It's been years.

Years since the last war for the Holy Grail concluded in Fuyuki City. Years since the final combatant fell, and the war concluded in the destruction of the Grail itself. And the remnants, too, were dismantled, cast apart by a former participant. Indeed, the Fuyuki Holy Grail has been utterly annihilated, no longer to be of any use. And yet...

Some of the components remained. The allure of a wish-granting artifact that could be used to obtain the Root of all Knowledge proved itself to be too great. The scattered fragments of the Holy Grail were assembled, rituals and replications of previous techniques were used to attempt to piece them together. And yet, they could never fully recreate the Grail that had been created by the Einzberns. But with the fragments they had collected, with the pieces that had been recovered and recreated, they were able to produce a copy, a replica of the original Grail. A hacked together, improvised system that was not fully tested nor fully explored, but a replica of the original nevertheless.

This creation, this new Holy Grail, this copy of the original, was placed in the coastal United States town of Redrock. Named for the reddish stone jutting up from its beaches, the town is not known for any kind of unusual activity. And yet it happens to be the location of one of the highest concentrations of leylines in the United States. Far from Japan, there was no way for the participants of the last War to attempt to interfere if they so chose. At least, as far as the creators of this new Grail were concerned. A variety of interests converge now, on Redrock.

The Mage Association, suspicious and yet intrigued by the revival of the failed ritual. The Church, desiring once again to see if this truly is a recreation of a holy relic. They have even dispatched one of their most potent Executors as an overseer.

An overseer for a new Holy Grail War.

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The town of Redrock is a sleepy, peaceful town. While it is not rural, far from it, it is not an immense city. It shares many similarities, in fact, with the small city of Fuyuki that the war once occurred in. It possesses its own attractions, including the Redrock Amusement Park and the aged catacombs dating back to the birth of the United States.

It would do well for the participants in this new war to gain experience with their surroundings.

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So... a Fate RP! The above introduction should probably have covered setting well enough, but I'm going to lay down some quick ground rules before I go further.

• No Servants Older than Gilgamesh
  
  • That's canon.
• No Servants from 1900 or later
  
  • Known rule of the setting, even if I do think there's some cool candidates from beyond then. Sadly, Simo Hayha will never qualify for anything but perhaps the most far-flung future Grail Wars.
• No Servants with more then three Noble Phantasms
  
  • Isn't that enough? Most have one or two. More crosses into far too much power.
• Standard Seven
  
  • We'll be having seven servants and seven masters summoning said Servants. Sorry, but this is going to be a traditional grail war,
    so first come first serve when it comes to classes. ^^; In addition, players from the last version of the RP will be allowed first pick of Servant slots.
• Servant bios are PRIVATE
  
  • I want all Servant bios to be PMed to me and my co-GM. We will both judge the bios there. This is purely for fun, since Servant identities are meant to be kept secret as possible, and if it doesn't work out then Servant bios will be posted publicly.
• Please sign up with both a Servant and a Master
  
  • This hurts the last point a little, but ensures there is balance in numbers. Don't worry, you won't be playing with yourself. Pairs will be arranged between players, or I can pair people if they're stuck.
• If you get yourself into a situation where your character may be killed, I'm sorry
  
  • The premise of this RP guarantees that Servants will be dying. And if your Master messes up, they're at risk too. However, Servants at least are all famous figures from the past, and shouldn't go down easily.
• No reality marbles
  
  • These are super-rare. Exceptions MAY be made but it's unlikely.
• Have fun!
  
  • That's what this RP is here for. Follow standard RP etiquette and my guidelines, and you should have no problem.
• Tiger Dojo
  
  Finally, @Rin will be helping me run this RP, and will naturally be in charge of the Tiger Dojo.

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Bios:

Masters:

• Name:
• Age:
• Gender:
• Appearance:
• Personality:
• Skills:
• Abilities:
• Brief Backstory:

Servants:

• Name:
• Class:
• Appearance:
• Personality:
• Stats:
  
  • Strength: E-A(Modifiers are caused by skills and should be covered in those skills)
  • Endurance: E-A
  • Agility: E-A
  • Mana: E-A
  • Luck: E-A
  • Noble Phantasm:
• Class Skills:
• Personal Skills:
• Noble Phantasm(s):
  
  • Name:
  • Rank: (Any Noble Phantasm with a rank higher than A will be highly scrutinized)
  • Type: (Anti-Unit, Anti-Army, Anti-Fortress)
  • Appearance:
  • Effects:
• Alignment:
• Changes: (This section is purely for things such as genderbending. If you make a male historical or mythological figure female, I want an explanation for it)

@VitaVitaAR I claim this holy land Archer slot in the name of Crusader Lord!

