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>>36925150
"I regret nothing," Neptune moans, looking a distinct shade of green. She's sprawled across your table like a beached whale, a few dozen empty sundae bowls serving as a silent testament to her bullheaded greed. "C'mon, what else was I supposed to do during the break? NOT eat parfaits off-camera? I- hey, wait, where're you going?? You haven't helped me with my problem yet!"

You do /not/ have time for this. Sure, Neptune's a fellow goddess and your eternal rival, but there's a lot on your plate right now; the national festival is in full swing, inconsiderate freelancers are going stir-crazy, and now there's all this talk about Arfoire's cultists popping back up-

"Oh!" You can SEE the light bulb going off above Neptune's head, and she just as quickly forgets about her nausea. "Yeah, I was gonna talk to you about that, too! See, there's been some Arfoire-ish stuff going on in Planeptune, you know, and ohmygod-"

You don't even realize that you've invaded her personal space until she's trying to back away- but a quick grab of her shoulders cuts THAT short, because if any Arfoire-worshipping nutjobs so much as /breathe/ in Gamindustri, you want to know where they are, what they're up to, and what the cretins had for dinner last night.

"Okay! But!" The representative personification of Planeptune raises her hand, gently levering you away. "Only if you help me figure out where my main character-ness has gone!"

[ ] [HUMOR] her. Talk about her supposed main character-ness, how she lost it, and figure out where it could have gone.
[ ] [ARFOIRE] is way too important to leave be! Grill her on this as much as you can.
[ ] [CHANGE] the subject, because Neptune's an airhead, her info is bound to be useless, and you don't have time for this.
[ ] [MULTITASK]! Go out and patrol the festival taking place here in Lowee AND talk to Neptune at the same time.
[ ] [WRITE-IN]

>[ ] [CHANGE] the subject, because Neptune's an airhead, her info is bound to be useless, and you don't have time for this.

>>36925160
[Write-in] We know the art of the drink. Drunken recall will guide our dorfish ways.

>>36925160
>[x] [CHANGE] the subject, because Neptune's an airhead, her info is bound to be useless, and you don't have time for this.
>[x] [ALCOHOL] it's definitely going to be one of those days.

>>36925160
>[ ] [HUMOR] her. Talk about her supposed main character-ness, how she lost it, and figure out where it could have gone.
Maybe the universe realized it made a mistake when it made you the MC and another more superior goddess is the main character now.

>>36925160
>[ ] [CHANGE]
>[ ] [ARFOIRE]

change the subject to confuse her, and then sneak questions about arfoire in there past her short attention span.

>>36925160
>[ ] [HUMOR] her. Talk about her supposed main character-ness, how she lost it, and figure out where it could have gone.
Your main character-ness has gone to someone who's not a shit. Now tell me about Arfoire.

>>36925345
We can help her by inducing Drunken recall on her. She must've lost it when she was drunk.

>>36925160
>[ ] [HUMOR] her. Talk about her supposed main character-ness, how she lost it, and figure out where it could have gone.

>>36925160
>[ ] [HUMOR] her. Talk about her supposed main character-ness, how she lost it, and figure out where it could have gone.

>>36925160
>[X] [CHANGE] the subject, because Neptune's an airhead, her info is bound to be useless, and you don't have time for this.

You know what, if she wants to let Arfoire worship flower in her country, I'm sure teh other CPUs will be all for wiping her country off teh face of Gameindustri with you to get rid of them. Rivalry ended, Purple Heart dead. Everyone wins.

>>36925160
>[MULTITASK]

>>36925160
Who is Arfoire again?

>>36925574
Piracy.
Prepare the DRM missiles!

>>36925574
Just a legend. Nothing to worry about.

>>36925160
>[ ] [ARFOIRE] is way too important to leave be! Grill her on this as much as you can.

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>>36925530
>Why not just let everyone else wipe out Neptune and Planeptune?

Oh, that's crossed your mind far too many times to count. It's all too tempting to let nature take its course, and maybe help nature along by transforming into your HDD form and mulching Neptune with your war hammer.

