Yeah, that's what I figured. Banner 2 will be fun.
Yeah, that's what I figured. Banner 2 will be fun.
It should be fun, I think.Originally Posted by Petrikow
Prologue
Chaldea is under attack. A Beast appeared inside the base and we need to keep it away from the Rayshift system. Tiamat summoned herself, but she's in Alterego form, so she wasn't the Beast detected by the alarms. An Incarnadine in Demon Pillar disguise attacks Fujimaru but Tiamat protects them (it's using a Flauros skin, so if the disguises are still the same as Arcade, this one should be Superbia). Tiamat explains that the enemy is the Beast VI defeated by Arcade's Chaldea and she's protecting the Fujimaru from another timeline so that her timeline's victory won't be in vain. Fujimaru doesn't get anything, but rolls with it. Tiamat joined.
[Battle against Saber "Demon Pillar?"]
Strong Tiamat beats Superbia. Superbia screams incoherently about not accepting to end things in a lifeless place with no one to attend its deathbed. The other Incarnadines appear, this time in their true dragon head forms, and gang up to capture Fujimaru. Mash joins the fight and exchange greetings with Tiamat. "Surprised by an old enemy becoming an ally?" "No it happens all the time" gag. Mash and Tiamat keep the pressure on the fight, but Superbia manages to sneak behind and take Fujimaru to Lilim Harlot.
Chapter 1: The Present Lies at the Bottom of an Olden Limbo
Fujimaru wakes up in Lilim Harlot. Can't communicate with the base. Draco is there feeling disgusted at the drastic measures she'd take to survive. She introduces herself as the dying larval form of Beast VI/S. She lost the remaining power of the 7 Demon Beast Incarnadines and couldn't as much as kill a baby. All she can do is sit at the bottom of the limbo and wait for death.
Fujimaru hears the voices of familiar Servants and finds Jeanne rallying everyone up to kill the Beast's contractor.
Fujimaru recognizes this scene from Solomon, but Draco explains that's not exactly it. She was defeated by another Fujimaru from a different timeline. Meanwhile, the empty husks of the Incarnadines are all fighting the army of Servants. Fujimaru wants to talk with them but all they do is mindlessly repeat their Arcade Lilim Harlot dialogue. They're not real Servants, they're automated replays of the Lilim Harlot events. Just shadows, because that suffices for a half-dead Beast.
[Battle against the Orleans cast]
Fujimaru doesn't understand why they're being attacked by the beast-hunting pack instead of being attacked by Draco. Draco explains with her version of the classic line.
[hr]100%[hr]I answer you. You are this Beast's Master.
Draco forcibly contracted Fujimaru when they were sent to Lilim Harlot. Thanks to this, she now has a tiny chance to survive. Fujimaru needs to help because the Beast hunters would still attack the Beast's Master even after Draco's death. Without Draco, Fujimaru is defenseless. Both need each other alive at all costs. Now the Septem cast is here, greeted with the typical Nero migraine.
[Battle against the Roman soldiers]
They manage to get throw the Roman army and Fujimaru accepts that fighting is the only option. They confront the Septem Servants. Waver recognizes Draco as the power that made Gray lose control of Rhongomyniad in the Arcade Case Files event. Draco gets hurt shielding Fujimaru from an Altera attack because she can't afford Fujimaru dying here, but they put her back in the fight with a Command Spell.
[Battle against the Septem cast]
Septem is defeated and Draco's migraine passes. They exchange thanks and discuss their survival plans. Draco laments how she is in danger against not even Servant when her True Beast form could devour this whole space. Anyways, the duo raids the next area.
Chapter 2: You are the Beast and the battlefield (1/2)
Okeanos area. Draco explains the Incarnadines she's using are without their souls, but they're still physical objects she can slam people with.
[Battle against the Okeanos cast]
Fujimaru is getting tired of the boss rush and starts thinking about what the win condition is. The first idea is "retrieve the Singularity's Grail", but she corrects their terminology. Lilim Harlot isn't a Singularity, it's a Testament World created by Nega-Messiah to feed with Sodom's Beast with the desire to save the world with multiple Chaldeas from parallel worlds. A compiled imitation of Goetia's 7 Singularities copied from FGO mobile's timeline. But the Arcade Chaldea defeated her and now her theater/dining hall became her execution site.
