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| 6 | [[folder:2015 Events]] |
| 7 | [[AC:Nero Fest]] |
| 8 | * The hilarious nicknames for some enemy Servants. |
| 9 | ** The Bronze Caster trio (Shakespeare, Andersen and Mozart) are named "Guy who does work", "Guy who doesn't work", and "Guy who is just here" respectively. |
| 10 | ** Elisabeth Bathory is named "CCC 48", in reference to her [[VideoGame/FateExtra debut title]] and the idol group Music/AKB48. |
| 11 | ** Caesar, Romulus and Caligula are named "Great Rome", "Too Great Rome", and "Great (I guess?) Rome" respectively. |
| 12 | ** The backstory of the event outright says that Nero bankrupted the senate to fund the event. Whore of Babylon, indeed. |
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| 14 | [[AC:Does the Moon Goddess Dream of Dumplings?]] |
| 15 | * Marie and d'Eon are enjoying their dumpling meal, but Sanson is fretting because he's afraid they'll make Marie fat. Marie responds that she won't get fat and it'll all go to her breasts instead, which leaves Sanson shocked and [[CovertPervert demanding for details]] after d'Eon indeed confirms that to be the case with her. |
| 16 | * After Amadeus is defeated, [[EpicFail his mask flies off in such a way that it hits Sanson in the head and knocks him out]]. |
| 17 | * Artemis and Orion's interactions are so funny, especially the part when Artemis is parading around as Orion. |
| 18 | * The [[MemeticMutation Regend]] Sasaki Kojirou hanging out with Saint Martha and Saint Georgios as the Dragon-Defeating Trio. At first, the trio even offers to let Chaldea take the dumplings back... and then Artemis reveals she knows they're all hiding dumplings for themselves, including Georgios, who offered to give them back first and then scolded the other two for their gluttony only to have stuffed his camera with dumplings. Immediately, they switch to battle-mode. |
| 19 | -->'''Georgios:''' THOU ART A DRAGON?! |
| 20 | * Martha's interactions with Georgios and Kojirou are comedy-gold, such as her getting flustered about how she lets slip she defeated Tarasque with her bare hands. Adding on that, Martha's... [[CovertPervert rather strong reaction]] to the [[ItMakesSenseInContext idea of ropes]][[note]]They were used in the context of criminals getting tied in rope to be hauled to jail[[/note]]. |
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| 22 | [[AC:Adventure of Singing Pumpkin Castle]] |
| 23 | * After Carmilla's defeated, like in the main story, she begins her speech while fading away. Then Kiyohime thwacks her so Carmilla can finish cleaning the castle. |
| 24 | * The thought of Vlad III aka freaking ''Dracula'' sewing clothes and cute event currencies is funny and heartwarming in itself. |
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| 26 | [[AC:GUDAGUDA Honnouji]] |
| 27 | * First of all, the fact that the main enemies are chibi-Nobunagas. They only say "Nobu!" for every action, even death. To clarify: the enemies are literally the little Nobus from the comic. As in, that's what they look like ''in-universe'', in comparison to all of the other characters (who vary in art style at times but are meant to all be recognizably human). The first time our heroes see them, the only thing they can manage are brief sounds of perplexed confusion. |
| 28 | * Because of Nobunaga, everyone involved believes that they're famous figures from the Warring States Period... while also knowing who they are anyway. |
| 29 | * Nobu complains that she's ''supposed'' to be a 5*, but because she had bits of herself shaved off to make the chibi-Nobus, she lost about "half a star"... which is really a whole star. And as she's talking about game mechanics in-universe, you have the option to have the protag be very, very confused. |
| 30 | * The heroes are running from Arash's Noble Phantasm, and end up having it kill Ushiwakamaru and Benkei before they even have to fight them. |
| 31 | * Mash and the Protagonist not even being able to express shock that [[RunningGag Oda Nobunaga is a woman.]] |
| 32 | * Medea complaining about how her Lily counterpart is more popular and how her main purpose is spamming Rule Breaker, which isn't how she's supposed to fight at all. |
| 33 | * Gilgamesh also complains about not being able to summon either of the Altrias from the gacha. The other two aren't paying attention with Andersen BreakingTheFourthWall and Mephistopheles promising a Christmas appearance. |
| 34 | * How does TheReveal in the English version go? By MemeticMutation, of course. Sadly there are no subtitles to tell us that "keikaku" means "plan." |
| 35 | -->"[[Manga/DeathNote Everything is according to keikaku...]]" |
| 36 | * After taking down the Evil Nobunaga clone, Nobunaga attempts to betray the heroes only to be stopped by a DopeSlap from Okita. And then they complain about summoning rates as they disappear. |
| 37 | * After everything is over, Nobunaga and Okita show up again, this time with news that they need to stop evil Okita clones. The player gets the option to tell them to just go home already. |
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| 39 | [[AC:Almost Weekly Santa Alter]] |
| 40 | * Saber ''Alter'' becomes Santa. Nothing more needs to be said. Her singing ''Jingle Bells'' is [[http://www.myinstants.com/instant/saber-alter-santa/ adorable]]. |
| 41 | * Santa Alter assures you that you ''didn't'' beat her back in Fuyuki, and [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial she most certainly hasn't been brooding about it.]] She also insults her reindeer for being cowards, as they'd run off when she attempted to use Excalibur Morgan [[MundaneUtility as a jet engine.]] |
| 42 | * Darius, The Phantom, and Lu Bu are hilarious. Darius was mistaken by Santa Alter as he was so still standing in the center of the room. Lu Bu's dialogue is nothing but Berserker cries, Darius acts like a hyperactive child that can't wait to open his presents, and The Phantom is melodramatic. |
| 43 | * One of the events involves an EarlyBirdCameo of Astolfo who eventually gets turned into a ButtMonkey for one thing: He didn't participate in the Orleans campaign. |
| 44 | * Visiting Martha, Ushiwakamaru, and Jing Ke has several moments: |
| 45 | ** In the very beginning, Martha is ranting about Christmas being used as a romantic day, not to respect the day Christ was born... which was ''wrong'' anyway, because He was actually born in October. All while punching out a nearby wall, PunctuatedForEmphasis |
| 46 | ** Jing Ke being drunk off her ass the whole time, to the point where she has the Drunken Master skill, which instantly charges her NP. And then she receives her present, the Be Elegant CE, which "hit [her] right in the [[GratuitousJapanese kokoro]]." Even more hilarious in a BlackComedy sense, the bearded gentleman (Tokiomi) CE makes her have an urge to stab him in the back. You then have the option to tell her that he was already assassinated. |
| 47 | ** Ushiwakamaru and Martha note the reindeer costume that the protagonist is wearing. The former just thinks it's cute, but the latter [[CasualKink wonders if Santa Alter is into that]], before hastily waving it off with [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial "That's how Riders are."]] and changing the subject. |
| 48 | * After a long, long speech about making Santa Alter his... Gilgamesh is skipped. Santa Alter claims the house he's in is empty, and the player's choices are either "Yes, indeed." or [[ButThouMust "Yes, Indeed."]] |
| 49 | * In one of the daily event missions, [[FanNickname Santa Alter]] gives EMIYA, David, and Robin Hood red, blue, and green Black Keys respectively. This caused several players to believe Santa Alter is the gacha machine incarnate. While they're waiting for the second part of the present, the three Archers talk about how together they're an unbeatable team. Cue [[HollywoodToneDeaf Elisabeth Bathory]] [[TacticalRockPaperScissors (a Lancer)]] showing up for [[ThisIsGonnaSuck a Christmas performance...]] The whole event gets a CallBack during the Da Vinci event, when the protagonist brings up their experience as a reindeer to EMIYA, which drags up horrible memories of the event. |
| 50 | * When giving Jack and Nursery Rhyme their Christmas gifts, one of the Craft Essences is Asterios dressing up as a reindeer. The two girls are marveling at the huge reindeer as Santa Alter looks proud at herself for giving this beast whose steps are lightning itself, while one of the options you can choose to comment about this entire situation is "Should we call Euryale?" The reply is even ''better'': |
| 51 | -->'''Santa Alter:''' Absolutely not. That serpent of a goddess would corrupt these innocent children in an instant. |
| 52 | * Jeanne Alter turns out to have sent the last letter, and she's busy forcing a bunch of Pierre ghosts to play Monopoly. Both Santa Alter and Alter Jeanne describe the game as being greedy, cutthroat, and the epitome of man's inhumanity to man. Which is why Jeanne Alter likes it. Santa Alter then begins sniping at her, starting with how she now has two versions of herself, while Jeanne Alter isn't even available as a Servant. This ended up becoming HilariousInHindsight after Jeanne Alter was unveiled as an Avenger, and got even ''more'' funny once Christmas 2016 rolled around... |
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| 55 | [[folder:2016 Events]] |
| 56 | [[AC:Saber Wars: The Caliburn Awakens]] |
| 57 | * Yes, that's right. FGO-style Star Wars with Saber Lily as the main character! And Mysterious Heroine X who's totally not Altria. |
| 58 | * Most enemies have Altria's ahoge. The exclusive currency of the event? Ahoge (aka Altrium)! |
| 59 | * [[AscendedMeme Lily blasts Blackbeard's crotch with Caliburn.]] Several times. |
| 60 | * The rocket in the background sure bears an uncanny resemblance to the Holy Grail from Carnival Phantasm Episode 1. |
| 61 | * Heroine X lectures the newcomer to the Fate universe, Mash, about the Fate franchise. |
| 62 | * Mash and Saber Lily think it's a bit overkill to go after Jeanne, since she doesn't really resemble Altria. Heroine X's response: |
| 63 | -->'''Mysterious Heroine X:''' She's not a Saber-face, but even a slight resemblance is unforgivable so we'll have to kill Jeanne too. |
| 64 | ** Ironically, X has the right idea for the wrong reason; the game itself considers Jeanne a Saber-face, flagging her as such, causing skills and enemy AI that trigger on them to trigger with her as well. |
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| 66 | [[AC:Chocolate Lady's Commotion]] |
| 67 | * The female servants give you chocolates, with a unique chocolate for each of them. Some of them are hilarious: |
| 68 | ** Saber Alter gives you a chocolate ''burger''. It's her leftovers after eating ''ten'' boxes of chocolate. |
| 69 | ** Mordred gives you a store-bought chocolate bar that's ''already half-eaten''. The description tells you to go buy your damn own chocolates next year. |
| 70 | ** Altera ended up making a mini Photon Ray but she's sure the inside is edible, maybe. |
| 71 | ** Artemis gives you a chocolate Orion with a panicked look on his face. And the name of it is "HELP". Its description mentions that he seems to be complaining about something. |
| 72 | *** It turns out Orion was turned into chocolate as punishment for begging the other female servants for chocolate. |
| 73 | ** Scáthach gives you an ordinary heart-shaped chocolate ''[[VisualPun with one of her Gae Bolg piercing it]]'', almost breaking the chocolate in two. And it's a pitch-black bitter chocolate. Even more humorously, in the lead-up to giving it to you she's blushing while stating you'd better not hate it because she put her best effort into it and even got excited like a little girl in doing so. The mental image of ''Scáthach'' being giddy like a little girl while making chocolates alone is worth a belly laugh. |
| 74 | ** Lancer Alter hid her chocolate (that's shaped like her lance) [[VictoriasSecretCompartment in her boobs]] before giving it to you. Even more hilariously, she starts the conversation by talking about the tradition and mocking it as a waste of time for Servants to partake in before then awkwardly segueing into the fact she [[BlatantLies just so happened to find her chocolate in her boobs and states it must be the work of her holy lance]] [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial and she's never felt her heart flutter regarding such vulgar customs]]. All while carrying a [[LuminescentBlush huge blush]] before finally shouting for you to not question her and just enjoy it. |
| 75 | ** Stheno and Euryale give you chocolate caricatures of Medusa. Stheno's is made with love and Euryale's is made with minimal effort. They're the same in every way except for the eyes[[note]]Stheno's chocolate has white chocolate eyes; Eurayle's has closed eyes wearing milk chocolate glasses[[/note]]. Fast forward to 2017, Ana's chocolate looks the same, but with a lot more details. Meanwhile, Medusa gives you store-bought chocolate, implying that her older sisters stole what she made to give to the protagonist. |
| 76 | ** Mysterious Heroine X reveals that she forced the other Saber-faces to help make her chocolate. |
| 77 | ** Jack gives you a literal chocolate ''heart''. As in, ''human heart''. Complete with details. The name of her chocolate? '' "[[CrossesTheLineTwice Dear Mom]]" ''. |
| 78 | ** Brynhild gives you chocolate glasses - that's not the funny part. What's funny is that she used ''ice runes'' so that it will never melt... but at the cost of it being edible, because if you do eat it, it will ''[[EpicFail destroy your stomach]]''. |
| 79 | ** Carmilla gives you something that she ''says'' is supposed to be chocolate... but at best, her attempt at making chocolate [[GoneHorriblyWrong went horribly wrong]], and even worse, she ''forgot'' she was making chocolate and made a blood ruby instead. If her dialogue is correct, the main character mistakes it for ''octuplet crystals''. |
| 80 | * The event starts with Kiyohime revealing that she has turned herself into chocolate, so Master can eat her. The protagonist starts screaming until s/he wakes up and then realizes it was a dream. |
| 81 | ** Kiyohime giving you herself as the chocolate is a CallBack to this; Kiyohime is baffled at the strained look on your face. |
| 82 | ** Her Lancer incarnation is just as bad: though it is named [[BlatantLies "Chocolate Without Anything Dangerous"]], the background has an empty love potion bottle. |
| 83 | * Early in the event, you meet Blackbeard. After battling him, he says this line. |
| 84 | -->'''Blackbeard:''' I was about to mold the Choco-Servants into Mash-chan, Euryale-chan, Atalante-chan, Artemis-chan, [[OverlyLongGag Mata Hari-chan, Boudica-chan,]] Kiyohi... maybe not her, that idea scares me. |
| 85 | ** The English version of the event gives us one of his best lines: "[=NORMIES EXPLODE!=]" |
| 86 | ** This is closely followed by him suddenly unleashing Spartacus, who opens with his usual {{Gonk}}ish SlasherSmile and "CHOCOLATE IS TYRANNY." |
| 87 | ** And his Noble Phantasm for the event, which he busts out at the beginning of the battle? Valentine's Treason, which is a very weak AOE. |
| 88 | ** Blackbeard is defeated when he [[TooDumbToLive accepts a bomb from Mephistopheles]]. The player then sees his SkyFace, which gives one last bit of wisdom. |
| 89 | --->'''Blackbeard:''' Chocolate is... tyranny... |
| 90 | * The climax of the event reveals the BigBad to be Alice, who turned all the chocolate sentient because she needed guests for her tea parties (she tried with her actual friends, but Jack keeps ditching the parties and Andersen is always being an ass). Shakespeare defeats her by telling her all that tea and chocolate will give her cavities and that she'll need to go to the dentist. Played here by Fergus and his giant drill of a sword. One hammy DepravedDentist act later, everything goes back to normal (though the protagonist thinks poor Alice will have some trauma after ''that''). |
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| 92 | [[AC:Garden of Order]] |
| 93 | * Mephistopheles's debut scene has Shiki mistaking him for ''Mash's older brother,'' presumably because they both have pink hair. Mash is horrified at the thought. |
| 94 | -->'''Shiki''': "What's the deal with his scissors? Oh, he knows Mash? This funny guy here is Mash's big brother or what?" |
| 95 | -->'''Mash''': "I couldn't take having a brother like Mephisto! The breakfast table would become a catastrophe!" |
| 96 | * The plot of the event's "postgame" after defeating Evil Mephisto and his giant ghost: Shiki has become the landlord of Ogawa Mansion and the Servants are now refusing to pay rent, so the player teams up with her to get all that owed rent. [[SarcasmMode This is a serious event, yes.]] |
| 97 | * It turns out Shiki's a fan of Dr. Jekyll because he is her senior in the "killer with split-personalities" business. She then gets disappointed when she meets him and finds out Hyde has already completely taken over and [[HydePlaysJekyll is just pretending to be Jekyll]]. |
| 98 | * One dialogue option points out how absurdly high the fee is for any of the Mona Lisa Craft Essences. Da Vinci still won't change them. |
| 99 | * When Elisabeth Bathory is defeated and sent back to Chaldea, the protagonist is initially worried given how unstable she was in the apartment but Mephistopheles insists she'll be fine since she'll have her emotions back under control by then. A transmission then comes in from da Vinci, as apparently Elisabeth barged in after waking up in her room and started force-feeding da Vinci "cookies" while exclaiming how good she felt...which she apparently made out of golems. Mephistopheles cheerfully notes that Bathory is back to normal. |
| 100 | * When Lancer Alter shows up, Shiki is confused by the fact an armored knight is riding a horse in the middle of an apartment building hallway. When Alter tries to introduce herself, Mash and the protagonist immediately start claiming she's the villain behind the event because of how [[DarkIsEvil villainous]] [[BlackKnight she]] [[TinTyrant looks]] while the Servant just gets more confused and interrupted. Then Lancer Alter gets so annoyed that she [[BattleStrip strips off her armor]] to get them to recognize her, confusing Shiki ''further'' by this act while the protagonist can note she's [[MythologyGag either from Fuyuki]] or they don't recognize her because of those breasts, the latter of which pisses off Lancer Alter even more. When they finally throw down, Shiki is ''glad'' because she couldn't take the weirdness anymore. The dialogue following the fight has Lancer Alter reveal she's still in control of herself, give a few answers, and allow you to carry on with the investigation. The conversation takes a hilarious turn at the end, however, when Shiki lampshades her giant bust size, while Lancer Alter just dismisses her remark as jealousy. Her composure immediately shatters when Shiki asks to inspect her room since she's the landlord. |
| 101 | -->'''Shiki:''' Ah, how about that Room No. 4? That is your room, right? Can we go inside? You clean it up every day, right? |
| 102 | -->'''Lancer Alter:''' Eh--? No! Absolutely not! If you go in, you will die! What the hell are you thinking?! |
| 103 | * When you fight Cu Chulainn (Caster), you can choose to point out (twice) that [[BreakingTheFourthWall he appeared in the event's trailer]]. He will be briefly flattered if you do so. He's stuck in his apartment after he insulted his master's age, so in order to stave off boredom, he set up a casino. He rigged it with his druid magic so he always wins. Mash and Ryougi both agree this is a blatant violation of his contract and move to attack. Scáthach then shows up, deciding that she needs another method to teach him a lesson again, namely beating him up. But she's not Scáthach, [[ButHeSoundsHandsome the strongest and most beautiful warrior of Celtic legend]]! She's just a nameless ninja of the dark![[note]]She's using her mouth-covered first ascension sprite.[[/note]] |
| 104 | * One of the rooms presents itself as a one-shot continuation of the GUDAGUDA Honnoji event (aptly titled ''Nobu no Kyoukai: The Movie''), complete with the event's splash. Apparently, Nobunaga thought that players care more about Okita than her, so she started a makeshift event to be more popular. After you defeat Nobunaga, she shares a few parting words (which is pretty much a caution to keep farming for the event rewards) before she vanishes. Then, Okita enters the room with some ice creams (and in English, with her phrase untranslated on purpose: "Okita-san, DAISHOURI!"). Nobunaga proceeds to revive herself to ask for some ice cream, while Shiki also asks for some [[TrademarkFavoriteFood strawberry-flavored]] ones. Both Mash and you are understandably confused as to what exactly happened. |
| 105 | * The context of Frankenstein's fight is a comedic example of MoodWhiplash. Up to this point, each floor's fourth room (with the exception of Lancer Alter) involves a Servant being driven mad by the apartment amplifying their negative emotions and feelings (Benkei's anger at failing his lord, Eliza's secret self-loathing and loneliness, Boudica's resentment of Rome, etc). Frankenstein's negative emotions? She's fed up with Tesla constantly wasting Chaldea's electricity and has now resolved to waste all of the apartment's electricity as payback. And when she's returned to Chaldea, she redoubles on conserving electricity, and proceeds to unplug Dr. Roman's computer while he's using it to communicate with you. |
| 106 | * Anne and Mary are found in an apartment with trash piled everywhere, having lost their adventurous spirit to the vast comfort of the internet after Blackbeard taught them to use it. They've been having food and entertainment delivered, and threaten the deliverymen with violence to avoid paying. Just before battling them, they beg you and Mash to not fall into the same lifestyle. |
| 107 | * Leonidas is running around in his apartment screaming and stabbing at the air. Mash gets [[HeroWorship defensive and starts ranting that the great Leonidas couldn't possibly have any dark side to amplify]], and then Leonidas blurts out [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes he's scared shitless of the ghosts that are gathered in the apartment complex]] and can't even leave his room from fear. Leonidas being afraid of ghosts makes his famous line in ''Film/ThreeHundred'' hilarious. So what happened with '''"TONIGHT!! WE DINE!! IN HELL!!"'''[[labelnote:Original quotation]]"Tonight we dine in Hades."[[/labelnote]]? Lots of ghosts in Hell, you know... |
| 108 | * The final floor has Mysterious Heroine X, who's back to eliminate some Sabers and detects the presence of one with the party. When Mash gets confused and states that Shiki is an Assassin, it turns out Shiki's transformed back into her Saber form (which was apparently due to stubbing her toe in the apartment) and can't help but be a little sheepish. |
| 109 | * Meta-example. The Incinerated remains node has 3 '''''6.66 million''''' HP ghosts while the story support is locked to just Saber Shiki, which is an obvious hint that the only way to win is to use her [[OneHitKill NP to kill all three of them]]. This didn't stop the players from trying to get rid of them the old fashioned way, leading to MarathonBoss fights that lasted ''hundreds or even over a thousand turns''. But the champion in all this insanity and most likely ultimate masochist reached '''''10000''''' turns. [[https://www.reddit.com/r/grandorder/comments/7zjk4j/player_hits_10000_turns_while_fighting_the_6m_hp/ Human insanity knows no bounds.]] |
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| 111 | [[AC:Chaldea's Boys Collection]] |
| 112 | * The draw of this event are the new [=CEs=] with pretty boy Servants posing as boybands, BL-inducing images, music bands, or butlers. |
| 113 | ** "Kiss My Hand" CE. You can't help but chuckle seeing Gilgamesh as ''your butler''. EMIYA and Cu Chulainn, however, look like this is their fated job. MythologyGag as well, because Cu works as a waiter in Fate/hollow ataraxia. |
| 114 | ** "Moonlit Four" CE. There are 3 cool Servants here... and Orion. As in, teddy bear Orion. And somehow, he looks cool! |
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| 116 | [[AC:Vengeful Demon's Wail at the Prison Tower]] |
| 117 | * The Prison Tower event deals with SevenDeadlySins in each floor of Chateau d'If. While the other Servants make sense with the theme (Fergus with Lust, Caligula with Gluttony), in Wrath they have [[IncorruptiblePurePureness Jeanne]] of all people. Dantes then spends several scenes frothing at the mouth shouting at Jeanne to get angry, at which he fails spectacularly, before he basically says "Screw it" and attacks Jeanne anyway. |
| 118 | ** FridgeBrilliance makes this even better: it's entirely possible he meant to recruit Jeanne Alter (an Avenger who is ''quite'' full of wrath) and grabbed the original by mistake. Further Fridge Brilliance means that Wrath is still represented - by Dantes himself, who was the first Avenger to be introduced for this game. When his attempt to anger Jeanne fails, ''he'' gets angry. |
| 119 | * Much like with some of the holiday-events, the Prison Tower event gave you a different design for [=MyRoom=]. This led some fans to post photos of them with servants like Nursery Rhyme or Medea Lily as their favorite servant, jokingly implying [[{{Squick}} what they'd been sent there for]]. |
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| 121 | [[AC:Fate Project 2016 Collaboration]] |
| 122 | * Medusa commemorating the Heaven's Feel movie wearing a Homurahara school uniform (that is too tight for her). And of course, Euryale and Stheno have to pester her. They also try to rename her Noble Phantasm to match theirs, with "Smile of the Stheno", "Eye of the Euryale" and... "Gigant of the Medusa". |
| 123 | * Nero promoting the VideoGame/FateExtra anime as well as Fate/Extella. She brags about it to every Servant present around her, including the likes of Blackbeard and Tamamo Cat. At the end of the quest, she pretty much becomes ''a walking billboard'', wearing several flairs commemorating the occasion to the point where her clothes get mostly covered in it. Tamamo Cat then expresses that she will (probably) appear in the game as DLC (she's not). |
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| 125 | [[AC:Da Vinci and the 7 Fake Heroic Spirits]] |
| 126 | * The event was caused by counterfeit Mona Lisa pictures being sold because the price in Da Vinci's shop was too high. An angered Da Vinci then demands all Servants to arm themselves for an assault, but nobody cares. |
| 127 | * EMIYA (in the middle of a discussion about Projections with the protagonists) was dragged in because he's an expert on counterfeits (as a Faker himself). But he tries to run away saying that, "I gotta maintain my weapons, [[TeamMom clean my room]], [[ChickMagnet make small talk with the operator girls]]." Never change, Shirou. |
| 128 | * The group first runs into Caesar and Paracelsus. After a {{Beat}}, Da Vinci orders the attack. |
| 129 | * The fake Servants that are summoned in this event are given "characteristics" that you can find in an otome game, best portrayed in [[http://www.zerochan.net/2003622 this fan coverart]] with the corresponding personalities: |
| 130 | ** Alexander: "a superb younger brother that lives together with his beloved sister." |
| 131 | ** Hektor: "slightly frank, easy-going uncle returned from an overseas trip, who may or [[NotBloodRelated may not related by blood.]]" |
| 132 | ** Siegfried: "a friendly class celebrity who, by coincidence, sits next to her in class." |
| 133 | ** Arash: "an older childhood friend who's a humanities major and lives next door." |
| 134 | ** Arjuna: "a very sadistic science major upperclassman who gets all lovey-dovey when it matters most." |
| 135 | ** Caster Gilles: "a doting father she really loved in her childhood, but now annoys her greatly." |
| 136 | ** For the last one, Da Vinci guesses Karna, Emiya guesses Kojirou, and Mash guesses Leonidas. You can either guess Blackbeard or Mozart. In the former's case, the others accuse you of head injury. |
| 137 | ** The last fake Servant summoned was Brynhild. Jeanne Alter wanted her to be the "genuine and honest female friend"... but she accidentally unlocked the {{Yuri}} route: Brynhild clearly lusts for her! |
| 138 | ** When Mash correctly guesses what Jeanne Alter really wanted Brynhild's role to be in this scenario, the Avenger stares at her in horror, and then immediately converts to battle mode. |
| 139 | *** FridgeLogic makes this even funnier when you realize that the person who would've been the best fit for this would've been ''regular'' Jeanne, but Jeanne Alter's desire to avoid her so much likely lead to Brynhild getting summoned instead. |
| 140 | *** Also Bryn became a masochistic lesbian, crawling like a teketeke ghost after Jeanne slugged her and wanting more. |
| 141 | ---->'''Jeanne Alter:''' I told you! I AM NOT! LOOKING! FOR THAT KIND OF LOVE! |
| 142 | ---->'''Brynhild:''' Ahhh, this pain...this impact... It sends a tingling sensation down my spine! I see, love can be painful! |
| 143 | * The culprit of this event is Jeanne Alter. She want to surpass the original Jeanne, so she creates 7 counterfeit heroes for herself, even quoting Shirou's words against Gilgamesh in UBW. |
| 144 | -->"There is no rule that says an imitation cannot defeat the original!" |
| 145 | ** The counterfeit heroes all are good-looking male Servants (and one female). EMIYA (an ex-galge protagonist) then points out that Jeanne Alter's subconscious wish was to be a female galge protagonist. She denies everything. Even better, her wish is lampshaded on her profile. Apparently by ''Dantes'' of all people. |
| 146 | --->"To think that, in the depths of her consciousness, she wants to perform a strained avenge trade while being surrounded by handsome men of her own liking!" |
| 147 | ** Even better, most of the counterfeits have enough self-awareness to know that these roles are ridiculous, but they admit they put up with it because Jeanne Alter is just so passionate about it all that they can't but go along with it to keep her happy. (Fake) Hector even flat-out calls her "adorable!" |
| 148 | * When you meet (fake) Alexander, Da Vinci has a total gibbering meltdown over Alexander's youthful prettiness. |
| 149 | * When you meet (fake) Siegfried, as usual he'll apologize for having to fight... but then... |
| 150 | -->''I am very sorry that we have to fight...'' *suddenly zooms on his face* ''[[{{Not}} NOT!!]]'' |
| 151 | * When (fake) Arjuna explains his role, the protagonist can speculate that he was cast as a science major [[LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine because of his white coat]]. Arjuna admits this is not implausible. |
| 152 | * When the protagonists arrive to confront Jeanne Alter once and for all...she's trying to get Brynhild off of her, resulting in an awkward silence from just about everyone in the room. Which the protagonist has the ability to completely ruin with the next dialogue option. |
| 153 | -->'''"The final battle!"'''\ |
| 154 | ''The Grand Battle theme begins playing''\ |
| 155 | '''Emiya:''' Wait, Master! It's hard to switch into battle mode after witnessing that!\ |
| 156 | ''The Grand Battle theme stops playing'' |
| 157 | * A meta HilariousInHindsight moment occurs when Jeanne Alter stated that no one wanted her while explaining how she was resummoned. Considering that Jeanne Alter is the game's BreakoutCharacter, probably more than a few players chuckled at her statement. |
| 158 | * There's a scene entirely made of Jeanne Alter and the protagonist saying nothing but [[DramaticEllipsis Dramatic Ellipses]] over and over. All while Jeanne Alter's face hilariously shifts from horror to disgust and then back to horror. |
| 159 | |
| 160 | [[AC:Fate/Accel Zero Order]] |
| 161 | * The event is devoid of most of the wackiness of the usual events, but with the EX Missions released midway through the event, the protagonist and Mash meet Angra Mainyu, and the first thing he does is grope Mash's breasts. He also comments on how revealing Iri's clothes are. |
| 162 | * In the beginning, you have the option to say you pulled an all-nighter. Mash chides you for it, telling you that you shouldn't stay up late for your login bonuses. |
| 163 | * Turns out speaking in YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe will annoy Lord El-Melloi II. |
| 164 | * El-Melloi II tries to convince Kayneth that he was able to come to the past because of the Archibald family helping the Atlas Institute which resulted in Chaldea's formation and the magic behind it. Kayneth specifically points out that he dislikes that "group of eccentrics" and would never work with them. [[InsufferableGenius He nevertheless completely buys El-Melloi's explanation]], gushes at the idea that the Atlas Institute's ideas (that border extremely close to ''True Magic'') would genuinely come to fruition with his help, and even seems almost embarrassed when El-Melloi points out that the "loving" relationship between him and Sola-Ui "helped" in the future (which he backs up by quoting from one of Kayneth's love letters). He becomes almost pleasant to talk with. |
| 165 | * The elemental Irisviels all have zany personalities, each of them eagerly gabbing away. For example, Wind Iri talks a lot like Blackbeard. |
| 166 | * Lord El-Melloi II bickers with Waver Velvet when they first meet, just like Archer and Shirou in UBW. |
| 167 | * When you first meet Saber, you have the option to call her Heroine X in confusion. Mash then chastises you for calling her that, citing this as a "serious event." |
| 168 | * When Iskandar decides to join forces with Lancelot against Chaldea, El-Melloi demands to know why he's doing it if he has nothing to really gain. Iskandar admits he's right... and then states he's really doing it because he just doesn't like El-Melloi for some reason. The face El-Melloi makes upon hearing his king say that to him looks like he just got slapped upside the head. |
| 169 | * In an [[https://oneofepisodes.wordpress.com/2016/04/18/fgo-tm-ace-042016/ interview]] about the event, Nasu talks about how he wrote the event with the help of Creator/GenUrobuchi, who he teases. |
| 170 | -->'''Nasu:''' But during the plotting stage, even though I said, “Write something with a happy ending for once,” first he asked me, “Can’t I have this character kill this other character and end it there?” and he gave me a plot that was even darker than Fate/Zero. [laughs] I said, “What kind of festival do you think we’re making here?! Gen, you should believe more in dreams, aspirations, and the bonds between people!” and had him revise the whole thing. |
| 171 | |
| 172 | [[AC:Rashoumon]] |
| 173 | * Kintoki flustered at seeing Mash's snug body suit. |
| 174 | * Some mysterious mist surrounds Kyoto and it has an intoxicating effect that even Servants can't resist. Cue drunk Mash who becomes not only over protective but boldly affectionate, worried about things from petals to insects to the point she expresses a desire ''and'' intent to crawl into bed with the protagonist to keep them safe. And of course every time she tries to protect them from whatever has appeared she just ends up giving them a healthy dose of boobs. |
| 175 | -->'''Mash:''' Careful, senpai! There is a sakura petal falling to your head!! (boobs squish sound) |
| 176 | * When Kintoki sees Ibaraki's NP, he calls it a rocket punch. |
| 177 | * If you look closely at the Golden Catches a Carp CE, you can see Orion clinging onto Kintoki, desperately trying not to fall into the waters beneath. |
| 178 | * The event's finale has Ibaraki ''throwing a tantrum'' because you and Kintoki point out that she's not as threatening as she appears. For one, despite boasting that she will eat Shuten-douji, she can't bring herself to do it... because Shuten-douji is, in her words, scary. In the end, you, Kintoki, and Mash aren't even afraid of her anymore, with Kintoki also pointing out that her antiquated way of speech sounds funny. Then Kintoki berates her for drinking too much and not being herself. |
| 179 | * As if Kintoki being flustered over Mash's outfit wasn't enough to illustrate how bad he is with women, there is also that moment when Shuten slips behind him, pressing close. His reaction? |
| 180 | -->'''Kintoki:''' SPAAAAAAAARK! ''*promptly disappears from the screen*'' |
| 181 | * At the very end of the event, Shuten presents you with a Grail (or something similar to a Grail)... which is apparently ''filled with sake''. No one knows who put it there, why it's there, and you, Mash, and Roman are very shocked with this. But that's not all... Shuten proceeds to ''casually destroy it''. The story is then closed with one last view of drunk Mash, and she looks even more drunk than at the beginning of the event. |
| 182 | |
| 183 | [[AC:Sanzang Coming to the West]] |
| 184 | * The portrayal of Xuanzang's disciples. The protagonist is Sun Wukong, David is Zhu Bajie (since he's a lech), Li Shuwen is slotted into the role of Sha Wujing (a silent but reliable fighter), and Lu Bu is Yulong (Xuanzang's horse, since Lu Bu is identical with his steed, the Red Hare). |
| 185 | * In the "Go West!!" CE, Lu Bu as Yulong is wearing an absurdly large horse costume while blushing and being ridden by Xuanzang. And David's jealous reaction. While Li Shuwen doesn't need much modification for his outfit to slot into the role of Sha Wujing (He just put on a skull necklace.), Lu Bu has to wear a horse mascot costume and David's wearing a pig nose. |
| 186 | * Xuanzang 'recruiting' her disciples (and a horse) is an exercise in hilarity. |
| 187 | ** Xuanzang mistakes you as Sun Wukong because you're rayshifted with clothes resembling the ones that Wukong would probably wear. As to why you had those clothes on you, Da Vinci had you wear it before going into a meeting with Roman and Mash that morning. When she realizes that you're not ''her'' Wukong, she decides to just roll with it. |
| 188 | ** When Xuanzang rescues you and begins to explain exactly what she's trying to do, one of the options you get to ask "to collect...[[Franchise/DragonBall seven...dragon orbs]]?" She replies that she is not so easily tempted. |
| 189 | ** When both you and Xuanzang find David squished under a boulder, he insists that he's the (handsome) Zhu Bajie. It's lampshaded that a sheep breeder would turn into a pig before proceeding to help him. When he's finally freed, David immediately proceeds to ''hit on Xuanzang''. |
| 190 | ** When you free Li Shuwen, he understands what's happened and decides [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight to just roll with it]] as the third disciple, Sha Wujing. He comments that he can't refuse an opportunity to become a disciple of such a prominent figure, which impresses Xuanzang with his politeness. Too bad that he just had to include 'bringing my enemy's head to my master' part on his oath, which immediately squicked Xuanzang. |
| 191 | ** Xuanzang decides that a steed would be nice (after refusing David's offer to ride him), and you ''somehow'' brought Lu Bu with you. While Xuanzang is scared out of her mind, Li Shuwen comments that how [[DeadpanSnarker appropriate]] it is to bring Lu Bu instead of his horse, Red Hare. Xuanzang only starts to accept him when she finds out that he has been protecting a holy scroll all alone. She then asks to ride on his shoulders, ignoring David's protests. |
| 192 | ** Also, the reason ''why'' she needs a horse? Apparently her first one got eaten...sorry, she "gave it a break." |
| 193 | ** When all has been said and done, Xuanzang gives an order to you (as Sun Wukong), David (as ''useless'' Zhu Bajie) and Li Shuwen (as Sha Wujing) to accompany her on her journey, while threatening you with the Golden Head Ring so that you'll have no chance to refuse. Li Shuwen is ''very'' excited on the prospect of becoming a disciple of Xuanzang and accompanying her on her journey, while David comments that he isn't really having fun. |
| 194 | * There's also a few chuckles from the Servants who were cast as the villains: |
| 195 | ** Stheno and Euryale are the Gold Horned and Silver Horned Kings respectively; however, they've roped Medusa into becoming the "Copper Horned King". In the end, Stheno and Euryale escape, leaving Xuanzang to deliver punishment to Medusa. Given the choice between 10,000 squats or a 10,000 page reflective essay, [[{{Bookworm}} Medusa]] tricks Xuanzang into giving her the essay and gets sent off [[{{Unishment}} with a recommendation to the temple's archives.]] |
| 196 | ** Mordred as the Red Boy. However, she immediately gives away both her identity and her father the Bull Demon King's and decides to just skip to the fighting. Also, the heroes comment on the fact that the Bull Demon King should be one of the Altrias but can't figure out which one [[SelfDeprecation because there's so many of them.]] She also completely gushes about her father while admitting she's scared shitless of her mother. |
| 197 | ** Nightingale is the Iron Fan Princess, and here she's depicted as a strict mother whose obsession with cleanliness and good health scares off both Mordred and Altria. Also, the legendary Bashou Fan that she carries is for some reason Excalibur. She also gets embarrassed and angry when the protagonist tells her she should be more tolerant towards Mordred and not take her frustrations out on her. |
| 198 | ** Altria (the Lancer Alter version) is of course the Bull Demon King and everyone takes a moment to stare at her huge breasts (which Altria [[MyEyesAreUpHere takes offense to]]). She's surprisingly content with just giving Xuanzang the sutras she's looking for without a fight (until she objects to having to go back while everyone else continues) because of a pact she made with the Buddha. After the battle, it's revealed that the pact was to get rid of the smell of the disinfectant that Nightingale put on everything. [[BigEater Especially the food.]] |
| 199 | ** Nightingale only mentions it briefly, but apparently the castle chef likes wearing a "red cape" and is very knowledgeable in his craft. It seems even in a gag event any version of Altria would have no one aside from EMIYA cook her meals. |
| 200 | * In the very end, it turns out that the whole time David had no idea where the Journey to the West takes place, and (as an Israelite) was convinced that your crew was going from Israel to Rome. By that point the party had already walked most of ''China'' and was reaching the Ganges. This became funnier once the Camelot trailer was revealed, since Xuanzang herself walked a bit ''too'' west, reaching all the way to Camelot. |
| 201 | |
| 202 | [[AC:Onigashima]] |
| 203 | * Rider Kintoki appears on his bike while yelling "GOLDEN BEAR CRAAAASHHH!!" at the top of his lungs. Seeing his hero, Kintoki, act like this makes Kotaro Fuuma disappointed. In his thoughts, he's fanboying. |
| 204 | * After that, Kotaro shows off his NP in hope of his "senpai" (Kintoki) praising him. Kintoki's response can be summed as "Oh, a cool skill, nice." |
| 205 | * Even as a Rider, Kintoki is still flustered around women. This time it's demonstrated with [[{{Stripperific}} Ushiwakamaru]]. |
| 206 | * Kintoki shows that he is '''indeed''' a Rider with his motorcycle, Rider Kick-esque attack, and Rider Belt! [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z_HmciC49M See for yourself.]] |
| 207 | * When Benkei appears, his talksprite is HUGE... because he is way too overleveled for a bronze Servant. |
| 208 | * Ushiwakamaru ends up getting completely wasted on Oni alcohol and starts acting like a stone idol Benkei found is in fact her brother. |
| 209 | * Tamamo breaking the fourth wall as usual when your party encounters her at the Blue Oni Gate: |
| 210 | -->'''Tamamo:''' Raid boss fight, GO!! |
| 211 | ** Tamamo then rants about Nero since she isn't even a main character of a Japanese themed event but Nero is now ''everywhere'' in non Grand Order stuff. |
| 212 | * After defeating Ushi Gozen in the peak, she appears again. Everyone is shocked, but Kintoki's reaction is hilarious. |
| 213 | -->'''Kintoki:''' [[GratuitousEnglish HOLY... SHIT...]] |
| 214 | * During the prologue of the Challenge Mode, you can comment about the body difference between the Minamoto ancestor ([[BuxomBeautyStandard Raikou]]) and descendant ([[BadassAdorable Ushiwakamaru]]), and then Ushiwakamaru says that [[ShesAllGrownUp when she matures into Yoshitsune, she'll also become gorgeous]]. Benkei suddenly steps into a landmine by saying that even when matured, Raikou's size still beats Yoshitsune's size... and Ushiwakamaru promptly smacks him and drags him to a shade for disciplinary measures. |
| 215 | |
| 216 | [[AC:Chaldea Summer Memory/Chaldea Heat Odyssey]] |
| 217 | * It's funny enough that the premise of this event is that you and your Servants are developing a resort island in three styles, but the way it's portrayed is also hilarious. The eastern-looking house is represented by Tamamo, the western-looking house is represented by Altria, while the shabby-looking shed made of iron sheets is represented by ''Mordred''. |
| 218 | * It starts when Da Vinci distracts Dr. Roman by causing a ruckus during the Rayshift (and knocking him out) so you can go and enjoy yourselves for once. |
| 219 | * Route C's building choices are very much hilariously utilitarian. For example, while wondering how to easily connect between your initial beach hut and several other facilities, Mordred suggests that you build something 'practical', and her idea is to build ''rail tracks''. Ignore her and she will pout. If you decide to thoroughly follow the C path (and agreeing with her ideas), you might end up building a military base (complete with an ''artillery tower'' in lieu of a mansion) rather than a typical-looking resort. |
| 220 | * At the island, Mary asks Blackbeard to scout the island for the party... using only a log and a branch as a ship and rudder. Of course he refuses, but Mary promises that he could ''touch her'' once as a prize. He departs like a mad man, promised a touch on a soft loli body. He returns a day later on the brink of death. Mary high-fives him and the promise is fulfilled. His answer? Diarmuid's curse from ''Literature/FateZero''. When he later returns as a vengeful ghost. Mary instantly asks her master to kill him again. |
| 221 | -->'''Blackbeard:''' I CURSE! I SHALL CURSE THE WORLD-! UOOOHHHH!! MAY THE GRAIL BE CURSED!!! |
| 222 | * Kojirou trying to get Martha into a swimsuit by challenging her to a fight. It doesn't work. She dons it later anyway with Scathach's rune. |
