Over Illusion

Fate/Stay Night & Fate/Apocrypha-inspired Roleplay

One of our players has had to drop out, and we now need an Archer, so applications for that are now reopened!

Fate/Moribund Swarm

Regrettably, Rune Alchemist's had to dip out, so his slots are now up for grabs.

We have someone already working on the SS Master replacement, so expect that up in the next day or two.

As for the Archer slot, we need someone willing to fill that at this time.

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@Art of Fun @GrafRoy Zeppeli @Berserk Gene @Ijoyen @MeteorD @Cu Chulainn @Liu Mei

@Rune_Alchemist @Breo @Yukitamas

All characters except for the Thule Society Master, who will be posted today I'm told and the abilities of whom have already been disclosed to the German faction, have now been posted. As such, it's now officially partnering time.

You all will have a 24 hour time window to decide on partnering for your characters. If you have an unpartnered character and there is a Master or Servant you would like to partner with specifically, please state this in your faction's chat.

If 24 hours proves unreasonable and we have multiple still-unmade pairs at that time because people have been busy, then I will extend this. In the worst-case scenario, we will move to random assignment, but I doubt it will come to that.

After pairings are decided, there will be 48 hours for the factions to think of initial strategies as well as to send me the locations each of their characters will be at during Phase One of Day One. If you're confused by what I mean by this, refer to "Logistics" in the OP. For instance, you should send me via the faction chat "Sigurd and his Master will be at the Ryuudouji Temple, Cocles's Master will be at the docks, Cocles will be in Miyama", and so on. After this is sent in, the roleplay itself will begin.

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Edelfelt 2

Frederica Edelfelt

Gender: Female

Age: 25

Personality: Best described as a fairly simple, amicable young woman. While bearing the demeanor of a princess raised in a castle, the sort of arrogance indicative of the Edelfelt's stature is rarely present. While she carries herself like one who sees herself as inherently superior to others, simple observations based on her posture and gait, she does not express this in conversation. Bearing a warm smile and a calm tone, one could call her an ojou-sama in gesture but yamato nadeshiko in action.

To some, however, this makes her an utterly unbearable existence who they want to punch in the face.

...however, it is nonetheless a truth that, whenever you distort someone's mind, so too is yours distorted. It is a rule similar to the nature of curses, that whenever you curse someone, you curse yourself as well. It is for this reason that magi refrain from using such things as Suggestion frivolously, as to embark down that path is to condemn your own mind.

Regretfully, Frederica's study of magecraft has itself been based around the twisting of minds.

The sense of self has already begun to erode, and the distinction between "myself" and "them" has been blurred. In other words, Frederica has started to lose sight of herself, becoming similar to that human who dared to consume souls in a bid for immortality. Shifts in temperament occur regularly, seemingly unprovoked, and the more she walks down this path, the easier it becomes to take the next step.

One could say that her Origin is in the process of awakening. The element flows from the Origin, so it is only natural that hers is Earth. To contain, to bind, to restrict. To take the everything of someone and lock it away, unchanging, undying, unreactive. To do that same thing to herself. This impulse which was originally nothing more than "something which led her to her style of magecraft" has grown into "something which has made her obsessed with that style".

Given this increasing mental distortion, the Origin is expected to fully awaken in approximately fifteen years. At that point, self-destruction will occur.

Biography: A princess locked in a castle. At the same time, given that there was another princess beside her, a different form of princess. To say that she lived alongside her sister would be an understatement, given the nature of the Edelfelt Sorcery Trait. However, while the gait of the two stood as identical, their content could not be more different.

In her youth, Frederica was the epitome of proper, a calm and warmhearted young girl who met everyone with a smile. The perfect status of an Edelfelt, one might say, save for that she was unable to channel anything analogous to ruthlessness. As time went on and her initially-bratty sister mellowed out, Frederica delved into magecraft. Picking up the family craft was a simple allowance, and from there she expanded into other venues. Spiritual Evocation, Transfer of Conscious, even some elementary Kabbalah she picked up on a whim.

