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The debate club one is really my favourite, goddamn.
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How can you ever have that record? Do you open up with an unironic "Hitler did nothing wrong"?
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Update 12 - Group date   Alright, alright, I'm up.   Time to head out. Since I donated to the Committee Center, the train tracks to Uchina have been repaired and are ready for use. I won't be using them for now since I have nothing to do on campus.   My destination is to the north and through the cave to Sute Village.  BGM: Dungeon  This cave introduces lava floors, which work the same as the lasers from the girls' dorm.  There's only two new enemies waiting in ambush, the Savage Spider and the Cacklebat. The Savage Spider can cause Sick, but that's not too much of a problem with our nurse Julia around.   Once we're out of the cave, there's one place to visit on our way to Sute.  The last skill grants immunity to all ailments for the user. I toss it on our resident healer, Julia.  With that out of the way...    The village may change, but the chickens stay as vicious as ever.  Despite its run-down appearance, there's still a few people lurking about.  I'll teach you something: location, location, location.  That goes for you too, healing woman hidden behind the wall. Up at the top of the village we find who we came looking for.     : Nonsense! We're merely here for the summer school-- : Shut up! We already know what's going on! Now, spill!: Looks like it's time for a strategic retreat. Get your skates on, chaps!   Didn't get very far, did you? Maybe you should join some kind of athletic club instead?  : Fine, then. If it's a fight you want, then a fight you shall have! Despite all his boasting, Great Leader is a big pushover. He doesn't even have a special move. What a poseur!  Whoops, didn't mean to send him flying.     : Sigh... This is all just a misunderstanding...      : And a permit from the Public Safety Committee to boot...: What?! : Daichi! Way to jump the gun!  : Great Leader! A strange stairway appeared where I put down a flower vase! : That's it... I thought I'd heard a strange sound. So there was a secret underground passage after all!: You're so smart, Great Leader! I knew it wasn't really a ghost that had come to criticise my interior decorating!Do...Do you guys live here?  : Mm... Makes sense as far as plot progression goes.: Shut up, Daichi. We're going in! Yes, ma'am!   As we head further in, we go from cave to sewer. The symbol adorning the wall is the same symbol from when Hinako was kidnapped.  And look who else has returned! The Mystery Man is now joined by the Creepy Women, who can drain our GP.  Two more creatures stalk the sewers - the Vampire Eel and the Robocrab. Robocrabs pack a mean punch while Vampire Eels can drain our HP for themselves.   : Don't even go there. You'll just find nothing and then you'll be sad, and then I'll be sad that you're sad. Okay, but I'm still gonna steal all the junk you have lying around.   We continue to travel the sewers...   Until we make it to back to land.  Luckily for me this shrine doesn't have any dumb rumors.     : Another failure. I must find the next Regulation as soon as possible!: And to think I went through all the trouble of hypnotising the Student Council for this, too... : Wait just a minute! I'm sure I've heard that voice somewhere before...: Yeah! It's the person I heard when we got the scoop on the Jungle Joust story at the Student Council meeting!  : Oh no! RUN!           Daichi, why do you always have to be ruining everything?     : Deceiving the student council, stealing prayer books -- just what are you up to?: You know that much, do you? Fine, then, let me tell you. Hourai High these days is falling into disrepute.: Rampant skiving, part-time work, nighttime antics, improper relations between students -- all on the rise! : They? Them? With a big T? You mean that secret society, don't you? Just who are they?: You don't need to know! I'll hypnotise you like I did the Student Council... And transform you into good students, observant of all the school's regulations! BGM: Boss Battle Unlike Great Leader, Rachel can actually be somewhat of a threat. Alongside a powerful physical move, Rachel can also cause Pheromone and Sleep. If you're unlucky, you can easily end up with an incapacitated team on your hands.  : You could have studied, and become fine, upstanding citizens... : Yeah! : Right, let's head back to Uchina now and return the prayer book!Alright, back through the cave for us.       > Hinako, sexily    : Well, yeah. I doubt they can see her face from here!> Haru, scientifically     : Someone's been watching too much X-Files!  Daichi, please-     : drat it! Those cold-hearted--: Are you kidding me? Anyone would run away from that display!: We can get back through the tunnel...right?! The Adventures of Hourai High: Daichi's Lament.         : Oh! It really is the prayer book! Oh, thank the gods! Let us start the Star Festival right away!: Spend some time in the village first, then come and see me again. I'll guide you through the Star Festival.  Oh jeez, I wasn't prepared for a dating sim. Okay then... > Hinako  : Let's split up here. Be good to each other!: Let's go!Wait, wait, no. > Julia  : Yeah, and that Hinako's always really grumpy.: Let's split up here. Be good to each other! : Alright! Let's go!Meanwhile, in an alternate timeline...  > Daichi  : Lara, are you SERIOUS? Huh. Suit yourself.: Let's split up here. Have a good time, you two!: Alright! We're gonna have a good time tonight!I'm regretting this choice immensely. Let's try again. > Haru  : Wipe that goofy smile off your face!: Let's split up here. Have a good time, you two!: Er, well... Let's go, OK?And who's behind door number three? > Isaac  : Let's split up here. Have a good time, you two! : OK! Lara, I'll be your escort!Alright, that's enough time-hopping for one day. Back to Leroy and friends.    : I'm helping out here because they didn't have enough girls who could perform as shrine maidens for the festival. Sorry, already taken.    There's also a familiar face resting at the inn.    : That's why I can't miss it for the world. Gwahahaha!And now for the main draw of the Star Festival.   : This is my first time on the island. It's not a bad place!  Time for more minigames!  Nah, I've got this.   The aim of this game is to knock the sleeping creatures down to earn points. You get 5 chances, and the points go up with the difficulty of the creature - pig to squid to octopus. If you hit one when it's awake then it will just knock the bullet away, and if you get it right when it's waking up then you'll stun it. The easiest way to get points is to knock four of a creature down then wait for the fifth one to come around on the other side, where it will have transformed into a golden creature that's worth more points.  I'm not the greatest at this game and can never knock down any octopi, so I'm stuck getting points with the squids. Now, onto the festival.   But just what was the "Regulation" that Rachel was looking for? And just who are "They"? One mystery is solved, only to reveal yet more mysteries behind it. Meanwhile, night falls on the day of the Star Festival...  RACHEL ARRESTED BY PUBLIC SAFETY ON SUSPICION OF HYPNOTISING AND MANIPULATING STUDENT COUNCIL Rachel appeared to be searching for something in Uchina and Sute villages amid the festivities of the Star Festival. It's believed that she was responsible for the recently-enacted Mind and Body Rule, Curfew Rule and other changes to the school legislature. With her arrest, the truth behind her motives and other questions that have yet to be answered is hoped to be revealed soon.
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The Regulation? I wonder if it's, like, the first rulebook ever written and anything else added to it becomes true. ...or something.
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We should take Hinako, it's not cool to grab Isaac's girl. Figures it would be the substitute teacher though.
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Update 13 - An Educational Trip  I don't know about this, Hinako. You saw what happened last time Leroy got on a plane.     Leroy goes through several short bursts of emotion...  ...before promptly falling back asleep.   Don't pull, you're gonna stretch my shirt!      Control: This is Air Traffic Control. Utsuho flight number 17, you are cleared for take-off. Pilot: Roger that. Initiating take-off. (I love you.)    Now that's a foreboding title. BGM: Airplane : Wow! Utsuho looks so tiny from up here!We're given control and are free to roam around the plane, starting with the cockpit.   : It sounded like fun, so I just had to come along!  Daichi what are you talking about (I actually have no idea what this line is supposed to mean).  Man whatEVER Ms. Adachi, you don't know me. I've got people to talk to.   : Let's take a trip to Madagascar during our free time!  : Who decided that we could only bring along 300G for snacks?!: Ah, field trips. That can only mean one thing: pillow fights at the hostel.: Last year's field trip was the South Pole, now this year is an African safari. These aren't field trips, these are continent trips!: I've never been on a plane before. It's kind of scary.: Hourai field trips mean one massive group of Hourai students wandering around. That means trouble. I don't even want to know what might happen this year.: It's dangerous to walk around while the plane's in the air.C'mon, lay off me already!  Welp, I've exhausted all the fun things to do on this plane.   An undetermined amount of time later...   : Thank you for flying Mamejima Airways today. We're about to head to the island of Madagascar to begin our trip across-- A great boom shakes the plane. BGM: Tension : I-it's just some turbulence, right?!: It's a storm! We're caught in a storm! : Somebody do something!: It's hopeless! There's nothing we can do!: Aaaargh!: Eeeeek!  Like I said: Leroy and planes don't mix.   I wake up to the gentle waves of the ocean, the bright rays of light from the sun, and Daichi ramming into me.  : Daichi, you don't have to shake Leroy so hard...    : Yeah, Daichi was about to try mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. No need to be so shy, Daichi. I'd have kissed you if you just asked.  : I can't even guess. We can't see anything but sea and jungle from here. I don't think we're far from Utsuho, though... We all rush over.   : The plane got caught up in a storm and crashed into the sea. : That's right! I remember desperately swimming to shore, and...  : Augh! There's a half-eaten fish in her hand!: M-Ms A-Adachi... D-did you...? : What? What's everyone looking at me like that for?    : It... It looks like several people were washed ashore on this island. As for the rest...: I see... But we can't lose hope now. There might be some other survivors nearby, so we'd best search for them. : After that, we should go into the jungle and search for food and water.  There's a few lucky(?) students on the same shore.  : Heh. It's not like this place could be any more dangerous than Utsuho is. Which I steal all of.   With that out of the way, it's time to explore the jungle. BGM: Jungle And what a jungle it is. I sometimes still get lost in it despite having played this game multiple times. It's full of hidden paths, lava, caves, and trees, trees, trees over nine often gigantic screens. All this plus some new enemies.   We now have full-sized Hellephants instead of Hellephant Kids, as well as Beefy Bees.   Since she's here, let's check out Ms Adachi's Friend Skill. Her skill, "Gamble," has the chance to cause enemies to leave, but if it backfires then you lose money. You gamble 1000G on whether or not the number you land on will be odd or even. Other than animals, there's another crazy creature in the jungle.     : What? Hey, hold on! Yeah, why not. One beaten-up elephant later...   : You save Mitsurin. Mitsurin never forget. Now Mitsurin turn to help you.: Mitsurin village, northeast here. Go through east cave. Not far. Alright, more free labor!   Mitsurin's Friend Skill is ten times more useful than Ms. Adachi's. "Threaten" causes the enemies to leave, no questions asked and no gambling required.  I run into some more whimsical enemies with Mitsurin: the Strollin' Pineapple and the Dancin' Sunflower, the latter of which can steal GP.  Other than the benefit of another party member, there's another reason that you'll want to get Mitsurin: he grants you access to three clubs. If you have Mitsurin with you, you can go to the Jungle School; if you don't have Mitsurin then all you'll find is an empty lot. These three clubs are the "Jungle" type clubs I mentioned way back in chapter 1.   The next skill destroys a random enemy while the last skill has a random effect.  The next skill grants a 20% STR boost while the last skill grants a 20% VIT/HP boost.   The next skill steals an enemy's GP while the last skill steals both HP and GP. Aside from the Jungle School, there's one more mystery to be found within the jungle.   : ...It's growing BANK NOTES...: ...YES! THIS IS IT! We're gonna be rich! ...  : It looks like it takes a while for it to grow notes, too.: Bah! I finally find a money tree, and it's only got a few withered fivers on it...  There's also a cool ancient ruin, but like all great things it's impossible to get into.  Not-great things we can get into: caves.  Ye gods, have the Pengoons already assimilated? They've evolved into a higher lifeform... the METAL PENGUIN!  We've made it to Mitsurin's village, which we'll explore next update. PeaceDiner fucked around with this message at 23:22 on Jul 29, 2016 |
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What's with all the weird line breaks in the update?
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FredMSloniker posted:What's with all the weird line breaks in That was all completely on me, I'm sorry! It's been fixed now.
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I feel like you missed something. Isn't there a starfish party member?
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Tallgeese posted:I feel like you missed something. You have to get to the jungle village first, so I'll be picking him up next chapter.
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The line about you being up editing all night probably ties in with you being so hard to wake in the morning. Daichi probably thinks you still look groggy. Also, you can take someone else's partner to the festival? That is shady...
