Momosuzu Nene Reaches the Lumina Mini-Game After 4½ Hours of Hunting in ARK

HOLOLIVE — Momosuzu Nene of Hololive spent a 290-minute Sunday stream on the Hololive community ARK server (hashtag #ホロ鯖ARK) trying to tame a Lumina, a flying creature in the game. She reached the taming mini-game near the 4½-hour mark but slipped up partway through, and ended the night without the tame.

She started by reading up on what the job required: a semi-automatic sniper rifle, a parachute and raw meat, followed by a mini-game of three kinds. She loaded up on weapons and went looking in the desert and, later, the snowy mountains, where chat said Luminas tended to be found. Early on, one of her tamed creatures, still set to follow another tame, went home without her and left her stranded in a dangerous spot until she called for help.

“I’ll get my preparation in order, and I’ll try not to get carried away.” — Momosuzu Nene, closing out the night

The first real shot came at about 2:17, when she fired at a high-level Lumina while still riding her rabbit. Chat quickly pointed out that she had to dismount before it could be tamed. Later attempts ran into other problems: at around 3:34 she was down to her last few rounds, and at about 3:37 chat noted that a Lumina would not grab her while a ledge stood in the way. She was lent help from Pekora, and chat suggested a pump-action shotgun when her ammunition ran out. Turning down the idea of simply being handed one, Nene said she would take any Lumina, however weak, as long as she tamed it herself.

A cooperative attempt around 3:54 ended abruptly, with chat blaming target management. She announced a last chance not long after. Her final attempt reached the mini-game at about 4:30, where she had to memorize a sequence of button prompts and then repeat it. She made a mistake and was thrown off, and chat explained afterward how the sequence worked and encouraged her to study it beforehand.

Nene thanked Pekora for the long stretch of help and said she would prepare better and not get carried away. She planned to watch Pekora’s archive to learn the mini-game, then ended the stream to take a bath. The chat, which included 26 Super Chats, mostly encouraged her to keep going.