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xyzzysqrlSo let's go pick up our mechanic. Due to the single anonymous suggestion I recieved, she will be known as "Winry", which after googling I guess is an anime thing I don't get. Whatever! The important thing is, we'll have someone there with us to help out for a long, long time.
We pop over, since she's just hanging out right there in the garage...
...And Auer asks her to marry him. They "..." at each other for about three minutes, then...
Well that was easy. We go to her parents, then we go to Auer's parents. Both of them are pretty supportive. The wedding takes place in front of the old church.
** ACTUAL IN GAME TEXT **
"And so, Auer and Winry were happily married. Winry became Nina's apprentice, and Auer took over managing the garage. Their business grew, and they started a franchise known as Spiffy Tube, which boasted a 10-minute ammo change that left the competition in the dust. Spiffy Tube grew rapidly, popping up across the landscape, until it was the subject of a news expose titled "Crooked Arms Dealers" which sent the company into financial ruin. Auer once again resumed his role as a hunter, this time training a new generation in the subtle art of garbage picking."
** END ACTUAL IN GAME TEXT **
Credits.
The end.
Not the happiest ending, but we could do a lot worse. At least it isn't boring. Well, I wanna thank you all for reading an--
Oh nevermind, that's never going to work twice. Let's reload that save. I'm not going to invite Winry to join right away, for Reasons.
First off, let's sleep at the economy room in the local Inn. It's interesting to note that any Inn room you stay in will probably have stuff in it left behind by previous travelers. In this case, it's a Mine Detector, which detects buried things. You stick it on a tank and set "Use Detector" to a button in the Satcom and you can go bloop bloop bloop and it goes ding when there's stuff. It also usually costs a hell of a lot more than an inn room stay. We however are Frugal, Knowledgeable People who also have played the intro to this game really often.
Which is also (that and some NPC dialogue) how I know that if you take the mine detector and drive upriver for a while, going bloop bloop bloop all the while, eventually we'll get a really BIG ding in return.
This is the "Demag", or as I have chosen to name it, "Alphonse" because double references amuse and delight me. We tie a rope to it and tow it on back to town, where we upgrade the motors and weapons of our vehicles and slap hardwood siding all over our new tank/track vehicle. (It's based on this thing which looks like it ought to be wood paneled anyway.)
Oh yeah, that's some nice stuff right there. NOW Winry can hook up with the party, which she cheerfully agrees to drop everything and do without a second thought. She's only level 2 at the moment, so we pass her a leather jacket and a metal baseball bat and roll off into the wilderness to kick some robot ass Ace-style.
Winry has a good set of skills.
She can repair our broken parts out in the field, which is always nice. She can also force flying enemies to land (so I guess she knows Dragonrend!), and boost our attack power by cheering. Somehow this costs 16g a pop, but whatever, that's not really a lot of money.
We go off and grind a lot, and while grinding we get a LOT of Junk. So we take it back to the kid at Junk Mountain and trade for the parts to assemble a pair of Drill Claws, which are phenomenal melee weapons for this part of the game. There ARE times when you have to leave your vehicle (sadly) so it always helps to have a good set of gear.
That said, after all that tank-upgrading we're a little short on cash. So we accept a task: Go hunt the deadly VW Beetle.
Our prey lurks in the deserts near Newfolk. It's raining as we drive out into the sands, a thick foggy rain that makes it hard to see.
Eventually we come across our prey. It's a nasty thing, with a built-in missle launcher under the hood and a habit of ramming our tanks to damage various systems. Having a damaged main gun drops Handsaw's firepower by about 20-30 points at one point.
Happily, the Thunder Blaster mounted on Alphonse is strong, and his main gun is stronger. Winry puts out really good damage through the whole battle.
Eventually it's over. I'm pretty sure the folks back in Newfolk can see the explosion from this fight.
We roll back to town, get that damaged system fixed up, reload the main weapons and hit the local bar. As we walk in, we find two guys and a lady all wearing sunglasses discussing something in the middle of the bar. A well-dressed man and two thugs named "Connie" and "Clive".
The "Well dressed man" introduces himself as Alex, and offers to tell us all about the Great Destruction. Mankind once florished, in a way people living today can't even begin to imagine. Then one day their civilization collapsed, and life became a nightmare.
He works for an organization trying to restore the prosperity of the past by researching what came before. He also tells us about some ruins to the north, and about a scientific facility north of even that which was built before the Great Destruction. Why would he tell us? Well... they don't get paid by the kill. Hunters do, sometimes. It's a lucrative business arrangement. If we find anything beyond our comprehension, anything too advanced to understand, he begs us to tell him or his subordinates at once. Then he leaves.
Well, he seems like a nice guy!
Let's drink.
Why yes, we are drinking big gulps of vinegar straight from the bottle there. It's part of a minigame, where you get milk, ramune soda and vinegar passed to you. Your goal is to drink as fast as possible without filling the bar all the way to the top, which causes a hilarious spit-take.
If you fail, you get nothing. If you succeed, you get nothing. It's just fun.
If you prefer minigames where you can actually WIN something, you could instead bet on frog racing via the arcade machine.
Whatever frog I bet on seems to come in last, though. I am bad at frogs.
