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Hello there, Board! I found this place because I'm Twistey's boyfriend and she told me to come here! I've read through about 17 or 18 of the original story, and so far I like Makes-Things the most. I like reading a lot, especially fantasy and science fiction books. The books and series I like most are Artemis Fowl, The summoner, The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, Septimus Heap, and The Dwarves. I like puzzles such as Rubik's Cubes and knotwork, as well as creative writing and DnD. Any advice you have for me on the board would be appreciated. (I've already read the FAQ, the FAQ for Newbies, and the Constitution but I haven't signed yet.)

SCP-1333-F:

Special Containment Procedures:
SCP-1333-F is to be stored in a 20m by 20m containment cell made of 10m thick titanium blocks.

Description:
SCP-1333-F is a primitive anti-gravity device made of several pieces of fibrous tissue extracted from a life from of the species Quercus alba, fixed into place by multiple pin-shaped objects made of ferrous metal.

*Violently Shudders at the though*

I rather hope not.

Caster of course, fire to the face tends to work on most people.

Noble Phantasm: Well, Darquesse could be it, letting loose the alter-ego. Unfortunately, she wondered off into the dimension of the Faceless Ones.

Is what happens when you wipe out most of your classmates, and then proceed to entrap your special someone.

Well, I gotta give props to you, you're persistent about it.

I was inspired by the SCP Foundation.
Their style of description suits me just fine, but I do need to let it go. Not everything is a SCP.

This feels a little like the setup for a modern fantasy AU of Terry Pratchett's Mort.

Something like the SCP foundation seems right.

The corrupted Grails in those cases were due to those who wished on them, not the actual Grails themselves. Orleans was corrupted because of Gilles making the wish, while Fuyuki was corrupted by Saber Alter.

Where Fujimura initiates a war for the "Tiger Grail."

It's a fighting game, and you can play as Saber wearing a lion costume in the expansion. Yes, this is real. No, I'm not making it up. Yes, it's a parody featuring chibi versions of the characters.

No, it wasn't localized. :-(

I bet they do.

The Grail War is over. Let the Ice Cream War begin.

hS

If I win, I am now wishing for a mint chocolate chip ice cream cone and I'm not sharing. {= P

~Neshomeh

Would y'all please stop overthinking this? {= P

~Neshomeh

The system for the snowfield grail war is that the "false" holy grail war acts as a primer for the "true" holy grail war. The fake war is actually necessary for the ritual. So it does summon the grail, just not in the way the Fuyuki system does it. At least in theory.

Another point, I'm not sure the grail war would even work in HQ, or at least, work as seen in the Nasuverse. Grail wars require certain conditions in the world to be met. For example, the timelines/worlds in which Tsukihime takes place will never have a grail war because the very nature of those timelines/worlds contains a "denial of human history" aspect which makes it impossible to summon heroic spirits, even if they still exist. I'm not sure if the conditions and parameters of HQ would allow for the ritual to even activate. At the very least I'm pretty sure we would need to create our own version of the grail or make adjustments since I'm positive the Nasuverse one wouldn't activate at all, especially with how planets work in universe. Although, there might be some angle that I'm not thinking of.

Which I don't think even summons a Grail properly... F/SF is super weird. It's basically Mages in America seperate from the Association copying the Ritual/War from data collected during the 3rd HGW... But they didn't copy it 100% right, so they can summon bizarro servants.

And the first time it's a fake war and then it's a real war that DOES summon a girl... I dunno. Haven't read it, and it's by the guy who wrote Baccano! and Durarara. Convolution is a specialty.

Badfic!Grail. Some delightful little Suvian throws out all known timelines and makes up something that has no business in the Fate continuum. The agents on the mission wind up with the Grail's vessel on their hands, and make the brilliant decision to bring it back to HQ. This proto-Grail looks around, goes WTF?, shrugs, and starts handing out command seals to kick off a war, because that's what it does. The rules are heavily influenced by the laws of HQ, so Rule of Funny is in full force. It's gonna be no-class-limits Battle Royale–style. Cue shenanigans and screwball comedy as we all try to get through this without dying or being overly nasty to the canon characters, who clearly can't die but definitely need to go back where they belong. ^_^

I'm assuming fictionalized agent versions of ourselves as Masters so we don't have to chuck out the entire discussion so far and start over, but if you want to imagine who your agents would try to summon, why not? {= )

~Neshomeh

You were right, it wasn’t as hard as I thought.

By the way, should I make character pages for my agents now or wait until I’ve done my first mission?

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The event of creating the Apocrypha timeline is pretty much an alternate version of the event who started the whole problem, with the Einzberns summoning Shiro Amakusa as a pseudo-Ruler instead of Avenger Angra Manhyu, and henceforth stopped it from happening.

This comes from mirror-universe Warhammer 40,000, a project currently occupying most of my writing effort:

Abaddon looked upon the entrance to the Necron tomb with the eyes of a lifelong warrior. Some might have been overwhelmed by its sheer size, or awed by the brutal majesty of the windblown ruin. He saw it as just another fortified position, just one more obstacle between him and glory.

... I think you're reversing cause and effect in Orleans.

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To be fair to everybody who got thrown around by Vlad, his weakness in that case was specifically holy weapons, and I can think of three Rulers off of the top of my head, and all easily qualify as having them.

As for Jack's Reality Marble - Jeanne is basically immune to curses, and I'm pretty sure both Traumere and Maria qualify to some extent, and the other Servant in that Reality Marble was Atalante. I don't think you could intentionally build something better at shattering the poor woman.

Apocrypha's Grail was fine, right?

But my brother had some interesting ideas, chief among them Agatha Heterodyne and Bugs Bunny. No idea what class either of them would be, though.

The only thing really strong enough to hurt a servant is another servant. Not even the strongest of masters can really face a servant (I think there might be a few that did very briefly) and I'm not sure the summons would be strong enough to do damage.

But Rulers are a whole different animal. Spoilers for Fate/Apocrypha follow.


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One of the servants in Apocrypha was Lancer of Black, True Name Vlad III. In the Fate universe a servant's strength is based on the location the grail war is taking place and the strength of their legend. Apocrypha took place in Romania. While the fight occurred in Romania he was arguably the strongest servant. He got taken out of Romania and was forced to use his second noble phantasm. Legend of Dracula. Which turned him into the strongest Vampire in existence. He was basically able to rag doll the servants present including Karna, Achilles, and Atalanta shrugging of all attacks. He meets one Ruler and retreats encounters the second Ruler and is curb-stomped in about five seconds.

Likewise Assassin of Black, True Name Jack the Ripper. None of the other Servants were fairing well against Jack especially once it went into her Reality Marble. Ruler defeats Jack easily breaks the Reality Marble and then is able to completely shrug of Atalanta's Attack and takes no noticeable damage when she later faces Atalanta's Noble Phantasm.