Symbolism And You: A Practical Guide

[dolorous_sensei]

Hm, so the apparently whoever made Fyra and Co used the interpretation of Conquest, War, Famine, and Death... I think? Won't get it past them to turn out to be actually based on different thing, like but most likely the next Rider would be Famine.

Discounting how War and Conquest are kinda redundant, and all actually means death anyway, if that's true, this give us some time to prepare about its awakening, since apparently each rider has vague special ability symbolizing their names. Conquest apparently could summon unlimited mooks instantly, War was... undefeated in conflict by regeneration? Death can... kill all things? Well it's kinda vague, and I wasn't really paying attention because I was too busy to not die, but I think that's the gist of it.

So, using those as examples, let's play word association. What would be Famine's ability and how can we neutralize it? The neutralizer can't simply be everyone bringing cheeseburgers in their cockpits on sortie, right?

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[in_over_his_head]

Famine's mostly associated with food but almost always has to do with shortages too.

Maybe its got some kind of ability that drains energy or destroys ammunition?

[dolorous_sensei]

So... to neutralize it we must use ammunitionless weapons that's incapable of having its energy drained?

In other word...

Its weakness is punching.

[in_over_his_head]

Punching, physical blades. That sort of thing.

But the issue is there's a chance it might be able to drain our machine's generators too, so we'd need to be able to have something that can attack physically as quickly as possible before that happens.

[dolorous_sensei]

Hmm... can it drain the greatest power of all?

That is the power of nature.

I'm actually talking about physics. Drop a hill on it from a few kilometers above it. If it's really have famine-based power it can't exactly just drain potential energy from height, can it?.

[in_over_his_head]

We could always just find a way to drop it into a salt mine. Those things are notoriously hard to dig anything out of once you cause a cave in.

[dolorous_sensei]

And that doubles as ironic as well! We're killing Famine by making it delicious!

And nothing kill ancient immortal monster better than irony.

[spearpunch]

Maybe we should eat the burgers before going? That way they can't make us hungry and we can beat them before they do anything really bad.

[dolorous_sensei]

But what if its power is making us hungry no matter how many burgers we've eaten before?

[spearpunch]

Then we'd just have to make sure to hit them really hard before we get too hungry!

[dolorous_sensei]

But I'm hungry even when I'm just watching internet videos! I have to constantly eat junkfood! That's not really conducive to piloting a giant robot, isn't it?