| 223 | * The enemy on the beach? A GiantEnemyCrab, of course! Then Karna suggests watching hermit crabs to pass the time. Apparently he sees beauty in everything, even crabs. |
| 224 | * The reason Servants are wearing swimsuits and have suddenly changed their Classes? Because it is too hot, canon materials be damned. This is also the reason that most male Servants present are using their shirtless ascension sprite. |
| 225 | * Later when they're hungry, the guys propose to fish for something to eat. Marie is the only one able to catch anything, but she pitied the fish that she caught, so she returned them to the sea every time she got one. |
| 226 | * The first time the party goes hunting, Altria asks Cu to use Gae Bolg to spear a deer. He refuses, and Altria tries to Excaliblast the poor deer. When told not to, Altria protests that this is how she always hunted back home. She reminiscences about Agravain complimenting her for leveling the landscape every time she went hunting. Jury's out on whether Agravain was [[TheComicallySerious being serious]] or just [[StraightMan exasperated by his king's antics]]. |
| 227 | * The party then holds a BBQ party. As Kojirou feels the meat isn't cooked well, he asks Karna to sear them... and as expected from the Hero of Charity, he goes all-out and uses the EyeBeam, disintegrating the meat. |
| 228 | * If you build a sheep pasture, Tamamo mentions that Romulus is apparently a good shepherd. The protagonist imagines Romulus trying to teach the sheep to say "ROMA" instead of "baaa". |
| 229 | * Fionn shows off his 'Salmon of Knowledge' NP, which requires him to suck his thumb. Both Mash and the protagonist were left in such a dumbfounded state that the protagonist was trying so hard to maintain a calm composure. |
| 230 | -->'''A possible choice:''' ''(Don't laugh, don't laugh...)'' |
| 231 | * True to their legends, Fionn and Diarmuid are killed by a demon boar. Cu claims that he ''can'' kill the boar, but he refrains from doing so lest he stains more of their reputations. |
| 232 | * While the protagonist and swimsuit Servants are having fun, the guys build a YARIO village[[note]]Backspear Boys in the English version[[/note]]. The main party is curious, so they follow Cu Chulainn and Karna to the village. But suddenly, a mysterious person appears! It's Kojirou with Mozart's mask (they're part of the One-Star Alliance), calling himself Island Man!! He, as usual, is assigned as the gatekeeper. He fights you and Martha unleashes Tarasque on him. After Kojirou is promptly defeated, Tarasque laments that Martha ''defeated him too'', pulverizing his scales until they became salt. |
| 233 | -->'''Tarasque:''' Why do you ''defeat me'' too, neesan?! |
| 234 | -->'''Mash:''' Wait, Tarasque can talk? |
| 235 | ** The protagonist's SarcasmMode at Kojirou's PaperThinDisguise. |
| 236 | --->[[DullSurprise ... Oh. No. Who. Can. It. Be.]] |
| 237 | * When you build Marie Land, a playground, Karna can be seen standing stoically on an elephant slide, stating that it feels somewhat calming. Other Servants also play there, but the way they play is something children should never see; good thing there are no children around to see it anyway. |
| 238 | * While the first two options for a larger house are basically [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight the Emiya residence and Einzbern castle]], the third option suggested by Mordred is an iron fortress. It is filled with traps which Servant boys fell victim to. Mordred made it that way because she is overprotective of her Master. And like her first house, it is not comfortable to be lived in since it lacks any form of air ventilation. |
| 239 | * Tamamo seeing her buried statue after returning to the island in GratuitousEnglish: |
| 240 | -->'''Tamamo:''' MIKOOOOOOO--N?! |
| 241 | * From the second part, this conversation between Kiyohime and Scathach: |
| 242 | -->'''Kiyohime:''' According to what you are saying, the hero of this island, the magic user, is no longer around. [[YearInsideHourOutside Even if one year passes on this island, only a small amount of time will have passed on the outside]]. So what you're basically saying is... [[InsaneTrollLogic IT'S FINE IF ME AND MASTER BECOME ADAM AND EVE IS WHAT YOU'RE SAYING?!]]\ |
| 243 | '''Scathach:''' ... As long as it's consensual.\ |
| 244 | ''The Protagonist tries to voice an objection.''\ |
| 245 | '''Kiyohime:''' Dear husband! We have attained Sensei's approval, Adam and Eve! Adam and Eve! |
| 246 | ** Mordred gets Kiyohime to [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan calm down]] by giving her a DopeSlap... with her ''surfboard''. Alternatively, Tamamo freezes Kiyohime with the Frozen Heaven spell to cool her down. |
| 247 | ** If you pick the female protagonist, Scathach offers to use her runes to... [[GenderBender you know]]. Fou actually breaks character at that. "Fou-Runes!?" |
| 248 | * The Summer Servants are called the Nine Goddesses by the boar population because they built the civilization for them. All of them except a certain pink-haired demon with fluffy ears, because back then she wanted to eat the boars. Tamamo denies this every time you bring it up. |
| 249 | * While exploring a cave, Altria, Scathach and Mordred get into an OrderVersusChaos argument, distracting them from a Demonic Boar that is standing in the side-line, waiting for them to notice it. The protagonist actually apologizes to the boar as they try to get everyone into position to fight it. |
| 250 | * When Edison reveals himself, you have the option of admitting you were expecting Tesla. Edison reacts [[BerserkButton about as well]] [[SitcomArchnemesis as you'd expect]]. |
| 251 | * The Boar Piglets reacting to seeing Edison: |
| 252 | --> '''Boar Piglet 1''': So he's WesternAnimation/{{the Lion Ki|ng1994}}--\ |
| 253 | '''Boar Piglet 2''': [[YouWannaGetSued Don't finish that sentence, yup.]] |
| 254 | * At the end of the event, the girls are all stuck in their swimsuits and alternate classes because Scathach forgot the runes to undo her magic. |
| 255 | * The summer Servants' [=NPs=] are really fun! |
| 256 | ** Swimsuit Tamamo's Noble Phantasm is the [[VideoGame/FateExtra "Polygamist Castration Fist"]]. |
| 257 | ** Altria ''running above the water'' while shooting what can be described as a "water laser gun", just like a Gundam. She then equips her water gun with Excalibur... to shoot an Excaliblast that probably pierced the atmosphere. |
| 258 | ** Mordred used Surf! It's super effective! Also, her skills are named after trick flips. And she calls her surfboard her partner. |
| 259 | ** Scathach proves that she is indeed the master of Gae Bolg by performing "Soaring Spear that Strikes with Death" with ''a bicycle kick''. |
| 260 | ** For bonus points, this is also a reference to the original myth, where Cu throws his Gae Bolg from between the big and first toes on his foot. |
| 261 | ** St. Martha uses [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure DIO]]'s infamous combo (with Tarrasque as the Road Roller -- she beats up the poor dragon, too). Even better, she asks God to close His eyes for a sec before using her Noble Phantasm. |
| 262 | --->"Lord, please close your eyes for a bit." |
| 263 | * During the 2017 re-run, Part 1's challenge quest has you fighting 10k HP GiantEnemyCrab mooks with a 50k HP boss. Here's the catch: they have damage mitigation in the 50% or 75% while the boss' is so high that normal attacks deal only double digit. One player decided to do the equivalent of the [=WW1=] trench warfare before finally beating the boss... in '''''946''''' [[https://www.reddit.com/r/grandorder/comments/6o5rcs/finally_finished_the_challenge_quest_btw_what/ turns]]. The community is understandably worried about that person's sanity. |
| 264 | |
| 265 | [[AC:Fate/kaleid Liner Prisma Illya End Sacrifice]] |
| 266 | * The PV shows Illya being utterly baffled at the mysterious candy land she ends up in and all these strange people around her. |
| 267 | * The companions of each Magical Girl Queen. Medea Lily has chibi Jason, Helena has chibi Edison, and Medb has chibi Cu Alter (Cu-chan). Nursery Rhyme, however, has a ''Demon Pillar'' which she calls "black sheep". |
| 268 | * When you meet Medb, she boasts about how she's now an undefeatable magical girl. The protagonist then can call her "Magical College Student Medb" in confusion to her dismay. Or you can call her "Medb-chan" and she'll say that the nickname embarrasses her so much she wants to die but she still likes it. Then chibi Cu Alter lampshades the fact that Medb's loooooong past the age to be a magical girl. |
| 269 | * In the event proper, Illya's expressions alone are [[http://i.imgur.com/rfXEOgO.jpg a]] [[http://i.imgur.com/HgribMX.jpg goldmine]] [[http://i.imgur.com/kG098NK.jpg of]] [[http://i.imgur.com/fzaMRAO.jpg these]]. |
| 270 | * Part 2 of the event has you fight the Magical Gentlemen: Blackbeard, Caster Gilles, Diarmuid, and Phantom of the Opera. Apparently they were kicked out from Chaldea because of their perverted acts, especially Blackbeard, who's now wearing a ''miniskirt''. Luckily their portrait sprite is from the waist up so we don't have to see it. |
| 271 | * Illya mentions that Rin won "moe points" by screwing up during crucial moments and wonders if she can do that too. |
| 272 | * Meta example. The PV on Youtube somehow managed to land itself among the top 10 trending videos list when it was first released, much to the confusion of fans and strangers alike based on the comments section below. |
| 273 | * A lot of Illya's and Ruby's bantering in the mission screen: |
| 274 | -->'''Ruby:''' If we were doing this Ruby-style, I'd like it to be more violent! How about dropping a 3,500 km meteor on our enemies?\ |
| 275 | '''Illya:''' We can't do something like that! And that's ''way'' beyond the level of a "meteor"!\ |
| 276 | [...]\ |
| 277 | '''Illya:''' I never thought we'd be fighting other magical girls... but I do feel better if we're all doing this together.\ |
| 278 | '''Ruby:''' Illya's fate is in Master's hands, and my feathers!\ |
| 279 | '''Illya:''' Suddenly I feel like I have to watch my back... |
| 280 | * Meta-example. Miyu Edelfelt suffered HypeBacklash due to her slightly underwhelming kit and NP. However, one person somehow [[https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=504653133272452&id=186068521797583 created a stall team using double Miyus and Tamamo]]... Dealing no damage, but managing to spam their NP every single turn (and consequently, suffer NO demerit due to both Tamamo's NP heal and Miyu's heal per turn buff), and with the class advantages, take very little damage, resulting in some speculation that the setup might even surpass '''''10000 TURNS''''' from the ''Kara no Kyoukai'' example from above. |
| 281 | |
| 282 | [[AC:Nero Festival 2016]] |
| 283 | * Some of the Servant team names are hilarious like "We Punch Bears"[[note]]Martha, Xuanzang and Beowulf[[/note]] and "More Musty Monarchs"[[note]]Gilgamesh, Nitocris and Ozymandias[[/note]]. The official English translation for the former is even better, as it is "Bear Knuckles". |
| 284 | * In the Japanese version, the name of the Celtic-centric team is "Deireadh Haois Celtic Team" (basically "[[AfterTheEnd End of the Century]] Celtic Team"). The English name? "[[Film/MadMaxFuryRoad Mad Celts Fury Woads]]". |
| 285 | * The event has an introduction setting up the various teams, Jeanne's has her be incredibly enthusiastic about participating and doing their best, dragging Jeanne Alter all along. Alter's response is a BigNo, kicking and screaming all the way. Amakusa then remarks that Jeanne and her Alter's interactions are just like a parent and child. Cue blushing Jeanne and raging Alter. |
| 286 | * There is a team formed of the various versions of Cu Chulainn. Regular Lancer calls himself "Me with a spear", Caster calls himself "Me without a spear" and he is kinda pissed at his spear-wielding self. All of them look forward to beating people up, but the Alter thinks this is all dumb. |
| 287 | -->'''Other Cu Chulainns:''' Um... (He's seriously going to try and murder his opponents.) |
| 288 | * Martha and Nightingale are on medical duty, and Martha is acting as the StraightMan to Nightingale, trying to talk her out of her usual methods of amputating the patient. |
| 289 | * EMIYA and Boudica opening a 24/7 cafeteria for all the hungry Servants, and Saber Alter stalking him earnestly. In another skit, Gawain protests his permanent ban from cooking for the cafeteria. |
| 290 | * Caligula takes the opportunity to start brooding about Nero... then takes a left turn into yelling about medal farming. |
| 291 | * Romulus says that if you're lacking Ascension Materials, you must fight earnestly. |
| 292 | -->'''Romulus:''' These are also noble acts, and they are also Rome. |
| 293 | * Tristan, Sanson and Hassan of the Cursed Arm are all having an emo-fest about who spilled more blood in their lives. In particular, while Sanson and Hassan reflected on what they did in their respective histories, Tristan was instead reflecting on his murderous self in the Camelot Singularity instead of his actual legend. |
| 294 | * Blackbeard is burned to a crisp because he was harassing Kiyohime. |
| 295 | * Edison and Tesla are arguing over direct current and alternating current and break out into a fight again. |
| 296 | -->'''Edison:''' All right. War then? |
| 297 | -->'''Tesla:''' Of course. It's war. |
| 298 | * Helena ends up breaking up the fight and starts scolding them like she's their mother. |
| 299 | * Andersen totally doesn't want to fight in the event. You're asking him to fight those Assassin enemies? |
| 300 | -->'''Andersen:''' I don't care. Use a Berserker or something! |
| 301 | * Caesar falls asleep on Andersen's and Shakespeare's couch. The latter praises Caesar's form and grace, while the former's just exasperated. |
| 302 | * Fran is walking behind Mordred because she went to recharge herself at a power outlet. |
| 303 | * [[AwesomeEgo Gil and Ozymandias]] agreeing that the event is so ridiculous, and each end up bragging about how they are the strongest Servant. Only, their egos are so massive that each one thinks they're talking about the other and praising them instead. Nitocris, who's watching this, shudders. |
| 304 | * Arjuna wants to use his full power... but Karna said it's just a simulator, so he is disappointed. Then Karna goes on a monologue about Jinako's video game hobby. |
| 305 | * Medb ranting about not appearing in Chaldea Summer 2016, even though Cu Chulainn was there. She also remembers her role from the Prisma Illya event, even though she didn't understand anything. Fergus says that it's rather pleasant seeing her acting like an innocent girl. Scathach agrees and laughs evilly, wondering if there are any heroes that can defeat her. |
| 306 | * [[OnlySaneMan Kintoki]], of all people, is desperately trying to stop Raikou, Ushiwakamaru and Benkei from turning the festival into a contest of who can behead enemies the most. |
| 307 | * In the English version, Ozymandias' title during the last Exhibition Match is "There is no limit to the pha-". Looks like there is a limit after all, and it's 29 characters. |
| 308 | |
| 309 | [[AC:Halloween Comeback! Super Ghouls 'n Pumpkins]] |
| 310 | * The event is styled as a retro RPG throwback, with the classic party of Warrior (Bathory), Ranger (Robin Hood), Mage (Nitocris), and Brute (Ibaraki) as your party. The map is a retro-style game map complete with an 8-bit Brave Liz walking in between locations. |
| 311 | * Lancer and Caster Elisabeth become separate beings, with neither quite sure why there are two of themselves, but the Lancer version rationalizes it away since if that other idol gets to have a Bride version, then surely it makes sense for Elisabeth Bathory, the great idol singer, to have another version, because double the Elisabeth means double the great singing. |
| 312 | * To start off, this all happens because Cleopatra hijacks Csejte Castle (by crashing an entire Pyramid into the castle) and demands that Lancer Liz and Caster Liz get out. She then summons Tristan and Saber Lancelot to fight them. The two Lizzes are unceremoniously defeated. |
| 313 | -->'''Lancelot:''' You need to grow at least 10 years older, cute little girls.\ |
| 314 | '''Caster Liz:''' Waah! We lost to a couple of literal homewreckers![[labelnote:Japanese version]]Instead of literal homewreckers, it's wife-stealing fetishists.[[/labelnote]]\ |
| 315 | '''Lancer Liz:''' W-we'll get you for this! You COUGAR LOVERS![[labelnote:Japanese version]]Instead of Cougar Lovers, it's MILF lovers.[[/labelnote]] |
| 316 | * The reason the negotiations between the Bathorys and Cleopatra broke down is because the latter suggested the former hold their concert in the stables, because it's a very noteworthy place since a great man of importance was born there, right? The two take great offence at this and try to attack. |
| 317 | * The two Lizzes then arguing on who they should call for help, and suddenly undergoing a FusionDance, creating Brave Liz. |
| 318 | * It turns out that you and Mash were ''not'' happy to be returning to Csejte Castle (mainly because it meant listening to another one of [[HollywoodToneDeaf Elisabeth's concerts]]), so Roman and the Chaldea staff throw you into the coffins and force you to rayshift. |
| 319 | * You meet Brave Liz at a tavern holding a sign, "Looking for a good home." And it was given to her by Mata Hari. You and Mash's first reaction to seeing her: [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Run.]] And Liz's response is to chase after you yelling at you to come back, only to trip on herself and start crying a little. This makes you feel bad enough to go back! |
| 320 | * Cleopatra isn't very impressed with Lancelot and Tristan's quirks, calling Lancelot "Sir Lances a Lot of Married Women" and attacking Tristan for playing his harp loudly and falling asleep in the middle of meetings. |
| 321 | * Elisabeth says that you must recruit a party of four people as per standards of a RPG. The first one they seek is a medic, but after an ImagineSpot (featuring a nurse that wants to amputate you for healing, a monk that only believes in adrenaline as a cure, a little serial killer whose only method of healing is stabbing, and a executioner that only wants forgiveness from his crush) they decide against it. |
| 322 | * For mages, they speculate on even more troublesome ones who create miniature gardens, go to war over AC & DC, or summon flying saucers. |
| 323 | * Robin Hood is hiding from the party with May King. You flush him out by suggesting Elisabeth sing something. |
| 324 | * When you're fighting Nitocris, she sics some sphinxes from [[MundaneUtility Ozymandias' rental service.]] |
| 325 | -->'''Ozymandias:''' Oh, you want to borrow my Divine Beast Legion? The rental fee is 3 scarabs per week. If you want [[FluffyTheTerrible Marika]], it's an additional 10 chains. Ah, and please make sure their stomachs are full when you return them. |
| 326 | * Brave Liz then defeats them, surprising even herself. Nitocris reasons that the environment (a cold, damp cave) doesn't suit them and she should have prepared some heaters. |
| 327 | * During the snowfield level, Brave Liz, Nictoris, and Ibaraki complain about the cold due to their {{Stripperific}} outfits. Brave Liz tries to deny she's cold because she's the hero, and Ibaraki accidentally mentions how her mother told her to always carry a belly-warmer. |
| 328 | * At some point in the story, Robin Hood shoots a chocolate bar into Ibaraki's mouth because she's been very annoying. And it works. And when Ibaraki prepares to leave the party, Robin mentions he has so much more candy left over, which causes her to immediately sign on with attacking Cleopatra's pyramid. |
| 329 | * In the Lava Tube stage, the protagonists meet the {{Yandere}} trio of Raikou, Kiyohime, and Serenity. The protagonist's team go to hide with Robin's Faceless King NP. But Kiyohime can sniff you out! Then Raikou shows her friend the absolute winning tactic at playing hide and seek: shooting your Noble Phantasms at the places that look like a hiding spot. To avoid getting charred, the party gets out of hiding and proceeds to fight them. They escape thanks to Ibaraki's NP, then lure the trio into the lava using Nitocris' magecraft. They fall for it and dive in... but they swim in it just fine. |
| 330 | -->'''Ibaraki:''' They're not even oni! How can they jump into boiling lava and still survive!? |
| 331 | -->'''Mash:''' It's probably the power of love! |
| 332 | -->'''Ibaraki:''' Love? Love is scary! |
| 333 | ** Serenity just wants to pat the protagonist's head or maybe sleep with them in bed. Mash's response is a very firm and emotionally charged no. |
| 334 | * When Cleopatra orders her two knights to chase after Bathory, Tristan leaves the castle... via blowing himself upwards by using his bow's shockwaves to fly outside. He even says in GratuitousEnglish, "I can fly." This is then followed with Cleo purposely misspelling Lancelot's name based on his one FatalFlaw: |
| 335 | -->'''Cleopatra:''' Anyway, Sir Lances-A-Lot-Of-Married-Women... |
| 336 | -->'''Lancelot:''' Yes, Your Majesty... ''(the text box starts shaking)'' [[DoubleTake I mean, what!?]] |
| 337 | * Lancelot puts on his DarkerAndEdgier armor and pretends to be a Berserker (but still retaining the Saber class in gameplay), because he doesn't want to meet Mash. Even better, all of his one-liners are screenshot-worthy. |
| 338 | -->'''Lancelot:''' LOOOOOOSEEERRRRRRR!!! |
| 339 | -->'''Lancelot:''' SHUUUUUUTTTTT UUUUUPPPPP!!! |
| 340 | ** Upon seeing armored Lancelot, Mash suddenly has an insatiable desire to punch him in the face. |
| 341 | * After defeating Vlad III at the castle entrance, he tells you to repeat the journey again. Then a huge Siegfried appears in the sky. After ''sumanai''-ing a lot, he sends your party back to the starting point in a send-up to the infamous fake-out ending of ''VideoGame/GhostsNGoblins''. Everyone is annoyed by this turn of events. |
| 342 | -->'''Everyone:''' WHY?! |
| 343 | * Starting all over, they keep on fighting through the stages and confront Cleopatra again. They defeat her, and Liz demands that she remove the pyramid from the castle. But it was not Cleopatra that brought the pyramid. Remember Camelot? Then you'd probably know the answer. |
| 344 | -->'''Ozymandias:''' IT WAS ME!! |
| 345 | * An annoyed Cleopatra orders Tristan to play his harp upside down. Which he does, complete with inverted character portrait. |
| 346 | * After it's all over, Liz asks about Cleopatra's dreams, and she answers that she only wants to see her beloved man again. |
| 347 | -->'''Cleopatra:''' I still remember... The day he whispered sweet nothings into my ear while holding me in his slender but strong arms... His chiseled features, his cheek bones ever so tempting... And he was so sincere... Yes... I'd like to see my Caesar again...! |
| 348 | ** Once they recover from their StunnedSilence, the party goes into an emergency huddle. Roman displays Caesar's current form, causing Nitocris to collapse and [[NotSoAboveItAll Ozymandias]] to collapse with laughter. They agree that they can't show Cleopatra what he looks like right now lest her dreams be shattered. But Caesar's coming anyway with a rayshift. Upon seeing his form, Cleopatra faints. |
| 349 | --->'''Ibaraki:''' I guess she couldn't accept reality and escaped it by fainting... |
| 350 | ** To go along with the above reactions to Caesar's appearance, [[TheStoic Tristan]] first tries to downplay how shocking Caesar's appearance is by trying to come up with a melody about how people change as they age...[[NotSoAboveItAll only to immediately change his mind when he looks at the image again, even going so far as to beg everyone else to forget the song.]] |
| 351 | * The flavor text for Dangerous Beast (the fanservicey Mash CE) reveals just how much of a perv Fou is when he critiques her body shape and loves how the costume looks for Halloween. The protagonist hasn't got a clue what exactly Fou said but they get the gist of how pervy he is. |
| 352 | * The Dr. Roman Halloween CE's profile has Da Vinci evaluate it and she only gives it a passing grade because he used actual wine instead of a non-alcoholic drink. She also wants him to come up with a better name then "Mysterious Count" for a menacing vampire. |
| 353 | |
| 354 | [[AC:Little Santa Alter]] |
| 355 | * The main servant of the event is Jeanne Alter Santa Lily, a young version of Jeanne Alter in a Christmas-themed outfit. She takes center stage for the event, and as can be imagined, she's the crux of ''loads'' of humor. |
| 356 | ** Firstly, she wasn't even the ''intended plan''-- yes, Jeanne Alter wanted to one-up Altria Santa Alter after the biting insults the latter threw at her in 2015, but she did ''not'' intend to transform into a 10-year-old to do it. It was supposed to be an invisibility potion that she would use to steal Altria Santa Alter's bag from her room and pass out all the presents. It's all the fault of a certain King of Heroes' potion! Too bad she woke up the kid version to get his, and he ended up groggily picking out the youth potion instead. |
| 357 | ** The reactions of the cast on seeing her for the first time are golden. |
| 358 | --->'''Caster Gilles:''' [[BrokenRecord Eh? Eh? Eh?]] |
| 359 | --->'''Original Jeanne:''' ''[[{{Beat}} ... ...]]'' |
| 360 | *** You have two dialogue options upon hearing the whole sorry tale: |
| 361 | ---->'''Option 1:''' What? Just... What? |
| 362 | ---->'''Option 2:''' I see… so they multiplied again… |
| 363 | *** Kid Gil apologizes for the screw up, but you can point out that he's not even remotely sorry. He confirms this while smiling, saying that he didn't appreciate being woken up, and thus isn't responsible for grabbing the wrong potion. |
| 364 | *** Jeanne then protests that only Altria can multiply. |
| 365 | ---->'''Jeanne:''' Altria-san is the one with the privilege of multiplying like rabbits! |
| 366 | ** Altria Santa Alter originally attacked her when she came to her room to ask politely if she could be Santa. With Excalibur Morgan while half-asleep. Santa Alter's awakened response is a little more sheepish, though Jeanne ASL still remains a little traumatized from the experience. |
| 367 | ** It appears that Caster Gilles is not fully trusted to approach child Servants. And Jeanne Alter has her "disgusted" face on during his talk. |
| 368 | --->'''Caster Gilles:''' On the contrary, when I see the children get excited, it makes me want to smile. Though for reasons I can't quite understand, my smile seems to frighten children! |
| 369 | * Jeanne calls Caster Gilles the "bug-eyed version of Gilles". |
| 370 | * Amakusa appears? No, that must be SANTA ISLAND KAMEN! Borrowing Mozart's mask, he takes a role similar to [[Manga/SailorMoon Tuxedo Mask]], complete with ''rose-laden Black Keys'' and a short tune accompanying his appearance. EMIYA later tries to pull off the same thing to the group, but Jack and Nursery Rhyme [[PaperThinDisguise immediately see right through it]], much to his chagrin. |
| 371 | * Jack the Ripper even managed to drop in a ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' reference when mistaking Jeanne's name: |
| 372 | -->'''Jack:''' Jeanne Spam d'Arc Spam Alter Spam Santa Spam Lily Spam, right? |
| 373 | * When thinking of how to thank EMIYA for the food he made, Jeanne ASL calls him "Noble-Phantasm-Stealing Mister". In another location well out of earshot, EMIYA protests that he doesn't steal, he copies, much to the confusion of Cursed-Arm Hassan, who has no idea what he's responding to. |
| 374 | * At the very end, after all the [[TearJerker/FateGrandOrder tears]] and [[Heartwarming/FateGrandOrder cheers]] are out of the way, a somewhat annoyed Mash wants to know why she wasn't included in everything and was made to stay back at Chaldea as MissionControl. After a bit of evasion, the crew finally has to admit it: the protag was certain that Mash was too honest to keep a secret. Cue a {{Beat}}... |
| 375 | -->'''Mash:''' [[SayMyName SEEEEEEEENPAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIII!!!!!!!!!]] |
| 376 | -->'''Protagonist:''' ''(sole dialogue option)'' I'm sorrrrrryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy~! |
| 377 | ** Mash ''manifests her shield & battle armor'' (she'd previously just been mission controlling in her casual outfit all event) and pointedly lets the protagonist know she'll be waiting for them. Cue cut transmission and feelings of dread. |
| 378 | * One of the event [=CEs=] is regular Jeanne Alter at a bar, glass of liquor in hand and clearly drunk. If you look closely, you can see Caster Gilles as the bartender (not to mention the bar being stocked with ''ascension materials'' on top of booze). |
| 379 | * When you're first introduced to Jeanne d'Arc Alter Santa Lily, she introduces herself as [[OverlyLongName Jeanne d'Arc Alter Santa Lily Lancer]]. The Protagonist can then challenge her to [[{{Troll}} say it again, faster.]] She can't. |
| 380 | * Every time JDASL pulls out one of her presents, a little fanfare plays. |
| 381 | [[/folder]] |
| 382 | |
| 383 | [[folder:2017 Events]] |
| 384 | [[AC:Chocolate Lady's Commotion -rerun-]] |
| 385 | * In the [[FunnyBackgroundEvent background]] of the Blessful Time CE, you can see [[ShipTease Altria and Shirou]] at a table, with a [[BigEater huge pile of plates]] already stacked up. |
| 386 | * Mysterious Heroine X gets an Alter version in the Berserker class. This is funny on ''three'' levels: because this was [[{{Foreshadowing}} foreshadowed]] during Mysterious Heroine X's appearance in the Final Order and in F/GO Material III, because the [[{{Irony}} Saberclone hunter is getting a clone of her own]], and because Creator/AyakoKawasumi is getting closer to her wish of voicing an Altria for every class (which, if you count all the Extra classes as one class, she finally achieved during the 5th anniversary with Caster Altria). Also she cosplays and acts as a Sith Lord, which is even funnier. Her chocolates? [[RecycledInSpace Spacebucks]] hot cocoa. It's an appropriately over-complicated Starbucks-esque drink with nonsensical [[PhotoprotoneutronTorpedo sci-fi-ish ingredients]] added into the mix. |
| 387 | * Astolfo, d'Eon, da Vinci, and Enkidu give chocolates (the event feature for female Servants) and a return gift (the event feature for male Servants) at the same time! Their gender is really undecided. |
| 388 | ** Astolfo deserves some special mention here, as his return gift is a self-made plushie of his hippogriff! It's a ''life-size'' plushie. It's as much a ''bed'' as it is anything else. Still, the sheer effort involved (Astolfo just got a bit carried away with it, but saw it through, because that's what a knight does!) greatly moves the protagonist, who accepts it happily. Cue Kiyohime walking up as the protag departs, [[DeathGlare clearly contemplating murder]]. |
| 389 | --->'''Kiyo:''' ... You're ''good''. |
| 390 | --->'''Astolfo:''' Hah? |
| 391 | --->'''Kiyo:''' Going that far to win our Master's heart... but I won't be shown up by the likes of you! |
| 392 | --->'''Astolfo:''' ... Hah? ''(shifts into the "smiling, but confused" portrait)'' |
| 393 | * Much like her Alter version, Lancer Altria also gives you a "fancy" chocolate! "Fancy" being defined as ''a scale model of the entirety of Camelot Castle, including details''. If the fruits lining the base are any indication, the whole thing must be easily ''four or five feet in diameter'' and nearly '''''eight feet tall'''''. On top of this, the description makes it sound like she shanghaied the rest of the Round Table Knights into helping her make it. |
| 394 | * Jeanne Alter plans the perfect prank for her Master: make delicious chocolate in the shape of her face so they'll be too disgusted to eat it. Except they ''do'' eat it leading to a hilarious [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nT1Ds0wVh4&feature=youtu.be&t=102 scream and freak-out]]. Oh, and despite her cool and cocky demeanor it took her a whole hour of silence before she managed to finally hand it over. |
| 395 | * Lancer Tamamo gives you a drink! A chocolate drink! No worries, it's non-alcoholic! But both her gifting event and the description of the CE make it reasonably clear it's '''spiked with ketamine or a similar knockout agent'''. Tamamo Shark indeed. |
| 396 | * Continuing her ''Franchise/DragonQuest'' references, Brave Liz gives you a chocolate version of the [[VideoGame/DragonQuestI Orb of Light]]. The beginning of the description even has her going through an old-school RPG prompt to do it. |
| 397 | * While looking for a return gift, Tristan accidentally drops his music album, titled "Best of Tristan", that he recorded while drunk (it contains 40 songs!). The protagonist eagerly takes it, much to his embarrassment. |
| 398 | * Mephistopheles gives you a toy version of his bomb. He names it "Tick-tock-kun". He wants it to dethrone Fou as Chaldea's mascot, but it turned out to be unpopular due to its habit of exploding. Both Mephisto and Nursery Rhyme can't comprehend why this feature would make it unpopular. |
| 399 | * Fergus decides to not beat around the bush and outright gives you a key to a hotel room, for a one night stand. |
| 400 | * Siegfried gives you a cosplay set for becoming a dragon, just like his third ascension. |
| 401 | * Eric Bloodaxe gives you a letter, but not before ''blushing and running the other way''. The letter itself is from Guunhildr, who thanks you for working with her husband while also trying to curse you. |
| 402 | * Spartacus puts wooden handcuffs on your wrists so you can rebel with him, much to your dismay. |
| 403 | * Sanson brews you a cocoa drink while confiding his worries that Mozart has been stalking him for a while now. |
| 404 | * Tesla and Edison give you cookies, but not before bickering like kids, [[SitcomArchnemesis as usual]]. As a result, Helena has to step in to calm them down like an annoyed mother. And due to graphical glitches in some devices, Helena's sprite might look like she's producing lightning from her left hand. |
| 405 | * Asterios gives you a perfect walkthrough map for the Labyrinth, which marks warpzones, treasure and staircases. If you have this, you can return without carrying the Thread. The flavor text warns you to watch out for deer and praying mantises in the labyrinth, because [[VideoGame/EtrianOdyssey even in F/GO, F.O.E.]]! |
| 406 | * Uncle Vlad gives you a handmade goat plushie, for when your servants can't protect you; the plushie will (hopefully) help by dying in your place as a scapegoat. The protagonist likes the design too much to use it as a decoy and Vlad regrets making it too cute. |
| 407 | * Leonidas gives you an iron marshmallow. A marshmallow made of iron. It's iron. That's about it. Throw it and you can expect to do high damage, so it's necessary to have a suitable level of strength. It's so heavy, when he gives it to you, you drop it because you didn't expect it to be that heavy. |
| 408 | * Amakusa gives you his "Twin Flavor Choco Crunch" biscuits, which he got from Chaldea's gift shop. Wait, Chaldea has a gift shop? |
| 409 | * Heracles gives you a boar headgear. A stuffed boar turned into a headgear. It's warm. Wearing it will make you somewhat berserk. |
| 410 | * Surfer Mordred tries to play the Pocky game with you because Mata Hari tricked her, only to be interrupted when Mata Hari accidentally reveals herself and the player explains what's going on. And to make things even funnier, ''it's not even chocolate Pocky''. |
| 411 | ** She proudly says she's [[DamnedByFaintPraise as good of a cook as Gawain]]. Cue an ImagineSpot of them indiscriminately mashing vegetables while merrily singing. Cut back to reality, where an indignant Mordred [[ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne denies singing any such song]]. |
| 412 | * Blackbeard's return gift is three H-doujins of Altera, Nitocris, and d'Eon. The three promptly attack him for this. |
| 413 | * Jeanne Alter Santa Lily ended up trying to make you chocolate that would balance out how sweet the rest of the chocolate was, which made it 99% cacao beans and thus almost intolerably bitter. She attempts to compensate by making you tea and pouring a huge amount of sugar in to counteract the bitterness of the chocolate to the point where it just turns into tea-colored sugar. The protagonist makes a mental note to brush their teeth later. |
| 414 | * Assassin Scathach gives a bottle of wine that the protagonist, by either awkward stammering or cool silent gaze, invites Scathach to share with them. She won't admit it, but it's clear her heart skips a beat, only to rationalize her flustered state by (incorrectly) believing that Cu must have taught them how to do that. She then begins to chase down the protagonist for more {{training from hell}} in retribution. |
| 415 | * Most of the male Servants need you to wait while they fetch a return gift, but Alexander promptly hands over not one, but ''two'' copies of Literature/TheIliad, implying [[AscendedFanboy he was carrying them both with him]]. |
| 416 | * Saber Gilles de Rais wishes he could give you a heap of precious metals and jewels for a return gift (recalling his historical extravagance with his wealth). Instead he gives you a Jeanne d'Arc fanzine, which he [[NotSoStoic enthuses about]] in [[MotorMouth a single dialogue box containing sixteen lines]]. All the while Jeanne [[RightBehindMe creeps up on]] and finally seizes him. |
| 417 | -->'''Gilles:''' Hrk! Ow ow ow ow! My head! It's going to be torn clean off!\ |
| 418 | '''Jeanne:''' [[TranquilFury Why yes. Because I'm going to tear it off.]] |
| 419 | ** The addition of voice acting to the Valentine’s scenes made this even better, as it’s made clear by his tone and [[MotorMouth his speech outpacing the already fast text]] [[ChewingTheScenery that Satoshi Tsuruoka is clearly having a blast reading his lines]], particularly the [[LargeHam incredibly hammy]] delivery of his final line as Jeanne drags him away. |
| 420 | * Ozymandias gives you sphinx cubs he claims were fathered by his Noble Phantasm. When you ask how a Noble Phantasm can reproduce, he responds by quoting one of his [[LargeHam lengthy skill lines]] (much more obvious in the voiced version). |
| 421 | -->'''Ozymandias:''' What do you say we take my ship of the heavens for a sail across the night sky!\ |
| 422 | '''Protagonist:''' That's the move where you shoot lasers from offscreen! |
| 423 | * Jaguar Warrior initially demands that you give ''her'' chocolate. |
| 424 | -->'''Jaguar Warrior:''' No worrying about courtesy chocolate or emptying my wallet for me! I'm kissing any and all working lady worries goodbye! Viva Jaguar! Viva Tezcatlipoca! [...]\ |
| 425 | '''Protagonist:''' Wait. How's this gonna work with the game mechanics? |
| 426 | |
| 427 | [[AC:GUDAGUDA Meiji Ishin]] |
| 428 | * This event is a faction battle between players who can choose either the Oda Clan/[[FanNickname F2P Faction]] (featuring Nobu and Chacha, welfare Servants) or Shinsengumi/[[FanNickname Whale Faction]] (featuring Okita and Hijikata, limited Servants). Cue the Civil War meme. |
| 429 | ** Okita is forcefully dragged off by Hijikata to join the Shinsengumi faction. Then if you choose to side with the Oda clan, [[{{Moe}} Okita cries at your betrayal]]. If you choose to side with the Shinsengumi, Nobunaga leaves in a huff, with Mash remarking that she's acting like a {{Tsundere}}. |
| 430 | ** Nobukatsu then betrays them all to join the Ishin Shishi revolutionists. Nobunaga, Hijikata, and Okita then race to see who can kill him first. |
| 431 | * There are new chibi Nobu variants introduced: Shinsengumi cosplayer, Guntank Nobu, [=NobUFO=], and even a [=NobuZinger=]. This ragtag army actually managed to destroy the Tokugawa shogunate! |
| 432 | ** Apparently the production process the [=NobUFOs=] go through weakened their psyche to the point where childish insults ''actually damage them.'' |
| 433 | * The description for the "Eiraku Coins" event currency reveals that not only do the Nobus get wages and benefits, Nobunaga gives speeches at their weddings. |
| 434 | * Okita is perturbed that Hijikata spent the Shinsengumi's funds on pickles. |
| 435 | -->'''Okita:''' Man cannot live on pickles alone! |
| 436 | * In the fifth chapter, Emimura Sanada appears (it's EMIYA with a Sanada-pattern mask)! He says that he lost the war because he stabbed swords at his castle walls to decorate them. |
| 437 | |
| 438 | [[AC:FGO Festival: 2nd Anniversary]] |
| 439 | * Unlike all the other Servants who are wearing formal wear of various kinds, the Okeanos Servants are all in swimsuits for the second Anniversary Craft Essences. Even funnier, Heracles is lugging around a not-so-dead Gazer painted to look like a watermelon. |
| 440 | |
| 441 | [[AC:All the Statesmen]] |
| 442 | * Riyo's Berserker, Paul Bunyan, is the event's free servant, and she's a personification of MemeticMutation with her literally taking off more of her clothes for Ascension, having an insanely fast NP, and quirky animations like riding an insanely tiny Babe. Not to mention the fact that they gave Paul Bunyan, one of the most iconic lumberjacks in history, a HistoricalGenderFlip. Well, remember [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus that one lumberjack (who's OK, sleeps all night and works all day) who wishes he'd been a girlie, just like his dear papa/mama?]] |
| 443 | * The event Craft Essence has the female protagonist at her most terrifying as she crushes everything in her path while everyone else is utterly panicking for their lives, with only a lone Saber with sword, water gun and drill-spear (which all so happen to be Altria's weapons in her Saber, Archer and Lancer forms) blasting off into the sky to try and stop her. |
| 444 | * The plot of the event involves everyone being flanderized by a strange influence, with Geronimo and (shockingly) Thomas Edison being the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Men]]. The event is filled with BreakingTheFourthWall without apology, with the protagonist slowly becoming more and more like a certain red-haired gag character... |
| 445 | -->'''Protagonist:''' It’s not a 5-star limited Craft Essence or something like that, right!? |
| 446 | -->'''Paul Bunyan:''' What's... that? |
| 447 | -->'''Mash:''' Master, it’s alright this time! It’s not an event you have to farm repeatedly! |
| 448 | * The event opens with Andersen waxing poetic to Mash and the protagonist, only for them to reveal they have no idea what he's talking about. What follows is Andersen getting offended when the protagonist refers to him as a kid before demanding they fetch him some coffee and falling asleep in their bed. Made even funnier when Mash comments that the only odd behavior he displayed was the "talking in poetry," meaning everything else was just [[{{Jerkass}} good ol' Andersen.]] |
| 449 | * When in line at the cafeteria, Spartacus (who's been waiting behind you) says how talking in line can be considered its own form of [[BerserkButton oppression]], and warns the protagonist and Mash that they are getting ''very close'' to becoming tyrants. Needless to say, [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere they don't stick around much longer.]] |
| 450 | * Upon waking up in the "All The Statemen" event, Edison starts singing "[[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Nants ingonyama bagithi baba!]]" |
| 451 | * When Edison finds out they are in North Dakota, he reveals he isn't quite the fan of the state, even calling it [[TakeThat the boonies]]. |
| 452 | * This inevitable ShoutOut: |
| 453 | -->'''Bunyan:''' [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus I'm a lumberjack! And I'm okay!]] |
| 454 | * After fighting wyverns, the protagonist and Mash are reminded of the Orleans singularity and are treated to a mental image of Siegfried... which then turns into an advertisement. |
| 455 | -->'''Siegfried:''' [[MemeticMutation I’m sorry]] for not being able to appear. Please support “Fate/Apocrypha” too... it is being aired on Tokyo MX and other TV networks[[labelnote:English version]][[Creator/{{Netflix}} That-something-flix]][[/labelnote]] to great acclaim. Also the book is currently on sale from TYPE-MOON BOOKS…[[labelnote:English version]]The book is... well, I guess you could import it...[[/labelnote]] I’m counting on you, Master...\ |
| 456 | '''Mash:''' It was… an advertisement… |
| 457 | * Billy the Kid and "Wyatt Earp" appear to fight against the group. "Earp" is also clearly not Altera wearing a mustache. |
| 458 | -->'''"Wyatt Earp":''' I am Wyatt Earp. No more and no less, and [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial I am certainly not Altera]]. Master from a distant land, no matter who you formed a contract with, that is definitely not me. I am Sheriff Wyatt Earp.\ |
| 459 | '''Protagonist:''' So that means you’re Altera, right?\ |
| 460 | '''Billy:''' I think the budget was probably short, but for now she’s Wyatt Earp.\ |
| 461 | '''Wyatt Earp:''' ... You’ve got it wrong. I’m definitely not Altera. When the Morning Star lights up the eastern sky, towards Chicago, a streak of light will fly. That’s me. |
| 462 | ** Likewise, one of the responses certainly rings with all of the players who wished their favorite historical/mythological figure is turned into a Servant, but that wish never came true... |
| 463 | --->'''Protagonist:''' Oh COME ON! Wyatt Earp Servant WHEN!? |
| 464 | ** Throughout the event, Altera changes names from Earp to Buffalo Bill to Davy Crockett, all while denying that she is Altera. |
| 465 | ** When Altera swoops in to attack later as "Buffalo Bill," the group is having lunch and the protagonist can even offer her some hamburger/[[InsistentTerminology Salisbury]] steak. She'll happily accept and even consider it to be "not bad civilization" before she becomes antagonistic again and accuses them of using FoodAsBribe. |
| 466 | * More lampshading of asset reuse ensues when the group reaches Chicago, as Jack points out that it looks just like London before Nursery Rhyme shushes her. |
| 467 | * Speaking of Chicago, everyone's attempt to search for clues, in which only Geronimo proves sucessful. The protagonist and Mash find nothing, the kids got something to eat, and poor Edison's [[NonHumanHead appearance]] kept scaring everyone to the point where he eventually had the police called on him. |
| 468 | * When investigating the World's Columbian Exposition, Edison has an ''absolute meltdown'' after leaning the whole place is powered by AC electricity, rather than DC. Notably, aside from Bunyan (whom the event is based around), he's the ''only'' other guest Servant you can have for the ensuing battle. He's just ''that pissed.'' |
