Hyperdimensional Babysitting Part 6: "Ties of Fate" Have Nothing on the "Ties of Gacha Game Development"
Paimon: Traveler, is it just Paimon, or do those look like...?
Lumine: Yep. Dodocos. That can only mean one thing - I'm providing unpaid labor for witches again.
Barbeloth: In my defense, this was not my idea.
Alice: It's your prophecy, Barbie! Don't go shirking your responsibility now.
Barbeloth: I don't want to hear that coming from YOU, of all people.
Lumine: Oh my god, ladies, please. Let's at least try to make this as pain-free as possible. What thankless task do you have for me this time?
Barbeloth: I've uncovered a rather expansive prophecy involving many important individuals, and so I have set up here that I may await their arrival. Then Alice decided to turn the whole affair into a tea party, one thing led to another, and... well. Here we are.
Lumine, looking at the Guest List: Uh huh. And by what cosmic coincidence do you think that Yae Miko is going to come all the way over to the Court of Fontaine, wander by and generously decide to give you the time of day?
Barbeloth: ...
Lumine: Oh. Right. I'M the cosmic coincidence.
Alice: Look on the bright side: once you've collected everyone, you'll be first in line for tea and cake!
Lumine: Alice, I can go out and buy tea and cake whenever I want. You've gotta come up with something better, because this is the worst bribe in the history of bribery.
Alice: Yes, but is it working?
Lumine: Ugh, fuck my life.
Alice: See? I told you it would work.
Barbeloth: Incredible. Even those fully severed from the ties of fate still dance at the end of Alice's puppetstrings.
Lumine: It's more like Alice and I both answer to the same higher power: in-universe fanservice crossover events.
Alice: Exactly! Now you're getting it!
Lumine: At least they're finally fixing Superconduct after a half-decade of pointlessness.
