Materia Disaster

[Packetdancer]

I thought I'd seen a thing or two vis-à-vis melding misadventure, but the other day this happened:

If it helps you feel any better, when I was pentamelding my crafter gear, I had every slot filled save the final one on one ring. I burned through 104 materia on that. I was about to go scrip-grind to get more, when my friend said I could use her last four of that type. She also said "Let me meld it. I'm a viera; bunny luck will win out!"

She melded it successfully, using only 2 of those 4 materia.