#kupo nuts

[magicmalcolm]

Malcolm Plays Final Fantasy IX

I Got The Burmecia Blues

(previous parts here)

Okay, so there's a few things to do before hitting up Burmecia.

First, a small optional area to the right of the exit from Gizamaluke's Grotto. The North Gate has a nice little scene between Freya and Quina, where the former envies the carefree nature of the latter. There's also a couple of Chests to loot. Yay!

Second, we track down a Nymph enemy for Quina to learn another Blue Magic Skill: Night. Night induces the Sleep Status on EVERYTHING in the current battle, friend and foe alike. Can combo quite well if everyone on your side has the Insomniac ability equipped (which we can get from the Coral Ring Freya won at the Festival Of The Hunt).

Third, we can dig up one more Chocograph location in this area of the map. Taking a detour past the left of the sand-tornado takes us to a secluded beach, where a set of Chocobo tracks lay. The treasure location is also on this beach and…

IT'S A TRAP!!!

Or…not?

Choco has acquired the Reef Ability! So this doesn't give Choco the ability to walk on all water yet, this one allows him to traverse the shallow light-blue waters. This will come in handy to nab a few more Chocograph Treasures back on the other side of Gizamaluke's Grotto, but we'll get them later. Burmecia awaits!

And what is the first thing that happens to us in Burmecia?

Welp.

Another enemy can be eaten here in Burmecia for Blue Magic, eating a Magic Vice enemy will earn Quina the Magic Hammer skill. which removes a random amount (based on their current HP) of the enemies' remaining MP. Could be useful to help neuter some bosses down the road.

Also some of the chests in Burmecia are actually Mimics. Mimics can sometimes summon the aforementioned Magic Vices, so battling them isn't all bad.

Sadly, Burmecia is already in Ruins by the time we get there. Soldiers and civilians alike fallen at the hands of Brahne's Black Mage Army. Still, they were nice enough to leave a Lightning Staff and this Mythril Spear untouched for us to acquire.

We also bump into Stiltzkin again, who sells us a pretty sweet bundle of goodies for a barganimous price. And we also get another Kupo Nut and oh oh this another game spanning quest isn't it?

Welp. Burmecia's already wrecked, might as well head back and get sidetracked. Play the Backtrack Song!

So first we go back to Gizmaluke's Grotto and give Moguta the Kupo Nut we just got.

He's Kupo For Kupo Nuts.

Then we head back to Qu's Marsh to check on the Frog Spawn.

This goes immediately onto Vivi. Ability Up is going to be really useful for him soon.

And since Choco obtained the Reef Ability earlier, we can grab two more Chocograph Treasures! The Magician's Robe is nice, but the Oak Staff from Chocograph #11 is the real prize right now. Bio, Stop and Drain? For Best Boy Vivi? Yay!

After that it's heading back to prep for facing Beatrix. Everyone gets moved to the back row, Zidane gets the Coral Ring and then it's pretty much down to the whims of fate.

He's doing his best.

Kuja's so sassy.

My strategy for the Beatrix fight is pretty simple, Zidane Steals and hopes for a miracle to at least get that Chain Plate, Freya casts Reis' Wind to open and heals with Potions when not defending, Quina casts Vanish on Zidane and recasts as necessary, and Vivi tries to land a Slow spell on Beatrix. Getting the Mythril Sword is about as mythical as it gets during this hopeless boss battle. If Beatrix KOs Zidane before you can Steal the Chain Plate (let alone the Sword), you might as well reset. The remakes are nice enough to Autosave right before the Beatrix Battle, at least.

OMG I actually got it what in the actual…

The real kicker is that it's not even a unique weapon...you can literally buy this in Treno in like five minutes from now...and it's almost immediately made obsolete in Treno too.

Unfortunately that's where the good luck ends. Beatrix activates her trap card: Hopeless Boss Battle. Fortunately it's still Disc One of Four so we're allowed to live for some reason.

