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The Grail War continues, and you're rushing to save the allies who have been twisted against you.

You are Shinji Makiri, Ten years ago you suddenly found yourself with the memories of a complete past life that saw this world as a fictional story due to some unprecedented form of inter-dimensional transportation. Since that day, your new composite being has been working to change the grim future laid out for you.

To that end, you have done much, involving yourself with events and situations that have shifted the future away from the one that you once would have faced and instead onto one of uncertainty and chaos.

The Fifth Holy Grail War lies ahead of you, and the challenge and danger it represents to you, the people you care for and the world itself is far greater than you could have ever predicted. Though the grail might be corrupted and the war itself might be a sham, the stakes couldn't be higher.

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"You're right. Lead the way, Dant-" You cough. "Enhance." Almost made a slip there, thankfully, it doesn't seem like Enhance noticed though, so you just carry on as if nothing had happened. While a lot of things are similar between what you can remember about your original world and this world, you know that for whatever reason Devil May Cry never came out in this world, meaning the reference would be lost on Enhance anyway. You aren't sure if the game was never released because it was never going to ever be released, or if your debut into the business world caused a ripple effect. Ah well, Makiri Industries can probably pick up the pace and properly delve into video game creation next. After all, you did already steal the concept of a digital video game storefront... Now really isn't the time to be thinking about making money.

"You sure you can keep up?" Enhance asks with a grin you can see beneath his hood, and you smile back at the cocky Dead Apostle. As far as the Ancestors go, Enhance isn't the most powerful. He's of course strong if you were to compare him to a basic Dead Apostle, but he doesn't have the magical abilities that the other Dead Apostle Ancestors have learned purely as a result of their advanced ages. He's still young. What Enhance does have however are two weapons, each on the level of a Noble Phantasm, that's where the bulk of his power comes from. Then again, both of those weapons destroy him every time he uses them, but it shouldn't be a problem for all that long considering the temporal reversion regeneration ability inherent to all Dead Apostles. It's hardly like he's Shirou strapping on Archer's arm and melting his brain.
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"I don't think I'll have much difficulty keeping pace with Ciel at least, now lets go!" On a purely magical basis, you've got more potential than Ciel does, however, the big difference between the two of you is that Ciel as an immortal should have an infinite amount of stamina at her disposal, not to mention that despite all your physical training, the body of somebody who actually goes out and hunts Dead Apostles on perhaps a weekly basis is going to of course be in a better shape than yours. This however, doesn't mean that you're incapable of keeping up with the girl though, as both of you have around similar levels as to what you can push your bodies to with your reinforcement under normal circumstances. You briefly wonder what would happen if Ciel was taught Shirou's immensely dangerous method of turning nerves into circuits. They would only be low quality circuits of course, but through her immortality, it might even be possible for Ciel to survive and remain conscious through the conversion of thousands of the bodies nerves into magic circuits all at once, After all, the human body has billions if not trillions of nerve cells. It might be something worth looking into and perhaps teaching Ciel and SHIKI at a later date. Though such a technique could potentially give either of them a magical energy output greater even than something like Excalibur. A scary thought that something like that might be possible, but then again, immortality on their level is an excellent way to break any sort of magical system. You might be able to regenerate from most any wound, but as far as you can tell, you can still die, so you're loathe to attempt that sort of magecraft.

The three of you run as quickly as you can, and you can see Karna in physical form leaping from rooftop to rooftop. "Ciel, if I might ask... why is Archer up there anyway? Also, this might be a good time to tell me what he can do so I can plan around his capabilities."

Ciel laughs a little as you run along side her. "Oh, it was just some grumbling Dead Apostle I work with sometimes who didn't want the sun demi-god to singe his precious skin by being too close." There's a smirk on her face, and Enhance growls in annoyance.

"Hey, are you really blaming me for that?! The guy is the natural enemy of Dead Apostles!" Enhance tries to defend himself from Ciel, and you can understand his point. If you were a being that was hurt by the sun, why on Earth would you want to be around a human incarnation of it in the form of Karna?

"You're just going to have to get used to it, Karna isn't going to be much help from the outside." Ciel points ahead to the entrance to Verde, which is still a good distance away even with your speed. You doubt that Karna, even if his skill is particularly great as an Archer, would really be of as much assistance outside. "As for what he can do, Shinji, I'll give you a brief explanation as we move..."

[Status Updated!]
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"Unfortunately, he's requested I don't reveal his final Noble Phantasm in a public space like this, just in case an enemy were to overhear. It's his ultimate Noble Phantasm and his greatest trump card, apparently." Vasavi Shakti, maybe? No, that wouldn't make any sense, that's a lance and he's an Archer now. Then again, Brahmastra has apparently manifested as a bow this time, so could the same maybe be true for Vasavi Shakti?

Karna finally leaps down to meet you at the entrance to Verde, and Enhance visibly takes a step back. "My apologies, I understand that my presence causes you a great deal of discomfort, however, the wishes of my Master must always come first." Karna apologies to Enhance, it seems that the Heroic Spirit doesn't have nearly as much dislike for the Dead Apostle. Perhaps it's as a result of Enhance still remaining in some part human despite having become a Dead Apostle? Karna himself looks about as you'd expect him to. Black and gold armor with a red cloak. In his hand is a golden bow of ornate design, clearly a weapon of the Gods, you can tell that from just a glance. Still, it's ridiculous! An Archer who actually uses a bow? What sort of nonsense is this? You guess that the Archer class really is made up of Archers!

The four of you don't delay at all as you enter Verde, and as you enter, you are hit with the overpowering smell of alcohol. It's like a dense fog, but you press through it. "Definitely Shuten." You say calmly as you press onward, having taken the lead from Enhance now. You walk through the empty halls of Verde. The screams have all stopped now, and that really doesn't bode well for the people who were in this place. You highly doubt that Shuten was actually going to let a single one of them escape.

"Is that you, Master?" You hear Shuten's voice echoing through the halls of the silent shopping center, she's clearly a distance away, yet her voice carries despite that. "I thought I could smell you from the outside. Have you finally decided that I'm worth your time now?" There's definitely a grudge in her voice, and Ciel glares at you with annoyance. You... might've forgotten to reveal that important little factoid.

"She was taken from me, OK? I'm not her master right now." You quickly explain to your allies the situation. Hopefully they won't make anything of it. It's not like you have any control over the girl at all right now, and you suppose you can always blame what she's doing on Manaka. Even if there's a part of the little devil that obviously enjoys being given free reign to cause carnage like this.
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"Master... Why don't we have another of our private conversations? I can tell that you're not alone, but... wouldn't you like to just talk with me again? Fighting sounds like it would be such a hassle, doesn't it?" Shuten's voice is seductive and convincing... Should you go and see her alone? There's no doubt that things are going to end up as a fight if you bring Ciel, Karna and Enhance to confront her, and... you might be able to convince her again. It worked the first time, didn't it?

>"Very well, Shuten, we'll talk once again." Have your allies stay behind.
>"Alright Shuten, if that's what you want." Gesture to your allies that you want them to follow and remain concealed.
>"Sorry Shuten, but... I can't trust you right now." Keep moving forwards.
>"That depends, are you going to kneel down and beg me for forgiveness for being such a treacherous girl if I come to you, or are you going to use it as an opportunity to melt and eat me?" Wait for her response.
>Don't respond to her, simply press on with your allies.
>Write-in...
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>>4711860
Christ it's 5am, you never sleep.
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>>4711872
Sleep is just the sign of the body's weakness.
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>>4711867
>"That depends, are you going to kneel down and beg me for forgiveness for being such a treacherous girl if I come to you, or are you going to use it as an opportunity to melt and eat me?" Wait for her response.
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>>4711863
Hey WhatIs, just confirming as it's not listed in his status. In myth Karna is cursed to be unable to invoke Brahmastra against opponents stronger than him. Fate has it split into multiple techniques, such as Kundala, O' Brahma, Cover the Earth etc. but it's still the same Astra that he's using. Does the Kundala variant he has listed have this limitation or not?
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>>4711867
>>"That depends, are you going to kneel down and beg me for forgiveness for being such a treacherous girl if I come to you, or are you going to use it as an opportunity to melt and eat me?" Wait for her response.

She broke her agreement with Shinji not eat NPCs, naughty Shuten.
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>>4711889
It does still have that limitation, however, it can simply be aimed at the area that a target is standing on rather than at a target more powerful than he is themselves. It's a bow with arrows that explode, he can miss if he wants to.
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>>4711895
Thats cheating
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>>4711895
He's a bit upright for that but the archer class does usually make people a bit more pragmatic and ruthless because of IA letting them get away with more I guess.

Although, from the myths...

>He curses Karna that he will get engaged in a fight with someone equal to him in strength and skills when his death comes. During this time, brahmastra will not manifest itself before him.

It actually gets sealed.
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Chain her up with chains of truth and make her drink truth enchanted brine until she sober up and turns into good girl
Headpat her afterwards
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>>4711896
It's fine if you cheat when the fate of the world is at stake.
He's an Archer. They are the cheatiest class aside from a well used Caster, or an Alter-Ego... Or a MoonCancer. Or a Foreigner or a Ruler, or a decent Avenger...

>>4711897
That curse should realistically only apply to Arjuna or maybe Rama though. Because it's not somebody stronger than him, only somebody equal in strength and skill.
Regardless, he's had Ciel as his Master for a week, so some of her pragmatism is also rubbing off on him.
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>Can see through traps
>Can see through Presence Concealment
>Takes reduced damage from everything, and even more reduced from Cu
>Can fire actual nukes and it's not even his Noble Phantasm
Damn, you guys weren't wrong about Karna.
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>>4711900
Unrestricting it is why I see you said he's not straight inferior to lancer. Even as a lorefag I can appreciate it being a sealing curse specific to conflicts with Arjuna.

I wonder if you gave him another Astra or went with something odd and conceptually based for the mystery box NP
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>>4711901
Karna is absolutely fucking based, I love the guy. He's also unintentionally autistically goofy because of his ultra seriousness/politeness.

>>4711899
Shuten needs to be held down and dabbed on, she'd appreciate it too.
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>>4711867
>"That depends, are you going to kneel down and beg me for forgiveness for being such a treacherous girl if I come to you, or are you going to use it as an opportunity to melt and eat me?" Wait for her response.
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>>4711904
Yeah, I like him already.
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>>4711863
>Ciel as an immortal should have an infinite amount of stamina at her disposal
>infinite stamina
>infinite stamina
>infinite stamina
>infinite stamina
>infinite stamina
I take it this applies to "mana transfers" too? :^)
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>>4711910
https://youtu.be/JELLSqLduAc
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>>4711867
>"That depends, are you going to kneel down and beg me for forgiveness for being such a treacherous girl if I come to you, or are you going to use it as an opportunity to melt and eat me?" Wait for her response.
Come on you cheeky slut.
Try and lie.
See if it gets by my boy Karna here.
>>4711899
Shuten would absolutely be into it.
>>4711901
Karna is mega-based.
He's got a top tier Master this time too, so we're really in a good position here.
>>4711902
If it's supposed to stack up to Vasavi what the fuck could it be?
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>>4711860
>Makiri Industries can probably pick up the pace and properly delve into video game creation next.
Can Shinji make Tsukihime (remake)?
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>>4711910
Only if it's through the backdoor. Her rules.

>>4711867
>"That depends, are you going to kneel down and beg me for forgiveness for being such a treacherous girl if I come to you, or are you going to use it as an opportunity to melt and eat me?" Wait for her response.


>>4711904
>>4711908
Everybody loves Karna.
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>>4711914
Most likely going to be:
GoB lite:
>Bhargavastra
> This was a very powerful weapon and this weapon when launched creates a shower of arrows, maces, spears and many other such weapons. This shower of weapons continues till the warrior who has launched it does not retract the weapon back. This weapon was used by Karna on the 17th day of the Kurukshetra War. This weapon destroyed one Akshauni army of the Pandavas. Only Karna possessed this weapon.

but also potentially some delete on impact item that tops even VS in removal:

>Vijaya Dhanush - the personal bow of Shiva the god of destruction.
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>>4711918
>Everybody loves Karna.
Friendship ended with Alcides. Now Karna is my best friend.
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>>4711899
Pull a canon Shiki and just dick her right then and there. Finish inside, passionate french kiss, die because drained too rapidly to survive. Dab on canon Shinji on Taiga dojo
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>>4711922
We should save this move for Tesla
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>>4711927
My favourite Fate/ chapter was when Nikola Tesla finally loses his virginity in 2004 to a Japanese teenager while inhabiting the body of a mid 30 woman.
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>>4711928
Is it really that much stranger than King Arthur, the legendary King of Knights (female) and another Japanese teenager?
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>>4711927
There's a certain irony in Tesla going the way of Da Vinci-chan.
I can only imagine her smugness at another great genius following in her footsteps.
>>4711928
>Mid 30s
Didn't getting possessed put her back in her physical prime?
Our Cake is young again.
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>>4711929
Both happening in a span of 2? days just adds to the experience.

>>4711930
That's right, the miracle of Tesla's virgin influence
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>>4711867
>"That depends, are you going to kneel down and beg me for forgiveness for being such a treacherous girl if I come to you, or are you going to use it as an opportunity to melt and eat me?" Wait for her response.
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>>4711867
>"That depends, are you going to kneel down and beg me for forgiveness for being such a treacherous girl if I come to you, or are you going to use it as an opportunity to melt and eat me?" Wait for her response.
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>>4711933
Is it gay to have sex with your elder sister figure while she's sharing a headspace with an autistic Croatian?
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>>4711867
>"That depends, are you going to kneel down and beg me for forgiveness for being such a treacherous girl if I come to you, or are you going to use it as an opportunity to melt and eat me?" Wait for her response.
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>>4711939
there's no balls to touch, it's fine
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>>4711921
Four Horsemen of Death (+ Alcides and Karna) fighting gods, demons and aberrations through space-time Spin-off when WhatIs?
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>>4711941
What if we forget to say "No homo"?>>4711919
It should be EX so I doubt it's discount GoB.
Maybe it's him wielding Authority?
Maybe it's Super Karna.
Karna is a total bro.
Shame him existing by default btfos vampires.
That was probably why Ciel was here in the first place. Summon an Anti-Vampire Servant.
And Curry-senpai of course summoned the Indian.
I wonder what Van Hellsing would be like as a Servant.
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>>4711944
How did I manage to fuck up my reply this badly?
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>>4711944
>That was probably why Ciel was here in the first place. Summon an Anti-Vampire Servant.
Ciel was sent here to oversee the overseer after Kerry bombed the church. The vampire-melting Servant was just a nice bonus.
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>>4711944
It's only lite due to the limited range of its contents. It's weapons only and only has the full auto setting until Karna actually stops it from brrrrting so its less tactical and more GUN.

SSJ Karna with Shiva's bow is some dbspic meme powerlevel chart option.

>>4711946
Get well soon
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>>4711947
Still.
Imagine Ciel cucking the Church this hard. They lose a Burial Agent, a vampire cucking hero and fucking Longinus. It's hilarious.
>>4711948
Gil has full auto too.
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>>4711951
Yeah, her (and us) really shot up in the public enemy #1 position in the past 24 hours. I wouldn't be surprised if we're fighting the collective Burial Agency before the week's out.
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>>4711951
Gil can *choose* to go full auto, Bhargavastra was described in myth as just a rain of weapons with nothing in between. Can't use it to pull out shields, potions, booze etc. like Gil so its less overall useful when you don't want to stab something a lot. It also has to be specifically called off by it's user, and all Astras in dragonball poo usually have a special ON and OFF switch, with people often not being given the OFF switch so they're unable to risk invoking some world ending bullshit with no way to stop it. Karna can turn it off, fortunately, but there's not much else he can do with it but area denial and destruction
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>>4711959
He really should just hammer down Wormpa and his new castle
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>>4711961
That is a valid opener, yes. We'll just have to promise Illya we'll build her a new one.
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>>4711961
>>4711963
Nuclear doorknock
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Speaking of grandpa, we should probably periodically check what he's up to as we run around the city putting out fires. The last thing we need is him blindsiding us mid-fight.
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>>4711969
Morgan or Tamamo should be able to construct some form of live map that tracks the mana signatures of things via leylines. Even just a heat map of mana concentration would be fine, directly scrying Orochi might be just painting a target, but seeing where the giant red glow goes on the chessboard would prove effective enough.
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>>4711971
Excellent idea, we should propose it right after we deal with Shuten.
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People and things we should definitely avoid Orochi eating:
>Arc
>Lugh
>Morgan
>Gray's spear
>Cu
>Gorgon
>Shuten
>Karna
>Tamamo
>Medea
>Iskandar Alter
>Gil
>Sakura

What if Merlin is busy with keeping Orochi and his minions confined to the forests with his illusions?

>>4711963
We'll build her a city sized castle.
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>>4711974
What if every servant summoned by Orochi was just Merlin's illusions and he was just monologuing to himself in an empty castle?
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>>4711974
Also Gorgon has no Divinity anymore, so he wouldn't gain anything from eating her, only kill off Medusa.
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>>4711974
>We'll build her a city sized castle.
I'd prefer giving her Austria as a gift, desu. A city sized castle is impractical.
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>>4711978
That would be hilarious.
Still I think Merlin may have helped Billy and Lancer escape.
>>4711979
I think Gorgon might still have Medusa still in there sometimes.
Why else would she have gone to a prison while acting mopey and sad?
>>4711980
Why not just give her Greater Germany?
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>>4711992
Man Billy was so based.
Only a true Chad goes for a lethal attack when the villain is monologuing.
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>>4711992
Her Divinity decays as she gets closer to Gorgon, its probably a benefit here. Might have a snake kaiju-off for an update or two.

Acquire lebensraum for the pale haired loli
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>>4711992
Lolidusa has an A rank Divine Core for reference, as Rider she's E- as she's so monstrously huge by Japanese height standards.
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>>4711996
I'm now not sure we want to recruit him. He would object to any "talk no jutsu the enemy, alone" we try to do in the future.

>>4711992
>>4711999
Time for the 4th Reich to rise under a new Einzbern dynasty.
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>>4711999
>kaiju-off
Yeah, Beast II vs False Beast
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>>4712003
Singularity - F soon
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>>4712003
Let's not turn our sister into a kaiju, please.
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>>4711996
>>4712002
I'm worried about third Lancer and third Archer. Contracting with them is better than sending them to the grail or vored by Orochi. If one of them is too much of a hassle we could just give them to a friend. There are plenty of mages in our party now (Aoko especially) who could handle sustaining a servant or two after the war.
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>>4712008
Yeah, I was joking. We obviously want to recruit them, and yeah, no need to get more Servants for ourselves.
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>>4712008
I'd rather Lancer not be forced to eat people. Billy's IA means he's fine for a week. Odds are they'll stick together and turn up at one of these spot fires around the city considering we don't know of them in character yet so we can't feasibly write in a plan about them. They might also pop up accidentally as faint but much stronger the NPC human blips on the magic radar if that ever gets up and running.
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>>4712005
But Kingprotea is a super cutie.
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>>4712002
Illya was the true Loli Hitler this whole time.
Will Waver be able to talk-no-jutsu his Bara BF?
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>>4712021
Not as cute as our sisterwife.

>>4712026
Probably not, but I imagine Alex would be open to an alliance and I see nothing wrong with giving him the Balkans and Middle East.
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>>4712027
Big booba and Big ass, with a fertility goddess inside of her. She is literally the "what are you doing step-bro" meme in an anime character.
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>>4712027
Why don't we let him conquer the chinks too.
I'm sure Wukong wouldn't give a shit.
>>4712028
Her booba and ass will only grow larger because of Tiamat now. Bigger than Gorgon tier soon.
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>>4712030
Our new best pal Karna would object to him going through India, but sure why not. It'll be a bargain if he can stabilize Afghanistan too in the process.
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>>4712033
India is part of Mordred's Neo-British Empire anyway.
Karna can suck it up and we'll let him be governor of India.
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>>4712033
>>4712027
Ok, ok, so here's Age of Gods 2.0 land partition:
Mordred: Britain; Karna: India; Alexander: Balkans + Middle East; Ilya: Austria;
Is that it?
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>>4712036
Mordred lived before the Empire. She has no attachment to India. She'd probably want the English-speaking parts of the Commenwealth though.

>>4712038
We have decided Illya deserves the lebensraum of Greater Germany, but otherwise yes, that's the first draft.
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>>4712039
Understood. Shit, that's actually something i'd like to see, New Age of Gods shenanigans. Btw, just caught up to the whole Tsukihime Remake bullshit and... Jesus Christ Nasu. Jesus fucking Christ.
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>>4712041
Nasu has George RR Martin syndrome or something even worse than that. Its inexcusable too because he could just copy and paste everything from the original with just updated graphics. I'm pretty sure the only new content anybody really wanted was a Satsuki route. Nasu made his money and he became a hack like every other writer who gets successful off his work. FGO was a mistake.
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>>4712043
gets success off their work* Sorry, as you can see I'm quite pissed. I didn't think Nasu would ever become like GRRM but he did.
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>>4712043
The trick to not being angry is to abandon hope the moment a mobile game is announced.
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>>4712043
This bullshit is way worse than Martin. Two bloated routes and fuck everything else? Really? Over a decade for this? Fuck man. And the worst part is I like FGO stories, but if that's the price to pay, not worth it man. Let's quietly replace Nasu with WhatIs, fuck it.
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>>4712053
>way worse than Martin
Let's not get ahead of ourselves here, nothing's worse than Martin.
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>>4712054
Yeah, instead of finishing at least one of his last two books in his MAIN STORY which lets be honest he willl never finish because he is an old fat lazy fuck near his deathbed. He is working on a video game and spin off books. He's patethetic and the reason why the Show was narratively raped during season 7 and 8.
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>>4712038
Mordred: UK, Australia, Canada, USA, New Zealand, Hong Kong.
Illya: Greater Germany
Karna: India
Alexander: Balkans+Middle East plus whatever bits of Asia he wants.
Who should get Japan though?
Us?

>>4712041
Stop it you're going to set WhatIs off again.
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>>4711867
>"That depends, are you going to kneel down and beg me for forgiveness for being such a treacherous girl if I come to you, or are you going to use it as an opportunity to melt and eat me?" Wait for her response.
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>>4712054
>>4712061

Hell, i don't think even he would go "Hey, i know you've waited a fucking decade for the books" and then give us only a 500-pages Cersei POV and an 400 Asha one. And here's an irrelevant non-canon what if prequel, because why not? Nasu really went overboard with this one. Fuck man.

>>4712063
Yeah, yeah. Sorry. Anyway, I'd rather give Mordred France. Because fuck the french. And well, there's Brittany, and from there she could expand the empire into a new Gallic Empire.
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>>4712063
>Who should get Japan though?
Tamamo?
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>>4712067
At the bare minimum Nasu finished his VN works that jump started his cash grabbing app. That is the bare minimum I would give him. GRRM got famous way to quickly off the show. Its like if Nasu was offered FGO with just the Saber and half of the Rin route completed.
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>>4712067
>A decade
13 years, so it's closer to one and a half decades.
Satsuki has waited two whole decades for her route.
The worst part is the CONSOOMING going on by the smoothbrains.
We're going to basically lead the Illuminati arena we?
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>>4712067
Nasu's fucking up the remakes, but the original stories are complete. Imagine if the original visual novels cut off all routes 2/3rd along the way, and there was only an abortion of a series mangling everything to get at a shitty ending that lets you imagine only what could have been.

About France, I'd rather wait before partitioning it. With so many Servants around there's a chance we'll be seeing Jeanne.
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>>4711867
>"That depends, are you going to kneel down and beg me for forgiveness for being such a treacherous girl if I come to you, or are you going to use it as an opportunity to melt and eat me?" Wait for her response.
Glad to see Karna.
>>4712027
Can you confirm if this is the sisterwife?
>>4712063
>Who should get Japan though?
>Us?
We take Eurasia because Makiri roots and Tamamo gets Protectorate Japan.
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>>4712073
consooming culture is the reason why vidyas are getting shittier and shittier these days. I've been noticing more half baked products in the industry lately and its depressing. Everyone assumes that a patch or something would "fix the problem" but why the fuck does it need a patch in the first place? It is their JOB to finish the game in a completed state period.
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>>4712075
What if we just make BB get color contacts and dye her hair white to diffentiate herself with our Sakura. BB has Dark Sakura's personality anyway.
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>>4712075
>"That depends, are you going to kneel down and beg me for forgiveness for being such a treacherous girl if I come to you, or are you going to use it as an opportunity to melt and eat me?" Wait for her response.
>>4712075
I don't think Tamamo has much interest in being a ruler. she's a lot like Medea in that she wants to be a wife more than anything else.
>>4712079
Games got big and stopped having to appeal to discerning nerds.
Now they cut corners even more than hollywood.
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>>4712079
And then there are those who'll defend their pet companies while their wallets are being raped. People actually defending shit like what Nintendo pulled with Pokémon Sword/Shield is fucked up.

>>4712075
Tsar Makiri when?
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So place your bets on us getting eaten by Shuten in a bad end again.
This time I fear she'll not make it nearly as fast as Goddess Shuten did and will probably be a lot more personal about it.
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>>4712088
Well, if talk no jutsu fails, i guess there's a chance Dante e Sunbro can bail us out this time.
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>>4712088
Don't underestimate Dante, he's been around the block. Karna is no pushover either. Ciel and Shinji themselves should stay in the backline and watch for an opening to RB.
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>>4712093
We don't actually have RB right now.
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>>4712096
Medea could teleport to us at anytime. Just have Dante/Karna hold Shuten down.
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>>4711875
QM is there a TYPE/MOON friendly version of Vergil in this world?
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>>4712088
Shuten might be a bit more friendly than we are expecting if WhatIs made that bond reinforcement count for something.
Now Monica-Tesla might force us to do full cards reveal. Since she was pretty bothered by our knowledge right before Temple assault.
>>4712083
She had some fun playing ruler in EXTELLA. It just did not went well for her.
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>>4712075
>Can you confirm if this is the sisterwife?
Oh, come on.

>We take Eurasia
I don't want to rule the world directly. We'll be too busy fucking the harem and vacationing. It's better to let others handle most of the affairs. Anything we want to see done will just be a phone call away anyway.

>>4712096
If Karna, Ciel and Dante can subdue her we can Truth her. The only reason we didn't go for that against Orochi is because touching him is a really bad idea.
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>>4712093
Ciel is literally completely immortal beyond normal immortality.
No idea what would happen if Shuten melted and drunk her though.
Probably not good things for her.
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>>4712096
I think we actually completed it we just opted to not finish chanting it inside betty since it might destroy her mind.
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>>4712112
I mean Rule Breaker.
We don't have it unless we warp in Medea or one of the tracers.
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>>4712112
He meant Rulebreaker.
I don't want to use the RM fully until the final boss Manaka.
>>4712120
>tracers
Do you ever get that feeling of Deja vu?
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>>4712121
Speaking of Manaka why did she put "Love from" at the end of her message to us?
I thought she hated us.
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>>4712133
It's obviously ironic anon.
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>>4712135
Is it?
What if Manaka/L actually likes us?
She was more friendly than Righty.
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>>4712133
It was clearly sarcastic.
She taunts with courtesy while making you fight your brainwashed friends and allies.
Or else you also have to believe that
>'My Dearest Shinji,
>Forever yours,
>Altrouge Brunestud.'
Was also a love confession.
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>>4712139
She probably doesn't hate us, but she certainly doesn't love us either.
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>>4712140
I've noticed something... aside from Orochi both of the main villans have been lolis with insane amounts of power. Hmm...
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>>4712140
Altrouge might not know how to deal with love.
Pretty sure she's the super possessive Yandere type.
Like Manaka, so it's a point towards her loving us imo.
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>>4712144
Do not even think about trying it.
>>4712151
>super possessive Yandere type
We are Saber to Altrouge`s Gilgamesh.
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>>4712155
>We are Saber to Altrouge`s Gilgamesh.
That's... probably accurate, yeah.
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>>4712144
It's Nasu's fault for loving evil lolis too much.
Also Acht is a major villain too.
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>>4712155
Do you think that instead of killing Orochi and sending him to the grail we could turn him into this QT?
>>4712157
But who's our Shirou?
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>>4712151
>Altrouge might not know how to deal with love.
Her response to someone trying to save her was "I own you now."
>But who's our Shirou?
Mordred
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>>4712165
Ourselves, we are like a hybrid between Shirou and Saber. We have the harem after all.
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>>4712165
>But who's our Shirou?
Everyone in our harem together.
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>>4712167
>Her response to someone trying to save her was "I own you now."
She's an incredibly proud centuries old vampire princess with the most powerful weapon on Earth as her pet.
She probably thinks turning us would've been the greatest thing she could have done to us, and we just wouldn't understand until after she turned us.
She got angry when we ran away from her and she tried to kill our "girlfriend" who we obviously didn't care about very much as we only met her once a year.
She just needs careful headpats.
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>>4712180
Oh god, let's not befriend the ancient superevil vampire too.
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>>4712165
Perhaps? If instead of the Death+Tartarus plan we go with Sasaki's sword pulling plan theoretically causality could cause Ibuki to emerge from the Orochi after he is "slain". Since divinities and heroic spirits are bounded by their myths.
A certain route to give Shuten identity crisis too.
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>>4712183
We're being somewhat affable to BB and we're pals with Nyarla.
Both are more evil than yandere vamoire princess is. Way more evil.
BB's BBad end in CCC is "I have no mouth and I must scream tier", where she starts using aspects of Hakuno's existence for random functions in the Mooncell.
Like she turns some of them into some pavement, some into a chair, some into an attack program. Then to top things off she takes Hakuno's consciousness and attaches it to the Mooncell's protein generation facilities, meaning that they get to experience being eaten, torn apart and reformed for eternity.
BB is a bit of a psycho.
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>>4712206
Yeah, I've been against befriending BB as well. And I support not killing Shuten only because I don't want her soul to cause problems to Sakura or Illya.

In retrospect, I hope leaving BB alone with Abby and Betty doesn't bite us in the ass later on.
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>>4712206
We need to stop thinking in terms of who's more evil, and start thinking about how much of a problem people are.
BB is incredibly evil, but right now she's a bit annoying at worst to us.
Alt wants to enslave us, and while being less deranged and malicious than BB, is much more of a problem for us.
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>Super secret boss is BB with stolen powers from not only Nyarly but Azathoth and Yog-Sothoth as well
>Bad ends versus her do not lead to Dojo but instead to totaly normal eternal slice of life with BB pretending to be sisterwife Sakura
>Shinji is the only one who aware about this in that new reality
Oh no.
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>>4712243
This is too terrible to contemplate. We should feed her to Orochi.
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>>4712243
Would she really try to double dip outer god powers after getting reamed for it the first time?
She can't even access her original Harlot powers without Alan's permission.
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Did the isekai people finally take QM? Perhaps his sleep deprivation finally got to him.
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>>4712289
I'm right here.
I'm writing.
I do have some obligations, so I can't write 24/7.
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>>4712294
Mush writefag mush
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>>4712294
Damn you've been up since 5am until now? I genuinely thought that you would be asleep by now.
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>>4712297
pls no bully
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>>4712301
WhatIs does it for free like jannies so some bullying is in order.
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>>4712294
I don't think he meant to be rude, you usually make a post in the morning.
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>>4712338
I'm just assuming he's grouchy cause of being up since 5am. My post was more of a joke then anything deep. Thanks for sticking up for me though senpai.
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>>4712349
I didn't mean for my response to come across as snappy. Whoops.
As my apology, have this......
Lemme see...
Ok you can have this Extra Special Medea.
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"That depends, are you going to kneel down and beg me for forgiveness for being such a treacherous girl if I come to you..." You pause for a moment before continuing... "or are you just going to use it as an opportunity to melt and eat me with that Noble Phantasm of yours?" You shout down the halls back at Shuten, and you earn an amused giggle in response. You frown as Shuten continues laughing mirthfully at the answer you gave to to her request to talk in private. Well, she certainly must've found something funny.

"Well, Master, that really depends, doesn't it? While I certainly could use it to to get you all by yourself so I could experience just what that magical energy of yours taste like in a liquid form... It's not like I've made up my mind about what to do with you just yet. It's not like I really enjoy fighting all that much, Master, and I did enjoy your presence..." The voice of the dangerous man-eating Oni echoes down the corridors. "So, what do you say, are you willing to give talking to me a go? Come on... I won't bite! Maybe." That last word sends a shudder down your spine.

"She's... not lying." Karna has his arms crossed. "While the girl herself is clearly a foul demon, she's telling you the truth. I get the feeling, that this girl, despite her debaucherous nature, is one to take oaths and loyalty very seriously. She might be a remorseless slayer of humans, but she isn't the sort to break her word." Karna keeps his voice calm and composed, as observant and cool as you would expect from a top quality Archer such as himself.

"Man, nothing good ever comes of trusting people like that, ya' know?" Enhance pulls his hood off, and reveals his full face finally, and he really does look exactly like Dante. "If you ask me, we should just rush her, take her by surprise." He's got a savage grin on his face, he's clearly ready to go up against the Servant, but... you don't know how powerful Shuten is right now. While theoretically she shouldn't be able to deal with Karna, you don't know how something like Bone Collector would interact with Kavacha and Kundala, if she were to successfully use it on him, it would bypass the defenses of his Noble Phantasm armor and leave him dead immediately! Of course, Karna is an Archer, so really, he shouldn't be fighting in close range anyway.

"She can hear us, you know." Karna looks at Enhance with a raised eyebrow. "Your own senses were great enough to hear this building full of screaming humans from a few kilometers away, and this demon that we face is a natural born hunter of humans. Her natural senses are likely even more attuned than my own are, with the exception of eyesight, I imagine." Karna is being humble about his own abilities for whatever reason, then again, he's probably not wrong. Both Shuten and Ibaraki have shown themselves to have tremendously good natural senses, Shuten mentioned she could smell you while you were outside, after all.
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"Yeah, and?" Enhance draws his Demonic Sword and twirls it about in his hands. "It's not like she wouldn't have been expecting an attack if Shinji here doesn't decide he wants to be demon chow after all." He suddenly sinks his blade into the concrete of the floor. "But hey, it's not my call, if Shinji wants to go act as the bait for an attack, that's up to him." Enhance is smiling, clearly he doesn't trust Shuten at all, even despite the reassurances from the human lie detector.

"It's your Servant, Shinji, so it's your call. Do you think that you can trust this demon not to immediately kill you the moment she sees an opportunity?" Ciel has a worried expression on her face, and an ornately decorated silver and red spear in her hands. The weapon she's holding is something easily on the level of a Noble Phantasm, perhaps a level beyond even that! You can at least tell that much from it with just a quick glance at it. It exudes even more holy power than something like Excalibur!

>"Alright, Shuten. Let's talk."
>"I think you need to be taught a lesson in discipline, first."
>"Could I convince you to come to me instead by promising you a kiss?"
>"Hey, Shuten, how do you feel about your dad being summoned?"
>Write-in...
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>>4712362
Could I convince you to come to me instead by promising you a kiss?"
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>>4712362
>"Hey, Shuten, how do you feel about your dad being summoned?"

Maybe it's because i really, really like Dante, but he's not wrong you know?
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>>4712099
There might be.
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>>4712362
>"Alright, Shuten. Let's talk."
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>>4712362
>>"Could I convince you to come to me instead by promising you a kiss?"

>>4712099
He's killed Shirou and he's about as autistic as Vergil
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>>4712358
>"Hey, Shuten, how do you feel about your dad being summoned?"
She was pretty evasive in her answer, we came close to dying the last time we spoke to her, and she might have a grudge against us for leaving her to her fate in Manaka's clutches. And that's without considering how Manaka might have twisted her, if indeed she twisted her. Going in alone strikes me as extremely suicidal.
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>>4712362
>"Hey, Shuten, how do you feel about joining me again to fight not only your dad but his new seven Servants? I promise you this will be once-in-a-timeline opportunity. A pinky promise. In fact I can give you that pinky finger right away if you promise to behave like a good girl. And plus I would hate to see Ibaraki crying about your fate for the third time in a week."
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>>4712389
>>4712362
>>"Hey, Shuten, how do you feel about your dad being summoned?"
Actually switching, i just remembered its a bad idea for servants to get physical with us
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>>4712362
Switching >>4712391 to >>4712392
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>>4712362
>>4712392
+1
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>>4712392
Support
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Samefags
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>>4712362
>>"Hey, Shuten, how do you feel about your dad being summoned?"
I'm not falling for the Shuten trap again, either she comes to us or we go in there and subdue her.
>>4712382
I hope so it would be funny to explain to the both of them the Devil May Cry games and the very minor meme role Dante had in SMT.
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>>4712404
Speaking of, I'm in a moving vehicle and will be abstaining from voting.
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>>4712413
Maybe not actually, I'm surprised my id has been so stable.
I'm >>4712209
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>>4712392
+1
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>>4712404
I do like my write-in but if I were interested in swinging quest`s direction into some specific way I would at least bother to add some posts to few static IPs I have access too.
And doing so in collective game kills its point for me anyway.
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>>4712392
Support
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I'm suprised Shuten dosen't call us Husband like she does to a bland slate like Ritsuka/Ritsuko. Why just Master?
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>>4712362
>>4712392
Support.
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>>4712449
Bc we're khv
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>>4712449
She hasn't seen us do enough cool stuff yet and she hasn't seen us around other girls
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>>4712449
An unfortunate consequence of the source material being in Japanese and this quest being in English.
Shuten calls the Master of Chaldea "Master" But in Japanese, that use of the word master can also mean "Husband".
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>>4712467
We kissed Medea
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>>4712468
I think she spent more days imprisoned by Manaka than hours as our Servant.
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>>4712472
I genuinely thought she said it because it annoyed Raikou
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>>4712473
OK then shv
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>>4712477
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>>4712477
How do you kiss someone without hugging them
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>>4712476
Shuten doesn't need to do anything to annoy Raikou. Merely existing is enough.
The same is true for Shuten.about Raikou.
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>>4712482
>he doesn't know
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Shuten voice is pure sex and i would pay all my money for aoi yuuki to do ASMR with that voice.
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>>4711901
It's been stated a lot that Karna is Gil's equals, likely a little lower, that's him as a Lancer, as an Archer he's at his absolute best. The thing that holds him back is that he's a total Mana hog, even more so than a Berserker, that's why Ciel is a perfect master for him
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Does our Blessing from Alitheia let us ride Mordred?
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>>4712508
In more ways than one
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>>4712511
I mean purely in the sense of a vehicle.
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>>4712508
>Allows for the riding of all dragons so long as the level of the Riding skill is high enough.
>Shinji Riding: D++
>Mordred Riding: B
We need to work harder for it.
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>>4712516
It's not like it will be hard to practice, she seems to want to carry us everywhere.
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Hey, this isn't related to what's going on with Shuten, but I'm gonna need some dice.

Specifically, 5 lots of 4d100.

LRKFW
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Rolled 87, 34, 8, 26 = 155 (4d100)

>>4712530
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Rolled 91, 25, 48, 63 = 227 (4d100)

>>4712530
I hope I am wrong with a guess.
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Rolled 28, 17, 56, 80 = 181 (4d100)

>>4712530
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Rolled 72, 75, 7, 11 = 165 (4d100)

>>4712530
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Rolled 67, 97, 95, 44 = 303 (4d100)

>>4712530
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Rolled 85, 90, 64, 11 = 250 (4d100)

>>4712530

>LRKFW
Lancer, Rider, ???
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>>4712539
nice
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>>4712540
Luvi
Reines
Kairi
Flat
Waver
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>>4712540
Lancer, Rider, Keeper?, Foreigner, Watcher
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i can't tell if we did good or not or how this is counted, is it each individual roll? i'm extremely nervous
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>>4712544
Fuck you're right.
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Lancer, Rider, Karna, Foreigner, Waver?
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Rolled 16, 23, 37, 75 = 151 (4d100)

>>4712530
Welp heres hoping this goes well. (I know we already have. 5 rolls but fuck it I might as well contribute)
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Rolled 81, 6, 61, 69 = 217 (4d100)

>>4712533
And a free reroll for the worst...
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>>4712552
Nah its probably what >>4712544 said.
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>>4712559
>And a free reroll
Oh, god.
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>>4712559
oh god we fucked up
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>>4712559
What happened?? Are Waver's team about to be anally raped and then vored?
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>>4712566
Probably not, most of them rolled above average.
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>>4712569
if its all the best roll from each roll then it goes 91, 97, 95 and 80
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>>4712569
>Luvi
155
217 reroll
>Reines
227
>Kairi
181
>Flat
165
>Waver
303

Kairi and Flat are in trouble.
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so are you guys still hyped for Fate Extra Remake after hearing about what's going on with TsukiR?
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>>4712576
How presumptuous of you to suggest I had any hope to begin with.
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>>4712576
Not getting my hopes up, too many vidyas have been half baked of recent.
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>>4712576
I was never hyped for that game to begin with. Lost all my faith in nasu in all extra related content after the last encore anime.
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>>4712576
I would prefer it to be good but I don`t hold any expectations.
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>>4712358
Important question, is it younger Dante or boomer Dante Enhance looks like
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So what's the objective here because if we want her back we'll need rule breaker. Meaning we should ask Madea to come.

This is under the assumption that Manaka hasn't already made her self-sefficent or used a command seal with certain conditions.
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>>4712639
younger Dante cause Enhance autistically rages against DAA
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>>4712643
Truth
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>>4712643
Truth to purge Manaka's influence, reestablish contract. Medea TPing in (or sending Redman) is plan B.
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>>4712099
EMIYA is basically Vergil aesthetically.

Susanoo may show up at some point and coincidentally look and act just like him with katana and theme song a like.
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>>4712099
>>4712658
Since Nasu is redoing DAAs anyway why not just have an OC?
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>>4712661
more work for WhatIs, we'll see. Shinji might need some real inspiration for a series of games he'll commission post war
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>>4712665
We can save RTS genre.
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>>4712661
Like 1/3 of the DAA are dead or sealed, just replace one of them
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Updates delayed.
Feeling very sick.
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>>4712746
Get well soon!
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>>4712746
Don't die please.
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>>4712746
the curse finally got to you
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>>4712746
Consider seeing a doctor for a proper diagnosis if you had not done so yet.
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>>4712746
The isekai cometh. Tell Shirou that he is a simp and get Saber pregnant already.
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>>4712746
don't die
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>>4712746
Don’t die WhatIs. Also get well soon.
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I reread our second visit to the Dojo, trying to figure out if Taiga's Servant killed us and if there was a clue to his identity.

>While you wait for your Servant to come back to you, you feel a presence behind you... an ominous presence. Not one that feels powerful magically, but easily one that screams danger, you turn around, immediately prepared to strike whoever it is that has snuck up on you, only to be completely thrown off guard by a female police officer standing behind you, her appearance is mostly covered .

>"Excuse me, Sir? But this area is off-limits." The police officer has a baton in her hand, is she... threatening you? "I'm going to have to ask you to die." The woman says with a calm and almost happy smile.

>...Pardon? As soon as she says those words, you immediately prepare for a fight!

>Before you can question the woman any further, she brings her baton down, she's fast, but she doesn't have the speed of a Servant, and you'll easily be able to block an attack like this!

>You raise your arm upwards in order to block the baton so you can follow up with a counter attack, a punch to the woman's kidneys should do the trick and incapacitate her.

>Only that's what you expected to happen. For all your martial arts training and experience, nothing prepared you for just what happened when you tried to block the baton. It literally smashes through your arm, causing the entire appendage to explode into a shower of gore. You don't even get to question what's happening before the Baton is swung towards you again, but this time at your chest, you're in too much shock to even think about blocking the second attack, not that it would've done you much good.

>The baton strikes your chest and cleaves through your body with blunt force alone, leaving you a severed torso on the ground, quickly bleeding out and looking up at your murderer, you manage to utter a single word "A-Assassin?". The last thing you notice before a boot comes down to crush your skull is an inhuman smile, and the flick of a tail.

>DEAD END.


>Sun Wukong knows the 72 Bian form of shapeshifting, allowing her to take almost any form, animate or inanimate. However, she has one drawback to her shapeshifting. Whatever form she takes must in some way include a tail. Gender is irrelevant to Sun Wukong, and she simply takes on the form she feels her Master would be more comfortable with.

It wasn't an Assassin. We got ganked by Sun when we sent Betty after her Master.
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>>4712857
We need to bully Wu Kong with a replica of the shrinking headband used by Shuwen Zhang at some point for her being a paranoid homicidal hothead.
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>>4712857
We never figured out who was killing those boys around that time did we? Unless Shuten developed a very specific fetish at the time? People were assuming it was Cain considering the targets.
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>>4712873
Wouldn't be surprised if it was Shuten, she likes "good looking young guys" and eating them especially. I highly doubt Taiga would let her Second Assassin harm anyone, but Zouken pretty much let Shuten do whatever she wanted.
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>>4712873
>"Corpses. Human Corpses." Rin's face pales very slightly. "But not just human corpses, either. Each of the victims were children. Boys somewhere between the age of eight and eighteen years old, I counted twenty five of the bodies in the warehouse, each of them had been cut into four parts, and-" Archer looks as if he's about to explain everything about his investigation to Rin, with all the cold calculation that one would expect of a computer. It seems that even if he had been affected by the sight of such vicious senseless killing, that it didn't leave him emotionally compromised for very long. Seeing something like that however would probably shut Shirou down until he was given a hug or something though.

>The white haired, tanned Archer looks around for targets before he continues "I found traces of magic use inside the warehouse actually, and of the bodies I examined, the cause of their death wasn't being bisected, but was instead repeated blunt force trauma to the back of the head. Each and every one of them died that same way. If I had to guess, it was for some sort of ritual."

I had assumed it was Shuten at the time, but reading back it doesn't sound like her. Maybe Zouken used them to fuel the ritual that summoned her? Or it could be Nyarly. Can't really thing of anything else.

I think I might reread the Quest from the beginning and try to figure out if there's anything else in general that jumps out now we know more about what's been going on.
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"Hey Shuten... how would you feel about joining me again to fight not only an additional seven Servants, but also the man... or well, the god who summoned them?" Shuten remains silent for a second, so you decide to keep talking. "I promise you that this is a once-in-a-timeline opportunity Shuten. I don't know how much Manaka might've told you about what's going on, but... well, would you like to meet your father?" The temperature seems to drop as you say that, and the tension in the room becomes thick enough that it could be cut with a knife.

"Father?" Karna repeats your words, and not Shuten. "You can't possibly be talking about...!" Looks like Karna is unaware of what went down in the forest, but the mention of the father of Shuten-dōji is something that any Heroic Spirit should be able to rapidly discern the identity of a divine spirit from just that much. Karna is by no means foolish.

"Yamata-no-Orochi, a False Beast, and the divine spirit possessing the body of my ancestor after he summoned him into himself in order to get one last laugh at me. What's more, he managed to steal half of Arcueid Brunestud's current power, and of course, your father and previous incarnation." It's strange to think that Shuten is actually a downgraded version of the Snake God, a portion of his power that split off after he was slain by Susanoo and became its own being, which itself eventually degraded from a dragon to an oni. "Come on, Shuten. I'll give you my pinky finger right away if you promise to behave like a good girl from now on, don't you want to make it a promise?"

"My... father." Shuten repeats, her voice sounding like a whisper despite reaching your ears anyway. "Why would I help you again though, Master? I put my trust in you, and then you abandoned me just like that! Why would I trust you, or even help you when I can continue to exist through the power that girl granted me?" It seems that the idea of getting into more fights isn't really one that appeals to Shuten. The lazy girl. You might've had more luck if you promised her an extra comfortable pillow or something.

"What, you can't mean to tell me that you actually like doing what that girl in the grail wanted you to do, surely?! Come on Shuten, you know you can trust me, right? Are you really content with being used as nothing more than a tool by that girl? I might've had to leave you, but she was the one who took you from me!" You keep talking, thinking of just the way to get to Shuten. While she keeps her affection for Ibaraki quite well concealed, she obviously does have some emotions for the girl. "Besides, I'd hate to see Ibaraki cry about your fate for the third time in a week. You don't like making her worry about you, do you?" You haven't spent a long time with Ibaraki, but it's very obvious that the girl is clearly massively distressed about what happened to her sworn sibling.
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>>4712889
When we found Shuten's victims they were all post Bone Collector too, bodyhorror jellysacks. Why would an alcoholic hedonist waste time on a ritual? Would have been traces of her Intoxicating Aroma around too if it was her doing. I'm inclined to believe it wasn't her.

When I google quartering murders the only hit I find is those who were sentenced to drawn and quartering, not quadsected targets.
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There's a long period of silence. "That's a low blow, Master..." There's another period of silence. "I'll tell you my answer if you come alone. There's something I want to ask you, but it needs to be... private, and face to face. If you bring anyone else, I'll kill them, and then I'll show you what happens to somebody who discards hospitality offered to them by an oni."

>"Fine. But first, promise me that you aren't planning on harming me."
>"Sorry, but negotiations aren't going any further than this. Let's see how you feel about rejoining me after a thrashing, you foolish girl."
>"Hey Karna, you can tell where she is right? Would you mind shooting her?"
>Write-in...
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>>4712907
>>"Fine. But first, promise me that you aren't planning on harming me."
Actually? Shuten does honor hospitality and she isn't the type to be deceitful, if she wanted to kill us she would've gone for it without thinking much of it
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>>4712907
>If she's willing to rejoin she can give her answer here to her future allies, or see them turned against her. We're wasting time negotiating with an irredeemable monster, shoot her Karna.

Her BatCon is strong enough we can be rough with her without her actually dying long enough to Truthwipe her.

Karna's Clairvoyance + Discernment of the poor means he has to know her location. Presence concealment doesn't work on him.
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>>4712907
>"Fine. But first, promise me that you aren't planning on harming me."
Karna can tell if she's lying (god, this guy is a walking cheat), in which case we shoot her until she says uncle. Success?

>>4712905
Yeah, I agree about Shuten. But I think blunt force trauma to the back of the head is the bigger clue. Could it be Sun? She was at the scene of the crime, she has a murder weapon that fits, and she might have needed to gain mana. But why boys if it was her, and why the quartering?
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>>4712923
Sun's powerpole has a set weight of several tonnes, he makes humans into red smears if he bonks them.
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>>4712927
Ah, so that's why our hand exploded when we blocked. Back to square one with no suspect then.
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>>4712931
Yeah reading it back now it was really obvious who dead ended Shinji there. Baton object, splattering on impact, tail.
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>>4712918
Is it a good idea to trust an Alter though? SAlter after getting corrupted was willing to betray everything about herself and kill Shirou with no command spell but by only by request and watch in apathy as the whole world would become obliterated by Sakura. Artoria was also willing to kill Rin too, someone who is clearly weaker than her and which goes against her Chivalrous nature.
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>>4712934
I don't trust Shuten, but I do trust Karna to be able to tell if she's lying.
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>>4712934
Wow I fucked up my whole sentence there. Guess that's what you get when you type half asleep.
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>>4712907
>Fine. But first, promise me that you aren't planning on harming me.
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>>4712907
Fine. But first, promise me that you aren't planning on harming me."
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>>4712934
I don't think she's been blackened, plus Karna knows when someone is lying or not
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>>4712934
We don't know if she's an alter, every behavior that she's shown so far shows that she's just been socially engineered to be a problem, which fits with how Manaka did things in Sky Silver.
Also, Salter didn't betray her principles but that's an essay I don't want to type on mobile.
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>>4712907
>Fine. But first, promise me that you aren't planning on harming me.
......heeeeyyyy. The dojo is still open riiiiiiiigghhhhhhttt?
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>>4712907
>"Fine. But first, promise me that you aren't planning on harming me."
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>>4712907
>>Fine. But first, promise me that you aren't planning on harming me.
If we are going to the Dojo because of y'all we are going to go through a forced Kaleido Amythest transformation vote again and piss off the autistic no-fun people as compensation.
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>>4712963
I reckon Kaleido shinji-chan showing up in the dojo and getting laughed at by og Shinji would make a good CP skit
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>>4712907
>"Fine. But first, promise me that you aren't planning on harming me."
I hope OG shinji makes an appearance again in the dojo
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If you guys think we're going to the Dojo, you should vote for something else. We have a long day ahead of us, I wouldn't want us to wear out our welcome there.
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>>4712963
I genuinely have a soft spot for Shuten and really wanna believe this will work out
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>>4712980
No one seemed to care about Shuten being an Alter, and someone was even in denial of that fact even though we JUST saw Gorgon and Alter Lancer. It's been a while that we've seen Taiga though, and I want my Kaleido Amythest wish to come true.
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>>4712980
If there's a death here I hope people resolve to use proper force. She's the only one here who can actually take the punishment due to her batcon and doesn't even mind being roughed up.
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>>4712984
You picked this option back when the VN was around didn't you? Yummy.
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>>4712986
Fair enough. But how do you think a Shuten Alter could get such a lie past our boy Karna?

>>4712988
Well yeah, if negotiations fail it's time to break out the big guns. We don't have time to play around.
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>>4712991
Because maybe Manaka will pull her strings tight suddenly and has only given her the current free reign without a CS or similar order as bait to lure in and kill Shinji as he constantly goes for diplomacy.
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Okay so I’ve been theorizing what kind of new power Shuten might have and judging by the screams and suddenly dropping bodies we saw shuten causing I’m going to say she has some power to suck the soul right out of someone by proximity or such
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>>4712991
Have you seen that Last Airbender episode where that Earth Bending girl couldn't tell if Azula was lying or not, even though said Earth bending girl was an expert at detecting lies by heart rate and air patterns or some shit like that? That's why I think Shuten Alter could lie through her teeth and nobody would know.
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>>4712907
>>"Fine. But first, promise me that you aren't planning on harming me."
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>>4712996
Ok but Karna has literal magic
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>>4712996
That’s because Azula is a bitch and you can’t trust the words of a bitch, truth or not
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>>4712993
It's probably just Bone Collector with more range. Maybe mixed in with the AoE of Intoxicating Aroma of Fruits.
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>>4713000
Dude idk what you want me to say, its just an educated guess. There's a reason why you killed SAlter in HF and you didn't go easy on her. I'm okay with getting Dojo or being proven wrong after QM writes.
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>>4713008
Like I understand that there's something off about this but Karna knows when someone is lying and knows when something is a trap
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>>4712907
Probably too late, but switching >>4712923 to
>"I would agree, but I don't trust that new Master of yours not to yank your leash while I'm there. How about you come over here, I erase her hold over you, and then we talk in peace?"

