>>3413961
It's been way to long

FIRST FOR COMPLETION

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>>3413961
First for breaking curses!

>>3413961
Getting hyped for Cerise's birthday!

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>>3413961

The best time of the week has finally arrived!

>>3413961
UMI DA

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Cerise sits at the center of the long dining room table, staring at a three-tiered cake baked personally by you and Mom. The number 26 burns atop it. You and the rest of the partygoers are crowded around, finishing off a rendition of "Happy Birthday" by performing the requisite encore, Rose harmonizing in a surprisingly skilled mezzo-soprano:

"For she's a jolly good fellllow" -- "(Fellow~)" -- "For she's a jolly good fellllow" -- "(Fellow~)" -- "For she's a jolly good fell-ell-oow---"

A pause from the revelers now, as you all regard the birthday girl; but Cerise's eyes are fixed firmly on the cake, her face a deepening red.

"Which nobody can deny!" -- "(Deny~)" -- "Which nobody can deny!" -- "(Deny~)" -- "Which nobody can deny!"

Cerise sighs, a look on her face like someone who has entered their garage only to find their car sitting up on blocks and the water heater leaking and the pet lizards all dead in the terrarium.

Mom prods her shoulder. "Make a wish, dear."

Cerise thinks. She draws a deep breath as if to blow the candles out, but then stops, and thinks some more instead.

Then she springs to her feet and flees from the room, sobbing. The wake of her exit ironically snuffs the candles out anyway, and the after-scent of singed wax fills your nostrils.

"Cerise -- wait!" Dr. Carte calls. She follows her out. Can never stop babysitting her, for any reason, even now.

"This is as I warned," Fazil says solemnly. "It is true across all cultures. Women are sensitive about aging. We should have used a 0 rather than a 6, as a gentle joke to defuse the tension."

"Goddamn it," you mutter. To occupy your hands, you pull the burnt-out candles from the fluffy whipped icing and set them on a nearby napkin. The rest of the guests are various mixtures of perplexed, embarrassed, and saddened. Only Amber, in the back of the room towards the walls, is anything like unfazed; she plays on her phone without paying attention to the outburst. Contrast this against Alex who vacillates between following Cerise as well or not, and settles instead on nervously fidgeting with his shirt sleeves. Or Mom, who's actually tearing up, Charlotte trying to console her with a borrowed tissue. Or Vivian who glumly turns from the table and towards the tall windows facing the patio, to peer out at the bright late-summer morning and contemplate something, probably along the lines of life's essential futility.

Saul clasps a hand on your shoulder: "You should go make sure she's okay," he whispers.

You hate to admit when he's right, but he is.

"Uh..." Whitney begins, clearing her throat, catching everyone's attention. "Is anyone going to dive into this cake or what?"

When she receives nothing but awkward murmurs and diverted gazes, she picks up a pie knife. \

"Fine," she says. She cuts a big slice from the top tier. "I'll do it myself, then. Can't let a perfectly good cake to go to waste, can we?"

SEASON 2 OP (B): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYG_4vJ4qNA

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>>3413980
Same, Cerise. Same.

>>3413980
Ah fuck

>Cerise sighs, a look on her face like someone who has entered their garage only to find their car sitting up on blocks and the water heater leaking and the pet lizards all dead in the terrarium.
Okay, this is so specific that I can only assume it came from personal experience

>>3413980
Whitney's doing her best.

>>3413980
Oh great she's crying again

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You can hear, thinly, the conversation inside Cerise's room from the other side of her door.

"It's not like that. You're still young. You're in your 20s for goodness sake. You want to feel old? Just wait until you get to my age!"

"I'm so fucking ancient -- Jeeesus. Where did my life go?" Cerise has a frog in her throat from the tears that continue to flow.

"Come on, now. Let's get you out of here. We can go do something fun!"

"Like what?"

"Anything. What do you want to do?"

"Die. I just want to die..."

You've had about all you can take of Cerise's woe-is-me act. You barge in, stride to where she's sitting on her bed, and grab her by the arm. She clutches at your wrist with her free hand and tries to wriggle free. But you're much stronger, so you win out -- you haul her up from the bed and drag her bodily from her bedroom. She stumbles and stomps to keep up with your brisk pace.

"Let go of me, Alabaster! What the fuck!" Her eyes are still red and rheumy. She sniffles back her snot.

Dr. Carte is following the two of you out into the hallway. She's smiling. At least someone here is amused.

"Let's go," you say. "We're gonna have a good day today. You're gonna open birthday presents, eat birthday cake, and do birthday things."

You let Cerise struggle free of you for now. She steps back and stands up straight, facing off against you at the top of the staircase. "Who the fuck made you king shit of birthday mountain?" She snarls.

"I did. Boo hoo, Cerise, you're 26. Are you gonna mope about it until you're 27?"

She throws her hands up. "So what if I do? What business of it is yours?"

"He just cares about you, Cerise," Dr. Carte offers.

"He's got some way of showing it!" Cerise rubs at her shoulder, apparently sore from the rough treatment. "Dragging me around like a sack of potatoes. So brotherly."

"I spent over $100,000 on your birthday presents this year," you say. "The least you can do is act like you care."

Cerise is momentarily cowed by this. She glances away and her hard expression disappears. But then she tries: "We're billionaires... $100,000 is nothing to us."

"What's the matter with you? Nothing is different today. Everything is just the same today, as it was yesterday. Age is nothing but an arbitrary number--"

"Oh! Now there's an argument you're used to making, huh?"

"It's true! It's emphatically true!"

>>3413980
Well, I'm not sure what we expected would happen.
After all, who would want to engage in cannibalism on their birthday?

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>>3413999
"Age is nothing but an arbitrary number--"

"Oh! Now there's an argument you're used to making, huh?"

"It's true! It's emphatically true!"

>>3413999
>"What's the matter with you? Nothing is different today. Everything is just the same today, as it was yesterday. Age is nothing but an arbitrary number--"
>"Oh! Now there's an argument you're used to making, huh?"
>"It's true! It's emphatically true!"
Fucking kek

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>>3413999

>Age is nothing but an arbitrary number

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"I'm just so sick..." Cerise says. "I'm sick of being a ticking time bomb. I'm sick of being this burden you guys keep having to babysit... I'm sick of this thing inside my eyeball."

You study her face. She's on the verge of tears again, her lips quivering, and she can't meet your gaze. You turn to Dr. Carte: "When are we going to hear back from Gustav?"

"It should be soon, but your guess is as good as mine. I sent a priority envelope with Gal's suggestion in it, but no word yet."

You frown. "Gal? Since when did you and Galatea get that chummy?"

"Never mind that," Dr. Carte says. "I'm sure it'll be soon."

Cerise shakes her head. "It's a hail Mary. What if this Gustav person can't help me, either? I'm just stuck being half a person for the rest of my life?"

You pull her close, both hands on her shoulders. "Stop it. I can't have you doing this 'I want to die' thing. Do you understand?"

"But--"

"I'm not good at this shit..." you grouse. "But... look. I already know what it's like to lose you. I lost you once already. I lived without you in my life for more than a year. And..." You gulp, trying to find your words. "Even though you can be such a pain in my ass... such a bitchy, shit-taste-having fujo of a sister -- you're my sister. I -- I need you around. What the fuck good is Alabaster Soliloquy without Cerise Soliloquy?"

"Well," Cerise says, voice soft. "Alabaster Soliloquy is already a pretentious asshole who never grew out of moeshit and still thinks he's got the right to criticize other people's taste. So."

"So," you say, "just imagine what he would be like if he didn't have his older sister to bitch at him sometimes."

She looks up suddenly, and lurches forward, and kisses you deeply. It's a kiss that tastes of toothpaste and mouthwash, that almost but not quite masks the taste of last night's stale beer. Despite that, you return it, squeezing her shoulders, and inhaling deeply. She's lovely and warm against you. Dr. Carte can't be too surprised -- and she can't judge you either, given her own exploits. So you don't care that you've got an audience.

