STAR OCEAN: THE SECOND STORY - COOKING MASTER ========== compiled by Maiji/Mary Huang The Ragbag @ http://humangray.com/rag DISCLAIMER Game data is created and owned by its developer/publisher. You are free to use the information provided in this transcript as inspiration/reference for your own projects. However, please do respect the fact that I did take the time to write down and type up everything, so if you found The Ragbag a useful resource, a credit and link would be very much appreciated! ========== WHAT IS THIS? This is a transcript of IRON CHEF STAR OCEAN KITCHEN STADIU- er, the Cooking Master competition in Fun City. It includes lines for characters who try to enter when they don't have the Cooking ability, as well as Failure lines. Missing the following: - "I can't cook" lines for Rena and Leon - one or two commentary variations during Seafood and Slime Battles - dialogue for the battle versus Yarma - character lines for everyone except Claude and Opera when facing Puffy - Puffy's losing dialogue ========== Thanks to Catriona @ http://catclawford.livejournal.com/ for Celine, Precis and Ashton's "I can't cook" lines! ^^ (!) (...) (sweatdrop) (heart) etc. = the SO2 emoticons; (<) is the yellow alert/noticing things emoticon. (;;;) is the nervous multiple sweatdrops as opposed to one big one. xD *these are actions ...* // indicate where different characters will say something depending on the selected participant or random generation. __________ [If you try to register with a character who does not have the Cooking skill] Receptionist: Just a minute. Can you really cook? // Claude: Well ... yes. I mean, I've cooked TV dinners. // Celine: Cook? ...um, no I can't. // Bowman: Actually, I'm quite a good cook. // Precis: Sure! No one can beat my raisins and oatmeal! // Ashton: I'm afraid I have to say I can't. // Dias: How DARE you ask that question!! No, I can't. // Opera: It's an antiquated notion that only women cook. // Ernest: A bachelor cooks at the local deli. // Noel: Enough to cook the fish I pull from the ocean every day. // Chisato: Cooking is like war! If you won you did it the right way!! Receptionist: I regret to have to ask those who cannot cook not to enter. [After registering with someone who CAN cook ...] *enter Kitchen Stadium. Food God Yarma is standing in the center facing the contestant, with the Vern Vern, a penguin-like creature, at his side. The other members of your party are sitting variously in the judging panel or in the audience* Food God and Prince of Darkness Yarma: Bah, hah, hah, hah! Welcome to my castle. I am the Food God and Prince of Darkness Yarma, the greatest gourmet in all of Nede, no the Universe! I have the powers of both God and Satan, making me the ultimate gourmet of all gourmets. My palate is absolute! My judgment is peerless!! My prestige here is known throughout Nede, no the Universe!! - Now, let me introduce the cooks to serve as your opponents. ---------- // Somewhere's Imperial Court Chef, "Charlotte" come along!! *Charlotte, who looks like a generic bartender, appears* // The Wandering Cook, "Iona" come on down!! *Iona, who looks like a generic cook with a chef's hat, appears* // The Punk Mama, "Yukina" push yourself over here. *Yukina, who looks like a generic gray-haired Nedian lady, appears* // The Self-Sufficient Fighting Man, "Piron" come quick! *Piron, who looks like a generic dude in overalls, appears* // The Restaurant Chef, "Gantsu" get on out here!! *Gantsu, who looks like a generic turbaned shopkeeper, appears* // The Housewife with 40 Years of Experience, "Loren" hey, come on!! *Loren, who looks like a generic Nedian granny, appears* // [Puffy] ????: Wait!! Yarma, Vern Vern and your character: (?) Food God and Prince of Darkness Yarma: Who's that!? Show yourself!! Puffy: *falls down from the ceiling* Yarma and your character: (sweatdrop) Food God and Prince of Darkness Yarma: You, you're the Johnny-Come-Lately Cuisine Demon Puffy!! Puffy: (;;;) Don't go giving made-up titles to people!! *walks up* - Oh well, it's OK. Anyway, I'm here to settle a grudge (?) from two years ago!! // Claude: Huh? // Opera: Who are you? Puffy: You guys have no memory at all. - Come, let's get on with the match!! Food God and Prince of Darkness Yarma: Hmmm, how about it? This looks like an interesting match. ---------- Food God and Prince of Darkness Yarma: Now, the challenger to be pitted against