Raineh Daze

Fate/Esoterica Mk 2

Saber

Class: Saber
Spirit: Sir Lancelot du Lac
Master: TBD
Gender: Male
Alignment: Lawful Good
Personality: Humble and polite--though he can be summoned as Berserker, underneath he is still the man revered as the perfect knight. What else is there to say? A paragon of chivalry consumed by guilt over personal failings, he will serve his Master faithfully.
Appearance: Possibly less black and more polished.

Parameters
STR: A
END: A
AGI: A+
MAG: B
LCK: B
NP: A

Class Skills:
Magic Resistance: B: Cancel spells with a chant below three verses. Even if targeted by High-Thaumaturgy and Greater Rituals, it is difficult for him to be affected. (No Saber has below C-ranked Magic Resistance, and Lancelot has his ring)
Riding: A: All creatures but those of Phantasmal Beast and Divine Beast-rank can be used as mounts. This rank is high enough to have aptitude for the Rider Class.

Personal Skills
Eternal Arms Mastership: A+: Mastership of combat arts has reached the point of being said to be unrivaled in one's era. By complete merging of mind, body and technique, it is possible to make use of full fighting skills even when under the influence of any sort of mental hindrance.
Protection of the Fairies: is a blessing from Elementals; the capacity to increase one's Luck in dangerous situations. Activation is limited to battlefields, where it is possible to perform feats of arms. A-Ranked.

Noble Phantasms
Name: Knight of Honour
Title: A Knight Does Not Die with Empty Hands
Rank: A++
Type: Anti-Unit
Description: Allows the wielder to use anything that they can conceptually view of as a weapon as if they were a master that had spent their entire life training with it, even scraps of metal, poles, fighter jets, or others' Noble Phantasms. Normal items are raised to D-Rank Noble Phantasms whilst Saber wields them.

Name: For Someone's Glory
Title: Not For One's Own Glory
Rank: B
Type: Anti-Unit
Description: Hides information about the Servant, making it impossible to discern their identity or true capabilities through an unworldly fog. As Saber, he can use the ability to its fullest extent--and adopt the identity of others known for their combative abilities.

Name: Arondight
Title: The Unfading Light of the Lake
Rank: A++
Type: Anti-Unit
Description: A fairy-forged sword, and counterpart of Excalibur, it can take any attack without being scratched. Its effects are to boost Lancelot's parameters by one rank and double the effectiveness of saving throws (I presume this means his luck against such things as Gae Bolg is vastly boosted), but drawing it seals Knight of Honour and For Someone's Glory.

Yukimura Hanako

Name: Yukimura Hanako
Age: 22
Gender: Female
Magecraft/Abilities: Hanako does not, in the normal sense, possess magic circuits. Her family, you see, was specialised in engineering their children to have 'better' circuits. In her case, they failed to do that, and instead gave her something far, far more potent: a mana core, and all the draconic baggage this adds on. Despite the near-boundless level of power, she is unsuitable as a normal magus; the mechanisms by which they control pana are vastly different.
This immense power does have a few benefits for other Masters: since Hanako exhales prana, there is never any shortage of mana in her vicinity for magus to utilise. It also makes her incredibly easy to pinpoint for those sensitive to such things, due to sheer power.
The excess mana is something that is hard for magi to capitalise on, however: both the fact she essentially is a dragon in human form and the sheer amount of mana means that... well, she's close to immune to magecraft, with the spells that all but the most exemplary throw around just sliding off to no effect.
Hanako's only 'active' ability is to release this energy in bursts, for the sake of greater agility or--theoretically--damage. Damage is only theoretical, because she owns absolutely nothing that can take the forces it gets swung with for more than a single blow without shattering.
She thinks this is some sort of reinforcement. It isn't.
Appearance: There's always one.
Equipment: She has a flat. It's full of cheap ready-made food, along with a few lengths of pipe, and a disturbing amount of specialised magical texts.
Personality: Surly and not too good at getting along with people, Hanako has a deep-running feeling of being out of place. Finding out what her family did as well as what she is has explained it, but still left her with no overall goal in life. Though in the Grail War because of the wish at the end, she has no idea what she would actually wish for.
History: Hanako was born as the heir, and final experiment, of an established magus family whose pride lay in outright engineering their descendants' magical circuits to be ever closer to some mythical ideal. It was an ability with a high degree of failure, causing them to end up with a lot of 'failed' experiments who lacked magical ability entirely.
Hanako was judged to be one of these failures, and given away to some 'mundane' family. They were of course, wrong in their estimation, but this wasn't found out until the worst possible time: their now-grown daughter had worked out there was something horribly off with her body, and hunted them down. Unimpressive magical defences failed to block this "stranger's" entry, and after a tense confrontation, she grabbed the research materials and notes she could find, then torching the building.
She doesn't know if anyone survived; they've lost any accumulated knowledge in the inferno by now.
Since then, she returned to essentially running a small-time gang and trying to make sense of the notes. Something called 'Reinforcement' keeps coming up, and she can sort of do the same thing, but it doesn't match the descriptions. The most recent batch of notes gives a template for summoning something of enormous power... Hanako has no interest in the further notes in trying to funnel that sort of power off into an unborn child to give them vast magical power. The sidenote about 'omnipotent wish-granting machine'? That's interesting.

