May 03, 2007 19:15
[If you're nearabouts the barrier today, you may stumble across a clutch of zombies milling about with slightly more direction than is usually seen, amidst the cranially decrepit. Assuming that you shoulder your way through, you will see what looks like a giant chicken, cluctching a suit of armor to its breast with desperation. It is a chocobo, and a white one, at that.
(For people unfamiliar with FFIV, white chocobos are magical refueling stations; talking to one refills your party's magic points. Magic-users, free to tweak this effect as narcotically as desired.)
The chocobo is holding--or, "holding," for given values of "no opposable digits or, indeed, appendages remotely resembling hands"--a spear, tucked beneath one wing. He waves it menacingly at the zombies, who do not seem to mind overmuch. The icon lies, but there is a jaunty helmet set askew on the chocobo's head.
The chocobo also looks like he is trying very, very hard to curse, in Chocobese.]
...Kwee kwee kwee, kweeing kwee. ([Oh, just take a guess.])