>>4712992
Damn, you're absolutely right. That's exactly what happened with Mordred. Karna made me complacent.
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>>4713025
>>4712907
Yeah switching to this, I'm not going for the meme vote anymore. QM did say not to underestimate anything when confronting our former allies.
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>>4713025
>>4712918
>>4712907
This actually is the smarter choice, switching to this, maybe there's time
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Calling in 15 minutes.
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>>4712931
switching to >>4713025 from >>4712979

i forgot what happened when we approached mordred solo this is the smarter choice.
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>>4713035
FUCK, we're so fucked goddamn it
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>>4713036
Actually, yeah, Mordred didn't have bad intentions with us but her master forced a command seal
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>>4713028
Don't we have Madea to teleport if something happens?
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>>4713043
Servants are faster than command seals, Shirou got done in in one bad end cause Rider ripped his arm off before he could use a command seal
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>>4713043
Not instantaneous obviously. Servants can move faster than thought, my initial plan for Medea was telepathically talk to her once Dante and Karna held Shuten down for RB.
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>>4713025
Switching to this. Perhaps we didn’t make the wisest choice.....welp least we get to see Taiga again. And in person this time too.
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>>4713057
its a tie now so you actually kinda saved us
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>>4713060
Oh, thank fuck!
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>>4712907
>>4713025
support
I don't think Manaka is micromanaging in an attempt to kill us but with how little we know when it comes to what she's done with our allies an abundance of caution is warranted.
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>>4712907
>>4712922
Seeing as mine is probably a bit more aggressive than what the audience wants I'll swap to >>4713025
to ensure there's no tie
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>>4713060
Thank god.
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Carnival Ideas:
Competition between protagonists in various activities such as cooking and high jump.
Shinji and Mordred are late to a diplomatic meeting and Shinji must use his riding skills to guide Modred though a gauntlet of unlikely obstacles.
A downturn in Clock Tower infighting forces Monica to become a street performer and she quickly becomes a hit with increasingly implausible coin tricks.
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>>4713113
high jump would be good, Shinji keeps trying to jump over because he literally can't fathom not being able to achieve anything, which includes the high jump
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"I would agree, Shuten, I do trust you, really... But I don't trust your new Master not to yank your leash while I'm there. She's proven herself to be nothing but a thorn in my side. How about instead, you come over here, I erase her hold over you, and we have a nice chat in peace?" You try to make an offer to the girl. You don't trust Manaka not to use you speaking to the girl as an opportunity to have her use her Command Spells to force Shuten to slay you, no matter what her intentions might be. It's unfortunate, but even if you want to trust Shuten, you can't.

"I'm sorry, Master, but... I really can't do that." Shuten sighs. "I wanted to play a game with you, where I'd have given you the chance to stop me from... well from doing this, and maybe you'd have severed my contract while you were at it, but..." There's suddenly a great surge of magical energy from deeper inside the shopping center, and you take a step backwards. Is this... A noble phantasm?! "The girl, she 'blessed' each and every one of those who remained trapped in her prison with a great deal of power." Shuten explains things a little, but you don't get what she could be up to.

"Shuten?! What are you up to?!" If she's about to use Providential Oni Poison, you'll need to get out as quick as you can! You prepare to mentally communicate with Medea in order to organize a teleport out for you and your allies, but before you can...

"Progenitor of Oni- Mask of Mt. Hiei!"

[Status Updated]

The Noble Phantasm she calls out is... very different from the one you were expecting, and you honestly have no idea just what Shuten has done for a moment. "You didn't think I was just being gluttonous and eating all those people, did you?" The whole building begins to shake. "Behold, Master! The rebirth of the Oni race!" Shuten cries out with a joyful voice. You can hear the sound of hundreds of footsteps, racing towards your group. Karna looks conflicted as he aims his bow at the crowd of people as it finally comes into view for you as well. It's a crowd, three hundred strong, all wearing the clothing of civilians, though these clearly aren't civilians any longer. From each of their heads jut two horns, the tips of their fingers have been replaced by sharp looking nails, and their eyes belay a deep hunger for the flesh of humans. Men, women, children. None were spared from the transformative effects of this new Noble Phantasm of Shuten's, it seems.
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Did... Shuten really transform all of these people into Oni!? That's... insane! There are so many of them, is this even a fight you can win? Do you even want to?! These people were just innocent bystanders! Yet right now, they represent a force of Oni that could tear apart practically anything!

>"You know what, enough of this." Telepathically ask Medea to just teleport you directly to Shuten.
>"We need to go." Telepathically communicate with Medea to ask her to get you and your allies out of here.
>"Karna, Enhance. What are you waiting for?" Attack the army of freshly transformed Oni.
>"We need to evade them!" You don't want to kill all these people, it might be possible to reverse the transformation, or to at least return them to sanity.
>Write-in...
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She just wanted to talk in person, guys.
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>>4713149
>>"You know what, enough of this." Telepathically ask Medea to just teleport you directly to Shuten.
Whelp
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>>4713150
>repeat of last time
I'm not regretting this. I did enough diplo and ate shit for it, and the one time I try to not walk alone into danger I get shafted. Fuck this shit. Those civilians were good as dead the moment they were in proximity to Shuten, the moment they had the gall to stay and live in Fuyuki, ignorant of how worthless they were as background cutout vestiges. Each and every last one of them isn't fit to face us named and important people. They're not even human, far beneath any animal or insect, or anything that can be classified as living. Mobile humanoid objects. That is the Truth of their being.

And objects are objects. In my way.

- Shinji Makiri
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Stupid fags
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>>4713149
You know what, enough of this." Telepathically ask Medea to just teleport you directly to Shuten

Next time faggots have a little faith in our allies.
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Flavour text says it can't be reversed, even if Shuten dies.

Because people seethed last time I opted for a sudden Kalideostar moment, who would be averse to just whipping out the RM to purify them all with the free mana refills?
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>>4713150
I don't regret it, she almost ate us last time we "talked" to her. You also told us to be more careful about our former allies. We barely knew her for more than 30 minutes tops until Manaka banished her to the shadow realm, so how the hell was she suppose to expect that we would talk to her just like that with how dangerous she is? Give me a minute to make a decision.
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>>4713157
motherfucker, last time we tried to put faith in a person, we got turned into a Dead Apostle, its not wrong to feel this way, especially since Shuten and everyone else is under the control of Manaka and going on a rampage

>>4713159
I think its time we go all in and try to use our RM, we do some wild things with Truth, being able to switch someone from being an Oni to a Human is in the deck
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>>4713157
Most people had faith in Shuten, just not Manaka's hold over her. Manaka has no sold A rank Magic Resistance with absolutely no effort before so it's not like anything other than Truth, Outer God bs and either Merlin or Plot (who else got Shirou and Saber out of that situation?). Shuten wouldn't be able to resist even if she wanted to.
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>>4713161
The fact that she was referring to you as 'Master' still, even when you aren't currently her Master was supposed to tip you off.
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Can anyone remind me why we want this bitch alive again? Because seriously, she has been a pain in the ass for as long as I can remember and murders anyone she pleases.
I know Ibaraki would be angry and all, but I really can't bring myself to care.
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>>4713159
I'm down for going Mahou Shounen and using reality marble purification. I'm not autistically against using what we are given just because its "silly".
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>>4713162
I just worry about Ciel, Karna and Dante's opinion of us just electing to slaughter 300 odd NPCs. It's why I'd suggest the Truth bs alt route purification.
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>>4713149
>Use Amethyst to infuse yourself with mana and invoke your RM to purify the NPCs and Shuten of the Oni curse.

This might even return Shuten to her pre Oni form before the mask cursed her.
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>>4713165
cause having one other person with us to fight Orochi is a good idea, also because killing her means Ibaraki will want us dead
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>>4713150
Yeah, not regretting this either. There was nothing different between this situation and Mordred. Friendly Servant, enemy Master who wants to use our power. A trip to the Dojo wasn't even the worst case scenario here, we couldn't possibly afford another snatch an grab in the middle of this clusterfuck.

>>4713163
Long day ahead of us, I'm not sure I want to rely too much on Amethyst. Could Ciel Karna and Dante fight defensively and try knocking them out while we go patch things up with Shouten?
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>>4713164
Yeah these people are dense...
>>4713166
And what if the dice fails us?
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>>4713173
We turn into a tranny simple as.
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>>4713172
yolo, we're on a timer. This is specifically an irreversible effect so the only way to fix it is reality rewriting bullshit.

>>4713173
We don't need anything other than mana supply, Amethyst might be able to just siphon mana without a full transformation.
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You don't have the full reality marble. You can only really progress it when you're in extreme danger, or suffering from extreme stress.
While you could've gone all the way and unlocked it all in Betty's inner world, you stopped yourself from thinking of the next verses.
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>>4713170
dude, remember what QM said? Forcing a RM while using Amethyst is a bad idea, we should handle Shuten first

>>4713173
Mordred was friendly to us and Rizo still forced her to follow his orders
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>>4713162
>use Kaleido Truth magic to edit peoples DNA and make them human again.
Fuck it. I’m down. We’ll probably be punished for our dumb meme bullshit this time but hey may as well see if we can do it.

>>4713149
>"You know what, enough of this." Telepathically ask Medea to just teleport you directly to Shuten.
>Write in..
>”Enough of this Shuten. Just because I don’t trust your master doesn’t mean I don’t trust you. I have a lot of faith in you Shuten, now stop this. I don’t want to fight you”.
Yes this is autistic and probably won’t work out because of how Shuten currently feels about us. But hey might as well try to be diplomatic one last time before we have to get serious and fight.
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>>4713165
Her soul goes into Sakura or Illya, we have to storm the temple and secure the Greater Grail in even less than a week.

>>>4713166
>just because its "silly".
The objection was more because I see Shinji getting turned into a girl permanently as game over, gg no re.
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>>4713172
Even if they could, these people are permanently rampaging Oni.
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>>4713177
>or suffering from extreme stress
i feel like this situation is an extremely stressful one
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>>4713182
>permanently rampaging Oni.
If they're knocked out we can Truth them one by one without messing with an incomplete Reality Marble. Amethyst would give us the mana to do it if our reserves are not enough.
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>>4713177
would Amethyst still require a dice roll?
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>>4713177
I actually thought we had all the verses down, just hadn't opened the full box. My bad, reread the character sheet.

I still think it'd be interesting to try and use Truth to reverse the Oni transformation on Shuten if the chance arises, permanently altering her Saint Graph to something closer to Ibuki and hoping removing a lot of her brain problems towards seeing people as booze ingredients.
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>>4713184
Yeah, but it's not the sort of situation where Shinji feels lost and hopeless, which probably would've been a better way to put things.

I'll give you a big hint as to how you can potentially solve your current problem.
If only there was somebody you knew whos entire role in life was keeping Oni under control...
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>>4713191
I wish I reread turkeyhandle within the last 10 years, drawing a blank.
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>>4713191
>If only there was somebody you knew whos entire role in life was keeping Oni under control...
A FUCK i feel like its on the tip of my tongue shit
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>>4713190
>reverse the Oni transformation on Shuten if the chance arises
This would basically just obliterate Shuten's entire personality and replace her with somebody else entirely. You'd effectively kill her by any other name by doing this.
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Even if she's referring to Shinji as master that doesn't mean much. We have no idea what Manaka did to her or gave her. This is also the same situation as Mordred so it might not even have mattered what she thought.

We also only knew her for a couple of hrs tops.
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>>4713197
isn't it ibaraki's master since she's an oni and a shrine maden. Aren't shrine maiden supposed to be really good at calming evil spirits and shit.
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>>4713191
Does QM mean Ibaraki? Wasn't she able to cause the Tohno mansions onis to go berserk?
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>>4713197
ITS IBARAKI

>>4713149
>>4713153
adding to my vote
>Telepathically ask Medea to teleport Ibaraki and tell her to use Fortress of Oni
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>>4713203
its Ibaraki, her NP actually didn't make them rampage, she just put them directly under her control
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>>4713202
>>4713203
>>4713204
>>4713205

They are specifically independent of Shuten's control.

We could bring the two here and have them negotiate but we run the risk of Ibaraki having a gamer moment and just taking them as her army and going off the rails.

I guess she understands the importance of reality wiping threat though?
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>>4713202
It's Ibraki, the only reason Shuten's army wasn't full retard.
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>>4713207
that's why we teleport directly to Shuten and break Manaka's hold on her right as we get Medea to teleport Ibaraki here
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Can someone make a condescened version of teleporting Ibaraki and her Master here and telling Ibaraki to use her NP. Also include the talking to Shuten afterwards thing. There's too many ideas going on rn to support.
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>>4713217
I think we should teleport towards Shuten too, its not a given that Ibaraki will listen to us or that Shuten won't immediately attack if we stop her plan
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>>4713225
If we're teleporting to Shuten, do we bring Enhance and Karna incase she attacks?
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>>4713225
When I suggest autistically long multi stage writeins WhatIs always only uses the first few steps for the next update. It might be too much. This would be handling the Oni mob heading for us by:

>Giving Medea a command
>Medea teleporting the two of them here
>Giving Ibaraki a command
>Ibaraki's response/action
>Shuten's response to this
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I'm going to bed, but I just realized something.
The original Melty Blood series takes place after the theoretical Satsuki Route.
Seeing as the new Melty is a prequel that occurs before Tsukihime Remake begins, this means that not only did Satsuki not get her route.
She had her route taken away from her.
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>>4713227
Yeah, I think we'll get a new choice after Ibaraki handles the mob.

>>4713229
Being (canon) Sacchin is suffering. Goodnight WhatIs!
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>>4713227
I try to fit as much of a write-in plan in as I can if one wins, but when circumstances change, I usually have it turn into a vote.
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>>4713229
Sacchin may not have a route but she will always have her Shinji-kun.
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>>4713229
We all know going to bed doesn't mean you'll necessarily sleep or stop posting
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>>4713229
We're basically required to give Sacchin a GOOD END now
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>>4713238
Single motherhood?
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>>4713229
No Sacchin happiness unless its fanfiction QM, that is the Nasu rule. No Illya happiness either, because she dies or will die in every route other that Prisma Illya. Repeat after me: FGO. Was. A. Mistake.
>>4713224
This is good, why don't you reply to QM choice post?
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>>4713239
>not wanting to be with Sacchin forever
anon...
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>>4713241
Because I've already replied like 3 times. I'll delete my old stuff and link it as a write in.
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>>4713241
Huh did janny get rid of niggerman's idea for vote? What the hell?
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>>4713149
>Have Medea teleport Ibaraki and her master here immediately, tell Ibaraki to invoke her fortress to take control of the Oni army so you can make a path towards Shuten and talk to her directly.

Discard my older post here >>4713170 it's too old to delete and assumed we had more RM control.
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>>4713232
Night
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>>4713249
>>4713149
Support.
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>>4713248
No I jannied myself to try and reduce WhatIs's workload in counting votes.
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>>4713149
>>4713249
+1

>>4713254
>I jannied myself
Your sacrifice will not be forgotten
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>>4713149
>>4713249
Support.
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>>4713227
In retrospect, I should have put calling Waver before teleporting to Ciel in my autistic writeup.
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Completely unrelated but it'd be pretty funny if we ended up doing FGO stuff and just popped in at the last moment to t pose in front of Mashu trying to block Goetia's Ars Almadel Salomonis in the time temple, nullifying the attack with Truth.

Would also allow Fou to retain his power and sentience.
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>>4713263
pretty sure we would stop most of FGO from happening if we just gut Lev if he didn't neck himself already
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>>4713260
They'll be fine... I hope. Besides its OOC for Shinji to psychically know something happened to them.
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>>4713263
Maybe FGO didn't happen because Rin and Shirou never shagged and had Ritsuka, unless EMIYA somehow gets a physical body after this war?
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>>4713267
Yeah, but giving a call to Waver was literally the next thing in the agenda before we got sidetracked. They were THIS close to being as safe as one can be in this city right now.
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>>4713265
We inquired about Lev with Waver and he'd never heard of him iirc which is really weird considering he was a very prominent clocktower figure. I'm honestly stumped on what WhatIs has gone for in regards to the FGO plot threads as Merlin was summoned here and is wandering around with Olga and Solomon isn't Grand Caster.
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>>4713249
Support
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>>4713268
>somehow
We are already planning on incarnating everyone, aren't we?
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>>4713229
Sacchin gets laughed at and ignored at best, brutalized and tormented at worst.
>>4713268
Ritsuka isn't Rin or Shirou's kid, just a nobody without an original design.
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>>4713268
Ritsuka isn't the son/daughter of Shirou and Rin, they're way too old to be their children
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>>4713285
Counterpoint: Redman
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>>4713281
>>4713285
I know, its a joke. But who knows? Maybe in this timeline they are. *illumnati music*. Hell if an iteration of the Prototype protagonist and Manakas exists Ritsuka could somehow, someway be Rin and Shirou's kid from another dimension distortion whosits, or Alan farting somehow caused that to happen.
>>4713276
Well duh, unless you want some of our allies to have barren wombs.
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>>4713291
>unless you want some of our allies to have barren wombs
Idk, its probably for the best at the rate we're going
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>>4713287
Or EMIYA shagged a younger version of his former lover. What a twist!
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>>4713292
Two adopted magic daughters, and one biological dragon daughter isn't enough. We gonna be Ocotodad by the time we hit our twenties.
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>>4713292
We'll already have limited time to dedicate to everyone in the harem. It'll be cruel if we can't even give them a kid (or two or ten) to dote on.
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>>4713298
Will Shinji's skin darken like Redman the more we become an absent father to the children of multiple women?
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>>4713305
...we'll have to create a Shinji copy for each girl, won't we?
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>>4713310
Shouldn't be that hard we have touko with us even if our puppets are incapable of magecraft as long as they can satisfy the women then its fine.
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>>4713310
People will want to also wife a clone that's been trannified by Amethyst if that happens.
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>>4713313
Good thing only Rin knows about that.
Well, Merlin knows too, and Zelretch, and Medea and Tamamo of they happened to be scrying, and...
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>>4713317
EMIYA may get a shared dream of it at some point too
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>>4713317
Don't be too hasty. We'll probably be using that damned thing again before the day is out.
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Man, reading old discussions about balance and future events is hilarious.
Hey whatis, remember saying Arcueid could steamroll the entire war at 30%?
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It's the same with things which were ruled out by the players or soft deconfirmed by the qm, like fgo and extra.
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I think I may have found a candidate for the identity of Nyarly's Rider. Low chance to be sure, but it fits what little we know.
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>>4713332
WhatIs posted a fanmade imagine of Aife and she used rune magic in story. He might have corrupted her after the fact though.
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>>4713333
Oh. I should have reread before posting.
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>>4713319
>rin's memory of us being a girl is so important to her that it is dream shared with her servant
i see
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>>4713342
Probably up there in unforgettable moments with freeing Sakura as a child and giving her info on Kirei in regards to Shinji related memories
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>>4713319
>>4713342
What if EMIYA... falls in love with Shinji-chan's face and changes his life mission from autistically trying to kill himself, to instead force us to become a tranny cause Shinji-chan is hot?
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>>4713342
probably has one Shinji related memory in her mind considering we're such an important figure in her life and that was the moment she finally got one over on us
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>>4713249
>>4713149
Support
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I kinda wanna go into Caubac's labyrinth after the HGW, would be a cool challenge mode
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>>4713149
Supporting >>4713249 but Shuten really testing limits of our patience.
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New Prisma movie next year fellas

https://youtu.be/skF7R7cPf0w
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>>4713538
Just buy FROM with FGO money and do Prisma Souls already, Nasu.
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What happened to Takeuchi's art?
He's basically worse than Akira Toriyama with the samefaces now.
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>>4713549
Probably got too comfortable doing same thing over and over again and his fundamental skills have deteriorated.
Normally it is a disease reserved for niche fetish porn artists.
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>>4713549
Gacha money means he can phone it in.
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>>4713549
Complacency due to TM recent success i really find it funny that ciel's new design is just blue mash.
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>>4713559
Tachie has a better design than Mash does.
Shame we'll never get to see the prototype Mash as she was intended to appear.
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>>4713325
You're right, rereading is hilarious. I've forgotten so much. And I wonder if this guy is still around, I imagine he'd be happy with us doing 3/3:

>We should at least put:
>>Save Illya
>>Turn into Magical Girl
>>Shenanigans
>>Into our bucket list.
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>>4713325
And she probably could have, before things got even more crazy.
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>>4713571
Could she have dealt with Alan?
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>>4713571
Technically Orochi defeated her. In one attack.
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>>4713576
She got cheapshotted.
She can regenerate from having her body almost completely destroyed almost completely without much difficulty, so under normal circumstances, losing a leg wouldn't have meant anything to her.
>>4713572
She would've been forced to call on the Counter Force to restore her to her full power to banish him, but she understandably doesn't really want to erase her personality by doing that.
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>>4713579
I imagine Nyarly being banished from his favourite game world would make him just come back bigger and stronger and dab on Arc to let him play with his human toys though. Probably better it's not a direct confrontation with him
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Morning
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>>4713582
I spy Shuten post Truth cleanse of her Oni mask curse
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>>4713583
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>>4713584
That's a large bunch of bananas
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>>4713579
The problem is that it is still counts as defeat. Dice or not.
Escalation seems to reach a point where the only solution for us is to phone Alaya and beg for that Beast position. Or get pyrrhic victory from one giant meat grinder.
I will be fine with either if it is end up in satisfactory note.
But I suppose it is in spirit of VN and Gil not putting on his armor or getting eaten by Sakura in random encounter.
And just to be clear I do enjoy the ride and hope you don`t take it as me lashing out because no easy victories since it is not that but just me voicing my observation and mood I see in recent events.
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You take a deep breath. This is bad, but... well, you've got a way to solve this situation. While normally, you doubt you would've been able to find a solution to this situation that wasn't a lethal one in regards to all these transformed people, Shuten-dōji isn't the only legendary oni in Fuyuki City right now. 'Medea! Don't ask questions, just teleport Ibaraki over to me right away! Her master too!' You send out a mental command to your Servant, before you look back towards the encroaching horde of Oni making their way towards you. "Everyone, start falling back for a second. I have a plan to solve this which means that no innocent blood shall be spilled." With any luck, with Ibaraki's assistance, these people can properly return to their senses. Though you aren't sure just how much power each of them now have as full blooded Oni. After all, Miho alone was powerful enough to fight both you and Kouma at the same time, then again, the girl may have had some special sort of Oni ancestry enhancing her powers. Still, even if they are only about her level of strength or just below it, that still means that Shuten has practically created an army of hundreds of enemies each as powerful as Servants!

You and the rest of your allies briefly start to move away from the encroaching horde. Thankfully, despite their superhuman physical capabilities, the horde of opponents is sloppy and disorganized, none of them are capable of displaying their full strength or speed as a result of their own allies holding them back. A completely disorganized army, no more than a force of destruction and consumption that has their eyes set on the only food in the entire building. Namely, you and Ciel. You doubt that they'd consider Enhance edible thanks to his nature as a Dead Apostle, and Karna just disintegrates should he be slain. Then again, it's not very likely that this force of enemies would even be able to scratch Karna through his divine armor, any damage he might take would be something he'd be able to rapidly heal from.

You don't hear any complaints from you allies as you back away towards the doors the you walked into Verde through. "Shinji, this plan better be a good one." Ciel however doesn't sound all too confident in your sudden idea, of course she doesn't know that Ibaraki's Noble Phantasm will allow her to control all these demons that are encroaching towards you. You can understand her lack of faith, if you didn't have any actual plan that would allow you to turn this around in an instant, you would've already been advocating for Karna to start letting loose his arrows. Even against a force with the equivalent strength of hundreds of Servants, they are fundamentally without the Noble Phantasms and Skills in which lie the true power of Servants. Just having a lot of physical power really won't get you very far unless you're a ridiculous monster.
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"Just trust me, alright?" Any second now... The oni continue their rampage towards you, and it's genuinely quite funny to see them in such a great struggle to reach you first that they are pulling each other back. An army without any sort of discipline at all, practically nothing more than a superpowered horde of zombies. Though despite having been lost to their power and uncontrollably rampaging, they very much are still alive. You don't know what's going to happen to the three hundred or so people that Shuten has transformed even if you do manage to return them to their senses. Would it be possible for them to try to return to normal lives? Would they go off to live in the wilderness? Or could it be possible to reverse the transformation of a human into an Oni?

Finally, just as the Oni are about to enter into a range at which they can attack, a certain lavender haired woman appears alongside a small blonde oni and her black haired master. The encroaching horde stops in their tracks, alarmed at the sudden appearance of the horned girl, who smirks at the hundreds of oni before her. "Well what have we got here? A whole bunch of disobedient rampaging oni?" Ibaraki isn't trying to let it show, but you can tell that she's absolutely ecstatic about this development from just her eyes alone. "Don't you know the rules I set in place for Oni to follow?" There's a long iron staff in her hands. "Mindlessly rampaging through human cities in the daytime is not allowed!" She slams her iron staff against the floor, and despite not even having used her Noble Phantasm yet, the presence of the Oni noble has certainly quelled the horde somewhat. While it certainly won't last forever, that's not going to be a problem. "Fortress of Oni: Ōe! She activates her Noble Phantasm, and the world around you transforms once again to the den of an oni, just like it did in the Tohno Mansion.

As the world around you transforms into one where Ibaraki has the authority to control Oni the entire force that Shuten has created drops to one knee, an invisible pressure being forced upon them by Ibaraki's Noble Phantasm. "Good job, Ibaraki! Can I trust you and Miho to keep things under control here?" You ask the girl, who doesn't seem to be having any difficulty at all in controlling things. Against nearly any other Servant without unparalleled offensive abilities, defeating that army would've been practically impossible. Even the likes of Minamoto-no-Raikou and her Four Heavenly Kings likely would've been ripped to shreds by that many Oni before managing to exterminate them all, the difference in numbers would've simply been too great.
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"Of course." Ibaraki has a confident smile on her face, and for some bizarre reason, there are tears welling up in her eyes. Probably best you just let her get on with things, despite everything else, it's pretty clear that Ibaraki is very happy to see the rebirth of the Oni race, the girl in life basically had to keep a bunch of suicidal idiots under control with the burden of the fact that should she fail, her race would surely be extinguished in practically every real sense of the term.

"Good. Medea, take the rest of us to Shuten. I want to put a stop to this, and get my damn Servant back." You give the lavender haired spellcaster another command, though you do give her a small smile after the order. You're happy that she's here, and you're especially happy that she's so damn reliable. Now, Betty might be a tremendously powerful Servant, especially after what you now know about her, but in terms of who you can rely on, Medea is almost certainly always going to top the list.

"As you wish, Master." Medea raises her staff towards the sky as she begins to call upon the magic required for the spatial relocation spell. "Tροψα!" The spell is used, and the surroundings change once again, to the heart of the shopping center. Completely empty, though the chaos of Shuten's actions is still very cleared. Overturned benches and smashed windows all around you. A one woman riot, and speaking of that woman...

"Oh, there you are, Master! I'm glad you could finally make it." Shuten proceeds to huff with annoyance. "I take it you're prepared for the consequences of that?" She starts walking towards you and the rest of your group. Not with the speed at which she is capable, almost as if she's offering the first move to you.

>If she's offering the first move to you, then you're not going to pass it up. Have Medea bind her with her magic.
>If she's not going to attack first, then it's up to you. Let's see how she deals with breaking out of chains of manifested truth!
>Have Karna and Enhance physically restrain the girl. Then have Medea pierce her with Rulebreaker.
>She's got incredibly high ranked battle continuation, so what's wrong with roughing her up a little? Tell your allies to liberate Shuten of her limbs.
>Write-in...
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>>4713589
>chains of Truth and a nothin personell rule breaker from behind
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Well, recruiting Medea and getting her back are definitely among the best decisions we ever made here. As for Shuten, I think it's best to either chain her with true or delimb her, but I'm not sure which one will be better with getting her to keep working with us in good spirits.
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>>4713589
She's got incredibly high ranked battle continuation, so what's wrong with roughing her up a little? Tell your allies to liberate Shuten of her limbs.
While she's recoiling in pain walk up to her and kiss her. "Naughty girl". Take back your servant.
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>>4713591
I opted for Truth here as
>it's personal, might be more meaningful towards her
>it's conceptually absolute
>it's out of contact range of Bone Collector
>She may have some extra bullshit hiding behind those 2 ???? NPs in her profile that just so happens to emulate Orochi eating gods, the kusanagi, or some other absolute bullshit I'd rather not put Dante and Karna through if it can be avoided
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>>4713594
Also gotta keep working that Truth muscle so it grows stronk
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>>4713589
>>4713590
Support

>>4713594
A convincing argument. And she HAS been a good girl, no reason to delimb her. She kept her promise and didn't kill a single human when she could have easily turned this into a slaughterhouse.
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>>4713586
In her literal very first appearance, Arcueid manages to lose hard to Shiki who stalks her home and cuts her life into pieces.
Had this attack not been made with the MEoDP, then she would have immediately gotten up and torn Shiki into 19 pieces.
Basically, Arc kind of suffers from being complacent and thinking she's invincible when she's closer to her full strength. She has almost the same sort of deal as Gilgamesh, and this can get her into trouble.
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>>4713589
>Kindly ask her to restarain herself and put on Truth shibari
>After she refuses have Karna and Enhance try to physically restrain the girl and get her attention while mentally command Medea to prepare strongest binding spell she has and wait for opening
>Properly restrain Shuten with Chains of Truth afterwards
>Rulebreaker time
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Calling in 30 minutes.
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>>4713589
>>4713599
Support
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>>4713598
Fair representation of situation I guess.
You would think those affection points would make her more invested into showing off by ending fight in one strike by herself. Oh well.
At least Gil takes things seriously here.
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>>4713590
+1
>>4713591
Medea is straight up the best Servant in the Fifth War; she manages to win in some bad ends which says a lot about her resourcefulness considering all the bullshit going on.
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>>4713589
>>4713590
Support, no more asking others to help us take her back. Its pretty common sense anyway for Dante or Karna to step in if the chains would fail. Let's get this done quickly before our other altered allies endanger and kill more people. By the way I am guessing Ibaraki would want to keep the newly made onis around, I'm fine with it since we're going to expose the magical world to modern society anyway.
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>>4713591
Her RB and Teleportation makes her so overpowered especially when Nasu consistently ignores stat sheets. It helps that she was connected to the temple leylines which essentially gave her a huge boost in magical energy.
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>>4713616
Ibaraki would love it, it's her wish come true, and Oni shock troopers would be pretty useful in our wars to come. But our other allies would be absolutely horrified. And think of the example keeping them as slaves would set for our daughters.
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>>4713616
>>4713626
Keep them under our wing with Miho and Ibaraki as their overseers.
If no full cure or partial cure is possible just seal their ravenous nature. It is not like we have shortage of knowledgeable magic users. Fuyuki being our fiefdom will make getting them work for Makiri Industries rather easy.
It is not like they have any other options.
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If she's offering the first attack, then you'll be happy to take her up on the offer! You'll finish this with one strike, capturing her, and then you'll have Medea stab her in the back with Rulebreaker before she can recover! You begin to call upon your unique element, the almighty element of Truth, and visualize it in the form of a chain, something that will launch towards Shuten and utterly restrain her! You've seen that the element of Truth is something almost impossible to break, with only Alítheia ever having managed it! It isn't something that can be broken through strength alone! You turn towards Medea, and give her a quick nod, no exchange of words is required, telepathically or otherwise. The woman understands what you want her to do with this one nod. At the same time though, you hold out a hand in front of the rest of your allies, right now, you don't need their assistance.

You don't say anything that might hint Shuten as to your planned attempt to restrain her, and pretend to get into a combat position, though as you get into stance, you allow the manifested chain of Truth to finally spring out towards her like a bullet! It's speed is incredible, and you don't even need to directly hit her! In fact, you're aiming to miss her so that the chain can snake around her and pin her arms to her sides! Though as the chain fires outwards towards her, Shuten has her eyebrow raised, and she snatches the chain out of the air, killing the momentum you had given it in an instant and staring at it with a curious expression. You freeze, she... caught it?

She clenches her hand around one of the chain's links, and smirks. "An unbreakable chain, Master? Did you... really think I was going to let it be that easy for you? You can tie me up as much as you want if you can beat me, but I'm not in the mood for that sort of foreplay right now." Her grin grows wider, and you're still grasping the chain in surprise. You aren't done yet though! You're still holding the chain, so that means you're still in control of it! You begin to take control of it once again, this time having it grow from the end instead of from the base! Shuten may think that she's stopped your attack by grabbing it, but she's actually only managed to lull herself into a-
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As you work on binding her once again, Shuten simply yanks the chain forwards hard, and you, who are still holding firmly onto it as a result of your own magic, are dragged directly towards the girl with incredible force! "Master?!" Medea's panicked voice can be heard from behind you as you fly directly into Shuten's open arms. You're bigger than the girl, so you realistically should've totally knocked her over from impacting against her, but of course, despite her diminutive size, Shuten is far stronger than should be possible. You can tell that even here she held back from using her full strength to yank the chain towards herself, otherwise you probably would've had your wrists broken and been killed by the impact. Still, the complete loss of focus means that the chain dissolves shortly after you slam into the girl.

Moments after smashing into the girl, you find yourself being suspended in the air from a single point as the smaller woman picks you using your shirt to grip onto you. "Oh dear, it looks like you've fallen right into the arms of your rebellious Servant, now, what should the dreadful oni do with her foolish Master?" She whispers with a voice quiet enough that it is only meant for you. Shuten runs her tongue along her sharp teeth as she waits for you to respond, and your allies behind you are clearly paralyzed with indecision as to what they ought to do next. If they were to act carelessly, you'd certainly die in the crossfire!

>Ask for her to let you go. This wasn't fair! She wasn't supposed to avoid being captured!
>Ask to share a kiss with her. Hopefully, your allies use that as an opportunity to free you while she's distracted.
>Try to use your control over Truth to sever the connection the oni has with Manaka, use flirting as a cover.
>Ask to share a kiss with her, but also mentally command Medea to be ready to teleport behind the girl while you keep her distracted!
>Write-in...
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>>4713642
>Try to use your control over Truth to sever the connection the oni has with Manaka, use flirting as a cover.
Kissing still isn't an option. Plus, this has parallels to the first time we met her.
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>>4713642
Ask to share a kiss with her, but also mentally command Medea to be ready to teleport behind the girl while you keep her distracted!
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>>4713642
>Ask to share a kiss with her, but also mentally command Medea to be ready to teleport behind the girl while you keep her distracted!
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>>4713642
I'm just sitting here thinking that Monica was right at this rate we're gonna die via harem of overpowered girls that we just string along we need to pick a girl and stick with her, preferably Medea cause we already made her a mother
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>>4713642
>Try to use your control over Truth to sever the connection the oni has with Manaka, use flirting as a cover.
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>>4713642
>Try to use your control over Truth to sever the connection the oni has with Manaka, use flirting as a cover.

>>4713641
Getting them not to rampage is pretty much already done. The problem is with transforming a bunch of innocent people into mindless monsters in the first place.

>>4713649
Sakura is also Alitheia's mother, anon.
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>>4713642
>Try to use your control over Truth to sever the connection the oni has with Manaka, use flirting as a cover.
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>>4713649
Who exactly did we string along aside from sacchin? Most of them decided on their own that they want us without us flirting with them.
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>>4713642
>>Try to use your control over Truth to sever the connection the oni has with Manaka, use flirting as a cover.
This is probably something that we shouldn't rely on allies for.
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>>4713642
>Ask to share a kiss with her, but also mentally command Medea to be ready to teleport behind the girl while you keep her distracted!
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>>4713642
>Ask Shirou to jump before Berserker
Kidding.
>Ask to share a kiss with her, but also mentally command Medea to be ready to teleport behind the girl while you keep her distracted!
Remember how Medea reacted to kissing and commented how it was intoxicating even for her? It should be enough to distract Shuten for the time Medea will need to use Rulebreaker.
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>>4713649
The kid doesn't have exclusivity either.
Looking back, our only chance at monogamy was picking someone before the war.
We've had no time to sort out anything romantically, but everything that's happened has made the girls more invested in us.
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>>4713642
>Try to use your control over Truth to sever the connection the oni has with Manaka, use flirting as a cover.
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You know guys, this may be where we discover Manaka fully incarnated Shuten and has no connection with her.
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>>4713698
If that's the case, then fuck this whole situation.

>>4713642
>Try to use your control over Truth to sever the connection the oni has with Manaka, use flirting as a cover.
If this doesn't work, then just go all in and doujin-style french-kiss Shuten
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I'm still waiting for Chekhov's meteorite to come in clutch.
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>>4713642
Stop trying to backstab her holy shit. She is giving us again and again chances to prove that we still care for her and has yet to be agressive at all with us.
>Ask to share a kiss with her, tell her you are glad to see her again and if she wants to come back with you.
>>"Ibaraki is also waiting for you."
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"I must've told you this before, but I've got to say, Shuten, whenever I see your face, I'm startled by how beautiful it is." Frantically, you decide that the best way to survive this situation would be to flirt with the girl who may kill you at any moment. "Your eyes are like amethysts, sparkling incandescently." You reach out a hand to caress the side of Shuten's face, clearly, she wasn't expecting you to once again be so daring. You move some of the hair out of her eyes as you silently begin the countdown into which you'll be able to manipulate the truth of her body. Certain things are of course more difficult to mess with than others, and would require tremendous amounts of magical energy to change, but to do something like remove the contract between a Servant and a Master, well, you've manipulated the contracts between Servants and Masters before and strengthened them, so by the same logic, you should be able to weaken and break them.

"Oh Master, ever the daring one, aren't you? Even in the face of death, you know just the words to say..." It's been five seconds now, five more are all you need! Shuten is none the wiser to what you're planning either! She raises her other hand to caress the side of your own face, careful not to cut you with her demonically sharp nails. If Shuten wanted to, she could use just her nails to slice through you like an exceptionally sharp pair of scissors through paper.

"How could I remain silent when presented with your beauty, Shuten? It would be a crime to keep my mouth shut about such things." Ten seconds. Your connection to Shuten-dōji has been established, your mind begins to visualize every aspect of her being and without any hesitation, you try to find the connection she shares with her Master. Where is it, where is it?! Your brain is working on overdrive as you have your magical energy spread throughout Shuten, trying to find the connection she shares with the girl with control of the grail. It's not where you would've thought it would be, so... where?! Finally, you find something strange in the visualization of Shuten's body, it's not a chain binding two people together, but instead, what seems to be a sheet of paper, written on in fine cursive. Time on the outside should be flowing far slower right now, as you are operating solely on the speed of thought as you delve through Shuten's existence with the assistance of truth. Of course, while you could likely alter anything about her right now, so long as you have the magical energy, all you want to do right now is sever whatever might be binding Shuten-dōji to Manaka Sajyou.
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You move your visualization closer to the sheet of paper, curious as to why it is so different to the other bonds you have seen between Servants and Masters. Could Manaka have done this on purpose? Is this more like a written contract between than the unspoken contract shared between a Servant and a Master? You ponder over just what sort of relevance this sheet of paper may hold. You may be operating on the speed of thought right now, but on the outside world, it's only a matter of time before Shuten pulls your hand away and severs your connection to her!

>Tear up the sheet of paper.
>Read it first.
>Write something on it (What?)
>Grab hold of it and try to take it?
>Write-in...
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>>4713734
>Read it first.
Let's not do anything drastic before we know more.

Hopefully it's not "I prepared explosive runes this morning"
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>>4713734
>Read it first.
Fine cursive? Not the sort of way Shuten would write, is it? Once we're absolutely sure Shuten is free of any Manaka influence or control or whatever, we should just kiss her as deeply and passionately as we can, exactly like the many Shuten doujins out there. She deserves it for putting up with all this bullshit and still being good.
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>>4713734
>Read it first.
Even if we miss this chance to free Shuten, it's incredibly valuable Intel on how Manaka's controls work.
That is, unless it's just the entire navy seals copypasta...
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>>4713734
>>Write something on it (What?)
>Draw Elder Sign
How do you like those stolen Outer God powers, Manaka?
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>>4713757
Star or tree, anon?
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>>4713762
I like Tree one more.
But using Derleth`s version is not a deal breaker for me.
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Getting groceries,
Calling in 40.
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>>4713734
>Read it first.
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Although we can also try to make Foreigner Shuten and instead of sealing/banishing Manaka`s stolen powers through contract connection outright burn Manaka`s brain.
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>>4713734
>Write something
All terms of the contract can be amended and the contract can be waived at sole discretion of Shuten-doji
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>>4713734
>>Read it first.
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>>4713809
That's how we get Foreigner Shuten with Insanity and a laughing Manaka.
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>>4713815
They can't defy Azathoth or Nyarly.
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>>4713816
Neither of them can touch Manaka. That's why Nyarly's helping us.
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>>4713818
Because they can`t enter the world on their own without destroying it. And entering means fighting rest of the world.
Yellow Sign would probably be one of those big derail things but do keep in mind that sleeping Betty in her weak Servant container and without any understanding of her powers is still untouchable for Manaka. Hastur using Truth, Shuten`s power and his own would send quite a mind rape to the other side of contract.
But yeah Elder Sign is much wiser choice. Even if Nyarly mentioned that others are friendly and wants to meet us too.
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>>4713828
Yellow sign makes everyone around go insane, except for those already touched by the beyond. If you think the Elder Sign will work on Manaka, then consequently she will not go (any more) insane by the Yellow.

I wouldn't object to meeting one on one if it ever comes up, we're among the very, very few beings who could take it, but holding that meeting suddenly inside Shuten doesn't strike me as a good idea.
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>>4713833
Fair. She is insane and could have already matched Hastur, at least on her home turf, so trying to shatter her mind might not work.
But if we get to do something with contract after next update I`ll still try voting for Elder Sign.
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>Mahoyo
>The peak of the Traditional Visual Novel genre.
How modest of them.

Also sub-heroines
Satsuki is doomed.
The horrors won't end.
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>>4713856
oh you finally saw that too huh? I'm starting to think Sacchin is never getting her route now
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>>4713856
To be honest, that's how I've always viewed them as well.
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>>4713856
At least Far Side is being acknowledged, but in a very shitty hand wavey way and demoting the maid twins. Nasu and Takueichi are definitely making Far Side bloated paid DLC. The absolute state of nu-Tsukihime, fuck.

Imagine if they ever made Fate Stay Night with only Saber Route and Half of UBW route and then dlcing the second half of UBW and HF. Disgusting. Sacchin route is dead, whatever was developed of it would be split off into the bloated parts of the remade routes I just know it.
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>>4713734
>>Read it first.
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>>4713734
>>Read it first.
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>>4713734
>>Read it first.
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>>4713734
>Read it first
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>>4713885
Maybe sacchin route will be added to the ps5 port so people will have another incetive to buy again it seems to be a much smarter choice than releasing it as dlc .
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>>4713898
I find your optimism deeply amusing.
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>>4713898
So like Persona 5 Royal where they added a few hours of Kasumi's story line? I don't know if Tsukihime would have that kind of clout to justify making people buy it twice. I really doubt Nasu would make another DLC after Far Side because he's become a hack but who knows?
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>>4713898
>>4713902
>>4713903
Just slap it with code for a strong FGO demi-servant inside Satsuki`s body.
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>>4713903
>I don't know if Tsukihime would have that kind of clout to justify making people buy it twice.
At this point I don't know if it has the clout to justify people buying it once.
It's not going to appeal to the FGO players (unless they go all the way and make Shiki into Camera-kun 2.0) and it's not going to appeal to long time fans either.
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>>4713903
desu, the OG Tsukihime only sold Near Side first then sold Far Side like 4 months later, if Nasu doesn't sell it within 4 months, she's a fucking hack
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Re-reading actual myth, Raikou's 4 kings actually all held down Shuten's limbs before she was beheaded.

IIRC though Fate heavily implies Kintoki was actually the one to end her though, so I'm not sure if it would have helped anyway as Raita's interpretation differs so much from the myth.
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>>4713979
while we're on the topic, i don't think Cu actual fused with another heroic spirit, i think Manaka simply amped him up. if Cu was summoned as a Lancer in Ireland, he'd be unstoppable, according to the wiki

>In Ireland, Lancer would also have access to a rare castle Noble Phantasm, a chariot, and a "Blessing of Wakefulness."
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>>4713986
How do you explain the crow then?
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>>4713988
I believe ravens and crows play a big deal in Irish mythology
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>>4713995
Yeah, but Cu himself doesn't have any relation with them that I could find.
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>>4713979
But in another version the gods assisting Raikou's party chain Shuten's limbs to pillars so idk

>>4713986
>>4713988

Fate/ has drawn so many parallels between Cu and Odin, Gungir and Gae Bolg and compared constantly and Caster Cu also has a currently unused NP where he essentially channels Odin, Ochd Deug Odin. He also has amped up Divinity which could indicate it.

>>4713999

Crows are Odin's familiars, but also they're the animal that was with him at the end of his life.

>Cú Chulainn ties himself to a standing stone to die on his feet, facing his enemies. This stone is traditionally identified as Clochafarmore, located near Dundalk. Due to his ferocity even when so near death, it is only when a raven lands on his shoulder that his enemies believe he is dead. Lugaid approaches and cuts off his head, but as he does so the "hero-light" burns around Cú Chulainn and his sword falls from his hand and cuts Lugaid's hand off. The light disappears only after his right hand, his sword arm, is cut from his body.
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>>4714000
Yeah, that's why I think he's been possessed by Odin. If it turns out it's just him powered up, then Manaka did us a huge favor. He can be reasoned with.
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>>4714002
knowing what contract Shuten has on her gives us a hint on how to deal with everyone else, it seems kinda weird that Shuten is completely in control of herself but everyone else kinda isn't
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>>4714004
Yeah, exactly. I have a theory, but I'm waiting to read the contract before I post it.
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You grasp the piece of paper in your... visualized hands. Kind of strange, but whatever. You scan your vision across the sheet and begin to read it. 'You, Shuten-dōji, shall follow the commands and orders that are given to you by Manaka Sajyou without question. In regards to Shinji Makiri, you may maim him as much as you wish, but do not kill him. You shall not attempt to have this contract removed, and should you realize that somebody is trying to tamper with this contract, you are to respond with lethal force. You are to serve as a distraction to Shinji Makiri, to draw his attention from other matters that I do not wish for him to interfere with. You are permitted to act freely, so long as your actions do not benefit or aid those who I have deigned my enemies. These enemies are Shinji Makiri, Merlin, Alan Y.T. Thor-' You suddenly feel yourself being rapidly dragged away from the contract, and you blink. Once again you are staring at Shuten-dōji, who is frowning, the hand that was previously making contact with her face has been removed by force. Damn it! You hadn't finished reading! This contract she has on her is way worse than a normal Servant-Master contract! It's basically the same as Shuten being placed under the effects of a command spell with unlimited uses!

"Master... You really blew your chance." She's clearly very upset, and without anymore words, tosses you over her shoulder and through a glass shop window, which lacerates your back pretty badly, not to mention the huge shard of glass that cleanly cuts all of the fingers on your right hand off. You suppress a scream of pain. You've had worse. "Guess we'll have to do this the hard way, I hope that you're as strong as you look, Second Archer." The horned girl smiles as you look up. Before she suddenly leaps towards Karna with incredible speed and swings a clawed hand at his head, looking to take his head off in one strike!
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It's all that Archer can do to raise his bow to block her strike, and even with the miraculous damage reduction granted to him through Kavacha and Kundala, he's still noticeably forced backwards. Though he doesn't allow the overwhelming strength of his opponent to hinder him for long, and before he's even finished being pushed backwards by the force of Shuten's strike, he makes his counter-attack, pulling an arrow from a quiver and using it like a small stabbing weapon, though his melee attack doesn't strike true, and Shuten dives around his attack, even if it was still quite skilled. Karna is an Archer, and has no place fighting Shuten-dōji in close range. While he's certainly skilled enough for it, the lack of any sort of melee weaponry on his part isn't going to do him many favors against Shuten, who has manifested her sword, looking to counter Karna's own failed counterattack, only for a black sword to intercept her strike and knock it off course, the sword seems to leave a trail of darkness after having been swung. Karna goes back to stand at Ciel's side, who is watching the battle between the vampire and the oni with great concern.

"Now this is what I'm talking about!" Enhance happily enters the melee with Shuten, and despite Shuten's clear strength advantage, the two appear to be at least somewhat equally matched when it comes to skill. Enhance's demonic sword is clearly the thing allowing him to go blow for blow with Shuten, it seems to strike with more force than it is swung with, charged up with malice and hatred. It's a weapon on the level of a Noble Phantasm that much is clear, it's like he's swinging around the embodiment of malice and hatred itself, leaving behind curses in it's wake so great that they can fundamentally break down anything that touches them with their malevolent energy. "Come on, little demon! Let's see just what you've got!" Enhance raises his gun, the Holy Burial Artillery Scripture, and fires it at Shuten at almost point blank range!

Shuten leaps away from the attack, a few of the holy bullets piercing her despite her rapid retreat from the attack. The holy attack seems to have had added power on the oni as a result of her demonic nature. But despite the smoking holes on her left leg, she doesn't seem at all hindered, and they begin to regenerate despite having been caused something with a holy nature! "Little demon?" Shuten suppresses a bout of laughter as she looks at the vampire. "Still, you aren't a human, and you aren't affected by my Intoxicating Aroma, so you must be..." Shuten springs back at Enhance with speed that not even he can react to, and uses her blade to almost cleanly decapitate the man, the only thing stopping her from going all the way is him quickly raising his sword and forcing her and her sword back.
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Enhance remains standing, unhindered by almost having been partially decapitated, and Shuten's eyes narrow. "...A vampire." Enhance has a dumb smirk on his face as the damage begins to be reversed by the natural ability of all Dead Apostles to heal wounds by reversing time itself on their own bodies. Against people like Enhance and other Dead Apostles, the only way to truly rid yourself of them is to either kill them instantly, strike with holy attacks, or have some way to deal unhealable wounds. "You're quite powerful, I must say." Shuten seems to congratulate her opponent on his strength.

"You got that right, and I gotta say, you're pretty tough too, little demon." The damage that Shuten's strike had caused to Enhance has already healed, the regenerative abilities of Dead Apostles are just completely broken. At least with a Servant, if you cut their arm off or decapitate them, they're probably going to die. With Dead Apostles, they are by default only really killable with a few specific methods. Your own ability to heal from wounds is unfortunately slower than that of a Dead Apostles, however, it could be called more complete.

Karna is keeping his distance for now. Seemingly not wanting to interfere with a one-on-one duel between the Oni and the Vampire. The damn overly honorable fool. Then again, he can probably see through Shuten, and that despite everything she's doing, she's actually probably doing all that she can to rebel against the terms of her contract. You didn't get to read all of it, but it's pretty clear that she's basically been asking you to remove it multiple times, though without actually directly asking. You don't know why you decided you needed to read it before tearing it up, though you suppose you know some more about Manaka's MO now.

You find yourself being lifted to your feet by a soft pair of hands, and the pain that you can feel from your missing fingers disappears as Medea chants some sort of spell. The woman must've prioritized your own safety over the state of the fight. "Master, what should we do next? Assassin seems to be content to keep rebelling against you, should I just blow her away?"

>"No Medea, but if you could use a binding spell to trap her in place for some time, that would be great."
>"Do you think that you could blast off a limb or two? I'll feel bad, but at least we can heal her."
>"No Medea, just... prepare to teleport behind her with Rulebreaker, I've got a plan." (Write-in plan)
>"Hold on just a second, Medea. Karna! What the hell are you doing?! Shoot her! She'll live!"
>Write-in...
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>>4714040
>>"No Medea, but if you could use a binding spell to trap her in place for some time, that would be great."
>>Write-in...
"Karna, do you have anything that isn't concentrated sun that you can use?"
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>>4714040
>>"No Medea, just... prepare to teleport behind her with Rulebreaker, I've got a plan." (Write-in plan)
>>Chains of Truth as she's distracted from the fight
>>No matter what happens to us, even if Shuten grabs us and is using us as a hostage, Medea is to use Rule Breaker on Shuten
If she gets caught then that'll be enough to Rule Breaker, if she tries to yank it again and grabs us then she'll be distracted long enough to not notice that Medea Rule Breaker'd her. Shuten isn't allowed to kill us at all and nothing she can do to us is permanent, so we should take advantage of it
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>>4714040
>"No Medea, but if you could use a binding spell to trap her in place for some time, that would be great."
>Use another chain of Truth in combination with Medea's spell.
Better double up on the restraints.
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>>4714040
>"No Medea, but if you could use a binding spell to trap her in place for some time, that would be great."
>Shoot binded Shuten with Truth Blast imbued with Countermagic to burn away Contract
Not sure if we can do it without Magical Girl boost though.
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so i assume all contracts are more or less the same, no one is allowed to kill us and they serve as a distraction, some of the more prideful and loyal people like Monica probably have contracts that overwrite their personality and force them to run wild.
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>>4714040
>"No Medea, but if you could use a binding spell to trap her in place for some time, that would be great."
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>>4714040
>>"No Medea, just... prepare to teleport behind her with Rulebreaker, I've got a plan." (Write-in plan)
>With Truth make a knife of Paralysis, enhance yourself with Precision, throw it at Shuten.
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That could have gone better, but at least we got some valuable information out of that we realistically couldn't get otherwise. We now know Manaka has complete control over them if she wants, despite this she gave Shuten and probably the others autonomy, she doesn't want us dead, she knows Merlin is here, and she's doing this as a distraction. Either she's the one shielding Bazett, who's the instrument of her real play, or even her is a distraction and we have no idea what she might be really up to.

As for Shuten, after what I read on the wiki and what she did up till we recruited her, I admit I am surprised she's been playing so nicely with us.
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>>4714066
>some valuable information out of that we realistically couldn't get otherwise
>Merlin, Alan Y.T. Thor-
This, she has some plans going on right now and she failed to mention Orochi and Gil.
I hope she gets wormed.
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>>4714074
>and she failed to mention Orochi and Gil.
We didn't read the entire contract, it's possible Orochi and Gil were the names right after Alan. Or she might indeed not consider them enemies.
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>>4714074
Orochi and Gil are likely on the list but it was cut off before we could read them off
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>>4714057
>>4714040
She has no magic resistance so a binding spell from Medea will have a great effect on her. Plus with our truth chains she will be fully restrained.
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>>4714075
she 100% considers Gilgamesh her enemy, she sealed off one of his NPs and Gil wants her dead
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>>4714080
>Support
If that was not obvious, sorry I was typing while half asleep again. Afternoon naps are too good to give up though.
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>>4714080
I would agree with the vote but the contract states that she can't allow anyone to break the contract. she might unleash her NP if we go for Rule Breaker afterwards
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>>4714088
Well we have to restrain her somehow before touching her agin don't we, the vote never said we had to rule break.
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>>4714075
>>4714076
Orochi was a big surprise which happened just and hour or even less ago and he is gearing for Grail right now.
It will be suprising if she is fully aware about full scope of danger he currently is.
I would probably vote to contact Alaya at this point and ask her to form Anti-Manaka-Orochi alliance with Outer Gods if we get a chance to do so.
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>>4714095
Contacting Alaya might lead her to nuking Fuyuki with Counter-Guardians. She trusts us, and until further notice she gave us full discretion on how to handle this. For all intents and purposes we are already in an Anti-Manaka-Orochi alliance with the Outer Gods.
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>>4714092
I think using ourselves as a human shield is more optimal, if she's restrained, she might go all out and use an NP, if she thinks she caught us again, she might rip an arm off but she literally can't kill us
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>>4714100
You think there is no way Alaya would give us temporal Beast contract?
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fucking hate the dickwizard, you just KNOW that the shithead is waiting for the perfect moment to play hero
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>>4714108
QM implied that if we remained tranny Shinji, Merlin would have fell in love with us and joined us willingly and shit. Merlin is probably just pissed that he didn't get kissy time with Trans Shinji, that pervert.
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>>4714105
Shuten was fast enough to almost decapitate Dante. Medea might not be fast enough for a backstab without restraints, even with us serving as a distraction.

