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looks like my ass is wanted! #badbitch

There are plenty of moments to laugh about as you explore the stars with the Astral Express.

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Trailblaze Mission (Main Story)

• Prologue:
  • A computer terminal in the reception hall on Herta Station will exposite this line: "Welcome to Herta Space Station. Here, you can savor the bounty of the ocean of knowledge. Please also beware of the risk of drowning.", which is already a funny-enough line on its own and can be read at any point in the game, but what really sells it is the snarky reactions from Kafka and Silver Wolf when they infiltrate the station during the Prologue.
    Kafka: Now, this hint is useless.
    Silver Wolf: Who knows what's in the brains of those following the Erudition?
  • If you take too long trying to pick whether to use the male or the female Trailblazer, Silver Wolf will ask what's taking Kafka so long.
  • When the Trailblazer, March, and Dan Heng finally meet up with an injured Arlan, he asks them for the encryption key that allows them to access the station's elevator system. March forgot where she kept it, causing Dan Heng to facepalm when she finally remembers and pulls it out.
  • Upon meeting the Trailblazer for the first time, Herta would proceed to call them "a little twerp". Himeko then lampshades that Herta's doll body is smaller than the Trailblazer.
  • March 7th refusing to sit down during a warp jump because she wants to prove that she's able to stand upright without falling over during the process. This is apparently a regular occurence.
• Jarilo-VI:
  • When the main trio is about to depart to Jarilo-VI, March made a remark on how excited she was just imagining on all the fun they're going to have there. Dan Heng's response is hilarious.
    Dan Heng: ...I feel sorry for this world. First the Stellaron, and now you...
  • After landing on the planet, March is itching to go ahead to their intended landing point, but Dan Heng reminds her that the last time they did this, a stadium was involved. March would prefer if he didn't bring that up.
  • How the trio first meet Sampo: he's hiding underneath a snow mound, so Dan Heng decides to prod him out by jabbing him with Cloud-Piercer.
  • March 7th reassuring the Trailblazer that their team is great:
    March 7th: I mean c'mon (Trailblazer), you've got a Stellaron in your body, I have my special Six-Phased Ice powers, and Dan Heng... Uhh, he's got that mysterious past thing going for him...
  • You can encounter Pela teaching a group of children in front of the giant monument, giving you the option to listen in. The Trailblazer can then interject with a "Miss~ Pela~", annoying her enough to sternly request that the "grown-ups stop acting like children".
  • Cocolia letting the Trailblazer, March and Dan Heng to rest at Belobog's best hotel, only to have Bronya arrest them the following morning. It becomes even funnier if you interacted with the closet during your stay, as it makes it seem like you're getting arrested for scaring the poor room service.
    • As the trio escaped from their would-be captors, March not only freezes the Silvermane's guns, she also has the audacity to leave them with a wink and a pun before entering the Fragmentum.
      March 7th: Have an "Ice" day!
    • Later on when they're fighting Bronya, March asks Dan Heng to finally unleash his secret power. Dan Heng replied by asking March to do it first.
  • After they woke up in the Underground, the Trailblazer went out of Natasha's clinic to look for March and Dan Heng, only to find March with the Moles. After she explained that the children knew where Dan Heng is but will only tell her if she joined their group and play hide-and-seek, you have the option to smugly remark that she's being bullied by children, and March doesn't deny this.
    March 7th: ...Ugh, so what if I am! (Trailblazer), why don't you help me, huh!?
    • Somehow, one of the children hides by changing into an adult man, and the only thing that's off about his disguise is his voice. There's no explanation on how he's able to achieve this feat, but it's clear afterwards why he's known as "Julian of the Thousand Faces".
    • Hook then leads the duo to the fight club, mentioning that she's about to fight as well, which surprises and rightfully worries March. If you talk to Hook again afterwards, she'd reveal that the children's "fight" is actually just rock-paper-scissors.
    • During Natasha's briefing, she reveals that a woman wearing a Silvermane Guard was among your group, indicating that Sampo brought Bronya to the clinic too.
  • Finding Dan Heng in said fight ring (the adults' version, anyways) and given the ring name Cold Dragon Young.
  • After hearing the truth from Svarog, you can listen in on Clara trying to see if Svarog's modules suffer any damage. When she tried to see if his memory module is intact, Svarog confirms that it is intact... before he began listing many things that Clara had told him, including the embarrassing ones, and he even made multiple backups for everything Clara-related. Even though Svarog's reason for this is very wholesome, Clara's embarrassed reaction to this is nevertheless very entertaining.
    Clara: Mr. Svarog, can I delete some of them...?
  • In the Great Mine where the group first discovers Findie, Dan Heng makes a comment about the machine being an antiquity due it being out of place on the planet, eliciting this response:
    Findie: Beep, beep, beep... Your mom's an antiquity!
    • This becomes even funnier after the 1.2 update reveals that Dan Heng is a Vidyadhara. Vidyadhara don't have parents.
  • After coming back to the surface, March 7th remarks that she had been in the Underground for so long she almost forgot how the air of the outside world tasted like. You can choose to ask her how it tastes like.
    March 7th: ...Freedom... Cold... Mainly cold actually. Let's go.
  • Upon meeting Dunn to get the key to the energy hub from him, it becomes obvious he has a crush on Serval. When March 7th (or the Trailblazer comments via choice) wonders where a weird smell is coming from though, Dunn immediately questions Zackery behind him how long has it been since his last shower. The latter says he did it before his shift, only for Dunn to ask him again, harshly this time, forcing the poor grunt to correct himself that he hasn't for two days. You can gather that Dunn was the source and didn't want to embarrass himself in front of Serval.
  • Dunn, who played rock music in a band with Serval back in the day, has this battlecry when fighting the heroes:
    Dunn: My rock 'n' roll soul is to uphold the dignity of a soldier!
  • As the party heads to the restricted zone's frontline, Dan Heng asked Serval how confident she is in convincing Gepard, to which she says her chance of convincing him is 30%. When Dan Heng said that that means the negotiation could fail and end in a fight, March 7th lampshades the fact that every single negotiations they'd done thus far has ended in a fight. She then thinks of asking Himeko to help her brush up her negotiations skill because fighting all the time is not helping her image at all.
  • On their way to catch up with Cocolia and Bronya, the party sees numerous frozen Antimatter Legion soldiers, with March 7th wondering if they're still alive. One of the dialogue options is one of the funniest lines in the entire game:
    Trailblazer: I hereby name him... March 8th.
    March 7th: I'm impressed you can still think up jokes right now...
• Xianzhou Luofu:
  • After meeting with Yukong and Jing Yuan, March mentions that the situation seems oddly familiar and hopes that they won't be offered to rest at a hotel like Cocolia did in Belobog. Cue Tingyun offering the Trailblazer, March and Welt to rest at their best inn.
    • March then proceeds to not-so-subtly complains about Yukong's attitude to the Trailblazer while Tingyun and Welt were talking... but she's taking so long, the Trailblazer has to give eye signals that Tingyun and Welt has finished talking and are now listening to her. March could only give a sheepish smile in response.
    • March says that this time she won't let her guard down and will be ready to bolt off the moment she suspect anything is amiss at the inn... and then Tingyun reveals that everything they do in the inn will be covered by the commission. March immediately starts grinning and nodding her head, with the Trailblazer following along soon after, all wariness vanishing into thin air as March asks Welt if they could indulge in the inn.
  • To test Diting's tracking capability, Tingyun has it memorize her scent before hiding; when Diting stopped and gives a bark, March could somehow understands what it's saying, and you can ask her how she could have possibly understand what its saying.
    March 7th: That's just the psychic bond between cute girls and cute puppies!
    • One of the people you can ask for Tingyun's whereabouts said that too many Foxians passed by to accurately remember Tingyun. The moment the Trailblazer showed her photo, however, one of them immediately claimed that he had seen her, while his exasperated friend denied that no, they actually haven't. They turned out to be comedians who were doing an impromptu skit, but March's initial response was still hilarious.
      March 7th: Are you two professional time-wasters or something?
    • Another one is a grocery shop owner, who said that perhaps his memory could get better with business. If you choose to agree despite March literally calling this an extortion, the Trailblazer will recall Himeko giving them 100 credits as pocket money, and with trembling hands you swiped your phone, hoping that it'd be enough...
      Grocery Store Owner: ...Didn't see her.
      March 7th: Refund! Immediately!
    • As you proceed the search, you start to find clues left behind by Tingyun; a namecard, a remnant of a fan pendant... and a crumpled packaging of a tea brand. The game's narration scolds her for this: "No Miss Tingyun! You can't throw trash even for leaving behind clues."
  • Qingque's Establishing Character Moment before she meets the Nameless: she's distracted by a game of Celestial Jade. She calls out her moves as she introduces herself to the group. The Trailblazer has the option of telling her they can report her to Fu Xuan for slacking off. Later on in the story, she comes across a locked gate and has this to say:
    Qingque: Hey! I know the food here sucks, but that's no reason to shut the gate on our guests!
  • While fighting the Abundant Ebon Deer, the boss summons a peach tree (which enables it to use its strongest attack if it isn't destroyed). Despite the dangerous situation, March can't help but comment:
    March 7th: Huh? Peaches? I am kinda hungry...
    Welt, exasperatedly: Maaaaarch...
