Enkidu, about the few embers I was able to give them: Keep them coming
Me, who honestly has no more Lancer embers left: T_T

My Servants are honestly bankrupting me out of class embers
I mean, I have a lot of general embers. But I am too petty to use them, outside of maybe for event Servants. And even then,,,
Btw I appreciate Sieg. Looks like he's got a personality. And I heard in Japanese, he tries to sound tough with his "boku"s, which is conveyed more as social awkwardness in English because it doesn't translate over. Anyways, he's cool. 
I realized earlier today that I have Siegfried! (not leveled up at all, but still!) so yay! Reunion!
Also spoilers on the Apocrypha event (haven't gotten very far yet but still):

I love the dynamic between Chiron and Achilles. I am a sucker for student-teacher relationships already but like. Apocrypha them not killing each other? Yes. Yes.
It's hard to imagine even a shell of Astolfo trying to kill people though fjsdjofjdso. And Karna, too. I hope they can be saved or something lol Achilles and Chiron have a lot to do

By the way, I'm realizing that my pool of Servants is starting to swell up beyond control. For Sabers, Siegfried and d'Eon are there just kinda chilling, while I'm trying to level Saber Lily and (eventually) grail Changgong to 100. (We'll set the goal at 94 for now.) For Archers, Tristan has yet to be maxed somehow, Chiron also needs to be maxed (and his skills leveled), and I have an Euryale I have never used but will need to level because she and Asterios are fluffy together. For Lancers, Nezha needs leveling, Romulus needs leveling, Bradamante is forever stuck at level 80, Inshun needs Fous, Ibaraki needs Fous and skills leveling, Valkyrie needs leveling, Cu needs leveling, and I'm eventually going to level Diarmuid and Gareth,,, and to add onto that, Enkidu also needs leveling now 'cause they came,,, and we're not gonna talk about Ana in the storage room.
Uh! Anyways! Those are just the knight classes. For Rider, basically all of 'em need leveling. I'm still unsure about whether to grail Ushi, but Alexander needs leveling, Bartholomew needs to be maxed (and his skills raised), Georgios needs to be ascended and leveled (Hero's Proofs (: ), Mandricardo needs to continue being raised, Martha needs to be maxed at some point and her Rank-Up Quest done, Astolfo is stuck in the Second Archive,,, Then for Caster, all of them basically need skill leveling, but basically, Nursery Rhyme needs to be maxed, Medea needs to be maxed, Caster Gil's skills desperately need leveling, Asclepius' skills probably need to be maxed (btw got him to NP 3 lol), Edison's chillin' in the backroom,,, for Assassin, the Savior of France doesn't know what he's doing here, and neither does Sanson, Stheno's not being burned because her sisters are both here and I'm not that cruel yet, and Fuuma needs to be maxed (btw he and his mom killed me twice on Valentine's and I'm still wondering how my character was that dumb). And for Berserker, I got Darius, so I'm leveling him up, but rn I'm just momentarily stuck on ascension materials. He should be fine.
For Extra classes, Ruler Martha's skills need leveling up, Kingprotea and Passionlip probably should receive more Fous than they do, and Yuhuan xiaojie is stuck at level 70 still because the Apocrypha rerun exploded in my face.

I'm honestly probably forgetting a few Servants, and obviously I'm not mentioning the ones I already have max-leveled/have their skills upgraded to an okay extent, but as you can see,,, lol.

-Galaxian-

The good thing is that, in exchange for constantly having 50 tabs open and having them crash on the same constant basis, I have the memory to be able to remember all of my tabs (so 100 tabs on two browsers lol)
I'm not upset about that, since it's break and I technically have more time. But the files (:

-Galaxian-

I ascended Yuhuan, by the way. Now she's level 80 and in need of a lamp for final ascension. Yayyy.
She also needs chains for her 3rd skill to be leveled (*squint*)
Me, when she acts like an actual concubine: GO BACK
Tbh Changgong would probably dislike her, wouldn't he? Because she nearly pulled a nation to ruin? I feel like he would. Though, maybe, like me, he'd also give her a little bit of leverage, since as a girl/woman, she would've had to do so to survive and to live best. 
Yuhuan: (*calls me her emperor*)
Changgong: (*immensely bad vibes*)
But anyways, yeah, I'm glad I ascended her, since she needs that third skill to decrease the need for RNG a bit, but her personality,,, I definitely feel like she should act like her natural self instead. Even if it doesn't make her tired or she's used to it, it's still not good acting like that when she's not naturally someone like that.

