>Since there was a pretty strong reaction to it both in the thread and outside it by people following me, 'Naked confrontation' is off the table.

>>24855000
run up and hug her thank her for saving us.

>>24855019

Awww

>>24855000

Call out to her softly

"Look like you WERE right rider."

Wait for her to look up, then trace a knife. Then offer to let her check our identity.

>>24855000
Run in and give her a full on hug

So, end of the last thread...

>Tell her she was right about us being an imposter.
>Something only the imposter would know.
>Approach her with knife drawn.

Guys, I'm not saying this plan will backfire, but perhaps we should think this one out more.

>>24855055
Running up is a baaaad idea.
Gently call over to her. Tell her that we were abducted. Thank her for finding out and preventing us from hurting anybody. Ask if she can verify if we're actually back, or acting through another body double.

>>24855000
Keep your distance. No sudden moves. Clear, concise explanation that Rider was right about the BODY being a fake, and making that excruciatingly tough call.

Deliberately trace a small knife and inflict a small cut in the hand so Rider could sniff out whether we have our true body now.

>>24855125
Dont forget we need to yell "Riiiiideeeer dont do anything crazy" in a heartfelt cry as we charge in

Threadly reminder that the updated Ebook can be found at http://pastebin.com/kbGzcbDb

Voting for >>24855090, but keeping >>24855135 in mind, perhaps we should sit down a few feet from her, then trace and cut palm, then detrace knife. Maybe talk to her before she approaches, saying that Assassin made the fake and we bolted out of the church the moment after we were killed.

>>24855000
"You were right, and I need your help to know if this is really me right now."
Walk forward without hesitation because we have to show we trust her, maintaining eye contact every step of the way. Offer hand for taste-testing.

So, considering that there's blood everywhere and rider was having problems because of it earlier, we should go towards her slowly, and if she goes to attack, CQC hug her.

>>24855209
Oh, and I almost forgot...
Make a totally mood-ruining remark like "I was fully expecting the first time you nailed me to end in blood, tears and a lot of confusion for everyone involved, but this wasn't what I had in mind."

>>24855216
Tactical Cooldown Hug Action?

Maybe just start talking. "As soon as you stabbed me, I woke up in the church with Zouken telling Assassin about his "simulacrum". I got away surprisingly easy. Rider?"

We should be careful. Freaked out Rider could get REALLY bad, really fast

Should we ask Sakura to come in with us? Ask her to be ready to use a Command Seal to ensure that Rider doesn't hurt herself? Keep a bit of distance between us and Sakura so Rider doesn't think we intend to use her as a hostage?

>>24855358

No.

She will take it VERY badly on seeing a corpse of Shirou.

All of them will.

>>24855153
>>24855196
>>24855209
This seems like pretty much the plan to go with.

Though
>>24855216
This brings up an important point. She was saying that even with the smell of old blood from our wound in the dojo, she thought she could handle a few hours before succumbing to her baser instincts.

This is a LOT more blood than that (though the fact that it's not "genuine" blood might throw the equation off a bit? We have no way to know.)

Hopefully she's able to hold it off for around a half-hour in these conditions.

>>24855227
Gotta save this line for AFTER the crisis has been averted, I think.

Definitely worth saying, though.

Rolled 3

Part of me wants to work this through logically so nothing bad happens.
Part of me wants to make a bluff roll and pretend to be a ghost for the rest of this quest, or until someone calls us on it.
Guess which part won?

>>24855450
I was just copying over my favorite from the aftermath of last thread.

>>24855000
"Rider, you were right. Sort of.
However, you DID kill me, so I'm afraid I'm going to have to punish you. And I am going to do so in the most cruel, painful manner I can think of.
I forgive you, Medusa."

I step inside, slowly and softly. "Rider?" Her head perks slightly, grabbing for something I can't see. "It's me. Listen, you were right. you actually saved me." She freezes mid motion, waiting. Listening? "The body was a fake, Zouken had me trapped somehow. When you killed it the real me woke up."

"..... How do you know you're the real one?"

".... Honestly, I don't. I was hoping you could tell me."

I stay several paces away, letting her decide on her own. "What if you aren't real? What if you're Assassin again?"

"I won't let him hurt you."

"How?"

"Sheer stubborn determination." I respond levelly. I then slowly conjure a knife and slice open a finger. "I'm sorry I'm asking this while you're so freaked out, but can you check? That's the only way I know for certain."

She sits there, staring at me for a long time waiting, thinking.

[DC10 Trust]

Rolled 12

>>24855763

>>24855783
Right then.

Rolled 2

>>24855763

Rolled 7

>>24855763

Rolled 3

>>24855763
In Rider we trust.

Rolled 6

>>24855763

Rolled 6

>>24855763

Goddamn we suck

>>24855783
Thank you

Oh boy, gonna be one of those threads.

>>24855783

THANK YOU BASED FIRST ROLLER

Everyone else can report to the soylent Green facility.

>>24855090
>>24855208


Dismiss the knife almost immediately after cutting ouselves. If we can get blood by biting our lip rather than producing weapons, even better.

"You were right, you know. After the spike hit home, I woke up in a Magi's atalier under the church. Zouken was talking about what a useful the decoy was, and about how our alliance would fturn to shit because of this. I barely managed to sneak out."

Extend the bloody hand/lip/whatever.

"While I have to admit getting nailed by you wasn't how I envisioned it, that was the best thing that could have happened. I don't blame you for what you did, and I'm grateful for freeing me. Now, if I'm real, this blood will taste like at the temple. If not, then I'm probably another decoy."

Approach, gently.

"In either case, I just want you to know - thank you. Rescuing me from that church did more good than you know."

>>24855763
Whatever we do, assure her that (if our existential fear are true and we are a dummy), we need to raid the Church. Shirou's body is still there, even if the remote control dickery is still at play. We need to let her know that we still believe in her and that we can be saved, and we aren't dead.

Keep the hope alive. Make her believe in happy endings.

If we are another simualcrum, Rider is going to be soooooo fucking traumatised, it's not funny.

Rolled 7

>>24855870
>>24855944
This.

>>24855997
"First boy I like in three thousand years, and I have to stab him to death. Twice."

Are we sure Rider doesn't have E-rank luck too?

>>24855997
I'm pretty much convinced that may be the case, though I'm hoping there would be less trauma for all involved.

I'm thinking the true body (not the bland flavored blood Rider initially tasted at the Temple) is currently in that forest clearing. Like Merlin said...

>>24856041
Its D rank I think.

>>24855944
This, this, this.
I wouldn't place any bets that we're in our real body right now.

However, I suggest that if we are a fake, we let everyone know this time around, go off with rider and have her kill us again (or someone else if once was too much for her), destroy the bodies, and then have everyone else make a plan and raid the church without us.

If we're not there and the bodies are destroyed, Zouken can't learn whatever plan everyone else comes up with.

