Fate/Grand Order Story and Lore (CONTAINS SPOILERS)

[Cylascream]

Im pretty sure Sun Altar refers to LB7
So in order
Sea that connects to other realms (LB4.5)
Path to Fairyland (LB6)
Sun Altar (LB7)
Crown Phantasm: Great Three (Mahoyo collab)
last one is a joke but mhxx's valentine is just a huge spoiler

[neveron]

Maybe not a Beast event because we sorta already know who the Beasts are and none of them feel in place here, but definitely something just as big. FGO doesn't make "main story events" wily-nily.

I guess they could make half of Beast V into something new, but it seems like they might want to stick to the ones in the main story being "complete"?

But yeah, Tamamovitch is 5, Nero/666 are the two halves of 6, and now we know what's up with 7. There's not really much space for Beasts... but then Beasts aren't the only threat they could use, either.

Surprise, yet another Demon God Pillar survived Solomon!

[Zork Knight]

Types yo

Or just plain Great Old One/Outer God

[madarra]

Oops, turns out having 4 or 5 great ones connected people in the space between dimesions might accidentally call in other great ones. Teehee.

[neveron]

It's proooobably just four, I think - Abby, Hokusai, BBhotep, and Yang Guifei. MHXX is more of a Rhongomyniad thing apparently, and Voyager 1's a space probe.

Technically five if you count the Hokusais separately, I guess. Six if you include Gilles. But yeah, inter-dimensional tentacles are a pretty easy option.

[madarra]

Nah MHXX is the one with the foreigner radar that will accidentally poke the great one awake while hunting for a Christmas bonus

[Comun]

So, what stories do the other new interludes have?

Decided to check on the rest of the batch on YouTube.

Avicebron's Interlude was a big load of nothing. Golem - Keter Malkuth is not a Noble Phantasm he completed in life, so he can complete it even more as a Servant. Searching for ideas, he realizes Chaldea is full of mechas and organizes a mecha battle tournament. The participants areBabbage, Summer Fran and Mecha Eli using themselves as their own mechas, Avicebron and Fujimaru piloting Adam, Europe piloting Talos, Odysseus piloting the Trojan Horse, and Nursery Rhyme piloting Hessian Lobo (they all realize Lobo is not a mecha but can't bring themselves to say no to a child's dream). The commentators are Edison and Chiron. In the end Avicebron uses his experiences in the tournament to improve Adam and that's why it's a NP upgrade Interlude.

Suzuka's Interlude starts really solid with a serious discussion about Ootakemaru, but then Tamamo appears and it quickly devolves into a fight over who get to keep their highly overlapping aesthetic. Suzuka and Tamamo really hate each other but can't understand why, maybe it's because they're too similar, maybe it's they got unresolved beef from

Foxtail

a past life

. The fight escalate as other animal ears characters join, but Suzuka ultimately takes a chance to slip out and let the other animal ears girls keep fighting each other. She says she doesn't care about that, and that the whole JK and animal ears schtick is just a thing she does to attract a potential boyfriend, but she's willing to drop it any second if the boyfriend is not into it.

Anyways, here's what really matters, the Ootakemaru part:

Suzuka: Says the dude giving orders from afar. You got to sleep under a roof today, and that's totes unfair. Insensitive, even.
Romani: C'mon now, roofs are not an instant source of happiness. Everyone already went to sleep while I'm left alone here in the office, working until the dead of the night. Would you guys be able to survive this loneliness?
Suzuka: Oh... Gotcha... No coworker wanted to stay with you... You're practically an Ootakemaru...
Mash: Don't worry, Suzuka. The Doctor is not lonely. He learned an uncomprehensible skill to deal with loneliness: when there's no staff members around, he opens an anonymous tab on the internet and talks about his problems to archived net idol threads, then replies to his own comments!
Suzuka: What the heck? That's like, sockpuppeting? Playing with yourself? A weird equivalent to playing tennis against a wall? Lemme get this straight, Doctor, are you going nuts from loneliness? Or worse, are you an otaku?
Romani: Hahaha. It's not nice to call every lonely guy an otaku. And if you think I'm like an otaku and you think I'm like Ootakemaru, does that make Ootakemaru another otaku?
Suzuka: Damn boy, you're sharp. Yup, you two are just like each other. Otaku 1 and Otaku 2. Also, the dude looked like a dumb thug at first, but he was actually a super smart intellectual, just like you act all chill and unassuming, but you're actually-
Romani: I'm actually what?
Suzuka: Nothing... Forget it. Just a slip of the tongue.