| 469 | * The climax of the event involves the group facing possibly one of their strongest foes yet... '''Riyo Gudako''', in all her insane, psychotic glory, going by the title of "Nameless Master". |
| 470 | ** She declares that the only necessary Servants are "beautiful female Saberfaces". One of the protagonist's rebuttals is "[[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor You need to stop right there before you curse us]]." |
| 471 | ** According to her, there is only ''one'' Servant below 5* that's worth anything. And that would be Astolfo, her "cutie." |
| 472 | ** After all her Servants are beaten, she starts to be sent back to her own world. When she lets loose that she just wanted to do lewd things with Servants, what's Edison's response? |
| 473 | --->'''Edison:''' [[NoJustNoReaction Yup. Begone!]] |
| 474 | ** Mixed with awesome, Edison calls his Noble Phantasm to defeat the Wendigos ''WDF: World Faith Domination! Anniversary Edition.'' He then uses his [[{{Tradesnark}} WDF™]] to keep the people from reverting into monsters. |
| 475 | |
| 476 | [[AC:Dead Heat Summer Race!/Death Jail Summer Escape]] |
| 477 | * The theme is WackyRacing with the pretense of Ishtar wanting her Master to escort her as she returns some treasure to the Underworld and prepare a ''very cheap'' ritual to fix a supposed Singularity in Ireland (the cheapness is why Da Vinci gave her the go ahead to do whatever she wanted). |
| 478 | * The excuse for most of the Servants (beside Fran) on why they changed Classes is that they changed clothes. That's it. |
| 479 | * Gugalanna, the mighty Bull of Heaven that fought Gil and Enkidu in a cataclysmic battle... is an adorable tiny ball that jumps around Ishtar as she fights enemies. |
| 480 | * James Moriarty has become a substitute father for Frankenstein as he needs an alias to avoid attention, and has taken to the role with gusto, gushing whenever she advances in the race. Frankenstein ''intentionally'' called Moriarty "Papa" because Chaldea has a manual for dealing with evil Servants and one of the tips is "[[MoralityPet Have a cute girl call them Papa.]]" |
| 481 | * Team Desert Beauty's car has a "walking mode" as a safety system invented by Scheherazade, yet even ''[[CrazyPrepared she]]'' is baffled that it would react to seeds planted in the ground of all things, being originally constructed as a countermeasure against land mines. Ironically, it actually does accomplish its original purpose by doing this and makes them the only team that didn't get blown up by the hidden minefield planted in everyone's way. |
| 482 | ** The vehicle has a large number of [[CrazyPrepared excessively paranoid]] automatic safety systems, including walking mode, detecting and slowing down on rough terrain, and basically [[VideoGame/HaloReach armor lock]]. In one of the first examples of her thanatophobia being PlayedForLaughs, Scheherazade admits all these were designed in by her prioritizing safety over speed. Nitocris forlornly asks if Scheherazade remembers what the point of a race is. |
| 483 | * First round of the race, Atalante shows up with a group of mohawks, who she refers to as "children", to block the racers' way. She plans to make an apple farm on the ruins and won't let any racers pass by. They persist so she lays landmines in the area but Nitocris and Caster of Nightless City manage to pass safely using the "walking mode" safety system installed in their vehicle. |
| 484 | * The second round has Boudica greeting racers with a smile before flying into a rage, ranting about the last year's summer event. She is completely upset by the fact the she endured embarrassment wearing a swimsuit for the photoshoot. What's worse is she got her hopes up upon learning it was one of the more popular 3* [=CEs=] and hoped it would get her a swimsuit version next summer, which didn't happen. She's so enraged by this, she becomes an Avenger and hijacks the race on her chariot, wishing to skin the racers alive, especially Nero. Nobunaga {{lampshades}} the absurdity by pointing out that she'll never be taken seriously with reasoning like that (while noting she herself has long given up any hope of being taken seriously being a gag character). |
| 485 | ** In the same round, Nobunaga also steals Okita's CatchPhrase, "Kazusa-no-Suke's GREAT VICTORY![[note]]DAISHOURI![[/note]]", before having her rocket plummet to the Volcano and then shoot up to the sky due to an eruption. A mysterious Shinsengumi woman (totally Okita), pops by in the audience seat and claims that it was divine punishment for stealing her place for a Swimsuit version (and her CatchPhrase) and hopes that she'll get her Swimsuit next year. If the player is on the English version, this gets funnier because the player can already give the correct answer: [[ForegoneConclusion No.]] |
| 486 | * The third round involves a race down a river, with an additional rule that racers gain a speed boost based on how beautiful they are. The judges are the "Masqueraded Count" - obviously Da Vinci in a carnival mask, who enthusiastically shills the car she designed for team Tyrant Shooting Star before giving every single team ten out of ten - and a mysterious Mechanized Infantry named Mr. B, who is later revealed to be none other than Blackbeard once his armor is blown off[[note]]Mr. 'K' in Japan, because they called Blackbeard 'Kurohige' (a literal translation) over there[[/note]], appearing with this gem: |
| 487 | -->''Listen up. Y'see girls hide the bits they DON'T want you to see under their swimsuits. Get it? That means that what they DON'T hide is fair game for the ogling your lonely heart desires! It's a free pass to enjoy the show! What kinda fool you have to be not to take them up on the sweet offer! So go on, TAKE IT ALL!! Everything that they show off. ARMPITS! THIGHS! NAVELS! ARMPITS AGAIN!!'' |
| 488 | ** The main antagonist of the stage and the one who explains the rules for the area is Penthesilea, who hopes to come last to prove she isn't beautiful. |
| 489 | ** The end of the round has Blackbeard predictably beaten up by the girls he disparaged. Meanwhile Penthesilea forgets about the competition and swims the entire length of the river, then flips out when she realises that coming first (because most of the competitors stopped to punish Blackbeard, and Fran and Helena got distracted fighting each other for the lead) means she's still the most beautiful. After raging that Achilles must be to blame she tries to drag everyone back to the starting line for a do-over. Her title during the ensuing battle? [[AmazonianBeauty Queen of Abs]]. |
| 490 | * The fourth course is named Artemis Valley, where lie two "[[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail huge tracts of land]]", as Ishtar describes. Artemis prevents the racers from passing as she and her clones are busy finding Orion among the fakes infesting the land thanks to those two soft hills, and she challenges them to find the real one among the fakes. Enraged by the Orion fakes' indecent behavior, Raikou lets loose her ultimate "prefect mode" (actually just taking off her clothes and revealing her bikini), and brutally attacks the Orions who are attracted by her and Xuanzang's boobs. This eventually scares the real Orion who hides behind Artemis out of fear. (Again, the course is named [[VisualPun Artemis Valley]].) |
| 491 | ** The racers all realize the area remind them of something with Nero calling the mountain ample and Helena saying the shape makes her think of Raikou. |
| 492 | * Part 2 is a prison break from Medb's suspicious prison. She's angry because her Connacht became a giant race track, so she imprisons all participants. Ishtar makes their prison break another race because she's still paying for it, might as well get something entertaining out of their predicament. |
| 493 | ** In there, Servants are her jailers. Lobo has a police hat and the Hessian soldier is wearing a police siren as a head. Enkidu, on the other hand, is a mental institution prisoner who was locked up because Medb figured, and he admits it isn't so far-fetched, that he would have planned and committed the destruction of Connacht on a whim like a criminal mastermind. |
| 494 | ** Quetzalcoatl is the Vice-Warden. When inspecting Ishtar's doll-disguised avatars she calls them "as repulsive and evil as Tezcatlipoca" with a smile, to Ishtar's indignation. Even funnier when it turns out she knew what was going on the entire time. |
| 495 | ** Gorgon appears as an inmate and confirms that true to myth, Medb's weakness is [[ItMakesSenseInContext cheese]]. Moriarty, Tesla, Edison and Babbage plan to get Enkidu's aid in showing them the dimensions of the prison so they can assassinate her while she showers by catapulting a piece of cheese at her through her window. But when this occurs, Medb outright kicks the cheese, as she developed a SpiderSense for nearby cheese. Best part? They actually made CG of Medb's silhouette showering and roundhouse-kicking the cheese. Everyone is either in shock, exasperated, or begrudgingly impressed at the skill of that kick. |
| 496 | *** The joke gets carried even further in Medb's updated animations in 2018, where if you start her combo with a Buster attack, she senses someone offscreen is throwing cheese at her (randomly a wheel, a slice, or a can) and kicks it out of the air towards whatever enemy you were having her target. |
| 497 | * Ishtar reveals that the whole race was to help rebuild Gugalanna into a MK.II version who would fix the Singularity by stomping on Ireland. All to get back at Gilgamesh after he bullied her in Babylonia for losing the Bull. Using a pirated version of ''Extra'' Rin's ATM, she succeeds and immediately goes DrunkWithPower, wishing to cover up all her embarrassments by throwing Gugalanna at them. Quetzalcoatl shows up and fixes the problem by piledriving both her and the Bull, destroying the giant ATM in the process. Ishtar's punished with holding another tablet of shame afterwards. |
| 498 | ** And this time, the tablet is shown in all its glory, with "I am a Useless Goddess" carved on it. |
| 499 | * The explanation for the event's swimsuit Servants are highly amusing: |
| 500 | ** Nobunaga supposedly changed Class because of her Reality Marble but it's more like she just wanted to show herself off in a bikini. |
| 501 | --->''This swimsuit makes my boobs bigger, right?! RIGHT?!'' |
| 502 | ** Nitocris' first skill is White Royal Garment aka a Medjed ''bedsheet''. She covers her body out of shame for Ozymandias (as usual). Her Beach Panic skill is supposed to be people expressing confusion at the Medjed blanket. |
| 503 | ** Fran became what she is now because a 50-something professor monkeyed around with her weapon. Though her sanity and intelligence has been restored as a Saber, the heat has caused her to become sluggish like a large dog, and all she wants is the AC on. |
| 504 | ** Nero's NP uses Simon Magus' teachings to create a theater formal wear, the Golden Theater, with all the organ pipes as gun barrels. The theater has an arsenal of fireballs, lasers, etc. but the most dangerous weapon is still her voice (which she hasn't realized yet). |
| 505 | ** Altria (Alter) wants to hide her identity, so she disguises her signature weapons: Excalibur Morgan is a ''mop'' and Secace is a water gun ''that looks like'' a realistic handgun. She fuses them both to form her assault rifle for her Noble Phantasm. Also, in her Stage 1 artwork and sprite, Excalibur Morgan is actually an ''inflatable toy'' version of it. |
| 506 | ** Raikou is a ''student council disciplinary committee member'' who wants to prevent [[{{Irony}} lewd things]], having called upon her connection with Indra to transform her into a suitable form to do so. Alas, her appearance is still too distracting. She even has an EX-ranked Beach ''Catastrophe'' skill, indicating that wherever she goes on the beach, she ''will'' cause a disaster. The skill's description: |
| 507 | --->''Amazing when clothed. EVEN MORE amazing when not.'' |
| 508 | ** Helena claims that the manifestation of her Kumara Wheel, costume, and Class change are by the means of the power of The Great Sanat Kumara! Tesla designed and improved the NYARF gun, Edison manufactured it. Doesn't sound like a happy collaboration from the way it's said. |
| 509 | ** Ishtar's NP is her heavenly boat Maanna changed into her scooter, which she promptly hops on to tour the world, [[CareBearStare her motorcycle converting the happy feelings from her travels into magic sparkles which damage enemies]]. |
| 510 | * How the teams get formed for the Racing event is pretty hilarious as well. |
| 511 | ** Nero and Altria Alter team up after being goaded by Ishtar disguised as the Master with loving praise. Altria Alter in particular makes her determination to win apparent when she knocks Tristan into a wall for interrupting her while she's getting psyched up. When the two go to da Vinci to get a car prepared, Altria Alter notes to Nero that if she could handle "Tamamo Shark", she can handle her and the two shake hands in a way that da Vinci notes looks more like they're agreeing to fight to the death. What's funny is that when their "Master" starts lavishing them with such love and attention it leaves both Nero ''and'' Altria practically swooning. Once she's safely away Ishtar admits that she didn't expect them to just completely melt the way they did and decides that the two now very love struck girls are officially the protagonist's problem. |
| 512 | ** Fran is a goldmine because it starts out with the translation of her grunting being her eloquent and very loud complaints about the heat and her suspicions towards Ishtar. When she goes to find a partner, her first choices in Tesla and Edison have already gone with Helena and are in the middle of their usual rivalry (like Edison boobytrapping the vehicle to only accept DC and explode in Tesla's face if he uses AC). She reluctantly goes to Babbage (who's been kicked out of Chaldea because his steam in the summer makes everything hot like a sauna and forces everyone to wear swimsuits in the open, so he went to London to play with stray cats and stray Jack), but they need a method to ensure she won't get overheated from being around him. Moriarty (Professor M, aka "mysterious, devilishly dapper gentleman") appears to offer aid in building such a vehicle. Fran relucantly agrees and calls him "Papa", which prompts him to collapse and later describe the experience (as "Math Professor (50s/Single)") as the first time he ever shed tears and made him feel like he lived a fulfilled life. He then turns Babbage into the vehicle, mentioning he overheard Edison and someone else talking about how it would be cool if he could transform "[[Franchise/{{Transformers}} like one of those robots]]" complete with diagrams and illustrations, so he experimented on Babbage to do this and used hypnotism to make him forget about the process. And then he does the dogeza when Fran gets mad on Babbage's behalf. It ends with everyone shocked that Fran can finally start talking coherently. |
| 513 | ** Nobu and Mysterious Heroine X's teamup in particular has NoFourthWall, with Nobu apparently spending all the funds of the "puny assassination hobbyists" and her niece's gold on her new Swimsuit design. After surviving the ensuing retaliation she meets up with Mysterious "Racer" X, and they immediately hit off and team up for the race. Though their motivations are slightly different... |
| 514 | --->'''Mysterious Heroine X:''' Huh? There's not so many Sabers in this event? Hehe... Sure there are. In the spectator stands! I can see it now! The face of a Saber enjoying a bite of ice cream without a care in the world! Little does she realize that this is a dangerous drag race! There's no telling what could happen! A vehicle might tragically veer into the stands, and catastrophe may ensue! Such horrible accidents have been known to happen in the racing world! |
| 515 | --->'''Nobu:''' Hmm, she's starting to sound more Demon King-ish than me. ...Oh well, it can’t be helped! |
| 516 | * Elisabeth in her ChainmailBikini-clad form attempts to act like a swimsuit model and tries to get the attention of Georgios, who is taking pictures of the venue. He looks at Elisabeth with pity and claims it's also part of a photographer's job to capture the dark sides of the event. |
| 517 | ** Meanwhile, Hijikata drags Okita to the spectator stand, as he wants to ogle all the swimsuit-clad girls. |
| 518 | * At one point, Nobu shouts "[[Film/Batman1989 Tell me, have you ever danced with a Nobbu in the pale firelight!?]]", only to then ask "what do you mean nobody will get that reference these days!?" |
| 519 | * After digging out of the prison, Xuanzang credits her team's safe arrival to the protection of the Buddha. Nobu then emerges from a cave-in and complains that the Buddha is discriminating against her because she's a Demon King. |
| 520 | |
| 521 | [[AC:Nero Festival 2017]] |
| 522 | * Nero once again holds the Festival for everyone to have fun. This excites Brynhild because heroes from different ages beating each other reminds her of the original role of a valkyrie: harvester of heroes' souls. She then impersonates Mash to create a perfect Servant for the protagonist... if she fails, the protagonist will die, and at worst, a singularity will be created. She runs to the control room and wreaks havoc, accompanied by shadow Servants. |
| 523 | ** Luckily, [[AwesomenessByAnalysis El-Melloi II, Da Vinci, and Scathach]] predicted this would happen, so they send ''everyone'' to the control room to stop Brynhild. After beating her, it is revealed that the culprits of this incident are the "Chaldea Evil Masterminds": Moriarty destabilized Bryn's mentality [[ForTheEvulz for kicks]], and Amakusa is his accomplice because he wants to create a singularity for a Holy Grail for his master plan (as always). |
| 524 | ** After this, Holmes appears and praises Moriarty for not leaving a trace despite him knowing he is the mastermind. Moriarty attempts to run and Holmes easily takes him down with baritsu. |
| 525 | * The King Hassan Challenge Quest. The shock experienced by players at seeing him accompanied by 100 Hassans changed into chuckles because King Hassan ''beheads'' them one-by-one every single turn. |
| 526 | |
| 527 | [[AC:Trial Quest: Parvati]] |
| 528 | * When Parvati-Sakura and Jaguarman (read: Taiga) meet, Taiga wants to make sure that "Parvati" is really ready for Chaldea. Sure she is! Well... even if there are three different Emiyas currently running around?[[note]]She leaves out the fact that one is the ''elder'' Emiya, but details.[[/note]] |
| 529 | -->"SKAVAHDI!?" |
| 530 | * Medusa is ''absolutely furious'' at Parvati's presence... because it's putting the human Sakura at risk and Medusa absolutely ''will not tolerate that''. And then Parvati calls her Rider and she just feels the malice melt out of her, but wonders why. |
| 531 | -->"I mean, it's your class name, so I just thought it was appropriate~" |
| 532 | * At the end, Mash and the Protagonist discuss the possibility that other Servants may feel awkward around Parvati (read: she hasn't even ''met'' normal Emiya, Saber, or any of the other Fuyuki crew yet, never mind ''Ishtarin''). The Protagonist's two possible responses: "I'm worried" and "I can't wait!" |
| 533 | |
| 534 | [[AC:Halloween Strike! Great Decisive Battle at Himeji Castle]] |
| 535 | * The protagonist is so not ready to return to Castle Csjete that they prepared a ''Craft Essence decoy'' (in the form of Be Elegant CE) to get the hell out of dodge. Apparently Kotarou taught them how to use substitutes. |
| 536 | * The Servants aren't any more enthusiastic about the prospect; a montage of refusals includes Hektor claiming sciatica and Scheherazade [[ImplausibleDeniability dropping to the floor and saying she's not there]]. And those are the ones who didn't just dematerialize themselves. |
| 537 | * The protagonist dubs Yan Qing "Sassy-shin." Wu Zetian, meanwhile, is "Nite Brite." |
| 538 | * We once again return to Castle Csjete. However, the giant pyramid from last year is still there, only now Himeji Castle was built on top of it making the whole thing look ''even more'' ridiculous. |
| 539 | * As per Halloween tradition, Servants appearing as bosses are given funny nicknames. Ibaraki-douji is named "Where are my macarons?" while Chacha is named "Macarons are yummy.", hilariously implying that Chacha stole Ibaraki's macarons. |
| 540 | * In the English translation Osakabehime peppers her speech with bizarre Japanglish, like "gomenasorry" and "sore wa chigawrong." |
| 541 | * Yan Qing's mental image of Ozymandias making himself at home in the throne room of the upside-down pyramid. |
| 542 | -->"Mwahahahaha! Did you think I would be unable to sit atop my throne merely because it was inverted!?" |
| 543 | * Osakabehime is forced to run the item exchange shop, grumbling and complaining about having to actually work the whole time. This continues even after she becomes your enemy, with her demanding to know why she still has to give you items to fight against her and yelling at or begging you to just go home. |
| 544 | * "Nite Brite's" exposition to "Amazones CEO" about the giant mecha is glossed over by an exchange of "[[BlahBlahBlah blah blah blah]]"s and "yadda yadda yadda"s. |
| 545 | * Yan Qing is frequently bewildered by all the fuss about Bathory's singing, which is underscored by the fact that he's there for the one time it doesn't sound terrible. This causes him to comment that everyone's been lying and making a fuss about nothing. |
| 546 | * After the event's finished and Mecha Eli-chan and Elisabeth are both back at Chaldea, Mecha Eli-chan explicitly prefers to not talk to Elisabeth unless absolutely necessary since [[WeDoNotKnowEachOther she'd be mortified if her friends found out they were associating]]. In the short span of time since she's joined Chaldea, she's already distancing herself from her AlternateSelf (despite looking so similar) and has her own friends (unlike the [[TheFriendNobodyLikes incredibly unpopular original Liz]])! |
| 547 | |
| 548 | [[AC:Merry Christmas in the Underworld]] |
| 549 | * Santa Altera is full of laughs. Altera is convinced that a fake mustache and a sheep ''doubling as a present sack with presents in its fleece'' is all she needs to act as Santa. |
| 550 | -->"Ho ho ho. I'm Santa." |
| 551 | * The only gifts Altera has for Medusa Lancer are Shinji-related [=CEs=]. She opts to slice the first one ([[https://grandorder.wiki/Victor%27s_Complacency Victor's Complacency]]) with Harpe before Altera even finishes presenting it, but the second one, [[https://grandorder.wiki/Armless_Shinji-kun the Shinji-kun bot]] (which is from ''Fate/Extra CCC'' and is designed to eat overly terrible food and, crucially, ''get destroyed'' in the process) she decides to... keep. Because this does have uses. Yes. Uses. |
| 552 | * While Gilgamesh is telling Attila the San(ta) the story of Ereshkigal and Nergal, we are treated to a reenactment of the myth, with Ozymandias being his hammy self as Nergal. |
| 553 | * The next gate gets a similar retelling about Dumuzid, who is portrayed by David (presumably since both were shepherds) as an over-the-top {{Jerkass}} that's wildly out-of-character for David and oddly they have Ishtar portrayed by .... Quetzalcoatl instead of the actual Ishtar. |
| 554 | ** When it gets to the part where Ishtar learns about how Dumuzid has been partying over her death and goes to confront him the "reenactment" bit is replaced with "actual footage" as Ishtar herself shows up rather than Quetzalcoatl, indicating this is how Ishtar ''actually'' reacted when she confronted her husband about turning her death "into a national holiday." |
| 555 | * Jaguar Warrior guards the fifth gate, but the events of the group's confrontation with her are COMPLETELY passed over, shown only through a fast-forward with no text and a passing comment that she was a tough opponent. |
| 556 | * The final gate isn't guarded by anyone, but instead Ishtar swoops in and destroys it through LoopholeAbuse (she can't be weakened by the Underworld if she attacks from a distance). The fight against her looks to be tough because of her unique buff that reduces NP Damage and Buster card damage, but once you break her first HP bar, she loses it and gets a permanent debuff. Once again, she gets humiliated for her trouble. |
| 557 | * One of the event [=CEs=], Snow Pirates, depicts Blackbeard dressed in a snowman costume chasing Bunyan and Assassin of Nightless City. The terrified look of Assassin is just hilarious. Mary Read is also there about to throw a big snowball on Blackbeard. |
| 558 | [[/folder]] |
| 559 | |
| 560 | [[folder:2018 Events]] |
| 561 | [[AC:Setsubun Hundred Level Pagoda]] |
| 562 | * To alleviate the effect of the Fatigue system introduced in the event, the staff also introduced an onsen for the servants (maximum of 5 each time). The fandom obviously ''[[https://www.reddit.com/r/grandorder/comments/7ssmm0/onsen_setup_megathread/ had a field day with this]]'' from the possibility of a HotSpringsEpisode by putting whatever combinations possible, such as Altria clones sticking with Merlin (or Mordred), Gilles staring at different versions of Jeanne, the Emiya family picnic...or [[https://twitter.com/nobunaga_s/status/956110061234868224 just look at what Nobunaga Shimazaki did.]] |
| 563 | ** Also, while the servants are supposed to be at least half-naked when enjoying the onsen, we still only see their normal artwork, because ''Da Vinci purposely added a system to do so when transmitting the video back to Chaldea''. A certain staff member immediately complains. [[AudienceSurrogate We all share the pain.]] |
| 564 | ** Finally, the onsen are divided into three sections: Male, Female and the rest (such as Astolfo, d'Eon and Enkidu), who have to resort to DrumBathing. |
| 565 | * At the start of the event, da Vinci claims that a "mysterious horned duo" used liquor and crocodile tears to scam the staff into Rayshifting them somewhere. Both choices are ''priceless.'' |
| 566 | -->"Mysterious"? Really?\ |
| 567 | Took me all of two seconds to figure out who did it. |
| 568 | * Why is Katsushika Hokusai guarding the tenth floor? Shuten promised them painting materials, a place to live for free and the chance to meet various servants for inspiration. After losing, Oei is excited to hear that there's an onsen, happy to let them go as she knows how to draw Tomoe after the fight and there is a chance to draw nude female heroic spirits' forms in the onsen. She tries to cover her father's eyes but he squirts ink in her eyes and flies to the onsen. |
| 569 | ** Leading to a BaitAndSwitch in the subsequent onsen scene, when Leonidas seizes upon a black octopus in the water... which turns out to be ''Darius.'' |
| 570 | * Chiyome is overjoyed to see Gorgon because they're both cursed by Snakes and wonders if they both suffer from hibernation (they're really late risers in winter), and tries to get Gorgon to the onsen for further talks. Which scares Gorgon away from her. ''[[TheStoic GORGON]]''. |
| 571 | * Tomoe casually throws Holmes out of the pagoda's window with a bungee cord attached after beating him since he's too drunk to leave. At first Holmes seems rather calm about it until he realizes he doesn't have Moriarty to act as a cushion for the fall, causing him to panic. The best part? His name temporarily changes to ''[[CrossesTheLineTwice Reichenbach]]'' Ruler for this scene. |
| 572 | * Floor 40 has Benkei desperate to get Ushiwakamaru out of the pagoda before Tomoe realizes who they are. He lies that master wants Ushiwakamaru to collect the heads of monsters in a flat plain far away from the pagoda and that she should jump straight out of the pagoda without using the stairs, which she happily accepts to Benkei's relief. And then she starts shouting her name proudly in declaration, and he roars over her to drown it out, which he claims is him practicing his Buddhist chants when she asks why he's yelling. Benkei then claims that Ushiwakamaru was simply a nymphomaniac or hallucination when Tomoe questions what was going on. He then spends the fight with a childish oni mask to hide his identity and is called the Loyal Oni throughout the fight. |
| 573 | * Floor 50 has Quetzalcoatl turning the floor into a lucha match with Beowulf, Spartacus and Fergus as her disciples. While Beowulf just accepts everything, hoping for a good fight, the enclosed space reminds Spartacus of his time as a gladiator and thus he gets revolt happy saying he'll fight for love and freedom and Fergus is completely confused thinking the floor is fighting for love and [[LovableSexManiac of course he'd be interested]]. |
| 574 | * Floor 60 sees Tamamo, Kiyohime and Osakabehime having in Tamamo's words a mix of a mixer and girls night out, with Osakabehime thinking it was a [=IRL=] chat friends meetup and being mad when she realizes that the protagonist is coming. When she sees the protagonist's party, she freaks out and texts Kiyohime to stall to give her time to be presentable. Tamamo and Kiyohime ask what the point of texting them is when they're right next to her and master already knows her true self. |
| 575 | * At Floor 80, Shuten has the "Onis" of food (EMIYA, Tawara, Boudica and Parvati) prepare a feast for Tomoe and the protagonist with MHX Alter as their taste tester. Tomoe however intends to destroy the tower anyway so she declines their offer to have the feast and just passes by. EMIYA's reaction? |
| 576 | -->"We put all this effort preparing all this for you yet you decline them. Just passing by all this food is a sin so we will have you EAT THEM BY FORCE." |
| 577 | * Floor 90 is Ibaraki's room. Or rather, Ibaraki's over-the-top shrine of Shuten merchandise all made by Shuten herself. Complete with dakimakuras. ''Animated'' dakimakuras, that act as infinite copies of Shuten during Ibaraki's boss fight. |
| 578 | * Most onsen dialogues are also worth a chuckle: |
| 579 | ** Caster Gilgamesh continues to boast about his hot spring and prepares to leave when Iskandar taunts him that he just can't stand long baths. Gil immediately goes back to the water and then leaves because [[FlatWhat the onsen screams in pain when he's in there]]. |
| 580 | ** Nero is enjoying the onsen, saying it has made her even more beautiful than Venus with Ishtar being amazed that she would say that next to an actual goddess of beauty. Medea jumps into the onsen for skin treatment with Medea Lily telling her older self that her skin isn't that important which predictably [[IHatePastMe ticks off Medea]]. Turns out Penthesilea, nicknamed [[AmazonianBeauty Abtastic Berserker]], is also in the onsen and the only reason she hasn't gone berserk with all the beauty talk is because Mata Hari is covering her ears. During the Medeas' argument, they bump into Penthesilea, throwing Mata Hari off as Medea starts to talk about the importance of beauty. Penthesilea is about to go berserk over the word beauty, wondering who said it, before Nero loudly and proudly says it was about herself which actually calms down Penthesilea to the amazement of everyone else. |
| 581 | ** All of the Servants' horses (including Lobo) also get to enjoy the onsen and [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg Lu Bu]]'s there with them. The horses mainly discuss their owners' (Altria Lancer, Altria Lancer Alter, Xuanzang and Raikou) huge assets with Raikou's horse being a big pervert, Xuanzang and Altria Lancer's horses disturbed and Altria Lancer Alter's horse, who is a girl apparently, close to kicking in Raikou's horse's face. |
| 582 | ** One of the groups is the ArtificialHuman group, composed of Fran, Danzou, and Nezha, with Babbage overlooking them... and Tamamo Cat, who's pretending to be a "NECO-type robot" by ending all of her dialogue in -robo. Danzou buys it. And then Tamamo Cat tries to have all of them form a CombiningMecha. Apparently Nezha was also confused on whether she should enter the men's or women's area, but claims she refused to go to the "Others" area because she's convinced the steel drum was a trap meant to cook her. |
| 583 | ** Blackbeard leads a team of males for some onsen-peeping. His team consists of Moriarty, Hector, Shakespeare, David and Orion. [[StuffBlowingUp With predictable results]]. |
| 584 | ** The rest of the Knights of the Round (sans [[OnlySaneMan Bedivere]]) and Fionn also want to join the above team with the excuse they're going to protect the women from said peepers but they're dragged behind by Bedivere (''with his right arm activated'') and Diarmuid. Meanwhile Lancelot wonders how Tristan plays his strings when [[FridgeHorror Tristan is brushing his back with both hands]].[[note]]If you're willing to imagine what he might be implying, consider this humorous [[https://youtu.be/4JlyAEAY1XQ?t=6m4s clip about harp-playing]] from Series/MockTheWeek.[[/note]] |
| 585 | ** Bedivere's thought process: |
| 586 | --->I cannot let the Knights of the Round Table... except for Tristan... be disgraced any further! |
| 587 | * In the second pagoda, the 90th floor boss Raikou has Ibaraki's dakimakuras as her backup. Due to her hatred of Shuten, each turn she kills one of the dakimakuras not unlike King Hassan's challenge quest in Nero Fest. |
| 588 | |
| 589 | [[AC:Prosperous Chocolate Gardens of Valentine]] |
| 590 | * The pigeon reports that scroll by have up to '''''7''''' pages worth of material (one for each structure you build). Here are some of the funny little titbits (Rest of the reports are here : [[https://www.reddit.com/r/grandorder/comments/7u91ba/pigeon_report/ 1]],[[https://www.reddit.com/r/grandorder/comments/7uid1c/pigeon_report_2/ 2]],[[https://www.reddit.com/r/grandorder/comments/7updye/pigeon_report_3/ 3]],[[https://www.reddit.com/r/grandorder/comments/7upjya/pigeon_report_4/ 4]],[[https://www.reddit.com/r/grandorder/comments/7upw44/pigeon_report_5/ 5]],[[https://www.reddit.com/r/grandorder/comments/7uxuoz/pigeon_report_6/ 6]],[[https://www.reddit.com/r/grandorder/comments/7uybwc/pigeon_report_7/ 7]]): |
| 591 | -->''Coo. (Semiramis-sama's secret number one. She can't sleep comfortably without an eye mask.)''\ |
| 592 | ''Accident report - a giant cacao fruit fell and hit an elderly bearded Rider on the head. Sent to the medical room.''[[note]]This one actually starts a surreal offscreen character arc for Columbus that culminates in his becoming a SpacePirate and saving the world from a chocolate alien invasion.[[/note]]\ |
| 593 | ''A certain nurse is looking at the medicinal properties of cacao. The sedative effects of punching someone with a fistful of cacao have been noteworthy.''\ |
| 594 | ''Some child Servants have been mildly traumatized by a [[Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory certain chocolate movie]]. No more blueberries.''\ |
| 595 | ''Report - [[CallBack A drill man who is known as a dentist is hired]]. Losses from child chocolate thieves decrease drastically.''\ |
| 596 | ''Rumors that the Supreme Pharaoh has plans to dock the chocolate spaceship with the pyramid.''\ |
| 597 | ''Not withstanding the bad smell from chocolate, the Magus of Flowers announces he will talk about chocolates. He then talks about it for two hours.'' |
| 598 | * Everyone decides the best countermeasure to dilute the mandrake's harmful screaming is ''Nero's singing''. |
| 599 | * What's the last chocolate structure you can create? A chocolate [[Anime/CarnivalPhantasm Grail-kun]]! Some other notable facilities include chibi Paracelsus homunculi, mandrakes crossbred with chocolate, a "Necrochocomancy Laboratory" where discarded chocolates are recycled, [[Franchise/DragonBall Hyperbolic Chocolate Chamber]], a spaceship from the Servant Universe made out of chocolate courtesy of Mysterious Heroine X Alter, and chocolate-themed Jeweled Sword Zelretch. |
| 600 | * As always, some of the newer servants' return gifts for your chocolate contain some funny elements: |
| 601 | ** Parvati's is a scale model of Nandi the bull (voice acting gives us the bonus of her Nandi impression). A ''1/1'' scale model. Even with the help of Mash, Medusa and Jaguar Warrior, eating it is treated like a boss fight. |
| 602 | --->Chaldea's battle... is just starting! |
| 603 | ** Circe asked other Servants for a taste test of her special treat, heavily based on her trademark kykeon recipe... and now there's rampaging pigs all around the facility. Including a robot boar that burst out of Babbage's room. And one that appears to be Vlad, but the staff are not sure which one. The protagonist can threaten to force-feed her one of the chocolates or to [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment cover her wings in duct tape]]. |
| 604 | ** The Queen of Sheba tries to show off her "cool side" and bets her chocolate on an unsolvable riddle (that she lifted from ''Film/BladeRunner'', replacing a tortoise flailing helplessly on its back with a flailing, helpless ''Tarasque'')... in an attempt to hide that the only chocolate she has on hand was bought at the last moment in a convenience store (complete with a "three for the price of one" sticker that she failed to completely remove). The protagonist ends up giving her a hardcore petting session as "payback". She nervously remarks that she doubts she's going to be able to even stand by the time they're through with her. The CE description isn't much better, describing the scene of the very out of place queen attempting to haggle with a confused yet professional store clerk while the djinn laugh at how silly the whole thing is. |
| 605 | ** Mecha Eli-chan [=MK2=] hands you a ''seatbelt''. |
| 606 | ** As something that's both adorable and hilarious, there's the protagonist's reaction to getting chocolate from Abigail at the end of her intolerably sweet scene. |
| 607 | --->'''Choice 1:''' (Swoon and pass out) |
| 608 | --->'''Choice 2:''' (Give Abby a shoulder ride and run all around Chaldea) |
| 609 | ** Nezha gifts you a chocolate elaborately crafted in the shape of a lotus flower (with a hilariously detailed backstory that's more than twice as long as any other Valentine's gift description) after being told about Valentine's Day by Xuanzang, and then leaves. 5 minutes later, she comes running back up (panicking and screaming in a mix of the player's language and Chinese) and tries to take the chocolate back, after Xuanzang finally tells her the exact significance of giving chocolate to someone on Valentine's Day. The protagonist elects to tease her by eating it anyway, prompting her to call them a meanie while pouting. |
| 610 | ** Rider Ishtar stutters and stalls and searches for a way to cover her ass before tearfully admitting that she forgot Valentine's Day. |
| 611 | --->'''Ishtar:''' I didn't get you so much as [a] chocolate chip! I'm a complete failure of a goddess! |
| 612 | * This gem from the shop: |
| 613 | -->'''Semiramis:''' ''(in a higher pitched voice)'' H-Happy Valentine! ''(in her normal voice)'' YOU SAY?! Why do I have to spout such greetings?! |
| 614 | |
| 615 | [[AC:Inheritance of Glory]] |
| 616 | * The PV shows Mordred and Fran casually fist-bumping each other while walking away from Avicebron's decimated golems, and Jack is riding on Spartacus's shoulder and seems to be having the time of her life with a big smile on her face. |
| 617 | * When Chiron is telling how he's going to teach Sieg how to retreat when a Noble Phantasm is used, Achilles gets a traumatic memory of when he was training under Chiron in which Achilles wanted to become a hero as fast as possible, which Chiron responded to by asking him to evade [[RainOfArrows all of his arrows]] inside a cave for 24 hours. When Achilles tried to beg for a steadier way of training, Chiron just decided that it was better for him to go through this kind of training anyway. |
| 618 | * While planning the next operation, both the Protagonist and Sieg start to worry about Shakespeare. The Protagonist claims that Shakespeare cannot stand by and watch all the time, while Sieg is worried that they cannot allow Shakespeare to do unnecessary things, much to Shakespeare's chagrin. While Shakespeare whines about being distrusted, Avicebron then adds icing to the cake: |
| 619 | -->'''Avicebron:''' ''(to Shakespeare)'' [[DeadpanSnarker What in the world did you do?]] |
| 620 | * After finding out that a certain Amazoness queen is in Chaldea, Achilles suddenly speaks in a [[RoboSpeak robotic way]] and going in denial. |
| 621 | * After Frankenstein joins your side, she gets mad at the fact that Fafnir is resting at her flowerbed. Sieg apologizes for finding a bad place to park his dragon body and asks her to move it into the corner if it bothers her that much. Then Spartacus comes to try to pick a fight with Fafnir and after being convinced by the protagonist and Fran that the dragon is not an oppressor, he decides to just rest at the flowerbed, much to Fran's annoyance. |
| 622 | * After listening to Sieg about the situation, Mordred finds it boring to be summoned in a non-Holy Grail War situation, only for Achilles to provoke her by stating just one Saber is enough. Mordred gets pissed off and challenges him to a duel, to which he agrees, only for both to be whacked by Fran because they might destroy the flower garden. Mordred then suggests to do it outside the castle but Achilles has already lost interest. |
| 623 | -->'''Chiron:''' It's nice to see these two heroes make up. |
| 624 | -->'''Achilles & Mordred:''' NO, WE HAVEN'T!! |
| 625 | * When planning for their assault on the Hanging Gardens, Spartacus refuses to fly with other Servants because it is a doing of oppressors and he will find a way to reach it by himself. |
| 626 | -->'''Spartacus:''' If birds can fly, man can fly too. Nothing is impossible with humans. If man wanted to, he can fly. So I will become a bird to fly.\ |
| 627 | '''Chiron:''' A bird, huh?\ |
| 628 | '''Spartacus:''' A cuckoo!! Cuckoo!!\ |
| 629 | '''Protagonist:''' That bird can't fly high!!\ |
| 630 | '''Atalante:''' You can't just turn into a bird in just one night. That's an insult to birds. How about we use a rope for you to climb with?\ |
| 631 | '''Spartacus:''' That is not oppression.\ |
| 632 | '''Mordred:''' Just what the hell is his definition of "oppression"? |
| 633 | * When Sieg and the protagonist are talking, the protagonist talks about their [[ChickMagnet many]] [[DudeMagnet admirers]] to Sieg's confusion about why the [[UnwantedHarem protagonist looks so exhausted]]. |
| 634 | * There's a moment of a OneDialogueTwoConversations trope used when Achilles realizes that Sieg is going to be placed under the same [[TrainingFromHell training regimen]] he got from Chiron as a kid, and he can only ask Sieg that he not die. A clueless Sieg promises to survive, mistakenly thinking that Achilles was referring to the war in general. Lampshaded by the protagonist: |
| 635 | -->'''Achilles:''' Just... don't die, okay? |
| 636 | -->'''Sieg:''' ...Of course. I'll make sure I survive (both tonight and tomorrow night). |
| 637 | -->'''Achilles:''' Right on! |
| 638 | --> '''[[DeadpanSnarker Protagonist]]''': [[DeadpanSnarker I get the feeling you two aren't quite on the same page...]] |
| 639 | * When Astolfo and Chiron make a picnic for the Servants the morning before the assault to the Hanging Gardens, everyone compliments Chiron's food and Achilles starts boasting how badass Chiron is. |
| 640 | -->'''Achilles:''' There's nothing he can't do. He is a great sage after all.\ |
| 641 | '''Mordred:''' Can he do a criss-cross for an hour?\ |
| 642 | '''Achilles:''' Of course, he can also do a one-finger stand like nothing.\ |
| 643 | '''Atalante:''' Can he shoot an apple over a head of an evil magistrate?\ |
| 644 | '''Achilles:''' He can do it while yawning, and he can shoot the head too.\ |
| 645 | '''Astolfo:''' Can he make shockwaves with just a snap of his fingers?\ |
| 646 | '''Achilles:''' And the shockwaves can cut things clean.\ |
| 647 | '''Siegfried:''' How long can he move at full strength without breathing?\ |
| 648 | '''Achilles:''' Until the enemy falls and stay fallen.\ |
| 649 | '''Jack:''' Can he be a mommy?\ |
| 650 | '''Achilles:''' Raising children is one of his specialties.\ |
| 651 | '''Fran:''' U-uuh... (Can he revive with lightning?)\ |
| 652 | '''Achilles:''' Well... uh... I am not really sure, but I believe he can do it in some way.\ |
| 653 | '''Chiron:''' Achilles, it's rude to give random answers, understand? |
| 654 | * Spartacus tries to figure out if ''bread'' is an oppressor. It's [[NoSocialSkills Avicebron]] of all people that actually tries helping him. |
| 655 | -->'''Spartacus:''' Sandwiches...trap meat and other food... Does this mean...bread is an oppressor...?\ |
| 656 | '''Avicebron:''' Even if it were, you can't just eat the sandwich's insides. Then you'd be oppressing the bread. |
| 657 | * After the picnic, Chiron and Avicebron proceed to train and teach new things to Astolfo, Siegfried and Mordred to improve their battle abilities. Although in Mordred's case, Chiron suggests she just charge in like a Berserker as usual, knowing that she is ''that'' hopeless in learning. |
| 658 | * When talking about the sandwiches, Mordred talked about how [[BigEater her king]] never cared what they ate. The protagonist simply asks if Mordred's king actually wanted good food, and Mordred refuses that possibility. |
| 659 | * During the night of the assault on the Hanging Gardens, Atalante uses her Agrius Metamorphosis to transform to her Alter form to be able to fly. She is really embarrassed on how {{Stripperific}} she looks and wants to return to her normal form as soon as possible. This is the only time she (in her Berserker Alter form) realizes it since both in her home series and Lostbelt #1, she is too mad to care about how she looks. |
| 660 | ** Achilles pipes up to say [[ShipTease he likes the look.]] [[{{Tsundere}} Cue a flustered Atalante snapping that she didn't ask him.]] |
| 661 | * One of Achilles' horses, Xanthus, can speak and [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall even compares the possible reason why Achilles and Chiron had not been rogue Servants unlike others to simulation games regarding "high power but high cost" for the other side]]. Chiron is somewhat surprised the horse knows about such games. |
| 662 | * Chiron dialogue explaining how his Noble Phantasm works. |
| 663 | -->'''Chiron:''' Ah, everyone. My Noble Phantasm has no preparatory movements or warnings, so if you are aimed at then trust in your own luck and do your best.\ |
| 664 | '''Atalante:''' ...that means I might as well give up then! (<-- Luck E) |
