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Shaiapouf 10-Apr-22 11:51 PM
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anyways you know what this game has really lacked up until now
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glitchy enemies
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 10-Apr-22 11:51 PM
... So are there Inner Bugs
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Shaiapouf 10-Apr-22 11:51 PM
yeah this is a nice twist on the whole thing
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inner dungeons are just like, normal dungeons
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Skeith 10-Apr-22 11:52 PM
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Shaiapouf 10-Apr-22 11:52 PM
I suppose Outer Monsters would be a bit too on the nose
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Shaiapouf 10-Apr-22 11:52 PM
God this is some spicy stuff
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Skeith 10-Apr-22 11:57 PM
One of the coolest part of the IMOQ era novels is they all had this neat timeline of how things went down before The World released
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 10-Apr-22 11:58 PM
Umm
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2003/12 huh
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Skeith 10-Apr-22 11:58 PM
Pluto's Kiss being more a last straw thing than the only incident that caused the monopolization of ALIMIT OSes isn't brought up much at all
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 10-Apr-22 11:59 PM
Poor Jim Stonecold
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Shaiapouf 10-Apr-22 11:59 PM
now that I read it closely, this timeline seems to predict GW Bush being a 1 term president
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lmao
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 11-Apr-22 12:00 AM
Ngl read summer 2006 as "CC Corp takes over and becomes the foundation for the world"
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Which is a different terrifying thought
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Shaiapouf 11-Apr-22 12:01 AM
anyways we are gonna have a secret meeting in the empty spaces of The World
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 11-Apr-22 12:01 AM
I guess Kuhn was the other guide
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Shaiapouf 11-Apr-22 12:01 AM
Saku cuts to the heart of it
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 11-Apr-22 12:02 AM
Ovan Does As He Pleases
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Shaiapouf 11-Apr-22 12:02 AM
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 11-Apr-22 12:02 AM
Time for Yata's return with Yet Another Alt
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Shaiapouf 11-Apr-22 12:02 AM
we know, Endrance
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We know, Saku
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 11-Apr-22 12:02 AM
Yet Another Tired Alt
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Shaiapouf 11-Apr-22 12:03 AM
we know saku
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Haseo: I have no idea what's going on at any level at this point but I'm pot commited now
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we'll leave it there for now
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Skeith 11-Apr-22 12:06 AM
I have a personal headcanon that throughout all of Volume 3 Ovan is in Yata's basement while committed his evil deeds and no one realizes
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Zedd-Repulsa 11-Apr-22 01:13 AM
CH and I will still be reading any posts in the next few days, but we just had to say goodbye to their service kitty and probably won't be saying as much
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archaeo 11-Apr-22 01:42 AM
sorry to hear that friends
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I also was following but haven't been in a much of a talkin' mood. still enjoying the world, good luck to master yata or I'm sorry that happened
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whichever is appropriate I haven't scrolled all the way through yet
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Shaiapouf 11-Apr-22 08:47 AM
lol
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Shaiapouf 15-Apr-22 06:18 PM
Its been a fairly long break for a variety of reasons but I think I'll get back to it tonight, after D&D
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as we continue the Sakaki Troll Arc
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Skeith 15-Apr-22 06:20 PM
How long until everyone witnesses the glory of the devs naming the arena antagonists of this disc the Hetero Trio Vol 3 spoilers
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Shaiapouf 15-Apr-22 10:05 PM
Okay so.
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Last time CC corp heard RKO talking shit about them not being evil enough, and so they decided to make an evil 10 year old a GM, as a bit. Lets see how that goes for everyone.
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Okay lets go check out the fanart threads for today.....
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....nevermind
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moving right along lets check our e-mails
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I respect anyone who describes their pet bird as "a quiet and refined young woman."
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so, now that the intro to vol 3 is over
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it is time, once again, to fuck around and find out in the Arena
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however, this time around things are...a bit different
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 15-Apr-22 10:11 PM
yeah that sounds like sakaki (edited)
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Shaiapouf 15-Apr-22 10:12 PM
so, we have seen Taihaku a few times over the course of the games
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this guy
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He was hanging out with Alkaid and Sirius in Vol 1 and congratulated us on winning the tournament in Vol 2
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Most recently he was attacked by....something at the end of vol 2
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 15-Apr-22 10:13 PM
oh I must have missed the attack
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oh I must have missed the attack
Shaiapouf 15-Apr-22 10:13 PM
yeah it was JUST before the church scene at the very end
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Skeith 15-Apr-22 10:13 PM
This guy rules. His episode of Roots is really good with him meeting Harold and getting a sword from him
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Shaiapouf 15-Apr-22 10:13 PM
He's generally been a fairly calm if intense dude so immediately the obvious conclusion is just AIDA infection
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This guy rules. His episode of Roots is really good with him meeting Harold and getting a sword from him
Shaiapouf 15-Apr-22 10:13 PM
oh I forgot all about this actually lol
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oh but right
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it actually is mentioned in game that Taihaku is the OTHER player besides Haseo to finish The Forest of Pain
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quick digression then
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but basically in ROOTS there was this big massive unbeatable dungeon called The Forest of Pain
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Haseo, late in the series, gets through it, after Shino has been put in a coma because he's desperate to get stronger. When he gets down into the center of it he meets a fragmentary AI remnant of Harald Hoerwick (they keep finding more of those I stg) who basically buys him a level skip
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that's how haseo is level 133 when GU starts, before he gets deleveled
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and as Skeith says, Taihaku was the other guy who found Harald, and just got a cool sword
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 15-Apr-22 10:17 PM
yay, cool sword
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Shaiapouf 15-Apr-22 10:17 PM
I should actually give more detail here
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AI Harald asks whoever finds him a simple question
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"Do you know where my daughter is?"