>>4714107
No, I think it'd be a permanent position. We don't want to end up like Redman, do we?

>>4714108
That's why we got the Spear anon. If he's too much of a dick, he will get a new hole.
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>>4714113
>We don't want to end up like Redman, do we?
No. But Alaya mentioned this is super special timeline and Beast position only requires us to work on a total doomsday scenario so I don`t think it is Dead End bad like Vampire Shini was.
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>>4714113
>Shuten was fast enough to almost decapitate Dante. Medea might not be fast enough for a backstab without restraints, even with us serving as a distraction.
Actually Medea and Shuten are even in Agility after dragon daughter gave Medea her blessing, in fact, Medea likely edges out because of her teleportation
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>>4714057
>>4714065
Supporting both of these. If we can find a way to combine them then this could work very well. Shuten has no resistance to magic so say a binding spell would be very effective on her. Then if we can paralyze her even if it doesn’t last long, we could use rulebreaker and break that contract of hers....presuming of course that there won’t be an immediate consequence to said action. This IS Manaka we are talking about, just because she wants us alive does not mean that she wouldn’t have thought we would try to do something like this. Breaking the contract is risky because we don’t know what will happen afterwards. It could be something fucking awful and barely avoidable or it could be literally nothing. Again this is Manaka we are talking about, theres probably something more to it.
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>>4714108
Well I mean. It’s Merlin so it wouldn’t really be surprising if he was going to come out and say “all according to keikaku (plan)” and then solve this with some bullshit magic he prepared that makes our efforts practically worthless
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>>4714131
that motherfucker better help us out with our allies i swear to God, Sakura's team is still an our away from us and if it weren't for that, everything would be going smoothly
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>>4714118
It's probably not Dead End bad, but it's still pretty bad. And not being a Dead End actually makes it worse as we can't undo it.

>>4714119
I'm pretty sure the B on her character sheet has the blessing baked in. But it is at least plausible to bridge such a small gap with distraction + nothing personel.
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>>4714134
why not using binding + nothing personal instead of just the binding
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>>4714142
Because if Medea is readying a teleport then she's not casting a binding, and I think Shuten will be able to dodge or grab the chain again. I assume we'll get a new choice after she's restrained.
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>>4714151
If she grabs the chain then that'll work out extremely favorably for us, again, she can't kill us, if she grabs us then Medea has her opening
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>>4714157
Yeah, I'm not saying it definitely won't work. I think both have a chance of succeeding, I'd just put it as 60/40 in favor of the double restraints.
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>>4714057
+1
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>>4714186

>>4712953 Is me
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It's now clear that Shuten was able to be lenient with us due to a vaguely defined objective and our other allies have also been implanted with a goal to achieve.
Knowing this, we can make guesses on what Manaka ordered our friends to do based on their behavior.
For example, Monica is en route to her objective and Cu has yet to be activated.
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>>4714196
Or they're all under the same vague "cause trouble" objective, and are acting on their own impulses. Still, Shuten proved appealing to them is not impossible. We just have to be careful not to trigger the contract's failsafes. For example, telling Shuten to come over so we could erase Manaka's hold over her made sure she couldn't do it even if she wanted to.
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Shuten may have some help, done a bit more digging on her myth and..

>There are also four other underlings dubbed Shuten-dōji's "Four Divine Kings": Hoshikuma-dōji, Kuma-dōji, Torakuma-dōji, and Kane-dōji.

>Their names, together with their meanings were: Hoshikuma-dōji (Star-Bear Demon), Kuma-dōji (Bear Demon), Torakuma-dōji (Tiger-Bear Demon), and Kane-dōji (Iron Demon).
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>>4714206
I think it was just Shuten who was a distraction, she was just fucking around causing chaos while the rest seemed to be going somewhere or waiting for something.
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>>4714225
oh fuck what if one of them is gonna shoot down the helicopter
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>>4714040
"No Medea, but if you could use a binding spell to trap her in place for some time, that would be great."
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>>4714225
Tesla's going somewhere and Cu is waiting for something, but Gorgon just did the same thing as Shuten only in a different location and with more lethal results. I don't think we know enough yet to tell either way, but I'm erring towards all of them being distractions.

I'd say the only one with a relatively high probability of being Manaka's real play is Bazett, the only one we couldn't scry and be distracted by. It's either her, or something different entirely.

>>4714235
It's possible that's what Cu is waiting for on that roof. But they have been warned that's exactly why we left everyone there. Not to mention we have almost an hour to take him down. They'll be fine, we'll just need to remember to periodically check up on them when we have the chance.
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>>4714254
Gorgon might have an objective she needs to wait for too, which could be why she's locked herself away.
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>>4714263
Gorgon seems to be in control of herself enough to lock herself in a prison, she's actually hurting so i assume she was just made to run wild
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Reminder to have Morgan and Tamamo start working on a magical heat map of the city after Shuten is dealt with so we have a better way to track larger mana signatures like the Orochi indirectly without using familiars or scrying that might alert it to our presence. Big black spots indicate something is fucking with us.
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>>4714314
that's actually pretty clever
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>>4714314
That might be a good way to track Baz.
There's traces of magical energy everywhere, so if there's a human sized void moving around then we know that's someone with antiscrying.
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>>4714314
Agreed. A map of magical signatures will be useful not just for Orochi but for all the bullshit going on at the moment. It'll help us react to changing circumstances as well, without having to scry on everyone all the time.

And there is one thing we need to ask Shuten when she's back with us: Can Manaka give them orders remotely? She's not entirely blind on what's going on outside, but she can't know everything either. Can she micromanage them in real time, or is a repeat of abduction by Mordred completely impossible?
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Man, some of the early moments of this quest are hilarious in retrospect.
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>>4714332
Still want to romance Monica
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>>4714332
Monica must have had some bad experiences with womanizers if she's giving us that advice at 10 yrs old.
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>>4714332
>If Nasu wasn't just lying the entire time about the Tsukhime Remake
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>>4714342
she's like 30, unwed and proven right, she could sense it
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>>4714349
Yes, we really should have listened. We're getting a scolding for sure.
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>>4714332
It's even funnier when you realize Sakura was already completely fixated on us at that point.
We had that whole meeting with Shirou where Sakura didn't even notice him until we asked her to say hello.
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"No Medea, but if you could use a binding spell to trap her in place for some time, that would be great." You don't really want to hurt Shuten when she's been doing her absolute best to under the circumstances she's found herself in. While she could've properly maimed you and torn one of your arms or legs off when you were caught by her, she instead chose to just toss you through a window, and while it did of course hurt you quite a bit, it wasn't anywhere near as serious as Shuten could've made it. "I'll use another one of my chains in order to support you, and this time, it's not going to fail." You're going to eradicate the opportunity for Shuten to avoid your attack this time, you aren't going to have her spend another moment under that contract with Manaka. She is your Servant, not Manaka's, and you're going to show her just what that means!

"Understood." Medea points her staff to the sky as she looks at Shuten "Ατλας!". As she says those words, Shuten immediately freezes in place, the atmospheric pressure in the area she was standing on having been altered to such a degree that Shuten and everything around her are quite literally incapable of moving. Enhance, not wanting to attack an opponent that quite literally can't defend herself, decides instead to fall back. After all, this was never a fight to kill Shuten, and the fact that she's been quite easily immobilized by Caster's spell is proof that the battle is over already... Or at least, it should've been.

You can already see that Shuten has started to surge her magical energy, and the magical binding that Medea has used on her is already starting to show signs of breaking under the power that Shuten is giving off. You hurry to prepare another chain made out of Truth. Shuten might be able to break out of Medea's binding spell, but she's already shown herself to be quite incapable of breaking truth with her own hands, so that means that all you need to do is get a solid grip on her with the chains and then have two ends tie together! It's obvious that you aren't anywhere close to be powerful enough to hold her back with just your own strength alone, but by joining the two ends of the chain, you make it so that nobody should be capable of escaping. Their own strength would be turned against them! "Medea! Try to keep her contained for as long as you can!"

"I'm trying, Master! But... She's... too strong!" Medea is flaring with an incredible amount of magical energy as she tries to pour as much as she can into the binding spell, and you can tell that she likely would've lost control over her binding spell already if it weren't for the blessing she was granted by Alítheia. This sort of spell might be effective on Servants, but not on Servants with greater control over their magical energy, like Servants who used to be magi, or...
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>>4714352
It was just Sakura and Sacchin at first, now its Medea, Arc, Lugh, Tamamo and Ciel. Plus there's a lot of maybes like Mordred, Shuten, Rin, Illya. Touko, Monica and Altrouge

>>4714358
Tbf, that was when we literally just met Shirou
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There's a wave of heat, and a sound of shattering, and Shuten disappears before your very eyes. Her speed exceeding what even you are capable of picking up on. Mana Burst! There's a gasp of surprise to your side, and you can see Shuten standing in front of Caster. She could've killed Caster very easily, but seems to have held off on doing so just at the last moment, still she looks prepared to kill Caster at any moment! You... You're just about ready to use the chains of Truth again, and this time, Shuten is only two meters away! But... if she dodges again, then what?!

>Reinforce yourself and leap on Shuten. You'll distract her long enough for Caster to use Rulebreaker on her!
>Physically dive on her and try to wrap the chain around her without magically controlling it!
>Launch the chain at Shuten and try to encircle her again!
>Write-in...
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>>4714364
Reinforce yourself and leap on Shuten. You'll distract her long enough for Caster to use Rulebreaker on her!
Forced hugs
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>>4714364
>>Reinforce yourself and leap on Shuten. You'll distract her long enough for Caster to use Rulebreaker on her!
We order Medea to use Rule Breaker no matter what happens to us, Shuten can't kill us
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>>4714364
>>Physically dive on her and try to wrap the chain around her without magically controlling it!

let's hope
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>>4714364
>>4714370
this, +1
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>>4714370
+1
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>>4714364
>>4714370
Support
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>>4714364
>>4714370
Support
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>>4714364
>>4714370
Yep. Time to end this.
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I just thought of something, couldn't Morgan's NP serve as a counter for Orochi? He's 3 beings mashed into one with a chunk of Arc's powers inside him and Moragn's NP is made for separating stuff
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No, wait, guys. Shuten is under orders to use lethal force against anyone trying to break her contract. She could have already killed Caster if she wanted to. I can see her putting her claws through Caster's heart in a split second, and WhatIs specifically warned us our allies don't have the benefit of the Dojo.
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>>4714395
Medea is pretty fast and can teleport, if we keep her distracted and restrained, it works
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>>4714370
>>4714364
>Support
RUURUU
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>>4714364
Switching >>4714382 to
>Reinforce yourself and leap on Shuten. Physically try to wrap the chain around her without magically controlling it!
>Even if it doesn't work, you'll distract her long enough for Caster to use Rulebreaker on her!

>>4714403
Minor variation, combining the two as an alternative.
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Looking forward to seeing how this vote turns out in the morning. I'm too tired to do any more writing tonight.
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>>4714421
Jack second Assassin confirmed?
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>>4714358
And in retrospect, it's pretty obvious how Sakura got fixated: That crane game where we kept trying to win her the big prize for two hours was our High Jump. Standing up to the bullies for a stranger was a very Shirou moment. And for both of these things, we were more effective than Shirou ever was in the original timeline. No wonder she couldn't take her eyes off us.

>>4714363
Indeed. We were doing relatively well before the War, but have completely fucked up in that area since it started. This can only end in tears.

>>4714421
Goodnight WhatIs! And you absolute madman, I cannot believe how far back you foreshadowed Manaka.
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>>4714421
>Looking forward to seeing how this vote turns out in the morning
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>>4714424
Its the lewd onii-chan dreams for me.
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>>4714426
At least we have time to think of a better idea.
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>>4714423
we don't need another daughter, we have too many daughters

>>4714424
>That crane game where we kept trying to win her the big prize for two hours was our High Jump.
ok that's actually pretty cool and serves as a neat similarity we have with Shirou, we're as stubborn and hopeless as him when it comes to wanting to save the people around us, to the point that we don't really have any personal goals, our goals are in service to the wants and needs of others. Sakura fell in love with a similar type of guy, she has a type

>>4714432
got any ideas?
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Seeing as WhatIs is going to bed we can plan a bit better.

>'You, Shuten-dōji, shall follow the commands and orders that are given to you by Manaka Sajyou without question.

Orders are absolute, she MUST follow them.

>In regards to Shinji Makiri, you may maim him as much as you wish, but do not kill him.

She can't kill Shinji specifically. Anyone else is fair game.

>You shall not attempt to have this contract removed, and should you realize that somebody is trying to tamper with this contract, you are to respond with lethal force.

Anyone trying to fiddle with the contract is to be met with "Lethal Force". This doesn't specify kill, just the amount of power that would hypothetically be able to kill. Therefore, Shinji has to be the one to remove the contract as if she's put in too much of a pinch no one else has the DO NOT KILL order, and Shuten won't be able to circumnavigate the lethal force loophole regarding Shinji not being allowed to die. Also, she only HAS to use lethal force against those attempting to break the contract. Which leads to a later point.

>You are to serve as a distraction to Shinji Makiri, to draw his attention from other matters that I do not wish for him to interfere with.

She is going to intentionally drag out this encounter as long as possible to fulfil this.

>You are permitted to act freely, so long as your actions do not benefit or aid those who I have deigned my enemies. These enemies are Shinji Makiri, Merlin, Alan Y.T. Thor-'

We don't have the full list, but why would she specify Enhance especially, and very unlikely she's also specified Ciel or Karna. This is where we can use our newer allies who have just arrived on scene and likely aren't on the list and personally have no interest in tampering with the contract, only incapacitating her enough so she can't resist a later attempt on the contract.

Why don't we fall back and have Dante and Karna rip her apart so she physically can't fight back, then have Shinji alone use Truth to rip up that contract. She had to physically remove him from contact and she needed her limbs to do so. Her battle continuation means she'll be perfectly fine with no limbs and we can heal her after the fact.

Her batcon specifications:

>Assassin is capable of doing battle even should she lose her head. So long as her body isn't completely pulverized and incapable of moving, Assassin will keep on getting up.

Have Dante and Karna remove every single limb and her head, but leave the torso's spiritual core intact and use Truth to cleanse the helpless meat clump of Manaka's influence.
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>>4714432
>>4714445
Gotchu senpai.

Also, to ensure Shuten kis continually delaying us by her actions, when we ask to retreat from her here we need to specify we're going to need to try and clean up the Oni mess she left us, so by her actions she has still ensured we are delayed. Maybe give her a wink but she can't be aware we're specifically coming back to break the contract without triggering another assault.
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>>4714445
Yeah, we managed to outShirou Shirou both in her eyes and in general. Quite an accomplishment.

>got any ideas?
I don't. But Shuten is faster than Medea and could have already killed her if she wanted. Medea is right next to her and doesn't have the benefit of a surprise teleport behind her. Shuten MUST kill anyone other than us tampering with the contract, and she's already had Rule Breaker applied to her once. These all scream "Medea is about to bite it" to me, and that's worse than a dead end.

>>4714455
Niggerman to the rescue. You're right, we don't have to end this right now. How about we jump at her with the chain, order Medea to retreat and have Dante and Karna pacify her when she swats us off?
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>>4714464
tbf we had a head start
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>>4714455
ok so do we dive on her and wrap the chain around her then?
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>>4714421
so she is taiga's daughter now? cute.
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We also have the knowledge that Manaka's defined "enemies" need to be individually listed. We don't know if she can update this contract on the fly, or if servants must return to her for extra commands. If they do we can also lay traps enroute to the temple between the current locations of the servants if she calls them all back to update commands after each confrontation. This control method is very much like how Golems are controlled with their scrolls of commands by the long nose tribe so maybe it's based on that?

From that we can also test allies in future. Find out who to bring to future ally encounters due to them not being listed by Manaka. It's likely the list will be updated over time and we may need to rotate the roster to continue circumventing it. The mana heat map will really help this as we can see if they do start converging back on the temple after someone is dealt with or a new ally hits the scene. This means Waver's whole party will be useful as they're currently under the radar to Manaka.

>>4714473
For this update I'd write in something along the lines of "Order Medea to fall back, with a CS if needed for speed depending on Shuten's actions here to make sure Medea doesn't die, tell Shuten you'll need to make a retreat as you just have to ensure all those Oni aren't going to rampage around, winking at Shuten. Have Medea telepathically send a message to Ciel about having to lop off every limb together with Karna and Enhance, but ensuring her torso's spiritual core isn't damaged. Ideally we'd want someone holding her head, and Karna to have burned away all 4 of her limbs while someone else pins down the torso before we make our return to purify her with Truth and also get a full read of that contract if we can before destroying it."

DO NOT order Medea to RB here or Shuten will be forced to kill her.
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>>4714486
My only problem with this plan is that Shuten doesn't deserve it, but yeah I can't see anything else working right now. We'd better give her a treat when this is over, she deserves it. (And hug Medea, she deserves it too)
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>>4714491
We can heal her easy enough, Shuten has never been one to shy away from pain. It's just another sensation to experience for her.
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>>4714496
And here's where not playing F:GO comes as a drawback. If she doesn't mind, then yeah, by all means let's let our allies do the thing we brought them here for.
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>>4714370
>>4714364
>>Physically dive on her and try to wrap the chain around her without magically controlling it!
Changing to this, it says nothing about Rule Breaker so lets see
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>>4714364
>Order Medea to fall back, with a CS if needed for speed depending on Shuten's actions here to make sure Medea doesn't die.

>Tell Shuten you'll need to make a retreat as you just have to ensure all those Oni aren't going to rampage around, winking at Shuten.

>Have Medea telepathically send a message to Ciel about having to lop off every limb together with Karna and Enhance, but ensuring her torso's spiritual core isn't damaged. Ideally we'd want someone holding her head, and Karna to have burned away all 4 of her limbs while someone else pins down the torso before we make our return to purify her with Truth and also get a full read of that contract if we can before destroying it.
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>>4714501
>>4714491
Doing that wont do more than just mildly annoy her.
so yeah, cut away
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>>4714364
Switching >>4714408 to support >>4714504
Sorry for the double switch WhatIs, my other post is too old to delete.
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>>4714503
She's been Rule Breakered before, she knows exactly what it does and will be forced by her contract to kill Medea then and there. We've tried restraining her twice now and WhatIs has clearly shown she's too stronk to pin down using both Medea's magic and Truth chains, as we have nothing to anchor the chains to and she just yeets us across the room with them.
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Incidentally, the "Must respond with lethal force" bit means we can't rely on Medea to Rule Break anyone. She's far too fragile against these monsters. It's up to us and Redman until Shirou gets here.
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>>4714364
>Physically dive on her and try to wrap the chain around her without magically controlling it!

Kinda want to see if magical boy Shinji could make this plan better but we don't have time.
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>>4714522
Morgan can hopefully give her Shuten's Battle Continuation after this just so one of our squishiest allies doesn't explode. Batcon at Shuten's level + Truth healing means as long as we escape the encounter there's no such thing as a properly fatal blow. Against all but Orochi she could just teleport out and wait for healing.
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>>4714509
i don't want to use a CS and this at least stalls so Medea gets out of the way
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>>4714522
actually no, we can use Rule Breaker for other opponents, I believe Shuten is the only person among our altered allies who saw Rule Breaker I think, but we likely have one shot only
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So do you guys want to split up the teams again? and if you do, how do you want them split up?
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Really this comes down to whether or not we can slow down Shuten enough for Medea to land a single attack.
Shuten has an A in agility, which is superior to Medea's B in a straight contest, and with our reinforcement we have a flat E in all physical parameters.
If we wanted to do canon parameter math, B = A-E, which means that we can close the gap in speed with our interference.
We win if Medea hits Shuten once so all we need to do is slow her down for a moment.
I think it's entirely possible for us to impede her for a significant amount of time considering she has to make a conscious effort to hold back her strength so she doesn't kill us.
She can't throw us off impulsively, or thrash in an attempt to shake us off, or even try to pull us off by hand because she'd risk killing us, so I think it's plausible that Medea will be able to get a hit in.
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>>4714370
Support
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>>4714364
>Physically dive on her and try to wrap the chain around her without magically controlling it!
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>>4714364
>Physically dive on her and try to wrap the chain around her without magically controlling it!
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>>4714364
>>4714372
change to >>4714504
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>>4714504
Support
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Rin.
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>>4714818
booba
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>>4714818
Rider.
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>>4714818
Also WhatIs, Karna shouldn't be an absolute wet noodle in melee just because he's an Archer. He doesn't need a weapon to style on people on close quarters.

>The Mahabharata describes a prolonged battle between Arjuna and Karna using bows, swords, trees and rocks, and fists.

Shinji would have course have no idea unless he'd spent a bit of time digging through the myth though, as Santa Karna is post isekai event.
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>>4714826
From his mats in FGO

>For he was trained by Drona, an expert in all aspects of martial arts, so he is accustomed to fighting with empty hands.
In fact, when he recalls the past when he was studying martial arts along with Arjuna and Ashvatthaman, it gives him a fresh sensation that makes his body lighter than it was when he was burdened with the weight of his spear.
The maximum speed of the punches he delivers exceeds the speed of light. Those who face it can only see the trails of his fists as a flash of light… maybe.
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>>4714832
And to wank him just a bit more, because of Uncrowned Martial Arts any encounter where people aren't aware of his identity makes the enemy underestimate him.

Probably worth not going around telling people who he is to preserve that boon.
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>>4714826
Karna still has that martial arts think in his mats right? I'm pretty sure he does at least
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>>4714818
i like Rin, i'm glad our relationship with her isn't tense anymore, kinda wanna do a mission with her and up the affection meter
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>>4714844
You're likely talking about

>>4714834
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Indian mythos martial arts autism ahead:

>Kalaripayattu - the combat art specifically

Timeline:

>Shiva, supreme god of destruction teaches his dragonball poo fighting style to Parashurama.

>Parashurama was the 6th avatar of Vishnu, one the three supreme beings alongside Shiva and Brahma that make up and govern all existence.

>Parashurama was one of the great old immortals that predated the heroes and demigods in the Mahabharata where Karna etc features.

>He plays important roles in the Mahabharata serving as mentor to Bhishma (chapter 5.178), Drona (chapter 1.121) and Karna (chapter 3.286), teaching weapon arts and helping key warriors in both sides of the war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalaripayattu

Basically Beerus teaching people how to fight, in DBS, and then someone inherits that from the OG student.

TL;DR

Karna can punch good
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>>4714872
welfare foreigner and /fgog/ is seething, neat
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>>4714818
Rin!
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>>4714872
>>4714876
We could use her help right now.
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I wish we had a friend who could perfectly counter Shuten.
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>>4714876
That's nice the last extra class welfare they gave us was mecha eli chan.
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>>4714364
Changing to >>4714504 from >>4714378
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>>4714595
Time is against us, we have three immediate targets, and Tesla is a fucking cheater who absorbs all energy that's not purely physical. So I say we split up after we make the magical signature map, have us+physical attackers go after Tesla and have the others go after Bazett (if we can find her) or Cu (if we can't). Getting one of the two will help us appeal to the other.
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>Reinforce and leap
>>4714367
>>4714375
>>4714380
>>4714382
>>4714407

>Leap and Bind
>>4714371
>>4714503
>>4714534
>>4714721
>>4714744

>Fall back, Retreat, Remove Limbs
>>4714504
>>4714508
>>4714755
>>4714776
>>4714921

Is this the legendary 3 way tie?

>>4714826
He's not a wet noodle, but he just doesn't really have any answers to Shuten or a proper melee weapon. Especially not when Shuten can insta-kill him through Kavacha and Kundala by just pulling his skeleton out if she wants.
Karna doesn't do well against internal attacks.
Also, all the Indian Servants are kind of nerfed by default in Fate because otherwise they'd all crush Types.
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Rolled 3 (1d3)

>>4714942
Looks like I forgot to vote so I will trust dice gods to deliver us victory over dumb oni.
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>>4714942
Sorry WhatIS, but my double switching from >>4714382 to >>4714408 to >>4714508 caused you to miscount. It's only a double tie.
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>>4714952
Fag
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>>4714953
Sakurafag and proud of it.
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"Medea! Get back! Now!" You shout loudly at the Caster, who is currently just looking at the oni girl in front of her in stunned silence, your words thankfully seem to return the woman to her senses, and she leaps away from the oni, her cloak fluttering outwards like wings with her magic and sending her flying backwards before Shuten can attack, not like Shuten actually seemed to be planning an attack on the woman anyway. It's irritating having to deal with Shuten like this, but it's not so bad. If Shuten was actually dedicated to actually killing you all here, then she likely already would've used her other Noble Phantasms that she should have. Namely, Bone Collector and the Providential Oni Poison. Of course you can't actually confirm whether or not she has them in the way you remember or not thanks to already having been strengthened when she was summoned. It's actually highly likely that even the ranks of her Noble Phantasms have risen. Still, seeing as she can't actually use the Oni Poison without killing you, you're probably safe from that Noble Phantasm. It would be a nightmare to try to face Shuten in that setting, as a poison that can break even the bodies of Servants down saturates the battlefield. If she had activated that ability, you doubt that you, Enhance or Medea would've been able to survive very long. Hell, even Ciel would soon find herself incapable of action despite her immortality! Her body would reform of course, but Shuten may have just been cunning enough to think of a means to seal her away despite that.

"Now, Shuten, unfortunately, Caster and I need to make a brief tactical retreat, in order to ensure that all those painfully distracting oni that you made aren't going to start rampaging again." You say to the girl with a smile on your face, and she tilts her head in confusion before you wink at her. A wink that says 'I have a plan, please trust me.' Of course, your plan isn't entirely fleshed out yet, but you're already working on it as you talk. You've unfortunately lost your opportunity to bind Shuten, and you've also managed to lose your opportunity to trick her into letting you cancel out her contract. If it works on her awareness, then it will only be safe for you to cancel it from her.

'Medea, we're going to be walking away slowly, but as we do, I want you to send a telepathic message to Ciel, the Master of Second Archer. Tell her that I want her to have Karna burn away all of Shuten's limbs before my return.' The plan may be a little cruel on Shuten, but she's a Servant with Battle Continuation A+, you're pretty sure that if the Master had a command spell to use, that even decapitation could be something rendered non-fatal to her.
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'Is that really necessary, Master? As much as I might personally have a dislike for that girl, it's very clear to me that she's trying to resist against whatever magic is binding her. When she appeared in front of me, it was like I was staring at the face of death itself, yet she did not strike and kill me despite her opportunity.' It seems like Medea has gained a small amount of respect for Shuten, for her continued loyalty towards you despite her current situation. It really does seem like Shuten is doing all that she can to keep her word to you, hell, she didn't even eat a single person! Well, you aren't sure if turning them into rampaging oni is better or worse. At least Ibaraki has things under control on that front, but if you hadn't recruited Miho and her Servant, then things would've been tremendously bad for you here, and you'd have either needed to slaughter three hundred innocent people, tried to somehow restrain them, or have just let them run rampant on Fuyuki, and you obviously weren't just going to allow that to happen. Three hundred ravenous oni tearing through Fuyuki would quickly kills thousands, maybe tens of thousands of people. Honestly, the collateral damage might even end up wiping out the entire city!

'I'm well aware, and I don't like it either, but Shuten is tough, something like this might be painful for her, but there are very few Servants who would be able to survive something like this better than her. Trust me.' You hope she isn't going to hold a grudge over having her limbs detached like this. You can always heal her no matter how bad the damage is, but it still makes you feel terrible, having to resort to such an extreme action to get your Servant back.

'If it is what you have decided is best, Master, I shall do so.' Medea, despite her initial reluctance to the plan, seems to have accepted it now. It seems that being spared by somebody when they could easily rip you to shreds in the blink of an eye does wonders for your outlook on a person. As you slowly walk away from the scene, you can see Ciel's face light up in surprise as Medea sends a message to her, having whispered one of her divine words under her breath in order to secure a telepathic connection to the girl. Ciel's surprised look suddenly hardens into one of determination.

"Enhance, you may want to go with them. They might need some help." Ciel states calmly as she looks at Shuten, clearly wanting to get the vampire out of the room so that Karna isn't so restricted in just what he can do. Not being able to use the majority of his powers out of a worry of his flames harming the vampire due to having a sun attribute has really weakened the otherwise exceptionally powerful Archer. You had originally wanted Enhance to help too, but that's... really probably not a good idea.
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"Ah man, and just when things were getting exciting too!" Enhance frowns, but doesn't argue. "You really know how to spoil a man's fun, don't you, Ciel?" Ciel frowns in response to Enhance's rhetorical question, and he's probably also figured out the reason why Ciel doesn't want him sticking around any more, at least not for this fight. His very presence is causing Karna to have to go about his attacks halfheartedly.

As you walk back towards the location you remember that Ibaraki and her new oni should be, you start to see the walls begin to slowly change, wandering into the activation zone of Ibaraki's Noble Phantasm. While she likely could've converted the entire building into her fortress, that would've just been a waste of her Master's magical energy, after all, it's not like fully manifesting the Noble Phantasm would serve any sort of real purpose, when you hear the large open space that you just walked out from behind you erupt into noises of explosions and combat, you turn back to see just what is going on. Running to a different set of doors from the ones you left by in order to see Karna and Shuten doing battle with each other from the third floor of the building. The two incredibly powerful Servants giving off explosive amounts of flame and heat as they clash with each other, Karna ramming Shuten with his bow whenever she gets too close and firing at her with arrows when she backs away, drawing and firing arrows from the bow in a blink of an eye, though despite the power in his attacks, Shuten seems to be capable of enduring the attacks! Ciel of course is also providing assistance, though her projectiles, while powerful and on the level of a Servant themselves thanks to the secret technique of the Burial agency: the Iron Plate Effect, they obviously aren't as powerful or fast as those being shot by Karna's bow, but they are still clearly causing Shuten to be distracted as she dodges them, the holy energy contained within them being far more effective on her than Karna's arrows!

Eventually, the two Servants come to a pause in the action. "Not bad, Second Archer. However..." The Assassin pulls out a small gourd of liquid that she pours into a small dish. Wait a minute! She's... She's about to use her Noble Phantasm! Are you in the effective range of it from here! You can't remember just what sort of distance that it works from!

>Have Medea attack her with her Rain of Light!
>Have Medea freeze her in place with another binding spell! Let Karna and Ciel get a good shot off!
>Reveal your position! If you do that then Shuten will be forced to put her Noble Phantasm away!
>Say nothing, have faith in Karna and Ciel.
>Write-in...
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>>4714996
>Say nothing, have faith in Karna and Ciel.
>Create Truth Barrier just in case
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>>4714996
Reveal your position! If you do that then Shuten will be forced to put her Noble Phantasm away
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>>4714996
>Have Medea teleport you in front of Shuten. Reinforce yourself and try to grapple with her while Medea takes advantage of the distraction to teleport behind her and use Rule Breaker.
She has to cancel her Noble Phantasm when she sees us. This + distraction + surprise should be enough for Medea.
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Calling in 30, let's get this battle wrapped up, shall we?
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>>4715010
>>4714996
Support
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>>4715010
+1
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>>4715010
>>4714996
>Support
RUURUU BUREIKA
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>>4714996
Switching from >>4714999 to >>4715010
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>>4715010
+1
Time for Medea to yell RUURU BUREAKA loudly like she always has to
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>>4715010
supporting
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'Medea. Teleport me in front of Shuten as quickly as you can. I'm going to grab her just as she's about to use her Noble Phantasm, she shouldn't be able to use it through the terms of her contract if she's aware I'm in the area. This is it. This is the finale! Shuten will likely be too shocked to properly respond to your appearance, and her attempt to use her Noble Phantasm will be canceled out immediately!

Medea says nothing in response, and you take her silence as approval for the plan. It's far less brutal on your part to grapple Shuten rather than rely on Karna to speak the true name of Brahmastra, which would certainly cause Shuten a great deal of damage despite her body's natural hardiness. You can tell that Medea is waiting for the most opportune moment to teleport you, one in which Shuten's guard would be lowered the most!

"Fighting you is quite a pain, Second Archer, so let me end this by melting you and your master all at once!" Shuten begins to pour the alcohol, she's really going to do it! She's going to try to melt everyone here! Kavacha and Kundala might provide Karna with resistance to the melting effect of the poison, but it won't be able to protect him from the poison seeping into his body! "Multitude o-"

"Tροψα!" Medea doesn't hesitate any further, and speaks the word of the spell that changes your position, from standing over the battle and observing it to standing right in front of the rebellious little Assassin.

"-f Colo- Eh?!" You grapple Shuten just as the first drop of liquid hits the base of the bowl, reinforcing your body as you do, you aren't as powerful as you would be if you were wielding Amethyst's power, but all you need is to distract Shuten. "Master?! What are you..." Shuten doesn't resist nearly as much as she should be capable of as you basically leap at her and wrap your arms around her to try to pin her arms to her sides, you aren't sure if it's out of a remaining sense of loyalty to you or if it's just in her hedonistic nature to not resist something like this as much as she should be capable of.

'Now, Medea!' You give your Servant the command as you try to keep Shuten's attention locked entirely on you! You know you have mere moments until Medea appears behind Shuten to try to strike her with Rulebreaker once again! Of course, if you can't keep Shuten's attention solely on you, then that means she'll respond to Medea's attempt to free her from the contract with lethal force! Is this really going to be enough?

>Grapple her even harder, reinforce your muscles to the point where they will explode after being released! You'll heal!
>Kiss her. That ought to give her something to think about.
>Use a command spell to infuse Medea with the speed she'll need to succeed.
>Headbutt Shuten. That should keep her distracted!
>Write-in...
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>>4715094
>Kiss her. That ought to give her something to think about.
>French kiss
>Try to channel Truth through it to overwhelm her senses
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>>4715094
>>4715097
Support
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>>4715094
>>Use a command spell to infuse Medea with the speed she'll need to succeed.
Kissing her would sap us of a lot of Mana, I rather sacrifice a command spell so that we have the mana supply to contract with more servants later, third lancer and third archer.
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>>4715094
>Kiss her. That ought to give her something to think about.
She deserves a kiss for being such a good girl, but no reason to get all fancy about it.

And damn you WhatIs, you made me like the amoral, mass-murdering Oni.
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>>4715094
>Kiss her. That ought to give her something to think about.
>French kiss
>Straight up doujin kiss her right fucking now
>Grab her ass with one of your hands too, you can do that while you're grappling can't you?
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>>4715094
>Kiss her. That ought to give her something to think about.
LET'S GO!
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>>4715097
Supporting
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>>4715097
Shinji Makiri, Master of Foreigner, Weilder of Truth, genius elite, and (s)layer of Oni
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Calling in 30.
It's a shame that Shuten didn't get to show off half of what she can do now, but ah well.
Her heart just wasn't in it.
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>>4715140
How big of a role bond reinforcement played?
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>>4715142
Prevented her from being class changed to Berserker.
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>>4715143
Oh.
We are really responsible for Gorgon, aren`t we?
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>>4715097
+1
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>>4715094
>>4715097
+1
thats silly enough to work
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>>4715147
We didnt have time to bond with everyone, shit is being throw at us every 10 minutes.
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>>4715167
I am talking about how we used Truth to strengthen connections between Master and Servant for Illya and Avenger and for us with Medea and Shuten.
We failed to do so for Sakura and Rider because we made Sakura magicbane just prior to it and couldn`t do it because of her new nature.
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>>4715178
Sakura still had the command seal and contract though
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>>4715094
>>4715097

Support

Well likely get killed by our other Waifus or have there jealousy reach the heavens but this isn't the most suicidal thing Shinji has done.
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You know it got me thinking, since we are pretty much set for the harem route, it raises a big question: Who'll get Shinji's virginity?
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>>4715192
whoever goes for it first, first come first serve etc.
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>>4715194
So Medea taking him away with her spell to have the first taste?
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>>4715196
I would not put it past her
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>>4715198
She is an evil witch after all.
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>>4715192
Medea.

>>4715196
Medea will teleport away with Shinji and a few hours later, she'll teleport back like nothing happened with Shinji on the ground behind her, unconscious, and Medea ain't gonna say a thing but smile.
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>>4715201
>and Medea ain't gonna say a thing but smile
Not like she can hide it with how much mana she'd have at the moment.
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>>4715179
Illya noticed the difference right away and it gave us more timeframe to help with Avenger.
Going by >>4715143 that trick worked for us as well. So failing to do so for Sakura made presumably made Rider`s situation worse.
Not that we could have predicted all of it.
>>4715189
>Caster shrugs. "I'm not quite sure myself. All I know is the magical energy contained within your body is... well it's far more similar to True Ether than it is to any of the elements that should exist in this era. I imagine it was only thanks to my experience of living within the Age where magical energy similar to your own was so prevalent that I was capable of snapping out of it even with a direct link to more of it." Caster starts saying worrying things, very worrying things. "Though don't mistake what I'm saying here. It might be very similar to the True Ether of ages past, but it's fundamentally not the same thing. Your own magical energy only feels similar to it." Caster tells you something interesting, but also terrifying. If Caster was only capable of preventing herself from not trying to drain all of your Magical Energy, then what would have happened if you had ended up kissing somebody who wasn't capable of controlling themselves like Caster was? Things could end up very dangerous very quickly if this is going to be a persistent problem. "When we aren't so pressed for time, I would like the opportunity to do research into the nature of your magic. Maybe after the grail war?" Caster reveals her intention to stick around should she survive with a happy tone in her voice. Well, you need to make sure that everyone survives before you can start making plans like that.
Remember this from our kiss with Medea scene.
She is aware how intoxicating we are for Servants.
Doing it alone with Shuten would have been dangerous but situation here really makes it good tactic and mostly safe with Medea, Ciel and Karna near.
>>4715192
>>4715196
>>4715198
>>4715200
>>4715201
Good luck, Medea!
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It would be funny if she is so shocked by the kiss, Madea misses her chance.
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>>4715192
Sakura will drag us inside her and there is absolutely nothing Medea can do to stop her.
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>>4715203
Either way I still think Sakura and Medusa's bond is strong enough that she'll go a similar route to Shuten and purposely hold back as much as possible. She knows how much Sakura cares about us and she doesn't wanna hurt her
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>>4715208
Yeah, that's what I think as well. She locked herself up in horny jail instead of turning the city center in a statue garden so she's not completely gone. Yet.
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>>4715206
Well, we know how that will go.
>>4715208
>purposely hold back as much as possible
Scrying looked exactly like that and since we also had good relationship with her and with contract forbidding her to kill us going to her with Sakura might work.
We just need to get few seconds of direct contact to burn her contract and maybe it will even revert her back. Or we could try to do so ourselves. If we visit her inner world.
Good thing Sakura has just that we need for all of this.
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>>4715219
I don't think Medusa ever saw Rule Breaker so we can get the drop on her
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>>4715206
>Sakura drags Shinji in
>He ends up getting laid with Tiamat first while she watches
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>>4715097
Support. You lads ready for the MIGHTY MANA TRANSFER SCENE
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>>4715239
Well, at least there's enough muscle around to stop Shuten from raping us.
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>>4715233
but anon that's ||incest||
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>>4715203
good thing we got Medusa the car and the glasses. Probably gave her a spark of hope to go by.
We will set this right. And Monica, Bazett and Cu as well.
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>>4715272
If we get one out of Cu and Bazett they can help us appeal to the other. But Monica and Bazett will be tough to break through, since they're currently being puppeteered by Tesla and someone unknown, respectively.
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wait can other people use Archer's Projections?
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There's not much choice, if you really want Shuten to be distracted, you're going to have to do something really drastic! While you can't stop grappling Shuten, for fear of her just being able to immediately wisen up to your attempted assault and resisting it by throwing you off and moving to counter Medea's momentary assault, but at the same time, you can't just do nothing, otherwise she might get suspicious about you trying to use your magecraft to alter her contract again! Then there's only one thing to do! "Master! Get off I was abo- MMPH?!" You cut the Oni off with a kiss, forcing your mouth onto hers, Shuten makes a muffled noise of surprise for a second, before it turns into a noise of obvious enjoyment.

Time seems frozen in place as you share a kiss with Shuten, and before you're even aware of what you're doing, you find your tongue exploring her mouth, brushing across her razor sharp teeth that could easily draw blood with but the slightest intention, the teeth of a true man-eater. You channel some of your magical energy through the kiss, directly into Shuten's body, and the greedy Oni begins to drain you rapidly, your vast reserves of magical energy quickly being taken by Shuten as you continue kissing her, your vast reserves of magical energy flowing into the girl like water flowing down a bottomless drain, you hadn't expected that Shuten would be so greedy with your magical energy, and in the span of only about eight seconds, she's already managed to consume almost everything you had left! You naturally feel your grapple on Shuten becoming loosened as you continue kissing the girl, her arms moving slightly to hold onto your body, but just as you're about to raise your hand to caress her face gently again, you can see the warping of space behind Shuten. Though you don't show any surprise from Medea finally deciding to show up.

"Rule Breaker!" A dagger plunges directly into Shuten's back, and the surprise and pain of being pierced by Rule Breaker causes the girl to seize up and push you away! You tumble onto the ground as you see Shuten's expression, clearly both pained and immensely satisfied as she allows herself to topple to the ground, the magic that was being used to control her by Manaka having been shattered by the magic canceling properties of Medea's dagger. "Really, Master, if you were going to do something like that, couldn't you have at least warned me first? And did you really need to look like you were enjoying it that much?" Medea's tone is very annoyed, and you scratch the back of your head awkwardly.
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"I uh... I did what I thought was the only way to get Shuten distracted enough to let you use your Noble Phantasm on her, I didn't want her to realize what I was really up to." Though honestly, even if Shuten had realized what you were up to, she probably didn't actually care. Even if the terms of her contract were to deliver lethal force to those attempting to sever her contract, she was clearly focusing everything on that kiss you shared. You don't receive an answer from Medea, as the woman simply stares at you with that annoyed expression on her face. Come on, it's not like you didn't kiss her before as well!

"Oh no... It looks like the dreaded Oni has been vanquished by her cunning... Husband, defeating her through trickery, a perfect kiss that neither of them would soon forget, Fuhuhuhu." Shuten is laying on the ground, staring intently at you. "And now, after having the Servant at his mercy once more, he claimed her for his own, sealing their contract together with one final kiss~." Shuten is clearly waiting for you to make your move, and Medea is looking at you with a dejected expression. Clearly, she just doesn't know how to compete with such a forceful woman like this.

>Kiss Shuten one last time and reestablish the contract with her.
>Feed Shuten some of your blood instead, it should serve the same purpose.
>Kiss Medea and then kiss Shuten, if Medea is feeling jealous, then... that should work, right?
>Ask Shuten how she's feeling before kissing her. You need to make sure that the contract was properly canceled out.
>Write-in...
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>>4715296
>Hug and kiss Medea and then feed Shuten some of your blood instead, it should serve the same purpose.
One kiss for each girl, it's only fair. And god, it's so good to have Medea. It's like we were missing an arm and we suddenly got it back.
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>>4715296
>Kiss Medea and then kiss Shuten, if Medea is feeling jealous, then... that should work, right?

DO IT PUSSY
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>>4715296
>"You get a pinky and that's the best I can do"
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>>4715296
>Kiss Shuten to seal the deal and then kiss Medea to calm her down.
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>>4715296
>>Write-in...
Manifest Truth Shibari and a Truth Paddle. Punish Shuten for her nonsense.
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>>4715296
>Kiss Medea and then kiss Shuten, if Medea is feeling jealous, then... that should work, right?
Might as well go all the way at this point.
I hope she is at 99/100 after that.
>Husband
>>4712449 congratulations
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>>4715296
>Kiss Medea and then kiss Shuten, if Medea is feeling jealous, then... that should work, right?

Well we're fucked, might as well go for damage control. Sakura is going to be so forceful when she hears about this.
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Grab medea's ass
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>>4715296
>Kiss Medea and then kiss Shuten, if Medea is feeling jealous, then... that should work, right?
99/100 incoming
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>>4715308
And when she last saw us, we only had one daughter. She's never leaving our side ever again.
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Calling in 45 minutes.
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>>4715315
I'm going to laugh my ass off if we dead end with Medea and Shuten draining us dry.
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>>4715296
>Kiss Medea and then kiss Shuten, if Medea is feeling jealous, then... that should work, right?

>>4715313
Soon enough the girls will realize that instead of fighting each other, they should try and stop Shinji from adopting more daughters.
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>>4715317
No, our daughters just shift the battlefield. Sakura and Medea have an in with Alitheia, but Betty and Abby have not yet acknowledged a mother.
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>>4715296
>>Kiss Medea and then kiss Shuten, if Medea is feeling jealous, then... that should work, right?
We kinda have to now
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>>4715313
its been half a day and there are already two women calling her precious onii-chan husband

>>4715318
Sakura was the only one to think to pull off such big brain moves
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This must be awkward for ciel and karna after fighting seriously the fight then turns into a kissing contest.
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>>4715318
damn, you're right though
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>>4715341
I'm perfectly happy with Sakura and Medea winning the Shinjibowl through such cunning methods. I have always been a Sakurafag.

>>4715342
The faster they get used to our bullshit working out the better.
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>>4715347
This quest made me appreciate Sakura tbqh, I never really liked her before, now i want to protect her and have her win

>>4715342
Dante is gonna bully Ciel over this
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>>4715350
I'm glad we now agree on who is best girl. And I can relate, WhatIs made me like a lot of girls I'd never have expected, including Shuten.
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>>4715296
>Kiss Medea and then kiss Shuten, if Medea is feeling jealous, then... that should work, right?
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So should we get Kiss Demon skill after this?
>>4715342
I am sure Dante has few good lines prepared just for this kind of situation.
He already could not resist teasing her about us.
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>>4715296
>Kiss Medea and then kiss Shuten, if Medea is feeling jealous, then... that should work, right?
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>>4715318
>girls, can we let the domestic wars for after we save the multiverse
also, QM, do you do r18?
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>>4715357
we should get a Charisma rank up at the very least

>>4715353
i never expected to like Medea as much as i do now either, then again she never had the chance

>>4715362
you can't write that shit on /qst/
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>>4715357
a war with rin summoning her in place of archer would be hilarious.
>kuro flirts with illya, shirou and rin.
>>4715363
>you can't write that shit on /qst/
how dumb, this website is silly with this rules sometimes, for me no place of this website should be sfw.
he can probably post it somewhere can link here i guess, if he wants.
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>>4715357
>So should we get Kiss Demon skill after this?
Technically, that skill belongs to people who resupply themselves through a kiss. You would be more a uh... Kiss Demon Summoner.

>>4715363
>we should get a Charisma rank up at the very least
Your Charisma is already at the highest possible level, it's just kept sealed so you don't accidentally become the romantic target of literally every single human who sees you.

>>4715368
>a war with rin summoning her in place of archer would be hilarious.
Kuro would probably have another existential crisis if she ever saw the actual Illya. Prisma Illya and Kuro are basically just one half each of the SN Illya. There's also the problem that Kuro is weaker than Archer, so Rin and Kuro die in the first Cu Chulainn encounter.

>>4715362
Ehh... If I ever do, I'll need to get drunk first.
Then I'll go and post it on some text upload site and link it.
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>>4715377
Alright guys, time to pool some money so we can send WhatIs a box of liquor of his choice.

Also, WhatIs, we're currently running with an empty tank and with a long day ahead of us. How suicidal would it be to open up all our magic circuits while reciting all lines that we know from our Aria just to get a refill? We'll start burning, but the last line should restore us, right?
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>>4715386
We could burn two command seals to replenish mana and contract with the two stray servants wandering around town, then use another two command seals. If we don't want to keep the additional two servants we can give them to one of our friends.
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>>4715377
>>Kiss Demon Summoner
>Summoner
>Magical Kissing Aptitude
>Magical Girl
>Transferred to another world
Oh no, we are in danger.
Full Nuclear Chaos
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>>4715390
Oh, you're right. Getting Shuten back may give us three more as well, so we can burn two of those.
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>>4715386
if we can bleed out Alítheia, we won't need to worry about it, we potentially might be able too since i assume Sakura is doting on her and teaching her how to speak

>>4715390
that's suicidal, the moment Betty wakes up, we won't have the power to do much anymore
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>>4715394
>that's suicidal
Not exactly, if we contract with two more servants we would get 6 more seals, we could burn as two - four to get our mana at an acceptable rate. Its better than leaving them stray. Like I said if we don't wan to keep them we can give them away to our friends.
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>>4715392
We would definitely get three seals back, we lost them when Manaka stole Shuten from us. We would have six to start, and if we contract with weaker less mana eating servants like third archer and/or third lancer we could get another 3 - 6.
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>>4715394
>we can just recharge by putting our dragon daughter in our lap and giving her headpats
very nice
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>>4715408
Yes this too, headpats restore the soul.
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>>4715408
Even without mana refill we need to gather Alithea, Abby and Betty for a headpat session after this.
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You walk up to Medea without saying a word, the woman eyeing you curiously as you do, clearly not really certain as to just what it is that you're planning on doing. You're already kind of unsteady as it is, Shuten managed to draw out a lot of your magical energy with just that one kiss. You thought that you were actually doing alright with your usage of your energy, but it looks like between everything that you've done today, Shuten deciding to extract as much from your lips as she was able to has managed to almost put you at your limit. "I've decided to kiss you again first, Medea, you deserve it." Still, that doesn't stop you from wrapping an arm around Medea's waist and drawing her in for a passionate kiss. You give her the same treatment that you just gave Shuten, exploring her mouth with your tongue, which encircles with her own.

"Jeez, and here I thought I was good with the ladies." Enhance makes a wry comment, and you can see him out of the corner of your eye stretching with a smirk on his face. "Hey Ciel, are you sure you don't wanna ask to get in on some of this?" He can clearly only barely stop himself from bursting out into a fit of mad laughter as he seems to taunt the Ex-Burial Agent.

"Archer. Please chase Enhance away. Take an arm or a leg if he resists." Ciel's voice is cold, and you can't really tell what happens next other than a lot of panicked yelling from the vampire as he is chased off by an incarnation of the sun. He'll probably be back later, but it's pretty obvious that Ciel has had quite enough of his nonsense as it is.

Your kiss with Medea extends for some time, with Shuten watching patiently and waiting for you to finish kissing the other woman. You can tell that the Oni isn't all that happy about you deciding to go for Medea first instead of sealing your contract, but she seems to have accepted something like this was going to happen. Medea does seem to at least try to avoid taking a great deal of your magical energy from you, clearly doing her hardest to restrain herself for you, knowing that you must already be low on magical energy. Eventually, you withdraw your tongue from her mouth and break off the kiss, getting a disappointing look from Medea as you do. You are rapidly growing tired now, your magical energy almost reaching its limit. It's a shame that you've yet to get your magic circuits... fully unlocked. Your mind is fuzzy, but you still walk over to Shuten, who is laying on the ground in a manner that can only be called seductive, beckoning you over with a finger.
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You kneel down to get closer to the girl, only for her to spring up like a pouncing animal to wrap herself around you with superhuman strength, planting her mouth on your own. This time though, she's the one who sticks her tongue in your mouth first, the sudden reversal of positions surprises you, yet you manage to complete the contract with her even as you feel your last magical energy draining into the girl. You... really hope that she stops... otherwise she'll probably kill you! You can feel a strange sensation on your hand as your three remaining command spells multiply into six, but then you black out.

You open your eyes, and you find yourself sitting on a chair in an empty room, one without a door, even. The room is very bare when it comes to furniture asides from the chair. There is an antique mirror placed against a wall in one corner, a life-size wax model of yourself in another, a plush toy that looks vaguely like you in the third corner, and in the last corner is a lifelike portrait of yourself. What on Earth does this all mean? Does this dream have greater meaning, or is it just a dream? Should you investigate one of these things closer, or should you just stay where you are?

>Investigate the mirror.
>Investigate the wax model.
>Investigate the plush toy.
>Investigate the portrait.
>Write-in...
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>>4715423
Most definitely. Alitheia doesn't even know she's not an only child anymore.

I only hope we don't spoil our daughters too much
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>>4715474
>Investigate the mirror.
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>>4715474

>Investigate the mirror.

The mirror should offer the Truest examination of Shinji, no?
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>>4715474
>Investigate the plush toy.
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>>4715474
I'd say the mirror.
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>>4715474
>Investigate the plush toy.
I have a good feeling about this. The crane game where we gave Sakura the plush toy was our high jump.
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>>4715474
>>Investigate the wax model.
Candle-kun?
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>>4715474
>Investigate the mirror.
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>>4715474
>"sigh, what now? can't i even kiss some girls without some shit happening?
>Investigate the mirror.
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>>4715474
>Investigate the mirror.