This curiosity of hers could be said to be the spark of her downfall, as it is what led her to work out her own personal form of Conversion. By the time she had completed the system and revealed its nature to her family, the damage was done. The nature of this was already explained, and so will not be again. The exquisite glass sculpture had shattered from the eye of the storm moving, and as time drew on this grew all the worse. In that sense, the sisters could be said to have switched places. In their youth, Janika was the fiery one and Frederica the calm one, but now Janika has become a proper Edelfelt, while Frederica has become a decayed mind.

In time, word came to them of a far East ritual. Ordinarily they wouldn't have given it any thought. It was hosted on the land of this barely-notable family named "Tohsaka", and with the cooperation of this family named "Matou" which was apparently so insignificant that no records of them even existed. The third name of "Einzbern", though, was enough to entice them. And so, begrudgingly joining hands with the German faction in a means that could be best called "siding with the enemy of my enemy", the Edelfelt sisters descended on Fuyuki.

Family History: Edelfelt.

Origin: Confine

Elemental Affinity: Earth

Number of Magic Circuits: B

Quality of Magic Circuits: A

Od: A

Magecraft:

Magic Circuit Composition: Abnormal. Suited towards "sharing".

Conversion: Family attribute of the Edelfelt. Strictly speaking, the name covers the concept itself, but it is best known for its conduciveness to Jewel Magecraft. The capability that allows for the Edelfelt to place magical energy into other substances, enduring outside of the body.

Ore Scales: Sorcery Trait of the Edelfelt. The Crest is shared. The two Masters are one. The moon in the night sky is mirrored in the surface of the lake. Two sisters multiply each other's power.

Conversion (Minds): Frederica's personal application of the family attribute. A synthesis of Conversion, Spiritual Evocation, and Transfer of Consciousness. A jewel is a prison that stops flow, and the nature of Conversion allows for things such as magical energy to be placed within. However, things other than magical energy can be placed within such a prison as well, with sufficient effort. By cross-applying the principle of Transfer of Consciousness, Frederica has developed a system that allows for the movement of a mind into a jewel. While similar to creating a possessed object on face, such things usually deal with the leftover energy, the old recording of a personality known in Chinese Taoism as a "corporeal soul". This, however, is the movement of the "ethereal soul". Quality is incomparable to that of a piddling wraith.

Scandinavian Curses: Simply oriented around physical effects of harm. Does not include those other possibilities such as attacking the mind, causing decay, inverting causality, resonating with similarities, and so on. The specialization is, of course, the single-action curse known as Gandr. Through overcharging, release of a more powerful "Finn Shot" is possible. At the maximum output, even stopping a heart is possible.

Golems: Creation of golems. A magical construct that originates in Kabbalah, namely in the creations of Solomon ibn Gabriol, also known as Avicebron. A golem is created via using jewels as organs, parchment as skin, and mercury as binding. Other materials such as a magus for the core, a covering of stone, and the like are also considerations. They are doll-type familiars, similar in atmosphere to puppets but more machine-like in their nature. Skill is merely average; however, due to using her own jewels as the organs, absurd results can be exhibited.

Equipment:

Jewels: Five jewels which contain enough prana to be called "A rank", all of the Earth element. None of them contain a mind at the current time. While the entirety of Frederica's excess magical energy over the course of her life has been enough to manufacture fifteen jewels, ten of them have been used for the creations below.

Limbs: Frederica's limbs are not constructs of flesh, but rather golem limbs. In each limb is a jewel that contains a mind, and sufficient prana to be called "A rank". While Frederica can move them according to her will, her limbs automatically move in "Frederica's best interests" as well. Unlike the Bronze-Link Manipulators of Fiore Yggdmillennia, their movement thought patterns are as expansive as that which the human mind can contain. While it increases prana expenditure, it is possible to utilize a shapeshifting function of the limbs, increasing their size and destructive power. In other words, the defensive capabilities of those bronze arms and the offensive capabilities of that mercury construct; the downside is, of course, that they are parts of her body.
An excellent body modification that only a madwoman would carry out. Were it not for the difficulty of doing so considering the Edelfelt Crest, she certainly would have moved her own mind into a jewel as well.

