[center][h1][color=gold]Lorelei Baggett[/color][/h1][/center]

[center][h3] Right Outside the Door, Church Exterior, The Church [/h3][/center]

After having rolled her eyes silently at her servant's comment while her back was turned to him, Lorelei had gone about finishing her preparation for the day before setting out for her first destination. The Church. Information on this conflict, at least any she could get from this "Ruler", would be valuable when it came to her primary mission here. Though beyond this...she perhaps had some other silent motives about what she wanted to ask this Ruler-class servant too. Only last night had she barely salvaged her ability to participate here...well, it was more like her servant had taken pity on her and agreed to continue fighting. But at any rate, she wanted to make sure of some things as well, perhaps conditions between master and servant and such. With her servant complaining about the place her base was, which she had set up a basic bounded field over during the previous night even, and such factors, she felt she could not ignore the possibility her servant might stop fighting for her at a moment's notice if the right conditions came up. 

After all, while Rostam was a great and devout hero-warrior of legend she had been fortunate enough to summon as her servant, his wish had been fulfilled, and she was herself unsure if he would be able to motivate himself to stay with her through the rest of the war. And really, it had also brought into question something else. What was her own wish for the Grail? If she got that lucky to win all of this and not just survive, what would she do? Wish for the Baggett Family to prosper? With to be incarnated into a proper human body or something? Truth be told, she had been so focused on her mission upon her own arrival, the matter had seemed so trivial and unimportant at the time. Yet after the last night's close encounter with a powerful enemy servant at the abandoned house, and Rostam's wish nearly keeping her from participating after it was unintentionally fulfilled right after his summoning, the matter seemed to have more of a weight to it now. The other masters here, they each had a wish...no, a miracle that they each desired of the Grail, no matter how small or great it could be in scale or context for them. It was a driving motivation for them, and also for their servants as well when it came down to it. 

After having cleaned up and dressed herself, she had taken a taxi to the other side of the city, with orders for her servant to follow in spirit form alone. After the last night, she did not want to risk breaking the war's rules of not exposing magecraft any more than she could, and by using normal human public transportation she hoped to avoid the peering eyes of any mages or familiars during the trip. At least, that was the plan. Of course traffic had managed to keep her waiting a little bit, so by the time she had been dropped off at the church where Ruler the homunculus had lightly huffed at how long it had taken. She had used a taxi before in other places, and it had not been this bad before! Still, it had made do. 

[color=gold][i]"We are finally here, Rider. Are you here on the grounds as well?"[/i][/color] Lorelei messaged to her servant through their link as she got out of the cab and watched it go away into the distance away from the building, only letting out a sigh of relief after it was finally out of sight.

Walking up towards the doors of the church, the homunculus hesitated for a moment as she pulled her left hand up to knock on the door. She did not know if Ruler was busy at the moment, or if he was a heroic spirit of a bad temperament if interrupted. But considering his position, he would be open to some visitors, right? 

Pushing past her slight hesitation, the female homunculus finally knocked on the doors of the church. Well, it was time to see if she could speak to this Ruler at any rate. 

[@Beloss]

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[center][h1][color=violet]Chi-You[/color][/h1][/center]

[center][h3][Ernest's House, Eastern Fuyuki, Near the Foreigner's Cemetery][/h3][/center]

The tyrant looked on, leaning forward with her chin in her hands and her elbows resting on her legs as she sat on the floor. A sense of boredom that donned her face in part was very obvious, though at the same time there was...something else at work as well. It was as if she was both bored to death yet simultaneously thinking on the matters as Ernest spoke to her. Mainly her boredom was from the lack of a good feast really, and she could almost imagine the taste of a morning breakfast of freshly caught game and rice among her other favorite delectable that would be served in great heaps before her and her generals. It made her a tad nostalgic for a moment, though eventually the thoughts of battle plans and her listening to Ernest explain more things and show her locations on the map before them eventually brought her seemingly out of the mood she had been in. At least, brought her out of the mood of boredom enough to make it seems like she was seriously thinking about this stuff to a certain extent. 

The tyrant gave a light huff after Ernest finished his explanation, though whether it originated from her thoughts on the info or possibly from her former demure related to the lack of a feast was most likely up to Ernest's best guess on the matter. Regardless, the king seemed content to stretch her arms for another moment before speaking again to her master. 

[color=violet]"For starters, from what information i have on magi it makes sense they would set up camp there. Especially if they have a Caster. I'd say the people who organized this war, if they ar participating, likely have two of the locations of those fallen leylines secured already with good servants. So we'd probably be good to not go there right away, especially since they have the home field advantage. At least, that'd all be the case if they are smart anyways,"[/color] Chi-You said, partly shrugging as she spoke about the matter to her master with a sense of directness, authority, and bluntness, as if she were speaking about war like it was a business matter that she had done many a time over in life...which oddly enough, she most likely had when it came down to it, [color=violet]"But i'd not waste a scout on looking at those places unless you have a way of making new scouts...er 'familiars' i guess....if or when whatever we send there is killed. But if ya can make more familiars, i'd risk losing the bird or something to check out that temple place first while its the middle of the day and people are around, and then later maybe look at that abandoned house in that neighborhood near the school. They both seem like good places to secure a base, at least if ya don't want to be attacked in the middle of the day since people would be out and about such areas and exposing the war is bad an' all."[/color]

Rolling her left shoulder with a light "pop", the tyrant paused for a moment to glance at her master and the map a little more, her experienced eyes scanning its surface and recalling the information she had just been given before speaking up once more. 

[color=violet]"That aside, i'd say send a thrall on the most public and safe route available to get as much info on this war as you can from the Ruler guy the Grail sent for this war. Have the thrall write it all down and come back here as soon as possible. Seriously, one way to lose a war is to not ask questions. Have the thrall ask em' about how many servant need to die for the Grail to come out, and other stuff like that so we have all the info we can get. That and have em' jot down what the other masters and servant looks like right "[/color] the Saber-class servant continued as she looked down at the map once more, [color=violet]"If the thrall can't do that much for some reason, then we could go get the info and write it down. Otherwise i'd say avoid the forest completely for now until we learn more, and if ya want to go out we could check the hotels and rental houses or something. Seriously, if someone wants to avoid sitting on those hotspots you call fallen leylines, then those areas would be good for observing. Just don't go into any of them in case they are protected or something, but that's just my recommendation on the matter."[/color]

[color=violet]"Beyond all of that, you need to think of something too,"[/color] the tyrant said, finishing her speaking to her master in regards to strategy and such, her former mood seeming to return to a certain extent for a moment, [color=violet]"If you are going to rely only on me for the entire war, you won't be much of a subordinate really."[/color]

Ah, so that was it. 

[@DrowsyPangolin]