-Galaxian-

Dangit Changgong, why do you have so many names
It's normal for Ancient Chinese men of high social standing but still--

-Galaxian-

Look at him
-His original name is Gao Su (高肃)
-Courtesy name is Changgong (长恭)--so Gao Changgong
-Tribal name is Gao Xiaoguan (高孝瓘)
-Nickname Lanling Wang (兰陵王)

Guess I've got to remember these now. The obligations of having a historical character as your favorite character in another series lol,,,

----

Also more facts
-Dude pretended to be a corrupt official at one point. (Someone pointed out how stupid it was, and during the conversation, he cried. Oof.)
-Then per their advice, he tried to get sick but was too healthy to get sick. 
-> He did get something on his face, but it was nothing serious. Nothing to require staying home, that is. The Chinese were and are workaholics
-> So whenever he did get sick, he never went to a doctor again because he basically wanted to get hospitalized at home and then fade from political importance
-> Bastard emperor sent poisoned wine anyways
-> Lanling Wang died in his early 30s (31 or 33). After his death, his country collapsed.

-Unlike what's implied in F/GO, his beauty wasn't really the inspiration for his soldiers. In fact, at first, because he was pretty (like a woman), people didn't want to listen to him. 
-As a result, he made his mask by hand. He added horns to make people think he was the devil, because that was how ancient Chinese people thought. 
-Historically speaking, he doesn't have many records, partially because no one knew who his mother was. So he probably had a pretty rough childhood. He was lucky and not, I guess--some uncle took pity on him when he was 16 or so, but that would lead to his entire political career and downfall, so, oof.
-He was made the Prince of Lanling at age 20. 
-The funny series here
-> At one point, an express gave him a mistress and ordered that mistress to assassinate him in his sleep, but because she witnessed Lanling Wang's loyalty to his country, she ended up betraying the empress and told Changgong about the scheme. And then when that empress found out that this woman had betrayed her, Changgong protected her and ended up marrying her :'P. Doesn't seem like she's his main wife, though apparently this was recorded in historical records lol.
-> He also ended up taking in his would-be assassin (who had clearly attempted to kill him numerous times) as his son lmiao, the guy,,,

And finally:
-He pardoned all of the money owed to him on the day of his death, destroying all the debt records before he died.
-Apparently cited by Mao Zedong in some speech (using the name Gao Xiaoguan). I can feel the cringe/irony

Conclusion: :')

I need to do more research on him, lol. I owe him that much. Not just the character in F/GO, but I feel like his actual historical counterpart, too.

In no era has there been a shortage in able and brave people. 
But for him, his era wasn't able to host him, huh? :')

Also his wife doesn't have a name recorded and I just :') I wanna know his wife's naaaame

-Galaxian-

If anyone's up to chatting tonight, I can make it!
In case you're wondering why I don't hang on the website on a tab, it's because the tablet's running out of space. For whatever reason.
I am literally deleting paragraphs and archiving them in another device to make space. And then it just runs out of more space. Typical.
Anyways yeah would love to talk with you guys :3! Can't guarantee I won't be awkward though lol I've been in the I-don't-want-to-talk-because-I-can't mood for the past few days (break always does that for whatever reason)

Edit: You'll have to tell me here if you're on there btw, I wouldn't know otherwise lol

-Galaxian-

Oh
Happy Pi Day!
It literally feels like last month when I last said that. Geez. That's kinda sad.

-Galaxian-

Understandable xD. I remember middle schools here do pie-related stuff on Pi Days, too. (Though rn it's spring break so lol)

-Galaxian-

Thank you for the Pi Day reminder! I may be late with the happy wishes, but I still hope y'all had a nice Pi Day :D

xD past bug on the Chinese server of F/GO apparently
Dang xD I can imagine total mayhem if this happened on NA or JP 

-Galaxian-

The above is super funny because it shows to me that Wave could've been like "Wait so you could've just as easily been our enemy," but no, instead he was like "I'm gonna help ya! We're gonna help ya!" and honestly startled even Run from what I remember
Guy's such a good friend.
Btw it's his birthday. Happy Birthday, Wave, fish boy. 