It's certainly what you WOULD have done back in the day, when the Console Wars were in full swing. As the patron goddess of Lowee, you’ve lost track of how many would-be goddesses you crushed (they spawned like cockroaches back then, the earliest being formless gibbering monstrosities), how many rival consoles you were forced to pulverize in self-defense (most of them were doomed to failure, anyway), and how many fledgling nations you put to the torch (before they even had a chance to accumulate more than a few hundred worshippers, if even that). As far as you know, every CPU used to feel the same way; their instincts demanded nothing less.

Once things settled down a little, life got considerably more complicated. You’d matured enough to realize that brutal domination wasn’t something you could (or should) stomach, Arfoire came onto the scene and tried her hand at plunging Gamindustri into eons of bloodshed, and then Neptune came up with the frankly novel solution of the goddesses NOT trying to violently murder each other and competing in some other fashion.

Long story short, despite Neptune being /Neptune/, she’s the linchpin keeping Gamindustri together and in a state of relative peace.

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>>36925574
>Who is Arfoire again?

You wish you knew.

No, really. As far as anyone can tell, Arfoire’s nearly as much of a goddess as you and the rest of the CPUs, except more of a force of nature that does her level best to depose you (and, again, the rest of the CPUs). The one time she reared her ugly head, she stuck around long enough to cause some major damage; only the combined efforts of the four extant goddesses (including you) managed to put an end to her schemes, and so on and so forth. Just like one of your fairy tales.

… ALSO just like your fairy tales, Arfoire is apparently hard to keep down. You’ve heard rumors that she’s coming around again, which were unpleasantly substantiated by adventurers reporting a resurgence of Arfoire-worshipping cultists, among other things.

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>>36926113
>>36925160
>complete tie
>[X] [CHANGE] the subject for now, but
>[X] [HUMOR] her anyway!

Putting your thoughts aside, you step back and smooth down your dress, regaining your composure. Neptune isn’t leaving you alone until you agree to help her, is she.

“Yeppers!” she fires back cheerily. “It’s going to bother me FOREVER if I don’t figure it out, and bother-y loves company, so I’ll hang around and seek solace from your presence!”

Fine. Fine, you’ll help her. Anything to get-

That’s about all you have time to say before Neptune takes both your hands and starts shaking with enough force to knock your hat askew. “Yes! I knew I could count on you, Blanc! You’re the greatest! As expected of the wonderful pint-sized pipsqueak whose pip is most definitely worse than her squeak! We’ll get to the bottom of this in no time!”

… you graciously ignore the not-so-subtle putdowns she’s not-so-subtly implying with those words and readjust your hat, feeling preemptively silly for the questions you’re about to ask. Alright, so where are you even going to /start/? Does Neptune have any leads?

Neptune starts bouncing in place. Years of observation have left you reasonably sure that she has to do that to gets her brain cells working. “Well, I had a hunch that something in Lowee stole my title as the front cover character, so here I am!” she chirrups.

[ ] [OUT] Head out into town. You’re certainly not going to find any clues in the solitude of the Basilicom.
[ ] [PRESS] That had better not be the end of Neptune’s hunches, otherwise this will be looking for a needle in a haystack.
[ ] [GUARD] Whatever she wants to tell you, it’s got to be a lot more crucial than finding someone’s main character-ness.
[ ] [IT’S ME] … for all you know, YOU could have taken Neptune’s main character-ness. Isn’t that why she sped straight here?
[ ] [WRITE-IN]

>>36926131
>[ ] [IT’S ME] … for all you know, YOU could have taken Neptune’s main character-ness. Isn’t that why she sped straight here?

Clearly it's us, since we're the best CPU. Really, I'm shocked we didn't do it sooner.

>>36926131
>[x] [IT’S ME] … for all you know, YOU could have taken Neptune’s main character-ness. Isn’t that why she sped straight here?
"I guess you were just a shitty MC."

>>36926131
[x] [GUARD] Whatever she wants to tell you, it’s got to be a lot more crucial than finding someone’s main character-ness.
You are busy. And you have no time to deal with this imbecile's problems. Her problem, her solution. Come back when there's a bigger problem.

>>36926131
>IT'S ME
>not IT'SA ME
Shameful

>>36926131
>[X] [IT’S ME] … for all you know, YOU could have taken Neptune’s main character-ness. Isn’t that why she sped straight here?

She sped right into us, clearly she is yielding the narrative. We must some this by expositing for her about the cultists and letting her come to a decision!

