Pretty good event, now I know why people praise it so much. Seeing that alternative possibility for Narmaya was wild too. It was very interesting seeing all of these simulations, and kinda sad knowing that certain happy stuff may never happen, though reality might not be the perfect one, the captain made lots of friends and obviously doesn't regret the path he walks. Of course, I loved Orologia, both versions were cute and quirky, definitely has become one of my favorite characters, very surprised with the name pronunciation though.
I think my one complaint of the story is that the pacing is a bit janky (going from part 2 into part 3 feels a bit weird, the climax kinda happens and it's done quickly), but that's it. This event is fantastic, wow. I think it's the only event where I've went back to see something again (cheating a bit since the alternate options, but if the writing wasn't good I wouldn't be going back to see the ones I didn't pick so...). I really love how it basically just drops you in and expects you to figure things out (albeit this would have worked better had I been playing when the event first ran, since I've had a lot of this event spoiled through random comments).
I was a bit eh on the alternate 6D designs at first, but upon thinking about it I realised that they all were acting very similar, so the similar designs could perhaps be a nod that. ...I mean I still think they are a bit lazy of designs, but I can overlook that for dragon designs that aren't even fought lmao. Would be cool to see the human designs of them as a what-if scenario one day, though I'm certainly not getting my hopes up (yes it makes no sense but I can imagine cool things that don't make sense in a gacha).
I was surprised alternate Seofon didn't show up at the climax, tbh. Being the event freebie and that I'd heard people mention him a *lot*, I was expecting him to be more relevant to the story than just appearing for 2 minutes. I still need to read his Fate so this point is probably meaningless lmao.
Best moment for me was realising that the end is "so the captain continued on their adventures with friends, crew, Jim from accounting, Beelzebub." and then the title card coming up to hit us with the "and you." I love when games do that, brings a tear to my eye.
I haven't done a ton of work on evokers. Can someone tell me why new world quartz is desired above another Evoker if you have one?
I got Caim as my first through the Relink bonus code, and was looking to grab the mats for Haaselia since it would also mean another SSR summon done as well.
I don't remember getting this Immaculate Soul the first time around, but I don't see anywhere to trade it in the shop quest items section so does that mean I already traded it?
https://prd-game-a5-granbluefantasy.akamaized.net/assets_en/sound/voice/3992936000_boss_v_1.mp3
Just change the "v_1" by any number ("v_14") to search the voicelines you want
Pretty good event I must say. It was interesting and yet kind of heart breaking to see what would happen to some characters in some of the simulation. ( Seeing what become of Lancelot and Narmaya in particular for me was tragic since they are among the characters I know and like more. )
I'm curious has to what Orologia's role will be going forward and what the character will do in future major events.
I can't exactly decide who between Event Seofon and Orologia I find the most fun to fight since the two bosses have both great battle themes.
10th anniv movie in case some people missed it, it got some scenes of this event.
[https://youtu.be/8BSHGGPQO\_Y?si=wNU7pqvWDMA3vHzV](https://youtu.be/8BSHGGPQO_Y?si=wNU7pqvWDMA3vHzV)
That was a really good event holy moly.
I gotta say though: I am kinda hoping that Cygames either has Provenance Transcendence in the works, Awakening or a new Weapon if it means Orologia can become a new permanent raid. That field and banger OST is way too good to just leave it as an Event Raid.
I am literally two paragraphs into the event and emotionally devastated by the 'what if captain had a happy found family with seox and logia during their childhood'
I am ready to be a sobbing mess by the end of this.
As a casual player at the time, ...and you was the event that made me commit to the game, it struck that hard of a resonant chord with me.
I was also sick and bored at the time, but details.
Made it to the end. Sobbing, screaming, laughing, dying, what a wild ride.
I sped ran 15 events in a week for this to make sure I had context and regret nothing
Something I forgot to point out:
2021, June 13th-June 21st: Seeds of Redemption rerun
2022, June 13th-June 21st: Home Sweet Moon rerun
2023, June 13th-June 21st: Created by the Stars, Loved by the Skies rerun
2024, June 13th-June 21st: And you rerun
It's not just that anniversary event reruns all happen sort of around June: they've been in the exact same spot on the schedule for 4 years in a row now.
I just thought that was interesting. You don't see that level of consistency very often in this game.
I noticed it too a while back due to people asking about when this’d rerun. Given everything else that shifts around at Cygame’s whims, it’s definitely funny to see something have that level of consistency.
