Moonlit Sonata

Beyond the Gate at World's End

Apologies for the delay, got called back in for work last night. I'll polish up my CS and get that sent tonight, barring unforeseen circumstances.

Beyond the Gate at World's End

Heya, this still accepting?

Fate/Empty Providence

Whether or not Masters and Servants can inherently communicate telepathically tends to be inconsistent between various Fate works. In Fate RP's, I usually assume they cannot, unless it's specifically stated that they can.

As for magics possessed by OC's that could specifically help in this situation, would Xavier's displacement magecraft be able to work on sound waves? That way Masters could talk to their Servants without shouting and without wasting Command Spells. It sounds kind of iffy though, so what do you think @Moonlit Sonata?

Does he have any support magics? What about his Charisma? Would it boost the party or nah?

@Kost Alter

Not really? FSN, FZ, Apo, Extraverse, etc all have that connection as being usable. With that said, it's the result of a familiar link, so if you're a total incompetent then you aren't able to use it.

Try it and find out.

The stat sheet is all-inclusive. Charisma does not provide parameter increases.

Fate/Empty Providence

Hi guys! Sorry I haven't been here; things have been extremely hectic at home. On that note, I'm about to go on a trip with my family to a place where I will not have Internet access for several days. I will try to be active tomorrow (as that's when we'll be traveling) but after that, I cannot make any promises (right now I've just ducked away from packing long enough to relay this).

@ConstantlyComic

In that case, to keep things moving, unless you have an objection your partners will be granted temporary control over your characters. If there's someone you trust more to not get them killed, by all means.

Fate/Empty Providence

@Beloss So you're saying we just need a whole bunch of pigs

@DrowsyPangolin

shit they've figured out my boss's weakness

Fate/Empty Providence

as bad as this situation is, just imagine how much worse it would be if this castle had a good company of soldiers manning its walls. They might be able to hold us off for MONTHS. Depending on how much food they had stored in there of course.

@Beloss

How do you know it doesn't?

Fate/Empty Providence

For future reference, it's important to keep in mind that while a human can kill a Servant, a human can't fight a Servant. Only freaks like the perfect half-oni or the Nasuverse's poster child for efficiency can do that.

With that in mind, in a situation like this, while a Master being able to respond to something like a normal golem would be perfectly feasible, trying to dodge the attack of a Servant-level golem is analogous to trying to dodge a Saber swinging their sword. In this particular case though, it's not a sword but a castle tower, which makes this quite a few times more problematic than even dealing with a Servant's attack.

This applies to all Masters in this war. Unless the Servant is playing around or very serious planning/precautions have been taken prior to the fight, it should be assumed that attempting to react to a Servant's attack will be pretty useless. But then again, that's why you have your own Servant.

Well, unless you're Nakae.

Fate/Empty Providence

Ruler

"Servants, protect your Masters!"

Yelling this out, Ruler roughly grabbed the only human of this battle to whom that statement had no relevance, pulling the not-really-a-magus out of harm's way in his own effort to avoid the fist hurtling for him via a tactless dodge to the left.

"What are you?"

It had noticed, as would the other Servants have, and maybe even particularly focused Masters. That wasn't just a brute force strike; even with the "arm" being the unwieldy tower of a castle, even though it didn't have muscle to explode out with in power, some vestige of real technique had been behind that attack. It had only been a trace, but there was no denying it was present?

And with what Nakae said on top of that...why would a castle be able to feel pain? Why would it know fighting technique?

"Get the Masters out of harm's way! If your Master is safe, then start attacking, we need to find some sort of a weakness!"

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Matou Archer

The first blow like a descending hammer had been a simple enough affair for one at the level of a Servant to avoid. The second, slightly less so, as could be expected from the difference in their forms. While a Servant could still avoid it, it wasn't something as trivial as the first attempted attack had been.

Archer's bow had materialized since the moment of the golem's appearance, his eyes running over the behemoth in an attempt to pick up on its weaknesses. Possible points of attack had been mentioned, and his own Master was feeding him instructions as well, but for now everyone was relatively equal in flying blind.

His original plan to deal with the approaching tower-fist was to avoid it by leaping up, using the chance to test its defenses with an arrow, but that plan had wound up failing, because...

"What are you doing?!"

Because some twit Master was trying to use his piddling magecraft to avoid the golem's attacks. Was he incompetent, or just suicidal? The first blow had been avoidable, if only just, but now the golem was truly behaving as a combatant equal to a Servant. While among Servants, its speed was nothing to be shocked by, it was still a blow that had surpassed the sound barrier by well over double. For Servants who routinely moved at such speeds, it was only natural.

In other words, this magus was trying to dodge something faster than a bullet after it had been fired from a gun, except in this case the bullet was the tower of a Demon Castle. Perhaps if this was the sweeping motion the other group was dealing with, something never meant to be a killing blow, this would at least be possible, but against this "punch"? Archer doubted he could even dodge a bullet, let alone one that was several times larger than his own body.

A human could not fight a Servant. This was a near-ironclad rule, against a Servant a human would be killed without even knowing what killed them. So then, why would a golem that was equal to a Servant be so slow that a mere magus could avoid its strikes?

He couldn't allow the idiot to die, not when his Servant could be useful in this fight. Regretfully canceling his plan of attack, Archer clicked his tongue and moved to the Master @Kost Alter, grabbing him and pulling him out of harm's way at the last second.

As Berserker would say, the "little shit" owed him.

Fate/Empty Providence

Which side would Team Cao Cao be seperated towards? Writing my response right now.

@Cu Chulainn

Whoops, forgot to tag. You're on the Ruler side, ie the one with the punch.

Fate/Empty Providence

He's standing on his own, but he didn't walk away or anything so he's still within arms' reach.