>>36926131
>[ ] [PRESS] That had better not be the end of Neptune’s hunches, otherwise this will be looking for a needle in a haystack.
Clearly she had to have more than a hunch to come here. She had to get an idea for it or from someone.

I'm on to you Neptune! You won't learn of the new man character from me!

So! I hear they're going to be releasing the Neptune games on steam next year!

I've never played any of the games, and this quest is why I'm suddenly interested in it. Having it come out on my main gaming platform is so much more convenient than getting a bunch of playstations!

Is anyone else excited? I'm really fucking excited.

>>36926131
>[ ] [IT’S ME] … for all you know, YOU could have taken Neptune’s main character-ness. Isn’t that why she sped straight here?

Just a heads up. http://www.siliconera.com/2014/12/22/fairy-fencer-f-hyperdimension-neptunia-games-coming-steam-english/

On that note, Pirate Warriors 3 will also come to steam.

>>36926131
>Well, I had a hunch that something in Lowee stole my title as the front cover character
Oh, whatever could have stolen YOUR place as main character? A young child, maybe? A oak tree? A particularly charismatic dogoo?

>>36926131
>[x] [IT’S ME] … for all you know, YOU could have taken Neptune’s main character-ness. Isn’t that why she sped straight here?
Of course, we clearly had it all along, as fits our stature, it just took Neptune this long to figure it out.

>>36926265
Is it? Neat. I always wanted to give it a play, but didn't have the console for it. Steam would certainly be great.

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>>36926131
>[X] [IT'S ME]

This is a terrible idea. You know Neptune well enough to realize that she can get kind of intense about the dumbest things, and this most certainly qualifies. What you normally would do (i.e. the logical thing) is to take the opportunity currently offered by your head of security (you THINK she wants to tell you something, but it's hard to tell with the amazonian woman) and escape from Neptune's general vicinity.

Instead, you add fuel to the flames. In your own quiet voice (others have told you that it's a sort of calm deadpan that grows coarser and more violent the angrier you get), you bring up the possibility that you yourself may have unintentionally stolen Neptune's spot as the main character. It stands to reason, doesn't it? Lowee is, in your unbiased opinion, the greatest nation of all, and you enjoy a reasonable amount of popularity-

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>>36926557
"Aw, c'mon, Blanc, don't go trying to pull my leg like that!" Neptune chortles, shooting you down immediately. "We both know you're not exactly main character material. You're too soft-spoken for that! Besides, people with violent mood swings are too edgy to be super popular!"

... is she implyin' something, or can you safely assume that this counts as shots fuckin' fired?

This is the first time you've seen Neptune move so fast when she's not transformed into her HDD mode. "Aaah! See? You're doing it again! That thing where shadows consume your face and your eyes start glowing red!"

With an effort, you force your boiling rage down to a slow simmer. Terrifying Neptune is always fun, but you've got bigger fish to fry.

"That's the non-murderous spirit! C'mon, you haven't seen anyone interesting, have you? You can tell lil' ol' Nep-Nep!"

By the door, your head of security clears her throat.

[ ] [CONVINCE] her that you've become the main character! Your pride is at stake, here!
[ ] [ASK] how she even knows that she's been dethroned.
[ ] [PONDER] who else could possibly have become the main character. Maybe it's someone you met before?
[ ] [GUARD] seems to want to tell you something. Duck away from this conversation to ask what's up.
[ ] [NOPE] Alright, this conversation is over. You've got other things to do today.
[ ] [WRITE-IN]

>>36926578
>[ ] [ASK] how she even knows that she's been dethroned.
>[ ] [PONDER] who else could possibly have become the main character. Maybe it's someone you met before?

>>36926578
>[ ] [ASK] how she even knows that she's been dethroned.

>>36926578
>C'mon, you haven't seen anyone interesting, have you? You can tell lil' ol' Nep-Nep!
Well I saw this really annoying time vampire just this morning, but other then that, no.

>>36926578
>[x] [ASK] how she even knows that she's been dethroned.

>>36926578
>[x] [GUARD] seems to want to tell you something. Duck away from this conversation to ask what's up.

What could it possibly be?

>>36926578
>[GUARD]

>>36926578
>[NEGOTIATE] Arfoire first, then we can investigate MCness. Prioritize the safety of Gamindustry.