>>24856073
>I wouldn't place any bets that we're in our real body right now.
I mean, they came down into the church's basement looking for us, and were convinced that we had escaped before we botched our attempt to stealth away.

No reason for them to freak out about our going missing if the thing they saw was missing was a backup simulacrum body.

>>24856073
Our body MIGHT also be out in the forest with Avenger, which would neatly explain why Merlin thought we were out there. Rather than have Rider kill us again we could have them raid the church while we go kick over Avenger's sand castle. If this body isn't real, we know its in one of those two places.

>>24856130
Here's a Shriou. There's a Shirou. Shirou, Shirou and more Shirou, Stab a Shirou, kiss a Shirou. Shirou, Shirou
Gil

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>>24856190
ITS HAPPENING

>>24856130
>>24856102
>>24856073
Hold off on killing us, even if it is a dupe

1-Being killed hurts. Seeing people Shirou loves hurts them. Don't cause them to be hurt when they can be saved.
2-We can skill actively participate in our rescue rather than be comatose in worm-rapist's lair. He's already pissed that we escaped once - I don't wanna go back to him, again. Why not loudly declare "SURE IS A GOOD DAY TO FUCK UP A CHURCH!" and then saunter off later giving our harem enough time to plan.
3-We may be real, and people die when they are killed.

She slowly stands up and walks over to me, taking my hand and slowly giving the cut on my finger a tiny suck.

There's a tiny, surprised gasp as she throws her arms around me, mumbling something in a language I don't understand. For a few moments we just stand there. Then, some stupid reflexively snarky part of my brain tries to ruin the moment. "You know, I think maybe you misunderstood what people mean by 'getting nailed'. I'm pretty sure it's not supposed to involve this much blood and emotional trauma."

"Pfft, yeah. If you do it the boring way." She returns, surprising me with a kiss before suddenly walking past me. "A-anyway, now we know that it's dead and the real you is back, right?" She hesitates. ".... It was still you, right?"

"Kinda. I mean, I was there in spirit at least until you attacked it. The body was a loaner apparently, but it was still me."

"So you're still you you who...." She trails off, relieved smile on her face. ".... Alright. That's good to know." We step out of the Dojo, and Ilya gives us both a surprised looks before letting out a relived sigh and walking in the direction of the front door.

>Actions?

>>24856073
... My inner mad scientist wants to study this simulacrum phenomenon more and use it to, I dunno, make functional bodies for Sakura and Ilya.

But my rational side is telling me not to mess with magical experiments that involve Zouken.

>>24856130
My guess is that our body was out in the forest, not with Avenger, but with Zouken.

He had to be keeping our body SOMEWHERE, seeing as the Matou house got blown up.

That'd mean his attack on the church was as much about getting rid of Kirei's meddling as it was about securing an "actual" base of operations for whatever he has planned.

(Since Zouken initially met with us through Assassin in a warehouse like those down by the docks, that could've been his initial secondary base of operations. We later learned that Kirei had been snooping around by the docks, so it could be that Zouken might have attacked Kirei to try and get rid of whatever he had learned there.)

All speculation, obviously, but that's half the fun.

>>24856225
Structural Analysis on the fake cadaver?

We magical CSI now.

Later, we debrief the rest of our trusted team, then assemble and demolish the church.

>>24856225

Get everyone inside.

Show them the body, explain the situation, then BURN IT.

That body must burn. All the information it's learn. It will tell Zouken of MERLIN as well. It must be atomised.

>>24856225
[x] MAD SCIENCE

>>24856225
We need to dispose of the simulacrum corpse to the best of our ability, as we overheard them discussing that if the spirit returns to the main body, the remains of the simulacrum will attempt to return to its master by any means necessary in order to transmit what it had learned.

If we decide to postpone this until after explaining everything to the rest of the household (which is a perfectly reasonable thing to do), we should at least keep an eye on the thing so it doesn't melt into a puddle of magic goop and slop out the door.

Other than that, we need to let everyone know what the deal was with the whole "situation" inside.

>>24856225
Find Simulacrum, destroy it. Assassin said that if it doesn't return alive he losses a bit of himself. Fairy sure it's dead, but take no chances.
Infodump everyone. Be sure to state "Rider's intuition was right and she did the right thing, no matter how confusing it was at the time."
>>24856273
Let's not burn it and let the sight and smell of a burning body invoke PTSD Shirou, we don't need that right now.

So we should secure the body, or destroy it and let everyone else know what was going on. Zouken is NOT allowed to get a hold of it and it'll be grabbed the moment it leaves our sight.

Other than that, see if we're back to normal now. If we are, see if we're able to contract again, maybe have Ilya take a look at us.

>>24856312
>Let's not burn it and let the sight and smell of a burning body invoke PTSD Shirou, we don't need that right now.
Oh man, especially what with the body looking like an identical copy of him.

THAT'D be a hell of a way to lose a couple SAN points.

>>24856225
Destroy the Simulacrum

Ask Rider what is was she mumbled. Hug her again, HUG ILYA because she just saw her brother skewered in front of her. Sort out what to do with the body.

>>24856227
>>24856271
>>24856289
>>24856325
Reminder that Assassin managed to sneak in our house on Saturday, passed Saber and everyone who was inside, to let us talk to Zouken. I wouldn't put it passed him to sneak in again to retrieve the Simulacrum

>>24856225

1. Explain what just happened to everyone.

2. Make DAMN SURE the thing is 100% ultra-extra-mega dead. If there is any chance whatsoever of it exploding into evil zouken worms or the like, we burn the damn thing. If its well and truly inert, have Rin and Ilya take a poke at it to see if we can learn anything.

3. Inform everyone of what we overheard from Zouken. Particularly the bits about some as-of-yet unidentified person in our little alliance being manipulated/blackmailed/working for Zouken. Most likely he was using us as a hostage to get his claws into someone.

>>24856358
>passed
past*

>>24856312
>>24856273
>>24856329

I disagree. We should burn it, but not NOW.

We should strike while the iron's hot. Fuck with Zouken and his plans and figure out who the third person was at the Church (we managed to ID two of them - Zouken & Assassin)

Afterwards, though. Shirou needs to relive what happened in the Fire 10 years ago. We can't really experience that until we have a trigger. Lighting outsevlves on fire is a bit dangerous, nach. However, seeing something as personal as your own doppelganger burn? Might give us some insights.


>>24856365

Just be sure to have our harem (ESPECIALLY Sakura) there when it happens - she's on the verge of a breakdown, too, and having us do the "You saw me at my weakest, but your strength pulled me through" bit might prove helpful.

>>24856365
Solid instructions. I'd hold off on burning it for now (I wanna counterstrike at the Church while we can), but the gist of this is tactically sound.

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>>24856358
Good point. Learn what we can from it now, then burn it. Don't let it out of our sight.

>>24856446
Perhaps we should wrap it up and carry it with us when we raid the church.

