Moonlit Sonata

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@Breo I'll be holding off for a bit to give @ConstantlyComic a chance to post, say for the next 12ish hours.

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Ruler, Church Interior

@DrowsyPangolin

Didn't make sense.

It didn't make sense.

A Berserker in Miyama who was fading from this world. A Lancer whose karmic line had been severed in the forest.

This should not be a strange occurrence. After all, Masters and Servants are expected to die in this Holy Grail War. But...why were other Servants not present at the locations of these incidents?

Was it them? Those foul things, a first-rate Heroic Spirit could certainly match them in a fight, but were a third-rate one like Ruler himself to engage in direct combat against them then he would likely be defeated. Yes, it could very easily be those things, those demons crafted from human minds. If that was the case, then he had no room to act. After all, even if that freak repulsed him, its actions weren't against the rules of the Holy Grail War.

But still, even if he had never heard the voice of God, even if he lacked a prescience at the level of precognition, even if his eyes could not see through the gaps between worlds, something at his core screamed at him.

Something is wrong. More than those things, more than that freak, something is terribly wrong.

Something has entered this city that should not be.

The Servant was roused from his thoughts as he heard a voice from outside of the Church, realizing with a start that someone had approached it. Had he been so wrapped up in thinking about this that he didn't even notice the arrival of a mere magus?

He said he'd lost his Servant. In that case, his Servant would need to be that Lancer that had perished in the forest. Yes, if it was the forest then it made sense, one of those things probably encountered the unprepared Lancer and struck them down. But, the more Ruler assured himself of this fact, the more that cold pit in his stomach grew. By the time the doors of the Church opened and the ostentatious figure behind them appeared, his jaw was slightly clenched, a sort of panicked light flashing in his sunglass-covered eyes.

"...come inside, and tell me everything you know about what happened."

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Killing Zouk

@Berserk Gene

This is now Zouken's official nickname for the RP.

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@DrowsyPangolin @Breo
Expect a post late today. This is my hell week, so there are going to be some delays at least for the time being.

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Demon (Terror), Shinto Streets

@Breo @ConstantlyComic

Could it even understand language? No doubt, that "sound" that been emanating out from it during its descend had a certain timbre to it that was reminiscent of language, but truly being able to understand human language was another matter entirely. Regardless, the demon at least seemed able to gauge the intent behind Siegfried's words as it floated above the streets.

Just what was it fighting, for that man to be able to survive being so close to it? There was no question about it, a living being should not have been able to shoulder what would happen upon making contact with its body; even for its siblings, that was an ironclad rule. And yet, this thing with its damned shine had managed it; even if there was the buffer of a sword, it had managed to make contact.

Would he be able to survive outright contact? The thought alone was enough to make the demon shudder, but it couldn't afford to stay focused on musing over such repulsive matters. No, for now it had to hunt. It was neither brilliant nor powerful, it was not capable of controlling the tide of a battle or dominating its enemy, but out of its siblings, it was without question the one with the strongest defense. And given that its enemy's sword, while inexplicably making contact with its body, had failed to so much as harm it in the slightest, the conclusion was a simple one: unless it possesses a hidden strength, this enemy "cannot kill it".

So then, all it needed to do was wear him down.

Without warning, as Siegfried approached, the demon's body rocketed forwards at the Servant, clawed appendages reaching out to strike at him. Throat, heart, shoulder, stomach, the four attacks were launched with a frenzied level of coordination, bringing with them that feeling of repulsion that the dragonslayer had acquainted himself with seconds earlier.

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???, Forest

@DrowsyPangolin

What had drawn Nimrod's attention to the point where he saw it prudent to leave his Master without a word, blocking off their shared perception as he charged headlong into the forest?

While Ernest had no way of knowing this, it could not have been something of the same make that was combatting a dragonslayer and had nearly emerged at the riverside. After all, while Nimrod could not be called the "strongest Heroic Spirit" of this war, against those beings he possessed an absolute advantage. So long as he was not so prana-deprived that use of his true Noble Phantasm was possible, the thought of a demon born from human wishes and distortions opposing him was laughable.

So then, as the dove flitted into view of where Nimrod had come to a halt, the question was raised of why?

Why had Nimrod left his Master's side so abruptly?

Why had he materialized his spear?

Why was the hand of a black-haired man now piercing his heart?

Its eyes empty, the man's head turned to face the dove as it arrived, almost as if it was looking through the dove and into its owner. The hand that had not been impossibly stabbed into Nimrod was lifted up, palm outstretched towards the dove.

And, no sooner than being able to catch the sight of something crystalline glinting in the palm of the man's hand, was the dove's vision filled with a blinding white. Its karmic line to Ernest was cut immediately, its body presumably destroyed by whatever had just occurred.

A handful of seconds later, the line between Nimrod and Ernest suffered a similar fate.

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Yes.

CCC event hype.

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@WildChocobo
Number of generations on the family.

Why would the family bother training three heirs? There's a reason Sakura was sent off to the Matous and why some magus families put a bunch of four years olds into a deathmatch to decide which kid is worth training.

Why does this magus family exist if they have no conceivable theme or path to the Root? The whole point of making a Magic Crest is so that your successor can continue your research.

You can't use other elements besides earth.

Details on Bounded Field capacities.

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Well, to be fair, the Master and Servant CSs, the General Magecraft section, the Rules section, and the map are all the product of myself and my friends over the past several years, so it wouldn't be fair for me to claim total dominion over those since said friends had just as large a hand in making them as I did.

With that said, my banlist is fucking patented and my lawyers will be in contact.

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Quick question for @Moonlit Sonata; you mentioned that since Airi is posted, things are going ahead with me and Gene, and it seems like it's waiting on me, but she isn't listed as approved in /char, am I okay to go ahead with my intro or should I wait?

Thanks!

@SIGINT

Yeah, you're good to go.

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The first instance of combat has officially begun.

Individuals are welcome to place their bets at this time.