[OOC] Fate/ Transcendent Paradigm (A Fate/GO Based RP)

[PKMNB0Y]

@Nanashi Ninanai: I mean, it felt kinda weird having the whole bait-and-switch with Blackbeard and co. at the start, but to be fair Otakubeard is hard to paint as a threat so it makes sense.
Though Orion was kinda weird when he (they?) popped up. I really liked the Asterios/Euryale subplot, though.
Maybe it's just bias because the Jason demon was such an ass to fight with my squad lol. It took too long to release Okeanos after Rome, so I guess the spike in difficulty was kinda warranted, but still. That's just my little qualm about it.
And using the Ark to delete Herc was kinda weird, no lie.

So yeah. Nerofest 2016 challenge missions. :D

[Nanashi Ninanai]

@PKMNB0Y Did you clear the exhibitions? I failed to clear the last one, and I only got to clear the previous ones (bar medb) with CS. Medb was pretty easy, but damn, Nero was several levels of brutal even after the nerf.

Ah also, to be fair on Otakubeard (yet another victim of /GO's weird characterization), in story he was pretty menacing and Queen Anne's Revenge was pretty powerful lorewise. And I like that he and Drake do have mutual respect to each other. Though I agree that he still nowhere looks like he'd be a major threat even from the start.

Orion is just weird in general.

[PKMNB0Y]

@Nanashi Ninanai: Yeah, all of them were cleared. I have Shirou, so the Hassan parade wasn't as painful. Herc as basically just JAlter friend plus Scathach with a LB Kscope in the backline. Scathach and Cu was just... Murder face with Okita as usual. Sieg...
Thank god for that one random friend with a maxed EMIYA and LB event CE. Also for Herc in the backline.
For Medb, I called in a Jack friend and went stomping faces in with Iskander. Nuked all the minions before Maria the Ripper-ing Medb.
Gil was just 'stack buffs on a Scathach, gg?' and it was kinda sad to see. But hey, seeing Gil get 1shot is a really cathartic feeling.
The final... Was a bloody fucking mess. 3 command seals down and I only barely cleared it. o.e

Yeah. To be honest, I kinda skimmed over Otakubeard's segment because he didn't feel as impending of a threat. Went over the rest, though.

London I read for real, though. Something strange, I'll say that. Gave me a new appreciation for Mordred, though.
America we've discussed, so yeah. I didn't expect Nero Bride to join the party.
Camelot... Man, not even starting to talk about the story, but the Grail-buffed Knights. Holy shit. FUCK GAWAIN. Mordred was easier because Jeanne natural taunt. Tristan wasn't as bad.
...
I forgot an Avenger for Lancelot. =3=;;

[GreenGoat]

Gawain was the only fight in a long while that made me use a command seal. ;w;

[Nanashi Ninanai]

London starts too slow with barely anything happening but then packs way too much things near the end. Demon pillar then tesla fight then tesla again then Artoria Alter lancer out of nowhere that barely has anything to do with the plot, and then Solomon appears and trashes us. Mordred's great there, yeah.

Man I think Mordred murdered me harder than Gawain. Gawain aside from the first surprise of introducing the grail buffs ended up getting killed with double Euryale+David for me, but can't cheese Mordred like that. Used triple CS against her, though the rest was surprisingly smooth except Lion King final part.

Like whoa. I don't have any Sabers aside from underleveled Caesar (yet another /GO victim) back then, and even using someone's Okita I had to retry a few times just because the hp bar is too much to drain for me.

Gotta wonder what might they have in store for Babylon.

[PKMNB0Y]

Yeah. Won't deny pacing's super jumbled, but again, Mordred's amazing during the story so I'm giving it that much. =3=;;

I think for Gawain, I had to tag in an Orion friend and run double Ruler frontline. Super weird. Mordred... Well, with a Jeanne/Casko combo, I kept her in limbo for long enough to drop her. Lion King finale basically consisted of me dropping my Kaleidoscope on Okita, then using as many atk buffs and quick buffs as I could before dropping Mumyou Sandanzuki on her face. Scathach with lv10 Rune Magic and Okita with lv10 Shukichi plus an assortment of atk buffs...

One shot, one kill. But yeah, I got lucky with pulls, so that's to be expected. By some miracle, I burned no command seals through the entirety of Camelot. Tons of apples, though.

I expect Semiramis, Gil, and maybe Enkidu in Babylon, at the very least.

What about other events with story? /Zero Accel Order stands as one of the best, partially because of the event mission system (I forget if it was before or after KnK) and partially because of Waver being Waver. Also, like, everything that went wrong kinda got fixed. They axed Gilles early, prevented Kayneth from being super rip, burnt down the bughouse and saved Sakura and Kariya, and assassinated Gilgamesh during the Banquet of the Kings (lol).
Also that bonus battle after 100%-ing the map. :D

[GreenGoat]

tbh, Mordred was the easiest for me, esp after the Gawain fight. I just used Gil and MHX to burst her down while Mashu held the line. Haven't finished Camelot yet though.

[Nanashi Ninanai]

/Accel Zero Order was a blast story-wise, but sadly that was the time when my phone died alongside my first account (forgot to rebind) so I didn't get to play much of it. I remember the node unlock being pretty weird though. Now I want /GO to have a serious event again one day, just for the occasional change of mood from the wacky events.

KnK was a blast due to the introduced mission system but zombie farming was a big pain for me because the best node for it only has like 10 zombies at max and my team back then wasn't suited to face the Demon and Nero Bride back-to-back. But free Shiki was amazing.

For more recent events, despite of failing to get Cleo, I really like Halloween 2016 (finally getting a gold saber aside). The aesthetics, the encounter-increasing CE, the BGM, and the story was pretty fun, although the challenge quests were a bit of a letdown.

