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( http://www.supercheats.com/gameboyadvance/walkthroughs/fireemblemthesacredstones-walkthrough08.txt )

Ok, when you go into the arena(like in ch.5 for example) three RNs are used:1
to determine the type of person based on the person going into the arena; 1 to
determine the level compared to the person going into the arena;1 to determine
the type of weapon(Iron,Steel,Silver) again based on the person going into the
arena.......the second RN is used to determine the level......if the second RN
is "high" then the person will be higher than your person. If the 2nd RN
is low then the person that you will be sending into the arena
I'm currently testing it to see how it works specifically, but from this information, you
could get a huge string of arena abuses. Get a long string recorded, and go
into the arena against a low level enemy. I'm not 100% about this, but, I'm
fairly sure that each turn takes 8 RNs if you miss, and 9 RNs if you hit.
So, using this, you eat the necissary number of RNs to get another low level
fight, and another, and another...

I wouldn't believe this is completely correct, because I thought the weapon was determined by your DEF.

However...

...If this is true, then it means it's hypothetically POSSIBLE to RNG-abuse the Arena to get weak enemies. Hmm...

[New Resolve progress: On the last attempt, Dart managed to get hit twice in a row at 40% hit chance, then died when he got hit again three Wyverns later. Yes, he did get swamped by five Wyverns at once. Hector Hard Mode!

This run is going better, though. All hail Wargod Hector, he who soaks up about half the damn creatures without even taking damage. (Yes, I KNOW that's wasted EXP, but there's sadly no setting between 'Hector soaks them up' and 'THEIR WINGS BLOT OUT THE SKY'. No, baiting doesn't work very well. When given a choice between somebody with low defense, damaged HP, and no chance to kill them in one round, and Hector, who will take no damage, has full HP, and will kill them in one HIT... Wyverns will choose Hector. Every. Single. Time. It is the most ridiculous AI failure you will ever see in Fire Embem.)

I guess there's a reason it's Hector's Mode. :P]

It's here.

No, there's no plot, but it's fun to level things up. (And remember, only the damage-dealing moves are functional. The computer does not know this. It confers a certain advantage upon the player...) Since I don't have ROMs, this is the closest I'll get to playing Pokemon on the computer. :P

Somebody on fanfiction.net posted a bunch of LOTR poems (now lost) in... dubious Elvish. An actual fan of Tolkien's languages decided to do a literal translation of them into English.

Comedy ensured.

And I do quote:

Woodpeckers of globes, I order you to die.
I cry myself.

Well, if you click the link, I think you will be crying yourself. With laughter.