[OOC] Fate/True - A Grail War Role Playing Game

[Slime]

@Nanashi Ninanai
Oh, right, GO has a plot. Hard to remember when everyone is talking about the gacha and fan arts.

Switching affinities actually sounds like a pretty cool idea. You'd still have to wait on Dawnscroll for that, but I'll be rooting for it.

[Chotgoriin]

Will definitively have him up before the weeks end. Demon's Honor.

[Nanashi Ninanai]

@Slime @Dawnscroll Alright, edited both Tianzi and Rider's app. Rider now has her chariot and bulls listed as her Noble Phantasm, alongside some small edits on other places and a little explaining on her parameters. Tianzi now has her app focus more on her Elemental Magic, but I have refrained from putting much details on the extent of her capability since it felt like something that'd be better consulted to you two first.

She's meant to mostly only be able to utilize mid to low tier magecraft most of the time, and even that would be taxing to her.

[Dawnscroll]

@Nanashi Ninanai
Mostly waiting on Dawnscroll. He suggested starting soon, but the teams are still undecided and he needs a Master, so you still have time. Worst case scenario you join in a little late, so don't worry.

@Slime

You know, I have a master. But I MIGHT be keeping it as a secret secret for the first post of the Game.

....hey, I'm the GM. I can do what I want. French Sorcerer who tried to summon Nicholas Flamel and got Roland instead. We going to comedy route.

@Nanashi Ninanai Riding A: The ability to ride any mounts, with the exception of Phantasmal and Divine Beasts. Medb's rank here is peculiar since her primary qualification for this skill is the ability to ride men, figuratively and literally.



"GOOD NIGHT, EVERYBODY!"

Rider is approved. Just don't spam the army thing please. I mean, use it. But no "Lulz, fifty thousand soldiers"

I know Rin had five magic abilities. But Rin is a main character, and we're not. I can swallow someone having two. But five? Would you mind changing that?

@NachoBachoPacho BERSERK APPROVED. And y'know, in the defense of your guys stats, its not how strong you are but how he's used. Roland, if you look at him, is a pretty weak Saber. Exactly why I picked him.

On a side note, I am loving all the Celtic figures coming on. And the fact that people are picking actual legends.

@Slime Sorry, super big test for my career hitting me in the next few days. There are no teams initially; if alliances are formed, thats on the characters.

[Nanashi Ninanai]

@Dawnscroll Hm, that is reasonable. I'll think of something else that still can portray her versatility despite being overally pretty weak. Can something with homunculi and temporary consciousness transfer work? Since I'm changing her magecraft, I probably would change her overall app and Origin too.

I'll keep that in mind about Rider. At most probably would only have 1 company or at most (if really pushed on the edge, though i doubt that I'll reach this point), a battalion of soldiers at a time. Probably a company (80-250) of normal soldiers most of the time, with reaching that number and maintaining it would take some actual preparation time.

[Dawnscroll]

@Nanashi Ninanai No prob. I'm chill with that.

[Nanashi Ninanai]

Master App

"Meased to pleet you, I'm Tianzi and I'm here to end you."

Name: Tianzi Hua Xiaohui
Gender: Female
Age: 31

Appearance:

Real Appearance

No records of her proper height and weight exists.

Main Homunculi Appearance

A male body that she uses as her public face. While she can really just settle with someone that looks like a normal average businessman, she can't resist the temptation to make one that depicts herself well instead. This homunculi is slightly of better quality compared to the other ones she have, though not by much.

Personality:
Quiet, and maybe mischievous to a degree, nevertheless Tianzi always prioritize a careful approach to almost everything. She's someone that prioritizes herself above everything else, but if it's necessary for her, she does have the capability to act selflessly or to show some kindness to others. However, most of the time she pretty much just performs any actions for the sake of her own amusement while continuing her own magical studies. She has little to no remorse on things she has done, but she's not an outright evil person; she's simply someone that is too self-centered and whimsical to differentiate between good and evil.

