#842: "Armor is made of metal."
 

So now we know a little more how drownball works and it makes even less sense than before.

How did fighter survive? Sheer stupidity? Or Swordopolis again? Hmm...

BTW, Black mage and red mages exchange was great in this one hehe.

It doesn't not make no lack of sense in a nonsensical way at all! None at all! ^_^

So... where exactly does the ball come in again? >_>

Maybe it's the ball of water they're in?

i wonder who's the winner in normal games of drownball.

Except they're now at an olympic-size swimming pool.

Mystery abounds!

To answer how fighter didn't drown...

HE JUST WONT DIE!

So true! XD

Maybe they stopped the match after everyone else "won"? Or maybe they got bored waiting or time ran out. Swordopolis may not have even needed to get involved.


Edit: As a side note, I'm starting to wonder what color the Wind Air Orb actually is. Just looking at my avatar (which is based on the Bezel Cup lv. 4 effect), it could quite possibly be pink or purple. Normally, such things go red, yellow, green, blue, but the Earth Orb was already green, and popular culture usually reserves that for Wind these days with Earth being yellow. Though it used to be the other way around. Otherwise, sky blue wouldn't be out of the question, but it would have to be visibly paler than the Water Orb/borderline white.

Nested edit: Which means it could be yellow, magenta, cyan, white, or Brian could totally pull a fast one! [/nestededit]

I'm gonna lose sleep over this. XDDD


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Why do I smell the probability of Fighter's winning of the Drown ball leagues to be a kick in the gonads for all the less righteous light warriors?

Fighter didn't drown because he was wearing armor. He was so heavy he sank to the bottom of the hovering waterball and fell out. I'm imagining that's an out-of-bounds DQ, but hey, winner by default.

XD
That is incredibly fitting.

XD
I was thinking the same thing.

It is all easily understandable and Fighter's armor makes a huge difference here. You see in RPGs if you fall into water you don't just drown right then in there, first oyu get tired, and then you gradually lose HP. Well Fighter is... well a Fighter (to the second degree) so he automatically starts out with A LOT of hp, so it takes longer for him to actually drown, now where his armor comes in? Simple, his armor gives him such an AC boost that it keeps most of the damage from the water drowning away so he actually has no chance of drowning (winning/losing)

and in some RPG's the armour have HP regeneration as a perk, so more reason he won't drown.

Nah, Fighter just doesn't understand how to die.

Fighter was just so focused on winning that he forgot to drown. That's my bet.

That's just the training room.

But... they'd other be dying during the training... or getting worse at drowning...

There's also the water armor! water attacks or .......drowning just means
recovering HP , maybe fighter has a water armor ... i mean.. he used to have
ice armor .... Anything is possible right ? :fighter:

The anwser to that would be PHOENIX DOWN ! :D

Why doesn't Fighter die? One word: Plot Device

That and he's just too stupid to know how to die.

BM wants Fighter dead, and the universe hates BM.

Maybe his armor is padded with phoenix down.

The game works like this:

If everyone dies, the first to die wins.
If someone lives, they win by default.
If two or more people live, they tie.
The ball refers to the arena they drown in, and fighter lived because he fell out of the ball (due to his amour).

You people make everything complicated -__-

I think you just made me do quite the double-take there. I instinctively read that in French, and WOW does it sound odd.
He fell out of the ball due to his love.
*snerk* Best typo ever.

No, no, no, everyone knows that training rounds don't count. No one gains EXP, no time passes, damage doesn't carry back over into the normal course of events and if you lose you can just re-spawn and start over immediately.

This occurs with most, if not all, minigame events. Training for a major plot point counts as a minigame, therefore it follows these rules.

Yeah, you guys DO make things far too complicated for yourselves.:rolleyes:

I though the French word for love is "adore" (as in the phrase "J'adore" meaning "I love")?

"Amour" would be the noun form of love, while "adorer" is the verb "to love."

Uh...hi.

I think being too stupid to drown is more of a black belt thing. So, I'll have to agree with the side that's saying he broke the glass sphere/gamefield. But, still, all other players had drowned already? Well, I suppose so, after all, they are professionals.

Well, in FFX-2, while playing Blitzball, characters could be injured, and yet still be able to fight just as well. Might be the same reasoning.

Not necessarily. As an example, Puzzle Quest had earth runes as green and air runes as yellow. I actually can't think of a case myself where Air was green and Earth yellow.

must have been chewing some oxyale

I usually see
red=fire
blue=water
white=air/wind
brown/green=earth

I bet the air orb is white or transparent.

Meanwhile, I wonder what Fighter's rampant success in drownball will mean for the game. Will every player wear armor and drown faster/ score style points? He's going to revolutionize the whole game.

Actually, if you check FFXI, you'll find that Wind is Green, while Water and Ice are both different shades of blue, and Earth is indeed Yellow.

Yes, you are missing out.


Edit: Am I the only one who noticed that the sprites for the interviewer are the same as the sprites for BLM?

In my opinion, Fighter shouldnt have worn armor becuase it protects his hitpoints but then again it does decrease his ability to dodge the water.

Who started Drownball?

From the ancient art of Water-jutsu came two branches. one was convinced living was important to the sport, the other wasn't. hence, swimming and Drownball.

Maybe its due to his experience with the armoir of invincibilty (and maybe the class change but who can say). You COULD say that when fighter got tired of lugging the armoir on his back and it collapsed upon him he was drowning beneath the wood. As you know this continued for several comics and as everyone knows the way to build resistance to something (or someone) is to constantly be bombarded by it(them). Fighter developed such a drowing resistance (illogical as it may sound) from being stuck under the armoir that he momentarily passed out from the awesomeness (his resistance was over 100%....it happens) and then came out the top due to cartoon physics. This often happens when the rules of reality are bent and or broken and logic has no place in the result. Because of his trial (dying underneath the armoir) he was subjected to a constant xp gain {another reason why he passed out} and lvled up furiously which is also another reason he probably didnt die).

Fighter's death resistance must be really high.

oh...and that is why he lost/won at drownball.....

Wow, that really got away from me....

There is no fighter.
 

See fighter has armor that protects him say, from a monster blow or a knife wound. Yet it doesnt make sense in anything but the RPG's to have armor protect you from drowning. 8 bit theater is a realistic rpg so fighters armor wouldnt help him from drowning but as others said before fighter has done some crazy stuff before.

I nominate this as the most perfectly logical conclusion. I'd vote for you, man. I'd be there for you.

The armor-breaking-a-ball theory barely makes any sense at all, let alone sense in any form of the word. Wouldn't the water drain?! The rest of you guys are completely out of it, I'm sorry to say.

*wink *smile *teeth gleam

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*cough* That's a little spammy, isn't it?