>>36926578
>[X] [GUARD] seems to want to tell you something. Duck away from this conversation to ask what's up.
"Hey, let me check with my head of security, see if we noticed anything. You stay here, contemplate what genre you think the current adventure is?"

>>36926265
Wait, what, seriously?
>>36926289
Well, gonna have to budget to lose a paycheck when those come out, then. Especially if they don't bundle the DLC into the remakes.

>>36926896
Hell fucking yeah seriously!
http://www.siliconera.com/2014/12/22/fairy-fencer-f-hyperdimension-neptunia-games-coming-steam-english/

>>36926265
Yeah, it's a pretty interesting choice on their part- and I'm pretty damn flattered you got interested in the series through this quest!

Aside from the usual always-wait-til-Steam-sales stuff (and the fact that the quest is basically just me jumping off and doing weirdly different stuff with the technically established setting), the thing to remember about the Neptunia series is that

1) It's about as anime as you can get without causing grievous bodily injury to yourself,
2) It's kind of an acquired taste- the games really aren't OH MY GOD THIS IS AMAZINGLY STELLAR, but they're not /bad/ since they really don't take themselves that seriously, and
3) Be especially wary of the spinoffs, like the idol spinoff and the FFT-style game where Estelle and the other game-based characters show up because they shoehorn a faceless player character insert who's there to get the girl(s) because why this.

Other than that, yeah, definitely have fun!

>>36926578
>[X] [ASK]

Okay, fine. You'll bite, if only because you can't help but be morbidly curious about the inner workings of Neptune's mind. How in the world did Neptune actually realize she lost her... whatever it is that makes her the main character?

"Hmm... well, it's sorta hard to explain to the non-initiated," Neptune muses. "But it's this weird feeling in your gizzard, like you're totally sure that the world revolves around your every action!"

Uh-huh. She DOES realize that you're both beings of immense power whose very identities are intertwined in their nations' well-being, right?

"Ah, no, it's more than that!" she insists; behind her, Basilicom staff members start cleaning up the metric ton of empty parfait bowls, completely unnoticed. "It's like- you get a bunch of choices to make, and they're supposed to be really important and earth-shattering! The path of history depends upon your every whim! ... you know, that kind of stuff."

... please stop posing dramatically on top of your table. She's scaring the maids.

Neptune hops off the table, pouting slightly. "The pose is /important/, Blanc! How can get my point across if I can't express all the feels in words and gestures?"

Besides, you both make choices every day, and that doesn't make YOU a main character-

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>>36927340
You're interrupted as your head of security is suddenly looming over you; she has to lean down a fair bit just to whisper in your ear, giving you another up-close glimpse of that ridiculous red tie of hers. (To date, you know no other person who puts their initials on ANY part of their formal wear).

"Sorry to interrupt," your head of security rumbles- thankfully, she knows how to keep her voice quiet. "But we've got a situation. Two of them, in fact. First, there's been sightings of a fort just outside the capital, with reports of fighting around the area; second, there may have been an attack on some veteran adventurers out by the temples."

... Neptune's giving you a fairly intense look for some reason.

[ ] [STAY] Dispatch guards to deal with both situations. You can't rush out on your own to solve everything.
[ ] [FORT] Go deal with the... fort outside town, send guards to deal with the other attack. That's AMAZINGLY suspicious.
[ ] [ATTACK] Go deal with the attack within city walls, send guards to deal with the fort. Fighting? On a festival day? This will NOT stand.
[ ] [NEPTUNE] ... seriously, why the hell is she staring at you like that?
[ ] [WRITE-IN]

>>36927357
>[x] [ATTACK] Go deal with the attack within city walls, send guards to deal with the fort. Fighting? On a festival day? This will NOT stand.

Who cares about forts?

>>36927357
>[ ] [ATTACK] Go deal with the attack within city walls, send guards to deal with the fort. Fighting? On a festival day? This will NOT stand.
>[ ] [NEPTUNE] ... seriously, why the hell is she staring at you like that?

>>36927357#
>[ ] [ATTACK] Go deal with the attack within city walls, send guards to deal with the fort. Fighting? On a festival day? This will NOT stand.

>[ ] [NEPTUNE] ... seriously, why the hell is she staring at you like that?