And yet you do nothing. Aah, blessed be to Overconfident Villains.

[bride-and-bride]

I had all these ideas about literacy in the different Eorzeans city-states and which are more or less literate and the demographics and what drives those rates etc but I feel like it's a little boring and excessive (the main point being that literacy rates post ARR would be on the rise across the board as different leaders could afford more time and money to education instead of Garleans and/or Dragons.)

So instead take these shorter, more interesting headcanons!

Limsans invented the Spelling Bee bc Merlwyb found it hard to convince older pirates that reading and writing were valuable skills but COULD convince them that it will be sooooo satisfying when someone finally beats Carvellain's smug ass in a contest of words

Occasionally, sponsoring education for the POOR YOUTH will come into vogue in Ul'dahn society and the upper class will briefly sponsor schools, but the only one doing it consistently is Godbert Manderville. Unfortunately, while a Mandervillian Classic Education IS excellent, the mannerisms among graduates are... a deterrent to enrollment

Don't ask about Gridania, Gridania's a fucking mess. Hope someone in your community can teach you, join a crafter's guide or gods help you, you're gonna need to ask the Moogles

[there-is-sand-in-my-shoes]

moogle are driving me insane... trying to complete all quests in the Churning Mists but they are so ridiculous i had to ramble to my friends about it

[rpgxyz]

Darling!

[feral-piano-rat]

trick or treat! ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ

Ooh, a ripe kupo nut, that's a rare treat!

[swagstinien]

FAVORABLE....

[yaroudomos]

nudges @mailmog onto the dash...

[pom-pom-party]

Base Tag Dump;; Unique ones will be made for specific thread interactions.

[starspaceace]

i thought sleeping it off would make me not sad this sucks i want a refund

[itsmeishmi]

Okay, who took his Kupo Nuts...?

[nabaath-areng]

They really should have made the currency not kupo nuts but rather kupons

[afniel]

You know, I kind of hate the chocobo chicks in FFVII Rebirth. Like that is not what a chick looks like. That's like if birds had mammalian development. They don't. A chocobo chick shouldn't look like a bobble-headed, big-eyed little chocobo. It should look like an unfledged, naked little monster with a huge beak and breastbone and feet, and not much else to its name. Or, if they do develop more like ostriches or emus or any of that sort of large ground-nesting bird, which is reasonable to assume is possible, they still shouldn't look like a whole other goddamn species.

Like, that's cute. They don't look horrifying or anything. They just look like little fluffy adults with babie legs and necks.

This however can die in a goddamn fire. That's not a chocobo. It's a blasphemy with a bad case of human infant skull. (Also why do they have plant butts? I don't think this is even explained?)

Like I'm loving watching my partner go through this game but there are some visual decisions that I'm like, who did this. Turn on your location. I just want to talk.

ALSO whoever decided that chocobos should sound like someone doing a bad peacock impersonation, please. Eat a fork sideways. They have gotten more and more annoying to listen to in every game where they're voiced and I hate it. Can we go back to their cute little 'prreep?' noise in FFVI or the couple of nice sounds they made in original FFVII? Those were fine. Whatever is happening now makes my ears want to perish.

I do really like that different colors have different general plumage, that's cool. I used to draw them that way, waaaaay back in high school. But the chocobo chicks are almost as bad as the toddler/koala hybrid moogles with human teeth but in a squirrel configuration...like I know they eat kupo nuts but that's just terrifying to actually see.

[avirael]

FFxivWrite 2024

Day 26 - Zip

Rael had enough of the moogles. They were sick and tired of them and their chattering, all their requests and their pranks. Yes, they had seen enough of these furred little monsters for the rest of their life — which is saying a lot.

The Viera had really tried to befriend the moogles! After all they were mostly peaceful and harmless creatures and Rael had already met some of them in the Black Shroud. Even there they had been little rascals with a tendency to cause trouble but usually they had meant well.