-Galaxian-

And of course, I can't talk about the event without talking about the raids.
I am pretty horrible at farming raids compared to anyone else, because I. Well. I pretty much suck at farming in general. Probably my bad for not leveling up skills, as aforementioned xD. But yes. For me it's 4 to 6 turns typically, 7-8 on rounds with the most horrible RNG, 9-10 if my brain disappears (and it often does, for a game of clickety clickety).
I have mostly been carrying out the raids like I would normal quests, adding in bond level farming characters when I can. I don't think I can loop my Sieg yet (oof), but I'll try at some point and see how that goes, especially with the event bonus on him. In the meantime, I just use whoever while using the event CEs in tandem. 
Yesterday, I focused on farming the raid with the enemy class being Saber. It was my biggest farming venture yet in this event. Anyways, as you can guess, I used Ashwatthama and...you can guess...Chiron!
I found out that Chiron seems to work better than Santa Nightingale in terms of synergizing with Ashwatthama. Of course, I gotta calculate in the event bonus on Chiron, but it's pretty nice. It feels more flexible, too, and Chiron can generate stars with his cards, which is great to supplement Ash's crits. The two of them also have the benefit of a canon Interlude interaction (: very sweet. Another interesting thing is that usually I see Waver as just a farming plugsuit, but I didn't think he'd synergize with Ash and Chiron so well. I thought Merlin would've been the case, but no, it looks like Waver is better, which is interesting. In any case, I'll be trying the combo on normal quests more to see how it works, but it's pretty satisfying to see the two of them in action. (One slams a hot wheel into people, the other is half-man and half-horse and punches people when he isn't using his bow. 10/10. The Archer class is really made of archers.)
Not much else to say. I still suck at gameplay; that hasn't changed. But at some point I might try to sort out all the CEs I have and prune some that I really don't need. Art though,,, (lol NationStates influencing my desire to collect "art" for no reason whatsoever)
As for the event, my goals are:
1) Get Sieg permanently (since he's level 80 lol)
2) If above is accomplished, get NP5 Sieg (if possible)
3) Gonna try to clear the gems if I can through farming, and the embers too for stockpiling in the present box lol
4) Get as much bond for Chiron and Achilles as possible, others too if applicable
5) Appreciate the gacha blessings this event has given me since I think my luck is now gone for the year though maybe I should start planning in advance how to traumatize specific characters in connection with banners 
jk ofc, I can't plan inspiration lol

-Galaxian-

To the guy in the game in that one ad: I don't care if you're handsome, the relationship is toxic. Bye. (*skips ad*)
Why does the game exist,,,

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion wrote:

As for the event, my goals are:
1) Get Sieg permanently (since he's level 80 lol)
2) If above is accomplished, get NP5 Sieg (if possible)
3) Gonna try to clear the gems if I can through farming, and the embers too for stockpiling in the present box lol
4) Get as much bond for Chiron and Achilles as possible, others too if applicable
5) Appreciate the gacha blessings this event has given me since I think my luck is now gone for the year though maybe I should start planning in advance how to traumatize specific characters in connection with banners 
jk ofc, I can't plan inspiration lol

Most of the goals have been achieved. I've gotten NP 5 Sieg for some reason there's a part of my mind that really wants to grail him lol 
He's a good guy, a very sweet guy, but no xD
I also MLBed the attack up event CE, which is cool. (I didn't mention it when I MLBed the one with Siegfried, but yeah, that was already done.) Now in the event quests at least, Sieg hits less like a wet noodle and more like a truck. But that also makes me nervous for his applications outside of the event.
But anyways, because of that upgrade, and also he's now 5-1-2, the looping has gotten a lot better. I still need to work with him more on both damage and looping, but yeah, he does pretty well even against Berserkers. I got 10-turn RNG-dependent farming to 5-7 turn "farming," so that's nice. I'm working on clearing the rest of the lowest level gems and then will probably try to get all the 4-star embers out (mayyybee the 3-star ones too, for Achilles and Atalanta). I'll just go with whatever I feel like doing after that. I'm actually surprisingly near at clearing the shop, which is usually something I'm nowhere near :'P. I'm also really near to clearing all the coin drops, which is surprising. I got my crystallized lore, so now I don't focus on it xD.
I'm also still focusing on bond for Chiron. I think I'll get more opportunities in the upcoming Pseudo-Singularities, too, though, so I'm not very worried about it.
Overall, pretty fun. Efficient button clicking. (:
Sieg's NP still makes me laugh. I dunno why. I know the shot is zooming in on Fafnir's chest, but I keep interpreting the Noble Phantasm as "flexing dragon abs" idk xD 

-Galaxian-