[OOC] Fate/『 』Märchen

[Yankee]

@Parallel Hearts Thanks! In terms of her power, I may take you up on that but I don't want to change her basic fighting form. Maybe I'll just power up her runes or something.

@heroic2019 I'm open to suggestions!

[heroic2019]

@YankeeWell i was thinking you could swap your boon for something else. Full body reinforcement should already be something you can manage with your current magecraft set. Since some nasty examples are given as master boon why not go for something more extraordinary. Here is my idea:

Mystic eyes that would allow you to inscribe runes on sight on normal objects, with the possibility to even affect targets with resistance such as magi if they remain within your field of view for an extended period of time. This would not increase the potency of your average spells (thus not disturbing the image of the kind of character you want to create or make it overpowered) while giving her the possibility to exert a lot of pressure on both aware and unaware opponents.

Since its main use would be on objects, you could use it alongside cards to turn them into spell containers of some sort.

Naturally this would require soccery trait boon. You could incorporate it as a mutation unique to your character that theyve recently discovered how to use or whatever fits your fancy.

Thoughts?

[KoL]

@Idol Theory
My Master idea might work well with Arturia.

If you are interested, here's she:

Alex

• Name\Title: Alexa Cellesis Jupteria
• Short Bio/Synopsis: A rather nice person for a magus. She has a good sense of humor and a hard working, studious personality. In other words, she's a pretty run-off-the-mill person who just happens to do magic for a living.
  
  She's a child from a family, or rather a coalition, of mages that is only tangentially connected to the Association. They practice classic alchemy, but don't deal with things like Magical Crests. Their thought process is that depending on Crests (and a heavy dose of inbreeding to keep their blood "pure") is why the Clock Tower mages lose their power at a rate that far exceeds that of places like Atlas and traditional practitioners who pass on their knowledge to the next generations through actual study and tutoring.
  
  Since the faculties that they have the best relations with are Animusphere and Norwich, they usually send a few promising youths to study at those factions of the Clock Tower. Alexa specifically spent a lot of time in the Astromancy department, making extensive uses of their equipment. Whenever she wasn't doing that she could be found in Modern Magecraft Theories, attending the famous lessons from Lord Kayneth El-Melloi Archibald.
• Magecraft: Alexa was born with the relatively common trait of Pure Eyes, allowing her to see things that shouldn't be visible. However, her main talent lies in a refined general knowledge of magecraft fundamentals, particularly, alchemy and astromancy, along with related fields like numerology and geometry.
  
  She's very well knowledgeable in transmuting and reinforcing basic elements like stone and metals, and creating bounded fields. However, as expected of someone who's focused on the fundamentals, she isn't capable of matching the power of a magus who's deep into their own family research, or a dedicated practitioner of any foundation.
  
  Some of her signature tricks include a mastery over basic spells (usually thought to be apprentice's tool by other magi) like Flash Air, Gradation Air, and Counter Magic. She also knows how to apply Alchemy's ability to generate light and electricity offensively, condensing it in an attack similar to the infamous Finn Shot (but better since this is a direct magical energy converted to physical energy "heat" attack), which she calls Flash Bullet. A fully charged blast can reach temperatures in the upwards of 1500 K. In essence, it's not that different (albeit far less destructive) than what a certain other redheaded magus can do.
  
  Again, similar to that person, Alexa can make use of High Speed Incantations, as long as she keeps to the basics. You can really say that she's someone who lives and breathes by the motto of "Simple is Best."
• Mystic Codes:
  
  • Azoth Sword: Never underestimate the power of the basics.
  • Jupiter's Robe: A set of formal wear meant to further attune and enhance Alexa's magic circuits. While the Azoth Sword is like a mana capacitor or battery, this formal wear is more like an engine, or a wearable grimoire finely attuned to her astromancy and alchemical knowledge.
  • Mystic Eyes Killer: A pair of glasses capable of nullifying the effects of Mystic Eyes, both those of the user and those of others.
• Misc/Other/Trivia:
  
  • Height: 157 cm
  • Weight: ---
  • Age: 23 years
  • Likes: Cats, studying, burgers
  • Dislikes: Insects, loud places, sea food
  • She has been researching about ways to acquire true Mystic Eyes (likely of the fairy kind), since they are the purest form of Magecraft, but so far she had no luck in her pursuit. Winning the Holy Grail War might as well be her best chance other than somehow finding her hands on an invitation to Rail Zeppelin.
  • Despite being 23 years old, she doesn't look much older than 18 or 19, thanks to her small stature and actually aging slower than normal.
  • Her last name is actually given from the ruling planet under whose influence she was born.
• Special Boon:
  
  • Superior Magical Skills (Mastery of the Fundamentals):

    "Mastery of the Fundamentals is the proof of one's excellence."

