IceHeart

Fate/Counter Force

@LukasVolkov Na the info is fine, mostly just wanted it to be easier to read and look a little nicer.

@Seirei No Hai You thinking of changing Smoker? As for homunculi well they are an established part of the Fate universe so they could be used if given a proper setting, though homunculi are pretty hard to make human. Somehow I skipped over your character before I realize now that I'm looking, anyway he's fine as is if you still want to use him.

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@LukasVolkov
Great to see someone make a church character. I'd like you to spruce up the character sheet a bit though to make it pop out a bit more. If you could bold each section's title, maybe add a bit more spacing too just so it's a nicer read.

@Plank Sinatra
Still a servant slot open so go for it.

@Pie Flavor
Quite the interesting character and a fun read, though reminds me how metaphysical things often get ha ha. So to clarify things, you are planning to have this character be an outside mage who is working through church connections as an opportunity to raise their status or even get back in good graces with the Mage's Association? Liked the Mystic eyes, quite unique.

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@vancexentan@Indra Your characters are fine to put in the character tab if you like.

@Seirei No Hai So waiting for your character, and hoping for another person to join but we'll see. If no one else joins then I'll just have to make up the difference.

SAGA: Dragon Ball AU

Name: Erika Beryl
Race: Bio-engineered Human
Location:North Capitol
Power Level: 910
Tag: Open @Double@Weird Tales@Holy Soldier@King Cosmos@Chev

Erika watched as Okora as a female monkey tailed alien slammed her foot into the green alien's head, like a humanoid version of her own bike assault. The villain went down and the female continued the onslaught with her own energy blast called a mega explosion. It was certainly pretty to look at, but unfortunately it wouldn't be enough to bring this guy down.

She turned to her momentarily while she looked back with a cocked eyebrow and her shot gun in her hands. Apparently she had gotten inspired by her own bike ramming and felt sorry for her loss of vehicle before launching herself back at the alien.

"Eh, the government will pay for it so no real skin off my nose, though Dr. Tread is gonna have a fit most likely. Ya, that will be fun." Erika sighed and for the moment just watched as the next guy fought, apparently the skinny kid would know be known as Magnet Boy since he seemed to have a supernatural power to control metal. The kid didn't seem to be that much of a fighter compared to them but his skills certainly made up for it. Unfortunately he wasn't able to finish him off either and the alien started to fight back. But then another guy appeared she had not seen before.

Like a good number of the others this guy seemed to be a real fighter and martial artist and was quick on his feet. Finally feeling the pressure the alien started to panic and was trying to leave their gang up party. Erika grit her teeth in annoyance, if he managed to get away they would lose their best chance at stopping the menace. "Oh no you don't you piece of-" Erika was about to give chase with the new guy when suddenly dumb-o the ape-o decided now was the best time to have a little friendly tussle with smaller monkey girl.

"-The heck are you doing oversized buffoon!" Erika slung her shotgun behind her back and stomped over toward the incredibly large saiyan as he bear-hugged the poor girl. Dang he was even larger up close but Erika was never one to let the size of something intimidate her. All she saw right now was that this large man-child was preventing a valuable combat asset from doing the job that needed to be done, helping her stop a homicidal alien from wiping out human life on the planet, because he wanted to lock...tails.

Erika stomped over, her eyebrows twitching in irritation knowing every moment they were delayed was a moment their quarry would have to get away. She thought about trying to pry his arms off but she doubted she had the strength to do that; however this large ape of a man was acting like a child, so perhaps the appropriate action was to treat him like one. She floated up so her face was level with his took her left hand and yanked on the big man's cheeks to try and force him to look at her, and cause a little pain as well.

"Hey manchild, do you know what a pain in the butt you're being right now?" She tried her best to make her cyan eyes burn into his dark grey ones. "I want you to let go of the nice young woman so that we can take down a really bad guy. Ya hear me you overgrown punk! Now snap to it!"

Erika gave the most commanding glare and military voice she could muster and internally hoped he got the memo. Well even if he just got mad at her he should let go of the other girl so that they could get to chasing the bad guy, cause she would have to be quick to make sure he didn't grab her if it came to that. Seriously, having to deal with this was more annoying than getting beaten up by that alien, maybe she should have just gone after him instead but having as much of their fighting strength available was probably more important. Hopefully someone else would be heading off to give chase while she dealt with rocks for brains...and muscles.

Fate/Counter Force [Looking for 1-2 more players]

Bump

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I might have to create my own servant at this rate. Well might as well bump it in any event.

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@unicorgi

Just wanted to clarify the fighting system I have in place. For the most part I'm leaving the fights up to the actual players, that way one doesn't have to wait for me to respond all the time and it is easier to make engaging fight sequences. To help guide the fights though I have created this ~Flow~ system to give you guys the information necessary to make things shine. If there is one thing I have seen in my years of role playing it is how easy battle based games can crash and burn if there is no real structure to the battles, certain characters can steal all the glory, people are unsure of when to finish a fight, or else just get bogged down waiting for other people or the GM to respond.

My hope is that through this system it gives everyone a good idea of how a fight should go, how long it goes, but also allows the players to, for the most part, control the fight as they want so they don't have to wait for me to move all the little pawns. When there is a story event or character, like an Evil Boss that can directly change the course of a fight without you being able to prevent it, you'll have a heads up so you won't be completely taken unaware.

Fate/Counter Force [Looking for 1-2 more players]

@unicorgi@ERode@Seirei No Hai@Black Keys@vancexentan OOC is Up! Head over, type up your profiles, and review the new Battle ~Flow~ section which has very important information.

