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Qpronicle Chord is the second unlock event of beatmania IIDX 22 PENDUAL. It began on December 22nd, 2014.  introduced on December 22nd, 2014, with phase two beginning on January 28th, 2015, and phase three on March 4th, 2015. The event ended on July 28th, 2015. e-amusement is required to play the event.

Unlike ''Chrono Seeker'', this event focuses on Q-pro's story again, where he returns to three old locations: the ''Lincle Kingdom'' from [[AC Lincle|beatmania IIDX 19 Lincle]], the ''tricoro city'' from [[AC tricoro|beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro]] and ''Elferia'' from [[AC SPADA|beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA]]. Previous enemies of Q-pro from each game return, but as partners. The Joker characters from beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro return as the main villains again.

Before going to the song select screen, you are taken to the event screen to choose which island you want to conquer. At the end of the play session you deal with the main mini-game.  

After accessing an island, the system BGM of its related game will be played in the menu screens instead of the regular PENDUAL one: Lincle BGM if you choose Lincle Kingdom (slightly redone, with layered versions too), tricoro BGM if you choose tricoro city, SPADA BGM if you choose Elferia.<br>

The PENDUAL BGM plays when you are inside the Tower.

You unlock songs' charts by conquering each one of the three islands, by defeating the enemies you encounter. The main mini-game consists of your Q-pro character attacking the group of enemies by dealing a certain amount of damage. During the battle, you can inflict critical damage (multiplier bonus) by pressing the white key at the right moment when the moving line on the arch goes through the still, second one; the more you are precise, the bigger the damage multiplier will be.

Regarding the partners, you start out with none. You can unlock them on the islands when a blue devil icon appears on any of them, one at a time. Right at the beginning you can unlock the first partner of your choice but afterwards you have to wait until your current partner reaches a high enough level, in order to trigger the appearance of another blue devil icon.  

Choosing an island with a blue devil icon leads you at the end of the credit in an ''Unknown Area'', where you have to fight a magic seal (which works like any enemy you encounter). Destroying the seal unlocks the partner, and also the NORMAL chart of the unlockable Qpronicle Chord song related to the chosen island.

The partners available in the event are:

* [Elferia] - [[ra'am|Faula]], [[Rengoku no Elferia|Ferira]]

You can choose a team of three partners, with one partner being the main one (leader). You can access the partner menu by pressing VEFX on the map selection screen. Partners have two bars: one for the level/experience and one for "LOVE". Your partners level up by how much damage you inflict on enemies; the main partner gathers much more experience than the other two selected ones. The LOVE bar also increases of point after each credit; however, the LOVE bar increases only for your main selected partner.

When unlocking the partners, the island where you have unlocked the respective one becomes inaccessible until you have unlocked all the partners and therefore the songs' NORMAL charts. Afterwards, your objective is to keep fighting enemies and level up your partners; levelling up your partners is what trigger the appearance of the yellow and red devil icons on the islands, letting you unlock the HYPER and the ANOTHER charts of the Qpronicle Chord songs (and NORMAL too, when it comes to the Phase 2 songs). This happens when the total combined level of all your partners reaches a certain amount; the amounts are: 12, 19, 28, 38, 48, 54, 55, 56, 58, 66, 73, 82, 92, 102, 109.

 

 

 

 

Doing more damage in battle means getting more Level points for your partners. In general, damage points depend on the following factors:

* How many songs you have played in a play session (3 points per song, for a possible max of 15 points).

* How many specific songs you have played in a play session with a specific chosen partner (1 point per song, for a possible max of 5 points).

* Rche: songs from the Lincle folder and songs with genres containing the word "TRANCE".

* Beridzebeth: songs from the Lincle folder and songs with genres containing the word "DRUM".

* Sumomo: songs from the tricoro folder and songs that contain the words "8", "princess" and "bit" in their genres or titles.

* elpis§煌§: songs from the tricoro, 10th style and 2nd style folders.

* Faula: songs from the SPADA and Spada†leggendaria folders and songs containing "Ryu☆" in the artist credits.

* Ferira: songs from the SPADA and Spada†leggendaria folders and songs containing "猫叉Master" in the artist credits.

The ''Standard Critical'' attack, whose damage is multiplied by either ×1.0, ×1.2 or ×1.5, depending on your timing in the battle mini-game, can be increased throughout special bonuses. Said bonus damage is multiplied by either ×1.5, ×1.7 or ×2.0, depending on your timing in the battle mini-game, once again. These critical bonuses are:

Regarding the enemies, other than the standard grunts (monsters from Lincle Kingdom and Qprogue, plus characters from songs such as [[CONCEPTUAL]] and [[BRAVE GLOW]]), you fight rare enemies and super rare enemies. Their appearance is random and the enemy character in question depends on the game's Space-Time Phase. On the map selection screen, when a glowing icon showing the letter "S" next to an island appears, that means said island may contain either a rare enemy or a super rare one. Rare enemies only give you bonus FRICO points, while the super rare enemies give you CS Crossovers and the respective Silver Tran Medal upon defeat.