Now Alterlanta's interlude was really good. I'm not going to translate it because my priority is the event starting tomorrow, but I really hope someone good does, since it's a lot better read in full due to most of it being Alterlanta's first person narration. It starts with her in a hunt mission. She's fighting animals, and her first person narration shows how her human rationality is slowly sealed as her animal instincts intrude her head louder with each line, until Achilles snaps her out of it because she attacked Fujimaru.

After everything settles down, Fujimaru asks Alterlanta why she attacked them, and she explains that she's wearing the pelt of the Calydonian Boar, which demonizes any hero who wears it. While she's possessed by the Calydonian Boar, her thoughts get unclear and her instincts take over. That's how her Beast Enhancement Skill works. If it doesn't sound like that in the mats, it's because Kon skipped a line in his translation, oops.

She clearly is still hiding something and continues to look unstable in the next quest. There's more first person narration of her possessed, with the Calydonian Boar making her think the opposite of she was thinking naturally. Seeing she's not willing to talk to her friends, Fujimaru hires Sheba to be her therapist instead. The two talk about how every hero has an unheroic side, and Atalanta's unheroic side is this demonized Berserker overrun by instinct, but Sheba points out that unheroic doesn't necessarily means evil, so just being a more brutal version of Atalanta shouldn't logically lead to her attacking Fujimaru. Her being overrun by her instincts and attacking Fujimaru only makes sense if her instincts were telling her to attack Fujimaru. So the conclusion she arrives at is much simpler: Alterlanta just really doesn't like Fujimaru.

After her doubts are cleared, Fujimaru shows up to hear her conclusion. She tells she doesn't like them, comments on how Servants don't have time to question their opinions on their Master in a Grail War but since Chaldea is a much more long term thing she couldn't avoid noticing how fundamentally incompatible they are, mentions how she still feels justified about betraying them in LB1, and Fujimaru just passively accepts everything like they usually do. The two agree that they can't see eye to eye, and then continue their quest, with their Master-Servant teamwork being a lot more functional and effective now that Alterlante is open about hating her Master.

[Rafflesiac]

Does Suzuka's 2nd interlude unlock pre-Solomon? And huh, didn't expect Angry Cat to hate Gudao given that she likes his scent.

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Actually, how many Servants straight up dislike him?

[AmADo VII]

Does Suzuka's 2nd interlude unlock pre-Solomon? And huh, didn't expect Angry Cat to hate Gudao given that she likes his scent.

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Actually, how many Servants straight up dislike him?

after being summoned?

Castor, though he generally hates human.

[Zork Knight]

Otakumaru

[NMR-3]

Huh, Foreigner Van Gogh.

[Leftovers]

Foreigner Hitler soon.

It's the fate of all painters.

[AmADo VII]

lol Guda just used a CS to make Mashu change into swimsuit instantly.

[Comun]

Senpai, saitei desu.

[Namelesss]

Foreigner Hitler soon.

It's the fate of all painters.

Peak Fate right here if it happened.

[AmADo VII]

so they literally launch Okki into void sea as sonar/radar.

[Strange_One]

Erm. Sonar because batty?

No other sensing related attribute right? And how she survive out there? She can shikigami a void space excursion module??

[AmADo VII]

they don't use sonar because it will be detected by enemies. Okki is using her NP as scanner

all of swimsuit servants wear special swimsuit with BB made chip so they can actually swim in void sea.

[Strange_One]

Lol BB.

interesting. I didn't realise Himeji castle NP could work like that

[AmADo VII]

I am afraid Gogh-chan's valentine gift will be ear shaped chocolate.