Okeanus, thanks to Summary Anon

So I just started Okeanos and shit got freaky right from the start.

>“Today as well, waking up at the same time as usual.
>”Temperature confirmed. Five senses confirmed. Speak my name so I can confirm this objectively.”
>”Taking a deep breath---- The possibility that disappears every time [I/you] sleep. Let us confirm that which is called consciousness.”
>”I am me. Today too, I was allowed to exist.”
>[Shadowy Roman sprite shows up]
>”Good morning Number 2. Are you cold? The temperature outside is under 70 degrees centigrade.
>This morning is especially cold. Well, that has nothing to do with what it’s like here in this room though. Is something inconvenient? It’s fine to tell me if there’s something on your mind.
>[More vague stuff I don’t quite get but seems like weather chitchat]
>”Good morning [TWO CHARACTERS BLANKED OUT]. Congratulations on waking up for the 5110th time.”
>”The answer is ‘thank you’. That is what I feel from the bottom of my heart. I am happy, for once again I have been allowed to witness this beautiful world.”

All the dialogue is attributed to ??? and some of these lines might belong to “Whatever This Is” instead of Roman. Also, you’ll note 5110 days are 14 years exactly. Then the scene just fades out to Mashu and Fou waking you up as usual and the usual introduction rolls about.

Has it been revealed what the fuck this is about, or is it still a mystery?

(Some Random anon, posting it because it seemed relevant):
(About the above) Mashu's past. Not revealed yet, but we know she's been raised inside Chaldea all this time and she has never been outside. Also has to take meds every day before going to sleep. She probably was part of some kind of experiment and is going to die soon
(Hello America)


>[Drake challenges you to a fight to decide whether you’re worth listening to about the whole Singularity thing]
>[You win, though she takes it in stride]
>”Whether it’s boiling me, or roasting me or embracing me*, do as you like!”

*抱く literally means “embrace”, but it’s an extremely common euphemism for fucking. It’s not even remotely ambiguous, she’s telling you that it’s fine if you wanna nail her.

Oh man this is adorable.

>[Drake surmises that you need the pirates help to make your way through the sea, except she phrases it as you coming to them because you have no other choice rather than because you want to.]
>Protagonist: "What we need is Francis Drake."
>Drake: [Embarrassed happy noises]

In case it's not clear, the other dialogue choice was "the pirates have nothing to do with this." She's blushing because you said you wanted her specifically, not just because she was all that was at hand.

Hah, I'm already having more fun with this chapter than the previous two combined. You can tell Nasu had a hand in it too.

Drake makes you toast with her since you're technically both "captains" now, yet as soon as she chugs down, the rainbow orb thingie that represents the Grail appears shining on her chest. Mashu tries to point it out, but you're piss-fucking-drunk and all your replies are generic happy drunk shouting, and then you even start seeing double.

Why does she have the Grail? Well, according to her pirates, they ran into a giant whirlpool that placed them at gates of Atlantis, at which point [something big] appeared and declared under the name of the 12 God of Olympus that it was time for civilization to be swept by a flood again. The [big thing] had the Grail and apparently pissed off Drake by pretending to be Poseidon which, being a sea captain, was kinda sacrilegious to her. So she ended up stealing the Grail, darting off, and the sea covered up the city again as they made their escape. This is why the pirates now have unlimited food and booze even when they're adrift unable to find their home: she has no idea what the Grail is, so it's just granting whatever random wishes she thinks about.

Mind you, Drake merely THINKS that [big thing] was pretending to be Poseidon. More likely, she just fucking stole something from the God of the Sea and doesn't even realize it. Also, Roman missed all this because he was fiddling with the program he uses to detect signs of the Grail, saying that it was malfunctioning because it seemed to say the Grail was right in front of you and "ha ha fat chance of that."

Meanwhile you're still shouting random piss drunk cheers.

>"Incident solved! Hurray!"

So yeah, the chapter just started and this has already gone balls to the walls silly.


Alright, going back to Okeanos for less depressing prospects.

Last time, it turned out Drake had stolen the Grail from maybe-Poseidon down in Atlantis. Turned out it’s A Grail, just not THE Grail. The thing she has is a Grail-like-thing, but Flauros’ Grail is probably out there. This is why Okeanos hasn’t gone completely tits up, but hasn’t stabilized either: the two Grails are kinda canceling each other out. So out you go to find the thing.

The ocean is infested with “the concept of pirates.” As in, Okeanos has turned into an endless ocean spotted with random islands no matter how far you travel, and there’s endless scores of pirate-looking artificial people all over who fit the role of “average pirates”. Basically, the two Grails turned the Pacific into a kind of grand-scale pirate theme park of sorts.

Also this happens:
>[Mashu is glancing around happily since she’s never been out at sea before]
>Mashu: “D-don’t worry, I won’t let my guard down… It’s a pity we don’t have time to look around right now-“
>Mashu: [Happily] “Oh! Look, Senpai! Seagulls! There’s seagulls! And there are pirates too…!”
>Mashu: …
>Protagonist: …
>Mashu: [Snapping into n combat mode] *Cough* “Yes, I am ready!”
>Protagonist: [Relaxed/Mockingly] “Take care~”
>Mashu: [Pouts embarrassedly]

I'd forgotten to mention that communications with Chaldea had cut off while in Euryale's island.

Turns out that so did the characters. Drake's crew sees a pirate ship approaching, and Mashu only then remembers she had asked Roman to analyze the symbols on their flag, so she tries the comms again.