Except now the audience of one becomes an audience of two.

"I just wanted to check on Cerise," comes Mom's voice as she ascends the stairs. "Is she all r--"

You and Cerise pull away from one another and quickly try to assume a nonchalant stance -- but it's far too late for that. Mom's eyes are saucers as she stands frozen on the top step.

"O-oh..." she finally stammers. "Excuse me..."

She turns and practically runs down the stairs.

"Fucking stupendous..." Cerise grumbles.

You shrug. "Okay then... plan B. Suicide pact?"

>>3414038
Ohhh man, here we go.

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>>3414038
hoo boy

>>3414038
>She looks up suddenly, and lurches forward, and kisses you deeply.
awwww
>"Okay then... plan B. Suicide pact?"
lol

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>>3413961
The return of the best quest on the internet, just in time for 2nd best girl's best birthday!

>>3413980

Happy Birthday Cerise-! Oh no.

Oh no, oh no, no....

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>>3414038

Dive into that cake!

>>3414038
I want to kiss Cerise on her birthday! I really really want to!

>>3414038
Oh yeah, I forgot Mom didn't know about us and Cerise. She took it way better in season 1

>>3414064
To be fair, she didn't have two lifetimes worth of memories to reconcile between two different families. Also the whole X-11 thing.

>>3414038
The embers of love have been ignited. It's time to FUCK. MOM.

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>>3414051
>just in time for 2nd best girl's best birthday!
But it isn't Rose2's birthday yet

>>3414066
But still her views on incest were dramatically more loose then they are now, she even encouraged it back then

>>3414077
Aha, but we still don't know her views yet, do we?

>>3414077
she didn't exactly disinherit either of them just now. have faith in OP.

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Downstairs, Cerise opens the small mountain of presents. Mom sits in the corner, avoiding eye contact. Cerise is glum, but for reasons the rest of the guests couldn't possibly suspect.

"I'll help you set it up, iff'n you want," Ken tells Cerise as she puzzles over the drone he got her.

"I think I'll be able to figure it out," she says, trying to force a smile.

"Ayup," he agrees. "I reckon you've got the aptitude for it."

---

"Lifetime free lunch buffets at Sizzler... thank you, Tyrus..."

"Don't mention it. -- Uh. For real though. Don't mention it to anyone else. And only use it at the ones here in town."

---

"Oh my gosh -- all 23 volumes?" Cerise's smile here is genuine as she unwraps the first-run tankōbon collection, every single volume of Fruits Basket in the original Japanese. The anime was one of Cerise's first (yours, too, since you had a habit of sneaking her VHS tapes).

"Open the inside cover of volume 1," Nelson says, proud of himself.

"Signed, too!" Cerise marvels. "Holy shit."

She hugs him. He winces at this; not a very touchy-feely person. Stepping back and pushing his glasses up his nose, he says: "it's the least I can do for one of my best employees. Happy birthday, Cerise."

---

"Uh. Thanks." Cerise glances back at you, unsure what to do with what Stackleford has just handed her: a cellophane-wrapped collection of hot sauce bottles with names like "Colon Blow" and "Ass-Blastin Ghost Pepper Sauce." Cerise has never indicated a particular love of spicy food, so how he got it in his head that she would want this is beyond you.

"Yo, no need to thank me. Stacks has you covered."

"He sure does," Cerise says. She purses her lips.

"But, uh. You can hug me too. If you want." He holds his arms wide.

"I think I'm good."

"Oh."

"Thanks anyway."

He lets his hands fall to his side.

Amber glances up from her phone for the first time all day. "Is that Colon Blow?"

Cerise nods.

"Love that shit," Amber says.

"Amber!" Mom chides. "Language."

"Can I have it? I'll pay you back."

"Amber!" Mom says again. "You can't ask for someone's birthday presents--"

But Cerise is just fine with that. She hands the whole package to her. Stackleford looks somewhat aghast and heartbroken, but says nothing.

Rose2 makes a sour face. "You better not put that in my contact solution like last time," she says.

Amber sticks her tongue out at her older sister. Then, looking down at the hot sauces, she laughs: "Heeheeh. So good. I'm gonna be pooping fire for the next year. Awesome..."

You grimace.

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>>3414081

We know she wants us to get together with her [weeaboo daughter], so this is probably her ideal scenario. I bet she ran out of the room because she was shocked it was going so smoothly.

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>>3414038

Except now the audience of one becomes an audience of two.

>"I just wanted to check on Cerise," comes Mom's voice as she ascends the stairs. "Is she all r--"

>You and Cerise pull away from one another and quickly try to assume a nonchalant stance -- but it's far too late for that. Mom's eyes are saucers as she stands frozen on the top step.

>"O-oh..." she finally stammers. "Excuse me..."

Oh boy, is it that time again friends? Time to ring the incest bell? Time see how many generations of inbreeding we can do before we get some genetic failures for children?

I'm looking forward to how many mutations we can get out of this.

>>3414085
>have faith in OP.
Hey I never said I didn't like this change. Just shocked by it

>>3414087
>fire Stackleford on national television
>he still shows up
Good lord, he really is like a bad fart.

>Rose2 makes a sour face."You better not put that in my contact solution like last time," she says.
I love Amber, but holy fuck that's brutal.

>>3414087
>Rose2 makes a sour face. "You better not put that in my contact solution like last time," she says.
Oh my god, that's incredibly fucked up

>>3414087
Nelson is actually based, holy shit.

>>3414087
Ahh, the shit-on-Stackleford hour. The best time of day.

Props to Nelson for actually knowing what he's doing.

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>>3414087

I figured it out. Tyrus was lying about his reasons to blow up DBA last season. He was actually after Darkbloom's cache of Sizzler vouchers: David was known for eating below his pay grade. The Russians are also after the Sizzlosopher's Legacy, and this conspiracy is the true force driving the plot.

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>>3414127

>Sizzlosopher's Legacy.

By god that's dumbest thing I've ever heard, what kind of pot have you been smoking anon- wait a minute.

If we know anything about OPStudios, it's that he has a fetish for making dumb and seemingly irrelevant plot points actually extremely important.

This is like the 4th time we've brought this underground sizzler's market...This maybe slightly retarded, but this wouldn't have something to do with the Russians right?

The Russians could just be using this sizzeler's coupons as a means to, I don't know, trade organs right under our noses or some shit.

These coupons are just a bad meme...right?

>>3414127
>>3414156
I mean, based on Sizzler's history, it really is a miracle that they're still in business. Them secretly being a front for a criminal enterprise really wouldn't surprise me.

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"For the girl who has everything!" Alex says.

"You cheeky little bitch!" Cerise laughs. "This is so cool..."

She marvels at the new coffee table that Whitney just crowbarred free of its enormous shipping crate. It's big sleek metal thing with a glass inlay on the top, showing the periodic table of the elements -- each square containing an actual sample (that explains the radiation stickers on the crate).

Cerise might rib you for being a dork, but this is precisely the kind of dorky shit she loves, too.

"Do you like it, then?" Alex says.

"Of course I do. Come here--"

She grabs him before he can get away, and gives him a noogie. He protests, but seems to enjoy it.

---

"Wait a second. Comiket is in America now?"

"Oh goodness," Rose says. "I should cherish this. I know something more than this house's resident weeaboo #2."

Cerise examines the confirmation slips. Rose bought three VIP passes to winter Comiket in LA, and Cerise's first question is the same as yours: "Why three?"

"One for you, one for Alabaster, and one for me."

"Since when do you care about anime conventions?" You demand.

"The VIP pass guarantees you get first priority at a lot of special events," Rose says. "And rumor has it that ZUN is going to be there. Naturally, I'd like to meet him."