Fuyuki High School RP

Thank you.

Fate/Esoterica

Your wish is my command.

Fate/Esoterica Mk 2

LOOKING FOR RIDER

Sorry! No grandiose intro explaining the RP. It is simply going to be a Fate series Holy Grail War, plain and simple. I am just going to move straight into the CS's

Master CS Template

Name:
Age:
Gender:
Magecraft/Abilities
Appearance: (Picture, or Description are fine)
Equipment:
Personality:
History: (Optional)

Servants
Class:
Spirit:
Master:
Gender:
Alignment:
Personality:
Appearance:

Parameters
STR:
END:
AGI:
MAG:
LCK:
NP:

Class Skills
Personal Skills

Noble Phantasms
Name:
Title:
Rank:
Type:
Description:

Guide for Creating a Servant

Overview
# Pick a Mythological or Historical Figure
# Pick a Class
# Statistics!
# Skills!
# Noble Phantasms!
# Noble Phantasms, Again
# Balancing
# Appearance

STEP ONE:
* Every Servant has done something. No-one gets in by mere dint of existing as a ruler, or being quietly assassinated whilst ruling a vast swathe of land. Such a person would have no Noble Phantasm, no Personal Skills. Boring, in other words.
* Avoid the Book of Genesis. In fact, try and stay away from Creation Myths in general. The issue with them (where people are involved) can be summed up in one word: Gilgamesh. We know that he's the Oldest King (it's one of his titles) and we know that he has the originals of nigh on everything. Biblical myths are even worse (Gilgamesh, in his own lifetime, met Utnapishtim, and Utnapishtim and Noah cannot coexist, unravelling things backwards). It would require a lot of work, and result in a Servant that cannot physically possess anything that would have spawned from that treasury.
* Ensure they're sufficiently human to start with. Medusa is a Divine Spirit turned monster, and is pretty much as inhuman as you're going to get, regardless of how she looks. At no point should outright deities or things like Cerberus be summoned, they just don't make sense as Heroic Spirits.

STEP TWO:
* Berserker is named such for berserk rage. Not for a short temper, for going berserk in battle. Lancelot had a huge body count and killed his friend's brothers out of desperation, Heracles kept flipping and killing things, part of Lancer's myth is all about how he was a berserker.
* Match the class to their skills in life. Failing an exact match, fudge things a little. Just don't expect them to be the best Saber ever if they didn't fit to start with.

