Gamer Midseason 3 QnA (Patreon)

Alright, delayed due to illness/laziness, but here it is. The questions below are provided by my supporters and proofreaders. Some aimed questions at everyone or the harem. Obviously writing out answers for literally every character or haremette would take me two eternities and a half. Therefore, I will limit my answers to whoever has something interesting to say or, generally, a maximum of five. Exceptions when the answers come about easily.

I know that this will lead to some disappointing answers. That’s on me. For future QnAs, I will have to remember to set a limit on how many people a question can go out to.

Also, I’m not bothering to proofread this. Typos are part of the charm!

Anyway, let’s summon our guests for the say.

Funatic claps his hands and breaks the fourth wall. All of the characters of the story appear inside the room, fully disregarding the size. Several of them start cussing, but the switch in format does not reflect that for much longer.

Funatic: Alright, this will be more comfortable. Let’s start.

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By: DraMr

To: Everyone

Question: What food do you like the most?

Eliana: There is food you can like the most?

Lydia: Schwarzwälderkirschtorte

Sylph: SWEETS!

Rave: Ya knew, fish has been really growing on me lately.

Siena: Spicy chocolate,

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By: Omnius

To: Everyone in the Harem

Question: If you could get the generally themed powers of Any character class in fantasy (such as DND or final fantasy classes] added to your arsenal what would you go for.

Aclysia: Alchemist for better cooking.

Eliana: I’d like it if I could go monk-mode and get over my bullshit panic attacks once and for all.

Momo: White Mage so I can actually heal these people. Undine needs some support.

Undine: Black Mage.

Sylph: Make me a Blue Mage! Pow, pow, monster spells, boom, yeah!

To: John

Question: what new class would you love to see?

John: Difficult to say. Fundamentally, I can progress in any direction I would like with what I have. I suppose a proper crafting Class wouldn’t hurt, but I don’t know when I could get to investing in it. If I had the choice, something that boosts the Guild Hall, I guess?

To: John

Question: What passed over perks do you really want to see again, give me a top 5

John: Top 5? Ordering them would take a bit so I will just give you 5 I recall. Umistakable (Arcweaver Perk 9 Chapter 914) would have been nice, since it would have made intimidating a lot easier. Miracle of Stat (Gamer Perk 10 Chapter 888) would have been quite powerful, no doubt, so I’d have liked that. World of Love (Lover Boy Perk 10 Chapter 778) would have given me and my harem a private world to retreat to. Not especially necessary, a private island will work just as well, but it would have been nice. Pulse Ultra! (Arcanist Perk 10 Chapter 913) would have been hilarious. Honourable mention to any Perk ever that made the Artificial Spirits breedable.

To: William Brighton

Question: What was going through your head when John threatened to forfeit before the second trial, and at the end of it.

William: A victory gifted in such a situation has no value. Lorelei perceived conflict and conflict had to be had. The Gamer had to experience the capacity of the Order.

To: Mark Jeffson

Question: Do you have anything to say to the soldiers who have taken you up as an idol, or thoughts about John's Speech regarding you.

Mark: I’m incredibly honoured. It is odd beyond words to know what significance my death had.

To: Brandon

Question: What did you see during the trial, and what happened with you afterward.

Brandon: It’s less that I saw something specific and more that everything I did see appeared wrong and terrifying. It’s sort of like one may misinterpret a crumpled plastic bag in the corner of the vision for the family dog for a split second, but the entire time. Afterwards, I was given a bed to sleep in and given a hefty bonus to celebrate.

To: Every member of the Golden Rose who will answer

Question: Given that Gaia has given John a lot of favor...to the point of actually having sex with him, why is it that at times it seems like the golden rose feel they are only true inheritors of Gaia's WIll

Moira: Understand that the Order has been serving the Lady’s wishes for hundreds of years. Albeit that the Gamer may bring some new ideas to the table, the fundament we stand upon is not so easily shaken.

Lorelei: The Lady blesses us with advise when she deems it necessary. We do not inherit her will, we live by her guidance and do our best to interpret it correctly.