>>36927357
>[ ] [ATTACK] Go deal with the attack within city walls, send guards to deal with the fort. Fighting? On a festival day? This will NOT stand.
>[ ] [NEPTUNE] ... seriously, why the hell is she staring at you like that?
Attacks within the city take priority over outside attacks, I think

>>36927357
>[ ] [ATTACK] Go deal with the attack within city walls, send guards to deal with the fort. Fighting? On a festival day? This will NOT stand.
For shame.

>>36927357
DK is the best head of security and we trust her to take care of the situation here: we better choose
[ ] [FORT] Go deal with the... fort outside town, send guards to deal with the other attack. That's AMAZINGLY suspicious.
also...
[ ] [NEPTUNE] ... seriously, why the hell is she staring at you like that?

>>36927357
>[X] [ATTACK] Go deal with the attack within city walls, send guards to deal with the fort. Fighting? On a festival day? This will NOT stand.

>>36927357
>[FORT]
>[NEPTUNE]

>>36927357
>[ ] [FORT] Go deal with the... fort outside town, send guards to deal with the other attack. That's AMAZINGLY suspicious.
[ ] [NEPTUNE] ... seriously, why the hell is she staring at you like that?

>>36926131
>Neptune starts bouncing in place. Years of observation have left you reasonably sure that she has to do that to gets her brain cells working
heh, funny

While I voted for the attack since it seems likes the more pressing matter, I do hope we can go investigate the fort afterwards.

>>36926578
Wait, you mean main character is something that is universal to the entirely of gamisutri? I had assumed someone was making a fan spiritual successor with slightly altered characters (like that obvious megaman clone thing).
But if it was possible for blanc to steal it it means it universal...
we stole it didn't we? ulrist that is

>>36927586
Likely the guards will intercept our usual protagonists, and we'll meet them after we get back.

>>36927623
Well, Yeah. We stole it the moment the quest started. We aren't in the video games, where Neptune is the main character, so she doesn't have her main-character-ness anymore.

>>36927586
I assume the guards will go and escort the gang back to Blanc to explain the situation

This may also lead up to Neptune finally meeting Urist. That should be fun.

>>36927586
We should probably check it out at some point -- I mean, 'a sighting of a fort'? What? -- but it's obviously not urgent.

If it turns out some kids built a snow fort however I swear to Uemura I'm putting the city guards on double drill until spring.

>>36927357
>[X] [ATTACK NEPTUNE] We were all thinking it.

>>36927357
>[ ] [ATTACK] Go deal with the attack within city walls, send guards to deal with the fort. Fighting? On a festival day? This will NOT stand.

Desecrating the festival is without a doubt more important. We have a level of pride we need to maintain, there is no reason to run off to check out some building in the fields. Let the guards take a look.

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>>36927357
>[X] [ATTACK]
>[X] [NEPTUNE]
>not necessarily in that order

You frown slightly, piecing apart what your head of security just told you. She's not the brightest banana in the barrel- not by a long shot- and she's not a very fast speaker, but on the flip side, you know damn well that she chooses her words with care. An attack ON veteran adventurers? Not the usual squabble?

"Ambushed," she grunts. "Right in the middle of the crowds. Pulled her targets into some dark sphere and spat them back out again, but maybe didn't count on them being so tough. They're panicking, and she's got her hands full now."

And we've got a full-on brawl on the outskirts of town. Who-

"Arturia and Lee-Fi, fighting an unknown."

You can't help it- you spit out a curse sharp enough to make Neptune blush and clasp her hands to her cheek, although your head of security's more than used to it. You're no longer worried for those two- you're worried for your goddamn /city/. They're full-blooded veterans, with long histories in Lowee back in the day- you know just how much power they're packing.

Before you even register what you're doing, you're purposefully striding through the Basilicom's inner sanctum, your head of security by your side. You turn to her, barking out orders at a rapid pace- Kong, go check up on the snow fort, bring some guards with her, but for the love of /you/, she's gonna have to send as many as she can spare to contain the damage and stop the combatants from bleeding over, you'll deal with them /personally/-

"On it," Kong rumbles, cracking her fists in earnest this time before trundling off, her longer strides allowing her to outpace you in no time.