I personally think it would be overkill, but I have the mental image if SHirou slapping the shit out of Zouken using the dummy-doll as a cudgel.

"And this-"

TWACK

"-is for making-"

THWACK

"Rider cry!"

>>24856365
Oh, and one last thing.

Call everyone who isn't already aware of what just happened (Caster, Lancer/Bazette, Archer/Issei, ect) and let them know that shit has gone down, and Zouken+Assassin are now active and potentially hostile. If we manage to get a hold of Archer ask him for advice on killing Zouken, he can probably give us some suggestions on putting him down for good.

>>24856513
>Perhaps we should wrap it up and carry it with us when we raid the church.
The entire point in getting rid of the simulacrum is so it can't make its way back to Zouken and transmit all of its delicious intel.

And you want us to not only bring it with us to his base of operations, but put it in direct physical contact with him.

Because you think using it as an improvised bludgeoning weapon would be funny?

Man, I don't even know anymore.

>>24856513
Not gonna be the first time a Shirou is used as a weapon. Projectile or melee.

Heeyyy~ Maybe we can use this body as a focal point for tracing those swords that are hard to summon ('Folly' for one thing).

>>24856543
This has the added benefit of telling whoever Zouken baited that the rest of the alliance is focusing on killing Zouken, and it wouldn't be wise to side with him.
...Or, if they come with us, let them stab us all in the back when we're busy with Zouken.

Paranoia ho!

>... So the plan is?

>>24856670
Kill it with swords.

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>>24856670
Give Rider the D

>>24856570
To our knwoeldge, ZOuekn has at his disposal 1-Himself (and all his magical skills), 2-Assassing (Scarier than normal but still the weakest Servant) and 3-Unknown (Possibly Kotomine or Avenger).

We have Two Servants on board with us right now, plus we can call on Lancer, Caster and Arcueid for aid.

We're afraid that if we leave the corpse unattended, it will explore/reanimate/burn our house and steal the insurance.

It can't DO any of these things if we're observing it.

Furthermore, assuming AC-guy is silly enough to follow through on my joke, I doubt Zouken would be able to glean delicious intel on us from the corpse when we're raining down swords, misery, and revenge on his ass.

I thought the intel thing would take some finesse, like putting a HD into an enclosure - something easily done for a skiller person, but requiring some time and delicacy.

>>24856365
I'm vouching for this, AC-guy. It seems sensible.
Seriously, we have this conversation all the time. "Actions?" leads to waffling about in discussion

>>24856670
Burn it. Totally.

>>24856591
The most likely possibility is he was, or was planning to, blackmail Sakura/Rider by using us as a hostage. That would be spot-on to his normal modus operandi, and would almost assuredly have worked as long as he had our real body safely stashed in the cellar.

>>24856670
>[ ] Implant Broken Phantasm sword or lotsa C4 in the fake body, send to Zouken, detonate.

But seriously, dispose of the body and be done with it.

>>24856670
1) Make sure the simulacrum doesn't get up and walk away, or get snatched out from under our noses.
2) Brief the household more in depth on everything that just happened; the girls outside on what happened in the Dojo, Rider on what we overheard Zouken and Assassin talking about, clarify details of both to all parties, etc.
3) Call alliance members and inform them of what happened. Maybe slightly less detail than the people in the house, but make sure they know that Zouken/Assassin are definitely hostile, and that they've taken the Church as their base of operations.

>>24856670
This >>24856365

Explain situation, give the simulacra a quick study to learn what we can learn, then destroy it.

Then try to discern whether the "Zouken was blackmailing Sakura" theory was true.

>>24856670
dispose of the body

>>24856670
>>24856365 This, be sure to preface explanation with something along the lines of "Rider's intuition was right and she did the right thing, no matter how confusing it was at the time."

>>24856698
>Arcueid
She's already gone back home, and has stated that she can not interfere unless shit gets VERY out of hand, at which point we're fucked anyway.

Also...
>>24856396
>figure out who the third person was at the Church

>To our knwoeldge, ZOuekn has at his disposal 1-Himself (and all his magical skills), 2-Assassing (Scarier than normal but still the weakest Servant) and 3-Unknown (Possibly Kotomine or Avenger).
What's making you think there's a third person at the church? We didn't hear anything identified as a third voice; only unattributed voices that we later identified as Zouken and Assassin as we were starting to come to. Did I miss something last thread?

>>24856848
I think he meant the person (currently in the alliance) who is being blackmailed/coerced by Zouken

Hello /tg/, glad to see we're not dead yet. Well, that the real us isn't dead yet. Heh.

>>24856670
Let's practice our Gilgamesh impression on our fake body. Or try out some of dad's ordinance on it. Either way, the thing needs destruction and Assassin needs killing, so every second we waste is a second we're not doing that.

Everyone gathers in the living room, where I sit them down to explain. "Alright, so here's the short of it: at some point fairly recently, I was replaced by a simulacrum duplicate."

"Wait, how did you do that?" Rin asks. "That's really advanced Magecraft."

"I didn't. Assassin did."

".... What?" Sakura asks, confused. "You mean you weren't here?"

"Not knowingly, and not by choice. I mean, I was still here, I was just apparently having something of an out of body experience."

".... So the real you was?"

"Being held by Zouken in the basement of the Church when I woke up. Rider realized it wasn't the real me, and shocked me out of the fake thing and back to reality."

"... I see." Rin responds. "What happened to the fake?"

"... Neutralized, in the Dojo. I'm not sure I'd recommend going in there, I haven't had a chance to clean it up yet."

"Clean what up?" Sakura asks, looking between myself and Rider confused.

"What Shirou means is that I had to kill it when it started freaking out after he lost control of it."

"... So there's a Shirou shaped corpse just sitting in the Dojo?" Saber asks while Rin and Sakura stare at me started. "That's.... rather disturbing."

"So wait, how long has the fake Shirou been running around?" Saber asks.

"I'm not sure. He wouldn't be able to do his magic like that so-" Her eyes go wide. "When Zouken tripped the wards last night. It's the only time he would've been alone in that time-frame."

"You're sure I couldn't have done the magic?"

"A simulacrum is like a weaker puppet version of a Homunculus." Ilya explains. "And even then most people can't make them properly. The one you used was either artificial or made from a corpse. You wouldn't be able to properly channel through it. It's likely you could only walk because Assassin allowed you to."

"Is there anything we could learn from it?" Saber asks, and Ilya shakes her head.

"It might give me a limited view of what he did, but I know everything else it could tell us."

>?

>>24857057

>Merlin deliberately tripped the wards trying to get Assassin caught in the act.

Ahaha I hate him SO MUCH.

>>24857057
DISSECTION TIME!

Let our local magi take a look at it. Illya + Rin should be fine with poking at the nasty thing and see if we can find a version of the Black Box to hack.

Plus, themmust burn it while Shiroun watches. the PTSD will be so enlightening from a meta perspective.