  • During the Disciple of Sanctus Medicus's attack on the Alchemy Commission, you're sent to turn off three elixir crucibles that spew smoke which instantly renders long-life species mara-struck. For some reason, you can actually turn the second small elixir crucible back on after you've turned it off. Doing so for the first time will elicit this response from March 7th:
    March 7th: T-Turn it off! (Trailblazer), why did you turn it on!?
    • And if you turn it off and back on for a second time:
      March 7th: Are you doing this on purpose!?
  • The mere fact that Yanqing, a teenage prodigy swordsman, gets beaten up by his master's master, Jingliu, and then...marches on to the next challenge with just as much, if not more, determination then before. Even better? Knowing full well that Jingliu, a highly-proficient swordsmaster, has already told him that he stands no chance against his target, a dangerous Stellaron Hunter named Blade, Yanqing gets up and keeps right on going...and ends up fighting not just Blade, but the current form of the Inbibitor Lunae, both of whom are grown men. And Yanqing doesn't give up until Kafka makes everyone stop fighting due to the General of the Luofu—who also happens to be Yanqing's master and boss—arriving. Determination, much?
  • Just after reaching Scalegorge Waterscape, the group—consisting of Jing Yuan, Fu Xuan, several Cloud Knights, and the Astral Express crew—encounter a large statue of a past Vidyadhara high elder. March, after taking it in, asks if the statue is...of Dan Heng's brother. She gets several unimpressed looks for this, and Jing Yuan explains that the High Elder simply just closely resembles past incarnations.
  • While waiting at the base of the statue for Dan Heng to try and recover his powers, you have the options to talk to the others in the group, while playing as Dan Heng. Jing Yuan muses about Dan Heng and his power, March (upon a second interaction) comments on the statue's expression matching a certain crewmate's, Welt (upon a second interaction) mentions that the MC and March haven't been on their best behavior, and the MC... says absolutely nothing. Dan Heng interprets this as them not liking to open up very much.
  • During the fight against Phantylia, Jing Yuan has to resist her attempts to make him into a Voidranger. Dan Heng's solution? Stabbing him with his spear. It works, though it leaves the General weakened.
• Foxian Tale of the Haunted:
  • Cirrus wants to fight the general of the Luofu. When you ask Jing Yuan for help and bring him to Cirrus, Cirrus proceeds to call the current general a clown.
• Crown of the Mundane and Divine:
  • Ruan Mei slips the Trailblazer an Anti-Truth Serum that prevents them from talking about her, which leads to several instances where they are forced to say some very comical stuff.
  • While the moment is meant to be sad and emotional, hearing the Trailblazer's ugly sobbing voice come out of Ashy Paste can be amusing, especially when comparing them side by side.
  • When the Trailblazer first meets Dr. Ratio, they see him playing a chess match... against himself, while wearing his plaster mask. The whole thing is so bizarre that the Trailblazer actually gives him a nervous laugh once he realizes they've been watching him.
• Penacony:
  • When the Trailblazer first enters the dream world, they fall through the sky, thinking they are flying. Then they realize they're not flying and crash to the ground. Everyone around them continues on as though nothing happened, while the Trailblazer lies painfully on the ground in the Yamcha pose until Robin and Sunday come to check on them.
  • When the Trailblazer first figures out how to use the Dreamwalker to scale walls with the help of Acheron, this option can be selected.
    Trailblazer: Now I Am Become Trailblaze, the Perambulator of Walls.
  • The Trailblazer is sold a memory bubble, apparently from Akivili.
    • Want to hear Dan Heng's voice actor use tones Dan Heng, The Comically Serious, would never use? Since an Aeon's voice cannot be perfectly recorded by the technology at hand, you can choose one of your companion's voices to dub it, including March, Pom-Pom, and Dan Heng. And Akivili was apparently a Manchild mischief maker, so you get to hear "Dan Heng" use depressed apologetic tones.
    • Memory Pom-Pom proceeds to enumerate Akivili's numerous crimes, including stealing the last of the Express Special.
    • When you show the memory bubble to the present day Pom-Pom, Pom-Pom is startled, reviews the memory, tells the Trailblazer that a lot of things have happened on the Express that they don't know about but will be told when the time is right, and then weeps over the stolen Express Special.
    • The fact the entire exchange is a parody of The Jepella Rebellion, a much more serious video featuring Kafka on trial from earlier in the game's life. Between Pom-Pom listing out transgressions, Akivili's initial nonchalance, and Pom-Pom outright stating there are 46 such incidents on record, it's practically the same exchange.
  • Firefly offers to take a photo of the Trailblazer in front of a large statue of Clockie, a cartoon character shaped like a clock with arms and legs. You can cook up a bombastic excuse to prevent a photo from being taken of you.
    Trailblazer: I think I'll pass. I'm allergic to camera lenses...
    Trailblazer: Aha, I know how this goes. You're gonna charge me a lot just for taking the pic, aren't you?
  • The Trailblazer saves an origami bird trapped in the Clockie statue, with the bird being too high up to reach from the ground. You can still click on it to save it, though, and this gem of an option can be chosen after rescuing the poor bird.
    Trailblazer: I can actually jump in this world!? Color me surprised!
  • Sampo later tricks the Trailblazer into touching a TV. The prompt when touching the TV?
    It's Morphin' Time! Hanu!
    • Having morphed into Hanu, a miniscule wolf-like spy creature, Sampo and Firefly talk plans with the Trailblazer. They can try to talk but every time they make an attempt at making a sentence they cannot actually get it out, resorting to "cool sounding grunts" instead.
      You make a cool grunting noise. Have you thought about why you'd ever change back if you can keep being this cool?
  • Later on in the story, the Trailblazer enters a dream bubble provided by Sampo (actually Sparkle in disguise). They end up in Boulder Town, and the music is a bizarre version of the Boulder Town theme. And the citizens are walking, talking trash cans, with the main trash can who gives you the quests being named Shatana.
    • The Trailblazer stumble across a bunch of trashcans who struggled to get inside because the door is shut, and goes to help them. It turns out the door didn't open because the automatic sensors cannot sense trashcans.
    • A group of trashcans fighting over the golden trash, when the Trailblazer intervenes, the three trashcans realize how pointless the dispute was.
    • When the Trailblazer investigate the trashcans, one of them triggers a battle against a mob of Juvinile Stings, lead by a Lordly Trashcan. After defeating them you'll receive a text line afterwards.
      After a loud boom, Propagation's crisis has ended. The world is once again peaceful. And that trashcan who has endured undeserved ordeals has returned to his slumber. Thank you, Nameless!
  • When the Trailblazer arrives at the designated area, they were ambushed by the Garbage King (who turns out to be a giant Sampo), the Garbage King proceeds to throw bombs at an army of rebelling Trashcans. Just as the Trailblazer transforms into a giant trashcan to battle Tatalov in an Attack on Titan-esque fight, Firefly intervenes, abruptly ending the dream.
    Sampo: What a huge pity! Such a meaningful dream came to an abrupt halt because of Miss Firefly...
  • You learn how to adjust other people's emotional state in the dream world. This comes in handy when you need to get past a guard from the Bloodhound Family. Even though making him feel sad isn't the way to do it, it shows you the following dialogue:
    Bloodhound Family Member: I'm a member of the Bloodhound Family. My job is maintaining order in the Dreamscape. In fact, no danger will arise under The Family's protection, which makes my job redundant. Even a trashcan is more important than me.
    Trailblazer: But trashcans are important! I like them!
    Bloodhound Family Member: In that case, I'd recommend that you see Dr. Edward for a psychotherapy session.
  • Though Aventurine is really put through the wringer, he gets some pretty funny moments.
    • He and Dr Ratio attempt to make it to an appointment with Sunday… by going through his trap-filled mansion. Aventurine eventually begins to question if Ratio really did get a meeting or if they're just breaking in.
    • The Nightingale Statue puzzle can be brute-forced if you don't want to go through the trouble of finding the answer. If you do manage to solve the puzzle this way, Ratio has some choice words for your stubbornness.
      Dr. Ratio: The Council of Mundanites should consider you as their member, for no one in this universe is more suitable to be there than you.
    • For one puzzle, the two must find the missing piece to a model version of Golden Hour, but after reattaching the piece and touching it, Aventurine is suddenly shrunk and teleported inside the model. It's pretty hilarious to watch Aventurine briefly drop his usual smug demeanor, before composing himself and suggesting that Ratio drop him down Sunday's shirt.
      Aventurine: Actually, I think I could make this work for us. Just find a way to slip me into Sunday's collar, and I'll infiltrate the Family just like that.
      Dr. Ratio: …
    • The NPCs inside the diorama of Golden Hour are a sight to behold, too. While they all use the same model, some are stuck in a lifeless A-pose, with others trapped in motionless walk cycles, lying on the ground, or even clipping into the floor. The ones capable of speaking either repeat incoherent lines about being "industrial scum" or "the world's lousiest soldier", or stutter endlessly and seem to be on the verge of a meltdown. It's as if Aventurine has stumbled into an alpha build of Golden Hour, complete with placeholder assets and obvious bugs.
    • While trying to gather intel, Aventurine runs around giving jewels to random people and interrogating them about Death. However, some of them are on the Cloud Cuckoo Lander side, with one even being flat out drunk, leading to some strange interactions.
      Aventurine: I just want to ask you something.
      Barrle: …Ugh, I knew it. What's on your mind? Are you trying to ask about my father, or my mother?
      Aventurine: Um… neither.
  • When Aventurine puts his plan into motion to battle the Astral Express, he displays their presence on a giant screen. The Trailblazer can then put a damper in a very serious moment by cheerfully declaring "Mommy look, I'm on TV!". March 7th is not impressed.

