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[Cherry Lover]

Eh, what?

[Milbunk]

It is just as I said, I'm hosting my own in city Grail War, to make things interesting there will be 7 RPers who will be able to summon their own Servant or recontract with a current Servant for the war. (Keep in mind that has not been in place yet and because there will only be 7 Servant one per class not everyone will be eligible, if two people want the same class for instance I shall make it a tie and it will be randomized which one gets it.)

Of course this is completely voluntary and nobody has to enter if they don't want to. (But that wouldn't be any fun now would it?) It's also a great way to bring together some of the parties that have been wandering on their own for some time now. (And relax this isn't even going to start till after Downy's series concludes which should be fairly soon.)

So, thoughts?

[Cherry Lover]

Hmm, it's an interesting idea. Presumably people at the character limit won't be elegible, though, since it means making a new character.

Also, what about existing master/servant pairings? Rider is still contracted with Sakura (although Sakura has no command spells) and Archer with Hakuno. Would they count automatically, or would they not because they're not summoned newly?

[Milbunk]

My thought, is that since this is a different actually pure Grail no current contracts would apply, however if they wanted to "resummon" their Servant to the war, they could the only requirement is that they be accepted as a Master. (Also even though it's a pure grail with a real honest wish evil Servant's are still eligible as Caster herself is one such Servant.)

[Cherry Lover]

Well, on a purely technical level I don't think there's any reason one of them couldn't claim the Grail even if they don't formally count as a summoned servant. Sakura wouldn't enter, though, she has no need of a wish and she wouldn't want to put Rider's life in danger. It's possible that Aoi could get involved, though, if she's arrived by that point.

The main possible issue I see here, though, is that a large portion of our characters are allied, and there are four non-involved servants and a bunch of similarly-powerful characters around. I think it's going to be difficult to avoid turning it into a curb-stomp battle for whoever has the most allies. Also, anyone doing bad stuff is in the shit, because Sakura etc. won't stand for it, and Rider is just as powerful as she was during the Grail War, if not more so.

How is the Grail working, BTW? We don't have a Justica around here....

[Bloble]

brb making an Ilya sheet

(jk, but you get the point)

[Cherry Lover]

Well, indeed.

What I'm saying is that there isn't currently the stuff around to make a Grail War happen, so I'm wondering what Mil has done to replace that. Not so much the lesser Grail (I don't think Sakura is still capable of filling that role, although I'm not 100% sure on that, but one can always be made if necessary) as the Greater one.

[Milbunk]

It has come to my conclusion that you need to have at least 4 things to make yourself a Grail War, the land, the ability to connect with Akasha for the wish which is what the greater grail is, the lesser grail so that you can connect to the greater grail (Sakura, Illya, Irisviel.), and of course the knowledge to do all this.

Caster with her great knowledge of all things magic is able to do all but connecting to Akashi, for that she needs someone with the ability to do it for her which I shall also provide. (Or have already provided heh.) Securing the land would be easy enough, once she finds a suitable leyline (Which I shall have Elf help me with, she would then need the Greater Grail and Lesser Grail parts, also as for gathering up enough suitable prana for it well a big bang is just about to happen in the city thanks to Downy's actions and a whole lot of magical energy is about to just go flying everywhere so all she needs to do is just guide it. (Easy enough for her at least.)

A lesser grail is probably the easiest part anyway with her A rank in item creation she can make things like fake immortality potions creating a lesser grail even a homunculus is completely within her capabilities. (What would also be more interesting is the fact that this grail war would work similarly but differently the the 5th war one so that anyone involved in those would understand what's going on but would be unable to hack it unless they themselves had knowledge of Age of God magic.)

Those are my thoughts anyway, also to help even the playing field I figured that when you decide you want t enter you won't be able to pick who gets the Seals I shall decide that with perhaps a bit of help from Elf if I think I may need it. After you get the Seals however you can then vouch for which class you want if there are any duplicate classes then we roll for it. (Keep in mind the loser will get stuff with whatever classes have not been picked.) (Also to enter in the firs place you'll need either an already summoned Servant or a spare character sheet obviously though if you want I don't mind playing the Servant with one of my open spots, however I can't do that for everyone, I of course may even have Caster summon her own Servant, we shall see.)

[The Man With All The Cute Boats]

Well Lantz, look at it this way:

A guy appears before you, whom you've only met once with an unfavorable turnout, starts talking to you about how great he is, how he's never hurt a fly and he resurrected the one fly he did, while assembling a toy model he pulled out of his ass at the same time. What is your impression of this man?

My impression of this man is that he's a nutcase.

Forgetting the OOC knowledge for a bit, I mean. Even then...

[Cherry Lover]

Well, technically-speaking Sakura is already connected to Akasha, I think. That's where her prana supply comes from. Caster has zero chance of getting hold of her, though....

As for the Grail War entry, I don't think the issue is who gets the servant (although if you're doing it that way I don't think I'll be entering, because I don't want Rider killed-off). The issue I see is that we have a large bunch of characters around who are not involved in the war formally but are powerful enough that they could easily still influence it, and most of them are all allies or at least acquantances.

[lantzblades]

He told the truth Names, he never said he was good or great or special. The truth does not make you arrogant or such nonsense. In fact I'd say just the opposite since he did not have to say a word about killing anyone. Further he did not infer any person was a fly or such.

if you want to keep at this then please keep it to yourself. I'm really sick of having the same excuses pointed out and then correcting them only to be ignored

[The Man With All The Cute Boats]

Look all I'm saying is that to the average person, he sounds like a nutjob.

Go down the street and tell someone you're two thousand years old while making a model. They'll look at you so crooked you'll feel like a picasso painting.

I'm not saying anything about how truthful he is or how the facts actually align, I'm just saying he sounds nuts. Emphasis on "SOUNDS".

[Arch-Magos Winter]

For that matter, he kinda acts like a nutjob too - the whole castle shit.

Also, when the hell is Saber Alter gonna get some screentime?

[lantzblades]

Fair enough Names. But what would you expect him to fiddle with while talking? A block of wood?

Arch that was NOT him.

Alter will get screen time in a bit

[Arch-Magos Winter]

Nah, Dark Satoshi is Satoshi dude, and he still is Dark Satoshi at the moment, because he hasn't purged himself of the shadow. 

Also, for that matter, I can think of exactly no one who carries around models to fiddle with. Pencils, rubber bands, shit like that I've seen, but fucking models?

Yay for Alter!



Also, make Jack's location available Bloble. Kinda want to bring in Brianna.