we're all mad here

Some Pure Fiction with the f2p challenge Star Rail peeps. Haven’t used Qingque in ages, and the supports were on fire today (pun probably intended). I’m honestly not sure if this is even “good” considering the stage buffs, but they can reasonably do the first two stages with all stars. Third stage was a notable difficulty increase so I’m not gonna bother with that again, and I hadn’t even tried it on previous resets. But it looks like I can yoink jades effectively if I just run the second stage with quick-unlock and pay attention to the mechanics. More wishes for the Jing Yuan eidolon stash that Aventurine toasted.

Oh, and crit Gallagher managed a 71k at one point too, that stage was mildly hilarious. XD

The F2P challenge gang’s Neuvillette bringing justice to Spiral Abyss.

This was during the anemo variant of Abyss last reset. Neuvie needs a better hat… we’re back in that domain again banging our heads against the RNG now that Albedo’s crit ratio is a bit less 40/200. In the process of fixing alchemy boi, I got crit rate higher on Yun Jin and Gorou too so they can actually proc their Favonius weapons properly.

Riddick’s survival difficulty Fallout 4 playthrough, endgame spoilery location of spoileriness… with the Minutemen in tow. This BOS dude just chillin’ outside the final room like… what is this even? I don’t think he left, either… RIP dude, you’re one with Atom now.

Toodling around the airport afterwards be like…
Quinlan: Nice work using the Minutemen as cannon fodder lmao.
Teagan: Have some booze and a story and congrats or whatever.
Maxson: You have a ghoul in your party, asshat. >:(

“Asia server is a bunch of friendly pros! Come play on Asia server!”

Asia server:

The host was clearly underpowered and needed help, the two hotshots died immediately from ignoring the big guy’s mechanics, and the no-wishing-challenge full-support Bennett ended up tanking with half a braincell from heatsickness and the endless chronic migraine. I honestly wasn’t sure going in, considering the Kazuha committed the cardinal sin of changing to an already-present level 90 character (Bennett) right off the bat during domain character select. Tsk tsk.

We won. Eventually. Further runs went much better, thankfully.

To be fair, this was yesterday’s banger incineration comp:

I can’t even with this game, some days.

The icing on the cake? They’re all friendly.

Something about Riddick sneak-attacking a certain VIP and then carefully sniping everyone else without getting aggro which is actually possible, but I’m not sure how badly that may have f’d up the game. This is Fallout 4 survival difficulty, and just before choosing who to build the Super Spoilery Device with, I made a “safe save” backup. Definitely reverting to that and gonna do this part with the BOS instead of the Minutemen partly because I forgot not siding with the BOS for this section locks Danse’s perk out completely. I’m also not gonna repeat this bug.

Oh, and this was the back way to the elevator, which I literally could not force my way through because they were so jammed:

The Swords Only challenge finally has pyro. Sure, they’re really just a neglected eternal-AR35 fish/farm world on HK server, but y'know… a Benny is a Benny! They’ve been saving dust to get Bennett from the store in case he didn’t show up sooner, which he did not. But now he’s home and all my “pyro here” map markers have been emphatically removed. XD

Meanwhile, the f2p challenge gang…

Noelle: Don’t worry, I’ve got this.

Me, on main account in Simulated Universe this morning: “Ooh, cheesie-curio! We do like eidolons… what even is Aventurine’s E1… …….. ………….. …we’re pulling your E1.”

Main account didn’t have a problem snagging said E1 (pull result pic with Lynx above), winning the 50/50 even though it arrived very late. But the F2P challenge gang? Ho boy, they had maybe one guaranteed 5-star in jades and *no* guarantee on Aventurine since they literally pulled his E0 last. He proved he can beat the house in the end, sauntering in for his E1 with one 10-pull left in the stash.

Showcase build, in-battle stat chart, and 24k ult screenie are from the main account; f2p gang is still working on finishing up their Gambler-kun’s traces and whatnot. Oh, and that SU run? This is how he did before the wishing-fest:

Star Rail’s year in review, first anniversary edition. Both accounts for you viewing and statistical pleasure. So much Luocha lmao… what can I say, Coffin-Ayato best healer. Fight me. Sit down, Gallagher, you know I love you but you just can’t do what blondie does.

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