Plus, Shirou gets to break down cathartically in the presence of people who love him and will protect him. It's too drama-laden not to pass up

>>24857057
So how do we get rid of it?

>>24857057
"Maybe there's nothing we can learn from it, but there's a chance that they can learn about US from it? Unless one of you knows corpse disposal magic, I'm going to get rid of it. Think it counts as burnable trash?"

>>24857057
"His goals aren't really relevant. Or at least they won't be for long, he's still stuck in the church. We should call up Caster and Bazzet and finish him off."

>>24857118
This, burn the fake. Also, we should have Ilya check us out to be sure Zouken didn't slip us something.

>>24857057
>"It might give me a limited view of what he did, but I know everything else it could tell us."

Lets give it a once-over just in case, then we can burn it to ashes.

After that, bring up the fact that we overheard Zouken talking about how he was/is manipulation someone in our little alliance. Whether they're complicit or being blackmailed we don't know, but we need to get to the bottom of that before we run off to kick his ass so we don't have to worry about someone teamkilling us.

>>24857134
I have to admit, while I'm very fond of getting the eggheads to render the simulacra into tasty evidence, I wanna strike while the iron's hot. Zouken is gonna fortify like a bitch. The sooner we react, the more likely we can catch him off-guard.

>>24857057
We should suggest that we think it could've happened even earlier, which would explain our inability to recontract with Saber; the command spells would've been with the real Shirou body.

If we try and recontract with Saber after Caster's geas is up and it works, it'll be pretty reasonable proof that we had been replaced earlier than that.

Command Spells are, presumably, way "bigger" magic than Shirou's personal abilities as far as the academic magi are concerned, so this should make them think a little bit about it without having to outright say what we think ACTUALLY tripped the wards, nor having to bring up our sleep-visit with Assassin back when Archer was still trying to murder us.

...though at this point, the night visit by Assassin might be perfectly acceptable to let people know about. If that's actually when we were replaced, that is.

...Ah dammit. Hey, did anyone else know that King Arthur owned a dog named Cavall? Because I just remembered that when I came across that reference in my copy of Once and Future King.

Forget Bedivere, this is the only thing we can name Diurmutt.

>>24857161
>>24857167
These. We don't want any nasty surprises when we go wreck his shit.

As much as I'd love to run off right now and start blowing stuff up, we need to make sure nobody is going to backstab us, or that he didn't put a magical bomb in our chest just in case we escaped.

>>24857057
"Actually... Illya? Knowing me and a the 'impossible' things that I've pulled, What are the chances that I could have been in that body, for a couple days, and used magecraft like normal? I met with Zouken a few days earlier in my room, through assassin no less, and I'm wondering if Assassin might have done the switch way back then?"

>>24857190
I don't think it would have been THAT early on. Rider was with us then, and first sucked out blood after fighting Zouken. We didn't find Saber until we went back inside the house. Zouken would of had to switch the bodies after our fight, but before we met up with Saber again.

>>24857190
We really should check about contracting with Saber, just in case.

Also, just out of curiosity, do we have any good Anti-Fortress Phantasms? If we're going after Zouken soon, we really need to know what our resources are.

>>24857231
Oh, and Destroy the body, drop Illya and Sakura off with Caster (or if Caster is still going back and forth, they can stay here) and then have everyone else attack the church and destroy Zouken.

That corpse is a puppet, right? Are we sure that it isn't, you know, walking out of the house as we speak?

Also remember assassin's simulacrum was said to work very much like our projection, so might've been able to work with it because of that.

When was the last time we compared notes with Archer?

>>24857268
> drop Illya and Sakura off with Caster

We still don't know who the potential double agent is. After Sakura, the next suspect is probably Caster. We need to make sure we don't do something full retard in our haste to murder the wormnigger.

>>24857173
While that may be true, I believe we can assume that they know the jig is up, and are probably already fortifying, considering we got away.

I am also not eager to find out just how huge Assassain really is, since we're fairly sure that he could have taken both Saber and us easily. Adding in Rider and Rin into the equation isn't really going to swing the balance too far into our favor. Caster is still I wild card, so I don't count her, and I think Bazette's still probably a bit paranoid about everything. Especially since it will turn out that a simulacrum signed that thing earlier. Not us.

We may want to try contracting with Saber again to see if that works now. Also Avenger quite probably knew about this due to his "they're looking for your soul wrong" comment. If the contract with saber goes through than this means we were replaced before the wards were tripped and we need a new working theory as to when Zouken managed this.

>>24857276
Well, the evidence suggests that it TRIED to walk out, right before Rider stabbed it many, many times.

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>>24857236
>do we have any good Anti-Fortress Phantasms?
>asks about Anti-Fortress NPs
>immediately after talking about contracting with Saber
Oh you. We don't have the prana to fire off city-wreckers, let's focus on how clever we can be at using our toys.

>>24857294
>We still don't know who the potential double agent is
...Hey guys. Hasn't Taiga been acting really weird the past few days?

>>24857298
Didn't Assassin mention that he weakens when he loses a bit of himself that is in the simulacrum? Then all the more reason to destroy the fake body before we begin the assault.

Also seconding the "Re-establish contract with Saber" plan.

>>24857339

We have a good amount of C4 and Rider + Pegasus.

Bombing Run sounds like a good idea.

>>24857339
>...Hey guys. Hasn't Taiga been acting really weird the past few days?

I'm going to chock that up to the nearly back-to-back revelations of "Shirou is a wizard" and "SUDDENLY VAMPIRES".

>>24857368
We're officially suspecting Taiga.

The paranoia will break our alliance before the traitor at this rate.

Personally, I'm betting Bedivere is Zouken's familiar. (Joking. Seriously, trust the pooch.)

I vote we let the actually decent magi examine the body but also have Illya examine our current body as well to see if the extreme weirdness of our body was due to it being a simulcram or not. Also the real Berserker may have been inside us all along. Zouken may have had our actual body when Berserker died and we might or might not be the grail after having made a wish to live during the fire.

>>24857339
...but Illya and (maybe) Rin do. Seriously, either Saber or Shirou one needs a contract for the sake of mass destruction.

"Are we completely sure there's nothing to learn from the body?"

"I can take a look at it to be sure, but I doubt it." Ilya responds, shaking her head. Rin nods.

"Ilya would know more than me on the topic." She says. "If she says there's no point then there's no point."

"I see." Saber says. "Then I suppose we should destroy it?"

"Assassin said he could learn from it, probably in the way Ilya mentioned. Also he said that if he couldn't reclaim it, he would be weakened."

"Alright, so what do we do then? Burn it?" Sakura asks, clearly uncomfortable.

"Burning's a bad way to do it, unless the fire is REALLY hot is just kinda chars and melts and doesn't dispose of much. Especially the bone." I answer, thinking about it. "I guess magical fire would work? I mean, if it got hot enough."

"Lancer said something about that, I believe." Ilya comments. "We could ask him to do it."

"What makes you so sure he'd agree?" Saber asks.