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>>36928102
It's only when you reach the exit that you realize that Neptune's been keeping pace with you, still staring at you intently. Her stare is just a little less disconcerting than the fact that she looks /serious/- but you still have the presence of mind to ask her what the hell she thinks she's lookin' at and why.

"No reason!" Neptune chirrups, somehow mixing perkiness and solemnity. "I was just thinking that you'd make a pretty good main character. I bet you even got a multiple choice branching path or two up in there!"

You don't blink against the sunlight as you exit the Basilicom, and you barely even notice the double-takes of the bystanders around you through your head of steam. You glance to Neptune; so is she gonna make her point or not?, you growl, feeling your voice deepen into something a little hoarser, a little rougher.

"Let me come with you!" she exclaims, clenching a fist in determination. "If I can't be the main character, then I'll hang around you until enough of it rubs off of me to let me become a sub-character! Or a recurring cameo! Or even the waifu! Wait, no, that's just reader bait."

Despite yourself, you can't help but snort in a most unladylike fashion. She's not gonna let you weasel out of this one, is she?

"Nope! This has all the hallmarks of being a But Thou Must! situation!" Neptune parrots the famous phrase almost perfectly, eerily similar to a certain Dragon Warrior. "Besides, I know Arturia and Lee-Fi! They hung out at Planeptune sometimes, too!"

Fine, fine. You've got a bigger fish to MASH INTO A BLOODY SMEAR ON THE GROUND, after all.

"Haha, that's the Blanc we all know and love!"

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>>36928126
Soon enough, you arrive at the outskirts of Lowee's capital, where all the older buildings and temples are located. More tellingly, you start seeing signs of combat: weaponry lodged in the crumbling walls, fist and feet indentations all along the dilapidated pathways, and- of all things- discarded mechanical parts from something clearly robotic, although you can't make heads or tails of them.

Most importantly, you can hear the unmistakeable sounds of veteran adventurers duking it out, and it's not all that far away.

... right then. Time to get down to business and make a goddamn entrance.

[ ] [HDD] Transform into your goddess forms and fly to where the fighting probably is. They'll see you coming, but you WANT them to see you coming.
[ ] [ON FOOT] Approach the fighting on foot. It'll take you longer to get there, but on the other hand, you might be able to get the jump on whoever started this fight.
[ ] [WRITE-IN]

>>36928126
>Or even the waifu! Wait, no, that's just reader bait."
kek

>>36928215
>[ ] [ON FOOT]

>>36928215
>[X] [HDD] Transform into your goddess forms and fly to where the fighting probably is. They'll see you coming, but you WANT them to see you coming.

Now we're playing with power. Super power.

>>36927340
>But it's this weird feeling in your gizzard
... she has a gizzard?

>>36928215
>[ ] [HDD] Transform into your goddess forms and fly to where the fighting probably is. They'll see you coming, but you WANT them to see you coming.

>>36928270
Of course.

Otherwise, surviving on nothing but sweets would give her diabeetus.

>>36928215
>[ ] [HDD] Transform into your goddess forms and fly to where the fighting probably is. They'll see you coming, but you WANT them to see you coming.

>That gif
Just when I think I've escaped that french bastard...

>>36928215
>[ ] [HDD] Transform into your goddess forms and fly to where the fighting probably is. They'll see you coming, but you WANT them to see you coming.

>>36927670
what are the games actually called?

>>36928300
Hyperdimensional Neptunia.

>>36928215
>BOTH HDD
Shock and awe.

>>36928300
Lee-Fi is probably street fighter, Arutia might be several things.

>>36928311
damn shame, it started with PS3 exclusive, and latest installed is a PS Vita exclsive. disgusting.

>>36928395
They're getting steam releases next year.

>>36928438
that would be nice, i would get them then
any idea on the expected release date? is it early next year? since next year is in 8 days

>>36928462
As far as we know, It's just a rough "Sometime next year"

>>36928462
Dates haven't been released yet, but probably not until the holiday sales have winded down and people have had a few weeks to build up a paycheck again.

This quest has tempted me to look into the games and this is what I found.

http://www.siliconera.com/2014/12/22/fairy-fencer-f-hyperdimension-neptunia-games-coming-steam-english/

Get hype for PC releases.