Draco wholly agrees with Fujimaru's unstated sentiment that she deserves to be hunted, but she won't let herself end like this. She will rebloom into her True Beast form before she feasts on Fujimaru, out of respect for her adaptation's source material. Anyways, the Testament World's win condition is the same as the Singularity. Finding whoever has the Grail fueling it and steal it back. As long as Sodom's Beast can rebloom, Draco doesn't mind Fujimaru keeping the Grail after their contract is over.
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The London, E Pluribus Unum, and Camelot sections happen as untitled chapters you can do out of order.
London has Draco lamenting how, much like Nero, Mordred also died alone with no one attending their deathbed. Nothing can be sadder than that, so Draco is an evil born in response to this fear. As the one who feeds on cities at the peak of civilization, she is the one who can keep the world company on its deathbed.
E Pluribus Unum is just the shadows repeating their Arcade dialogue with no additional commentary.
Camelot only has Draco noting that Ozymandias preventing Ira from imitating Amon was the first thing that threw her imitation off-rails.
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Chapter 2: You are the Beast and the battlefield (2/2)
Fujimaru is exhausted. Draco taunts them with a "now you finally know what a Raid looks like from the other side". There's little left before they can escape this area, but suddenly a real Servant appears before them. Setanta, a Servant summoned by the other Chaldea. The connection between that Chaldea and Lilim Harlot was already severed but he's here because Tiamat dragged him along. Tiamat and Setanta get ready to slay Draco, but Fujimaru tells them that won't solve the problem. Fujimaru will still be targeted for their contract. While Tiamat and Setanta can protect them, they don't fully agree. Before the discussion can continue, Draco puts her claw to Fujimaru's neck. Setanta is still a kid, so he can't Gae Bolg his way out of this hostage situation.
The stalemate goes on until the Babylon cast arrives. The automated shadows attack both sides indiscriminately so Tiamat and Setanta can't really capitalize on this opportunity. Setanta notices Draco shielding Fujimaru from Kintoki's attacks and figures out what's going on.
[Battle with Draco, Setanta, and Tiamat against Kintoki and Lancelot]
With the enemies defeated, the argument resumes, with both sides hurried to take Fujimaru before the respawned Orleans and Septem casts get there. They're interrupted by the Last Encore elevator (still named Twilight Ladder here). Locusta comes out and showers toxic mushrooms on the enemies. The poison-maker was always at Nero's service, so she's immediately trusted. Draco and Fujimaru run to the Ladder. Tiamat has a stunned shock moment because Fujimaru is siding with the other Beast, but Setanta wasn't expecting anything different, so he dashes at them, and while dodging some mushrooms, manages to cling to the elevator before it takes off.
Now we start our upside-down Last Encore. The Twilight Ladder this time starts at the bottom and will climb up through all the 7 Imitation Singularities until it reaches the top where Beast VI/S will rebloom.
Unnamed solitude, transient scenery
Unnumbered side-chapter with a short narration of Nero/Draco's backstory.
No one is applauding.
Because your deathbed has no audience.
The people die one by one, burned by the flames of war. The soldiers on the battlefield collapse one by one.
Some drowned swallowed by the stormy sea. Some died like dogs amidst the trash in a back alley.
Rotting lives on dirty sickbeds.
Lives reaped in the name of justice.
Mankind prospers through the consumption of lives. Civilization, cities, are built upon piles of corpses.
---Atop many nameless deaths with no one present to watch their deathbeds.
The city-eating Beast asks one question: "When all of creation disappears, who will be there to witness that end?"
The city-eating Beast delivers one answer: "It is I, who feeds on civilization, the one capable of attending the world's deathbed."
And at the very end, in a barren, lifeless void, I shall proclaim to myself, "What a wonderful meal."
This is surely evil, but also surely love.
But in that event---
Who will be there to attend the deathbed of the one girl left alone after the end of the world?
Has the writer for this done any TM stuff before?
kintoki
and hes close friends with sakurai. 2ch shitposts about them being the same person sometimes but its obviously not true
Isn't this already banner 2?