"I'd ask nicely. apparently you didn't notice, but he'll do pretty much anything for women." She replies easily as she walks towards the Dojo. She stops in the doorway. "Did you leave the door open?"

"No." I respond, looking back and seeing the door cracked.

>Actions?

>>24857447

It left a good amount of blood.

Have Rin scry for its location, quickly.

>>24857447
[x] PANIC

>>24857447
I SAID NOT TO LET IT OUT OF OUR SIGHT


I SAID IT, IT WAS SAID, LET NONE DOUBT THE VERACITY OF THAT FACT!


Anyway, sound the alarm and rush the Dojo. Find that damn corpse.

>>24857460
and/or Rider blood hound

I told you! The damn puppet has been listening at the door...unless...

>Search surroundings for Assassin.

If he's not there:

>Pursue and annihilate puppet

>>24857460
>>24857472

First:
>Go to shed, confirm it's gone.

If YES:
>Panic
If NO:
>Investigate why the door is open.

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>>24857447
HUNT AND KILL!

>>24857447
[X] Kill Zouken

>>24857460
Once we confirm that the thing is gone, this is the plan.

Because it's definitely gone.

Man, I thought there were enough people saying we shouldn't let this thing out of our sight that AC-Guy would've had us follow through on it. Oh well, them's the breaks when we don't go "WAIT A SECOND, YOU HAD SHIROU TURN HIS BACK ON THE DOJO FOR TEN SECONDS, OH NO YOU DON'T" immediately.

>>24857503
[X] This

Skip straight to
[x] annihilate puppet pursue if necessary
Polite sage to preserve thread some because it's already getting bumped heavily.

>>24857447

Have Saber standby, Assassin might be on the compound.

If its gone, send rider into the air for a quick sweep of the area, throw her our phone to keep in contact.

If she doesn't find it and rin scrys it, we get on her ride with Rider and go after it.

With her speed + Shirou's hundring/Gay Bulge arrows, that thing can't run far.

>>24857503
This. Then cut it up, burn it, toss salt on it, burn it again and bury it.

We are sure that Puppet!Assassin is breaking out, rather than Huge!Assassin breaking *in,* right? He can conceal himself from Saber and the wards, remember?

We rush to the shed, and I open the door. The body's where it was when I left.

"So, it didn't move?" Ilya asks, while everyone else pointedly avoids looking at it.

"No, that's how it was when I got here." I answer, looking at it.

She kneels by it, closing her eyes and touching it on the neck. "It hasn't been tampered with either."

"So wait, someone just snuck in here, saw the body and left without doing anything?" Rin asks, confused.

"... apparently. Unless Onii-chan left the door open."

"No, I heard it shut behind us." Rider responds nervously.

>Actions?

I'm thinking we have rider piggyback on saber to pursue (riding skill gives amazing rank ups in all abilities) have Rin just double check the dojo to make sure we aren't flipping our shit over nothing.

>>24857683

Rider, is it the same body?

I hate to ask it of you but can you taste check?

Seriously, It's either the traitor or the main Assassin body sneaking into our base.

Alternative we're being trolled by Archer or Lancer.

>>24857683
Assume Assassin is in the compound, because SOMEONE opened that damn door, and we were all in the living room. Call Lancer, see if we can get him here for backup/body disposal. Everyone stays together and alert until then.

Put a sword through the corpse, just to make sure.

>>24857683
>We rush to the shed, and I open the door. The body's where it was when I left.
I thought we left it in the dojo?

>>24857683

This is zouken shit we're talking about.

WORMNIGGER.

That ajar door is big enough for a worm to get out.

>>24857683
Who wants to bet assassin managed to sneak in and is abusing presence concealment right now to try and nab someone as a hostage or kill us?
> [X] Headcount, make sure everyone is with you, and move together.

>>24857708
>>24857712
This, EVERYONE USE THEIR BATTLE POSE

>>24857714
I assume that he meant the dojo shed, unless ofcourse something else is going on...

>>24857683
Who cares if it's a different body? It's still part of Assassin, right?

Burn/Destroy/Vaporize it. NOW. Maybe it'll spook Assassin out of hiding.

>>24857714
Please just be a typo.

Please god. For the love of all that is holy. Please just be a typo.

>>24857683
>>24857720

Check the gap.

Is it slimy like something wormed its way through?

Have rider verify body and prepare some decent trace or another. Hrunting might actually be useful in sword form for this.

>>24857683
THIS >>24857720
THE SURPRISE WAS WORMS
MAGIC BLOODHOUND GO

>>24857708

>Archer shows up to tell us something.
>Looks in Dojo.
>GTFOs.

Might not be trolling. Might be legitimately panicked Archer on his way to figure out what the fuck happened.

>>24857736
>>24857741
>>24857714

>Sorry, that WAS a fuckup. If it was the wrong building, Rider would have said something.

Also try Rule Breaker on the body to see what happens

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>>24857683
Everyone get their game face on.

Inspect the corpse, poke it with a sword to be sure. Servants on lookout. Once we verify the corpse isn't Assassin in disguise, have Rider verify that it is in fact the same one she butchered, and not some kind of elaborate fake-out.

>>24857683
The body needs to go. NOW. Gilgamesh it!

Also, battle stations. The house is no longer safe.

>>24857783
>poke it with a sword to be sure

Pin it to the ground with multiple swords, to be sure.

>>24857815
>Pin it to the ground with multiple swords, to be sure.

Immolate it with as many Broken Phantasms as we can project. Just to be sure.

Pin it to the ground with multiple swords prepare fraggle rock and then stab corpse with rulebreaker because overkill is under rated

>>24857782
Yeah this, stab it with Rule Breaker just to be sure.

Encase in in a coffin of C4 for that extra layer of security.

Don't burn it: We don't need flashbacks while being stalked Hassans unknown.

No wait stab it with broken rulebreaker
Sage for short silly post

>>24857842
>>24857873

No broken phantasms. They'll level the shed, the dojo and most of our house at the least.

>>24857864
Interestingly, if we stab it with Rule Breaker, and it's a fragment of Assassin as was implied, it might break Zouken's contract with him as it did Saber's with us.

He might just recontract immediately, but it'll mean he can't do so until he and Assassin are back in the same place, so if Assassin is breaking in he won't be able to give orders at a distance until Assassin returns to the church.

If it's not a fragment of Assassin, we get the cathartic feeling of shanking the doppelganger. Win-Win!

I can't tell how much of this panicking is legitimate and how much of it is you guys fucking around.

>>24857873
This brings up an interesting question... just what would a borken Rule Breaker actually DO?

Area-effect magical EMP maybe? We should experiment with that at some point in the future, when we're less worried about being murdered by whoever is infiltrating our dojo.

>>24857911
[X] This

>>24857873
>>24857927
... Simply ingenious.

So next time there's a boundary field we need to get into, but don't know what's on the other side, this should be one solution to consider.

