Lostbelt 6.5: The Vindication-inator

Behold, Perry the Platypus, The Male Servant-inator!!!

Once I pull this lever, this satellite will send out a signal causing the user surveys of all the Fate/Grand Order accounts in the Tri-State Area to automatically be submitted with the demand for more male units. This sudden increase in demand will cause DelightWorks to create three times as many male units as usual, thus prompting players to put them in their Support Slots regardless of their quality. Then, with no access to the supports they need, everyone will flock to my Supports List, giving me all the Friend Points I could ever need!!!!!

You see, Perry the Platypus, despite the fact that they’re available in the Friend Point Gacha, I can never get the Event 3* Craft Essences. All I get are Black Keys, Tofu, and all these strange silhouettes of a person that everyone insists is a mango, but look at it!!! It’s clearly a person!!!!!

I mean…

Behold, Perry the Platypus, The Male Servant-inator!!!

Once I pull this lever, this satellite will send out a signal causing the user surveys of all the Fate/Grand Order accounts in the Tri-State Area to automatically be submitted with the demand for more male units. This sudden increase in demand will cause DelightWorks to create three times as many male units as usual, thus prompting players to put them in their Support Slots regardless of their quality. Then, with no access to the supports they need, everyone will flock to my Supports List, giving me all the Friend Points I could ever need!!!!!

You see, Perry the Platypus, despite the fact that they’re available in the Friend Point Gacha, I can never get the Event 3* Craft Essences. All I get are Black Keys, Tofu, and all these strange silhouettes of a person that everyone insists is a mango, but look at it!!! It’s clearly a person!!!!!

Immediately, without shame or regret

Behold, Perry the Platypus, The Male Servant-inator!!!

Once I pull this lever, this satellite will send out a signal causing the user surveys of all the Fate/Grand Order accounts in the Tri-State Area to automatically be submitted with the demand for more male units. This sudden increase in demand will cause DelightWorks to create three times as many male units as usual, thus prompting players to put them in their Support Slots regardless of their quality. Then, with no access to the supports they need, everyone will flock to my Supports List, giving me all the Friend Points I could ever need!!!!!

You see, Perry the Platypus, despite the fact that they’re available in the Friend Point Gacha, I can never get the Event 3* Craft Essences. All I get are Black Keys, Tofu, and all these strange silhouettes of a person that everyone insists is a mango, but look at it!!! It’s clearly a person!!!!!

Everyone, please do Qin Liangyu’s Interlude if you have her. It’s amazing and wholesome and wonderful and I want to say more but I don’t want to spoil it.

Simultaneous Bond 10s

I’m mentally stuck between being excited that this happened and finding a way to explain to explain it narratively.

Regardless, they both deserve only the best and I will never stop rooting for either of them

Bonus: The CEs themselves will be put under a spoiler just in case.

Is this blog active?

Short answer: Not at the moment.

Long answer: With my new job and the somewhat ridiculous hours that come with it, it’s hard to keep motivated enough to write.

That being said, it’s certainly not impossible to find a way to get things going again. I just wasn’t sure if people were interested enough in my writing for me to prioritize it.

I’ll give it some thought. Thanks for asking btw :)

A few of you guys who have been around for the early days of this blog might remember a particularly legendary 10-roll, wherein both Karna and Arjuna arrived thanks to the Dayman Song being used as a catalyst.

Well everyone. I return to you years later to once more confirm the effectiveness of the catalyst.

Ladies, gentlemen and everyone in between… we got him.

He knows what he did.

I have to imagine that somewhere in Waver’s curriculum is/was an assignment to compare actual magecraft with the interpretations of popular media. I mean, it’s the Modern Magecraft Theories department. How could you not add something like this to your course?

Granted, I imagine there’d be A LOT of students that talk about Harry Potter, but that’s not exactly without merit. From what I understand, both lineage and study play a role at least in terms of the society therein. But think of what could be used as subject matter outside of that.

Someone using Fullmetal Alchemist as an example of the complexity of magic circles or what they do and don’t get right about practical application.

Maybe one or two would use Dungeons and Dragons to draw parallels between the varieties of casters. Things like the Wizard’s focus on study, the Sorcerer’s emphasis on bloodline, and the Warlock’s reliance on invocation.

On a rare occasion there might be an essay on The Inheritance Cycle and the emphasis on spoken word and pronunciations in its casting.

Then there’s Flat, who writes about Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure and describes Stands as a form of Familiar. Waver almost tears it up immediately, but gives him a passing grade regardless because he just read his fifth Harry Potter-themed essay and the structure of the writing is decent enough.