One could argue that Tiamat was Banner 0 since it came before the event started.
So... Ritsuka trying not to die from Servants defending PHH by helping out the Beast, while knowing the Beast will kill him in the end? Damn, that's rough. I mean he obviously gonna find some way out of this either by charming Beast or defeating her, but still...
Also Beast Nero NP being ST is funny given how it's a bunch of dragons wrecking stuff everywhere.
Last edited by Gelious; April 26th, 2023 at 10:27 AM.
After Tiamat and Nero in a brand spanking new meme class designated to be overpowered to squeeze money out of you, I think another banner right after this one would just be overall a loss in their profits.
If she's really the best then why didn't she show up when I rolled for her?
Skill issue.
They're probably after playerbase who like Noah and Sita but don't care about the Beasts.
Draco, the Beast of Sodom
One of the two horns of the Sixth Beast, defeated by the Chaldea of the parallel world in which it resided.
The one born from the Logos of Depravity.
It is said to manifest when the degeneration of the most prosperous city of the era reaches its zenith, just so it may savor its malignancy.
The Beast of Sodom is its name.
It is the beast that in the New Testament was said to have destroyed Babylon.
Unlocks at Bond I
Height/Weight:
When in heliocentric form: 135 cm/100kg (her body is 35 kg, and her tail is 65 kg)
When in geocentric form: BIG SEXY
Source: New Testament, Fate/Grand Order
Region: Middle East
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
Gender: Female
She was a fully grown woman in her full Beast VI might, both great and massive, but having gracefully accepted defeat, she now maintains a Saint Graph format that's entirely ordinary, and adapted to mankind.
Unlocks at Bond II
- Beast VI/S
Known as the 'Beast of 666' and the 'Enemy of God', she is the calamity into which a certain Roman Emperor has apostatized, or so the story goes.
The one born from the 'what-if' of Nero going against her fate of meeting her end alone after beholding the thrice setting sun.
- Personality (heliocentric form)
The Wicked Queen. Constantly in a bad mood. Though a tyrant, on account of her no-nonsense personality, she is not one to break the law or breach any covenants.
In her full might, she would often smile in satisfaction when savoring the depravity of man, but the larval Beast of Sodom feels no such satisfaction when seeing people sink to depravity.
The Larval Beast VI does bring about depravity, however...
She hates foulness.
She hates sloth.
She hates wastefulness (as she also hates wasted effort, the resulting futile resistance that is battle is something she hates as well).
And she views passion with animosity (but that's ultimately just animosity, not hatred).
Though she never shows it outwardly, on the inside, she seems to be longing for the arrival of the human with an insignificant yet bright future who would resist her temptations.
"It is the correct way of the universe that the Beast of Revelation fall to the ground――that the Emperor of Roses enter slumber without rising to the heavens, instead budding upon the earth."
Unlocks at Bond III
- Authority of the Beast: C
Could also be called an Anti-Humanity Skill.
Reduces damage from all those that have some relation with 'humans', be it Heroic Spirits or Divine Spirits.
- Independent Manifestation: E
Skill allowing oneself to manifest in the real world independently.
It would appear that this Beast is satisfied by just destroying a single city, almost as if on a whim.
In addition, as this skill represents the quality of already existing in any possible spacetime, not only are time paradox attacks caused by time travel and such nullified, but instant death attacks are canceled as well.
- Nega Messiah: EX
Nullifies all divine protection conferred by faith.
In addition, it also has the hidden attribute of granting class advantage against the Extra Class that bears the title of messiah, while also weakening their unique skills.
Unlocks at Bond IV
"Melting Embrace of the Golden Theater"
Rank: A
Type: Anti-Army Noble Phantasm
Range: 1-30
Maximum Targets: 7
Babalon Domus Aurea.
She traps her opponent within the Golden Theater, and then demolishes it together with the target. Though Emperor Nero may invite the populace in trying provide them with entertainment, Draco instead traps them, intent on granting them salvation through despair.
- Number of the Beast: C
The degraded version of the Personal Skill of Beast VI.
It is to engrave the Number of the Beast of 666 onto oneself.
- Seven Crowns of the Beast: C
The horns that signifies the one who lays waste to cities——the one who blasphemes against God——the Beast of Revelation.
