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Re: The Round Table (A collaborative fiction thread)
« Reply #105 on: April 23, 2013, 01:35:04 AM »
she doesn't have the ability to compare herself to her canon self so she wouldn't know she's weaker
No, but she can tell that she has very little prana....

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as for shinji getting assassin it doesn't matter about zouken being alive
It matters about Shinji being alive, and not scared shitless of Rider, Rin or Shirou....

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« Reply #106 on: April 24, 2013, 12:44:59 AM »
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No, but she can tell that she has very little prana....

you're implying that she's power mad.

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It matters about Shinji being alive, and not scared shitless of Rider, Rin or Shirou....

what?

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« Reply #107 on: April 24, 2013, 12:54:26 AM »
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No, but she can tell that she has very little prana....

you're implying that she's power mad.
No, just rather untrusting and wanting to be strong enough to protect herself.

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It matters about Shinji being alive, and not scared shitless of Rider, Rin or Shirou....

what?
Well, I can't imagine Shinji coming out of a scenario where Zouken is killed and Sakura saved without Rin or Rider beating the shit out of him....

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« Reply #108 on: April 24, 2013, 10:58:10 PM »
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No, just rather untrusting and wanting to be strong enough to protect herself.

eh, i somehow doubt that, particularly with so many allies.

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Well, I can't imagine Shinji coming out of a scenario where Zouken is killed and Sakura saved without Rin or Rider beating the shit out of him....

as long as he's alive his ego problems would cause him to seek revenge.

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« Reply #109 on: April 24, 2013, 11:04:41 PM »
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No, just rather untrusting and wanting to be strong enough to protect herself.

eh, i somehow doubt that, particularly with so many allies.
Well, perhaps, but they have to fight at some point (the servants do, at least, even if the masters won't), or else they'll all disappear. Except perhaps Rider and Archer, anyway....

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Well, I can't imagine Shinji coming out of a scenario where Zouken is killed and Sakura saved without Rin or Rider beating the shit out of him....

as long as he's alive his ego problems would cause him to seek revenge.
Well, yes, true....

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Re: The Round Table (A collaborative fiction thread)
« Reply #110 on: April 24, 2013, 11:05:57 PM »
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Well, perhaps, but they have to fight at some point (the servants do, at least, even if the masters won't), or else they'll all disappear. Except perhaps Rider and Archer, anyway....

nothing says they disappear if they don't fight.

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Re: The Round Table (A collaborative fiction thread)
« Reply #111 on: April 24, 2013, 11:19:19 PM »
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Well, perhaps, but they have to fight at some point (the servants do, at least, even if the masters won't), or else they'll all disappear. Except perhaps Rider and Archer, anyway....

nothing says they disappear if they don't fight.
The Grail can only support servants for a couple of weeks or so, after that they will disappear unless their masters can sustain them. The Grail War can't simply last indefinitely.

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Re: The Round Table (A collaborative fiction thread)
« Reply #112 on: April 24, 2013, 11:25:28 PM »
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The Grail can only support servants for a couple of weeks or so, after that they will disappear unless their masters can sustain them. The Grail War can't simply last indefinitely.

that doesn't mean they need conflict outright

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Re: The Round Table (A collaborative fiction thread)
« Reply #113 on: April 24, 2013, 11:30:46 PM »
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The Grail can only support servants for a couple of weeks or so, after that they will disappear unless their masters can sustain them. The Grail War can't simply last indefinitely.

that doesn't mean they need conflict outright
No, but this is Caster we're talking about here. She's unlikely to trust that they'll find some undefined way to keep everyone alive, at least not so much that she won't want to be strong enough to kill them if necessary.

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Re: The Round Table (A collaborative fiction thread)
« Reply #114 on: April 24, 2013, 11:42:04 PM »
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No, but this is Caster we're talking about here. She's unlikely to trust that they'll find some undefined way to keep everyone alive, at least not so much that she won't want to be strong enough to kill them if necessary.

you have a point but i think you're disregarding any other character development within caster possible.

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« Reply #115 on: April 25, 2013, 12:25:06 AM »
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No, but this is Caster we're talking about here. She's unlikely to trust that they'll find some undefined way to keep everyone alive, at least not so much that she won't want to be strong enough to kill them if necessary.

you have a point but i think you're disregarding any other character development within caster possible.
Well, yes, true.

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Re: The Round Table (A collaborative fiction thread)
« Reply #116 on: April 25, 2013, 08:03:47 PM »
Ugh... sorry I'm late.  I had real life difficulties getting back here.

Anyway, because I mostly skimmed the last page or so, what did I miss?  Also, keep in mind that I have this set to show me fifty posts a page, so that's off for me.

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Re: The Round Table (A collaborative fiction thread)
« Reply #117 on: April 25, 2013, 11:14:44 PM »
Master's

Shirou
Rin
Bazzet
Sakura
Ilya
Ayako
Shinji

Servants
Saber
Archer
Lancer
Rider
Berserker
Caster
Assassin (Mordred)

rule of thumb is smaller fights leading to a full battle against gilgamesh, shinji and mordred as a mid point for saber and shirou (have yet to decide what happens)

all the servants (aside from possibly mordred) are to battle gil and become allies.

no pairings yet. that's the short version.

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Re: The Round Table (A collaborative fiction thread)
« Reply #118 on: April 26, 2013, 12:00:04 AM »
Thanks for the short version.

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Re: The Round Table (A collaborative fiction thread)
« Reply #119 on: April 27, 2013, 08:11:41 PM »
logically for a repeated grail war type opening story we need three to four conflicts, with Gilgamesh being the last we need three others, any broad ideas on that?