Nanashi Ninanai

Fate/ Transcendent Paradigm (A Fate/GO Based RP)

/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.

Four Winds

@Scio Really glad to see you around again, man.

The new concept does sound quite interesting, though if it's set on the medieval era, would it still stay a magic academy RP?
Though I'll definitely still be in on that.

Fate/ Transcendent Paradigm (A Fate/GO Based RP)

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.

Fate/ Transcendent Paradigm (A Fate/GO Based RP)

@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.

Fate/ Transcendent Paradigm (A Fate/GO Based RP)

@PKMNB0Y Congrats on the Casko!

About Okeanos, I thought people liked it for its action-packed storyline and great pacing? With not!Shinji Jason, Drake on our side, and the last part with Herakles utilizing God Hand to chase us around, it felt pretty cool and not actually outrageous.

Fate/ Transcendent Paradigm (A Fate/GO Based RP)

Master App

• Name: Merrodach Lamalea Balthi-shur
• Age: 45
• Appearance: "I am Murdoch, the heart-breaker~"
• Personality: A laid-back magus that was for the most part not ambitious and pretty much impossible to anger, and despite used to hold the position of one of the first-class instructor of the department of Archaeology in the Clock Tower, he stepped down from it not long afterwards and preferred his current life as a freelancer magus. Not too terribly fond of his bloodline, but he also disliked the Magus Association's method and brand of thaumaturgy. For the most part he's content with doing his own thing, doing research on his own and occasionally interacting with his former colleagues. However, when push comes to shove, he is a very capable magus, showing his name's worth for his qualifications.
  
  While he viewed himself as a ladykiller gentleman, it couldn’t be further than the truth, really. Despite having the rugged look and the (forced) suave attitude, most of the time he would crumble almost immediately if he was forced into a non-professional situation with a woman. He's also quite a complainer on top of that, and quite vocal about it too. It tend to annoy people around him, but for the most part it's not something he cared too much about.
• Abilities:
  
  
  • Structural Grasp Magecraft: Murdoch is capable of analyzing the structure and design of objects as if he's viewing a blueprint. Furthermore, he had finetuned this ability so he can read some of the history of the object too, prioritizing anything that might leave a magical trace. The detail that he can see utilizing this magecraft is actually his main claim of fame.
  • Reinforcement: Utilizing magecraft to empower an object. With more units of magical energy spent, capable of altering the structure of an object. A simple magecraft that Murdoch often utilized due to its ease of use and versatility.
  • Nameless Spear: A blueprint of an ancient weapon that has been passed through generations. Despite the ambiguity of the Balti-shur's familial line, they are still capable of utilizing the blueprint as if they're a tradition holder. The original weapon was an invincible, monster-slaying wooden spear, but Murdoch was only capable of utilizing the memorized blueprint to alter objects with similar basic structure (like wooden sticks) using Reinforcement into lesser spears with similar, but degraded quality (very hard to break, naturally very effective against monsters). Each spears created are capable of magical binding using wind magic, holding targets in place while the spear is aimed as a javelin. Of course, the quality of the base object would heavily affect the actual quality of the spears created.
• History: The Balti-shur family claimed that its lineage extended even from the Age of Gods, though barely anyone paid it much mind, even if they possessed the blueprints of one of the godly weapons of that age. They rose into prominence at the Industrial era after they said they moved from their Middle-Eastern origin to London. Not possessing any clear Crest or familial specialty, nevertheless they ended up with some renown as influence as a good lineage. Most people ended up deciding that they're an established family of foreign magi that somehow came into the possession of the blueprints rather than being as old as they claimed.
  
  Murdoch himself was born with good amount of circuits with good quality, and his talent and determination when he was younger allowed him to climb the ranks until he managed to be an instructor, though it only lasted for two years until he got fed up with how much he was dragged into the Clock Tower's politics despite working for the department with the least connection with the usual power struggles. He left the Association five years ago, and spent his time as a freelancer that occasionally hunt down deviants, or halfheartedly joined the hunt for someone with Sealing Designation to see if he could claim the rewards before the enforcers do.
• Other: He really do love Archaeology, and spent a lot of his time once he went freelancer traveling the world in search of ruins. His survival skill is quite good due to this.

Fate/ Transcendent Paradigm (A Fate/GO Based RP)

Aah, I see, then in that case it's not Reinforcement.

I forgot the type of magecraft or who did it, but iirc in the Fate route someone used magecraft to turn a branch or something similar into a bow. I'm going with something like that, so if anyone can remember about it or other similar cases, that'd be really nice.