you in a food battle is! // The Peace Corps Cuisine Squad Chief, Claude!! Claude: Huh? What is that. // The Love of Home Cooking Fighting Woman, Rena!! Rena: (...) // The Cuisine Heraldry User, Celine!! Celine: There's no such Heraldry! // The Kitchen Knife-Wielding Man, Bowman!! Bowman:: (sweatdrop) Hey ... // The Little Big Chef, Leon!! Leon: (angry cloud) You don't need the 'little' part!! // The Silent Cooking Master, Dias!!! Dias: ... How stupid. // The Kindergarten Chef, Precis!! Precis: (angry cloud) I'm a high school student!! // The Hard Luck Cook, Ashton!! Ashton: Uh ... I guess so ... // The Charming Cooking Fighting Woman, Opera!! Opera: ... Well, I'll let that go. // The Old Man Cook, Ernest!! Ernest: ... Old Man ... // The Cooking King of the Beasts, Noel!! Noel: Beasts ... you say? // The Cuisine Reporter with 30 Years of Experience, Chisato!! Chisato: I'm still in my twenties!! ---------- Food God and Prince of Darkness Yarma: The ingredient to be used in this match is this!! *everyone turns as the screen flashes with a bright light* ---------- //[Veggie Battle] Food God and Prince of Darkness Yarma: The main reasons why people don't like vegetables are their bitterness and odor. Now who was it who said that 'fresh vegetables are sweet'. So that is exactly what we have brought here!! Fab-u-ulous!! - Perfectly ripe!! So sweet that their aroma wafts up!! That wonderful crunch!! Far from that unripe smell, the wonderful taste of super-fresh, perfectly ripe vegetables condensed into a single dish will certainly result in a legendary contest!! //[Meat Battle] Food God and Prince of Darkness Yarma: Meat!! I have never seen or heard of such a straight and simple theme. However, even though we can say meat in a single word, the varieties in flavors are endless even if we consider only the meat of birds such as chicken, duck or quail!! Together with the differences in texture, you can create an infinite variety of tastes. The extract gathered from fresh meat!! Just Fab-u-lous!! Juicy!! Fab-u-lous!! The Royal Road!! However, I cannot imagine that any two chefs will be able to create the very same dish. I know that we are awaiting some kind of 'incident' that will fly in the face of common sense. //[Seafood Battle] Food God and Prince of Darkness Yarma: Among the natural bounty of Nede, this is the most esoteric ingredient!! - The bounty of the sea, grown along the shore. For me, this food also brings back few but fond memories. - O the sweetness of ganze sea urchin!! O the texture of abalone!! It brings back memories of the smell of the salt air from the days of my youth ... As time passes, the cuisine that you two will create today using your culinary skills, will certainly be recreated as wonderful memories!! // Rena: (?) What is this 'ganze'? Claude: I think it's a kind of sea urchin. // Ashton: (lightbulb) Is it like the morning star? Claude: (sweatdrop) Yeah, that's right. //[Full-course Battle] Food God and Prince of Darkness Yarma: If you think 'luxury' this is certain to come up. This is what we yearn for! To make use of all the ingredients!! To exhaust all our culinary skills to their limits!! Connect each individual dish to make a path of culinary delight!! - A path along our quest of culinary excellence ... The path of redemption also must lie on the quest for culinary excellence. - Or so I believe!! The Full Course Confront!! This is where we show our skills, our heart and our pride!! Today we will have our great chefs bare their 'all' under the bright lights of our arena!! //[Dessert Battle] Food God and Prince of Darkness Yarma: If you think about it, we very well could be treading along our path in quest of culinary excellence along the walk of sweetness that is sugar. - My father told me 'It used to be that sugar itself was the best snack'. Can you believe this!? The confectionery arts have now advanced such that they dazzle us with such a variety of flavors. But!! I believe that the very origins of Nedians can be found in sweetness. Dessert Confront!! Our two chefs must now use sweetness to give everyone a glimpse at their past and future. //[Slime Battle] Food God and Prince of Darkness Yarma: According to legend passed on even to this day, the residents of this undeveloped planet Expel lived entirely on!! Slime!! Yes, this is almost unbelievable according to Nedian common sense, but in fact, this slime is surprisingly delicious!! - There is a certain undefinable artistic excellence about the feeling of it sliding down your throat!! - So, ignoring all manner of danger, I have risked my life to capture the slime used here as ingredients. Fab-u-lous!! - It's absolutely at the peak of freshness!! It's still moving!! // Celine: You can't eat that disgusting stuff!! // Bowman: You're lying!! Don't believe him!! // Leon: You could look everywhere throughout Expel and not find anyone who eats that. Noel: (...) ---------- *screen fades and battle begins ... the two contestants stand on opposite sides of the stadium, ready to engage in culinary battle!!