The Mother of All Cave Story Questions

If we're going to have magic lightbulbs why not just magic glowing rock?

 

Then how come there's light in the Start Point and beyond? It's obvious he never went there, or he would know about you.

Start Point is a part of the First Cave, which is simply lighted in its entirety.

She doesn't need lights for the whole thing, like the chamber that leads to Omega.

There's an old bar at the Sand Zone's top an a teleporter underneath. And a robot as big as Omega needs maintenance.

You'd think anything native to the island would have night-vision, seeing as they're underground.

I'm sure you need at least some light for night-vision to work. Creatures that live in total darkness generally don't use vision at all, relying instead on other senses.

And the flashlights never ran out of batteries. They have perpetual energy generators in Cave Story? Might explain where all these lights are getting their electricity from.

He said the explorers did not use flashlights, just that they set up some lights in there. It's just logical that they set up a permanent lighting there, since they intended to stay on the Island for a long time.

If we're going to have magic lightbulbs why not just magic glowing rock?

Because there are no magic lightbublbs.

 

But those lightblubs are powered by magically made solar panels!

 

Care to explain your outrageous claim?

 

Why are you calling it outrageous? You agreed with it somewhere in this thread.

 

Why are you calling it outrageous? You agreed with it somewhere in this thread.

Uh, yeah. Why did I agree with magically created solar panels in the first place?

 

Because Jenka made and installed the solar panels.

 

Start Point is a part of the First Cave, which is simply lighted in its entirety.

If the hermit lit up the entire cave, why didn't he discover you? He doesn't give any sign of recognizing you.

There's an old bar at the Sand Zone's top an a teleporter underneath. And a robot as big as Omega needs maintenance.

If by "maintain" you mean "destroy" then I agree.

I'm sure you need at least some light for night-vision to work. Creatures that live in total darkness generally don't use vision at all, relying instead on other senses.

True. But then the Labyrinth would be quite dim.

He said the explorers did not use flashlights, just that they set up some lights in there. It's just logical that they set up a permanent lighting there, since they intended to stay on the Island for a long time.

What the hell are these permanent lights powered by? Same for the First Cave too.

 

If the hermit lit up the entire cave, why didn't he discover you? He doesn't give any sign of recognizing you.

What if he lit the cave more than 10 years ago? Or what if somebody else did it?

If by "maintain" you mean "destroy" then I agree.

Ah, good.

True. But then the Labyrinth would be quite dim.

Not necessarily.

What the hell are these permanent lights powered by? Same for the First Cave too.

Last Cave: Probably some kind of electrical generator.
First Cave: Power source located in the Hermit's house, devised by himself.

 

Unless the generator in the Last Cave is solar or wind powered, it's a magic generator.

 

Two questions:

Unless the generator in the Last Cave is solar or wind powered,

Why not?

it's a magic generator.

Why so?

 

Because! Magic explains everything!

 

Magic?

Because! Magic explains everything!

*Curt nod*

 

I never really thought that all of Mimiga Island would have a power grid, but I guess that's the only way all those electronics would work. I wonder what it's powered by? I suppose the humans that lived there once might have installed solar cells or windmills, before the war.

 

Eh?

I never really thought that all of Mimiga Island would have a power grid, but I guess that's the only way all those electronics would work. I wonder what it's powered by? I suppose the humans that lived there once might have installed solar cells or windmills, before the war.

Whaddya mean "Before the war"?
The humans weren't even on the Island before the war, they sent all of the robots first, and they started the war....
...Weren't they? O.o;

 

No. I remember Jenka saying something along the lines of "The robots slaughtered the Mimgas and the humans who tried to protect them." I'll look it up, actually.

EDIT: From the script:
"Countless Mimigas perished
at their hands.<NOD
As did the humans who
tried to protect them.<NOD<CLRCornered, the Mimigas
finally ingested the
forbidden red flowers,<NOD
and in their murderous
rage began to strike
back against the robots."

 

No. I remember Jenka saying something along the lines of "The robots slaughtered the Mimgas and the humans who tried to protect them." I'll look it up, actually.

Countless Mimigas perished
at their hands.<NOD
As did the humans who
tried to protect them.<NOD<CLRCornered, the Mimigas
finally ingested the
forbidden red flowers,<NOD

But does it mean that the Humans had lived on that Island, or that they had followed the Robots there?
I really doubt Humans were there before the War, but I wouldn't be surprised if they had set up bases and such during it. {Actually, that's an idea in my mod..}

EDIT:
Oh, nice timing on your edit...
>.>;

 

But does it mean that the Humans had lived on that Island, or that they had followed the Robots there?

Most likely Human explorers with a bad case of wrong place, wrong time. You can see all the equipment they left behind all across the island. You can't reason with standard-issue soldier robots to spare the Mimigas, in fact if you defended the Mimigas then they will assume that you are an obstacle to be dealt with and *ahem* get rid of the obstacle.

 

Hmm?

Most likely Human explorers with a bad case of wrong place, wrong time. You can see all the equipment they left behind all across the island. You can't reason with standard-issue soldier robots to spare the Mimigas, in fact if you defended the Mimigas then they will assume that you are an obstacle to be dealt with and *ahem* get rid of the obstacle.

Explorers, yeah that sounds likely. But Humans living on the Island? I don't think that happened...
Explorer idea makes even more sense, since the War was several hundred years ago...

 

Heh

Um... Several hundred?
No. You're mistaken.

Oh. Haha.
The stacked-ness of the script writing made me mix the lines "Not so long ago" with "Hundreds of Robots"...
So I kinda read "Hundeds of years ago", as my brain filled in non-existing lines...

Oops....^.^;