You roll your eyes. The day Rose saw you trying to play one of those games will forever live in your memory as one of your worst mistakes. The chain of events it set off almost led to your downfall as President of the NHS StuCo...

>>3414089
What if our kids have polydactyly AND phocomelia?
Imagine the size of the flippers on those kids.

>>3414174
Wait
What the fuck
Rose is a Touhoufag?

Oh my fucking god how does she manage to get even better?

>>3414174
>ZUN
>2019
and a rumor it will stay

>>3414174
>It's big sleek metal thing with a glass inlay on the top, showing the periodic table of the elements -- each square containing an actual sample (that explains the radiation stickers on the crate).

I can understand Whitney getting a gift like this, but Alex? Shouldn't he be smart enough to know what a horrifically bad idea having that in your house would be?

>>3414174
Wait so we're not going with Noelle and Rose2? Gay

>"The VIP pass guarantees you get first priority at a lot of special events," Rose says. "And rumor has it that ZUN is going to be there. Naturally, I'd like to meet him."
>You roll your eyes. The day Rose saw you trying to play one of those games will forever live in your memory as one of your worst mistakes. The chain of events it set off almost led to your downfall as President of the NHS StuCo...
Wait, Rose likes Touhou? Cool

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>>3414174
>"The VIP pass guarantees you get first priority at a lot of special events," Rose says. "And rumor has it that ZUN is going to be there. Naturally, I'd like to meet him."

>>3414195
>not going with them
You know they'll be there anyway. I can't wait for the shenanigans during the OVA

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>>3414174
>The chain of events it set off almost led to your downfall as President of the NHS StuCo...

Silly OP, trying to bait us into begging him to write a tanoshii flashback scene.

Having said that, please write this tanoshii flashback scene.

>>3414174
Based Rose. I can think of a different reason she'd want to be there too.

>>3414195
>Wait so we're not going with Noelle and Rose2?
Knowing these two, they probably already got their own passes. I wouldn't be surprised if Rose2 has her own booth.

>>3414194

I'm pretty sure small quantities of radioactive elements are actually safe if not ingested.

>>3414212
It's a glass coffee table. In THIS house.

That fucker's going to have someone fall on it and shatter. It's inevitable.

>>3414225
The radioactive elements are likely sealed in vials and encased in acrylic. They’d never be closer to you than they would be at surface of the table.

>>3414198
>>3414205
I know they're probably gonna appear but I really don't like how season 1 focused this season is. Like this is the perfect time to give them some more screentime but it's being used on girls we've known forever. And I fucking LOVE Rose, she's the best, but Jesus most of the non-season 1 girls are just side characters at this point.

That's probably one of the biggest problems I have with this season

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>>3414225
good quest gentlemen

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"It's really quite something," Charlotte says, "They have so many different troupes that come through. You can see everything from Shakespeare, to Cirque du Soleil, to standup comedy, to opera... it's fully worth the money."

Cerise hugs her. She may not get much actual use out of a season pass to the local theater, but she appreciates the sentiment all the same.

"By the way," you ask. "How was court?"

Charlotte sighs sadly. "The judge didn't like us. We'll have to appeal... the FBI investigation will continue, for now..."

"Don't worry. I've got another idea," Saul says. "If Uncle Sam wants to keep pushing us over this -- there's a great Third Amendment argument to be made against granting the US Military access to the Sand Reckoner platform. We can do a little tit for tat and force the government to back off if they want to keep using our tech."

"This again?" Charlotte says. "Saul. Please. Let's focus on less specious avenues of attack."

Saul addresses you rather than his wife: "It makes perfect sense. If soldiers are allowed to instantly trawl our personal data, then are we not, in some sense, being forced to quarter soldiers? It's a clear violation of the constitution--"

Charlotte isn't buying it. "It's honestly a sickness at this point with you, Saul. I'm serious. Why are you so obsessed with getting the first landmark case on the Third Amendment?"

"It has nothing to do with that!" Saul insists. "Alabaster, forgive her. We both know that Charlotte isn't exactly a titanic legal mind. So of course she doesn't understand the essential point--"

"Oh!" Charlotte shouts. "I'm sorry. How many times have you argued before the Supreme Court again? Refresh my memory. Because I'm pretty sure the score there is 2-0!"

"You're perfectly correct, dear," Saul says. "And the score on cases lost at the Supreme Court is also 2-0..."

"You didn't seem so goddamn smarmy about it when you were asking whether I could get Anthony Kennedy's autograph -- BOTH times I went..."

Oh, would you look at the time. It's noon. Must be time for Saul and Charlotte to spend a few hours bickering. Saul tries to be the bigger man, and walk away, but Charlotte won't let him. She follows him right out of the dining room and into the living room, and the muffled sounds of their shouting underpin the rest of the festivities.

>>3414238
If you say so. That description just screamed "Chekhov's Gun" to me.

>>3414156
When were the other three times?

>>3414243
Yeah, I have to agree, that has honestly annoyed me as well

>>3414246
>Must be time for Saul and Charlotte to spend a few hours bickering.
When is this spinoff for Law & Order gonna be available in my streaming service?

>>3414246
>Must be time for Saul and Charlotte to spend a few hours bickering
*dickering

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The guests are thinning out and going home. Cerise hasn't opened your presents yet, but that's by design.

Amber and Rose2 are hanging out by the front door, bored and antsy to get going. Mom hugs Cerise goodbye -- things are still a bit awkward.

"Are you -- feeling any better now?" Mom asks her as she steps back from the embrace.

Cerise struggles with how to answer. "Yeah... it wasn't -- I mean --" She trails off and rubs her elbow. "I'm fine."

"Good. That's good."

Mom glances between you and Cerise. "I--" she begins. She seems conflicted. But then something seems to settle in her mind. She smiles wanly, but warmly: "be safe, you two."

"Mom?" Cerise says.

She hugs Cerise again, more tightly, and emphatically. Then you. She puts a hand on either of your shoulders. "I just want the both of you to be happy. As long as you're happy... well. You're adults."

You look away, abashed. Mom lets go of you. "Happy birthday, Cerise."

She kisses Cerise on the cheek, hugs her again for good measure, and leaves.

You turn and watch Whitney as she struggles to lug the new coffee table into the living room. Alex tries to help, but it's clear who's doing the heavy lifting here.

"Pivot!" Whitney howls.

"I'm trying, Ms. Whitney--"

"Goddamn it, you bitch-ass twink! Hold your end!"

"Sorry! So -- sorry-- agh--"

"What now?" Cerise asks.

[ ] Let's go to Gal's.
[ ] Let's hang out with Dr. Carte.
[ ] Let's go to Mom's place.
[ ] Let's talk with Alex about getting your livestream going again.

>>3414277
>[x] Let's go to Gal's.
I'm sure she wants to see her too.

>>3414277
Oof, that's a tough choice.

>[x] Let's hang out with Dr. Carte.
Gotta stick it out for best girl though.

>>3414277

[x] Let's go to Mom's place.

>>3414277
>[ ] Let's talk with Alex about getting your livestream going again.
Announcement at Comiket?

>>3414277
Hang with Renee. The og cake and the new cake.

>>3414246
Saul and Charlotte's dynamic is something I've missed. I appreciate it all the more after hearing how they got together in the first place.
>>3414277
>[ ] Let's go to Gal's.
I like the other options more, but this one seems right for Cerise.

>>3414277
>[x] Let's go to Mom's place.
IT'S FUCKING TIME BOYS

>>3414277
>[x] Let's talk with Alex about getting your livestream going again.
I want to make serious ad revenue with Cerise!

>>3414277
>[x] Let's go to Mom's place
You'd have to be autistic not to choose this

>>3414277
>galatea

>>3414300

Or just thinking with your dick, exclusively.

>>3414277
>[ ] Let's go to Mom's place.

>>3414300
>>3414261
Pff.