I'm hoping the mirror sheds some light on the MCs self.
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>>4715474
>Investigate the mirror.
Are we actually solving the mystery why are we here in the first place? At this point I was expecting for it to never be part of main story.
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>>4715296

>Kiss Shuten one last time and reestablish the contract with her
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>>4715494
I think learning too much about ourselves might lead to us discovering we've been an Outest God all along and ascending to a higher plane of existence while leaving everyone behind to their (hopefully improved) lives.
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>>4715499
You are a bit late mate.
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>>4715503
Maybe, but even if that does happen I don't see why we would have to leave. Nyarl is on earth and he seems to be having fun.
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>>4715507
Yeah, but he's an Outer God and part of the fiction himself, while we'd be an existence beyond even him. I'm afraid of the possibility we won't be able to stay.
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>>4715474
>>Investigate the mirror.
mirrors are the window into the soul
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>>4715503
I think I have a funny guess. Opposite of this fellow to be exact. It will fully align with Truth angle from a religious perspective. And largely works with concept of Outer Gods (Nyarly) not knowing about us. From his own words about cosmic order. And it has holy sisterfucking.
Will applaud WhatIs if that`s the case. Real smooth.
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>>4715474
>Investigate the plush toy.
I have a weird feeling this is either tied to Betty, Alitheia or Tiamat, somehow.
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>>4715518
would be interesting if we were like the Truth from FMA, both a godlike being and also a reflection of the everything.
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Calling in 32 minutes.
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>>4715474
>Investigate the plush toy.
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>>4715474
>Investigate the plush toy.
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>>4715474
Investigate the mirror
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>>4715513
We're likely a transcendent being that's above the narrative level of the Nasuverse and thus are capable of manipulating reality to our liking, our birth into this world mangled the timelines into one amalgamation (it explains why Fate/Stay Night and Tsukihime happened in the same verse) and if we were to unlock the full scale of those powers and that knowledge, we'd erase the multiverse and lose all empathy for our friends
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>>4715529
Remember destroyed Fuyuki if we were to try and ditch war from the start? It is still huge spoiler why it is happened. We know who was residing within Grail and who gets to take part in cosmological struggle as force of evil and lies versus good and truth in Zoroastrianism.
We might be having some real hollow ataraxia moment soon.
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>>4715545
>it explains why Fate/Stay Night and Tsukihime happened in the same verse
I mean, it did until nasu got lazy and decided everything was slightly different parallel universes so questions about slight differences could be ignored.
Some of them still do, fuck look at the Extra Timeline.
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>>4715545
>inb4 we are the third being that can create the same as God and the other one
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>>4715550
The cause of the destruction of Fuyuki is 100% related to us, FSN more or less happens in the same capacity if Shinji is out of the picture so something involving us set the place on fire
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>>4715553
I agree it was stupid and just a cope out answer so Nasu doesn't have to worry about contradictions in the story, you can just handwave it away with alternate universes
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>>4715545
That fear comes out of nowhere. Considering the outer god says we can't manifest and most of the emapthy comes from drop in and not OG Shinji.
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>>4715518
>>4715550
Certainly an interesting theory. I can't say I have anything to refute you, it certainly fits the available evidence. I am unsure what it means regarding our incarnation into the world though.

>>4715564
Yeah, exactly. What if the drop in is revealed to be a being incapable of empathy, wishing itself to live a lie?
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>>4715473
>You can tell that the Oni isn't all that happy about you deciding to go for Medea first instead of sealing your contract, but she seems to have accepted something like this was going to happen
I feel like we should mention that Shuten understands that Medea is above her in the pecking order
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>>4715559
Look at it this way:
Ahura Mazda is sometimes considered as an inspiration and proto-version of YHWH/God/Allah. And being Truth is his thing as is cosmic struggle versus Angra Mainyu. If thats the case we could guess that us being here (in the world) would have empowered Manjew to be an actual proper Angra Mainyu, resulting in pre-emptive and insane Dark Sakura hence that timeline with burned Fuyuki. Cleansing piece of Grail in Sakura could have banished Manjew and blocked him from being main villain but allowed Manaka to move in and pick up bits and pieces of various fundamental powers from Manjew and Truth infused Grail and whatever she could get from dimensional hopping. War re-activated the Grail and allowed her to start gathering and absorbing stolen powers.
>>4715570
>I am unsure what it means regarding our incarnation into the world though.
We will know soon enough I guess.
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>>4715513
>>4715503
>>4715518
>>4715529
>>4715545
>>4715580
You all forget that despite all this, Isekai Bro Shinji fusion is still fictional. He is the main character of Paradox Reincarnator on 4chan's /qst/, in real life. Just like Danganronpa V3 had, in lowest to highest layers:
>DR2 Neo World Program simulated Earth
>DR1 2 UDG 3 Earth
>both of these are in video games in...
>DRV3 Earth
>which is a video game in
>Our Reality Earth

Here, it is
>TypeMoon media universe plus others
>HPLovecraft Outer God world because Azathoth dream
>the reality Earth where Isekai Bro came from
>Our Reality Earth

Clearly, the true final boss or superboss will be the written-in incarnation of WhatIsAQM himself, revealed in a surprise meta-twist that has every poster calling him a hack writer like Toby Fox and any meta cliche twist user.
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>>4715590
I'm just thinking of that one SCP that keeps transcending the narrative latter as he keeps becoming more deranged and powerful, he kinda reminds me of isekai!Shinji
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>>4715580
My alternative interpretation for the burned Fuyuki is that it's always been Manaka. She chose to invade this timeline because we're here and we're completely necessary for whatever it is she's planning. She'd burn Fuyuki instead of destroying the world just so she could get our attention, and she'd have tried to use Sakura, Rin and Shirou (though probably not the Servants) as hostages in order to get us to cooperate.

>We will know soon enough I guess.
I hope we don't regret it.
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>>4715594
would be a pretty shitty hostage situation on Manaka's part since we straight up abandoned all of them in this situation
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>>4715599
Maybe Manaka got nuked by Alaya?
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>>4715601
Yeah, that's more likely than hostages we've already abandoned once.
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>>4715607
speaking of hostages, pretty sure this situation happened because we kept ignoring Manaka in our dreams and kept nabbing back allies
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>>4715613
>'My dearest Shinji,

>You didn't want to play by the rules I gave you and didn't want to even come to see me, so I've changed the game!

Yeah, she pretty much said it herself. She was even waving in our last dream and we snubbed her to her face.

And to think we'd even negotiated with her that she'd let hostages go if we showed good behavior and improvement.
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>>4715618
I mean, it's still not all bad. She did end that letter with -Love, Manaka.
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>>4715613
Yeah, at this point I don't understand why she needs our help and how she expects to get it.
It seems like she's going to blow up at the end of the week no matter what, so its probably something about Arthur, probably to have us make him into a gonad on her cosmic fish bod our some shit.
I don't know why she still thinks we'd help her with that though, mind control is off the table, and we're getting rid of her leverage over us right now so I don't know what gun she's going to point at us to make her cosmic anglerfish dreams come true.
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>>4715618
Pretty dumb of us in retrospect but then again, we got BB from talking to Uncle Nyarla so it's not all bad
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>>4715622
>Help me or I blow up the world, taking all your friends with me and leaving you alone in the cosmic void.
>t. Manaka, probably

>>4715623
That remains to be seen. I am still slightly nervous about leaving her alone with the girls.
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>>4715622
I'm 100% expecting some interlude where Akaya and Gilgamesh encounter Arthur and they fight over her
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>>4715629
BB is completely harmless, Uncle Nyarla clipped her wings and is on our side, she's just a bitchy version of Sakura
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>>4715632
Give her access to a computer with internet and let her shitpost
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>>4715632
she's chekhov's bitch though.
Shit will get real at which point Alan will authorize kino.
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>>4715635
>Give an insane superevil AI access to the internet, what could go wrong
Yeah, Skynet BB is just what we need right now.
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>>4715638
Who knows, he might do us a favor and give back some of her powers so we can deal with Orochi and Manaka on time
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>>4715640
It's skynet with BOOBA though which makes it better though
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Although mooncell adventure with just depowered BB would be interesting, as Shinji seems to absolutely hate her. She'd have to gradually regain her authority by progressing as she'd start useless and she'd be at the mercy of the remaining Sakura five.
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>>4715650
we don't hate her, we find her very fucking annoying.
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>>4715656
he was seething quite a bit when she tried using Sakura's appearance as a cover as he's quite protective of the real one
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>>4715650
Shinji was nasty with her because she looked down on him and tried to lie to Rin. He still has a soft spot for her because it's still a version of Sakura
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>>4715659
yes, quite annoyed.
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>>4715629
That also happens if we do help her though, so it still doesn't work.
She gets dogpiled and rekt along with the rest of reality if she succeeds so any attempt to threaten us is moot.
That being the case, it's strange that she's still pretending like the deal is still on when its become clear that she doesn't need us to ascend and we have no reason to assist her.
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>>4715673
Maybe we only know half the story
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>>4715673
>its become clear that she doesn't need us to ascend
Has it? We've seen speculation from others about this, but as you said it doesn't explain why she didn't burn the bridge entirely. I think she really does need us, for whatever reason. And perhaps our help is what will allow her to ascend without cracking open the world like an egg, for a true win-win in her eyes.
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The mirror. You're going to look at the mirror. This mirror calls to you. This mirror is something you want to look at. This mirror is something that will reveal the truth. This mirror will show a True self. This mirror isn't some portrait or model or plush caricature. This mirror is a reflection of your being. You must look into this mirror. This mirror demands your attention. This mirror demands your reflection. This mirror requires you look into it.

You look into the mirror, the strangeness in your head caused just by thinking about it disappearing as you do, at first, you can't see anything on the surface of the mirror, it reflects nothing but the room, seemingly ignoring you entirely, but then, then it seems to slowly begin to change. A glint of darkness appears in the center of the mirror, and you turn around, to make sure that it's not actually behind you. Of course, there's nothing.

There's nothing. There's nothing. There's nothing. There's nothing. There's nothing. There's nothing. There's nothing. There's nothing. There's nothing. There's nothing. There's nothing. There's nothing. There's nothing. There's nothing.

You turn back to look at the mirror, your head is pounding, strange voices call out to you, all around you. You freeze as you look into the mirror, a perfect image of yourself is standing there, his arms crossed, a smirk on his face. He's moving, yet he's not in the same position that you are. "Hello XXXXXXXX... Hmm? I guess I can't say that name even here. What a shame." The man in the mirror laughs. "Well, I suppose it's about time we met, isn't it? All this time and it's our first meeting, how are you enjoying yourself here, by the way? You've made quite an impact on the world around you, as I knew you would. Really, it wasn't a waste of my powers at all, to use my powers to ensnare one from a higher dimension such as yourself. Of course, it's a shame that I was incapable of getting the whole thing, but that's just the risk you run when it comes with dealing with upper multiversal beings like yourself." The man in the mirror seems to actually... lean against the side of the frame, as if there was physically something to lean on from within.

"Who... Who the hell are you?" Is this the being behind your transportation to your world?! Who could this be? God? Something else? Clearly not one of the Outer Gods, you're... not getting that feeling from this man at all, well, you say man but that's clearly not correct. This... being.
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"Come on, who do I look like? I'm you, obviously." The being in the mirror laughs. "Well, not quite, but for the sake of argument, lets say that I'm... a benefactor of yours, somebody who would wish to see you succeed." The being in the mirror chuckles. "Think of me as a guardian angel, preventing your mistakes through... well, let's not get into that." The being in the mirror smirks wryly to himself, and you find yourself alone in a void speaking to the mirror, the rest of the room disappearing around you. "It's strange, isn't it? That this world is so alike to the one you came from, with the sole difference being that the supernatural exists here? Of course, were you truly ever so aware that such things didn't exist within your own world? You may know this world exists in a layer of fiction, but the same may be true to an infinite degree." The being then frowns. "But you already knew that, I imagine you already came to the terms that even you may still exist only as 'fiction' in yet another of those layers."

"Yeah? So what? I'm still a damn sight realer than you, mirror man." You find yourself getting a little annoyed about this being sharing your own views with you, you had of course already considered that possibility, but you also know that even if that is the case, nothing actually changes. Hell, it just said itself that you were an 'upper multiversal being', so if that's not an admission that you were from another world beyond this one, then nothing is.

"Ha! That may just be the case, but do not forget that it was by my power that you were brought here, and even if I am naught but a facsimile of the original that exists in the realm beyond this one, that authority from the beyond has in some small part extended to this part of Him." Oh. So... "I imagine you've gotten a good notion of just what I represent now, Shinji." The being cuts you off. "I would appreciate that you didn't interact with the Outer Ones too much, as would... well, this timeline's Alaya... It's very fond of you, though as a result of that fondness, it has cut off its connection with the other timelines completely, causing... well I wouldn't want to reveal too much." The mirror around the being disappears, and the being taking your form is standing there. "Your failure is something that is intolerable to this multiverse, which is why I'm going to give you a choice. I shall answer any one question you might have, or I will grant you strength. Choose wisely." This being, who you're almost certain is God himself, is offering you something ridiculous!

>Question (What?)
>Strength.
>Write-in.
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>>4715685
Solomon moment
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Oh fuck
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>>4715685
Why don't you speak to us anymore
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>>4715685
hey whatis, can we use the same question trick we used with Alan?
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WhatIs, do we get Samson's luscious locks in seaweed form assuming we opt for strength?
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>>4715685
>>Strength.
honestly, what Manaka is planning, why we shouldn't interact with Outer Gods as much or what Alaya did, or why our failure is intolerable to this multiverse, we'll figure it ourselves. I also don't think we need to ask anything personal, who we really are, who they are, why we came here, why our benefactor brought us here and why we're here, those sorts of questions don't matter anymore, isekaibro isn't the person he used to be, he's Makiri Shinji, to try to move away from that means we stop being Makiri Shinji
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>>4715685
we cant even what strength, can we?
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>>4715694
Do you think he would like that?
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>>4715698
could you repeat that in english?
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>>4715685
>Write-in.
"I refuse, I've seen too many worlds fictional and non-fiction where accepting any help from a "God" lead to ones own downfall, a true god would want their subjects to overcome turmoil on their own. Did you appear to me now just to make a fool of me?"
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>>4715696
It's a mystery.
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>>4715701
i forgot the "ask"
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>>4715685
>Strength
It's either this, or asking for the route guide to make all the women in our life happy.
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Remember when you ask for God's stat buffs - Solomon, Samson etc. you become an empty jannie typically. All Solomon wanted was to live a human life after everything he went through.
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>>4715685
>>Strength.
Fuck it, Juice me up.
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>>4715708
Yeah, we should either ask a question or refuse his help entirely
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>>4715708
>>4715711
Never accept help from a "God" when they offer you an easy way out, true Gods want their subject to overcome turmoil on their own.
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>>4715685
>"i have one question"
>"For what reason did you bring me here into this "fictional" world"
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>>4715712
I think one answer, some advice would not be to our detriment but borrowed strength would definitely be. How's this, for example

>How will I reach the happy ending that I seek?
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>>4715712
>true Gods want their subject to overcome turmoil on their own.
Except you aren't technically his subject.
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I really want to see Alan's face when we tell him God talked to us.
Also i wonder if God's strenght would makes us unable to see alaya and anything lovecraft
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>>4715717
I've played enough SMT to know not trust gods offering free power ups, but I will compromise if a good question vote comes around.
>>4715715
What happy ending though, harem end? Britannia conquest end? That's really open ended.
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I'll call in an hour... or maybe sometime tomorrow.
This is a pretty uh... big vote.
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>>4715685
>Break the mirror with your fist and t-pose
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>>4715724
There is no mirror.
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>>4715721
Open ended by design, to leave him room to answer

>>4715723
Can you make it officially tomorrow? I'd like more time for us to decide.

>>4715725
Would you, in fact, say that "there's nothing"?
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>>4715723
call tomorrow
we need to think
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>>4715685
You may only have one or the other. Not both. As such it was a very VERY close tie for between asking who we end up marrying and getting stronger. In the end I decided that getting stronger is probably the better idea.....though I still want to know if we end up Marrying Medea or not.

Anyways
>Strength
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Reminder that herc told us not to accept any offer that somone divine gives us or they will destroy all that we hold dear.
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>>4715732
yeah, i prefer not accepting
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>>4715732
No arguing about accepting strength, but what could be the harm in just asking a question?

And thinking up alternative wording for my question: "How will I make everyone I care about happy?"
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>>4715732
>>4715737
WhatIs didn't like my grug response so maybe a polite decline would be preferable
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>>4715732
Yeah, I was initially leaning towards strength because these kind of information asks are always hard to wrangle but relying on someone else's power is a quick ticket to getting fucked 99% of the time.
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>>4715741
Your grug response wasn't possible.
The update specifically mentions the mirror disappearing.
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>>4715741
I will support a refusal if we can't come up with a question we can agree with. Anything is better than accepting strength.
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>>4715743
I speedread on occasion pls understandu
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>>4715743
>punch God
>"no thanks"
>T-pose
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>>4715739
I think a question would be fine but accepting the offer for strength is a bad idea.
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>>4715742
>relying on someone else's power is a quick ticket to getting fucked 99% of the time
Reminder that one of our original plans is to bleed out a dragon for power
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>>4715749
give him the jojo response

https://youtu.be/Cc7oi_D4WtI
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>>4715739
why not this then, "What can I do to make sure everyone I know and love is safe and happy?"

>>4715750
why are you worried about strength though? what can go wrong?
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>>4715755
Solomon doesn't exist anymore, God wants a new jannie
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>>4715739
>"How will I make everyone I care about happy?"
"How will I make everyone I care about now and in the future happy?"
or
"How do i end the current and future set of problems in a way that nobody that i care about or may care about dies?"
or
"are traps gay?"
>>4715755
>why are you worried about strength though? what can go wrong?
a lot
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>>4715751
Bleed out, not ask the dragon to grant us strength. Bleeding out god might not be feasible, but it would be preferable.

>>4715750
Any ideas? I'm leaning towards asking an open-ended question that will leave him room for some advice that will hopefully become relevant in the future at a critical moment.

>>4715755
I'd prefer "How do I" instead of "What can I do to", but it looks good anyway.
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>>4715760
>How do i end the current and future set of problems in a way that nobody that i care about or may care about dies?
Ok this one is actually good, we can deal with interpersonal relationships, knowing how to deal with the current threats and situations is a golden ticket

>a lot
name something specifically
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Actually seeing as Shinji is a chad virgin we could opt for the Galahad response. From Solomon's materials:

>"....someone who was granted by God "the chance to have his prayer fulfilled". Solomon had wished for wisdom, but Galahad had wished for nothing. Solomon questions "Why?" in regards of that matter, and bears a sense of inferiority that comes from his subconscious regret, thinking that "I should have done so."
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>>4715685
>Question: Nyarlathotep told me of a way to unleash my higher dimensional powers in full capacity. What can you possibly offer me that can be equally or more valuable than complete apotheosis?
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>>4715764
The man with infinite wisdom granted by God wished he said no after the fact.
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>>4715755
We already declined alaya's offer to be a janny we don't need to accept this guy's offer besides most of the gods we met in this quest are mostly fucked in the head.

>>4715761
No idea yet but i like your suggestion.
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>>4715769
ok you actually make a fair point, i'll give you that, I don't even want the power Uncle Nyarla is offering us either, i just want us to all agree on one question then and i think

>How do i end the current and future set of problems in a way that nobody that i care about or may care about dies?

Is a perfect one
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>>4715770
Being overly specific will screw us, I think. This is God, not a malicious genie (hopefully). Trying to nail him with rules-lawyering won't work. Alternative wording:

"How do I ensure that no one I care about, or will care about, dies in the next month?"

Time limit just because they might not want immortality. It should cover everything important. I still prefer something more open-ended about our final go though.
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>>4715773
ok your being way too pedantic with this, he's some type of high dimensional being, not a genie
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>>4715685
>Strength

Can't think of a question I would want to ask. At best ask what the cost of the strength option is but I feel he would mention that. Every time an mc asks for power in fate it usually comes with a warning of cost. In thinking since he hasn't give one the cost is purely the opportunity for answers
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>>4715777
>the cost is purely the opportunity for answers
Or it's a cost so terrible we wouldn't even hesitate to refuse if we knew.
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>>4715697
>>4715685
Switching to

>>How do I end the current and future set of problems and threats in a way that nobody that I care about or may care about dies?

This is the best question we came up with, i don't particularly mind getting strength since there really isn't a warning given like with what we got with Alaya, plus i don't want Orochi to keep killing servants who are bro material
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>>4715783
My point was that higher entities don't hide cost it's the stupid people who take the deal knowing the cost. This isn't him not mentioning it just because.

Think about it like this, if we think that he's hiding the cost that means we can't trust he's telling us the truth. He said he's our benefactor and wishes for us to win. So bobby trapping the deal makes no sense. Also if we think he's lying about that then any answer we get to the question we ask is suspect.
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>>4715831
he could get Rainbow Mystic Eyes
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>>4715831
>if we think that he's hiding the cost that means we can't trust he's telling us the truth
> said he's our benefactor and wishes for us to win
>bobby trapping the deal makes no sense
>if we think he's lying about that then any answer we get to the question we ask is suspect
Therefore as the paranoia logic dictates, anything and everything we could ask or want of this being will be ultimately pointless and a detriment, even though we can handle hardship and overcome our way past horrible things. In such a situation as this, overthinking is the enemy and fear is the mindkiller. Then the true path here, as with any situation like this, is to accept it and have faith?
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>>4715841
Faith is an integral belief for religions that follow God's systems so this is pretty good reasoning
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>>4715841
either accept it or ask a question that can help our current situation as we're up against mindfucked allies, Orochi and his gacha rolls and Manaka
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Fuck it, I'm half attempted to just accept the power just to see how screwed we'll get. We already befriended the likes of Nyarly that is suppose to mind rape and fuck up worlds. How bad can this choice get?
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>>4715852
half tempted*
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>A perfect world of my own creation.
The more I think about it the more I tend towards outright rejection.
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>>4715857
apparently this guy is saying that he's us
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>>4715859
>Really, it wasn't a waste of my powers at all, to use my powers to ensnare one from a higher dimension such as yourself. Of course, it's a shame that I was incapable of getting the whole thing, but that's just the risk you run when it comes with dealing with upper multiversal beings like yourself."

>"Come on, who do I look like? I'm you, obviously." The being in the mirror laughs. "Well, not quite, but for the sake of argument, lets say that I'm... a benefactor of yours, somebody who would wish to see you succeed." The being in the mirror chuckles. "Think of me as a guardian angel, preventing your mistakes through... well, let's not get into that."

He's not us. He can't even say our true name. He was saying that just because he looked like our reflection at the time.
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honestly i feel like we're overthinking this too much again, remember what happened with Shuten? Could've saved us a lot of time if we actually trusted her
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>>4715841
That's why I'm getting at. Most of the reasons to ask the question over taking power is paranoia. If there was another reason like info being better or being a self made man then I would understand but in this case I don't think there is strings attached.

I think we should go for power because it's the most flexible. He could give us answers but without power we won't be able to achieve it.

I've noticed people asking questions without wondering if the answer will be within Shinji's current means. Or how long the answer will be valid for.
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>>4715859
>>4715857

>This mirror will show a True self. This mirror isn't some portrait or model or plush caricature. This mirror is a reflection of your being.

The mirror initially showed nothing, then it gets hijacked so God can have a bit of a talk.

>"Come on, who do I look like? I'm you, obviously." The being in the mirror laughs. "Well, not quite, but for the sake of argument, lets say that I'm... a benefactor of yours, somebody who would wish to see you succeed."

>"Think of me as a guardian angel, preventing your mistakes through... well, let's not get into that."

Assuming we take them at their word, they actually do want us to succeed, and it's probably not tainted.

>but do not forget that it was by my power that you were brought here, and even if I am naught but a facsimile of the original that exists in the realm beyond this one, that authority from the beyond has in some small part extended to this part of Him." Oh. So... "I imagine you've gotten a good notion of just what I represent now, Shinji."

He also summoned us specifically, so we're already a jannie in a way. At this point it might be sensible to just accept the offer.

Honestly, I'm gonna just opt for unspecified power. It also gives WhatIs the most creative freedom with whatever he was going for here, as none of the write-ins tickle me the right way as of yet.
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>>4715685

Swapping >>4715724
to

>Strength

It's still a grug answer though.

Have Faith
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>>4715685
>>4715702
>Changing to:
>Power
Fuck it, once Nyarly gets his powers back he could probably reverse anything awful that happened to us, he's an entity that has conquered and changed many many worlds in the past. Best outcome could be wanpaning Orochi and/or Manaka right?
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>>4715871
I think we should listen to this higher being and not deal with Outer Gods unless we absolutely must, I mean, for fucks sake, they're fucking Outer Gods
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>>4715871
>>4715685
I meant:
>Strength
Whoops. I think there's a majority vote now if you're still around and willing to write.
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>>4715867
>asking questions without wondering if the answer will be within Shinji's current means. Or how long the answer will be valid for
Even more paranoia
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>>4715867
Paranoia is why I was against strength at first, but being a self-made man is what I was getting at here >>4715857
>I've noticed people asking questions without wondering if the answer will be within Shinji's current means. Or how long the answer will be valid for.
If you don't trust him to give us a useful answer, given that God is supposedly omniscient, how can you possibly trust him to empower us?


Our Aria, for reference.

>I am truth given form.
>I look upon the falsehoods of reality.
>An infinity of lies.
>Blind to the beyond.
>I shall guide the way.
>A perfect world of my own creation.

And what Alan said about God:

>"The Authority to create life, of course. There's only one being in all of existence with the capacity to match Azathoth in that regard... You might call him God. Despite his... hands off approach in regards to the infinite worlds he formed out of the primordial energy of my Father and preference to act through mortal agents, he is quite problematic for beings like myself. A full conflict between the Outer Gods and the being that you mortals call God, YHWH or Allah would almost certainly awaken Azathoth and erase all of creation." Alan's voice is serious as he mentions that. The fact that God truly exists shouldn't really be too surprising to you, you already knew he probably had to have existed, seeing as all these other deities exist.

>"Then... Are you saying that... God wasn't a creation of Azathoth?" It makes at least some sort of sense, and it gives you at least some comfort in knowing that despite everything, all of existence isn't actually just just some toy box of eldritch beings of incalculable power. That out there somewhere there may exist an ultimate force of benevolence and good. God may in fact be the one being capable of giving you an explanation of how you actually came here.

>"That's... One of the few things that I don't know." Alan shrugs again. "'God' predates my existence. He may predate Azathoth, or Azathoth may predate it. It could even be that the two existences came into being at the same time, who can say? You'd have to ask my father, or God himself, and trust me, neither are very talkative!" Alan laughs. "But as I was saying, this world was formed out of Azathoth's authority. Which means that everything you see here is very much real, perfect recreations of everything Elizabeth remembered from her life, complete with minds and souls. The Unrestricted Creation of Life, a creation Authority surpassing that of an Earth Mother Goddess by dozens of orders of magnitude." He's... He's kidding, right!?


>>4715873
That at least I agree with.
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i feel like strength is a bad idea.
but it seems to be a lost cause.
let's hope.
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The answer to overthinking and paranoia is Grug.

Occam's razor and pic related.
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Also would be funny if this being wasnt God, but someone just faking being God.
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>>4715889
I think that its obviously a false God. I'm just picking the Strength choice just to see how much this fucks us up. I'm also okay with being proven wrong though, there is a possibility that this is a good choice.
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>>4715685
>Strength
Sometimes in life, one must have faith and trust instead of paranoia. Accepting one's fate, and acknowledging the influence of actions that exist outside one's own capacity and freedom to enable or control. Despite this, you still have power and influence and choice. There's things at work in life that you can't completely know how or why or whatever about, but just because you don't know doesn't mean they're not any less important or extant or valid. That's one reason why atheism, materialism, nihilism, Nietzschian ideology, and all other manners of cope that are popular in the era we live in right now fail regarding these things. That's one reason why those that adhere to them so strongly cannot comprehend this Truth in life.

In short, one must be open-minded yet resolute in one's affairs.
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>>4715884
I prefer talking to alan than this "god" that is way too mysterious.
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>>4715892
My rereading from the start this weekend has uncovered some interesting tidbits, like the crane game being our high jump or the fact that Sun Wukong killed us once. Picrel MIGHT be relevant here. Or I might be too paranoid again. But I firmly believe getting strength is a bad idea.
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>>4715895
Alan despite being a cocky, psueo-intellectual smug ass is actually pretty likable. He's helped us a whole heck of a lot despite starting off by seemingly "antagonizing" us, Maybe he's a tsundere?
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Didn't we sorta route lock ourselves when we kissed Medea? There was no way to explain away why we kissed Medea in this situation, we did it to quell her jealousy so its purely for romantic reasons

>>4715892
There's a bigger chance this is good, there are no hints to point to this guy being untrustworthy

>>4715895
Alan is an Outer God are you insane, literally go read a cliff notes version of what Lovecraftian Gods are and what they do, they're the most untrustworthy and horrible Gods of them all

>>4715898
Zelretch is basically a friend of ours and pissing him off would basically mean we purposely become a threat to humanity. Another method would be something like failing against Manaka
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>>4715898
yeah, i prefer not doing any deals with any god.
Same reason we didnt do a deal with the world.
In this case we don't even know anything about said power
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>>4715907
>Alan is an Outer God are you insane, literally go read a cliff notes version of what Lovecraftian Gods are and what they do, they're the most untrustworthy and horrible Gods of them all
And a god that we know jack shit about is better? The fuck
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>>4715898
Someone said the crane was our high jump right after it happened iirc, not much of a discovery
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>>4715907
>There was no way to explain away why we kissed Medea in this situation, we did it to quell her jealousy so its purely for romantic reasons
Equilibrium, every girl gets roughly the same things from us.
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>>4715917
thats how you get stabbed, so yeah, lets do it
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>>4715915
I literally just read those threads in the past couple days, and I didn't notice anyone bringing it up. It's certainly possible I missed it, though.
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>>4715919
i feel we will get stabbed anyway
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>>4715917
also that means we should kiss sakura and Sacchin when they get back.
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>>4715884
What I was getting at was if the question won the vote we make it clear. The questions I have seen are so open ended that it can have multiple answers to it. Even when Shinji does something it's multiple choice why wouldn't open ended questions be the same.
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>>4715926
Sakura and Sacchin are the absolute worst love interests to do that sort of things with, they're both fucking crazy obsessed with us and feel like they already have us, kissing them would just completely embolden them, so yeah we should 100% do this
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I really want to ask him
>"are you really the one that the faithful call yhwh, allah, God, among other names? The true christian God?"
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>>4715933
you could just asked "who are you specifically" instead, that question is a yes or no with no answer to who they really are
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Also there is that theory that the god of the old testament and the one from the new testament are different gods.
>>4715936
I know, i just want to know if he is, the question isnt to know what he is, only if he is God.
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>>4715928
But that's exactly why an open ended question is the best one we could ask. If it's really the benevolent all-knowing god, then it gives him the most freedom to provide a useful answer. If he's not, the answer will be useless and we'll have gained or lost nothing. And in either case, ultimate success or failure will be of our own creation, not of his strength.
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>>4715908
Nah that wasn't the reason we didn't make a deal with Alaya. The reason was the power was conditional and useless since we can get unlimited Mana.

My only problem is in what form this strength comes in. Physical, magical, mental, knowledge,traits, etc. He could be dickish and give us something really powerful but not immediately useful and needs training to use. I hope he isn't dickish.
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>>4715922
Actually, I wasn't remembering correctly, it was BEFORE the crane game that it was said it would be like that.
It's funny how Shinji gave up on the game just before succeding, it's like how we keep getting rewarded for things we didn't intend to, some retroactive foreshadowing.
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>>4715685
>Strength
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>>4715944
the problem is that we dont and cant know if this power comes with any conditions, fuck.
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>>4715942
Actually it also gives him the most freedom to screw Shinji over if he is a bad god. It could also be that due to Shinji not meeting certain conditions like power he can't reach the best end.

Either way if you can't trust him to give us power you can't trust him to not give an answer that won't screw us without is noticing.
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>>4715945
Huh, you're right. There was one guy who predicted it. Still, no one brought it up again so I assume no one else noticed or payed attention to it.

>>4715954
How? Knowledge by itself can't possibly screw us over. It's what we do with it that matters. And we'll be able to discuss whether we found his answer satisfactory, what it meant, and what we should do with it. And we would be relying on our own power to succeed with it.

Strength is irrevocable. And if you trust him to give us strength, you should trust him even more to give us a good piece of advice.
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>>4715957
Knowledge can screw us over by setting off a completely different set of dominos or causing mistakes we wouldn't otherwise have done. That's why information warfare exists. Hell even within the story Manaka is doing it with her distractions and Shinji is doing it using his knowledge of canon.
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>>4715685
>Thank you, but I wish for nothing
I think this is the next best thing since apparently there's not a consensus question forming. My reasons: Solomon, the wisest man in the world wished he'd have given this answer when placed in this exact situation, like Galahad did. I am not entirely sure this is the real benevolent God, though I admit I am far from certain he is not. But in either case, while I think his advice might have been useful, I am certain we don't need his strength. Remember, "A perfect world of my own creation."
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>>4715966
I respect that, even if it makes things harder it does sidestep any issues that come from information or power.

I'll still go with strength because it's versatile. Considering we won't be able to power up in the time allotted.

If anything the question should be what is Manaka distracting us from or what is Alan's plan? I don't trust that Alan isn't using Manaka as a distraction even If he's telling the truth about it. Also if Manaka is going to be god in a week why would she need a distraction? She's only need to buy time. Maybe someone or the MC have done something that spooked her?
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>>4715978
Merlin's clairvoyance gives him the ability to see everything happening in the present. We don't need to ask God for an answer that we can get from an enemy of my enemy style ally. Remember Manaka specified Merlin as an enemy right up the top of the list, before even Gilgamesh.
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>>4715964
I don't think he's actually malicious though.
God wasn't malicious to Samson or Solomon, but the power he gave them came with restrictions and responsibilities.
This could be a good opportunity to learn something, but if we really don't have anything it would be good to know in the long term, we can always use this opportunity to figure out something about Manaka's plan, or learn something about the metaplot.
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>>4715983
Manaka can block stuff like that as seen by Gil. I wouldn't bet on even Merlin knowing jack squat about whatever Manaka is doing. Also Merlin is an ass that may save the world but he isn't above manipulation and screwing over someone to do it. He will likely make sure Saber is ok but everyone not related to her happiness are fair prey.
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>>4715984
The thing is he would have mentioned any obligations like the examples you have pointed out. Otherwise it's pointless because Shinji could just suicide or make deals with his enemies just to screw him. Alan exists right next door. Shinji isn't Emiya he can find a way.
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>>4715999
Merlin is actually a pretty good guy through all of FGO Part 1. Assuming this is God, and he's summoned us here as we're integral to fixing things, that makes Shinji as important as Mashu and camera-kun and so he'll actively protect us come the need. The worst thing he does is bait roman as a v-tuber, fuck Urukian prostitutes constantly and eat people's dreams.

Merlin must be a threat to her as she's not only aware of him but listed him very high up the list, literally right after Shinji himself and above Nyarly.

>These enemies are Shinji Makiri, Merlin, Alan Y.T. Thor-'

Merlin is a big deal here.
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>>4716005
He's also currently Grand Caster, so if we weren't here he's the pillar the planet would lean on to fix the threat.
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Is anyone going to acknowledge that Alaya abandoned every other timeline but ours?
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>>4716030
woman moment
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>>4716030
Maybe alaya is another yandere.
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>>4716030
God said this timeline's Alaya does that mean that there are multiple?
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>>4716035
there are multiple, Nasuverse timelines work like trees, each with a set amount of possibilities on each root, Prisma Illya is one tree, FSN is another and isekai route is this one
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Hell, 'Strength' might not even be a buff for us, he could do something like send JC down as an allied Servant or idk
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>>4716044
Grand Saber (True), he's even a white haired anime character in Revelations:

>one like a son of man, clothed with a long robe and with a golden sash around his chest. 14 The hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire, 15 his feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the roar of many waters. 16 In his right hand he held seven stars, from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining in full strength.

Default "strength" gives WhatIs more narrative flexibility. It could be an item, power, or even information, as knowledge is power.
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>>4716046
>Default "strength" gives WhatIs more narrative flexibility. It could be an item, power, or even information, as knowledge is power.
>"Okay, so if you want to date all the girls, you have to..."
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>>4716050
That's genuinely helpful though. God's wisdom did walk Solomon through managing his several hundred strong harem despite how autistic he is. Fate/ canon describes Solomon as a man who is utterly incapable of reading a room.
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>>4716051
I'd attribute that to being because he was emotionally disconnected for a looooong time thanks to his god-given precognition. He knew what the situation was, but since he knew what would happen already, he just went with it.
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>>4716051
That's probably the best thing we could ask, as it helps us solve a long term problem that's debatably more dangerous than the people currently trying to end the world.
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>>4716051
And yet Solomon regreted it. I wasn't even aware of this before you posted >>4715764.
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>>4716065
Huh, my id changed. I am >>4715966.
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>>4716065
It's the more sensible option, but no one besides yourself and one other seemed to care. Which is why I just grugged the strength option to continue the story.
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>>4716051
All jokes aside would be great if god told us how our harem problem.
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>>4716030
Thats pretty hot. Alaya has never had a being on her level fall in love with her as a concept, and so the first time she gets attention from a man she falls head over heels. She is the biggest cuquean having to live her desires of love, affection and sexual fullfillment through other lifeforms but never actually being touched herself. I don't blame her for abandoning everything for us. We should totally deflower Alaya and ourselves first and foremost.

Pic unrelated to Alaya but also displays a cucquean that had to wait several hundred years just to lose her virginity to an underaged Japanese kid.
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>>4716069
If you think something is the sensible option, then it shouldn't matter what others think. You should refuse to move, even if you're alone against the world.
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>>4716079
Asking for nothing is risking nothing and gaining nothing. Accepting the offer has an upside guaranteed, even if it comes at a risk.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
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>>4716034
Good. Makes it even better. Since Alaya is all life, technically waifuing her IS the harem end.
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>Question (What?)
>How can I make the women in my life happy with me and eachother?
There it is: Strength or Love, which will it be?
The Truth of the world starts now.
Are you ready to meet God?
Heaven or Hell, lets rock!
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>>4716083
If you want to think of it like this, Alaya gave us her blessing even after we rejected her offer, and Alan gave us Medea and BB even after we rejected his. If you really think we need his strength then yeah, that's what you should vote for. But do you really think the grug option, as you put it, is the best one?
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>>4716090
Why not "How can I make the people in my life (or "the people that I care about") happy"?
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>>4716106
More focused around what we're actually going to end up having trouble with.
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>>4716096
Slightly different circumstances here. Both of those offered a deal that we know has really bad consequences. Alaya makes you a mindless jannie for eternity, and Nyarly's whole deal is tricking goyim into awful deals for his own amusement. This entity s simply offering a gift. Also, from what we're assuming is God's own words:

>but do not forget that it was by my power that you were brought here, and even if I am naught but a facsimile of the original that exists in the realm beyond this one, that authority from the beyond has in some small part extended to this part of Him

He's an aspect of a higher entity like Shinji, and is the one who actually bought Shinji here. The reason he may have been able to appear in the mirror of all things is that he is the closest being to ourselves. Also, we may have already paid our price by our actions over the story for this, and it's a reward of sorts.

Honestly these scenarios are the worst for me, I usually don't even vote on them because you can use mental gymnastics to justify almost any response with valid points. It's all in WhatIs' head, I trust him as a writer and a vague option like strength gives him a lot more creative freedom than a limited scope question write in and between outright refusal and accepting a gift, I'll take the mystery box.

Thinking we'll get something free specifically because we're refusing, in some round about cake and eat it scenario doesn't go over well with God. You'd have to genuinely want and expect nothing in return for refusing the request.
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>>4716111
I would refuse simply because we refused the world and the foreigner god.
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>>4715685
Strength
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>>4715685
>Strength.
I suppose I could ask him about why is Tsukihime remake like that but it is pointless.
>I would appreciate that you didn't interact with the Outer Ones too much, as would... well, this timeline's Alaya
It is not strongarming us to cut ties with anyone but to keep parity. Which is understandable given it seems to care about wellbeing of this reality.
We are already using its power but this full formalise the deal.
>Of course, it's a shame that I was incapable of getting the whole thing, but that's just the risk you run when it comes with dealing with upper multiversal beings like yourself.
And we were never interested to go back so his worst fear is not coming to pass.
Even if this choice anchors us to this specific timeline it is still a good deal because between getting everything here in order or visiting Awakening, I am sure as hell not picking latter.
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>>4716111
Alaya offered far more generous terms than being the typical angry jannie, and Alan offered a gift as well. We refused because of who he is. I don't see the situations as too dissimilar.

He's not framing this as a reward, but as help we'll need to solve our problems. I don't think we need it.

I think an open-ended question gives the most creative freedom to the QM to provide us with a cryptic answer that will become relevant at a critical moment.

And naturally, the eat your cake too scenario is not going to work. Which I said you should vote for strength if you really think we'll need it, and why I'm mostly focusing on the fact that "A perfect world of my own creation" and "I need God's strength" are not entirely compatible.
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Can we please reject this power? I have a bad feeling about this
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>>4716140
I want to, but the overwhelming majority wants free gibs so changing my vote is useless.
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>>4716149
Even if we end up in the minority, voting what your conscience tells you is never a waste. Who knows, there may be others thinking the same thing.

>>4716140
My dude, I don't see you as having voted for a rejection.
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>>4716140
>>4716149
>>4716155
There was no write in I was happy with which is why I opted for Strength. So I've given it a go myself.

We'll see what the audience thinks.
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>>4715685

>"Assuming you are the One True God, I'll have to decline your offer unfortunately. I know all too well of the regrets Solomon held for accepting your blessings even with your infinite wisdom guiding him. Enough so that he willingly discarded it all for a mediocre human existence in a timeline where he was given the opportunity for a normal life. If I may ask however, what path can I take from this moment on will ensure that those I care for will live a long, enjoyable life and will safely navigate through the trials that are currently and will in future befall us?"

Here's a write in, changing from my earlier options yet again here >>4715870 and >>4715724

tfw when you delete your post to correct a typo only to not tag the original post and copypaste the (you)s, retard moment.
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>>4716171
>>4716169
>>4716159
woah
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>>4716183
don't mind me shitting up the thread with self jannie work attempting to correct a single typo
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>>4715685
Switching >>4715966 to support >>4716171
Here goes nothing.
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>>4715685
>>4716171
Support.
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>>4715685
change my vote from >>4715714 to
>>4716171
Please guys, lets not accept the power.
Please.
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>>4716171
Support
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>>4715685
>Strength
Cuz' you guys are autists
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>>4715685
>>4716090
switching to >>4716171
as it fits better with how we've dealt with things so far
It's kind of funny, there's a tradition in Japan where you're supposed to refuse a gift three times, and this is the third time a godly entity has offered us power.
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>>4716171
+1
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>>4716260
>there's a tradition in Japan where you're supposed to refuse a gift three times, and this is the third time a godly entity has offered us power.
Sooo next time a god-like entity offers us power we should accept it? (assuming said entity isn't a dickbag)
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>>4716280
>Accept Amaterasu's offer to pet the fluffy tails
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>>4716284
As we should
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>>4716284
Finally a boon worth cucking for.
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>>4716280
dark lord ending with Manaka and leashed Medea
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>>4716333
I think Medea prefers to hold the leash generally.
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>>4716403
impeccable timing for more food on the plate as always
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>>4716403
nothing headpat or two will not fix
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Why don't you trust God, anons?
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>>4716416
in the quest or in my life?
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>>4716416
i do trust your selfinsert character and his offer to lower the difficulty
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>>4716403
i want to slap her tits
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>>4716403
Fuck, I knew we shouldn't have trusted her. If she's done something to the girls I swear to god I'll -oh, wait.

>>4716416
We felt a compulsion to look into a mirror. We had a minor breakdown when we did. This whole conversation feels more like talking to the Big Bad.
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mr demi-fiend
one more god rejected
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>>4715685
>>4716171
Support
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>>4715685
Strength
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>>4715685
>Strength.
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>>4716416
his son's more chill
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>>4716457
it will be demi servant Jesus in Ciel's body you know that?
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>>4716460
Or maybe in our body?
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>>4716462
no we will get Judas
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>>4716469
with our luck we may get lucifer
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>>4716470
Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name
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>>4715685
>>4716171
Support
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>>4715685
>Strength
Come on guys, it's God.
Pretty sure he's not gonna fuck us.
What could he gain from fucking us?
Unless this is Lucifer.
We could ask him why he brought us here but who cares?
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Why would God take so long to show up?
Also, what a dipshit, if he showed us as a loli players would already be simping for him.
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>>4716521
>not gonna fuck us
thats the problem
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>>4716526
The time and the way of his appearance are good reasons to doubt him, don't you think?
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>>4716526
>if he showed us as a loli
>loli
Shinji-chan
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>>4716529
Uh huh.
>>4716533
Unless he's secretly plotting to possess us or something I don't think we have good cause to doubt him. He's probably offering us a chance to avoid perma dead ending desu.
>>4716534
We can experiment with the Kaleidostick later.
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>>4716539
He's awfully vague about what exactly what it is he's offering. We have only his word to go by regarding his motives. And what happened before and when we looked at the mirror is straight out of a horror movie. Is this really how a benevolent all-powerful god would appear to offer his help? And even if it is, do we really need his help? "A perfect world of my own creation", not "A perfect world of God's creation".
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>>4716544
Maybe we're God and this mirror is a reflection of our inner self.
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>>4716545
That is definitely not true. He can't say our true name and he claims we are a higher being he snatched through the use of his powers, and that this was worth it. No matter what you think of him, whether you trust him or not, it is clear he is not us.
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>>4716544
>And what happened before and when we looked at the mirror is straight out of a horror movie. Is this really how a benevolent all-powerful god would appear to offer his help?
thats just christian god
he is terrifying
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>>4716551
The Old Testament god is terrifying. He mellowed out significantly in the New Testament. And even in the Old Testament he never appeared like this. It was all burning bushes and booming voices from the heavens. Not... this.
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>>4716551
>>4716544

Pic related, but the darkness welling up in the mirror was potentially quite ominous.

However he is apparently responsible for IsekaiShinji being here. Still unsure why but honestly the why is rather irrelevant. In one of WhatIs' recent updates he even said the reason doesn't matter anymore, he lives here now.
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>>4716544
>benevolent
So he's not benevolent because his choice of entry?
He specifically said he's been helping out behind the scenes.
Mr Burning Bush decides he wants to be eccentric what a surprise.
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Ok so what if the mirror was supposed to show our true self, but as a result of us being what we are being impossible to replicate, it showed us the closest thing to us instead. God.
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>>4716560

>>4716111
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>>4716563
I guess we had the same thought.
>>4716553
>biblically accurate angels
Reddit Moment.
It's only in one book and only one class of angels that look like that.
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>>4716567
It was the first non doge meme that popped up on google conveying the abstract forms God and his messengers appear as.

The revelations passage I posted earlier describes JC in the second coming as having polished bronze skin and sword protruding from his mouth with white anime hair.
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>>4716569
>second coming
of Shinji, brother of Christ
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>>4716569
Archer is Jesus?
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>>4716553
Not just the darkness. I find the whole sequence of "Compulsion to look into the mirror - darkness welling up - minor breakdown - our reflection starts talking back" extremely ominous.

I agree the most important thing is what we do to improve the world we live in, but the why is not entirely unimportant. It may tell us if he is trustworthy and if his goal is truly the same as ours.

>>4716554
If you were God and you wanted to appear before someone to offer your help, is this how you'd do it? Because I'd pick something far less ominous. Something like appearing on a plain of rolling grass with a light breeze and birds chirping, in the form of a gentle grandpa or something.

He is free to keep helping of his own in the background, if he wants. At least until we are given reason to reject even that. But accepting more overt help is a step too far imho, both in the "i don't trust him" sense and in the "we should do this on our own, without his extra help" sense.
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>>4716571
and Enhance's long lost older brother

But no joke, here's the passage:

>>4716046
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>>4716571
Origin Nameless is really similar to Revelations Christ too. Has the gold sash motif
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>>4716572
>mfw he's just waiting to pull a Jacob and visit us later saying 1v1 Bajiquan me fgt
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>>4716572
>If you were God and you wanted to appear before someone to offer your help, is this how you'd do it?
yep no reason to hide yourself among friends
if I were evil god i would appear very nice and very convenient
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>>4716578
Shinji's Limbs EX soon
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>>4716580
Yes.
Just like Alan did.
I wonder if we'll get a choice of power-ups from picking Strength.
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>>4716580
>yep no reason to hide yourself among friends
Yet he is still hiding himself. Or do you think his true form is a reflection of Shinji?
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>>4716582
Full body Imagine Breaker that also somehow still allows consensual magic like servant contracts, telepathy with allies etc. would be pretty up there and is just an extension of Truth in a permanently active way. Some kind of passive denial filter does read like a Beast Nega authority skill though.
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>>4716583
his true form is impossible here just like ours so Shinji is the closest thing to it
>>4716582
big Nyarl was alright
Alan likes to fuck around too in my view
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Jesus is Lord
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>>4716587
>his true form is impossible here just like ours so Shinji is the closest thing to it
So, intentionally or not, he did hide himself even among friends.
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>>4715685
recinding my vote in >>4715893 and backing >>4716171
if I was correct and paranoia is the real enemy here, then that'll help me too
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>>4716591
so did Shinji
why are you hiding that true name, bud?
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>>4716593
He says HE snatched us from an upper dimension. He initiated contact here in a manner of his own choosing. He is offering a choice. Shinji has nothing to prove here, the onus is on him.
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>>4716416
>>4716416
>Why don't you trust God, anons?
Getting power from ywvh doesn't really help you in the long term.
Most of those guys are killed horribly or end up wishing they never bothered with it.
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>>4716599
guy has even less direct human interactions than Alaya give him a break
and most humans he interacted with are chumps like solomon
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>>4716604
And we were thinking of asking him for relationship advice...
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>>4716604
I wonder what Moses' brain damage was?

Samson is basically jewish hulk and Solomon was a proper autist.

God did often speak to prophets in strange dreams though.
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>>4716607
I mean He speaks through a donkey in Numbers 22. Maybe God is also a complete sped and human conventions are an evolved product of free will, which makes it a bit hard to "get it" as an omniscient omnipotent being
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Just realized we're really missing out on a once in a lifetime opportunity.
>headpat God
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>>4716611
Support
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>>4716611
sure
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>>4716611
Headpats are for our daughters and our daughters only.
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>>4716616
It's time to adopt God.
It can take any form.
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>>4716617
the dreaded 4th daugther
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>>4716618
The mightiest of all of Shinji's daughters.
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>>4716611
+1
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>>4716611
Black people.
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>>4716622
N
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>>4716622
What's your problem?
Don't want to headpat God?
We'll get this fucker to take the form of a loli whether he wants to or not.
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>>4716623
I
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>>4716623
U
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>>4716622
Black Pharaoh and BBhotep
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>>4716118
Changing to >>4716171
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>>4716611
Why not hug god as well alaya seemed to like hugs.
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>>4716632
Our hugs are only for wamyn anon.
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>>4716632
I don't want Alaya to think we ditched her the moment we found someone more powerful. It'll break her heart.
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>>4716633
Alan gets highfive
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>>4716635
Hugs can be between men, no homo.
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>>4716637
Have we ever hugged our best pal Shirou?
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>>4716637
mr Brezhnev?
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>>4716635
Alaya needs to be bullied a little bit, she did abandon her duties in other timelines and dimensions because we hugged her ONCE. That's grade A simping.
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>>4716521
>>4715685
My ID has changed but I'll switch to this, still think Strength would be good but am just a little concerned by possible janny consequences.
>>4716171
Also headpat too.

Tallying this will be hell for QM.
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>>4716639
People in the earlier threads wanted Shinji to suck Shirou's cock so bad, it was pathetic. Bros before hoes, but never bros no hoes.
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>>4716642
The way I understood it, each timeline gets its own Alaya and they're all connected somehow, except this Alaya broke off this connection for... reasons. The other timelines still have their own Alayas, I think.

>>4716645
Early discussions had all kinds of oddities. People who wanted us to stay a background character and work to support Shirou, those who wanted to throw him to the wolves, etc. I wonder what happened to these guys.
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>>4716647
Probably rage quitted because the Kerry/Shirou stuff was sidelined until endgame.
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>>4716647
we became waifu fags as the harem swelled the temptation of sweet, sweet puss making us lose all our higher functions, also Mordred best girl
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>>4716645
I want it on the record that if we ever get stuck as Kaleido-Amethyst-chan we're joining his harem OK?
>>4716642
Yeah our Alaya is rogue.
Could be why Merlin is here actually.
If our Alaya has gone rogue he might be here to kill it.
Might be why he's got Olga as his Master too. He might be planning on turning her into the Alien God.
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>>4716650
Oh, right. I briefly forgot the clusterfuck about flying to Europe to help him break into the Einzberns.

>>4716651
>Mordred best girl
Them's fighting works. Sakura best girl. Mordred is 3rd, behind Medea, at best.
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>>4716651
I'm tempted to say you're correct because the person I would hate hurting the most is Mordred because we're her first crush ever, she has never dealt with heartbreak before and she has been rejected and used as a pawn by everyone she considered her family from the moment she was born. We are the closest thing to a REAL friend and potiential lover for her, she would always remmeber us years, and years even after she claimed to have "moved on".
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>>4716652
loyalty to Alaya
death to m*rlin
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>>4716652
He's gonna give Olga a futa cock isn't he?
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>>4716654
It's the same story with Arc, Sakura and Satsuki though.
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>>4716656
Why do we even hate Merlin so much? He's a kooky dickish old wizard, but is he so much worse than, say, Nyarlathotep the Crawling Chaos?
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>>4716654
>>4716658
its the same story for Alaya
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>>4716657
He better not mess with our 6th daughter like that.
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>>4716611
Hug him, too. Thank for opportunity to be in this beautiful world with people like Medea, Sakura, Sacchin, Arc, Shirou and all the others.

>>4716588
Amen.
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>>4716664
I'm okay with waifuing Alaya though because that is the true harem end.
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>>4716663
Merlin is a half-demon and an Evil of Humanity.
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>>4716663
Futa cock and was too dumb to pick the one girl who could banish him to the shadow realm,
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>>4716654
Think about it like this, Her mother manipulated her, her 'father' never believed in her. but thousands of years after the fact some guy she barely knows walks in like the second coming of merlin himself and makes her wish come true. something that the grail would have never done without twisting it to cause the most human suffering
>>4716657
Personally if he likes chicks with dicks so much why doesn't he become one himself? dude's got issues
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>>4716672
I wonder what fem!Merlin did to Proto Arthur, give him a pussy or womb or something?
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>>4716672
Don't give him ideas.
The harem is a big enough mess without Proto Merlin with Canon Merlin's personality joining in after we beat him.
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>>4716677
QM did imply that Merlin would have fell in love with Shinji-chan on the spot. I wouldn't be surprised if he gender-swaps himself into Proto Merlin just to get kissy time with Shinji.
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>>4716676
full male preg
its merlin we talking about
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>>4716679
I knew it, so Proto Merlin is a fujoshi. Proto Morgan must have mpregged his own brother, yikes.
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>>4716676
>>4716679
Fem Merlin is far more balanced as a person than Memelin is.
Guin was still female in Proto too.
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>>4716679
Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if fem merlin was a full on fujo and they eat shit like mpreg up
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>>4716677
Maybe we could use Merlin to our advantage, having a grand caster on our side would be a boon and it would let us be closer to Olga as well
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>>4716688
I'm not saying wife him, but maybe at least have him as an ally?
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If we were to assume Merlin's legends still apply to Proto, Girlin is probably a raging lesbian.
Or at least is bi.
Like Rin.
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>>4716697
Guys I think I just realized something horrible...Merlin has omniscience limited to present events right? if so he already saw when we turned into shinji chan, we fuked up
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>>4716701
You're just realizing now?
Whatis basically told us that Merlin saw right after that scene.
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>>4716701
He was probably using advanced undetectable scrying on us. I think QM even mentioned that he SAW Shinji-chan henshin. He would be the #1 onlyfans contributor to Shinji-chan atm.
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>>4716703
So how screwed are we?
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>>4716171
Changing to this. Probably the safer option
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>>4716705
"Become meguca with big booba or me no joina"
- Melin probably
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>>4716705
We got the Spear of Longinus specifically for this, we'll tear him a new one if he tries anything funny.
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>>4716709
In before merlin interrupt a fight screaming at the top of his lungs for his waifu
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>>4716710
tear him a new one...are you sure that's a good Idea? what if he likes...getting penetrated
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>>4716710
Ciel might not let us use her cool spear, we keep getting into kiss fights in front if her
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Despite being who he is, Merlin is very much business before pleasure.
It's probably best we found out why he's here and being practically hostile to us before we offer him a Kaleido-Amethyst titjob.
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>>4716719
well we just need to get her secluded and...
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>>4716720
Dude I'm pretty sure none of us want to do that in fact none of us actually mentioned that...how funny!
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>>4716723
...threaten to rape her?
It's what Shiki would do.
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>>4716724
It was hyperbole.
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>>4716719
We should have thought of that before we played Casanova and caused almost every woman we've met fall in love with us. Monica did warn us it wouldn't end well, once upon a time. Though dicking by Merlin is probably not what she had in mind.
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>>4716725
Speaking of which, when is Shiki going to do that to somebody?
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>>4716725
No! headpat and tease!
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>>4716729
the maids, anon
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>>4716729
Probably when he's secluded at night with Aoko for some twisted sex play.
Sorry Akiha.
I hope she doesn't mind sharing.
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>>4716729
Nah, Aoko's ara-ara big oneesan booba energy is keeping him submissive for now. Aoko defintly tops.
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>>4716735
She very much does.
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>>4716735
Akiha lost the moment Aoko took Shiki away from Misaki town. Its Aoko route locked now.
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>>4716735
Akiha still has SHIKI so if she wants some full blooded incest there's an option.
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>>4716739
Too bad.
She's getting mogged by Aoko.
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>>4716733
He's here in Fuyuki with us. The maids are back with Akiha in Misaki.
>>4716735
This is the more likely event.
>>4716737
Sounds good.


