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    The gray dog thing

    hey, it has happened to me more than once when my characters have the sleep spell cast on them that some kind of gray dog thing appeares, casts some green spell on them, dissapeares and voila! the characters are wide awake.

    so my question is: ...WTF? what is that thing? first i laughed at it but then it got me thinking about what it is and thinking bothers me...
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    Did you do some sort of attack before the "grey dog thing" appeared?
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    Ity usually just happens when your entire party is asleep. It like... bails you out. I dont remember anything else about it.

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    I've never even heard of the grey dog thing until just now.. Hmm.
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    *nods*

    It happens during one of my games, when I tried to put all my characters into sleep as a small challenge to me. Damned dog...

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    This is just a shot in a VERY dark room but I think that if you have a certain esper equipped it'll automatically go into effect to wake you back up. The one that casts sleep on your enemies. Either that or your enemy(ies) cast sleep on your entire party after they've already put you all to sleep and thus reverse the desired effect. Still, I don't know. Big D, Kishi, Doc France... Somebody help!!!

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    It's not a dog, it's an ardvark if I'm not mistaken. It happens if your entire party is asleep, there are no other factors than that.

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    No, it's not your entire party. If, by chance, you're asleep and don't do anything to revive your member, eventually you'll hear a sound, see the dog and be awakened.

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    If it's an Esper, then it's Fenrir. I'll go play a game on the ROM to see if it works before you get any Espers.

    And no, the Aardvark lookin thing bails single party members out of different trouble.

    Edit: Here's a pic of the 'Aardvark', and I was wrong, he does individually bail the party out, but he gets them all in one shot. I know it isnt an Aardvark, I believe it's a real animal though. I'm still lookin for the dog...



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    Oohh that. I've seen that before, yeah.
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    It's actually a tapir. According to Japanese mythology, tapirs eat your dreams. For example, the pokemon Hypno and Drowzy look like tapirs and have sleep attacks. Like Goku, it's one of those cultural references that the Japanese instantly recognize that others might miss.

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    i was wondering what that thing was... and now i know
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    Tapir, I knew that I'd read that about them in mythology. I have no idea why I couldn't remember it at the time but yes, I do remember reading that... *blush*

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    What version of the game are you playing? I've played this game millions of hours on my snes and never ever have I seen that thing.
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    The tapir is also part of Mog's Love Sonata dance, in which is restores the party from all adverse status. Look.

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