| 665 | * During the planning of the assault, Mordred and Fran don't go with the flying team as well, but intend to fly to the Hanging Gardens in their own way. Mordred's clue is "rocket", which the protagonist easily figures out but is stopped by Mordred before he/she can say it. The night of the assault, Mordred and Fran launch themselves using ''Mana Burst powered by Galvanism'' to fly, and they hit Karna who is confronting the flying Servants. They crash into the Hanging Gardens and Fran becomes so angry that she speaks, saying she will never do it again. Sieg is amazed at his first time hearing Fran speak (since in their home series, Sieg was unconscious when Fran spoke her last words). |
| 666 | -->'''Fran:''' ...That...was...awful...!\ |
| 667 | '''Mordred:''' Hey, you actually talked!\ |
| 668 | '''Fran:''' So...reckless!\ |
| 669 | [...]\ |
| 670 | '''Sieg:''' How about you, Frankenstein? Are you okay?\ |
| 671 | '''Fran:''' Never...again. Ever.\ |
| 672 | '''Sieg:''' (Wow! It was so bad it actually got her to speak...!) |
| 673 | * When [[WorldsStrongestMan Karna]] takes the field Avicebron prepares himself for a [[SenselessSacrifice noble yet pointless sacrifice.]] |
| 674 | -->'''Avicebron:''' I suppose we have no choice but for me to take the field. Shakespeare, you will be the next sacrifice after the [[SquishyWizard five seconds it takes him to kill me.]] \ |
| 675 | '''Shakespeare:''' Wait! I don't mind throwing my life away if there's no other choice, but we must have SOME alternative we have not yet tried before it comes to that!\ |
| 676 | '''Avicebron:''' Hmmm. ... I suppose you're right. Say, for instance if someone capable of saving us were to suddenly fall from the sky like a shooting star. \ |
| 677 | ''[Fran and Mordred [[DynamicEntry smash into Karna]]]'' |
| 678 | * Upon defeating the foes that challenged them at the entrance to the Hanging Gardens, Mordred celebrates by fistbumping the protagonist and exclaiming, [[VideoGame/PlayerUnknownsBattlegrounds "WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER!"]] Meanwhile, the fistbump [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength robs the protagonist's hand of all feeling]]. |
| 679 | * When they finally reform Karna and Semiramis and reach the one behind the disturbance in the Greater Grail, Darnic (or rather his wish personified resulting from his death along with Vlad after their fusion during the Great Grail War), he offers the Servants a chance to exist in the real world. The Servants refuse because it's either not the heroic way or they just don't like him. However, Jack's reason is because he is a veteran magus and she hates the likes of him (since she was killed by them in her life), yet she loves the protagonist because he/she is only a newbie. |
| 680 | -->'''Protagonist:''' Sorry for being a newbie.\ |
| 681 | '''Jack:''' That's why we love mommy. |
| 682 | * Just before the final battle, the team discusses strategies for defeating the Greater Grail duplicate. Mordred is left dizzied and confused by all the tactical talk, and decides to just agree with Fran's suggestion to "Just beat the crap out of it." Atalante (who is currently in her [[{{Stripperiffic}} extremely revealing]] Alter outfit) finds this amusing. |
| 683 | -->'''Atalante''': Did you seriously just take combat advice from a Berserker?\ |
| 684 | '''Mordred''': Oh shut up, you freaking exhibitionist!\ |
| 685 | '''Atalante''': ''[quickly switches outfits to her more conservative Archer form]'' I am not an exhibitionist! |
| 686 | * Bordering on BlackComedy, the drops for Raid Vlad are Iron Stakes and Cursed Beast Cholecyst. Step 1: Read their descriptions. Step 2: Recall why Vlad [[IJustWantToBeNormal participated in the Grail War in the first place]]. |
| 687 | * Due to PowerCreep, the event's challenge quest is the subject of [[https://www.youtube.com/user/KYukipo/videos?disable_polymer=1 many gameplay videos]] that clear it in ''two'' turns, which is the fastest time you can clear the quest, usually with a single servant buffed by multiple supports which allow consecutive NP usage, making the fight a joke. |
| 688 | * In the shop Astolfo will reference the Type-Moon April Fool's joke by offering his [=TMitter=] address when you make a purchase. He'll offer to give you Mordred's immediately after. In another line he'll ask if by chance you remember what he was thinking about because he was going to look something up on his phone and completely forgot about it as he is prone to. |
| 689 | |
| 690 | [[AC:Murder at the Kogetsukan]] |
| 691 | * First off, this is a detective story-driven event......''[[https://twitter.com/karako/status/994552899224006656?s=12 for which the character choices already broke some of Knox's Decalogue]]''. |
| 692 | * Morris, despite looking like Mordred, is in fact a man. [[CrotchGrabSexCheck The protagonist can learn this crotch first]]. The other way is feeling his chest. |
| 693 | * After the first segment, the protagonist explains what they saw to Mash, Holmes and Moriarty. Mash then tries to sum up the characters' position......while still badmouthing Lancelot. |
| 694 | * Meanwhile, both Holmes and Moriarty take a vested interest in their characters and disparage the other, claiming them to be both equally shady and untrustworthy. |
| 695 | * The detective Holmes is substituting for is killed soon after he arrives at the Kogetsukan. Back in reality, Moriarty is ''clearly laughing his ass off'' when he learns Holmes was taken out so early, resulting in Holmes using Baritsu on him to keep him silent. When Mash says "Holmes was killed", the real Holmes [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial quickly stresses that it's Sheringham who got killed]]. |
| 696 | * When one session of discussion brings up the possibility that Juliet might be a potential murder target, the protagonist resolves to get back to the Kogetsukan dream world and protect her as quickly as possible... BY SLAMMING THEIR HEAD INTO THE WALL TO KNOCK THEMSELVES OUT. Mash has to hold them back while Holmes points out that this particular method of inducing unconsciousness isn't guaranteed to get them back to the Kogetsukan. |
| 697 | * The final TheReveal in the detective story is that Juliet and Eva turned out to be Harriet's daughters from her affair with Aaron (Fionn), meaning she is the culprit who only did the killings to prevent a SurpriseIncest marriage. This means Adamska (Lancelot) got cuckolded. Considering Fionn and Lancelot's original legends, it is one ''BIG'' {{Irony}} (As Lancelot is known for cuckolding while Fionn is known for getting cuckolded). |
| 698 | * Holmes repeatedly warns you ''not'' to take the Servant-avatars at face value. One Redditor admitted they [[RightForTheWrongReasons solved the mystery doing exactly that]]-- [[https://www.reddit.com/r/grandorder/comments/gqpwm8/na_event_murder_at_the_kogetsukan_final_spoilers/fru7y4r/ the victims were portrayed by male (kind of) Sabers, so the most likely killer was the Archer with an anti-male attack]]. |
| 699 | |
| 700 | [[AC:GUDAGUDA Legend of the Imperial Capital Grail - Far East Demonic Front 1945]] |
| 701 | * The event begins with a scene of Okita confronting Nobunaga after the latter had seemingly killed Okita's Master, Hijikata and Chacha, with Okita getting a sudden power-up by transforming into Okita Souji Alter. Then Nobunaga comes in to explain that this is what a ''proper'' Alter origin should be, as the scene cuts to Chaldea where Okita [[JustWokeUpThatWay had just become an Alter during her sleep]]. |
| 702 | * Mash can't help herself that each time Chaldea contacts the protagonist, she wants to ask what Okita Alter's relationship with the protagonist is. |
| 703 | * The event itself is rather serious for its main meat. For its post-event, though... The title is changed to "Motto GUDAGUDA Strange Tales of the Imperial Holy Grail - Revenge of Yodo" and it becomes a Holy Grail War parody. Special Chibi-Nobbus appear there and each type doesn't use Creator/RieKugimiya's voice, but [[Creator/AyakoKawasumi the]] [[Creator/JunichiSuwabe voice]] [[Creator/NobutoshiCanna actors]] [[Creator/YuuAsakawa of]] [[Creator/AtsukoTanaka the]] [[Creator/TetsuInada original Servant lineup of]] VisualNovel/FateStayNight (the official ones registered to that version of the Holy Grail War, [[Creator/ShinichiroMiki the fake]] or [[Creator/TomokazuSeki extra ones]] did not get included) and [[https://www.reddit.com/r/grandorder/comments/8skea2/gudaguda3_all_new_nobu_voices_compilation/ have them say nothing but "Nobu".]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjB7WAYahvA It has to be heard to be believed.]] They are also partially named from their respective Servants (like Medu-Nobbu and Cu-Nobbu) and even have their skills and "Noble Phantasms". |
| 704 | ** The said "Holy Grail War" is masterminded by Chacha, who emerges as Avenger Yodo, akin to Angra Mainyu. Her reason...? She's upset at not getting screen time in the first part where all the seriousness happened, as she was out buying ice cream. She attempts to conquer the entire Imperial Capital with the ability she got after eating ice cream from a Holy Grail (which is shown in the event's trailer). After defeating her, she reverts to Berserker Chacha and things are alright... until Nobu claims she ate Chacha's snacks and Chacha turns into Avenger Yodo once again. |
| 705 | *** To sum up just how silly the whole post-event is, take a good look at what happens when you unlock the node to face [[https://www.reddit.com/r/grandorder/comments/8sicp2/you_cant_be_serious_spoiler_for_jp/ Chacha.]] Too bad it disappears once you beat her. |
| 706 | * Ryouma trips Medea's "Untrustworthy Hot Man Radar." Despite his apparent shiftiness, though, his relationship with Oryou is much more functional - it's ''so'' functional that Medea [[SickeninglySweethearts attacks them in disgust]]. |
| 707 | |
| 708 | [[AC:Servant Summer Festival!]] |
| 709 | * This event is basically ''a Comiket at Hawaii with Servants''. It's just as chaotic as one can imagine. |
| 710 | * The team need to travel to Hawaii via normal airlines, and the four following Servants (sans [[OnlySaneMan Robin Hood]]) are ''a bit'' overenthusiastic about travelling on a plane, earning a DeathGlare from Da Vinci, stressing them not to create troubles on board. In fact, Robin Hood keeps acting as the OnlySaneMan of the group, at times calling out the crazy acts of others; for example, when Caster Gilgamesh claims he's lost his memory, Robin is the first one who tries to point out that he's obviously Gilgamesh. |
| 711 | * Ibaraki, of all people, is the one to tell Jeanne Alter that waving swords around in an airport will only make them look suspicious. |
| 712 | -->'''Jeanne Alter:''' Why is she the one lampshading this!? |
| 713 | * The first enemy encountered by the group is a giant chicken. And right after that encounter, Blackbeard tries to join the group, only for Ushiwakamaru to decapitate him before he can reveal himself. Luckily, he activates Pirate's Glory in time and survives, even though everyone saw his head go flying. |
| 714 | * Anastasia makes a brief appearance where she gets into the protagonist's face and yells "GODDAMN HOT!" |
| 715 | * What makes Jeanne Alter stray from their initial mission (finding the new Foreigner) and join Blackbeard to draw {{Doujinshi}} for sale? ''The one sold by Jeanne is currently a top seller''. |
| 716 | * Blackbeard offers them the suite he originally picked out for him and his crew, but he doesn't want it anymore. Why? Because Bartholomew Roberts had set up next door and insulted him by telling him that they'll both just pretend that they don't know each other. |
| 717 | * Medb and Ushiwakamaru piss each other off at the beach, with both of them insulting the other's body type, and they get into a sumo wrestling match then and there while Medb calls her backup (who are a bunch of schmucks she seduced into working for her). Meanwhile, Jeanne gets fired up thinking they're just having a friendly competition and jumps in, while Robin just wants to stop them all before they ruin the view of the beach (which is obviously just the crystal-clear waters and sun-kissed sands, not all the sexy female Servants in scanty clothing on it, of course). |
| 718 | ** As Robin is admiring the view, included among all the girls is ''Leonidas''. |
| 719 | * Altria Alter's swimsuit version is working as a waitress... because the restaurant is buffet-style so she can snack while working. She also holds people at gunpoint if they don't tip enough for her. |
| 720 | -->'''Altria Alter:''' Here’s a burnt piece of toast, eat it in 3 seconds. |
| 721 | * Astolfo is unable to find a job, because everyone already knows what an airhead he is. |
| 722 | -->'''Mordred''': Hey, what about that new porter you were gonna hire?\ |
| 723 | '''Jekyll''': Ah, I think I see them now...\ |
| 724 | '''Astolfo''': Hiiii! I'm here about the job posting-\ |
| 725 | '''Mordred''': ''You get right the hell out!'' |
| 726 | * When Berserker Jeanne Alter demands fighting reference materials, Robin simply walks onto the street and screams, "WHO WANTS MY HEAD!"; cue Beowulf, Assassin Scáthach, Munenori, Hijikata, a very drunk Jing Ke, and a very excited ''Assassin Ushiwakamaru'' appearing to cut off Robin's head. Assassin Ushiwakamaru apologizes that [[BloodKnight she heard the word head and got excited]] and joins Robin's side. |
| 727 | * Mash is ready and eager to take reference photos. |
| 728 | -->'''Mash:''' Luluhawa landscapes... Senpai hiking up a mountain... Senpai diving into the ocean... Senpai getting on the bus... Senpai eating a waffle dog... |
| 729 | * The ''EXTRA'' group (Caster Nero, Lancer Tamamo and Lancer Liz) uses Babbage as the plate for beachside barbecue. Steams included. |
| 730 | * Paracelsus and/or Avicebron is revealed as a CovertPervert after the group beats off a mechanical boar. |
| 731 | -->'''BB:''' It looks like that thing belongs to Keter Malkuth Hohenheim, one of the Wonder Stage clubs... |
| 732 | -->'''BB:''' Let's see... "1/1 Scale Replica Series: Twrch Trwyth"... |
| 733 | -->'''BB:''' "Ages 17 and up! This life-size figure recreates the original's imposing destructive power in glorious detail! The eroticism of the armor plating that seems as though it's about to fall off at any moment is..." |
| 734 | * Scenarios involving different {{Doujinshi}} are plain sources of laughter: |
| 735 | ** Everyone has a massive FreakOut when they realize they've produced one involving ''Kiara Sesshouin'' and no one even knows how they did it. Meltryllis, Lancer Raikou and Parvati then pass by and claim it's "dirty"... but they can't find anything wrong. Also, some of the PC dialogues available [[{{Troll}} can pretend you've been possessed]] by Kiara. |
| 736 | ** As Caster Gil gets a copy of ''My Round Table'', he suggests the group can make a sequel next time: [[ContinuityNod a love story involving an "Old Prince at a villa" acting as the home teacher of Lion King-chan]]. And Mash has absolutely no idea that it's Lancelot (in his swimsuit) who buys the last ten books. |
| 737 | * The last stretch of the Festival gets so intense for our little doujin circle that the game starts throwing you full-blown battles against things like unfinished pages and a giant freaky ghost called "The Deadline". |
| 738 | * Near the end, Jalter is getting so desperate for help writing the doujin she says she'd even take the assistance of a cat at this point. Jaguarman pops up asking "You rang?" Jalter immediately just shouts "NO! GO AWAY!" She does accept Tamamo Cat's help though. |
| 739 | * The Monte Cristo Selection quest features Raikou calling Florence Nightingale a ''threat to public decency'' over [[{{Fanservice}} her notorious "Trick or Treatment" and "Chaldea Lifesavers" outfits]]. Hilarity ensues. |
| 740 | * One side story has Scheherazade and Nitocris going to a restaurant where Altria Alter's swimsuit version works, during which Nitocris talks about tipping culture with Scheherazade. When Nitocris says that housekeeping would be very upset if you don't tip them, Scheherazade (who was just threatened at gun-point by Swimsuit Altria Alter for not leaving a tip at all) has an ImagineSpot where a peeved Mordred arrives at their room, [[NarrationEcho announces]] [[ThatMakesMeFeelAngry "I'm upset"]], and uses Clarent Blood Arthur, followed by Jekyll declaring "I'm upset too" and trashing the place as Hyde. Cue Scheherazade rushing back to her room as she now thinks insufficient tipping is fatal. |
| 741 | * In the "Loco Moco" side story: |
| 742 | ** Moriarty, about to go on an outing with Fran (and Babbage), expects that they can take a comfortable ride to the top of Diamond Head. The player is then notified that no, no you cannot. Also, make sure to bring water. |
| 743 | ** Disappointed to find out what loco moco actually is, Tomoe Gozen [[IRejectYourReality continues to insist it's some kind of cute animal]]. |
| 744 | * The Captain Scathach side story involves Bedivere, Mash, and Ritsuka at a gun range with [[DrillSergeantNasty Scathach]] as the teacher. She demands perfection with the minimum range being 50 meters, and she attacks Ritsuka if they miss, as well as threatening to use her Noble Phantasm on them if she is pissed off. |
| 745 | ** Edison has his group training under Artemis, and says how it's fine to shoot as much as they can, only for Artemis to shoot that idea down, proving that she's WORSE than Scathach. After hearing about this threat, Edison is suddenly [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere nowhere to be seen.]] |
| 746 | --->'''Artemis:''' Who said anything about letting you miss shots? If any of you miss even one, I'll turn you into a deer and kill you on the spot.\ |
| 747 | '''Edison Soldier:''' Wat.\ |
| 748 | '''Artemis:''' I'm the legendary goddess of hunting, and proud of it! Nobody's ruining that reputation on my watch! Oh, and I can still turn you into deer even if you're machines. In fact, that makes it easier. So make sure you hit those targets like your lives depend on it, okay guys? |
| 749 | * When it's revealed to Jeanne Alter that ''she'' [[StableTimeLoop made the manga that inspired herself]], she gets so agitated she starts speaking Shakespearean. |
| 750 | -->'''Jeanne Alter:''' Oh God... Why does there ALWAYS have to be a stupid goddamn last-minute plot twist!? Prithee, wherefore didst it become my wretched fate to be expelled from blissful vales of ignorance? Oh, woe is me! |
| 751 | * The second half of the quest involves the group fighting raid battles against fragments of BB Pele's power to remove Pele from BB's Spirit Origin. Why? Because BB can't get rid of the tan otherwise and needs to maintain her status as a pale-skinned beauty before going back to Chaldea. |
| 752 | ** Two of the four bosses are different forms of Summer BB (though one inexplicably changes to Anastasia halfway through depleting her raid boss HP), and the third is a unique Demon Pillar, but the fourth is, for some reason, Sessyoin Kiara. BB later says that it was SUPPOSED to be Abby (to help the girl make more friends, or so she claims). |
| 753 | --->'''BB:''' Don't ask me how that lewd nun got here. [[HorrifyingTheHorror It's kind of freaking me out, honestly!]] |
| 754 | |
| 755 | [[AC:Battle in New York 2018]] |
| 756 | * Once again, the contestant names tend to be creative and hilarious. |
| 757 | ** In English, Mozart and Salieri (who were simply labeled in Japanese as "hardcore gamer" and "casual gamer" respectively) are registered as [[MemeticMutation "Pro Gamer" and "Filthy Casual"]]. |
| 758 | ** Gawain, who's powered up by sunlight, is in the lowest node, labeled [[OhCrap "So It's... Night..."]] |
| 759 | * The event begins with Nero excitedly announcing the 4th Annual Nerofest, only for Gilgamesh to announce through Sheba that he's appropriated all of Nero's treasury (including the grand prize, a Holy Grail), which he was allowed to do because Caesar owed him a huge sum of money, but simply proclaimed "My debt is Rome's debt", and so Nero's treasury (which is also Rome) could be used to pay off his debt entirely. Nero is, understandably, far from happy about this. |
| 760 | -->'''Nero:''' Juuullliiiuuusss! |
| 761 | ** Caligula's Madness Enhancement-hampered efforts to explain that the treasury is missing briefly make Nero think he's calling her a gigantic spendthrift. |
| 762 | --->'''Caligula:''' Empty treasury Neroooooo!\ |
| 763 | '''Nero:''' What do you take me for, some petty tyrant who used up all her nation's money!? |
| 764 | |
| 765 | [[AC: The Land of Mystique, Oniland! The Great Oni and the Kamuy's Gold]] |
| 766 | * Some Servants are enjoying the theme park ride... and things get hilarious between the 'couples'. |
| 767 | ** Amakusa and Semiramis in a spinning teacup field, all because Semiramis had to cater to Amakusa's Grail obsession. Then Amakusa rapidly increases the spinning speed of the teacup, without even listening to Semiramis' advice. |
| 768 | ** Cleopatra is sitting on Caesar's lap (Caesar himself is enjoying the ride despite his fat body making it cramped). Cleopatra expresses her gratitude for the durability of Servant bodies, and an abashed Caesar makes a comment about changing his Saint Graph and putting on a swimsuit to lose weight and turn into a Rider, to the excitement of Cleo... |
| 769 | ** Medb is trying to feed Cu Alter a crepe, to his utter lack of enthusiasm - but at least, he remarks, it's not as bad as "what's going on over there"... |
| 770 | ** ... where Brynhild is vocally holding back her urge to stab Sigurd... except that she's actually sitting with Siegfried, who's so scared shitless that he decides to stay silent until Brynhild prepares her spear and he finally corrects her, kind of similar to [[AllThereInTheManual his Material entry]]. And apparently, the Valkyries were spying on them... and [[ClingyJealousGirl they're still pissed that their great sister is hanging around with another Heroic Spirit, especially one that looks like Sigurd.]] |
| 771 | --->'''Thrud:''' I'll kill him.\ |
| 772 | '''Hildr:''' No, no, no! We can't do that! He's one of Master's Servants! We need to handle this more peacefully.\ |
| 773 | ''[beat]''\ |
| 774 | '''Thrud:''' I'll kill him. \ |
| 775 | '''Hildr:''' Thrud! |
| 776 | ** Sieg is witnessing the gathering of Servants of Chaldea with wonder. This would be something he'd say to his original love interest, Jeanne... except his partner is Jeanne ''Alter'', who proceeds to yell at Sieg's face about how they're completely unrelated. Naturally this troubles Sieg, and Jeanne Alter yells for him to stop pouting. |
| 777 | * Benkei is initially puzzled that Ushiwakamaru is still wearing her summer clothes at this time of year, then realizes - and Ushiwakamaru gleefully points out - that they actually provide ''more'' coverage than [[{{Stripperiffic}} her regular outfit]]. |
| 778 | * As Shuten is parodying {{Magical Girl}}s, the whole event plays out like a SaturdayMorningCartoon with Ibaraki and Shuten doing OnTheNext segments at the end of each episode. |
| 779 | [[AC:Holy Samba Night]] |
| 780 | * This Christmas event is also a wacky wrestling tournament. |
| 781 | * Despite being chosen by Altera to be the next Santa, Quetzalcoatl's getup is Samba. Why? She misheard Santa as ''Samba''. Altera's ''sheep'' Zerco has to explain what just happened to da Vinci and the audience via translated sheep baas. |
| 782 | * That aside, she takes to her Christmas duties with alacrity. Cut to the "Good Boys" - [[ProfessionalKiller Izo]], [[{{Pirate}} Blackbeard]], and [[DiabolicalMastermind Moriarty]] - screaming as she buries them in presents. |
| 783 | * The RunningGag of Quetzalcoatl breaking out into samba interludes, featuring her sprite "dancing" across the screen to appropriate music. |
| 784 | -->'''Jaguar Warrior:''' Please don't samba on my conscience again! |
| 785 | * While they intended to do the usual Santa business, the protagonist and Quetz find out Mexico is covered in snow, and her BloodKnight half hosts a tournament with a Holy Grail as a prize. They have to participate but she needs a Servant partner to do so; as it happens, they run into Bradamante, who is very hungry and beaten up after she was thought to be a thief who tried to steal the Grail and had some power stolen. Bradamante ends up joining up with them after learning about their relationship to Merlin (openly praising [[TheFriendNobodyLikes him]] to everyone else's bemusement) and gets stuck with the ring name "Bradaman". |
| 786 | ** Their first opponents are Altria Santa Alter and Astolfo as her reindeer, representing England (Astolfo counts because his lineage can trace back to England despite him being French) as The Great Britain Combination. She wanted to use the protagonist as per usual, but since they weren't available she took Astolfo as the ClosestThingWeGot. Altria wants to test Quetz's power and worthiness as a Santa, also angrily making it clear she doesn't approve of Quetz's samba dances, while Astolfo just went along because he thought it would be fun. Bradamante and Astolfo end up arguing over ownership of the hippogriff, with Bradamante going so far as to nuzzle its back with a ThousandYardStare at the memory of her husband which causes the hippogriff to audibly ''squawk''. Astolfo [[HypocriticalHumor then flatly tells the protagonist Bradamante is kinda dumb]]. |
| 787 | --->'''Santa Alter:''' Santa's role has nothing to do with shaking one's booty! |
| 788 | ** After winning, Bradamante is attacked by an unknown Servant that turns out to be Martha, who decides to train Bradamante so she has the aura of a "proper" holy warrior. She intended to participate with Tarasque as her partner, but was [[Manga/{{Kinnikuman}} disqualified during the "Train Attack" event when she saved a puppy that ran onto the train tracks]] via using {{Trainstopping}} to do so. Mash openly wonders why she just didn't grab the dog and run away. |
| 789 | ** Martha's training involves using Tarasque as a literal punching bag. |
| 790 | ** Their second opponents are Hektor and Penthesilea, calling themselves the A.Revengers and representing Troy (and yes, they acknowledge it's a dead city, but they got in for the same reason Chaldea was allowed to get their own team). Their reason? The latter wants to use the power of Santa Claus to destroy Achilles, while Hektor admits if Achilles gets screwed over without himself getting killed in the process, he's down with that. Also, Bradamante has something she's always wanted to say to her (and Ruggiero's, and Charlemagne's) FamousAncestor Hektor. |
| 791 | --->'''Hektor:''' 'Course not. It's not every day you get to meet your own ancestor, right? Oh, should I grab a pen to sign something?\ |
| 792 | '''Bradamante:''' Okay then... here goes...\ |
| 793 | '''Bradamante:''' '''''Take care of your gear, dammit!''''' |
| 794 | ** ... yep, she has pent-up issues since his CoolSword and armor, and the "weird people" constantly coming after it, caused the Paladins so much trouble. Of course, it loses some impact as she even admits when he points out he can't really "take better care of it" when he was "you know, dead at the time." Bradamante ends up winning the match thanks to using Martha's "Pacifying Raging Beasts" style on Penthesilea due to having an EurekaMoment while dodging her wild berserker style, with Hektor bemoaning he should have used that special cologne ("Eau de Greece") he devised sooner, even while admitting he would have likely been the first casualty of Penthesilea's renewed rage. |
| 795 | ** Their third opponents are Edison and Bunyan, representing America, with Edison ''very'' eager to properly emulate American professional wrestling up to and including giving himself both a ring name ("Direct Current Superhuman Lionman") and a CatchPhrase laugh ("Dee see" or "DC"), while Bunyan makes her entrance as a giant and literally shakes the arena, going by the name "[=BigBody=]". Edison isn't actually interested in being Santa himself so much as for an eternal Christmas, which means all the factories, food processing plants, artificial Christmas tree mills, Santa outfit shops, and all forms of mass production will be on full blast and be using direct current all the while, cementing DC as the superior option. Bunyan meanwhile wants to be Santa not just for an eternal Christmas, but so that she can run around with the other Santas giving out presents. They lay electric wires with DC current on the ringside and put special insulant on their outfits to protect themselves from the electric current, which causes Bradamante to blurt [[GratuitousFrench "......Qu'avez-vous dit!?"]][[note]]"What did you say!?"[[/note]] at the sheer cheating on display. However they lose when they get electrocuted by the wires, which turn out to have been tampered to use AC current. |
| 796 | ** After the match, they bump into the just-eliminated French team - Sanson and Jeanne Alter Santa Lily, who is deeply upset by their opponents' blatant cheating. Bradamante commiserates. |
| 797 | --->'''Jeanne Alter Santa Lily:''' Thank you, lady with the vaguely French color scheme! |
| 798 | ** They find out what Team France had to put up with when they meet their fourth opponents: Carmilla, Wu Zetian, Red Hare and a bunch of Atrocious Officers, representing China and calling themselves aptly "The Most Dangerous Team". Despite their number, they are counted as a ''duo'' and are able to pass off as such due to [[LoopholeAbuse abusing a number of loopholes]] in the rules (specifically, Carmilla is registered as Wu's niece Hua Meiluo; Red Hare is strictly a ''vehicle'', not a wrestler, so he falls under the same rules that let both Altria Lancers and Iskandar fight while riding their steeds; and the officers are officially Wu's "equipment"). Their reasoning is that Red Hare wants to be known as the "strongest reindeer" while getting carrots and actually serving a proper tyrant to possibly betray, Wu wants to be Santa since as emperor/"the most important person in the world" it is only right that she be the one to dole out presents/"rewards" to commoners, and Carmilla wants to be the Santa who doles out punishments to naughty children. |
| 799 | ** In order to win against the combination of officers surrounding the ring edges, being dunked in poison, and getting ensnared by chains around the arms, Quetzalcoatl hoists Bradamante onto her shoulders and the knight unleashes one of the Fifty-Two Street Fighting Moves taught to her by Martha in preparation for such dirty fighting: [[OverlyLongName "The Time I Went to an Enemy Base to Settle Things Once and for All and Ended Up Fighting a Chain Death Match"]]! Carmilla in desperation tries to use her Iron Maiden, but Bradamante makes it miss and catch Jaguar Warrior in the crossfire, before finishing off Red Hare and Wu Zetian who couldn't get out of the way in time thanks to how crowded the ring became (but not before Red Hare takes the chance to betray Wu). |
| 800 | ** After the match, Quetzalcoatl complains about how much the poison she had to submerge herself in to put Bradamante into position hurts and mentions this was more "that rat bastard Tezcatlipoca's thing." In order to continue on to the next match, Martha is convinced by Quetzalcoatl to don a lucha mask and take her place as "New Quetzal Mask" while she continues to recover, with Martha admitting it's nice to be able to finally cut loose without worrying about her reputation as a saint. Bradamante is utterly convinced Martha is still Quetzalcoatl to Fou's shock and disappointment. |
| 801 | ** Their fifth opponents are Atalante Alter and Jaguar Warrior, representing the "animal kingdom" as the "Forest Fourth Dimension". Jaguar Warrior attempts to claim her being a participant was a twist no one saw coming (with the protagonist stating pretty much everyone did) and that she used her position to obtain all available info on the fighters and their movesets, while Atalante Alter is only in the ring because Jaguar Warrior convinced her that never-ending Christmas would mean never-ending smiles for the children, and otherwise is honestly [[ReluctantFanserviceGirl flustered at appearing in her Berserker garb in a public setting]]. Also, apparently the matches are being streamed somehow since not only have there been cases of people betting on the fights, the nearby town knows about all the wrestlers and the children keep asking Atalante Alter for autographs and if she's getting a possible figurine. |
| 802 | ** Alas, Jaguar Warrior is in the same boat as Bradamante in being unable to recognize Martha isn't Quetzalcoatl, which ends up biting her in the ass because she wasn't ready for Martha's entirely different fighting style and she and Atalante Alter get subjected to a CurbStompBattle. Bradamante only realizes the truth after the match when Martha removes her mask. Also, Altera Santa shows up, having fought for western Asia only to lose. When asked about why she fought when the same person can't be Santa two years in a row, she claims if she won the true Santa power, she would have been "Neo Santa", and thus completely different. She's here to tell them that unless they come up with a "killer finisher" move, they don't stand a chance against their semifinal opponents. |
| 803 | ** Their sixth and the semifinal opponents are Ivan the Terrible and Anastasia, representing Russia as "The Tsar Missioners", who both believe that if eternal Christmas means eternal winter, then it is only right that [[MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong the tsars of the land of ice and snow should be the true Santas]]. Also, Anastasia initially appears riding inside a giant {{Snowlem}} that Ivan destroys when they introduce themselves. As for why she did so... |
| 804 | --->'''Anastasia''': I encased my body in this icy form on our way here because it was SO GODDAMN HOT!!! |
| 805 | ** Their combination move is Anastasia ''carrying Ivan backpack-style and charging at high speed'' called "Mammoth Tusk Train", which is best interpreted as [[https://twitter.com/syatey_12/status/1075230216916590592 this]]. Bear in mind Ivan the Terrible ''[[LargeAndInCharge is 5.3 meters tall and weighs frigging 2.5 tonnes]]'', while Anastasia has [[SquishyWizard E-ranked strength]]. Bradamante takes note of this, but then remembers that Astolfo can pull off some surprising levels of strength himself despite his twiggy build with Monstrous Strength. Near the end of the fight, Ivan takes a moment to both simultaneously boast of his power and commend Bradamante for her judgement of his strength "and [her] shapely rear end", with Anastasia being annoyed but pressing on for the sake of mischief, er...victory, and making an aside comment about trying to get into rock music. |
| 806 | ** Quetzalcoatl and Bradamante finally unveil their incomplete combination move: Bouclier Present Drop, to match the Mammoth Tusk Train. Anastasia however claims that their combination has a PowerLevel of "ten million tsarpower", while Bradamante and Quetzalcoatl "only" have one million tsarpower each and thus they can't hope to win. Bradamante then does her own "math" to counter... |
| 807 | --->'''Bradamante''': Quetzal Mask has passed her power on to me! If you add hers to mine, that gives me two million power! And since I'm jumping with twice as much force as usual, that's two times two million, giving me four million power! Then, if I [[SpectacularSpinning spin with three times the force]], that's a total of twelve million power--enough to surpass you two! |
| 808 | ** In the end, the only two left barely standing are Ivan and Bradamante, with the former deciding he'll end it with a body slam onto her. However, Bradamante pulls out her final technique: PlayingPossum, and manages to knock him down first. |
| 809 | * While Ruler Quetzalcoatl dropping a meteor sized gift box on the enemy is already funny, there's a chance to trigger Jaguar Warrior describing the scene like an actual wrestling match. |
| 810 | [[/folder]] |
| 811 | |
| 812 | [[folder:2019 Events]] |
| 813 | [[AC:Chronicles of the Prospering Enma-Tei]] |
| 814 | * The bronze currency Craft Essence for the event, "A Modest Pig," is a DarkerAndEdgier ''Literature/CharlottesWeb.'' |
| 815 | -->The spider decides to defy fate by rebelling against humanity. Suck the blood of the farmers. Burn the shed down. |
| 816 | * Sion shows off a bit of meta awareness in the prologue: |
| 817 | -->An alchemist of Atlas's physical abilities are also sharp. It's done in preparation for being able to appear in a [[VideoGame/MeltyBlood fighting]] [[VideoGame/UnderNightInBirth game]] at any time. |
| 818 | * Beni-enma's commentary on how several Servants she knows cook: Kiyohime [[CripplingOverspecialization only knows how to fry things]], Tamamo puts her special spice on everything, and Tomoe is, to put it kindly... [[Creator/GordonRamsay an idiot sandwich]][[labelnote:Explanation]] For example, when reading a direction such as "cook for 20 minutes over low fire" Tomoe's first thoughts are "the result will be the same when I cook it for 10 minutes over high fire"[[/labelnote]]. |
| 819 | ** And they're not nearly as bad as Osakabe-hime, to the point where Beni-enma thinks that to teach her how to cook, she needs to be reincarnated. |
| 820 | ** Suzuka, meanwhile, earns a stealth compliment from Beni-enma; her cooking may be crude, and she has no talent whatsoever for proper presentation, but it ''is'' nourishing and satisfying ([[YouNeedToGetLaid she also needs to find herself a husband]]). |
| 821 | * Magistrate Tiger first appears while screaming about his craving for human flesh... specifically, human ''[[PickyPeopleEater toes]]''. Even more specifically, ''right'' toes, from a left-handed person. |
| 822 | * The "Artist's Rendering" of the stingy hag Datsue-ba is a silhouette of Ishtar. |
| 823 | * The first guest of Enma-tei is Sasaki Kojirou. Beni-enma mocks him and his Tsubame Gaeshi, but upon learning what exactly the sword technique is and what it could do on swallows and possibly other birds, say sparrows, she declares him a freak. |
| 824 | * The second guests of Enma-tei are Marie Antoinette, who snuck out of her clique of French Servants, and Anastasia, who is disappointed that the inn doesn't have any geishas and wanted to get drunk while watching them. Upon getting their guest rooms, a demonic monkey attacks and hurls a mudball at Anastasia's face. The annoyed Anastasia then recalls the days she put rocks in snowballs during snowball fights when she was alive, picks up the mudball, fills it with a gemstone, then throws it back to the monkey so hard it's sent flying. The battle after that scene has everyone driving away the other monkeys with Anastasia throwing stones at them mercilessly, which is reflected in-battle as a sudden drop of the monkeys' HP to 1 per turn. |
| 825 | * Heroine XX attacks the inn because she wanted to stay, but got turned away and is now taking her anger out on the establishment. Before the battle, Kiyohime is excited to show off her skills to her Master. Afterward, she's deeply disgruntled that the opponent turned out to be a [[TacticalRockPaperScissors Foreigner]]. |
| 826 | * Jing Ke brought her drinking buddies (Beowulf, Napoleon, Moriarty, Anne & Mary, Tristan, Lu Bu, and Yagyu Tajima-no-kami) along for a party. |
| 827 | ** Anne already drank a barrel of rum before arriving and not-so-subtly makes it clear she wants to have a threesome with Mary and the protagonist later. |
| 828 | ** Mash rushes to nip Moriarty's effort to recruit Anne and Mary in the bud. |
| 829 | --->'''Mash:''' Moriarty! No enticing others to commit crimes after plying them with drinks. \ |
| 830 | '''Moriarty:''' Bollocks! |
| 831 | ** Jing Ke while drunk tries to stab Beowulf and Napoleon because her instincts are riling up. Then she hugs the protagonist so hard they go purple, then gives them a forcible LapPillow. Anne & Mary are pissed because they wanted to do it. |
| 832 | ** Tristan gets called on to play a song, and when he gets ready to Jing Ke shouts about how she wants to hear some rock and roll. Moriarty, Anne & Mary all want to hear Elizabeth's "Love is Dracul", and when Tristan is left aghast Jing Ke suddenly starts singing it herself (and does it perfectly) to the point Tristan starts playing with it because he can't let his pride go bescrimched from being shown up. |
| 833 | ** Once Jing Ke starts singing, Moriarty pulls out a camera to film it, saying "One can never have too much blackmail material." |
| 834 | ** Lu Bu is just sitting quietly and calmly asking for his drinks. |
| 835 | ** The party fights a bunch of demonic monkeys that were attracted by the singing. |
| 836 | * The GUDAGUDA gang and [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg Heroine X]] visit Enma-tei and rent a guest room. There, they have some pillow fights and all is well... until Nobunaga brings a ''gun'' to the pillow fight. They start CallingYourAttacks and transforming (and Okita whining about her lack of swimsuit) and it's all downhill from there. Once the room is reduced to a blasted wasteland, they're punished with the job of cleaning the hot springs. Ryouma then notices Izo is missing, and it turns out he and Oryou each thought the other one had invited him. Cue Izo, left alone at the Wandering Sea base, screaming in rage.[[note]]Don't worry, the narrator assures us that Oryou went back for him and he had fun too![[/note]] |
| 837 | * Consort Yu visits the inn to relax. While she's being massaged, she complains that not even Enma-tei's masseurs can do anything about her stiff back, [[TemptingFate and asks if there's a stronger one]]. Fionn responds by bringing in Old Li Shuwen, who's temporarily working as a security guard there. [[OhCrap She freaks out, knowing all too well what kind of damage he can inflict]], and tries to run away, but a sparrow somehow holds her down and she eventually gives in to Li Shuwen's massage[[note]]which takes the form of [[MundaneMadeAwesome a trial quest for Li Shuwen's Servant unit]][[/note]], to the point that she makes a [[DoubleEntendre noise that only Xiang Yu had and should ever hear]]. |
| 838 | * Two certain quests can only be entered by male Servants on one and females on the other. Unlike in previous events that allow Astolfo to enter any gender-specific quests, he can only enter the male-only one in this event. Unsurprisingly, d'Eon, [[NoBiologicalSex Enkidu and Qin Shi Huang]] can enter both quests. |
| 839 | * Tomoe decides to get one of the five treasures by summoning a Shadow Servant of Kiyohime to fight and loot. She baits one in by building a bell tower and having a monk and a beautiful woman hang out in it. Unfortunately, this Kiyohime starts going around abducting other snake-themed Servants by [[SwallowedWhole swallowing them in her dragon form]] and almost gets the original Kiyohime tried and punished by Beni-Enma. |
| 840 | * Arjuna insists he's only visiting the inn as "[[MemeticMutation a man of culture]]," to ensure that the elements drawn from the Indian afterlife are being properly represented. He then seizes on the prospect of an endurance contest with Karna in the hot springs. |
| 841 | * Tamamo-no-Mae claims that she detached herself from her other aspects for the sake of world peace. Tamamo Cat retorts that she cut off her tails in a bid to lose weight fast. |
| 842 | * The "Hell's Kitchen" episode. Mash, Helena, Anne and Mary, Gorgon and Tristan sign up for Beni-enma's cooking class, unaware of the hell they just signed up for. A translation is [[https://www.reddit.com/r/grandorder/comments/adc1m8/new_years_2019_event_hells_kitchen/ here.]] Stand-out examples include: |
| 843 | ** Tristan actually came to the class ''by accident'' in the first place but decided to stay so that he can be the best cook among the Knights of the Round Table. |
| 844 | ** After the unfortunate Servants land on Hell Island, Gorgon asks Mash how long she's going to use her tail as a cushion. |
| 845 | ** Helena complaining that all she wanted was to simply know how to cook plain omelette and eggs, not fight on a deserted island. This is a reference to her real-life counterpart, who was indeed [[ShelteredAristocrat so ignorant about cooking]] that in an infamous incident she once tried to cook eggs by putting them directly over hot coals. |
| 846 | ** When it's all over, only Mash is the sole survivor of the class and she's in a daze rambling about kitchen terminology. The kicker? Beni-enma congratulates her for completing the '''beginner''' level and there are 8 levels of difficulty of her class. Tamamo tells Mash to rein herself in from signing up for higher difficulties as even she could only clear up to level 5 before having to run away with her tail between her legs. |
| 847 | * Elisa J puts on a performance at the inn, to the delight of her sparrow fans, who even have fun being blown around the room by the power of her voice. |
| 848 | * In their final encounter with Nue, every Servant present changes to their final Ascension forms for the battle... except Tamamo who instead changes to her summer Lancer form instead, ruining the serious mood for a while. |
| 849 | |
| 850 | [[AC:Valentine 2019 Voice & Letter Collection]] |
| 851 | * In a CallBack, the Cursed Book that ends up with Tamamo Cat is a cookbook with instructions so effective that it can even teach ''Osakabehime.'' The Cat herself has some things to say about about Murasaki Shikibu's figure. |
| 852 | * When [[MissionControl Semiramis]] notes that the Cursed Books haven't gone for obvious magical energy sources like the Holy Grail storage, Amakusa butts in and tries to find out where the Grails are kept. |
| 853 | -->'''Semiramis:''' [[GetOut Go away.]] |
| 854 | * Despite learning the Japanese conventions for chocolate-gifting from other Servants, Anastasia asks you to give ''her'' chocolate, and is utterly flummoxed when you actually do so. In return, she gives you a Viy doll, like the one she's always holding. Heartwarming... until she informs you that it contains some of her magical energy, and giggles in the face of you remembering her reputation as ThePrankster. Later that night, Viy gets into a fight with Mini Cu-chan, and the two proceed to wreck the protagonist's room in the process. The protagonist wakes up to a huge mess and a very smug Anastasia noting that the two dolls seem to have become friends. |
| 855 | * Swimsuit Jeanne Alter once again tries to give you a chocolate that you'll hate, first by numbing your tongue with nine cups of coffee so you can't taste it, then by claiming it was something she bought for 10 QP, [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial totally not handmade at all]]. It works about as well as her last attempt. The chocolate is broken into pieces and it appears that it was heart-shaped before she broke it upon realizing it. |
| 856 | * Miyu gives you three chocolates: Obligation Chocolate (which the protagonist is visibly disappointed at), Friend Chocolate (which Chloe extorted her for), and True Feelings Chocolate (meant for Illya, but she rejected it because it was too fattening). |
