[FEF: Verdant Wings ((OoC/Signups))]

 

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Name: Droth Touchwood

Appearance: Sandy-brown hair, tattered green cloak over a faded grey tunic. Young-ish face with a scar, brown eyes.

Class: Drifter / Scavenger/ Bounty Hunter

Character Skill: Cancel

Tarot Card: (This will affect affinity, please do not pick this when creating your character. This will be done later.)

Personal Flaw: Lone Wolf – If the character is within 3 spaces of three or more Allied units, -15 evasion. People all around me? I just – I’m uneasy, that’s all!

Personal Skill: (Drifter) Spotting the Flaw - +2 damage against enemy units that attacked an ally during the previous enemy phase. My eyes are good - and your defense isn't.

Personal Skill: (Scavenger) Last Drop – When the character's HP are less the 50%, all healing items resore an additional +5 HP. You learn to make everything count.

Preferred Stats: Speed, Luck

Weapon Proficiency: Hidden (E) , Iron Knife

Level: 1

Total Level: 1

Progression Spent: 330/330

HP: 18 (50%)

STR: 4 (45%)

MAG: 2 (25%) +1

SKL:  4 (40%)

LCK: 3 (40%)

DEF:  1 (35%)

RES:  2 (25%) +1

SPD:  6 (70%) +2
MOV: 5

CON; 4

AID: 3

 

[[Warning: Major Spoiler] Let's Talk About That Branching Path]

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I wouldn't call either path 'right' or 'wrong' because they're both wrong. The term for a situation like this is a zuzwang. The player is forced to make a binary choice, and with both outcomes being negatives. On the one side, you've got death for a character who (arguably) didn't deserve it. On the other side, you get a very hollow shell of emotional interactions. I feel that the point a lot of people are missing is that there was never a clear 'good' choice - and if there were, there wouldn't be any debate about it. This episode is quite clear that decisions have consequences, and occasionally you're forced to choose the 'lesser of two evils', to say. Now, which evil was the worst evil? Well, that's hard to say, and if you want to argue from an idealistic perspective,which decision was correct, then the contents of E17 don't actually matter. In a way, this dichotomy was perfect for the Taka decision, because there's demonstrably no 'golden ending'.

 

[[Warning: Major Spoiler] Let's Talk About That Branching Path]

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Happens to be, I wasn't thinking in either Titania or Radomus mode at the time, I was thinking in Firebug Charlotte mode. I opted to fight Taka for two reasons. The first being that Taka is easily the weakest link in Team Meteor, so I'd rather have someone like him inside the organization than outside, especially considering the fact that it seemed everyone in Team Meteor was abandoning it or getting Dragonited / Aegislashed / Chadenlured to death. The last thing that was needed was a small elite team of the competent Meteors. No, that would be bad. I elected to set into motion a course of events which would keep Taka within Meteor. Hopefully to bring in down from within later, whether he works up the nerve to do something, or just fails to do it out of sheer apathy.

Also, second reason I fought Taka. The guy saved my life back in the trap with his Chatot, and he asked politely. I owed him that favor.

 

Also, just an analysis, the second path (not fight Taka) is far more the true 'fairy tale' than the first. True fairy tales seldom have happy endings, though it seems the first choice isn't one either. It's either an illusion of a happy ending, or the truth that it isn't. Now, in fairy tales, often there is the illusion of the happy ending, but there's always a price to pay for it. Rumpelstiltskin, for example. Certain variations of Cinderella. The Little Mermaid (Hans Christian Anderson's original version). A lot of fairy tales have a point where everything looks perfect, but then there's a price to be paid. As things stands, the second ending would be the end of a fairy tail, probably one starring Taka. The first ending might be a happy ending. Or, far more likely if any of Titania's motifs are anything to go by, it'll get far darker than the second in later episodes.

 

[That very long quest line.. [E17]]

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Train town, deep within the desert. Past all the train puzzles.

EDIT: The name of the town is 'Train town'. Fun little place. Though I haven't found him after I've beaten him (you get the Magikarp, don't worry)

 

[Fire Emblem on the Forums: Prelude of Chaos [Reroll OOC/Sign-Up]]

By my count, we've got seven already, so I'll throw in for the eighth in this ring.

 

Forum Name: Mogget
Preferred Character: (which character would you want the most.) : Kayde, Myrmidon; Karlos, Knight
Least preferred Character: Liilie, Archer
Favorite Fire Emblem Character/Characters: Ephraim, Legault, Merric
Your Favorite Fire Emblem Class/Classes: Thieves, Swordmasters, Peg. Knights

[Pokemon in Space [Interest Check]]

This looks interesting. Out of curiosity, if I have a decent understanding of physics, can I abuse it considering that these battles are occurring in space?

If so, peg me as interested. If not, still peg me as interested.

[Spolers: E!6 prophecy]

So, I'm a little late to this discussion, but I have something very interesting to add that I think no one mentioned.

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Take a look at this prophecy again. If we rearrange the lines to match their grammar, we get the following two lines.

"Shining armor strikes, Azure hair is re-dyed red.
An enemy of his own blood stands before him, And beaded hope breaks apart upon the tattered stones of a city forced to live up to its name once again."

In other words, the 'enemy of his blood' is connected to 'beaded hope'. So, if 'beaded hope' is Fern, then 'enemy of his blood' is, in fact, Florina. That makes 'Shining armor' most likely Titania, meaning the graduating class of Gym leaders seemed to be allied against Fern / protagonist. This is very weird.

 

 

[I'm here for the lore ... though I guess the difficulty is nice too.]

And by 'nice difficulty', I mean 'hard to the point of barely manageable'. Eh, I'm getting ahead of myself. I am Mogget, and as the name implies, I'm a huge fan of fantasy in general. Video games which involved the enslavement partnering to fire/water/ice/a lot of other stuff-breathing monsters is even better, doubly so when the game is difficult. I only recently discovered this hack, and I'm (somewhat) blown away by it. I am mostly here for lore discussions though, which received a lot of hints from the Crystal Ball quest in E16. Potential plot spoilers below.

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You know, the quest that implies that Anna made a wish upon Jirachi to bring the PC into existence, and Fern (of all people!) was the hero before you existed. That one.

So, if someone can point me in the direction of that, it would be appreciated.

Oh, and if anyone does get all the Old Kingdom references my account is making, I don't intend to keep it up. I just like giving a theme to my online accounts.