Dani is one of the community admins who does a huge amount of work on the race team. Part of that is entering the command to generate a new seed for everyone to play. Even though the randomizer is random, “Dani seeds” have a reputation for having something especially nasty for the players, like packs of Arachnids that cast BLAZE.
Lich, because of its low HP, defense and magic defense, it usually gets rolled right over.
You just beat the pirates, HOORAAY! Unfortunately you forgot to speak with Bikke again and didn't get the item... congrats you just Bikke'd yourself.
Kary. DoctorRosalia, doing comms on a match, misspoke and called Kary, Kelly, and the name stuck.
Kraken, in reference to Piston Honda (Punch Out!) or E. Honda (Street Fighter 2) both of whom have attacks where they throw many punches in a row.
Slow Boat
In vanilla Final Fantasy, the speed of walking is the slowest movement speed in the game, and then it goes to slightly faster in the ship, and then very fast in the airship. In the randomizer, walking speed was increased to match ship speed, but then a flag was introduced to introduce faster ship speed to make it sail as quickly as the airship flew. This was colloquially called “Speed Boat”, and the players loved it so much that eventually it became the default, and the original ship speed was knocked as “Slow Boat”. Now, sometimes we use it as Bingo Tiles (Slow Boat from Coneria to Elfland), but no one misses the days of slow boating.
During discussion of flags for Spring Tournament 2022, during a particularly tense moment on disagreement, someone dropped their keyboard on the floor and typed “h2*++”. The ensuing confusion and amusement defused the situation.
Or as Darkmoon put it: ‘There was tension in the room and then h2*++ arrived and the whole room was just like, "naw, man, we cool. h2star++, bruh"’
Burt Reynoldz:
If anyone is wondering about the ocean canoe; I made some custom sprites for a race on a ROM labeled "Clean FF1 ROM" and it turned out that they filename was a lie and it had been modified to allow the canoe to go on the ocean... for some reason. I only discovered this half way through the race when I accidentally stepped off of the land into an ocean faring canoe. We are all disappointed that this has not been added to the randomizer.
demzeronfrzerog:
I was on comms and thought I was going crazy because nobody else mentioned it
During another race, a combination of randomizer bugs resulted in every encounter being runnable. BurtReynoldz discovered that you could run from the fiend refights, and ultimately, Chaos. Burt then discovered that if you run from Chaos, Garland disappears, making the game unwinnable.
A R.Ankylo match involving floor/entrance shuffle, monster in a box, weaponizer, and a forced 4 thief party. Progression was in a chest guarded by a sentry with 500+ HP. The thief only had access to one weapon, which was complete garbage – the infamous long nunchucks -3, a randomly-generated weapon with a -3 malus that did about 6 damage. As a result, it took racers over an hour (in some cases several hours) of grinding and battle attempts to overcome the Sentry.
Later, Will Bloodworth streamed the same seed with a solo thief (of course) and spent over 2 hours making attempts over multiple sessions before finally defeating the sentry and being able to proceed with the rest of the seed.
Black belts are overpowered and should be nerfed. Black belts are the best class, I only ever play black belts. Black belts are boring, I hate black belts. Black belts are too slow. Black belts should be banned. Black belts should be forced.
Want to start an argument? Ask people their opinion about black belts.
Kill Chaos via papercut which will inevitably take significant time, or re-dive ToFR, which will inevitably take significant time
or, more specifically, making the safe play knowing it will take significant time, or risking the unknown, which will take significant time
Source: Oslodo killing Chaos with a 6 hit 29 damage crit loop during Fall League 2023
During a race with absolutely every map edit turned on (as well as E/F/T Shuffle), and the critical moment of the race LuffyDV found the floater, however, forgot the existence of the Ryukahn Desert Dock, instead choosing to embark on a Quixotic quest for the Canoe. Unbeknownst to Luffy, the Canoe was Canoe/Floater locked, causing him to double check and re-open every chest he had opened previously. For 30 minutes. Only once he sailed by the dock randomly and his soul left his body to join the ranks of the immortal did he realize his mistake. The dock has now been affectionately re-named - Luffy's dock
Source: Fall League 2023 Semi Finals Race 2
A phenomenon where during a tournament members of the admin team perform less than optimally, possibly due to drain from keeping us all happy, and end up grouped in the lower (losers) bracket thus leading to us all getting to see the admins race each other.
In the 2023 Fall League Finals race, Solario was the second player on the Leftovers to get going (in the rally style format of the League finals). They knew where Tiamat lived, and killing Tiamat would let the third player on their team go. But over the course of ten minutes, and 15 BRAK casts, Tia refused to die. It was only on the 16th BRAK that the dragon went down, tying the record for most BRAK casts in any broadcast.
Similar to a Dani seed, when rolled by Oslodo the wolves are out for vengeance. Bringing things stone touch, Nuke, Blaze or other devastating abilities to the early game. As he likes to say "Dani has her spiders, I have my wolves". Sometimes they are quite crafty and hide their tricks until later in the seed and then ambush in Earth Cave dives to wipe parties with no warning.