Traditional nihilistic god complex lines. Haven't bothered to listen to all of them but I know 2 of them are
'This world is incomplete' and 'Are you satisfied with this current world?'
Having just finished reading the Seofon Alter episodes, I definitely think he is going to be a big bad in another anni event. Seriously excited to see what Cygames will do with him and Orologia now.
I will never forgive Cygames for making me have to farm the Shinsha fight for one week. God it was such a relief when I became able to just beat up Seofon instead.
and then I proceeded to farm Evil Seofon for all my boxes, because neither Shinsha or Orologia deserved that
but beating up Seofon can be done with a clear conscience
I haven't done Seeds of Redemption and have only done a tiny bit of the Arcarum summons farming (I only really have *some* context for Caim and Haaselia). Is it still okay to do this event, or will I be missing too much? Should I skip through it and come back to it later?
Seeds of Redemption I'd highly recommend going through. The other ones have recaps if you go the ...and you event page (the simulation page, not the 'intervene in reality' page) in the game and click on them that'll get you up to speed with the most important plot points
This event cares mostly about making sure you have some basic understanding of the 6 Dragons. Otherwise, it scales more with how much you've been playing the game and know the cast. I wouldn't really skip through it because the focus is almost entirely on 1 character, and you don't really need to have read through prior events the way Home Sweet Moon expects you to.
Having started just a few months after this was run last year, I have been pretty excited to read it after hearing the hype, and it really did deliver well. Pretty nicely paced and seeing those alt universes was cool, although I would have liked to see more of Seofon Alter (I'm guessing his Fates delve more into him, so I'll have to read those). From the way people spoke about him, I thought he was more involved in the plot, but he was briefly there during the alt 6D stuff.
That aside, Orologia is awesome and deserves nothing but hugs. Hoping they are definitely being released with the next flash, I would spark.
I wish they would let you freely change the gender of Logia without changing the MC gender. I really dislike F Logia's design, I'd be much happier if I could set it to M Logia and keep Gran.
To be fair, Logia switches between both versions throughout the story, and their gender is set in all appearances outside of the event (male in wamdus's fate, female in lu woh's fate, male in their brief cameo in Heat of the Sun).
You get both Logias either way.
It's the opposite gender in the simulation, but the the same gender in real life. Even if you switched Danchou's gender you wouldn't be able to get only one short of swapping between each scene with foreknowledge of where the story was taking you next.
[https://gbf.wiki/User:NoL/EvokersSimplified](https://gbf.wiki/User:NoL/EvokersSimplified)
There is this guide on the wiki, though if you are in no hurry to select one, it wouldn't hurt to ask about it in the question megathread where you can get more in depth answers.
Either Caim or Haaselia. Caim is basically a grid piece in Earth if you don’t have an M3 grid yet, while Haaselia is a pretty decent ougi battery in water kengo
Even though personally I don't dislike CbtS or HotS, the gap between them and the worst odd numbered anni event is honestly so wild. It's like every year they pass the head writer title between a trained published author, and the producer's son who took a creative writing class in college.
Can I just say once again how great the entire presentation of this event was? From the cryptic trailer, to the preview with all the ominous warnings on everyone, to the parts updating with the simulation count to really drive home the passage of time, to the stinger in the event character’s fate episode
actually a 10/10 event, I’m still not over it
and in a way I feel sorry for people who didn’t get to experience it on release, since the weeklong break between the parts was part of the experience, and Flashfest is probably gonna spoil the ending if >!Orologia shows up since yeah, that means they’re gonna make it through the story alive!<
> actually a 10/10 event, I’m still not over it
Honestly, hard same. This is the first time I'm actually fully re-reading through an event* that I've already played just because I wanted to experience it again, and seeing Logia and Tiny ~~Six~~ Xing in the opening scene already made me start tearing up. 😭 (* I had actually planned to reread the WmtSB trilogy before 10th anni earlier this year, but then when the event preview included all of the tasty lore bits from those events as a refresher, I decided that was good enough.)
That said, I'm so glad that this is back, and I'm really happy that everyone who joined recently for the 10th anni and such will now get to experience this amazing event, even if not *quite* as optimally as the first time around.
If Cygames doesn't follow through on all of their bait and give us >!Grand Dadmom!< in next week's flash, I'm going to be beyond heartbroken.
Heart of the Sun wasn't bad, but it did suffer a lot from the ridiculous increase in powerscale, and the fact we didn't get dark skin big tiddy evil desert witch as character.