STEP THREE:
* Stats match deeds. Those who have no notably awesome feats of strength would not have abnormal strength for their class. Assassin should not be going around smashing the scenery with near misses unless you've gained Heracles.
* Compare with the various strongest Servants. Saber with Rin's stats, Gilgamesh as summoned by Tokiomi, and Heracles. Use common sense: if the character summoned is, say, Boudicca, there is no reason that she would be as physically able as them. One is 2/3 demigod and one of the oldest heroes, one is pretty much the most accomplished hero ever, and the third makes up for any physical deficits with Prana Burst and nigh infinite mana. More mundane medieval knights should be relying on guile against heroes from the Age of Gods, not overpowering them.

STEP FOUR:
* Class skills: easy. Magic Resistance B if they've dealt with it in life, A if they've got another reason for immunity. Presence Concealment A+ for those who're never found.
* Skill Number: Lancer has 4, minus Divinity (which is best discounted for these things, as it does... nothing). One is an A-rank. 5 A-ranked skills is too far.
* Skill Rank: Iskander, for all that his onward conquest was forced to a halt by his soldiers' lack of desire to continue and his later ability to summon them as a Servant, has Military Tactics B. Military Tactics A would need something amazing. Keep these in mind.
* Eye of the Mind (False) is natural intuition to overcome handicaps, (True) is planning and analysis. One is innate, the other is learned from initial skill amplified by experience. Instinct seems to be a lesser form of Eye of the Mind (False). Make sure to pick the right one: Achilles, for all his martial brilliance, would be more likely to have (False) or Instinct, he hardly lived through enough battles to pick up (True).
* MAKE THINGS UP. So, you want a guerilla tactics ability? Write one, don't combine disengage and presence concealment. Not only does it prevent broad, easily abused combinations, it gives a Servant some distinctiveness. Just remember to limit it.
* Don't copy other Servants' signature abilities without really good reason. Especially things such as Golden Rule, where the A-rank is closely intertwined with Gate of Babylon.

STEP FIVE:
* Basic term overview: anti-unit will only hurt one person, anti-army will always damage anyone caught nearby, anti-fortress is certain to devastate your surroundings. These are statements of area of effect. Power of a Noble Phantasm is given by rank, not type.
* Think very, very carefully about giving anything an EX-Rank. Canonical EX-rank stuff is essentially 'I win'. If you do give a character something like this, try and make it because it's unrankable due to not qualifying as a normal Noble Phantasm than overwhelming power.
* Almost every Noble Phantasm has some physical component, however minor. God Hand and Cybele are built into their users' bodies, Blood Fort Andromeda has its basis as magecraft. The exceptions? Reality Marbles, which are vanishingly rare (one requires the willpower of thousands of Servants, the other stems from having Avalon shoved in his chest for ten years, and the possible third is also 'summon theatre') and more strongly tied to Dead Apostle Ancestors than anything else (well, Crimson Moon, but it's a minor quibble)

STEP SIX:
* Always go for the simplest option first: check out techniques or items. Upgrade, rank, and designate an area as appropriate.
* Second option is to pair with deeds and give something that embodies them. Flying Lightning Chariot from cutting the knot? Well, the chariot existed, and the bulls attached were dedicated to Zeus. To take a quick example: Julius Caesar, crossing the Rubicon. A Noble Phantasm represented by his gladius, it embodies refusing to dissolve his armies and therefore passing the point of no return. Remove any negative penalties to his statistics and temporarily grant Battle Continuation A. If the fight results in a draw, Caesar still dies.
* Count them carefully. Excepting Gilgamesh, whose Noble Phantasm is to own Noble Phantasms (and Zealot, who was a joke), the most possessed... is five, and some of those are highly situational (Perseus). Next up is Medusa, who effectively has four, one of which is her very body, plus a Noble Phantasm-level ability to summon Pegasus. Three is the normal maximum.
* Link to their past. If in doubt, fudge history.
* NO FULL-STRENGTH SERVANT SUMMONING, EVER. No summoning near-Servant level armies, either. The power to massively multiply your power falls under the 'careful with EX-ranks' thing.