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Update 14 - Sleepover A quick update to wrap up the chapter! Leroy and company had just arrived at the jungle village that Mitsurin lives in. BGM: School 1  : What a relief! Let's go back and tell everyone right away!: Wait - let's investigate a bit more first and see what we can find out.: Good idea.I mean, we could send one person back as a messenger or throw up a smoke signal or something... I guess we could just leave 'em on the beach. There's a certain building we need to get to, but let's check out the local villagers first.   : The same thing happened to us five years ago! We taught the islanders here how to read and write. Just doing my duty. I know that everybody would save a young boy from a raging elephant.    Tell me about it, bub.  Unlike Uchina, these chickens seem to be a bit less bloodthirsty and evil.        : But there might be precious, ancient cultural relics inside there!: Principal! What's going on?: There's a giant ancient ruin to the northwest of this village. I was asking if I could investigate it...: But he's flat out refusing! : Er, Principal... Don't you think we should be focusing on finding the students instead of poking about ruins?: ...I suppose so. Alright, let's go. Well then, excuse me for now.  : Yeah, but she seems kind of different from normal... She didn't seem herself. : So, you must have come on your "aero plane" and got swept up on this island. : Please, could you find it in yourself to give them somewhere to rest?: You must have come a long way. The room next door is the village's meeting place. You can rest there.: Thank you! Come along, class. The toilets? Oh, the room to the far-right.   There they found kind villagers, as well as Principal Ayame, who had become separated from the group in the crash. But will Leroy ever be able to return to Hourai High safely?
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PeaceDiner posted:Update 14 - Sleepover The plot thickens.
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It's a shame Ms Adachi, eater of live fish, doesn't get a cooler skill. Like FF8's devour
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SSNeoman posted:It's a shame Ms Adachi, eater of live fish, doesn't get a cooler skill. Like FF8's devour Yeah, it makes me sad that either a) the Friend Skill sucks so I don't use it and b) the battles are easy enough that I don't need to use Friend Skills. It's kind of a half-baked idea that needs some tweaking but never got it.
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I'm sad the title didn't stick around after that dialogue.
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I suppose there's a Hourai adjunct out here, which is how that counts as a Wonder Of Hourai.
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That reminds me, how many Wonders of Hourai have we found so far?
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Mraagvpeine posted:That reminds me, how many Wonders of Hourai have we found so far? Two for certain (The Faceless Girl in chapter 3 and the Money Tree in this chapter), and we're keeping a tab on the Statue With the Growing Hair in the girls' dorm.
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Update 15 - Archaeology 101      Stay classy, Daichi.    Good morning, world!  Good morning, chicken!   Bad morning, village!   : Strange lady from yesterday! Entered ruins! Ruins!  : It's gotta be the Principal!: Ugh, that woman... Just what is she playing at?: Ms Adachi! Let's follow her into the ruins! We've got to get her out of there.: Yes... You're right. We've got to find her before we do anything else. That's good to hear. Before we descend into the cursed ruins, let's stop by and check on the students at the beach.    The starfish rushes towards us.  Ah.  ARGH.  If you'd back up a bit, please.   : I am Starfish Ron, of the planet Starfish. I promise to repay this favour one day...: Until we meet again!  Ron takes one longing glance back in our direction before running off into the ocean.  : Was it a starfish that mutated in an accident and became sentient? Welp, time to get as far away from that creature as possible. Into the ruins we go!  BGM: Jungle Ruins Really feeling the decor in here.  First skulls and now coffins... This game's got a morbid way of getting items. I suppose looting corpses is the next logical step.   We do have some nice recolors here to keep us company. Stone Gargoyles can try to squash us underfoot, while Golden Bats suck up our GP and Sly Spiders can try to paralyze us.   What is this, an adventure game? I don't need an inventory full of "handy" stuff here, Haru.  Most of the dungeon will be spent attempting to locate switches to press to advance. I guess the ruin's curse is so powerful that it manifested switches and locked doors to protect what's inside.  Going down.  Okay, so maybe that toolbox actually will come in handy. Getting there might take some work, though.  One good thing about the ruins is that there's no having to pay to restore HP and GP, so it's a nice grinding spot. (Also if the ruins are cursed why are there so many people down here?)   Once again, why are you here and how did you get in here?   What we want is this little switch hiding in the corner, which will open up the door in the middle of the room.   This allows us to get to the partially-obscured staircase in the bottom right corner.  Sign me up.   Alright, back up we go. The door at the top left of the room was locked...  But not for long.   And as anybody would, we immediately start jumping down holes.  One quick stop to unlock a door and we're onto our destination.   : It looks like some kind of machine.: Hold on a second... It's some kind of robot! It's in really bad shape, though. : Ha! I knew those tools would come in handy!After a few moments of tinkering...     : You did it! It's working!: Hey, this thing might be pretty helpful. With another new member, our party's grown even stronger! Next update we'll explore more of the ruins.