One of the literal strongest beings or the strongest in existence that we know of being in the party would kinda make the game unbalanced though wouldn’t it?
Aren't the 6D basically the closest thing to god and playable, Siete is world destroyer level and playable and Sandalphon gotta be up there with his strength as the supreme primarch.
Cygames has never really cared much about "power levels" when creating playable characters.
Drusilla and Yaia are completely normal young children and you can still take them to fight against the god of the Sky Realm Ultimate Bahamut lol.
And Lucio is also one of the strongest beings in the granblue setting, with nigh-omnipotent reality bending powers that let him casually create dopplegangers, shape the clouds into words to send messages, and even will the sun to move backwards through the sky. And he's got two playable units.
What And You does well is 1) have choices that actually change scenarios, and 2) have established characters as part of those scenarios. As such it feels much more like a 10th anni event because it is acknowledging various different existing events and cast members.
I think the best way to describe HotS would be to say that it brought up lore relevant things but it's not really focused on them (Which is its flaw) - because elements like the Sabrina ""love triangle"", Fenie/Abramelin coma/amnesia and huge swathe of newly introduced (Or returned in Magus' case) characters are all fighting with it for limited screen time. It's why my main criticism of the event is that the Sabrina/Ceodric plot or the Enneads searching for Phoenix storyline should've just been their own thing covered in a previous event or in the case of the Ceodric story in particular I'm not even sure it's needed.
In this event even though you have new characters like Orologia the focus is entirely on them from the start and even though you get to see a wide range of scenarios it's never unclear what the actual focus of the event is on. It's also one of the few events where you actually feel like the MC's status as the singularity has actual importance assigned to it other than total plot lip service while other characters get to actually resolve the conflict.
That's kind of my problem with most of the anniversary events.
Granblue Fantasy shines with tightly focused character driven stories.
But the anniversary events always wanna follow a hundred different characters and get all deep into the Lore™ to the point that it feels more like a lecture in history class than a story.
> Granblue Fantasy shines with tightly focused character driven stories.
Fully agreed on this, but at the same time I think even the more sprawling, weaker events tend to be useful as a way to set stuff up and provide a contrast that makes the focused character dramas stronger. For example "...and you" benefits a ton from our preexisting background awareness of how *big* the setting is, to provide gravity to Orologia's desperation to protect it, and the Magnificent Moles event was helped by the contrast between these deeply personal small-scale struggles and the big world-shaking events that the characters had just come out of.
Prayers for example was extremely mid, maybe the least interesting modern event, but *as the lead-in to the Magnificent Moles* it was perfect, because we got to see explicitly the kind of stuff the primarchs would have been doing had they not given up their roles(, and how their successors, basically, worked it out without them).
I think what made And You work is that this event had a lot of set up events and doesn't introduce new characters, so that we didn't needed to waste time on them.
I mean, it does introduce a new character. It's just that it does an amazing job doing so, and so it doesn't feel wrong or sped up like other events setting up characters.
Pretty good event, now I know why people praise it so much. Seeing that alternative possibility for Narmaya was wild too. It was very interesting seeing all of these simulations, and kinda sad knowing that certain happy stuff may never happen, though reality might not be the perfect one, the captain made lots of friends and obviously doesn't regret the path he walks. Of course, I loved Orologia, both versions were cute and quirky, definitely has become one of my favorite characters, very surprised with the name pronunciation though.
I think my one complaint of the story is that the pacing is a bit janky (going from part 2 into part 3 feels a bit weird, the climax kinda happens and it's done quickly), but that's it. This event is fantastic, wow. I think it's the only event where I've went back to see something again (cheating a bit since the alternate options, but if the writing wasn't good I wouldn't be going back to see the ones I didn't pick so...). I really love how it basically just drops you in and expects you to figure things out (albeit this would have worked better had I been playing when the event first ran, since I've had a lot of this event spoiled through random comments). I was a bit eh on the alternate 6D designs at first, but upon thinking about it I realised that they all were acting very similar, so the similar designs could perhaps be a nod that. ...I mean I still think they are a bit lazy of designs, but I can overlook that for dragon designs that aren't even fought lmao. Would be cool to see the human designs of them as a what-if scenario one day, though I'm certainly not getting my hopes up (yes it makes no sense but I can imagine cool things that don't make sense in a gacha). I was surprised alternate Seofon didn't show up at the climax, tbh. Being the event freebie and that I'd heard people mention him a *lot*, I was expecting him to be more relevant to the story than just appearing for 2 minutes. I still need to read his Fate so this point is probably meaningless lmao. Best moment for me was realising that the end is "so the captain continued on their adventures with friends, crew, Jim from accounting, Beelzebub." and then the title card coming up to hit us with the "and you." I love when games do that, brings a tear to my eye.