STEP SEVEN:
* Read through at the end and check how your abilities combine. Individual elements can add up to unavoidable combos. An ability that is immensely powerful only if used at the beginning of a fight, ranks in Disengage (which resets things to initial conditions), and A or A+ ranked Agility form a broken combination.
* A similar sort of situation goes for being immune to classes of Noble Phantasms (such as anti-army) but having the perfect skill-set for dealing with anti-unit attacks.
* External conditions that aren't limitations. Only works at nighttime? Sums up the conditions for normal Grail Wars. Requires a city? How many Grail Wars don't happen in one? If the only balancing on an item are the limitations, make sure the limitations aren't casually fulfilled.
* No True Magic. Ever. Medea is honestly dangerous enough without getting to that level. True Magic leads to the same problems as EX-Ranked Noble Phantasms: it has been known to kill the moon and... summon Servants. Even a flawed copy of the Second Magic can OHKO Servants without pause for recovery.

STEP EIGHT:
* Though tantalising, evidence has shown no Servant summoned in armour will have a chainmail bikini. They have actual armour.
* Huge breasts on an athletic warrior are just nonsensical. They're mostly fat. Somewhere here, logic fails.
* A+ ranked strength on feminine children is also a problem.
* In short: keep it appropriate.

Character List
Will be updated with links as bios are transferred:

Saber: Lancelot du Lac, paired with Unfinished Magus
Archer: Odysseus, paired with Kishimashi Hakuno
Lancer: Guan Yu, paired with Yukimura Hanako
Rider: ??? paired with Hayashi Mamoru
Caster: Faust, paired with James Minassian
Assassin: Jack the Ripper, paired with Akiyama Chieko
Berserker: Benkei, paired with ???

Fate/Esoterica Take Two--Looking for One Person

The OOC of the first try. So, the GM for the first thread had to leave due to time constraints before we got started, leaving us down one Master and a Berserker. These are rather necessary components of the RP, so...

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New OOC!

First come, first served; please don't join if you don't know the Fate/Stay Night canon.

Fuyuki High School RP

Something she will (probably) never reveal is her absolute love of zettai ryouiki, an attraction she considers both shameful and confusing as a girl.

An admirer for Nadeshiko! :O

Um, can you remove the military combatives bit? It seems to be there for no particular reason. O_o

Character Crossover Crisis City

Archer

Exactly as predicted, the chains did absolutely nothing to restrain the enormous beast, and the blonde's intervention had insured that they had no advantages against it--plus costing Saber an opportunity to wound the monster before it started moving.

The tall man avoided the heat beams with a sort of effortless dexterity, keeping his eyes on the enemy and managing to work out where it was going to fry next in time to get out of the way. It wasn't the instinctive ability to dodge injury that Saber boasted, nor the even-further honed instincts of foes like the fake Assassin Medea summoned; it was a skill born entirely out of a lifetime of practice and fighting. Analysing even the wild movements of an alien dragon was simple compared to fighting against an enemy whose blows you couldn't even see.

However, even though he could dodge, Archer was highly doubtful that the schoolgirl and her pets would be able to avoid the danger. It came down to a choice--avoid the fire, or risk getting set ablaze in order to save the girl from injury. It wasn't a hard choice at all.

His plan was a simple one: the dragon's fire seemed to be empowered by absorbing the skeleton's fireballs. This meant that it couldn't be a merely organic process--and if it was magic, he actually had some recourse against it. Kanshou and Bakuya may have been amongst the weakest weapons in his arsenal, but they still had their abilities. The swords' primary power was one with no use in this situation: each blade would seek its twin. The other, however, was vastly more useful: when wielded together, the curved blades boasted a resistance to magic on par with Saber's own.

Standing himself between the dragon and the girl, Archer put the theory to the test: as the dragon's head swung this way, he positioned the blade in such a manner that it would defect the torrent towards the ceiling, handily dealing with falling stalactites in the process. If Saber saw, it should give her information to work with as well.

The blades held, and the fire was deflected.