@GreenGoat Huh, then perhaps I would've an easier time with her if I have a gold archer that can survive 2 or so Clarent Blood Arthur. yeah...in hindsight, I could've just waited for after Summer Event to use someone's Archuria to deal with Mordred.

[PKMNB0Y]

Youch, that sucks.
The bonus missions for Caster Iri were kinda weird. Not hard, just weird.

I think I was lazy for the KnK mission and didn't max Shiki's NP for some reason. =3=;;
Got all the ascension knives, at least.

Halloween 2016 gave us some really great battle BGM, though. Onigashima was... Interesting.
Ibaraki raid hurt like a bitch though.

I cleared Camelot within... Like, a week or so of release? Yeah. Apples like nothing else.

[Lonewolf685]

btw, does everyone here know Japanese, or is their a translated FGO I don't know about?

[Nanashi Ninanai]

@Lonewolf685 Dunno about PKMNB0Y and the others, but I usually rely on the translations provided by the kind people on /fgog/, reddit, and especially Beast's Lair. I can read what's going on limitedly, but it kinda takes a while and kinda hard to me to enjoy it that way.

[KoL]

btw, does everyone here know Japanese, or is their a translated FGO I don't know about?

@Lonewolf685

I was actually wondering that as well, but it seems the answer is just bellow. It feels really bad to have all this teasing, but not be able to enjoy it because of the moon rune barrier.

[chukklehed]

I can't handle languages.

[PKMNB0Y]

I studied Japanese for 4 years, so I read it all raw. owo;;

There are a few kanji that trip me up every so often, but eh. I understand more that way, and it's good practice.

[GreenGoat]

May put in another Servant CS, this time a Saber.

[Nanashi Ninanai]

Man, the assassin-class in this RP is so stealthy, they don't even have any visible apps.

I'll go make one unless in the end it's decided that it'd be too much servants.

[VitaVitaAR]

I think our registrations are unlimited.

Also might be doing a Caster... or an Assassin I am weighing my options now.

[Rin]

@VitaVitaARI know who the Caster is and you should totally do it. >.> <.<

[VitaVitaAR]

I think you know who the Assassin is, too, though.

[VitaVitaAR]

• Name: Amalie Georg Faust
• Class: Caster
• Appearance: Caster has platinum blonde hair, pale skin, and blue eyes. Her dress is red and black. The doll's colors are below.
• Abilities:
  • Strength: E
  • Endurance: E
  • Agility: C
  • Mana: A
  • Luck: B
  • Noble Phantasm: C
  • Territory Creation: B - The skill to build a special terrain that is advantageous to oneself as a magus.
  • Magecraft: C - Knowledge about Modern Mageraft.
  • Demon Summoning: A+++ - Capable of summoning any kind of demon aside from True Devils, and harnessing them to do the Servant's bidding. Given that summoned demons are not magic, this allows the Servant to bypass magic resistance. Demons operate more competently and more powerfully based on their complexity. The longer it takes for the Servant to summon a demon, the more powerful and complex they will be. This is because the Servant "designs" the form of a demon as she summons them, as demons are naturally formless creatures. At maximum complexity, a demon summoned by the Servant is quite capable of harming Servants. However, it is far more easy to kill then a Servant. Lower levels of complexity, while dangerous, are little more then cannon fodder for most Servants even if they are capable of dealing damage.
• Noble Phantasms:
  • Mephistopheles - The Night of Wallachia: The fabled presence that Caster summoned in life, Mephistopheles is a dark, formless entity. By invoking its name, Caster can summon Mephistopheles to materialize the fears of her opponent. While she believes it to be a demon(and holds no love for it, unlike other entities she summons), Mephistopheles is actually the 13th Dead Apostle Ancestor, the Night of Wallachia. The fears it materializes will attack those who they were materialized from relentlessly, until they are killed or they kill their target. However, they are not extraordinarily powerful, and are very capable of being killed. Mephistopheles is capable of targeting hundreds at once. Caster deeply dislikes the idea of summoning Mephistopheles, and would restrict his abilities to only a few targets if summoned. Of course, even if it is TATARI, it is only a replication.
  Gretchen, the Pure Maiden: Gretchen was Caster's closest friend in life. The Noble Phantasm transforms Caster's Gretchen doll into the real girl as Caster herself views her. An angelic existence, Gretchen possesses a personality of pure innocence. Her very presence and touch is damaging; While she can only exist for a few minutes at a time, she merely needs to touch a servant to do damage. However, to servants of good or neutral alignments, this damage is not severe unless contact is prolonged. However, when a servant of an evil alignment is touched by Gretchen, they will be burnt as if by intensely hot flames. This touch is lethal to evil-aligned servants if prolonged for ten seconds or more.
• Personality: Caster is someone who has no difficulty talking with others. However, her thoughts are likely to be expressed in a long stream of consciousness, a jumble of ideas that often make little sense. Caster has a highly cheerful disposition can can be described as something of a blabbermouth. She is even more willing to converse with the demonic entities she summons. Caster adores milk, cake, and other sweets, and can easily be manipulated with the use of these items. She is also very fond of the legends of knights, having entertained herself with their tales, and has a fairly expansive knowledge of legendary knights. She is heavily attached to a doll she refers to as Gretchen and will be upset by any attempts to take it away. Caster enjoys collecting stuffed animals, the weirder the better. But still huggable. Caster cares a great deal about her summoned demons, and is likely to summon and design a specific one when she is first summoned herself. However, she is less attached to the simpler ones she summons on the fly.
• Other: I do have an explanation for all this, if you want.