infinite wisdom, I forgot to pick one up in the one story battle and the one hidden battle before Deep Dungeon: END which is where you pig up the afformentioned stupid Byblos. This means that my asexual little Uribos won't have any room to do the dirty. The only solution is a random battle somewhere that has the little piggies.
I scowered the internet for this shread of information that I thought would be quite easy to get. Eventually, I stumbled onto a forum post that made me laugh. A person with the user name fahrenheit had the exact same problem as me, to the tee. What made me laugh was that it was me. I am fahrenheit. Or I was Fahrneheit. Two years ago I posted a message asking for help out of the very situation I'm in today. Unluckily for me, everyone in the forum was utterly useless. Luckily for me, I had responded to my post in that forum with a solution. There was a random battle with an Uribo.I'm just going to throw this information out there on the nets - maybe it'll help some lost fahrenheit one day.
In the late stages of the game, you can still get an Uribos by entering Dolbodar Swamp from the Bethla Garrison pass. This is only helpful for poaching Ribbons and FS Bags before you've gotten the Byblos or Cloud if you want to keep all special characters.
Update: It took me about two hours to get my hands on my first FS Bag ever. It's just as lame as I expected. On the other hand, I now have more ribbons than I will ever need. Here are some pictures I snapped during the ordeal.
This is a tale as old as time, a group of soldiers trying to stop needless blood shed run into a pig who walks on two legs and save him from a group of young squires accompanied by a bull demon. Needlees to say, lighting and holy light was used. Afterwards, the same team that saved the pig allowed it to asexually reproduce and evolve into a new species. This new species was slaughtered to make pretty ribbons and bags for women. And they lived happily ever after.