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Their Connected Destination

Obtainability: Purchasable in the Support Point shop for 2000SP. Formally limited to completing the “Whereabouts of the Feather” event.

MLB Effect: Curse [100%] (Target / 1 Turn)

Effect Definitions:

Curse is a Status Ailment that will damage the afflicted target for 15% HP per turn, make the target take 80% more damage from its weak element, and prevent the target from recovering HP. Curse chance can stack. Note that damaging Status Ailments have a stacked maximum of inflicting 10,000 HP done per turn.

TLDR: “Their Connected Destination” is great for the Hundred Evils, letting you destroy pesky Survives. Even though it’s “only” curse, it’s still good to have around. 

Review: “Their Connected Destination” is a decent memoria. You can compare it to the memoria “Magical Halloween Theater” which also provides Curse (on a four-turn cooldown), but gives 45% Defense Down additionally. Obviously this makes “Magical Halloween Theater” better to use than “Their Connected Destination”, but that doesn’t make “Their Connected Destination” bad by any means.

Curse on its own is simply powerful as all hell. Take a look at that effect definition. Curse is a great way of making your units deal more damage (provided they are the enemy’s weak element). Any unit on the team can use it, meaning you can give your less powerful characters this memoria and save better offensive memoria for your big attackers. 

An added bonus for this memoria: you can use it to fuck up a pesky enemy’s survive! What makes Survive so annoying? Well, Survive will cause the unit to survive any fatal attack. When the effect is triggered, the target won’t die until the start of their next turn, and they will regenerate a set amount of HP.

This can be very annoying in battles such as the Hundred Evils, where Survive can prevent you from killing enemies quickly, causing them to regen to half (or even full) health-- and since you can’t kill them, it also means you sometimes can’t prevent them from using Magia. 

However, Curse (and curse alone) can fix this! On the same round you plan to kill the pesky enemy unit with survive, use “Their Connected Destination” (or “Magical Halloween Theater”) on them. The enemy unit will continue to survive that round, but at the end of it, they will be unable to regen HP. After their failed HP Regen, the Curse’s damage will take place, and kill them! Amazing, perfect. Be sure to field this memoria and “Magical Halloween Theater” in your Hundred Evil runs from now on.

Overall, a very good memoria to have on hand.

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Magical Halloween Theater

Single Effect: Curse [100%] & Defense Down [40%] (One / 1 Turn)

MLB Effect: Curse [100%] & Defense Down [45%] (One / 1 Turn)

Effect Definitions:

Curse is a Status Ailment that will damage the afflicted target for 15% HP per turn, make the target take 80% more damage from its weak element, and prevent the target from recovering HP. It can be considered stronger than Poison and Burn. As a Status Ailment, Curse will negate Evade and can be used in combination with the effect “Damage Up Versus Enemies Affected with Status Ailments.” Curse chance can stack. Note that damaging Status Ailments have a stacked maximum of inflicting 10,000 HP done per turn. 

Defense Down will decrease the target’s base defense. This effect will allow you to increase your team’s damage without directly buffing a single character, meaning that since it affects the enemy, any character can take advantage of it and not just the one equipped with the memoria.

TLDR: This is one of the best memoria in the game and I can’t get it and I hate it. Also, curse and Defense Down are very powerful together. This memoria is exclusive to completing the “Magical Halloween Theater” event.

Review: “Magical Halloween Theater” is one of the best active memoria in the game, comparable to amazing memoria like “The Way Home After Rain (Mito),” “Everyday Overflowing with Pride,” “I Made Friends” and various other excellent Whale-Tier memoria... and “Magical Halloween Theater” was a free event reward.

Sadly to the ire of all NA Refugees, this memoria also isn’t possible to get right now. It was originally a reward for the “Magical Halloween Theater” event itself, and was briefly purchasable for 500 Magia Chips during the 2020 New Years event, but sadly it’s unknown when (or if) it’ll be available ever again. But for completion’s sake, let’s take a look at the effects of this incredible memoria and talk about what made it so incredibly powerful.

You can tell right away that it’s two effects synergize EXTREMELY well. This memoria acts as an instant “F*ck You” towards the target, hitting them with Curse and an additional Defense Down, making the afflicted target take an incredible amount of damage. It’s also versatile-- assuming the Curse takes effect, you can deny a target Evade or Healing, both of which can be extremely powerful measures all on it’s own.

But one of the true powers of “Magical Halloween Theater” is it’s extremely low cooldown at 4 turns. Four turns! My god, think of all the tomfoolery you can get up to-- in a long 20-round battle you could get this bad boy off five times! And let’s even consider this on a Support character with the possibility of Skill Quicken through Spirit Enhancement-- you could potentially get this off in three turns! It’s... powerful... too powerful...

We can all weep at not having this beautiful, incredible active memoria. Maybe we can collectively pray to Madokami and hope that “Magical Halloween Theater” will bless us in an Anniversary event in the future, but for now, when you see it on a friendly Support, pray to the stars and know that you have a powerful ally on your hands.