Ship Graveyard

It wasn't that she minded trudging through underwater hallways of partly sunken ships. In fact, she had been the one who taunted the three landlubbers about if they were daring enough to walk those ways. The water was cold and salty, and the waterlogged battered wood was dreadful for a sea-farer like her to see, but she was alive and determined to stay that way. And it wasn't that they had to fight the corpses of old sailors down here. That was to be expected, as some sea dogs never wanted to leave their vessel, with the exception of trips to a bar for rum. No, her problem right now was that water tended to make clothing stick to a body and these three still believed her to be a man.

Faris did have her little tricks to keep her male image. She could get through a short dunking in the water and being out on deck during a downpour. Between a water-resistant overcoat, wrapping her chest to keep her breasts down, and maintaining a gender-neutral appearance, she could handle most situations on the high seas. But this water was cold and the hallways were long. The overcoat could only take so much.

Somewhere in the water ahead, she spotted something that wasn't right. There seemed to be a shape in the water that moved out of sync with the normal flow. She put her hand on Reina's shoulder. "Watch yerself, miss," she said. "Thar be crystal slugs ahead; they look like the water, but ain't."

"Oh?" She looked around, soon finding the one. "Is that it?" She held her hand up, causing a yellow glow to form. Then a bolt of lightning shot through the slug Faris had seen and two more beyond it. While it didn't kill them, it caused their skin to turn a bit whiter, making them more noticeable.

"Aye," Faris said, finishing them off with her broadsword.

Bartz helped her defeat the other two. "You know, I've heard stories about other worlds where you can't walk and talk underwater at all," he said. "It's much easier to drown there."

"Is that so?" Faris asked. "Sounds mighty inconvenient."

"Other worlds?" Galuf asked, sounding confused again.

"They're just stories," Bartz said.

"Right, right." But the old man acted absent-minded and distracted after that.

Not used to having a character with pirate-talk. Anyhow, the Ship Graveyard is a neat dungeon, traveling through parts of partly-submerged ships to get to shore. Odd for an early-game dungeon, but FFV does have nice dungeons. I would have said the passages were half filled with water, but then I noticed that you go downstairs several times during the underwater halls part. Those have to be completely full.

Somebody needs to recruit this bunch for Blitzball!