![[0253] Badly Equipped](/comics/2011-03-14-0253-badly-equipped.png "[0253] Badly Equipped")
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- ???: YOWL
- ???: RAAAAAA
- Larisa: Better equip some fireball materia, Cloud.
- Cloud: Materia doesn’t actually exist, Larisa.
- Larisa: Better equip some assault rifles, Cloud.
- Cloud: I could equip a Swiss army knife.
- Larisa: …
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Congrats AckAckAck, you were right with that part. Now can Cloud save them with either a tree branch or a swiss army knife?
Wait wait, someone’s predictions might have come true with the whole “hits bear and bear attacks them” thing…
… Let’s see who will beat up the bear first. Or if their teacher(?) gets eaten first. XD
True heroism is not a matter of equipment.
We’ll see how good they are at tree climbing
I don’t want to appear nitpicky and it’s been quite a while since I played FFVII, but I don’t think there is a Fireball Materia, isn’t it just called “Fire”?
Cloud:
Attack, Magic, Summon, Item, Run. These are your options.
Wait, what do you MEAN materia doesn’t actually exist?!?!?!?
Whatever needs to be done, it should be done quicky and efficiently beofre they find themselves in a very bad situation
Uh…Should we be worried about Sandra? She hasn’t shown up since the crash. We even saw Woo already.
Larissa’s Cell Phone Toss has done 96 damage!
Mysterious Creature is enraged!
Equip fire belt of the pacific… no, wait, last time I used that almost kill myself
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Ow
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@ Belgabor:
you have to equip fire materia in order to cast fire
Did Larissa just bean Charles Christopher with her cellphone?
I’m sure they will be fine. Sure for most people, “Equiped for bear” means having a couple large guns and plenty of ammo, but for Cloud I’m sure the switchblade is good. Hell, knowing him a toothpick would probally be enough.
Though it could be really scary if it wasn’t a bear. I mean for all we know Larisa just threw that to a downsteam location where Sandra just dragged herself out of the River of Doom just in time to get bonked in the head. She would be all by herself because that chaperone of course rescues the “9” instead of the “5”, cold, wet, hungry and now has a headache. Needless to say, at this point she is pissed and Cloud would be better off equiped with some Flowers Materia and Chocolate +2 if he knows what is good for them.
The “thing” doesn’t know who threw the cell phone, so wouldn’t they be safe? I hope…
@ Blitzkrieg1701:
The universe is made of pure energy…AND nachos,deal with it!XD
cloud: materia doesn’t actually exist,larisa
*next part* somehow they encounter a bunch of materia
cloud: okay i stand corrected
larisa: I TOLD YOU IT WAS REAL!!!!
You called it! Now see what you did AckAckAck! XD
Also:
Masterwork Swiss Army Knife:
Dmg: 1d4+1 Piercing
Crit: 19-20/x2
+4 to all Survival checks >_>
brb, sorting my Materia 😛
@someone
Swiss army knife is masterwork so it gets another +1 I say a tree branch would do better let me tell you why. *pulls out rulebooks*
Davey crockett killed a bar when he was only three. . . should be no problem for cloud, right? 😉
Does anyone else had videogame verbiage sneak into real life conversations?
And what did she expect him to equip it to, anyway? Materia can only be equipped to weapons and armor, which they seem to be fresh out of at the moment.
That’s what you get for not going to the town shop before the mission.
@ myth buster:
Does a Swiss army knife have any materia slots?
Can’t swing a dead phone any more without hitting something deadly. Especially if you’re Larissa.
You know, the fact that Cloud is under-equipped even after his mom TOLD him not to wander off into a dungeon without first double-checking his equipment…
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This makes Cloud, on the “adventure preparedness” scale, approximately as smart as Wil E. Coyote… XD
Except that he’s smart enough not to tempt fate with the words “Cloud… Suuuuuuuuper genius…”
I think that Larissa found (and enraged ) Sandra. : ) Or maybe Woo.
