Replay

Okay, so went back, redid the Junon Send-off and managed not to totally crap out. By that I mean I got the HP+ materia I wanted from it. I actually had to sit tight part way through and not do the final move because I'd racked up 70 points already and my walkthrough says the materia is 60-90 mood points.

I also prodded Jenova again (as in the cheat program I have) and it decided to save properly. Yes I'm a brat for cheating but I hate running out of gil, besides, it will make things easier if I can buy a lifetime pass at Gold Saucer first off.
I don't know if the attempt to test the Master All thing saved but if it did, I won't keep that save - for now. It makes life more interesting to level the materia up legitimately. I may use Jenova to master materia later in the game, when I put the Huge materia to use, but now right now.

So... Gold Saucer, the Desert Prison and Barret's boyfriend Dyne, then back to the Eastern Continent for some extra levelling up and the mythril for Great Gospel, back to Gold Saucer to work at getting Omnislash, then on to Gongaga.


Observation of the Day: Grangalans are very good AP fodder if one can get them to open up and spit out all the Jr.s (there's four, Jr is half-size, the Jr Jr.s are quarter). This becomes even better when one has double AP equipment in usage because if one can prod the thing into spitting out all the Jr.s it can mean a total of 72 AP for the materia equipped in the double AP equipment.

Grangalan: 10 AP
With Grangalan Jr.: 18 AP
With the Jr Jr.s: 36 AP

Damn good fodder for materia levelling, so long as the team members fighting the Grangalan don't kill it in one blow before it can open up.

Sephiroth

So, after giving that information overload I read some thought, I have come to see a way through the issue of Sephiroth to allow for reserection fics in my mind.

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