I'd like to once again claim Assassin.

Assassin and her not-at-all-obvious identity.

I'll be writing Lancer once again. Looking forward to it!

I'm interested, if there's any space.

I guess I'll take Rider then.

Well, as far as I can tell the spaces are filled already. Better luck for me next time, I guess.

If it helps any, I don't plan on making a Master if we have more people who are interested.

If it helps any, I don't plan on making a Master if we have more people who are interested.

That kinda goes against @VitaVitaAR's request in the OP rules.

I could potentially roll with it, but I acknowledge that it opens a bag of problems which I'd like to avoid.

<Snipped quote by Cu Chulainn>

That kinda goes against @VitaVitaAR's request in the OP rules.

I could potentially roll with it, but I acknowledge that it opens a bag of problems which I'd like to avoid.

Our GM was fine with it the first time this was pitched, as we did have an overflow of people coming in at the time.

@KoL: Provided that numbers are equal and stay equal I'm willing to allow it.

Edit: Actually, on second thought, um, since the reboot is in part to make things more streamlined I'd prefer not to do that. Sorry. ^^; Spots dried up fast.

Also, list is updated to feature who is claiming what. ^^;

@VitaVitaAR@Rin Sent my PM with a servant idea! :D

@KoL: Provided that numbers are equal and stay equal I'm willing to allow it.

Edit: Actually, on second thought, um, since the reboot is in part to make things more streamlined I'd prefer not to do that. Sorry. ^^; Spots dried up fast.

No worries.

In the meantime, i have made my master! Behold, my drunkest mage!

Name: Evangeline Henderson

Age: 32

Gender: Female

Appearance:



Personality: A scholar and hard worker by nature in those things she finds interest in, Evangeline's lack of innate talent did not stop her from becoming a magus. This being said she comes off on the average looks rather lazy, yet easy to approach in a relaxed sort of manner for some reason. When not putting her work into the things she is interested in or has set her mind to, she can usually be found lazing off or slacking in some manner, whether it be sleeping, eating, drinking with friends, or the like. Easily underestimated on first impressions alone, she takes comments about her in stride and is more likely to shrug them off than the average person. Even so, she takes her work on her magecraft rather seriously, but all the same could easily becoming a drinking buddy under the right conditions that people feel like they want to talk to. It is an odd assortment of traits to some perspectives, but to her she is just..."herself", nothing more, nothing less.

Though in regards to this Holy Grail, she has some mixed feelings. On one hand, she feels her wish might be best spent on forming her own family and moving away from the parents who rejected her presence being around them a long time ago. To be able to create a situation where she could be independent and stake it out on her own even more so. Still, she also feels that perhaps the Grail could be used to do something better, to better benefit herself or others in some manner. In what manner might that be? Even she is still trying to think it over.

Skills:

-Can drink like a champion in any form of drinking competition, personal or formal, with a gut like iron and a liver that has been enhanced via magecraft by a co-worker to withstand this stuff. Takes a lot to get her drunk as well, actually.

-Is familiar with all sorts of basic household things like cooking and cleaning, the necessities to live on her own as a magus.

-Superb driver when it comes to cars, mainly from many days spent driving to get food and such. Albeit, she is a notorious speeder on or off of the highway.

Abilities:

-Familiar Creation (Worms): She is notably skilled in the realm of creating familiars, even if in many other ways she is an average magus. In particular she has a breed of worm familiars she has created through her time spent at the Clock Tower, bred to multiply incredibly fast, create mostly self-sustaining colonies she can control with a far greater ease, to have powerful jaws and dig very quickly, and finally to be able to transform what they eat into minerals of various sorts (including jewels) or just eat away things like solid rock and earthen substances to convert them into mana for the worms themselves (or to be injected back into their creator physically to restore her reserves and such). These familiars of sorts could be considered the "pinnacle" of her magecraft, which can be employed in various ways.

Simply by planting them in the ground she can create an area wherein the worms create a massive underground colony that continues to spread over time, and by accessing their senses via using Shared Perception magecraft (which she can use rather well) she can even use individual or small clusters of worms like spy cameras to spy on various places. Further, with the worms being sensitive to sensing mana and prana, she can use them to detect where enemy magi are better and better as the colony spreads underground.