| 857 | * Atalante Alter gives chocolate in a very high-strung way, complete with sound effects as she nearly breaks your door, runs away, screeches to a halt, and comes back. |
| 858 | * Consort Yu once again gets annoyed by how unafraid of her you are. Given what [[EldritchAbomination Summer BB]]'s [[NightmareFuel Valentine's scene]] is like, it's morbidly funny how Yu thinks she's one of the scariest things in Chaldea. |
| 859 | * On that note, Summer BB's scene at least starts out humorously. The protagonist wakes up in their room, a few seconds before they hear the telltale phrase of incoming trouble: "[[IncomingHam BB]] [[{{Engrish}} CHANERU!]]" And then the hacking screen appears. Their immediate reaction: [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere RUN]]. Summer BB is waiting for them in the hall and chastises them for ruining a perfectly good forced summoning. |
| 860 | * Red Hare informs you that you shouldn't give horses chocolate, since they can't break down caffeine. He then gets affronted when the chocolate you give him turns out to be decaffeinated, because it's not like he's a horse or anything. |
| 861 | * Okita Alter gives you oden chocolate, as in, oden garnished with melted chocolate. Tastes surprisingly good, all things considered. |
| 862 | * When the protagonist gives Sakamoto his chocolate, at first Oryou looks like [[ClingyJealousGirl she's jealous and is about to pound them into paste]]...[[BaitAndSwitch only for her to complain about not getting chocolate.]] Which the protagonist was going to give to her anyway, much to her delight. |
| 863 | ** Before that, the Protagonist finds the pair inside the tearoom, with Oryou claiming to have torn the room down and repurposed it as a limited revival of her [=GudaGuda=] 3 shop, expressing the desire to become rich and hire "a beautiful and competent secretary" once "Oryou-san and co. Corp" turn big. |
| 864 | * Asagami gives you a mini chocolate shaped like a bridge. Her thought process while making it was that maybe you'd like to feel like a kaiju while eating it. |
| 865 | * Qin Shi Huang gives you an elixir of immortality. It crosses into BlackComedy when he remarks that it was never tested and he's not sure it will even work, having achieved immortality a different way and noting that it might just poison you like mercury, before deciding it will be fine as long as you have Mash's protection. |
| 866 | * As Qin Liangyu is about to give her chocolate, Mata Hari watches from afar to see if Liangyu would confess her feelings. After she's given it to the protagonist, she meets the disappointed Mata Hari who thinks Liangyu wasted her chance to pin down the protagonist on bed. She keeps denying having ulterior motives as Mata Hari leaves. |
| 867 | * The return gift from Achilles is his horse Xanthos. Achilles claims that he can talk....only for Xanthos to start neighing, and not say a single word to {{Troll}} the heck out of him. And ''you'' join in the trolling when you express doubt that he can talk without mentioning that [[CallBack you already heard him do it in the Apocrypha event]]. |
| 868 | * Beni-Enma rescues you from a nightmare about Blackbeard's vendetta against Valentine's Day, takes you to her inn for snacks, and complains about Dantes falling down on the job. |
| 869 | -->'''Beni-Enma:''' Some help that Avenger guarding you is, telling you to just wait and hope. |
| 870 | ** Blackbeard's speech during the nightmare is also worth a mention. It starts with an unsettling background and music, with Blackbeard's voice deep and unlabeled, giving the impression it is from some ultimate evil. But as he goes on, he becomes increasingly higher pitched, eventually coming across as a raving lunatic, while the protagonist simply suffers mounting frustration because the pirate doesn't know how to shut up. |
| 871 | * Avicebron receives his chocolate calmly enough, then bursts into your room at the end of the day claiming an emergency because he just realized it was ''Valentine's'' chocolate. His return gift is miniature chocolate golems, which the protagonist can declare they'll cuddle. The scene ends in going off to the library to watch robot videos and eat chocolate together. The Craft Essence reveals that the golems are actually inedible, which doesn't stop Ibaraki from biting them. |
| 872 | |
| 873 | [[AC:The Old Spider Weaves Its Web]] |
| 874 | * Moriarty putting on a Holmes disguise just to tell the protagonist "[[BorrowedCatchphrase The time is not yet right!"]] to reveal what he knows about the case. |
| 875 | * There's apparently an entire ranking (compiled by Da Vinci) of [[IAlwaysWantedToSayThat Lines All Servants Wanted To Say At Least Once]]. #2 apparently involves wyverns, while #3 is Holmes' line above. |
| 876 | * Following the ending, the protagonist returns to their room to find it's been redecorated as the bar they served at by Moriarty. Upon remarking that it's been redecorated without their permission [[OhNoNotAgain again]], Moriarty is suprised that [[HolidayMode this is apparently a common occurence]]. |
| 877 | ** Moriarty wants to celebrate by giving the Protagonist their very first real drink, only for Holmes to point out that the "drink" in question is just a mocktail with zero alcohol in it. The Protagonist [[FakeHigh ends up tipsy anyway]], due to Moriarty accidentally doing too good of a job setting the atmosphere in the bar for the deception with the drink. Moriarty [[NotMeThisTime frantically denies any reponsibility for this]] while Alexander cheerfully suggests stringing him up. |
| 878 | * The epilogue's excuse for how you get a Holy Grail out of this mess, despite it being far too minor to normally produce one, is that the protagonist is served a drink in one out of nowhere. |
| 879 | -->'''Protagonist:''' The hell!?/Where'd this Holy Grail pop up from!? What's going on here, barkeep!? |
| 880 | -->'''Bartender:''' Courtesy of that customer over there. |
| 881 | -->'''[[{{Myth/Merlin}} That Customer Over There]]:''' [[TheGadfly Mmm, I loved that reaction of yours]]! It's so nice to be able to take video so easily these days! |
| 882 | ** Merlin then explains that he enjoyed Moriarty's story so much he decided to make a Holy Grail to thank you for the chance to watch it, and if it's really too much to [[BreakingTheFourthWall just use it on him]], while Fou gripes that the wizard is still alive. |
| 883 | ** The bartender offers you ''Black Beast Grease'' as a drink. One of your dialogue options is that you already have too many of them. |
| 884 | |
| 885 | [[AC:Lady Reines' Case Files]] |
| 886 | * One of the first scenes (bordering on SignatureScene) is '''the death of Waver'''. It doesn't stick, but it seems that the staff [[AscendedMeme made the joke]] "[[{{Workaholic}} karoshi]]" [[AscendedMeme official]]. |
| 887 | * Kiritsugu objects to Luvia calling him Kerry. Meanwhile, the tag on his dialogue box has also changed to Kerry. |
| 888 | * The reminiscence quests are recreations of events from the game, but altered due to distortions in the protagonist's memories. The changes vary from making a degree of sense, to outright ridiculous. |
| 889 | ** Black Quetzal Mask is joined by a Referee Chicken. |
| 890 | ** The climatic Jeanne Alter fight has her wyverns replaced with Luluhawan [[GiantMook wyverns]], and Gilles (Bluebeard) with ''Blackbeard''. |
| 891 | ** The climatic Altera fight has two phases whereupon triggering her Break Bar she turns into ''Attlia the San(ta)''. |
| 892 | * One of the memorial quests brings you back to Camelot fighting against [[TheDreaded Gawain]]......Until everyone finds out ''it's in the night'', meaning Gawain's blessings are useless. He even feels frustrated about the fact. |
| 893 | * Your opponents for the reminiscence fight of the Third Singularity are Heracles and Medea... the adult version. After the fight, Jason freaks out (as usual) about having the "wrong" Medea here and blames her for Heracles losing while the three of them are fading away. This results in a bickering argument that ends with Medea ''blasting Jason with her magic'' before he can vanish on his own. |
| 894 | * Before the rematch against Barbatos (and the subsequent pillar-hunting), Reines tried to find its weakness, which is ''you''. The gem goes to this line: |
| 895 | -->'''Reines:''' There has never been anyone else in human history who has slain as many Pillars as you. [[BreakingTheFourthWall You're easily the world record holder.]] |
| 896 | ** Seeing the pillars going down ''even faster'' than back in Solomon[[note]]Almost two-thirds are killed in just six hours[[/note]], the staff boosted its base number from 20 million to 50 million. The reason? "[[https://twitter.com/fgoproject/status/1124328465228951552 Its magical power increased from grief]]". |
| 897 | ** And when the raid battle ended[[note]]setting a record-high raid speed of 619 pillars per second in the process[[/note]], the game server crashed, ''[[HistoryRepeats exactly like what happened back in Solomon]]''. |
| 898 | |
| 899 | [[AC:A Meihousou Most Foul]] |
| 900 | * When Murasaki faints and it's believed she's been poisoned, Bartholomew is the first suspect, having served the drinks. He is quick to say that they were already prepared beforehand, and he would have had no time to tamper with them. The question then becomes, who prepared the drinks? The answer... |
| 901 | -->'''[[CardCarryingVillain Moriarty]]''': I did... |
| 902 | ** While everyone else is quick to simply accept that Moriarty is guilty, ''Holmes'' of all people comes to his rescue, revealing that Murasaki had fainted due to medication provided by Paracelsus. Whom he just happened to be visiting, because, uh... |
| 903 | --->'''[[FunctionalAddict Holmes]]''': On second thought, never mind what I was doing. |
| 904 | ** Jeanne Alter actually saying "No shit, Sherlock." ''To Sherlock Holmes himself.'' |
| 905 | * With Murasaki down for the count, Roman starts wondering about who could replace her as writer/director. His first thought isn't met with a favorable response. |
| 906 | -->'''Romani''': Wait, I've got it! We've still got options! After all, Chaldea's also got not just one, but two other extraordinary writers among our ranks! |
| 907 | -->'''Andersen''': Absolutely not. |
| 908 | -->'''Shakespeare''': Nary a line shall I write! |
| 909 | -->'''Romani''': But I didn't even ask you yet! |
| 910 | * As Bartholomew Roberts refers to Mash as "the lady with beautiful bangs", the protagonist's response is that there is more to Mash than her bangs. The pirate then decides to refer to Mash as "the beautiful lady with hidden eyes" before he disappears. Mash then responds with this gem. |
| 911 | --> '''Mash''': What is your obsession with my eyes being hidden, anyway? |
| 912 | * Tristan's detective character is dubbed both [[MysteryMagnet Isidoro the Reaper]] and [[{{Sleepyhead}} Isidoro the Sleeper]]. |
| 913 | * Poor Tristan gets treated as the ButtMonkey in this event. |
| 914 | ** Tristan was excited to play a detective, but he then realized he didn't know where to begin in playing one. Because of this, he needs to ask Holmes on how a detective should...detect. |
| 915 | ** Tristan came up with an ending that he was sure that nobody could top....only for Jeanne Alter to have the same exact idea for the ending (a.k.a. the protagonist being the culprit). As a result, Tristan becomes very nervous when it is his turn, and he has to quickly think of another ending to do in order to not be accused of ripping Jeanne Alter's idea off. |
| 916 | ** When it is his turn, and he admits he's at a complete loss -lamenting how he should have been planting seeds that could have developed into something usable in-story much earlier- Jeanne Alter, Ryouma and Salieri each comment how his character was almost entirely pointless, and they can't figure any reason for his presence. The kicker? Each of their comments is accompanied by the "stabbing" sound effect playing to reflect the metaphorical stabbing in Tristan's heart. |
| 917 | -->'''Tristan''': Your words cut deeper than any blade! |
| 918 | |
| 919 | [[AC:GUDAGUDA Final Honnouji]] |
| 920 | * The mere idea of ''six'' Nobunagas fighting each other is one of the funniest things about this event. And things only get wackier from there. |
| 921 | * The newest variations of the Nobu enemies are the Kabuki Nobu and Kabuki Nobu Max, but they look like more of a ''disco-dancer'' Nobu, complete with an oversized pompadour which they throw for their critical attack, a mic stand that doubles as a spear, and constantly striking the StayingAliveDancePose. Unsurprisingly, they're Summer Nobunaga's minions, who also double as her dancers and party goers for the concerts. |
| 922 | * One of the "Oda Nobunagas" encountered, who is working with Nobukatsu, is ''nearly identical'' to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oda_Nobunaga#/media/File:Odanobunaga.jpg real-life 16th-century portrait of himself]], with his face censored for legal reasons. It doesn't help that he is called "The Real-Deal Nobunaga", giving our Nobu a bit of an identity crisis. |
| 923 | -->'''Real-Deal Nobunaga:''' Why would you ever think I was a woman?\ |
| 924 | '''Kagetora:''' Th-that's a good point! The idea that Nobunaga was a woman [[SelfDeprecation is so absurd]] that I never stopped to think about it! [...]\ |
| 925 | '''Nobbu:''' [[HypocriticalHumor You're the last one I want to hear that from!]] |
| 926 | * Before invading the Big Nobu territory, Mash presents a primer on the Mini Nobus, including diagram. Kagetora admits at the end that she is still clueless about what the Mini Nobus are, even after listening to Da Vinci's notes on the subject: |
| 927 | -->'''Beautiful Famous Genius Artist''': Let's just file them under 'Mysterious Life-forms' and call it a day. I don't really want to think about them too much, and besides, I'm tired enough as it is. |
| 928 | * After conquering the Big Nobu territory, it's revealed the Mini Nobus were mobilized for a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Mini Nobu Ninja Army]]. They actually do good work too, given [[BeneathNotice nobody would expect a Mini Nobu to be doing reconnaissance]]. |
| 929 | * The writers had a lot of fun giving characters names for specific situations. Chaldea Nobbu, when she was offering the protagonist [[PleaseIWillDoAnything anything they want]] for their help, is called 'Rock 'n' Hard Place Nobbu (lol)', Da Vinci is called [[InsufferableGenius Beautiful Famous Genius Artist]], and the brainwashed Okita is always referred to as [[CapsLock OKITA SOUJI]]. |
| 930 | * The side quest to recruit EMIYA involves fighting the Emiya family, who play members of the Sanada clan, plus Chloe and Miyu as two members of the Sanada Ten (the clan's elite guard). Everyone plays their role to the hilt despite knowing how ridiculous the entire situation is, except for Illya...who has no idea what is going on and sticks out like a sore thumb in her magical girl garb, and keeps forgetting she's supposed to be the elder sibling now. |
| 931 | * Chaldea Nobbu complains about everything involving Kaiser Nobunaga, from the name ("I can't tell if it's so good it's bad, or so bad it's good") to how [[AnachronismStew unreasonably advanced]] the Imperial Capital is. She is careful to carve out one exception to all this - she absolutely appreciates bidets, and encourages Kagetora to try one before they leave. This becomes a BrickJoke by the epilogue, as Kagetora does in fact experience a bidet in Chaldea... and screams about how it shot water at her butt and that it must be some sort of lavatory demon. |
| 932 | * Okita (at different points) keeps whining about not getting a summer version and demands one for the next summer event. This gets HilariousInHindsight because come the 2019 Summer Event, Okita ''[[ThrowTheDogABone finally]]'' [[ThrowTheDogABone got her swimsuit (but as a late reveal).]] |
| 933 | ** Okita was summoned by Kaiser Nobunaga with the help of Maxwell's Demon, and he boasted that unlike Mori Nagayoshi, she had 'reliable control'. She constantly spews complaints about the state of Nobunaga having 5 Stars and how she (at that time) doesn't have a swimsuit. |
| 934 | --->'''Kaiser Nobunaga''': "Reliable control" my ass! |
| 935 | * As Chaldea debates on who should be sent into the Singularity to help the protagonist, Ryouma volunteers himself and Izo to go in. Izo originally wants no part of it, and Oryou ''agrees''...because she thinks he's a weakling and they can get someone stronger, like that "lady eating udon in the cafeteria"[[note]]all but stated to be Musashi.[[/note]] And then Okita Alter jumps in to help, which finally goads Izo into coming along, only to realize he got suckered into it too late to back out. |
| 936 | -->'''Izo''': What was that, Oryou!? You saying I'm weaker than the udon lady!?\ |
| 937 | '''Oryou''': [[BluntYes Uh, yeah.]] Have you not seen the scary guy with four swords she summons? Besides, you know those shiny light thingies? [[SwordBeam Laser beams or something like that]]... You can't fire them from your sword. Most of the other Sabers can fire them from their swords. Not you, though.\ |
| 938 | '''Izo''': Don't be stupid! Swords aren't SUPPOSED to shoot freakin' laser beams!\ |
| 939 | '''Okita Alter''': In that case, I will go with you instead. Worry not. I can indeed fire lasers from my sword. You may be strong, Izo, but if you can't fire lasers, you probably won't be much help here.\ |
| 940 | '''Izo''': What would you know!? I don't need lasers to cut my opponents in half! |
| 941 | ** [[HilariousInHindsight Izo is in the Assassin Class]] so him [[LampshadeHanging shooting lasers from his sword seems unlikely to begin with]]. |
| 942 | * Nobukatsu initially refuses to believe the class-changed Chaldea Nobbu is the real one because of her new portrait. |
| 943 | -->'''Nobukatsu:''' You don't look anything like Sister. She's more, um... forward-facing? |
| 944 | * Offscreen, Ryouma and Oryou form a trading company and undercut Demon King Nobunaga's army by buying up all the rice in the province. |
| 945 | * When the player attacks an enemy node, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vWEsgBbKeI Mash sometimes lets out her battlecry, or even imitates the sound of a conch shell horn.]]. It appears that she's now caught the usual GUDAGUDA crazy antics after having more passive roles in the past two GUDAGUDA events. |
| 946 | --> '''Mash''': BOOOOUUUU!!!! ADVANCE!!! |
| 947 | ** On victory, she shouts Kagetora's signature warcry "Ei! Ei! Oh!". |
| 948 | * In the epilogue, Okita Alter (who missed the entire main story because she took a nap and was eventually forgotten in the simulation) has become a "Great Demon King" commanding most of the Alter Servants (except Saber Alter, Mysterious Heroine X Alter and Arjuna Alter), [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg as well as Ushiwakamaru, who passed as an Alter by painting herself black, and Nero,]] who's going on an "Alter test run" and laments that there's no budget for a palette swap. |
| 949 | ** The Servants who partook in the main plot are reluctant (except Mori, who's happy to go wherever his Master goes). Sion more or less ''yeets them into the box''. |
| 950 | ** Jeanne Alter is summoned in her swimsuit form, along with Santa Lily and a certain whale-riding idiot, much to her chagrin. |
| 951 | *** She's also pretty pissed about being summoned at all as she has a manga deadline. She's somewhat mollified about becoming Date Masamune's stand in because she finds his One-Eyed Dragon of Oshu shtick really cool. When Kagetora tries to sell her on a certain Dragon of Echigo, Jeanne Alter -- [[{{Chuunibyou}} of all people]] -- [[HypocriticalHumor dismisses her as a try-hard.]] |
| 952 | ** Ushiwakamaru declares a Taira vs. Genji rematch so she can restore the Kamakura Shogunate. The Oda and Nagao clans are descended from the Taira so Nobbu and Kagetora declare their allegiances that way, but Nagayoshi notes that the Mori clan were Seiwa Genji and just casually joins the other side. |
| 953 | ---> '''Nobbu:''' I can't believe my Taira clan attribute backfired on me like this... |
| 954 | ** In the encounter with Altria Lancer Alter, the Camelot Knights show up as the Houjou Five-Colored Britain [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Five]] (although Tristan and Mordred overlap as the Red Ranger). In the same scene, Kagetora envies Altria being able to ride her horse all the time. |
| 955 | --->'''Protagonist''': [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall Don't you call a horse for your Noble Phantasm?]] |
| 956 | --->'''Kagetora''': [[IgnoringBySinging La la la la laaa!]] [[ICantHearYou I can't heaaar yooou!]] |
| 957 | ** Atalante Alter founds a "Furry Park" in Kai for children and animals only. The group proceeds to discuss whether they can pass as children and/or animals, which Atalante doesn't take well. |
| 958 | --->'''Atalante Alter:''' I will ensure this is a peaceful, family-friendly haven, even if I have to kill you all to do it! |
| 959 | ** The final battle against Okita Alter reveals that for the entire epilogue, she was actually asleep, and her sword Rengokuken was controlling her, all so Okita Alter could get some decent sleep. Kagetora and Nobunaga are understandably annoyed. |
| 960 | ** When the GUDAGUDA gang finally gets back to Chaldea, Nobunaga comments on how a box caused so much trouble, which leads to Kagetora [[TemptingFate hoping she never has to go back into the box again.]] Cue Mash's entrance |
| 961 | ---> '''Mash:''' [[HereWeGoAgain C-Come quick! Now Mori got left behind in the box and spawned a Singularity full of nothing but Berserkers!]] |
| 962 | ---> '''Nobbu:''' [[WeAreNotGoingThroughThatAgain Mwahahahaha! Nope, that's it! We're done here!]] |
| 963 | |
| 964 | [[AC:Lord's Las Vegas Seven Swimsuit Swordsmen Tournament]] |
| 965 | * Upon showing up in her swimsuit wear, Hokusai mistakes the hologram projections of Holmes and Da Vinci as spirits and thinks the two are father and daughter. Da Vinci jokingly calls Holmes "Daddy Holmes", much to the detective's chagrin. |
| 966 | * Tajima-no-kami provides the initial {{Infodump}} on the Seven Swimsuit Swordmasters. When he's done, the protagonist's reaction is asking if he's not making this all up as a joke. |
| 967 | * When Siegfried first shows up in his swimsuit, Hokusai asks "[[MrFanservice Who ordered the tall drink of water?]]" |
| 968 | * Goredolf, under no uncertain terms and new to the madness that is Chaldea's summers, immediately points out the ridiculousness that is the premise of this event and wonders if the master is either joking or needs their head checked by professionals. Da Vinci reassures him it is just fine, and seeing how everyone else just goes along with the summer-madness, it makes him question if ''he'' is the "weird" one in the room instead. |
| 969 | * When the Chaldea team arrive in Las Vegas, they are attacked by a "Grand Canyon Condor". The funny part is in the actual battle, the player battles a ''chicken'', which is pointed out in the story after it. |
| 970 | * The reason Swimsuit Lion King is dressed up as a bunny girl? Gawain and Lancelot tricked her into wearing it. |
| 971 | * Siegfried gets really into his new glasses, making Goredolf comment on whether Servants actually need them. Da Vinci suggests it's something about how they look, as well as having a positive effect on their INT stat. Goredolf accepts that explanation... before wondering when they started measuring intelligence as a stat. |
| 972 | * When Merlin first appears, he introduces himself as Mister Mystery, but Fou recognizes him immediately. |
| 973 | --> '''Fou''' Fou! Kill foooooou! (Special Translation: I smell scum! Bite it to death!) |
| 974 | ** When Merlin leaves, Fou is rather disappointed. |
| 975 | ---> '''Fou''' Fouuuu... (Special Translation: Dammit, I should've offed him before he got away...) |
| 976 | * Gilgamesh's returned and is now managing the Gildalay Gold hotel in Las Vegas, with the Prince of Lan Ling as his new secretary after he fired the Queen of Sheba for her gambling addiction. The prince, though, is overly dedicated to his job, so much so that he ignores his boss just to answer phone calls even in the middle of their encounter with the protagonist's gang. In-game, he stuns himself for two turns to answer the phone. |
| 977 | * Osakabe-hime is in the middle of one of her battle royales, talking to herself while making loads of perverted, crazy facial expressions, completely ignorant of Kiyohime sneaking up behind her. |
| 978 | * The protagonist's group exploit Anne and Mary's attraction to them (and how their summer variant cranks it up to eleven) by using them as bait to lure the duo away from the rest of their team. It works flawlessly. |
| 979 | * During the intro of Hokusai's Swimsuit Swordsman duel against Osakabe-hime, Merlin gives the latter the title "Blank Manuscript Osakabe-hime". |
| 980 | -->'''Osakabe-hime''': Wait, wait, wait... I'll get it done on time. On time, please! |
| 981 | * After being pushed to the pinch, Osakabe-hime cheats by manifesting the three stacked castles from her debut Halloween event along with a giant Mecha Eli-chan Mk.2, and elevates herself so the protagonist's gang won't be able to reach her. However she is shot down and defeated by Hokusai, who's launched by Helena and Musashi against her will, as well as being empowered by a Command Seal. After that, Osakabe-hime lies about her manuscript progress, ''in front of Kiyohime''. Realizing that, she makes an OhCrap face, and cue bell sounds. After the protagonist worries about Osakabehime's safety, Kiyohime mentions that as long as she doesn't break out the naginata, the bell itself is decently comfortable - it even has AC. |
| 982 | * Blackbeard warns the party to watch out for other Swimsuit Swordsmen as the defeated Osakabe-hime is the weakest of them. It is followed by a roll of thunder that turns out to be made by Ivan the Terrible, who got dragged here by Teach for this exact moment. Even better, Teach admits that he just brought it up as a joke and didn't expect Ivan [[NotSoAboveItAll to actually agree]]. |
| 983 | * To fit her new Phantom Thief persona, Carmilla of course has a collection of calling cards... which she throws around at any and all opportunities, even just in otherwise casual conversation. She pointedly ignores anyone who lampshades this. |
| 984 | -->'''Yu Mei-ren''': ...was the card-throwing necessary? |
| 985 | * To bypass the traps in Pharaoh Casino, Carmilla breaks out her secret weapon, ''Medjed sheets'' (commissioned on short notice from Vlad, who delivers a lecture on unreasonable turnaround times along with the sheets), which're worn by her, Mash and everyone else to get through the traps and steal the Eye of Medjed. After they get near it, they confront Cleopatra who guards the eye. Carmilla's solution? Have Scathach challenge Cleopatra to a game of "Who is more beautiful?", which she reluctantly accepts when Scathach tricks her by implying that Caesar might be watching. The game eventually becomes so intense people start to gather around with the Queen of Sheba appearing out of nowhere to collect bets. |
| 986 | * After finding out that the Eye of Medjed has been stolen, Nitocris wrathfully summons Ivan, Darius and Ganesha to beat up the protagonist's gang. When asked why she summoned the elephant Servants, she states that she had gotten sick of sphinxes. |
| 987 | * After the theft incident and defeating the second Swimsuit Swordsman, Carmilla offers a ride to the protagonist and Mash to go around Las Vegas. During the trip, she runs over Elisabeth, who is crossing the street, and acts like nothing happened. This happens again two more times, this time with Halloween Elisabeth and JAPAN Elisabeth. But the fourth time, Brave Elisabeth dodges the car, which makes Carmilla furious. She brags about her bikini and mocks Elisabeth's ChainmailBikini, insisting that the former is a swimsuit and the latter is not. At the heat of their fight, Heroine XX shows up, appearing as if she'll stop them, but she's actually come to arrest both, Carmilla for overspeeding, and Elisabeth for flailing a weapon around. |
| 988 | * Planning how to challenge the third Swimsuit Swordsman, the party is seemingly at an impasse with no way to purchase tickets to access her casino. It just so happens that ''Emperor Nero'' overheard the discussion, and decides to force her way into the group to help. By breaking straight through the wall between their hotel suites. |
| 989 | -->'''Nero:''' So then I thought about calling on the fox-girl Caster and inviting her to accompany me to the Grand Canyon... when I happened to sense a most entertaining topic being discussed in the room next to mine, and decided to join the festivities [[ThereWasADoor without wasting any time knocking.]] |
| 990 | * In order to prevent Hokusai from challenging the third Swimsuit Swordsman, Lambdaryllis, Mysterious Alter Ego P abducts Carmilla, Osakabe-hime and Kotarou, and holds them as hostages. The first two are caught off-guard as they are no longer Assassins to foil P's Presence Concealment, while the latter is captured after he gets distracted by her huge... claws. When the protagonist finally reaches P to save the three, Napoleon and Hijikata come out of nowhere seemingly drawn in by P's gigantic boobs. |
| 991 | * In the battle against Columbus and Kingprotea, Columbus being a {{Determinator}} has permanent guts, and everytime he is killed, his guts trigger and he laughs maniacally. However, it doesn't stay long as Kingprotea gets annoyed with his laughing and squashes him flat (in gameplay, she removes his permanent guts). |
| 992 | * Kotaro is initially under the impression that by defeating Columbus, Kingprotea will stop fighting them because she seems to be the innocent type who doesn't like conflict and has to be forced into it. Instead, Kingprotea just yawns and happily carries on trying to squish them, with Kotaro incredulous that he misread a fellow bangs-wearing Servant. |
| 993 | * The P. A. System at Suiten Palace turns out to be both public address and personal assistant. |
| 994 | -->'''P. A. System:''' Say "Hey [[BlandNameProduct Seerie]], tell me the bad news," please. \ |
| 995 | '''Lambdaryllis:''' ... tell me the bad news.\ |
| 996 | '''Seerie:''' The how and why are still unclear, but all of the guests gathered at the rink have left. You currently possess exactly bupkes.\ |
| 997 | '''Lambdaryllis:''' Hey Seerie, go to hell! |
| 998 | ** The how and why: the audience fled the rink to escape [[HollywoodToneDeaf Nero's]] [[DreadfulMusician singing]]. |
| 999 | * Upon defeating Lambdaryllis, Ritsuka thanks Passionlip for her assistance. Lip happily tells them that it was her pleasure to help, [[TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry since she got to wreck Melt's plans AND prove that she was a better Alter Ego than Kingprotea]]. |
| 1000 | * After defeating Lambdaryllis, the party goes to Rakuichi Rakuza, a casino started by Casino Demon King Nobunaga, where they're told by a ruffian that Nobunaga plans to revolt against the Summer Lion King (that's what the ruffian believes; in reality she wants to steal the Summer Lion King's yacht) with her Swimsuit Daimyo: Izo, Oryou, Sakamoto, Okita Alter, Chacha, Kagetora, and Nagayoshi. But it's the ruffian's descriptions of Izo, Okita Alter, and Chacha that take the cake, with the ruffian calling Izo "Debt Man Walking" Izo for racking up so much gambling debt, and saying Chacha just showed up because she was bored and wanted to try deep-fried butter while Okita Alter likes to put off her Counter Force assignments until the last day of summer vacation. |
| 1001 | * The party, not wanting to face the Swimsuit Daimyo one at a time, split up to take them out while Ritsuka and Hokusai confront the Casino Demon King, only to find out that Summer Okita beat all of them up offscreen. An awesome moment for Summer Okita, but it's also amusing that Oryou was taken out while eating a frog frappe, Kagetora was jumped on the way to the bathroom, and Okita Alter... wasn't attacked at all because she had left to buy deep-fried butter. |
| 1002 | ** In the midst of this, Nobukatsu asks Demon King Nobunaga why the GUDAGUDA gang are called the Swimsuit Daimyos if none of them are wearing swimsuits. |
| 1003 | * Casino Demon King Nobunaga calls Okita's jetpack dorky, describing it as having "Not a hint of 'wabi' or 'sabi' to it". Okita responds by [[DisproportionateRetribution knocking her out cold with her Jet Sandanzuki]]. |
| 1004 | * In Summer Okita's backstory, Okita was overjoyed at getting a swimsuit version and was about to show it to the GUDAGUDA gang when she bumped into Heroine XX and... ''died''. Heroine XX panicked at accidentally killing Okita because of the massive trouble it would cause her, so she took the dead Okita to an underground laboratory and attempted to revive her, which somehow succeeded. Now, Okita has been reborn as Okita J. Souji, now equipped with jet boosters (the J. stands for Jet). |
| 1005 | * After Okita and Hokusai fight, the former realizes that [[YourDaysAreNumbered she has no more time left before she dies again]] as she has wasted most of her time looking for a yakisoba to eat and has only 10 minutes left. She wishes to be with the protagonist watching the sunset of Las Vegas as her last moments. After saying some parting words to the party and she finally succumbs, having got her final wish, XX arrives with Musashi (getting along quite well with the Berserker who's not a Saber) and realizes she got Okita's timer wrong as she still has about ''800 years'' remaining. Not only that, but Okita did ''not'' actually die and was just unable to get up when XX crashed into her due to her general sickness. Okita then wakes up with her face red as a tomato, and attacks XX out of embarrassment. They eventually manage to make peace until Okita tries to remove her boosters, upon which XX states that only something like a Holy Grail can remove them, prompting Okita to attack XX again. |
| 1006 | * A cutscene that can be unlocked after beating XX involves Okita and Izou seeming like they're dueling to the death... [[StabTheSalad only for it to be revealed that they're actually partaking in a watermelon-splitting contest]]. Of course, their argument over their swordsmanship skills eventually devolves into an actual swordfighting deathmatch (though Ryouma assures that they don't intend to actually kill each other) - whereupon Okita promptly breaks out her jetpack and bombards [[ButtMonkey Izou]] with a MacrossMissileMassacre despite his protests. She continues pelting him with missiles throughout the rest of the scene (even while taking the time to enjoy some watermelon along with the rest of the GUDAGUDA gang), much to Izou's chagrin. |
| 1007 | * The fourth Swimsuit Swordsman is Summer Jeanne, who owns a theater casino, and keeps a great white shark that even Servants are scared of. On top of that, Jeanne herself is even more dangerous thanks to her "Big Sis Beam" that can brainwash people so severely Lambdaryllis says that not even BB could do such a thing. The gang flees in terror and starts planning how to defeat Jeanne, which concludes with a plan: counter her with a motherly Berserker who fears no sharks nor an elder sister. And there's one Servant that fits exactly that criteria - Raikou, who uses attacks like "Mother Laser", "Mother Slash" and "Mother Tornado" in their duel. |
| 1008 | ** After seeing Jeanne with Reece XP (a giant great white shark familiar), Ritsuka orders everyone to retreat and their responses are either of the two options: |
| 1009 | --->'''Option 1:''' Nopenopenopenopenope.\ |
| 1010 | '''Option 2:''' Seriously? What was Saint Airhead thinking!? |
| 1011 | ** Gordolf has a ScrewThisImOuttaHere moment upon witnessing the buildup to the great Big Sis / Mother War and leaves to go eat french toast. |
| 1012 | --->'''Da Vinci:''' "No fair! I don't want to face this reality either!" |
| 1013 | * We find out what that one line involving wyverns was from back during the Moriarty event; a call-back from Orleans, when you couldn't go one arrow without tripping over wyverns: |
| 1014 | -->'''Part 1 Servants:''' We've got wyverns! ''(cheering)''\ |
| 1015 | '''Hokusai:''' ...What's that all about?\ |
| 1016 | '''Iori:''' Beats me. But it's definitely got them fired up! |
| 1017 | * After Jeanne's defeat, Mephistopeles asks the gang for one last performance for a play, where Lambdaryllis wants to participate. The roles available for her are a dog and a sea monster, which she declines, especially the latter as she'd have to put on horns and that reminds her of Kiara. Mash volunteers to be the cameraman for the play and asks da Vinci for a multiple angled camera. This scares Siegfried and Kotarou a little bit. Meanwhile, the shark that had been sent flying by Mother Tornado becomes friends with Asterios. |
| 1018 | * Atalante Alter comes crying to the protagonist and Mash after she lost all her money in a casino. Jeanne Alter, who also lost her money, joins her and they eventually go to the bar where Moriarty's serving and chat about their terrible luck. Mash, who is given a non-alcoholic drink, [[FakeHigh somehow still gets drunk]] and starts wondering whether she should get {{Verbal Tic}}s for greater appeal, before just going ahead and using them anyway. When Achilles comes to get Atalante, the two drunk Alters find out he has great luck in casinos to the point he got banned from this one, and they proceed to beat him up until they fall asleep. Next morning, they visit Chaldea's room only to find Mash writhing in embarrassment on the bed as she clearly remembers her drunk behavior. Moriarty then shows up and offers the protagonist photos of the drunk girls, which he/she agrees to buy. |
| 1019 | * When entering Casino Camelot and seeing the Knights of the Round, Iori introduces Lancelot, Gawain, and Tristan as the Aloha Knights: Three pretty boy Round Table knights who all wear Hawaiian shirts. The protagonist lampshades the paucity of male swimsuit Servants. |
| 1020 | -->'''Protagonist:''' Somehow, I doubt we're gonna be gifted those outfits. |
| 1021 | ** Mordred is also working at Casino Camelot as well with Jekyll, but she's bored and suggests they play hooky. Only to draw the ire of Gareth, who claims working at Casino Camelot is Mordred's chance to clear her name, which sets the Knight of Treachery off. Poor Jekyll is stuck playing peacemaker. |
| 1022 | --->'''Gareth:''' (Sniff) This is so sad... I think I'm even sadder than Sir Tristan. I know I raised you better than this, Mordred!\ |
| 1023 | '''Mordred:''' The hell!? You didn't raise me at all, assface!\ |
| 1024 | '''Gareth:''' '''''Do not call me "assface"!'''''\ |
| 1025 | '''Mordred:''' OR WHAT?!! |
| 1026 | ** Moriarty is at Casino Camelot as well, serving drinks, offering to make a cocktail for Holmes of all people, who is just sitting there and ignoring him. Turns out, he's high as a kite, and doesn't want Moriarty bringing him down. Moriarty gets pissed off and asks security to drag Holmes out, while Mash is left wondering if she really just saw Holmes being dragged away by a knight. |
| 1027 | --->'''Moriarty:''' ...are you listening to me, Holmes?\ |
| 1028 | '''Holmes:''' ...do you mind? Can't you tell [[HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs the secrets of the world are revealing themselves to me]] as we speak? I'll thank you not to talk to me right now.\ |
| 1029 | '''Moriarty:''' Ha ha ha. When did you start smoking that, Holmes!? So all my words have been wasted, hm!? I guess you win this round! Security, would you mind taking this churl to the back alley and roughing him up a bit?\ |
| 1030 | '''Holmes:''' Oh, bollocks. |
| 1031 | * Moriarty agrees to help the protagonist and Hokusai bring down the Lion King, but requests they hire him and pay him in chips. While the others are concerned about what diabolical scheme Moriarty has planned, Kotarou knows the truth: Moriarty wants the chips because Fran was upset at his gambling and he wants to buy her a gift (as suggested by Babbage, who was very unamused by Moriarty's attitude). |
| 1032 | -->'''Kotarou:''' (I'm starting to worry he might not be as cunning a tactician as we'd thought...) |
| 1033 | * To defeat Tristan, Moriarty proposes using "mature women" Servants like Carmilla and Scathach-Skaði against him since that is his weakness. However, against Lancelot who has a similar weakness, Moriarty refrains from repeating the same tactic knowing it may backfire, so he uses Lancelot's other weakness, Gareth, who weaponizes his guilt over killing her in their past lives, faking her tears and calling him the worst, dealing a fatal blow to him. |
| 1034 | * After defeating the Aloha Knights, the Summer Lion King comes out, and lampshades how they are called the Aloha Knights despite Tristan being the only one actually wearing a Hawaiian shirt. |
| 1035 | * The cause of the singularity in Las Vegas is traced back to Musashi, who found a Holy Grail and cooked rice and udon using it. When Saber Altria finds out, she wonders if she could do it some time too. |
| 1036 | * Hokusai reverted to their Foreigner self after the singularity disappeared, and became totally embarrassed on what their Saber self did. To calm themselves down, they painted a picture of an apologetic Musashi which is a parody of the real life self-portrait of historical Musashi. |
| 1037 | * The intro to the epilogue has Merlin reveal that the Las Vegas singularity and Musashi's actions actually didn't have anything to do with Swimsuit Swordmasters and they just took advantage of the existing matches. When Merlin first appears, the protagonist shows they've picked up Fou's attitude towards him. |
| 1038 | -->'''Protagonist:''' It's you! The Grand Scumbag!\ |
| 1039 | '''Merlin:''' I believe you mean "Mister Merlin, mage of summer!" And yes, it's me again! |
| 1040 | ** After Merlin's exposition about the Late Summer Championship Match (also known as the Secret Seven Duels of Swordbeauties, which gets Siegfried, Kotarou, and even Mash excited), Goredolf has another OnlySaneMan moment. |
| 1041 | --->'''Goredolf:''' ...Um, can I say something? Is it just me, or is the question of whether these Swimsuit Swordmaster duels really do take place in western North America every year still very much up in the air? That mage didn't actually say anything about that, right? I know he said "That's right!" ...but was he actually saying it about that particular point? Will someone please explain this to me in a way that makes sense!? |
| 1042 | * One of the side stories of the event has Zhuge Liang having trouble concerning David auctioning priceless Chinese artifacts; when David is questioned about it, he only does so because the owner of the artifacts told him to sell them. The aformentioned owner turns out to be Yu Mei-ren, who was seen earlier repeatedly losing at the casino. Yu took advantage of the fact humans hold big value for things she sees as mere junk, selling those artifacts as if she's having a garage sale so she will have money which unfortunately would be lost in the casino anyway. Eventually, Xiang Yu suggests to use the money for a tour around Las Vegas instead (by way of telling Yu her exact odds of winning at any point that night: precisely zero), while Zhuge Liang confiscates all remaining artifacts and insists they should [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade belong in a museum]]. |
| 1043 | * Speaking of Yu and Xiang, the start of said side story involves Yu deciding to try her luck at Roulette, only to constantly lose as she bets more and more. The protagonist asks Xiang why he isn't helping, which Xiang states is because [[HonorBeforeReason using his mathematical skills to get the results is cheating]], before then stating the one Yu needed as she fails again. The fact that Xiang describes Yu as being "bubbly" adds to the situation, as the protagonist can point out how her yelling and cursing in anger isn't exactly a "bubbly" personality. |
| 1044 | * Another side story has the protagonist and Mash help Assassin Okita investigate an illegal casino. Since she can't investigate such a large area herself, Okita decides to start up a Las Vegas division of the Shinsengumi: the Swimsuitgumi, made of swimsuit soldiers. Hijikata joins because swimsuits or not, he goes where the Shinsengumi goes. Okita then interviews potential swimsuit soldiers, including Lancer Kiyohime (who can pick up lies), Rider Mordred (who can fire her Noble Phantasm multiple times), Archer Anne and Mary (who Hijikata hires before Mary can say anything because Anne said she could snipe), and Caster Marie (who wants to be an undercover agent, but who Okita thinks would fit in with Las Vegas's rich socialite atmosphere). |
| 1045 | ** The illegal casino Okita is investigating is run by Casino Demon King II (Nobbu), who boasts about how she didn't learn her lesson from her previous casino being torn apart and changed to her Archer Spirit Origin, which Nobukatsu calls "Small Sister" to Casino Demon King II's annoyance. When she finds out the Swimsuitgumi are wreaking havoc in her casino, she decides to pull a ScrewThisImOuttaHere, only for Assassin Okita in her 2nd Ascension (who is wearing what she calls a Jaory) and Mash to stop her. |
| 1046 | --->'''Okita:''' This outfit combines the casualness of a jersey with the stealthiness of a black-and-white haori! It's the Swimsuitgumi's brand-new uniform: the Jaory!\ |
| 1047 | '''Casino Demon King II:''' [[LampshadeHanging Yeah, I don't really see how zipping around in a jetpack and stealth could possibly go together.]] |
| 1048 | *** Nobbu attempts to bring up her Archer self's advantage against Sabers, only to realize that Summer Okita is an Assassin. She then comments that Assassin attacks tend to be weak, at which point Mash suggests they cut the meta humor. |
| 1049 | ** The side story ends with the Swimsuitgumi being disbanded. Why? Because the Summer Lion King received numerous complaints about casinos being burned down, flooded, shaken down by pirates, and bankrupted by an unwitting socialite. Okita is heartbroken, but Hijikata's only takeaway is that [[ComicallyMissingThePoint the Summer Lion King is his type.]] |
| 1050 | |
| 1051 | [[AC:Battle in New York 2019]] |
| 1052 | * While waiting for the event to set off, we catch a glimpse of the teams for the tournament forming, with some hilarious results. |
| 1053 | ** Jason stands proud as a peacock in his third-ascension outfit, smirking smugly all the way. Behind him, the rest of the Argonauts only look down in shame over their "leader's" choice of outfit. With the exception of Heracles, who proudly stands tall and smiles while standing next to him. |
| 1054 | ** Xiang Yu and Lobo form a team of "Inhuman Monsters", which also includes Jaguar Warrior who stands between them while trembling in terror all the same. |