>>24857918
I think everything up to "turn the corpse into a pincushion and Rule Breaker it for kicks" is fairly legitimate.

>>24857911
Stabbing it with rulebreaker might just cause it to lose link to Assassin or disintigrate either way
[x] support

>>24857918

>Why do you think I'm always asking for people to clarify the vote?

>get everyone on guard
>rulebreaker corpse

I'd say we don't give it full pincushion treatment. One nameless sword delivered at high speeds to each limb and left in to prevent regen should suffice to hold it down for rulebreaker should suffice.

>Alright, seriously though, what exactly is the plan here?

>>24858064
Corpse stabbing followed by rulebreaker

>>24858064
Operate under the assumption that Assassin is on the premises.

Pin the corpse with a few swords to make extra-sure it can't go anywhere, then tag it with Rule Breaker to sever its link to Assassin, hopefully rendering it useless to him.

>>24858064
>I think everything up to "turn the corpse into a pincushion and Rule Breaker it for kicks" is fairly legitimate.

Hey if we analyze the corpse is it close enough to our origin to be forever preserved in the bladeworks?

>>24858064
>>

Check for possible signs of worms leaving.

>>24858128
It's a puppet copy of Shirou.
Shirou is a sword.
We can now project Shirou puppets to do our bidding.

...if only we could actually do that. Unfortunately, I doubt a soulless husk can have an origin.

>>24858128
...THIS. We want this to happen, not just for the harem's pleasure.

>>24858118

>It's clearly dead and hasn't moved. Ilya already confirmed this.

>Are you going to poke it with rulebreaker still on the assumption that will do something?

>>24858128

>No. If that were the case, you would know instantly by looking at it.

>>24858187
I was thinking more for examination in a non horrendously mangled state. Also for having fun recollections years later when we deploy our reality marble and there's our corpse in it. And hey the ability to create false corpses of ourself has its' uses.

So...

[X]Be ready for Assassin.
[X]Pin corpse.
[X]Analyze Corpse
[X]Rulebreaker Corpse

>>24858228
Poke it with rulebreaker, it may do *something* also it's entirely worthwhile to tell *everyone* there that we're not entirely sure that we managed to outrun assassin and he very well could be here, so be damn careful

We have come back from broken spine and quite possibly horrendous burns while in that body. I want it immobilized before we poke it with rulebreaker.

I walk over to the corpse, summoning a copy of Caster's knife to hand.

"Shirou? What are you doing?" I hear Rin ask from behind me.

"Knife severs connections. I just want to make sure there's nothing linked to this think just to be safe."

I poke the body with the knife, and it sinks in an inch to come away with some stale looking blood. "If there was anything, that would've destroyed it." Ilya comments as she stands up. "There's not really anything to learn from this, so we should work on disposal. Can anybody here cast a powerful enough fire magic?"

Everyone shakes their heads slightly, and Ilya sighs. "Well we want to destroy it, so we need to either talk to Caster or Lancer."

"Rider and I could look for them?" Sakura suggests cautiously.

Rider sniffs the air. "Someone's been in here. It's hard to catch with all the blood, but there's something else.... Brimstone? It's a new scent though."

>Actions?

>>24858463
PERCEPTION CHECKS, I SWEAR TO FUCKING GOD ASSASSIN IS HERE.

>>24858463
Brimstone
> Hell
>>Evil
>>>Angrya Mayu
>>>>Avenger

>>24858463
I AM THE BONE OF MY SEEING SPOOKY MAGICS

>>24858463
"Nobody splits up. Something got in here without us noticing. It might still be lurking around. We stay as a group until we identify the threat."

Then we pull out our phone and call Lancer and Caster, get them up to speed and bring one of them in for body disposal.

>Sakura suggests splitting up when the compound just got infiltrated
Confirmed for either traitor, or crippling lack of genre awareness.

>>24858485
>>24858491

>Brimstone

Or Archer. You know, with the whole blacksmith thing he has kinda a burnt air around him probably.

I think >>24857752 might've guess right.

Guys i think i know how to solve sakura's problem.

http://imgur.com/a/n4BTE/

>>24858463

[x] shirou PANTYHOUND

>>24858463
[x] Call Issei's phone.

>>24858517

Major problem with that.

Rider has met and been in the same area as Archer before.

She said NEW smell. You'd think she'd know what Archer smelt of now.

>>24858508
This.
I'd call Sakura out for acting as if she never saw a horror movie, but by living with Zouken she probably hasn't.

>>24858519
Why does this exist.

[x]Don't split up.
[x]Call lancer/caster
[x]Call out for Archer. Fake confronational tone.

>>24858578

To fuck with AC-Guy's head, judging by how he tends to flip the fuck out when he sees it.

>>24858574
She's been near Avenger as well, during the kidnapping.

>>24858574
She also fought Assassin while we were going to rescue Saber from Lancer.
>>24858578
Japan.


>feeble-minded lelped
You mean Taiga, and I think Rider knows her scent Captcha.

>>24858603
>She also fought Assassin while we were going to rescue Saber from Lancer.

1. That was before Assassin underwent whatever caused him to become all extra-scary. His scent may have changed.

2. You mean rescue her from CASTER, right?

>>24858574

She's also been in the presence of every Servant, all the Masters other than Caster's original, and two different vampires.

If it's atruely new and unique smell then it would have4 to be a player in the war nobody has ever met.

I find this unlikely.

>>24858603
>2. You mean rescue her from CASTER, right?
Yes, that's what I sa--
>Lancer.
What the fuck? How did--
I have no idea how that came out. I'm just going to step away from the keyboard a bit.

Cain maybe? Has rider been around his true form? Also see if our magic bloodhound senses are picking anything up

>>24858685
>Cain maybe?
>Cain can mimic other Servants
>Cain has been missing, no confirmation that he actually died
>Assassin has been acting strangely
>Lancer said: "He's got the moves and the skill, but something about it seems off. Like an old man trying to emulate things he did in his youth after losing his muscle and stiffening his joints. I don't really know how else to describe it."

Guys? GUYS? I'M SCARED NOW.

>>24858742
Oh FUCK.

>>24858742
oh god what

>>24858742
Wellp, we've got our new paranoia fuel.

I'd believe it.

>>24858742
>>24858774
>>24858778
Everyone remain calm, and panic in an orderly fashion.

>>24858742
>>24858774
>>24858778

He's Trolling. Cain can Mantle other Berserker Archtypes, not mimic anyone he damn well pleases.

>>24858742

Nope.

We ran into assassin when we were escaping.

Cain's veil doesn't work on those who already know his identity. Shirou does and so it won't work on him.

Oh god. Cain is absolutely famous for killing someone who never expected it. And the title of assassin is the servant of murder. Cain was summoned as berserker so he probably cannot act as an assassin well as he could fully incarnated. I am now terrified.

>>24858807
It may be a berserker-y Assassin. Or he can just dress the part, dammit.