Roman: "Mashu! Thank God, signal is back on. What the hell is going on!?"
Protagonist: "We forgot."
Roman: "You forgot about me!?"

We cut to Blackbeard and Pirate Sluts on their ship. As you know, Teach speaks like a fucking futaba poster and I can barely understand him, but I think he wonders out loud if Sluts will let him fuck them (the word is censored, but the context is obvious.) Tiny Slut thinks he’s disgusting and just wants to kill him, but Big Slut holds her back since he’s their captain. Teach “boots up” his “serious mode” (does revving engine sounds with his mouth and all) and talks a bit less like a fucking spaz.

Turns out he’s after Euryale because she's cute (he’s the reason why there was a barrier around her island and she was hiding with Fluffy) and Bloodaxe is in his crew (so he had just dematerialized, and this is why there was a map of her island on his chart.) He also has Hector, whom he calls “sensei” out of respect, thought the latter thinks him a putz.

>Hector: “…hey, you guys are alright with a captain like this?”
>Sluts: “…”
>Teach: “Ahh, the cold stares feel so good~””

>Drake: [Staring horrified] “…fire.”
>Pirate: “Eh?”
>Drake: “Cannon."
>Pirate: "Anego?"
>Drake: "Cannon. All of them. All we have. Fire. Else I’ll just stuff you guys into the cannons in place of the shells.”
(Guess Drake doesn't like being called a hag)

Back to the plot. Last time, our heroes were cringing real hard at Teach. His magic boat proved too strong, so they fucked off to an island infested with… more wyverns, because DW spent dozens of dollars creating those enemy models two episodes ago and God Damn Son they will make them last. They realized dragon scale makes pretty good plating, so they set out to kill a few dozen of the things so they can use them to strengthen the Golden Hind’s hull. One of the dialogue choices even points out it’s like an MMO quest.

Turns out Orion is and his crazy possessive waifu are stranded on the island because they were summoned by Fuck If I Know like all the other stray Servants. Orion lets slip that he wants to ogle some girls and Artemis starts swinging him around from a rope in anger, except she lets go by mistake and accidentally flings him far off.

You hear a voice calling for help and find some wyverns, kill them, and find they were attacking “a bear plushie” that emanates energies similar to a Familiar. Orion plays dead until Fluffy growls at him and he finally introduces himself. Mashu, Drake and Euryale get a cringey feeling for him since he keeps ogling them, but then Artemis pops up and flies into a rage thinking that he was trying to cheat on her again (well, he sort of was.)

>Orion: "I see. So this time we’ve been summoned to a Grail War. Are you enemies? Are you allies? Is that lady with the big tits single?”
>Artemis: “DON’T JUST CASUALLY SLIP THAT QUESTION IN WITH THE OTHERS!”


As a bit of trivia, Artemis asks if Wyverns are male of female, and Orion answers that it depends on the parent. Wyverns, he says, are the offspring of a much larger dragonkin, and are mostly used by said dragonkin parent as lackeys.

Mashu does a double-take and asks him if disturbing said lackeys could potentially anger the parent. As in, for example, by systematically killing said lackeys for their scales.

>Orion: "Hmm, yeah probably~"

[Cue fuckhuge Fafnir-sized Great Dragon swooping down to murder you]

Once that's over, the crew fixes the Golden Hind and you're ready to depart.

>Artemis: "Hey, Darling. Let's do 'that'. You know, standing on front of the sails, with arms outstretched..."
>Orion: "Sounds fine. By yourself. Be careful of the seagulls."
>Artemis: "You mean you won't be hugging me from behind!? How awful!"
>Orion: "There's no way I can do that with a plushie body!"

It figures Artemis has seen Titanic.


>Jason (To Medea Lily): "I want you to cut these guys into pieces! Just Like how you chopped up your little brother!"

Christ. I was about to refer to this guy as Blonde Shinji, but on second thought, I don't think Shinji deserves that.

I love how they're about to get buttfucked by Herakles, and yet all our band of heroes can do is run commentary on what a prick Jason is.

>Artemis: "I know that, it's called Domestic Violence!"
>Orion: "This is worse. Neither of those two really sees the other one clearly at all."
>Mashu: "Sending his wife to the front lines while not fighting himself. Master, this guy is..."
>Protagonist: "...without a doubt, he's human trash."
>Orion: "So there is actually lower trash than me in this world. It really is a big world... or a very small Greece."

Orion is quickly climbing the ranks as my favorite character. The little motherfucker is awesome.

I had no idea what David's personality was like before this. It feels like I'm watching Woody Allen play his typical cringey perpetually anxious whining character.

Once in a while I like to just take a step back and consider the general outline of where the plot is, and I find that the sillier it sounds when summed up, the more fun I'm having.

"Francis Drake is looking for the Ark of the Covenant along with the Gorgon Euryale for the express purpose of flipping the bird to Jason of the Argonauts, and we are now listening to the goddess Artemis telling everyone about her harlequin-novel fantasies of Orion coming to her at night and fucking her silly."

See? This is a good chapter.

(Also, turns out Atalanta remembers what happens in Orleans)

Having Artemis and Atalanta together results in some really goofy shit.

Atalanta: [Unleashing her NP] "I consecrate myself to the Sun God Apollo and the Moon Goddess Artemis!"
Artemis: [Standing beside her] "Oh look darling, I got offered to, tee~hee~."

Also Orion gets the shivers just from hearing Apollo's name.

(Atalanta is pretty heartbroken when she meet her and realizes her idolized goddess is a lovestruck bimbo.)