    Fate/GO, Formalcraft

    
    Through the history of the Association, not only in this one, but other worlds as well, many great magi proven that mastery over the basics is the best path a mage can follow. You should not try to bend magic energy to your will, but let it flow through you like water, shapeless, yet unconquered.
    
    It's thanks to such a mastery over the fundamentals that Alexa can employ high level skills like High Speed Incantation, and make anything that's considered a fundamental technique much more useful than usual, to the point that her signature spell, Flash Bullet can match the level of power of a Finality.

Also, @Parallel Hearts, there's my Master above. I tried to make her into something super basic without looking like I ripped off the likes of Aoko, Rin, and Paracelsus too much. But there's only so much you can make when you want to go down the simple route. I hope that she's alright.

[Yankee]

@heroic2019 I was actually going to avoid going the mystic eyes route because they are supposed to be relatively rare and I'm sure another master may want to have mystic eyes. But, you are right that she would probably already be able to enhance herself with runes...

I will definitely keep it in mind though. I also very much like the idea of making the cards into spell containers. In that case I may change her deck mystic code to simply a "deck box" that can instantly enchant any card (or card shaped object) that is put into it.

[Cu Chulainn]

@Yankee
it's time to duel

[Yukitamas]

It's funny that I was planning on using him considering a certain other character already shown in this game...

Lancer of Camelot

Lancer

Percival: The Dolorous (M)ender

Short Bio/Synopsis:
Once there was a innocent ignorant youth living peacefully in a glen with naught but her mother and the company of a lively woods. To live simply in the wilds surrounded by nature, separated from man and their ways. A life away from the glory of the men of Britain, of the chivalry and the wisdom of man.. Yet that all changed when he witnessed strange men in the forest, knights. Enamoured he declared to his mother he wished to become one, to serve under the man spoken with such reverence by the knights, King Arthur. A man that was not just a man, kingship in the form of a human. A person no other could be like, no other could approach. Such an ideal was far from the simple life of simply seeking sustenance and humble existence as shared with his mother.

His mother lamented his choice and desires, having taken to such a secluded existence to spare them the heartbreak and suffering that came with such a life after to death of his father. Yet the youth could not be dissuaded. Given the gift of a ridiculous outfit to travel in to mark him as a fool so he may return humiliated and yet hale and whole. Percival traveled to Camelot. There, he slew the Knight Ither and claimed his belongings so as to become a knight clad in red.

A fool who became a knight, a knight who was foolish. Yet he was strong, holding the strength of a wildman and soon, with his prodigious talents, the skill of a champion. Becoming one of the Knights of the Round Table he soon became known as one of the elite knights of Arthur.

Yet left in the wake of those adventures and paths traveled are regrets. The admonishment of failing to ask a question, the shattering of a sword of virtue. Through penance and understanding he came to visit the castle again and claim the Grail or so it is said.

If asked about the Grail he would surely simply laugh off the matter and say that the grail to focus on is the grail that will be before the at the end of the war. Yet what is certain is that Percival has completed his journey.

Cleansed of regret, arriving to the final destination of what he was born for. The youth has become a peerless knight.

Stats:
STR: B
CON: B
AGI: B- (Representing the lack of control when utilizing his Noble Phantasm)
MGI:B
LCK: A
MR: B
NP: A+

Class Skill:
Magic Resistance: B
Cancel spells with a chant below three verses. Even if targeted by High-Thaumaturgy and Greater Rituals, it is difficult for them to be affected. A high rank for the Lancer class that's all in all unsurprising for those who know of his many adventures and exploits, along with his status as a knight worthy of the grail. If he were to hold a class that held a greater ability in this skill then…

Personal Skills:

Eye of the Mind (False: B+
The natural instinct and qualifications for a knight honed and sharpened by years of adventuring, experience and the attainment of wisdom. Growing out from the comforting and yet small Glen, the world of Lancer expanded. Yet likewise he has grown far from the fool, and now takes up arms as one of the perfect knights of the spear. In some circumstances Percival is able to see to the end of courses. His life and experience coming to form a sort of insight that goes beyond mere knowledge for such things. A bonus essentially to plotting his course and focusing on achieving it.