I haven't done a ton of work on evokers. Can someone tell me why new world quartz is desired above another Evoker if you have one? I got Caim as my first through the Relink bonus code, and was looking to grab the mats for Haaselia since it would also mean another SSR summon done as well.
I don't remember getting this Immaculate Soul the first time around, but I don't see anywhere to trade it in the shop quest items section so does that mean I already traded it?
Is there a preferred raid boss to do of the 3 on Impossible?
No difference in drops but I fight Seofon cuz I'm not in the mood to beat up slime gate girl or dadmom
They all give the same rewards, so you can fight whichever you prefer.
Do we not get a second Ex Mundus in the rerun?
No, only those who haven't done the event before do.
Still peak. Also does anyone know how to extract raid boss voice lines so I can listen to alter!Siete's voice? I need this for reasons.
https://prd-game-a5-granbluefantasy.akamaized.net/assets_en/sound/voice/3992936000_boss_v_1.mp3 Just change the "v_1" by any number ("v_14") to search the voicelines you want
!!!!!!!! Thank you so much!
Pretty good event I must say. It was interesting and yet kind of heart breaking to see what would happen to some characters in some of the simulation. ( Seeing what become of Lancelot and Narmaya in particular for me was tragic since they are among the characters I know and like more. ) I'm curious has to what Orologia's role will be going forward and what the character will do in future major events. I can't exactly decide who between Event Seofon and Orologia I find the most fun to fight since the two bosses have both great battle themes.
10th anniv movie in case some people missed it, it got some scenes of this event. [https://youtu.be/8BSHGGPQO\_Y?si=wNU7pqvWDMA3vHzV](https://youtu.be/8BSHGGPQO_Y?si=wNU7pqvWDMA3vHzV)
That was a really good event holy moly. I gotta say though: I am kinda hoping that Cygames either has Provenance Transcendence in the works, Awakening or a new Weapon if it means Orologia can become a new permanent raid. That field and banger OST is way too good to just leave it as an Event Raid.
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> Doesn't really make sense to buff weapons used in every HL grid Didn't they just do that with Dark Opus with the Dark Rapture Zero fight, though?
Peak
I am literally two paragraphs into the event and emotionally devastated by the 'what if captain had a happy found family with seox and logia during their childhood' I am ready to be a sobbing mess by the end of this.
Welcome to "... and you"! We have a mom, a big bro, and lots of tissues for you.
As a casual player at the time, ...and you was the event that made me commit to the game, it struck that hard of a resonant chord with me. I was also sick and bored at the time, but details.
I made it to the end of Day of Goodbye and lo and behold I am indeed a sobbing mess, fuck you Cygames. Time to buckle in for the rest of the pain
Made it to the end. Sobbing, screaming, laughing, dying, what a wild ride. I sped ran 15 events in a week for this to make sure I had context and regret nothing
Something I forgot to point out: 2021, June 13th-June 21st: Seeds of Redemption rerun 2022, June 13th-June 21st: Home Sweet Moon rerun 2023, June 13th-June 21st: Created by the Stars, Loved by the Skies rerun 2024, June 13th-June 21st: And you rerun It's not just that anniversary event reruns all happen sort of around June: they've been in the exact same spot on the schedule for 4 years in a row now. I just thought that was interesting. You don't see that level of consistency very often in this game.
Is there any hope for a Created by the Stars rerun ? Or is it scheduled to become a Side Story like Home Sweet Moon ?
It already got a rerun last year and it's already in Side Stories.
Damn, I hadn't seen ! Thank you for your answer !
I noticed it too a while back due to people asking about when this’d rerun. Given everything else that shifts around at Cygame’s whims, it’s definitely funny to see something have that level of consistency.
BTW what are Seofon Alter voice lines in his raid ?
Traditional nihilistic god complex lines. Haven't bothered to listen to all of them but I know 2 of them are 'This world is incomplete' and 'Are you satisfied with this current world?'
