A Boy Pursuing Dreams and a Girl Who Dreams.
Black Bart is dead. The Golden Age of Piracy is over. But the Caribbean is still rife with mystery and treasure.
Director Goredolf Musik and Leonardo Da Vinci (in a brand new Spirit Origin) join the protagonists on an island-hopping quest to resolve a minute singularity that will take deep beneath the ocean and up amongst the clouds.
All to say "goodbye".
Tropes:
- Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: To no one's but the recipient's absolute shock, DOUMAN betrays Chris at the final hour. Just about everyone admits Chris had it coming though considering all the offscreen abuse he put DOUMAN through.
- Cut Your Heart Out With A Spoon: Chris threatens to force-feed DOUMAN eggs.
- A Day in the Limelight: Like previous Summer events, there are smaller side story chapters that feature specific Servants going on their own little quests. Mostly from the new Summoning pool.
- Denser and Wackier: Par for the course for a Summer Event, but Douman's shenanigans here are nothing compared to the barbarity he pulled off in Story Chapters.
- A Dog Named "Dog": The group names the stegosaurus they find made from a Holy Grail fragment...Steggy or Steg in Japanese, but that isn't much better.
- The Dog Was the Mastermind: During the epilogue, Achilles wonders who was it that set up the Seven Treasures and all the traps and challenges in the first place. Based on everything that was prepared, the mastermind would at least have to be a pirate and a mage (and know a bit about Japan), and his mind then briefly wanders to the random NPC that kept appearing named Pirate C. Chiron gives out that another name for mages is Conjurer, but Achilles dismisses the entire thought in the end.
- End of an Era: The collection of islands the event takes place in is lousy with pirates who are hoping to find the great treasure purported to be buried there before the Golden Age of Piracy definitively concludes.
- Forced Transformation: DOUMAN activates a curse on Chris, transforming him into the final boss of the event's main story. The curse goes a bit awry partway through, causing Chris to end up as a massive, grinning egg instead of the typical giant ghost or dragon enemy.
- Before that Kama turns the Protagonist to a parrot, although it's more of a conceptual vessel and is more akin to switching accounts on social media.
- The Four Gods: In the event's second half, Kama sets up four treasures for the protagonist to find guarded by these very beasts...or rather several monsters that vaguely fit their theme (and Jaguar Warrior for Byakko/White Tiger) that she powered up to better fit their positions. For the final "treasure", she faces the protagonist herself rather than use a Yellow Dragon analogue.Kama: What, you want to know why a Hindu god is using the Japanese names for Chinese beasts? Because shut up, that's why.
- In-Series Nickname: Kid Columbus asks to just be called "Chris".
- Plot Tailored to the Party: Each member of the core group gets to contribute at a crucial point in the protagonist's quest to reassemble the Holy Grail. Some like Blackbeard get to be of assistance consistently with how he's the only one who can read "pirate penmanship" while others just happen to be in the right place at the right time.
- Pokémon Speak: Turns out that the Shark Soldier-enemy present within this singularity are actually capable of speech. Even if all they can say is "Shark" though.
- The Promise: Played with. The sub-titular Boy Pursuing Dreams is Kid Columbus and the Girl Who Dreams is the current Da Vinci. The two had met as children with Columbus promising that he'd sail and find a Dragon, with Da Vinci promising that they'd buy it. The ambiguity comes from the fact that there is no record or proof that real-life Da Vinci and Columbus ever met as kids, that they ever made such a promise, with the two servants even not sure if they ever did such a thing, plus Kid Columbus isn't even certain he's an actual child version of Columbus, and the current Da Vinci isn't exactly the original Da Vinci as well.
- Ragnarök Proofing: To the incredulity of some of the cast, many of the booby traps and guardian monsters put in place to protect the Holy Grail fragments are still active despite years having gone by since they were first installed.
- Shark Man: A new mob that is a bipedal shark pirate makes its debut in this event. The party's reaction to it amounts to "You all saw that, right?" with the protagonist in particular being worried that Jeanne is somewhere around here. At the epilogue of the event, the subtle evidence points to them being Pirate C's familiars.
- Speaks in Binary: Before venturing of to find the final treasure Blackbeard tells the protagonist the binary code: 01100100 01100101 01100001 01110100 01101000note , after being told to stop saying his lines in the player's head.
- Thieves' Cant: "Pirate Penmanship", which is a form of writing used by pirates that is incomprehensible to others save for Blackbeard. Rather than being some coded language, it's simply written text as affected by the motions of the seas from the hands of questionably-literate sailors.
- Treasure Map:
- The Chaldea group follow a series of these as they track down the legendary treasure and the Holy Grail fragments.
- The player can purchase Secret Maps from the event shop to unlock extra battles that offer generous rewards.
- During one side story, Yu Mei-Ren and Yan Qing follow a map Yu had found under her pillow when she woke up that morning. The "treasure" turns out to be Xiang Yu, who wrote and left the map, then buried himself at the marked spot, all so he could give his beloved a fun day's adventure.
- Welcome Back, Traitor: Caenis may have been hired by Goredolf to be the Security Officer of the group, but that doesn't stop them from deciding to team up with enemies, and then switching back to Chaldea after losing. The penultimate boss battle is also Okita Alter and Rengoku, who have both decided to protect the final fragment of the Holy Grail that is in fact the preserved body of Steggy's parent in amber, but returns to the fold after being defeated.
