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Oh yeah, Jabberwock. So this one is kind of interesting in that there were some unused lines indicating that the boss battle with Jabberwock could play out differently depending on what you did. However in the final game you're forced to kill all the snatches before fighting Jabberwock, as the NAVs will block you from entering the arena until they're all dead. This didn't seem to always be the case, and you could fight it at any point at some point during development.quote:...This is the end for you, Dragon! Also somehow you could power it up and make it harder to fight? I dunno. quote:Analyzing... its armor is 20% weaker! quote:Analyzing... its armor is 40% weaker!  Only two of these entries are actually used, the first and final ones. The first one is used for the scouting battle, while the last one is used for the real fight. It incidentally has a horrible weakness to Frostburn so you can probably stunlock it all fight if you're decently lucky. quote:Jabberwock (LV. 55/51) The scouting fight. Hide in Shell is what makes it basically invulnerable. quote:Jabberwock (LV. 55/51) And the real fight.
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 Part 106: Seven Deadly Struggles || SSLP Test Poster mirror. Goodbye to the Imperial Dragons. See you again, in another place or time—beyond the end of war.
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Youka Fudoji: Suffering from chronic illness and still casually pumping out 2000 DAMAGE PUNCHES. badass.
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 Part 107: Rival Arrival || SSLP Test Poster mirror. Aw, no! Another unreasonable guy has appeared!
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 Part 108 (FINAL): A Tale of Men and Dragons (PROUD OF YOU) || SSLP Test Poster mirror. Sayonara, Unit 13. Leave behind 2021 at last, and head forward into a boundless, infinite future.
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Thanks for everything, Kinu. Take a break, you've more than earned it. Can't wait to see what next dungeon-crawler class-based RPG you'll cover (or, yunno, play a completely different game if you wanna. it's your call.). If you do the open-submissions-for-characters things again like all the old Etrian Odyssey LPs do, I'll definitely sign up.
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Thanks for a great LP. I always enjoyed seeing a new update, even if I didn't post much. ...that said, I worry for the future given Valerie and GEORGE! still exist in this timeline, hopefully Orochi took measures to ensure they wouldn't accidentally retcon the universe out of sheer power. 
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Thanks for the SICK LOOT! I'll miss these people, and Richter. I'm kinda  about So the EO5 crew kill Tyrant, but Raven was something to Tyrant, I really don't get the exact connection here; anyways since Raven dealt the killing blow it proved Tyrant's way of evolution right promoting them to VFD. Project New Game Plus (it was called that way right) yanks Raven's mind into Chisa's body and also does some memory merging since start of LP Orochi had Chisa's memories from before the substitution. Except Project NG+ kinda misses its aim and yanks Tyrant's consciousness instead, (spoiler from final update) and punts Chisa at the Underhills' home body and all but somehow Tyrant also has Raven's memories now? (lastly, after roughly one and a half/one and three quarters LPs Tyrant finds her self and names herself Orochi, that part I didn't miss)
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Omobono posted:questions Actually, the process of promotion to VFD was, in fact, Project NEW GAME—this was understood correctly. Tyrant is an inherently sentimental being, the same as the Hypnos or Nodens, who longs to be human. The Hillsheads are examples of the kind of simple, well-meaning life that Tyrant aspires to, but cannot have—so while all the people on Arcania are descendants of Tyrant to some extent, the sentiment of Tyrant's desire to be human manifests more strongly in families like the Hillsheads, shown by the red hair swoop. This trace, the dragon's blood which desires to be human, is what Project NEW GAME grabs as its candidate for a 'hero'. Orochi does not possess the memories of the original Chisa Inomiko, she possesses her own memories of that lifetime—the two are and were separate people from birth. It was a genuine 'reincarnation'. (In other words, Orochi, when born 'as Chisa Inomiko', was always an incarnation of Tyrant.) However, due to Tyrant's... particular complexes, she subconsciously forces down the aspects of herself that are more like her previous life as a True Dragon to be more approachable 'as a human'. Project NEW GAME didn't really account for a situation quite like this because Homura didn't even know True Dragons existed, for one thing, so since it expects the hero to be in the shape of Raven Hillshead, it calls something of a 'screenshot' of Raven's personality from the moment the hero call was made and overlays it over the pre-existing person who has already been incarnated as Chisa Inomiko. In other words, prior to Mio's returning to this timeline, Orochi Hosokawa's personality consisted primarily of an iteration of Tyrant whose dragon-ness and memories of divinity had been sublimated to properly 'be a human' without being a danger to others, developing as a person as 'Chisa Inomiko'. Once Mio returned, a 'screenshot' of a 15-year-old Raven was added onto this, which, uh, complicated brain matters a little bit, with the combating values of the two 'human' identities and the deliberate obfuscation of the 'dragon' identity. A degree of personality synthesis started to occur, but then the events of Orochi's Reminiscence occur and kinda scupper that for several years. This is the underlying contradiction in the third layer of her Cosmosphere in The Year Between, a cycle of identity self-destruction with no concrete origin point to start from—a deleterious chicken-and-egg scenario, if you will. So, essentially, Orochi Hosokawa was born as a reincarnated sentiment of a True Dragon, raised as a young Tokyo socialite, received an image of Raven Hillshead, had the draconic desire to devour forcibly awakened within her through the abuse of her parents, spent years trying to pretend that that last part hadn't happened and that she was actually very normal, was recognized as an entirely separate, wholly conceptual True Dragon, died, and then remembered that first part and realized that her backstory was so complicated that it was really just easier for everyone involved, herself included, for her to self-identify as none of the above three identities in totality (but that Tyrant is most accurate for self-descriptions of her own origins and past) and just have her own name and self-actualization. She is a very complicated woman and women cannot stop falling for her. Such is life for the Human DRagon.
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Thank you for this wonderful LP and story Kinu!
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Truly delightful, among the best LPs I've ever read, and stands solidly as a story in its own right.
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Thank you for this one-of-a-kind look into a series I'd never heard of and probably would never have played on my own. It's an LP style I never would have read on my own either, but the process of seeing and hearing the character creation process in your Discord made me incrediby curious and I don't regret deciding to give it a chance.
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Thanks for a truly wonderful tale.
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You have a way with words, Kinu! I look forward to your next project!
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Thank you for all your work on this amazing LP. I've greatly enjoyed reading this, and wish you the best on your next endeavor - after a luxurious break.
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