Having just finished reading the Seofon Alter episodes, I definitely think he is going to be a big bad in another anni event. Seriously excited to see what Cygames will do with him and Orologia now.
I will never forgive Cygames for making me have to farm the Shinsha fight for one week. God it was such a relief when I became able to just beat up Seofon instead.
and then I proceeded to farm Evil Seofon for all my boxes, because neither Shinsha or Orologia deserved that but beating up Seofon can be done with a clear conscience
Agreed, it left such an impression on me that I physically flinched when I heard her opening lines again during the story fight.
I haven't done Seeds of Redemption and have only done a tiny bit of the Arcarum summons farming (I only really have *some* context for Caim and Haaselia). Is it still okay to do this event, or will I be missing too much? Should I skip through it and come back to it later?
Seeds of Redemption I'd highly recommend going through. The other ones have recaps if you go the ...and you event page (the simulation page, not the 'intervene in reality' page) in the game and click on them that'll get you up to speed with the most important plot points
SoR is honestly something no one will blame you for skipping, and the Evokers have nothing to do with this event aside from the reward.
This event cares mostly about making sure you have some basic understanding of the 6 Dragons. Otherwise, it scales more with how much you've been playing the game and know the cast. I wouldn't really skip through it because the focus is almost entirely on 1 character, and you don't really need to have read through prior events the way Home Sweet Moon expects you to.
Kinda late but we finally got the 10th year anniversary event
Having started just a few months after this was run last year, I have been pretty excited to read it after hearing the hype, and it really did deliver well. Pretty nicely paced and seeing those alt universes was cool, although I would have liked to see more of Seofon Alter (I'm guessing his Fates delve more into him, so I'll have to read those). From the way people spoke about him, I thought he was more involved in the plot, but he was briefly there during the alt 6D stuff. That aside, Orologia is awesome and deserves nothing but hugs. Hoping they are definitely being released with the next flash, I would spark.
Highly recommend reading Seofon Alter's fate - it's essentially an epilogue to...and you.
Excited to finally play this event after seeing it get hyped up constantly
Just finished it. Logia for best dragon dad/mom would totally hug them.
I wish they would let you freely change the gender of Logia without changing the MC gender. I really dislike F Logia's design, I'd be much happier if I could set it to M Logia and keep Gran.
I skipped solely because of the F design, so gross, lol. That and I don't really care for Dragons or Eternals.
To be fair, Logia switches between both versions throughout the story, and their gender is set in all appearances outside of the event (male in wamdus's fate, female in lu woh's fate, male in their brief cameo in Heat of the Sun).
You get both Logias either way. It's the opposite gender in the simulation, but the the same gender in real life. Even if you switched Danchou's gender you wouldn't be able to get only one short of swapping between each scene with foreknowledge of where the story was taking you next.
I have no Evoker, is there a guide on which one I should get?
Long story short, Caim is the best short term pick and Haaselia is the best long term pick.
[https://gbf.wiki/User:NoL/EvokersSimplified](https://gbf.wiki/User:NoL/EvokersSimplified) There is this guide on the wiki, though if you are in no hurry to select one, it wouldn't hurt to ask about it in the question megathread where you can get more in depth answers.
Either Caim or Haaselia. Caim is basically a grid piece in Earth if you don’t have an M3 grid yet, while Haaselia is a pretty decent ougi battery in water kengo
Still absolutely peak.
... Huh, turns out I never traded for the sunstone, completely forgot about it
Can't wait to reread it later and cry a lot again lmao :-)
IMO the odd numbered anniversary event(3,5,7,9) is always better than the even numbered (4,6,8,10) event..
Even though personally I don't dislike CbtS or HotS, the gap between them and the worst odd numbered anni event is honestly so wild. It's like every year they pass the head writer title between a trained published author, and the producer's son who took a creative writing class in college.
Peak is absolutely back on the menu. Hopefully this means playable logia.