>>3414277
>[X] Let's talk with Alex about getting your livestream going again.
BIRTHDAY THREESOME WOO WOO

>>3414246

>Oh, would you look at the time. It's noon. Must be time for Saul and Charlotte to spend a few hours bickering. Saul tries to be the bigger man, and walk away, but Charlotte won't let him. She follows him right out of the dining room and into the living room, and the muffled sounds of their shouting underpin the rest of the festivities.

I see a cycle, I see a beautiful cycle of love and rape.

>>3414254

Okay it was like 3 times, but the first time was during that lunch fiasco with Mom, where Tryus handed them out.

2nd was during the bar trivia fight, where the announcer gave them away as a prize.

And this makes the 3rd time, with Tryus handing out one for people's Birthdays.

1's a mistake, 2's a worrying couple, but 3 makes a conspiracy party!

Let it be known that I'm onto this hidden Russia conspiracy, I say this Sizzler's coupon scheme is some kind Russian mafia front for attacking us, I can just see Mara sneaking this shit right under our nose, #Sizzlergate

>>3414277

>[X] Let's talk with Alex about getting your livestream going again.

Come guys, it's Cerise's birthday, she lost her cake, but we can still give her the best gift of all, traps in maid outfits!

>>3414277
>[ ] Let's go to Gal's.

She's probably been thinking about her all this time.

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>first four responses were each for a different option, in the same order they were listed
Satisfying

>>3414277
>[X] Let's go to Gal's.

>>3414277
>[X] Let's talk with Alex about getting your livestream going again.

>>>3414277

>[ ] Let's go to Mom's place.

Hard choice though.

>>3414277
>[x] Let's go to Mom's place.

>>3414277
>>[X] Let's talk with Alex about getting your livestream going again.

>>3414277
>[X] Let's talk with Alex about getting your livestream going again.

>>3414277
>[ ] Let's go to Mom's place.
Was wondering when a prompt would appear

>[X] Let's talk with Alex

>>3414277
>[ ] Let's talk with Alex about getting your livestream going again.

>[x] Let's talk with Alex about getting your livestream going again.

Closing and writing!

>>3414277
>[ ] Let's go to Mom's place.
show our mom some love

>>3414038
awww, cute

>>3414277
>[X] Let's talk with Alex about getting your livestream going again.

>>3414303
I mean, isn't that kind of half the point?

Also a strong case can be made as to why Cerise would want to see her long thought dead mother on her birthday

>>3414305
She's literally the only one who hasn't had all that much focus which pissed me of more. I'm convinced OP hates her

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>[x] Let's talk with Alex about getting your livestream going again.

Alex collapses on the living room couch, arms flopping uselessly to the cushions as he leans back. "I'm wiped," he groans.

Whitney finishes getting the table set up on her own. "You seriously need to work on your core strength," she says. "Pathetic."

"Uh huh..."

You stand over him. Your shadow falling across his face catches his attention, and he looks up.

"Are you still a patron of the fine arts?" You ask.

"Right about now? I'm a patron of sitting on my butt."

You scoop him into your arms.

"Geez, Ally~" he coos.

You unceremoniously drop him to his feet.

"Ooof-- what the heck. Warn me!"

"Come upstairs with me," you say.

Whitney arches an eyebrow. This is too inviting a setup not to shoehorn herself into -- so you warn her off. "Unless you like the nitty-gritty details of starting an internet livestream dedicated to circuit modification, you might as well find something better to do."

Whitney laughs. "I sort of zoned out in the middle there, but okay... if you fuck him, though, let me know."

Alex blushes. But his excitement wins over his embarrassment: "Really? Cerise is ready to do her circuit bending stream again?"

"She better be. I didn't buy her a top-line PC and brand new wardrobe for it to go to waste."

This is news to Cerise. "You... nooo. Oh my God, Alabaster. Why didn't you ask me first?"

"Forget about that!" Alex says. He takes Cerise's hand. "We definitely have to do it now that Ally went to all this trouble, don't we?"

"You motherfucker," Cerise growls at you. "You set this up so I can't say no."

"Yep," you agree.

Alex is unyielding. "C'mon, Cerise... you already said you'd do your old show again... so what's wrong with right now? Carpe diem, right?"

"Oh, and by the way," you cut in. "I got a wardrobe for you too, Alex. Since you said you'd co-host."

He suddenly looks somewhat more hesitant.

(Please wait warmly.)

Ohhh man.

>>3414447
I am indescribably happy.

>>3414447
>"You motherfucker," Cerise growls at you. "You set this up so I can't say no."
The trap card never fails.

>>3414447
[aaaaaaaaaa]

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>>3414447

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>>3414447
It's the best time of the week again

>>3414447
>"Oh, and by the way," you cut in. "I got a wardrobe for you too, Alex. Since you said you'd co-host."
>He suddenly looks somewhat more hesitant.
>(Please wait warmly.)
Haha, poor boy

>>3414447
>"You motherfucker,"
Not quite yet.

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>>3414447

>(Please wait warmly.)

Looks like it really is the best time of the week.

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>>3414447
I think our real present to Cerise is almost here.

>>3414447
Ally/Cerise/Alex is the best threesome group prove me wrong.

>>3414529
Just you wait for Ally/Rose/Charlotte

>>3414529
Ally/Cerise/Mom

>>3414529
Not just because they're my favorite girls, but I REALLY wanna see an Ally/Vivian/Amber threesome, just because of how strange of a dynamic it would be.

>>3414552
The fact that Vivian is older than her, still fucks with me

>>3414552

>Favorite girls are a legal loli and actual underage girl.

Vivian I can understand, but anon, to enjoy the company of actual minors, which jail cell are you posting from right now?

>>3414573
>implying Amber is really 17
It don't mesh. It really don't. And I like them for their personalities more anyway! It's emphatically true!

So what are you dweebs up to this time around, Anonymous-tachi? It's map-making extravaganza this time around, now that my party is done fooling around in town. After I sicced a vampire maid on them. I can't believe that didn't get any of them.

I already miss Kaguya-sama.

>>3414648
Probably Infinite Dendrogram, I'm reading through the LNs now, and it's by no means a literary masterpiece (infact the actual mechanic writing is on the mediocre side) but I'll be damned if it isn't enjoyable as fuck.

>>3414648
Currently getting into the Neptunia series.
Playing Rebirth2 right now.
Also drinking coffee and eating breakfast because it's like 7AM here

>>3414648
>I already miss Kaguya-sama.
Watching the last episode right now, this was a really good season for anime, I'm gonna miss it

>>3414447
>"I got a wardrobe for you too, Alex. Since you said you'd co-host."
0w0

>>3414648
Getting frustrated at CoH2
>>3414698
It was, and I’m happy that I’m getting 12 more episodes of Dororo

>>3414648
Preparing some Indomie instant noodles. Hopefully I'll be done right in time for OP's post.

>>3414745
Have you tried adding sriracha to it? I usually do that and serve it with a fried egg and leftover meat, if there is any.

I haven't been able to enjoy another brand since OP turned me onto it, even after I shit on it initially. Send help.

>>3414648
Switching between episodes of Serial Experiments Lain, Boogiepop Phantom, and Yuru Camp

>>3414573
Age is nothing but an arbitrary number

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>>3414648

just working on the weekly dose of OC

>>3414776
>only a T-rating
Damn the ESRB.

>>3414776
Good shit, anon

>>3414780
the T rating is because of Amber

>>3414751
It already has sriracha sauce (at least I think it is) in the package, so I guess it's been added? I can still add a little bit more though.

Fried an egg to go with it too, though I'm usually too lazy to do that and just boil the egg right in the pot.

Same for me, but moreso because of how cheaper and tastier it is compared to the local brands. How that is possible simply boggles my mind.

>>3414827
Good shit. I'll probably make some for myself after this warm wait ends with the leftover steak from dinner. Getting hungry with all this warm waiting.

