[OOC] Fate/Esoterica

[RolePlayerRoxas]

Raineh Daze said
Want to pair with Hanako?

All righty.

[Necromantic]

Im here. Im alive. I have life. I must do notes.

[Raineh Daze]

I think you might want to reconsider your Berserker's skills/Noble Phantasm. I think he's at a level of totally lacking in defensive functions that Caster would have no problems subduing him. An NP that handily blinds you is a death sentence. >_>;

[Caelum]

I'm down with anyone being Ridahs master.

[Necromantic]

Raineh Daze said
I think you might want to reconsider your Berserker's skills/Noble Phantasm. I think he's at a level of totally lacking in defensive functions that Caster would have no problems subduing him. An NP that handily blinds you is a death sentence. >_>;

Where was this when I made him... In any case, I knew something like that would happen. However I may need some help modifying him in this case.

[Raineh Daze]

Well, basically... compared to canon (particular the 4th and 5th Grail War) Berserkers, he has no stunning offensive ability, nor matching defences.

On a one-by-one basis:
Lancelot still retains fighting ability. This, on its own, is enough to get him out of trouble. On top of that, his armour is enough to survive being run over by Gordius Wheel, or hit several times by Gate of Babylon projectiles.
Bersercules has the near-invulnerability by God Hand, insane speed and strength... and residual ability left by Eye of the Mind, making him hard to feint. Definitely a nightmare; in this war, the only way to take him out would be to hit him with Arondight, a horse, and then hope Archer could get in a good shot.
Fate/Extra Berserkers: Amongst other things, the war format helps protect them from what would otherwise be a very sorry circumstance; it all comes down to straight one-on-one fights. Still, Lu Bu has frankly insane stats, armour, and a semi-functional transforming weapon NP. Arcueid... is a True Ancestor, and even nerfed she's not wholly incompetent.
Apocrypha: I'm not so sure, but Frankie seems to be relatively sane, plus has odd NP's, and a useful skill. The Great Grey Gimp is basically a walking tank from the wiki descriptions. Kintoki, in the cancelled project, is just childish.

The problem is that you've got a Berserker with all the crazy insanity of Heracles, without any of the defences, anything to attack with, or much compensation other than 'sheer raw strength'. If he hits, the damage would be enormous--but he's not fast enough to make simply 'getting near' a dangerous prospect. I think Samson killed a guy with a bone, which might be a start.

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Unrelated, since this is taking a while and I have an idea, would you have any objection if I start off the IC posting and summon Lancer? XD

[Grey]

He killed 1000 guys with an ass jaw. I'm drawing blanks as to what effect it would have as an NP, but it could work as a normal weapon.

Speaking of NP's, perhaps you could NP-ify his whole 'pray to God for a badass last stand' thing?

Invoke YHWH to get hair back, boost STR to EX (and all other physical stats +1), blind him, and give him Magic Resistance A (because enough piety can get Magic Resist if Jeanne is anything to go by but then again she was a Saber/Ruler) and Battle Continuation A (because tell me it wouldn't make sense). Make it guzzle a ton of prana and/or once the battle's done/X very short amount of time, automatic dead Samson. And you can't deactivate the Noble Phantasm or anything. Once you last stand there's no going back.

I would like to take this moment to say that I am not inebriated in any way.

It might be too OP for the RP and/or justified stupidly, but it's the first potential example of something like that that came to mind *shrug* But anyway, in that case, that whole bit could be a sub-technique of the God's Mercy NP, while the main function would just be the basic 'gets lots of STR with hair, loses lots without' with no other side effects.

Oh, and I imagine Nazarite Promise could be implemented into the general 'hair = STR' Noble Phantasm. Frees up some slots for you. As for the Skills themselves, there's the religion-based ones (Protection of the Faith, Soul of a Martyr), but I don't know if those are cancelled by ME.

EDIT: Are the stats in the sheet pre or post Mad Enhancement? If ME has yet to be applied, B AGI is faster than half of the enemy Servants here and the ones faster than that need to get in close to attack, which would make them face off against A++ STR, A+ END, and A++ LCK

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EDIT2: Just in case anyone needed it.

Saber - Rin's WIP Master
Lancer - Hanako
Assassin - Chieko
Archer - Hakuno(?)

Unclaimed - Caster, Rider, Berserker
Undecided - Johnathan, James, Misaki

[Raineh Daze]

If we assume stat sheets are without ME applied, Lancelot with Arondight had an utterly insane statline: A++ STR, A++ END, A+++ AGI, B MAG, A+ LUK (Protection of the Fairies). I've been going with 'ME adjustments are built in', or don't affect the exact rank because they tend to be out of proportion with the supposed rank of the thing. XD

[Grey]

I was referring more to just our GM's. I presume all the canon Berserkers include their applicable bonuses due to the presence of a ____ Mad/Insane alignment, except for Herakles since IIRC, Illya was nixing his ME bonuses.

Either way, damn that statline would be insane (no pun intended).

Anywho, looks like none of the Servants/Masters want to take initiative on the whole partnering thing. So allow me to stop this deadlock so we can get this show on the road.

VitaVitaAR, do you want to make a contract? ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼

[Raineh Daze]

I worry that I've scared off our GM. XD

[VitaVitaAR]

Um, hmm...

Want to make sure Faust would go well with whoever she's paired with but hm.

[Caelum]

Nearly a month and we arn't even a post in. Geezus.

[Raineh Daze]

Caelum said
Nearly a month and we arn't even a post in. Geezus.

Try and pair your guy up with one of the free Masters, then. :p

[Caelum]

Rider, going to a good home! I'm down with any of yall.

[Necromantic]

Raineh Daze said
I worry that I've scared off our GM. XD

Nope! Just been uber busy. I doubt I will actually have time for this unfortunately. Like I said before, I am not a GM. I am just an instigator. I fear I must leave this. My school life has been much busier than expected, considering I am taking an extra class for a total of seven classes, the majority of which require much after school time being extracurricular and AP. My sincerest apologies.

[Raineh Daze]

So, do you mind if we keep using the RP and open up the search for another Berserker, or should we make another thread?

[Grey]

I think a new thread would be beneficial, if only so we don't have to bother Opossum every time we want to edit the OP.

Also, so we can have a character list in the first post. That would be useful.

[Raineh Daze]

Your wish is my command.