Companion and Adventure Missions (Side Quests)

• Herta initially picks "Metaverse" as the name of the "Simulated Universe". Among the various options the player can choose, the Trailblazer has this dialogue line which doubles as a Take That! to Facebook.
  Trailblazer: Seriously? Don't ride that hype train.
• While inside the Simulated Universe: Second Closed Beta, we get this gem, which doubles as Self-Deprecating Humor towards Genshin Impact's update schedule on HoYoverse's part.
  You: Just what did you upgrade?
  Herta: "What did you think an upgrade is? The next version of a video game? Some tiny rewards handed out every one-and-a-half months?" Herta snorts. "This is a whole micro-universe! If you could see all the changes at a glance, why would we spend all the time training a universe? I can just build a garden for your Express instead!"
• In Arlan's Companion Mission, Asta discovers that Arlan is trying to learn how to manage stress and dealing with his boss, which made her think that he secretly resents her and that she's unknowingly being a Bad Boss to him. As Asta and the Trailblazer gathers some evidence, Asta starts to see signs of Arlan's dissatisfaction from the most unlikely places, such as him putting a picture of Peppy with his ID card is a sign that it serves as a reminder for him to take care of Peppy, and that he's only doing it because it's her orders and not, say, because he genuinely likes Peppy; even just seeing a random picture taken by March 7th of him walking away managed to make Asta see him being burdened by the responsibility and stress, so when they finally find him, Asta began to apologize for everything she'd done, looking and sounding like she's on the verge of tears for unknowingly burdening Arlan... before he reveals that he's not talking about Asta, but Herta instead.
  • March remarked that Asta and Arlan should talk to each other more so this kind of misunderstanding won't happen again, putting herself and the Trailblazer as an example. When the Trailblazer remarked that Dan Heng was right, March readily agrees... not knowing that Dan Heng was saying that she's quite a handful to be around.
  • The Trailblazer tries to pry information on Arlan's whereabouts out of Professor Capote. If they try to bribe him with the prospect of a promotion, they end up receiving an irate lecture from Capote's fanclub that goes for so long that the Trailblazer loses track of what they were trying to get out of him in the first place.
    Trailblazer: (Wow, the cringe is strong... I need to remember what I came here for!)
  • The "Thrilled Member of the Security Department" and "Excited Member of the Security Department" working under Arlan have a high opinion of their boss. The two of them take turns singing his praises starting out with one of them describing Arlan as "a man among men" and then the much less common expression of "a lion among tigers!" And then "an eagle among wolves!" You can have the Trailblazer join in by saying "He's a bear among horses!"
    Thrilled Member of the Security Department: That might be a metaphor too far.
    Excited Member of the Security Department: Brother Arlan runs like a horse and fights like a bear. I think that's a great metaphor!
  • The reason Dan Heng sent Arlan to see March.
    Dan Heng: Arlan came to me to learn how to manage pressure from his boss. So I sent him to March. If he can manage her, then he has nothing to fear.
• During Asta's Companion Mission, she talks about how someone took her encryption key which she needs to withdraw money from her personal bank account. At first the Traiblazer thinks someone stole it to spread rumors about Asta only for them to walk in on her having a heated argument with Arlan. Turns out he took the key and is lecturing her on not wasting all her money on unneeded equipment for the space station if she could have just sent an application to use the internal funds. Watching her getting lectured by her young employee is a sight to behold.
  Asta: Who gave you the right to tell me what to do with my money?
  Arlan: You did!
  Asta: I—*unintelligible stammering*—...I might have done that, but this doesn't count as wasting money!
• The final step of the Spirit Traces mission has a hilarious title:
  Witness the scene of the fans of Master Capote having their hearts broken
• Upon inspecting the Forgotten Hall's mirror entrance in the Astral Express, the Trailblazer has an option to compliment their own appearance instead of wondering about the more pressing issue at hand.
• A later side quest has Asta dispatching the Trailblazer to investigate the "Foxian Beauty Chat", a fishy-looking chat group operated by a "Foxian Beauty Daiqing", who one of Asta's researchers, Wen Furui, is entranced with; Asta notes that he requested an off-station transfer to meet with this "Foxian beauty". Both eventually deduce that this was likely a scam and decide to seek out information on Luofu; they meet Qingque, who is also investigating the case as well.
  • Once the Trailblazer gains access to this "Foxian Beauty Chat", their hypothesis of this likely being a scam operation seems to prove true; to prove this, the Trailblazer may attempt to get "Foxian Beauty Daiqing" to cheat them out of their money. "Foxian Beauty Daiqing" is confused by this affair, while the Trailblazer makes an excuse.
    Trailblazer: Oh, so sorry, a cat got on my phone, let's continue
  • "Foxian Beauty Daiqing" later returns in an attempt to "sell their grandfather's tea" to the Trailblazer. Every time they finish a statement,^note Which is clearly just "Foxian Beauty Daiqing" copying and pasting a pre-typed statement the Trailblazer has the opportunity to ask "How do you type so quickly?". With each inquiry about their typing speed, they get more and more exasperated; eventually, they lose their patience and force the Trailblazer to buy tea.
    Trailblazer: How do you type so quickly?
    Foxian Beauty Daiqing: Forget about typing speed. Buy some tea, how much do you want?
  • Subsequently, the Trailblazer is given two options, one of which is to transfer to "Foxian Beauty Daiqing" two hundred million credits. On Asta's dime. "Foxian Beauty Daiqing" is so stunned by this act that they immediately unfriend the Trailblazer.
    Foxian Beauty Daiqing: Have you gone mad!?
    Foxian Beauty Daiqing has friend verification turned on, and you are not on their friend list yet. Please send them a friend request. You may begin to chat after the friend request is approved.
  • If you take the "transfer" option, after the above happens, Asta then wonders aloud if 200 million credits is a lot to lose in a scam. Should you tell her that Asta scared the scammer with the transfer, Asta will respond with a priceless comment:
    Asta: She's scared with only this much? What a doormat.
  • An alternate account of "Foxian Beauty Daiqing", named "Qingster", later comes and messages the Trailblazer, admitting it was all a scam and attempts to return the money to them out of sheer guilt and regret. After being told to go to Cloudford to meet this individual, the Trailblazer and Qingque head there and find "Foxian Beauty Daiqing" hiding in a shipping container and force them to come out; this individual turns out to be neither Foxian, nor a beauty named Daiqing.
  • Having exposed that this "Foxian Beauty Chat" was in fact run by a male scammer, the Trailblazer can either choose to let him go or to send him to the authorities. Regardless, they will report their findings to Asta, who just so happens to be talking to Wen Furui about this. They then break the truth to Wen Furui, surmising that he would probably be unable to mentally take it; Wen Furui simply instantly drops all mention of this "Foxian Beauty" and proclaims that "fake Foxians" would never interest him.
• The Flavor Text of Clara's "Rarely Affectionate (Part 2)" Companion Mission ends with this note which sounds more like a threat than anything (and given that the Flavor Text is written from the point of view of Svarog, it most likely is):
  Remember, you promised her to go -
  No one can break a promise to Clara. No one.
• Pom-Pom occasionally asks the Trailblazer for help, for things including finding ways to improve the Express... or helping the conductor and their numb legs after they fall asleep standing up. If you choose to help them up, the text says that the action reminds you "of pulling carrots".
  • Pom-Pom can be found crying at one point. It turns out that March had borrowed the Rating Pistol from Herta Space Station some time ago and was using it on various targets, including Pom-Pom. She never said what the rating was and Pom-Pom didn't ask at the time, but after they remembered and asked March about it she revealed that the pistol rated them only 1 point, and that's why Pom-Pom now needs consoling from the Trailblazer.
• Sampo messages you and begs for your help. He has been renting out mining equipment, although it's actually Peak's equipment; since Peak sleeps so much and obviously isn't working during that time, he gave Sampo his gear to rent out so that both of them could make money. The problem is that three pieces of gear got lost in the dangerous mines. Sampo isn't willing to risk his own life and limb to get it back, so he asks you to go get it. The Trailblazer is irritated, telling Sampo that they will only bother to search for one of the items since they have other things to do. Sampo eventually talks you into getting two items while lamenting that he'll have to pay to replace the last thing. Part of the reason you agree is because he sweetens the deal by agreeing to give you a treasure map. Once you have found the two pieces and bring them to Sampo, he gives you a map that doesn't really look legit, but you go and see what's there anyway. And after searching, the Trailblazer finds...the third piece of mining equipment. After you return to him, you can have this exchange:
  Sampo: You see, I'm a businessman, not a scavenger. I'm not at all interested in this sort of scavenger job. So, naturally, I immediately thought of you, hehe.
  Trailblazer: [Choosing the first dialogue option] Can I punch you now?
• There is a quest on the Luofu that involves Cong, an aspiring Vidyadhara poet madly in love with Jingzhai, a member of the Divination Commission; he attempts to swoon Jingzhai with his skills in verse but continually gets rejected, much to his grief. While the quest itself can trigger several faceplant-worthy reactions from the events that transpire, there are a handful of funny moments as well.
  • During his quest, you encounter various mechanical creatures he's built to aid his endeavors.
    • Upon meeting the Gloomy Poet, you find out that it identifies as a mushroom and can interact with it for quite some time. Upon reaching the end of the dialogue, you have three options- open the control panel on the back of the robot, stop stalling and open up the control panel, or drag it back to Cong.
    • The Metrical Poet gives you a quiz on poetry. One of the questions has an answer prompt of "Mr. Yang is a flirt" to a very unrelated question. Choosing this answer pisses off the Poet to no end and you engage in battle with it. Completing this battle gives a somewhat funny text line.
      You taught the old-fashioned Metrical Poet a lesson and schooled it about the power of free verse. It was a shame that it no longer has the chance to change the style of its poems. How wonderful.
  • Upon completing the quest, you find Cong lying down in the bushes of Exalting Sanctum, and upon being asked if he is now a mushroom, he replies "yes".
• If you follow the reject path in Todd Riordan's quest on the Luofu, you can talk to Blade. If you try to call him "Bladie" (a nickname used by Kafka), he tells you that if you "call me that again, I'll answer to you with my sword". Extra funny when you remember that killing the Trailblazer means going off-script for Blade, so unless he wants to invoke the wrath of his colleagues he can't exactly follow through with his threat.
• Bailu's Companion Quest involves accompanying her as she helps Banxia reunite with and heal her lover Liangmu. In order to get past a guarded checkpoint along the way, Banxia and the Trailblazer disguise themselves as Cloud Knights and pretend to be escorting Bailu back to the Alchemy Comission. Bailu plays up acting like a petulant child to help sell it.
  Bailu: No, no! I haven't finished playing yet! I don't wanna go back to the Alchemy Commission!
  Bailu: I still wanna play! I'm hungry! Don't take me back — I don't wanna go back! I'm not going back!
  Cloud Knights Soldier: Access granted! Good work, soldiers.
  • The quest unfortunately ends in tragedy: Banxia transforms into a mara-struck monster the Trailblazer is forced to kill, and telling Liangmu the truth about what happened reveals that he never actually loved Banxia and was only using her to obtain immortality. Per Banxia's request, Bailu begrudgingly goes to heal his illness, but before she does you can ask for permission to beat him up first in retribution. Not only does Bailu agree to this, she even joins the Trailblazer in pummeling Liangmu offscreen before healing him back up. Doubles as a Crowning Moment of Awesome, as you get to give the asshole what he deserves.
    • After leaving the area, Bailu reveals another bit of punishment she's afflicted upon Liangmu: thirty years' worth of daily, uncontrollable hiccupping. The Trailblazer can say that she was still far too lenient on him.
      Bailu: ...What? He deserved it!
• The quest "Beastial Ferocity" involves the use of a Diting. Upon encountering some wolves, you can protest and tell them to eat the Diting instead.
  Trailblazer: I don't taste very good! Go eat that Diting.
  Diting: Woof?
• Luocha's Companion Mission, sees Welt, March and the Trailblazer investigating him due to his resemblance to one of Welt's former enemies, however things are getting off the rails pretty quickly and we get a pretty good glance at March's thought process and leaps in logic.
  • When Welt discusses the similar yet different people, he set March as an example with her possible doppelganger is a intergalactic pirate to which the Trailblazer respond:
    Trailblazer: I knew she was suspicious.
    March 7th: Hey! He was just giving an example! I'm the nicest girl in the galaxy.
  • March sees a camera footage of Luocha entering an alley, then another clip that shows that Yinshu was the only person shown leaving the area for two hours afterwards. Her conclusion? Yinshu is Luocha, having somehow genderbent and de-aged himself into a little girl.
  • When Trailblazer and March had a conversation about how Welt is being restless over the Luocha case, Welt overhears them and responded with a dialogue option that the Trailblazer didn't choose.
    March 7th: How does he always hear us!?
  • "Genius Detective" March's interpretation of the incident started up by speaking in Luocha's voice.
    March 7th (as Luocha): Aaaand now I'm Luocha~
  • Luocha encountered an Ilumination Dragonfish that somehow talks for some reason.
    Welt: Why is the monster talking now?
    March 7th: Y'know, just a little dramatic effect...
    • If Luocha battles too many monsters, Trailblazer and Welt called March on this combat fillers.
      Welt: ...March, you don't have to add in combat scenes while you're figuring out where to take the story — we can wait.
  • Once he arrived at the meeting point, Luocha meets the buyer who looks exactly like Welt to which March pointed out that his name is "Pu'er" named after a tea.
    • While you can submit the "Title Page", you can choose one of the other options as well with each of these options has some funny exchanges, from Luocha threatening to bribing to begging Pu'er, coupled with March's Insane Troll Logic and a punchline from the Trailblazer.
      Trailblazer: March, why do your characters act smarter than you do...
  • When Luocha meets the boss "Startaro Bubble" which turns out to be Pom-Pom of all people.
    Welt: I'm not sure Pom-Pom is the best casting choice for a gang boss...
    March 7th: I—It kinda works, right...?
  • When the boss has his henchman attack Luocha, he transformed into an Aurumaton, given that Pu'er has Welt's likeness he has a very right to be concerned.
    Welt: Speaking of which, when did I turn into an aurumaton?
    March 7th: That's Pu'er's little secret — he transforms into an aurumaton in dire situations.
• In the midst of Yukong's Companion Quest, you and her daughter Qingni are digging around the Palace of Astrum for info on Yukong's past. While doing so, you can come across this employee who has clearly been driven mad:
  Coping Sky-Faring Commission Staff Member: I love work. I love overtime. I love work. I love overtime. I love work. I love overtime. I love work. I love overtime.
• The beginning of Kafka's Companion Quest has her contact the Trailblazer through an anonymous number. The Trailblazer can ask for proof that it's her, leading Kafka to post a selfie with a noticeable focus on her chest. It's like the devs knew what the players wanted...
• During Luka's Companion Quest, Seele and the Trailblazer can approach him as he's bragging about his latest battle win and they facepalm as he's rattling off a bunch of slogans. Seele even describes his slogans as "cringe".
  • It becomes much Harsher in Hindsight during the quest's resolution - Luka is doing this to grant a wish of a sick little girl who was a big fan of his and came up with these slogans.
• In March's Companion Quest, she comes across projections of the Astral Express crew in her memory of the Alchemy Commission. She approaches the Trailblazer, who is silent the entire time as she tries to talk to them.
  March 7th: Hey, (Trailblazer)! Fancy seeing you here.
  Memory-(Trailblazer): ...
  March 7th: Hey, it's fine if you don't want to talk in real life, but this is MY memory, so it's MY rules! Come on, say something!
  Memory-(Trailblazer): Something.
  March 7th: ...Seriously?
  • As Fu Xuan guides March through her memories hoping to find answers, the two of them start out in a vision of the Luofu. Eventually, a heater from Belobog appears, and Fu Xuan tells March to touch it to go further into her past, to her time in Belobog.
    March 7th: ...Uhh, is touching a heater a good idea? This thing is red-hot — what if my hand turns extra crispy...
    Fu Xuan: It's okay, this is a memory space. If something hasn't injured you in reality, then it cannot injure you in memory...
    March 7th: Well, I was never beaten up by Jing Yuan in reality, either...
    Fu Xuan: Enough of that — touch it.
    March 7th: Hey! Don't pull on my hand, I — ow, ow, ow, hot, hot hot!
    [The surroundings change to the Goethe Hotel]
    March 7th: What the actual — that thing was flaming hot! You said things that never happened to me in reality couldn't happen here!
    Fu Xuan: I said that if something hasn't injured you in reality, then it cannot injure you in memory...... I didn't say anything about the sensation of injury.
  • There are a number of familiar faces in the hotel lobby: Sampo, Seele, Bronya, Pela, and Gepard. In order to progress further, March has to figure out which person doesn't belong. It turns out to be Seele, since she's the only one that the crew met in the Underworld instead of the Overworld, but March can talk to everybody else first, until...
    March 7th: Phew, finally... After all that, there's just one option left!
    Fu Xuan: Did you clear every wrong option on purpose?
    March 7th: Nope, just wild guesses.
    Fu Xuan: You're a genius.
• Black Swan's Companion Quest has her solving "murder mysteries" on Penacony set up by Sparkle. She and her "deputy detective" Sampo are at times bemused by the absurdity of the plot, but when they point it out, it just results in several funny Out Of Character Moments for Sparkle:
  Sparkle: (As a robotic "sheriff") Let's discuss this difficult case, then! The victim is a galactic business magnate named Sparkle...
  Sampo: Her again? Sparkle is really obsessed with scripting her own death.
  Sparkle: (Still as the sheriff, but flustered) Oh, for The Laughter^note aka Aha, Aeon of Elation, followed by the Masked Fools, with whom Sparkle and Sampo are members — if you undercut me one more time, I swear I'm gonna kick you in the butt!

