Test drive meme!

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TEST-DRIVE MEME

Maybe you've considered appping a new character but you're not sure how well they would adjust to the in-game scenario? Well, here's a chance to give it a try!

• Post with a character journal you'd like to voicetest or you've considered apping to Ruby City. Feel free to play them as newcomers or as if they've been here for a while - the setting is your own choice.

•Respond to other threads with new characters or with characters who are already in the game.

• Explore different interactions, find castmates, develop possible CR - anything you want, as long as you have fun!

Comments

assbutt.

[gordianknots]

--Ah, no, you wouldn't have been, would you? [It was always boy, until that bridge. Not that he thinks Saber ever learned about that little moment, and it can be discussed later. Not now, not when there are far more important things to hash out.]

Waver Velvet, with the edition of Lord El-Melloi II. As for magic, my guess is the fifth, which deals with time travel. Problem is I don't know who is using it. And if you're here and I'm here, then there are probably plenty of others as well, scattered from different years.

[untilavalon]

Time travel...

[For some reason, Arthur isn't so sure. But with such a title, it would be true that Waver was a well-studied educator, would it not be?]

Then are you with a servant? My masters--

[...right.]

...My master is not in the vicinity.

[gordianknots]

I am not, nor are there to be any more servant and master teams, or any more grail wars. I dismantled the thing alongside one of the founding families of the Grail War system about, mm, a month ago.

1/2

[untilavalon]

[untilavalon]

You... how can this be?

[Perhaps... Perhaps by his time she has... It should be of no concern to her, she would have won by then, would she not have?]

[gordianknots]

What's the last thing you recall concerning the war?

CASUALLY SWITCHES CANONPOINTS MIDWAY THROUGH WOOPS

[untilavalon]

I...

[She clears her throat, shaking her head.]

I lost in the presence of Gilgamesh.

sits, laughs at your pain

[gordianknots]

So, the fourth war then?

your'e terrible

[untilavalon]

No... Yes, it was the fourth, but...

[But what could that mean? He couldn't have been alive, or at least not as young as he is on her communicator.]

Sky's blue.

[gordianknots]

I see. [he takes a beat and considers all of this, including her previous statement and--] -- Ah, well that's that mystery solved.

[Not that he just made sense to anyone else.] There was a glitch in the grail system, meaning that the grail reappeared after ten years rather than the usual sixty.

Water's wet.

[untilavalon]

[Mystery solved?!]

That can't be.

[The Grail-- glitched? Gone? It wasn't... She had to...]

Meg has Waver feels.

[gordianknots]

Something went awry in the third war that bollocked up everything else. Which makes a concerning amount of sense when you consider that individuals like Caster were considered quote-un-quote heroic spirits eligible for summons.

Luc is easily enabled.

[untilavalon]

That can't be right!

[It couldn't be, it couldn't be, it couldn't be. She had to win the grail, she had to make amends--]

How?! How was there no other option?!

So really everyone wins.

[gordianknots]

Because if you are given the choice between destroying an entire city for the third time in thirty years and letting the cycle perpetuate itself or destroying the cause of the problem so that there is no future harm, which are you going to go with?

[untilavalon]

...Destroyed?

[The look on her face makes it clear; she isn't thinking of Fuyuki when she thinks of something desecrated.]

Then-- then that was Gilgamesh's wish?!

[gordianknots]

[he shakes his head no]

--As far as we've come to understand it, through studying the leylines the grail uses, the Grail wasn't even wished upon in the fourth war, and the accumulated prana within it from -- [from all the servants including Rider and he still can't disconnect that thought] -- The prana gathered was unused and it was unable to sit for very long. So, it occured ten years later for the fifth war, and again, it was not used properly. So, no, I don't think the fire is Archer's doing.

Perhaps I should give a more complete history from where I'm standing, so that we're on the same page.

[untilavalon]

Perhaps a more thorough explanation would be beneficial.

[This is not a happy Saber. This is not an okay Saber. She can barely keep herself from shaking.]

[gordianknots]

--Prior to you fight, Archer's opponent was Rider. I believe you can surmise the outcome of the fight, based on the final opponents.

The after is what concerns you then. There was a massive fire where the grail materialized and Fuyuki was devastated. The place is now a park by the way, although unsurprisingly empty based on what happened there.

Anyway, ten years passed, and the Grail returned. I'm lucky enough to have found a friend in one of the fifth war's participants, which is why I even know about this, but during the course of war five, the Grail nearly was completed again, but failed. Gilgamesh er-- well, he somehow lingered in those ten years, but was eventually defeated. The destruction of the Grail, this time, was limited to the temple in the hills of Fuyuki, and disaster was mostly avoided.

Onto what for me is the present. [he breathes out] The Mages Association tried to continue the wars. Rin Tohsaka, head of one of the founding families of the grail war system, opposed them based on the fact that land of Fuyuki was hers to administer and everyone involved knew that the system was broken. Rin is a friend, I offered help, and we did what was needed to take the system apart.

[untilavalon]

[Arthur barely notices how her heart begins to race as he relays the story. She can no longer keep herself from shaking, and the watch wobbles in her hand.

Her breath hitches in her throat and her voice almost cracks when she speaks.]

That can't be. The grail can't be cursed. That can't be! I had to win, I was destined to win!

[gordianknots]

Respectfully, what reason would I have to give out false information concerning the nature of the grail?

[untilavalon]

Quiet!

[Arthur shakes, her voice nearly a shriek as she tries to command him. He doesn't understand. Why doesn't he understand?

BUt then, maybe it is she who doesn't understand. How can this be? The grail--]

It was the one way!

[gordianknots]

[Waver takes a beat to blink and look more than slightly taken aback by the command, but he finds equilibrium against the silence quickly enough. It's more than enough time to raise a single eyebrow and look at Saber for further explanation, or at least to communicate a willingness to explain further.]

[untilavalon]

It was my one chance!

[She takes a shaky, almost panicked breath.]

The grail was all I had-- all I had to save Britannia! To fix my mistake! To protect my people!

The throne-- I have a deal with the throne!

[gordianknots]

[He nods slowly, running his free hand through his hair]

It may be modified in some way, then. I don't presume to know, nor can I offer information about that. I can only tell you what I know happened and what I am responsible for, for better or for worse.

[untilavalon]

[Saber is quiet then, trying to keep herself from shaking more. She isn't sure what to say-- what to do. What does she do now, that all her efforts are for naught and yet she somehow still lives? What is she supposed to live for?

She can never fix her failure as king-- she can do nothing. And yet, something within her reminds her that this... isn't the way to compose herself.]

...My apologies. I am grateful for your honesty.