I was looking into where and how I could watch the El-Melloi Case Files Dub while grinding the new event, and somehow my search led me to this:

He looks so fed up and disappointed by everything.

I want ten.

Spoilers ahead for the Ooku Event and some of the hecking best development for the Caster Wife.

Still thinking about both King Hassan and Vlad III (Extra) having Protection of Faith A+++

Let me just start by clarifying that I don’t think it’s weird that they have Protection of Faith. King Hassan was the founder of a religious assassin cult, while Vlad III was referred to as “The Shield of The Christian World”. This isn’t a question of if they are qualified for the skill, but of why it’s as high ranked as it is. The only other servant with Protection of Faith is Martha, a literal saint, and yet it’s only ranked “A”. So what separates them from her? 

Unfortunately, none of the servant’s profiles or bios go into detail about the skill or why they have it, so I’ll have to begin by highlighting the buffs themselves and go from there. Protection of Faith A gives two buffs; an increase to debuff resistance and a heal. Meanwhile, Protection of Faith A+++ gives the user all of the above, plus an Attack and a Defense buff. This’ll be important later on, so keep it in mind, but I want to very quickly go back to the question of “why?” It’s not a question of deeds since we know she tamed the Tarasque (which is especially amazing if you’re looking at this from the perspective of a DnD Player), so there must be something else at play. 

There are two reasons/possibilities. The first is that it ties into Martha’s possession of her second skill: Miracle D+. Her profile describes it as “A miracle that makes the impossible possible. A Personal Skill.” If this miracle was a product of her faith, hence the ”personal” aspect, then it would make sense that the Protection of Faith would be ranked less; because both the source and the result are present as separate skills. The only problem with this is that what the Miracle skill offers doesn’t match what would’ve been taken from the Protection of Faith. Though it could be that the taming of the Tarasque was a non-violent act and would therefore not lend itself to Attack and Defense buffs, there is still one thing that Vlad and King Hassan have that Martha didn’t: Conviction.

To be honest, I thought it might’ve had to do with their alignment at first, but while both Martha and Vlad III are Lawful Good, King Hassan is Lawful Evil, thereby rendering that comparison moot. This is why I believe that it runs much deeper. 

Since we’re given no context as to the qualifications for the Protection of Faith skill, let’s put together the Venn Diagram and assume that each character has the mindset of “by my faith, I will _____.” Each of the three Servants would have their own response to fill that blank. For Martha, “by my faith, I will quell this dragon.” For Vlad, “by my faith, I will defend my people.” And for King Hassan, “by my faith, I will root out the sin and corruption before me.” This is a very broad statement, so there will likely be holes in its logic, but as a qualifier for Protection of Faith, it’s serviceable. 

However, in terms of the “A+++” ranking, there’s more to the statement. Instead of simply “by my faith, I _____”, in reality it’s more along the lines of  “by my faith, I _____, even if it means _____.” So Vlad’s statement instead becomes “by my faith, I will defend my people, even if it means committing these atrocities.” and King Hassan’s becomes “by my faith, I will root out the sin and corruption before me, even if that sin and corruption is of my own people.”

Martha doesn’t have this condition to her skill or the buffs associated with it because for her it’s an action built on belief for the sake of peace and compromise, even if it’s propelled into actualization by a miracle. But for King Hassan and Vlad III, it’s not a compromise, because there can be no compromising for their beliefs or their ideals, and it can only be actualized by the conviction to see these two things through to the very end.

- Extra Class Servant.

- They sought dominion over the world.

- Highly revered by their followers to the point that those who did not were viewed as evil by society at large.

- Views self as a true human in comparison to the rest of “humanity”.

- They have at one point resided within a computer.

Am I referring to Qin Shi Huang or Sessyoin Kiara?

Fascinating how the biggest difference in character between a Pseudo-Grand and a Pseudo-Beast is selfishness.

When you hear her exchange dialogue voiced for the first time:

Yo, just wanted to thank you for posting that reminder I had totally forgotten I had been holding on to my fav Servants Valentine's CE's since last year.

Absolutely :)

I’ve been keeping my ear to the ground for a while now regarding JP stuff and when we might be getting it, but posting about it was always a different matter entirely, especially since I don’t know how blind some people want to go into these things. However I felt like this was a good exception as it might save some people the trouble of figuring it out via trial and error.

Very quick PSA/Reminder for everyone. We’re very close to the new Valentine’s Day Event, which means that it’s finally time for the voiced exchange dialogues. So with that in mind, don’t forget to either sell or enhance away your previously acquired Valentine’s CEs, as you won’t get the voiced exchanges if you already have the CE in question. Conversely, if there’s an exchange that you don’t want to repeat, then by all means keep the CE and save yourself the grinding.