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By: Noodle Bowl

To: John and/or harem

Question: (META QUESTION, ignore if not really thematic/appropriate for the story i guess) What are you thoughts on the fact your entire existence is a fabricated story written by a German guy and everything you have ever thought real is actually just words on a webpage. Are you mad at the author for throwing so much shit at you or are you mostly happy with them for all the good times you have also had? If you had to say 1 thing to the author of the story what would it be?

John: Little sense in being mad about the nature of the world. I guess I do live in a simulation.

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By: DorkNight

To: The Magus Couple

Question: which of your kids do you think will give you grandkids first?

Magoi: It definitely won’t be Stefanie and I don’t think Lee is in the mindset for it, so I think Magnus will finally get hitched.

Mabirl: I agree.

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By: Dargon

To: Sigmund.

Question: Why do you fight?

Sigmund: I fought to survive, then because I was the best at it… now… I don’t know anymore.

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By: Chiyo Takeda

To: Lydia

Question: What moment do you wish you could re-live?

Lydia: Repeating the past is a fool’s errand. All moves forwards and efforts give shape to an uncertain future. What has been shall not burden my mind, only what I can achieve with what I have.

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By: Muclix

To: Izha

Question: How do you like your coffee?

Izha: Black, but filled with sugar.

To: Thana

Question: Is there someone you have developed positive feelings towards?

Thana growls something that may have been a name starting with J or unintelligible noises.

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By: Luci

to: everyone

question: what do you think of the greatest, most powerful, most handsomest person on this or any other world, Ralyks?

Sylph: Uh, so, I hope he is happy with his rant and that my babbling no longer bothers him, wherever he is, and I don’t know if he was that handsome, I didn’t look much at him, and I kinda listened to the rambling, so that’s what I think, I think, yeah?

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By: Lancer

To: John and the Fusion Government

Question: After acquiring the Golden Rose territory were does Fusion stand on the world stage as a young Abyssal nation? If not in the top 10 yet then top 100?

John: This is, frankly, undeterminable. How do you measure the standing of a nation? The modern world has a great multitude of statistics used to rank the nations among lines of economy, liberty, happiness, opportunity, and so on. In the Abyss, hardly any guild bothers with such wide-measurements and so much of it is internationalized. Where a nation sits in the ranking in the Abyss is therefore entirely dependent on the views of the other Abyssal nations.

To: the Harem

Question: Who gives the the best hugs, snuggles, and/or kisses?

Rave: I’ll just answer this for all the girls, since its obviously Gnome, Gnome, and Lydia. Cuddling the cuddle rock is great and I think all of the eloquent babbling made Lydia really good with her lips. And she’s a blowjob slut. And she has really nice lips.

To: John

Question: If you had to give yourself and everyone in your Harem a MMORPG role/class description (Tank, healer, DPS, ect) what would they be and why? Are there any major party imbalances right now like having only one (slime) healer?

John: To answer the second question first, we technically have two healers, Gnome’s healing power is just fairly minor. Only having Undine as a healer works because she can create a double in anyone’s shadow. That’s mana intensive, but she can be where she needs to in case of emergency.

I’ll skip on the why for each of the classes, that’d take too long, but here is the quick breakdown of the roles. Rave (DPS/Battlemage), Aclysia (Tank/Warrior), Nathalia (Tank/Shapeshifter), Eliana (Tank/Sustain DPS), Gnome (Tank/Living Wall), Salamander (Hybrid DPS/Fire Mage), Undine (Healer/Shadow Priest), Sylph (Ranged DPS/Glasscanon), Momo (Support/Enchanter), Lydia (Hybrid DPS/CC Provider), Nia (DPS/Debuffer), Siena (DPS/Assassin), Metra (Brawler/Berserker), Scarlett (Support/Crafter), Beatrice (DPS/Combo Duellist), Lorelei (Support/Seer), Lee (Support/Base Building).

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By: TheScyle

To: Everyone

Question: How is it going?

Funatic: Generally great. Everyone agrees. No need for anyone else to answer. Wink wink.

To: Random statist that John appreciated for not asking an autograph of him during his date

Question: What's your name, and what are your goals in life?

Random Statist: I am Holley and I want to be a navy captain.