The super rare enemies work differently from the rest, as they appear alone and have a health bar. They only go down after several encounters when their health bars have been fully depleted. There are five super rare enemies - one per Space-Time Phase except Ripika who appears in both - and when you defeat one you unlock all the charts of the respective enemy's CS Crossover.

Once you unlocked all the Phase 1 and Phase 2 songs, including their CS Crossovers, you can access the ''Tower of Time chord''. The Tower has an unlimited amount of floors that you progressively climb through after each credit (you also always start from the last explored floor in case you exit the Tower and re-enter it). Upon reaching the 5th floor, the 10th floor and the 25th floor, the game forces you to respectively play the NORMAL, HYPER and ANOTHER charts of the final boss song of Qpronicle Chord as a ONE MORE EXTRA STAGE. These three charts will be unlocked for regular play as well, regardless if you cleared them or not as ONE MORE EXTRA STAGE (which doesn't happen anymore after you've reached the 25th floor). If you entered the Tower and haven't reached the 25th floor yet, the ''Chrono Chaser'' event will not be accessible.<br>

* '''Partner:''' ''elpis§煌§''

 

 

== CS Crossovers ==

Coca-Cola×BEMANI songs are randomly dropped as chests by regular enemies in the three main locations (just not the Tower). The dropped chests will net you all charts of a single song plus the respective Silver Tran Medal. For the players who had Coca-Cola×BEMANI songs already unlocked, they'll still have to get the chests for the Medals.

Chests are presumably dropped only after unlocking the Phase 1 and Phase 2 boss songs.

* [[Lilieze to enryuu Laevateinn|リリーゼと炎龍レーヴァテイン]] / [[Tomosuke Funaki|黒猫ダンジョン]] - dropped in ''Elferia''.

* [[fallen leaves|fallen leaves -IIDX edition-]] / [[Naoyuki Sato|猫叉Master]] - dropped in ''tricoro city''.

* [[Ludus In Tenebris]] / [[Akhuta]] - dropped in ''Plain of Lincle''.

== Lane Cover frames and Game frames ==

To unlock the '''lane cover frames''', LOVE bar for each partner must reach level MAX. Each lane cover shows the partner in question in their "LOVE MAX" expression. When all the six partner lane cover frames are unlocked, you automatically unlock a seventh lane cover frame showing all partners in their "Q-pro Head Gear" version.

To unlock the Lincle HD, tricoro and SPADA '''game frames''', the total level of the partners that correspond to each game version must reach 40 (i.e. Faula and Ferira for the SPADA frame, etc...).

Unlocking the lane cover and game frames net you Bronze Tran Medals, except for the seventh lane cover unlock.

== 親密度ランキング (Affection Ranking) ==

Affection Ranking is a special sub-event of Qpronicle Chord and it's divided in three parts, one for each game version cup:

* '''Lincle Cup (Rche & Beridzebeth)''' - from April 22nd, 2015 to May 12th, 2015.  

* '''tricoro Cup (Sumomo & elpis§煌§)''' - from May 13th, 2015 to June 2nd, 2015.

* '''SPADA Cup (Faula & Ferira)''' - from June 3rd, 2015 to June 23rd, 2015.

Objective is to get Affection points for the Cup's specific partners by playing as much credits as possible while having them selected. In a Cup period, Affection points are given from the 6th credit onward.

* '''Unlockable Q-pro sets:''' you need to make it in the Top 1000 Affection rank at the end of Cup periods. There's a top 1000 list for each partner - two active per cup, six in total - and each one gives you the Q-pro set of the partner's boss version (as seen in the overlays for Qpronicle Chord boss songs).

* '''Head Q-pro parts:''' get at least two Affection points for each partner to unlock the partners themselves as Head Q-pro parts, as previously seen in the Qpronicle Chord event. This type of reward is given instantly upon satisfying the condition; you don't need to wait the end of the Cup period.

* '''CS Crossover:''' get at least ten Affection points in each Cup period. If the condition is satisfied, from June 3rd, 2015 you have access to:

** [[The Least 100sec]] / [[Hirofumi Sasaki|Sasaki Hirofumi]] - ''from [[AC GF5DM4|GUITARFREAKS 5thMIX & drummania 4thMIX]].''

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