All our allies know we have one week tops before everything ends. If our allies aren't going to try to get laid at least once before then, this will be the most unrealistic quest based on an eroge I'll have ever read, and WhatIs will be supreme hack.
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>>4716729
The maids and his sister, he's doing ok
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>>4716727
I think most people would either want a titjob from girlin or at least for merlin to not screw us over, I don't think shinji would enjoy servicing merlin like that, we haven't exactly gone over what sort of kinks he has but I think he's straight
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>>4716747
Being into dickgirls makes you gay, anon.
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>>4716747
>I think he's straight
>I think
How come you're not sure?
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>>4716747
Bruh I ain't talkin bout the dickgirls, I'm talking about how Shinji surrounds himself with 10/10 booba and vagene and is still a virgin
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>>4716747
So far, Shiji has only shown interest in girls and genderless beings that can become girls, and I doubt that will change.
>>4716755
He has the fear of toppling the waifu pyramid and the end of the world to justify not dressing it.
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>>4716755
Fear of getting stabbed does that to a person
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>>4716760
we need to genuinely commit to someone or else monica will badend us
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Jesus this vote turned into a mess.
Give me like thirty minutes to do some stuff and I'll start tallying.
Unless somebody would like to tally for me.
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>>4716755
*addressing it
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>>4716755
Shinji should volcel his way after the war to the mountains to train martial arts there preparing for next war
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>>4716762
If we commit, we're gonna get BAD END anyway
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>>4716763
>pic is Merlin when Shinji-chan does an Onlyfans meet and greet event.
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>>4716763
pictured: Merlin running off to simp for his waifu 1984 colorized
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>>4716763
>All our allies know we have one week tops before everything ends. If our allies aren't going to try to get laid at least once before then, this will be the most unrealistic quest based on an eroge I'll have ever read, and WhatIs will be supreme hack.
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>>4716769
Bruh he'd simp so much we'd end up the richest thot in the world
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>>4716773
Are you implying group orgy time? Best way for no-one in our group to die a virgin.
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>>4716774
We already are though.
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>>4716767
Monica onee-san's gonna punch us through space-time after seeing how much more girls we have around us, either that our she'd decide to keep us for herself
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>>4716773
Shame that the majority of them have the same target.
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>>4716572
Would you have preferred he showed up looking like this, anon?
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>>4716781
unironically yes
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>>4716781
Meh let's bully him into a little girl, he'd be cuter that way
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>>4716781
If we get more command seals by contracting more and more servants will we look like pic?
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>>4716781
Yes, actually. Probably not enough to affect my answer though. Especially if the mirror sequence was the same.

>>4716778
We DEFINITELY need to speak with Monica alone when we get the chance about this. She's the only sane and emotionally stable adult we know, and our big sister to boot. She'll have some good advice for us, even if it's "don't be an idiot, of course a harem won't work. Break it off now before you make it worse."
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>>4716801
Yep it's why I like her so much, for a majority of Shinji's life she's been someone sane that we can talk to, who knows how that's changed after Manaka screwed her up, honestly for me It's a longshot but it's either her or Mordred
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>>4716801
>sane and emotionally stable
We have supernatural amounts of Charisma that could cause Alaya to choose to abandon other timelines and worlds. Do you really think Monica wouldn't lose any sense of logic and reasoning as soon she looks at us?
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>>4716801
It's too late Monica is crushing too.
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>>4716809
>Monica BADEND she removes our limbs by constantly shaving them off with lightning magic and keeps us to herself "J-just so you stop attracting so much hussies b-baka!"
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>>4716808
I think she'll be fine after we banish Tesla. She's pretty resilient.

>>4716809
Yes, because she's been with us for years and hasn't yet lost any sense of logic and reasoning.

>>4716810
She may be crushing, but I think she's mature and sensible enough to set it aside and give us some good advice. Remember how she reacted to the kiss?

And if not, well, abandon all hope all ye who enter here. Would still be nice to know for sure either way.
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>>4716812
Hot, Its too bad she's been cucqueaned by Medea as an older women love interest.
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>>4716830
It's not that bad, now that she's 21 again, she's in perfect big sister range.
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>>4716812
>>4716830
Just ask Alaya for 9-5 job at her personal rape dungeon for those sweet Beast powers.
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>>4716830
She's got the power of tesla and railguns on her side now, one on one I'm not sure who'd win, plus she's like a mercenary, sniping is a thing
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>>4716841
Let's not forget Manaka's probably been feeding her lines like "So Shinji-kun's been busy~ his Harem's swelled like twice in a day~" and "Whoa! he has a daughter with Medea now~ wait did he just pull another daughter out of his other daughter!?" and let's not forget "When did he say he was coming for you again? he did say that he was coming to pick you up right?"
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>>4716841
>>4716849
Comforting Monica will likely involve her asking us about our true nature.
She was just about to figure it out before Temple assault.
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>Assuming you are the one true god...
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>This is three questions
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>Question: Nyarlathotep offered me apotheosis...
>>4715765

>>How do i end the current and future set of problems in a way that nobody that i care about or may care about dies?
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>Headpat God
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So it looks like, 12-10
Refusing power from God is winning.
Hm. Alright then.
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>>4716849
Not to mention when we we acquired new allies
"Whoa he dropped you guys like hot potatoes huh"
>>4716851 She probably thinks our true nature is a womanizer
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>>4716849
Fuck you, now I want a voiced doujin of Manaka narrating Medea and Shinji H-scene and taunting Monica while Monica watches tied and gagged and she can't do anything to stop it.
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>>4716856
Then she breaks out and has her saint graph switched to berserker leading to the aforementioned bad end
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>>4716853
>Waking up to destroyed Fuyuki
What a thrill.
>>4716854
>womanizer
That is given but you have to keep in mind that she is the only person who briefly knew pre-isekai Shinji and was around us for the longest time.
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>>4716859
>"Don't worry shinji-kun I'll keep you safe from all these thots!"
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>>4716859
Monica isn't a ghost though.
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>>4716853
Refusing power but asking for advice. It's not like we flipped the bird at him or something. Asking a question was one of the choices he gave us, after all.
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>>4716864
Meh she's got Tesla all up in her
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>>4716856
>"YAMERRROOOOO" Monica screams in her mind but it only comes out as muffled screams. She couldn't bare to watch as Manaka refuses to stop the scrying spell on Shinji and his Caster servant's intimate moments on their bed.
Something like that.
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>>4716869
At this very moment she was finally broken.
She failed herself and failed to rise Shinji into normal person.
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>>4716875
Now he's just a womanizing playboy!
He needs his onee-san to straighten him out with her love!
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Now as fun as this all is do you think in-between trying to ascend the Manakas are just watching all the ridiculous shit we end up in with a bag of popcorn and a smirk? what if she has a live feed that she showed to all her captives?
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>>4716868
I don't think berserker Tesla would be op enough to dominate us like that, his whole shtick is doing everything with his massive brain.
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>>4716882
Left Manaka is definitely watching us like an Anime show, eating a big bag of popcorn with her tiny hands. Right Manaka is doing her fortnite dances to steal more Nyarly powers. Both are equally as smug.
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>>4716882
only the demoralizing parts
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>>4716882
Medea, Archer and Rin said it was a dreamlike state and they couldn't tell what was happening outside. I suppose Manaka may have shown more to the ones we left behind. We'll ask Shuten as soon as we wake up. But I think Manaka is somewhat blind to what's going on outside. She wouldn't be so cordial with us if she knew what we were planning, and she wouldn't need contracts full of loopholes if she could remotely give orders in real time.
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>>4716882
If Merlin managed to spy on our meeting with Alaya it is fair to assume Manaka can do similar things too.
But as far as we aware Medea and EMIYA were just in light statis without any spy cam footage directed at them.
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>>4716886
>"Wow Shinji really doesn't waste any time huh? What? oh he just replaced you all and left you to rot~ he doesn't even seem to be in a rush or anything, He's got a whole bunch of new allies too! Like the next king of England! and the Truest Dragon to ever exist!
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>>4716883
Imagine Tesla, insanely pissed off at Thomas Edison, Add magic and pigeons. Plus a Monica determined to use every dirty trick in the book to kill her desired target
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>>4716892
Manaka is giving me big tsundere loli vibes, with hints of Illya sadism.
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>>4716896
Well in a way she's a tsundere, she just wants to sacrifice everyone and everything for her prince charming
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>>4716899
Oh wait that's yandere
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>>4716899
She's just amoral omnipotence in a lacy dress.
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Well... Here goes nothing. ""Assuming you are the One True God, I'll have to decline your offer for strength unfortunately. I know all too well of the regrets Solomon held for accepting your blessings even with your infinite wisdom guiding him. Enough so that he willingly discarded it all for a mediocre human existence in a timeline where he was given the opportunity for a normal life. If I may ask however, what path can I take from this moment on will ensure that those I care for will live a long, enjoyable life and will safely navigate through the trials that are currently and will in future befall us?" You deny God's offer for strength, instead opting for asking him for guidance.

"First, before I answer that, do you know what happened to Solomon in this world? Surely you must be aware that for Merlin to have been summoned as Grand Caster, then Solomon must not have been... occupying the slot, so to speak." God seemingly decides to change the subject, or well, go into more detail into something you brought up first.

"I'm... aware of that much, yes. What, are you going to tell me what happened then?"

"There's no harm in that much, is there?" The God taking your form shrugs. "You see, in this world, Goetia's plan... was never going to become an issue. Between the White Princess' actions in destroying Chaldeas ten years ago, and the death of the young Lev Lainur, Goetia's plan became an impossibility. In this world, Solomon gave up his title as Grand Caster two hundred and fifty years ago, when he faked his own death upon being summoned in the first Fuyuki Grail War in order to live a life as a... normal human." God frowns. "Yes, I know that I asked much of Solomon in life, and that he had his regrets about working for me, but it... was a necessity, for the progression of humanity, even in his second life, he was forced to sacrifice himself in some worlds. I can assure you though, he lived a peaceful quiet life in this world, he even had children!" God sounds as if he regrets how he treated Solomon, having basically made the man into somebody without his own will. "Still, I shall answer your question, as it is a selfless one." The apparently omnipotent being smiles. "Honestly, when I plucked you from your rightful place in the world above this one, I had my doubts about whether it would work."

"Whether... what would work?" You hope he doesn't count this as your question, then again, this will probably just be counted as a free question. You remind yourself that this entity isn't some malevolent genie. This is God, you probably could've asked him what the strength he was offering you would entail and he wouldn't have counted it as a question.
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"The creation of a savior for all of this world. Now, I understand that you... have your issues with caring about the fates of the common man, yet despite that, you are driven by a... selective form of... selfish selflessness. Oftentimes you will disregard your own health in order to assist another person whom you care for. I had originally imagined that I might have to intervene sooner with you, to teach you the error of your ways, that despite your existence as a being from a higher layer of reality, you aren't in some toy box, to use your powers as you will. No, you've used what power you've maintained in your current body to almost exclusively help others. You grew yourself a fortune to rival kings and emperors, for no reason other than to help those that you care about, you aren't made happy by your money, it is not greed or gluttony which drives you."

"Me? A savior? That's a good one. You said so yourself, I don't care about those faceless characters that hold no relevance to either myself or to the world as a whole. I'm driven solely by my desire to help those I care about, if you wanted a new savior, you should have asked Shirou." Seriously, you don't care at all for people you don't know, and while you aren't going to go out of your way to kill the public or cause the deaths of innocent people, you aren't exactly about to avenge them either. Otherwise you never would've even considered the possibility of allowing Shuten or Ibaraki to live. In your mind, their existences are worth hundreds of faceless humans that you would never have met.
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"I do not seek a self-sacrificing savior. You, who have good reason not to care for anything in this world, are still one of its greatest defenders. You, who could have become an existence greater than a Beast if you were lost to the despair of your new existence, clung to the light. You do not care for the world, but you have shown the capacity to care. The capacity to love and truly understand emotions. You aren't like the Outer Ones, beings of incomprehensible motive without such a capacity to feel any form of emotions. You are fundamentally a human, despite everything. It is in human nature to be selfish." God decides to reveal his intentions for you as some sort of... bonus answer, you suppose. "Now, on to your actual question, and I'm afraid that I cannot answer it fully, to ask the complete path that you must take would require you to be directly granted my wisdom, something you have specifically requested not to be given." God looks you in the eyes directly, as if staring into your soul. "However, I can at least answer that a path of true happiness for all those that you hold dear does exist, but you must act quickly. You must not allow yourself to be distracted by the actions of your allies who have been twisted to serve Manaka with exception to Medusa, who is still clinging on to the last remnants of her previous self, upon saving her. You must go on to defeat the forces of Yamata-no-Orochi, as well as those who oppose him. Then, before your final confrontation with Manaka Sajyou, you must discover a way to reverse the effects of the curses of the mud of the Holy Grail upon Heroic Spirits, from there, you'll know what to do. That's what I will reveal to you." God points a finger at your forehead. "Consider this... something extra, it's nothing much, and not the Strength I would have given to you, but it's some of the potential you could have unlocked anyway, so you'll find it of at least some use. Such a selfless question does deserve at least some sort of reward"

[Status Updated!]

There's a flash of light, and you close your eyes. When you open them again, you find yourself staring up at the faces of Shuten and Medea. "See, told ya he could've taken more." Shuten has a grin on her face as you look up at her. You're... still in the shopping center, it looks like. Your Magic Circuits feel... quite a bit different now.

"Master...? What just happened? Your magical energy has been fully restored!" Medea looks confused as you slowly get up off the ground. Your body feeling well rested, as if you'd just gotten out of a comfortable bed after a long night's sleep. Though it couldn't have been more than five minutes since you fell unconscious.

>"I... met God."
>"I had a strange dream."
>"I don't know."
>"Did you enjoy your kiss, Medea?"
>Write-in...
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>>4716933
>>"I... met God."
>>"Did you enjoy your kiss, Medea?"
He was gonna give us Mystic Eyes wasn't he?
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>>4716942
He was going to give you a choice, actually, one of the choices was a form of Rainbow-ranked Mystic Eyes.
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>>4716933
>>"Did you enjoy your kiss, Medea?"
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>>4716944
damn, well its not like we completely locked ourselves out of that strength then and we know what we have to do
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>>4716933
Well Monica's confirmed to be pissed off at us, time to prep for spikes of electrically charged metal to randomly impale us and or our allies from probably miles away
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Huh. So Monica, Cu, and Bazett aren't that big of a deal just yet. Also is this a no-sell vs any sort of Church weapon?
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>>4716933
>"I... met boss of Ciel's previous employer."
>"Did you enjoy your kiss, Medea?"
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>>4716951
Monica Cu and Bazett are just distractions, we knew that, Medusa at least seems to be useful and seems to be in a similar position to Shuten
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>Access to our full magic circuits, immunity to Church AND a glimpse at the walkthrough.
Score! I count this as a complete success. The advice alone is far more valuable than any power we might have been given. The rest are just a nice bonus. God's an alright guy, after all.
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>>4716951
Just because we were told to ignore them doesn't mean they aren't a threat
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>>4716933
>"I... met God."
>"How long was I out?"
>"Did you enjoy your kiss, Medea?"
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>>4716954
Weird answer but alright.
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>>4716957
idk man, that strength would've included Rainbow-rank Mystic Eyes which would've given us the walkthrough but this seems good too, we can have Ciel heal us up whenever
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>>4716957
>Be anon
>trusting YHWH
>It's not like that ever backfired for anyone before right?
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>>4716962
Support
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>>4716963
Could we summon Hadraniel? Would he fare okay vs Kingprotea
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>>4716933
>>"I... met God."
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>>4716963
I am not that well versed in Catholic Church outlook on their own hierarchy but as far as I am aware Pope considered to be representative of God`s will on Earth and Head of the Church as an organization. In that sense whole Holy Church as an organization and Pope as holder of power of attorney of God are subordinates of God hence he is employing their service.
I would like to tell them but I am curious who will get it first. And gauge the reaction.
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So I guess our path is Medusa -> Orochi -> Monica/Bazet/Cu. And then we have to figure out a way to neutralize the mud before we storm the temple. And God confirms we can save everyone AND that we are not an uncaring Outest God as I was afraid of. Good news all around.

Guess we can't wait for Sakura to appeal to Medusa. But she knows we care for our sister, we can use this to appeal to her ourselves.

>>4716967
You may consider me a new convert. My paranoia has been satisfied. AND we'll do it without asking for his power. We'll make this Perfect World with our own hands.
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>>4716933
>"I... met God."
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>>4716974
It depends. Kingprotea in the Material World is immediately squashed, but Kingprotea in a Digital World might be able to grow enough to be a threat, though her regression skill would likely reset her before she managed to approach that point.
I am personally of the belief that the Mooncell has no records of angels like it has records of divine spirits for the same reason it has no records of Outer Gods.
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Well would you look at that we could have asked about the cost of people weren't paranoid. At least we have confirmation that FGO won't happen.

The advice was common sense essentially given the clues we have. I guess it helps stop people from chasing the other allies.
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>>4716987
>it has no records of Outer Gods
It depends.
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>>4716994
The Velber isn't an Outer God, it's just a big dumb space thing that crashed into the Moon, made by the same aliens that created the Mooncell in the first place.
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>>4716933
>"Did you enjoy your kiss, Medea?"
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>>4716990
There's also the lore bomb of Romanimon and hsi descendants (maybe Merlin would have told us about this since he took over as Grand Caster but eh)

Should we look for em in the future or just leave them be
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>>4716995
They slammed Voyager in Foreigner class container already and Velber seems to rather similar to it in functions.
And Altera herself qualified to be Foreigner according to EXTELLA LINK.
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>>4717005
You know, just because they keep slamming things that aren't Outer Gods into the Foreigner Class Container doesn't actually mean that they retroactively become Outer Gods.
The Velber can't even beat the RoboGreeks when Zeus takes the rest of the god's strength. Which means that by default, Velber is massively inferior to Chaos, which is also somewhat inferior to the true forms of Outer Gods.
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Calling in 20
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>>4716933
>>"I... met God."
>"this week is being really strange"
>"Did you enjoy your kiss, Medea?"
Also QM, was not accepting the power a good choice?
It was mostly because of paranoia that it wasnt accepted, so i don't think it was a bad choice as we didnt have enough information.
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>>4717007
So you think it should be count as Great Old One?
FGO surely is not the most consistent material but that class sort of requires for some Outside the Domain backing to even exist?
So how would you classify Velber, Foreigner Altera, Sefar or Velber Corrupted Heroic Spirits?
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>>4716987
i was thinking how fucking broken and scary protea would be if she was allowed to grow forever.
jesus
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Also, we need to tell Ciel we meet God, just to see her reaction.
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>>4717016
Wouldn't she eventually die of lack of oxygen when she surpasses or even reaches the ozone layer even while in a sitting position? Unless she wants to lay on the floor forever and crush everything and everyone around her?
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>>4717017
Tell her that God was a bald middle aged man with golden skin and multiple heads.
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>>4716928
>he even had children
I wonder if solomon's spawn still walk the earth.
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>>4717012
We could have asked according to Shinji's thoughts. Plus all of the examples cited against taking the deal amounted to previous examples where the one accepting the deal knew the cost.
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>>4717025
Solomon created magecraft
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>>4717016
Honestly, Protea's growth isn't really that impressive when compared to Sefar in the Mooncell, who also has no limit and can make her as powerful as Amaterasu rapidly.

>>4717020
In the Mooncell there are no physical laws holding her back like that, it's why Protea on Earth is default only about five meters tall and Protea on the moon is thirty meters tall by default.

>>4717013
It's complicated, but you could supposedly fit something like Altera in as a Foreigner. That doesn't make things Great Old Ones or Outer Gods through the connection however. Anything that is linked to something that is fundamentally not of humanity could theoretically be a Foreigner.

>>4717024
Karna is still here you know.
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>>4717020
does she even need to breath?
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>>4717027
Yeah, the problem is that it wasnt very clear if we could have asked, only after.
>>4717029
what, i mean the direct spawn of his incarnation.
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>>4716785
We fucking better
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>>4717034
those kids are long dead dude
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>>4717029
>Solomon
He didn't create it only made it accessable to humans.

>>4717034
Even without asking most higher being we have meet through the story has made the cost of deals clear. Plus why would power be any different from information in cost? The both are forms of power.

Tried to make that point before the vote.
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>Chaldeans already got Merced

Fug, we can’t pall around with the portages and dab on wodime and baryl
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>>4717038
with spawn i mean his descendents, his bloodline.
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>>4717041
>protags*

God I hate phone posting
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>>4717041
Only in this timeline, anon.
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>>4717045
is wodime still alive?
i like him.
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>>4717039
No, he made Magecraft, not magic.
He invented the process by which magi manipulate Od through symbols and incantations, rather than divine words or natural sorcery.
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>>4717030
>Shinji can safely use all of his body's magic circuits
It was long ago but it should be around 400 of them, right?
And if we were to get Dragon Core would that make us Blessed Holy Dragon?
Would Martha fell in love with us instantly?
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>>4717049
we dont need more girls in love with us
at least not for now
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>>4717041
>dab on Wodime

Beryl I got, but Kirsch was a pretty stand-up guy by all accounts
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>>4717049
Weren't we already using most of them? I'm wondering how much of a boost this is in terms of output.

The big thing we got out of this is magic transfer. It's essentially unlimited Mana for us if we pull from the earth. Meaning we have sustain without magical boy Shinji. The only reason to use that now is hoping for a crit or second magic which I don't see the point in either.
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>>4717055
I think we were stuck at 60 for a year or so.
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>>4717049
He has 86, but they have a unique quality that makes them way more effective than they would be normally.
According to Touko, we have 5000 units of prana, and the average mage has 25.
She also said it's possible to get up to double our output by overdrawing at cost to our health, but with our circuits blessed we should be able to hit 10,000 with no issues.
That is based on the circuits we could use back when we first opened them, and now we have approximately four times the circuits open.
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>>4717058
>>4717055
I wish we could use our truth magic as multi-energy beams like Medea and Aoko. We're a True Magus at this point and we should be fighting like it. Am I too hasty to say that if we can learn how to fight like Aoko we could beat her in a magic fight?
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>>4717041
can't we still recreate it? Moneybills is still going at it and we have some cash to burn
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>>4717065
I think even with the boost we don't have the output for truth beams. Maybe truth bullets.

We should also figure out what we can do but we don't have time. We have unique circuits so truth might not even be the only thing we can do.
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>>4717067
i fail to see why not
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>>4717067
The only reason I would ever recreate Chaledea is to pull more and more servants.
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>>4717067
Rather not take the risk of creating FGO.
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>"I figured something like that might be the case, Matou-kun." Despite her fierce eyes, she tries to give you a reassuring smile. It works. Kind of. "Anyway, just stand still for a moment." She then proceeds to put a hand on your forehead and you immediately begin feeling woozy, the foreign magical energy running through your body as Touko does an analysis on you causing you some mild discomfort. Touko's face however is growing really quite incredulous. "These circuits! I've never seen a composition like this before! Not mentioning those thirteen atrophied circuits, which are a shame, but... these are incredible!" Whatever Touko has seen seems to have really excited her. Each individual magic circuit is composed of four individual channels for magical energy!" Four channels? What does she mean? You couldn't really discern anything like that from your own surveyance of your circuits. She seems to regain some control of herself as she looks you in the eyes once again. "Kid. I'm not sure what happened to you, but for whatever reason, you have way too many magic circuits." Then her tone turns grim. "In fact, you have so many magical circuits that attempting to use them all at once would cause your body to be incinerated. Human bodies just weren't made to handle that sort of energy being pumped through them." Then was your previous appraisal of your own abilities incorrect? You know you had a lot of circuits, but you shouldn't have ever been under threat of death simply for trying to use them all at once. "Matou-kun. Listen closely. To a layman, it would appear as if you only have eighty circuits, even that is such a vast number of circuits that you would be receiving marriage requests from practically every family looking for a good candidate to marry their daughters for the sake of eugenics." You blush a little at her words, even for somebody with as many years of life experience as you, it's awkward for somebody to tell you to expect to receive marriage requests. "But, that's not quite true at all. It might appear that you have eighty two circuits, but in truth it's more like you have about three hundred of the damn things." Touko begins to laugh aloud. "Three hundred! How do you feel about your blue-blood magic circuits now, Lorelei?!" She yells to nobody in particular. It's not like the Queen of the Clocktower could actually hear her from here... You hope. You're just glad that Touko isn't the sort to get jealous of over people for having more magic circuits than her. Well, with all the crests she's stolen she probably still theoretically has more magic circuits available to her anyway.
Ok, so I found the exact update I remembered that number from. But it was 300 and not 400 as a number there.
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>>4717054
Because he didn’t even see that eyepatch-Chan was crushing hard on him. He needs it
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>>4717070
>The only reason I would ever recreate Chaledea is to pull more and more servants.
Ok so we 100% should
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>>4717075
wodime is worse than shirou in noticing being flirted, its funny.
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>>4717067
I'm up for it. If we recreate it without Lev's secret Goetia summoning additions, it should be fine.
We should find Sion and get her to make TRIHERMES for us too.
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>>4717074
How much were we using before the blessing?

Is the output of each individual circuit high grade?

I wonder if the atrophied circuits are fixed too? Gives us 312 blessed circuits. Maybe we should ask Ciel fro holy abilities we can combine with magic. Forgot what the church calls the power they get.
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>>4717084
60->300, we have pretty much 5 times the magical energy now. I don't think we ever fixed the atrophied ones, but I suppose we could do it now with Truth healing.
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>>4717085
So you telling me we can now non stop kiss Medea?
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>>4717084
You were using sixty, but each circuit was equal to four circuits due to their composition.
You haven't gone from 60 to 300, but your maximum output is now higher and you can safely push them to double their normal capacity now.
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>>4717084
>Circuit Max (60): Thanks to continued practice with his magic circuits and with the application of certain breathing techniques, Shinji is able to open up to 60 of his Magic Circuits without suffering the otherwise fatal consequences. Of course, using this much magical energy still takes a toll on his body and he is liable to collapse shortly after opening that many circuits even with all of his practice. He can however safely open forty circuits without much strain on his body.
From previous pastebin right before we got Alítheia.
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So, next up to meet is gaia i guess?
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>>4717092
She's gonna want Shinji cock too I guess. Are we going to see waifu bickering between Gaia and Alaya now?
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>>4717094
she straight up has the most reason to hate us, we're purely on the side of humanity from a universe where humanity is king
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>>4717094
I'd rather not, that's how you accelerate Notes.
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>>4717098
So... she's a tsundere?
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>>4717092
Either her or Amaterasu.
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>>4717107
we can straight up create Amaterasu, that one Bad End had us create Goddess Shuten from divine alcohol, we can do the same with everyone else but we probably shouldn't considering Orochi hard counters divine beings
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you know how Betty's gonna be asleep for a while cause we had her create Abby? Can't we use a mana infused command seal to wake her up? Heracles had magic resistance but his master in FSF used specific commands and forced mana into each command seal to make everything work and we've unlocked the full scope of our magic circuits now
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>>4717103
if you to see it like that
but i guess not
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>>4717120
She specifically told you not to do that.
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>>4717127
worth a shot
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>>4717112
I think we should be able to meet her just by touching minds with Tamamo. Or infusing her essence with Truth.
Kind of like Hakuno did.
>>4717103
>>4717124
Odds are she likes us judging by Arc and Alítheia.
>>4717127
>>4717120
Super Dead End Save File Erosion Azathoth Awakening Dead End here we go!
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>>4717129
Let's not wake up the girl connected to Azathoth who specifically told us not to wake her up. Knowing our luck, we'd wake up the meatball instead.
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>>4717132
>>4717135
Also, she's our daughter and she asked us not to do it. Is that not enough of a reason?
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Ok so we went from 60x4= 180->80x4= 320 circuits. We can now use it safely without fainting. So I can assume that the output is higher then the queen of the clocktower.

So reinforcement should put us at the level of a low class servant, if I'm understanding it right. Probably can't use truth beams but the sword should be on the table. Hopefully bullets are too.

Now that they are blessed then other abilities might exist. Wonder if truth armor is a thing?
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>>4717155
Oops 240 to 360
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>>4717155
60x4 is 240...
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>You must go on to defeat the forces of Yamata-no-Orochi, as well as those who oppose him
Just noticed this on God's walkthrough. What does he mean? Destroy those who oppose Orochi? Who?
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>>4717155
We can probably become the Master of Billy the Kid and Lancer Bro now, actually, i assume that those two are near Medusa, it feels like God would push us in the direction of them
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>>4717158
>>4717155
>>4717159
Quick maths, the ting go skraaat
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>>4717163
yeah i keep wracking my head around this, does he mean Merlin? Uncle Nyarla?
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>>4717163
>those who oppose him
His servants? I mean "defeat" could also just mean stealing his servants away, which we have the mana capacity to do.
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>>4717167
We're in an uneasy cease truce with Nyarly at best. He's gonna fuck things up as soon as he gets his full powers back that's for sure.
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>>4716933
>you must discover a way to reverse the effects of the curses of the mud of the Holy Grail upon Heroic Spirits, from there, you'll know what to do
Here's what I think, Manaka doesn't want to use the Grail as is because its corrupted but is on a time limit most likely so she's gonna end up having to, we're the only ones capable of very quickly purging the grail of its contents in one good, we kinda did it once before, we purged the worms inside of Sakura without even harming her. The only way we'll be able to purge it is through a Reality Marble
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>>4717164
I think it'd be better if we let someone else have them. We have a surplus of extra Servantless mages, especially now that Waver's party is here.

>>4717167
I don't think he would want us to kill Merlin, and the forces of Nyarly are limited to BB and 2nd rider. Could be, I suppose. Or maybe there's a whole new faction out there? We did unite the 7 original servants in a faction, so we may have triggered the failsafes like in Apocrypha.

>>4717169
Defeat the forces of Orochi is probably this, yeah. Steal or kill his Servants. But defeat those who oppose him as well? That can't be Orochi's servants, can it?
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>>4717159
Ya lol corrected myself and then made a mistake on the second calc on the post after.

>>4717166
Ya typing to fast on a phone causes stupid mistakes.

Honestly not sure how to edit on this platform.
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>>4717176
Can't edit posts, have to delete and repost them.
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>>4717175
Only chosen Masters can get more servants, QM said so when we tried to get Touko to be a master

>I don't think he would want us to kill Merlin
Yeeah I don't wanna kill Merlin either, he's a good guy
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>>4717155
It also buffs Amethyst.
During Orochi fight we had
>Kaleido-Amethyst (Mahou Shounen) (Reinforcement)
>Strength: B
>Endurance: B (EX)
>Agility: B
>Magical Energy: A (EX)
>Luck: ?
>NP: -
>>4717163
Manaka, Merlin, Thor-
Maybe Alan but Orochi looks useless to him.
>>4717164
Medusa takes priority and we might not be able to connect her with Sakura again.
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>>4717183
How did Sakura still have the command seals even when she became completely anti magic then?
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>>4717184
Her Magic Nullification doesn't erase the effects of magic that is already connected to her if she doesn't want it, but it does prevent her from forming new contracts and having other magical effects applied to her right now.
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>>4717182
I don't remember that, but I think we might be able to hack a solution with all the magical know-how in our faction. Even if it doesn't work, it's worth a shot I'd say.

>>4717188
Oh, damn, so she really can't take Medusa back? That sucks.
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>>4717184
She had them prior.
We were unable to interact with her command spells afterwards so it is likely that using Rule Breaker to reform contract will fail because of her newfound immunity.
Worth asking Medea about it first of course. It is her NP after all.
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>>4717190
It's not... entirely impossible. It's just right now, her control over Nullification is very weak.
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I really think we should get Archer to Trace Morgan's dagger, it can separate the body and soul, its not useful on servants but shouldn't it be able to separate the number of things that make up Orochi?

>>4717188
Aw, guess we have to be her new master now, that sucks
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>>4717194
Ah, alright. We should try anyway, even if it doesn't end up working. We owe it to the both of them.
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>>4717188
>>4717190
We take Medusa back and ask her to be Sakura`s bodyguard.
Fun reprise of Book of the False Attendant.
>>4717194
Some more post-war things to do. Glad helping her to control it is an option.
And we could make Medusa join in to help her keep good relationship with Sakura.
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>>4717198
>We take Medusa back and ask her to be Sakura`s bodyguard.
>Fun reprise of Book of the False Attendant.
I think there's a decent chance of it working as soon as Sakura gets back if we use Truth to help her at the same time.
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So is Medusa gonna stay Gorgon, or turn back to Rider form?
Because I kinda like Gorgon form more desu.
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>>4717208
really? rider is a lot hotter.
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>>4717208
Really?
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>>4717202
>but you must act quickly
We might not have the time to wait for Sakura if helicopter is still far away. God did put emphasize on us being haste.
If time aligns well and we can go to her with Sakura, we should just ask Medea on her opinion and try to buff Rule Breaker with Truth for a try if it is an option. Otherwise just do it post-war. Saving Medusa takes priority over stylish perfectionism.
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>>4717208
shit taste, also Medusa can actually be happy as a Rider
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>>4717214
We definitely don't have time to wait for Sakura, but we don't have to contract Medusa right away. We could give just give her some magical energy to tide her over until her true Master arrives.
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>>4717214
So we grab Medusa and immediately go and kill Orochi
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>>4717212
Sakura and Medusa do everything together... even you. Heh.
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>>4717212
>>4717210
I like what I like.
Not that Rider isn't fine too, of course.
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>>4717218
it isn't mentioned enough that Sakura and Rider are a package deal when waifu discussions happen
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>>4717220
Holy shit... who will have bigger boobas when Sakura eventually fully integrates aspects of Tiamat into her body. Shinji would suffocate if there was ever a threesome.
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>>4717217
>You must not allow yourself to be distracted by the actions of your allies who have been twisted to serve Manaka with exception to Medusa, who is still clinging on to the last remnants of her previous self, upon saving her. You must go on to defeat the forces of Yamata-no-Orochi, as well as those who oppose him
That's pretty much the plan, yeah.
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>>4717217
also should be mentioned that the Sakura team will likely face off against one of our mindfucked servants, either Monica or Cu are gonna fight and stall them
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>>4717208
I would like to respectfully disagree.
>>4717216
>>4717217
We check on Orochi and helicopter crew after Medusa is saved.
Depending on current situation at that moment we should decide on the next step.
More waiting or attack with current forces.
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Medusa has Independent Action C guys, she can stay for a day without a Master. No need whatsoever to rush her contract.
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"I... met God." You are sort of left in awe at the conclusion to your meeting with that entity, with how much was revealed so quickly. You haven't even fully processed half of the information that God told you just yet, so you're still a little shaky. Of course, what you do know and fully understand is that you're going to need to save Medusa next, and... Rule Breaker alone isn't going to be enough for her. While Shuten was easy enough to get back on side thanks to the terms of her contract being something the dagger could sever, there's no such thing for Rule Breaker to actually apply to in Gorgon's case. Even if she has a contract with Manaka, merely severing it wouldn't reverse Rider's transformation into the Gorgon, and Medusa's suffering would still continue. No, you're going to need to do something more drastic for her, and while it might be possible to use Truth to reverse her to her previous form, you might not be given an opportunity to do so. While you can rapidly recover your magical energy now, having cut the recovery time from nothing to full to about thirty minutes, in addition to having an even greater maximum output, Gorgon is still going to be a tremendously dangerous foe... Yet at the same time, she feels like an opponent that only you and Sakura should confront.

"You... what?" Medea is unsurprisingly confused by your admission, clearly not expecting such a reason for your sudden recharging of magical energy. It was nice that God seems to have charged you back up to full, even if your ability to recharge your own magical energy from the surrounding area is incredible, your max capacity is great enough that even this level of recharging isn't enough to immediately put you back up to full. If you were a normal Magus, you would have an effectively unlimited supply of magical energy, but with your huge capacity, it will still take at minimum around twenty minutes for you to fully charge yourself from nothing, unless the magical area in an area was especially rich or something. Still, this does mean that the only thing that is going to be able to stop you from now on in physical fatigue!

"He's not lying, or... he hallucinated." Karna has his arms crossed. Having effortlessly discerned the truth behind your words. His lie detection ability is basically a damn cheat skill of it's own accord. Not only is this Servant tremendously powerful in terms of physical combat ability, he is basically the perfect Servant to have when it comes to alliances, able to determine with nothing but a glance as to whether it is worth trusting another party or not. "It would appear as if he truly met God, or at least believes it to be so."
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"He said he was God, at least, and I'm inclined to believe him after the guidance he gave me." You don't really doubt that the being you met was God, despite how ominous he decided to make his reveal to you, he just didn't give off any sort of energy that led you to thinking that he could've possibly had ill-intentions.

"Are you trying to say you're a prophet now, Shinji?" Ciel has an exasperated look on her face as she just stares at you in near disbelief. You suppose you could be considered to be just a little bit overwhelming with all the stuff that happens around you all the time. Ah well, she'll get used to it.

"I guess?" You hadn't thought of it that way, but if God has given you advice as to what you ought to do in the future, you suppose it does sort of count. "Technically he said something about me being a Savior, but..." You wonder why God decided to make you a savior of all people, was the selection process for when he grabbed you from the upper dimension just... random? Of course, him not being able to get 'all of you' does imply that he managed to leave some parts behind, which may just go a long way to not being able to remember much about your personal life.

"Right." Ciel cuts you off. Clearly she doesn't want to hear any more of what you're saying, looks like she's decided to write it off as a hallucination. That's fine for now, and while you could prove it right now if you wanted by asking her to stab you with one of her black keys, you don't really think that's necessary right now.

"Anyway... Medea?" You turn to the woman with a smile. "I hope you enjoyed your kiss, I'd do it again right now, but... well, we have something to be getting on with, namely..." You turn to look at Shuten, who is trying to look unassuming. "Namely how we're going to deal with this little drunkard bringing back an entire race through converting the entire shopping center into oni. At least Ibaraki has it under control... Speaking of, we should probably include her in on this conversation. We're going to need to think of at least some way to fix this." It's not a very long walk back to the Oni, and while you could've had Medea teleport you, you don't want to start relying on teleportation for absolutely everything.
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It doesn't take more than a few minutes for you to arrive back to where Ibaraki and the rest of the Oni are, and as you show up with Shuten in tow and are about to greet Ibaraki, the girl suddenly disappears in a burst of flames, almost bowling you over and burning you in an effort to tackle Shuten with a hug. Shuten, for her part, makes no effort to avoid Ibaraki, and allows the Berserker to slam into her with a hug, there's a tremendous level of physical power involved in the tackle-hug, yet Shuten barely moves an inch. "It's good to see you again, Ibaraki. It looks like you've got your work cut out for you with only these oni, hmm?" Shuten gives Ibaraki a smile, and clearly has absolutely no remorse for snatching away the lives of these three hundred people and turning them into oni. Then again, you can't really think of any reason why she would, it's not like she herself hates being an oni, so expecting any sort of remorse for her actions from her doing this might be a little bit foolish. It's not like the people she transformed are truly mindless, just... currently overwhelmed by their oni blood. It might be possible for their sanity to be restored given enough time.

Ibaraki for her part doesn't make any noises discernible as words as she just clutches Shuten and makes happy sounds. You suppose for Ibaraki, having basically all of her wishes granted all at once has managed to overwhelm her to some degree. Looks like you won't be able to ask her for her opinion on what to do with all these oni until after she calms down a little. Still, you've got a few ideas...

>Ask Caster if it would be possible to reverse their transformations. You doubt that these people are going to be all too pleased to live out their lives as oni.
>Wait for Ibaraki to regain control of herself and ask her what she wants to do. She's the only reason you were able to get through this without any of them needing to be killed.
>Ask Caster if it would be possible to keep all these oni asleep and sustained with magical energy until you decide what to do about them. You can probably have them stored in a warehouse somewhere.
>Ask one of your allies for their thoughts on what you should do. (Which ally?)
>Write-in...
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>>4717241
>>Ask Caster if it would be possible to reverse their transformations. You doubt that these people are going to be all too pleased to live out their lives as oni.
Seems pretty shitty to leave them like that, no fucking way someone like Shirou or Rin would be ok just keeping them like that
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>>4717241
>Ask Ibaraki for her opinion
>Ask Karna to judge which of the people would actually prefer to stay as they are

Compromise between leaving them all that way and giving Ibaraki back her race.

300 randoms in a shopping centre, plenty likely live empty normal lives they'd like to opt out of given the chance. It's Japan after all, yuge suicide rates.
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btw WhatIs, Shuten still has Manaka as a master on her status page
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>>4717241
>>Ask Caster if it would be possible to keep all these oni asleep and sustained with magical energy until you decide what to do about them. You can probably have them stored in a warehouse somewhere.
We are on a tight schedule
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>>4717241
>Ask Caster if it would be possible to reverse their transformations. You doubt that these people are going to be all too pleased to live out their lives as oni.
>Ask Caster if it would be possible to keep all these oni asleep and sustained with magical energy until you decide what to do about them. You can probably have them stored in a warehouse somewhere.
>Ask Karna to judge which of the people would actually prefer to stay as they are

No need arguing about this if it's not even possible. I do agree some people would prefer to stay as an Oni, and it's possible we'll find more volunteers for this transformation when we inevitably reveal Magic after the War ends. Or enemy soldiers, for that matter. But in any case, we don't have time to reverse it right now.
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>>4717248
can karna do that fast? we need to go.
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>>4717241
>Wait for Ibaraki to regain control of herself and ask her what she wants to do. She's the only reason you were able to get through this without any of them needing to be killed.
>Ask Caster if it would be possible to reverse their transformations. You doubt that these people are going to be all too pleased to live out their lives as oni.
>Ask Caster if it would be possible to reverse transformations of Medusa as well. Menthion potential problems with Sakura and Rule Breaker.
>Ask Ciel to do quick test of Blessed Circuits and holy energy interactions so we can determine how exactly it would work.
>After it is all done ask Medea to scry for Gorgon and Helicopter team
Last one will take less than a minute and transformation reversal relevant for both onis and Medusa.
Ibaraki deserve to have a say too. She helped us a lot here.
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>>4717257
Should be instantaneous

>Discernment of the Poor (A Rank): Insight to see through the opponent's character and attribute. He will not be deceived by excuses and deceptions from words. It expresses the power to grasp the true nature of the opponent possessed by Karna, who was blessed with the opportunity to inquire about the life and value of the weak due to being someone without a single relative.[1][4] Shirou Kotomine personally restrained himself from lying as much as possible to avoid this skill and acted out by manipulating Lancer's real master.
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>Yet at the same time, she feels like an opponent that only you and Sakura should confront.

WhatIs, what does Shinji mean by this? He thinks he should wait for Sakura to get here and go for Medusa with her only?
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>>4717262
i see.
>>4717241
>>4717248
+1
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>>4717257
no, they can't even speak right now
I say we should just let Ibaraki do what she wants with them and move on, Singularity F gets closer with every passing minute.
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>>4717241
>Wait for Ibaraki to regain control of herself and ask her what she wants to do. She's the only reason you were able to get through this without any of them needing to be killed.
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Those that want to stay Oni can join Ibaraki as shock troops, those that want to be human can get sleep spelled and locked away somewhere for the time being. Freeing them comes later. The flavour text from Shuten's NP that transfigured them says it's irreversible which means only Truth can undo it.
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>>4717264
He does feel like that is the course of action that will have the highest chance of success, yes.
Thankfully, the helicopter should be arriving imminently.
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>>4717262
>>4717248
It needs the target to make a statement, otherwise Karna would have known from the start that Kirei was absolutely evil.
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>>4717271
Ah, excellent. I thought it was at least half an hour out yet.
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>>4717272
then just letting then sleep until later would be good?
maybe indeed ask ibaraki
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>>4717271
>Thankfully, the helicopter should be arriving imminently.
Aye
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>>4717274
We know what Ibaraki will say. Of course she wants her race back. That's her wish for the Grail.
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>>4717272
If Karna can't just immediately sort them here and now with a glance we move on. But Ciel was very suspicious of Kirei due to Karna's presence, he knew and maybe didn't feel it was his place to speak ill of people in positions of power, kind of his thing with Duryodhana.
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Also, if it's just us and Sakura going for Medusa, we should tell our allies to do something while we're away, if it won't take too much time. Magical Signature map? Have Morgan give Shuten's Battle Continuation to Medea? Any other ideas?
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>>4717270
We can't sort through all that right now, we're on a very limited timeframe.
>>4717274
Ibaraki can handle it, none of them are going to cause problems for us or themselves while Ibaraki's watching them, so we don't need to address the long term problems that come with making 300 people into demons right now.
>>4717278
He told Ciel what he did find out, which is why she was already suspicious of him before we told her anything.
He can detect whether or not the person believes what they are saying, so I doubt Kirei said anything like "I am not a murderer and I have never tortured orphans," but he might have been dishonest about minor things or carried himself in his usual slimy polite way.
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Kinda want to ask Ciel what blessed circuits can do. Can she sense it if we give her time?

It would also give lee way if she actually believes it. Maybe Madea would be better off checking.
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>>4717281
Both of those, and make sure EMIYA and Shirou can trace Erosion. If, during the construction of the map Morgan is able to sniff out Merlin, try and get her to open a dialogue to him for us so we can have a chat.

Have someone go get Waver and co. and bring them into the house. Rin stays in the building as an emergency teleport out for everyone.

We also need something for Orochi again, seeing as the bait plan fell apart. Erosion BP spam might keep trying to rip him apart while Alcidies and Karna dab on him. Karna can stay far away and just provide covering fire, and open the encounter with nuclear hellfire on Orochi's location. It might even knock out a few of his servants as collateral.
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>>4717281
have Archer trace Morgan's dagger, fix Kerry, give the Cerberus divinity
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>>4717287
We have two other plans for Orochi and giving him more time while we plan is a mistake. Just split the group between him and Medusa.

It's what we should have done for Shuten.
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>>4717291
Splitting up against fucking Orochi is a terrible idea, plus God said to go after Orochi after Medusa, so we need Medusa first
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>>4717256
Support
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>>4717291
These are all things for other people to do while we take a handful of combat specific high mana allies who can tank Cybele to subdue Gorgon.

Once Medusa is handled everyone goes to Orochi that isn't divine or squishy human tier.
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>>4717291
>upon saving her. You must go on to defeat the forces of Yamata-no-Orochi
God was clear, first we save Medusa then we go after Orochi. Splitting up here is a mistake.

>>4717296
It's better if we go after Medusa alone with Sakura.
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>>4717296
there's probably a radius for his divinity, plus people can willpower their way into handling Nega Divinity, i assume the lower Divinity, the lower it can work too

>>4717297
sounds like a fucking terrible idea, she's still under Manaka's contract and will be forced to attack
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>>4717300
Shuten wasn't forced to attack. Why would her?
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>>4717248
Support
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>>4717304
she's forced to act as a distraction and answer with lethal force if someone tries to destroy the contract
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Medusa party comp:

Banana stays with the Oni to keep them placid, can be called upon as shock troops if needed in future. Could probably offer a good line of defence for the Tohsaka residence.

We don't want to rock up to Medusa and have her assume we're there to kill her. So open with just Shinji and Sakura talk-no-jutsu.Truth barrier at the ready to tank Cybele.

Consider bringing Avenger too, they've both been abused by the greekoid pantheon so they might be able to have a good dialogue. As Medusa becomes the Gorgon her Divinity erodes, by this point her Divinity is completely gone, she's basically a direct comparison to Alcidies but in reverse as he gained Divinity at the conclusion of his story while she lost hers at the conclusion of hers.

In reserve but close by:

Shuten - A++ Mana to tank Cybele, high batcon so she won't have to be babysat.

Medea - A++ Mana as well, teleports, telepathy, wife.

Ciel/Karna/Dante as they're already with us, have them stand back away from the initial encounter and open a telepathic line while Karna scans Medusa with his Clairvoyance enhanced long range vision and warns us if we're to expect some eyebeams.
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>>4717310
>However, I can at least answer that a path of true happiness for all those that you hold dear does exist, but you must act quickly. You must not allow yourself to be distracted by the actions of your allies who have been twisted to serve Manaka with exception to Medusa, who is still clinging on to the last remnants of her previous self, upon saving her. You must go on to defeat the forces of Yamata-no-Orochi, as well as those who oppose him. Then, before your final confrontation with Manaka Sajyou, you must discover a way to reverse the effects of the curses of the mud of the Holy Grail upon Heroic Spirits, from there, you'll know what to do. That's what I will reveal to you."
God's words

>Gorgon is still going to be a tremendously dangerous foe... Yet at the same time, she feels like an opponent that only you and Sakura should confront.
And Shinji's thoughts, fresh from listening to literal divine revelation.

I trust them. God told us to ignore distractions but go after Medusa. That means Medusa is Manaka's real play. And I trust Shinji's thoughts on the matter.
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>>4717241
>>4717259
I'll support this because I'm pretty sure the oni sisters will want the race back but these people should have a say in there own lives. Hopefully Madea can do something about it.

Also hoping Ciel can give an idea of what we can do with blessed circuits.
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>>4717314
>Avenger (B Rank): A state of being as an avenger that gathers people's grudge and malice to oneself, turned into a skill. It is easier for hostility from the surroundings to be pointed towards her, but those negative emotions are automatically changed into the power of an Avenger.[1][2]
I think this is why it's a bad idea to bring anyone with us to Gorgon. Shnji and Sakura are the only two people who will have absolutely no hostility towards her.
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Calling in 20
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>>4717324
Look I think we should take Karna and Ciel at the very least, its dangerous to go alone with Sakura, we can at least teleport away, Sakura can't
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>>4717327
Medusa is still clinging on to the last remnants of her previous self. Going alone with Sakura shows her we trust her. Bringing anyone else allows her to slip further. Why don't you trust Shinji's thoughts on the matter? It's a perfect opportunity to talk-no-jutsu her.
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>>4717326
Please don't repeat the shapeless isle wild ride when we get to Gorgon WhatIs, I binge read that all in one setting and I can only imagine how painful it was for active readers at the time.

>>4717324
I definitely want to open with just Shinji/Sakura talk-no-jutsu. Medea and Shuten can teleport in at any time though if we need it.

Medea can sympathise with Gorgon, she's been abused by gods and heroes herself as she's another tragic greek heroine. Shuten has become a monster and embraced it with similar origins. They're not likely to hold any malice towards Gorgon, they're almost birds of a feather. Besides, criminals aren't people so no big deal about the current statue collection. Avenger could too, but he might give her PTSD by appearance alone if she's already unstable so maybe that's a chance for a later dialogue.

Karna/Ciel/Dante stay way the hell away, but within Karna's line of sight if its not an enclosed space as

>Clairvoyance: B++
Superior eyesight. Among Archers, Karna may well be one of the most capable. At this rank, Karna is capable of seeing through any rank of Presence Concealment with the exception of EX rank if he looks at the area, and can target enemies with his attacks even if they are over a hundred miles away, so long as his vision isn't obstructed.
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>>4717332
we can discuss that after the next update, i guess.
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>>4717332
if we fail, Sakura is fucked, so no, not gambling that
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>>4717248
I support the nigger
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>>4717339
Magical Energy EX, Magic Nullification: EX

She's be able to tank a full strength Gorgon Cybele and shrug it off.

And on top of that, Tiamat and Gorgon have a close enough link Gorgon was able to be used as a conduit for Tiamat in Babylonia.
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>>4717345
link it to the vote post as well in future so its slightly less aids for WhatIs to tally
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>>4717339
Sakura is the safest person to have around Gorgon, even if we fail so far.
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>>4717337
Scrying is alright, but I'm pretty sure the moment anyone teleports in, we have a true fight in our hands and our hopes of getting through to Medusa are significantly lowered. Gorgon locked herself up inside the prison, so Karna won't have line of sight. Medusa doesn't have a close bond with any of those people for their similar backgrounds to matter.

>>4717348
Yet more reason to go alone with Sakura. We trusted Shuten more than this when we first met her.
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>>4717355
*somehow
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Does range weaken the avenger skill? If we have archer on a sniper post would he want to shoot as soon as he sees her?
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>>4717353
Oops.
>>4717241
Support
>>4717248
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>>4717363
I don't know. I don't want to risk it. And she's probably indoors anyway.
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>>4717363
skills have a range, if not, no divine person around us would have their powers now
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>>4717376
For all we know the range is anyone who can have sight on her. Direct sight not one through scrying.

