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-	Octopath Traveler Ophilia FAQ
+	Octopath Traveler Cyrus FAQ
 
-Q: Why are you running Ophilia?
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-A: Idk, she was who I chose for my first playthrough, so I figured I'd give her a go first. I'll move onto other characters afterwards probably, I don't know which route will be the most fun without actually mapping them out.
+A: As you might be able to guess from the splits; Get, Tressa, Therion, Alfyn, and then beat up Cyrus'story.
 
 Q: Why those characters in particular?
-A: As you might be able to guess from the splits; Get Cyrus, Tressa, Therion, and then beat up Ophilia's story.
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 1) Evasive Maneuvers - A Support skill for scholar that reduces encounters
 2) Merchant(s) - The Hired Help skill is just insanely good for blasting through at low levels, does far more damage than anything else
 3) Money - To actually use Hired Help
 So Cyrus gets the first, Tressa obv the second. Therion is there also because Armor Corrosive to reduce defense helps a bunch too, and picking up purple chests for extra cash also helps a lot. Alfyn rounds out the party, simply because he's along the way and fast, and Concoct is a little bit helpful for the final boss.
 
 Q: Could you not use less than 4 characters?
-So Cyrus gets the first, Tressa obv the second. Therion is there also because Armor Corrosive to reduce defense helps a bunch too, and picking up purple chests for extra cash also helps a lot.
+A: Yeah, you could. Skipping Alfyn is definitely possible. But I really don't think it's faster. The final boss especially, while about as consistent, just takes so much longer with 3 chars.
 
 Q: Do you get any jobs for the characters?
-A: Yeah, you could. Say get Scholar and give it to Ophilia and skip Cyrus, the problem is that it'd not only be riskier by far, but at the moment I don't think it'd be faster either. You just lose so much by sacrificing any of the other 3.
+A: Yeah, a few. Merchant (for Alfyn), Warrior (for Tressa), and Hunter (for Cyrus).
 
 Q: What the hard part of this run?
-A: Only Merchant, for Ophilia. There are other fairly quick ones you can get for safety, but I'm skipping all the others for now.
+A: Yvon, the chap 3 boss is easily the worst. Lucia (chap 4 boss) can kill you also if you don't have a character that isn't Cyrus go before her Turn 1, but after that it's not bad at all. Whereas Yvon almost always has his two Research Fellow get an attack off, and if they both choose Tornado it's super over. Even one choosing tornado generally ends the run depending on who dies as a result.
 
 Q: Why are you resetting the game/going in and out of an encounter
 A: This resets the encounter count. Basically the way encounters work (this may not be true at all, but it's how I understand it) is that there's a counter that starts at some given number (say 80 or something) and every step you take, counts down, and if it hits zero you'd get an encounter. But exiting a map, whether it be by entering a new area or resetting, or stupidly by triggering an optional boss but not starting the fight, resets the count, so another encounter won't show up for a long while.
 
 Q: So encounters can be completely controlled?
 A: Nah, the number chosen is still random, so it might be 60, might be 80. Having evasive maneuvers reduces the amount you get drastically, but there are plenty of places in the run where sometimes you'll get an encounter, and sometimes you won't.
 
 Q: What's WR?
 A: https://www.speedrun.com/octopath | See: Splits
 
 Q: Planning on doing other categories?
-A: Yeah maybe, idk which though. There's 9 good categories for this game (Ignore All Main and All First, those are shit), but full game won't be something I look unless I do all the other 8. I could def see myself doing some other chars after this, but remains to be seen.
+A: I'm running this game at PAX (https://horaro.org/asmpax2018/schedule), so preparing for that (bidwar between the Ophilia/Cyrus/Alfyn, so working on those 3).
 
 Q: What's goal time?
 A: Any PB would be really nice.