Christi Junior on Nostr: 7/7 Back to the final part of Chapter 6’s story, we do eventually make it to the ...
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Back to the final part of Chapter 6’s story, we do eventually make it to the location where Queen Nia sealed herself away – but unfortunately the fact that Mio now has M’s Moebius body means that the villains have been able to keep tabs on her movements, and that the party has inadvertently led the Moebius to Nia. With N still a broken man, it’s up to the ever-reliable Wild Ride (Consul D) and his Interlink fusion with Consul J to stop our heroes (X, Y and Z apparently couldn’t be bothered), and in a shocking twist, Nia is actually killed (!!). Except, not really – you think a game not letting XB3-only supporting characters stay dead would really dare to permakill NIA? Of course, if he *had* successfully killed the Welsh Catgirl, it would have greatly enhanced D’s stature as a villain – though Takashi probably figured that this wouldn’t be worth all the death threats he’d get for killing off Nia like this.
Honestly, seeing how the party has already managed to overcome someone as absurdly overpowered as N, even the combined forces of D and J (who we already defeated in Chapter 4) don’t feel like a legitimate threat any more – as so the main point of this encounter is for us to get D’s backstory (here’s my summary: he’s a fucking asshole!) and J’s motivation for becoming Moebius. Essentially, this clash becomes above all a battle for J’s soul, and eventually Team Noah, led by Lanz, manage to get through to him – while D’s bullying behavior further brings home just who J’s true friends really are. J isn’t able to join forces with our heroes – but while Interlinked with D, he’s able to at least make their journey a little bit easier, by purposely overloading the Interlink and Allahu Akbar’ing himself together with D. It’s a good, emotional end to J’s story, and the fact that D brought about his own downfall the way he did also feels poetic. And of course, a same-sex Interlink leading to the death of both participants? Kinda Based.
Anyway, the chapter ends with Nia being revealed to still be alive, and immediately showing herself to be same spunky catgirl we all know and love, even as she desperately tries to act in a manner befitting her new station. And so Chapter 6 ends, with a promise of us finally getting the answers we’ve been waiting for ever since this story began.
Back to the final part of Chapter 6’s story, we do eventually make it to the location where Queen Nia sealed herself away – but unfortunately the fact that Mio now has M’s Moebius body means that the villains have been able to keep tabs on her movements, and that the party has inadvertently led the Moebius to Nia. With N still a broken man, it’s up to the ever-reliable Wild Ride (Consul D) and his Interlink fusion with Consul J to stop our heroes (X, Y and Z apparently couldn’t be bothered), and in a shocking twist, Nia is actually killed (!!). Except, not really – you think a game not letting XB3-only supporting characters stay dead would really dare to permakill NIA? Of course, if he *had* successfully killed the Welsh Catgirl, it would have greatly enhanced D’s stature as a villain – though Takashi probably figured that this wouldn’t be worth all the death threats he’d get for killing off Nia like this.
Honestly, seeing how the party has already managed to overcome someone as absurdly overpowered as N, even the combined forces of D and J (who we already defeated in Chapter 4) don’t feel like a legitimate threat any more – as so the main point of this encounter is for us to get D’s backstory (here’s my summary: he’s a fucking asshole!) and J’s motivation for becoming Moebius. Essentially, this clash becomes above all a battle for J’s soul, and eventually Team Noah, led by Lanz, manage to get through to him – while D’s bullying behavior further brings home just who J’s true friends really are. J isn’t able to join forces with our heroes – but while Interlinked with D, he’s able to at least make their journey a little bit easier, by purposely overloading the Interlink and Allahu Akbar’ing himself together with D. It’s a good, emotional end to J’s story, and the fact that D brought about his own downfall the way he did also feels poetic. And of course, a same-sex Interlink leading to the death of both participants? Kinda Based.
Anyway, the chapter ends with Nia being revealed to still be alive, and immediately showing herself to be same spunky catgirl we all know and love, even as she desperately tries to act in a manner befitting her new station. And so Chapter 6 ends, with a promise of us finally getting the answers we’ve been waiting for ever since this story began.