To: Gaia

Question: With all the magic in the world, I can only assume that dick-customisation magic, to make every guy have a proper sized cock, is a very common thing to develop. Since we dont see it being a common thing though, I must ask: Why are you using your power to stop people from augmenting their dicks freely? #FreeTheDicks!

Gaia: Biomancy is a thing, but it turns out a lot of guys don’t want to go to someone and have them cast magic on their dick for several hours. Not everyone can learn everything.

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By: BleedBlue

To: The harem

Question: If John could only have threesomes with only one other member of the harem for the rest of eternity (so John, you and one more haremette), who would you pick?

Rave: I reject your reality and substitute my own.

John: I don’t think that’s an option here.

Rave: I’ll make it an option! A girl has needs and those needs can’t be met if I can only drag one of our playthings into the bedroom!

To: John

Question: Which elemental combination you havent had sex with yet and you most want to?

John: None, really, the ones that remain aren’t attractive or even humanoids, so I covered those bases.

To: John, Funatic, Rave

Question: If you had to give one number as the largest size of the harem that you think John could maintain and keep happy, what would it be?

John: I’ll be optimistic here and say as many as I want.

Rave: He’ll get as many as I want.

Funatic: From a mechanical standpoint, I covered this somewhere in the middle of Season 2 or early Season 3. John’s Charisma is high enough that interactions with him can be fairly short and yet still stimulating to such a degree that women won’t feel neglected. Combining this with his lifestyle where he has constant contact with all of them, the harem could realistically grow to any degree that allows weekly interactions. From a writing standpoint, I want to say that it’s obviously increasingly difficult to juggle all of the character, especially because they all tend to be around. What eases this is that a lot of their characters are ‘solved’. The elementals are the prime example for this, where they are fairly straightforward in their wants and needs due to being fairly typical for their respective domains. They don’t require a lot of screentime to get the proper attention, because people fundamentally understand who they are. Characters like Momo, Eliana, Rave and Metra have a few more things going on, so they often end up being on the screen more. Anyway, to the question, somewhere between 20 and 30 is where I think I can realistically keep juggling. I’ll have to write less chapters about all of them chilling together and more of segments of them splitting off and interacting, just so the conversation doesn’t have people barging in and creating tangents all the time.

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By: Deverest

To: John

Question: Have you considered teaching more of your allies and/or subjects elemental summoning type skills and/or asking the elementals if they want to bond to fusion citizens? Given their overall power growth and diverse skills they would greatly boost the survival rate of battles given their power, defense, utility, and power to be resummoned. Plus there would be quite a lot a few citizens wanting to walk some of their presidents paths to power?

John: This is about half of the elementals’ day job. Besides making sure the ‘wild’ elementals don’t run amok in the Guild Hall, the six of them, Gnome and Stirwin in particular, guide prospective elementalists to the Elemental Depths to train their potential or set up meetings between them and elementals looking for contracts. What happened with Maximillian was a fairly regular occurrence.

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By: Mekkosadx

To John

Question: Do you have any concerns about a coalition forming against fusion. Especially as you intend to take the lower 48 before turning your attention to Canada and Mexico opening the country to a two front war.

John: There’s nothing in the area that could form a coalition against Fusion. The Lake Alliance was the closest to binding together with the Little Maryland to form an obstructing partnership. Since that paradigm was broken, there’s been nothing on the continent able to muster the necessary power to pose a challenge. Even if there were such forces in Canada and Mexico, the idea of a two front war is difficult to apply to the Abyss. Most of the combat happens between few elite individuals at key locations, reached through mundane means. Borders don’t mean as much in the Abyss.

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By: Nuclear

To: John

Question: Why hasn't the statue of liberty been converted into a giant mana powered Metal Gear to be the protector of freedom/Fusion after the Hudson Brawl surely The Gamer wants a giant mech to play with.

John: Two reasons. One, energy concerns. Fusion does not yet have the mana battery production to support anything of that size reliably. Two, for the same reason I didn’t make the torch a death laser: I don’t want the symbol of liberty running around and murdering people. That just feels wrong and I can guarantee the enemies would take pictures of it and use it for propaganda.

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By: DorkNight

To: Armstrong

Question: Given where John, Fusion and Maryland has developed since, do you consider your sacrifice in the battle against Sigmund worth it?