| 1055 | * The sheer fact that this time, a '''massive''' UFO summoned by Ishtar appears over New York, compete with alien-remix of Battle in New York 2018 playing, and hits Gilgamesh with a death ray [[RuleOfThree on his third gloat]]. |
| 1056 | * Dumuzid in general, being a golden sheep with a handsome voice who serves as the event's shopkeeper. |
| 1057 | * One of the teams is called "Avatars of Intelligence". It is composed of Sigurd (who has the Crystallized Wisdom), Siegfried (who is copying Sigurd's glasses look) and Saber Gilles (whose title is "I Hear...That Eyes Should Bulge Out"). |
| 1058 | * The final boss of the event is [[RecycledInSpace Space Ishtar]]. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer Yes.]] |
| 1059 | -->'''Mash:''' [[FlatWhat Space]].\ |
| 1060 | '''Nero:''' [[FlatWhat Ishtar]]. |
| 1061 | * Gilgamesh goes into a sulk over being upstaged and [[HypocriticalHumor having his event hijacked]]. Siduri finds it amusi - er, instructive. |
| 1062 | -->'''Gilgamesh:''' How is Space Ishtar even a thing!? |
| 1063 | * It's revealed at the end that it's a copy and the real Ishtar has actually been vacationing in California while everything was going down. |
| 1064 | |
| 1065 | [[AC:Saber Wars II]] |
| 1066 | * Instead of a Halloween event, it turns out that this year's a sequel to Saber Wars, including the ''actual'' Space Ishtar. |
| 1067 | * During the opening, Ashtart teleports in the Protagonist’s room and announces her intention to kidnap them for her plans. Thinking it’s just normal Ishtar up to her usual shenanigans, both Mash and the Protagonist treat it as if it’s simply another vacation trip, much to Ashtart’s confusion. It isn’t until after Ashtart teleports away with the Protagonist that the real Ishtar arrives. Realizing her mistake, Mash promptly faints in shock. |
| 1068 | * Instead of putting the Protagonist into the brig, Ashtart sticks them into a guest room. As Dark Maanna approaches their point of no return, Ashtart, wondering about Munenori's "all hands brace" and worrying about the Master, pokes around her console and discovers a special command for the room... one she can't activate because her clearance is too low. Incensed at the insult, she destroys the console, activating the command. The command to activate the escape pod the room actually is, and putting the Master out of reach. It seems that even in the Servant Universe, Rin is still bad with technology. |
| 1069 | * Servant Universe's Anastasia is one of the Servants who turned into a Saber because it's a trend. However, [[AnIcePerson her resistance to cold]] got her assigned to oversee a mining operation in the middle of nowhere, causing her to scream "Goddamn Cold!". |
| 1070 | ** Not only is she a Saber, she's a special Saber who's strong against Archers! |
| 1071 | -->'''Guda:''' Do you even qualify as a Saber at that point?? |
| 1072 | -->'''Anastasia:''' I actually agree with you, but putting that aside... |
| 1073 | * Anastasia also mentions that in an attempt to escape the planet Big Blue Tank, she smuggled herself out by squeezing into a ''refrigerator'', but she ended up on a fish market, and when she got busted, she was sent back. |
| 1074 | * Just after escaping a labyrinthine asteroid field, Berserker Lancelot appears out of nowhere and attacks Space Ishtar's Manna rocket ship. Riding on top of a jet. In space. And then, even after beating him, he refuses to give up the chase, relentlessly attacking all the while... until Heroine X gets fed up, and goes out alone to confront him. She then ''guilts him'' into leaving them alone; he even starts ''speaking normally'' to [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial deny her accusations]], before leaving for exactly the reasons she outlined. |
| 1075 | * At one point during downtime on her home planet, Space Ishtar calls the protagonist asking them to turn off her space stove. The protagonist can muse on what, exactly, separates it from a non-space stove. |
| 1076 | * Upon arriving to the restaurant colony of Green Jigoku Kitchen, Gawain turns out to be a cook there, apparently having lost his memories due to whatever happened with the Dark Round. However, he refuses to serve them food as they need to bring ingredients first. Ishtar is clearly confused what kind of restaurant this is, though X simply accepts this because this is how it goes on Planet Britain back home. |
| 1077 | ** After collecting the ingredients, Gawain has them fill out a short questionaire asking what's their preferred form of attack (Space Ishtar says "Buster"), what's their preferred role in combat (Jane says "Buffing"), and what's their weaknesses in combat (X says Archers and Casters because she ''is'' a Saber, after all). Gawain leaves to "mash" up their food while warning them the food might come to them first. As they're wondering what he means, ''the food literally runs out to attack them'', with the lineup consisting of a Caster enemy that blocks buffs while it's on the field, an Archer that greatly reduces Buster damage to the enemy side, and Gawain himself, which was apparently an ACCIDENT due to Space Ishtar, Jane, and X getting carried away and knocking him out too. |
| 1078 | ** It turns out the restaurant's owner Beni-Enma is the actual member of the Six Blades, not Gawain. X is traumatized since she took one of Beni-Enma's cooking courses to learn how to make junk food. Apparently, X was so bad that she would just eat ingredients raw rather than cook, and Beni-Enma is legitimately impressed she learned how to ''use heat'' for her meals. |
| 1079 | * For the climax of the event, Ashtart and Ishtarin [[FusionDance fuse into one entity]] to take the fight to Ashtart Origin, but her dialog makes it pretty clear which one is in the driver's seat. |
| 1080 | -->'''Ishtar Ashtart''': Enough. Battle's over. You lost. Now, [[AssShove I'm gonna shove my foot so far up that galactic-sized ass you'll only ever taste stardust and shoelaces from now on!]] |
| 1081 | * In the Goddess Scriptures, Space Tokiomi goes over how the evil goddess was destroyed, but fortunately there's no way she could be resurrected, unless somehow her Goddess Core was found. |
| 1082 | -->'''Tokiomi''': But well, you can't just find a Goddess Core just lying around.\ |
| 1083 | ''[beginning of next tape]''\ |
| 1084 | '''Tokiomi''': [[SuddenlyShouting THERE WAS ONE JUST LYING AROUND!]] |
| 1085 | * X has a NearDeathExperience after blowing up the reactor of the Dark Maanna and meets Ecchan in an AfterlifeAntechamber. What should be a touching reunion takes a turn for the silly when X notices Ecchan keeps pulling sweets out of nowhere. Bringing imagination to reality is a quirk of the place, but X can't access it since she's not quite dead yet; so naturally she immediately tries to ''kill herself'' to get free food. |
| 1086 | ** Whenever X starts getting off topic during their meeting, Ecchan uses a new move of hers called [[PlayingWithFire Searing Dumpling Fire]] to [[AmusingInjuries smack X back on task]]. |
| 1087 | * At the end of the day, the FinalBoss is defeated, the day is saved, everyone celebrates their victory... and then X chimes in, crying about how in the end this supposed Saber Wars event had barely anything to do with her. |
| 1088 | |
| 1089 | [[AC:Nightingale's Christmas Carol]] |
| 1090 | * Goredolf is introduced munching on cake, claiming that with all the events happening on top of the Lostbelts, his stress levels are at an all-time high and he needs a quota of sweets. He claims he didn't (overtly) bribe da Vinci for this diagnosis, and that he attentively watched Boudica prepare it since he claims to have cake PTSD from what Koyanskaya pulled before. Both Fou ''and'' the protagonist are jealous, to the point the protagonist gets Boudica to give them cake too. Goredolf also recognizes when another wacky event is starting up [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere and quickly makes his exit while the protagonist, Mash, and Boudica are talking.]] |
| 1091 | * Nightingale is confused by being a Santa. |
| 1092 | -->'''Nightingale Santa:''' I don't understand. Isn't Santa Claus supposed to be a jolly old man?\ |
| 1093 | '''Da Vinci:''' Yes! Yes, he is! Finally, someone addressed the elephant in the sleigh! Uh, room! Never mind that now, though. That's just how things work around here. |
| 1094 | * The first Servants the protagonist and Nightingale Santa encounter are Santa Alter, Jeanne Alter, and Darius III all squatting in a a cave. The two Alters are ribbing each other as usual (while Jeanne Alter in a moment of sympathy berates Santa Alter for treating Darius like shit). What instantly gets them both to shut up? Nightningale Santa calling the two an unhealthy couple. |
| 1095 | ** Jeanne Alter complains after the battle about how she was shot up with sedatives. When Santa Alter mocks her for crying over it, Jeanne Alter's LameComeback is a NoYou. |
| 1096 | ** When Santa Alter makes TheReveal of Santa Island, Goredolf makes it clear he's absolutely done with this insanity. |
| 1097 | --->'''Goredolf:''' Welp, looks like it's time for my headache and ulcer medicine. |
| 1098 | ** Jeanne Alter describes the mysterious Servant that sent her to the island as someone who her whole bloodline has bad history with. |
| 1099 | -->'''Jeanne Alter:''' There was something about their very existence that made me want to just pinch their cheeks and keep twisting them farther than they should go... |
| 1100 | * Astolfo, in his new Saber form, is gung-ho to fight Santa Nightingale for the right to become Santa... [[OhCrap until he realises]] [[ElementalRockPaperScissors that she's an Archer.]] |
| 1101 | -->'''Astolfo:''' I'M GONNA LOSE! |
| 1102 | * The event gives specifics on the Santa Power that fuels the yearly Christmas Servants. It is born from all the wishes Christmas is about: the pure dreams of children, [[BreadMilkEggsSquick corporations wanting to sell their product at the most opportune time, and parents who hope buying their kid a gift will get them to be quiet for once.]] |
| 1103 | -->'''Protagonist:''' [[LampshadeHanging We really could have done without that second half.]] |
| 1104 | [[/folder]] |
| 1105 | |
| 1106 | [[folder:2020 Events]] |
| 1107 | [[AC:Amazones.com ~CEO Crisis 2020~]] |
| 1108 | * Yes, you read right. A meme back in Halloween ''2017'' has become its own event. |
| 1109 | * Medea Lily wants to prove to you the might of her pancakes. So you end up fighting a pink demon pillar. |
| 1110 | * Red Hare's insistance that he's Lu Bu and not a horse... while simultaneously making poorly covered-up horse noises and having befriended every horse in Chaldea including "Lord Prince of Lan Ling's steed whose name I forgot to ask". |
| 1111 | * Servantverse!Chen Gong's idea of a business practice is to train temporary employees so that they work themselves to near death, and when they reach their limit, he instructs them to "open that present I gave you which you must absolutely not open beforehand, only store it in dry and cool places, and make sure your CEO is in front of you when you open it". Needless to say, he's wanted on several planets. |
| 1112 | * Aswatthama, Napoleon, Inshun, Tell, and Munenori start a sauna endurance contest, all of them hyping themselves up and boasting about how they've done far harder challenges... and [[SmashCut a few hours later]], Napoleon is borderline-hallucinating, Aswatthama is kind of melting on the floor while trying to convince everyone that he can keep going, Tell regrets everything, Inshun was literally praying through the challenge, Munenori still has the same poker face as ever but says that he may or may not be internally screaming, and ALL of them lost to Arjuna Alter who [[AchievementsInIgnorance did not even realize there WAS a contest and simply marvels at how relaxing saunas are]]. |
| 1113 | * Semiramis nearly using her [[OminousFloatingCastle Noble Phantasm]] on Amakusa ''while inside the Amazones HQ''. |
| 1114 | * Babbage, Edison, and Tesla are running a machine repair shop, and the three offer to upgrade Rider Kintoki and Summer Carmilla's rides. The pair are interested, right up until the inventors boast about their previous vehicles. One ImagineSpot later of Tesla and Edison's steel cage on wheels, and Babbage the hybrid locomotive; and the offer is very quickly declined, much to the dismay of the inventors. |
| 1115 | * Salome attempts to order John the Baptist's head, and is murderously disappointed when it turns out to be a ''shower''head. After the battle the Amazones CEO manages to fob her off with a hairstyling mannequin, which is at least head-shaped. |
| 1116 | * When Super Orion starts flirting with the Amazones CEO, one of the omnipresent statues of Artemis in the tower starts moving towards him, whereupon it's revealed that statue was actually Artemis herself in disguise in order for her to keep an eye on him. The protagonist belatedly realizes it was the only statue without an accompanying Orion bear. |
| 1117 | * When Beni-emna tries to tell the Santa Servants that it is no longer Christmas but they end up ignoring her, EMIYA replies by stating that nothing makes sense when it comes to Christmas, Halloween, and the Servantverse. |
| 1118 | * The whole event sparked off when Paris remarked that the Amazones CEO looked pretty, leading Penthesilea to believe she had forgotten her warrior's pride. The two come to terms when she reveals the Servantverse has its own Achillies that she started Amazones.com to kill. |
| 1119 | * At the end of the event, the protagonist and Osakabehime calm down Penthesilea and the Amazones CEO by putting boxes on their heads like a pair of cats. |
| 1120 | * The Holy Grail received at the end doesn't come in an item drop chest like usual, but instead an Amazones shipping box. |
| 1121 | |
| 1122 | [[AC:A Not-So-Ordinary Valentine's ～Murasaki Shikibu and the Five Slaying Queens]] |
| 1123 | * Murasaki concludes that the multicolor-haired teenage girl doing martial acrobatics is ''obviously'' Sei Shounagon. Even funnier is Sei stating that she's "retired" from [[PenName being Sei Shounagon]] and tells them to call her Nagiko, causing Murasaki to repeatedly drop {{Flat What}}s before ending on a BigWhat. |
| 1124 | * The Blackbeard of the event introduces himself as Higekuro... which as the protagonist points out, is Japanese for "Beardblack". |
| 1125 | * Sei decides to [[SaveTheVillain save Aoi]] (the Singularity's version of Queen Medb) from vanishing... but the how (she throws chocolate at her to stabilize her Spirit Origin) and the why (she wanted to let Murasaki question her as well as get beauty regimen tips) leaves everyone, Aoi most of all, incredulous. |
| 1126 | * Aoi claims that she never learned Oboro's (the Singularity's version of Queen of Sheba) name because when she meets people not worth her time, she always forgets their name instantly. When they actually encounter Oboro, she herself drops this very reason for why she can't be bothered to remember Aoi's name. [[HypocriticalHumor Aoi is aghast at the rudeness]]. |
| 1127 | * Upon meeting the singularity's version of Abigail, Sei gets overtly comfy with her, to which she has to ask the knights escorting her if this is a case of "Stranger Danger", and after some contemplation, the knights answer: |
| 1128 | --> '''"Lonelyheart Police"''': ''Nope, they're safe, ma'am!'' |
| 1129 | ** Then Abigail and the knights spot ''Blackbeard'', who keeps ogling her, prompting them to go into full-on retaliation mode on everyone present. |
| 1130 | --> '''"Lonelyheart Police"''': ''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill Heee's outta theeere!]]'' |
| 1131 | * As Sei dissolves back to the Throne of Heroes, Murasaki gets up the courage to ask if she ever read ''Literature/TheTaleOfGenji.'' Sei gushes over how much she loved it, and Murasaki is about to compliment her work in return, when-- |
| 1132 | -->'''Nagiko:''' Oh, wait, hang on. I really hated Hikaru[[note]]i.e. Hikaru ''Genji''[[/note]], though.\ |
| 1133 | '''Murasaki:''' Would you just go already!? |
| 1134 | * Jason's return gift is a miniature version of the Argo in a bottle. It isn't so much a gift as it is his attempt at getting the protagonist to complete one of his models for him. They proceed to ask Medea for help, and show him the final product. Jason isn't able to escape before Medea smites him for his attempt at tricking them into building his toys for him. |
| 1135 | * Jinako's scene begins with her suddenly appearing in the protagonist's room in statue form. Fearing that this might be another capricious deity's attempt at tricking them, the protagonist quickly makes themselves scarce. |
| 1136 | * Summer Okita accidentally crashes into the protagonist while flying on her jets. Fearing that she might have killed them, she prepares to give them an EmergencyTransformation much like the one she received. |
| 1137 | * Summer Musashi's scene has several zingers: |
| 1138 | ** First, it turns out that rayshifting her takes ''three times'' the normal amount of mana. |
| 1139 | ** Second, her idea of a "most American date" turns out to be having lunch at Hooters. The protagonist immediately shoots it down. |
| 1140 | ** Third, there's a SkyFace of Tenma Musashi staring at her and the protagonist on their date. She tells them to pay it no mind. |
| 1141 | ** Fourth, the protagonist was expecting her gift to be Grail udon or Musashi rice. Musashi admits that she deserved that comment. |
| 1142 | * Summer Osakabehime included a sappy love poem with her chocolate. Right as the protagonist starts to read it, she gets cold feet and snatches it away. Rereading the letter embarrasses her enough to cough up blood. |
| 1143 | * Bartholomew decided to make a wig for you with bangs so that you don't have to change your hairstyle to match his fetish. He leaves the room to let you decide what to do with the wigs, only for him to immediately barge in as you put the wig on. Cue you using your Command Seal to turn Bart into fireworks. And according to the flavor text of the CE, some Servants have fought over the Master wigs to become Master themselves. |
| 1144 | * Paris' return gift scene is a continuation of Cu Alter and Anastasia's scenes. Priding himself on being a [[BlatantLies mature adult]], he disregards Hektor's reservations about his gift choice and presents the protagonist with an Apollo doll. After nightfall, the doll picks a fight with the Viy and Mini Cu Alter dolls. However, the protagonist catches them in the act, so they stack themselves like a totem pole and pretend to be inanimate. When Paris comes to check on Master next day, he notices that the three dolls are all dirty and suggests that they should throw them into the washing machine to clean them up, much to the dolls' dismay. |
| 1145 | * Sima Yi/Reines gives chocolate balls ''coated with mercury''. She believes it's fine to give these because Shi Huang Di already pulled the same stunt, and hey, [[TemptingFate that protection against poison has never failed the protagonist]]. |
| 1146 | * Space Ishtar's Valentine scene: |
| 1147 | ** The protagonist receives three letters from each form of Space Ishtar, with each letter asking them to meet in a different simulator room at the same time, and has a gut feel that the two not chosen Space Ishtars would kill them. Choosing to ignore them leads to a bad end. |
| 1148 | ** First, they go to meet "Ashtoret". After receiving a chocolate from her and going on a date together, the protagonist comes back to their room to find an upset "Space Ishtar" waiting inside, who blows them up. Fou uses his Beast powers to reset time to give the protagonist another chance. |
| 1149 | ** Next, they instead meet and have a date with "Space Ishtar", with the same results, as an angry "Ashtoret" kills them for ignoring her. Fou once again resets time but advises them to think wisely. |
| 1150 | ** Finally, they meet with "Ishtar-Ashtoret", who knows what the protagonist has been through from the previous Space Ishtars, and has decided to spare them as a thanks for choosing her. They wake the next day finding a diorama of chocolates from each Space Ishtar in their room. |
| 1151 | * Calamity Jane's scene: |
| 1152 | ** The Servant Universe has [[CreatorsCultureCarryover all the same holidays as Japan]], something that doesn't go unnoticed by the protagonist. |
| 1153 | ** Jane completely forgot about Valentine's Day, but luckily has a Space Chocolate Bar that she can give. From the FlavorText, you can tell she recited a commercial from memory while presenting it. |
| 1154 | * Yang Guifei gives chocolate-flavored manjuu. The protagonist comments about the bland flavor of the manjuu, which breaks her heart a bit, and she hurriedly goes back to the kitchen to make another. Later, her fire spirit maids visit the protagonist's room and tell them Yang gave the wrong manjuu, then hand out the right ones, which turn out to have exquisite flavor. An embarrassed Yang comes in, and realizing she messed up, starts to plan to burn them and herself out of shame, but the sprinklers douse her flames out. |
| 1155 | * Saber Astolfo's scenes: |
| 1156 | ** In his chocolate gift scene, the morning after the paladin gives chocolate to the protagonist, Astolfo asks about how they feel about his chocolate, and brought a bunch of other chocolate he made in case the protagonist forgets how it tastes like. The protagonist then remarks that there are way too many chocolates for them to eat. |
| 1157 | ** In his return gift scene, Astolfo gives the protagonist a pair of bunny ears, and makes the protagonist walk around in those bunny ears in a parade much to the protagonist's embarrassment. |
| 1158 | * In Sei's actual chocolate-giving scene, she got a little absorbed in making chocolate, and actually made a whole bunch of them. This caused Sei to play a little game with the protagonist where each chocolate contains a little message, and the protagonist must find the "winning ticket" for them to win. This actually took a while with some of the messages having absolutely nothing to do with Valentine's Day. |
| 1159 | -->"A Nigerian prince needs your help.."\ |
| 1160 | "Your lucky color is blue." |
| 1161 | * Mandricardo jumps to the conclusion he's about to be fired and delivers a dramatic farewell speech while the protagonist tries to give him chocolate. |
| 1162 | |
| 1163 | [[AC: Échiquier de l'Apocalypse]] |
| 1164 | * Before the main plot, Astolfo and Bradamante are implied to be playing some sort of surgery board game. When Bradamente and Astolfo are telling Nightingale about it, the Berserker servant instead takes it as people literally needing help, and asks the two cousins about who needs that help. Astolfo, being TheDitz that he is, immediately states "Holmes and Tesla" with no hesitation whatsoever. Because of that, Nightingale ends up giving Holmes a physical in the middle of his chess match against Moriarty. While being dragged away, all Holmes can do is to scream at Moriarty as he deduces that the Archer servant set this up. |
| 1165 | * The main plot is that the protagonist gets sucked up into a ''TabletopGame/{{Monopoly}}''-style board game and needs to finish it to escape (a la ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'' and ''Film/{{Zathura}}''). |
| 1166 | * Meta example. When Voyager was released, a certain voice actor was [[https://www.reddit.com/r/grandorder/comments/grg08k/the_madness_of_grand_shotacon/ a wee bit too enthusiastic]] about getting him to NP 5. This did not escape the notice of Mafia. |
| 1167 | * When Dark Marie appears the evil spirits mock Erice saying that no way would that be the actual appearance. And then our Marie interrupts and says that it's really impressive; she really could look like that and it's classy. |
| 1168 | * Around the climax of the event, Chen Gong gives a look towards James Moriarty that implies that the former plans to sacrifice the latter in order to defeat the enemies. |
| 1169 | |
| 1170 | [[AC: Servant Summer Camp: Chaldea Thriller Night]] |
| 1171 | * Summer events never require beating the plot past Fuyuki; so Summer Yu Miaoyi, aka Akuta Hinako, gets around this by [[ClarkKenting wearing sunglasses]] during the entire event if you haven't finished Lostbelt 3 yet. |
| 1172 | * Summer Yu is a Lancer. Yu also happens to be the [[RunningGag designated victim for all the horror movie cliches]] that keep happening. A Lancer who keeps dying... [[Anime/CarnivalPhantasm sound familiar?]][[labelnote:note]]'''''LANCER GA SHINDA! KONO HITO DE NASHI!'''''[[/labelnote]] Examples include: |
| 1173 | ** After the events at the hotel are dealt with, Yu assumes that now that all their enemies are down things are quiet, and goes off to take a shower. She is right, but trying to shower in a horror movie is [[PsychoShowerMurderParody such an unfailingly terrible idea]] that she ''instantly dies'' the moment she enters the bathroom. |
| 1174 | ** Her death in Act 6. You are put into a battle against bunch of zombies in the supermarket where you must deploy her, during which she will get a permanent evade. After you trigger the last zombie's Guts, she will remove the evade under the assumption that the zombie is dead, only for the zombie to target her and insta-kill her, ending the battle. |
| 1175 | * During the party's visit of the haunted apartment building, Sigurd and Brynhildr find themselves alone in a room, and almost immediately begin to cuddle. When the rest of the characters find them later, they're lying on the floor in a pool of blood. Since the event explicitly runs on horror movie tropes, everyone assumes [[SexSignalsDeath the worst]] until it becomes increasingly clear that it's just what happens when Bryn gets too giddy about Sigurd: he gets violently stabbed. He did survive: turns out that Guts skill of his often comes in handy when it comes to his love life. |
| 1176 | * Nero is setting up a fresh-water version of her Laudatum Domus Illustris on the lake in preparation for a concert, while Marie, Scathach, Carmilla, Anne & Mary look on from a yacht. Discussing how peaceful the lake is despite the horror movie setting of the singularity, presumably because it's daytime currently, Scathach interjects that there's plenty of daylight horror out there, particularly in the water... cue [[Film/{{Jaws}} the Jaws Theme]]. While Scathach dives in to try and fight the giant shark, with Nero proclaiming she'll wrestle it like she has lions, the others are more concerned with getting back to shore safetly after their yacht is sunk. To which Scathach proposes tying their swimsuits to her spear so she can just throw them back to shore. Because they can't simply walk on water like she can. To top it all off? The Shark is Reece XP, Jeanne's replacement pet from Las Vegas! Whom she had apparently just had an emotional farewell with... |
| 1177 | ** A later quest showcased a flashback with the emotional farewell. Also Reece XP can talk now (in Shark puns and as a VerbalTic at that!). Jeanne Alter ends up remarking how odd it is for the shark to talk, only for the Maid of Orleans to comment that Reece XP has a social media account as well. Jeanne Alter responds by stating "Big deal! So do I!", seemingly oblivious to the fact that her chuunibyou poetry is online for the rest of Chaldea to see. |
| 1178 | *** Before the flashback starts, Emiya tries to escape when he realizes some insane summer shenanigans are about to begin. The Protagonist is having none of it, and orders Tomoe to drag him back. Whether it's the "summer spirit" or just how he is, he winds up getting into it when Jeanne tells them they need to catch Reece XP like a fish. |
| 1179 | * "It was at that moment that Chiyome realized Tajima-no-kami may just have the most rock 'n' roll mindset of any Heroic Spirit in Chaldea." |
| 1180 | * Investigating [[Film/TheShining the Smiling]] Hotel, Mash opens one of the rooms without knocking first and finds Anastasia making funny noises into an electric fan. The sweet little duchess immediately opts to ''murder all witnesses''. |
| 1181 | * Finding Anne and Mary's room nearly nets the protagonist another three-way. In the background, Murasaki [[CovertPervert eagerly pulls out her notebook to record what's about to happen]], only to be disappointed when Mash inevitably gets in the way. |
| 1182 | * When the ''Shining'' parodies truly start ramping up, Columbus reenacts the famous "Here's Johnny" scene by smashing through the door with his goatee. Apparently there's a lot more to that thing than just AnimeHair... |
| 1183 | * During the ZombieApocalypse, the cast find themselves trapped in a supermarket and are forced to fend off against some zombies. During the fight, Yu gets a permanent Evade. After a "Really Persistent Zombie" has its Guts buff activated however, Yu loses this Evade… and is predictably one-shot by the zombie. The cast can only look at her with a pained expression afterwards. |
| 1184 | * Following Yu’s unfortunate death, the cast erect a barricade inside the supermarket, and move onto the next natural step: Emiya cooks some pizza and the rest grab all the coke they can find. Shikibu is desperately trying to convince herself she won't get fat, Illya gets high on sugar, and even Abigail (who's supposedly an antagonist by that point) joins in, claiming to be unable to miss such an unabashedly American meal (no, she won't accept objections about pizza being Italian). |
| 1185 | * Sesshouin Lily finally reveals herself as being Kiara. The rest of the cast completely miss the point and assume she's Lily's mother, [[MaamShock to her utter shock]]. |
| 1186 | * When Illya tries to call out Abigail, she doesn't respond to Illya's "Abby-chan" and "Abby-san". Then Illya uses "Abby-senpai". It works. |
| 1187 | * Sigurd's Crystallized Wisdom glasses [[ScaryShinyGlasses shine]] when in use. As in, they spray downright blinding amounts of light, leaving Yu scrambling for her sunglasses. |
| 1188 | * Illya finds out Abigail's weakness: despite the airs she puts on as a Servant-hunting serial killer, she's actually deathly afraid of anything happening to the Protagonist. The group's plan for capitalizing on this? Have Yu use Anti-Fling Rondo to ''hurl the Protagonist into the sky'' so that Abigail will have to contract with them to save them from going splat. |
| 1189 | --> '''Protagonist (in the air):''' "A Masternado, huh. That's a new one..." |
| 1190 | * Once the parties from in and out of the dream finally manage to meet up, a problem immediately presents itself: Yu was somehow present on both teams, and now there's two of her. Tomoe suggests repainting one in "Player 2 colors", and naturally they promptly fight to the death over who gets to stay Player 1. However, they realize after a few rounds of stalemating that trying to fight yourself and win is a pretty lousy idea ([[MythologyGag much to the annoyance]] of [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Emiya]]) and just get the Protagonist to pick one of them instead. Result: One of them wears her "death" outfit until the end of the story. |
| 1191 | * [[IHatePastMe Emiya]] has a hilarious response to seeing Yu giving up on fighting herself. He then briefly wonders if this whole situation is a candid camera prank on himself. |
| 1192 | -->'''Yu Mei-Ren''': There is no possible way to defeat yourself. Obvious, in hindsight.\ |
| 1193 | '''Emiya''': ''[[[MythologyGag pained expression to end all pained expressions]]]'' |
| 1194 | * Yu declares that she has figured out Kiara's weakness! She is absolutely dead certain about it, and confronts Kiara with the truth(?): the reason she hung around Anderson in the form of an innocent little girl is because she's secretly in love with him and wanted to invoke the [[WifeHusbandry Hikaru Genji scenario]]! Kiara is so angered at the very thought that she forgets to hold back in her boss fight. The team then wins the fight not by any clever application of Kiara's weaknesses, but just by carpet bombing the entire battlefield with Brynhild's Noble Phantasm to make sure she can't evade them with illusions. As for the protagonist's response to Yu's idea: |
| 1195 | -->'''Protagonist''': (I am ''so'' glad Murasaki isn't here to hear this!) |
| 1196 | * After Abigail and Kiara are dealt with, the group puts together that the real villain's lair must be an underground graveyard. Ruby humorously suggests it's right under the cottage they've been using as a forward base, and several others laugh it off thinking it can't be ''that'' contrived... until they notice [[TongueTied Abby]] being suspiciously silent. It takes them an embarrassingly short time to learn that, yes, there ''is'' in fact an underground graveyard right beneath the cottage. Abby takes the opportunity to call out EVERYONE for missing [[IndianBurialGround THE classic horror trope]] in a Singularity literally made of horror tropes. |
| 1197 | --> '''Abigail:''' "How did you all not notice it sooner? You ARE Heroic Spirits, aren't you? Are you all just half-baked pancakes? Do you all have batter for brains?" |
| 1198 | --> '''Sigurd:''' "Heh. '''[[SuddenlyShouting You've got us dead to rights!]]'''" |
| 1199 | * When Xu Fu brings out Dark Lan to fight Yu, she expects him to BreakThemByTalking by voicing his everyday frustrations... but is blindsided when, as Sigurd points out, Lan Ling is as devoted to Yu as a knight is to a princess, and thus can only voice caring admonitions and the various compliments he wants to say to her but is too shy to mention normally. Eventually, even Xu Fu, the Protagonist, and ''Mash'' join in on the fun, voicing their own admiration for Yu. Yu, wishing to avoid dying from embarrassment, gets a ''massive'' slough of buffs, allowing a ''Lancer'' to defeat a ''Saber'' in a single brave chain. |
| 1200 | * After Yu Mei-ren uses Anti-Fling Rondo to blow herself up right as her evil clone is doing the same, Xu Fu is in shock at how cavalier the party is at Yu blowing herself up and is overjoyed when Yu fuses back into human form, having absorbed her evil clone... until she remembers she's trying to kill Yu. |
| 1201 | * Right before the final battle against Xu Fu herself, Yu orders the Protagonist to sound the gong, and depending on your dialogue options, you can choose to have actually brought a gong along, to Mash's shock. |
| 1202 | * Xu Fu gets excited at the thought of Yu getting fired up and punishing her for her misdeeds, and then demands a do-over to have a dramatic response instead. |
| 1203 | * After the Singularity is resolved and everyone is back at Chaldea, Illya asks Abby what became of Kiara. As punishment for the trouble they caused, Abby and Kiara both had half of their Spirit Origin sealed... but Abby notes that [[TooKinkyToTorture Kiara was oddly enthusiastic about it]]. The entire group of Abby, Illya, Miyu, Chloe, Ruby, and Sapphire can't imagine why, thankfully having no concept of masochism. |
| 1204 | * At the end of the main story, Kiara is overjoyed upon learning Andersen has written a new book titled "The Little Mermaid II" and looks forward to reading it... only to find out that the book is completely blank with a note saying, "Sorry. I just couldn't write it." It turns out that Andersen is better inspired to write when his environment is ''not'' accommodating, so Kiara's attempts to make him comfortable [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished completely backfired]]. Andersen, Shakespeare, and Murasaki can sense her killing intent and profanities all the way from the cafeteria. |
| 1205 | * The boss for the event's epilogue is literally named "The Monster Named 'Sequel'" with its skills named after [[{{Sequelitis}} various reasons why most horror movie sequels tend to flop]]. |
| 1206 | * [[https://twitter.com/hiroshi_/status/1396270742472331266 Illya once again nails the facial expressions.]] [[WordOfGod Hiroshi Hiroyama, the author of]] ''Manga/FateKaleidLinerPrismaIllya'', said with the event's rerun that since all of the other characters had [[SeenItAll muted reactions to the monsters]], he gave Illya's character art special attention. |
| 1207 | |
| 1208 | [[AC:Martial Dance Party In The Land Of Shadows]] |
| 1209 | * Scáthach states that the protagonist doesn't have much experience as a master, even though the story mentions the world has been bleached away. which means it takes place after ''Observer of Timeless Temple'' and ''Epic of Remnant''. The protagonist casually responds they can't argue with that. |
| 1210 | * After Scáthach explains how the Grail Front works, the protagonist asks why she's dressed like a PlayboyBunny. Her answer? She woke up wearing that this morning. As it turns out, Tamamo Cat put it on her while she was sleeping. |
| 1211 | * The opponent master picked is Meunière [[PaperThinDisguise wearing just Mozart's mask over his face]]. Goredolf remarks that the "M" in Mister M clearly doesn't stand for "mystery". |
| 1212 | * After the Grail Front concludes, a feast is held with a bunch of the remaining Servants. When a few of them debate the merits of a hard and fast strategy or a slow war of attrition, they ask [[TheBerserker Mordred]] for her opinion. When their response to her surprisingly insightful answer presses a few of her [[BerserkButton buttons]], she briefly decides to Clarent them in anger, before bemoaning they would probably still be standing even if she tried...and then realizing that makes them the perfect targets. |
| 1213 | |
| 1214 | [[AC:GUDAGUDA Yamataikoku 2020]] |
| 1215 | * Upon meeting Saito, he tries to inject a bit of lightheartedness by encouraging Ritsuka to call him "Hajime-chan" (or just Hajime in the localization), only to get embarrassed and take it back. The player naturally has the option to roll with it and call him "Hajime-chan!" anyway, much to his annoyance. And you get the option to do it again the next day. |
| 1216 | * The first set of bosses for the event are revealed to be various GUDAGUDA characters imprisoned within haniwa. One set of these happens to be Ryouma and Izo, with Oryou also around but simply made to have forgotten them instead of being captive herself. She somehow still treats the Ryouma-haniwa MUCH more nicely than the Izo one. Upon freeing the two men, Oryou's memory returns... and she promptly flees in shame at being made to forget Ryouma. This results in Ryouma and Oryou missing the next several story segments because ''he's chasing her around the country while trying to get her to come back''. |
| 1217 | * As the tension rises between Hajime and Izou and a fight almost breaks out, Himiko successfully uses her skills as a mediator to defuse the situation. That is to say, she punches them both in the face. |
| 1218 | * When the villagers ask for Himiko to provide rain for the crops, Himiko's solution for this dillemma is to... suggest a trip to the beach tomorrow. She even encourages the group to look forward to it as much as possible. It rains the next day, [[BornUnlucky which is apparently something that always happens without fail when she's planning something fun on a future date]]. |
| 1219 | * Da Vinci decides to send the rest of the GUDAGUDA gang to rescue Ritsuka and the Chaldea staff members are completely done with the hijinks. |
| 1220 | -->"I can't help but worry given who we're sending..."\ |
| 1221 | "Oh, come ON! This can't possibly end well!"\ |
| 1222 | (After Mysterious Heroine X decides to join in) "We're doomed." |
| 1223 | * For whatever reason, whenever you fully upgrade part of the infrastructure (like the Wheat field), the map fills up with dispoportionately sized clay statues with faces that bear an uncanny resemblance to [[Franchise/FinalFantasy Cactuar]]. In other words they're all making variations of the [=OoO=] face. The sight can go from absurd to hilarious and right back again. |
| 1224 | * When you finish upgrading everything, Nobukatsu screams "SIIIIIIIISTEEEEEER" at the top of his lungs. And then he says he just wanted to yell. |
| 1225 | * The Raid bosses? They're ''mountain-sized [=HaniwaNobbus=]'' Even as everyone is freaking out, they still wonder why the hell they look like that. Serizawa even lampshades it by saying the fall of a country should be "as farcical as possible". |
| 1226 | ** It gets better. Their battle intro is a "nobbunobbunobbu" version of ''Demon King Nobunaga's'' battle intro. |
| 1227 | * On a meta level, the devs learned a painful lesson in game balance when the Raid actually started. On paper, the players were supposed to fight all seven [=HaniwaNobbus=] at once to keep them from reaching Yamataikoku. In practice, it turned out many of the [=HaniwaNobbus=] were a pain to fight and didn't have drops to make it worth the effort -- except the Storm Nobbu, which both had the best drops ''and'' was the easiest of the bunch. So most of the players just dogpiled Storm Nobbu and ''let'' the rest stomp Yamataikoku into the ground while they farmed. [[https://twitter.com/FateGO_USA/status/1574974721015386112 Himiko couldn't quite reconcile the reality of it.]] It wasn't until the NA server rerun that the playerbase finally got a perfect run, not because of a change in tactics, but because they fully destroyed Storm Nobu in ''less than two hours''. |
| 1228 | * At the very end of the event, the spirits of Iyo and Himiko meet up and have a solemn talk, until it turns out Iyo is getting ''really'' jealous that only Himiko gets to go have fun in the future. Cue the two legendary queens arguing like teenage girls, until Himiko's soul literally runs away mid-conversation. |
| 1229 | |
| 1230 | [[AC:Road to Santa Claus Glory ~ The Sealed Christmas Present]] |
| 1231 | * Karna at least has his heart in the right place, but he's still as socially inept as ever. So there are times when his present distributing ends up feeling more like he's mugging the residents of Chaldea. |
| 1232 | -->'''FREEZE! STAY QUIET AND IT WON'T TAKE LONG!''' |
| 1233 | * Arjuna [[ComicalOverreacting freaking out]] when Karna gives him a ''freaking fist bump'' for the first time, with Arjuna assuming Karna wants to fight him, then proceeding to tell the master that Karna can't become a Santa because his personality might cause trouble with the master simply replying about the necessity of the entire thing, then starting to uncharacteristically act like a StraightMan to Karna's behaviour because of said incident. |
| 1234 | -->'''Karna:''' If you want to spar with me, little boy, I'll take you on anytime.\ |
| 1235 | '''Arjuna:''' Of course I don't! And don't call me "little boy"! You're creeping me out! |
| 1236 | * When facing Vritra's fake Chiyome, she gets nervous at [[TheDragonslayer Sigurd]] taking the fight so seriously and points out she's a serpent, not a dragon. Georgios and Sigurd don't care about the distinction, but Karna has a different opinion. |
| 1237 | -->'''Karna:''' I don't care what you are as long as I can punch you.\ |
| 1238 | '''[[StraightMan Arjuna:]]''' Do you not realize how terrible that sounds!? |
| 1239 | ** Also, Georgios' [[ShoutOut line]] during that exchange: |
| 1240 | --->'''Georgios:''' [[Film/SpiderMan1 As something of a professional dragon-slayer myself]]... |
| 1241 | * Martha meets Lambda (Summer Meltryllis). The latter brings up her connection to Leviathan, Tarasque's mother, while Martha points out that Lambda's outfit is penguin-themed. Lambda is not happy. |
| 1242 | --->'''Lambda:''' (I mean, I don't actually know what Leviathan looks like, but I know Leviathan's my base, that this parka looks great on me, and that my magical energy generated it in the first place. So it HAS to be Leviathan, right!? I mean, what else could it possibly be!?) |
| 1243 | ** The two then devolve into smacking [[ButtMonkey Tarasque]] back and forth at each other, with the protagonist comparing Tarasque to an ice hockey puck. |
| 1244 | * After one of the missions, Arjuna senses something amiss with Kama's comments about Vritra not lining up with [[LivingLieDetector Karna's]] own observations about the dragon, and sends Arjuna Alter in his place on the next mission. This being [[NoSocialSkills Arjuna Alter]], there are some humorous events. |
| 1245 | ** When the mission begins, Karna offers a fistbump to Arjuna Alter. Despite a lack of understanding at first, Arjuna Alter returns the fist bump and is much more calm about it than regular Arjuna. |
| 1246 | ** Sieg and the Protagonist whisper together that Karna and Arjuna Alter have such an air of gravitas around them that you can't help but take their words seriously... despite the fact that what they were saying was essentially "It's cold" and "That's because it's winter". |
| 1247 | ** Upon seeing fissures running towards the party across the frozen river, Arjuna Alter declares them [[BlueAndOrangeMorality evil]], and makes to destroy them before Sieg hurriedly tells Arjuna Alter that doing so would just create even more fissures. |
| 1248 | ** The enemy of that mission is [[DreadfulMusician Elizabeth Bathory]]... and both Vritra and Arjuna Alter say that they ''actually like'' Liz's singing, with Liz responding by hurriedly shoving merchandise into Arjuna Alter's arms in awe of the fact that she actually has a fan, even calling ''Arjuna Alter'' a ''simp''. Karna smugly comments that Arjuna Alter might also enjoy the singing of Nero. |
| 1249 | *** Right before the battle, you get the choice to try and avoid Liz's singing by saying you prefer streamers. |
| 1250 | * The next opponent is a fake Kiyohime, who being [[{{Yandere}} Kiyohime]] immediately starts melting and lobbing volcanic rocks at the party without a word from Vritra, who wonders if she somehow went wrong in the creation process. The Protagonist notes this is just how Kiyohime is as she gushes about how she knew they would follow her "love" right back to her. And after being defeated, the fake wonders if it's technically cheating if the Protagonist is still in a possible relationship with her real self. |
| 1251 | * The final battle with Vritra begins...with the all-mighty dragon complaining about how bored she is waiting on top of a mountain peak for a whole day ''while rolling around in the snow'' like a child. |
| 1252 | [[/folder]] |
| 1253 | |
| 1254 | [[folder: 2021 Events]] |
| 1255 | [[AC:Little Big Tengu]] |
| 1256 | * Kiichi Hogen's introduction has her defeat Caesar and Fergus offscreen in mere moments. As Scathach realizes, this wasn't because Kiichi Hogen is close to the level of the gods; it's because she's a woman. |
| 1257 | ** Before her appearance, Ushiwakamaru is telling a story that ends with her claiming an opponent's head. Jason is horrified, but [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike Scathach snorts]]. |
| 1258 | * Why did Kiichi break into Chaldea? So she could punish Ushiwakamaru for looking at secret scrolls without permission. Everyone else present save the protagonist agree Ushiwaka has it coming. |
