( grail war event plotting post! )

[sagittaspei]

Ruby City Holy Grail War

PLOTTING POST

This is the plotting post for the Ruby City Holy Grail War event! Please use this area to partner up in master-servant pairs, and generally get some ideas flowing for the event.


Please be aware: we have exactly one master-to-servant right now, so you should be able to team up. If you haven’t found a partner by Thursday, please contact us, and we will employ the random number generator to pair you up.


The GoogleDocs Spreadsheet has all of our participants, everyone’s stats, and will be updated. When you have found your master-servant team, please contact Fel and Meg so they can add the information into the spreadsheet! This post on Waver’s journal is being used to keep an eye on threads, and will serve as an additional point to contact the mods, ask questions, etc.


Below the cut is a quick list of everyone’s status as master, servant, or interference!


MASTERS
Claudia Kotomine, Saber, Maya, Conrad, Roxy, Integra Hellsing, Xion, Adam Young, Caren Orstenia, Lioriley, Masamori Sumimura, Erwin Smith, Tifa Lockhart, Lamont Toucey, Elana, IB, Areith Gainsborough, Chouza Habaki, Ahiru, Danathanu, Sasha Braus, Machi Tobaye


SERVANTS
Archer: Madoka, Utsuho Reiuji, Rip Van Winkle
Assassin: Jason Todd, Zacharie,
Berserker: Eren Jaeger, Mikasa Ackerman, Labrys, Oz Vessalius
Caster: Jane Foster, Alice (Lidell), Katherine Shalazar
Lancer: Sephiroth, Obera Yun Fang, Astharoshe Asran, Ishimaru
Rider: Waver Velvet, Jean Kirstein, Celty, Tieria Erde
Saber: Davespirte, Marco Bodt, Link, Cloud Strife

INTERFERENCE
Manak Sajou, Avenger, Lancer, Kirei Kotomine, Hange Zoe, Caster (William Shakespeare), Soga no Tojiko, Ageha Habaki

WE BEGIN 29 SEPTEMBER!
SEE YOU THEN!

Comments

[gordianknots]

Okay so, Waver has experience with Grail Wars before and wants to stop this one. He'll be keen on gathering allies who are not okay with fighting at all, as well as looking for means of monitoring activity throughout the city. If you're good with science, Waver wants to be your friend.

Waver is also extremely fine with going out and engaging in servant battles against those who are taking this war at face value and plan on using the Grail. He's aware this is very hypocritical, and will be trying to avoid having to do this unless absolutely necessary.

Waver is extremely open to negative CR, considering that he's going to spend the entire event going "DON'T DO THE THING!!!"

Also, Fox. If you want to make good on that idea you threw out ages ago about a Kirei and Waver fight? This would be the time, Waver would feel safest getting into a fight with Kirei if he's a servant.

[departed_child_of_gods]

I don't suppose recruiting an outsider ghost who doesn't even get what the hell is going on would be of any use, would it?

[gordianknots]

For Waver, all resources are valuable right now!

Assuming he explained what was going on to her, how would she react, and what would she want to do knowing what is going on?

[departed_child_of_gods]

As far as she's concerned, the whole thing would sound stupid and ill-informed; fighting over some cup that may or may not grant wishes is really impractical next to actually using your own mental and physical acuity to get your goals. (Which is sort of ironic considering what she did to try to maintain power, but if anybody knows about the unreliability of objects, it's her.) If she could kick the butt of the Grail itself, she would; as it stands, she'd probably just listen to Waver's suggestions on how to handle it, and maybe smack around anybody who's trying to egg on the whole thing.

(On a side note, she'd try to get some Taoist converts on the side, but considering the Crown Prince isn't even IN Ruby City, she'd see it as sort of pointless since there wouldn't be a physical figure to rally behind.)

[gordianknots]

Having her be eyes/ears and generally sending reports then would be a possible route of action, and you could probably engage masters in fights. 8|a

(oh god that'd be interesting.)

[departed_child_of_gods]

especially if she fights okuu again oh god.

[gordianknots]

That works for me! One of the early network posts (we're looking at day 2 or 3) will include the whooole sphiel about what's going on, so that'd be a great chance for them to get in touch.

[neverbeamemory]

I dare you to try and dissuade Sephiroth from thinking that an omnipotent wish-granting cup is a must-have!

[gordianknots]

oh my god this is like the road to a servant fight

[neverbeamemory]

Totally is! Once he's gotten over the necessary arrangement implications and wow cool he can be invisible too it'll be executed with his usual precise flair.

Collateral damage, what's that?

[gordianknots]

SEPHIROTH PLEASE DON'T TELEPORT SPAM THAT'S WHAT A FIVE YEAR OLD WOULD DO

nothing that we need to worry about

[neverbeamemory]

BUT HEY IT'S THE MOST ENERGY-SAVING TECHNIQUE!

Lots of fights, lots of holes in walls. Legit, right?

[gordianknots]

GILGAMESH DOES THIS IN FATE/ZERO I'M NOT SURE HOW I FEEL ABOUT THE SIMILARITIES HERE

But okay, plotting had on for .5 seconds. If a Sephiroth v Waver fight happens (I assume no one will die, especially if it is early on), I can fully and confidently say that Waver would not hesitate to make a network alert of "this servant is very powerful and very serious about fighting for the grail, we need to get rid of him." Would you be okay with that/potentially making him a target?

[chiabrows]

/raises hand

I definitely still want to have Lamont and Waver team up somehow, but I wasn't sure if you wanted that to go so far as to make them a Master/Servant pair? o3o

[gordianknots]

I'm definitely up for full on master-servant if you are, as Waver's not attached to anyone yet.

[chiabrows]

Sounds good to me, unless there's anyone you'd prefer to try snagging to be Waver's Master first? I'm up for making just tentative plans too, is that's the case!

[gordianknots]

Dude I am so up for this being a thing, I think that they will compliment each other nicely!

[chiabrows]

Sweet, let's do this then! \o/ I'm guessing Waver is going to let Lamont in on all the ~inside info~ for the War and the Grail and stuff?

[gordianknots]

Hell frickin' yeah.

tbh he'll probably be one of the first people to have the full understanding. It might be interesting to see if Lamont circulates ANY of that information on the network and see who acts on it, just to get an idea of who might seriously fight for the grail, and those who are adverse.

[shadow_spread]

Waver why are you ruining a chance to get out of here Masamori does not understand

[gordianknots]

because holy shit the last time he dealt with this thing it set a frickin' city on fire

you and team sephiroth both need to stop

[shadow_spread]

eh Masa brings psycho ayakshi back from the dead because he can totally handle them

so no he's not stopping sob

[gordianknots]

Nope. Not good enough. Experience > your emotion. Waver you'r a cock

Well I guess that means we'll be having some conflict now doesn't it

[shadow_spread]

Masa thinks a lot of what your experience indicates is that you guys sucked at this

I do believe so yes

[gordianknots]

No, you see, it indicates that the system is flawed and needs to be destroyed.

God we really should have a truce post where people can sit and try and argue this thing out like adults lol like that'll work