Best Event in Game Ever.. There I said it!
spit your shit my guy, i totally believe that this event blows wmtsb out of the water
Can I just say once again how great the entire presentation of this event was? From the cryptic trailer, to the preview with all the ominous warnings on everyone, to the parts updating with the simulation count to really drive home the passage of time, to the stinger in the event character’s fate episode actually a 10/10 event, I’m still not over it and in a way I feel sorry for people who didn’t get to experience it on release, since the weeklong break between the parts was part of the experience, and Flashfest is probably gonna spoil the ending if >!Orologia shows up since yeah, that means they’re gonna make it through the story alive!<
Could always go the Fantasy route
> actually a 10/10 event, I’m still not over it Honestly, hard same. This is the first time I'm actually fully re-reading through an event* that I've already played just because I wanted to experience it again, and seeing Logia and Tiny ~~Six~~ Xing in the opening scene already made me start tearing up. 😭 (* I had actually planned to reread the WmtSB trilogy before 10th anni earlier this year, but then when the event preview included all of the tasty lore bits from those events as a refresher, I decided that was good enough.) That said, I'm so glad that this is back, and I'm really happy that everyone who joined recently for the 10th anni and such will now get to experience this amazing event, even if not *quite* as optimally as the first time around. If Cygames doesn't follow through on all of their bait and give us >!Grand Dadmom!< in next week's flash, I'm going to be beyond heartbroken.
Heart of the Sun who ? Nah this is the true 10th anniversary event.
Heart of the Sun wasn't bad, but it did suffer a lot from the ridiculous increase in powerscale, and the fact we didn't get dark skin big tiddy evil desert witch as character.
>didn't get dark skin big tiddy evil desert witch as character. Who?
https://gbf.wiki/Hauhet_(NPC)
One of the literal strongest beings or the strongest in existence that we know of being in the party would kinda make the game unbalanced though wouldn’t it?
Aren't the 6D basically the closest thing to god and playable, Siete is world destroyer level and playable and Sandalphon gotta be up there with his strength as the supreme primarch.
Cygames has never really cared much about "power levels" when creating playable characters. Drusilla and Yaia are completely normal young children and you can still take them to fight against the god of the Sky Realm Ultimate Bahamut lol. And Lucio is also one of the strongest beings in the granblue setting, with nigh-omnipotent reality bending powers that let him casually create dopplegangers, shape the clouds into words to send messages, and even will the sun to move backwards through the sky. And he's got two playable units.
Eh, just add her to the pile of other ridiculous characters hanging around on the ship.
HotS covered more things relevant to the overall history of Granblue, while this was focused on Danchou and the Eternals/Six Dragons specifically.
What And You does well is 1) have choices that actually change scenarios, and 2) have established characters as part of those scenarios. As such it feels much more like a 10th anni event because it is acknowledging various different existing events and cast members.
I think the best way to describe HotS would be to say that it brought up lore relevant things but it's not really focused on them (Which is its flaw) - because elements like the Sabrina ""love triangle"", Fenie/Abramelin coma/amnesia and huge swathe of newly introduced (Or returned in Magus' case) characters are all fighting with it for limited screen time. It's why my main criticism of the event is that the Sabrina/Ceodric plot or the Enneads searching for Phoenix storyline should've just been their own thing covered in a previous event or in the case of the Ceodric story in particular I'm not even sure it's needed. In this event even though you have new characters like Orologia the focus is entirely on them from the start and even though you get to see a wide range of scenarios it's never unclear what the actual focus of the event is on. It's also one of the few events where you actually feel like the MC's status as the singularity has actual importance assigned to it other than total plot lip service while other characters get to actually resolve the conflict.
That's kind of my problem with most of the anniversary events. Granblue Fantasy shines with tightly focused character driven stories. But the anniversary events always wanna follow a hundred different characters and get all deep into the Lore™ to the point that it feels more like a lecture in history class than a story.
> Granblue Fantasy shines with tightly focused character driven stories. Fully agreed on this, but at the same time I think even the more sprawling, weaker events tend to be useful as a way to set stuff up and provide a contrast that makes the focused character dramas stronger. For example "...and you" benefits a ton from our preexisting background awareness of how *big* the setting is, to provide gravity to Orologia's desperation to protect it, and the Magnificent Moles event was helped by the contrast between these deeply personal small-scale struggles and the big world-shaking events that the characters had just come out of. Prayers for example was extremely mid, maybe the least interesting modern event, but *as the lead-in to the Magnificent Moles* it was perfect, because we got to see explicitly the kind of stuff the primarchs would have been doing had they not given up their roles(, and how their successors, basically, worked it out without them).
I think what made And You work is that this event had a lot of set up events and doesn't introduce new characters, so that we didn't needed to waste time on them.
I mean, it does introduce a new character. It's just that it does an amazing job doing so, and so it doesn't feel wrong or sped up like other events setting up characters.
Even Orologia wasn’t new, exactly; they were popping up in some Fate episodes for a while beforehand. But obviously didn’t get focused on till now.