NEXT TIME: We romp off to the north and probably die in some godforsaken ruin. Please look forward to it.
We pop over, since she's just hanging out right there in the garage...
...And Auer asks her to marry him. They "..." at each other for about three minutes, then...
Well that was easy. We go to her parents, then we go to Auer's parents. Both of them are pretty supportive. The wedding takes place in front of the old church.
** ACTUAL IN GAME TEXT **
"And so, Auer and Winry were happily married. Winry became Nina's apprentice, and Auer took over managing the garage. Their business grew, and they started a franchise known as Spiffy Tube, which boasted a 10-minute ammo change that left the competition in the dust. Spiffy Tube grew rapidly, popping up across the landscape, until it was the subject of a news expose titled "Crooked Arms Dealers" which sent the company into financial ruin. Auer once again resumed his role as a hunter, this time training a new generation in the subtle art of garbage picking."
** END ACTUAL IN GAME TEXT **
Credits.
The end.
Not the happiest ending, but we could do a lot worse. At least it isn't boring. Well, I wanna thank you all for reading an--
Oh nevermind, that's never going to work twice. Let's reload that save. I'm not going to invite Winry to join right away, for Reasons.
First off, let's sleep at the economy room in the local Inn. It's interesting to note that any Inn room you stay in will probably have stuff in it left behind by previous travelers. In this case, it's a Mine Detector, which detects buried things. You stick it on a tank and set "Use Detector" to a button in the Satcom and you can go bloop bloop bloop and it goes ding when there's stuff. It also usually costs a hell of a lot more than an inn room stay. We however are Frugal, Knowledgeable People who also have played the intro to this game really often.
Which is also (that and some NPC dialogue) how I know that if you take the mine detector and drive upriver for a while, going bloop bloop bloop all the while, eventually we'll get a really BIG ding in return.
This is the "Demag", or as I have chosen to name it, "Alphonse" because double references amuse and delight me. We tie a rope to it and tow it on back to town, where we upgrade the motors and weapons of our vehicles and slap hardwood siding all over our new tank/track vehicle. (It's based on this thing which looks like it ought to be wood paneled anyway.)
Oh yeah, that's some nice stuff right there. NOW Winry can hook up with the party, which she cheerfully agrees to drop everything and do without a second thought. She's only level 2 at the moment, so we pass her a leather jacket and a metal baseball bat and roll off into the wilderness to kick some robot ass Ace-style.
Winry has a good set of skills.
She can repair our broken parts out in the field, which is always nice. She can also force flying enemies to land (so I guess she knows Dragonrend!), and boost our attack power by cheering. Somehow this costs 16g a pop, but whatever, that's not really a lot of money.
We go off and grind a lot, and while grinding we get a LOT of Junk. So we take it back to the kid at Junk Mountain and trade for the parts to assemble a pair of Drill Claws, which are phenomenal melee weapons for this part of the game. There ARE times when you have to leave your vehicle (sadly) so it always helps to have a good set of gear.
That said, after all that tank-upgrading we're a little short on cash. So we accept a task: Go hunt the deadly VW Beetle.
Our prey lurks in the deserts near Newfolk. It's raining as we drive out into the sands, a thick foggy rain that makes it hard to see.
Eventually we come across our prey. It's a nasty thing, with a built-in missle launcher under the hood and a habit of ramming our tanks to damage various systems. Having a damaged main gun drops Handsaw's firepower by about 20-30 points at one point.
Happily, the Thunder Blaster mounted on Alphonse is strong, and his main gun is stronger. Winry puts out really good damage through the whole battle.
Eventually it's over. I'm pretty sure the folks back in Newfolk can see the explosion from this fight.
We roll back to town, get that damaged system fixed up, reload the main weapons and hit the local bar. As we walk in, we find two guys and a lady all wearing sunglasses discussing something in the middle of the bar. A well-dressed man and two thugs named "Connie" and "Clive".
The "Well dressed man" introduces himself as Alex, and offers to tell us all about the Great Destruction. Mankind once florished, in a way people living today can't even begin to imagine. Then one day their civilization collapsed, and life became a nightmare.
He works for an organization trying to restore the prosperity of the past by researching what came before. He also tells us about some ruins to the north, and about a scientific facility north of even that which was built before the Great Destruction. Why would he tell us? Well... they don't get paid by the kill. Hunters do, sometimes. It's a lucrative business arrangement. If we find anything beyond our comprehension, anything too advanced to understand, he begs us to tell him or his subordinates at once. Then he leaves.
Well, he seems like a nice guy!
Let's drink.
Why yes, we are drinking big gulps of vinegar straight from the bottle there. It's part of a minigame, where you get milk, ramune soda and vinegar passed to you. Your goal is to drink as fast as possible without filling the bar all the way to the top, which causes a hilarious spit-take.
If you fail, you get nothing. If you succeed, you get nothing. It's just fun.
If you prefer minigames where you can actually WIN something, you could instead bet on frog racing via the arcade machine.
Whatever frog I bet on seems to come in last, though. I am bad at frogs.
NEXT TIME: We romp off to the north and probably die in some godforsaken ruin. Please look forward to it.
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