Anyway would it even be a risk with Medusa? We have Madea just in case we need to teleport anyone out or in.
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>>4717337
>Please don't repeat the shapeless isle wild ride when we get to Gorgon WhatIs, I binge read that all in one setting and I can only imagine how painful it was for active readers at the time.
The only reason that was so bad with the pacing was because Sweets left the players almost completely directionless at a time where he was posting one update a day at max. I should know, I was there.
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>>4717387
It would have been cool if it was an actual vn, but having to figure things out on our own at one update a day was torture.
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>>4717396
Remember how we agonized over a plinth because we really wanted a secret passage to open up?
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>>4717387
>>4717396
>>4717400
you guys talking about another quest?
is it good?
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>>4717412
I think the MC kills Shirou and Sakura in the quest, not too sure, just seems too edgy if thats true
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>>4717412
I'd say it was pretty good for a while, but it kind of fell off the rails toward the end and the QM dropped it indefinitely
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>>4717417
>>4717418
well shit
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>>4717418
I'm still more annoyed than anything else about Odin's introduction basically just being him kill stealing an opponent that was completely unbeatable for Alberich because Achilles' Immortality was buffed to such a degree that he was basically just completely invincible. IIRC, divine constructs didn't hurt him, and stabbing him in the heel wouldn't actually do anything other than make him bleed a little. Even when he was cut in half with a space cutting attack he just put himself back together like he was Dio or something.
There were quite a few strange missteps in Sweets' quest.
The biggest misstep was probably giving the Main Character a weapon that default cut through anything with every attack, so every fight was just him being evaded in combat in some way, unable to even touch their weapons.
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>>4717248
Yeah he needs them to actually be in there right mind.
I probably should've mentioned this earlier.
Humorously, this is the second Kotomine this skill has been used on.
Amakusa however is specifically stated to have avoided lying in Karna's presence.
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>>4717442
>there right mind
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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>>4717417
Sakura didn't die, she got semi-gbj'd in the reverse side.
>>4717412
It's basically if Shinji's friends hated/were apathetic towards humanity so he became a villain and tried to rule reality.
It was pretty baller in the first part where we dominated the grail war by kicking the shit out of other masters while our Caster gf distracted their servants, but we swiftly became a cuck to the plot when we won and ended up as a Saber in another Grail War.
We had a sword that could cut anything by teleporting everything it touched to the reverse side, but it was too devastating so every enemy dodged it with no issues or just took regular sword damage.
At the same time, all our friends from the previous war became total shits that wanted to read manga while schlicking to us and die in a ditch respectively.
Our Caster gf ran off like four times because she wanted to femdom us and and cried because the qm routelocked us for being nice to not!illya.
Because of this, we blew up her house and choked her out in a hotel room.
The plot mainly centered around killing servants and absorbing their power megaman style but if megaman was contractually obligated to eat shit the first time he fights anyone.
The best servants were Saber Alter, Loli Medusa, and Loli Hitler because they did their damn jobs when asked and only ditched us to play radio signals once.
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>>4717442
Ah well. Karna can just say in he can't do it in the next update. No big loss.

>>4717445
lol
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>>4717445

I'm fine with Karna telling us that and us bringing it up in convo with Ibaraki. She can hold an Oni recruitment drive later with Shuten and all the empty wagies in Fuyuki have a chance at another life.

Personally I'd prefer Ibaraki keeps these people supervised rather than us lock them away somewhere with magic as that wastes time. Fuyuki has bigger problems than mass looting if she does decide to go full retard when left unattended.
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>>4717447
Either way i have a thing where fanfic or really any story turns the previous main cast into the villains or has the new protag curb stomp them, its very presumptuous ig and i feel like there's no need to disrespect the main cast just so you can jerk off the new MC, this quest does it good, though Shinji is much better than Rin or even Ciel as a Magus, he's still pretty humble for a person in his situation and still drags everyone up a few levels with him, Shirou for example has much more destructive capabilities than Shinji does at the moment
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>>4717457
You reminded me of that time where Shirou actually gets the MC in Unlimited Blade Works, and proceeded to do nothing but toss some scrap metal at him once and then trace a Caladbolg to shoot him with from a bow.
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>>4717447
Sauce? I wanna read something while qm updates.
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>>4717460
I'm really glad I wasn't there. Sounds absolutely awful.
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>>4717461
Check the archives for awakening mirror, city akeldama is the part 1
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>>4717457
It really wasn't necessary to have the post HF Emiyas be in the quest. There were some rumblings about Clocktower intervention, but ultimately Shirou was there to wag a finger at us and then die.
I don't really take it as disrespectful or overly cruel, but putting it in was bound to piss people off and it didn't do enough to make up for it.

>>4717460
The sad thing is, it worked.
>>4717461
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=Sweets-Loving%20QM
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>>4717464
>>4717465
Thanks, appreciate it senpais.
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So, what are some good fate quests? from here or in any other website.
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>>4717470
I've heard Paradox Reincarnator is pretty damn good. You might want to read it from the beginning.
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>>4717470
There's some ancient stuff in the archive which had Archer Odysseus as the femc's servant. Part 2 was a bit cringe though. There were a few incomplete quests that are still decent, just search Fate on suptg.

Fate/Overgrowth was recent, actually had a proper conclusion and was a good ride. It was VN style but the audience hit probably the most scuffed end possible.
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>>4717470
Other than City Akeldama, which is still probably worth a read, so long as you either treat the end as the end or you just don't mind potentially unending cliffhangers, there was Overgrowth recent-ishly.
Overgrowth was fun, but then it ended really abruptly with a kind of non-standard Bad End. Kind of like when Rin brainwashes Shirou in F/SN.
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>>4717474
Every one that tried adding NuFuction like video game characters as servants has been cringe though. I don't know why exactly but as soon as you have Ganondorf caster on scene I just immediately disengage
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>>4717463
It was fun despite the frustrations, and there was a ton of good stuff in there too, but it's not easy to meme like the bad stuff is.
It actually has one of my favorite characters in fiction, but his existence is a spoiler.
It's probably a lot better to read then to play.
I still like to think and write about it because it left an impression on me, and everything that was frustrating in the moment becomes hilarious in retrospect.
I love Alberich and his useless lightsaber, I love Archer for the way he lived and the way he died, I love Circe no matter how birdbrained she is, and I loved all of it whether we were curbstomping or buttmonkeying.
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>>4717470
Spacebattles does quest too though i don't know if they have any quests about Fate, still worth a look
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>>4717474
Overgrowth is what happens when the players decide that they can never lie ever.
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>>4717478
Remember when a 9998 or something was rolled on a d10000 for summoning and all we got was somebody who actively made more problems for everyone.
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>>4717478
I read all but the tail end of Akeldama/Awakening in a binge, and I'll say Circe was based and endearing through all of part 1, until it almost felt like she was forced to become hated. Then it kept snowballing the worst choice possible just to make the audience dislike her without at least trying to reconcile. It felt like, as a reader, you were being arbitrarily forced to hate her and she was acting really out of character to do so.
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>>4717488
Didn't she randomly turn both of Yumigawa's parents into birds for literally no reason other than to be a bitch?
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>>4717492
NGL though Circe was a monster technically and it’s FGO that makes her seem like such an endearing character when she really wasn’t
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>>4717485
Apparently Hera's titpillow is one of the rarest pulls in the nasuverse, though to be fair it wasn't a servant summon but a lowercase b beast summon.
>>4717488
I too was disheartened by plot mandated ntr and defamation of birdmom but at the risk of sounding like a Sweets apologist it makes sense in the context of the legend, where she's pretty much completely unhinged under the pleasant exterior.
However, that's not really an excuse because 99.9% of evil mythology women are actually total sweeties that dindu nuffin in the Nasuverse so it's not like Sweets had to make her kill our parents and torture our clone and try to femdom us and attack us with simpclones and abandon us because she was mad we blew up her house and cucked her.
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>>4717495
She cools off after Odysseus gives her a dicking and lets him stay with her for years
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Rereading the good old innocent times before the HGW. WhatIs, you're suck a jokester sometimes.
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>>4717502
>suck
such. Fuck, what a terrible typo.
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>>4717502
>Potentially, depending on how players feel about continuing the quest after the end of the Fifth War
I feel like we kinda have to now, it'll be extremely funny to handle the fallout of conquering England and our romantic endeavors. Funny how fast we speedrun Tsukihime though, we genuinely lucked out with Nrvnqsr though
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>>4717492
Yep.
>>4717495
>>4717499
Circe is good to the one she loves, which, at the time was Yumigawa/Jobereitch. She'd built up quite a good relationship with mc, only to go back to sadistic cunt over what was essentially a simple misunderstanding. And then, after the audience was made to hate her mc's hand was forced into brutalising her to break any last loyalty and affection she had left just to ensure she stayed an antagonist.

I'd prefer if she died from mana drain off screen honestly.
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>>4717507
I definitely agree, if WhatIs is willing. Moving past the HGW would be a blast.
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>>4717509
But you're forgetting that only happened because the players didn't investigate Yumigawa at all, even after all the hints towards them being alive.
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>>4717492
Despite it being lame how Sweets handled our Servants after the war, I really liked fighting Circe.
I'll never forget how we ordered her to return to us, and when she didn't we just t-posed and had Salter reduce her entire temple to molten gold.
classic
>>4717509
>Circe is good to the one she loves
nope,in Awakening flashbacks she forced Odysseus into a death loop because she wouldn't let him go even though he was old and done with life.
>>4717516
We had other shit to do, and were basically warned not to check it out by spoilerman.
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>>4717523
That's because Odysseus wanted to escape to Penelope and actually left Circe. Jobber still wanted Circe, and was forced away not by choice. But his ego snowballed so far making his verbal prompts switch towards "you are an object of mine" rather than what was once "you are an important person to me"
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>>4717523
Nah, there were multiple opportunities to check on him where nothing of importance happened, but everyone picked the less relevant choice instead.
Sweets even said later after they showed up again that he was expecting everyone to look for them at least a little, rather than not at all.
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>>4717530
I think when the MC starts rebelling against the write-in directly, something might be going wrong.
I remember that one update that was so poorly received by everyone for being straight up domesntic abuse that nobody wanted that Sweets had to rewrite it.
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>>4717532
That Circe pulp one was really fucked and over the top. Felt like Sweets wanted to share his Ryona fic
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>>4717470
Grand Grail was a fun quest, though I don’t know when it’s coming back.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=Grand%20Grail
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>>4717474
Fate/Altered Type whilst not as ancient was pretty good before the QM got caught in the blackhole known as gacha hell.
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thanks for the recomendations.
I guess i will give a look at spacebattles or questionable questing for more
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>>4717555
Check out sufficient velocity too, never knew about questionable questing exist
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>>4717553
Somehow I never saw this quest, cheers for the reading material while WhatIs writeslaves
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>>4717562
QQ is the only place where you can have quests with loli.
SV don't even allow teen characters to kiss, its autistic.
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>>4717576
>imagine having to censor non-existent people that appear as words on a page.
Faggots.
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>>4717576
>SV don't even allow teen characters to kiss, its autistic.
Ok i don't care for lolis at all but this rule is fucking retarded
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>>4717588
Its the nu-internet. Say one wrong thing on the wrong website and your life is over. Like I said, they are faggots.
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>>4717593
I just want to be free.
It's a shame normies need to do their gay normalcy policing even on the internet of all places.
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>>4717616
Most normies don't give a shit anon. They're not the enemy, they're indifferent NPCs at worst. Don't want to derail the thread by discussing this further though.
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"Karna, your skill... do you think you can judge the character of all these people right now, and determine which of them would truly prefer being an oni over being a human?" It should potentially be possible, based on what you know about Karna.

"I cannot believe you are asking my Servant that." Ciel's voice is deadpan.

"Oh come on, I don't know if you're aware, but the suicide rate in this country is pretty sky high, a lot of people are caught in dead-end jobs to wageslave for the rest of their lives. There's a reason more than a few people end up withdrawing from life to become misanthropic hikikomoris, Ciel." Honestly though? Life for the common person in Japan is generally pretty awful, it's a very work-focused society, and that leads to tremendously high rates of stress among the common man, of course Ciel probably wouldn't have any idea about this, spending the majority of her time slaying monsters and demons and vampires and what have you. "Besides, what would you do, kill them all despite them not having done anything wrong yet? Isn't that too cruel?"

"Yeah... But... Becoming oni? Isn't that... a little much? You're basically condemning these people to a fate of being human-eating monsters!" Ciel sounds less than pleased about the idea of letting this happen, though really, it's not like there's any real chance to turn them back, and unless Ciel thinks killing them is preferable, then this is the best you can do. The process is irreversible, after all. Or well, it should be, but nothing is truly irreversible, it might be irreversible for Shuten by herself, but for you, the wielder of Truth, and apparently God's chosen savior, something like that reversing something that is irreversible should be possible.

"You know, just because we can eat humans, doesn't mean we actually have to. It's not like we're vampires, dependent on the stolen life-force of humans to continue existing. Livestock and alcohol are capable of sustaining an oni, especially if they have yet to taste human flesh." Shuten states with a bored voice as she extracts herself from Ibaraki's grip. "Besides, it's not like I can turn them back, I'm afraid that my new Noble Phantasm is a one way ticket to oni-hood, just as it would be in life... Well, unless you were to do something like attain enlightenment or something similarly dull." So... it's not quite impossible then? Still, attaining enlightenment as in... Buddhahood? That's hardly something that can realistically be said to be possible for all but the tiniest fraction of things to have ever lived.
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"Regardless of whatever else might be said on the matter. I'm afraid not, these people are currently still all reeling from the awakening... or well, the creation of the demonic blood that now flows through them, I can only read suppressed rage from each and every one of them." The bow-wielding hero shakes his head. "Perhaps if they were in their right minds, I would be able to determine something like that, but if that were the case, it would just be simpler to ask them whether they would wish to continue existing as they were."

"Ha! As if any of my new oni would want to return to being boring humans!" Ibaraki finally joins in on the conversation. "And uh... You, Shinji. I... wanted to apologize for attacking you, I can't believe I attacked Shuten's master..." It seems like she's less upset that she attacked you and that she was wrong in her initial judgment about you, and that she's more upset because she attacked the man that Shuten decided was interesting enough to serve as her Master. Whatever, an apology is an apology.

"Apology accepted, Ibaraki." You hold out a hand to her, and she looks at it awkwardly for a moment, until she suddenly takes it, as if she had a flash of inspiration from somewhere. You shake her red clawed hand for a moment before you end the handshake and begin speaking once more. "Still, something has to be done about all these oni for now, have you got... any ideas?"

"Well, I suppose that I could lead them out of the city, and see if I can't find a nice peaceful mountain for them to settle on, at least for now... I'll... probably be a little bit too busy to help you until I can get them under control if I did that though..." So, Ibaraki is offering to actually... leave the grail war indefinitely? "But if I do that, I want Shuten to at least come and see me once a day.

"Ibaraki, you're... aware that once the Holy Grail is shut off, you won't be able to continue staying in this world, right?" You just want to make sure that the girl is actually understanding of just what sort of a sacrifice she would be making by doing such a thing.
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"Which is why I had better get these oni properly trained before I'm not around to guide them any more, obviously." Ibaraki looks at you like you're an idiot, and in that moment, you decide that... you really don't want to see her disappear, any more than you want to see the rest of your allies disappear after the Grail War. Full incarnation... between Betty's powers and your own, not to mention the input of three tremendously talented Casters... it shouldn't be... impossible. Even if you would normally need a tremendous reservoir of mana to do something like this, the fact is that Alítheia exists, and the girl can output far more magical energy than a typical Holy Grail could even when it is filled almost to the brim with the souls of Servants. Unless it is linked to a truly endless supply of magical energy like a connection to the Root could grant it, then Alítheia would easily overpower a grail with six Servant souls within it. The only real issue is getting Alítheia to a point of development where she can use Truth in more ways than just wielding it in vast quantities as an ultimate destructive force. You still shudder at the thought of how devastating Alítheia could end up being if she were fully grown. She would very much be a dragon that could consume the entire world... Not that you ever think she would, she's too precious for that.

"Ibaraki, that's a... surprisingly selfless offer, but are you sure that you'll be able to lead them out of the town safely? Outside of your Noble Phantasm, they should start losing themselves to their rage, right?" While you're happy that Ibaraki wants to actually be this helpful

"Well... that is true. But the instinct of an Oni is to follow the Oni stronger than themselves, even in a mostly thoughtless state like this lot, they'll follow my commands, even if I have to discipline a few of them first!" Ibaraki has a savage smile on her face as she looks at the hundreds of kneeling Oni, who are almost motionless as a result of being subjected to the Oni-controlling properties of her Noble Phantasm. Honestly, something like this might even be able to work on Half-Oni Servants! So long as they don't have complete control over their powers as an Oni, then it would seem that this Noble Phantasm would defeat them instantly! In many ways, this Fortress Noble Phantasm is as much an Anti-Oni Noble Phantasm as anything could possibly be.

>"If that's what you want to do, I won't stop you. However... I don't intend to let any of the Servants who wish to continue living after this war ends to fade out."
>"As tempting as it is to have you take this problem away for now, it's not ideal. If you can't leave them unattended, it would mean we would lose you and your strength. No, I'll think of another way... (What?)
>Write-in...
I just
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>>4717628
>>"If that's what you want to do, I won't stop you. However... I don't intend to let any of the Servants who wish to continue living after this war ends to fade out."

>Also offer to bankroll their new village so they don't need to pilfer things from the nearby human settlements. Her master would appreciate this too I imagine, being in it for money.
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>>4717628
You know, I have no idea what that spoiler was even meant to say.
Oh well.
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>>4717635
get well soon
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>>4717628
>>4717634
Support
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>>4717634
>>4717628
Support
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>>4717628
>>4717634
+1 It's the perfect solution. We'll come back and ask them if they prefer to stay as Oni or go back to wageslaving when they've calmed down.

And Shinji, you fucking idiot, you JUST realized we want to incarnate everyone? That's been the plan from the beginning! Though it has been more of a pipe dream until recently, I admit.

>>4717635
You alright, WhatIs?
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>>4717641
I think I should probably go to bed.
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>>4717641
Imagine choosing wagecuckery over drinking and feasting in the mountains with your superpowered monster gf.

Return to Oni.
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>>4717634
+1, also invite Kouma or have it set up near his mountainside, I feel like him and Tohno would be happy with more Oni brethren.

Seriously though, make it an option to turn them back, some of these people are kids or people with families, its kinda fucked to do this to them
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>>4717647
Alright, goodnight!

>>4717649
Honestly, if I were put in this position, I would choose to be turned back to human, I'm attached to my form. But instead of going back to wageslavery I would fall on my knees and beg for the mage who cured me and hangs out with literal figures of myth to take me in as whatever. Apprentice, ideally, doing the laundry if nothing else.

>>4717652
Don't worry. We just have to remember to go back and ask them when they've calmed down. They're fucked.
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With our power boost, I wonder if its possible to overcharge Caster to bind a Servant for RB like pic.
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I can't stop thinking of someone going through all the trouble of summoning a Saver class servant and getting selfish asshole Shinji instead of a stoic messiah.
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>>4717660
Under Manaka's influence they all just no sell it. Shuten has no magic resistance yet broke out through unga bunga. Most other things will have B or higher Magic Resistance to deal with first which would cancel the power boost I imagine.

I reckon a tag team move with Medea where she opens a few warp panels around so we can emulate how Gil uses Enkidu with Truth chains would be more effective. Designed in such a way that struggling just tightens the grip on the target.

The main problem with the chains is they're unbreakable but have no good anchor or range/momentum.
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>>4717667
Would be pretty fun to just run through the OG FSN as a servant. Rin summons us instead of Archer, first thing we do is save Sakura and erase Zouken from existence and then maybe kick the shit out canon Shinji if we have time
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Now that I think about it, Shinji qualifies for quite a few extra classes, if he were a Servant.
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>>4717685
Foreigner would be his strongest I feel
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>>4717685
Alterego, Foreigner, Beast, Ruler, Watcher, Voyager, Avenger on a bad day - maybe after some future loss and Mooncancer after Mooncell episode if it ever happens.
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>>4717688
You forgot Saver, the most fitting of all.
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>>4717691
And Shielded after he blocked Alcidies'arrow? Bit of a stretch. Saver soon, post Grail War.
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>>4717685
Saber (Truth Sword), Caster (In General or Kaliedo Amythest form), Assasin (Martial Arts only), Rider (Rides in a Rolls Royce while firing Truth blasts).
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>>4717685
foreigner and caster, easily. Maybe saber since we have a literal Sword of Truth able to summon up on a whim.
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>>4717628
>>4717634
+1
time to bring the old beings to this side of the world again.
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>>4717686
Well, if he were to be summoned right now as he currently is, I'll tell you what classes would probably be open to him.
>Saber (At a stretch due to the Sword of Truth. An improper class.)
>Assassin (At a stretch due to his Bajiquan and Snake Style. An improper class.)
>Caster (Obvious reasons)
>AlterEgo (Due to being a gestalt being with the original Shinji)
>Beast (He already has the aptitude, just not the personality for it.)
>Foreigner (Self-explanatory)
>Ruler (No wish for the Holy Grail)
>Watcher (Unknown qualifications for actual class, but likely.)
>Voyager (Has travelled an infinite distance due to having come from a higher plane of reality.)
>Saver (As a being brought about by God to act as one, he has the qualifications for this class, though massively unlikely to be summoned as one as he currently is.)
>Shielder (At a stretch thanks to truth barriers, an improper class, and potentially his weakest.)
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>>4717685
Laser beam of truth probably qualifies us for Archer as well.
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>>4717694
I'm still annoyed that fgo refuses to add more Shielder servants simply to let mash be a special snowflake.
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We probably should let kuzuki know what is happening so he can at least keep himself out of trouble.
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>>4717708
there would probably be more, but until then there weren't really many successful psuedo-servants, and even less would work to fuse with what was basically a homunculus not even scheduled to survive as long as she did
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>>4717714
what? i'm talking about the class, not how mash came to be a servant.
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>>4717712
kinda feel bad we stole his waifu but she's extremely hot so it was justified

>>4717708
Mashu has to be super special so there can't be more Shielders, though if there were, Achilles, Ajax and Leonidas would fit
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>>4717712
iirc, we tried scrying for him and got nothing.

>>4717716
Yeah, I felt pretty bad for a while, but then we got her back and I remembered why we stole her in the first place.
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>>4717708
Achillies, Ferdiad, Ajax, Percival, Arthur, Gawain, Svalinn, plenty of curries, Aeneas, Diomedes, Rostam and plenty more.
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>>4717719
if Taiga x Waver doesn't work out we can set him up with Taiga
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>>4717721
Somehow left Leonidas off the list too, seeing as he's been canon confirmed.
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>>4717722
>Taiga x Waver
Waver belongs to Reines.
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>>4717721
man Diomedes is so based, he's that one lower end Servant that i really want to show up, him and Orpheus
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>>4717729
I just want Orochi's lancer to be Jason, just so Medea can lord it over him how much better her new husband is.
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>>4717721
Perseus can also be a Shielder, considering his usage of the Aegis, which would likely be uh... upgraded with Medusa's head on it.
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>>4717728
Reines belongs to Taiga.
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>>4717729
Orpheus could fit right in as a lower tier caster. Easy to chuck into FGO too as he could just be a quick Mozart. Greek lostbelt is done though and no lower rarity servants ever so minor figures like them probably won't get much screentime if ever.

>>4717734
Would have thought limiting him to just Aegis would be a detriment, but you're right. Also I wonder if Odyseuss would keep his mecha as a shielder, as it's just a horse buffed using the Aegis so its technically just a big shield mecha?
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>>4717628
that's what you want to do, I won't stop you. However... I don't intend to let any of the Servants who wish to continue living after this war ends to fade out."
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>>4717743
he's mentioned a fair amount so never say never
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So with our upgrade we can sustain 12 or so hungry women daily, right?
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>>4717743
I've been waiting for King Midas or Guy Fawkes (assassin) for ages. And not that edgey cunt anonymouse guy fawkes either, the religious one who hated the idea of some other group trying to influence his faith.
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>>4717756
we don't know how to cook tho, Shirou and Sakura gotta handle that while we conquer Britain
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>>4717769
we do, we are as good as Shirou currently
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>>4717776
do we? must've missed that
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>>4717780
>>4717776
we still arent on EMIYA's level, i think.
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>>4717628
Supporting >>4717634
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>>4717634
>>4717628
Support
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would be really funny if kuzuki was one of the people to become a oni.
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>>4717908
>Snake Style upgrades into Orochi Style
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>>4717704
>Saber (At a stretch due to the Sword of Truth. An improper class.)
sword that cannot be broken and will cut through anything
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>>4717634
>>4717628
Support.
Woo, Oni village!
Somewhere in the Throne of Heroes, Raicow is seething hardcore.
I wonder what Shinji would be like in Chaldea. Just trolling the Master relentlessly?
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>>4718068
shinji turned out wrong because he had no mother figure
she can fix it
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>>4718076
We had Monica and Touko.
We don't require torpedo titties.
Not when we've got Sakuramat and Gorgon.
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All this talk of Awakening/Akeldama has made we really want to see our boy troll the shit out of Yumigawa/Alberich.
Also his worthless oni sister would get spanked by Ibaraki. Then again, if Shinji was in Akeldama, I doubt Alberich's worthless sister would be obsessed by him come the conclusion and would instead be more focused on the gigachad... if Shinji doesn't just shatter the Akeldama to dab on Cid.

We still need to ask Shirou or EMIYA to let us inside their marbles so we can upgrade them with a concept.
Should we go for Perfect again?
Divine maybe?
Upgraded?
Costless/Free?
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>>4718087
Did we upgrade Satsuki's RM? I can't remember.
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>>4718087
swords
more swords
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>>4718087
Let's add the concept of Sword to Shirou's for shits and giggles.
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>>4718089
I don't think so.
Besides, her reality marble is already like her.
Perfect.
>>4718090
>>4718091
This doesn't help him.
We already gave him all our swords.
If we give him Divine then UBW might turn into a Divine Forge capable of perfectly reproducing divine weaponry and other weapons too.
He might also get divinity.
Which isn't exactly ideal.
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>>4718087
>EMIYA
divine or replenishing
>Shirou
sustainable or embodiment of human nature or creation
>>4718089
>Satsuki
evolving
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>>4718094
Yeah I don't think there's anything we can do to improve Salvation Garden, or at least nothing comes to mind.
>>4718094
Anything to improve its ability to trace and replicate.
Replication itself would be a good one, as it concerns both copying and the creation of copies.
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>>4718094
but swords...
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>>4718098
Just give UBW an actual soundtrack that plays to all who are inside it.
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>>4718098
Anything that lets them trace with no rank down makes them busted beyond belief.
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>>4718106
So, Flawless?
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https://youtu.be/4Gqrcd0maUU
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>>4718107
Maybe.
I do kind of wonder who we could get on bored for Mordred's conquest.
Ibaraki and her Oni when they've been trained for sure.
Medea, Tamamo, Shuten and Morgan by default as well.
Alitheia will be great for making an entrance on.
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>>4718108
Why are Shiki and Arc pallet swaps of Shirou and Saber?
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>>4718113
Because TsukiR is soulless.
Peak soulless.
Type-Moon needs to die.
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>>4718118
thank you manaka really cool
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>>4718110
>Alitheia will be great for making an entrance on.
Which reminds me, this song's chorus (at 2:48) fit Alitheia to a t, and I'm ashamed I didn't think to post it when we first got our dragon daughter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMTIB2SIO9E&t=168s

>Mighty and glorious
>He flies through the emerald skies
>Magic dragon
>Casting a spell on the mountains
>Covering wizards in glory
>Flying through majestic skies
>Searching for mighty powers
>To defeat ultimate evil
>Ride on the wings of a dragon
>Flying through majestic skies
>Questing for the steel
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I wonder if the magi will bend the knee or if we're going to need to have Sakura, Shuten and Alitheia eat a bunch of them tiol they get the message.
Just tell Sakura that if given the chance most magi would be as bad as Zouken and let her do her thing.
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>>4718133
Reines will be with us after we heal her Crest. She and Waver will probably be able to convince some to bow before their new King, but I imagine a lot will need to be eaten.

Magi are terrible people anyway, Sakura won't hesitate after we find the first basement full of kids.
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>>4718135
After the first 1000 or so are digested into mana, the rest will hopefully get the message.
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>>4718143
>No more human experimentation
>Yes, homunculi are people too
Dunno, I don't think they'll like it very much. And Medea would definitely want in on the action, she saw modern Magecraft first-hand and was completely disgusted by it.
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Seriously though, assuming we don't just wipe out the entire MA with a surprise attack and instead offer a chance to kneel to King Mordred, who will our best allies be for dealing with dissenters?
Sakura is obvious of course.
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>>4718145
>Do what I tell you or I feed you to my daughter, my sisterwife or my concubine.
Seems fairly straightforward to me
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>>4718148
Probably arc i doubt any attack by the MA can harm or stop arc they need to be orochi level of threat to even do anything to 50% arc
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>>4718151
>Do what I tell you or I feed you to my daughter, my sisterwife or my casterwife
ftfy. Medea definitely deserves to be more than a mere concubine.
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>>4718154
I was talking about Shuten.
Unless you want Medea to take a leaf from Auntie Circe's book and turn all the magi into pigs.
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>>4718155
I'm sure she'll come up with something creative on her own.
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>>4718156
I doubt Medea is the sort of person to actually...
You know...
Eat people like the aforementioned three have 0 real hang-ups with.
She might eat their souls or turn them into mystic codes, but I doubt she's going to suddenly start eating people completely without some Majin Buu tier food transformation bullshit going on.
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>>4718162
You do realize it doesn't have to be a literal eating, right?
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just seal root from magi
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>>4718166
That breaks the theme though.
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>>4718167
Too simple.
Too merciful.
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>>4718168
Sakura doesn't technically eat them either though.
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>>4718183
Will Gorgon have ptsd flashbacks to Perseus when she sees us QM? She kept making comparisons between Shinji and Perseus after all.
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>>4718183
If Sakura arrives next update, Shinji had better run up to her, hug her, and tell her it's all going to be alright, we'll save Medusa.
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>>4718184
>Will Gorgon have ptsd flashbacks
She's basically in one big long PTSD flashback right now, simply as a result of being transformed into the Gorgon.
As for your resemblance to Perseus... Probably not unless you dye your hair red and ask EMIYA for a copy of Harpe.
Personality wise, she calls Perseus a "successful Shinji" in Hollow Ataraxia, and considering what we know of Perseus from Proto, this obviously isn't right.
It's almost certainly Rider drawing a false equivalance about the two men she hates the most.
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>>4718189
>It's almost certainly Rider drawing a false equivalance about the two men she hates the most.
Thank goodness, Rider deserves happiness.
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"If that's what you want to do, then I want stop you, Ibaraki, however... Don't go getting any ideas that I'm just going to let you fade away after this war ends... I'm not going to let any of the Servants who still wish to continue living after I shut the Grail off to vanish, even if I have to find a way to incarnate you all... I... I have the magical energy reserves to do this, and I've got the knowledge and power too." Between everything, incarnating a Servant should be something that is more than possible to accomplish. The Knowledge of three Casters, in addition to both Touko and Aoko, Betty's authority, which is seemingly capable of straight up granting true life to memories, so doing the same to a Servant's Class Container ought to be a possibility too. You find yourself wondering whether it would be possible for Betty to create faux-resurrections of anybody she wished, though you don't know if you really want to push her to using her power like that. Abigail was one thing, but you don't want to start using the girl like she's some sort of free resurrection factory, not to mention that you doubt that she'll be able to create perfect copies of people without having a very solid blueprint of them in mind first. Then there's also the problem of whether or not those resurrected will even be the same person. Considering that her power actually involves the creation of a new soul entirely, you could probably safely assume that's not the case, and that the original would still be dead... You don't really want to think too hard about all this right now, all that you really care for is that you have the resources to do something like this. "You don't want to disappear if it can be prevented, right Ibaraki?"

"Well... Not... Not when I have so much to live and fight for..." Ibaraki sounds more than a little awkward about things now. "If you're saying that you can keep me around, then I'll happily take you up on that offer! I don't know how long it will take to train these oni into shape, honestly, and without me, they would probably just get themselves all hunted down..." Well, you don't know about that, if even one of those Oni are half as strong as somebody like Kouma, then only the most powerful organizations would have a chance in hell of defeating them. Of course, over-inflating Ibaraki's ego about the power of her new oni subordinates probably isn't a good idea, so you keep your mouth shut.
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"Well good, also, so you don't have to steal things in order to set up whatever sort of village you're planning on creating, I'm going to give you a billion yen to use as you see fit, Miho." You turn to the Master of the Oni leader. "I trust you to use it a little more wisely than Ibaraki might." Honestly, knowing Ibaraki, she might just try to eat it or something. Of course, while it might currently be a possibility to actually use Betty to fulfill Miho's actual wish she wanted granted, you don't really want to make any promises about using her for that, especially when merely bringing Abigail back to life has sent the girl into a deep slumber for hours at least. You can't afford her to fall asleep like this again, not when Betty is likely your most powerful ally of all thanks to her Authority.

"Really? But... why?" Miho looks a little bit shocked at you suddenly making such a statement, and God was right, you don't care for any of the money you've accumulated. It's not something that you really use for yourself, in truth, you wouldn't really care what sort of a life you ended up living, as long as you could make those you cared for happy, then you would be happy too... Heh, maybe you're a little bit more like Shirou than you first thought.

"My money means very little to me, honestly. Just take it." In truth, you're also feeling just a little bit guilty in the role you played in having all those people transformed. If you had just trusted Shuten, and didn't doubt her, then it may very have been possible to have avoided her ever using her Noble Phantasm... Then again, she may have also used that Noble Phantasm on you... The contract said specifically that you weren't to be killed, but transforming somebody into an Oni to serve you... doesn't exactly count as killing. You have no doubts that you would've been capable of maintaining your sanity too. Then again, if that were the case, you don't even know if it would've been that terrible to have been transformed. Physical strength on the level of a Servant and a far greater supply of magical energy would've made you far more powerful, after all. Still, you don't know what might've ended up happening if Shuten had used that Noble Phantasm on you of all people. "That being said, I won't be able to give it to you immediately, because I'm a little bit busy trying to save the world, but I'll be by soon with Shuten when you've found a place to settle... and do try not to eat anyone when you do." Of course, such incidents are probably going to be unavoidable at first, even with Ibaraki and Miho trying to keep all the transformed Oni under control, some of them are still going to inevitably get loose... Well, that's something that Ibaraki has promised to deal with. "Now, everyone else, we're going to be leaving Ibaraki and Miho to go and deal with the Oni... I'd suggest you two lead them directly south of the town, and avoid the forests to the east."
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"Well yeah, obviously." Ibaraki shrugs. "You don't need to tell me to avoid the god of destruction in the forests to the east." Well, she is a natural born survivor, after all, so you suppose that you really didn't need to tell her to avoid getting herself killed off. You... don't actually think you ever even got to see the full extent of Ibaraki's abilities. Ah well.

"Well then, if you think you've got things handled here, Ibaraki, then... I guess I'll leave the rest to you. Everyone else, hold each others hands, I'm about to have us all teleported back." You look to the woman with such capabilities with a smile, as you take both her and Shuten's hand. "Medea?" The woman nods, and thrusts her staff into the air.

"Tροψα!" There's a surge of power, and you can see the world shift around you as you are transported out of the shopping center and safely in front of your own mansion once more. Of course, as you arrive at your mansion, you see a large helicopter in the process of touching down on a flat plot of land in your garden. Hmmph, note to self, install a helipad when the opportunity arises...

You have a solemn expression on your face as you see your allies finally arriving, looks like you won't need to put off going after the Gorgon for any time at all, however, it might be an idea to actually have a few of them actually get on with a few things while you do. You don't think it would be a good idea to bring anyone to the Gorgon who may hold some sort of hostility in their hearts towards her, as an Avenger she would almost certainly be able to tell those emotions. No, of everyone, the only people you can really trust to confront Rider is... well, Sakura herself. Anyone else may just have an emotional response that could lead to Gorgon finally losing control of herself entirely. That damn Avenger skill of hers is kind of a nuisance to deal with.

It's only at this moment that you realize that you managed to leave Enhance at the shopping center... probably for the best, you can't imagine he would've had a positive reaction to being teleported directly into sunlight without any thick clothes to protect himself. Although, the sun has started to set now, so night will soon be upon you. You can always ask Caster to scry for Enhance later on if you think you'll need him, for now though...
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You turn your attention back to the helicopter, which has now been switched off as it sits lifelessly on your garden. The side door opens up, and your missing allies start to filter out of the helicopter. Satsuki is wearing a hooded cloak to protect herself from the sunlight, of course, but everyone else appears somewhat normal. Sakura walks out after Satsuki, holding onto Alítheia's hand, it's quite clear that Sakura is upset still about Rider. Shirou and Saber are next out of the Helicopter. Followed by Touko and Lugh. Was it really necessary to split so much of your combat potential into protecting Sakura like this? Honestly, you pity whatever fool magus would attempt to kidnap her. She used her magic to devour Nrvnqsr like he was absolutely nothing, after all. Right now, you imagine that if Sakura wants somebody dead, truly, then there is very little they or anybody else on the planet could do to prevent that from coming to pass.

You find yourself walking towards your allies before you even realize what you're doing, and in that moment you decide that the first people you should welcome back personally are...

>Sakura, of course.
>Sakura and Alitheia, of course..
>Shirou and Saber?
>Touko and Lugh?
>Satsuki?
>Write-in...
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>>4718305
>Sakura and Alitheia, of course..
Makes the most sense.
It might be worth it to bring Alítheia to meet Rider too.
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>>4718305
>Sakura and Alitheia, of course..
>Hug Sakura, tell her everything will be alright, we'll save Medusa together
>Hug and headpat Alitheia.
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>>4718323
>might be worth it to bring Alítheia to meet Rider too.
I think Alitheia might sense some hostility towards the monster she never met before.
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>>4718330
>>4718305
Support
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>>4718305
Adding
>Hug Sakura, tell her everything will be alright, we'll save Medusa together
>Hug and headpat Alitheia.
to >>4718323
>>4718331
She is an innocent child and a big monster as well.
And was in similar situation just few hours ago.
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>>4718305
>Satsuki?
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>>4718305
>Satsuki?
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>>4718305
>>4718323
>>4718351
Support
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Calling in... 20.
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>>4718351
>>4718305
Support
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>>4718305
>>Sakura and Alitheia, of course..
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>>4718305
>>4718400
Support
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>>4718305
backing >>4718351 and >>4718331, though let's not forget Satsuki
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Speaking of not forgetting Satsuki, we need to feed her before we go for Gorgon.
She hasn't eaten in at least a day.
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>>4718426
This, but I hope the blessed circuits don't mean our magical energy is now holy and therefore deadly to Satsuki. We should stop and check that first
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>>4718428
We don't have holy magical energy so it shouldn't be a problem,
If we did, we'd have the Divinity skill, and bigger issues than having to get someone else to feed our vampire girlfriend.
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>>4718428
His circuits are blessed not his blood or body. The blood is essentially magic neutral. Forgot what Madea called it but it's similar to AOGs.
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>>4718454
True ether iirc
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Of course, there are only two people that you need to see right now. Sakura, and Alítheia, and of course while you're happy to see the rest of your allies, especially Satsuki and Touko, it's Sakura who needs you the most right now. You race over to her and Alítheia, and sweep the two of them into a hug. "Sakura, don't worry. I'm going to save Medusa, I promise." The girl doesn't even get to say a peep as you hold onto her and Alítheia tightly.

"O-Onii-chan..." Even Sakura's voice sounds sad, the fact that not only has she had Rider taken from her by Manaka, but that the contract she was holding onto with her Servant has been crushed by Manaka now, resulting in the monstrous little girl turning Medusa into the thing she dreads the most. But you can still save Rider, you won't allow her to suffer, she's still in there, otherwise she wouldn't have hidden herself away in that prison. After all, the Gorgon is the sort of threat that can very rapidly depopulate an entire town if it had such an inclination to do so. It's a monster at least as powerful as multiple servants, one that would require a single man to have a tremendous amount of luck or strength to overcome alone.

"Father!" Alítheia is very happy to see you, and snuggles against you even as you hold her in your arms, slightly suspended off of the floor as a result of her lack of any real height, she's a very small girl, then again, she's still very young. You... aren't really sure just how dragon growth cycles work, then again, it's kind of doubtful that Alítheia will even apply to such standards anyway, as far as Dragons go, this girl may very well potentially become the most powerful dragon to have ever existed. The amount of magical energy she is capable of putting out is frankly ridiculous, after all. Alítheia, just through putting out her massive reservoir of magical energy, is something that could forcibly cause a reversion of the the World to an Age of Gods like state. of course, this reversion would take some time, but seeing as she'll likely grow even more powerful as she grows up... Well, you aren't quite certain if it would be a truly good idea to force science and mystery to co-exist forcibly by massively inflating the quantity of available magical energy in the world. Things would probably get a little bit strange if that were to happen.
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"Sakura, Alítheia. It's good to see the two of you again. Things have... gone a little poorly since we last saw each other. We need to kill Zouken, who has sacrificed the last aspects of his existence in order to use himself as the vessel for the Draconic Snake God, Yamata-no-Orochi." Of course, now that Alítheia is here with you, Orochi should be something that is even more manageable than just relying on Alcides' Noble Phantasm. A combination of Alítheia's presence here as well as Sakura's binding abilities, which are seemingly greater than even Medea's own spells, will make dealing with the god that was once your ancestor that much easier. Now that your allies are back together, your strength has once again reached near where it's peak once was. You've got a lot of news you need to share with the rest of your allies too, but that can wait. You set Alítheia down and stop hugging Sakura for just a moment. "Prepare yourself, Sakura, we're going to need to set off to visit Fuyuki Prison sooner rather than later, we need to... save Medusa. But as a result of her current existence as the Gorgon, only those who can be certain won't feel any hatred towards her, even the slightest amount, can go with us. She's barely holding on as it is, I fear that the activation of the Avenger skill may just overwhelm the last of her senses." Besides, between yourself and Sakura, you are the only two people you feel that the Gorgon might hesitate to attack. Even if you can sever the contract tying Medusa to Manaka by overwhelming her with sheer force, it won't do any good if the last of her original self is consumed by the hatred of the Gorgon as you do so. "Of course, there's something else I need to do first."

You walk over to Satsuki, and slash the palm of your hand. While God blessed your magic circuits, it doesn't actually mean that you are ascribed any true holy qualities yourself. You can tell that your magic energy could probably take on a holy attribute if you wanted it to, it wouldn't really serve much purpose to infuse your blood with such energy, especially not when it is by default suffused with either Truth or just a frankly ridiculous amount of magical energy. "H-huh?! Here, Shinji-kun?!" Satsuki sounds a little confused by your haste, but there's a good reason for you to be so hasty. You really need to hurry up if you want to save Gorgon.

"That's right, Satsuki. Right here. You aren't embarrassed are you?" You'd honestly prefer doing this in a private place as well, but as you're on a tight time limit, you really can't. In fact, right now, the rest of your allies are as yet unaware of what is going on with the rest of your allies. "Apologies that I have to do this now, but this is something that I can't delay." Really, it won't do to let Satsuki starve just because you're busy.
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"N-no! Of course not!" The hooded girl is quick to respond, embarrassment clearly evident on her face. You have a little bit more trust in Satsuki's self control now, and you, perhaps a little foolishly, reach your hand into her hood, next to her mouth. She is slow to act, even with this opportunity granted to her, but soon starts to suck a great deal of blood out of the open wound on your palm, yet still being careful as to avoid going too far with her feeding, and never once even grazing you with her teeth. She only stops after your natural healing factor seals up the wound, and though she's obviously a little disappointed, you can tell that she's probably had her fill by now. Your blood is now even more rich with magical energy than it has ever been before.

Sakura is looking at you with a small frown. Maybe... It wasn't the best idea to do that in front of everyone else. Then again, the rest of your allies you brought to the garden with you weren't in nearly as much haste to race over to the rest of your allies who just arrived, so at least you don't have to deal with Medea as well right now. "Uhh... Well, everyone else, feel free to... well go inside. I'm probably not going to be following you." If going after the Gorgon is really as urgent as you currently believe it, there's simply no time to debrief your allies, is there?

>No, there's not. In fact, seeing as Sakura can't be teleported, stop Saber and Shirou and ask the two of them to accompany you. You need somebody to pilot the helicopter.
>Medusa can wait for a few more minutes, you need to brief everyone. There's a lot that has happened that your allies need to be made aware of.
>Give Medea a few mental commands to do something while you drive yourself and Sakura to Fuyuki Prison. (What do you want to ask her to do and ask the others to do?)
>Take some more Servants with you to go and confront the Gorgon, just in case... (Who do you want to come with you?)
>Write-in...
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>>4718503
>>No, there's not. In fact, seeing as Sakura can't be teleported, stop Saber and Shirou and ask the two of them to accompany you. You need somebody to pilot the helicopter.
Double date
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>>4718503

>No, there's not. In fact, seeing as Sakura can't be teleported, stop Saber and Shirou and ask the two of them to accompany you. You need somebody to pilot the helicopter.

in the words of the blue hedgehog, 'gotta go fast'
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>>4718503
How far is the prison, WhatIs? Would it maybe be faster than the car if we reinforced and carried Sakura through the rooftops like Archer carried Rin in the original timeline?

Also, we were warned not to take anyone with us, I think having Saber and Shirou accompany us will be a mistake, even if they stay in the chopper.
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>>4718503
>No, there's not. In fact, seeing as Sakura can't be teleported, stop Saber and Shirou and ask the two of them to accompany you. You need somebody to pilot the helicopter.
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>>4718523
It's about 22 minutes if you were to reinforce yourself and go from rooftop to rooftop.
15 minutes by car if you floored it.
and like, 4 minutes by helicopter.
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>>4718503
>No, there's not. In fact, seeing as Sakura can't be teleported, stop Saber and Shirou and ask the two of them to accompany you. You need somebody to pilot the helicopter.
>Give Medea a few mental commands to do something while you drive yourself and Sakura to Fuyuki Prison. (What do you want to ask her to do and ask the others to do?)
>>Ask your allies to share infromation about all things that happened to get every one up to speed
>>Ask Casters to make a live map of mana concentration in Fuyuki and nearby territories, mention to keep an eye on Waver`s group and Wukong
>>Ask Medea to be prepared to teleport to you just in case things go wrong or Rule Breaker is needed ASAP
>>Ask them to be prepared to move out to kill Orochi and possible third parties as soon as you are back
>>Warn them that Manaka or third parties might try to distract them or lure away and split the group so they should try to avoid obvious provactions as they are main goal of Manaka right now
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>>4718531
>>4718503
Support
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>>4718503
>>4718531
Support
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>>4718503
>No, there's not. In fact, seeing as Sakura can't be teleported, stop Saber and Shirou and ask the two of them to accompany you. You need somebody to pilot the helicopter.
>But not all the way. Have Saber stop the chopper a respectable distance from the prison, reinforce and carry Sakura yourself from rooftop to rooftop for the last couple minutes
>In the meantime, Give Medea a few mental commands to do something.
>Ask your allies to share information about all things that happened to get every one up to speed
>Ask Casters to make a live map of mana concentration in Fuyuki and nearby territories, mention to keep an eye on Waver`s group and Wukong
>Have Morgan add Shuten's battle continuation to Medea
>Have Archer trace Erosion
>Ask them to be prepared to move out to kill Orochi and possible third parties as soon as you are back
>Warn them that Manaka or third parties might try to distract them or lure away and split the group so they should try to avoid obvious provocations as they are main goal of Manaka right now
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>>4718525
Changing to this>>4718531
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>>4718503
Calling in 30 minutes.
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>>4718503
>>4718531
Support
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>>4718546
"I'ma give her a dick some day."
- Merlin probably.
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>>4718549
He does give off a creepy vibe even when he's just looking happily from the background.
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>>4718549
>>4718551
Merlin the discord moderator
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>>4718554
Most of the people in Fate/Tsukihime are in fact groomers since the protagonists are all high school age. Merlin is just a professional one with a unyielding futa fetish. Aoko/Touko/Monica are close second with Shounen H for Shiki and Shinji.
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>>4718559
It is not like being older helps all that much against it. Look at Groomgamesh and Kirei.
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>>4718559
When you put it that way, Touko is a better Groomer than Aoko
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>>4718503
Debrief shirou and saber on the way by helicopter, then have THEM relay the new info to everyone else when we send them back to the mansion
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>>4718568
>Touko is a better Groomer than Aoko.
Fact, she had the guts to at least stick around through our entire childhood into our teens. Aoko only came back during Shiki's high school years to avoid the police.
>>4718567
>Groomgamesh
Something, something, everything in the world belongs to me zasshu, fuhahahahaha.
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Maybe we should ask Madea to look into clearing the Grail Mud or keeping the allies that are with Rin informed on what's going on. Maybe keep track of what enhance is doing.
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>>4718614
Where is Ayaka, SHIKI and GIl?
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>>4718616
Last time we saw them, Gil was in full armor and running somewhere holding Ayaka's hand with Batman SHIKI following from the shadows. I do agree we should check up on them again soon.

>>4718614
Researching how to clean Mud is the very next thing on the agenda after we deal with Orochi, I'd say.
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>>4718619
Gil probably has something in his portal that could help with grail mud. He's so underutilized especially since we've freed him from Kirei.
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>>4718623
You should keep in mind we don't control him, he's not even officially allied with us, and he's still the arrogant bastard he's always been. At best we can influence his behaviour through Ayaka, but that's not something I'd like to rely on too much.
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>>4718619
We might as well assign her to do that while we handle Madusa. It won't take her long to update our allies, scry Gil, scry Enhance.
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>>4718650
True, but that was what the previous vote was about.
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Isn't half the group at Rin's? So is Madea going to teleport them to Shinji's?
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>>4718662
She's going to teleport them to Rin's. The whole reason behind going to Rin's was so that it would be less dangerous if Orochi followed.
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>>4718662
>Madea
Woah. When did we summon pic related? What class is she? Beast?? Berserker??
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>>4718669
clearly a gunner
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You walk over to your daughter and pat her on the head, deftly avoiding her horns... even though they don't exactly look very sharp as they are right now. "Alítheia, I'm going to need you to go and see your other mother for a few minutes now, OK? Me and Sakura have to go and do something important."

"OK, Father!" Alítheia is quick to respond to your commands and quickly takes off to go and see Medea, who you can see out of the corner of your eye, embracing the child when she reaches her. Hmm, Alítheia does seem to have gotten quite a bit more intelligent since the last time you saw her. Sakura must've spent the entirety of that helicopter trip with her doting on her and being motherly, teaching her as much as she can. You have a slight smile on your face as you look at your daughter, before you forcibly remove it. As much as you've come to rapidly love your new daughter, you can't ignore what's going on with Medusa and the rest of your allies right now. Knowing that Monica is being used as nothing more than a puppet for some Heroic Spirit or Divine Spirit makes you grit your teeth, almost as much as knowing just what a cruel fate Manaka has attempted to enact on Medusa.

You turn away from the scene of a daughter greeting her other mother, and you look at Shirou and Saber. "Hey, I'm going to need you to pilot the helicopter again, Saber. Shirou, you ought to come as well. I need to quickly get Sakura to the Fuyuki Prison... Rider... Medusa has... been corrupted, and I want to save her." You really aren't going to accept any other outcome here. You're not going to let Medusa be lost to her despair, no matter what.

Shirou's eyes harden. The mention of wanting to save somebody has immediately changed his mood. "Alright, come on, Saber. Looks like we've got something to do already." Ever the reliable friend, is Shirou. You still need to reveal that you've managed to find Kiritsugu to Shirou, but that can wait for a second. You don't need him to be distracted with that news right now. You need him thinking clearly. Same goes for Saber, you doubt that the swordswoman is looking forward to her next meeting with the magus killer. Especially the part where somebody has to reveal that she's actually gotten engaged to his son.
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"Then there's not a moment to lose. Sakura, follow me. Everyone else, return to the house, I'll be back shortly, and we'll hopefully have Rider with us." You really do hope that you can get to her fast enough, it would be a genuinely awful tragedy if you were incapable of saving Rider from the darkness hidden inside of her, that very same darkness that corrupted her into an insatiable monster in life who devoured even her own two beloved sisters. No, Medusa hasn't reached that level of madness just yet, you can tell. The true Gorgon had no remorse or regrets over what it did, it just ate and absorbed all that was in it's path until it was slain by Perseus. If Medusa were to truly become the Gorgon, then you imagine that she would already have wiped out over half of the city before anybody could've stopped her. The only two Servants that might've been able to get involved are Wukong, who would've immediately been petrified thanks to her magical energy only being ranked C+, or the as-yet-unknown Second Assassin, and seeing as they've kept themselves hidden for all this time, you find it unlikely that their Servant is some gamechangingly powerful Servant. "Saber, if you would?" You ask Saber to return to piloting the Helicopter once more. While you've gotten a little bit of experience in piloting these things, you'll leave it to the woman who is supernaturally talented with vehicles and can push them to beyond their actual limits, thanks.

As you all climb aboard the helicopter once more, you clear your throat with a cough, yelling over the noise of the engines starting up. "OK, here's the thing! When we get to the prison, set us down and return to the air! Medusa as she is right now will likely turn immediately hostile the moment she senses any sort of hostility directed in her direction! If you can hear from above that a fight has broken out against Gorgon, only then should you get involved! Also, watch out for other enemy Servants! You might come under attack at any moment!" It's about the best you can do with the two of them. You could have them set the helicopter down, but it's easier for a helicopter to evade enemy attacks if it is actually... you know, in the air.

'Medea, I have a few things I need to ask you to do while I go and retrieve Medusa. You shouldn't come with me, I fear your presence might cause her to lose control of herself.' You don't know how bad Medusa's situation is right now, but you don't see the need to make any sort of assumptions about it that could lead to even the possibility of the only way to deal with the woman being to kill her. That's the single big problem with dealing with Medusa as she currently is. Even with Truth, the Gorgon is such a terrifyingly powerful foe that you doubt you'd get even a chance to try to reverse it if things were to turn into an actual fight.
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>>4718669
We are clearly talking about Berserker Medea here. She is very mad, you see.
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'I understand, but I will be keeping an eye on things, to intervene if it is required of me.' Oh Caster, always so useful. You don't know how you ever managed to cope without having her by your side. Honestly, you really need to get Sakura a way to properly control the concept of nullification that she now has command over. The sooner she figures it out and how to disable it, then the sooner you won't have to keep making plans that specifically have to take into account Sakura's inability to be teleported by Caster's abilities.

'Thank you, Caster, but even if you are going to do that, I'm going to need you to do a few things in my absence, for one, I'm going to need you to have everyone get each other fully briefed about the current state of things.' You really feel like you ought to actually go to the next briefing of all of your allies, you seem to have managed to gain a bad habit of being absent from them whenever they discuss events and catch-up. 'Now, other than having everyone brief each other, I want you to look into working with the other Casters, and maybe Touko and Aoko, to create a magical map of Fuyuki, that tracks the magical energy given off by our enemies and allies. This should give us a way to somewhat determine the actions of everyone in the city without potentially alerting them to a scrying spell.' Honestly, ever since Monica showed herself capable of reacting to being scryed upon like she did, you've been a little more cautious about the idea of using them on especially powerful people. It failed to work on Gilgamesh as well, so despite the incredible use of the spell to you, it's not entirely reliable.