>>3414776
Source on that Kuroneko?

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>>3414839

Pretty sure it's official art.

>>3414174
>You roll your eyes. The day Rose saw you trying to play one of those games will forever live in your memory as one of your worst mistakes. The chain of events it set off almost led to your downfall as President of the NHS StuCo...


Oh no she's become best girl

>>3414848
Cute as fuck

>>3414849
She was always best girl

>>3414857
Based

>>3414864
>>3414857
based and femdom pilled

>>3414867
>femdom
Try switchpilled

>>3414867
>>3414893
More like tender love pilled

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>>3414920
Gentlemen, Anonymous-tachi.
It was a pleasure questing with you.

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>>3414920

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>>3414920
oh shit i think i'm having a stroke

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>>3414920
Deliverance!

>>3414920
>posted by A Guest
You REALLY didn't want us peeking, huh?

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>>3414932

That was a mistake, actually. Not sure how I ended up logged out. But thank you for bringing it to my attention. Here's the more permanent link.

https://pastebin.com/Q8fRcmM2

>>3414940
Vunderbar. Now I have to wonder, did you ever get the Vivian scene done and it got lost in the annals of you being logged out after we went ghost thread?

>>3414920
Hnnnngh unexpected exhibitionism. OP necer disappoints.

I hope we get a scene of Alabaster checking /csg/ to see how they reacted to his little show. I'm laughing just imagining it.

>>3414920
>>3414940
We truly were Fuck Quest Season 3

>>3414920

Holy shit this was magical.

>>3414920
>we actually ntr'd the entirety of /csg/
Fucking gold. Was this the plan for the /csg/ arc all along?

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>>3414943
I unfortunately did not finish the Vivian scene as promised, for a couple reasons -- I fell asleep, and also it broaches some of the same subject matter as the lewd scene I just posted so I was worried it might be redundant. It will see the light of day, though, for sure.

>>3414949
Not a problem. Proceed apace~!

>>3414940
>Literally fapping and shaking and cumming and shitting right now.

I just about choked on a god-damn taquito OP. Pretty sure the whole house is awake now.

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>>3414920
Good stuff. The /csg/ posts were a nice touch too.

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GIRLS FUCKED: 12/12
FULL CLEAR
RANK: A
Now try for the true ending!!

---

You lie curled up on the living room couch with Cerise, watching trashy TV, but not paying too much attention. You spend more time just lazily kissing her. Alex is on the recliner, still in his succubus getup -- he seems to have warmed to it.

"Alabaster..." Cerise breathes. Her voice is dreamy. "I lov--"

The doorbell rings.

You extricate yourself from her grip and get up, reluctantly. Cerise is equally reluctant to let you go. You answer the door: it's Tyrus.

"Forget something, or what?" You say.

He peers around you, into the living room, seeing that Cerise and Alex are here too. "Shit," he says. "Perfect timing."

"What's going on?" You say. You feel a sinking sensation in your gut, an instinct that things are not all right.

"We four need to take a drive," he says. "Let's go."

You step to the side, blocking his view of Cerise and Alex: "now hold on just a second. What's going on?"

"We can do this easy or hard," he says. "Choice is yours." He straightens his belt, drawing your eyes down, and you see his gun in his waistband.

"I trusted you," you glower.

"And you were fucking right to. You don't understand shit, do you?"

"I'll go. Okay? Just leave them out of this, whatever it is--"

"No can do, friendo. This is an all or nothing package. And it's for your own good."

You look back at Cerise and Alex. Their expressions are severe -- confused and frightened.

"It's gonna be okay," you tell them.

Tyrus puts a hand on your shoulder.

Time to go.

>>3414958
>he's taking us to Gustav

>>3414958
I can't believe it's here. This is it. It's actually the beginning of the end.

I can't believe Fuck Quest is actually going to be over.

>>3414958
o fuck o fuck o fuck

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>>3414958
>>3414961
>Now try for the true ending!!
concern

>post
concern

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>>3414920
That's it, that's it man!
God OP, I fucking love you

>>3414958
Why us 3?

>>3414968
Us because us, Cerise because eye thing, Alex because he made part of the eye thing.

>>3414958
>Now try for the true ending!!
Bring it on OP. If the millions of deaths and months of lost time spent in FromSoft games has taught me anything, it is to stare death and loss and pain square in the face, and give zero fucks.

>>3414958
>Now try for the true ending!!

Oh boy

>"Alabaster..." Cerise breathes. Her voice is dreamy. "I lov--"
>The doorbell rings.

Motherfucker

>>3414958
fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck

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>>3414920
Sweet Mary mother with her pussy christened by a Mercendez Benz, that was, easily the most intense lewd I've ever had the pleasure of enjoying, truly an excellent delievery OP, worth every second of the wait.

>>3414958

>Now try for the true ending!!

Wait there's more?

>Tyrus has come for us

Oh shit, it is time for the Sizzler plot line to come crashing down on us?

Is it time to open #SizzlerGate and obtain the Sizzlosopher's Legacy?

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>>3414958
Time for pain, fellas.

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>>3414989

>"No can do, friendo. This is an all or nothing four-person party buffet package. And it's for your own good."

>>3415000
Oh, so he got us a groupon for tonight. The worst thing we have to worry about is shitty steak and rubbery shrimp.

>>3414920
>Cucking /csg/
kek

>>3414958
Oh shit

>>3414989
>Wait there's more?
You haven't been paying much attention have you?

>>3414961
Please, no. It feels like we just got started.

Are you guys ready for Fuck Quest After Story?

>>3415013
Fuck Quest: Fuck Phantasm miniseries when?

>>3414961
Fuck quest will never end. When you expect it to be over OP studios will blindside you with some kind of new plotpoint that needs to be resolved in a new season.

>>3415015
Comiket soon :tm:

>>3415013
I'm ready for Fuck Quest: Pillow Talk if that's what you're asking

>>3415017
Tyrus is actually going to take us to comiket for some fun times!

>>3415013
Maybe it will be like Gundam where we get AUs.
After Fuck: Quest X when?

>>3415032
OP already gave up the plot to Fuck Quest: Xenoglossa so that one's not gonna happen, much to literally everyone's dismay.

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Tyrus leads the three of you past a sneering bouncer. It's barely after 6 in the evening but the Sapphire Club is jam-packed with hooting customers. A DJ pounds electronic music; on stage, women strip for dollar bills.

But you're not relegated to mingling with the hoi polloi. Tyrus owns this establishment, and leads you up a winding staircase, through sequined curtains, and into a lush VIP section.

A dark, half-naked woman rounds a corner, bangles jangling, tits jiggling. She sets her hungry eyes on Alex and draws him into a hug, mashing her breasts right into his blushing face. "Oh baby," she says, "aren't you just the sweetest. You're not on of Tyrus's boytoys are you? You wanna have a good time?"

"A-Ally--" Alex mumbles, scared out of his wits.

"Fuck off, Jade," Tyrus says. "We're here on business. Make yourself useful and get us some vodka."

She clicks her tongue against her palate in anger, stepping back. "Geez, Tyrus. You're such an asshole."

"And you're a dumb fuckin' whore. Don't you see you're bothering the poor kid? Just go get us some drinks. Shit."

She scurries away. Tyrus beckons for you, Cerise and Alex to file into a plush booth. It's red and white, and zirconium-studded around the edges. He sits on the end, basically trapping you -- oh, and of course, the multiple armed thugs at the exits. The seats across the table from you are empty. Are you waiting for someone?

"What is this?" You demand. "Why here?"

"We're on friendly turf here," Tyrus says.

The stripper, Jade, returns with the drinks Tyrus ordered her to fetch. She sets shot glasses down in front of you and a skull-shaped bottle of fine vodka at the table's center. Hardly a welcoming sight. Tyrus unscrews the cap, pours shots for you all, and a couple more for the putative guests you're awaiting. Tyrus drinks his, and Cerise drinks hers, but you and Alex aren't really in the mood.