Open World

• In the space station, the Trailblazer can find a random toilet seat in the Supply Zone, apparently named "Door to A New World", which can be interacted with. Interacting with this toilet gives a humorous monologue.
  Standing upright in the middle of the room is an unremarkable... Err, household "object." It looks so out of place that you start to suspect you might have taken a wrong turn somewhere.
  There's a note stuck to the ceramic surface: "Curio: Door to A New World, loaned to ████ at the Department of Implement Arts for experiments. Non-research personnel should not touch this object."
  There's also a warning posted near a particular button: "The Department is not responsible for any consequences from unauthorized persons sitting down and pressing flush."
  It's not so much a warning but a tutorial. You decide to — Sit down and flush!
  • The first time the Trailblazer uses the toilet, they get teleported to near the Astral Express's berth, along with the toilet seat, where a researcher is resting, scaring the living daylights out of him in the process. Another humorous exchange follows, with the option of choosing some potentially inappropriate answers. An achievement is also granted in the process.
    You sit down on the Door to A New World. As soon as you push the flush button, you start to feel a strange suction —
    Scared Researcher: Who the — what the!? You scared the heck out of me!
    Trailblazer: Have you seen a toilet bowl around here?
    Scared Researcher: Toilet bowl? What toilet bowl? This isn't a restroom... Hang on! What's this!?
    Scared Researcher: I just want to slack off for a while, but why are all these people popping out of nowhere? And this... toilet!? Not this again!
    Trailblazer: "Popping out of nowhere"?
    Scared Researcher: Uh, yeah... Like you did just now.
    Scared Researcher: How to put it... This place was once my own private rest area. Whenever experiments wouldn't go my way, I'd come here for a little rest break.
    Scared Researcher: But recently, I keep on running into weird things. Like, when I was daydreaming, I'd sometimes hear startled cries — oh yeah, and always with this sound of flushing water!
    Scared Researcher: I got so confused — I wasn't in the restroom, so how come there's this flushing sound!? And then this "toilet bowl" just popped out of nowhere!
  • After this conversation with the scared researcher, the toilet can be interacted with again; the Trailblazer will then be teleported to a desk at the Master Control Zone, with the toilet masquerading as a chair. A brief monologue plays, and the toilet disappears.
    After a period of uncomfortable dizziness, you are transported to the master control zone by the Door to A New World.
  • The toilet will then reappear at the same spot in the Supply Zone and can be interacted with as many times as the Trailblazer pleases; each time it is used the Trailblazer is teleported to a different location.
• On the space station there is a chest next to an NPC of you try to open it he calls you out for trying to open his chest and leaves. If you find him and try to open the chest again the Trailblazer will wonder why looting is suddenly a sin before reflexively going to open the chest and getting yelled at again. They are nearly brought to tears by being denied a chest twice. Talking to the NPC the second time reveals they just keep their clothes in the chest and prompts them to give Trailblazer pity loot. This contributes to chests open on that floor.
• At the Base Zone Reception Center, there's a strange plant that you can water and it talks back to you. If you interact with it the next day after watering it, it will give you some gossip that it's overheard, like the Internal Purchase Officer secretly using Herta's terminal to mine cryptocurrency, one of the researchers is secretly a Masked Fool, or that all the researchers on the station have a running bet on who can score with Dan Heng.
• There's a letter you can find and read on board Herta Station called "Tottonids Are Rocks" about a geography researcher trying to disprove the Department of Ecology's notion that the Tottonids, an extinct alien race of Crystalline Creatures, are silicon-based lifeforms. What starts out as fairly reasonable request to re-evaluate the department's studies suddenly devolves into a personal rant over why the geography researcher is "right" and that the DoE's understanding of the Tottonids is based on one Curio (the Unbearable Weight) and other flawed fallacies, such as the department never having visited the planet Totton directly. The kicker comes right at the end of the letter, where the geography researcher has this to say:
  The reason for my composing of this letter and my blathering is merely so I can convey these sentences, which are:
  Tottonids are f***ing rocks!
  Tottonids are f***ing rocks!
  Tottonids are f***ing rocks!
  ~A straightforward Department of Galactic Geography Researcher
• Among the Curios on display on Herta Station, the Rating Pistol is the most ridiculous. It looks like a yellow gun with a single eyeball on top the barrel, and it apparently rates people and objects from 1 to 100 using "unknown scoring logic". If you examine it, the Rating Pistol will give out a variety of scores based on your active on-screen character. For a few examples, the Trailblazer is rated 84 points, Herta is rated 4 points, Asta is rated 29 points, and Natasha is rated 32 points. What's even funnier is that, certain characters get special responses:
  • Several characters, such as March 7th and Sampo, get the "Rating invalid!" message, as if they are immune to it.
  • Clara gets "70 points!", followed by "26 points!". Which value is hers and which is Svarog's is unclear.
  • Dan Heng gets "88 points?" (question mark included). Imbibitor Lunae gets the same result, followed by the narration noting that the pistol "seemed to be sulking for being fooled".
  • Silver Wolf gets 110 points, with the implication that she hacked the pistol. Of course, since we don't know what the pistol measures, she may have unknowingly insulted herself in the process if the metric turns out to be something negative for which a lower score is better.
  • Huohuo gets 0 or 5 points, and so does Tail.
    The Rating Pistol gazed at Huohuo: "0 points? 5 points?" It sized up Huohuo for a while before it looked away into the distance with a hopeless expression.
  • Poor Pom-Pom only gets 1 point and needs consoling from the Trailblazer.
  • Jingliu gets 0 points and even unlocks the "Absolute Zero" secret achievement for using the pistol on her.
  • The pistol has even rated a laboratory door with 10 points and a "Cosmic Bouquet" with 2 points. It will even assign a picture of itself with a random number of points.
    The Rating Pistol suddenly opened its eye, rolled its pupil over several times, and then locked onto your camera screen: "(Random Number) points!" the Rating Pistol suddenly proclaims. It was unsure if that was meant to be the score of your photos or otherwise.
• Still on the subject of Curios, various researchers make remarks for virtually every curio there is in the Curio Management Log, with few of these remarks actually relating to the curios in question. Some of their remarks are pretty funny to say the least.
  • The Astro Rod, a tool used to explore the geological structures of ancient planets. One researcher has other ideas about the use of this thing.
    An Astro Rod is said to be the gift that best represents someone's love. An Astro Rod can point her in the direction she desires, and can tell her my feelings for her...
    — [NAME OMITTED], Department of Galactic Geography
    Don't think I don't know what you're up to!
    — Bernard, Department of Galactic Geography
  • The Light of The Stars, what is essentially a chest of drawers. Listed as "defunct" and not available for research applications due to it sustaining damage due to the Antimatter Legion's invasion, some researchers bemoan its unavailability.
    I'm so upset! Only two studies before it's my turn, and the Legion destroyed it!
    — Emily, Department of Insight
    ''Why does the Department of Insight like studying this thing so much? For all I care, you all are the reason that it's defunct!
    — [NAME OMITTED], Department of Implement Arts
  • The Crackup Conch, a conch which tells one "distant jokes" when held up to one's ear. Some researchers probably take the jokes a little too seriously, although it is noted that the Crackup Conch would be reconditioned "in the near future" and all related papers are disabled.
    What is wrong with this thing? Why does it keep trash talking me? My blood pressure is through the roof. Just how is it de-stressing?
    — Wen Shiqi, Department of Implement Arts
    Let's just change its name and call it Crackup Conch (Corrupted). @Lead Researcher Asta, when will this be updated?
    — Joanna, Medical Department
  • The Joy Filtration Set, a set of twenty-one different devices used to measure joy in an individual. One researcher has other ideas about how to use these devices.
    When can we successfully extract the emotions from the Joy Filtration Set and implant it in my brain?
    — [NAME OMITTED], Department of Insight
    Commenter above, if you are already putting your hopes of experiencing happiness in this, might I suggest you place an appointment with the Medical Department for their counseling services?
    — Rosemary, Service Department
  • The Unbearable Weight, an ornamental crown. In addition to the rant by a "straightforward Department of Galactic Geography researcher" mentioned above, a researcher from the Department of Ecology doesn't take too kindly to Wen Shiqi's habits of leaving pointless comments in these logs.
    Why are there so many Department of Ecology researchers working on this?
    — Wen Shiqi, Department of Implement Arts
    Can the person in charge of the Department of Implement Arts assign something to this person who has nothing to do? He had [sic] been leaving pointless comments in several Curios' profiles already!
    — [NAME OMITTED], Department of Ecology
  • The aforementioned Rating Pistol, a pistol-shaped object that rates things. The individuals writing these comments are asking some important questions.
    I know Himeko, but which department is Pom-Pom from? How do they only get one point? And who's March 7th?
    — Edmond, Security Department
    These are all written by Lead Researcher Asta. Might be someone she knows!
    — Wen Shiling, Department of Implement Arts
    What, how did garbled text get into this file? Did the terminal get infected by some virus again?
    — Joanna, Medical Department
  • The Total Eclipse of the Heart, some sort of black hole-like device which disintegrates things and transmutes them into other things. One researcher asks an important question.
    What happens when someone's psyche had [sic] been corroded? Will it awaken some kind of personality?? Has anyone tried it? Reply please!
    — Lukacs, Department of Galactic Geopolitics
    After you get corrupt, your name will get a (Corrupted) label on the terminal.
    — [NAME OMITTED], Maintenance Department