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I love how this story continually revolves around some epicenter of comedic nonsense, what with the starfish who reminds me of Doctor Dinosaur without being a Saturday-morning-cartoon villain or the robot you fix up to be another party member. (Chrono Trigger also does the latter, but goes more for proper pathos than bathos.)
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Given how everything in the game works so far... what clubs can the robot join?
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NGDBSS posted:I love how this story continually revolves around some epicenter of comedic nonsense, what with the starfish who reminds me of Doctor Dinosaur without being a Saturday-morning-cartoon villain or the robot you fix up to be another party member. (Chrono Trigger also does the latter, but goes more for proper pathos than bathos.) That's more or less true to the source material. A lot of Japanese tabletop RPGs make heavy use of tables for randomly generating characters and plot elements. Turns out "roll on this giant table populated with bullshit you'll have to deal with" lends itself pretty well to absurd improv comedy.
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And they're generally designed to be one-shots with some exceptions (like Ryuutama and Double-Cross which is still meant for short campaigns), so there's far less need for game balance or coherency.
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Update 16 - Do Not Touch the Display  Last update we got our newest party member, a robot by the name of D-51. His Friend Skill "Shield" nullifies all attacks for a turn. If you think that sounds familiar, well, you're right: it's the exact same as Daichi's Friend Skill. Yes, they're already recycling Friend Skills. D-51 has no club types nor does he start in any clubs. Fittingly, he and Haru are each other's Special Person. Awww. BGM: Jungle Ruins  There are a few new monsters to be found on the lower floors. The huge Flying Whale hits twice per turn and almost always shows up by himself. Raging Hooters can deplete your GP, while Ancient Turtles are nothing special.   After that small detour to get D-51, we're back to exploring. We encounter spikes for the first time, which work the same as lava floors.    The spikes here are interesting. You can go up the stairs and flick a switch to turn the spikes off then come back down here and pass through unharmed to get to another switch...or you can just take the minimal damage that spikes cause and hit this switch without too much hoopla.  Thanks, man. I really like it when ancient cursed ruins give me that kind of praise.   : Mr Hokita was here too! What a discovery!  Look who's arrived late to the party.  : Principal! Why did you force your way into the ruins after they told you that you weren't allowed in?: Never mind that. Just let me have a look at that book.  C'mon Adachi, you can't say stuff like that in a video game without it coming true.   The floor beneath each character gives out and they fall into the abyss.   A few nasty bumps and bruises later...      Ayame backs up before booking it out of there.   : Oh! Now's not the time for sneakily picking up handy little bonuses. Is everyone OK? : This looks like an old mine site. I wonder what they were excavating?: Never mind that... We're stuck here now!: Oh, come on! I'm sure there's another way out!: That's right. Let's search for a way out, and the Principal too!All: Yeah!  Luckily for me, this mine doesn't include a crappy minecart minigame.     : Anyway, let's use it to get out of here!: Yes! I don't know where it'll take us, but we've got no choice!    I don't know about you guys, but this place is looking pretty familiar...    : No way... We were on Utsuho all this time?!: Unbelievable...: ...    And miraculously, nearly all the students were unharmed and eventually made it back to the island after dealing with their own littles dramas. But what was Principal Ayame's unusual behaviour all about? The fog of mystery grows ever thicker...  FIELD TRIP PLANE TO AFRICA CRASHES INTO SEA 3KM FROM UTSUHO Thankfully, all students returned safely, though most of the stranded students had failed to realise they were on Utsuho. They led desperate survival lifestyles in the newly-discovered aboriginal villages and near the mysterious, ancient ruins, and were later mocked by the rescue team. It also seems that some could not stand the harsh realities of jungle life, ending up clinically insane. In many cases, this was merely proof of what we knew already. Anonymous student: "I'm telling you the truth! I really did dance with sunflowers! Anyway, what really surprises me is how advanced the jungle classroom is..." In other news, the ancient mine discovered in the jungle remains a mystery to experts, who are keen to discover what was originally being mined there.