Has a tendency to spout incomprehensible garbled mess of a quote or koan whenever she likes it, usually to rile others for the sake of her own amusement. It matters little whether others would see her as competent or not, and she believes that it’s best to be known as a fool rather than being seen as a threat.

Despite of her flighty, trickster-like personality, she's actually really competitive even in things that she had no real stakes on. Even if she has to resort to dirty tricks, it'll be alright in her books since she doesn't view it as something wrong. Perhaps it’s just her ego speaking, but when she throws her hat into something for whatever reasons, she’s going to do her best on it, and by that she means that she’ll win it, no matter what.

She never knew about the heart of people, and never bothered to know more about it. She's on her own for most of her time, and her researches were a lot more interesting than other human beings. A life in eternal seclusion as she continued doing what she wanted to do was her wish, deep inside.

Biography and Family History:
An unimpressive heir to an unimpressive family. That would be the first impression someone would have towards Tianzi. Born from a practically unheard of family focusing on Dao-related Thaumaturgy with low amount of Magic Circuits throughout the generations, it was quite a surprise when it was known that her magic quality was quite high in quality despite not having much of it. Nevertheless, with efforts from both herself and others, she managed to enroll to the Clock Tower, where she showed a promising start. She then took her time to focus on Alchemy, and utilized both western and eastern styles to try figuring out a way to create fast and cheap homunculi.

She didn't want to admit it, but she had some obsession with the perfection of a human being. She required the homunculi to be cheap and fast since they're meant to be disposable for her research. She believed that Akasha can be reached if she figured out the perfect, untainted human body of the ancient times, A body untainted by death and degeneration of the first humans and perhaps their ancestors, since Tianzi believed that even the varying bodies of humanity will converge into one singular point if she traced it back long enough.

For that reason, she required her homunculi to be cheap for the time being. They're only bodies she studied to figure out the nature of a human body and its relation to nature. As she continued to research on it however, she ended up figuring out something else instead. It was a bit crude, but she figured out a nifty trick on how she could impose part of her will and consciousness to a homunculus, by transplanting a minor part of her Magic Circuit which would overwrite said homunculi's programming, purging it from any interference and leaving it an empty vessel for her researches, not dead but not truly alive either.

She decided to leave the Association out of both concern that they might try to mess with her researches, and because she felt that the environment was too suffocating for her. Keeping her tricks a secret, she lived as a hermit for years, and it looked like it'd stay that way for a while. Of course, until she was summoned before the man in golden armor, talking about a Holy Grail War. While she had no wish in mind except for furthering her studies, the thought of competing and showing her superiority to the other magi were quite enticing, enough for her to immediately depart to Judea the moment she could to start her preparations for the Grail War.

Origin: Purification
Elemental Affinity: Wind
Number of Magic Circuits and Quality of Magic Circuits: 5 magic circuits of A Quality
Magic Circuit Switch: Tapping her finger to a flat surface three times.
Magecraft:
Wind Magecraft: Capable of utilizing wind magecraft. Due to her smallish pool of mana and lack of ability to use it efficiently, she prefers on operating on a small scale. .Her favorite spell is using high pressured air to form a bounded field around her, refracting light and preventing anything inside from being seen, or alternatively, utilizing the air pressure to either propel her, or strike her target. It's cheap and effective, perfect for her.
Overwrite: Small parts of her magic circuit are capable of being transplanted into a homunculus to purging their soul and any trace of impurities from their circuits, leaving them empty for her to either fill new programming to them, or utilize temporary Consciousness Transferrence to control their body. Presumably capable of being used to a magus, but it carried way too much risk and an actual surgery for now.
Alchemy (Homunculi): Her primary focus of study. As she pirated most of her knowledge and designs from a certain family, she never really showed much of her researches here to other magi. She mainly used tubes to grow them, and while their quality's far below average, the materials she used to create them are really cheap in comparison to others, and the fact they deteriorate fast wasn't a concern to her. Currently, she have 5 active ones with remaining time of 3 weeks on average, wiht one of them acting as her public face. It would take her five days to create another one, but right now she's lacking in resources.
Mystic Codes and Equipment: None

@Dawnscroll @Slime Alright, another try for Tianzi. Trying to work on a slightly different angle right now. I think if the overall concept is fine, I'll stick with this one, so tell me if there's anything I need to tone down.

