GilliamYaeger posted:

I said I'd bring this card up again later, and that later is now because here we have the card I wanted to compare it to. And the verdict? There is literally no reason to ever use this card over Sparking Spear. Sparking's rolls are better than Eject, and I'd much rather have page draw than a mediocre defensive die tacked onto the end.

Ariamaki posted:

Roland recognizes another old friend and I'm beginning to get super-duper suspicious that his old rank was distressingly high. We didn't get to see any direct interactions with him and Oscar this time, but I doubt Big O would have recognized our boy in return, if the pattern holds: For some reason he knows just about everybody and seemingly nobody knows him.

Junpei posted:

We should give Phillip's E.G.O. a snappy name like we had for them in LobCorp. Uh... Burning Angel? Fire of Sinai?

MetaMeme posted:

Junpei posted:

We should give Phillip's E.G.O. a snappy name like we had for them in LobCorp. Uh... Burning Angel? Fire of Sinai?

TeeQueue posted:

This is gonna' require some explanation... Basically, is a special icon. To quote the OP:

A will remain a no matter when it is unlocked or how long passes before we select it, because it is given a because of what it is. Wedge Office, while very difficult, ultimately doesn't meet the requirements to get the Reverence rating, and as a result the highest it can go is a —which is what it would have gotten if we'd beelined right for it as soon as the chapter unlocked.

Junpei posted:

We should give Phillip's E.G.O. a snappy name like we had for them in LobCorp. Uh... Burning Angel? Fire of Sinai?

Ariamaki posted:

Roland recognizes another old friend and I'm beginning to get super-duper suspicious that his old rank was distressingly high. We didn't get to see any direct interactions with him and Oscar this time, but I doubt Big O would have recognized our boy in return, if the pattern holds: For some reason he knows just about everybody and seemingly nobody knows him.

TeeQueue posted:

That can't… no! I'm not going to lose everyone! That's not the plan, it's not-

TeeQueue posted:

Well. That's… poo poo.

MetaMeme posted:

...It's been a while since i've made fun of Bishop, hasn't it?

TeeQueue posted:

Rofaner returns, inspired by the Carinval?

Your Everyday NEET posted:

EGO Philip is quite easy if you know what you're doing. First two turn, focus more on deflecting him and hold your attack. On turn 3, go all out attack. He'll stagger eventually and the 2nd all out attack will finish him.

Junpei posted:

You know I still love how the City has a perfect mix of names from all kinds of cultures-native Korean (Mang-Chi, Gyeong-Mi, Jae-Heon), Chinese (Liwei, Yang), Japanese (Naoki, Sayo, Gin), 'Western' (too many to name), stuff that could be from multiple languages (Yuna, Yan, San), stuff from mythology (Mars, Pluto) and then stuff that's straight-up nonsense (Consta, Rain, Alloc and Dalloc).

And of course, giving names with no regard to character gender is also great.

Solitair posted:

I also beat E.G.O. Phillip on the first try, though I don't remember how. I probably just got lucky.

Sadly, he and Tomerry are clearly the intended climaxes of Urban Plague. The remaining fights won't be any trouble at all.

Solitair posted:

I heard that Alloc-Dalloc is a pun in Korean somewhere.

Boksi posted:

Surely it's just Allocate-Deallocate, right? That's how I read it.

Junpei posted:

Tiphereth: Persona Navigator Combat Assistant/Scanner will be fun for a bit, at least until she's got the Abnos behind her to really start participating in fights.

Oscar’s Page posted:

The 8 o’Clock Circus was a real sod of a case. Its leader wasn’t a particularly powerful enemy, but it took a long time to assess the strengths and behavior of each of his "crew". There was no specific pattern to it, and it was difficult to predict what would come next; it was akin to watching an erratic circus of lunacy. Their lair was mysterious and terrifyingly bleak, and the crew took hideous forms as well, looking too grotesque to possibly be considered normal living beings. They were as strong as they looked; when the blob shaped like a lion bit Pameli with its blunt teeth, her body quite literally blew up on the spot.