| 1259 | * After stealing the Mallet of Fortune from Kiichi, Kagekiyo taps Jason, Benkei, and Cu Alter with it. What does it do? Turns the three Servants into chibi versions of themselves ala Mini Cu-chan. And the protagonist later finds a chibi version of Ushiwakamaru too! |
| 1260 | * The first region you visit in the singularity is based on France. Naturally, the first thing you run into is [[AscendedMeme a bunch of wyverns]]. Then Mini-Cu deduces where they came from by ''[[ExtremeOmnivore biting a chunk out of one and taste-testing it]]''. |
| 1261 | * When the group travels to Castle Csejte, it's decorated with Halloween decorations. The Protagonist winds up ''shell-shocked'' by this, only able to say "Halloween" for a while as Mash talks them back into stability. |
| 1262 | * At one point, Kiichi tries to claim the protagonist as her student, only for them to tell her they already have several mentors. Or as Benkei puts it: |
| 1263 | --> '''Benkei:''' Indeed, I believe you have mentors in the areas of combat, Buddhism, and Santa, if I am not mistaken. |
| 1264 | * While searching for Taira-no-Kageiyo in the sky above the Mediterranean, the group runs into the Dioscuri and the Nobbu siblings. After a brief fight, Castor reveals that he wished for him and his sister to return to childhood, which translates to reverting them to their original status as Divine Spirits[[note]][[GameplayAndStoryIntegration A decision that is reflected in the follow-up fight, in which the Dioscuri stack unremovable attack and special defense resist buffs every turn.]][[/note]]. After the group toughs out the opposing side’s attacks for five turns, the Dioscuri achieve their true form as gods… |
| 1265 | --> '''Castor:''' Prepare to feast your eyes on the true form of gods! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis We! Are! Gemini!]] |
| 1266 | ** The twins immediately revert back to the Gemini constellation, [[StunnedSilence leaving everyone else stunned]]. |
| 1267 | *** The only acknowledgment they get afterward is seeing them as a SkyFace and TwinkleInTheSky, with Castor gloating about his satisfaction with his wish. |
| 1268 | |
| 1269 | [[AC:Love Guru Saint Valentino Amor-chan! ~Chaldea Bitter Valentine 2021~]] |
| 1270 | * When the three Carens combine and the result introduces herself as "God Caren", all three servants present (including [[ShrinkingViolet Mash]]) simultaneously shout |
| 1271 | --> '''Cú Chulainn & Kid Gil & Mash:''' She's the [[PrecisionFStrike goddamn]] devil! |
| 1272 | * The SerialEscalation as Caren keeps powering up gets silly pretty quick: |
| 1273 | --> '''Mash''': She's about three times as powerful as the three Carens separated!\ |
| 1274 | '''Ritsuka''': Well, she is the three of them combined, so yeah, that makes sense...\ |
| 1275 | ''[next transformation]''\ |
| 1276 | '''Mash''': She seems to be about three times as powerful as God Caren!\ |
| 1277 | ''[next transformation]''\ |
| 1278 | '''Mash''': Her aura is immense! It looks like she's about three times as powerful as before!\ |
| 1279 | '''Ritsuka''': And that's the third time you've said that, Mash! |
| 1280 | * The final transformation Caren undergoes before we finally defeat her? ''A baby.'' Complete with BabyTalk, too. |
| 1281 | --> '''Cú Chulainn:''' You gotta be friggin' kidding me! Did we just [[JumpingTheShark jump the shark]]?! |
| 1282 | * Kijyo Koyo's Valentine scene has her give the protagonist chocolates while in her dinosaur form, along with a long series of growls and roars. Later, the protagonist wakes Erice up to translate said roars, and rather than give a recording, they replicate Koyo's roaring perfectly, to Erice's disbelief. |
| 1283 | * Nobukatsu's Valentine scene is solemn but it starts out humorous. Nobukatsu, having heard about Valentine's Day, decides to spy on Nobunaga because he's certain she's popular. Instead, she gets visited by the GUDAGUDA gang, which leads to Nobukatsu planning to poison Okita's food and swap Kagetora's salt and sugar out of jealousy. |
| 1284 | * Castor's Valentine scene is hilarious just by virtue of how ridiculous it is. |
| 1285 | ** It starts with the protagonist barely managing to give their chocolate to Castor only to get a very lukewarm response. Pollux, who knows how much effort they put into the gift, immediately promises to make her brother understand the severity of the situation. When the master says it's fine and that they can just throw the chocolate away, she starts chewing out the master for being too nice and forcefully drags her brother away. Mind you, she has SuperStrength. |
| 1286 | ** She then proceeds to chew her brother out for not showing his appreciation and when it finally gets through his thick skull that he should give a return gift to the master and not Pollux, what does he decide to do? Drag the master into the simulator, put them on a boat, sail them into the middle of the sea at night and give them the blessing of the Dioscuri which grants them guidance and protection during their travels and adventure for the rest of their life. All because the master gave him some chocolate. The best part? Pollux is standing in the background the entire time, cringing herself to madness about how overkill it all is while Castor is smugly laughing at how amazing his gift is. |
| 1287 | * Van Gogh's Valentine scene starts with her trying to convince the protagonist to ''cut off a piece of her, mix it into a salad, and then eat it.'' The protagonist understandably refuses, but accepts the salad. |
| 1288 | * Summer Yu makes chocolates that depict her and Xiang Yu, and demands the protagonist eat them whole instead of biting into her or Xiang Yu. She then mentions she's been getting the feeling she's being watched or followed. The protagonist then sees a phantom of Xu Fu following Yu who desperately wants Yu's handmade chocolates. |
| 1289 | * Kiichi Hogen's scene has her proclaim the protagonist has too many mentors. Specifically, they have a mentor in Buddhism (Sanzang), a robot mentor (Avicebron), a different robot mentor (Odysseus), an elephant mentor (Ivan the Terrible), and a different elephant mentor (Darius III) |
| 1290 | --> '''Protagonist:''' [[LampshadeHanging Your categories are kinda arbitrary...]] |
| 1291 | |
| 1292 | [[AC:Holy Grail Phantom Thief Amakusa Shiro ~Slapstick Museum~]] |
| 1293 | * The prologue has the protagonist, Mash, and Amakusa discuss the fact that Paris has the Apple of Discord as a Noble Phantasm. The protagonist immediately knows who's responsible. |
| 1294 | --> '''Protagonist:''' My QP's on the sheep being behind this. |
| 1295 | --> '''???(Obviously Apollo):''' I snuck it in because I thought it'd be good for a laugh. And I'd do it again if I could. |
| 1296 | * The first part of Amakusa's genius plan to get through the security of the museum? Alright, it's technically him ''intentionally'' getting captured so he can scope it in full detail, but it's the way he sums it up. |
| 1297 | -->'''Amakusa:''' I'm going to make my way in alone and, in the modern parlance, get my ass handed to me. |
| 1298 | * Voyager points out that the relic the museum advertises as Achilles's shield is a fake because it's inconsistent with the description in the Iliad... and has "LOVE AND PEACE" engraved on it in English. |
| 1299 | |
| 1300 | [[AC:Akihabara Explosion! ~ The City of Wishes and the Sculptures Engraved with Love ~]] |
| 1301 | * The first thing that clues the protagonists in that Akiba Nero is not the real Nero? Her singing skills are merely average rather than ear-splittingly awful. |
| 1302 | * One of the events the protagonists need to pass is a fighting game tournament, so Osakabehime calls in Tomoe and Ganesha for her 3-person team. Except they struggle at first because Tomoe and Jinako aren't used to being watched by so many people, dropping their abilities to less than 80% and 50% respectively by Osakabehime's estimate. The solution: Have Ganesha retreat to her statue and Tomoe switch to her Saber swimsuit form (so she can't see the people watching her with the VR headset). Ganesha doesn't actually have enough room to use her joypad in her statue, so they have Galatea trick it out to make it possible. She sneaks some RGB LED lights into the statue while she's at it, causing Jinako to panic when she can't turn them off after winning the tournament (they make Galatea take them out afterward.) |
| 1303 | * The next event involves contestants competing against cat maids for popularity, with Chaldea wrangling up their own maid trio of Tamamo Cat, Altria Alter Summer, and d'Eon to enter, and the contest doesn't even start before things start going wrong. |
| 1304 | --> '''Osakabehime:''' Oh man, they sound really confident. Get 'em, girls! |
| 1305 | --> '''Altria Alter:''' Oh I will, worry not. [[MurderIstheBestSolution Now, which target do I take out first]]? |
| 1306 | * Remember that Creator/MorganFreeman [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed lookalike NPC]] from the America Singularity? He's back... To deliver long-winded speeches about the life and passion that goes into making doujin. That man really will take ''any'' role. |
| 1307 | * It turns out the person Nero commissioned to make her life-sized bride sculpture was none other than Medea, who has arrived at the tower to give the mysterious King of Figures a piece of her mind for "tampering" with her work...and to observe them in action so that she can steal those life-imbuding-doll techniques for herself. It also turns out she has another life-sized sculpture in her room that's all but outright stated to be of Altria. |
| 1308 | * Like many other tower events, there's several cutscenes of servants interacting with each other between story segments. To start with, the 20th floor features a few people at a hobby shop: |
| 1309 | ** El-Melloi II finds Sanzang examining several statues of anime figures with names of Eastern gods like Indra and Bishamonten. He wonders if they offend her faith, but she just thinks they're awesome and proclaims them a suitable way to show faith as well. |
| 1310 | ** Afterwards, Alexander shows up with a model that El-Melloi II had asked for from a particular video game series, only for Waver to realize he hadn't told him to look for models from earlier in the series, as the one Alexander had found was from a particularly subpar entry in the series. Waver gets so worked up while explaining just how bad the game was that he [[PrecisionFStrike curses it out]], causing Alexander to interrupt his rant to remind him not to swear so heavily in public. |
| 1311 | ** Kintoki drags Tsuna along to look at some toys, such as a light-up sword and a Sentai-style transformation belt. He tries on the latter and does a full transformation (by changing from his Berserker to his Rider form) and then wanders off to look at something else. [[TheComicallySerious Tsuna]] opts to try on another belt himself, and is ''actually disappointed'' when he fails to transform. Ibaraki happens to see this, and can only let out a flabbergasted "[[PunctuatedForEmphasis What. The. Hell.]]" in response. |
| 1312 | |
| 1313 | [[AC:Shining! Grail Live!! ~Crane Idol's Return of a Favour~]] |
| 1314 | * The protagonist and Mash seem to easily discern that Miss Crane is the same crane from "The Grateful Crane", but [[BlatantLies she says that's not the case, even while blatantly and visibly shaken by the ease of discovery of her identity]]. |
| 1315 | * The theme of the idol group [=MahaOp=] (consisting of Helena, Ushiwakamaru, Jeanne, and Altera) is that of a princess (Helena) and her three loyal knights (the others) who are also fighting for her affection. The ShipToShipCombat is apparently quite real among their fans, with even Medb, X Alter, and Tamamo Cat taking sides (those being Jeanne, Altera, and Ushiwakamaru respectively with Helena), to the point where they almost break up their own idol group over it. [[NotSoAboveItAll Even Mash]] gets in on it by supporting "Alushi". |
| 1316 | * When the group heads to a hot springs inn (which also happens to be on a beach in perpetual summer), they're all excited and scream happily, but... |
| 1317 | -->'''All''': SUMMER! THE BEACH! FLAMES!!... Wait, why's it on fire!?\ |
| 1318 | '''Nobu''': Welcome to Oda Nobunaga's Honnokaku, aka the Nobbu Resort!\ |
| 1319 | '''Ritsuka''': I hate to interrupt your spiel, but YOUR BUILDING'S ON FIRE!\ |
| 1320 | '''Nobu''': It sure is! |
| 1321 | |
| 1322 | [[AC:Grail Front: My Super Camelot]] |
| 1323 | * While the event has no cutscenes, the 7th and final Grail Front is titled "What Did I Ever Do To You?", and starts with Merlin a few steps away from a Support Altria and the player's Servants, while his own Servants are far behind him. Considering how much Merlin enjoys trolling other people, the develops clearly knew what they were doing with this setup. |
| 1324 | |
| 1325 | [[AC:Chaldea Summer Adventure! ~The Girl Who Dreams and the Boy Who Chases Dreams~]] |
| 1326 | * Goredolf finally brings up the ElephantInTheLivingRoom: |
| 1327 | -->'''Goredolf''': It really is strange how a swimsuit can change a Servant's class isn't it?\ |
| 1328 | '''Protagonist''': Don't go there, Director. That way lies madness. |
| 1329 | * Achilles' sheer power as a Servant tends to get lampshaded a number of times, such as when he's disappointed that a decision of who gets to accompany the Protagonist isn't decided through combat, the narration points out that he's NighInvulnerable, and when Anastasia notes that a treasure map of Russia would be useless in the Caribbean, he casually offers to check Russia anyway. |
| 1330 | * Achilles lifts up the baby Stegosaurus to get a better look at it... before it starts trying to munch on his hair. |
| 1331 | -->'''Achilles:''' Aah! Hey! Don't bite my hair! |
| 1332 | -->'''Blackbeard:''' Well, it IS a herbivore... |
| 1333 | -->'''Achilles:''' What!? Are you saying my hair looks like a damn salad!? |
| 1334 | -->'''Blackbeard:''' [[BluntYes Yup.]] |
| 1335 | -->'''Anastasia:''' It does. |
| 1336 | -->'''Charlotte:''' I, um... No comment! |
| 1337 | -->'''Okita Alter:''' I think your hair looks lovely. And nutritious. |
| 1338 | -->'''Goredolf:''' It's important to eat three balanced meals a day. |
| 1339 | * As the first night settles in the singularity, Goredolf tells the party that the tents are divided between the men and the women equally before turning in to bed in his own tent. Achilles looks at Teach and tells him outright that he fully expected him to be in the girls' tent already, in response to which Teach stoically asks him an excellent rhetorical question regarding "how many turns would it take him to die?" if he tried that. Achilles realizes that it wouldn't take a single one, as not even Teach's Guts would save him in that scenario. |
| 1340 | * During breakfast, as served by Goredolf, Mash feeds the protagonist a breakfast potato. Anastasia and Charlotte promptly get jealous and feed the protagonist their own breakfast as well, before Mash tries again. More amusingly, Blackbeard and Achilles immediately realize what's happening and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere run away with Mandricardo in tow]]. |
| 1341 | --> '''Protagonist:''' An infinite loop...!? |
| 1342 | * Once on the Queen Anne's Revenge, Blackbeard challenges the Protagonist to a fight over who captains the ship, with him calling in Caenis for backup. After he loses, it's implied that he intentionally lost so that he could share a bunk with the Nemo Marines. |
| 1343 | * Anne Bonny and Mary Read wind up finding the party and challenging them to fight for one of the pirate treasures, with them not even bothering to hide that they're really just there to [[ThreesomeSubtext kidnap the Protagonist]]. When they reveal that someone is passing out Wanted posters of the Protagonist, they even offer to hide them and keep them in a cozy cell. Even better, you can say you'll keep their offer in mind as a last resort, shocking Mash and causing the two to comment that it might be their year. |
| 1344 | * After Kama saves the party from a group of mass-produced Columbuses, she makes everyone shower her with praise, and while the Protagonist, Mash, and Corday are earnest in their compliments, the others are a little less graceful; Sei tells her that she'd be cuter if she was smaller, Anastasia can only call her very colorful with Blackbeard calling her "Kammy 16777216 Technicolor Panorama" after the number of colors in the [=RGB=] color system, Achilles is ignoring her and passes the buck to Mandricardo who awkwardly compliments her speed, and Caenis refuses point-blank with both of them noting that they'd probably wind up trying to kill each other. |
| 1345 | ** During the evening of the same section, Kama will approach you and offer to let you lie your head on her lap while she sings you to sleep. If you agree, she gets ''very'' caught off guard and comments that you've gotten smooth. |
| 1346 | * When the villains make their grand entrance, Christopher Columbus kills almost all tension by showing up as a child, going by "Chris" and leaving everyone unable to realize who he really is. Meanwhile, Ashiya Douman shows up and introduces himself as "DOUMAN", and then he [[PretentiousPronunciation insists it must be pronounced with that emphasis]]. |
| 1347 | * When the group has to climb a sheer cliff face, they're each tied together in pairs for safety. Blackbeard complains about having to partner with Achilles... until he saves him from falling, doing a 180, looking upon the Greek hero like a love-struck maiden, complete with heart-pounding and BishieSparkles. |
| 1348 | ** Much to Kama's chagrin, she's partnered with Sei Shounagon. Later, when the latter slips and falls... |
| 1349 | -->'''Nagiko''': Ugh... must've hit my head pretty hard. Don't think I can move so much as a finger anymore... But we shouldn't both die. Cut the rope, Kamacho!!! ...That's from a movie I saw recently. What would you do in that situa-?\ |
| 1350 | '''Kama''': ''[cuts the rope]'' Huh?\ |
| 1351 | '''Nagiko''': Huh?\ |
| 1352 | '''Kama''': ...Later, moron. I'll be climbing for both of us from now on.\ |
| 1353 | '''Da Vinci''': Wow, you didn't hesitate... at all. |
| 1354 | * On top of the mountain, Vritra reveals she was behind the trials and that she was really just going along for her own amusement. She also asks if she can do this sort of thing to Chaldea once a week, and then asks for at least once a month. After being beaten, she then casually drops the reveal that "Chris" is really Columbus before leaving, which causes everyone [[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe to insist it's a joke]]. |
| 1355 | * After stealing Steggy from the party, Chris tries to feed the dinosaur an earthworm, only to remember that stegosauruses are herbivores. He then offers the earthworm to DOUMAN, who politely declines. Chris then tells DOUMAN to go get some edible grass for Steggy [[ImpliedDeathThreat or don't come back at all]], causing DOUMAN to walk off mentioning he has a lawn mower somewhere. Later on, Kama mentions that she found DOUMAN "mowing the lawn and cursing to himself", to which she admits she has as much a clue as the befuddled protagonist about what's up. |
| 1356 | * The event ends with Kama having stuffed Ashiya Douman in a jar for everything that happened. It's as ridiculous as it sounds. |
| 1357 | * During one of the side stories, Nagiko gets a dream message from her Servantverse self, Space Nagon, giving her a hammer that she'll need to use to save the universe, as she foresaw it in a Space Fortune. After she, Blackbeard, Achilles, Mandricardo, and Mysterious Heroine [=XX=] use the hammer to banish an Alton Eater, Mysterious Heroine [=XX=] reveals that Space Fortunes don't ''predict'' the future - they [[WindsOfDestinyChange affect causality]] in order to make the teller's prediction come true, meaning that Space Nagon intentionally caused the whole incident. Blackbeard decides to curse her with an increased chance of papercuts, which even Achilles finds nasty. |
| 1358 | * The playerbase's sins come back to haunt them in the GUDAGUDA throwback story. Himiko kinda-sorta recalls the Yamataikoku Raid where "they let one or two [=HaniwaNobbus=] get through", but more distinctly recalls a specific [=HaniwaNobbu=] that just... fell apart before coming anywhere close to Yamatai, which anyone who played the event will recall as the Storm Nobbu. The other [=HaniwaNobbus=] got cleaned up due to their "proximity" -- but not Storm Nobbu, which died all the way up in the mountains. Now it's come back for revenge. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Oops!]] |
| 1359 | |
| 1360 | [[AC:Halloween Rising! ~The Queen of Sandstorm and the Apostle of Darkness~]] |
| 1361 | * Elisabeth Báthory now comes in fairy tale PrincessClassic flavor... except she's gone the {{Disneyfication}} route where the princess loves breaking out into song at every opportunity. ''[[DreadfulMusician Oh no.]]'' Worse, she's been split into two beings again. The Elly with the Protagonist can thankfully be hemmed in now, since [[HiddenDepths they know her singing dramatically improves if she's singing for someone other than herself.]] The Elly kidnapped by the event's antagonist, on the other hand... |
| 1362 | --> '''Elisabeth:''' ''(after waking up)'' '''I WANNA SING! [[BrownNote SKKKRRREEEEE♪]]''' |
| 1363 | --> '''Molay:''' "Gaaah! C'est pas vrai! Go back to sleep! Go back to sleeeeeep!!!" ''*repeatedly hits Elizabeth over the head until she's knocked out*'' |
| 1364 | * Zenobia's introduction, simply by dint of her being the OnlySaneMan when Elly and the Protagonist appear to be lunatics. Neither can really deny it. |
| 1365 | * The heroes' first obstacle is based around ''Literature/AliBabaAndTheFortyThieves'' with Servants as stand-ins. While there's certainly enough Servants to fill out the numbers, whatever system is in place still decided to game ''itself'' by mostly choosing Servants that consist of more than one entity, including any alts. This results in gems like the Annes & Marys proudly boasting they make four thieves on their own, Miyu fawning over double Illyas (with Chloe wondering if she should take one for herself), and the Ibaraki-Doujis basically suffering a system crash upon meeting each other. |
| 1366 | * Jacques de Molay picked the wrong event to debut in if she wanted to be taken seriously. |
| 1367 | ** Molay's introduction to the party has her call herself Jane, which the protagonist immediately connects to Calamity Jane. Realizing they know someone named Jane, Molay then tries to give her name as Jack, only for the protagonist to bring up Jack the Ripper. Molay then loses her patience and introduces herself by her real name. |
| 1368 | ** As she tries to taunt the heroes, everyone keeps getting distracted by the second Elly in the background trying to hog the video call and finding any excuse to sing. And when they properly confront her, she can't even get a word in edgewise because the ''first'' Elly is too airheaded to read the room. |
| 1369 | ** Even when Molay proves herself to be a genuine threat by creating a vessel out of ''the Protagonist'' for her Outer God, it quickly becomes apparent that she has no control over said vessel, which then violently evicts her from the castle. The heroes find her and she ends up having to ask ''them'' for help in fixing the issue she started. |
| 1370 | * The description of the Witching Woods is a little... underwhelming: |
| 1371 | -->'''Zenobia''': It's said that the moment you enter... you are apparently guaranteed to make it through them safe and alive, despite the danger.\ |
| 1372 | '''Elizabeth''': Huh?\ |
| 1373 | '''Zenobia''': Yes, I had a similar reaction. |
| 1374 | ** Once inside of the woods though, the party realize that the description actually served as SchmuckBait since the woods themselves are enchanted to make anyone in it continuously walk in circles. The funny part being that there is only one CG of these woods so the players themselves have no idea this is the actual case until Elizabeth points it out in-verse to the party. |
| 1375 | * The fairy tale forest is haunted by the really unexpected team of Hektor and, of all things, Beowulf's archenemy Grendel. Most of the cast can't figure out what's going on with this, until the protagonist offers an outlandish suggestion that turns out to be completely correct. Their names just kinda sound like Literature/HanselAndGretel. Everyone is stumped by how dumb that is. |
| 1376 | -->'''Hektor:''' I still can't quite believe the first thing this amorphous blob of a thing said to me when we first met was: "Hi, Big Brother! Nice to meet you! I'm Grendel! My favorite thing to do is eat! Especially people!" |
| 1377 | * One of the story quests is based on "The Emperor's New Clothes", and your featured opponent is none other than Gilgamesh, a clear nod to that "AUO CAST OFF" event in Fate/Extra CCC. |
| 1378 | * Another stars BB as Princess Kaguya, with a ton of Damage Resistance buffs based on her asking for the legendary gifts... but if Beni-enma is in your frontline, she points out at the end of the turn that [[CallBack Chaldea already got all of these]], causing all of BB's DR buffs to fall off. |
| 1379 | |
| 1380 | [[AC:GUDAGUDA Ryouma's Narrow Escape! ~ The Mystery of the Disappearing Nobbu Head]] |
| 1381 | * The event is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: ''Nobunaga's head is missing''! ...And she's somehow still alive, ''and'' able to talk and emote. No one has any idea to react to this except for Nobukatsu and the Protagonist: |
| 1382 | --> '''Nobukatsu:''' [[SkewedPriorities "Dammit! Who's the lucky bastard that's hogging her head for himself!?"]] |
| 1383 | --> '''Protagonist (through a dialogue choice):''' [[SeenItAll "Man, the GUDAGUDA kicked in early this year."]] |
| 1384 | * Da Vinci also smelled the GUDAGUDA particles early... and tells Nobbu ''straight to her non-face'' that [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere she wants nothing to do with this mess]]. It's instead Sion who handles the logistics, and only because she finds this hilarious. |
| 1385 | * As mission plans are being discussed, Nobukatsu suddenly barges in saying he found Nobbu's head... which is really just Nobbu's badly-drawn face on a sign she can stick out of her collar. No one is impressed. (For whatever reason, she wears the sign anyway.) |
| 1386 | * The meeting with Takasugi, who holds the Shōwa Singularity's Holy Grail. He turns out to be the most AffablyEvil Servant since Moriarty, and after a pleasant chat suddenly decides to sic his security guards on us... but he was actually just testing our strength for a potential alliance at [[MissionControl Ryouma's]] request. ''Neither of them bothered to mention this.'' |
| 1387 | --> '''Nagayoshi:''' "Okay, killing them both!" |
| 1388 | --> '''Ranmaru X:''' "Right there with you!" |
| 1389 | * In a twist, Takasugi actually wants to ''destroy'' the Singularity using the Holy Grail... but finds that he can't. What could possibly stop a literal [[MakeAWish wish granting device]]!? The Protagonist calls upon past experience and quickly realizes it must be... Nobbu's missing head. Chacha promptly sums up this and every GUDAGUDA event prior: |
| 1390 | --> '''Chacha:''' "Geh! Now that you mention it, Chacha gets the feeling Auntie's head is probably involved with this, too. Especially since Auntie's somehow been behind most of the stupidest Singularities we've dealt with in the past!" |
| 1391 | |
| 1392 | [[AC:Making A Christmas Party!]] |
| 1393 | * What is the impetus for this event to start? It was Elisabeth Báthory talking to Scáthach-Skaði about how Santa Claus is basically a fairy godmother, referencing her most recent Halloween event, and telling her she could fit that role easily if she wanted. Of course, Elisabeth has to decline getting involved since she's already working on the backlog of preparations for next year's Halloween. |
| 1394 | * Scáthach-Skaði finds herself wondering who she could talk to about Christmas to get a better idea of the holiday and comes across an exhausted Martha. When asked about what's wrong, Martha reveals she's been running herself ragged in both of Rider and Ruler forms recently. Cue flashback revealing she was attempting to discipline the "delinquent Servants" saying bad words around the child Servants and hogging the simulator for themselves, who turn out to be Caenis and Mordred. |
| 1395 | * How does Scáthach-Skaði transform Martha into this year's Santa? With a wave of her magic wand and a {{Woolseyism}} of an incantation that works even better if you pronounce her name right: |
| 1396 | -->"[[{{WesternAnimation/Cinderella}} Skippity Scáthachy skoo!]]" |
| 1397 | * One option the protagonist can choose after defeating the Delicious Giant Egg. |
| 1398 | -->"If I had a nickel for every [[CallBack giant egg I've fought this year...]]" |
| 1399 | * The name of the final boss of this event? It's Giant Demon God Pillar ''Shaped Cake'' as it's a Demon God Pillar with a cake-like texture to it. |
| 1400 | [[/folder]] |
| 1401 | |
| 1402 | [[folder:2022 Events]] |
| 1403 | [[AC:Manannán Souvenir Valentine ~The Chocolate Tree and The Goddess' Choice~]] |
| 1404 | * Upon witnessing the theobroma tree erupt out of the ground in the middle of a city, Astraea has this to say: |
| 1405 | -->'''Astraea''': Ridiculous! Who ever heard of a tree growing out of the ground!? ''[{{Beat}}]'' No wait. I mean... of course trees grow out of the ground, but... |
| 1406 | * Pretty much anytime Altria Caster plays wingman to fellow Lostbelt 6 Servants. Her solution to (almost) anything? Merlin's Magecraft. Now consider who taught her that in the Main Story. |
| 1407 | * Almost the entirety of Oberon's Valentine's scene is full of laughs: |
| 1408 | ** If you choose to give chocolate to Oberon in public, when he talks about returning the favour he decides to ask Caesar for money, citing the fact that in some Proper Human History myths, Caesar is his father. Caesar can even be seen with a look of dread when Oberon comments that fathers have always been weak to their childrens' demands. |
| 1409 | ---> '''Oberon''': "Dad, you better send me this month's child support!" |
| 1410 | ** For players who have completed the 6th Lostbelt, some things never change as Oberon is still broke as a Chaldea Servant. |
| 1411 | ** The protagonist is in full-on DeadpanSnarker Mode if Oberon's gift is given in private. When Oberon Vortigern calls them out for saying that they used 'Merlin's Magecraft' to get to his location, he calls them out by asking who taught Altria Caster that 'scam magecraft'. The protagonist can then offer him a hand mirror. |
| 1412 | ---> '''Oberon Vortigern''': "[[HahahaNo Ahahahaha. Sorry, but could you shut up for a second?]]" |
| 1413 | ** Oberon Vortigern changes the setting of his dream to... a [[TrashOfTheTitans very messy apartment]]. The protagonist can comment about it, in which Oberon responds that it 'represents his emotions'. |
| 1414 | ** When the protagonist gives Oberon his Valentine present, they can say that it's in return 'for the bug spray'. Regardless, we get this golden moment, made even better with Creator/ToshiyukiToyonaga's ''very'' sarcastic tone: |
| 1415 | ---> '''Oberon Vortigern''': "Wow, I knew it! I love it so much! Thanks, asshole!"\ |
| 1416 | '''Master of Chaldea''': [[DeadpanSnarker "So Oberon says, without throwing it on the floor."]] |
| 1417 | ** Oberon Vortigern has clearly heard of the chocolate-making contest between Altria Caster and Cnoc na Raibh, since his impression of chocolate is that they can come to life and become boss characters. The protagonist can choose to say that they made such chocolate, resulting in this gem of a line: |
| 1418 | ---> '''Oberon Vortigern''': "Seriously?! You just keep getting better and better at harrassing me, huh?!" |
| 1419 | ** Oberon Vortigern's response to Altria Caster being involved in the protagonist's attempt to give him Valentine's chocolate is to want to "kick her ass later". Apparently Altria Caster saw it coming, stating that 'he'll get mad at the both of them anyway regardless'. |
| 1420 | ** Oberon's return gift for Valentine's Day? It ends up being some ''[[WorthlessTreasureTwist Void's Dust]]''. The protagonist's reaction to this gift says it all. |
| 1421 | --->'''The Master of Chaldea:''' "[[StunnedSilence ......]]"\ |
| 1422 | '''The Master of Chaldea:''' "O-BE-ROOON!" |
| 1423 | ** And the kicker to all this? According the the [=CE=] description, the Void's Dust tastes like salt. Talk about salty, considering Oberon's twisted sense of humor. |
| 1424 | ** Crossing over with SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments, Chica Umino drew a mini-comic on Twitter showing what Oberon did [[https://twitter.com/CHICAUMINO/status/1496463131069288452?s=20&t=Ky16DIl9pX2bAiwlITbCTQ with the chocolate he got from the Masters]] - smash them into tiny pieces so that his insect fairy subjects would be able to eat them better. Their [[FlatWhat reactions]] pretty much sell it. |
| 1425 | * Baobhan Sith's scene: |
| 1426 | ** Her "nightmare" at the start of her Valentine's Day scene. It has her and Elisabeth talking about the faerie knight and the protagonist watching "every horror movie with the name “Valentine” in it" together. It then has Elisabeth telling Baobhan Sith that they were actually watching romance movies together. [[FauxHorrific Cue Baobhan Sith waking up from her nightmare while screaming.]] |
| 1427 | ** Her chocolate by the way? A cursed flying stake that will smash chocolates that were made by other Servants. Even better is her reasoning: When she was thinking about making chocolates, she imagined Morgan telling her to make chocolate that would destroy any chocolate the protagonist receives [[ClingyJealousGirl except those made by her]]. |
| 1428 | * Morgan's scene: |
| 1429 | ** Her scene starts with the reveal that, 10 days ago, she called her Faerie Knights to court... to get their advice on making chocolate. Morgan [[SeriousBusiness treats the whole thing as seriously as she does anything]], which somehow makes it funnier. |
| 1430 | ** Barghest and Baobhan Sith are shown to be serious at the start... while Mélusine is still tired, having just woken up and asking if they can get to the point so she can go back to sleep. |
| 1431 | ** When Morgan reveals she wants to make chocolate for her "husband"/"wife", each Faerie Knight has a different reaction. |
| 1432 | *** Barghest is shocked that Morgan got married before reasoning that Chaldea is full of Heroic Spirits so of course one would catch her eye; she takes this to mean she needs to take Valentine's more seriously herself. |
| 1433 | *** Baobhan Sith is just as shocked as Barghest. She initially thinks it's fine if Morgan is happy, then immediately backtracks and decides she needs to do a background check. She plans to make mincemeat out of them if they don't meet Baobhan Sith's standards (as in score a hundred out of ten). She even thinks of bringing the protagonist onboard, not realizing that ''they're'' the one Morgan wants to make chocolate for. |
| 1434 | *** Mélusine is the only one who knows that Morgan is talking about the Protagonist, and is fully supportive of Morgan because... |
| 1435 | ---> '''Mélusine:''' Boyfriends/girlfriends and husbands/wives are separate categories, after all. |
| 1436 | *** Even funnier is the fact that she apparently says this out loud and none of them react to it, implying that Morgan actually agrees with this statement. |
| 1437 | ** Barghest and Baobhan Sith both have their own suggestions for Morgan's chocolate, but Mélusine's initial suggestion would be to offer up herself. She backtracks because, in her own words, [[LiteralMinded human teeth wouldn't be able to bite into her body]]. Morgan likes the idea of using herself as a motif, but [[EveryoneHasStandards feels offering herself up would be too primal]]. |
| 1438 | ** When Morgan gives the protagonist her chocolate, Fou suggests the protagonist refuse it because it's Morgan. Morgan then reveals she can understand Fou and threatens to banish him back to Avalon. [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Fou immediately hightails it]]. |
| 1439 | * Barghest's scene: |
| 1440 | ** Her scene starts with her confidently declaring to the protagonist that her chocolates will exceed their expectations... [[GilliganCut before cutting]] to Barghest telling Caster Altria that she has no idea what she's going to do. |
| 1441 | *** Barghest further complains that Valentine's Day has been going on for years, and yet there are no manuals on how to make a winning gift. |
| 1442 | ** Altria is initially uninterested in Barghest's problems, having come to her for more helpings of curry chicken. Barghest privately wonders why Altria only shows up for food; evidently she doesn't have much experience with [[BigEater Altria]]. |
| 1443 | ** Altria is incredulous when Barghest tells her about the declaration she made despite not knowing anything about Valentine's Day. She demands to know whether Barghest's head was in the clouds while the Faerie Knight can only embarrassingly defend herself. |
| 1444 | *** Even better; Altria Caster calls her an "Aurora-head", in what is considered to be the biggest insult to the head of the Wind Clan, considering [[BelievingTheirOwnLies her nature]] and how it led to the destruction of Faerie Britain. |
| 1445 | ** When Altria finds out Barghest can make basic chocolates, she tells her to stick to her strengths. She has to use her absurd - [[VerbalBackspace no, overwhelming strength]]! |
| 1446 | ** Barghest delivers her chocolate in a box almost as big as she is, visibly dragging it into the room. You would think it is a massive sculpture of chocolate like Parvati's, right? No, it's actually just a large number of much smaller heart-shaped chocolates! |
| 1447 | * Mélusine receives several chocolates from Chaldea staff members before going to the protagonist's room and demanding chocolate from them! The protagonist has the option to ask if Mélusine was a guy, and when they do so, there's the sound of glass breaking and Mélusine immediately gets depressed. Her mood then does another 180 after the protagonist reveals they were joking and does give her chocolate. |
| 1448 | * Summer Anastasia gives the protagonist iced chocolate she and Viy made, but when the protagonist tries to eat it, they find out that [[ThePrankster Viy]] put a stronger enchantment on it than needed, resulting in them and Anastasia being stuck to said chocolate together. Anastasia is actually rather happy about this, while [[ClingyJealousGirl Corday]] is unamused. |
| 1449 | ---> '''Charlotte:''' Excuse meee! Is there a fire-type Servant!? Come on and melt this chocolate until it's a sizzling stew! |
| 1450 | * Summer Charlotte makes a pigeon out of white chocolate for the protagonist, but when she adds the final ingredient (a pinch of love), she accidently turns the chocolate alive, complete with movement and cooing. It ends up flying away from her and the protagonist, much to Charlotte's embarrassment. |
| 1451 | * Koyanskaya of Light's scene: |
| 1452 | ** She intends to spend the day serving as your bodyguard, mostly to guard against possible threats of being stranded in alternate dimensions courtesy of other Servants, only to get into a spat with Fou that escalates into her pulling out a gun and the two attacking each other. |
| 1453 | --->'''Koyanskaya''': ...Oh my, I'm sorry, Master. I, of all people, should know better than to indulge in personal spats, especially in front of you. I think I need to cool down. Excuse me for a moment. And of course, this rabid little fur ball is coming with me. Get ready, pip-squeak. Today's the day we settle our score once and for all. |
| 1454 | ** The protagonist decides to try and get things back on track by asking about her chocolate, only for Koyanskaya of Light to fumble at realizing she hadn't actually thought about it, but not wanting to give Fou the satisfaction of knowing that quickly plays it off as needing to get it ready. When the protagonist asks if it could be handmade rather than just store-bought, a flustered Koyanskaya of Light decides to go along with it if they would accept "an additional charge" on top of the standard contract. |
| 1455 | --->'''Fou''': [special translation] Enough with the sweet talk. What Master would fall for such an obvious trap?\ |
| 1456 | '''Protagonist''': Fine with me./I'm happy to accept an additional contract.\ |
| 1457 | '''Fou''': ...Apparently this one. |
| 1458 | ** Cue Koyanskaya of Light teleporting you to a casino of her own making and trying to hype it up, only for one of the protagonist's options being to note they have high standards for casinos and causing her to sulk that they must have had experience in Las Vegas and that she wanted to be their first. The protagonist then spends ''hundreds of real-world days'' honing their gambling skills to become one of the finest players. |
| 1459 | * Koyanskaya of Darkness's scene: |
| 1460 | ** She starts the day by listing your schedule for the day with the 2021 Servants, [[BreakingTheFourthWall breaking several fourth walls]] in the process. The protagonist can choose to wonder if it's retribution for [[SelfDeprecation doing so many summons]]. |
| 1461 | *** Among your agenda is a fishing trip with Taigong Wang, but Koyanskaya of Darkness chooses to ignore that. |
| 1462 | ** Her Valentines' gift is a stick of lipstick. Considering the events around said lipstick... |
| 1463 | * The protagonist can choose to further show affection to Kama (Summer) in her Valentine scene, leaving her so flustered the dream world starts falling apart. So much for trying to take revenge on Chaldea for not taking her seriously... |
| 1464 | * When Miss Crane arrives at the protagonist's room to talk to them during her scene, they don't even get a word in before she falls to the floor in stress. She even starts returning to the Throne of Heroes as she almost dies from the anxiety. |
| 1465 | * It turns out they do have Valentine's Day on Planet Ranmaru! Except that since [[PlanetOfSteves the planet is exclusively populated by clones of the same person]], there's no one to give gifts to or be given by. It's been a tradition for centuries, and they ''never'' figured out what the point was supposed to be. |
| 1466 | * Lancer Ryouma gives the protagonist his hat from his Rider incarnation, rife with sentimental value, and then puts his foot in his mouth by revealing he has a spare. Oryou recalls a similar incident where he gave Izo his hand-me-down gun. Meanwhile Oryou made frog chocolate, or "frocolate", but accidentally ate it all. |
| 1467 | |
| 1468 | [[AC:15 Bespectacled Intellectuals]] |
| 1469 | * Even though the event has everyone wear spectacles, Karna somehow ends up as the only person wearing sunglasses akin to ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''. Arjuna Alter even lampshades this, with Karna being so embarrassed, he instantly dematerialized. Nobukatsu then asks if the Indian heroes are ok with that as their last conversation. |
| 1470 | * While debating what they should compete in, Gawain brings up a game of chance with Hajime agreeing with him. Medusa and Mordred however aren't having any of it. |
| 1471 | ** Their names are briefly changed, with Gawain and Hajime being dubbed "Luck: A" and Medusa and Mordred being dubbed "Luck: E & Luck: D" |
| 1472 | * Enkidu wonders if they should bring in a judge. Mordred believes she knows a Ruler who wears glasses, but it's actually the Archer class that wore them. The servant that fits the criteria? Jeanne D'Arc. |
| 1473 | * Speaking of Nobukatsu, he tries to shirk off work, only for the protagonist to remark that his excuses are a bit too similar to a certain blonde Saber back at Chaldea. As it turns out, Jason apparently was a bad influence on Nobukatsu, but before he could finish he was dragged off by Atalante, Asclepius and Heracles. |
| 1474 | * Some of the Craft Essences in Chaldea Boys 2022 are worth chuckling over: |
| 1475 | ** "Chaldea Delinquent Gang" has [[ShrinkingViolet Mandricardo]] sandwiched between Caenis and Nagayoshi. |
| 1476 | ** "Power Shot" has the thin Moriarty hang out with the buff Iskandar and Ashiya Douman at the golf course, coming to the conclusion that he cannot compete with 2 power-obsessed men based on distance. Also: |
| 1477 | ---> '''Moriarty''': [[CrackOwMyBack My back hurts!]] |
| 1478 | ** "Water Gun Battle" has the main male Servants from ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' having a water gun fight, where Cu Chulainn and Gilgamesh tease EMIYA on his aiming skills despite being an Archer, and it's revealed that somehow, Cu managed to get his hands on Summer Altria's water gun despite Gilgamesh sending in requests every 5 minutes. And who invited Cu and EMIYA to Gilgamesh's resort? |
| 1479 | ---> '''Cu and EMIYA''': ''(In a small voice)'' You (Gilgamesh) did. |
| 1480 | |
| 1481 | [[AC:Sea Monster Crisis - Floating Island of the Innocents]] |
| 1482 | * The Cons, having previously been taught to greet others with "Hello" by the Trung Sisters, are also taught alternate greetings of "Howdy" and "Namaste" from Calamity Jane and Lakshmi Bai respectively. They end up combining these greetings into "Helldyste", [[RunningGag which they continue to use through the rest of the event]]. |
| 1483 | --> '''Protagonist''': "What the helldyste?" |
| 1484 | * [[TheStoic Morgan]], at several points, gets moments where she shows she's NotSoAboveItAll. She's just as charmed by [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter the Cons]] as everyone else, she ''sulks'' when Habetrot has to work and leaves her alone, and when coming across Nhi and the Cons, she wants to try walking on stilts. |
| 1485 | * Throughout the event, Chaldea has to make equipment for the Cons or facilities on the island to help fight the sea monsters. At one point, they need to build a way to get around the island quickly. Carmilla suggests cars while Europa and Parvati suggest mechanical cows, but what is the protagonist's idea? [[CoolAirship Miniature Vimanas]], based off of Gilgamesh's and Arjuna Alter's. The Trung Sisters are deeply confused by how no one knows how the real things actually work, but the Cons are too excited to be flying to care. |
| 1486 | ** On that same note, da Vinci actually asked Gilgamesh to show her his Vimana to figure out how it works, but he refused. Moriarty later tries with the same line, only for Gilgamesh to blast him. As da Vinci puts it, Moriarty is now recuperating from a twisted hip he got from desperately fleeing an "Enuma-like attack". |
| 1487 | * While a SugarWiki/CrowningMomentOfAwesome for Morgan, during her summoning ritual for the being eventually known as Taisui Xingjun, some of the catalysts involved hair samples of other entities with divinity -- namely the present Ereshkigal, Lambdaryllis, and Wu Zetian, snatched on the fly right off their heads. They were NOT amused. |