Question Dolorous: -
The healing question that restores all to its rightful state. An ability of healing and mystery that lifted the wound caused by the Pillar. It is an ability born of Percival’s virtue and the mystery of the Grail Quest and Castle. It is something that goes beyond healing just the physical. Misfortune, ruin for both the people and land were restored. Whether it be individuals, objects, or even the land and leylines themselves all manner of things can be healed by Lancer. In a sense a Crazy Diamond-esque ability of restoration and reversion.

Virtuous End: B+
The end result of a story. The knight becomes a lord as proof of his virtue and completes his quest. All heroic spirits are completed existences, finished stories that have had their final page written with a Fin. Such a state and nature is all the more pronounced in Percival who chased and chased after his destined and intended end of becoming a great pious knight. No matter the stumbling block or loss he encountered on the way he has without doubt become the knight worthy of a Grail.

To change the nature or state of Percival is a fruitless endeavor. Even something akin to blackening or staining him otherwise impossible. For the most part one could say it' to be an immunity to status effects and burdens that would diminish his status as a pious knight. Whether it be madness, unchivalrous charms and compulsions, or a mutilating of his form.

Noble Phantasm:

Name/Tile: Brace Longinus : Charge The End, Man of Corbenic
Rank: A+
Type: Anti-Unit (Anti-Fortress)
Range: - (1-99)
Maximum Number of Targets: 1(1-1000)
Description:
The Lance of Longinus. A spear with a light similar to that which fastens the world of the human order to the surface of the planet. Such a peerless light would scorch all enemies before him with as much devastation as the spear of the end…. Or so it would if it were used in such a fashion. Not fully unsealed by Lancer, he instead utilizes it in a different more unique fashion. Combined with his own abilities, Lancer “braces” the lance against the leylines and land, connecting to it utilizing it’s nature as a pillar for a temporal-enactment. Connecting to the land and using its energy and support in a reversal of the dolorous strike by the lance that ruined it. The energy both floods and rejects Lancer, sending him blasting forward at his target at extreme speeds, garbed in a massive light of energy to rival and exceed even that of dragons or holy swords.
Infused with such energy normally even the body of a hero or spirit would break down.. And break down it does. But with his ability to restore Lancer continuously heals himself, allowing him to harness the power beyond his limits. The magical energy swirls and spins along with his circuits, drilling into whatever stands in his way. Yet even covered and defended by such a potent power this can only be called an hyper-offensive high risk attack.

Utilizing a limited release he otherwise utilizes a lower scale version of the Noble Phantasm to coat himself in energy akin to a phantasmal beast’s aura. Yet the cost for such a burst and coating is the loss of fine control. To fight in such a way would be foolhardy if not for his experience and instinct. Chasing after the end he seeks, he becomes a human missile and lance.

As for what such a ridiculous and reckless fighting style is called by him. He calls it Horseless Jousting. A knightly form of combat that can be brought forth without any limitation or reliance on mounts.

As a side note… it seems that upon witnessing this attack, the Wizard Merlin found himself with inspiration on instruction for a fair maiden knight with a dazzling shield.

[Idol Theory]

@KoL

I'll give her a look when I get home! I've also gotten a few other offers, though those are definitely less coherent so far.

[Yukitamas]

For something made from Wiki-stuff it's certainly not too bad. I've seen way way worse. Certainly it's messy and clunky in some aspects but the idea is clear enough.

@heroic2019 I was actually going to avoid going the mystic eyes route because they are supposed to be relatively rare and I'm sure another master may want to have mystic eyes. But, you are right that she would probably already be able to enhance herself with runes...

I will definitely keep it in mind though. I also very much like the idea of making the cards into spell containers. In that case I may change her deck mystic code to simply a "deck box" that can instantly enchant any card (or card shaped object) that is put into it.