However, our enemies were slowly brought down from the vantage point, and when they were completely cornered, the leader escaped along with a few of his crew. Even though we couldn’t put an end to the case, we decided to prioritize recovering Pameli’s body as we deemed the Circus would be weakened enough to stay low for a while. As we stored Pameli’s head in a stasis preservation case and headed to the exit of the collapsing circus tent, we ran into a group of Fixers. They seemed rather exhausted after fighting a swarm of the crew outside. I suppose that’s why they couldn’t enter the tent until that moment. It’s not uncommon for two or more Offices of Fixers to be present at the scene of a finished case, so I gently nodded to greet them, identifying ourselves as Fixers of Wedge Office who have come here to solve the case. The shortest person among them… The aged-looking woman who appeared to be the representative of that group looked around the circus tent, let out a deep sigh, and introduced herself as Moses—of Moses’ Office—while smoking from her pipe. Moses then started thinking, presumably ruminating over what words to choose. She must’ve taken a request that’s rather tricky to disclose. The two people behind her nervously exchanging glances with each other appeared to be her bodyguards of some sort. Having such trivial thoughts, I waited for this Moses person to resume speaking. After a brief period of silence, Moses breathed out smoke in the other direction and asked me where the leader of the Circus went. Since I didn’t know much better than them, I told them what I could in brief. They seemed troubled by my unhelpful answer, but they soon accepted it and left the scene.

…That group reportedly appears every time a case of the Distortion is solved. They’re allegedly working as “The Distortion Detective”, but recent witnesses of their appearance were always followed with a Distortion case in the same location. While it’s unclear whether they’re involved in this case… I believe there’s enough reason to be wary of them.

Pameli’s Page posted:

Life insurance for Fixers is often a sham. A lot of them take your money never to give it back; even if you terminate your insurance, they won’t. It’s not easy for your damage to be insured, either. You have to be at death’s door to qualify, pretty much? The chances are as low as winning the lottery. And what if you just up and died? What can the dead do with money? You’ll be much better off making a savings account for an augment procedure or quality workshop gear. I was a very lucky case; keep in mind that this isn’t the norm at all. Insurance can sometimes be useful depending on its form and conditions, sure… But if you take the pay into account, it still doesn’t feel too great.

Pamela’s Page posted:

Basically speaking, people who visit our Office are looking for shrewd and precise situational assessment rather than combat prowess. The ability to make quick calculations for various possible scenarios and neutralize or kill the enemy with the least effort. We are hunters of the City. We Wedge pierce the requests we get with swiftness and precision.

Of course, our Office isn’t perfect in every regard, so we’re in partnership with a number of other Offices. Fixer Offices often request others for help when reinforcements or professional aid in specific areas is needed. In the case of our Office, we were sister Offices with Dawn Office, sharing more information than we did with most other partners. Oscar is good friends with Salvador—the man running that Office—and they’ve known each other for quite some time, but there’s more to this sisterhood than that. Wedge Office excels at analyzing the capabilities of foes, and Dawn Office specializes in combat, so it’s only natural that we go well together.

GilliamYaeger posted:

Are we past the point where reading Distortion Detective can spoil things?

Solitair posted:

I heard that Alloc-Dalloc is a pun in Korean somewhere.

CasualWatson posted:

Alloc and Dalloc originally take their names from the Korean 알록달록 (allokdallok/Alloc-Dalloc), which is a Mimetic word meaning "colorful(ly)". (Side Note: Mimetic words—formally called Ideophones—are something like an adverb and an onomatopoeia rolled into one, providing feeling/motion/emphasis. It's like comic book effects such as "Boom" and "Whoosh" in regular conversation.)

Anyways! Given that they're possessing robotic bodies, the romanization was taken with a few more liberties to give reference to "alloc" and other related functions in some programming languages. You can also see another attempt at conveying the wordplay via a certain Gaze Office battle symbol, which TQ will hopefully show off later.

Junpei posted:

Took a look at the basic Distortion Detective overview. Moses is named, and given what I read one of the two people behind her is probably Ezra her tall assistant, but who would the third person be?