>>36928562
We're already pretty hyped bro, that artical has been linked like 5 times already in this thread

>>36928608
My bad. I'm at work and haven't been reading much other then the posts from Blorp.

>>36928562
>>36928608
first time i am noticing it being posted, so thanks

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>>36928215
>[X] [HDD]

The more you stare at the battle damage, the angrier you get. This is a travesty. This is a direct insult to you, to your guards (oh, you're going to have WORDS with them when this is over), and to the Ascended who was to be honored by this festival. Someone jumped a bunch of visiting veterans in YOUR capital city! In the heart and soul of your freaking nation! And now they're steamrollin' right on through the physical history of your beautiful capital!

There's no underlying strategy, no grand plan in your normally orderly mind- a "CHANGE, MOTHERFUCKER!" tears itself from your throat, and your sight is briefly obscured as /power overwhelming/ flows through your veins. When the smoke clears, you're in your HDD form, your choice of attire is a lot breezier, but FUCK that noise because you are CPU WHITE HEART and you can FLY now and /murder/ things a hell of a lot more efficiently.

"H-Hey!" Neptune squawks, backing up a step- old instincts and memories coming to the fore, probably. Who knows how many times you've both boosted into your HDD forms to thrash each other shitless over the years? "What about me?"

You can't help but smirk- in this form, your emotions all across the spectrum always seem to run higher than usual. Seriously, the hell is she on about? She's comin' with you, so she'd damn well better suit up before you leave her behind! Then again, she's totally used to being left behind by Lowee, isn't she?

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>>36928991
"What!? How dare you!"

Another burst of dazzling fancy-pants computerized light engulfs Neptune, and then Purple Heart stands in her place. You've never been able to figure it out- unlike you and your lack of physical changes (other than a cool blue hairdo), Neptune always goes from a bratty kid to an older teen when she transforms, gaining a fair bit of height, longer hair, and an actual honest-to-god rack.

Not that you're jealous or anything because ha ha ha disgusting cow tits go home.

"Shock and awe, Blanc? Predictable as always," Purple Heart says, her voice deeper. "Effective, though. Lead the way."

... more important than her physical changes is the fact that her personality suddenly becomes rational, calm, and about 1000% more manageable. You would've blown her up AGES ago if it weren't for that.

A feral grin stretches your lips. Shock and awe, motherfucker.

Both of you rocket straight up into the air, the landscape receding below you at an alarming rate; for a moment, you see the entirety of Lowee in your vision, the buildings small and picturesque, the people almost unable to be seen, and the tree-dotted snowfields around your capital city stretching as far as the eye can see. It's a goddamn beautiful moment, and one that you've never tired of over all these years.

You home in on your target in a matter of seconds- there are spots of unnatural darkness scattered through a small area, laughably easy to spot from the air- and then you start diving, your war hammer materializing in your hands, and the formerly picturesque houses are looming larger and larger, and you have to make damn sure you aren't going to destroy anything on impact because your advisers will chew you out and Reggie will get on your case-

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>>36928998
And then you're down, screaming at the top of your lungs as you smash your hammer straight through one of those amorphous blobs of pure midnight, about the size of a small van. It pops like a zit, except the blackness dissipates almost immediately- and there's an explosion of those weird mechanical parts you saw before, this time with strange scraps of fabric mixed in.

Beside you, Purple Heart lands far more gracefully, but no less destructively; you tsk underneath your breath as she slices /two/ spheres into ribbons with that cookie-cutter sword of hers. But before you can yell at her about showing off and/or about how that one totally didn't count, you're taking in the scene around you.

It's kind of complete bedlam right now. You can hear familiar voices screaming in terror-fueled rage, although you can't see them; a gigantic fucking lance hurtles over your head, missing you by an inch, and Purple Heart's forced to sidestep a blue fireball that splashes against the pavement, leaving a burning black mark.

... Arturia and Lee-Fi. No doubt about it. And they're apparently terrified to the point that they're lashin' out blindly, which is ALWAYS bad news.

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>>36929003
The third participant in this fight, the probable instigator of this whole kit-and-kaboodle, is backing away- she's so goddamn dapper that she might as well be euphoric, looking sharp in an old-fashioned suit and blazer and one of those even older-fashioned hats. There's something off about her, though; bags under her eyes, jerky movements, and her weapon of choice is just a pair of hand-puppets, some sort of yellow chicken and a purple rabbit-

I͇̞͔̻̥͢T̺'̦̜̖͠Ś M̥͔̯̖̖͜E̫͍̱͔

And then black spheres are converging on your position, and the world's darkening as they grow steadily closer. No choice but to take these pieces of shit to town.