'Very well, Master. I will... ask the other Casters for their assistance in the creation of a magical surveillance device after the rest of your allies are properly informed of current events. Medea doesn't seem to mind being asked to collaborate on something with the other women. Probably a sign of respect for her peers in magecraft, which is much much different to how she would treat a typical magus purely on their skill at actually casting spells.

'Excellent, and uh... a few more things. I want you to make sure everyone is prepared to go after Orochi to put an end to the Snake Bastard the moment that I return, and I also want you to make sure that everyone is prepared for a possible attack from Manaka and her Servants, if they are previously allied Servants that have been twisted against us, then you should do all in your power to capture them once again.' You aren't going to let Monica die, and while you barely know Bazett or Cu, you don't want them to be given endings that they don't deserve either. The two of them are your allies as well, after all.
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'As you say' Medea once again gives a positive response to your plan, and you feel like the conversation has reached a natural end.

"...Onii-chan!" Sakura's face suddenly appears inches away from your own, and she's raised her voice at you for some reason. "Oh good, it looks like that got your attention. "We're... We're here." Oh, you must've spaced out while you were mentally conversing with Medea. Damn, guess that Saber really wasn't playing around. She's damn fast with helicopters. Of course, the fact that the helicopter has actually managed to touch down on the prison helipad with zero resistance or warning from the prison... doesn't give you much faith for the people inside it. The eerie feeling of death is seeping out of the prison, the power of Medusa's Blood Fort, upgraded into a Noble Phantasm of far greater power in Pandemonium Cetus. She must've used it already, though it doesn't seem to currently be active. The speed at which her victims melt if you were to compare Blood Fort Andromeda to Pandemonium Cetus would probably be something like the difference between leaving a bar of chocolate in sunlight on a warm day to throwing a bar of chocolate into a furnace. Instantaneous liquidation.

You leave the helicopter with Sakura, and find yourself on the rooftop of the prison, there's a faint tinge of red in the air. The after-effects of the activation of her Noble Phantasm, and thankfully, not the actual proof that Gorgon is about to activate it. The power of Pandemonium Cetus is extreme, and you aren't sure if even you would be able to survive such a thing for long. If you remember correctly, the total population of Fuyuki Prison was around 1200 people, which means that for Medusa, it's the same as if she just drained all those people of everything, their magical energy and souls dissolving along with their bodies into a liquid form to sustain her. Among Noble Phantasms, Pandemonium Cetus is one that is even more horrifying than Blood Fort Andromeda. At least with Blood Fort it requires set-up, and if Pandemonium Cetus is really a strengthened form of Blood Fort Andromeda, then that means that it shouldn't be impossible for Gorgon to actually encompass the entire city of Fuyuki within the bounds of the Noble Phantasm and immediately melt about a million people without any sort of warning. Good grief, Medusa really does have the potential to become something truly terrifying even now.
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As you approach the roof entrance to the prison, you find it locked, of course. Not wanting to waste any time at all, you reinforce yourself enough to break the look and you push into the depths of the prison. You quickly walk down the metal stairs, and they lead you a long corridor. On the floor of the corridor are sets of tattered and partially dissolved uniforms laid out on the floor like the previous occupants and simply stopped existing, a mostly melted hat. These outfits must've belonged to the guards here. Sakura has a frown on her face as she examines the deaths that Medusa has caused. "Come on, Sakura. This isn't Medusa's fault." You give your sister a command to keep following you, and you soon find yourself at a crossroads. There are four doors you could go through. One leading to the security room, where all the cameras should connect to, this would allow you to rapidly locate the Gorgon. The others lead into the general population area of the prison and the inside courtyard, and the final door leads to the holding cells. You're going to need to pick one to go through, while you could try to sense the Gorgon through her magical energy, right now, the lingering effect of Pandemonium Cetus has... made that something of an impossibility. You can only feel the remnants of the Noble Phantasm, like a dense fog that obscures magical senses. You can't exactly assume that the Gorgon won't have moved an inch since you scryed on her, speaking of... Wait a second...! You can't get in contact with Medea! Damn it! You forgot about the outside communication prevention aspect of Medusa's Blood Fort! It must've been carried over to Pandemonium Cetus! You're on your own! You're going to need to find Gorgon by yourself, but what room should you go through?

>General Population
>Inside Courtyard
>Security Room
>Holding Cell
>Leave, there's too much risk now.
>Write-in...
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>>4718678
>>Security Room
It's worth a look
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>>4718683
>>4718682
just gonna tag my vote
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>>4718676
behold, caster, the slayer of all assassins
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>>4718682
Security room

iirc she was in the courtyard originally, security room probably offers the best ability to gather bearings. Assuming the cameras didn't all fry. Thing is, Pandemonium Cetus doesn't have much effect on in-organic material, so they should be ok.
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>>4718682
>Inside Courtyard or Holding Cell.

If Medusa is clinging to her humanity then that means she'll have wanted to lock herself away, or maybe she's in a "garden"
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>>4718690
Also there should be a PA system in the security room, Sakura can begin Talk-no-jutsu on speaker
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>>4718682
>Security Room


Reminder:
>An image appears on the orb, and you can almost feel your heart being torn asunder as you look at the woman, she's huge, her snake form barely fitting in the corridors of the building she's in. The cell doors and metal bars all around her give you quite the hint as to where the poor woman might've gone. Gorgon's head is turned town to face the floor, and she almost seems to be... sobbing? Around her, you can see dozens of petrified statues, perhaps hundreds. Prison guards and prisoners alike have all been frozen in place, never to be move again. Their magical energy pilfered entirely by the eyes of the Gorgon, leaving behind empty husks in their wake.

She's probably still in the holding cells where we last saw her, but we'd better make sure. It won't take long. The consequences of picking a wrong locations are far worse.

And we now know why Medusa was Manaka's real play, and why Fuyuki burns: Manaka wanted to liquefy and absorb everyone in the city for some reason. Isn't her connection to the root enough to give her infinite mana?
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>>4718682
>Security Room
Easy first choice.
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>>4718682
>Security Room
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>>4718698
Ah shit that's actually extremely smart, Medusa is actually extremely useful, Lancer, Bazett and Monica are just relegated to fighters which is why God told us to ignore them, Medusa actually has an endgame, they don't
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>>4718695
Just a few words to let Medusa know we're here to save her, talk-no-jutsu works better in person.
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>>4718676
that image reminds me of a certain farm node of a certain even of FGO that could be 3 turn if you used medea to kill the second wave of a single assasin if i remember correctly.
Also, QM, would shuten really have made us oni if we tried talking to her alone?
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>Security Room

Hopefully the cameras are still up. Maybe we should ask Saber to lift off in case they meet her first.
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>>4718707
Yeah I remember that node, it was for a lottery event, 10 bonded with Medea cause of that
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>>4718682
>Security Room
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>>4718701
Which is extremely good news for saving them: They should all have the standard contract clauses we saw on Shuten "be a distraction, don't kill Shinji, etc", and we can exploit that fact. And I think Manaka can't order them in real time, or she wouldn't need to write contracts with loopholes, she would just tell them to ping her when anyone sees us and micromanage whoever we ended up fighting. We can only be in one place, after all. I am unsure why see wouldn't be able to though. Maybe the bounded fields she set up to protect her from Alaya's jannies work both ways?
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>>4718682
>Security Room
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Are we getting a interlude of medea explaining to our allies what happened?
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>>4718714
i feel like manaka is doing some things without having the whole knowledge about things.
also she may be doing the contracts that way to be more safe OR she wants us to have a chance to win.
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Busy.
Calling in maybe 50.
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>>4718723
The contracts make her less safe, not more. She could have had a single clause in there "Obey all my orders", and we would have had nothing to work with.

I agree there might be other reasons though. Perhaps there's dissent in the Manaka faction? One wants to punish us, the other wants to give us a chance?
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Also, I now wonder if Alitheia will start calling Sakura "mama" and Medea "mother", the other way around, or if she'll use the same word for both.
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>>4718736
if prefer her using mommy for both, the confusion of who she is talking about would be funny.
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>>4716930
>I had originally imagined that I might have to intervene sooner with you, to teach you the error of your ways, that despite your existence as a being from a higher layer of reality, you aren't in some toy box, to use your powers as you will
Just fucking realized that we would've met God much sooner if we never went back to Fuyuki during the first thread
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>>4718736
Medea looks and seems more like Mother desu, mostly cause she's older, Alitheia biologically is not that much younger than Sakura, she looks like she's 10 and Sakura is 17
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>>4718739
I wouldn't mind it either way, but different words would show the different bond she shares with each.

>>4718740
Huh, good catch. Or if we'd ran off with Touko, or if our alignment ended up closer to OG Shinji.
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>>4718753
>or if our alignment ended up closer to OG Shinji.
Genuinely, i don't think that was very possible
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>>4718682
>Security Room
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>>4718741
True, Medea for Mother would have been my guess as well. But it would be funny if Sakura ends up the strict parent. At least one of them had better end up the strict parent, because we're going to spoil our daughters rotten.

>>4718759
Improbable yes, but not impossible I think. Who knows what lurks in the hearts of anons?
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>>4718777
I feel like Sakura would be a strict mother, but like a soft sorta strict, she makes the kids do stuff but she has a soft tone when she does it
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>>4718789
I think she might be a super-lax mother, trying to give her children the happy carefree childhood she never had and going overboard.
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I heard QM is a cook at Wendy's.
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...???
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>>4718797
we're on to you chefman
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>>4718797
>>4718795
Nah he's the legendary Walmart anon that frequents /pol/. Kidding, sort of?
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>>4718797
thank you for confirming
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>>4718802
I am not a cook at Wendy's.
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>>4718803
Walmart anon?
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>>4718803
Shinji meeting his alternate female self and falling in love when
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>>4718795
How the hell does a rumor like that even get started?
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>>4718804
I've never stepped foot in a Walmart in my life.
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>>4718803
Why not? They make great money.
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>>4718808
Strippers make more money than fry cooks, heck even more money than some college grads. Minimum Wage people should really consider that. Being an educated prostitute like Sakura pays off I guess?
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>>4718807
good, you shouldn't, its hell
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>>4718810
Dude they start off at like 100k.
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What actually happened to the waver group anyway
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>>4718815
Vore
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>>4718815
we probably should've asked Medea to look into that
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>>4718815
We'd better give them a call on the way back.
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>>4718815
>>4718819
yeah, would hate for something to have happed to waver, dude is best bro and we now can give him some power boost maybe.
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>>4718815
We just scryed them didn't we before we met up with ciel iirc. They are still on a train but luvia and kairi are mia i think they will arive seperate from the group.
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>>4718820
God said there's happiness for everyone we care about if we follow this route, and that includes Waver. They're fine. For now.

>>4718823
We scried them at the same time as we scried for our missing people and we warned Waver about Orochi so they'll be on guard, but we didn't have the chance to call Waver, tell him about our twisted allies and offer a teleport before we detoured to Shuten. And then WhatIs rolled some very suspicious dice that made everyone nervous.
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The Security Room. Gorgon almost certainly isn't going to be in this room, considering her current size, but she may be capable of actually shifting her size... at least somewhat. Otherwise this entire building probably would've already been toppled as she lugged her hundred meter long snake body through the halls, and there would've been many more signs of physical damage... Well, of course, that's disregarding the fact that she can probably still use her spiritual form. You can only imagine how terrifying that would be, to be locked in a cell and for a giant snake woman to appear and start petrifying everyone in sight... At least death by the Gorgon is fast. Be it through melting or petrifying, those she uses her abilities on shouldn't last more than a few fractions of a second before passing on... Well, you don't quite know what happens to those who actually get their souls melted and consumed by the effect of Pandemonium Cetus. You can only imagine that their souls are... made a part of the Gorgon in some way, only to be released when she herself is slain. Of course, the other option is that their souls are completely broken down and they experience true existential eradication, but that's... pretty dark. Probably best that you don't think about it too much.

"Sakura, this way, quickly!" Still, with your inability to contact Caster, that can only mean that she's also unable to scry on you. Meaning that she can't be of any sort of help at all unless she wants to gather everyone together for an attack on the prison. You hope that she has more faith on you than that. Still, you almost kick yourself for forgetting that Blood Fort Andromeda had the ability to block scrying and other forms of communication with the world outside of it's physical borders, and that Gorgon has that same Noble Phantasm but escalated to it's absolute maximum. It's honestly a wonder how Perseus ever managed to survive Pandemonium Cetus... Then again, when you think about things, you don't actually think he ever did. Gorgon for whatever reason decided to attack with Breaker Gorgon instead, allowing Perseus the perfect opportunity to defeat her. You doubt that Kibisis would've been nearly as useful for him in attaining victory if the Gorgon just immediately turned him into a pool of bloody nutrient sludge.

You grab Sakura by the hand and lead her to the Security Room, the door is also locked still, but that's nothing that a quick use of magic doesn't solve. You simply use your magical energy to manipulate the lock into moving. You don't really want to risk breaking open any more doors. You don't want the Gorgon to get startled and use Pandemonium Cetus again. With a radius that should at least cover the entire building, if she were aware of the presence of anyone here, she may not even hesitate to try to turn them into magical energy. Especially if she doesn't know that it's you and Sakura.
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Walking into the security room, you can see a set of ruined clothing hunched over a control panel showing dozens of different monitors, each showing a different part of the prison. You quickly scan through each and every one of the screen until you finally find the section that contains what you're looking for. Gen-Pop Section B has large snake segments going from one side of the camera's viewing area to the next for almost all of the monitors, it looks like the Gorgon must've really struggled trying to fit her full body in the prison. The last few screens you look at show you Gorgon herself, hunched over and mumbling something. Unfortunately, these cameras don't actually have any audio recording abilities, so you can't actually discern what she might be saying. Still, she's very obviously still crying, probably trying her hardest to keep what little control over herself she has left. If your theory is right, and that she can actually turn all of Fuyuki City into a bloodbath in quite literally the blink of an eye, then it's pretty obvious why God decided to guide you to her first. Not to mention that it might not have been possible to save her if you ended up leaving her to focus on something else first. It seems that of all things, you can definitely trust God's guidance.

"She looks so... sad." Sakura is clearly just as heartbroken to see Medusa in her current state as you are, her long hair obscuring her face mostly, but even so you can somehow feel her anguish even through the monitors. Parts of her hair have of course transformed into strange snakelike protrusions, snapping at nothing, eager to feed. You... have no idea how exactly the biology of hair-snakes is supposed to work, but you suppose it doesn't matter. "We need to save her. Onii-chan." Sakura looks at you with a fierce determination burning in her eyes.

"I know, Sakura. We will, don't worry. Though... it's not going to be easy." It's really not going to be easy, you feel like Sakura should be mostly immune to most of the things that the Gorgon can do to her, her level of magic energy should make her immune to Cybele. Of course, the real problem is the activation of Pandemonium Cetus, you kind of doubt that either you or Sakura could survive being hit with the full force of that Noble Phantasm. It's something that affects the very area you stand on, after all, so it's really not something you will be able to simply block with a barrier made of Truth. Sakura's Magic Nullification should at least provide her a lot of resistance to it though, even if as a Noble Phantasm it isn't strictly something that could be classed as 'Magic'.

You look at the control panel for a few moments, wondering if you should use them for anything.

>Talk to Gorgon via the announcement system.
>Go confront the Gorgon with Sakura.
>Have Sakura stay back while you confront the Gorgon alone.
>Write-in...
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>>4718842
>>Go confront the Gorgon with Sakura.
Gorgon can't kill us so we can act as a human shield for Sakura who has servant level stats
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>>4718842
>Have Sakura send a few words of encouragement via the announcement system.
>Go confront the Gorgon with Sakura.
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>>4718842
>Go confront the Gorgon with Sakura.
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>>4718842
>Go confront the Gorgon with Sakura.
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>>4718842

This >>4718848
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>>4718842
>Go confront the Gorgon with Sakura.
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>>4718842
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>>4718848
This
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>>4718842
>>Go confront the Gorgon with Sakura.
I just want them to be happy anons...
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>>4718842
>>Go confront the Gorgon with Sakura.
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>>4718861
Everything will be fine, we got here before she lost her mind.
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Well, that's the last update for tonight.
Let's see if you can avoid dead-ending here.

>>4718847
Very confident in that, aren't you?
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>>4718870
Been a while since we saw Taiga, actually. I wouldn't mind a quick visit all that much.
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It's kind of funny to think about, but if we fled from Fuyuki at the start of the quest it would have been a lot more like What's Castlevania quest with us having the potential to become a superpowered enemy of humanity and having supernatural entities try to make us take their side.
There'd even be a moment where we decide to heed God's warning or rebel against God and become a monster.
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>>4718870
wait what?
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>>4718877
Where would we go? To the clocktower to study under Waver/Touko? Live off the grid with Kerry, Shirou and Illya?
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>>4718877
I'd like to read that Quest, but I know almost nothing about Castlevania. I've only watched the anime and had a friend explain a few things to me.

>>4718879
By "here" I assume he means this prison, not this choice. Could be wrong though.
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>>4718886
well that depends, if we took off the first chance we got, we'd basically go Enforcer route with Monica, if its a little later then we'd be a student under Touko, God implied that those were the wrong choices though and he likely would've warned us to go back and actually be the savior everyone needs if we stuck with it
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>>4718870
Could her contract be different
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>>4718842

>>4718848

Been a while since we had a dead end. One here wouldn't be from stupidity either, just a precarious situation with the wrong prompt of many dead paths.

I do think Sakura should pre-empt her over the PA, if we just sneak in we may startle Gorgon and get killed before she gets a glimpse or we get a word in.

I wouldn't count on Gorgon having the same contract specifications as Shuten. Shuten could have quite easily been a pure distraction with Gorgon as the real play. She was just a very good distraction with all her collateral damage.
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>>4718887
It's perfectly fine to read with no knowledge going in.
It's not a metagame quest so Arthur doesn't have any special knowledge that a new player wouldn't.
>>4718886
We'd still have to face conflict for there to be a quest, so I'd imagine it to be a kind of 'on the run story'.
We'd be closer to the clocktower and without Meteorite cheats it's likely that our power would be discovered, underdeveloped as it might have been.
Knowing the Mage Association, this would cause us to be hunted by one or more organizations which would put us in an array of dangerous situations.
Whatis has implied that that route would have Shinji dealing with overwhelming challenges that he'd be completely unprepared for, and end up as a much more flawed character.
I could see a Shinji that took that path rejecting his role as a Savior out of cowardice or frustration with authority and becoming something very different from the Shinji we know here.
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>>4718842
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>>4718847
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>>4718848
QM has spooked me, switching to this
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>>4718848
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>>4718848
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>>4718907
I think Shinji going this route has made him as a good and stable a person as he could ever be. Routes shape Shinji's personality, QM confirmed if he raped Sakura, he would've been a much colder and pragmatic person who would've been much more receptive and sweeter to Sakura (likely out of guilt and shame for what he had to do) and i don't doubt that another life changing choice would've been any different.

Clocktower route would've solidified him as uncaring at best or cowardly at worst for straight up abandoning everyone because he didn't want to deal with Zouken or be forced with obligation and Touko route would've solidified him as a purely selfish and self serving person who took the route of power even if it meant he had to abandon his little sister who thinks the world of him.
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>>4718902
While I agree both that any death here wouldn't be from stupidity and that Sakura should announce our presence and give Medusa some strength before we even get there, I'd like to play devil's advocate for a bit against my own proposal: Hearing her Master's voice when she can't see anyone might cause her to think she finally cracked and is hearing voices and use Cetus in despair. We really are on a hair trigger here.

And I do believe this is Manaka's real play. I just don't know why she'd need to liquefy the city for mana when the root gives her infinite mana already.

>>4718907
Thanks anon, you've convinced me to check it out.
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>>4718946
I do wonder how Aoko route would've shaped Shinji though, QM confirmed she would've dealt with Zouken and pretty easily if we stuck around with her but we would've ended up weaker overall since we wouldn't have much incentive to get stronger
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>>4718957
Well, we wouldn't be now wondering who's gonna take Shinji's virginity.
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>>4718957
I'd be more interested in how that route's Shiki would be different.
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>>4718948
Problem is it's basically a coin flip and we aren't really able to tell until we try. In the last update WhatIs did say Shinji was already quite cautious of making noise opening doors to accidentally provoke her in this state.

Remember Shinji has:

>Eye of the Mind (True): D
>As a result of his choice to train his body and increase his fighting skill, Shinji has gained a significant increase in his observational and analytical skill, allowing him to better avoid danger such as feints, ambushes and traps.

Which may be in play here. As it's effectively a trap by Manaka.
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>>4718959
Aoko would've waited until Shinji was of age before doing the deed, she waits until its legal as a groomer does

>>4718961
we would've been bros and Shiki would've gone back to his roots as an assassin as we would 100% snitched on the Tohno too. Aoko route is the snitch route
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>>4718963
It's not really a coin flip when we can make informed guesses like this. I obviously agree with your analysis. I'm just advising caution, if anything.
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Something to consider that's never really touched on in canon with Gorgon specifically. The leylines under the prison should be currently fucked due to her prior activation of Pandemonium Cetus here, and each subsequent use will damage them further. As this is what the default Bloodfort does to an area. So this place should end up becoming somewhat of a magical deadzone and probably a bad place for any being that depends on leylines for power or existence. Could make a good showdown location for any future threats too. It'll also permanently be a black spot on any kind of mana map that utiilises leylines as it's scanning tool.
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It bugged me that Manaka would need the mana from Fuyuki's people, and I found the answer. Looks like she planned to use them as a boost instead of the Beast. If that's true, I assume we and our prodigious magic circuits are her alternative.

And the second point I'd like to make:
>"Corpses. Human Corpses." Rin's face pales very slightly. "But not just human corpses, either. Each of the victims were children. Boys somewhere between the age of eight and eighteen years old, I counted twenty five of the bodies in the warehouse, each of them had been cut into four parts, and-" Archer looks as if he's about to explain everything about his investigation to Rin, with all the cold calculation that one would expect of a computer. It seems that even if he had been affected by the sight of such vicious senseless killing, that it didn't leave him emotionally compromised for very long. Seeing something like that however would probably shut Shirou down until he was given a hug or something though.

>The white haired, tanned Archer looks around for targets before he continues "I found traces of magic use inside the warehouse actually, and of the bodies I examined, the cause of their death wasn't being bisected, but was instead repeated blunt force trauma to the back of the head. Each and every one of them died that same way. If I had to guess, it was for some sort of ritual."

Archer's report from the warehouse. The clues were: Boys as victims, repeated blunt-force trauma as the cause of death, postmortem quadrisection, ritual. Gilles de Rais satisfies all of the above: His preferred victims were boys. His preferred magic was tentacles, providing both the cause of death and the tearing of the bodies (Archer did not specify whether the cuts were clean or not). The ritual is self-explanatory. We did not see him at the temple when we attacked. Why did we assume Manaka's Servants would stay cooped up in the temple, again?
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>>4719070
I'll believe it, Medusa/Gorgon is just another mechanism of magical energy harvesting for her. I guess she's from a timeline that knows Arthur will always appear to jannie away the Beast of 666 if she tries using it as a food source again, as one of the Manakas is post Excalibur through the chest.

We could eventually see full incarnation Cthulhu via Giles as there's already lots of Lovecraftian entities in the story.

Looking through the relationships of a few of the Outer gods, Nyarly hates and is driven away by Cthugha in some of his stories, who just happens to be the summonable contained within Yang Guifei the chinese semen demon. But Cthulu and Nyarly really have no interactions one another.

I wonder if the Shining Trapezohedron appears here at all. It's used to summon Nyarly typically and acts as a power source. Maybe Alan was originally a human or magus that tried gazing into it and ended up getting body snatched?

Helena would have knowledge of it if she was around, but maybe Tesla may recall a conversation with her in life about such an item?
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>>4719088
are we sure that tesla got summoned, and the blue lightning belongs to him?

desu I'm still sure it's Archer Arjuna that got put into her, considering he has that as one of his biggest identifiers.
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>>4719102
Arjuna isn't a mage, he can't eat scrying magic like Tesla's Galvanism can
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>>4719102
Arjuna doesn't fit with Monica beyond having tangentially related powers.
Tesla and Monica have similar Origins and near identical abilities when it comes to electricity manipulation.
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>>4718842
Supporting >>4718848
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>>4718870
Can you make us go to Gorgon funzone with Stheno and Euryale for advice or add very sad Medisa to dojo for prison dead ends?
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>>4719088
I don't think Tesla will be very inclined to diplomacy. We need him gone entirely there is absolutely nothing we can offer each other and he's big-brained enough to realize it.
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>>4719438
And my id changed again, I am >>4719070.
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>>4719438
You're right, he can't be reasoned with even though he's chaotic good. He's pretty weak to mind control as a servant, Zolgen is able to use simple Maddness Enhancement in London to force him to attempt to delete the singularity. The best he was able to manage in London is warning Chaldea he was being controlled and what he was being made to do, and how to stop him. But he couldn't hold his body back. Mordred was enough to kill him though. He's a localised nuke if he unleashes System Keraunos by name, and hard counters anything Earth or Sky affinity as he's a Mystery killer, so we'd want to pick a party that won't get auto vaporised when confronting him.

Mordred is Earth affinity as a servant, that likely hasn't changed as she's now a walking paradox so still very much resides in the realm of mythological hero. Billy/EMIYA/Hektor if he's around, assassin Kerrytugu if he's around and Kojirou are the only servants present that won't get near instakilled by System Keranous' anti mystery effects.

Not that we intend to go seek out Tesla, as that would be ignoring God's roadmap.

Oddly enough, Manaka is either too busy toying with us through him, or the mana collection hypothesis is incorrect as Tesla could easily start constructing his World System and using it to siphon energy for her ritual. Either she didn't put much effort into examining her servant's non combat potential, mana harvesting isn't on her agenda, or we'll find out there's several mana absorbing beacons being erected via the heat map soon. It seems a bit redundant though, as she could have just had Gorgon instantly eat the whole of Fuyuki and surrounds, unless that would have summoned the jannie force which is why she's going for smaller scale mana collection options.
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>>4719488
I wouldn't underestimate Tesla at all. He hard-counters anything magic and anyone who uses energy other than pure physical to attack, including all our Casters, and he synergizes extremely well with Monica who was already pretty damn strong.

We won't seek him immediately, but he's the first thing on the agenda after we deal with Orochi. We can't leave Monica like this.

And I can see two problems that might have prevented Manaka from using Tesla: A) From what I'm reading, his World System is a system of electricity, not mana. The energy might not be suitable for Manaka's purpose. And B) Medusa can explicitly transfer the gathered mana to her Master. Tesla might not be able to.
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>>4719499
Doesn't using Monika as the conduit solve problem A though? That's essentially what her Magecraft does right? I'm sure he can, using his big brain, devise and build something that can then funnel the mana back to Manaka after Monika's crest processes it into a useable form.

Tesla does have pretty shit melee stats though, it might be time for Shinji to finally whip out the martial arts and dab on him with ultra kaleido reinforced snake style. Nerds are weak to being punched in the face. D Str C End C Agil, he is vulnerable to being speed mogged by a fast melee focused character, the difficulty is not killing the host or giving him him to get back up and nuke them. Sasaki might be able to, as he could just nothin personell him with his deleted presence. This is where Li Shuwen would have been great, and he could just KO punch out of nowhere and then we Truth purge the servant. Also, Erosion. If we're able to utilise that we may be in luck.

In Tesla's London appearance he is very willing to talk because of his arrogance. So we might be able to stroke his ego a bit, and see mid dialogue if Helena Blavatsky ever mentioned anything to him about a "Shining Trapezohedron" in life. We're going to need an eventual solution to Nyarly, I wouldn't be surprised if some clocktower retard found the stone and created Alan, considering he was somewhat shy and out of it when we first met. Might not have been completely taken over by Nyarly yet. That's just a schizo reaching theory of mine though.
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"Sakura, take this." You grab the PA microphone and toss it over to Sakura. It's wireless, thankfully, so you'll be able to have Sakura give Gorgon a few words of encouragement as you approach her. "Use that to talk to Medusa, try to calm her down a little, comfort her as best you can with your words. But... try to avoid speaking about any contracts." If Gorgon has a contract similar to Shuten then she won't hesitate to try to kill Sakura if she thinks that her previous Master was trying to cancel her contract with Manaka.

"OK, Onii-chan!" Sakura takes the microphone, and looks at it for a few seconds before following you as you leave the security room. There's really no reason to just keep standing around here, every wasted moment means you might be losing your opportunity. Even now, you might have already lost your chance. But no, you know where the Gorgon is now, it won't be long until you can try to save her now. It's a massive risk, but using Truth to manipulate the madness consuming her might be possible, if you can convince her to let you touch her for ten seconds. "M-Medusa? It's me, Sakura. If you can hear me, I want you to know that you won't have to keep suffering like this for long. We... Onii-chan and I... we're... we're coming to save you!" Sakura reveals your presence immediately through the PA system, but thankfully, Gorgon's immediate response isn't to melt you completely with Pandemonium Cetus. "Just... hold on a little longer, OK? We're going to be with you soon." Sakura keeps talking into the microphone as you enter the door leading to the General Population Room.

The moment you walk through the door do this room, you can tell that this is absolutely the correct room. Peppered randomly around the room are dozens of statues, belonging to both inmates and guards, their expressions of panic-stricken, these must've been those who she dealt with immediately after first coming to the prison, before she activated her Noble Phantasm and turned the rest of the prison into her magical energy. Well, the good news is that Japan's prison population has now decreased by around two percent or so, the bad news is that it was done through the merciless slaughter of an entire prison. Looks like Medusa is in full support of the death sentence.

As you keep walking, you see the huge snake body of the Gorgon stretching through the halls in front of you, the tip of her tail flickering ever so slightly. Could you... just try to use your abilities on her tail without trying to confronting her at all? Of course, ten seconds is a long time, and Gorgon would likely realize if you tried to touch her for that long, and at her size and strength, a single flick of her tail would reduce you and Sakura to a bloody smear. So... is it worth the risk? Or should you just go up to the Gorgon to convince her directly? Sakura has put the PA microphone away for now, apparently not wanting to alert the Gorgon to your presence without your go-ahead.
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>>4719518
early update, based
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As you look at the smooth looking snake half of the Gorgon, you make a decision.

>You'll go up to the Gorgon personally to confront her directly. You owe Medusa that much.
>Pat the snake tail reassuringly, don't try to use Truth Manipulation on her though, just let her know that you and Sakura are here through the PA System.
>You'll grab the tail and use your Truth Manipulation on the Gorgon from here.
>Time for the Chains of Truth! Bind her to the floor with as many as you're capable of creating!
>Write-in...
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>>4719520
>You'll go up to the Gorgon personally to confront her directly. You owe Medusa that much.

But hand in hand with Sakura, not as some lone heroic figure which might trigger ptsd
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>>4719520
>You'll go up to the Gorgon personally to confront her directly. You owe Medusa that much.
>Pat the snake tail reassuringly, don't try to use Truth Manipulation on her though, just let her know that you and Sakura are here through the PA System.
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Truth here is definitely a mistake. I am tempted by the reassuring tailpat, but she might not appreciate the physical contact. Will think some more.
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I wonder if Sakura will have to channel a bit of Tiamilkers soon
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>>4718842
>>4718848
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>>4719520
>>You'll go up to the Gorgon personally to confront her directly. You owe Medusa that much.
>>Pat the snake tail reassuringly, don't try to use Truth Manipulation on her though, just let her know that you and Sakura are here through the PA System.
Fuck it man, just fuck it
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>>4719530
You're late mate.
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Hope you enjoyed this early update.
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>>4719534
I certainly did, even if you're distracting me from work.
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>>4719534
Not getting liquefied for using the PA is nice.

If Gorgon cant go back to being Medusa I hope her and Acides get a moment chat together to seethe about the gods while tearing Orochi apart.
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>>4719528
Just wait for Gorgon to be pulled inside Sakura inner dimension alongside Shinji
This is where it will start
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>>4719541
(vore), (unbirthing), (incest), (monster_girl), (fffm)
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>>4719520
>You'll go up to the Gorgon personally to confront her directly. You owe Medusa that much.
>Pat the snake tail reassuringly, don't try to use Truth Manipulation on her though, just let her know that you and Sakura are here through the PA System.
I wonder if it would be possible for us to give Medusa the ability to transform from Rider to Gorgon at will.
Maybe even throw Lolidusa into the mix as well.
I want us to kiss Gorgon.
Hopefully she doesn't just eat us if we do.
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>>4719553
>I want us to kiss Gorgon.
I want to headpat Gorgon and each one of her hairsnakes
While we hold her hand
And hugging her
All at the same time
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>>4719556
I want to cum in her mouths
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>>4719520
>You'll go up to the Gorgon personally to confront her directly. You owe Medusa that much.
>Pat the snake tail reassuringly, don't try to use Truth Manipulation on her though, just let her know that you and Sakura are here through the PA System.
Alright, I believe in the healing power of the tailpat. Small chance of her getting startled and crushing us, but that's a risk I'm willing to take in this moment. And Sakura should tailpat her too.
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>>4719537
I hope she turns back to Rider, I like her. Either way, she does have a lot to talk about with Alcides. Medea too.
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>>4719537
>>4719559
Fuck me I should proofread before posting more.

If Jason is the mystery Lancer and not Hektor him and Alcides can catch up after Jason gets t-posed on by Shinji while holding Medea in a princess carry.
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Seeing as Manaka boosted Shuten, shouldn't we watch out for Gorgon being stronger than normal too?
Hell, Tesla and Cu too.
Tesla might not be a massive wimp in melee thanks to possessing Monica.
Don't remember Rasputin having Bajiquan skills after all.

I just hope we don't get bad ended with Sakura with us.
Anybody feel like this is a strange inversion of going with Rider to save Sakura in HF?
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I'm going to be so pissed if we're wrong about the contract and Gorgon just grabs us and Sakura and eats us.
Also where's Amethyst?
Isn't it weird she's become so non-talkative?
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>>4719567
If Tesla has high end melee on top of the rest of his kit you're going to need something like full RM unlock to neutralise the threat without killing Monika, short of an Erosion soul separation blindside
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>>4719574
>Full RM unlock.
Just have Shuten daterape from a distance with intoxicating aroma.
Monica: Master of Magnetism shouldn't be too hard to beat with all of our allies.
We still have 25 percent Arc, and Salvation Garden Satsuki can just hug her while we do our thing.
Just because Tesla will have the skills of a professional killer doesn't mean he's unstoppable.
He'd crush Edison no prob now though.
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>>4719574
Also I kind of want Tesla to agree to stick around.
Super Monica will be great for dabbing on Magi in the War of Britain.
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>>4719574
Shuten got stronger, but her fighting style wasn't entirely different. I wouldn't worry about Tesla suddenly being master at kung fu.

>>4719578
If Aroma works, it'll melt Monica. Do we really want that?

>>4719580
I'd rather not have a weird autist stay in our big sister's head, thankyouverymuch.
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>>4719578
System Keraunos has a pretty big burst AoE from the user, he has a big enough brain to notice the oni brap and purge the air with lightning. If he hits Shuten with it she's basically vaporised too due to her nature of high mystery.

He does have a low default MR though, at only C. Blackened servants tend to lose MR ranks too if we go by Saber Alter. I wonder if Manaka's contract purges any mental interference? It's a good non lethal option though assuming it works.

>>4719582
Aroma only makes you go full retard, Providential Poison and Bone Collector are what turns people into slurry. And it also only melts the minds of normal humans and animals, mages would be more gradually effected. Similar to Jack's fog in that normies as always die horribly and mages last a few seconds to minutes before succumbing.
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>>4719580
He's got a very useful kit and intelligence. It's his first time being inside a woman too, but he may have been volcel and find the whole experience humiliating
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>>4719586
Although, with Tesla's influence Monica may pick up better use of her pseudo Galvanism skill that uses vanilla electricity and still function as an anti-magic EMP with him gone. Hopefully she stays younger too, Shinji is what, 16-18 currently? If she was her original age she'd be in no eggs territory by now.
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>>4719585
In that case, I wouldn't expect Aroma to work. He has all skills due to his big brain. Isn't there a skill somewhere that protects against mind-affecting effects?

And Tesla absorbs magic. His MR is effectively infinite.
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>>4719586
>>4719590
It might be possible to either convince or force him to relinquish control of Monica.
Seal him in gay baby jail in the back of Monica's mind.
We need to do something that'll stir Monica from whatever whammy she's currently in.
Kissu.
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>>4719593
I can't find anything that specifies whether or not Galvanism/Tesla Coil is passively active permanently. I'd have to assume it's not as we were able to get a few seconds of scrying footage before the feed was cut when he realised.

He could potentially copy any of Valor/Bravery, Calm and Collected, Martyr's Soul or Mental Pollution pretty easily to block the brapp, or he could just purge it with a blast of lightning like he does to the fog in London.

>>4719599
>Kissing a serbian incel

Monika might pick up his cringe laugh as a verbal tick
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Oh and offtopic but back to Jason. If it is him as the mystery lancer, with some mana supply he'd be able to call forth the rest of the Argonauts, and, depending how deep into the Throne's records he can reach, also bring forth the neo-argonauti from LB5 via his NP. They can refuse the summon, but when you mention the stakes it's a very FGO situation. You might even have Medea cunny show up unintentionally.
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>>4719520
>You'll go up to the Gorgon personally to confront her directly. You owe Medusa that much.
>Pat the snake tail reassuringly, don't try to use Truth Manipulation on her though, just let her know that you and Sakura are here through the PA System.
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>>4719606
It's certainly not a passive, or we would get the same picture as Bazett. But he can shut down any magic almost instantly, and we don't want to instakill him, do we?
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>>4719613
With the current roster, the -difficult- part of dealing with Tesla is the non-lethal takedown of the host. I do think Arc could purge all the electricity in the area with her MP as it's a naturally occurring force. That sudden shock of limited mana usage could enable a melee speed burst to ram Erosion into their chest before they can react. Maybe Mordred with Mana Burst, seeing as Morgan is her servant she'd be inclined to let her daughter borrow the soul splitter knoif
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>>4719606
>Tesla Monica stacks EotM (True) and (False), Instinct, Bajiquan, Snake Style and Valor
>maybe more
>all punches kill with electricity by stopping hearts.
Panic!
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>>4719620
To be fair we haven't used martial arts once this war. It'd be a bit of a stretch to assume incelman has prepared for it on the very first encounter. We have higher stats than him in melee with Amethyst's reinforcement active so opening with snake style to distract while Mordred Mana Bursts in with Erosion might be fast enough to avoid the adapting battle style of bullshit that Tesla will pull if the fight is allowed to continue longer than a moment.
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>>4719616
Non lethal takedown, removing one soul without affecting another, the fact that we've been relying heavily on magic and he blanks that. He makes for a fun challenge, to be sure.

I certainly agree Mordred should be the tip of our spear. We've been tragically underutilizing our King, and you said she beat him as a Servant without the power-up we gave her. I am unsure about Arcueid's Marble Phantasm, it takes a bit to activate and he might think of something to counter it. I have no better solution at the moment though, and tanking him is suboptimal. And I don't see anything on the wiki about Keraunos being super-effective against mythological Servants. Are you sure that's the case?

For exorcising him, I our options are Truth, Rule Breaker to take him out of Manaka's control and talk-no-jutsu him back in the box (or use another method to soulkill him after he's free), Shiki (extremely dangerous to Shiki) and MAYBE Erosion. I don't think we thought to ask if it'd work on Orochi, so I'm not sure if it'd work on him.
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>>4719610
If it is him.
We steal his Golden Fleece and give Alitheia a younger twin.
Also I doubt he can get LB Argonauts because they didn't join him while they were alive. Also that both didn't and hasn't happened yet.
Also doubt that he'll be able to summon duplicates of heroes who currently exist in the world as well.
He might end up summoning Medea or Alcides to him if he tried.
>>4719622
Monica knows us and our abilities pretty well though.
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>>4719626
>He then decides to destroy every Heroic Spirit of the Heaven and Earth attributes, saying only Heroic Spirits of the Human and the Star attributes should exist beyond the age of electricity.

System Keraunos also does super effective damage on Earth/Sky attribute in FGO, and he mentions it in his London appearance and/or interlude dialogue too. I could probably trawl through the London or Interlude dialogue from my Tesla if I had to but cbf until the actual fight if push comes to shove.

>Heaven/Sky (天, Ten?) - Heroes who are related to the gods, whether they are Divine Spirits ranked down to becoming Heroic Spirits, children of gods, or incarnations of legends about gods.
>Earth (地, Chi?) - Heroes who are known as the heroes of the land, known through mythologies and legends of a particular region. Fairies and Magical Beasts are included in this category.

Shuten is Earth for reference.
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>>4719628
>He might end up summoning Medea or Alcides to him if he tried.
>steal your Servant for his NP
>"Yoink"
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>>4719628
Is Monika unconscious and is Tesla in control? Is it a parallel thought dual pilot? Do they schizo swap? We'll have to see I guess.

The Throne is outside of time remember, EMIYA is a jannie from the future. It seems to be if you are recorded -ever- you are then retroactively always available to be summoned.

I assumed that Lancer was Hektor because Jason would have been able to gain the inspiration to try and summon an ally due to his Epiphany in Jaws of Death skill, and then Alcidies would have heeded his best friend's call immediately to rip and tear Orochi. That's why I was saying it was Hektor originally, as Proof of Friendship force opens a dialogue with an enemy, and Disengage is his yeet outta there skill.
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>>4719638
Things done as heroic spirits don't tend to be recorded by the throne.
You may as well argue that he'll have nanomachines too.
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>>4719628
>Your wife is happier with us than she ever was with you, and with no Aphrodite bullshit involved.
>Also, your greatest treasure is now our second dragon daughter.
>Kiss Medea and headpat both girls in front of him
>Enjoy your second life!
Would be fun.

>>4719632
I see. That's problematic. And I just realized, even if Erosion works on pseudoservants, would it be able to separate the souls and leave Monika's behind, or would it purge both and leave her a soulless husk?

>>4719638
Hector is certainly possible, but I don't think Alcides dropped in front of Orochi and all his servants with no preparation and no back-up would be able to solo them. Inspiration would tell Jason to stall and flee, which is exactly what he did. We'll have to wait and see, I guess.
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>>4719642
He might? He used them on Drake's ship though not himself or the Argo. They're the nasuverse version of Orichalcum so they might appear at some point. Probably worth asking Medea about the 'living metal' Orochalcium or as Nasu dubbed it, Klironomia, and seeing what she says to see if WhatIs wants to include them.

Hades' was destroyed in LB5, but if it still exists somewhere we could use it to unlock Cerberus' latent potential.

>>4719646
Alcidies could easily just summon a zoo of distractions with King's Order and yeet out with Jason slung over his shoulder screaming like the good old days.

We should probably just ask Morgan about it, seeing as Erosion hasn't ever been used in canon. It'll come up in conversation with Waver/Gray when they arrive anyway.
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>>4719648
You're basically arguing Astolfo should default own Achilleus Kosmos because Apo.
It doesn't work like that.
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>>4719648
If the plan is to escape anyway, why reveal your trump card and the presence and power of Alcides when you can just smash a floor tile and run? I feel inspiration gave him the better option. It did work, didn't it?
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>>4719649
Apo had some very odd things like Jeanne apparently exorcising Jack and deleting her from the Throne entirely. I don't expect Jason, if it is him to have the nanomachines though. I was very maybe on the neo-argonauts being possible too.

However, Waver does appear in Ionian Hetaroi and EMIYA collects NPs as he goes about his jannie work through multiple summonings so there are some exceptions. The fuyuki grail isn't supposed to even preserve memories between summonings though, but Chalea's FATE system keeps memories intact and judging from the different summoning lines of Emperor Qin depending on pre or post LB3 completion, the servant retains all memories including events that haven't happened yet from the perspective of the summoner.

>>4719651
Jason is a bit of a cunt, I'd have imagined he'd have offered up Billy to get out of there safely. Narratively, I think Jason would be better fit though as he has parallels to vanilla Shinji, and prior relationships with Medea and Alcides.
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>>4719652
Jason is a cunt but sacrificing Billy would've been retarded and wouldn't have given him any advantage.
As for Apo
Yeah idk what the fuck Jannu doing that was.
A load of bullshit considering FGO lmao.
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>>4719655
Apo should have ended with Amakusa winning and then finding out in the epilogue that his actions just got the worldline pruned due to stagnation.
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>picrelated
It's hilarious that F/SN Gil's plan was more thought through with a cursed grail than Amakusa's and his plan was "fuck it let it all burn natural selection time baybee."
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>>4719659
Also I'll never not find Jannu exploding herself to accomplish absolutely nothing hilarious.
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How are we supposed to hug Medusa in the future if she's hundreds of meters long and basically a giantess snek woman?
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>>4719669
And that's why we have to turn her back.
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>>4719674
Mmm.
I don't know.
Receiving giantess snek affection could be pretty nice in it's own way, even if we can't properly hug her.
Hopefully she'll get a transformation ability to go small or big at will.
Both would be nice.
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Goooooooooood Morning thread.
Calling in 15 minutes and writing.
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>>4719677
>Receiving giantess snek affection
>However, one should nonetheless realize that Gorgon is a diverging existence with a different standpoint from humans. Both her affection and her love————are not meant for kinship with humans.
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>>4719679
After we save her we are motorboating the boobas. I'm watching the last HF movie now on a streaming website, its berry good. When I saw Shinji dead in the first scene I actually felt bad for him because I now associate Shinji with our Shinji.
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>>4719683
>>However, one should nonetheless realize that Gorgon is a diverging existence with a different standpoint from humans. Both her affection and her love————are not meant for kinship with humans.
Good thing that despite identifying as a human, most things with the ability to sense humans don't really recognize you as such. Even Alaya considers you very different from a normal human being.
Uh, just saying, anon.
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>>4719679
I wonder what it's like to be sucked by one of those snake things.
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"Sakura." You call your sister quietly. "Get the PA microphone out again and pass it to me." You start to walk over to the giant tail of the snake slowly, as Sakura hands you the microphone that will allow you to talk to the entire population of the prison. Namely, one snake woman, who has consumed all the life that was once in the prison. You slowly reach a hand out to her huge scaled tail, which is easily twice as tall as you are, and just as wide. You're mere inches away from the tail when you activate the microphone.

"Medusa. It's me. We're both here to help you so please... stay calm." You lay a palm on the smooth scales of the woman gently patting it to assure the woman that you mean no threat to her. The large tail shivers for a few moments before settling again, and the Gorgon makes no moves over than that. So you continue to pat the tail as you follow along the length of it, down deeper into this area of the prison. There are plenty of areas where the Gorgon effortlessly ground metal and concrete into scrap and dust respectively to fit inside the prison properly, so it's not exactly difficult to follow the tail to the humanoid body that it is attached to. "Keep calm, Medusa. I know that you're still in there, and that you're fighting the madness, so please, just... hang on a little longer, for Sakura, OK?" You gesture for Sakura to start reassuringly patting Gorgon as well. It's quite odd, but... it does seem to be having at least some sort of effect in keeping the huge woman calm. Touching her very well could've led to her lashing out and squashing you and Sakura into paste. Even if you were to turn into Kaleido-Amethyst with... Hold on a second, where... exactly is Amethyst right now? You were certain you left her in your pocket, but... well, maybe she left while you weren't watching? She might have wanted to speak with her sister, after all. You pat the pocket you thought you left her in once again and find no Amethyst there for certain. Either that or she needs some time to properly recover after your battle with Orochi. Still, not ideal. You'll have to have a word with the incompetent star when you've saved Medusa. First no ability to contact Medea, then you find you've not got Amethyst with you? This rescue attempt is getting riskier by the minute. In the future, you might string a chain around Amethyst to start wearing her like a necklace.

You keep following the giant snake tail, until finally, you can see the hunched over figure of the woman you have come to save. She's at least twenty meters tall as she is now, even hunched over as she is. She doesn't seem to have responded to your arrival yet, seemingly trying to keep herself from looking at the two of you. As a result, her long hair has completely hidden her hair. Still, now that you're looking at her properly, you can get a decent estimate of just how much power she has now... Not that you want to actually fight her, of course.

[Status Updated!]
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>>4719748
Warm, wet, sticky and a little bit smelly.
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You... weren't expecting that! She's... still got some of Rider's abilities?! Good lord, she's incredibly powerful! If you were to compare her to Shuten, there wouldn't even be a contest! Manaka didn't just turn her into the Gorgon, she amplified the power of the Gorgon as well! Shuten would be squashed like a tiny little bug! She's not even trying to hide just what she's capable of, either!

"S-Sakura... S... Shinji." The huge woman calls out your names. "Run... Away." Only to give you a warning. "I... Can't control myself for much longer... Please... just... tell me you can kill me, before it's too late..." The Gorgon is speaking through gritted teeth, as if she's having great difficulty in holding herself back from her own instincts, which must be screaming at her to devour both you and Sakura without delay.

"Kill you, Medusa? We're not going to kill you, don't be ridiculous! We're here to save you. I hope you didn't think what Sakura and I were saying to you were simply empty words." You cross your arms as you approach the giant woman, getting closer and closer to her. You can tell that she hasn't completely lost herself, considering she isn't a writhing mass of serpents that immediately devoured you.

"Stay away!" Medusa screams, and you take a step backwards. "If you... If you take one more step, I... won't be able to hold myself back any more." Gorgon gives you a warning, and you look at the distance between yourself and the body of the woman, who still isn't looking at you. "It's... too late for me... Just... get out of here, and have this... place erased alongside me." She won't even look you in the eyes! ...Well, given what happens to people if she does that, it's actually probably for the best that she isn't even attempting to do that.

>Take another step towards the Gorgon with Sakura.
>Form a bubble of truth around yourself and Sakura and keep walking towards the Gorgon.
>Try to chain her from this distance.
>Ask Sakura if she can restrain the Gorgon.
>Heed the Gorgon's words and flee. It is too late for her.
>Write-in...
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>>4719748
Do you want the actual answer? Because If one of those were to actually grab you, it would probably fully engulf you and rapidly convert you into her magical energy, not unlike Pandemonium Cetus.
Unless she doesn't want to do that, in which case... >>4719753 is correct
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>>4719751
>her long hair has completely hidden her hair
what
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>>4719760
her FACE.
Damn it, that's what I get for not properly proofreading my own work.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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>>4719762
>her long face has completely hidden her hair
Sounds painful.
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>>4719754
.
>Form a bubble of truth around yourself and Sakura and keep walking towards the Gorgon
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>>4719760
>>4719765
No wonder Perseus killed her instead of rehabilitating big booba snek. Someone with such a long painful face must have been suffering their entire lives. Poor girl.
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>>4719754
>>4719770
Support
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>>4719765
>>4719771
I swear to god I'm going to dead-end you for this.
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>>4719773
>"the snek long face was so ugly, everyone died, the end."
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>>4719754
>Give a nod to Sakura to talk to her too. Their bond is deeper than yours.
>Form a bubble of truth around yourself and Sakura and keep walking towards the Gorgon.
>slowly
>one step at a time
>seriously, no playing around here
>And for the love of God, don't forget to keep comforting her.

I admit I am unsure about the bubble of truth. It might spook her. But going in without the bubble is obviously dangerous. We're navigating a minefield without a mine detector here.


>>4719773
Please be merciful, o great and kind QM.
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>>4719781
Why the long face?
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>>4719776
It even killed Neco-arc and Alaya herself was banished to the shadow realm. Gaia threw up and died painfully. Arcueid seethed and went to /pol/ to declare TYPE supremacy upon seeing Gorgon's face. Zelretch jumped to our world and secretly replaced Joe Biden as president.
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>>4719773
>>4719781
Ah. To die under a big yet cute snake woman.
Bliss.
>>4719754
>Give a nod to Sakura to talk to her too. Their bond is deeper than yours.
>Form a bubble of truth around yourself and Sakura and keep walking towards the Gorgon.
>Ask Gorgon to give you her hand
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>>4719781
cute, but face is too long.
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>>4719754
Calling in 31 minutes.
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>>4719754
>Form a bubble of truth around yourself and Sakura and keep walking towards the Gorgon
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>>4719791
>>4719754
Changing to this.
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>>4719754
Switching >>4719780 to >>4719791
Mine was probably too fearful.
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Pls stop typo bullying.
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>>4719754
>>4719791
Support
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>>4719806
You made a quest based on an ip where people people rag on typos and miswordings for actual decades.
You should have expected this.
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>>4719791
+1
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>>4719811
We still drag Nasu for defenseless anus and educated prostitute to this day despite that fact that we knew that he didn't give a crap about the H scene writing.
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>>4719811
I guess you're right.

Honestly surprised more people aren't commenting on Avenge/Rider's status page.
>https://pastebin.com/xHsQ01mQ
Some might wonder whether giving her this many skills was sensible.
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>>4719816
Power level autists will come in later to analyze. Only relationshipfags here. Probably.

For me though, there's not much of a point of discussing it now. We're fucked if she decides to attack. Will become more important if we get her back and she happens to keep them.
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>>4719816
Bubble of Truth for those super broken Mystic Eyes and as a light in her life still shining upon her.
Handholding is for her sanity and empowering her remaining Divinity to push against GORGON influence.
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>>4719827
And we'll headpat a snake if we get the chance.
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>>4719816
Big monster lady enhanced with monad juice, it makes sense that she's busted.
Balance is a meme anyways, stats are fake and the only practical effect skills have is what cool shit you can do.
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>>4719834
>Balance is a meme anyways, stats are fake and the only practical effect skills have is what cool shit you can do.
A natural result of letting God knows how many people make their own Servants over the years, each creator with their own idea of how they are balanced, stats really don't tend to mean that much when you try to compare Servants.
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consider the call delayed for another 30 minutes.
Got something I need to do first.
Think carefully, anons...
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>>4719845
So the bubble of truth really will spook her, huh? Maybe it's better to stay put and talk to her for a bit?
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>>4719859
I didn't say anything of the sort. I just told you to think carefully.
If that's enough to make you start doubting yourself, so be it.
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>>4719861
Oh please, as if you don't enjoy stoking our paranoia and seeing the flames rise.
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>>4719845
I have solid hope that enacting proper emotional scene will work.
>>4719841
Speaking of balance and us mentioning Akeldama and Awakening recently.
If we are end up actually voting for it and you are deciding to actually do it. Will you rebalance some of it and fix certain missteps?
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>>4719758
>>4719690
I hope you're prepared to write smut of that happening to Shinji. I hope you're prepared to get very /d/egenerate
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>>4719870
Alberich will just be a fucking Archer like Sweets originally wanted instead of having the option of speccing into lightsabers.
Honestly that fits the theme of inversion in Awakening much better as Yumigawa had Archer as a rival in Akeldama.
His name even has bow in it, I have no idea why Sweets gave players the option to pick a class, especially when he qualified classes he knew he couldn't write.
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>>4719754
backing >>4719791 let's go!
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>>4719845
By the way QM-senpai....
Tomorrow is a special day...
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HF is out on nyaa if folks haven't noticed yet
https://nyaa.si/view/1365488
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>>4719816
Pretty busted. Also 2 other unknown NP's if I'm reading that right.
If she were somehow able to switch between Rider and Gorgon at will, or even just keep her sanity, that'd be something else.
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>>4719904
Yes its very good, wish there was more Illya and Shirou interactions though like in the VN. Illya will never get happiness unless its as a mahou shoujo in another timeline.
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>>4719870
There would probably need to be a few... balance changes, depending on the war.
For example in Akeldama, Perseus won't get ganked so hard that his Battle Continuation A/B drops to a D or an E
And in Awakening Achilles wouldn't be the Invincible Super Sonic.