- Golden Chalice: C
The Grail of Depravity that endlessly spurs on the desires held by man, be it riches, wine, gold, companionship or love.
Unlocks at Bond IV after clearing the Spiral Testament World event
- Personality (geocentric form)
For her basic personality that she has in her first and second ascensions, consult the 'heliocentric form' entry.
Through the trust built between her and her Master going through the testament, a new Draco was born.
As a result, her original nature as the Emperor of Roses has revealed itself, influencing her personality to steadily take on the same character.
Her bad mood and attitude has taken a back seat, with her more approving and passionate side starting to show instead.
She approves of mankind's avarice, allowing their wastefulness and extravagance, and so commends the struggles of her Master.
She has acknowledged her Master as a partner worthy of mounting a beast such as herself, and therefore holds nothing back when wielding the full power of her claws and fangs.
Nevertheless, as she is closer to her original nature, if you do not spoil her adequately, her mood will turn sour, and once she has starts sulking, her cagey personality makes her a real pain in the ass to deal with.
Arrogant, yet selfless.
Cruel, yet loving.
Sensitive, yet prone to loneliness.
She is the Beast who feasts upon the world of mankind, yet also wishes to journey alongside them. Both the evil of humanity, and the love of humanity.
"It is the incorrect way of the universe that the Beast of Revelation take off from the ground――that the Emperor of Roses burn up as she soars across the cosmos and becomes a brilliant star."
- Her motives / her attitude toward her Master
This is Draco after having built up trust with her Master.
Meaning, unlike her first and second ascensions, Draco's third ascension has her in full flirt-mode.
The original Draco finds the way she acts in her third ascension shameful, and insists that...
"That thing is not me"
"Forget everything immediately; I shall too"
Unlocks at Bond V after clearing Solomon
In a certain parallel world,
the Beast of Sodom imitated Goetia's Incineration of Human Order,
giving rise to the 'Testament World',
drawing in innumerable Chaldeas from various other worlds to it.
By assembling the desires of the many Chaldeas,
the Beast of Sodom attained its true form,
but was then defeated by a certain Chaldea,
causing the Testament World to collapse.
In order to bring about her own curtain call,
Draco summoned many Servants to slay her.
It was here that the tale of the Sixth Beast was supposed to have ended.
And yet, at that moment, the destroyed Testament World came in contact with the Chaldea from the "original world", if you could call it that.
The Master of Chaldea was then abducted into the Testament World by the Demon Beast Incarnadines who had rejected their own demise.
It was so that Draco and the Master of Chaldea raised the curtain on the new tale of the Spiral Testament World.
Draco, having passed beyond the thrice setting sun, is a 'what-if' rejected by pan-human history.
The world's cursed route that leads us to our bad ending.
As such, Draco is summoned as her original Beast self.
What meaning does that hold?
What fate does that lead toward?
All answers lie within the tragedies and comedies spun from romance.
Both prayers and curses.
Both wounds and love.
Both the righteous, and the unrighteous.
Drink it all down, and ascend unto the cosmos.
Last edited by Petrikow; May 2nd, 2023 at 09:28 AM.
That's a very specific playerbase who will not spend on Tiamat, Nero, care about gameplay (they're both very strong so they're all tailor made to dry you even if you don't care for them but care about gameplay), but roll on Sita and Noah only. I think they'd get more out of it by having another gacha for the next event/story and leaving this one as it is right now.
But hey we could get another banner I suppose but I wouldn't expect any content until June if we do lol
3 back to back banners is a lot, but hey, if it works for summer. Also I don't expect anything else for May besides that, and June may only have one SSR in Bhima if OC1 is slated for then and they don't make a ton of Servants for it.
Also, jeez, that one random side story node giving Draco more character and backstory than Arcade did in its entirety. I actually feel somewhat bad for her.
Sorry, what?
I feel like the 3 SSR summer works for them because it's right after the quartz injection they need to one up themselves on after each year, and the main appeal is choosing your favorite girls anyways
If it means she's redeemed in here somewhat, that's a plus.
To be fair, you can't expect Arcade to tell a good story or even give characterization.
I think the "geocentric form" is her currently locked third ascension.
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