Abraham: Who is Armstrong? Anyway, yes.

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By: DinoConV

To: Eliana

Question: Are you still a happy little sub?

Eliana: Fucking miserable each time someone reminds that cringy ass shit was recorded. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH FUUUUUUUUUUUCK MY THROAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!

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By: DorkNight

To: Nathalia and John

Question: when you have a kid, do you know if it'll come as a live birth or in an egg?

Nathalia: No clue. It’ll be what it’ll be.

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By: punahele

To: mono

Question: do you still mother hen over gnome or have you left her to her lot in life (I spent like 5 minutes trying to remember the poor rocks name. I refused to just call her a cuddle rock. Don't see enough of her for her name to stick in my goldfish memory anymore)

Momo: My name is MOMO, not MONO, and how dare you forget Gnome’s name? I’m the local bully police, which is direly needed with Siena running around.

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By: Magnar of Canada

To: John and Harem

Question: Obviously there will be no better weapon then Rex Magnar but what is your favourite weapons used so far?

John: I like Tiemarath. Maids swinging big swords around – there’s something sexy about it. Plus its partly forged from the shards of Sigmund’s old swords and I like appropriating what I had undone.

Rave: Hottest weapon around is my ass, obviously.

Lydia: I preferred the rapier I had before Strimata orchestrated its obfuscating symphony into my life.

Beatrice: The Mandala Sphere is the best weapon. It is symmetrical in every direction.

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By: Woody

To: John

You know Gaia put your g-spot in your ass. Why so against using it?

John: To start with, the existence of the g-spot isn’t proven. At BEST it is an area that is likely to be exceptionally sensitive in a large number of women. Going from that, there is no guarantee it is there in my ass either. The primary contributing factor to enjoying sex is being mentally comfortable with what is happening. Doing something I’m not comfortable with is, therefore, going to achieve nothing of benefit.

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By: Peter

To: John

Why haven’t you done anything about the flesh cleansers yet? Given your opinions on slavery I thought they’d be pretty high up on the list

John: Between the Abyss Auction breaking down their primary trade mechanism and all the other things I have to do, chasing a biker gang through east Canada has not been a priority. If they are spotted staying close to the border for several days, I might try and do a quick stint.

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By: Stampy

To: Funatic

If John stopped supplying mana (the base mana cost for their existence, that is) to his elementals/ASs would they die or just go back to their home plane or would something else happen? In the case of the ASs would they just shut down to be revived again later or would they die or stop existing or something?

Funatic: Both of these have been discussed in the story, I am quite certain. The elementals will go back to their home plane and the Artificial Spirits will shut down. So you got it right, essentially.

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By: Grimdark Tyrant

To: Gaia

What is the most interesting thing you know of happening right now that we have not seen?

Funatic: As if I would let her answer that.

To: Gaia

Who is the most interesting person you have ever seen/who have you been most entertained by, not including the apex or the gamer.

Gaia: There is this dude that’s shifting in and out of various universes and somehow ends up interacting with Johns in an anachronical order. It’s really fun to follow that.

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By: MedicBear

To Jane, Lydia, Nia, Eliana or Lee:

If you didn't have your current magic, and instead were put in John's position as a late bloomer with the gamer system, what skills would you choose to pursue?

Rave: I’d probably have gone for more of a fire or sound based set of magic. Dunno, just feels like it’d fit me better. Martial arts would still be the backbone of what I do.

Lydia: I would do as I am now.

Eliana: I’d learn some mental magic so I can mindwipe my own shitty brain into a fully obedient cocksleeve and happy housewife or some wholesome shit like that.

Lee: Honestly, I’d probably up my Libido a bunch and use Artificial Spirit to craft myself a perfect sex toy.

Nia: I would become a tamer.

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By: Bread 42

To john:

Who is the scariest when angry (either playful or actual)

John: Scariest when playfully angry? Probably Nia because it takes a second to registrate that she’s playing. She’s gotten better at displaying herself, but she’s rarely every playfully anything. Actually, angry definitely goes to Undine. When she is raging, you feel that down to your soul.

And those were all the questions for this QnA! Hope you got satisfying answers, despite the limited scope I employed for many of them.