Urgh, work, couldn't respond till now.
As a brief rundown, he's legitimately a top-ranked player in the game, Top 10ish - the anime included a blink-and-you-miss-it reference to him and some of the other games cast by showing him placing 5th in a future Bullet of Bullets. He's also basically yandere for the MC because they were the first person he found interesting and shook him out of his boredom with life and wanted them all for himself to the exclusion of their other friends to the point of setting up a mini-Death Game for the MC and some of his friends with NerveGears in a Russian Roulette style manner where some were real some were fake. He has, unfortunately, appeared to imprint on Hiyori.
This quest is labelled as a Persona/SAO quest/Isekai quest.
In reality it's an SAO/SAO quest where I crossover SAO with super obscure parts of SAO that nobody has heard about!
(I have not actually played Fatal Bullet. I watched a let's play. But Itsuki serves my purposes very well)
A thought struck me though. Didn't Karen want a teammate for BoB? How bad would it be to suggest Lugh to partner up with her?
Karen wanted a teammate for the next Squad Jam.
In canon her friend Fuka transferred in from ALO. Which she can't do in this quest because someone nuked ALO and no character data is leftover.
But don't worry, the 2nd Squad Jam is cancelled after the sponsor backed out at the last minute.
The range of the Bahauser GMA 571 Armor Magnum is too short to reliably be able to take advantage of the Once More! trait. The thing only hits in the first 2 squares and only one of them overlaps with the Procyon SL Op.Pistol.
Some guns I designed to be balanced, or at least attempted to be.
Others, like this are, are there for pure author appeal.
The background lore of GGO is a space fleet crashlanding on a death world. Hopefully, lore manipulation will let us reactivate a space cruiser and let us shoot down all the pointless dick-measuring players from a cruiser in the sky.
The SBC Flugel is a spaceship that's still flight capable. SBC Glocken crash landed. SBC Flugel is from the GGO expansion (AKA pulled it in from the Fatal Bullet game).
Virtual guns that cost $1000 in real life!? What is this, CS:GO? Also, how does the medi gun's healing work? Does it heal a certain amount per turn or is it just a receptacle for Magnum Opus? And will we get an Übercharge upgrade?
Okay. I worked really hard on this.
Here's what we know:
Kirito got 300,000 credits from the Untouchable Jackpot.
Since credit conversion is 100 credit = 1 yen...
That means Kirito won about 3000 yen. Which is... not a lot.
After buying the lightsaber he still has enough left over to get a FN Five-Seven and some 'unspecified armor'.
So the Kagemitsu is somewhere south of 300k credits or 3k yen. I just decided to relax and just make it 3k yen.
But it means that a standard modern sidearm is
probably in the order of magnitude of 1-2k yen.
Fuka's MGL grenade launcher is 3million credits, which she buys 2 of. The grenade launcher is implied to be cutting edge, so 3 million credits (or 30k yen) is an upper bound on guns, more or less.
Fuka is also implied to be super impressed at M's gift of 10 million credits (100k yen)
We know that XaXa gets a 500k yen monthly allowance from his dad. There's some throwaway lines about him spending most of it on a GGO item, likely the metamaterial cloak. So the metamaterial cloak is at the 6 figure yen mark. Since I presume something like
invisibility has to be the upper limit of cash shop shenanigans, I decided to price the cash shop items accordingly. Do I expect the quest to save up enough to buy the super expensive items? No.
But like the concierge says. They're
aspirational.
And again, in the GGO chapter money is going to be much more important. It's why all your part time jobs got a big raise and why I started off with the big negotiation.
THE TRUTH IS THERE ARE FOUR SUPER COOL SMT4 SHOP THEMES AND I NEEDED AN EXCUSE TO USE ALL FOUR SO I THOUGHT UP THE CASH SHOP AT THE LAST MINUTE.