  • The aforementioned Door To a New World, a toilet-shaped teleportation device. Some of the researchers commenting on this curio probably shouldn't be employed as researchers.
    I've stuck my head in this thing, but why did I not end up in a "new world"?
    — [NAME OMITTED], Department of Galactic Geography
    The researcher in the comment above, you don't seem very sharp. You shouldn't put your head inside. You should be sitting on it and flush!
    — Adler, Department of Ecology
  • The Energy Black Hole, a heating device. One researcher asks an important question, while another researcher comments on the apparent ineptitude of the other researchers conducting experiments on this thing.
    What? Not for heating food? So what can this be used for? This touches on the blind spot in my cognition!
    — Mare, Department of Insight
    Nonsense conclusion! That experiment was not rigorous at all, and the "zero calorie" decision was unnecessarily stringent! Look, as long as it was not listed on the package itself, the food inside would come up to zero calories! The Department of Implement Arts knows jack s***!
    — [NAME OMITTED], Department of Ecology
• In Jarilo-VI, you can interact with trash cans multiple times, and they are absolutely hilarious.
  • When you do it for the first time, the Trailblazer will mistake one for a treasure chest after staring at it for too long before proceeding to rummage through the trash for a "treasure". March and Dan Heng look on with a complicated expression, but March says that she understands the temptation while Dan Heng has this to say:
    Dan Heng: There's no turning back once you've walked down this path.
  • Taking this Running Gag into another level, a Trash Can is one of the unlockable profile pictures that you can set in your Trailblazer Profile.
  • One of the trash cans has a note from the "Trash King", which cause Dan Heng to remark that the Trailblazer has some competition.
  • There's even a daily mission where a depressed novelist, Amo, asks the Trailblazer to rummage through trash cans for inspiration!
• Also in Jarilo-VI, there are seven "Wanted" posters scattered around Belobog's administrative district. These posters depict March 7th, Dan Heng, Sampo and the Trailblazer; the various posters are drawn either in a highly-professional and dramatized style akin to those in shojo anime or a highly crude style resembling that of a toddler's drawing. All posters come in these two styles, with the exception of the Trailblazer which only comes in the crude style. Turns out the shojo-style drawings were done by Pela and the crude ones... Gepard.
  • These posters can be taken down, which the Trailblazer proceeds to do, with each poster taken down having a humorous monologue. The following is an example when you find the Trailblazer's poster:
    There's an expressively unbridled portrait here... or rather, a wanted poster. The figure in the picture is predominantly grayish-white, androgynous, and looking straight at you with a sense of lukewarm lifelessness in their eyes.
    Coupled with a structure that appears to be a hand gripping a baseball bat, it's instantly clear to whom the figure refers.
    You decide to peel it off the wall. For the sake of Belobog — and for your own sake.
  • Tearing off all the posters grants an achievement and a Profile Picture depicting the Trailblazer as drawn on the Wanted poster.
• When you do certain things that are morally right - such as filling a hotel's feedback form or pushing two envelopes into a mailbox - you might be rewarded with "Praise of High Morals", an item that goes into the "Missions" category in your inventory. You might be wondering what, exactly, are these used for... until you find out that you can use them for something like taking stuff out of a fountain filled with coins thrown by the people of the city, a morally wrong thing to do. In other words, once you get recognition for doing something morally good, you get a pass to do something morally questionable! Even the achievement description for doing this is hilarious:
  Karmic Wheel: Let the Higher Existence that lives within our hearts sigh at you
• You can sell a photo of Dan Heng - or rather, Cold Dragon Young - to some fans in the Fight Club. When you text Dan Heng asking for a photo, you can choose to call him "Cold Dragon Young", which he replies to by asking if you could be normal for once.
• Talking to Pom-Pom about the train's facilities reveals that Pom-Pom often finds people's phones on the bathroom counter. It's easy enough to imagine March 7th doing that, but the image of Dan Heng, Himeko or Welt doing the same thing is amusing.
• In a Warring Expedition in the Silvermane Guard Restricted Zone, Dunn sets up military drills to train the guards, with the Trailblazer acting as a drillmaster. After defeating Dunn, he wonders how the Trailblazer strengthens their abilities to such an extent, to which they can answer "I only have two abilities" or "After that, I gacha'ed loads more". Dunn expresses confusion at both options.
• In Cloudford, the Trailblazer acts as a dispatcher for Heron Express as a side job, getting starskiffs into dock. While the stuff carried on board the starskiffs seems normal at first, they soon realize that the starskiffs begin to bring in things that are decidedly not normal. The Trailblazer even lampshades this.
  Trailblazer: (I dunno what kinda freight starskiff [sic] gonna dock at the port. But not gonna lie, I'm low-key excited to see what random things they'll bring.)
  • Said items range from an apology IOU note, monsters, a couple of lovebirds attempting to smuggle themselves out of the Luofu (who the Trailblazer nicknames Rom and Com), a stowaway alien creature and even a naked man!
• After inviting Gepard onto the Astral Express, Gepard mulls about the possibility of the Silvermane Guards having a train, wondering if it would make their campaigns easier. The Trailblazer agrees, saying that it could be used to transfer supplies, it could be used for troop deployment... or drive it straight into monsters and send them flying. The Trailblazer is apparently pretty excited about that last option.
  • If the last option is selected, Gepard comments that he has never seen them that excited. He decides to go with the idea anyway.
    Trailblazer: You could drive it straight into the monsters and send them flying!!!
    Gepard: ...I don't think I've ever seen you that excited.
    Gepard: So... you're thinking of turning the Express into a combat unit? Personally I'd only use it for logistics...
    Gepard: Hmm... You've given me some food for thought — I should have a chat with the Technology Division about this.
    Gepard: I'll add it to my to-do list.
• At the Seat of Divine Foresight, you can speak to Qingu. If you say you're taking a stroll, you're told that the Seat of Divine Foresight isn't really a place for strolling and are recommended to get a cleaning job at the inn. And upon asking for a recommendation letter, you're told that the job is no longer available.
• If the Aurum Alley event is completed, one of the daily missions is visiting Boss Du's teahouse and test try samples of potential new flavors of his "Flaming Potent Tea". Some of the samples come with bizarre side effects and the fact that it's flammable doesn't really help.
  Boss Du: Flaming Potent Tea is a tea that is combustible. I guess I don't have to explain what "tea" and "combustible" mean, right?
  • One sample, while unremarkable in flavor, can give the Trailblazer a really strong case of the burps afterwards.
  • Another sample caused the Trailblazer to stare at Boss Du's head so hard they could see that he was losing hair from stress and sweat beading on his ears.
  • One sample is so potent that the Trailblazer got so caught up in counting their fingers and thinking about numbers that they walked right out of Aurum Alley.
  • One sample nicknamed "Nerve Soothing Tea" is so relaxing as it causes the Trailblazer to fall asleep immediately after drinking it.
• After Lynx is invited onto the Astral Express, she comments that she never figured Dan Heng could be so chatty. The Trailblazer can respond with, "Wait, he's chatty?!" It turns out Lynx and Dan Heng were exploring the Archives together and got really into discussing Belobog's geography and the various places the Express has been to.
• In Fyxestroll Garden, there is a "chaos ghost" that gives out daily sandbox puzzles. You can snark off to it for not having difficult-enough challenges (and you'll still get rewarded for your efforts).
• Also in Fyxestroll Garden, you can find a QR code that, when interacted with, results in receiving a text from "the High Elder of the Vidyadhara", who is in need of money. Of course, considering who the real High Elder is, the scam falls quite flat.
• In Penacony, you can find Dreampeek phones that let you look into the dreams of your allies. One particularly hilarious one is Bronya's, which features a conversation between her and Seele that sounds like a Ho Yay moment... until Bronya tells Seele to be careful with some handcrafts given to her by Cocolia. The Trailblazer actually ends up pissed off that it wasn't a lesbian moment between them!
• On Penacony, SoulGlad is basically the official drink and if you wander around Golden Hour, there's a few folks who've clearly had a bit too much to drink and are seen puking rainbows. One NPC in particular, Dancy, can sell Aideen Park tokens to the Trailblazer, when he's not in the middle of puking up neon rainbows.
• On Penacony, one woman allows people to confess their sins, and she will pray to the Harmony to forgive them. The Trailblazer's list of sins include zany things like fondling and looting innocent trash cans, generally acting like a Kleptomaniac Hero, altering messages, returning homework, scooping coins out of fountains, and the like. The woman proceeds to reflect on the insight this provides into the Trailblazer's character.
• Near the Pillars of Creation on Belobog, you can inspect a metal fence. The game tells you that the frost on the fence "...looks extremely tempting, like a cake covered in sweet frosting. Your curious mind begins to wander: is it sweet?" Yes indeed, you *are* given the option to lick the thing, with predictable results, and then you have to call for help. Even though this must be difficult to do with your tongue immobilized, a number of different people can hear you and rescue you, as you can see here.
  Lynx: Ah, you...Wait a minute. I'll take care of this.
  Lynx pulls out her hot water flask and begins to help you. Your tongue goes from freezing cold to scalding hot, until it finally breaks free from the fence.
  Lynx: These things happen a lot in arctic areas, because the saliva on the tongue freezes quickly and sticks tight.Remember to bring warm water with you next time you go out, then you can deal with this yourself if this happens again.
  Trailblazer: You really know your stuff...
  Lynx: ...
  Lynx: ...My sister often says: "Don't lick fence posts. Don't lick fence posts..." I'm more curious about why would anyone want to do that.
  Though her expression is as calm as ever, she is clearly mocking you for your childish actions. "Serves you right"! ...Though Lynx didn't actually say anything, you are certain you heard those words.