Hmm. It appears that someone in the forest agrees with my earlier comment that it’s a bad idea to (illegally) litter the forest with toxics-leaking cell phones.
Anyone remember what Cloud was able to do with a plastic knife from the cafeteria?
Poor beast doesn’t have a chance.
@ DrkFire666:
Yuffie had a super ball, Cid had a mop and Cloud had a baseball bat with nails sticking out of it, but they did not have any materia slots. So I guess joke weapons don’t have them.
Though the nailbat WAS absurdly strong for that point of the game.
This is where Woo busts out some of his “Coon-fu” on dat creature’s behind! 😀
It’s just like Larisa to tell Cloud to equip something which could burn the forest down. Also i think Cloud will be ok with just the swiss army knife. I mean the owned the bully with just a plastic knife so just imagine what he could do with a metal blade.
Well, Zack Fair fought off monsters with a parasol so I think a swiss army knife will serve good as well.
All this means is cloud reaches his break limit faster. Poor bear…. cloudbuster with a swiss army knife is absolutely brutal 😛
@ Sir Chaos:
Though it never hurts to be well equipped. Especially around a girl like Larisa. (Sorry, had to say it even if it is slightly disturbing.) Canopy of trees obscuring the trajectory of the cell phone and no scent trail from it being formerly airborne. They should be fine unless a little bird decides to blab.
Random wrote:
Only as long as they are downwind from whatever it is. If they’re upwind, it can probably smell’em.
SlopDoggy wrote:
Beat me to it. Whatever it is, Woo will probably just eat it.
Has Larissa broken the world record? ‘Cause if whatever she hit gets them, at least she copped it having achieved something…
Swiss Army Knife? Is this where we find out that their ‘guide’ is actually Richard Dean Anderson (MacGyver) in disguise and he builds an anti-tank gun from the raft debris, a log, six leaves, L’s lighter, Cloud’s shoe lace and approximately half a dozen acorns?
@ Chochi:
Hey Chochi, can I move to your world? Mine is made with luke warm, lumpy oatmeal.
The problem with Swiss Army knives is that there is no army in the knife. So I would suggest you equip your running shoes guys.
Where is Sandra? Where is Harvey?
@ Dib:
To be honest, that +1 after the 1d4 is supposed to be the masterwork bonus ^^
@ myth buster:
Thats only halfway true ^^ As far as I know Materia needs some space but not an actual socket or something.
(Don’t ask me how the linking of Materia is working in that case… I have no idea)
In fact Materia could be applied to the body itself.
Even thought it’s just fanmade in Dead Fantasy (Dead Or Alive vs Final Fantasy) Tifa has plenty of Materia in her body especially her arms and I’m sure that would actually work … apart from the fact that it does not exist…
@ DrkFire666:
There should be space for 3 Materia in it. One single and 2 for linking together 😛
…man this has been a long time… what would you link in such a weapon? XD
Am I the only one happy that Smokey the bear is coming to warn the children that only they can prevent forest fires? By restraining Larisa because that girl is dangerous.
Cloud summons Knights of the round.
“You have just slain the Grue.” +50 EXP
J’adore les accents circonflexes! They really give the ???’s voice that “unknown creature” feel
SlopDoggy wrote:
Unless that creature *is* Woo… To paraphrase Shakespeare, “Hell hath no fury as a raccoon beaned”.
@ Someone:
Someone wrote:
Asuming Clouds fightingskills with a plastic knife, i would say Cloud uwould be the only to master the combination: master double-attack for quadroattack combined with master all. Easiely cleaving through a horde of unknown beasts with just 1 single attack.
Cloud is a ninja. a swiss army knife almost is a dagger, thats all he needs.
Someone wrote:
From Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, we see that the Remnants do indeed insert the materia ‘spheres’ into their forearms. You see Qadaj do this when speaking to President Rufus before summoning Bahamut and again near the end, after Qadaj has died, when the other two attack Cloud, you can see the spheres of Materia in their forearms.
Great film on Blu-Ray btw. 🙂