Alex's hiss of fright alerts you before you see it: in now comes walking Stasi Lebedev.

She's flanked by a small retinue of stern, besuited men with uzis, each more vicious-looking than the last.

And they've brought someone else, too: Sable Guiteau.

They force Sable to sit across from you at the booth, and Stasi joins her, hedging her in the same way Tyrus has done with you. Sable looks reproachfully up at her captors, and shrieks: "You are going to pay for this! You've crossed the wrong woman!"

Alex has both hands to his mouth, trembling. You can hardly believe it yourself. All this time, you thought Sable was dead. It's a rude shock to see her being carted in by the Russian mafia -- by the woman who came so close to killing you last year.

Stasi clacks her fingernails against the table. "Let's begin," she says. "Our terms are simple. Hand over Alexander Best and both the Soliloquy siblings, and we can consider ourselves even."

>>3415040
FUCK
FUCK
FUCK
FUCK

>>3415037
Aw man I wanted my national stereotypes in Mobile Fucker Quest G

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>>3415040
OH FUCK

OH GOD

OH MAN

>>3415040
fuck

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>>3415040

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>>3415040

We really should have hired bodyguards instead of spending that hundred thousand on succubus paraphernalia.

>>3415040
>And they've brought someone else, too: Sable Guiteau.
Ohhhh man

>>3415040
>it's the Stackleford hostage situation again
Goddamnit. And I dunno if there's a friendly sniper to save us this time. Unless Rose took some extra lessons over the timeskip.

And where was Whitney before Tyrus arrived?

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>>3415040
Save us, Dan Aykroyd!

>>3415053
d i a m o n d f i l t e r e d

>>3415048
That succubus paraphernalia was as crucial to our well-being as bodyguards would be.
That said, we probably should have gotten both.

>>3415053
It's pretty smooth

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>>3415040

I KNEW IT, I FUCKING KNEW TYRUS WAS WORKING WITH THE RUSSIANS, THAT PRICK!

#SISSLERGATE IS REAL, I KNEW IT!

>>3415040
WELP

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>>3415040
Haha, just in time to fucking panick!

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Tyrus smiles. "Fuck you."

"You are making such a mistake, Mr. Kang. I have played so nicely with you."

"I ought to dome you right here and now," he says. He stands up, pulls his pistol out, and even as the men all around him go into a commotion of raised guns and shouts, his glare is fixed squarely on Stasi. "You played nice with me? You killed my husband! You fucking cunt. Whatever the fuck it is you want, you get the opposite. I'm gonna fuck you up. You, your organization, all your cronies back in Moscow. I'll kill every single one of you motherfuckers."

Stasi frowns at him. "This again? Tyrus... you poor, dumb ape. I didn't kill your faggot husband. His killer is on your side of the table."

Your heart skips a beat. Alex winces and stares at his lap. He's crying. Cerise holds your hand under the table, equally terrified, her eyes also welling with tears.

"Bullshit," Tyrus says. "You think I was born yesterday?"

"You're being played for a fool," Stasi tells him. "No matter. We'll get what we want in the end anyway. What's to stop us from massacring you all, right here and now?"

"You know what. You can steal all the Sand Reckoner implants you want. As long as I've got eyes on Darkbloom Analytics, you can't take over the data centers, can you. The second you make a move you're gonna have a fucking army coming for you. A whole fucking squadron of strapped-down niggers who dropped out of middle school and learned out of history books from the 1980s. They still think the Soviet Union exists. The only thing they love more than shooting people is hating Russians."

Stasi regards him, fist on cheek. "Do you see this woman beside me? This woman negates the need for taking over any existing infrastructure. She'll create a newer, better framework... without the need for David Darkbloom's old servers. All we need now is that implant inside Cerise Soliloquy's head..."

Tyrus considers his position. He glances down at the three of you, then over to Sable.

"If you cooperate, Mr. Kang, you can come out of this ahead. There is room in the new world for you. Set aside old grudges... it's the civilized thing to do. Or -- you can die."

It all happens so fast: Tyrus whistles, sharp and hard, and that's apparently the cue. His men turn on Stasi's men, and fire. He's declined the bargain.

>>3415082
THANK GOD HE'S ON OUR SIDE (for now)
BUT FUCK FUCK FUCK

BOOP

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>>3414175
our children will baffle christendom

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>>3415082
WAIT NEVERMIND, I TAKE IT BACK, WE HAVEN'T BEEN BETRAYED, BUT FUCK, OH SHIT, IT'S STILL SERIOUSLY FUCKED.

>>3415082
Tyrus must NEVER learn the truth.

>>3415082
W E L P

Thank FUCK we haven't pissed off Tyrus yet

>>3415090
Maybe he knows the truth.

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>>3415082

Now THIS is Sizzling

>>3415082
So he's definitely gonna find out the truth no matter what we do right?

>>3415094
After all, he is the new Security Chief at DA. Surely he watched the hallway videos of the incident.

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Tyrus fires at Stasi. But Stasi's reaction time is almost superhuman. She grabs his arm and wrenches it up, into the air, and Tyrus misses.

Seething, he dives across the booth for her. And that's the last you see of either of them because you're grabbing both Cerise and Alex and ducking beneath the cover of the table as the room dissolves into a horrible cacophony of gunfire.

There were more, many more men than the few you saw around the room's perimeter. They're swarming the place by the dozen, seemingly coming from the rafters, like roaches to a garbage pile -- Russians and gangsters alike. It's a fucking bloodbath.

You hug Cerise tight and try to bodily shield her from any stray bullets that might come her way. She's trembling like a bird in your arms. Bodies pile up in front of the booth -- one dying man, a fat Russian, lurches forward and thuds against the tabletop, bent at the waist, his lower half like a curtain obscuring your view of the room beyond.

The gunfire and senseless screaming becomes an incessant drone in your ears. Your nostrils fill with the smell of phosphorus and iron and the voiding bowels of dead men. This is hell made real.

And then suddenly, the body draped over the table falls away -- tugged down by an interloper. You shield your face with both hands as they point a shotgun at you.

>>3415099
Do we wake up X years in the future?

>>3415098
anon i'm fairly certain we made sure that shit will never come too light.

>>3415094
>>3415098
Except those weren't working at the time. Not only did Galatea own their server briefly beforehand, but there was that big old blackout, remember? Nothing worked. If Tyrus knew the truth, Alex would already be dead.

>>3415099
Instead, we're only about to be.

What gun did Rose have with her? Was it a shot gun?

>>3415099
wait
SHOTGUN
IS IT ROSE?

>>3415099
>A shotgun
Why do i get the feeling thats fucking Rose.

>>3415099

So his plan was to make sure that if he lost this exchange we would at least be killed in the crossfire so the Russians don't win. Very clever.

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"--Rose?" You sputter. Her face is blank, but severe. You lock eyes, staring at one another for a split moment. But something catches her attention. She wheels, and fires, and another Russian falls dead at her feet.

She looks back down at you.

"Run," she says.

With that, and nothing more, she steps past your field of vision, pumping her shotgun, and you hear her fire join the chorus.

You crawl forward on hands and knees and peer out. Rose followed the action through another set of curtains, into another VIP booth, where shots continue to ring out, and gunsmoke peters through the sequins. The path in the opposite direction, to the exit, down the stairs, is clear of everything save for corpses. You usher Alex and Cerise -- Sable, too -- out, and point them down the stairs. But you linger behind.

"...Alabaster?" Cerise says. "Come on! Let's go!"

"I'll -- I'll be right back."

"What?!"

"Go! Get out of here."

"I--" Cerise begins, but Alex is tugging her by the wrist. "Let's go! You won't convince him -- let's go!"

You meet Cerise's frightened eyes, and nod. She doesn't want to go, but Alex's insistence practically drags her down the stairs with him.