>>24858807
Whats to say there wasn't an assassin in the order that could qualify for Berserker.

>>24858742
Doubt it. Cain liked us, he wouldn't bitch at us out of the blue and say that we're out of our league here.
>Unless Assassin ate what was left of Cain and got some of his power
>Or Zouken just summoned Cain as the origin of "murder"

[X] Panic

>>24858836
Or Cain wants us to get the FUCK out and not interfere with whatever he's doing.

>>24858824

AC-Guy has gone on record (can't remember if it was on /tg/ or not. It could've just been us talking) and said that Cain qualifies for three classes: Caster, Assassin, and Berserker.

And that Brozerker is arguably his weakest incarnation since apparently it's formed under a false assumption of his story.

>>24858836

I don't think the same person can be summoned twice in one war, but I could be mistaken.

Also we know servant Berserker is Kain. We do not know servant assassin is. And that's assuming Kain didn't pull a kill and replace followed by using assassin's body as a puppet using mimicked skills. I mean seriously at least one man crazy and famous enough to be berserker could probably pull it off.

>>24858807
He can mimic anyone who was able to be summoned into the Berseker class. There are almost necessarily Berserkers that could've been viable Assassins. (Presuming that we are outside a continuity where Hassan is the "only" Assassin, which we would only "know" OOC anyway.)

This doesn't mean he has to use Mad Enhancement while mimicing them, however.

>>24858836
>Doubt it. Cain liked us, he wouldn't bitch at us out of the blue and say that we're out of our league here.
Just because Cain likes us doesn't mean he wouldn't attack us if he were contracted to someone who didn't.

>>24858815
>Cain's veil doesn't work on those who already know his identity. Shirou does and so it won't work on him.
Pretty sure this only applies if we know that the masked individual is Cain, which we obviously wouldn't in Buff!Assassin's case. Until now, maybe?

>>24858890
The only limitation that I can recall is that only one of each class can be summoned each war. The same servant can be summoned multiple times if they qualify for multiple classes.

>>24858924
Oh, I know he's attack, but he'd me nicer to us UNTIL he had to attack us.

>>24858924
It would also help explain how he got in without triggering the alarms, since IIRC Cain was keyed into our house's wards while he was aligned with us.

I guess now's a good time to test the Broken Rule Breaker theory.

>>24858980
Too many friendly servants around. Although I wonder what happens if we try to use rulebreaker to free Illya of lesser grailhood

>>24859012
My prediction: nothing good.

She isn't like Sakura where the Grail bits were inserted later. She was created specifically to house the Grail, its a part of her body, or perhaps saying it IS her body would be more accurate.

>>24859012

In all honesty?

Heartbreaking

Is there even a plan? Or are we just sitting here panicking?

>>24859061
So you're saying we just need to have Avalon in Illya at the time

>>24859088
Paging Dr. Freud, aisle one.

I'm thinking we get some nice easy to trace sword that gives off illumination (possibly by being on fire) and start stabbing random shadows.

>>24859080
I think the only plan we have is "Roll for Perception"

>>24859080
I was under the impression that something along the lines of >>24858508 had been agreed upon.

The major points are STICK TOGETHER, whip out the phone and bring all our allies up to speed, and admonish Sakura for wanting to split the party when there is clearly a mysterious spooky monster lurking somewhere in or around the house.

Also maybe pull out our magical bloodhound trick and see what we can find.

>>24859080
I asked for perception checks

>>24859080

SPOOKY BLOODHOUND MAGICS

So what's the consensus? Other than Freaking The Fuck Out, I mean?

>>24859236
Spooky bloodhound magicks also possibly using magical swords as missiles to be cast into the darkness

>>24859236
See

>>24859136
>>24859130
>>24859127
>>24859125

From the last time it was asked. AC-Girl is probably typing.

>>24859268
Also stick together and explain to Sakura why splitting up is a terrible idea against assassin

>>24859270

>AC-Girl

It's a goddamn shame he got banhammered, because I'd love to see his reaction to that.

>>24859306
>banhammered
>checks twitter

Well, cuntfucking shitnuggets. That's no fun.

>>24859306
From AC-Guy's twitter: "At this point, I'm not ever surprised. Sorry guys, I'm cut off from posting apparently. It keeps saying I'm banned, but then says I'm fine."

Just letting everyone know whats up, do avoid anyone misinterpreting his silence as him waiting for us to argue more.

Somebody should archive

>>24859336
I will, once sup/tg/ is up again.

>Convince the girls we should never split up again ever
>We should all sleep in the same room, too.

From the twitter

>Well if the thread's alive when my internet stops acting like a derp, I'll keep running. Otherwise I'll see you guys next time.

Think we can do it? I'm not sure, but if it's just bump posts every 2-3 hours we should make it just fine.

>>24859306
I wish I could say I'm surprised and a bit pissed, but currently I'm just thinking "Of course. it's only natural for AC-Guy for this to happen."
>>24859364
Yeah, sure. Unless AC-guy throws the next post in a pastebin and lets me post it, I won't spam the thread.

>>24859364
We've kept threads on life support overnight on less posts than this before. We should be good.

DAWN OF THE FIRST DAY

67 POSTS REMAIN

Obligatory this router pic complete with sage to conserve posts will be performed once suptg is back up

Maybe he found another word on the ban list

>>24859483

AC-Guy! Pastebin the post so we can dissect it!

Rolled 20

>Every one is hassan
>Hassan may be Cain
I ROLL TO DISBELIEVE

>>24860140
...fuck's sake, /tg/ dice

>>24860140
>>24860201

This amuses me.

Also bump to keep this alive until AC-girl shows up.

Random thought: Zouken knew we got awake. Maybe he started talking about the traitor just to seed uncertainty and everybody is loyal? Even if not, I suggest being completely honest about it with everyone. Just to show that we're honest, trusting, naive, and we wont allow Zouken to destroy our alliance.

But just in case, I'm glad we have the Rulebraker. We don't know how much control Caster has over her NP. Maybe she'll be able to severe our Geass but keep her contract with Saber. Hell, maybe she could brake just her part of the Geass, leaving us bound by it. According to UBW, she can steal contracts with it, not only break them.

Oh, and a really random thought about UBW. Can Archer Rulebreak himself out of being a Counter Guardian?

Also, I'm for shocking ourselves with burning corpse, not because DRAMA (not only at least), but also:
- If we're connected with something controlled by Avenger, this can snap us out of it.
- If we're alive because of third magic or something else connected to the fire, and if this is causing inability to contract Saber (maybe the first contract was a strange exception, not the lack of second one), we want to know everything about it. Because we want as hell to contract Altria. So Lancer's question "do you want it for yourself or for them" gets kinda good answer.
- this shit I'm the most uncertain: if Sakura will be by it (and Lancer suggested she should), she ALSO would face her nightmares, and this (along with "I need YOU to help me) can solve her problems.

Random thought #3: maybe Avenger's weird body is a projection made by Assassin?