[GubGar]

Well I managed to think of something, of course I need approval when it comes to these custom magic abilities, critique would also be greatly appreciated. @Slime @Dawnscroll

Alexander Gottwald

Name(s): Alexander Gottwald

Gender: Male

Age: 20

Personality: A timid, but kind and intelligent man, but one who's outlook on life has left him weary of strangers, and even more weary of strange things. He is a very religious man, and is absolutely against anything that would be considered Amoral by the Church, he also follows the Church blindly, seeing anything he is ordered to do by them as heroic, no matter how horrid. however, he stands by his beliefs, no matter what, of course this is somewhat downplayed by his fearful nature. Still, he has potential for incredible bravery, primarily when defending those he deems worthy of defending.

Biography and Family History:

Born to a family of up and coming German mages, Alexander was the only child, and was of course, the family’s hope for furthering their magical talents. The family specialized in Earth magecraft to an amazing degree, due to this Alexander’s parents needed him to carry on the legacy of earth magecraft. Alexander however, was not born with the element of Earth, instead he was born with an element that none of the family had heard of.

Thrown into grief and rage, Alexander’s mother locked herself in her room, while his Father, and Grandfather, debated what to do with the child. Alexander’s father stated the child should be abandoned, no spots should remain on their family name, while his Grandfather argued that the child deserved a chance to prove himself, eventually, after two years of arguing, the young Alexander’s fate was decided: he was to be given to the Church.

A priest in a Scottish branch of the Church found the child on the doorstep, tears in his eyes, a note in his hand, it explained the situation as vaguely as possible, without even supplying the family’s name. The priest took pity on the child, abandoned and disgraced, and decided to take him in.

Alexander was taught the ways of the Church, and taught how to use his odd magic by the ancient leader of the branch of the Church, the only living man who shared Alexander’s magical origin and element. While also taught how to find with many weapons, by a kind retired Templar. At age 15 Alexander was accepted into the Templars, After five years of fighting for the Church, Alexander was a changed man, he had committed several horrible acts to support those who raised him, and was even offered a chance to become an Executioner for the Church, yet oddly enough, the young man declined, he stated that he had committed horrid acts, and did not truly have the stomach for an Executioner, but he would repay those who raised him, so he would spend his life serving.

Origin and Elemental Affinity: Holy Light And Sky Respectively.

Number of Magic Circuits and Quality of Magic Circuits: 35 Of decent quality.

Magic Circuit Switch: Quoting the Bible.

Magecraft:

Holy Blessings: A type of magic not unlike enchantments, Holy Blessings is a procedure that allows the user to temporarily envelop whatever item is effected in Holy Light, giving it different effects depending on circumstances. The way to activate this magic is as follows: A lock of hair, a bit of skin, or some blood, this must be attached, or touching the object the user means to bless in some way. The user then activates their Magic Circuits, and wards off evil by making a cross with his hand movements. If done properly, the user must then say one of the following things: “Now protect thine wearer, and repel all evil!” “Now strike down those that mean to harm your wielder, and always stay in god’s faith!” “Now make haste ye vehicles of the lord, chase down those that mean to mock the lord, and never lose faith!” The different speeches bring about increased defense, strength, and speed, respectively.

The Lord’s Gift: A type of healing magic combining Holy Light, and Healing. By raising one’s hands to the sky, activating their Magic Circuits, and maintaining faith in the lord, the user may heal any injured in a 10 foot radius, by using holy light. The downside however, is that the healing is unfocused, and may be used to accidentally heal enemies as well as allies.

Mystic Codes and Equipment: A sword, given to him by the Church, and a matching Shield. The garbs of a templar. A holy bible.