Battle

• Most ultimate animations are badass. Keyword: most. For Sushang's Shape of Taixu: Dawn Herald, she summons an avian spirit to attack her target... Which takes the form of a giant cartoon chicken that nonetheless runs after the enemy and body slams them under its weight. If you're not expecting it the first time you see it, it's even funnier.
• Frigid Prowlers have a move where they'll consume one of the Everwinter Shadewalkers they spawn to charge up for a powerful attack. However, if you take out the Everwinter Shadewalkers first, the Frigid Prowlers will have nothing to consume, so when they use the move, it'll drop their defense instead.
• There's something kind of comical about Bailu's animation when reviving an ally: she vigorously rubs her hands together to generate a spark and then places her hands onto whichever ally was knocked out, akin to a Magical Defibrillator!
• Lynx in combat is quite the character:
  • Her Skill animation has her open up a can of what is basically surströmming, complete with visible stink fumes, that somehow still heals her ally without any ill effects. Her Eidolon 3 even depicts her opening a can of it with her nose pinched shut with a clip.
  • Her Ultimate animation has her toss out all sorts of things from her pack, before pulling out a comically ginormous pill that she yeets into the air, healing the whole party.
  • Just the fact her Skill's primary buff is called Survival Response. Clearly whoever was just force-fed this rancid can of fish is now fighting for their life because of it.
• Every character has a line if you take too long to take action in battle. While some get irritated, and some understand your patience, others have quite the comical reaction.
  Gepard: *ahem* We have a situation at hand.
  Hook: Hey! Don't ignore me!
  Kafka: (in a clearly annoyed tone) Time to move...
  Sushang: How does it go again? He who strikes first...? Ugh, just get on with it!
  Silver Wolf: ...I've got a raid to get to—let's finish this.
  Bailu: (in a sing-song voice) Standing here in silence, missing all the violence~
• Whenever Qingque gets health recovered, she just says "Tasty!" as if she just ate something delicious.
• When Huohuo uses her basic attack, Tail essentially shoves her toward the enemy, prompt Huohuo to swing her White Flag at the enemy in a panic and somehow hurt them in doing so. You can get the "Mission Impossible?" achievement this way, which amounts to Cherry Tapping Phantylia with Huohuo.

Messages

• Every character (and some NPCs) have status updates. Some are wholesome. Some are humorous. The following are some examples.
  Herta: This account is disabled | Business Contact: Asta
  Rocky: Lesley, the light of my life
  Julian: Click here to change your signature — What is this?
  Sampo: Certified ancient relic agent
  Arlan: Peppy's emergency contact
  Serval: Lacking sleep and inspiration
  Himeko: I can survive without water, but coffee is my lifeblood
  Bronya: In a meeting
  Asta: I shouldn't buy any more stuff...
  Qingque: Go ahead and work, just don't interrupt my game
  Wen Furui: Foxian Champion!!!
  Foxian Beauty Daiqing: Cute lady chatting online.
  Qingster: I'm sick of work :)
  Blade:
  Lynx: The user you have messaged is currently unavailable
  Aventurine: Always open to pull for your game account
• After meeting her for the first time, Herta will message the Trailblazer to come to her office despite standing right next to them. When the Trailblazer lampshades this, Herta sends out an automatic reply... despite clearly typing the message out.
• When Herta ask you to come test the Simulated Universe's Second Closed Beta, you can jokingly ask her to beg you to come. Herta's response?
  Herta: I beg you. Come test
  Trailblazer: ...
• Most of Herta's messages in general consist of her typing out fake automatic replies in an attempt to either sideline conversations in her favor or stop them altogether, which becomes amusing whenever the Trailblazer points out why Herta even bothers messaging them in the first place if she isn't going to engage in full socialization, leaving them exasperated in the process.
• The Trailblazer's friend list is flooded with friend requests. Asta has the following exchange with the Trailblazer:
  Asta: Haha, a technical issue such as your friend list is no problem for my researchers
  Asta: So sorry if my researchers inconvenienced you in any way. I've already taken it on myself to block the rest of your admirers who are still queueing to add you to their friend list
  Asta: As for all those requests already received, it's up to you to decide what to do with them.
• When you first find a relic, the Trailblazer will ask the Astral Express crew what exactly these "strange items" are. Everyone responds so quickly and in-sync that it's hilarious.
  Trailblazer: Found some strange items...
  Dan Heng: Relics.
  March 7th: Relics
  Himeko: Relics
  Welt: These are Relics.
  Trailblazer: Thanks.
  Trailblazer: So what's a relic!?
  • Welt proceeds to give an explanation on the relics' power, and while the Trailblazer is thankful, that still doesn't answer their question on what a relic is. Welt can only sheepishly tell them to ask Herta.
• In an anonymous chatgroup, "Madame Herta's Heritor Club", created by "You Already Know Me", a researcher, Richard, going by "Richard_Knowitall" attempts to accuse Asta of embezzling funds. The Trailblazer's name in this chat group is "Take-Ultimate-To-The-Face".
  • This rumor quickly gains traction, with Asta calling on the Trailblazer to aid in finding the suspect behind this; they find Richard and question him. Richard, unaware of the Trailblazer's identity, brags to the group that he managed to shut them up and laughs about it with one of his cronies. Another user, "Bill Portcullis", lets slip to Richard about the identity of the individual they had just met; Richard initially shrugs this off but quickly realizes, panics and beats it.
    Richard_Knowitall: LOL! Some young brat just came up to me
    Licenseless Space Driving: Yo, Rich!
    Licenseless Space Driving: Rich, what about your scoop? Everyone wants to know when you're gonna reveal it!
    Richard_Knowitall: Soon, soon! Remember the youngster I just mentioned? That brat came up to me to ask about this too
    Richard_Knowitall: Once I showed my irrefutable evidence, even they have to shut up! Hahaha
    Licenseless Space Driving: Hahahaha
    Bill Portcullis: The one who came to find you was the person who fought off the Legion's Doomsday Beast
    Richard_Knowitall: You don't say?
    Richard_Knowitall: ...Oh?
    Bill Portcullis: I saw it on the monitors too. This person also defeated the Fragmentum monsters back at the Special Purpose Lab
    Richard_Knowitall: ...
    Licenseless Space Driving: Oh dear, looks like you've run into a big shot, Rich
    Richard_Knowitall left the group chat
    Licenseless Space Driving: Rich? Rich, are you there?
    Licenseless Space Driving: ...
  • The Herta Panopticon System later issues an official statement dispelling these rumors; "Bill Portcullis" then makes an implication that Richard had been dismissed from his position before proceeding to leave the group. The chat quickly devolves into senseless bickering and a mass exodus of users quickly takes place. With the Trailblazer and "You Already Know Me" the only two users left, the latter proceeds to reveal their identity... as Asta, and then promptly disbands the group.
    Bill Portcullis: Like something out of a horror story, Richard_Knowitall is nowhere to be found in the space station anymore
  • Arlan messages the Trailblazer afterwards, thanking them for their help. If the Trailblazer questions Arlan about what they wanted to do with Richard...
    Arlan: ...I don't think you want to know the details
  • The Trailblazer can talk to Asta after this quest, who confirms that Richard was dismissed. If the Trailblazer attempts to ask Asta as to whether she was in the aforementioned group chat...
    Asta: Take a guess~
• Hook's first message to the Trailblazer.
  Hook: 123 are you the honorary member of The Moles I am Pitch-Dark Hook the Great I borrowed Julian stuff to message you I'm not good at typing yet It's so difficult Right I need your help Come find me and don't you ever tell that old witch otherwise you are done for
  • Somewhat funnier is that the next time Hook contacts you, she can now type in complete sentences. Her reason for texting the Trailblazer? To ask for book recommendations. She ends up spurning the idea.
    Hook: OK
    Hook: Hook has decided!
    Hook: Hook is going to bed!
• Bronya has a tendency to send stickers when she messages the others. Her stickers are marked in the chat logs as "(lame sticker)".
• Seele's hobbies.
  Seele: If you have any suggestions
  Seele: feel free to send some my way
  Seele: I'm gonna go paint the wall
  Seele: I have to finish 15 walls today, sigh
• The Trailblazer asks Pom-Pom for help. Pom-Pom claims they are busy... only for the Trailblazer to proceed to call them out for evading a question because they saw them typing.
  Trailblazer: Conductor, heeeelp~
  Pom-Pom: [Automatic Reply] Currently operating on the Express. Please leave a message if it's urgent!
  Trailblazer: I can see you typing...
  Pom-Pom: Dagnabbit, my cover has been blown!
• At some point, the Trailblazer aids Heron Express in finding seven lost cycranes and bringing them back to the company for work purposes. As they find more cycranes, an annoyed Trailblazer begins to lampshade that they are the one doing all the work.
  Ziqiao: Good news! We have reconnected with another missing cycrane. Now there are only 2 left.
  Ziqiao: Cycrane hunter! You are one step closer to finding all the missing cycranes
  Trailblazer: Shouldn't you reflect on yourself? Are you really making an effort to find them?
  Ziqiao: Believe me!
• One text from Serval has her come up with the brilliant idea to install a chainsaw on a vehicle. But as soon as she stepped on the accelerator, the chainsaw flew out and smashed a window in Qlipoth Fort, necessitating a manhunt from the Silvermane Guards. Serval immediately begs the Trailblazer not to tell Gepard. Alternatively, you can get a text from Gepard talking about the same incident, asking the Trailblazer if they have any leads. The Trailblazer denying they know anything makes Gepard instantly realize who's responsible.
  Serval: I screwed up
  Serval: A while ago, a thought occurred to me and I installed an automaton chainsaw on a vehicle
  Serval: When I stepped on the accelerator, there must've been some structural design flaw
  Serval: The chainsaw shot out and shattered a window on Qlipoth Fort...
  Serval: The Silvermane Guards are conducting an all-out manhunt as we speak
  Serval: If they asked you, remember to say you don't know anything, thanks!
  Gepard: We received a report recently saying a vehicle fired a chainsaw into the Qlipoth Fort and shattered a window. They think it's an attack.
  Gepard: Have you heard any news about this?
  Trailblazer: I have no idea
  Trailblazer: Who would it be?
  Gepard: ...
  Gepard: No worries. I think I have an idea of whom the perpetrator is.
  Gepard: I'm sorry to have bothered you. I'll go ahead and ask the workshop.
• In the text message that leads into the mission "When Business Comes Knocking," Welt asks the Trailblazer if they noticed anything extraordinary while they were out confronting Cocolia.
  • If you tell him about the Engine of Creation, Welt comments that he would like to drive it around, showing his unexpected nerdy side.
  • If you tell him that you saw "lots of March 8ths", in reference to the March 8th joke above, Welt knows what you're talking about and comments that Dan Heng mentioned it in the records, with the implication that Dan Heng dutifully recorded your offhand joke.
• Seele's hatred of reading.
  Seele: Sigh, I don't like reading
  Seele: Reading is tiring and uses my brain power
  Seele: The moment I start reading a new page, I'd already forgotten what the previous page was about
  Seele: I don't know how Bronya manages to read so much
  • But she continues to do so anyway for Bronya's sake.
    Seele: Gah, Bronya gave me a huge list of book recommendations
    Seele: I tried a few of them and only managed to get through the first few pages
    Seele: I can't read them without getting drowsy
    Seele: Oh, but there's a book that's pretty interesting
    Seele: Tale of the Winterlands, I only managed to read a few pages, but it's pretty gripping
    Seele: That's all, just wanted to vent a bit
    Seele: I'll go ahead and keep reading. I'll try my best to finish the book
• Lynx makes a hot pot and the Trailblazer wants to join.
  Lynx: I dug up so many snow radishes and permafrost lily root bulbs today
  Lynx: I can have a hotpot!
  Lynx: Yay!
  Trailblazer: You can do a hotpot with these?
  Trailblazer: There's only veggies!
  Lynx: Um
  Lynx: Of course I can do a hotpot! I also have cream, biscuit crumbs, and canned herrings
  Trailblazer: Sounds tasty already
  Trailblazer: Remember to take photos! And lemme taste it too
  Trailblazer: (Pom-Pom thumbs up emote)
  Lynx: Sure. I'll take photos
  Lynx: But you're too far away. You can stay hungry and watch me eat it
  Trailblazer: Wrong! You're the one who's gonna go hungry!
  Trailblazer: I left 100 snow mice in your camp and they're gonna eat up all your food!
  Trailblazer: (Pom-Pom disapproving emote)
  Lynx: What the heck are you doingtwdrftgylp
  Lynx: Thank goodness you didn't do that, otherwise...
  Lynx: Rumble rumble rumble rumble
  Lynx: You heard that? My tummy's gonna complain
• The daily text messages you get from characters are often a good chuckle.
  • One of Himeko's messages asks the Trailblazer for meal choices, then proceeds with a list of everyone else's (rather hilarious) replies.
  • Arlan sends a couple of messages with things he needs to get done, and one of your reply options includes telling him that you'll get right on those tasks. He quickly backtracks and insists that you don't need to do anything, or see any more of his notes.
  • Sampo tries to pass on a scam text. It goes as well as it did for the Foxian Beauty Daiqing.
  • Arlan's account sends a few disturbing texts consisting of "Aaaaaaiiiiiiaaaa". As it turns out, it was Peppy sitting on Arlan's phone. One of your reply options lets you mess with him (though it backfires a little).
  • Arlan also "sends" a text that's clearly a move by Asta to get him new shoes. Halfway through the conversation, Arlan gets his phone back from Asta and then says he needs to log off and stop Asta from finding her encryption key, presumably to pay for the shoes.
  • Blade's chats are hilarious just by the virtue of it never being him writing the Trailblazer but instead one of the other Stellaron Hunters messing with his phone. One has Silver Wolf stealing it to play games, another has Kafka use it while hers is broken and the last one has Sam pretending to be Blade while only communicating via Pom-Pom stickers.
  • Fu Xuan accidentally sends a message chain about wanting sugary drinks, and hastily recalls several of them when she realizes she sent them to the wrong person but is unable to get the initial message back. When prompted, she goes on a diatribe about how different mixes of sweet medicinal tea help with different kinds of divination work in a poorly veiled attempt to conceal her Sweet Tooth.
• The fact that Hanya is writing fanfiction of the haunted Fyxestroll Garden events as a story for Xueyi and that she texts the entire thing to the Trailblazer in a fit of writer's block.
  Trailblazer: What a Wall of Text!
  Trailblazer: Wait, hold on a sec!
  Trailblazer: Are you seriously planning to send me the entire novel through text messages!?
  Hanya: Sorry. I'm not done yet.
  Hanya: "Seawater... It is you!"
  Hanya: It ends here.
  Hanya: That's all I've managed to write so far. I'm a bit stuck and need some advice.