Info

I asked the GM; the fire does count as magical because of Ghost Rider. So he didn't totally fuck up.

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Nanoha

Had she been more prepared for the agility with which the previously immobile lizard had moved, Nanoha wouldn't have started to charge her attack--one that, even as the beast leapt into the air, was already halfway through being called out: "Diviiiiiiiiiiine..."

It was not the sort of thing that was easily cancelled, and Nanoha herself wasn't a speedy fighter--that would have been Fate's role. No, her emphasis was more on sheer offensive capability, which didn't lend itself towards escaping entirely undamaged from sudden and unexpected attacks. Fortunately, her laser was almost ready and as the dragon thing leapt to claw it entered straight into the firing path.

"... Buster!"

The pink laser wouldn't kill it, but it might knock it out. Certainly, it would have a hard time maintaining its forward momentum in the face of a pink laser beam that would go straight from girl to ground, destroying any scenery unfortunate enough to be in the way.

Fuyuki High School RP

HylianRose said
I edited my CS and changed Sera into a human Cyborg. I'd been thinking about it for a few days and decided on a story. It also gives Sera a little bit more depth, I feel. So take a look at it and tell me what you think.

Uh, you didn't actually add depth, you just replaced a good character with a shallow veneer of angst and tragedy. I really don't like the 'full body cyborgs, and by extension robots, may randomly die at any moment' thing it suggests, either.

Fate/Esoterica

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

Fuyuki High School RP

Sorry. Thought it went without saying given the whole 'yuri' thing. :/

The cat mode picture also contains a side view of the uniform, I guess. Western rather than a sailor uniform. Ribbons are still important.

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Name: Tsukihime Koneko

Age: 18

Race: Nekomata

Appearance:

Cat Mode

Nekomimi Mode

Personality: Koneko has an immense weakness for cute things, and sometimes starts trailing cute girls with all the subtlety of a supernova. If she sees a cute toy, she'll buy it without hesitation, then fall asleep with it as soon as she gets home. Being a cat, she's prone to sleeping at times she really shouldn't, but she's generally friendly and excitable once awake--if far too physical for most people's liking.

Skills: Extremely agile and flexible, can see in the dark, can talk to cats, and she can turn from cat to human and back again--but rarely does so, because she has a bad habit of forgetting where her clothes are. She can also make the dead move about as she wishes, but Koneko hasn't the faintest idea why she'd want to use this ability or what it's actually supposed to achieve. In terms of skills valued by humans, she has absolutely nothing.

Hobbies: Napping in warm spots, collecting soft toys, obsessing over adorable girls.

Club(s): Ceaseless Remedial Classes. Not actually a club, but with her academic ability, sadly a necessity.

Background: For fifteen years, Koneko was simply a small cat looked after by first and old couple, and then simply an old man. It was then that she proved to be one of those lucky felines that not only lives a long time, but becomes a nekomata; her tail split and she gained full intelligence. In the modern world, it's become necessary to register such occurrences and set up the resulting people with a reasonably accurate birth certificate--plus, if possible, find a family willing to adopt them. In Koneko's case, the old man was quite happy to, having no children of his own and having owned her since she was merely a kitten.
Several months into her first year of high school, the old man passed away, leaving the girl with no education whatsoever as the sole inheritor of his possessions. Fortunately, he was... well, the primary shareholder of a vast international business empire, which was more or less run by other people at that stage anyway. Koneko is pretty much in the care of various employees, even as she steadily fills up her cavernous residence with cat after cat and stuffed toy after stuffed toy.
Being essentially uneducated and only in her current school on funding alone, she has no time for clubs and spends vast amounts of time making up tests and attending remedial classes. It's made worse by her tendency to doze off on warm days, especially since nothing has managed to stop her bringing part of her collection along with her.

Other: Size-wise, Nadeshiko beats her out by the height of her ears; Koneko is a tiny cat and this carries over.
Basically every first year is better at every single class--except P.E.--than Koneko. She is academically the worst person in school.