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As far as cursed temples go, that wasn't so bad. I bet folks won't be pleased we jacked their boat though.
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Guess that explains the money tree!
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Oh boy. I haven't seen this game since I beta'd the translation for Gid. It's a neat game in concept, and I'd like to see it's ideas revisited, though the game itself kind of bounces off of me.
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Ha! Man, here I thought it was an unofficial adjunct campus, but nope, secret primitive village.
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Explosions posted:That cartoonist is really phoning it in. The commentary is still as biting as ever.
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HardDisk posted:The commentary is still as biting as ever. Beats the hell out of Ramirez and Gorell.
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Update 17 - Make-Up Work    : Yeah, stuff gets pretty expensive whenever the school festival's near.: This year's kind of different, though. And that new rule... : "Hourai High students are forbidden to interact with students of the opposite gender no matter what the reason. Even relatives of any kind will be punished if caught walking together"?!: What kind of stupid rule is that supposed to be?! BGM: Hospo Editors' Room : Yeah... It's almost as if they LIKE oppressing students by making up stupid rules.: And they're still going strong even with that Rachel gone...: Why don't we investigate the Committee Centre again? : By the way, there's something else that's bothering me. I just checked my computer, and...: It looks like item prices have been rising exponentially since just before the new rule was passed during the holiday. There's even a black market in the sports grounds now.: I just know they were up to something while everyone was away on holiday.: They were working over the summer holiday? They're pretty serious about this. : I knew it... Nice work, Hinako. Well, what should we do? Go to the sports grounds?: Oh, the place where the pool is, right? Leroy, it's easy to find. You just need to follow the tracks south.: You know the way pretty well for someone who keeps skiving off sports! Anyway, let's drop by Newtown or Side Street when we have the time. We might find something out.Alright, since we haven't been to Hourai in two chapters there's a number of things to see and do around campus. BGM: School 1  First, we now have so many party members that at least one member has to stay behind. Those left behind don't get any EXP or club experience. You can leave any party member behind except the main four. If you try to put one of them back, you get this:   Since we can leave people behind, that also means we can call them up. Whenever somebody isn't in your party, you can either call them on the phone or find them on campus and talk to them to get unique dialogue that changes every chapter. I'll be showing all the dialogue off, so let's start with this chapter's: : Guess what? The school trip for our year's was a journey across the Gobi desert! Man, that was so exciting! Woohoo!: How was the school trip? I hear it was really, uh... (Ah, cripes. How do you say it in Japanese?) Uh... I hear it was good. : I wish... Sniff... I wish I could have gone on the school trip too...: You must have had such an awful time on the school trip. I've come to see you in a whole new light now. So, er... Could you keep that unpleasant little episode about me eating a live fish quiet? Please?: Mitsurin like Hourai High. Mitsurin join Leroy class! : SCHOOL FESTIVAL... INTRIGUING. I WOULD LIKE TO INVESTIGATE. DO BRING ME WITH YOU. : I've got a big job on now, haven't had a moment's peace lately. Sorry, but I don't think I'll be able to help you for a while. : The Mad Scientists always show off their year's work at the school festival every year in the form of a giant robot. Then the robot usually ends up going berserk and wrecking everything... They're a real handful, those Mad Scientists. : That school trip was unreal! By the way, I heard that one of the Seven Wonders was in the jungle to the south... Did you find it? : Items have got seriously expensive this year... Is someone manipulating the prices behind the scenes? : By the way, I heard that some places in Side Street are doing a special menu for the school festival. Still, I can guess what kind of "special" this is... They're just getting rid of their old junk, I know it!Time to explore campus, starting with the main building.   That's the entirety of that club. Not bad to just have on somebody with a free club space.   : As a result, we often resort to using students with specialist knowledge as substitute teachers. Have you met Kamifukuoka? He's one of those special temporary substitute teacher student...er, things. He tends to keep to himself upstairs.  : Of course, I can't tell anyone about them.Riiiiight. Moving from the main building, we need to go check on the statue at the girls' dorm. The GDP still don't trust us, but we've got Hinako at our side!   They unfortunately don't tell their girls inside that we're good, since we still run into battles while on our way up.  : Hmmm... Well, it almost kind of looks like it...: I guess it's just a story after all.: Let's check it out again in the new year.A new location - Shinobazu Lake - opened up after the trip. The Patrol Squad's HQ is located there, so we might as well go bother them.   Seems like the HQ is running smoothly.     What are you asking me for? I don't know the guy. You think that 'cause I'm in Hospo I know everybody on campus and what they're doing at every second of the day? People don't just go around announcing who they are to me.  Oh. Uh... pleasure to meet you. Somebody was looking for you. Hinako suggested heading to Side Street and Newtown, so it's time to get down to business.  : Buy now! With this book, you can see where you can eat and run at a glance! : I have no idea how a guy like that got to be representative. He must have bribed someone...  : Shin from the third year did just give a presentation about how brilliant he thinks it is... Maybe losing the electic drove him insane? Oh come on, you think Public Safety really cares? I could walk up to them right now and they wouldn't do a thing.   See? Do your jobs, guys. All this investigating is making me hungry, so let's head over to the Sketchy Soup.  That sounds good, I'll take--  : Whoa! What? What?: I-i-it's... It's... It's the A Menu!: So...what? Is it really rare or something?: Who cares how rare it is?! They say it tastes so good, it feels like your tongue is melting! And on top of that...: They call it the Menu A of Happiness because the divine taste is guaranteed to make you happy!: What?! We've got to order some fast!   Eating the A Menu pumps the character up, which means more crit hits. This is the only time you can buy it, so stock up! With that out of the way, it's time to go to Newtown.  There's only one real point of interest here.   If you for some reason felt the need to try your hand at the mini-games again, then hooray! Now you can.   This time you can actually be rewarded for your hard work with special prizes. The prizes are all equipment that are exclusive to the game parlor, so if you're good at the games then you can get yourself some nice stuff. I won't be partaking because of the equipment glitch and because I'm not too great at either of the games. There's one last stop to make before we head to the sports ground. The desks blocking the way on the first floor of the Club Centre have been removed, so we can finally make our way out to the side of the building.   The next two skills raise your HP and GP by 10% and 20%. There's currently nobody in our party who can join (but Lara can!).  Now we can finally head to the sports ground! It's located below the campus and across a bridge.    : How rude! I'm here to see the Mad Scientist Club!Two students run up to Shin.  : This gentleman is Class Representative Shin! He is assisting us in our work. In fact, he's come to see the giant robot we're going to show off at the school festival -- "Invincible 22"!: He says he'll get the Student Council to buy it if it turns out well. MUHAHAHA!      : Shin asked me to run a shop here. I'll give you a special price, just because I love your stinking guts so much. ...I don't want to go to Roku's Love Shack.  There's actually yet another club to join, located underneath the sports ground.  The second skill raises all allies' STR by 20% while the last skill allows the character to equip Hit-type weapons and gives them the ability to counterattack.  Sucks to be you. Well, that's about all there is here, so we might as well take off.   But of course, it wouldn't do to just walk out without a massive, booming earthquake jolting the entire campus. Hospo is back on the case!      Next update we get in the loving robot.
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The penguins are behind this, the mad science club did nothing wrong!
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It's kinda neat how they are tying in item shops getting expensive to the story.
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I hate to break it to those geeks, but creating a gulf between men and women as deep as the ocean and twice as wide isn't going to give their giant robot an AT field.