She uses an array of single-action spells to direct her worms in various ways and to do things like sense the condition of the worm colonies she has planted from even miles away. From directing them to attack targets to using a single one of these small but very hardy worms to spy on others, the earth is generally not one's friend when facing her. But the independent nature of the worms to the extent it exists allows them to survive an amount of things and not require constant maintenance. Further, as they eat to generate their own nutrients and prana, the worms are far less of a drain on Evangeline herself to use.

-Elemental Magecraft (Earth): She has a level of competency in earth magecraft, using it to generally work in tandem with her familiars, to fight against enemies, or defend herself in some manner. She is no genius in this area, but is a generally skilled magus in this area who knows many spells.

-Other Magecraft: She is familiar and average in skill with the other basic things a magus should be able to do, bounded fields, locking/unlocking doors, creating basic familiars out of animals and such, using Shared Perception on familiars, and the like.

-Magic Circuits: Her magical circuits are of high quality, albeit are in rather average quantity.

Brief Backstory: Evangeline is a member of the Henderson magus family, who in the early 1800's moved to America as a break-off of another magus family that had lost so much power they were nearly nonexistent among magi. With them they took half of the family's crest as well. However, the family used what influence they gained over their first several generations of independence, greater in their fraction than in the main family they had left, to secure the remnants of the main family's assets once it finally caved in due to the death of that family's last viable heir who had possessed their remaining half of the magic crest.

Since then, the Henderson family has kept two "homes" as magi, their main one in America where they possess land over a leyline in the Southeast United States, and the grounds of the main family back in England which acts as a home for their European branch where many experiments and tests are performed in regards to their magecraft. Many family members travel using their private jets from one home to the other, usually for purposes of getting data in one place, assisting in an experiment with the staff and family members who live at the England residence, perform business transaction that have kept the family prosperous financially, and to take successful subjects back home with them for practical tests in the field.

Among this family was born Evangeline herself at the England location, to the head researcher of that facility and his wife. She did go to America from time to time to visit relatives, lived there partly even, and got very used to the traveling that this would put her through. As it were, she proved to be no prodigy as a magus, but did manage to do one great thing in her parents' eyes in regards to their work: develop her personal familiars. Though this was not enough to keep her from being sent to take classes at the Clock Tower in an attempt to better develop her overall as a magus in the future. Such was the intent of her family.

Though her basic skills as a magus rose to average and acceptable levels, though after being handed around lot a "hot potato" to the Zoology, Botany, and then finally the Mineralogy/Geology department when she went out seeking for internships. Though what she picked up from each area seemed to build on her development to a certain extent, in the end she found some form of success the lattermost area much to some surprise. By no means was she a magus of great talent in many areas, nor the best magus among her peers, but she was a magus who was notably good in regards to applying her knowledge and learning from various areas to the application of creating, developing, and employing her personal familiars.

Eventually she went off on her own, seeking to hone her magecraft individually in order to continue the development of her familiars. She was only 21 when she set out and bought a place in Midwestern America to make her workshop, but since has put considerable time into her work, whilst keeping in touch with the few she decided to keep contact with back at the Clock Tower from her many years spent there. Further, she made acquaintances in her local area among magi, doing odd work for them at times just to make some money and some connections around her. Albeit, only four years later she would find herself in another situation that would perhaps be a change to her entire life.

A female associate from one of the families she would work for at times eventually told her one morning, after they had woken up together on her couch due to a night of a celebratory drinking, about an odd "ritual" going to be held that her own family had gotten wind of. Some backwater ritual hijacked from Japan or something, a pathetic little thing that offered the chance at getting some magical cup, a "holy grail", that could grant some sort of wish. Intrigued by the prospect, Evangeline set off to gather more information on this matter, finding that it would be occurring in a little town called "Redrock" on the coast and things about summoning a servant and such. Nothing seeming too special to many, but altogether too interesting for her curious mind to let go of. Readying her things, she set out eventually to participate in this ritual, this war for a "holy grail", with the intent to fight for this prized wish herself in the end.

@VitaVitaAR@Rin

Looks like Rider is free. Maybe I'll app one later.

@ManyThingsWe already have a couple of applications for Rider already. ^^;

I probably won't do that, then. I'll watch, though.

@Crusader Lord: Accepted.

RP is now full. If there are any dropouts I'll notify the next in line immediately!

Updated the list with completed Servants!