The shroud-moogles’ distant relatives from the Churning Mists however were on an entirely different level of being annoying. First there had been this ridiculous game of hide-and-seek, which Rael would have excused by the little creatures being shy and scared of strangers.

Then there had been the moogles‘ chieftain, Moglin, a particularly big and pompous fellow who had demanded them to pass a series of trials first, before offering help. Even that could have been acceptable if these trials had actually been tests of their abilities or trustworthiness. But instead it was very apparent that the moogles simpy tried to pass the chores they found too annoying onto someone else.

That way all of them had been entangled in a never ending set of ridiculous tasks! Collecting herbs and flowers, playing bodyguard for a slightly narcissistic specimen, household chores, helping a forgetful artist with finding his belongings and so much more — all in all nothing the moogles could not have solved by themselves if they weren’t so lazy.

The worst part of it all had not even been the little rascals constantly following them around, chattering, singing or trying to prank them until Rael almost yelled at them all to shut up. No! The worst part was that A’viloh seemed to enjoy this whole ordeal all too much. In a way Rael was glad he had fun and got along nicely with the moogles, but after a few hours of dealing with their combined silliness, Rael began to question the Miqo’te’s sanity.

Just as Rael was checking the kupo trees around the settlement for the moogles’ favourite food, A’viloh appeared, once again with an entourage of giggling moogles. Someone had braided colorful flowers into his hair and a wide happy grin was on his face.

“Rael!,” he already exclaimed happily before he even reached the Viera. “Look! I’ve been making flower decorations with Mogsy, Mogomo and Mogret!”

Rael sighed and tried to look friendly enough as they turned around towards the small group over overly joyous visitors. “That’s very nice, A’viloh…”

“I had to show you this one, because you like interesting plants, right?”, he happily kept on chattering and presented a small flower consisting of a white, round cotton-like pom. “See! Mogomo told me this a small version of these big plants we’ve seen earlier! The moogles call them Cloud Mallow and use it to spark motivation and joy!”

Rael raised an eyebrow and still wondered if that had been an euphemism for moogle drugs when A’viloh held up the strange cloud-like flower and took a deep breath. With one gust of air the blossom burst into hundreds of tiny parachute-like petals — most of them landing right in Rael face. The viera pressed their eyes shut and started to sneeze vehemently, while A’viloh and the moogles giggled.

Apparently these plants either were no happiness-inducing drugs or they simply worked differently on Viera, because all Rael felt was a growing sensation of anger. Once they had recovered from their sneezing fit, Rael just breathed deeply, trying to stay calm, and looked at A’viloh with a tired expression on their face.

“Very funny… Now would you mind helping me with gathering the ripe kupo nuts?”, they asked and held out the small basket in their hands for A’viloh to take. He immediately did so, seemingly very happy about his new task. Equally euphoric were the three moogles, who took each others hands and started a dance above A’viloh’s head, while singing another squeaky song about their favourite food.

A while A’viloh excitedly hummed along to the melody, before turning one of the fruits this way and that, eyeing it curiously. “What do these things taste like?”, he wondered aloud.

“You never have eaten kupo nuts, kupo?”, one of the moogles asked almost shocked, to which A’viloh shook his head.

“How horrible, kupo!”, another one cried. “You really should try one, kupo!”

The third one nodded. “You should, kupo! They simply taste mogtastic, kupo! We should all eat kupo nuts together, kupo!“

A’viloh seemed to like this idea. “Would you like to try a kupo nut too?”, he asked and offered one to Rael.

With a shake of their head, the Viera sighed. “We are supposed to gather them, not eat them, A’vi…”

One of the moogles nervously flapped with their tiny wings and arms, probably seeing their clever plan of stealing some snacks in danger. “Not even just a tiny one for each of us, kupo?”

