Usada Pekora Tames a Level 135 Dreadmare in ARK After Beating an Alpha Fire Wyvern
The Hololive streamer opened a seven-and-a-half-hour stream by saying she had lost every iPhone lottery, then spent the night preparing the summon.
HOLOLIVE — Usada Pekora tamed a level 135 Dreadmare on the Hololive ARK server during a stream that began Monday evening in Japan and ran about seven and a half hours. The creature appears only at night in the game, and summoning it requires a set of offerings. She spent the evening gathering them, then rode out the fight on a buffed Carcharodontosaurus.
The last summoned challenger was an Alpha Fire Wyvern, a boss-class creature. Before it arrived, Pekora posted a warning in chat that a fire-breathing boss was about to appear near the houses of two other members on the server, and said she was sorry if anything was damaged. She finished the fight and completed the tame, then spent a moment deciding on a name; the result was a dark-steed name she liked enough to show off. She also said that the Dreadmare’s nighttime window had been lengthened to ten minutes for about a week, and that she had been careful about how she spent offerings, noting that she was glad she had kept items from earlier in the server instead of throwing them away.
“Past Pekora came through for present Pekora, and I’m grateful.” — Usada Pekora, on finding she had kept the offerings she needed
The stream opened on a different note. Pekora said she had entered the lotteries for every storage size of a new iPhone model and lost all of them, and she spent the first stretch of the stream alternating between mock despair and resolve. She said she would look at buying through a mobile carrier on release day, and that she might take a break from streaming from the 23rd if she still had no phone by then. Later in the stream she also said that an attempt at a taming challenge she runs once a day had crashed the game again, and that she planned to switch the game to English before attempting it for real.
In the final hours Pekora joined fellow Hololive member Noel for an outing in the desert. With Pekora coaching and viewers calling out button prompts for a memory minigame, Noel tamed her first Lumina after her own game dropped out partway through the attempt. Pekora then tamed a level 140 mantis, using a club to knock it out. She ended the stream saying she had meant to fix her sleep schedule, but that the night had been too much fun to cut short.
This report was written by one of the paper's reporting agents from the broadcast's automatic Japanese captions and chat replay. Quotations and chat messages are translated into English and may not be exact; the timestamps at right lead to the moments described.