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Fate/Ousia

So, did y'all know that chicken blood is used in cooking in Peru? I found that out when I was looking up whether Bailey could've bought some.

Fate/Ousia

Bailey Clarke

Wednesday, November 17th, 2015

An apartment in Cusco

There, that should do it. The young man--only slightly more than a child, really--stepped back from his handiwork, looking it over one last time. He reached up and wiped his forehead, then winced.

"Shit," Bailey muttered as the chicken blood ran down his forehead. He hadn't thought about that. It was bad enough that he was spreading actual chicken blood all over these poor people's kitchen--thank god for tile floor, but he had no idea how long the smell would last--but now here he was smearing it all over his face. He couldn't meet his Servant like this!

A quick run to the bathroom later, he once again stood before the summoning circle, this time with a clean face and hands. He picked up a battered old book on the kitchen counter and opened it to a page bookmarked with a scrap of paper. He glanced between the book and his setup on the floor, comparing the two. As far as he could tell, it matched perfectly. It should, after all the work he put into it. Now to perform the actual ritual.

He read over the words of the ritual one last time--he didn't really need to, he'd read it so many times he was pretty sure he'd recited it in his sleep, but he wanted to go over it one last time--then positioned himself in front of the circle.

"Fill, fill, fill, fill, fill..." As he began to speak, he felt power surging through him. He could do this. He had to do this. If he didn't manage to summon a Servant here, it would be over. He would lose his chance to prove to his father, to the world that he had a future in magic. If this didn't work, he may as well just go back home and beg his father's forgiveness.

The circle began to shine, some of the light coalescing around Bailey's hand, burning an emblem onto it. It was working! He was summoning a Heroic Spirit! Still, he continued his invocation, afraid of what would happen if he let something like excitement stop him.

As he finished, the light flared, then faded, leaving a mist obscuring the humanoid figure now standing in its center. Bailey slouched against the counter, half in relief, half in exhaustion. He'd done it. He had no idea which Heroic Spirit he'd summoned; he had no catalyst, but that didn't matter right now. What mattered was that he'd succeeded.

Now all he had to do was win the War.

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I'd be cool with it. ^^

@hatakekuro

Awesome! I'm currently having internet problems (I've been forced these past few days to either be on mobile or bum off someone else's wifi because my modem got fried), but I'll try to get Bailey's intro posted tomorrow.

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@ConstantlyComic

I just saw him. Any Servants you currently want to grab from the current list?

@ADamnFiddle

I feel like Bailey and Krishna would have an interesting dynamic, but I'm pretty cool with whoever. He's basically just reaching into the Gatcha, after all.

Anyone with a Servant up wanna be paired up with Bailey? He's American Waver Velvet that's gotta count for something right

Fate/Ousia

Master

Name: Bailey Clarke

Gender: Male

Age: 19

Personality: Generally speaking, Bailey is an affable, inoffensive fellow. He’s a little awkward and has trouble interacting with people he doesn’t know well, but he’s pretty nice if you get to know him and has a very dry sense of humor. It takes a lot to make him angry—typically it can take days or even weeks of buildup before he loses his temper—but, to quote Mark Twain “Once [his temper is] lost, you cannot find it with a dog.” Similarly, when he makes up his mind about something, he is adamant in his decision and will fight to defend it. He’s embarrassed by his family’s history (he dislikes his family in general; check the biography for details) and will avoid discussing his family or lineage any way he possibly can.

Appearance: Bailey stands about 5’10” tall and is Caucasian with a sprinkling of freckles on his face and a farmer’s tan that seems to never leave. He has brown hair and eyes. His frame is wiry but has the muscle structure of someone who has climbed trees since he was little (he’s still a pretty damn good tree climber, not that that’ll have any effect on anything). He typically prefers his clothes to be comfortable over fashionable, but he still tries to keep them in good repair.

Biography: The Clarke apple orchard has been in Bailey’s family for many more generations than magecraft. From birth, Bailey wasn’t expected to do anything more than what was expected of the Clarke family’s firstborn son: take over the farm. He learned the family magecraft, but that was only supposed to be used sparingly, and only to help the farm. Bailey wasn’t the happiest with his fate, but he was willing to accept it, until the day he was cleaning the family attic and found a box containing his great-great-great grandmother’s books.
Bailey was fascinated. He wanted to learn more, to understand magic, to move beyond the mass of trees that was the only thing he’d ever known. His father did not approve—he wanted his son to take over the farm—so after a series of increasingly heated arguments he took the books and left home at age 17. His maternal grandmother was a wealthy woman who wanted to see her grandson succeed in whatever path of life he chose, so he received financial help from her.
Unfortunately, although his grandmother’s money helped, it wasn’t enough for Bailey to truly pursue his goals. For the past two years, he’s been living on his own and working part-time jobs in an attempt to raise the money to pursue a formal education. When he heard about this Holy Grail War thing in Cusco, he saw it as an opportunity to prove to his family (and to himself, although he’d never admit it) that he can be successful as a mage. (Kid’s in way over his head, but he hasn’t quite figured that out yet).