“Please, Rael!”, A’viloh pleaded with his most irresistible expression on his face. „We will gather sooo many more that no one will notice a few missing.“

„Do whatever you want…“, Rael said unwilling to have a discussion about this.

The three moogles and A’viloh cheered happily and started to laugh and babble and sing again, while Rael tried to get their work done. A part of the Viera still wished they would all shut up, at least a minute, but seeing A‘viloh this happy was also not that bad.

[steak-n-popotoes]

FFxivWrite '24 - 5

"You really drew all these yourself, kupo?"

Beef nodded. The top of his head barely peeked above the sketchbook he held up for Kupopo's perusal.

"Well, your landscapes are pretty good, and the flowers are even better - they should make for some powerful pictomancy!" the moogle exclaimed, wings fluttering and pom bouncing. "We could go over elemental pigments... but the basics are boring, kupo. Why don't we see how you fare with some other subjects, instead?"

The two relocated to their local striking dummy in order to practice a few tricks of the pictomancer's trade.

"You know kupo, I only had the one job crystal to give away anyway, so if you think about it, it's actually a bit of a blessing that you were the only adventurer interested in being my student."

Beef's only response was to stare at the moogle in silence.

"I can see you're eager to learn, so let's get started, kupo. How about we try weapons?"

After a few minutes of watching Beef stare at his beginner's palette, Kupopo thought it best to offer some more guidance. "It doesn't have to be perfect, kupo, just come up with something you can pound a few poms with."

The suggestion seemed to help somehow, as Beef snapped his fingers and began to paint, stroke by stroke. Once it had taken shape, he raised the finished piece aloft - a feat that would never have been possible were it truly a weapon forged in iron.

"A hammer, kupo? Kind of silly at that size, don't you think?"

"Dwarven decking."

"I have no idea what that means, kupo." Kupopo shrugged. "But I guess it's true what they say: when you have a kupo nut, all of your tools start to look like hammers, kupo!"

Beef didn't think he had heard that one before.

"How about we switch tactics, kupo? You could really fill any role on the battlefield, if you think about it. A pictomancer is only limited by their imagination, after all! You could draft up a shield, or even cure pain with... paint, kupo!"

Beef's face scrunched up in response. "Messy."

"Look, that's up to you and how you imagine it, kupo."

For a while Beef tried to conceptualize a depiction of healing, but the line that distinguished between these two uses of magic lay somewhere outside of his grasp. To his untrained eye, it was all just magic.

"Well, you passed the job interview, so I'm sure you've got imagination to spare, kupo." said the moogle. "If you can't visualize how casting a healing spell would look, why don't you try sketching a healer that will do it for you?"

Beef looked to Kupopo, then his brush, and then back again. After another dose of erratic encouragement from his moogle mentor, he gave his best attempt at painting L'kozu.

The resulting evocation defied all description.

"THE HAMMER, KUPO! GET THE HAMMER!"

In a panic, Beef hurriedly sketched up another hammer and scrambled to grip its handle.

"STAMP IT OUT QUICK, KUPO!!"

In a whirlwind of color and magic, he rapidly and repeatedly pounded the dissatisfactory piece until it was rendered across the V&C garden as little more than a painterly pulp.

After a few moments for the two to catch their breath, Kupopo fluttered past Gale to speak a little too close into Beef's face. "I changed my mind, kupo. Maybe we should work through the basics after all... then we'll consider building toward a living muse."

[rpgxyz]

Kupooo!

[pumpkinmagekupo]

"You're right it is going to be a nice day." Mizuki hummed, "The umbral static is pretty though."

"I wonder what it feels like to be shocked by it-"

"I wouldn't advise it, kupo... my pom almost caught fire, kupo."

"Fascinating! Sorry you caught fire... can I ask questions? I brought kupo nuts." Mizuki asked, already armed with a notebook and a bag almost bursting with kupo nuts.

The moogle frowned but was eyeing the bag hungrily "very well, kupo."