Golems: Six humanoid golems, each with an "A rank" jewel containing a mind as its core. In terms of combat acuity, adaptability, and so on, it is at a level that mere artificial intelligence cannot reach. However, they are merely golems made by one of average talent in the art, so while the software is monstrous, the hardware is lacking. Also, despite her considerable od, controlling all six of these golems in tandem with a Servant at one time is impossible; the most she can manage is three golems and a Servant.

Skills: While Frederica herself has never learned combat arts, she can replicate the result through the use of her limbs. Mediocre cook. Acceptable at mental math. Exquisite at annoying others.

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Nope, that's just what happens when you forget to change it.

EDIT: I've just noticed that the max number of people you can have in a PM including yourself is six, so since Japan needs eight we'll be using discord unless there are objections.

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Alrighty, so I'm happy to say that, at this point, I'm firming up all slots at this time. This means for all slots except for Matou and Thule, I will no longer be accepting applications. The Matou character by Berserk Gene and Thule character by Yukitamas should be done shortly. I also don't anticipate receiving new applications for those two roles, but you never know.

This means that everyone with an approved application can now post it in the Characters tab.

Now then, let me introduce the factions.

Japanese: @Art of Fun @GrafRoy Zeppeli @Berserk Gene @Ijoyen @MeteorD @Cu Chulainn @Liu Mei

German: @Rune_Alchemist @Breo @Yukitamas

Obviously one side has quite a few more people than the other! That can be either a blessing or a curse, depending on how the team planning goes.

Now then, each faction will be receiving a group PM from me shortly. That will be the "private faction chat", so to speak, where you can talk OOC about plans, make strategies to deal with enemies in advance, and so on. Basically all faction-related chatting should go there. IC planning can also occur, for instance you can say "Our characters met IC and talked about X" in the chat if you don't want to publicly post it since it includes confidential info.

That said, please still use the OOC here for general chatting!

Instead of PMs, there will also be the option for me to set up Discord chats for each of the factions, so if you would prefer that, let me know!

You'll be deciding how to pair people up through those private chats, so start thinking about who on the faction you want. As a note for the Japanese faction, Ruler will necessarily be paired with the Einzbern, and @Berserk Gene has, due to bad prior circumstances, requested he be paired with himself despite my recommendations against, so essentially it's Fafnir and Stheno as the options for the IJA and Tohsaka Masters.

If you want to talk to someone else on your team in private, one-on-one, that's fine but please include me in that message so I can see what all's going on. The same goes for OOC conspiration with someone on the other team. I'm not going to interfere with your planning, I just want to make sure there's as little metagaming as possible.

Information on logistics has been added to the OP, so please ask if you have any clarifying questions on that. Expect to start the roleplay once the last couple Masters have trickled in!

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As mentioned, this character's existence does not mean I will be helping the German faction in any way. The German faction should not expect me to take part in their planning despite this character's existence, and the Japanese faction should not worry that I will be helping one faction over another.

Edelfelt 2

Frederica Edelfelt

Gender: Female

Age: 25

Personality: Best described as a fairly simple, amicable young woman. While bearing the demeanor of a princess raised in a castle, the sort of arrogance indicative of the Edelfelt's stature is rarely present. While she carries herself like one who sees herself as inherently superior to others, simple observations based on her posture and gait, she does not express this in conversation. Bearing a warm smile and a calm tone, one could call her an ojou-sama in gesture but yamato nadeshiko in action.

To some, however, this makes her an utterly unbearable existence who they want to punch in the face.

...however, it is nonetheless a truth that, whenever you distort someone's mind, so too is yours distorted. It is a rule similar to the nature of curses, that whenever you curse someone, you curse yourself as well. It is for this reason that magi refrain from using such things as Suggestion frivolously, as to embark down that path is to condemn your own mind.

Regretfully, Frederica's study of magecraft has itself been based around the twisting of minds.

The sense of self has already begun to erode, and the distinction between "myself" and "them" has been blurred. In other words, Frederica has started to lose sight of herself, becoming similar to that human who dared to consume souls in a bid for immortality. Shifts in temperament occur regularly, seemingly unprovoked, and the more she walks down this path, the easier it becomes to take the next step.