Events

• Boulder Town Super League:
  • When battling Sampo in the Featherweight class, the Trailblazer asks if they've met before. Sampo, disguised as a Silvermane Cannoneer and under the name "Sampi", denies this.
    Trailblazer: Have we met somewhere?
    Sampi: Uh, you've got the wrong person...
  • The next round after Sampo gives us some meta Hypocritical Humor where the Trailblazer complains about there being too many Silvermane Guards to fight. The guards retaliate by saying the Trailblazer can call up a team of four.
    Trailblazer: Why have they got so many people?
    Maniacal Fans of Silvermane Guards: You're one to complain! You can call up a team of four!
  • Some of the opponent stage names can be hilarious. Examples include "Many Pigeons", "Something That's Probably Ice", "The Mood's On Fire!", "Ice Cream on a Cone", "Mind Your Language", and "No Good Name Goes Untaken".
  • The final opponent of the Heavyweight class is none other than Svarog himself, and the Trailblazer is less than pleased to meet him in the Fight Club ring of all places to the point that they wonder if it's just their imagination.
    Trailblazer: My imagination... This must be my imagination...
    "Boss" Svarog: We meet again, "variable."
• In the "Lab Assistants in Position" event, Wen Shiling's research goes from pretty normal to something weird, and then for the the final report, you get a choice between three reports that all involve protein rice in some way.
  • On completing this experiment, Asta instructs the Trailblazer via text message to "refrain from participating in future scientific assessments".
• "Tales of the Fantastic"
  • Mr. Xiyan, a storyteller on the Luofu, wants to adapt the Trailblazer's adventures for his audience. The Trailblazer starts and finishes telling their story thus before the game takes them into a flashback of the fight:
    Trailblazer: In a world where memes and cringe collide, one Trailblazer must rise to the challenge! It all started with this cute girl known as Little Miss March...and then some old wise man called Grandpa Yang...
    [...]
    Trailblazer: ...This man/woman who called himself/herself "Galactic_Baseballer" was locked in a heated battle against the master primus of the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus...And for the Xianzhou, this was a battle for life and death!
  • Xiyan records the Trailblazer with his phone so he can tell the story later. However, they don't seem to be entertaining him; at one point he turns his phone sideways, which the game tells you is no doubt because he decided to start playing Celestial Jade. After the Trailblazer finishes:
    Narration: You finally finish telling your story, and Mr. Xiyan looks pretty pleased, too—this old fox has apparently played a winning hand.
    Xiyan: Good game... Ahem, I mean, good story! You are done there with the story, right? Don't look at me like that. I've been listening attentively the whole time.
  • When deciding on what to call Dan Heng in the story, the Trailblazer can choose to simply call him "Dan Heng"....or choose from the names "Cold Dragon Young", "High Elder MK2000", or "John Doe".
  • When the weapon is forged... the Trailblazer is asked to name the weapon. They can choose to keep the old name (Star-Shattering Blade of Truth), or choose from the following options:
    ->: Big Sword!
    ->: Reaper of Nexus Modder!
    ->: Imaginary Intra-Kinetic Portable Tactical Laser Cannon!
  • After completing the final part of the story...
    Mr. Xiyan begins scribbling furiously, and this time he radiates with delight... He's probably in such good spirits because he's managed to get some cash from this IP.
  • Continuing on from the strange names they get to name Dan Heng, some of the perk names include "High Elder MK1000", "High Elder MK2000", "High Elder MK3000", "High Elder MK4000" and "High Elder MK5000".
  • In order to get the High Elder to hatch from the egg in the first place, the Trailblazer needs to do the usual puzzle for hacking electronics or unlocking doors. After they've "unlocked" the egg and the High Elder emerges into the world (somehow already fully clothed, as the Trailblazer can point out), some monsters attack and you have various options on how to react before the fight. One of your options is to unheroically break down crying, which causes Xiyan to be confused for a moment before he guesses the reason: they must be so overcome with maternal/paternal joy at bringing a new life into the world that they're moved to tears, even as they gird themself for the upcoming battle.
  • The fight with Phantylia is revisited, but in Xiyan's version "Phantylia" has the same model as The Ascended. Since Xiyan's struck a deal to have the Trailblazer's story adapted into a show (with a Really 700 Years Old Vidyadhara "child actor" who will be playing the part of the High Elder having joined you), the audience will actually see this particular Big Bad, and the Trailblazer tells him that Phantylia doesn't look like that. They tell Xiyan that she is monstrously huge, with plants growing on her back, and ferocious. He takes note of this and after some more creative liberties are taken with the story (the actor wants his character to have more screen time), there's another fight against Phantylia, who is now a Malefic Ape!
    Trailblazer: Phantylia does not look like THAT!
    Xiyan: Hey...This was based on your descriptions! Plants on the back, monstrously huge, ferocious...
    Actor: Forget it, (name). Just forget about that. Treat it as part of the artistic process. The budget for shooting Immersia would shoot through the roof if we really wanted to capture a ferocious and accurate likeness of the Lord Ravager.
• Where Are You, Mystery Trotter?
  • When Regin sends the Trailblazer to the snow plains to look for the trotter, there are three mounds of snow in the same area that stand out. Clearing away the snow from one reveals scraps of clothing the same color as the outfit Sampo wears, which makes sense since they first met him while he was hiding in a snowdrift just like it. Clearing away the snow from another one reveals the trotter. But what's hidden under the last snowdrift? Why, it's a Silvermane Guard who gets angry at them if they get rid of the snow he was hiding in (and freezing his butt off in) to stake out the other snowdrifts hoping to catch Sampo!
    Frozen Guard: Oh... oh dear... so cold. It's all your fault! I'd been hiding in the snow for so long and almost caught him...
    Frozen Guard: Hey you, what are you doing here? Are you... are you an accomplice of his!?
    Frozen Guard: F-Freeze! Ohh, my leg's frozen numb... Achoo! Achoo!
    Frozen Guard: Gah, you're lucky to get away this time! Next time you stand in my way, I won't let you go so eas- Achoo!
• Aurum Alley Hustle and Bustle
  • Bailu introduces the Trailblazer to the Alley, and then coerces them into buying her free food. She tags along while they and Sushang work through logistics, before they realize she's been there the entire time doing nothing but enjoying the show.
  • The gang meets Skott, a snobby IPC sales representative hellbent on pinning the blame on the Merchant's Guild for not paying them. The Trailblazer and gang ultimately intervene, with Skott forcing a bet onto the Trailblazer and gang: if the merchant guild pays back all the money owed to the IPC, Skott will get down on his kness, apologize loudly to the members of the merchant guild and bark like a dog, with the reverse happening if they cannot pay the bills. Despite the Trailblazer and the gang dissuading Sushang to take the bid, she actually accepts. Skott, obviously unaware of the Trailblazer's past actions, gleefully declares he'll be waiting for them.
    Skott: You all heard that, right? I'll be waiting for you, hahaha. Come on, let's get out of here!
  • Every single time the Trailblazer is asked to do logistics planning...
    Trailblazer: I love planning stuff. I wanna do it now!
  • At some point, the Trailblazer talks to Yukong, who praises their versatility and asks if there's anything they can't do. All three options are comedic: They can admit their limitations:
    Trailblazer: Well, for starters, I can't jump...
    • They can choose to play along and act all "flustered":
      Trailblazer: Omg, stop it~ You're making me blushhh~
    • Or they can tell the truth:
      Trailblazer: Nope. 'Tis why I'll totally take over the Sky-Faring Commission next.
  • After gathering evidence that Skott was intentionally sabotaging deliveries to the Alley to tarnish their reputation, the Traiblazer and gang debate against him and emerge victorious, with Skott potentially convicted of this crime. Sensing his plan falling apart around him, Skott makes an attempt to back out of his side of the bet; he is quickly stopped by Sushang, who proceeds to give him a "The Reason You Suck" Speech.
    Sushang: Don't forget about our bet! You have to apologize in front of everyone!
    Skott: What? Why should I apologize!?
    Sushang: Because you used dirty tricks to trample all over the honest work of others!
    Sushang: An apology alone won't be enough to fix the damage. If it were [sic] — I'd make you do it a thousand times over!
    Sushang: Consider yourself lucky it's just the once!
  • The gang forces an apology out of Skott. They can turn one of his lines against him...
    Skott: I... hereby apologize to Aurum Alley...
    Trailblazer: Ha...? Speak louder, I can't quite hear you.
    • ...remind him of the other part of the bet...
      Trailblazer: Don't forget the other part of the bet.
    • ...or snark at him.
      Trailblazer: Sushang is kicking your butt, dude.
      Sushang: Really? I was just speaking from the heart.
    • Regardless of what option is chosen, Sushang tells him to hurry up and get on with the rest of the apology; he proceeds, calling himself "a raving idiot howling into the wind".
  • Having forced an apology from Skott, the Trailblazer can also probe him to bark like a dog, as per the bet; if the Trailblazer doesn't make him bark like a dog, some members of the growing crowd remember and bring it up. Regardless of what option is chosen, a visibly and audibly livid crowd chant at him to do so; as they continue chanting, Skott breaks under the pressure, snaps at the crowd and proceeds to bark and howl like a canid, with all present aghast at this performance. He leaves, utterly humiliated with his head hung in shame and is not seen again for the rest of the story, while Xikui scoffs at him.
    Trailblazer: I don't hear barking...
    Sushang: ...Is that really necessary?
    Crowd: Make him bark! Make him bark!
    Skott: Ugh— enough!
    (Skott barks and howls like a dog. All present reel in shock, horror and disgust.)
    Xikui: Tsk, what a clownshow. This arbitration is hereby resolved.
    • This entire ordeal doubles as a Moment of Awesome, seeing the gang stand up to Skott and Skott getting exactly what he deserved for his actions.
  • One of the shops in Aurum Alley is Du's Teahouse and he enlists the Trailblazer's help in deciding how to sell his "Flaming Potent Tea". When the Trailblazer suspects it's actually alcohol, he immediately insists he's selling tea, even though this tea is blue and flammable.
    Boss Du: As for "tea"... it usually refers to drinks made from plants. Different teas vary in taste. Flaming Potent Tea is characterized by its pungent and burning taste, and a unique process of production that includes fermentation and distillation. Therefore, drinking too much Flaming Potent Tea may be harmful to your health.
    Trailblazer: Alright. Stop muddling. This is alcohol, isn't it?
    Boss Du: No, this is tea. According to the regulations issued by the Realm-Keeping Commission, we can only sell TEA to customers. I hope you can understand, dear customer.
    • The first recipe is a ratio of 9:1, and the Trailblazer immediately blacks out after drinking.
    • The second reciple is a ratio of 7:3, and the Trailblazer starts hallucinating March and multiples of a very concerned Boss Du.
  • The Trailblazer and Sushang try to convince Bailu to help promote an Aurum Alley shop. Bailu refuses at first in case the Perceptors see, but all it takes is the offer of free food and Bailu's all for it.
  • Bailu models for one of the shops to help promote it. During her first photo at the entrance to Aurum Alley, one of the Trailblazer's suggestions for the photo's caption can be "Please Report All Lost Children to the Realm-Keeping Commission". Bailu is vehemently against this.
    Bailu: Hey! You're trying to set the Commission on me...
    • On the second shoot, they can make a jab at Bailu's height:
      Trailblazer: High, cycranes' flight. Short, Bailu's height.
      Bailu: Thanks for the reminder.
    • The third shoot has the following options for caption choices.
      ->: Welcome to Aurum Alley!
      ->: Aurum Alley - Cool, Cooler, Coolest!
      ->: Aurum Alley - Come Meet Some Strangers.
    • Ironically, Sushang isn't a fan of any of your suggestions and says she'll just ask Mingxi later.
    • Alternatively, you can have the Trailblazer model for the photos.
• Aetherium Wars
  • The event is one whole homage to Pokémon, even having its own version of Team Rocket in the form of the IPC Support Squad. They're trying to snag the Warp Trotter Aether Spirit like it's Pikachu, trying and failing repeatedly at their job. March even remarks that she and the Trailblazer forgot to teach the IPC workers a lesson when they're absent from the Herta Space Station Victory Zone.
  • The Entranced Ingenium: Illumination Dragonfish's ultimate, Display Fireworks, does absolutely nothing. The flavor text for the move lampshades this.
    Fires out spectacular fireworks that don't really do anything, but hey, they're nice to look at.
    • When it actually goes to use the move, this flavor text shows up:
      The Ingenium released a firework... that did absolutely nothing
  • One player you can battle claims that if you win 100 battles, you can get a special Aether Spirit! Yeah, sure, and we're totally gonna find a Mew underneath the truck, too.
  • When challenging Asta to a Hyperlink battle, she distraughtly says that Peppy took all her good Aether Spirits. Come the next tier of battles...
• A Foxian Tale of the Haunted
  • When Mr. Tail first appeared, he threatened to eat Guinaifen, which scared her. Huohuo's response?
    Huohuo: Please don't be afraid, he's only kidding. Mr. Tail is a vegetarian.
  • The main goal of the event is to gain leads of various escaped Heliobi through a paranormal social media called Ghostly Grove, and gaining a lot of followers in the process. Every time you followed a lead and solved it, you're asked to create a post on it with different titles and headlines, and consequently, different kind of comments will appear depending on how you choose to frame it, and they're hilariously accurate to real-life social media. What makes it funnier and better is the fact that nearly all of the playable Luofu cast has a Ghostly Grove account, and seeing the contrast to how some of them act online compared to real life is great. here's the complete list for those who are curious. Some standout examples include:
    • Both Xueyi (SnowingOvercoat) and Hanya (FRigid_Raven) act so differently online compared to real life that it's worth it to look for their comments in a post; who'd have thought that Xueyi would ask for the date of the livestream so she wouldn't miss it, or for Hanya to dig the Trailblazer's expression in the group photo?
    • If you choose to attribute Fu Xuan's Heliobi possession to overwork as a result of a week's worth of calculations being accidentally wiped out by a construction team, Jing Yuan will make a dig at Fu Xuan's expense much to her chagrin.
      RealName_Online: For quite some time, the Divination Commission has been burning the wick at both ends with overtime work. People still need to strike a good balance between work and life. Especially the Master Diviner, because if sleep is always sacrificed, then the possibility of growing taller dies with it
      ruthless_DivinationMachine: ????
    • Someone confessed that when they have too much work, they'd secretly cut off the power supply to their department. Yukong asked which department the person is from, to which the person replied that she's not their boss. The name of the account shows that the account is now deleted.
    • A particular comment chain is funny because all of the replies are made by playable characters.
      LittleGuiGuinevere: Manifest... Where in Stargazer Navalia? I'll go help you find it.
      ShangshangOfficial: Manifest! Starskiff Haven!
      UltimateSwordmaster123: Manifest! Seat of Divine Foresight!
      FRigid_Raven: Manifest! Shackling Prison!
      RealName_Online: Manifest! Alchemy Commission!
      VidyadharaOnline: Manifest! Scalegorge Waterscape!
  • Near the end of the event after reaching the million subscriber count on Ghostly Grove, the crew heads to Exalting Sanctum where Guinaifen shares a heartwarming anecdote that this is where she got her start and she knows all of the road pavers here... which Sushang immediately undercuts by pointing out that she knows them all because she kept pulling up the pavement tiles for her stunts.
  • When Guinaifen and Sushang go to Fyxestroll Garden, the two of them get scared by a heliobus in a moment that was caught on camera. Immediately afterward, the camera shows Guinaifen hilariously explaining things to Huohuo and Xueyi while Sushang is lying on the ground as though she were a corpse, complete with evidence tape around her. What does Huohuo do? Kneel next to her and ask if she should get up because it's cold on the floor.
  • When Fu Xuan becomes possessed, she angrily confronts Qingque and declares that she is now fired! Qingque... takes this very well, and is outright ecstatic because it means she can now take advantage of her severance packages and continue to play Celestial Jade unbothered. After Qingque decides to actually put in a lot of effort into saving Fu Xuan from her possession, a grateful Fu Xuan proceeds to unfire Qingque, to her utter dismay.
  • When Guinaifen's group goes to Jing Yuan to seek out his assistance with one of the heliobi, he recognizes her from what Yanqing has told him. Apparently, Yanqing watched her do a sword-swallowing performance and she forgot to give him back his sword. But according to Yanqing's voicelines, he's more confused at how she managed to do it in the first place.
  • When Cirrus finally gets their fight with Jing Yuan, they cause their host to grow to comically huge size. What does Jing Yuan do? Summon the Lightning Lord, who utterly towers over Cirrus's giant form. Cirrus flinches when the Lightning Lord swings its spear at them, only for Jing Yuan to cancel the attack and give Cirrus a playful "Checkmate". It's both awesome and funny in that it shows Cirrus was nothing more than a Big Bad Wannabe.
  • When Qingque gets possessed, she has an illusion where she's the president of a megacorp with Fu Xuan as a subordinate. When she tries to propose a change for Celestial Jade, she thought about adding lootboxes with a (very small) chance to get a Golden Legend drop. What's in said lootboxes? Trash. Trash of the Unremarkable, Ordinary, Unspectacular, Average, Common, Unpretentious, Lackluster, Unnoteworthy, Swarthy, or Numbers-got-Nerfed variety. The Trailblazer then complains at the garbage drop rate, prompting Qingque to boost them. This entire scene comes off as one big self-deprecating joke on bad gacha rates.
• Critter Pick:
  • Every character you show a rare creation to squees with joy towards the cute kitty cake that looks like them. The sole exception? Dan Heng, who has a "No. Just… No" Reaction to the Trailblazer claiming it looks like him. For reference, even Blade, who is supposed to be a menacing character, reacts happily to the creation based off of him, if Silver Wolf is to be believed.