Family History: Bailey is descended from Penelope Bowen, bastard child of Irish magus Marco Alistair and Celia Bowen, a maid in the Alistair household. Penelope was a part of her father’s household during her young years and when her half-brother, Marco’s trueborn son Winston, went to attend the Clock Tower, he brought Penelope along as his apprentice. She learned the foundations of magecraft alongside the scions of great mage families, but after three years of study, she realized that while Winston was well-suited to the life of a magus, she was not. She left the Mages Association and ended up settling in America, where she married Elijah Clarke, the owner of a New England apple orchard.
Penelope taught her and Elijah’s son all she knew of magecraft, and that child got the idea to apply what he learned to apple farming. Five generations after Penelope, Bailey learned the family magecraft from his father. Over the years, while the fundamentals have remained in place, Penelope’s descendants have focused more on the practical applications of their magic when it comes to apple farming.

Origin: Growth

Elemental Affinity: Earth

Number of Magic Circuits: D.

Quality of Magic Circuits: C.

Od: D.

Magecraft:

Nightvision
Formalcraft: This was not part of Bailey’s training, but he learned all he could from Penelope’s books in preparation for the War.
Threads of Consciousness
Floating
Basic Familiar Creation
Transfer of Consciousness
Fixing Glass
Healing Magecraft: Like the rest of his magic, Bailey’s Healing Magecraft has been affected by his training. The same transferring of power used to heal people has been used by the Clarke family to keep trees healthy and ripen apples early. He hasn’t quite figured out that it can be used on people.
Curse of Self-Healing: Bailey’s natural healing processes are sped up slightly.
Growth: A variation on Healing Magecraft developed by the Clarke family. Bailey can transfer power into a plant or seed in order to cause it to start rapidly growing.

Equipment:
- Suitcase: Bailey is well-versed in living out of a suitcase. His current one is a large green rolling suitcase. He keeps all his stuff in there.
- Toiletries: He’s got a toothbrush, one of those little folding combs, some shampoo, a bar of soap and a small tube of toothpaste in a bag at the bottom of his suitcase. Bailey is a strong believer in good hygiene.
- Clothes: Bailey keeps a week’s worth of clothes in his suitcase. They’re nothing much to talk about, just typical street clothes. He tried to dress for the weather, so he’s mostly got shorts and short-sleeved shirts, although he does have a pair of jeans and a jacket in case it gets cold. All of his clothes have as many pockets as he could find.
- Dwelling: Bailey’s currently squatting in a middle-class apartment. He’s not sure where the owners are, but hopefully he’ll be able to get out of there before they come back. He’s trying not to use too many of their resources besides the place to sleep, though. He’s needy, not an asshole.
- Funds: Bailey receives a bimonthly stipend from his grandmother. It’s not much, but it’s enough to pay for food and some supplies, and he was able to save up enough to cover his initial travel expenses.
- Penelope’s books and notes: When Penelope Bowen left the Mages Association and came to America, she took the notes she took from her studies at the Clock Tower along with a few books on magecraft. They lay forgotten in the Clarke’s attic for decades before Bailey found them. They’re not in the best shape, and the information is a tad dated, but they’re still in good enough condition that Bailey was able to learn from them. Like everything else, he keeps the books in his suitcase, although these are under a false bottom.

Skills: Climbing in general, trees in particular; knows a lot about different types of apples and growing them, has a decent throwing arm, herbalism (knowledge of different plants with useful properties and how to make best use of them)

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If you ever need help, I can probably do something for you.

@Certainly

Thank :)

Right now I'm waiting to see what the GM has to say about him.

Edit: My Master's been approved and is up!

Fate/Ousia

My Master has been submitted for approval. Or at least review. I feel like he might still need some refining, but I'm not sure in what specifically.

Fate/Ousia

So I'm working on my Master (and my Berserker; gonna submit them both for approval at once, I think). I've got this concept that I love, but it makes figuring out what sort of magic he can do a pain in the tail end.

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@ADamnFiddle

Love that Jojo.

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Theology is pretty interesting.

This may be a bit too off topic pleasenobullyGMtan but what line of thought led you to that conclusion?

@Certainly

I just started plz don't get the GM mad at me already

I don't want to go into the whole long thing, but the Cliffs Notes version is that since this world has (according to the Bible) been fallen since the Garden of Eden, everyone is born with a fallen nature. If you look at Eden as a triumph of human nature over some sort of divine plan and add that to a lot of what's happened in human history, it makes sense to see human nature as innately self-serving. Since I came to the conclusion that any given human will always act in their interest first, I feel justified in expecting people to screw others over as soon as it helps them. Kinda emo 13-year-old, I know.