Fate/Counter Force

Fate/Counter Force

The Church's Burial Agency has had one of their sealing chambers ransacked under the cover of an earthquake and a powerful vampire, a Dead Apostle Ancestor has been unleashed upon the world once again. The church has given her the title Echidna, Mother of Monsters. This powerful vampire has been sealed for thousands of years and if left alone has the power to wipe out humanity. The burial agency is already on the case but due to the vampire's unique nature of being able to 'birth' offspring such as phantasmal beasts, they are having great difficulty in recapturing Echidna. Realizing they need more firepower the church has grudgingly reached out to the Mage's Association for assistance in their war.

Knowing that such a powerful being left on the loose could devastate the world, The Mage's Association has decided to lend their aid. Considering the threat is credible enough to bring about the end of humanity, the Mage's Association has realized that the counter force should come into play because of this threat, but instead of just letting it work it's way naturally the Mage's Association has decided to try and tap into the Counter Force to control it themselves. Their hope is that they can limit the amount of damage and exposure a 'natural disaster' might cause by wielding the scalpel themselves.

The Mage Association intercepts the counter guardians with a ritual of their own and summons them as servants to do battle with the Dead Apostle Ancestor and her forces. At the moment the church has tracked the Dead Apostle Ancestor to southern France where they believe she has started to rebuild her strength.

Basic Knowledge You Should Know

• Playable characters are Mages, Church members, and Counter Guardians/Servants
• While the Counter Guardians are contracted as servants as this is not a Grail War all servants regardless of class have independent action as a skill. Basically they can act independently.
• Those given servants have the traditional command seals to help them control the counter guardians.
• Only three servants are available as there is not enough magic to sustain any more than that.
• Servants with a Divine spirit origin, such as gods [ex. Artemis] and half-gods [ex. Gilgamesh] are not summonable.
• Don't worry if you are not too familiar with the Nasuverse as a whole, the thing's a jumbled mess anyway so just think of it as Fate but with Vampires.
• This will be a PvE roleplay, though PvP could occur if desired among individuals but PvE will always take priority.
• A Dead Apostle Ancestor is a powerful vampire that often has its own cult following. The 'servants' of such a vampire can be familiars, dead apostles[vampires], the dead, and in this particular case, magical beasts and phantasmal beasts.
• While the church is great at handling the undead, because most of their equipment is better suited for holy warfare they are having trouble with the magical and phantasmal beast. As some phantasmals are simply too strong to be killed normally, servant's noble phantasms or powerful artifacts are often needed to finish the job.
• Blood and gore will be present in this role play so fair warning beforehand.

Battle ~Flow~ System

In order to help you create more intuitive fighting scenes I will be using what I call the Battle ~Flow~ System. When a battle commences I will instruct you as to how the battle should proceed. Usually I'll try to put up the combatants, particular skills of the enemy you need to know about that you can incorporate into the fight, and what kind of a fight should happen. If it is a bunch of weaklings I might designate them fodder and just allow you guys to wreck them, but maybe there is a strong enemy among them that is an actual challenge, so I'll designate them as a challenge, so you'll need to write a decent fight when you are engaged in combat.

So there are three main criteria that will dictate how a fight should go, difficulty of the opponent, the 'phase' of a fight, and fight length.

Opponent Difficulty:
Fodder - Enemies that even weak mages should be able to defeat without too much effort.
Challenge - Opponents that can put up a decent fight and you'll actually have to work to defeat and be careful around.
Deadly Monster - These high level threats usually have some nasty skills, such as mystic eyes, that could easily kill you if you are not careful, you will have to fight for your lives to just survive.
Evil Boss - These cheap devils have myself directing their moves and can cause havoc with devastating skills and at times can be downright unkillable if certain conditions haven't been met.

Fight Phases:
Beginning - The fight has just started, start trashing those fodder and get prepared for the harder opponents.
Middle - The fight is getting quite intense, blows are going back and forth and the tide is turning in one direction or the other. The threat level is usually the highest at this point in the fight and the writing should reflect that.
Climax - The end of the fight has come one way or the other, perhaps a massive upset, maybe the opponent manages to sneak away, or maybe the final strike is struck against the foe, perhaps you are even forced to retreat just to survive. Either try to figure out who gets to finish the fight or I'll just choose depending on how the fight went.

Fight Lengths: If it happens to be an individual fight you just take out the per person part.
Short - 1 to 2 posts per person, pretty much just beginning and ending phases in the fight, or even just the ending phase.
Medium - 3 to 5 posts per person, will follow the Fight Phases up above.
Epic - Usually reserved for the toughest of battles and story sequences there is no real cap for these so can last for quite a while. Follows the battle flow system very closely.

Character Sheets

Mage/Church Member

Name:

Age: (20+)

Appearance: (No real life pics. Picture or description or both)

Brief Bio: (2+ paragraphs)

Abilities:

Stats: [A-E]

Magic Circuits: (Affects the strength and quality of magical use)
Mana: (Amount of innate magical energy)
Athleticism: (How much of a physical badass you are)

Other: (If there is anything else you would like to add)

Servant

Class:

True Name: (You can put this in a hider if you want, though since this is not a grail war it's not as important to keep their identity secret. Though of course if the enemy knows who they are it is possible for them to use that knowledge to their advantage)

Appearance:

History:

Stats: [A-E]

Strength:
Agility:
Luck:
Endurance:
Mana:
Noble Phantasm:

Skills:

Noble Phantasm:
Name:
Type: (Anti-Unit)(Anti-Army)(Anti-Fortress)(etc)
Ability:

Fate/Counter Force [Looking for 1-2 more players]

@vancexentan The character sheet looks fine, though not going to actually accept anything until I can get up the actual thread. Don't have much time because of work right now, my earliest guess would be this weekend.