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LettuceKitteh 15-Apr-22 10:18 PM
.... 🙁
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Shaiapouf 15-Apr-22 10:18 PM
Taihaku basically responds in a polite way saying he doesn't know but hopes she is doing well and thats why he gets what I guess you could say is the official prize
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(As I describe all this this lends credence to the idea that the grunties are, in fact, co-opted AIs)
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Haseo, who at this point is already well on the train to angry town, basically tells harald to fuck off and demands his prize
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Harald then hacks his character to make him super strong
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 15-Apr-22 10:19 PM
harald why
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LettuceKitteh 15-Apr-22 10:20 PM
please don't enable the angry boy
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Shaiapouf 15-Apr-22 10:20 PM
and I think the implication, like, thematically of the whole sequence is basically, by leveling Haseo quickly it denies him the chance to actually grow as a person
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Since he's just kinda murder hoboing around and not actually working or cooperating with anyone until circumstances force him to
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in fact, him getting de-leveled by Azure Kite was, long term, a very good thing for his personal development
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....and the person who tricked Haseo into that encounter with Azure Kite was, of course, Ovan.
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who promised him that Tri-edge would be there.
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(Ovan himself was there, hidden, as bait to lure Azure Kite. So not, technically, Lying) (edited)
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well that sure was a digression
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LettuceKitteh 15-Apr-22 10:22 PM
"How will I encourage my friend(??) to grow as a person? Talk with him? Nahhh. I'll just trick him into his personal development. This won't backfire at all." (edited)
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Shaiapouf 15-Apr-22 10:23 PM
the immediate take away of all this is that Taihaku's character has always been characterized as polite to a fault
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so the cheap taunts are a clear sign of something being up
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Sirius agrees, and wants to meet
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in game the PK tournament is all anyone is talking about
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the girl he's talking with says something about there being a special rule in place until a tournament is over, then turns to a passerby
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So.
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This will go well
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Sakaki has been a GM for all of 2 days and now towns are PVP enabled
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 15-Apr-22 10:26 PM
oh fun
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Shaiapouf 15-Apr-22 10:26 PM
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 15-Apr-22 10:26 PM
#sakaki
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Shaiapouf 15-Apr-22 10:26 PM
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 15-Apr-22 10:26 PM
good news for PKKs though
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Shaiapouf 15-Apr-22 10:26 PM
at least some people are having fun
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 15-Apr-22 10:26 PM
now they have people to stab
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Shaiapouf 15-Apr-22 10:26 PM
and yeah
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NET MONEY?
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How is this the first I've heard of this
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 15-Apr-22 10:28 PM
Net Money
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it's like money
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but on the NET
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Shaiapouf 15-Apr-22 10:28 PM
does .hack have cryptocurrency?
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Zedd-Repulsa 15-Apr-22 10:28 PM
possibly
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Shaiapouf 15-Apr-22 10:28 PM
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 15-Apr-22 10:28 PM
didn't you already play this by the way
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Shaiapouf 15-Apr-22 10:28 PM
I mean like 15 years ago yes
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I remember the big plot beats
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 15-Apr-22 10:28 PM
you mean cash?
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yes
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Shaiapouf 15-Apr-22 10:28 PM
Cash
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Extremely good dialog
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I mean that totally unironically
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does he, though
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 15-Apr-22 10:29 PM
meanwhile these guys have box seats
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 15-Apr-22 10:29 PM
these are the most MMO names
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Shaiapouf 15-Apr-22 10:29 PM
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 15-Apr-22 10:30 PM
....I thought he was a sword guy
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"bow before my blade"
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Shaiapouf 15-Apr-22 10:30 PM
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 15-Apr-22 10:30 PM
why does this steam gunner class use a sword
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Shaiapouf 15-Apr-22 10:30 PM
that is, in fact, a gunblade
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 15-Apr-22 10:30 PM
....oh
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Shaiapouf 15-Apr-22 10:30 PM
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Skeith 15-Apr-22 10:31 PM
Harold didn't cheap out for a guy who was nice to him (edited)
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Shaiapouf 15-Apr-22 10:31 PM
and that is the special sword he got from Harald
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 15-Apr-22 10:31 PM
oh yeah AIDASWORD
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 15-Apr-22 10:31 PM
"well he doesn't have a giraffe head, so no"
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Shaiapouf 15-Apr-22 10:32 PM
"I more meant that whole being insane and evil thing"
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LettuceKitteh 15-Apr-22 10:32 PM
very normal, continue
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Shaiapouf 15-Apr-22 10:33 PM
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so yeah
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basically the same as sirius but a little diffrent in theming
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