@Yankee

Mystic eyes aren't all that rare. It's more about the level of mystic eyes that determines if it's something rare or not. Stuff like the basic sort are manufactureable. Things on the ranking of Jewels are a big deal. But there's plenty of in-between and go for whatever is my advice.

[KoL]

@Yukitamas

Oh boy... Family reunions are always nice (and awkward), are they not?

[Idol Theory]

This is now a Knight of the Round Table thread.

[KoL]

This is now a Knight of the Round Table thread.

@Idol Theory

You know what this means, right?

[Parallel Hearts]

<Snipped quote by Parallel Hearts>

Not so much stole as conquered and took as spoils of war, but the two things aren't really connected. He's the rightful king of England, and the stone offers its benefits to any rightful king, even if they aren't its proper owner. After all, it went from Ireland to Scotland to England just fine.

@SSW

Well, if that's the case, I guess that everything is alright with him.

<Snipped quote by Parallel Hearts>

I'll add a face claim later, I just don't have the means to do so at the moment.

As for his hounds... I could use some help with that. They aren't Phantasmal Species, just regular dogs, so their existence is closer to representations of the hounds Actaeon had in life created by the Grail. I thought there was a term for things like that, beings summoned as part of an NP, but I can't remember what it is; I thought they were called Pseudo-Servants but that's something else.

@King Cosmos

I think that being Magical Beasts of the lowest rank, like around the level of a modern chimera, would be the least they would be since they are summoned through a Noble Phantasm.

@KoL
You're ok. Get her on the CS tab whenever you can.

It seems that now we got ourselves a good number of proper mages, a manipulator of mystic codes, a master of runes, and a generalist. Now, let's see how good the quota of aberrations will be...

@Yukitamas
Pretty much ok, but I think that Anti-Fortress is too much exaggeration for his NP. Lower it to Anti-Army and you can move to the CS tab as well.

[Yukitamas]

The Anti-Fortress is a matter of just saying hey it’s Longinus so it’s the same as Rhongo.

Not that he uses it as a beam so it’s just there for flavor.

As a technique that targets and focuses himself it’s anti-unit.

[Crusader Lord]

@Parallel Hearts What would be my class skills for Shielder, btw?

[Reflection]

@Crusader Lord self-defense field and Magic Resistance tend to be the usual.

[Yankee]

Mystic eyes aren't all that rare. It's more about the level of mystic eyes that determines if it's something rare or not. Stuff like the basic sort are manufactureable. Things on the ranking of Jewels are a big deal. But there's plenty of in-between and go for whatever is my advice.

@Yukitamas

Oops, post fail. Anyway I suppose you're right, and I do like heroics' long range suggestion. I think I will take you guys' advice indeed, thank you

[Parallel Hearts]

@Parallel Hearts What would be my class skills for Shielder, btw?

@Crusader Lord

@Crusader Lord self-defense field and Magic Resistance tend to be the usual.

@Reflection

Correct, but actually Shielders have three Class Skills:

Self-Defense Field, Magic Resistance, and Riding

The Anti-Fortress is a matter of just saying hey it’s Longinus so it’s the same as Rhongo.

Not that he uses it as a beam so it’s just there for flavor.

As a technique that targets and focuses himself it’s anti-unit.

@Yukitamas

I see. But even so, being regarded in the same light as Rhon doesn't mean to be the same class of Noble Phantasm. They form a trio with Romulus' spear (and it's not an Anti-Fortress, but instead Anti-Army). I feel that considering what made it famous, Longinus works better as the anti-Unit to complete the trio, but Anti-Army is ok as well if need be.

[Yukitamas]

It doesn’t make any sort of a difference so I can just erase it.

Also if the daughters gonna try what I think she’s gonna, Percy’s gonna be disappointed. Oh well it’s hard to give fatherly advice when identities are masked.

[King Cosmos]

@Parallel Hearts I've adding an additional section to Archer's NP description and I've replaced Animal Dialogue with Eye of the Mind (False). He should be ready to go now.

[KoL]

It doesn’t make any sort of a difference so I can just erase it.

Also if the daughters gonna try what I think she’s gonna, Percy’s gonna be disappointed. Oh well it’s hard to give fatherly advice when identities are masked.

@Yukitamas

What's it? Depending on whether it's interesting or not, I may do it just to see his reaction.