Fate/ Transcendent Paradigm (A Fate/GO Based RP)

Master App

• Name: Merrodach Lamalea Balthi-shur
• Age: 45
• Appearance: "I am Murdoch, the heart-breaker~"
• Personality: A laid-back magus that was for the most part not ambitious and pretty much impossible to anger, and despite used to hold the position of one of the first-class instructor of the department of Archaeology in the Clock Tower, he stepped down from it not long afterwards and preferred his current life as a freelancer magus. Not too terribly fond of his bloodline, but he also disliked the Magus Association's method and brand of thaumaturgy. For the most part he's content with doing his own thing, doing research on his own and occasionally interacting with his former colleagues. However, when push comes to shove, he is a very capable magus, showing his name's worth for his qualifications.
  
  While he viewed himself as a ladykiller gentleman, it couldn’t be further than the truth, really. Despite having the rugged look and the (forced) suave attitude, most of the time he would crumble almost immediately if he was forced into a non-professional situation with a woman. He's also quite a complainer on top of that, and quite vocal about it too. It tend to annoy people around him, but for the most part it's not something he cared too much about.
• Abilities:
  • Structural Grasp Magecraft: Murdoch is capable of analyzing the structure and design of objects as if he's viewing a blueprint. Furthermore, he had finetuned this ability so he can read some of the history of the object too, prioritizing anything that might leave a magical trace. The detail that he can see utilizing this magecraft is actually his main claim of fame.
  • Reinforcement: Utilizing magecraft to empower an object. With more units of magical energy spent, capable of altering the structure of an object. A simple magecraft that Murdoch often utilized due to its ease of use and versatility.
  • Nameless Spear: A blueprint of an ancient weapon that has been passed through generations. Despite the ambiguity of the Balti-shur's familial line, they are still capable of utilizing the blueprint as if they're a tradition holder. The original weapon was an invincible, monster-slaying wooden spear, but Murdoch was only capable of utilizing the memorized blueprint to alter objects with similar basic structure (like wooden sticks) using Reinforcement into lesser spears with similar, but degraded quality (very hard to break, naturally very effective against monsters). Each spears created are capable of magical binding using wind magic, holding targets in place while the spear is aimed as a javelin. Of course, the quality of the base object would heavily affect the actual quality of the spears created.
• History: The Balti-shur family claimed that its lineage extended even from the Age of Gods, though barely anyone paid it much mind, even if they possessed the blueprints of one of the godly weapons of that age. They rose into prominence at the Industrial era after they said they moved from their Middle-Eastern origin to London. Not possessing any clear Crest or familial specialty, nevertheless they ended up with some renown as influence as a good lineage. Most people ended up deciding that they're an established family of foreign magi that somehow came into the possession of the blueprints rather than being as old as they claimed.
  
  Murdoch himself was born with good amount of circuits with good quality, and his talent and determination when he was younger allowed him to climb the ranks until he managed to be an instructor, though it only lasted for two years until he got fed up with how much he was dragged into the Clock Tower's politics despite working for the department with the least connection with the usual power struggles. He left the Association five years ago, and spent his time as a freelancer that occasionally hunt down deviants, or halfheartedly joined the hunt for someone with Sealing Designation to see if he could claim the rewards before the enforcers do.
• Other: He really do love Archaeology, and spent a lot of his time once he went freelancer traveling the world in search of ruins. His survival skill is quite good due to this.

not too comfortable playing a guy but I guess I can start learning to do it now, especially since most of everyone played female Masters already. Still unsure about the ability, mainly I forgot whether Reinforcement allows the alteration of the reinforced object's structure, and the overall skillset in general still feel iffy, though I'd mainly aim to retain some form of the current concept with him.

Fate/ Transcendent Paradigm (A Fate/GO Based RP)

They're getting better at it at least. More Nasu influence in /GO really helps the primary storyline, and the disaster called Rome never really happens again.

But seriously they did a gigantic disservice to Boudicca. Amidst all the issue Rome has, reducing Boudicca to yet another Nero praiser despite framing it as development was its worst.

I can buy the primary reasoning of Shuten's appearance (they're making the title of little drunkard literal instead of ironic). Raikou's portrayal was bizarre until they revealed the conflation with Ushi-gozen which gives it enough justification. Though yeah, especially the genderbends and things like Edison can be quite a big miss.

that aside tho, their portrayal of Nightingale is 10/10.

Fate/ Transcendent Paradigm (A Fate/GO Based RP)

@KoL@ADamnFiddle Aren't Tesla's rendition mostly just really him being bombastic and ambitious hunk that claimed he has surpassed gods? London's writing was pretty meh but I mean him working with Zouken was more Zouken corrupting him. Compared to the likes of Boudicca (brrr) or Altera (who to be fair grew up to be her own character but she's still really faaaaaaaaaaaar away from Atilla), Tesla's pretty tame.

Also the President King of America is Leomon!Edison, not Tesla. It's nonsensical and downright weird but for some reasons that and how he's portrayed in Strange/Fake makes me thing Edison ended up being the butt of jokes in Nasuverse generally.

Though yeah, America has a solid writing imo but the cast is a big waste of opportunity because holy hell only 3 actual American are around to represent it.