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I've tried it for a couple rounds.

The very first round the admins at the time hosted a dick-around round for me to acclimatize, which was p. cool.  After the little tutorial from the admin, I fucked off to the map's basement and started Fight Club.  The only person that showed up wanted to roleplay hypnotizing stuff, but played along when I did some spooky seems-innocent justasplanned stuff where I reversed it and hypnotized him with the light reflecting off my PDA.  "You want to join Fight Club".

After that I gave him a piggy back ride, and then told him Fight Club had $1000 club dues.  Since he already fought he couldn't weasel out of it either.


The next round was spent looting the classroom's desks for little glowstick things and pushing desks into some sorta barricade.  The lights went out for some reason, so we spent the whole thing in the dark.  ...I think the girl I was with was the same admin or something, and was slowly all "ooo I have a crush on you", which I sorta just played indifferent to, because screw that.

Eventually we left the room.  She didn't want to take any weapons, so I played (useless and reluctant) hero, and walked around with a billhook I'd looted out of a trashcan in the kitchen.

Eventually it ended in this Mexican standoff thing at the main gate.  Red-haired boy was all covered in blood, Pink-haired girl wasn't, they were both accusing each other of being mental, and I was trying to seem intimidating and in-control while what's-her-face hid behind me.  We'd spent so long in that room, though, the time ran out right there.


The rounds quickly diminished in enjoyability, though, and I eventually switched back to SS13 later that evening.

YES.  This sounds awesome.

(EDIT:  DUDE is that a Kunio sprite for the player character?  If this game has Kunio/RCR sprites then ALL OF MY MONEY.)

Breath of Fire~

That happened to me while I was dumpster diving pre-chillmoo one time, too.

Also, the dumpster I was checking when it happened yielded a bag fucking FULL of crafting recipes.  scrolled down a whole page full.  It was pretty cool.

Goddammit goddammit when will these people take my money.

Cashmoney isn't too hard to hard to grind up.  I want this, delivery, and poisoned quests are easy.  Packrat and have on you at least one each of every item that doesn't weigh too much, in case you find a quest that wants it.

ID unknown potions, wands and scrolls, so you know what they are.  This'll help in case a quest wants them, or for when you are about to erupt into a chestburster and don't want to accidentally chug a buncha cure corruptions and mutation potions looking for that dye.  Also they sell for a slightly-more-than-trivial amount, unlike weapons and armor and stuff.

You can get NPCs drunk with the various boozes and milk them for uh... for gold.  This'll also train your charisma, which lets you get more pets - I think 1  for <14, and then 2 at 15, and one more every +5?  IIRC, pets chilling at home or working your ranches or shops count towards this limit, so it's kinda important later on.


Wander from city to city doing oddjobs and during the process you'll eventually make enough money to buy stuff and pay for IDing.  Be real careful about those cursed items.  ...I really like the "wandering mailman traveler" sorta thing this turns the game into, though I guess I might just be weird like that.  Either way it's a safe way to grind up cash, and during the horrifically long time you'll spend doing this you'll inevitably acquire some Treasure Maps.  Those sometimes have artifact equipment, and occasionally they'll even be good!  That'll help make you actually stand a chance in a fight maybe.

Get the little girl.  She will crush your enemies, drive them before you, and force the lamentations from their women.

If you didn't get one when you started the game, you can get another human ally from the Slave Trader in Derphy.


And uh, I would totally suggest savescrub behavior for when you die.  Beyond the possibility of dropping your sweet artifacts when you die in someplace unrecoverable like the Puppy Cave, IIRC you can also drop irreplaceable items like the cooler or gene machine, and IIRC the autosave will save as soon as you respawn, and I don't think you can check when dropped and what didn't when you die.

Also, you can scavenge delicious fruit from Vernis, Palmia and Yowyn, thus saving money.  If you have the cooking skill, you can try to cook 'em at the inn in Vernis and the kitchen in Palmia for better stat boosts - though making nasty stuff reduces those.  Api nuts and one of the plants I think don't rot, and weigh nothing, so carry those around as emergency food.

Performing, AFAIK, checks your performance against every NPCs level.  High level guys - guards, named characters and shopguys - usually hate what you play until you grind up to like 30 or something.  They also throw rocks rrrreally hard.  If you manage to just find an audience of faceless townspeople, though, they might appreciate your playing.



Personally, my favorite classes are Farmer and Pianist.  My first character was a Pianist with a cat, and martial arts, because punching stuff is cool.  He teleportitis'd into the slime room in the Vernis basement and dropped his piano there (I was carrying it around because I am boss), and eventually ran out of money (I think I got down to like 14 gold - I didn't know the delivery quests were easy money at the time) AND picked the fruit trees bare in Vernis.  Out of resources, I eventually ended up throwing myself at the robber's den until the RNG decided to let me kill that red burglar guy.  Slowly I recovered from my absolute poverty, doing deliveries until I could feed myself, get me some allies, and revive my cat (who would continue to die horribly every time, never kill anything, and hate me absolutely).

My next character was a mostly incompetent skillmonkey Farmer.  She had all the neat utility skills and would handle the jobs and stuff, while her little girl would handle murdering everything.  ...Scythes are pretty useless.  Claymores, though, aren't!  Especially artifact 3d12+12 ones.

Oh God this looks amazing.  Take all of my money.

Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure.  SO GIRLY.  And what little of the actual gameplay I experienced was pretty weak.  But the music was really cute.

Project Sylpheed, on 360.  Characters were kinda embarrassingly generic animu, especially the hero and rival.  But goddamn if the sound of locking onto everything ever isn't addicting.  Also Macross Spam.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RarGmjbGQKI