After Mastema shares her overzealous plans to return to her normal demon form with her master, all Demon Slayer can muster in response is a Flat "What".
Xenon has a questline that involves him choosing gifts to give to his friends back in Edelstein. Unsurprisingly, he's clueless about what can be considered a gift, so he asks the Veritas crew for help. Only problem is, the team don't know what the Resistance leaders are like, and have to rely on Xenon's very loose descriptions to come up with an idea. This results in a Gift-Giving Gaffe for him as the Resistance leaders awkwardly thank him for his attempt.
Roo-D:[after listening to Xenon's recount] Whew! I thought I didn't understand humans, but you're terrible!
Alpha and Beta attack Horntail and cause it to start crying. A frustrated Freud comes in to tell the duo that Horntail is only a baby dragon. The two, in an attempt to calm the dragon down, offer to sing a lullaby. Freud immediately regrets accepting the offer.
During a conversation about how Rhinne (Zero's merged past identity) used to have a wonderful singing voice, the priests debate if the Brother-Sister Team inherits her ability to sing as well. To settle the debate, Pietta asks the duo to sing for them, which they happily oblige. The reactions? Well...
Benedict: ...S-Stop! Stop it! Argh, I can't listen to this anymore!
Dello: The temple's windows are cracked!
Cassius: Oh, my goddess...
Alpha: Were we that bad? Pietta, did we sound terrible to you?
Pietta: I am willing to listen to you two singing all day long even if you two squeal like dying pigs!
Alpha:[mortified] S-squealing... D-dying pigs...
Kinesis' storyline has a few hilarious points:
Jay's Otaku tendencies are not dissimilar from real life geeks. His nature as a clean freak is completely and utterly exploited by Kinesis for his own amusement.
Kinesis:[smiling] Here Nero, come closer and look.
Jay:[turning white as Nero approaches his electronics] KINESIS!
A cutscene shows Kinesis and Nero investigating the sinkhole in the middle of the city. As Kinesis gets all ready to go, Nero laughs nervously and tries to convince him to let her stay on the surface. Kinesis grabs her arm and jumps into the sinkhole anyway, with her screaming the whole way down.
Quests, Blockbusters, and Events
As Friendstory is supposed to be a Lighter and Softer version of the Maplestory universe, there's bound to be comedic moments.
Francis starts off Chapter 2 trying to confess to his crush, Orchid, through a love letter that he places on her desk. Unfortunately, he breaks out in Overly-Nervous Flop Sweat and smudges the writing to make the letter have a threatening message instead. He tries to write another letter the next day (with the help of the player and co.), but it ends up happening again. When the students suggest calling the police for the terrifying message, poor Francis is out cold on the spot. You find him in the infirmary later, saying that he's about to die from lovesickness.
At the end of the episode, Francis gives a Rousing Speech about not giving up and practicing his talking skills so one day he'll finally win Orchid over, which is accompanied by the Theme Music Power-Up from the Adventurer storyline... Until he reveals just how he plans to practice - with an Orchid figurine he just happened to have on his person - at which point the music immediately cuts out.
In Chapter 3, the player has to somehow get the Made of IronP.E. teacher, Magnus sent to the school infirmary to try and hook him up with the School Nurse, Hilla. What does the player character come up with? Try and knock him unconscious.With soccer balls.100 of them.
His Maplestory boss theme even plays while you're launching the soccer balls at him!
What makes it even funnier? It doesn't work. Magnus, a normal human being in this universe, can withstand 100 soccer balls to the head and stay standing.
Chapter 5 introduces the Pale Student-Teacher, a man that is apparently so attractive that (almost) any girl who lays eyes on him will immediately fall head-over-heels in love, and (almost) any guy who looks at him turns into a squid.It makes just as much sense in context.
The team go to get food from the local food stand. Who's there to serve them? The one and only Damien. When the group go to order...
Irene: You heard the lady. Serve us.
Damien: Ha! Serve losers like you? Run on home.
Hawkeye: Granny, the part-time kid is rude!
Damien:[angrily]HOW CAN I HELP YOU, DEAR CUSTOMERS?
The entire Mushroom Princess questline, wherein the protagonist is roped into a talent contest to make the princess smile. She's considered the Mushroom Kingdom's most beautiful...uh...woman(?), but the vague outline of her face suggests she looks like a character from the infamous manga Kuso Miso Technique (a.k.a. the source of the "Yaranaika" meme) and every non-resident who has seen the princess' face beneath the veil reacts as if she's some sort of Lovecraftian Cosmic Horror.
From Act 2, Evan, Mir, Mercedes, Phantom and Luminous have escaped from a death trap involving a room flooding with sand and gold and have reached the final door. However, the door won't open and the nearby inscription reads "The treasures of Abraxas may not leave this place." Luminous understandably starts pointing fingers at Phantom, who denies the accusations. It turns out Evan had some of the gold in his pockets, which he empties out. Then the door still doesn't open, and Mir is forced to literally cough up the much larger pile of gold that he took.
Mercedes: …I take back what I said earlier. You've got a long way to go to catch up with Freud and Afrien.
Earlier in the chapter, Evan, Mir and Mercedes are blocked by a golem; however, upon learning that Evan is Freud's successor, it agrees to let them in if he answers his riddle correctly. Mir jokingly asks if it's going to be the classic Riddle of the Sphinx...forcing the golem to come up with another riddle on the spot.
a threatening message instead. He tries to write another letter the next day (with the help of the player and co.), but it ends up happening again. When the students suggest calling the police for the terrifying message, poor Francis is out cold on the spot. You find him in the infirmary later, saying that he's about to die from lovesickness.
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