Promotional Trailers and Media

• The "Space Comedy" trailer is full of hysterical moments, especially when it opens with Stelle peering into a trash can and getting pulled away by March.
  • Dan Heng facepalms at their wanted posters while Stelle looks sheepish and March giggles.
  • As the page image shows, Dan Heng throws up a peace sign while Stelle does the double peace sign in the group selfie before they flee from the Silvermane Guards, knocking over Sampo in a trash can.
  • Serval ruffles Gepard's hair as she runs by him but she bumps into Pela, who was watching footage of Seele and Bronya on her phone.
  • Fu Xuan catches Qingque slacking off with Celestial Jade and decides to record evidence with her phone; the immediate next scene cut you can only see their hands fighting for Fu Xuan's phone.
  • Tingyun has a side business selling paparazzi pictures of Jing Yuan, although Bailu running through her stall sends all the pictures flying.
  • Stelle can be seen still playing on her phone as she runs.
• Bailu's character trailer concludes with her chasing her own tail and getting upset she can't catch it.
• The 2023 Tokyo Game Show promotional video opens with stunning gameplay footage, only for it to pan out to reveal Stelle is playing the game on her phone... and she's standing in the middle of the street and blocking the cable car.
• The 2023 Gamescom promotional trailer opens with Fu Xuan becoming General with an oddly diligent Qingque acting as her Number Two, but it turns out to be All Just a Dream as she was apparently daydreaming.
• Fu Xuan's trailer opens with her looking regal and ready to take on the Malefic Ape...only for Qingque to run in while apologizing for being late, trips over her own two feet, and interrupts the battle. The Malefic Ape even looks at Qingque in confusion.
• Topaz's trailer, "Expert Tutorial", has some very funny moments:
  • Sampo tries to use his ultimate on Topaz to avoid paying her, only for Numby to smack him down before he can finish it.
  • When Topaz shows up to collect from Herta, showing the scientist has a colossal bill to pay, Herta just turns and leaves, barely acknowledging Topaz and forcing Asta to pay the bill instead. A "blink and you'll miss it" detail is that Asta is using two credit cards to pay.
• The 1.5 trailer, "The Crepuscule Zone" opens with Argenti makes his appearance onto the Express and opening with a dramatic introduction... and he gestures to a plant.
  • The trailer then cuts to Guinaifen and Sushang in Fyxestroll Garden looking for spooky activity...all while Guinaifen is streaming.
• The trailer "An Exorcism at Fyxestroll Garden" is one big chain of spooky comedy moments for Huohuo, showing her start as a judge for the Ten-Lords Commission. Throughout the whole thing, Huohuo is terrified of everything, and the heliobus Tail, who is telling her a scary story as "courage training", is loving every second of her being frightened out of her wits, including a moment where her spirit briefly leaves her body.
• "Chivalric Romances", Argenti's character trailer, has some great moments:
  • The trailer opens with Argenti delivering an introduction about the Knights of Beauty and himself in mix of ham and elegance...then the camera pans out to a "very" confused March who asks who the Knight of Beauty actually are as the violins on the background go off note.
  • He basically terrorizes poor Pom-Pom, describing them as an "Omen of Evil".
  • March is extremely confused throughout the trailer, asking "So...what was he doing here again?" after Argenti delivers his shtick and leaves. An unimpressed Dan Heng replies, "just a Knight of Beauty passing by". Funny enough, Pom-Pom responds to her question in the Chinese dub while Welt replies in the Japanese dub and Himeko replies in the Korean dub.
  • The trailer even concludes with a credit sequence indicating the trailer was written and directed by Argenti himself, crediting Pom-Pom as "Omen of Evil", and all five Astral Express members as "Extras". Even the game's logo is altered to Argenti's gold and red color scheme.
• The official Japanese TikTok account posted an animation of Argenti's appearance on the Express scattering rose petals around him...resulting in an angry Pom-Pom forcing him to clean it up, apron and broom included.
• The official TikTok account posted an animation of the Stellaron Hunters celebrating the holidays...by raiding the Astral Express and Herta Space Station and gifting everyone coal while absconding with their presents.
  • Arlan is clearly having a panic attack at the bill for Asta's gigantic pile of presents for the staff. Herta is even seen throwing a present at a nervous researcher.
  • Stelle and March doodle on a napping Dan Heng's face and an angry March has to be restrained when they see the Hunters flying away with the stolen presents.
  • A blink and you'll miss it moment is when it's revealed that the presents have been replaced with coal, Dan Heng received two lumps.
• The prizes for a Twitter event for Dr. Ratio are a postcard of him, a copy of Ancient Greek For Dummies, the Princeton Review SAT prep book, and a book about the theory of relativity. Given it's Dr. Ratio we're talking about it may seems like as if he wants everyone to be educated.
• "The Great Tatalov" features what's presumably the Trailblazer's dream in the Reverie Hotel, and as such, is extremely silly:
  • It tells the story of the titular king Tatalov... a giant Sampo Koski in Belobog, whose subjects are sentient trash cans with arms and legs.
  • Tatalov was once The Good King, but has gone mad due to the influence of the great thing from the sky that brought the Eternal Freeze. Wait, wasn't that Belobog's story?
  • Tatalov puts Stelle under a spell, making her lose consciousness... and it cuts to her lying on the ground in the Yamcha pose.
  • The trailer ends with Stelle leading the trashcans on a charge against Tatalov, who's hurling giant cartoon bombs at them. And just at the end, Firefly voices the audience's thoughts:
    Firefly: Hey, wait! What kind of nonsense is this?
• This special behind the scenes look at how Penacony came about, opening with the presenter carrying a shovel behind her back and climbing out of a display, then asking head writer Shaoji if Penacony was inspired by pharmaceuticals.
  • As the presenter talks about the visual style of Penacony, she walks by a whiteboard drawing of an eldritch Pom-Pom hovering over the cast.
  • As level designer Dr. Orange talks about how they kept altering the visuals of the levels, environmental designer Baiyu sinisterly comes up behind him with a sword. Cut to the presenter walking over Dr. Orange's body on the floor.
• Though the "Rondo Across Countless Kalpas" animated short is mostly a Ho Yay scene mixed with Nightmare Fuel, there's one funny part to it. When asked about what she did to the Annihilation Gang, Acheron says she doesn't even know who they are, and it takes her a good while to actually remember them. This is in spite of the fact that she killed Duke Inferno, and when she does remember, she ends the trailer with this line.

  Acheron: Oh, those guys.

• Aventurine's social media page has a few gems:
  • Profile pictures:
    • March uses the Belobog wanted poster of herself drawn by Pela.
    • Ratio has a Picasso-esque artwork of his alabaster bust.
    • Sunday has an icon of a calender stating that it's sunday, as in, the day of the week, complete with wings and a halo.
  • The half-shirtless artwork of Aventurine that notoriously made the English voice cast as well as the fanbase go crazy is apparently canon and a magazine cover. Sparkle's comment about Aventurine going to bed with hair gel on makes it even better. Topaz's comment reveals that everyone at the Strategic Investment department has been carrying one such magazine copy with them, making Aventurine Mr. Fanservice even in-universe... Apparently, Aventurine himself bought those magazines for everyone.
  • Topaz reposting an article titled "How to Deal with Troublesome Wealthy Colleagues in the Workplace in 10 Minutes". It has a single like, from Ratio.
• If this official illustration is any indication, "White Night"'s creation and promotion was Aventurine's idea, much to Topaz's confusion.

Other

• The mere fact that every single playable character has their own custom phone, even for characters who are basically ancient like Jingliu and Jing Yuan. Even more jarringly hilarious is that Dan Heng and his Imbibitor Lunae form's is a plain black phone, while everyone else has their phone encased in a personalized shell.
• Pulling a 5-star character or Light Cone from a gacha banner causes Pom-Pom to be comically blown back by the immense air pressure of the Astral Express door when it opens, as if the shining gold aura of 5-star pulls is so great, even Pom-Pom can't take it.
• One of Gepard's idle animations has him try to imitate Serval's singing- poorly. He ends up facepalming in defeat.
• One of Welt's idle animations has him trying to look at his phone, squinting, then groaning in annoyance, like many middle-aged parents do.
• Light Cones 4-star and above are generally dedicated to key moments in the lives of the playable characters. Most of them are suitably dramatic, awe-inspiring, or tragic. Some... aren't.
  • Day One of My New Life portrays March snuggling up with a horribly unenthused Pom-Pom dressed in completely different clothes, with several pictures demonstrating this is not the first outfit they've been forced to don.
  • Subscribe for More! shows Guinaifen armed with a sledgehammer and her phone to record a stunt video of smashing a cinderblock. That's laid on top of someone. And that someone is Sushang.
    Guinaifen: Ever seen a pretty girl doing the cinder-block-smashed-on-chest stunt?
    Sushang: I didn't sign up for this!
    Guinaifen: Please. Just let me do this. This is what people would've wanted.
  • Night of Fright has Huohuo, nervously clutching a box cutter, gearing herself up to take on what appears to be some earth-shatteringly important task. Tail is decidedly less than impressed.
    Huohuo: I'm not scared, not scared, not scared... There's nothing to be s-s-scared of!
    Tail: Hurry up. You're just picking up a delivery!
  • The Day The Cosmos Fell depicts Ruan Mei's creations deciding to hijack the Simulated Universe through the power of cuteness.
    "Molten Cheese Tart! You are in charge of disarming the planet's lookouts with your charm!"
    "Gray Bean Paste! You will be in charge of breaching the planet's line of defense!"
    "Salty Rimeplume! Bring us the head of the planet's leader!"
    "My lord, what are you going to do!"
    "I shall pretend to be an adorable kitten to befuddle these stupid humans!"
• Hook's character stories are done in the format of a daily diary, complete with numerous spelling mistakes, wrong terminology and strikethroughs. The following is an excerpt:
  We should rebel against her ̶t̶a̶r̶a̶n̶y̶ ̶ ̶t̶e̶r̶r̶a̶n̶y̶ ̶ ̶t̶a̶r̶r̶e̶n̶y̶ ̶ tyranny! We can't let her ̶g̶e̶t̶ ̶a̶w̶a̶y̶ ̶ ̶g̶a̶t̶o̶r̶ ̶w̶a̶y̶ ̶ get her way!
  I'm gonna make a gang called 'The Moles', and ̶g̶r̶a̶b̶ ̶ ̶k̶i̶d̶n̶a̶p̶ ̶ ̶e̶n̶v̶i̶t̶ ̶ invite all the kids from the clinic!
• The Data Bank page for the Masked Fools, the followers of the Aeon Aha, features this quote from Ast Rickley:
  Even an organization like the Masked Fools sing praises of their Aeon. The Aeon will never give you up, never let you down, or abandon you. He will never make you cry, say goodbye, or tell a lie and hurt you.
• Some achievement names and descriptions are a little bit funny.
  • The description for "Insatiable", the achievement you get for using the Vomit Inducing Agent.
    Sometimes, there can be too much of a good thing...
  • The description for "Diogenes' Utopia", the achievement you get for finding and interacting with all the trash cans in Belobog.
    See what Belobog is famous for!
  • You can earn the hilariously mouthful "Right-Hand Man's Many Right-Handed Right Hands" achievement if you defeat Svarog after destroying 4 Auxiliary Robot Arm Units.
• Talking to Pom-Pom can reveal some funny (and blackmail-worthy) stories about the others on the Express, such as the time Welt hid from admiring fans or Dan Heng drinking Himeko's coffee.
• The Trotter's description describes it as "sweet in taste", but also "inedible" in the same sentence. So... which is it?
• There is a craftable consumable called the Startaro Bubble. Its description states that it is very visually appealing, but actually tastes pretty gross. It's also a harmful consumable, restoring 2 Technique points but damaging your party. The flavor text openly wonders how the heck something like this became so popular, and suspects the IPC may have had something to do with its marketing. Funny enough, if you talk to Fu Xuan during March's companion quest, you learn that she prefers Startaro Bubble Tea over Immortal's Delight, despite the fact that she admits to dumping a lot of sugar into her normal herbal tea.
• While the short "Ichor of the Two Dragons" is rather heartwrenching, there is something funny about the end of it when March interrupts Dan Heng's thoughts by asking him to smile for the camera and he throws up a peace sign while still stone-faced.
• The animated short "Harmony Greets the New Year" includes a couple of funny events, including:
  • Dan Heng ordering, of all the treats on the Luofu, a mung bean soda (with a member of the Artisanship Commission wrinkling his nose in disgust).
  • Yanqing walking along carrying multiple swords in his arms, a nice Call-Back to his lore mentioning that Jing Yuan gives him a monthly allowance to buy swords.
  • Jing Yuan having sparrows hop out from under his hair, just like his idle animation.

Special Programs

• When introducing Kafka in the 1.2 Version Livestream, Owlbert tries to reference the fan interpretation of her as the Trailblazer's "Mommy" due to creating them on top of her status as Ms. Fanservice, only for Corey Landis (Welt's English VA) to cut him off with the warning that the editors wouldn't allow it.
• In Topaz & Numby's "Keeping Up with Star Rail" segment, Owlbert, as a fellow IPC member, tries to pass along a mutually beneficial investment idea from Numby to Topaz. Numby, after evaluating the show, gets back to him with a project proposal at the segment's end. The proposal? Criticizing the show for various faults (distant update schedule, short content, etc.) before proposing a capital injection, complete takeover, and full restructuring into a pet show using a talking snowy owl as its key differentiator. Owlbert promptly clocks out upon reading this.
• At the end of the "Keeping up with Star Rail" trailer for Hanya, Owlbert panics when he receives an unlabeled text message threatening him with arrest for sharing information about the Ten-Lords Commission and if he wants to avoid arrest, he should pay the fines to a specially labeled account...that belongs to Sampo Koski. What's more, Owlbert sounds like he falls for it!
• Version 1.6 Special Program announced that the new limited 5-star character, Dr. Ratio, would be given out to the players for free — by having Dr. Ratio himself call Owlbert, complain about his banner arrangements in a condescending tone, and then demand that every Trailblazer be given access to a proper education through receiving a copy of Dr. Ratio, with angelic choir playing in the background and Dr. Ratio's portrait being surrounded by holy light.
  Dr. Ratio: Through sheer tyranny of will, I shall become ubiquitous.
• In the "Keeping Up with Star Rail" trailer for Aventurine, Owlbert introduces Dr. Ratio as "Aventurine's good friend", though Dr. Ratio claims that he's just less terrible to work with than the rest of the IPC, while Owlbert notes that's still high praise coming from him. Dr. Ratio is later frustrated to learn that Aventurine personally requested for him to commentate on his completely unscientific combat style, to which Owlbert recites Aventurine's prepared counterargument, questioning why Dr. Ratio would appear at all if he truly couldn't understand his powers. The doctor then panics and lies that he appeared out of respect for the show's message.
  • There's also the fact that Dr. Ratio's couch isn't the normal couch, but one designed to look like his bathtub, complete with rubber ducky.
• The version 2.2 Special Program has a few moments:
  • The opening of the program acknowledges how all characters present sport a bird motif by depicting Robin, Aventurine, Black Swan, and Owlbert as goofy-looking Origami Birds.
  • While discussing Boothill, it becomes apparent that Robin has no idea what a cowboy is and assumes it has to do with them drinking milk.
  • Aventurine also makes fun of Boothill's synesthesia beacon problems by suggesting he says things like "muddlefudger son of a nice lady", while Owlbert awkwardly redirects the conversation away from profanity.
  • Owlbert announces that the Trailblazer will have to repair the destroyed screen at Clock Studios Theme Park, with the characters objecting to the Trailblazer having to take responsibility for damage caused by Acheron. Black Swan pointedly notes to Aventurine that the screen wasn’t even the target of that attack. All throughout these interactions, the footage is showing Acheron doing her idle animation of eating a peach in front of the destroyed screen.