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Alright, so I finally finished reading chapter six of Holofantasy and WOW did AA knock it out of the park with that one. Not that any of the previous parts were worse or better than this one but my god was this a spectacle from start to finish.
I fucking loved that the main emotional core of this chapter was Anon learning to trust his friends and not do things on his own anymore and the fact that you even incorporated how he always somehow manages to eek out a win alone as part of his reasoning was brilliant. Even IF that part only happened due to a dice roll, you made it so natural that I wouldn't have known if you had not told us.
I was also a bit skeptical of the beginning when Marine was chosen by the Dice Gods to be Anon's companion for this journey but by the second part I was hooked and by the third part I was genuinely rooting for the ship to finally sail and by god was it worth it. I don't know what else to say about it but it felt 'earned', like you've been teasing us about this for a while and when it finally happened you just can't help but cheer even if I would've preferred someone else to have been with him *cough* Polka *cough*. God we need more clussy in the archive
Seeing the 'what if's' of this series was also interesting. I remember you talking about some of the possibilities a while back but I can't find it, seeing that some of the dark snippets in the afterlife was pretty surreal knowing it was only a few bad dice rolls away from happening. Some of the "achievements" our dear Anonymous failed was also interesting to see, what the hell would've happened had he not found the talisman? Or even the situation in which he'd fight Prescience? Overall? Pretty fun way to tell us about what could've happened in the context of the story.
Ina reading Holofantasy ALT was also fucking hilarious and her throwing the book at the end genuinely made me laugh while reading so good job. Honestly there were a ton of parts here that made me laugh also but I can't remember all of it so just know that this chapter had some fucking banger jokes hidden between the drama and the action.
Thinking about it, it was probably a good idea for me to wait this long until I actually sat down to read it because that ending scene with Rushia talking to everyone in the castle would've felt awful to read at the time it came out. It still hurts a bit when I read it but time has definitely made it easier to stomach. Did her termination have any bearing on what you wrote or did you already write that out and it just happened to fit?
All in all, the finishing this chapter made me feel kinda empty inside afterwards. Like you're sad that it's over but at the same time you can't wait to see what comes next for our intrepid hero if that makes any sense.
Finally
>110,381 words
This is just a book at this point. This isn't a chapter. It's a fucking book.