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You are permitted to discuss possible future interactions or plans OOC, but if I sense that this is becoming a form of Metagaming, or that animosity is occurring as a result of this, it will be banned.

Posting order is not strictly enforced, except during battles.

If a battle or high pressure situation is playing out IC you must respond within 48 hours or your turn will be skipped. If you are being directly targeted during this time your character will be puppeteered by me or another Mod to move the scene forward. Expect your character to be injured or killed depending on the situation.
If an RL problem is occurring warn me in advance for exemption from this.

Talking is a free action. Using a Command Seal is a free action. Activating a Noble Phantasm however, is not.

IMPORTANT: Each Player is expected to run one Servant and Master team as a single unit. You will be playing both Master and Servant of this team. There will be no dual Player teams.

This is to eliminate the phenomena of players A & B being left stranded when player C, who controls the Master of Player A's team, and the Servant of Player B's team, goes inactive shutting down both teams. This frequently results in a chain reaction of inactivity, killing the entire RP. This is a non negotiable condition.

If you have little enthusiasm for playing a Master or a Servant feel free to minimize the role of whichever it is you have no interest in. Playing a Servant with a distant Master who approves all his actions and rarely appears is perfectly acceptable, as is playing a boisterous Master with a mostly silent Servant who only shows up to act as a living shield. It's your choice, but at the end of the day both must be under your direction.

Player interaction will be primarily achieved through enemy interaction and team ups with other Master Servant Pairs, so plan for an alliance heavy Grail War.

Skyline
The Setting of the War is Prague. The city is large, labyrinthian, crowded and old. Many nooks, crannies and back alleys offer opportunity for concealment during the nighttime hours. Larger engagements may be readily waged in the various parks and open spaces that dot the city and remain largely uninhabited by night. Down the center of the battlefield the vast Vltava River runs, splitting the city, joined together by a series of stone and steel bridges.

In the North, on the east side of the river lies St. Vitus Cathedral, the seat of power of the Holy Church. Enclosed by Prague Castle it dominates the city, and forms a strictly neutral zone, patrolled by dozens of skilled Burial Agents and watched over by Ruler, the grand mediator of the Grail's Will. This is the first, and final destination of all contestants, as they must come here to gain the approval and protection of the Church before beginning their battle, and shall return hence to collect their finnal reward at the conclusion of the war.

It is here that the primary Nexus of Ley Lines gather, feeding the new Grail. Though this Nexus is occupied, canny Magi seeking to exploit these natural wells of power, may be able to follow these underground rivers of Prana outwards to locate and draw upon the 3 lesser nexus within the city.

To the direct South lies Petřín, a tall wooded hill where the southmost Ley Line comes closest to the Surface, making it a prime location to collect additional Prana. Overlooking most of the city it is an obvious location for a Servant to defend, provided they can erect a bounded field to dissuade the usual park goers.

To the East over the river is the heart of the city's downtown district. Wide and sprawling it is difficult to find seclusion here, making it an optimal location for Servants to hide, less those who would try to bring them to battle risk exposure and the wrath of the Holy Church.
The Ley Line here culminates at the Estates Theatre, a large and opulent theatre house dating back to the 16 hundreds.

To the West lies the scattered residential zones of the city, Střešovice. A quiet village like atmosphere and lack of tall buildings or busy streets along with heavy tree cover makes for a nearly rural setting. Its open nature and lower crowds makes it a natural battleground in a city that is otherwise highly cramped.
The Leyline here is positioned under the Letohrádek Hvězda, a hexagonal white mansion which lies in the center of an expansive wooded game reserve.

In between all of these is the seemingly endless maze of houses, restaurants, shops, lots, lains, warehouses and all other infrastructure that make a city what it is. In a pinch and will do for a hiding place, or defensive position when one's life is on the line. Beware though, for there are other things besides Servants that seem to be making their way through the less seen areas of the town, and these may very well know the urban jungle better than you.

Though far, Servants travel fast, and the outskirts of the city, with its wide tracts of woodland and empty fields, beckon to those who have no patience for trying to conceal their actions from the wider public or seek wide open spaces for their mounts free reign.

Name:

Gender:

Age: Some Magi may exceed the natural human lifespan. In the case of Homunculi they may be only a few years old. If either of these apply, please include the age that they appear to be.

Appearance: A general description. A picture if possible, do not feel compelled to provide one in the anime style.

Personality:

History: A few paragraphs of their background minimum.

Physical Ability: A simple Ranking E-A+ covering general strength, endurance and agility. If you character specializes in one over the other, make a quick note. E represents an invalid, child, or very old person. A represents someone at peak human capacity, almost certainly having undergone extensive physical training. A+ Represents those who have surpassed the ordinary human maximum by some means. This is your character without reinforcment magecraft or similar boosters.

Mana: A simple ranking E - A+. Lower ranks may be banned from performing certain advanced magecrafts. All Magi with multiple generations of lineage should possess at least rank D in Mana.

Magecraft: List of spells known. To a certain degree, a magi may be able to improvise magic on the fly, but you must consult with me before doing anything not put here, apart from those spells on the basic magecraft list. Reinforcement magecraft and your capabilities while employing it should be listed here.

Mystic Codes: Magical items or reagents used to enact or amplify magecraft.

Skills: General Skills and disciplines of note. Please be realistic. High aptitude with magecraft at a young age is permitted only because Magi are trained from a very young age. Mastery in multiple disciplines will require explanation.

