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Post by Indigo on Feb 7, 2012 21:44:52 GMT -5
In Paper Mario, Princess Peach uses a Mysterious Chest to warp items to Merluvlee's House so that Mario can retrieve them for his own use. How does this chest work, exactly? Was it made with Warp Pipe technology? What could its original purpose have been? And furthermore, why didn't Peach simply hop into the chest so that she'd be free from her prison?
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Post by Sarisa on Feb 8, 2012 0:58:58 GMT -5
Why Peach didn't put herself in it: there's no air in that chest. Compared to a reasonable risk of suffocation, waiting another few days to be rescued by Mario (which happens as reliably as the sun rising and Bowser attacking) is, oddly enough, sensible.
I agree that it was made with the same technology as warp pipes.
How often have you wanted to give or lend friends things without having to travel a long distance to their homes? The Mysterious Chest does just that. I'm not sure why the two chests ended up in Peach's Castle and Merluvlee's House, but a plausible guess would be that Peach or a recent ancestor wanted to consult Merluvlee the psychic without a public visit, and could put written questions and money in the chest and receive written answers back without having to disclose the source of the information or looking weak enough to need a psychic.
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Post by Koopalmier on Feb 8, 2012 12:51:17 GMT -5
I think there were many Mysterious Chests ages ago, much like Warp Pipes, but they but a pair of them got all destroyed. Maybe people used them in illegal ways, maybe it even caused a war. Then the MK's government would have hidden the last remaining two away, in case of they'd need an advantage during any future war, or to use it for more heroic deeds, but it got forgotten eventually.
Also, Peach could just hop into the chest and leave it slighty open for air. I'd rather say it can only teleport objects that aren't living (like food) or at least not anymore (like mushrooms). If Peach tried escaping like that, only her clothes would teleport..... and Mario may or may not be happy about this.
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Post by Indigo on Feb 8, 2012 15:16:24 GMT -5
I doubt the chest would be airtight; it doesn't seem as though the chest wouldn't let air in through some sort of small opening. Also, the chests aren't locked or anything, as Mario and Peach seem to be able to open them without the aid of any keys. I guess they could be locked from the inside, but if its true purpose was for transportation, then that wouldn't make any sense.
Still, I guess there's the possibility that Peach didn't want to take her chances. I mean, for all she knew, the other chest could have been at the bottom of the ocean or something; that could've easily turned bad. I like Sarisa's idea that Peach would use it to receive fortunes from Merluvlee, but if that were the case, then Peach surely would have remembered where the second chest was, so I guess we can say it was an ancestor. I also think Koopalmier's idea is possible, but I can't quite gather how useful the chest would be if it only teleported nonliving objects.
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Post by Sarisa on Feb 10, 2012 2:07:41 GMT -5
My thought was that the chest only transports objects once the lid is closed - the lid closing triggers the warp. I guess she could open it from the inside, but as you said she didn't know where the other end was and it could have been somewhere far worse (plundered in Bowser's main castle, the bottom of the sea, in the back alleys of Rogueport).
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