[ ] [BOSS] Destroy the spheres and make your way to the dapper girl. Take her out, and the spheres ought to stop being a problem.
[ ] [CAPCOM] Destroy the spheres and make your way to Arturia and Lee-Fi. Whatever's affecting them is probably fucking them up real bad.
[ ] [SPLIT UP] Send Neptune/Purple Heart toward Arturia and Lee-Fi while you go take on the boss, because fuck that noise.
[ ] [SPLIT UP2] YOU go toward Arturia and Lee-Fi and send Neptune/Purple Heart after the boss, because fuck him.
[ ] [ASCENDED] Call on the power of your guardian spirits because there's no kill like overkill. If there's ever a time to rely on them, it's now.
[ ] [WRITE-IN]

>>36929020
>[x] [BOSS] Destroy the spheres and make your way to the dapper girl. Take her out, and the spheres ought to stop being a problem.

[ ] [CAPCOM] Destroy the spheres and make your way to Arturia and Lee-Fi. Whatever's affecting them is probably fucking them up real bad.
>>36929020

>>36929020
>[ ] [ASCENDED] Call on the power of your guardian spirits because there's no kill like overkill. If there's ever a time to rely on them, it's now.
When someone attacks on our festival day you teach them a lesson with extreme prejudice

>>36929020
>[X] [BOSS] Destroy the spheres and make your way to the dapper girl. Take her out, and the spheres ought to stop being a problem. Hopefully. Maybe. We're all going to die, aren't we?

>>36929020
>CAPCOM

>>36929020
>[ ] [BOSS] Destroy the spheres and make your way to the dapper girl. Take her out, and the spheres ought to stop being a problem.

>>36928998
>Not that you're jealous or anything because ha ha ha disgusting cow tits go home.
keep telling this to yourself

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ALRIGHT SHIT I kinda lost track of time there and it's a lot later than it should be! Gonna have to stop the thread here for the night.

I'll try to aim the next mini-thread for Friday, 12/26, starting from approximately 9:30-ish pm EST! Updates will be at https://twitter.com/BlorpQuest and questions can go here or to ask.fm/BlorpQuest.

Thanks, guys, and I hope you enjoyed this mini-thread; catch you next time!

>>36929157
Thanks for the thread Blorp, see you next time.

>>36929157
thanks for running.

>>36929020
>[ ] [ASCENDED] Call on the power of your guardian spirits because there's no kill like overkill. If there's ever a time to rely on them, it's now.

>>36929157
Thanks for running! This is a blast.

Also, I did not see Freddy-chan coming.
Is no game safe!?

>>36929020
who? i don't recognize her

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>>36929201

>>36929201
Five Nights at Freddie's-chan

>>36929188
You'd be surprised!

>>36927525
>DK is the best head of security
OOOOOH

I see it now

>>36929256
Is there something special about the nature of personifications that are PC exclusive or something?

They all seem to act just a bit off from the normal adventurers.

>>36929294
PC doesn't exist as a gaming platform in Japan, so Blorp is farming the exclusives for villains.

>>36929319
but dwarf fortress is a pc exclusive and it is the main hero

also, you are wrong about pc not existing as a gaming platform in japan. Porn games (which are huge in japan) are almost all exclusive to the PC.

>>36929397
Don't forget Mara and formerly Mojang! And the MOBAs don't seem particularly villianish to me, they just kinda seem like dicks.

>>36929397
>also, you are wrong about pc not existing as a gaming platform in japan. Porn games (which are huge in japan) are almost all exclusive to the PC.
are we going to encounter erogages?

>>36929459
I was worried about Arturia there until I realized it was probably Ghost and Goblins

>>36929397
Urist can be pretty villainous, but the voices in her head keep her from killing too many people.

>>36929428
Civ has had some terrible console ports, so it's not completely PC exclusive.

>>36929501
Once a PC game always a PC game!

>>36929517
>Once a freelancer, always a freelancer

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>>36929517