Equipment: Mundane equipment and resources. Please list a general range of their available funds here. If they have a vehicle or a storage space please list it here. You are permitted to have large stockpiles of resources, but I will want justification for why you have them. Very few Magi, even poor ones, should have only what they can carry on their person.

Misc: Anything that does not fit in the above categories.

Name:

Title: An alias or nickname which sums up their position in legend.

Class: Saber, Lancer, Archer, Rider, Berserker, Caster and Assassin are the only Classes accepted.

Gender:

Appearance: A general description. A picture if possible, do not feel compelled to provide one in the anime style.

Alignment: Their moral compass and outlook as understood in modern times, regardless of how they view themselves.

Personality: Personal characteristics.

History: Feel free to leave a link to a source for their legend, however a brief summary of their life and deeds is expected. At least two paragraphs.

Armaments: Any weapons they are summoned with and use that are not Noble Phantasms. Body Armor and shields go here. If they possess ranged weapons please describe their ammunition and rate of fire as well.

Parameters: General measuring stick for Servant capacity. Some Servants may transcend the scale momentarily or perminatly depending on conditions though this will be rare. Phantasmal Beasts use their own scale.

Strength: Bodily might in terms of power.

Endurance: How much damage one can withstand.

Agility: Quickness and speed of reaction. Speed is generally related, but separate.

Mana: How much magical power one starts with, and how well they are able to manipulate it in general.

Luck: General fortune and tendency for things to fall in your favor.

Class Skills: Skills Specific to the Servants Class.

Personal Skills: Skills the Servant possesses due to their legend. These are general indicators, not concrete rankings of ability. A Servant with a high rank in a combat orientated skill for example, is not necessarily a better fighter than one without it. Its function is to describe the Servants skill in battle, not to rank it.





Weaknesses: Specific weaknesses possessed by the Servant, if any. For example, a Hero slain by a viper may take additional damage from poison.

Prana is the magical fuel that is used to enact Magecraft and support Servants. Magi generate it naturally, but Servants consume it to maintain their existence, and must continually seek it out to remain in top fighting condition.

In this RP we will not be keeping a precise tally of prana consumption per action taken, but general measurement will be kept. Each Rank of Mana is given a value of 2 (Servants with E rank Mana starts out with 2 units, a Servant with A rank Mana starts out with 10, and a servant with A+ rank Mana starts out with 12)

1 unit will be consumed each day to maintain the Servants existence, and each battle a Servant engages in will consume a minimum of 1 as well. Protracted engagements will consume more, especially if expensive Noble Phantasms, or techniques such as Prana Burst are used. An extended battle with Noble Phantasms used can be expected to cost an average of 3 or 4 points of Prana.

Not all Servants consume Prana at the same rate, as Servants with Low Perimeters cost less to maintain over all than those with high parameters.

Magi generate 2 units of prana per day + an additional unit of prana per their Mana rank, hence a Magi with E rank Prana will produce 3 units of prana a day, and a Magi with A rank will produce 7. They add an additional 4 points to their production if they cease all activity for the day, entering a rest state and devoting all their energy towards acting as a prana battery. They use prana at a lower rate than Servants, and do not require a regular upkeep.

Servants are capable of devouring humans to gain prana. A Servant can go all out, and devour their victim entirely, killing them, or they can restrain themselves draining them only partially, resulting in the victim falling into a coma from which they will one day awaken. This however results in a significant decrease in the amount of prana gained.

A single unit worth of prana can be gained by devouring 1 human utterly, or 5 partially.

A Servant without a Independent Action uses their Mana rank to determine how long they can maintain themselves if their Master is killed, or the Servant contract is broken.
E = 2 hours, D = 4, C = 6, B = 8 and A = 10.

Drawing from a Ley Line Nexus grants an additional 4 prana a day. A Magi with appropriate training should be able to set up a bounded field designed to draw power from a Ley Line in about 8 hours (ie a full days work)

Caster Servants, with their ancient magecraft can draw forth 8 points of prana per day from a Ley line if they establish themselves upon it.

In extreme cases a Servant can choose to gain an additional 2 points of prana by sacrificing their own stats to prolong their existence. Hence, a Servant who has reached 0 points of prana, can replenish their reserves by taking a full rank down in all parameters. To regain its former stats, the Servant must expend 6 prana on raising them to their former levels. Obviously this should be regarded as a last ditch measure to prevent death by prana starvation until another source of prana can be found, or the master is able to replenish himself.

The basics of magecraft that common Magi culture dictates a user of thaumaturgy should know. Any Magi raised as such from an early age should be able to perform the following. Hedge Magi, or those who received inadequate education may be deficient in some of these areas, but unless listed, it will be assumed that your character knows these.

Basic Familiar Creation: Creation of familiars, typically birds and insects suitable for scouting, spying, and delivering messages.

Hypnosis: The mental manipulation of non magically adept persons. Memory erasure, compulsion to obey, and the implanting of false concepts is common. If your character uses this for reasons other than simply deceiving ordinary people, please list it in magecraft. The use of hypnosis to make an old woman forget they saw King Arthur is assumed, the use of Hypnosis to convince the local police to perform a hit for you is more advanced and should be noted.

Basic Bounded Fields: Creation of a Bounded Field that confers intruder alert, soundproofing, and mass hypnosis of ordinary citizens to divert them from noticing supernatural events, is common.

Transfer of Consciousness: Seeing through the eyes of a familiar, through the eyes of your Servant, or use of a seeing stone is common. This includes long range mental communication with your Servant.