Giovanna wrote:

PS. How do we get the ending for the BRS versus the Akio Arc?

Because I think we're dicking it all up making all these random choices. Dallbun. The path before you has been prepared.*

* Path = run this thread for the next ten years until we've exhausted every possible conclusion. Sounds familiar, no?

What else do you expect from a visual novel running on a SEGA Saturn console, O Ends of the Forum?

Also, BRS ending? (highlight -->)BRS ending is a Game Over. If you're trying to score with anyone, BRS ending is DO NOT WANT.

OnlyInThisLight wrote:

Wakaba:
What are you saying!?
Night after night, you can hear the sounds of the resentful ukulele...
Isn't that scary!?

Saionji really should learn to vent his frustrations a tad more inconspicuously.

Can this be canon now, please?


So! We go to the arcade, where, knowing our luck, we're probably going to prick our finger on an enchanted joystick.

D-ko:
The game center...
I've been so busy with the transfer,
I haven't been in one recently.
I wonder if they have that fighting game I used to like.

What's with these oddly preemptive point gains?

D-ko:
Hey, they have it!
(And it looks like nobody's using this side.)
Alright, just for fun, I'll give it a go!

Attempted murder: completely forgotten.

Time to play our favorite fighting game: GAME.

(Okay, so it's probably one of those stock, reprogrammable arcade game cases. But still.)

(Cheering, excited crowds.)

D-ko:
Huh? It sounds like there's a lot of excitement coming from the other side.

(Note: Linked fighting game machines in Japanese arcades are often paired off back to back, so challengers can't see each other. I honestly can't recall if they do the same thing in America.)

Customer:
Amazing! Finally, a hundred opponents beaten in sucession!

Other Customer (Male):
Phoenix (Sara)...
It's the legendary Phoenix (Sara).
(Note: 鳳凰サラ. It's a nickname, but I have no idea if the sara part is supposed to have any meaning.)

D-ko:
100 opponents in a row? Amazing!
I wonder who it is...



(Sounds of Juri playing.)

D-ko:
J, Juri-san!?

Juri:
Hey, it's you.
So, how about it?

D-ko:
Huh? You mean...
...alright!
When it comes to this game, I'm also pretty confident.
I guess I'll try challenging her!

(More Juri playing.)

Customer: (in English)
Excellent!

Juri:
It's seems clear now.

D-ko:
Uh, okay!
Then, please take me on!

(Several gasps of excitement from the onlooking crowd.)




Juri:
I lost. It's been a long time since I lost at this game.

D-ko:
Well... I just got a little lucky, is all.



Juri:
No, it was your skill. You won through your own skill.
So... would you please fight me again?

D-ko:
Sure, it's my pleasure!

(cheering from the crowd)

"By the way, Juri, Chigusa tried to poison me earlier today..."

No? Not worth mentioning? Okay then.

Oh, that wacky Chigusa. On the bright side, she's no longer taking any points from Miki!

D-ko:
I'm home!

Anthy:
Oh, welcome back. You were out late, weren't you?
Dinner is ready.

D-ko:
Oh, you're right! Well, I'll just drop my bag off,
and then I'll be down in a moment.

Anthy:
Certainly.



D-ko:
Kyaaaaa! (a girlish scream)

Utena:
What's wrong?

D-ko:
M, my room is...

Anthy:
Oh...

Utena:
Man, this is cruel.

D-ko:
Who on earth could have...?

Anthy:
Well, first of all, let's clean it up.

Utena:
Yeah. I'll help, too.

D-ko:
Thanks, Utena... ah!

Utena:
What is it?

D-ko:
My fencing saber isn't here! The one that father gave me!
I had it standing against my bed...

Utena:
What?

Wow, just look at the great character dynamics at play here! D-ko reminds us that she's unable to put two and two together when it comes to who could have possibly broken into her room. Utena demonstrates the depth of her compassion, by offering to do the household chores that, under ordinary circumstances, she would be quietly relieved to leave entirely to Anthy.

And Chigusa shows that, even when she's breaking into a room to steal an object that's lying out in plain sight, she'll still go to the trouble of trashing the entire place. Because she likes to go that extra mile in random, psychotic malevolence.

Chigusa:
Hey. You've come.



Touga:
As soon as you called.
By any chance, are you asking me for a date?

Chigusa:
Well, perhaps so.

Touga:
You said you were at Ohtori Academy three years ago?
So, that would make you the same age as me.
Yet, I don't remember you being here.
And there's no way I would forget the existence of someone as exceptional as you.

Chigusa:
I see... I was hoping I could save you for last,
but I guess there's no helping it, prince.

Touga:
Prince?



Chigusa:
Yes. You so resemble my prince...

Yeah, okay. That was pretty heavily foreshadowed.

(Although I was giving it 50/50 that it turned out to be D-ko's mom.)

Utena:
Cheer up.
I'm sure when we report it to the school,
they'll catch the culprit.

D-ko:
......

Utena:
After dinner, we'll take another look around.
(There could be something we missed in the bathroom,
or up on the roof or somewhere.)

D-ko:
......

Anthy:
Oh, no, how terrible!

Utena:
What is it?

Anthy:
We're all out of soy sauce, Utena-sama.

Utena:
Oh, that is a problem,
since we're having fried shrimp tonight...

Anthy:
Yes, after all, not having soy sauce with fried shrimp is...

Utena:
Okay! We'll ask to borrow it from someone.
And then while we're at it, we'll ask them to eat with us,
and it'll be a blast!

Anthy:
What a good idea, Utena-sama!

Utena:
See, you think so too, right?
Now, who should we call... hmm,
have any requests?



CHOICE:
Touga
Saionji
Juri
Chigusa

Huh! Given the circumstances, this seems like a much more interesting choice than the previous pick-a-duelist ones.

Last edited by Dallbun (12-22-2009 04:43:00 AM)

CHIGUSA

I mean.


WTF.

Chigusa, just to see what happens. (And save Touga.)

Also, go D-ko for beating Juri!

Call Chigusa. And make Anthy poison her with her delicious cooking.

We beat Juri of all people, and she still doesn't believe in miracles?


Hmmm...this is a tough one.  Chigusa has so much rage bubbling under the surface, so it might not be safe to invite her. Then again, the student council members seem to be more interested in fighting her themselves then helping us. 

I vote for  Chigusa. We don't know enough about her, and Utena can probably protect us if anything really bad happens.

I vote Touga, and so does Yasha. (That should count for two!) We could invite Chigusa or we could invite her prince*, who probably will be more enlightening here anyway.

*Rules out Chigusa as a virgin.

I'll change to Touga.


And his Nanami-tampered Soy sauce.

I wish a vote for Saionji meant that he'd bring his ukelele to serenade us. Alas...

D-Ko stared across the table when Chigus sat down. Utena and Anthy had already started eating their fried shrimp and soy sauce and hadn't noticed the chill that had seemed to descend on the room. D-ko smiled shyly but Chigusa just glared stonily back. D-ko ate slowly and but couldn't help staring at her...his...her...dammit...Chisuga's face wondering what had possessed her to invite her to dinner. She took a thoughtful bit of her shrimp and looked down at it in disgust - after everything, she had forgotten to put soy sauce on the shrimp.

Chigusa, of course. LOL

I vote Touga.

Chigusa, because I love nothing better than an awkward dinner.