One could say that her Origin is in the process of awakening. The element flows from the Origin, so it is only natural that hers is Earth. To contain, to bind, to restrict. To take the everything of someone and lock it away, unchanging, undying, unreactive. To do that same thing to herself. This impulse which was originally nothing more than "something which led her to her style of magecraft" has grown into "something which has made her obsessed with that style".

Given this increasing mental distortion, the Origin is expected to fully awaken in approximately fifteen years. At that point, self-destruction will occur.

Biography: A princess locked in a castle. At the same time, given that there was another princess beside her, a different form of princess. To say that she lived alongside her sister would be an understatement, given the nature of the Edelfelt Sorcery Trait. However, while the gait of the two stood as identical, their content could not be more different.

In her youth, Frederica was the epitome of proper, a calm and warmhearted young girl who met everyone with a smile. The perfect status of an Edelfelt, one might say, save for that she was unable to channel anything analogous to ruthlessness. As time went on and her initially-bratty sister mellowed out, Frederica delved into magecraft. Picking up the family craft was a simple allowance, and from there she expanded into other venues. Spiritual Evocation, Transfer of Conscious, even some elementary Kabbalah she picked up on a whim.

This curiosity of hers could be said to be the spark of her downfall, as it is what led her to work out her own personal form of Conversion. By the time she had completed the system and revealed its nature to her family, the damage was done. The nature of this was already explained, and so will not be again. The exquisite glass sculpture had shattered from the eye of the storm moving, and as time drew on this grew all the worse. In that sense, the sisters could be said to have switched places. In their youth, Janika was the fiery one and Frederica the calm one, but now Janika has become a proper Edelfelt, while Frederica has become a decayed mind.

In time, word came to them of a far East ritual. Ordinarily they wouldn't have given it any thought. It was hosted on the land of this barely-notable family named "Tohsaka", and with the cooperation of this family named "Matou" which was apparently so insignificant that no records of them even existed. The third name of "Einzbern", though, was enough to entice them. And so, begrudgingly joining hands with the German faction in a means that could be best called "siding with the enemy of my enemy", the Edelfelt sisters descended on Fuyuki.

Family History: Edelfelt.

Origin: Confine

Elemental Affinity: Earth

Number of Magic Circuits: B

Quality of Magic Circuits: A

Od: A

Magecraft:

Magic Circuit Composition: Abnormal. Suited towards "sharing".

Conversion: Family attribute of the Edelfelt. Strictly speaking, the name covers the concept itself, but it is best known for its conduciveness to Jewel Magecraft. The capability that allows for the Edelfelt to place magical energy into other substances, enduring outside of the body.

Ore Scales: Sorcery Trait of the Edelfelt. The Crest is shared. The two Masters are one. The moon in the night sky is mirrored in the surface of the lake. Two sisters multiply each other's power.

Conversion (Minds): Frederica's personal application of the family attribute. A synthesis of Conversion, Spiritual Evocation, and Transfer of Consciousness. A jewel is a prison that stops flow, and the nature of Conversion allows for things such as magical energy to be placed within. However, things other than magical energy can be placed within such a prison as well, with sufficient effort. By cross-applying the principle of Transfer of Consciousness, Frederica has developed a system that allows for the movement of a mind into a jewel. While similar to creating a possessed object on face, such things usually deal with the leftover energy, the old recording of a personality known in Chinese Taoism as a "corporeal soul". This, however, is the movement of the "ethereal soul". Quality is incomparable to that of a piddling wraith.

Scandinavian Curses: Simply oriented around physical effects of harm. Does not include those other possibilities such as attacking the mind, causing decay, inverting causality, resonating with similarities, and so on. The specialization is, of course, the single-action curse known as Gandr. Through overcharging, release of a more powerful "Finn Shot" is possible. At the maximum output, even stopping a heart is possible.

Golems: Creation of golems. A magical construct that originates in Kabbalah, namely in the creations of Solomon ibn Gabriol, also known as Avicebron. A golem is created via using jewels as organs, parchment as skin, and mercury as binding. Other materials such as a magus for the core, a covering of stone, and the like are also considerations. They are doll-type familiars, similar in atmosphere to puppets but more machine-like in their nature. Skill is merely average; however, due to using her own jewels as the organs, absurd results can be exhibited.

