Dear FOE,

Please don't eat me.

I'm just a lowly Level 1 Ronin, thanks to some crazy programmer who decided it would be HILARIOUS to make me reset my level from 50 all the way back to 1 JUST so I could get 2 freaking extra skill points at my starting level... dang you, Guildmaster!!!!!

Look, I'll pay you 100,000 gold. Yep, my 3 Hunter buddies mined, took, and chopped so much free stuff in the Labyrinth that they earned millions of gold from the poor townspeople suckers who just kept buying their stuff over and over again :-) See, here's the money right here!

Oh, you don't use currency? Uh, crap.

Hey man, I hear Protectors taste way better than me, particularly the chick variety: blond hair, blue eyes, and they look like that Yggdra chick from Yggdra Union... haha, you're drooling now! See, doesn't that sound so much tastier than me?

Wait here and I'll go find her. Let me just take a step and...

WHAT THE, stop following me already! Look, I'm just going to step to the left and...

You have GOT to be kidding me... are you just going to follow me around all day? Left, right, left, right- AHA, you missed a step! Now I can simply sneak past you and-

*CHOMP*

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*BUUUURP*

Signed,
FOE... FOE... *dances to the music*

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Thanks for reading my submission to the Tales of Etrian Odyssey contest. Like many of you, I too have put in the long hours to complete this game, and I hope that my little anectodal story here wins points for style and originality, two of the most important elements in a contest like this, IMO. Good luck to all the contestants, and may the most creative entries win! (hint hint...)

One last thing: if any of you have ever played or heard of Yggdra Union, check out my YouTube account at http://www.youtube.com/user/channychan0683. I have posted a complete 48-map walkthrough in 146 videos :-) Anyone care to disagree that I'm a die-hard Atlus fan?