>>24862184

No don't believe that your second spoilery rulebreaker usage works. Otherwise UBW route would be composed of archer catching glimpse of rulebreaker, traing it, and then stabbing himelf with it also i'm thinking avengers weird body is actually shirou's actual original body. also we need to verify that it wasn't just that our previous fake body had some imperfection that prevented contracting.
And now for the joking part of my post presenting the ultimate conclusion to the paranoia theories:
Shirou's current body is actually Cain's body using his noble phantasm to appear as berserker incarnation of archer. (what can I say the guy was utterly insane and therefore might qualify for berserker)

- Grail needs 7 servants to appear
- ThreweThree extra servants are here - falae assassin, gilgamesh and avenger
- So we can have three servants when the grail appears
- Archer and Lancer kill each other. If Lancer survives then everyone else gangs up on him, thua granting his wish of an awesome fight
- If Archer survives he kills himself because he honestly has no reasom to be here anymore. Aplogize for not being able to help him
- Only survivors now are Caster Seiba and Rider
- All three eithwr contract with caster or Bazett, who Is prolly the only Master with an actual wish
- ???
- EVERYONE IS WINNAR

>>24863288
Actually, Gil counts as much as three Servants in terms of filing the Grail.
So we only need to kill 4 more Servants, 3 if Brozerker's essence gets redirected where it should.
That means we only have to kill Avenger, Assassin, and either Archer or Lancer.
If Brozerker's soul counts for multiple Servants like Gil's, then we would only have to kill Avenger and/or Assassin to fill the grail.

>>24863288
Isn't Bazett's wish to live with her Husbando Lancer?

>>24864688
Yes

Don't waste posts, guys. We still have a few hours until AC-Guy will return and we don't want to hit autosage before that.

Sup/tg/ is back up, although rather slow at the moment. Also random thought: could the one that (presumably) made the deal with Zouken be Caster? You know, since she fell for her master and everything.

>>24866781
And the thread is already archived.
Yours truly,
The Archivist Who Likes to Mess with Tags

>>24864549

>Gil counts as three.

No he doesn't. AC-Guy already said as much.

Pretty much every time someone makes that claim.

>>24864688
>>24864727
So she uses her wish to pull Lancer out of the Grail and True Incarnate him?

Bump.

Alrighty, finally caught up with the thread! Yeah!

And I have to say guys, well done on the whole PANIC front. This was an entertaining read.

Updated timeline can be found here for anyone who cares: http://pastebin.com/afNEHk0R

By the by, I may be pulling things from nowhere here, but isn't brimstone the same as sulphur? And isn't the smell of sulphur sometimes associated with vampires?
And weren't we paranoid a while back that we'd killed the wrong vampire and there was still one on the loose?

>>24871094
>smell of sulphur sometimes associated with vampires?

Garlic repels vampires with its smell (apparently) and it has one of the highest sulphur contents of any type of produce.

>>24871766
Mythology: Can't get it's shit together.

Rolled 12

>>24871094

Actually, sulphur is more closely assiciated with the presence of demons.

>>24871989

well. fuck.

>>24871989
Maybe Assassins puppets are demons?

Also we should try contracting saber again

Rolled 19

>>24872541

>yfw djinns are usually though of/classified as devils/demons

>>24872541
Simpler than that - http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Zabaniya

>It is the arm of the evil spirit Shayṭān, the cursing hand of the Middle East magecraft specialized in curses

>>24872752
>Shayṭān

Goddamn etymology can make for some hilarious shit sometimes.

All hands to battle stations!
Search the area in pairs, nobody goes anywhere without a Servant. Use our best magic possible to make sure nobody's here. One pair stays with the body in case that's why we're here.

>>24872777
>>24872752
Also, shaytan as I recall is protrayed as a fire efreeti, which would make the smell of sulfur/brimstone make sense

>>24871094
I'm probably remembering wrong but I thought it was a smell cain gave off a couple times somewhere. or maybe avenger. One of the two

>>24873157
>Open ebook
>Ctrl+F "sulf"
>No results found

>Ctrl+F "Brimstone"
>>AC-Guy's last post

>Ctrl+F "Smell"
>>Rin's perfume
>>food
>>Analogy
>>food
>>Taiga's cooking
>>food
>>our blood
>>failed bloodhound check
>>food
>>more blood
>>Arc
>>Rider bloodhound
>>Lancer M.D. cooking
>>our blood

Well, I couldn't find anything, but this tells me that we're overdue for another cooking scene.

>I need to record a sound file of irrational hate noises for when issues happen.

>Anyone still here? I can finish off the thread if people want. Sorry I'm about two hours late getting back.

Hooray for AC-Guy!

>>24874378

REJOICE

AC-GIRL IS HERE!

>>24874378
I'm here.

>>24874398

>You earn the right to call me a woman when you can look a dying loved one in the eye and feel only impatience.

>>24874378
Go for it, we wouldn't keep the thread alive if we didn't want you to continue!

>>24874378
Ha! Ha! Time for Fate!

>>24874378
I'm staying up anyways for pred quest, and making the outline for my own quest on saturday, so yeah please continue.

>>24874426
lol
well AC Guy is back, i vote we continue the thread or start a new one.

>So what the fuck was the plan? I didn't really have a firm grasp when the internet decided to fuck me.

>>24874513
In general - panick and spot/perception checks

>>24874513
20+ hours to clear our heads and we're still paranoid.

Let's do this.

It's either..
>Stick together and search the house.
or
>One group stays to guard the corpse, while another searches.

I vote for the first one. Keep eyes peeled for (most likely) Uber!Assassin.

>>24874513
These:
>>24858485
>>24858508

>>24874513
>I was under the impression that something along the lines of >>24858508 had been agreed upon.
>The major points are STICK TOGETHER, whip out the phone and bring all our allies up to speed, and admonish Sakura for wanting to split the party when there is clearly a mysterious spooky monster lurking somewhere in or around the house.
>Also maybe pull out our magical bloodhound trick and see what we can find.
>Convince the girls we should never split up again ever
>We should all sleep in the same room, too.

>>24874513
Shh, be vewy vewy quiet. We's hunting Assassins. heheheheheh
(As a group)

One another note... Hey AC-Guy, what time zone you in? Just curious

>>24874513
>>24860140

>>24874650
Alaska. IIRC

>>24874714
That was my guess... so I probably knew it, but forgot

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And if I may descend into "the faggotries" for a second.

Dammit Woman, don't you dare be the traitor. We've put so much effort into freeing you from that leech... ah well even if she is, Shirou will still love her. He just might be a bit more maimed than usual

>>24874780
If she is we just have to recue and help rider fuck the stupid out of her.

>>24874513
lemme guess - ac guys net died again?

>>24874987
From twitter
>At this point, I'm not ever surprised. Sorry guys, I'm cut off from posting apparently. It keeps saying I'm banned, but then says I'm fine