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Update 18 - Getter a Better Robo Giant robot just crashed into the school grounds, nothing too unusual.  : Argh! That conniving little...! He meant to deceive us and steal it all long! AHAHAHA! Curses, curses! I thought it strange that he contacted us directly instead of through the Council! : Curses! It's the Public Safety Committee!: T-time for us to make our getaway, old bean! AHAHAHA!  : There's no need for anyone to worry. All the Mad Scientists' giant robots are riddled with faults, so they always run loose.: Now's not the time to be a smug know-it-all!: It's supposed to be 57 metres tall and weigh 550 tonnes, but it seems a little light to me. It's obviously made of papier-mache on the inside.: Still... Did it really just run out of control by itself? I know the Mad Scientists' robots sometimes break during their fights with the Gadget Club, but this is different...: Maybe that guy Shin has something to do with it?    : This has nothing to do with you. Get out of here! : ...Shin must be planning to hold the Student Council to ransom.: Looks like you hit the nail on the head, Daichi.: But what should we do? We can't just let the robot run amok! We can't even tell if Shin's inside it or not!  : We'll commandeer that helpfully located biplane to get into the Invincible!Sounds like a solid plan, but knowing Daichi...        Before the club members can finish their sentence, Daichi and the rest of Hospo hop into the plane and take off.       Daichi!    Alright, time to move to Plan B: just jump from the plane and hope you land safely inside the robot.  BGM: The Invincible 22 : Looks like we crashed into the guts of the Invincible.: If I know my giant robots, I'd say that the pilot's room has to be in the head of this thing.I don't know Haru, you can't join the Anime Club so I'm not sure if I should trust your opinion...But I guess it's the only thing we have to go on, so we'll head up for now.   So, this is the first game I've played where a dungeon is the actual inside of a giant robot, though I'm sure there are others out there.   Most of the enemies here are mechanical in nature. The PinchBot Mk.1 can cause some damage with its mighty pinches, while the ChopperBot 88 can call for back-up. The Android Bs are just recolored and powered-up from Android A back in the girls' dorm.  The Creepy Woman returns, while MiniBots are small but tough foes that can put us to sleep. It's pretty incriminating to have what are basically cult members walking around your robot, though.   Like the jungle ruins, there's a lot of button-pressing to be had in the Invincible 22.  Maybe Shin could have used all the money he apparently has to hire an interior decorator or something. Truly amazing giant robots should look good both in and out.   The Invicible 22 does, however, have toilets. That's just basic giant robot design.  And giant robot hotels are the way of the future. Shin could get so much more money doing this instead of whatever the heck he's doing now.  A password? But that's so low-tech.  And this is the password. Luckily Haru remembers it automatically.  Almost to the top.   But...didn't they just built the robot? How long have they been keeping you here?   : "Utsuho cries out at the foot of heaven's mount."   : You're one of Rachel's buddies, aren't you?!: Welcome to the Invincible! You must be the staff from that Hospo rag. You've been a real pain in the neck for us. Anyway, you're half-right... Rachel and I belong to the same group, but I'm higher up on the chain than her.: Rachel was originally a Hourai teacher to begin with, but I was planted here specially by the organisation! My orders were to take control of the Student Council... But I ended up losing in the elections for president.: So then I raised item prices to coerce the Council into changing the rules... But after all that, the students don't respect the new rules! I can't go back empty-handed. That's why I'll MAKE everyone heed the new rules using this giant robot!     Shin is all power and not much else. He's got two different supermoves that can cause some damage, but nothing that gives us any trouble. Simply pummel him into oblivion while watching your HP and the battle is yours.  : What happened to my dreams to rule the school?!  Alright, school festival time!  Was I elected? I guess not, if I'm just hearing about it now.  Uh, what?  Kinda sudden, but sure.    Well, that was one of the easiest party members to get.  The only real point of interest at the festival are the food stalls, which all sell the same two healing items. As crazy as Hourai is, I would've expected a bit more.    And that's about all there is to the festival. However, the festival opened up a new area to explore, so let's check out Suzuna Forest.   : There's a square in the north of the forest and in the south you'll find the Musketeer HQ. Oh, that's what you think.   Just try and stop me from waltzing in here!    Oh, yeah. So dreamy.   The last thing to do is attend the Miss and Mister Hourai announcements at the Assembly Hall. I guess they got around to fixing the roof.       Seriously, I can't believe I wasn't invited to this thing. Ladies and guys love mysterious students who transfer schools!      Emcee: Thank you, ladies and gentlemen!  But the true goal of the shadowy organisation making the students suffer under strict rules still remains unknown...  MAD SCIENTISTS' ROBOT "INVINCIBLE 22" GOES ON RAMPAGE; NO ONE PARTICULARLY SURPRISED Robot rampages are common enough incidents, but the twist in the tale is that this time, the 22 was in fact hijacked by Representative Shin. Shin's goal was to threaten the Council and students opposed to the Gender Segregation rule. The Public Safety Committee is now investigating any connection to the group manipulating recent legislature behind the scenes. The Student Festival -- though thrown into disarray and greatly reduce in size -- proceeded as scheduled in Suzuna Forest. In other news, after the school-wide vote, this year's Mister and Miss Hourai are in: Akiko Shishidou (1st year) Yashichi Kusanagi (3rd year) Congratulations!
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I think there was a giant robot dungeon in a Final Fantasy game, but I can't remember which game.
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