You turn, and squat over the body of one of Tyrus's men, and pick up his pistol. It's cold, heavy in your hands. You're not used to holding a gun like Rose is. You should have let her teach you a little more.

Too late now. You take it and stride purposefully forward, through the curtains of the adjoining booth, to help Rose however you can.

END OF EPISODE 10.

>>3415106
I got that too.

>>3415110
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>3415110
NEXT TIME ON FUCK QUEST

ROSE FUCKING DIES

>>3415110
The only weapon more powerful than the mind. The gun.

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>>3415110

Thanks for the hard work OP!

>>3415110
>Rose and Alabaster working together too finally deal with this bullshit
oh hell we started the apocalypse.

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>>3415110
God bless this woman. And, OP, thank you for your work.

>>3415110
I ship them so hard boys

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>>3415110
I've never been so totally stoked in my life, bros

>>3415110
Wait that's it? Eh, that was only like 15 updates though. How are you even suprised by the fact that we need another season to complete this?

You're pacing needs some work man

>>3415131
I eagerly look forward to your quest's marathon sessions of non-stop content.

>>3415134
? I'm not saying there should be non-stop content, I didn't complain at all when he wanted to take a break last week (although he could've announced it earlier) but I'm judging the actual episode for what it is. Even if he has a good excuse, excuses don't take away the flaws, every writer knows that

>>3415110
Thanks for the run

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Relatively short episode by word count this week, I didn't work as quickly as I needed to.

CURRENT PROMINENCE BY MENTION:
Whitney: 789
Cerise: 651
Renee: 503
Rose: 484
Vivian: 483
Rose2: 284
Alex: 255
Camelia/Amber: 231
Galatea: 216
Charlotte: 153
Makoto: 149
Kay: 149
Noelle: 90
Sable: 30

>>3415140
Good thread, OP. I've honestly missed the raw fear that season 2 regularly brought.

>>3415140
Good shit, OP. I can't wait for next week. Time to blast some fucking Russians and protect some fucking smiles.

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>>3415140
Heartless

>>3415110
>there are people in this very thread that doubt Rose as the greatest girl
every year
all years

>>3415140
>>3415144
>We cracked 12/12
>during the last minutes of Cerise being 25
>on episode 25
S A S U G A

>>3415140
>Sable: 30
I'm glad I didn't have to wait until Palau to get Sable back into the story, but this still hurts.

Also surprised that not once did dad-in-law-in-sister manifest during the festivities.

>>3415149
The only ones with her now are Sable and Alex. If there was ever a dramatically appropriate time for him to emerge and throw EVERYTHING into a tizzy, now would be it.

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Checklist updato

>>3415131
>>3415136
I agree with you. I know that pacing is one of my flaws, and I'm not surprised that I need another season to tell the story.

I've taken season 3 slow to allow some more slice of life elements, but it has also kept the superstructure of the story developing quite glacially. That's compounded by my own slowness at writing. I'm just not very quick on my feet! I don't fault anyone for being frustrated, and I know others will want to defend it, but it's all a matter of what your prioritize. If you want to see the plot develop, this can be rough going.

I would have liked a longer episode tonight, too. At minimum, I need to plan a bit better -- I know that, but criticism like this is always useful so that I hear it's a concern at least some of the readers share. I've been playing this season a lot by ear, but maybe too much.

>>3415136
The more he writes, the fewer episodes we get and the quicker it ends. Savor it.

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>>3415140

Quality over quantity desu.

>25 episodes in, Alabaster, despite ostensibly the most lewd scenes, has still zero hearts

Your ruse has gone on long enough, OP, but that ends today. The real Alabaster's been in Alaska all this time, and we've been following a mere doppelganger instead. Has he been sitting on the main horde of coupons in that frigid shack? Does his wife even have a feminine penis? W͘͟A͡KE͢͟ ͘̕U̷Ṕ̸̨ SHEEPLE!

>>3415153
And as always, you are a blessing.

>>3415155
Personally I'm fine with you taking your time like you have been, as long as it doesn't put us in danger of you burning yourself out again.

>>3415153
>No Darkbloom even though hes currently in cerese's body
for shame anon and OP.

>>3415155
Truly the most based writer

>>3415163
Still waiting on the pastebin where Cerise and Darkbloom swap consciousnesses with each thrust

>>3415155
Huh, didn't expect you to actually respond to this but yeah pacing has always been a big issue of yours and it's especially bad in this season. Now maybe this is an unpopular opinion but I think the problem is all the lewds you keep throwing out and I think you should really tone it down

Back in season 2, I remember eagerly waiting each week for the next chapter to see where the story goes and excitement for a possible new lewd but in this season I haven't been waiting around for actual story progress, I've been waiting around for 2 hours for a lewd, sometimes even multiple times an episode. Right now we're in episode 10 and there has been 20 lewds and 4 bonus lewds and the story progression has obviously taken a huge hit because of that, it feels like you're only focusing on the Fuck part of Fuck Quest and treating the Quest part as secondary. Season 2 was amazing because of this balance, the lewds were cool and there was enough story progress for actual discussion to be formed and the speculation was much more fun than the actual lewds, it was one of the best parts of the quest, but now the threads aren't filled with that much discussion and speculation anymore, there's not much to talk about other than quoting a funny line of dialogue or talking about how hot they think a lewd is. Gone are the days of actual discussion and that actually kind of kills the quest for me, I used to be antipcating the end of the week and looking through the threads first thing in the morning to see what people are talking about and now it's like Shield Hero in the way where I just watch it cause it's there and I have nothing better to do and that sucks cause I used to say how this was the definitive he's quest on this entire board so it hurts me a lot to say

Another thing that fucks with the pacing is that you have a lot of characters but they're just kind of there. They aren't used to process or introduce any plot points they just kind if stand there and spew a couple lines of dialouge before the leave and then a season 1 girl who isn't Mom does something. Back in season 2 there was one over-arching plot and all of the girls were involved in some way, some more than others but still had the potential to change things. Now I love Rose2 and Makoto but why are they here? What purpose do they serve They're just some fuck buddies who hardly even show up or actually get fucked. Those characters and the story themselves seem just stuck in a plot limbo, where they're just sitting around waiting for the plot to happen instead of actually do anything. Most of the important roles are filled by the season 1 chicks instead of given the other's something. You mentioned that when you were going through the idea for season 2 you gave them roles like "The Radical" or "The Hacker" but what's Charlotte's role? Nothing she's just standing there being sexy but not doing anything noteworthy

Tldr: Season 2 was amazing and you should look back to that format for reference

>>3415157
Sorry but I much prefer if OP continues FQ out of a desire to do it rather than to fuck around and introduce new plot points before finishing the current ones

>>3415970
Echoing concern over introducing a bunch of characters that just take up space in the narrative for the sake of Lewds that could easily be fulfilled by existing characters. Rose2, makoto, Noelle, Kay a bit, and now Charlotte.

>>3415970

I have a plan™ for Rose2 and Makoto, although I understand it's hard to even think of what it might be given that we've seen little of them and don't really know what their overall significance to the plot is yet.

Charlotte is a little different, she's been around since season 1 technically (her name got retconned), and was featured in season 2. She's a bit more prominent now as a character in season 3, in the sense we see more of her, but her most important role was always principally in the pre-quest background of Alabaster living in the Mallory household after his parents died. She was until recently, in a real way, a background character.

(Don't take this to mean your critique is falling on deaf ears or that I'm disputing you, I'm just having a discussion of some specific points because thinking about the story structure is interesting to me. It is hard to juggle a cast so large and there's no particular reason it ever had to be so large, the storytelling decisions largely flow out of working with the cast of characters I've created, and I could have told a story with a harem size of 6, or 8, etc. -- so the flaws you see are of my own making, ultimately)

In truth I fully understand the dissatisfaction and even if any given thing has a just-so explanation or excuse, again the superstructure of the plot is pretty slow moving in season 3, and that's the main problem.