Non-Magecraft Related Skills: Trained to fight with many weapons by the church. Adept in reading people’s emotions. Multi-Lingual.

[Chotgoriin]

Masters are hard.

[GubGar]

@Chotgoriin Tell me about it, I still feel like I totally butchered the magic system with my master. And I spent a week researching it.

[Nanashi Ninanai]

@Chotgoriin Yeah man, it's hard coming up with concepts that could interact well (either complementary or as contrast) with your servants, both for writing purpose and strategy-wise.

[Chotgoriin]

What is the policy regarding Mix-Bloods? They allowed?

[Slime]

Terribly sorry for my absence. Had university stuff to take care of and I got sucked in by Tsukihime afterwards.

@Nanashi Ninanai
I don't really see any problems with using homunculi, but I think setting up a place to make them would be difficult as they are pretty advanced from what I've seen. Although, since Tianzi's are low quality then maybe she doesn't need a workshop that advanced. I do recommend care with transplanting circuits. Medea did that once to Shirou and he got pretty messed up in the end.

@NachoBachoPacho
The character is fine, there's no real problem with his magic either. What you probably had trouble with is the difference between origin and alignment or element. The origin can be pretty much anything, but the alignment is well defined on what it can be. He can have holy light as his origin, but his alignment or element needs to be added.

There are seven alignments in total, with the normal or physical ones being earth, water, fire, wind and sky, and the non-physical or imaginary ones being emptiness and nothingness. Sky makes up celestial bodies and is essentially ether, emptiness is "which is possible but is not in the physical plane", also called imaginary numbers, and nothingness is "which is not possible, but materializes".

Something important, however, is that one's alignment can be changed through training. For an example, Sakura was emptiness and turned into water by the Matou. One's origin can also change, but the only example that I know is Shirou and his was replaced by "sword" when Avalon was implanted on him. So from what I can tell alignment can be molded, but origin would have to be replaced by a strong force. But since there's little detail on this I guess you can keep his background the way it is, just add an alignment to complete him.

Also, as Dawnscroll said earlier, one can have more than one alignment.

I got info about this in here btw.
heavens-feel.com/completematerial.html

@Chotgoriin
What exactly do you mean by Mix-Bloods? If you mean something like half-human half-demon you'd better wait on Dawnscroll.

[GubGar]

@Slime Wow! Thanks for that info, i've edited my CS to add Sky as his alignment, as I think that's probably the thing that fits the most.

[Nanashi Ninanai]

@Slime Yea, she built relatively simpler tubes compared to facilities of people like the Einzberns or the Yggmilenias to cultivate them, and with her not prioritizing quality, she could establish her base of operation in one month complete with the facility. Of course, this also means she couldn't really mass produce the homunculi due to the small size of her facility and her limited resource.

And yeah, magic circuit transfer's pretty risky. She's still trying to find someone that can actually perform the surgery reliably, or alternatively, find a shortcut to work around that.

If Tianzi's fine now, then I guess it's time for me to wait for this to start up then.

[Slime]

@Nanashi Ninanai
You know just how fast these wars usually are, right? I know it may be godmodding, but I'd suggest an early arrival at Judea to make sure she'll have that workshop up and running by the time the war starts.

[Nanashi Ninanai]

@Slime Well, I was referring to the one-month period between goldie calling everyone and the start of the war. She arrives as soon as she could manage and starts preparing for the war in that limited time.

[Slime]

@Nanashi Ninanai
Okay, it's just that usually if a character takes an action before the RP starts it counts as a form of godmodding, but I support it in this case.

[Nanashi Ninanai]

@Slime Perhaps it's best if people say it in advance if their master had made any preparations before the war starts and what kind of prep did they do?

[Slime]

@Nanashi Ninanai
I think in this RP it could be accepted to take action before the start so long as it isn't anything too big. Summoning the Servants outside of the region is against the rules obviously. We'd have to consult Dawnscroll to see just how far we can take that.