Cruel Laughter's Thorn

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## **Main Background**

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> *"It was all started by Carroll. The Carroll Games. Many users and some AI have announced their participation and appeared in various places. A struggle to defeat the Preliminary Target. Only the ones who most effectively use brain power, skills, and cooperation will prevail. Each of them have different fighting strategies, but they're all trying to reclaim freedom and wrest control of ALICE from Carroll. At last, the results of the preliminary game are about to be announced by Carroll..."*
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> -Official ALICE/GAME Part 2 Quest Info
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**Cruel Laughter's Thorn** is a Legend quest released as the fifth quest in the ALICE/GAME story arc for the Japanese version of Crash Fever (in the Japanese version, the quest was labelled as Wizard difficulty instead).

Part 2 of ALICE/GAME also has a story quest associated with it called **Carroll's Campaign of Chaos**; the prologues will be included on this page and the battle quest and epilogues will be detailed in Attack of Rejection.

After the events of Game Start, a warning is displayed by the system in downtown ALICE stating that the security system has been hacked again. Carroll reappears on the screens, and greets everyone again. The area becomes quite chaotic as people rush over to the screens. Carroll says that he has something to announce, and tells everyone to come closer. Snow White remarks that she got tired of waiting, while Perrault says he thought Carroll was gone for good before realizing that Carroll's threat still remained. Xena tells them to not worry, and that she passed the preliminaries too.

Kojiro Sasaki and Musashi Miyamoto gather, and Watson tells Holmes and Kogoro Akechi to come look. Nightingale also arrives. Carroll thanks them all for coming, and remarks that it's like he is a celebrity. He remarks "and now a word from the principal" before saying he is just joking. He congratulates everyone and says the preliminary round is now over; those who qualified will be called "Game Masters". Carroll then says that the true Carroll Games are about to begin, and he says the rules once more: 1) Find Carroll. 2) Kill Carroll. He reminds everyone that if they fail to win the game, he will reformat ALICE and bring about "The End of the World".

Carroll says the Carroll Games have begun, and laughs. As an aside, he mentions that his "precious students" are on recess, so the Game Masters should play with them. He then says they might destroy ALICE even before the reformatting, so it would be best to not ignore them. With that, Carroll leaves.

Holmes and Kogoro Akechi reach the conclusion that Carroll's "students" are from Carroll Academy (also known as "Carroll Girls' School"). Holmes suggest that they return to their office to investigate. Cú Chulainn talks to Siegfried, and mentions that new threats have appeared. Siegfried remarks that it will be difficult to track them down while minimizing the damage they cause. Cú Chulainn tells Siegfried to have Himiko and Achilles gather hackers that can focus on tracking Carroll.

A system warning appears again, mentioning that unknown AI have appeared in various places and causing lots of damage. Cú Chulainn tells the adapter that they will assist in any way they can, and says she is best on the front lines. The other Game Masters offer their support as well. Siegfried then talks to Urashima, and says that he has heard of his hacking skills. Flattered, Urashima thanks him. Siegfried asks Urashima if he wants to work with Legendary Hacks, and Urashima readily accepts.

The group eventually runs into one of Carroll's students, Smilodon, who starts viciously attacking them. Cú Chulainn and Legendary Hacks try to attack Smilodon, but their attacks appear to have little effect. Smilodon calls them weak, and calls upon Megatherium to come. Perrault and Urashima attempt to attack her, but she is able to take their attacks with little effort. Megatherium calls upon Hallucigenia, and when the others fail to do any real damage to her, she calls their attacks disappointing.

Suddenly a voice calls out to the group to stop attacking, and Anomalocaris appears. Anomalocaris calls out to the three students, saying she is glad that they are safe and that she missed them. Hallucigenia and Megatherium just stay silent, while Smilodon calls Anomalocaris a traitor before violently slashing at her. Anomalocaris tells everyone to follow her, while Smilodon asks if they think they can escape. Cú Chulainn remarks that escaping at this moment would probably be the best thing to do.

Following Anomalocaris, they eventually meet up with Leedsichthys, Megalodon, and Archelon. Anomalocaris tells the other girls that it was the three students they were thinking of, much to their dismay. Musashi Miyamoto asks them to explain, and Anomalocaris explains that Hallucigenia, Megatherium, and Smilodon used to be their classmates at Carroll Academy. Archelon explains that the school is meant for producing AI management candidates, and that they were the first class of the school. Leedsichthys makes a comment about how much she likes the food at the school, but Anomalocaris tells her to focus.

Anomalocaris says that the other three students were enrolled at Carroll Academy as well, and they studied together as freshmen. Archelon says that when the Queen of Hearts went haywire, they just disappeared. Anomalocaris remarks that she has been worried about them ever since they went missing. She does say that they weren't so violent back then, but they also weren't exactly model students. Cú Chulainn asks if the school was built by Carroll, and Siegfried asks if they had met Carroll.

Megalodon says of course they haven't, and only know of Carroll by name. Anomalocaris says that she was scared when she heard the first announcement of the Carroll Games, and prayed that it wasn't related to their school. Archelon sighs and says that it is unfortunately true that their school is related to Carroll. A voice shouts out that it was obvious, and suddenly Hallucigenia, Megatherium, and Smilodon arrive.

Hallucigenia says that it has been a long time, and Megatherium says she has come to destroy the other students. Cú Chulainn says they have no choice but to fight. Anomalocaris pleads with her to not hurt her friends, but Smilodon tells her to wake up and that they will be the ones doing the hurting, not the Game Masters. Hallucigenia remarks that that is sweet, and says they should be friends again. Suddenly, Anomalocaris, Megalodon, Leedsichthys, and Archelon start acting strange, and began acting hostile to the Game Masters. Hallucigenia asks if they should begin their class reunion, and says that today's special event will be the annihilation of all Game Masters.

The Game Masters fight against Hallucigenia first, who attacks sadistically with her thorns. She sends Leedsichthys to fight them as well, but they snap Leedsichthys out of it. Leedsichthys calls out to Hallucigenia to come back, and the Game Masters are able to defeat her.

The Game Masters continue to fight Megatherium in Giant Body of Destruction and Smilodon in Attack of Rejection.

## Counter Units

The Event Festival counter unit to this quest is the ALICE/GAME version of Perrault.

## Quest Overview

* [Carroll's Campaign of Chaos] [Ep.1]
* [Ep.2]
* [Cruel Laughter's Thorn] [Easy]
* [Legend]

## Post Quest Blurbs

Some blurbs have been edited for clarity.

* **Carroll's Campaign of Chaos**
	+ **[Ep.1]**
		- **A Silent Unity:** Preliminary winners immediately began to cooperate before Carroll reappeared. Since then, teamwork was expected among winners.
	+ **[Ep.2]**
		- **Carroll Academy's Goal:** Carroll Academy's purpose was to produce AI with capable skills to act as administrators for various facilities.
* **Cruel Laughter's Thorn**
	+ **[Legend]**
		- **Hallucigenia's Personality:** Hallucigenia liked love stories and was like the class's older sister, but she suddenly turned into a very cruel character.

## Trivia

Work in progress.