| 1488 | * Everyone is understandably intimidated by Taisui Xingjun, since according to Wu Zetian, Taisui is considered a god of misfortune. Taisui himself only utters a few words before instantly transforming into his child form, complete with a 'Helldyste!'. Ereshkigal's [[BigWhat response]] is pretty much what the audience was thinking. |
| 1489 | |
| 1490 | [[AC: Arctic Summer World ~Chaldea's Midsummer Tour of the Magical Park~]] |
| 1491 | * Fou's response to Lady Avalon a.k.a. Proto Merlin's appearance is to torpedo ram into her, just like how he did with Merlin in Babylonia. |
| 1492 | * Gareth and Yan Qing's summer Saint Graphs were made by Skaði, while Asclepius's was made by Scáthach. Ashiya Douman? He apparently tinkered with his own Saint Graph for the summer, appearing in a yukata with creepy pop-out morning glories. When the Protagonist and Gareth comment on how creepy they are, Douman makes them vanish complete with sparkles. |
| 1493 | * Douman being surprisingly good at explaining theme park mechanics becomes fourth wall humor when one finds out that [[Creator/ToshiyukiMorikawa his seiyuu]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF8m8OM06uU made the park closing announcements for Tokyo Disney Sea]]. |
| 1494 | * Almost all of Erice's Argonauts casting for the "Argo Adventure" show in her area of the theme park: |
| 1495 | ** Because the real Jason escaped from work (again), Erice had to find a substitute. Said substitute is none other than... |
| 1496 | ---> '''Voyager''': [[GratuitousEnglish I am Captain Jason!]] |
| 1497 | ** The other cast members include: |
| 1498 | *** Orion as Hercules, who immediately asks if there are any cute girls. |
| 1499 | *** Robin Hood as Atalante, who complains about gender accuracy. Which is considered even funnier when you remember how many male historical figures that are female in the franchise. |
| 1500 | *** Both Lancer and Assassin versions of Li Shuwen as the Dioscuroi twins. The protagonist has the option to lampshade that rather than being siblings, they're basically the same person. The two Lis in their intro call each other "brother" (the older Li) and "sister" (the younger Li). |
| 1501 | *** And lastly, Jack the Ripper as Asclepius. In front of the real Asclepius, no less! |
| 1502 | * [[ItMakesSenseInContext Captain Nemo getting an injection shot by Asclepius]]. |
| 1503 | * Upon hearing that the next area is run by Minamoto no Raikou, Douman tries to find an excuse to stay behind on the boat by changing his clothes (to what he calls Polar Bear Mode). The Protagonist has none of it and has Gareth and Yan Qing carry him out. |
| 1504 | ---> '''Douman''': Ahhh!! Stop, stop! Please do not carry this humble priest like a chaise lounge! |
| 1505 | * In a side story, Gareth meets Morgan and Baobhan Sith in the Hawaiian Genji area. When asked by Morgan if it's her first time too, Gareth instinctively calls her "mom" without realising that the Morgan in Chaldea is the Lostbelt version and not the Proper Human History version that she's more familiar with. While Baobhan Sith looks offended, if one looks closely Morgan has a small smile on her face. Still, Gareth immediately runs off in embarrassment. |
| 1506 | * Wu Zetian, Shuten Douji and Ibuki Douji's area is a haunted house. However, it doesn't seem to have many visitors... because their ideas worked a little ''too'' well, scaring the crap out of Osakabehime, Illya and Chloe. |
| 1507 | * Some of the park headline announcements are worth a total laugh. |
| 1508 | ** Sei Shonagon gets arrested ''three times''. The first arrest has her pouring a ton of soap water down the water slide to try and make bubbles, the second arrest has her dump a bunch of salmon down the slide to try and attract bears for a photo, and the third arrest has her pour somen noodles down the slide for ''no particular reason''. The first two times have her claim to express remorse, but the third time has her colleague (implied to be Murasaki) angrily comment on how she showed no remorse and didn't bother reflecting on her actions at all. |
| 1509 | ** There are reports of a "naked buff man" on the beam of the roof. The operation staff deduces that it's likely just Ashiya Douman taking off his yukata (as a nod to his Final Ascension). |
| 1510 | ** Anastasia opens up an ice cream shop in the North Pole. The headline reports a volley of Noble Phantasms firing off between Anastasia's shop and a rival shop known as "North Pole Shaved Ice", reporting the scene as ''hell on earth.'' In the end, the two shops form a truce and create a new joint product known as "North Pole Anastasia Manjuu". |
| 1511 | ** A park game was criticized for being too difficult, and gained positive reviews after the difficulty was reduced, much to [[ComplexityAddiction Vritra's]] complete annoyance. |
| 1512 | ** Mysterious Heroine X Alter creates a new dish known as "Galaxy Butter Dango Red Bean Soup". Unsurprisingly, the park guests are left struggling to understand what the hell Galaxy Butter is. |
| 1513 | ** Skaði tries to enjoy some shaved ice under the pretense of doing a routine check. When she gets caught by the paparazzi, she immediately claims she's "the Scáthach who throws spears". |
| 1514 | * Jeanne Alter's area is a mini [=ServaFes=]. After Skaði learns about [=ServaFes=] and doujinshi, she uses her runes to become an InstantExpert on creating her own. Jeanne Alter can only react in incredulous speechlessness, while begging the protagonist to explain how and why Skaði can do that. |
| 1515 | * Among the doujinshi offered at [=ServaFes=] 2022 is a manga called "''Sorry, My Wife is a {{Yandere}}''", featuring Kriemhild. No guesses as to the work's author. |
| 1516 | * It turns out that Skaði received the Holy Grail from Douman... and no one is surprised by his betrayal in the least; Douman's actually disappointed as he was looking forward to the reveal, while Asclepius only comments that Douman never seems to learn from his losses. |
| 1517 | * Douman gets put in a jar again as punishment for his mischief. And apparently it's revealed that said jar actually belonged to Abe no Seimei who gave it to Murasaki Shikibu, who then lent it to Kama last year, and that Seimei has 3 other 'punishment' tools specifically for keeping the Beautiful Carnivore in check. Is Seimei actually into [=BDSM=]? |
| 1518 | |
| 1519 | [[AC:GUDAGUDA New Yamataikoku 2022]] |
| 1520 | * After Sen no Rikyu leaves and thus leaves the shop empty, the shopkeeper is replaced by ''a Mini Nobu in a tea mug''. It speaks normally (albeit with the typical Mini-Nobu voice), but [[VerbalTic ends all its sentences in "nobbu"]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXkKmE1bQPA It has to be seen to be believed.]] |
| 1521 | [[/folder]] |
| 1522 | |
| 1523 | [[folder:2023 Events]] |
| 1524 | [[AC:Valentine 2023: Johanna and the Unconfirmed Love]] |
| 1525 | * Kukulkan's Valentine scene is one massive ComicallyMissingThePoint on the holiday as she gets it into her head that Valentine's Day is some kind of tournament to try and win over someone's heart in one go, even after Kotomine attempts to explain for her. After consulting Archetype: Earth where they mutually agree to make something incredibly unique, she goes and steals all of Tezcatlipoca's chocolate to make her gift for the protagonist. Upon receiving it, they both get teleported into space. This is a feature, not a bug. Kukulkan then finally learns that chocolate is an edible and is flabbergasted at humans giving each other food as a gift for a holiday when her chocolate creation is absolutely not consumable by humans, but promises to tweak her gift to have less frequent triggers for teleportation. |
| 1526 | * Tezcatlipoca's scene demonstrates the consequences of Kukulkan stealing all his chocolate as he goes to drink and sulk, complaining that being consoled by Fou of all creatures is the lowest he's ever been. |
| 1527 | * Archetype: Earth's scene features the "True Ancestor Princess" (stage 1), Arcueid Brunestud (stage 2), and Archetype: Earth (stage 3) bickering with each other in the Inner Sea of the Planet over what to do about this holiday. Arcueid then amazes True Ancestor Princess and Archetype: Earth with her ability to cook chocolate without using her Marble Phantasm (cheating). Arcueid tries to teach them but True Ancestor Princess's attempt turns out to be a complete failure and as the prideful princess she is she immediately denies doing anything wrong and leaves, effectively running away much to Arcueid's annoyance. |
| 1528 | * During Charlemagne's scene, he takes the Master out for a walk only for it to rain buckets. He says it would be bad news for them if the Master caught a cold and when the Master asks why it would be bad for Charlemagne, he says that their parents will get really angry at him. Cut to Raikou, Nemo Nurse, Goredolf and Nightingale angrily glaring at him. |
| 1529 | * Kriemhild spends her entire scene wildly switching between anxious about getting her chocolates for Siegfried just right and [[{{Tsundere}} angrily rambling in embarrassment every time the Master even mentions him]]. Special mention to when the Master correctly deduces who she wants to make chocolates for and Kriemhild proceeds to go on a rant asking [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial why she should make handmade chocolates with a handwritten note for that no good man]]. The CE description notes that the chocolates she gave to Siegfried and her Master are identical but the first came with a long-winded letter about what an absolute failure Siegfried is in every way and the second came with a long-winded letter imploring that nobody is to ever imitate Siegfried in any way ever. |
| 1530 | * Xu Fu's scene is chock-full of laughs, as she tries to make chocolate for Yu Mei-ren. The problem is that she doesn't even know how to make chocolate, so she enlists the help of both the Master and Sancho Panza. The first two attempts at making chocolate fail miserably, and the Master's judgments from taste-testing send Xu Fu into a crying frenzy that would make [[Literature/{{Konosuba}} Aqua]] proud, with various sound effects indicating that she's violently shaking them as she's crying. |
| 1531 | * Zhang Jue keeps insisting on giving the protagonist yellow clothing and various Servants show up to make him go away every time out of fear that he'll brainwash them. Eventually he [[LoopholeAbuse gives them a yellow tie dyed red that'll wash off really fast if put under water]]. |
| 1532 | |
| 1533 | [[AC:AprilFoolsDay 2023: Fate/Grail League]] |
| 1534 | * Mash and Ophelia talk about how one day, they'll all be in Heaven and be able to have a tea party. Beryl chimes in that this sounds nice, to which Mash reminds him that it's going to be in ''Heaven.'' |
| 1535 | * Apparently, Chaldea initially had plans to give Team A a side-gig as a baseball team. They ended up canning it because Team A was ''too good'' and was beating professional baseball teams. |
| 1536 | * The April Fools' app has an entirely ''new'' set of art for every Servant in the game at the time (including any alts) and even the Crypters done by several artists, all baseball-themed. Some standouts: |
| 1537 | ** Scáthach's "bat" is her Gae Bolg, which has several pierced baseballs on it like marshmallows. And she's looking to add more. |
| 1538 | ** Fergus doing his best [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Brock]] impression. |
| 1539 | ** Kid Gilgamesh firing baseballs out of his Gate of Babylon. |
| 1540 | ** Da Vinci going overboard with a reference to [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Doctor Octopus]], having a backpack of metal arms equipped with baseball gloves. |
| 1541 | ** Da Vinci (Rider) going ''more'' overboard by driving a miniature Shadow Border with a ''very large'' baseball cannon mounted on its roof. |
| 1542 | ** Kingprotea, being too big to fit in the baseball stadium, sits outside of it acting as a referee. ''She sees all.'' |
| 1543 | ** Ganesha is surrounded by several large tubs of popcorn. |
| 1544 | ** Several Servants are going around serving alcohol, which isn't odd at first -- until you see that one of them is Summer ''Illya'', the 10-year-old delivering suds with a smile on her face, with Ruby transformed into a beer tap. |
| 1545 | ** Okita Alter (Saber) holding up Rengoku who is swinging the bat. |
| 1546 | ** Minamoto-no-Tametomo wearing a ''baseball''-shaped mecha armor. |
| 1547 | ** Rasputin wielding ''several'' baseball bats like Black Keys. |
| 1548 | ** Archer Moriarty goes for the slide into a base only to crack his back again. |
| 1549 | |
| 1550 | [[AC:F/GO x F/GO Arcade Collaboration Event: Spiralling Testament World - Lilim Harlot ~The Unapplauded Rose~]] |
| 1551 | * After the seriousness of the Protagonist's and Draco's ChainedHeat situation has been established, they begin the process to undo it by visiting the seven fragments of her Testament World and claiming a [[MacGuffin Incarnadine essence]] from each of their Floor Guardians. First on the menu is Babylon, Draco's home turf, which she espouses with a hint of pride as a lavish city... and the serious tone is thrown right out the window when they arrive, as ''the entire Singularity has been converted into a Servant beach resort''. Draco is so beyond livid that dashes off intending to rip the Floor Guardian in half. |
| 1552 | * The change to Babylon is explained when we see that the Floor Guardian is not Draco's [[TheDragon dragon]] Nebuchadnezzar II possessing Gilgamesh, but ''actually'' Gilgamesh. Turns out he did this to Draco's city out of petty revenge for said possession -- with Merli- ''[[InsistentTerminology Lady Avalon]]'' enabling him. With Babylon under Gilgamesh's full control, the gang has no choice but to complete his "missions" if they want Luxuria, and [[{{Troll}} Lady Avalon pointedly refuses all pleas to speed things up]]. What follows is '''a genuine Evil of Humanity and her cohorts being thrown into a GagReel''': |
| 1553 | ** [[MasterPoisoner Locusta]] fights Summer Altria with her mushrooms. Altria, who finds any cooking better than British (*cough*Gawain's*cough*) cooking, ''heals'' from the mushrooms. |
| 1554 | ** Draco having a clearly jealous opinion of Summer Hokusai's assets. |
| 1555 | ** Medb's obsession with Cú Chulainn also extends to his younger self. ''He's not okay with this.'' |
| 1556 | ** Lady Avalon is watching from the sidelines with clear amusement... until Summer Altria Alter temporarily knocks her out, with an affirmative nod to us silently stating, "I know how you feel. Here's a brief reprieve." |
| 1557 | ** Summer Yu Mei-ren having a CutenessProximity moment with Draco and Summer Tamamo. Neither are amused. |
| 1558 | ** Sétanta and Locusta are pensive when preparing to fight Summer Jeanne. They're proven right when she sics Reece XP on them. |
| 1559 | * Once the missions are completed, Gilgamesh awaits at the 100th floor of the hotel for an epic battle... which is immediately crashed by Tiamat having gone full MyBelovedSmother mode, aiming to separate Draco and the Protagonist come hell or high water. ''Tiamat'' ends up being the boss of the area with ''Gilgamesh forced to help us''. After Tiamat has been repelled, Gilgamesh is so miserable after having his fun ruined that he [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere just gives us Luxuria and kicks us out]]. |
| 1560 | * Lost Jerusalem ends up just as bad as Babylon and it looks like Draco is about to blow her stack again, only for the rage to come from '''''[[OOCIsSeriousBusiness the Protagonist]]''''' this time. Why? Jerusalem is now ''[[TraumaButton Halloween-themed]]''. Anyone familiar with Elizabeth Bathory in ''Grand Order'' will know this is a bad sign. |
| 1561 | ** Draco's ignorant response: |
| 1562 | ---> '''Draco (shouting):''' And what is Halloween!? |
| 1563 | ** The Protagonist feels the need to explain their Chaldea's experiences with Halloween. Draco actually looks ''concerned'' with how much they're rambling. |
| 1564 | ---> '''Draco:''' So rare and so strange an event never occurred in the other Chaldea. |
| 1565 | ---> '''Protagonist:''' It must be peaceful... |
| 1566 | ---> '''Sétanta:''' ...What kind of crap's going on in your Chaldea? |
| 1567 | ** A side-event features Elizabeth actually showing up under the nickname "Nightmare's Omen"... for only a single fight scene, because the Protagonist ''ordered her knocked out on sight''. They can only comment to their shocked party members that they just saved the Singularity from an imminent disaster. |
| 1568 | ** Draco praising Elizabeth's "screaming attack", not realizing [[DreadfulMusician what it REALLY was]] and proving [[ObliviousToHisOwnDescription even with the benefit of age, she's still as tone deaf as ever]]. Only Locusta and the Protagonist know the truth and mutually agree to keep it to themselves. |
| 1569 | ** The two Molays finally learning about each other’s existence goes as well as you’d expect. From Foreigner Molay’s horrified face as she realizes that he truly does exist despite her taunts earlier in the scene, to Saber Molay’s scolding her and calling her “witch”. The funniest part? After Saber Molay forces Foreigner Molay to take responsibilities of her actions, he assumes control of her body for the remainder of their screentime. |
| 1570 | * Ritsuka Fujimaru finally meets Hakuno Kishinami in a poignant scene... where Hakuno begins introducing themselves as [[RunningGag Francis Xavier]], only to backtrack when they realize that Fujimaru might actually believe them since they've met so many Servants already. |
| 1571 | * When Draco is rescued from her rebelling Incarnadines, she comes out of it in a new form... with the bombastic personality of the adult Nero, introducing herself as "Isekai-Incarnated Claudius" and "Demon Beast Emperor Draco" (both of which the Protagonist quickly shoots down) and eagerly accepting Tiamat's hug (or rather, enjoying her "assets"). |
| 1572 | * When Draco is back to her normal form and personality after the finale, she goes full {{Tsundere}}, angrily pretending that her adult form didn't happen and demanding that everyone else does too. Not even Locusta is exempt. |
| 1573 | --> '''Sétanta:''' [[SkewedPriorities "She didn't even get this mad at [Locusta's] actual betrayal."]] |
| 1574 | * Goredolf and Kadoc learn that the Protagonist contracted with a Beast at the end of the story. Goredolf panics because he thinks he has so much more left in life to do, while Kadoc [[NoJustNoReaction decides]] he has a headache and needs to lie down. |
| 1575 | * Noah’s total absence in the event might be upsetting...until you realize that Draco hates sloths like him and how ridiculously anti-Rider the event’s farming stages are. It’s as if she totally expected him to come in and get humiliated again. |
| 1576 | |
| 1577 | [[AC:Mystic Eyes Symphony ~Enchanting Forest and Lovely Footprints~]] |
| 1578 | * How does Oberon make his event debut? Complaining about the forest the Protagonist and co. are deployed to, saying that a goddess (heavily implied to be Caren/Amour) forced him to buy an expensive hammer, so he took out a loan to pay for it... under the Protagonist's name, which means ''they'' are the one to pay it back instead of Oberon. He then retreats to the control room [[BlatantLies claiming to be a non-combatant]]. |
| 1579 | * Zhang Jue uses magic to turn an entire flower field yellow, to the anger of Caster Nero who'd much rather see red flowers. They get into a gag routine inspired by ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty''... that quickly devolves into a full-blown BeamOWar. |
| 1580 | * One of the events involves Duryodhana and Nine-Tattoo Dragon Eliza getting into a petty fight about whose 100+ followers are better. Not only is the idea of a legendary prince getting into a spat with a little kid already funny, he ends up ''losing'' when Nobukatsu and Paris (who were press-ganged into the argument for their "little brother" status) get tired of the whole thing and push him out of the treehouse. |
| 1581 | * To the amusement of players with a feet fetish, the event involves taking pictures of the Servants' feet. More specifically, of their shoes. For reviewing purposes. To be fair, it was Baobhan Sith's idea. |
| 1582 | ** When you get pictures of a Servant's foot/feet, the picture has a comment from Baobhan Sith in cute handwriting. It's even more hilarious if the foot/feet in question belongs to someone she doesn't like but she still compliments the feet, especially if she calls them cute. |
| 1583 | * Johanna panics when she's asked for a photo, assuming she's getting tricked into becoming a gravure model. When Mash and the Protagonist reassure her that they just need a picture of her shoes, she says the quiet part out loud and [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall directly asks if this is some kind of weird fetish thing]]. |
| 1584 | * The main party finally manages to get back to My Room, only to find an all-out war between Kiyohime, Anne, Mary, Van Gogh, and Wu Zetian over who gets to sleep in their Master's bed. |
| 1585 | * After that mess is all cleaned up, Charlotte joins in, getting an offer from Columbus and Sheba to get her a bedroom meetup with "that adorable guy everyone loves". She takes up the offer, only to find out that from Sheba's point of view, that meant a camel. |
| 1586 | * Chen Gong attempts to activate his NP and use it in the battle against him but Nemo Engineer throws a wrench at him, instantly knocking him out of the fight before he gets to do anything else. |
| 1587 | * Some of the portrait-collecting groups are ''sidesplitting'': |
| 1588 | ** Stage 23 has Karna, Hector and Lancer Ryouma rushing in to check on the Protagonist's well-being. You still have to fight them to get their pictures. |
| 1589 | ** Stage 26 features the {{Yandere}} bed trio, except because Kiyohime already had bed-chasing screentime in this event, she's replaced by a different dragon girl: Mélusine. Who is labelled "Is there Anything Wrong with Entering My Lover's Room?" no less! |
| 1590 | ** Stage 29 has Kiara and Summer Kama feeling uneasy about being grouped together. Meanwhile Draco's boasting about being able to retain her Beast class unlike the other two. |
| 1591 | |
| 1592 | [[AC:Servant Summer Festival! 2023]] |
| 1593 | * Servant Summer Festival is back, and it's just as, if not even more hilarious than the 2018 edition. |
| 1594 | * When Suzuka Gozen shows off her new swimsuit, Lancelot and Tristan proceed to flirt with her, while poor Gawain tries to stop them. She then asks if the trio are really Knights of the Round Table or part of Blackbeard's Crew. |
| 1595 | * When Lancelot, Gawain and Tristan show off their (now playable) costumes, they give off BishieSparkles and their introduction is priceless: |
| 1596 | ---> '''Lancelot, Gawain and Tristan''': "We are! The Absolute Gentlemen! 3 Round Knights Brothers!" |
| 1597 | ** Even better is that this intro is recycled from Nahui Mictlan's intro sequence for the xoqqer obsessed Deinonychus Bros, implying that the KOTR may have the Tam Lin as Lostbelt counterparts but their true spiritual brothers-in-arms from the Lostbelts were ''the very dim jock bro dinosaurs''. |
| 1598 | * The debut of Baob- uhm, Cait Cu Cernpriestess has her ride on top of a rising Cernunnos, leaving the 3 knights, the Protagonist, Altria Caster, Suzuka and Chloe with a FlatWhat and inflicting a collective HeroicBSOD among the players. |
| 1599 | * Oberon's entire debut scene: |
| 1600 | ** When Mash notices someone watching them on the beach and the Protagonist calls out to that person surrounded by butterflies: |
| 1601 | ---> '''Oberon(?)''': "Ah, you got the wrong person. I've got no business with you, so bye." |
| 1602 | ** After Oberon agrees to help the Protagonist, he proceeds to drag them, Mash and Lancelot into playing with him. The proceeding battle has him summon a number of creatures... all of whom are sporting the signature Altria IdiotHair. |
| 1603 | ** After his defeat, Oberon proceeds to disappear, with Mash and Lancelot panicking because Oberon's Saint Graph Signature faded even though Lancelot held back during the battle. You can choose to assure the duo that Oberon's just pranking them or call Oberon out on his bullshit (and that option is highlighted in the same red as the "doubt Oberon" options in Avalon le Fae). |
| 1604 | ** Later, Oberon advises Mash to be wary of bad fairies who might deceive her. [[HypocriticalHumor Even though he himself has no right to say such a thing]] given his [[ManipulativeBastard nature as the guy who played the entirety of Faerie Britain like an ensemble of fiddles]]. |
| 1605 | * To get Oberon to help out with entering the forest, the player has to buy a soda-flavoured ice cream popsicle from the shop. As in, the event shop. Oberon is disgruntled that the Protagonist has to work even during summer vacation but accepts the ice cream. Additionally, the shopkeeper at the time is A.A.A, who gets particularly suspicious when you purchase the ice cream, asking who the protagonist is going to give it to. |
| 1606 | * Apparently Oberon's "Refreshing Summer Prince" Spiritron Dress actually belonged to Altria Caster, which meant that ''he was crossdressing all this time''. Once he gets busted, his face puckers up as though he just ate a lemon. Later when trying to weasel his way out of Altria's accusations, he declares that what she's wearing now is more suitable for summer, and we can ''agree with him with a handshake''. Altria promptly calls us weird for agreeing about this fact. |
| 1607 | * As it turns out, Lady Avalon states that if her identity gets revealed, she'll be gone forever, and Altria Caster learns with her [[LivingLieDetector Fae Eyes]] that Lady Avalon is actually telling the truth there. |
| 1608 | * The first Calamity of Hawaltria is a flaming Cernnunos... except that it's called Moenunnos and it has a comically adorable angry face. Cernunnos's theme is even remixed to be in a major key and include whistles and congo drums to make it fit with the summer atmosphere. |
| 1609 | * Some of the enemies that appear in Hawaltria are kangaroos, ''which aren't even native to Hawaii in the first place''. The protagonist can {{lampshade|hanging}} this and conclude that the 'tria' in "Hawaltria" probably represents "Australia" since that's where kangaroos are supposed to be. They end up being right. |
| 1610 | * After the appeasement of Moenunnos, a massive typhoon strikes Hawaltria. [[TooDumbToLive Blackbeard promptly charges at it and is blown away for the effort]]. |
| 1611 | * When the "Spirit King of Darkness" is mentioned as a possible culprit for why [=ServaFes=] is being targeted, Oberon wonders who came up with the name in the first place. Later during the massive typhoon, the Protagonist can identify a certain silhouette with that moniker, who is revealed to be ''Oberon Vortigern'' who threatens to kill whoever came up with the nickname and complains that [=AlCas=] ruined his planned great villain reveal by playing detective. |
| 1612 | * Earlier on, Oberon mentioned that he was unable to purchase a summer outfit on a tab. When Oberon Vortigern shows up, you can induce SkewedPriorities by pointing out that he eventually did get his own outfit, to which he scolds us for not prioritizing our safety during the typhoon, though he casually reveals that he simply walked into a branded store and got one. Cue the Hot Topic jokes from the playerbase. |
| 1613 | * With Moennunos out of the way, the Spirit King of Darkness reveals that the 2nd Calamity of Hawaltria will be on the way. Its name? Seannunos. [=AlCas=] promptly complains about the cheap naming convention. |
| 1614 | * A triathlon is about to be held, with 100 million QP as the grand prize! Achilles wants to register, but Atalante stops him because he's got his work as a forest guard and if he tries anyway she'll shoot him ''and'' his horses. |
| 1615 | * Morgan suddenly shows up in the Protagonist's hotel room, and when they ask why she just showed up like that she simply said that "it's her hotel and she can do whatever she wants". |
| 1616 | * The massive typhoon from Seanunnos earlier? It was Morgan's doing and it's because [[ClingyJealousGirl the protagonist never came to her side of the island]]. |
| 1617 | * The protagonist has just been made another prize of the triathlon (which happens to be organized by Morgan) and is locked in their room. Just as they agonize on how to get out of the situation, they see a small and mysterious RidiculouslyCuteCritter floating in the bathtub, who turns out to be Mini Oberon, ducky floaty and all. Not wanting to be involved with Morgan, Oberon promptly falls asleep and you have the option to call for Morgan to get rid of the "Spirit King of Darkness" in their bathroom, which causes Oberon to wake up in a panic. |
| 1618 | * After Mini Oberon helps the Protagonist to organize their thoughts, he advises them to be more open to others aside from himself. You can shoot back by saying that you've never been honest with Oberon either, taking him aback. |
| 1619 | * The triathlon in question manages to be a rapid-fire exercise in hilarity: |
| 1620 | ** The event recently had its rules changed so that participants would have to swim as well, since someone helpfully reminded Morgan through a written note that a triathlon typically involves more than just land travel. Poor Mélusine attempts to withdraw on account of being unable to swim, but is forced to remain because Morgan threatened to expose a secret of hers if she doesn't cooperate. |
| 1621 | ---> '''Mélusine''': Wha- You're being worse than Aurora! |
| 1622 | ** That "helpful someone?" It was '''the Protagonist''' not only cottoning on to Mélusine's weakness, but taking advantage of it by participating in the triathlon as ''a contestant'' partnered with Suzuka, because [[LoopholeAbuse no one can win the Protagonist for a week if THEY'RE the winner]]. It's just knee-slapping to see [[TheEveryman a stock generic hero]] outfox both a humanity-predating dragon and a rule-breaking [[TheArchmage archmage]] with one hastily scribbled note. Oberon taught them well indeed. |
| 1623 | ** Thanks to the Protagonist's counter-scheme, Mélusine lost the triathlon so Morgan decides to summon the typhoon again in a fit of anger. Poor Habetrot tries to stop her, only to be sent flying... and lands on top of the button that promptly awakens Seannunos. [[OhCrap Whoops]]. |
| 1624 | ---> '''[=AlCas=], Suzuka Gozen, Gawain, Francis Drake and [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal Mélusine]]''': '''GODDAMNIT MORGAN!!''' |
| 1625 | * Just after the whole fiasco with Seanunnos is over, the next threat is a possessed Chloe... ''as a Dangerous Beast-type kaiju''. The poor girl became like this because she overworked herself. |
| 1626 | * Just the fact that [[AscendedMeme the Dangerous Beast is now canon]]. The outfits had only ever appeared in {{Fanservice}} gags before, not an actual story setting. [[https://twitter.com/smokeRDP/status/1696066739279388754/ ReDrop (who created the original Dangerous Beast) was simultaneously amused and confused.]] |
| 1627 | * Unable to come up with ideas on defeating Dangerous Beast Chloe without injuring her, the Protagonist once again seeks out Oberon. Upon seeing them and [=AlCas=] together, Oberon happily plays ShipperOnDeck by setting them up on a date, which includes putting [=AlCas=] in her adorable 2nd Ascension dress. |
| 1628 | * Dangerous Beast Chloe had a ''religion'' founded around her overnight while she sleeps. Naturally all eyes fall on Blackbeard, previously all for helping with the doujinshi production but conspicuously absent now, and he is indeed a priest of the religion extoling the virtues of tanned magical girls. Even '''''[[AllLovingHero ILLYA]]''''' sincerely wanted to kill him. |
| 1629 | * After he's beaten, Blackbeard [[NotMeThisTime confesses he was coerced]]. He was actually the first to try ''stopping'' Dangerous Beast Chloe and was nearly killed for it, but was resurrected by the real founder of the religion: Locusta, who Miyu immediately intuits is the one who [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros made Chloe gigantic with her mushrooms]]... except not. Locusta's plans for Chloe are very different and actually ''worse'': using the kaiju-fied Chloe as a terrarium to grow giant mushrooms. Nero thankfully comes along to avert this crime against humanity. |
| 1630 | * Illya and Miyu manage to get Chloe back to normal... after a fashion. They finished their doujinshi for her as planned, but Chloe points out it's riddled with spelling errors -- [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome because it's a 292 page work that no one had time to proofread]] [[HoistByHisOwnPetard because of Chloe's impending rampage]]. Chloe is so mortified that the spirit possessing her leaves out of ''shock'' rather than appeasement. |
| 1631 | * Chloe doesn't remember what she did as a kaiju. Illya chooses to keep quiet so as not to hurt Chloe's feelings... but Miyu decides Chloe should know what she did wrong, and [[BrutalHonesty recounts the entire incident in detail]]. Seeing [[LovableSexManiac Chloe]] so ashamed that she doesn't want to show her face in the city anymore is ''something''. |
| 1632 | * Earlier in the story, Baobhan Sith is discovered squatting in the house of some "bookish type" in the woods and asks the Protagonist not to tattle to her mother. They agree... until Baobhan tears into their doujinshi a little ''too'' hard. The Protagonist asks to borrow Suzuka's bike, and the next scene they've driven it to Morgan's hotel... seems even the Protagonist can be petty when they want to be. |
| 1633 | * Morgan does indeed show up at the house -- not as Morgan, but as ''Aesc the Savior'', whom Baobhan doesn't recognize. Turns out ''she's'' the owner of the house and Baobhan was unwittingly covering for her, resulting in a very different (and heartwarming) interaction instead of the scolding that the Protagonist was hoping for. Even the overly serious Morgan knows how to be a {{Troll}}. |
| 1634 | * Baobhan Sith suggests to put Habetrot in the protagonist's doujinshi because her only good quality is her charming appearance. Mash goes on a long rant about how Habetrot has so many other good qualities to her name and concludes they need to completely revise the story to allow for her plot role. Baobhan Sith is very taken aback, especially baffled that Aesc and Mash are now shaking hands over this. |
| 1635 | * Once again, the scenarios with each doujin circle are a barrel of laughs: |
| 1636 | ** Lady Avalon created a board game based on the journey of Altria... with an "Excalibur" space that invokes a NonStandardGameOver because Altria's life was basically over as soon as she pulled the sword from the stone. This hitting close to home for Alcas, along with several other (more grounded) misgivings about the game, sets her off on such an inflammatory rant that Lady Avalon ''faints''. |
| 1637 | ** Tomoe's group includes Ozymanidas because he happened to be good at video game programming. His testimonials? Voyager, Taisui, Jeanne Alter Santa Lily and Nursery Rhyme, who are all crowding around a TV. After producing 2 Altria-themed games, Tomoe's about to namedrop their real-life counterparts but [[YouWannaGetSued the Protagonist shushes her before she could finish]]. |
| 1638 | ** At the start of Team Water Margin's 1st doujin-production scenario, Huyan Zhuo will ask if the protagonist remembers her. You can choose to (jokingly) say that you've forgotten her name, which leads to her desummoning herself in grief. |
| 1639 | ** Who does Bakin's circle recruit for assistance with their free topic? Oberon, who [[FailedASpotCheck coincidentally appeared beside the Protagonist without anyone realizing]]. Later, he asks for a melon soda "as payment", only for the Protagonist to have seen this coming and had already ordered a Blue Hawaiian Melon Soda in advance. Then just before Oberon's about to tuck in, Mysterous Idol XX Alter points out that melon soda ''does not contain any actual melon whatsoever'', leaving him stunned. |
| 1640 | |
| 1641 | [[AC:Wandjina World Tour]] |
| 1642 | * Wandjina gets a [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] thrown at her when she states how long it's been since she's seen Chaldea. From her perspective it might've been longer, but the time it's actually been since her debut, which Mash points out, was ''only since the previous event''.[[note]]The timelock that revealed Wandjina in "Servant Summer Festival! 2023" was on August 17th. The beginning of "Wandjina World Tour" was September 20th, barely over a month later.[[/note]] |
| 1643 | * Chaldea manages to find the Holy Grail for the Singularity surprisingly quickly... [[YouCantThwartStageOne too quickly in fact, given that it was during the first timelock]]. The caveat doesn't come from any opposing force, but from the Grail itself -- which proceeds to ''[[SlipperyMacGuffin sprout legs and flee]]''. Everyone is so baffled that they forget to give chase. (The fandom, on the other hand, fell in love with the "Leg-Grail" on sight.) |
| 1644 | ** When Chaldea corners the Grail a second time, it responds by launching into the air with rocket feet. |
| 1645 | ** The third time sadly isn't the charm, as the Grail proceeds to cheat and ''teleport'' away. |
| 1646 | ** The fourth time, the Grail was ''somehow'' caught by Elizabeth Bathory making her contractually-obligated October appearance. Chaldea begs her not to let it go. It responds by rocketing off again ''with Liz holding on''. |
| 1647 | |
| 1648 | [[AC:Full Speed Ahead! Kawanakajima in 24 Hours: GUDAGUDA Super Goryōkaku]] |
| 1649 | * The event introduces the new Dri-Nobu, Mini Nobus driving convertible [[Manga/InitialD Truenos]]. As always, they start out antagonistic, until the entire Nobu fighting force defects and joins the Takeda clan solely because Shingen has the coolest car in the singularity. |
| 1650 | * Hajime and Shinpachi show off their... complicated relationship by greeting each other like old friends, and then ''immediately'' starting to brawl. |
| 1651 | * Itou has Okita, Hajime and Hotaru cornered on the [[FloatingContinent now-flying]] "Super Goryōkaku" (a name that is declared lame and uninspired as soon as it's uttered). As they can't exactly jump off the cliff from that high up, all hope seems lost... until Okita ''strips'' out of nowhere, revealing her swimsuit, and takes off like a rocket thanks to her Servant Universe jetpack. Everyone involved is completely stunned by this turn of events, and Itou sheepishly adds it to the growing pile of reasons he's always been terrified of Okita. |
| 1652 | * During the leadup to the final battle, Chaldea sends in some reinforcements: specifically Mash, who didn't want to miss a chance to play general and toot a war horn again, and the Mori siblings. Nagayoshi and Shinpachi instantly hit it off, figuratively and literally: they come back from their first meeting covered in each other's blood and get berated for getting that badly injured right before the final showdown. |
| 1653 | * During the post-script story, it turns out that Takasugi has modified Izou's Saint Graph to be ten times more powerful... at the cost of [[PokemonSpeak only being able to say]] [[BigWhat "NANJAAAAAA!"]]. The ensuing fight replaces all of his voice clips with that, and it's as silly as it sounds. |
| 1654 | [[/folder]] |
| 1655 | |
| 1656 | [[folder:2024 Events]] |
| 1657 | [[AC:Fate/Samurai Remnant: Waxing Moon Clashing Swords Chronicles]] |
| 1658 | * Instead of Tamamo Aria, Iori and Takeru now get to meet [[CloudCuckoolander Tamamo Cat]]. The encounter leaves them so mystified they actually start doing [[https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1642536-cats the infamous space cat meme]]. |
| 1659 | * Towards the end of the event, Shousetsu requests a one-on-one talk. She obviously wants to talk with Iori, but there's an option for the protagonist to get confused and ask if she wants to talk with them instead. She's too polite and starts insisting that's ''clearly'' what she meant all along. |
| 1660 | * Despite the class change, Shousetsu consistently refers to Ushi Gozen as Rider, which eventually spreads to everyone, but that's not the funny part. During the final battle of the event, one of the numerous Shousetsu clones once again calls on Rider to help her, referring to... a zombie quite literally labeled "Just Some Random Monster". |
| 1661 | |
| 1662 | [[AC:Valentine 2024: Beyond the Chocolate River]] |
| 1663 | * In the core story, Kali's appearance is a riot, as the terrifying war goddess is introduced... having a fit of CutenessProximity over the Daikokuten mice, who are understandably freaked out by the intense headpatting action they're getting put through. She's also the only "boss" of the story to not be fought and instead appears as an ally, because her crazed rampage ends up destroying her own side first. Even worse, she completely forgot the objective of throwing the defeated enemies into her side of the river, so the intimidating DestroyerDeity [[EpicFail scored nothing while we scored EVERYTHING]]. She thankfully takes the loss with dignity. |
| 1664 | * Kriemhild appears covered in signs clamoring her love for Siegfried, all the while [[BlatantLies claiming the man she wants to meet is actually Hagen]]. |
| 1665 | * When Andromeda is happily recounting her happy love life with Perseus, a [[HaughtyHmph scornful "tch"]] is heard over the comms. Everyone is confused until da Vinci explains that Medusa had wandered into the comm room, realized Perseus's wife was on the other end, and leaned in far closer to the mic than necessary to scoff at Andromeda before sprinting out of the room. |
| 1666 | * The reveal that Columbus has actually been a vessel for Charon the whole time is accompanied by a list of [[SpottingTheThread all the oddities about him]], such as his producing and throwing away a big bunch of silver coins to help the heroes (which is both unexplained and violently out of character), or constantly referring to "where we ''have'' to go" instead of "where we ''want'' to go". But the first thing that comes to the protagonist's mind is that "Columbus" hasn't made a single of his trademark freaky expressions and creepy chuckles the entire time, leaving Charon... a bit unimpressed. |
| 1667 | * Draco's Valentine starts somewhat serious: the Incarnadines, led by Luxuria, return to capture the Protagonist and bring them back to the bottom of Lilim Harlot (which is just the simulator, as they point out) to lure Draco out. But the reason why they did it deflates the tension immediately: Draco was fussing over getting her chocolate for the Protagonist ''just'' right, so the Incarnadines unanimously decided to force the issue and then dip like some {{Troll}}y game of matchmaker. Draco is so mortified that she can only respond with an embarrassed scream. |
| 1668 | ** Even better is the Protagonist's response, where they can either patiently wait for Draco to get her head together and deliver the chocolate in her bombastic Geocentric form, or force her ''with a Command Seal'' to just get on with it in Heliocentric form. |
| 1669 | ** The Valentine's Craft Essence itself includes a little chocolate effigy of Beast VI/S Rebloomed that... wasn't actually part of it originally. Luxuria snuck it in ''behind the other Incarnadines' backs'' and took all the credit for it, implicitly before the others could do the same. |
| 1670 | * Andromeda's Valentine has her quite careful about giving the Protagonist her Valentine because she fears that if there was the slightest hint of romance when she gives someone her chocolate despite her clear-cut relationship with Perseus, the philandry would be punishable by excruciating death... except it was a made-up law by Saber Medusa just to mess with her. Andromeda is understandably unamused when the Protagonist clears it up. |
| 1671 | -->'''Andromeda:''' [[PunctuatedForEmphasis SHE! TRICKED! ME!]] |
| 1672 | * In Durga/Kali's Valentine, there's an option to pick between Durga or Kali based on a dialogue option. Durga's is generally cordial and in some instances genuinely heartwarming... but Kali's is just hilarious due to her many eccentricities such as doing her victory dance when she successfully made her Valentine (a copy of Shiva's demon-slaying spear made of chocolate) and suggesting they go and find a demon to test its demon-slaying power on. |
| 1673 | ** For that matter, the vision Durga/Kali give when demonstrating the chocolate's demon-slaying properties: Kama looks to try and corrupt Ritsuka only to discover the Shiva-powered Valentine ([[OhCrap much to her terror]]), which completely fries her. When questioned about it, neither Kali nor Durga know why Kama was picked for it. |
| 1674 | * Duryodhana doesn't know about Valentine's Day at first and accepts these chocolates from his Master before trying to bug them for a reason why, only for them to just leave. He then angrily barges in a few hours later, incensed he only found about the holiday from talking to Karna and decides his payback will be wrapping his gift around all the way around the protagonist's head to get one over them. |
| 1675 | * Shousetsu built a complex, exceedingly well-made miniature Japanese garden, while having completely misunderstood the entire concept and thinking chocolate is some kind of decorative clay. She's mortified to find out that you're supposed to eat the thing and not just display it. |
| 1676 | * Tiamat is found crying her heart out, as she looked things up and found the dark truth of Valentine's Day: namely, that [[VirginShaming "getting chocolates from your mom is just sad"]]. |
| 1677 | |
| 1678 | [[AC:Charlemagne's Montjoie and Chivalry Day]] |
| 1679 | * After the Chaldea squad spends most of the event under fake identities, Charlie tries to come clean to the rest of the theater troupe, only to find out that EverybodyKnewAlready. After all, no secret can stay secret for long when it's kept secret by [[TheDitz Astolfo]]. |
| 1680 | * Cyrano apparently can't do percentages, as he claims that Bradamante is "520% Roxane". This is in comparison to Yang Guifei's take on the role, which he evaluated as ''3250%''. |
| 1681 | -->'''Cyrano:''' But knowing her, I fully expect her to catch up really soon...\ |
| 1682 | '''Bradamante:''' Well, Mr. de Bergerac, I ''am'' your cousin!\ |
| 1683 | '''Cyrano:''' 2500%!!\ |
| 1684 | '''Charlemagne:''' Cyrano, there's no point to percentages if you inflate them that hard... |
| 1685 | [[/folder]] |
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