Results:
"Raw Material costs: 4 million Fol
Inventor salary fees: 8 million Fol
Factory Overhead: 3 million Fol
Creating a pair of x-ray contact lenses that allow you to see what cards your opponent has: Priceless" - Tide
Welch Vineyard 8 - 6 Lord Yuna
"I love Millenia, but the dude bullies a COUNTRY." - Pyro
Richard Hawk 11 - 2 Millenia
"The Armstrong line may well have special techniques for fighting games dating back generations. Who's to say. What they don't have is little plastic controllers designed to withstand the full forced passions of the Strong Arm Alchemist." - Cmdr King
Major Armstrong 0 - 8 Cecilia Lynn Adelhyde
"Mystina isn't an athelte. Yang's wife is a pro wrestler waiting to happen." - Super
Mystina 5 - 9 Yang's Wife
"Uh huh. When in doubt, doubt the angry black mage girl's ability to handle children." - Random Consonant
Fun Master Ion 8 - 6 Rita
"Curvy Hilda is perfect for this. Even if she's not a great minion, her infinitely cute stare will make everyone -think- she is, and that's good enough, I think." - Darkholyelf
Rinoa 3 - 13 Hilda
"Lymsleia has allowed the crime against art - Haud - to remain standing in her borders. Loses by default." - Djinn
White Knight Leo 6 - 3 Lymsleia
"Joins the Fab Five and make-overs the world!" - Oblivion Knight
Lily Valendorf 6 - 9 Kanji Tatsumi
Pool B
Match 41
I've done it just as you asked, sir. I've prepared the two candidates and told them about the mission to stop the use of the Metal Gear, to rescue the kidnapped VIPs, and to capture or kill the leadership of the terrorist group, Fox-Hound; in that order of importance.
"And the candidates themselves?"
One of them is an accomplished marksman. She's also somewhat used to being stealthy as she's apparently a terrorist herself.
"It is an acceptable risk. And the other?"
A mercenary, though all reports say he should be reliable. Likely our sources exaggerate, but I've been told he's beaten up a Goddess by simply refusing to give up.
"Well then, one of these two should be able to accomplish this task for us, let's see who does it first."
Match 42
Welcome to Junkyard Wars, where we assign a challenge and have two teams and their experts duke it out, with one day to design their device and then sort through our junkpiles to find the parts necessary to build it. And the team whose mahcine does best at the challenge wins.
Red Team is led by Dungeon Man, and any two other people he can call on to help him. For his technical expert, we've managed to contract Jeff Andronuts from the Town of Winter. Of course, while he may be lacking in friends, Dungeon Man himself has an extensive history of mechanical work with a wide variety of materials.
Blue Team is led by the former hench called Gilgamesh. While he only has the one friend, he can get one more friend of Bartz to show up and assist. As for his expert, he gets Cid Midiera, who is also a world reknown scientist.
Match 43
The speed, the power, the left turns! This is NASCAR! And on today's ridiculously long challenge we've got two ace drivers ready to face off.
Kefka Palazzo is more used to the destruction dirby than NASCAR but he's pulled out the odd surprised before, and has positioned himself as someone to never underestimate.
Luigi Mario, on the other hand, is generally an easy man to underestimate, but comes to this challenge with a wealth of racing experience that he's ready to use to show us all who's number one now. Of course, will he be able to run and run before he's well done?
Match 44
Craft soul into words
Then present with great beauty
Poetry Contest.
Twin Competitors
Draw goodness from darkest grasp.
Rafa and Malak
Innocent being
Adorable atop hair
Baby Frocobo
Match 45
You pathetic amateur, you think you can taunt? Well, none can taunt, or gloat as well as I! But, if any were close, perhaps it'd be one of these two.
Oh yes, there's few things quite so haughty as a strategist, and Lucretia has that air of superiority down pat. I'm sure if it'd net her a win, there's none who can taunt as well as she can.
But Ultros, well, if there's one thing he can do well, it's taunt, boast, and gloat. Of course, eight legs can't help him here!
Match 46
What is it that makes a man. Is it sculpted muscles, abs of steel, a willingness to do whatever it is that needs doing regardless of the cost, and a bonus if it involves an excessive amount of punching shit up? There is that certain je ne sais quoi that defines a man, and here we must distill it down to that basic spirit, and see which competitor possesses more.
First up is a slam dancing moogle whose specialty is avoiding combat. Ok, so apparently he has an issue of all of his buddies being manlier than him, especially the yeti that will randomly pick him up and use him as a weapon. But at least he's a melee fighter by nature.
As opposed to Jade, who is not only a mage, but also prone to cheating. Of course, Gandar is a mage who managed to win the title of manly, so it's not an auto lose. Of course, there is a difference between dirty tricks and cheating. One's manlier.
Match 47
Since we seem to already be on the subject of manliness, let's move on to the second of the manly challenges and start up the drinking contest. They'll be matching each other shot for shot, bottle for bottle, until one of them is too sick or too drunk to go on.
For Cloud, this may just be another mini game, and who knows how Mako will effect alcohol. That said, his ability to drink has never been hugely important.
Then again, neither has it been for his opponent, mythical fairy type Jack Frost. He'll almost certainly be going in one of his real forms, as having to depend on the alcohol tolerance of a Japanese schoolboy, even ones as perfect as those two, seems a losing trade against Cloud. Of course, how much he'll be able to get down is still in question.
Match 48
And completing our trio of masculinity, we've got the Bar Fight. Oddly enough, for this one we've got two aristocratic rapier fighters who'll have to use fists, chairs, broken bottles, and other such improvised weaponry in order to carry the day.
Roy was honestly just here to recruit some mercenaries, while Mitsuru because it was the last place anyone would look for her as she practiced eating a hamburger. Then the brawl starts, and oddly enough, it just won't stop until one of the two are downed.
Quick Vote Form:
41: Ike v Maria - Stealth Match (Metal Gear Challenge)
42: Dungeon Man v Gilgamesh - Junkyard Wars
43: Kefka Palazzo v Luigi Mario - Nascar Racing
44: Rafa/Malak v Frocobo - Poetry Contest
45: Lucretia v Ultros - Taunting/Gloating
46: Mog v Jade Curtiss - Manliness Contest
47: Cloud Strife v Jack Frost - Drinking Contest
48: Mitsuru Kirijo v Roy - Bar Fight