Equipment:

Jewels: Five jewels which contain enough prana to be called "A rank", all of the Earth element. None of them contain a mind at the current time. While the entirety of Frederica's excess magical energy over the course of her life has been enough to manufacture fifteen jewels, ten of them have been used for the creations below.

Limbs: Frederica's limbs are not constructs of flesh, but rather golem limbs. In each limb is a jewel that contains a mind, and sufficient prana to be called "A rank". While Frederica can move them according to her will, her limbs automatically move in "Frederica's best interests" as well. Unlike the Bronze-Link Manipulators of Fiore Yggdmillennia, their movement thought patterns are as expansive as that which the human mind can contain. While it increases prana expenditure, it is possible to utilize a shapeshifting function of the limbs, increasing their size and destructive power. In other words, the defensive capabilities of those bronze arms and the offensive capabilities of that mercury construct; the downside is, of course, that they are parts of her body.
An excellent body modification that only a madwoman would carry out. Were it not for the difficulty of doing so considering the Edelfelt Crest, she certainly would have moved her own mind into a jewel as well.

Golems: Six humanoid golems, each with an "A rank" jewel containing a mind as its core. In terms of combat acuity, adaptability, and so on, it is at a level that mere artificial intelligence cannot reach. However, they are merely golems made by one of average talent in the art, so while the software is monstrous, the hardware is lacking. Also, despite her considerable od, controlling all six of these golems in tandem with a Servant at one time is impossible; the most she can manage is three golems and a Servant.

Skills: While Frederica herself has never learned combat arts, she can replicate the result through the use of her limbs. Mediocre cook. Acceptable at mental math. Exquisite at annoying others.

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Alrighty, now at this point we're just waiting on the Edelfelt, Thule, and Matou Masters, as well as the second Caster application which has been delayed due to real life circumstances.

Since I don't want to delay starting because of waiting on someone to come along to fill the very last slot, if someone without a character on the Japanese faction has not volunteered to make the second Edelfelt by the time that said applications are complete, I'll fill in for that role. I'll make the sheet itself tomorrow evening so that nobody has to wait on me writing it up.

I will be clear in saying that this does not mean I will be competing on the German faction, and that any role in the OOC decision-making process that I have for the German team will be null; you can essentially consider my character as something puppeted by the will of the general faction in that instance. It will not be a GM character and should not be viewed as one, since I don't want to interfere in that sort of thing at all.

Obviously this isn't my preference, but it's the best thing I can think of to do if we don't find anyone in a reasonable time span. If, during the roleplay, someone comes along wanting to join, then I will give the option to take that Edelfelt character off of my hands.

Alternatively, if any of you have friends who might be interested in making an Edelfelt, please reach out to them!

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@Ijoyen
Magic Circuit quantity to E, quality to EX, Od to a sub-E value (pick a value between 1 and 2, and put it there instead of a rank).

Gloves will need prana to be run through them to activate.

Alchemy ability should be a good bit better than just above the average; any Einzbern with half-decent magecraft ability should be pretty first-rate.

I'm assuming the healing works by speeding up natural healing processes. State if that's not the case.

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I do have an idea for an IJA Master. I had something in mind involving him, Berserker, and possibly a Master of the German Faction.

Basically, my IJA Master could have been in contact with Germany as a spy or some other sort of operative. Either a German faction member could have given him Fafnir's catalyst, or knowingly letting him steal it, with the intention that they will easily beat Fafnir since they have Sigurd in their ranks. IJA Master then gives Berserker to one of the founding families who don't have a sufficient catalyst to summon a Servant.

@Cu Chulainn

We actually do have someone currently working on an IJA Master as of now, but you're still free to make one if you want to compete for the slot!

This does also mean that only the second Edelfelt Master is left, so anyone who doesn't have a character on the Japanese side already should feel free to go for that!

We'll be firming up the Servant slots shortly. The only reason I haven't done that yet is because someone expressed interest a while back, but got a bit delayed in making their sheet due to real life, so they're the last person I'm currently waiting on for the Servant side. Once their sheet is done, which should be in the next day or two, I'll be locking the Servants in.