I have made a purposeful decision to tilt more towards the "Fuck" and therefore a bit away from the "Quest" here because I was pretty dissatisfied personally with how little sex there was in season 2. I also wanted some time to explore Alabaster living a life of wealth with his harem, before throwing it into real chaos. But development has been painfully incremental because of these decisions and I'd like to make the plot move a little quicker now. I think the events of this episode present an inflection point where the plot will begin forcing itself on the characters in a bigger way.

>>3416176
>I have made a purposeful decision to tilt more towards the "Fuck" and therefore a bit away from the "Quest" here because I was pretty dissatisfied personally with how little sex there was in season 2.
Really? I thought it was a good balance, there were 20 lewds out of 15 episodes and there was at least one sometimes 2, per episode.

>I also wanted some time to explore Alabaster living a life of wealth with his harem
That's fine, I don't think anybody didn't like the tennis episode or wasn't excited about a Comiket episode with Noelle or Rose2 (rip), it's just you went a bit overboard with it

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>>3415970
>>3416167
>>3416176

It's really just a trade-off between whether a reader prefers slice of life or plot progression. A larger cast exponentially improves the number and variety of character interactions and lewds, but writing these takes up time that would otherwise be put towards the plot. Personally, I lean towards enjoying the cast size because FQ has a lot of character archetypes and relationship dynamics that are hardly seen in other media, and I think their inclusion is validated just by them being fun to read about. Even if not involved in the main overarching plot, there are plenty secondary character subplots to resolve, too: Makoto's evolution into a sexual predator and its effect on her idol status and the movie, Rose2's soft yandere crusade against the harem, Noelle's career-seduction balancing act sliding too far into one direction, etc. Consuming focus that could otherwise be put towards existing characters is a larger problem, but this is more a symptom of the format of the quest than the story structure itself, in that OP's health is more important than 40000-word episodes that cover all cast members.

In conclusion, the best way to satisfy both character-focused and plot-focused readers is to delegate a greater portion of slice of life scenes to season 4 (failing that, season 5), or to wait for the comprehensive visual novel experience, featuring realized scenes of previously unchosen branches and cutting-edge text skipping technology.

>>3416176
>I have a plan™ for Rose2 and Makoto.
I have a suspicion on what that might be and it unsettles me. I remember one anon previously suggesting (probably as a joke, granted) that Rose2 could be a Russian plant. Who's to say that Makoto is basically the Chinese counterpart? Afterall, they're working on their own Sand Reckoner already.

Yes, she's from Japan, but any number of reasons can excuse that, ie. blackmail, her idol agency answering to and backed by a big money Chinese company, she's a Manchurian candidate all along, etc.

I'm hoping I'm wrong and get blindsided. Maybe Kay or Noelle already have the answers? Who knows.

And here's my two cents regarding plot discussions as well with this in mind. Some of the stuff that has been happening in the background is pretty much unactionable since it'll be metagaming, like with Alex and Sable meeting up or Vivian getting her own implant courtesy of Mara.

We're kinda left with avenues that impact our immediate surrounding, like getting David out of Cerise's head. And that's where discussions flow since it's what we know that Ally knows too and it aligns with a vested interest for both players and the character in keeping Cerise happy.

Now, do I want to see Ally confront Alex about him meeting with Sable? Do I want to see Ally throttle Mara for what she's done to Vivian? Definitely, but how to go about doing that would require a daisy chain of in-game knowledge and decision points which should make sense for Ally to take action.

With that said, I'm still patiently hoping these plot threads start converging so that Ally has more avenues open up for him and in turn foster livelier discussions. We've already cleared 12/12 and 1/1, so I reckon the future lewds will be icing to the plot filled cake at this point.

>>3416371
I mean both are good but you gotta keep them in balance. If you lean too heavily toward plot, things could get boring and vice versa. Right now though we're in the latter taken to it's greatest extreme in which the characters are literally just waiting around for the plot to happen. That's why I liked season 2, it had a fantastic balance between fun character interactions and plot and didn't just have characters that had nothing to do with what's happening like now

>Even if not involved in the main overarching plot, there are plenty secondary character subplots to resolve, too: Makoto's evolution into a sexual predator and its effect on her idol status and the movie, Rose2's soft yandere crusade against the harem, Noelle's career-seduction balancing act sliding too far into one direction, etc.
Too bad, we hardly ever see any of those characters for that to be resolved in a well paced fashion. Also wouldn't it be better if they had actual roles in the main story as well as their own personal shit? It was like that during season 2

>In conclusion, the best way to satisfy both character-focused and plot-focused readers is to delegate a greater portion of slice of life scenes to season 4 (failing that, season 5), or to wait for the comprehensive visual novel experience, featuring realized scenes of previously unchosen branches and cutting-edge text skipping technology.
O-ok anon

>>3416298
>it's just you went a bit overboard with it
I have to agree with this sentiment. I've felt that S3 has been a sort of regression into something more like S1 rather than a continuation of S2.

I'll use Rose as an example, because my opinions on this character have changed drastically between S1 and now. Back in S1, she was just another haremette, and fairly one-dimensional like most of the cast. She had some amusing banter with Ally but for the most part her character was built entirely on the irony of an SJW being a turbo-switch. And while I liked the lewds well enough I didn't really like her as a character, and her relationship with Ally wasn't anything too unique beyond the sexual component.

In S2 the changes made to the relationship, as well as its portrayal have completely reversed my opinion on her. How she and Ally can't seem to agree on anything at all for things that don't really matter but are alike in all the ways that do, as well as how this dynamic manifests, is both hilarious and endearing. Their chemistry goes far beyond sex in a way that it didn't in S1.

Now lets take Rose2. Now I'm not saying that her relationship (or any other new girl's relationship for that matter) with Ally needs to be as well developed as Rose/Ally, but there just isn't a lot there to get invested in beyond lewds. I trust that you have a plan for her and that there is more too her than meets the eye with the yandere aspect but will that payoff, however it plays out, have as much impact as Ally telling Rose he hates her to try and get her out of the sewers? That's what I mean when I say S3 is regressing; the new girls feel more like vehicles for different fetishes rather than characters with interesting relationships. This is why the girl I've actually been most interested in this season is probably Gal, because I feel that her relationship with Ally has progressed in an interesting, albeit fucked up way.

tl;dr I'm a romantic who's a sap for relationships probably because I don't have one.

speculah time!

Amber wanted Alabaster to destroy the central server in order to cover up what she had done there. Likely, Alabaster and gal would have woken up in new lives exactly like Amber did. This also implies that Alabaster has a one up sitting inside the central server. O p enjoys recurrence and cyclical themes, what could be a better call back to season 1 than Alabaster actually dying?

So what was Camellia doing inside the Central servers? Unlike Amber, Camellia was Harden buy a life of pain and really hated David. So when Alabaster plugged in the USB drive and gave her access to David's life work the first thing she would have done would have been to ensure that no one, not even Sable, could ever profit from it. She expected that the central servers would be destroyed checking with them any chance of reversing her sabotage. However, the servers were not destroyed. Because of this it might still be possible to fully activate sand reckoner. To do so one would likely need either Camellia herself, or since David would have noticed is access being blocked, Vivian. Presumably, whoever is used to access the full potential of sand reckoner we'll have to deal with the agonizing side effects.

>>3416459

I don't think it's necessary to have every character have a role in the main plotline as a rule, although it's nice when they do. If OP has to shoehorn every new character into a position of plot relevance, it'd probably complicate the pacing even further. Charlotte, for instance, is a nice addition for lewds but doesn't really need major inclusion beyond that.

>>3416463

I agree, relationship development is super interesting whenever it happens. It's like in a Persona game where the deeper parts of social links are at the higher levels, but we're spending time on new ones instead.