* Food God and Prince of Darkness Yarma: And now, let the contest begin!! *Now you run off to the main area to pick up your theme ingredient!! And cook!! ZOMG!! THE EXCITEMENT THE PRESSURE AHHHH* [And here are the failure lines just for fun] // Claude: Looks like it didn't work. // Rena: Let's pretend that didn't happen ... // Celine: Goodness darling, how AWFUL ... // Bowman: Whoops! Looks like I blew it. // Leon: Theoretically is was impossible anyways so it's not my fault! // Dias: How? How can it be!? // Precis: Wait ... how come, huh? I don't get it! // Ashton: My my ... that was an oopsie! // Opera: Hmm, that's funny. It wasn't supposed to happen like that. // Ernest: Best to see what people say in about 1,000 years from now. // Noel: Heh heh ... What do we do with this now? // Chisato: Nobody saw it, right? We'll just throw it away. [If you wander to the other side to talk to the competitor] // Charlotte: My cuisine has tickled the palate of the elite, so watch out. Hohohoho!! // Iona: I've been wandering about for 30 years, but now see how I can handle a knife!! // Yukina: I'll work hard for you, my baby and Punk Papa!! // Piron: Everyone is all gaga over my cooking! // Gantsu: My seasoning is the best in the world, so you could never imitate it! // Loren: You won't beat out my home cooking so easily. // Puffy: Whew, deciding to enter on guts alone was a big mistake!!! Food God and Prince of Darkness Yarma: Time's up!! *screen fades* Food God and Prince of Darkness Yarma: And now for the judging. Don't be surprised by my absolute palate. Vern Vern: *tastes contestant's food* (...) Food God and Prince of Darkness Yarma: *tastes his chef's food* (...) - Whoo ... as could be expected from a disciple of mine. Delicious!! Really goooooooood!! [If it is Puffy] Food God and Prince of Darkness Yarma: Hmmm ... - Pretty good for a Johnny-Come-Lately. Puffy: (music note) Of course. I win!! *waves her arms and sticks her tongue out at your character* *Vern Vern and Yarma switch and (...) again* // [for a winning score] Food God and Prince of Darkness Yarma: Ohhh ... Delicious, really deeeelicious!! I never imagined that you could make my palate sigh like this ... // [for a score of any amount less than the competitor] Food God and Prince of Darkness Yarma: Oh ... this is quite a masterpiece. It has both smoothness and body. // [for a score of 0] Food God and Prince of Darkness Yarma: You fools!! Are you even trying!? You haven't even made a single decent dish!! - And now for the judging!! *drumroll* Food God and Prince of Darkness Yarma: The victor!! (name)!! [if your character wins] // Claude: *laughing* Yes!! // Rena: *laughing* All right!! // Celine: *ohohoho-ing* Of course. // Bowman: *places hands on hips, laughing* Yeah!! // Leon: *big smile ^o^* All right, I did it!! // Dias: *cackling/panting???* Whew ... // Ashton: *cackling* I guess I was just lucky. // Precis: *throwing her arms up and cheering* I did it!! // Opera: *ohohoho-ing* This puts a finishing touch on me as a woman. // Ernest: *chortling with his hands in his coat pockets* Ah, not such a big deal. // Noel: *chortling like Santa Claus with hands on his belly* I did it, didn't I. // Chisato: *strikes a pose like a flamingo, chortling* Well, I guess I know my way around the kitchen, maybe? Ahahahahaha!! [if Puffy wins] // Puffy: Of course, the obvious result. [losing cook says] // Charlotte: How vexatious. // Iona: ... How exasperating. // Yukina: I just couldn't do any better. // Piron: Slurp, slurp ... Drat ... Crunch, crunch ... // Gantsu: Waaaaah ... // Loren: You beat me. Food God and Prince of Darkness Yarma: By the way, the point scores are -- - (opponent's score) - (your score) - Maybe you can learn something. - This concludes the tournament!!