>>4719880
Honestly, it's amazing how "A spear that pierces anything." or even "A projectile that pierces anything" is so much easier to balance around than "A sword that cuts anything" Even if by the way conceptual defenses work, a portal blade like Alberich's one wouldn't actually deal an infinite amount of cutting damage, considering that something like Durindana is supposed to pierce through anything, yet doesn't.

I have no idea why Sweets went all the way in with a NLF for the lightsaber's cutting power.
In truth the ability to slice through the Noble Phantasms and Noble Phantasm defenses of other Servants would probably require his sword to be of a higher conceptual weight than the weapon or ability wielded by the enemy... Or something. At least that's how I would've balanced the lightsaber.
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>>4719880
I went to the archive to check that were other options since I forgot it and
>Lancer: An unstoppable point, striking through armor to pierce the heart (The cloak becomes able to extrude a spear-like object used as your primary weapon)
>Saber: A long obsidian blade, held aloft in the light of dawn (Chosen, no explanation)
>Assassin: A silent shadow, leaving death in its wake as it moves undetected (Basically the Sakura Shadow from Heaven's Feel)
>Archer: A crimson needle, tracing a predetermined path to its target as it gleams in the noonday sun (This is an arrow. I was working off of the archery conception from F/SN that "it's determined whether an arrow will land or not before it is released." I had a few different weapon ideas for Archer.)
>Sweets' thought process:
>"Let's see, classes are Saber, Lancer, Archer, Rider, Caster, Assassin, Berserker. We can strike Rider, Caster, and Berserker right away, Rushorou definitely doesn't qualify.
>Lancer, huh... we could go for like a rhongomyniad-shaped thing from the cloak, with a piercing void idea... alright, Lancer works.
>Assassin is obvious, that's how they've been playing so far and the cloak looks like the Sakura Shadow. Alright, so for that we can go full-on with the cloak as NP.
>Archer is fun, there are all kinds of things you could do with bows and portals, I'll definitely keep that in there.
>...and, Saber works too I guess. He could cut things with the void, maybe? Alright, write up some imagery and post. They'll probably go for Assassin right away, though."
In retrospective that was a real fucking prelude to disaster.
But frankly some of the failures with lightsaber were really hilarious.
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>>4719920
Yeah, the big problem he had was that he forgot this one simple fact.
Saber is the main character Servant Class.
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>>4719919
There's skills for double class, double summon and (class) distortion. Why didn't you use any of them here? https://pastebin.com/xHsQ01mQ
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>>4719930
Because Double Class is a joke skill and Double Summon is something only attained at the summoning of a Servant.
Distortion is something that implies that an outside force like Grail Mud has been used to change a Servant by forcibly twisting their alignment.
Manaka however has... a little bit more of a delicate touch, and unlike Alcides, the Gorgon could be called the natural final end result for Medusa.
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>>4719934
How delicate are we talking about, exactly? That might affect our... future plans.
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>>4719904
I just wanna see Nine Lives Kino and thats it
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>>4719891
I'm extremely excited for this
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>>4719937
I wanna see Sparks Liner High kino
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>>4719937
This might be an unpopular opinion, but the VN version of it looked better. I know that the final HF movie can't be 4 hours long like Snydercut but HF as a whole felt rushed and could have used a longer running time. They had to cut a lot of Illya stuff too to make room for the kino Saber and Rider fight. Rin and Sakura fight ended in like five minutes too, a lot of things could have been longer if HF was a full season like UBW.
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>>4719948
This is a very popular opinion, they cut out too much shit, especially with Illya, its good, but it could've been better
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>>4719948
Honestly, we should've been given a full season of anime for each of the Routes.
DEEN/Stay Night doesn't exactly hold up, considering it goes weirdly off the rails at some points.
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>>4719919
>In truth the ability to slice through the Noble Phantasms and Noble Phantasm defenses of other Servants would probably require his sword to be of a higher conceptual weight than the weapon or ability wielded by the enemy... Or something. At least that's how I would've balanced the lightsaber.
It is easy to speak now but if he were to make Saber one big play on Imaginary Numbers he would have gotten jackpot by making him something like Dead Apostle but with magical energy instead of blood, constantly bleeding Imaginary Numbers like a gaping wound on reality and corrosing everything magical around him with Magic Resistance rolled together with his cloak allowing him to look like proper edgelord he was and preventing World from purging his ass immidiatly.
>>4719953
I am sure Nasu has some really great ideas for FSN Remaster down the road.
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>>4719954
Oh boy, I'm sure he'll add Illya route!
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>>4719960
Nah, we'll get the Fate Route and Unlimited Blade Works. Then Nasu will say "Coming soon" for Heavens Feel but then never release it for containing themes that are just a little too dark for the Gachawhale audience.

Also expect way more Servants to randomly show up.
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>>4719962
>>4719960
Mashu Dojo.
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>>4719953
I feel like DEEN was trying to do a weird tl;dr version of the VN like the Higurashi and Umineko anime was trying to do at the time. It clearly didn't work, like putting Sakura in a black leotard filling in for Dark Sakura?
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>>4719962
Bold of you to assume they wouldn't DLC half of the UBW route. They would make up some excuse for that like "oh the nu-UBW has more content than ever, its like having two routes in one so therefore it will be divided into two!"
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Wonder if truth can eat the demonic mutation and make it useful for either Shinji or Rider?

Mutate using blessed circuit power.
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>>4719962
yk even if any of us try to learn Japanese for TsukiR and got pretty good at it, we wouldn't be able to get through the VN, Nasu's writing style is very verbose and esoteric, there's likely very generous amount of purple prose everywhere. I remember hearing that Garden of Sinners wasn't well received because Nasu's writing style was too complex in a bad way
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>>4719962
But Nasu doesn't do rape and edgy shit anymore because he grew up, not because the gacha audience can't handle it.
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>>4719986
honest to God, I think Shiki being unhinged and few steps away from being a mass murdering rapist can be very interesting in the hands of a good writer
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>>4719986
I still find it completely ridiculous how Shiki threatens to rape a girl if they don't cooperate with him. I don't know if that's chad tier or autist tier.
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You give a quick nod to Sakura, giving her the go-ahead to talk with the Gorgon as well. Rider has a stronger bond with Sakura than she has with you, after all, and while you think that Rider did like you somewhat, it's pretty obvious that she had the best relationship with Sakura. "Rider... No. Medusa. Please... We... We are just here to help you, we're not going to hurt you, all you need to do is... let us in." Sakura's voice is soft as she takes a step towards the Gorgon, to stand at your side.

"...Sakura..." Gorgon says her name a single time. "Please... Don't..." Even now, the woman is pleading for you to not take another step towards her.

Suddenly, you raise one of your arms to the sky and project a bubble of Truth around yourself and Sakura. An indestructible bubble that should block her ability to draw your magical energy through her Mystic Eyes. "It's no problem, Medusa. We aren't going to die, no matter what you might do. I care about you a great deal, and so does Sakura. We're going to stop your suffering, and finally let you be happy." You take a step in synchronization with Sakura, the bubble moving along with you.

"No! Stop! Don't!" Gorgon tries to warn the two of you from coming any closer, but you don't heed her words. With a barrier of truth around you, you're fairly certain that none of her abilities should be able to reach you. After all, Pandemonium Cetus will actually require your magical energy to be able to flow out of the barrier, which should be impossible. Not to mention you're certain that the magic itself shouldn't be capable of reaching you through a barrier like this. You take one more step forwards with Sakura, and then you realize your mistake as Gorgon finally looks up to face you, not with her Mystic Eyes, no. But with her blindfold still adorning her face, wait a minute! If she...

"Breaker Gorgon!" Gorgon screams in pain, and everything starts to go dark, as the world fades away you can see Sakura falling to the floor for a moment, without any light left in her eyes, and you follow into the void mere instants later.

[Status Updated!]
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You... Can't believe you forgot about Breaker Gorgon not needing her to have any sort of visual connection to function... You... Oh, you're still alive, it feels like. Sakura is laying face down in the sand next to you, so you quickly hoist her up and carry her on one of your shoulders. So, this is the Gorgon's inner world? You look around the beach, and nearly jump back in surprise when you catch sight of the ocean. It's not just the color of blood, it is blood. A colossal ocean of crimson spreads out behind you, the sand on the beach is bleached white, like crushed down bone powder. If this is the world of nightmares promised to those under the effects of Breaker Gorgon, then... well, it wasn't wrong. In front of you is a dark forest, the trees are twisted and dead. The fact that you're still here means that despite being under the effects of Breaker Gorgon, your barrier of Truth on the outside world is still holding up, which means that Gorgon isn't going to be able to devour either you or Sakura while you are trapped inside her mind. Impressive that even Sakura, with her ability to nullify magic, was brought with you, but then again, Breaker Gorgon is more like a seal than anything else. Looks like her empowerment as the Gorgon has even affected the blindfold she wears. You were fairly certain that Breaker Gorgon was a single target Noble Phantasm, after all.

Sakura begins to stir, and you help her stand. She looks around confused at the beach of bone dust and the ocean of blood. "Onii-chan... Wh-Where are we right now?" She is justifiably confused about her current situation, but for you, this isn't even the first mental world you've visited today! Of course, this display is a little bit more macabre than Betty's recreation of Salem.

"We're trapped in Medusa's mind. From what I gather, and we're going to either need to break out, or find the way out, before my magical energy on the outside world gives out and she eats us both." You do kind of doubt that any sort of contract given to her by Manaka would be truly binding to one as powerful as the Gorgon, her base instincts as the Gorgon would likely overpower any command given to her to not kill you. Then again, the alternative isn't exactly much nicer to think about, as you would forever lose Sakura, unable to do anything to stop it.
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"Well... Do you think we have to get up there?" Sakura points off to something in the distance, on top of a large hill, a single shining point of light lost in a miasma of darkness. She's almost certainly right. If this mental landscape represents the corruption of Gorgon consuming Medusa's sanity, then that point of light must be where the last vestiges of Medusa are, and you can tell it's something you absolutely need to get to, not just if you want to escape this place, but if you want to save Medusa at all!

>Head through the forests to reach the point of light.
>Attempt to climb from tree to tree to navigate the forest.
>Head around the island along the beaches, the hill appears to be near the shore on the south side of the island.
>Try to use your magical abilities and encourage Sakura to do the same, Breaker Gorgon should seal them but...
>Write-in...
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>>4720004
NO, anywhere but there!
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>>4720005
Point of light is Medusa
Stheno and Euryale should be somewhere around here
Manaka contract should be located somewhere as well
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>>4717337
>Please don't repeat the shapeless isle wild ride
No.
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>>4720005
>Try to use your magical abilities and encourage Sakura to do the same, Breaker Gorgon should seal them but...
Can we try to replicate Medea's teleportation if we can cast Magecraft here? She might be a hundred times the Magus that we are, but we've seen the spell at least two dozen times and there's two of us.
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>>4720009
You forgot to add "Fuck you." at the end of that spoiler
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>>4720004
>you can see Sakura falling to the floor for a moment, without any light left in her eyes
>Oh, you're still alive, it feels like
God fucking dammit WhatIs, you almost gave me a heart attack for a second.
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>>4720005
>Head through the forests to reach the point of light.
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>>4720005
oh come on, thats the third time we enter a mind/dream today if you could our talk with God.
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Ah, Shapeless Isle. Home.
Looks like we got ourselves some nice vacation.
>>4720005
>Head through the forests to reach the point of light.
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>>4720005
>>Head through the forests to reach the point of light.
I wanna say none of our other friends will be this hard but that's getting too cocky
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>>4720005
>>Head through the forests to reach the point of light.
>headpat sakura
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>>4720005
>Try to use your magical abilities and encourage Sakura to do the same, Breaker Gorgon should seal them but...

We are in a metal world so I don't think the world is going to be consistent. Just in case things move around or change I wish to see if magic or will can do anything.

Still wonder if we can eat her corruption and make something better.
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>>4720019
We're a True Magus at this point, going into people's and our own minds because of magical causes is the norm. I'm surprised we haven't dimension jumped yet like Uncle Zelretch.
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>>4720019
We're already in Azathoth's dream. Inception is the endgame of this quest

>>4720022
Atleast it was before I fucked it all up
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>>4720025
>We are in a metal world so I don't think the world is going to be consistent. Just in case things move around or change I wish to see if magic or will can do anything.
>metal world
>metal world
>metal world
>metal world
>metal world
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>In addition, those trapped within her mind have every magical property about them sealed, turning them into normal human beings, incapable of defending themselves against the horrors contained within.
I don't like the forest very much, bros
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>>4720029
Mental, don't typo shame anon.
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>>4720029
Sea of blood and sand of bone doesn't qualify it to be a metal world?
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>>4720026
Don't we basically have the Sixth Magic?
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>>4720005
>>Try to use your magical abilities and encourage Sakura to do the same, Breaker Gorgon should seal them but...
I don't trust no snek forest without being able to shoot lasers.
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>>4720035
Not officially declared as the Sixth Magic by the clocktower by whatever standards they have since we've been low key. But I'm pretty sure we're the Sixth.
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>>4720005
>Head through the forests to reach the point of light.
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>>4720030
>Chinese Martial Arts (Bajiquan): B-
>Killing Arts (Snake Style): C-
>Eye of the Mind (True): D
We are pretty good actually.
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>>4720038
We are DEFINITELY the sixth.
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>>4720005
>>Head through the forests to reach the point of light.

I'm still in a dream, snake eater.

>>4720029
>seas of blood, bone powder sand, dark forest under a mountain with a shining light on its peak
Does sound kinda metal to me.
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>>4720044
Ah, true. I had completely forgotten about those. Guess our martial arts training is finally paying off.
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>>4720004
Oh no not this hell again. Whatis, why. Why do you torture us so?
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>>4720044
its time to punch trees
her mind world is just minecraft
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>>4720049
>Why do you torture us so?
Because you bullied me for my typo.
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>>4720038
I think it's all but confirmed with God's appearance.
The Sixth is theorized to be the Magic that saves the world and humanity, and is the magic that Zepia failed to achieve through TATARI.
Now that we know that Shinji's power was sought out to create a savior, and has already performed feats such as perfect healing, absolute barriers, and Mystery generation I think its safe to say that our magic fits the idea of the Sixth magic conceptualized as the solution to the inevitable decline and destruction of humanity and the planet as calculated by Atlas.
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>>4720052
Will we get an interlude of Ayaka and Gil date QM-senpai? I like how you wrote the rom-com dynamic they had.
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>>4720058
I would love to have interlude about our allies debriefing each other again.
Last one was great.
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>>4720005
>Head through the forests to reach the point of light.
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>>4720053
Imagine having the power to make everyone happy and only using it selfishly.
Thanks God.
This is the worst Messiah ever.
I wonder how a meeting with Buddha would go for us.
We'd call his enlightenment a sack of horseshit and then telepathically project Rin's anus into his mind, I hope.
>>4720005
>Try to use your magical abilities and encourage Sakura to do the same, Breaker Gorgon should seal them but...
Let's not get eaten by whatever is in the forest please.
We'll definitely need defenses.
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>>4720005
>Try to use your magical abilities and encourage Sakura to do the same, Breaker Gorgon should seal them but...
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>>4720005
>Head through the forests to reach the point of light.
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>>4720067
Actually it makes a weird sort of sense.
Who would make a better messiah.
A man who wants to make everyone happy even at his own expense?
Or a man who wants to make that man happy?
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>>4720058
Gilgamesh, as Johny Bravo
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>>4720005
>Head through the forests to reach the point of light.
I don't like the spooky forest, but I don't want to rely on magic and risk draining the truth bubble. Time to show why we're the world champion.

Also, did we ever teach Sakura proper Magecraft? Or is she stuck with her ribbons only?
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>Try to magic
>>4720011
>>4720025
>>4720036
>>4720067
>>4720071

>Head through the forests
>>4720018
>>4720022
>>4720023
>>4720024 (Headpat)
>>4720039
>>4720047
>>4720065
>>4720079

Welp, Alright then!
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>>4720092
>Both blondes who slick up their hair.
>Both are man children who can't read the room until the last minute.
>Both strike dramatic poses
>Both go after women who have mixed, usually negative opinions towards them.
Checks out. Is Gilgamesh a mamas boy too? Little Suzy is that dark skinned girl who stole him in Strange/Fake, Carl is Shinji and Pops is Kirei.
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>>4720098
fucking hate it when you say this shit man
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"Don't bother trying to use any magic, here Sakura. In this place, it's impossible. Breaker Gorgon has sealed our magic, I can feel it." There is definitely something that seems to be blocking your ability to use any of your abilities, and while it might be possible to try to break the seal, you don't want to risk the potential of draining your magical energy any faster than you have to! The fastest route to the hilltop from here is of course through the forests, and you're pretty confident that you can handle anything that these forests might throw at you. You might be limited to normal human strength right now, but your skills at martial arts shouldn't fail you here! "Let's go, Sakura, through the forests, it's the quickest path to that point of light!"

"OK, Onii-chan!" Despite being told that she can't use her magical abilities here, Sakura doesn't seem worried at all. Looks like she's confident in your ability to protect her, even in a place like this. She quickly follows you as you take a step into the forests.

You walk for some time through the trees, the fact that the place seems to have been suffused with death means there isn't any undergrowth to struggle through, which is just as well, considering that you don't have any sort of weaponry to cut through it with, and you don't really like the idea of trying to do something like that with your bare hands. Still, you feel like you're making pretty good progress. You honestly don't know why this place is meant to be dangerous at all! You've yet to encounter any sort of opposition despite having gone so far through the forests already! Sakura is following closely behind you, and you keep looking behind you to make sure she hasn't gone anywhere.

A few more minutes of walking pass, and you can see your destination through an opening of the dead tree branches. "Alright, we're almost there, Sakura!" However. Sakura doesn't respond. "Sa-"

You turn around, and you freeze as you stare at the snake creature, like a complete version of the ones that Gorgon's hair forms. The presence of the creature alone however wouldn't cause you to freeze up like this, what does however cause you to freeze in your tracks is what is hanging out of the mouth of the monsters. Two human legs... Sakura's legs. "-kura...?" All you can do is stupidly finish speaking her name as the last of your sister disappears into the mouth of the monster, sliding down the snake's throat. You're about to charge the monster, you can use your martial arts! You can kill it! You can free Sakur-.

You trip on something. Or rather, something trips you. You look down to see the tail of another of the snakes, and then you look up just in time to see a second snake head darting towards you with incredible speed, much too quickly for you to react to at all. Everything goes dark as the head engulfs you. There's a crunching sound, then you feel nothing at all.

DEAD END.
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Tiger Dojo is a strange hint corner.
If you would like to beat the quest by yourself,
or if you would like to keep the characters' images, please be warned.
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"I'm stiiiiiiiiiiiillllll in a dream Snake Eaten- Oh! You're here already. Welcome back to the Taiga Dojo, Shinji-kun!" You are greeted by the familiar face of the woman in charge of the Tiger Dojo, who seems to be as characteristically chipper as she normally is.

"Yeah, great job getting Sakura eaten, jackass." The other Shinji in the Dojo mocks you. "Were you trying to get yourself eaten or something?! You're one messed up guy, bodysnatche- OW!" He recoils in pain.

"Ahem!" Taiga bops the other Shinji on the back of the head with her kendo sword. "What Mr. Transfer Student over there is trying to say is that walking into dangerous situations like an obviously evil forest without taking the proper precautions is a bad idea!" She crosses her arms

"That's right, Shinji-kun!" Illya finally makes her appearance or at least reveals herself. "You shouldn't get over-confident about this place! People better at fighting than you have met their ends here, you know!" Illya decides to warn you. "Now, I know you had your reservations against it, but if you want to survive going through the forests, you're going to need to see if you can get your magic working here!

"But... Breaker Gorgon seals all magical properties!" You try to argue against the advice that you're being offered, and Taiga wags her finger at you before she crosses her arms.

"Tsk tsk, Shinji-kun, did you forget that Sakura already has the most potent of all sealing abilities applied directly to her? Compared to that, Breaker Gorgon isn't really that much." She uncrosses her arms to point directly at your chest. "The same goes for you, Mr. Truth. You were capable of overturning the authority of Azathoth! Do you really think something like a seal on the level of a Noble Phantasm could really prevent you from using your power!

"I... guess not." You answer her, just a little dumbfounded. You... definitely shouldn't have gone into the forests without preparing for it, you can tell that now. Your only solace is that by the time you return to life, you won't be able to recall the events that lead to Sakura's death. Wait a second! Son of a bitch! That Servant that killed you was Wukong, wasn't it!

"Excellent! Now, here's your Tiger Stamp, and if you get eaten again, it won't be Bad Loser-kun over there that I whack next! Here's your stamp!" You are given your Tiger Stamp, and are dragged backwards out of the Dojo by an unseen force.

>Head through the forests to reach the point of light.
>Attempt to climb from tree to tree to navigate the forest.
>Head around the island along the beaches, the hill appears to be near the shore on the south side of the island.
>Try to use your magical abilities and encourage Sakura to do the same, Breaker Gorgon should seal them but...
>Write-in...
What were you expecting.
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>>4720155
>>Try to use your magical abilities and encourage Sakura to do the same, Breaker Gorgon should seal them but...
Again. I don't trust no snek forest without being able to shoot lasers.
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>>4720155
To die immediately.
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>>4720155
>Try to use your magical abilities and encourage Sakura to do the same, Breaker Gorgon should seal them but...
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>>4720155
>Try to use your magical abilities and encourage Sakura to do the same, Breaker Gorgon should seal them but...

Obvious choice is obvious. in retrospect

And yes! My detective work paid off! Sun you bastard!
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>>4720155
>>Try to use your magical abilities and encourage Sakura to do the same, Breaker Gorgon should seal them but...
Perseus must have died many, many times in alternate timelines. I wonder if Herc had to come kill Gorgon in his stead for some of the timelines he failed in.
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>>4720161
Well, you were right.
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>>4720155
Head through the forests to reach the point of light.
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>>4720155
>Try to use your magical abilities and encourage Sakura to do the same, Breaker Gorgon should seal them but...
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>>4720155
>Try to use your magical abilities and encourage Sakura to do the same, Breaker Gorgon should seal them but...
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>>4720155
>Try to use your magical abilities and encourage Sakura to do the same, Breaker Gorgon should seal them but...
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>>4720155
>>Try to use your magical abilities and encourage Sakura to do the same, Breaker Gorgon should seal them but...
I want a Carnival Phantasm with canon!Shinji and isekai!Shinji just so isekai!Shinji can bully/kick the shit out of him
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>>4720155
Oh hey we got to see Taiga again. Boy am I glad that shes doing fine. Meeting somebody in person can sometimes be much better than viewin them through a screen....anyways jokes aside.
>Try to use your magical abilities and encourage Sakura to do the same, Breaker Gorgon should seal them but...
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>>4720170
that's literally the same vote that got us DEAD END
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>>4720184
anon-kun is trolling don't fall for it.
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>>4720164
Perseus is older than Herc and Perseus had like several godlike weapons to handle and counter Gorgon, she's an absurd opponent
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>>4720173
>>4720155
switching to >Head through the forests to reach the point of light.
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>>4720195
>>4720195
Why?
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>>4720184
?
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>>4720009
Absolute unit
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Busy, so calling in... eh, probably not for a good seventy minutes.
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>>4720155
>>Try to use your magical abilities and encourage Sakura to do the same, Breaker Gorgon should seal them but...
You've done it now WhatIs, your playerbase is now suicidal
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>>4720199
I'm hoping that dying twice on a choice ends the quest so I don't have to play through Shapeless Isle again.
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>>4720214
WhatIs did say the reason for the pain was singular updates and no direction. I guess this is NG+ as we should have actual magic and a narrative that gives us proper direction this time, maybe.

If Sakura unsealed Tiamat here that would overload Breaker Gorgon's current limit of 2 people and maybe shove someone outside. Or it would manifest megamilk inside the prison where the real body is and she'd eat the world.
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So Sasaki is absolutely Merlin's servant right? Sasaki isn't a real person in Nasuverse and can't qualify as a servant so a powerful enough Caster is able to cheat him into the HGW. Plus there would be an opening considering that Mordred never died and the HGW would want to self correct in some capacity
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>>4720214
The hell? Where's that coming from?

>>4720223
Probably. I can't think of a different candidate for his Master.
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>>4720206
Just realised the date. Shapeless Isle is just an April Fools prank, right?
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>>4720229
the timeline matches up too, Merlin teleported to Misaki town a little before Mordred became King Mordred so there would be a need for an opening for a replacement for Second Saber and Merlin would want a servant to do the heavily lifting and combat because he's a lazy bum that doesn't like putting that much effort
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>>4720231
It won't be nearly as painful if you don't dead end at every hurdle.
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I don't understand. Why all the hate for the Isle all of a sudden? We did expect getting Gorgon would be super-dangerous, didn't we?
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>>4720242
Awakening ptsd
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>>4720242
another quest had a similar plotline ig and it sucked
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>>4720206
Hey, WhatIs, let`s say we would have somehow summoned Semiramis at the start of war.
Would she be completely mellowed down by now and be part of harem? It`s a huge change in everything but I am curious how you would make her judge our actions.
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>>4720223
>>4720236
>>4720229
It's taiga when we scryed her earlier she suddenly had command spells unless second assassin somehow got off-screened then she's the master of kojiro.
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>>4720252
>touch knife ears

>>4720253
Taiga may have jannie Kerrytugu as they have a strong bond
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>>4720247
>>4720248
Awakening sucked from what you guys told me. This Quest doesn't. Don't you trust WhatIS?

>>4720253
We don't know the identity of second assassin. It's probably Taiga's Servant.
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>>4720253
Why wouldn't her servant be Second Assassin?

>>4720259
PTSD
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>>4720262
Shinji would have noticed her command seals earlier when he carried her to the dining room.
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>>4720259
You could never understand, you had to be there.
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>>4720265
damn, that's actually a fair point fuck, Taiga is Sasaki's master
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Oh no not the isle
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>>4720242
It was the height of Alberich being the entity known as "Jobberich" Where he, despite being a Servant, was soundly defeated by a manticore for trying to talk to it, as well as some bushes.
Then he was bullied by Medusa.
It was pretty humiliating.
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>>4720279
Well, I've heard that exposure therapy can work for trauma. Let's hope it's true.
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>>4720279
>as well as some bushes.
Wut. How did this happen?
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>>4720279
Oh and when he finally escaped, his house blew up, killing the Sella expy and then all his allies abandoned him again, then he was forced to eat shit by his brother for the second time who lopped off all his limbs because he took off his armor because "Ow my armor is hot from magical explosion despite Magic Resistance A" and was literally left in a wheelchair for days.
It was...
It was an experience.
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>>4720284
He tried to go through some undergrowth.
The undergrowth proceeded to kick his ass.
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>>4720289
That is pretty impressive. When is Shinji going to have to face this asskicking underbrush?
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>>4719937
Heres the whole scene if you want to see

https://streamable.com/xaw7s0
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>>4720289
This was of course a clever literary parallel to the growing popularity of Fate/Overgrowth overtaking Awakening.
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>>4720155
>>Try to use your magical abilities and encourage Sakura to do the same, Breaker Gorgon should seal them but...


>>4720259
Remember what anon's said about one update a day? Imagine if players hit with a depower spend a month wandering the isle looking for powerups to face Medusa only for the QM to later confirm he did give several opportunities to get out at the first confrontation in week one but, after the manticore and bush incident, they were skipped over thinking they would've just gotten them killed.
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>>4720288
I had actually repressed the memories of the fast wheels saga. Punished jobber with a gorgon loli entourage feeding him the blood of strung up boomers as he steals their wardrobe. Then Medusa ate a whole city block with Bloodfort to get him his legs back.
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>>4720295
Herc's flashbacks were a nice touch
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>>4720315
Yeah, I loved that part too
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>>4720289
Ah, so that's why there was no undergrowth here.

>>4720305
Alright, I can see why a month with this bullshit would be triggering.
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>>4720315
Yeah that part was kino, perfect representation of how far Shirou's tracing goes
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>>4720319
I paused through the frames to get a look at everything and all of the monsters look cybernetic. I guess greekoids were robots in all Nasu timelines then.
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>>4720329
That will never not be stupid, it flies in the face of the fundamental principles of the setting.
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>>4720329
So Herc is a cyborg ig
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>>4720329
>>4720331
Didn't all the robot stuff in Greece become normal after the White Titan fucked up all the robots?
Isn't that the explanation?
Like, the robot forms get their shit rocked and are forced to take typical Gaia born god forms.
So why would things still be robots?
Is Nasu senile?
Is Medusa secretly a robot too?
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>>4720322
>Alright, I can see why a month with this bullshit would be triggering.
and then as soon as get out cue >>4720288 both of which happen as the result of a single choice each immediately landing them in the wheelchair arc until they can juice a neighborhood to get their powers back, all of this took around 3-4 months real time.
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>>4720336
Apparently every Greek hero is actually a replicant that still has Mystery for some reason despite robots being a creation of human scientific knowledge and thus antithetical to mystery.
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>>4720329
Yeah most of them do, the bull, hydra and lion looks normal to me though.
Might be a mix
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Actually they're not all cybernetic, What I assume to either be Cerberus does have the weird robot armour exoskeleton though.

This image and the following 2 I'm not even sure what to place as, the other 9 fit fine but these are just odd.
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>>4720336
Does Herc remember all the crazy robots and cyborgs running around Greece?
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>>4720348
Nasu legit has a complexity addiction that comes off as nonsense and/or contradicts itself
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I can only assume that this is in the garden of the Hesperides because he bonked the guardians with his club.
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Can we headpat taiga dojo illya next time we die?
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I have no idea what the fuck this is, I thought it was a hydra head at first but that came along later. Of the 12 Labours, these 3 i've just posted must somehow comprise the Cerberus, the Cattle of Geryon and the Hesperides Garden.
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Hippolyta after the best worst night of her life.

I wonder if Herc would get an identity crisis posting here, having to constantly click

>I am not a robot.
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I can post the rest but I feel like I'm shitting up the thread too much. Let me know otherwise as I'll stop for now.

This is the Hydra btw.
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>>4720357
I just wish it could stay within the original framework, as I actually quite liked it as a basis for an urban fantasy setting, but as time has gone on more and more things seem to shit on the mechanics to the point where we all just have to accept absolutely braindead worldbuilding contradictions like the entire Mycenean Archipelago being borged, and having ancient and antiquarian figures run around with mechs and spaceships.
The first thing discussed in Fate was mystery and magic being replaced by human understanding and technology but at this point that's been completely erased by ancient magitech and DBS tier power escalation.
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>>4720366
Kintoki owns a mecha in late 1100s Japan, please understand.
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>>4720366
i miss the nasuverse being urban fantasy
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>>4720370
and people say the servant universe is stupid.
both are
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>>4720360
My Guess; clean out Augeas' interdimensional stables. They probably have him bending the rivers of time and space to do it or something.
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>>4720373
Kintoki's mecha is floating around somewhere in the ocean right at this moment in story, and Shinji has knowledge of this.

Get in the robot Shinji.

>>4720375
This image here should be the stables, with him diverting a river
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>>4720373
It doesn't make sense as a parody as it's barely any more outlandish than the usual nu-nasuverse content despite attempting to be intentionally ridiculous.
We're supposed to take Requiem seriously but the Servant War is just a joke?
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>>4720366
>>4720370
>>4720373
Would you guys mind if I just pretended that the dumb shit Nasu has done doesn't exist for the sake of this quest?
Also this setting can't even get it straight as to who created life on the planet.
EXTRA would tell you it's the Goddess of Catalhoyuk, but FGO would tell you with complete certainty that it is definitely Tiamat who is a Beast that could probably fight Types.
While EXTRA treats Tiamat as a material for Kingprotea to use.
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>>4720381
sure.
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>>4720381
As long as you tell us when we're working under the wrong assumptions in our autism theorycraft so we don't prepare for something that isn't there, go ahead. It's your story after all.

Some of the designs are organic and not retarded though, I like the birds.

Also WhatIs, I reckon that specific line in Gorgon's Pandemonium Cetus mats that says it has limited effects on inorganic life is specifically relevant to why she wasn't such a threat back then, as the Gods were all machines and so were their boons. Which may have been how Perseus dabbed on her despite it's obvious threat. Remember Odyseuss' Aegis is a full body suit, so Perseus' may have had that option too, nullifying PC from turning him into LCL
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>>4720380
In my version of events, all worldlines where the words "OK please give everyone on the planet a holy grail and their own Servant" are uttered upon the Holy Grail is immediately purged by Alaya without hesitation.
They didn't even stop to say "GOOD OR NEUTRAL" Servant. In the Reqiuem timelines there are straight up evil gods roaming around. There must be like thousands of Gilles and Prelatis sharing notebooks
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>>4720387
But... the gods weren't machines?
They should have lost their robot forms when Altera Titan bullied them, and their crispy remains were turned into Earth Deities by Gaia/Alaya.
This is before was Gilgamesh was even around, too.
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>>4720389
There was a master and servant duo that kept murdering people in Requiem for no reason
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>>4720381
No. I want the crazy robots.
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I think nasu is just trying to shove every of his ideas in the same universe, thats how we get robot zeus and bacteria quetzalcoatl.
also he needs to stop adding shit to the past, bloody hell, dont he see that this shit makes the past not really the past anymore?
it's so stupid.
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>>4720393
Then I guess Gorgon just wanted to die and chose not to activate it? Maybe their residual artefacts were still inogranic magitek from before they got downgraded into Earth Deities?
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>>4720395
Yes, a natural result of every human being on the planet basically being given a Servant with an endless mana reserve.
I'm genuinely surprised that the world didn't immediately die from thousands of Noble Phantasms destroying towns, cities, mountains and countries in the initial confusion.

Also the idea that all these Servants are just OK with being Pokemon is just infuriating.
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I wonder if we going to see altera in this quest, her and even more her loli form are adorable.
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>>4720400
She used Breaker Gorgon on him instead of Pandemonium, and got slapped by Kibisis which inverted the attack and hit her with Breaker Gorgon instead and she just did nothing as Perseus cut her head off.
He managed to beat her with a lucky cheap shot, so you can understand why she hates him and compares him to Shinji.
I'm pretty sure we see flashbacks of how it happens in HA and Perseus is shitting himself the entire time.
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>>4720381
I certainly wouldn't mind if you purged that shit.
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>>4720401
It actually kinda did, Requiem takes place after what was essentially WW3 HGW addition, not too sure about the details but I'm pretty sure a lot of people are dead and sea levels rose up a lot
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>>4720407
Poor cunt went up against a superboss solo and could only win if she didn't select one of her regular attacks. I wonder if he had Dojo access and had to keep looping until he got the right RNG on Gorgon's attack patterns.
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>>4720404
We filled out the servants, unless we have another opportunity to summon, which was hinted at, this is it
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>>4720411
It should have been worse.
Full on Lisa style world where the environment is fucked and causality got knocked around.
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Huh tabbed back just to see a badending that was so easily avoidable. Whelp we were due for another badend.
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EXTRA and all the Sci-fi nonsense that occurs outside of Notes with Types and everything is just Nasu wanting to write a Sci-fi series but attach it to an already successful existing property.
He could've at least had the decency to set EXTRA in the far future.
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I wonder if we'll keep the Taiga dojo after the 5th war if we chose to continue. I have no confidence mistakes won't be made of we continue. So prey to God he lets us keep it in that case.
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I'm paging through the wiki to see anything interesting, apparently the old FSF had the option to pick servants like Jason, Scathach, Perseus and the Hydra
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>>4720432
I want Perseus to appear in FGO or something. He seems really interesting and its a shame he never really shows up canonically anywhere, especially since Proto Lancer randomly appeared in FGO for some reason even though there's no reason for him to be there.
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>>4720449
Data leaks confirm Lancer and Rider Perseus are an eventuality, likely when Prototype collab happen
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>>4720468
i'm still waiting for the goetia servant if you take leaks as something that sure will happen.
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"Wait a second, Sakura. Can you... try to use your magic here?" While using magic should be completely impossible within the confines of Rider's Mental World thanks to Breaker Gorgon, you... aren't so sure that it will be able to limit Sakura in such a way. After all, with her Self-Skill already at A+++, it's pretty clear that she can't be more sealed than she already is. Not to mention if that skill were to be disabled then Tiamat would begin to rapidly take over Sakura's body completely, which means... well, Gorgon would quickly become a very small problem in that case. You aren't certain whether it would occur inside this world or the world outside, all that you know is that if it ended up happening, then you'd end up dead real fast.

"My... magic? Uhm... Sure, it feels a little bit weird, but I think I can still maybe do something..." Sakura focuses for a moment, and without much difficulty, manages to draw forth a few shadowy tendrils that emerge from her shadow. Apparently completely under her control.

"Excellent, I'd suggest you keep those manifested, you never know when you might end up needing them, and leaving ourselves defenseless for even a moment in a place like this is just asking to be sneaked up on and killed." You don't think you'd ever be stupid enough to walk into that forest without at least making sure you had at least an effective weapon to use. Speaking of which...

You begin to focus yourself, and while it does feel a little bit more difficult to wield your magical energy than it would otherwise have been, the seal of Breaker Gorgon clearly isn't something that is capable of dealing with either the power Sakura wields, or of course the Power of Truth. If even Azathoth's authority was incapable of truly taking effect on you, then a mere C+ ranked Noble Phantasm shall not seal your power either!

"Ha!" You make a noise as you gather your element into the form of a sword. It's the most simple usage of manifested truth, to use it like a melee weapon, but you can't deny that it is undeniably effective when it comes to being used as a weapon. It cut through the demon Touko keeps in her body like butter, where even the weapons of Servants were completely incapable of doing it any actual harm. Of course, the blade had extra effect on such a creature due to it effectively being formed of impossibilities, while most things won't have that sort of weakness. Still, the supernatural sharpness of the weapon should be at least capable of cutting through anything in your path, tree or monster.
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Oddly enough, within this mental space, it seems that the drain on you for using a manifestation of your element is... very low. Almost as if the world itself was barely pushing back against your abilities! Interesting, seems that despite the Gorgon's seal, this world of hers is something of a replication of the Age of Gods, meaning that you are far less limited here than you would be outside. It might even be possible to apply a concept to this place, but you'd probably best not do that. This is a mental landscape, not an inner world like a Reality Marble or Sakura's Imaginary Number space. Applying a concept to something like this would also apply that same concept to Gorgon's mind, and you really don't want to do something like that.

You look at the blade in your hand, and the ribbons that have coiled around Sakura's legs, ready to strike an enemy at moment's notice. You look back at the shining point of light, and realize that despite having armed yourselves with truly deadly weapons that should make quick work of whatever might be lurking in this place with an exception of course to the Gorgon herself, you've yet to actually make a decision on any sort of route you're going to take. Of course, now that you've armed yourself, going through the forests is probably a lot safer, but going along the beach to avoid having to traverse the majority of the forest is something that has merit as well. The final option is to not bother with moving through the forests, and instead simply cutting a path of destruction through them, slashing trees down in your wake. You doubt anything living in the forests would have much luck surprising a living trail of destruction. Not to mention that Sakura's ribbons will defend her almost autonomously, and are themselves razor sharp when they need be.

>Go through the forests.
>Slash your way through the forests like a madman with a laser sword.
>Go along the beach.
>See if you can't reinforce yourself too, now that you've found the seal to be weaker than you first imagined. Then you could just carry Sakura through the forests at inhuman speed.
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>>4720543
>You don't think you'd ever be stupid enough to walk into that forest without at least making sure you had at least an effective weapon to use.
Haha
>>4720545
>Go along the beach
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>>4720545
>See if you can't reinforce yourself too, now that you've found the seal to be weaker than you first imagined. Then you could just carry Sakura through the forests at inhuman speed.
Run past all the enemies and make a beeline for the boss.
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>>4720545
>>See if you can't reinforce yourself too, now that you've found the seal to be weaker than you first imagined. Then you could just carry Sakura through the forests at inhuman speed.
This is starting to seem like an RPGmaker game
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>>4719891
I'm well aware, anon.
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>>4720545
>Go through the forests.
>Do not let go of Sakura's hand
Let's try this again, shall we?

>>4720554
That's how you get swatted by something you couldn't see in the trees, anon.

>>4720567
Oh yes!
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>>4720556
That sounds awfully specific.
But OK.
I don't intend to have you spend much time at all in the Shapeless Isle mental world.
You also won't randomly find that Solid Snake has blown you up after you leave.
Man, I still chuckle to myself over that one human magus being so ridiculously effective that people became convinced he was Odin playing a funny prank.
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>>4720573
I very much enjoy RPGmakers and how a lot of them take place in dreamworlds that have you face the trauma/fear of specific characters
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>>4720567
i'm extremely excited
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>>4720545

>>4720572
This

>>4720567
Oh man, for real?
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>>4720572
>>Do not let go of Sakura's hand
>DEAD END where we look back at Sakura and we're just holding her severed hand
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>>4720576
you saying we will find effects here like in yume nikki?
shinji transforming into a traffic light would be hilarious
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>>4720545
>>See if you can't reinforce yourself too, now that you've found the seal to be weaker than you first imagined. Then you could just carry Sakura through the forests at inhuman speed.
We're Kirei now.
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>>4720567
Yay! I wonder which anon recommendations made the cut.
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>>4720581
>forest
>Snake eats Sakura from behind, again. Dead End
>slash and burn
>Attract every single monster in the island, get overwhelmed. Dead End.
>beach
>Birds and Sea Monsters, sword ineffective. Dead End.
>ludicrous speed
>Get swatted by something you can't see at this speed. Dead End.
I can easily see any of the options dead ending us. Vote whatever you think is least likely.
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>>4720581
Sakura is such a major figure in Shinji's life that her dying essentially means the death of his personality ala Mind of Steel.
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>>4720593
Why would Slash and Burn attract every monster on the island. Clearly, we would use our Laser Sword to miss everything we swing at, then get smacked in the face by some underbrush. DEAD END.
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Shinji slips and hits his head on a rock
DEAD END
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>>4720595
There's no underbrush this time, WhatIs also detests THIS BUSH

>>4720545
>reinforce, then slash and burn at sanic speed
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>>4720599
>There's no underbrush this time
You say that, but then the underbrush jumps out and DEAD ENDs us.
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I wonder if Spoilerman was ever embarassed in Awakening about how disappointing his three kids ended up being.
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>>4720545
>>See if you can't reinforce yourself too, now that you've found the seal to be weaker than you first imagined. Then you could just carry Sakura through the forests at inhuman speed.
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>>4720336
that's just headcanon WhatIs
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>>4720607
He seemed to be a pretty accepting dad, really all he wanted was for his kids to pursue what they wanted to.
He was even nice enough to tell Al he should think about killing himself that one time.
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>>4720370
Doesn't Kintoki own the corpse of Ares, who is a big mecha god? Gods don't lose in Lostbelt 5 and they still have humanoid forms (as well as mecha ones).
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>>4720613
Well I prefer it over the greek gods all being robots for their entire existence and none of the other gods on the planet caring about the alien robot infestation.

Hell, I don't think I'd mind nearly as much if it was the case with ALL of the gods, but... just the Greeks? It just seems weird and out of place.
I think that "The gods are ancient alien robots." Is really something that should apply to all of the gods, or none of them. It's the sort of twist that is just silly if you start picking and choosing which Gods are the robots.
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>>4720622
Mesopotamian or Mesoamerican Gods were an alien virus i'm pretty sure
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>>4720622
the aztec gods are alien bacteria if i remember correctly.
nasu is weird
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>>4720626
>>4720624
Don't even get me started on that.
Alien bacteria at least makes a fraction more sense than mechas though.
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>>4720624
I think it was that the Quetz gang spawned from microorganisms that SOMEHOW survived the asteroid collision that wiped out the dinosaurs. As if that makes even an iota of sense.
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>>4720622
I just hate the idea in its entirety because the idea of robots comes from advanced human technology so it doesn't make sense for divine spirits to take that form regardless of alien interference.
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>>4720616
iirc its lb5 showing was upgraded with Ares' frame, but Golden Bear was always a mecha suit, somehow?

>>4720622
>>4720624
Mesoamerican are ayylmao aids, Greekoids are transformers from outer space, Mesopotamian Gods are actually native to Earth apparently. Curries are supposedly native to Earth too? If they were going for this though, there's no given answer as to why Earth is so special. Unless it's the epicentre of universal intelligent sentient life and they all feed off worship derived from that..? Maybe things are only real if observed by Humanity?

There's no mention of Norse god origins, maybe they're just Realmwalkers and Earth is just a part of their 9 realms network?
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>>4720607
A neet tranny discord mod, Chad Thunderspear and Sir Jobbalot. Maybe Mr. J should have just had sex like a normal person for his offspring.
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>>4720635
>there's no given answer as to why Earth is so special
The only real reason is that humanity can potentially maybe go full Star Trek in the future and spread across the galaxy.
But lets be honest, half the time they are going to get bullied into leaving in an apocalypse by Types.
That's probably the most egregious think about Nasu continually using space like he is. From the very start, space has always been the place where Types are supposed to come from. To say that it's the origin for not one but TWO ENTIRE PANTHEONS kind of cheapens Types by comparison.
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>>4720643
He has to remember Notes as LB5 was full of braining gods with Black Barrel.

Maybe he thinks it's fine to equate a whole pantheon of some distant world to an Aristoteles, with some planets opting for a single supreme being, others a small race of deity tier entities.

But then, Kaos himself is just a construct of another extra-terrestrial race apparently, and he spawned forth the Titan flagships which then in turn spawned the Greekoids:

>...a megastructure built by a sentient civilization in a distant stellar system by using the core of a star whose main purpose was the search and extraction of the necessary resources for the continuity of said civilization. Even though it's creators were already extinct, Chaos's primary purpose remained unchanged and, by using the 97% of its functionality, it fragmented its authorities into multiple beings, the Machine Gods, sending them to another star system to fulfil the primordial directive, remaining isolated within the boundary of its origin place.

The whole Greek pantheon was originally only sent here to mine for resources apparently. Then ZETE and friends went yeah nah fuck off we like being worshipped on this rock and sealed away their creators. What even is Tartarus then? An inter-dimensional superprison like some Phantom Zone expy?
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>>4720643
He really should have just made a scifi setting instead of awkwardly shoving in scifi bullshit into his secret history urban fantasy setting.
It's fine to have interesting things going on with your version of mythology, but it shouldn't just be whatever you thought looked cool in a scfi story.
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>>4720381
Tiamat can fight Types when she's a Beast. Kingprotea only has the Divine Spirit Tiamat. It's like how Extra materials say Tamamo can fight 100 Heroic Spirits if summoned as an Evil Spirit, and FGO says her nine-tailed form is a disaster on the level of Goetia, but Heroic Spirit Tamamo is described as an E-rank Servant.
As for Goddess of Catalhoyuk, it's either a retcon, somehow works because of Textures, which are mostly unexplained phenomenon, but are used to handwave other problems such as Surtr killing all Divine Spirits (Norse Texture only) or Kalki/Arjuna Alter resetting the cycle (Hindu Texture only).
>>4720635
>If they were going for this though, there's no given answer as to why Earth is so special.
It isn't. The Velbers, the space bacteria and the Greek God ships just happened to land on Earth.
Unless it's the epicentre of universal intelligent sentient life and they all feed off worship derived from that..?
According to CCC and Extella, Fate takes place in humanity's "Universe of Awareness." In that sense, it's the epicentre of the universe. Earth's irrelevant for the civilization of the Velber or to Chaos though.
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>>4720545
>See if you can't reinforce yourself too, now that you've found the seal to be weaker than you first imagined. Then you could just carry Sakura through the forests at inhuman speed.
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>>4720663
jannie are you ok
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>>4720675
What happened
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>>4720678
just a double post? it's the same post as the one below it, but was posted like a minute earlier and then deleted.
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>>4720661
Chaos will never not be a joke after they got BTFO by Musashi, what a silly Lostbelt.

>>4720671
I think we can all just agree that Nasu is horribly inconsistent and may be going senile.
Tamamo has the most inconsistent power level of any character in the setting bar none. Ranging from "super weak" to "the sun".
Textures are also silly, especially when I'm pretty sure that Surtr was able to attack outside of his own texture.
Even the handwaves get overruled damn it.
It... probably would've been better if FGO's story ended with Goetia. He tried to warn us;
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>>4720680
He wrote unban instead of urban, point at him and laugh.
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>>4720685
i will admit, i am a Musashi fanboy, but jfc FGO took it too far
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>>4720685
Every day that passes is more evidence that everyone in the Nasuverse should have been incinerated.
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>>4720685
>God.Cut.Defeated
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>>4720693
I mean, that did happen in FGO
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>>4720685
>Chaos will never not be a joke after they got BTFO by Musashi
Primordial demiurgic entities stand no match against 1000 layers of folded nippon steel!
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>>4720693
Everyone in the Nasuverse should be in Sakura's lewd belly like in that one doujin. The true route is vore route.
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Chiyome's whole purpose in LB5 was to get vored by Echidna, Herc/Raikou job offscreen, the Dioscuri get btfo by two normal human twins, Kintoki's robot existing. Grand Archer default is Orion of all people

LB5.5 had camera-kun use CS to buff living Kintoki too.
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>>4720710
I thought Orion was a good Grand Archer. Grand Servant tbqh
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>>4720714
I like him as a character, but he's not who I think of when I think "Strongest bowman". Most of his feats are done with his grug club.

I'd have assumed Hou Yi, Herc, some curry etc.
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>>4720722
i think the logic is that he was the best hunter or something.
also both medea and herc not appearing was such a kick in the nuts.
fuck nasu.
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>>4720726
Strange Fake, an April Fools joke of all things is giving Herc the closest he'll get to a canon showing of him without a handicap. Narita will finish in 20 years, maybe
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>>4720722
Rama is pretty disgusting as a bowman but Orion's whole thing is that he's the greatest hunter, Grand Servants have specific things that require them to be Grands, like Merlin and Solomon being Grand Caster cause of their god tier clairvoyance

>>4720726
legitimately got mad that we didn't get Archer Herc
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>>4720685
I mean, yeah, a lot of Nasu lore is inconsistent and we have to piece things from different works together while trying to avoid the retconned stuff to even attempt to understand the Nasuverse. The idea of containers in general extremely consistent though.
Back in F/SN, there was already an established idea that Servants were affected by their class containers. Not just because of NP availability (alive Artoria would have like 10 NPs, Saber has 2) but also because Classes have base stats, and Skills like Mad Enhancement affect stats. There was also the Emiya/Shirou Servant arm thing where Shirou's human body was too weak to use Emiya's arm to the fullest.
There are Heroic Spirit, Servant and alive versions for humans, likewise there's Divine Spirit, Nature Spirit, Elemental, God and alive versions for divinities. There's also Grand and Beast containers which differ from regular Servant containers in power. If we go by Tamamo's profile, there's Evil Spirit as well. It makes sense that all those different versions of characters with different containers would have different powerlevels, especially a character like Tamamo who was split off from a chief goddess and whose power was split off again by herself and became the ninth root of 9^9.
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>>4720731
If Orion was summoned as a Grand to deal with Tamamo going full feral Beast I can get that, but he dies before she emerges to kill Artemis' mothership? Literally not even in the same chapter.
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>>4720749
well Romulus doesn't even deal with a Beast, he just beats the shit out of Zeus
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another thing is Mad Enhancement just losing its point.
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>>4720755
Yeah its been a long time since we had a zerker who just screams fgo doesn't like berserkers who just screams since they don't sell well.
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>>4720755
it is kinda stupid to make a whole class of people with a skill that makes it so they literally can't speak
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>>4720753

He was also force summoned though, Orion was meant to be Alaya's pick to deal with the threat. Orion sacrificed himself to do what one shot of Black Barrel did to several other gods.

Romulus came in after the CF was cut off and he was essentially a forced Grand Gacha summon, likely ending up with Quirinus due to using Caligula as a base.
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>>4720755
It's hard to make a character that just screams.
A good retcon would have been to make Madness Enhancement only active in combat, so you could have a cognizant (if irritable) Servant to explore.
As it is now, almost every Berserker needs special snowflake ME to exist as a character.
Really, it makes more sense to make it only active in combat or when provoked, because stories about Bersekers are about people that fought like a madman or lost control of themselves under certain circumstances, very few were actually perpetually assmad.
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>>4720772
Part of the problem comes with making it a FGO stat, as a low rank in ME means you have shit Buster up passive for your grug cards. They started out having it at lore sensible ranks, or giving it at very low ranks for characters who aren't all there in the head like Jaguar, Tomoe etc. But any yandere or gameplay servant like Raikou or Arjuna Alter, will have it at EX. Recently they gave Galatea EX which seems to be purely a gameplay thing. Caenis too. Penthesilia has EX, but it's a specific button that must be pushed which is fine for characterisation and gameplay I guess? Summer Musashi and Summer John Dork have it for pure gameplay with little to no lore purpose though.
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>>4720781
>Summer Musashi and Summer John Dork have it for pure gameplay with little to no lore purpose though.
ok but those are joke characters
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>>4720794
Ye ik, but it's evidence they just chuck it on for gameplay reasons if there's the slightest excuse.

I find it weird Protea has it at A+ yet her dialogue uses actual words rather than constipated grunting like Caligula who has the same rank in ME.
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>>4720799
Probably something to do with the fact that, as Tiamat as part of her core, we can probably understand her because Tiamat is the true mother of humanity and we just kinda....feel it?
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>>4720781
I really couldn't care less about the gameplay of FGO as it has teams of heroic spirits launching planet destroying attacks to deplete 40% of a goblin's health bar.
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>>4720827
goblins are mighty powerful anon
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>>4720827
thats every JRPG to be honest.
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>>4720545
>Try to use same method as applying a concept to the world but with effects of your less restricted Reality Marble here to purge Manaka`s infulence and burn her contract from this mental landscape and restore Medusa to a perfect condition
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>>4720877
Gorgon's wild ride is always like this, regardless of Manaka's influence
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MERLIN NO
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Internets being weird and had to switch to a different network. Just testing to see if my ID changed.
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>>4720974
Nope, didn’t change. Thank god.

>>4720969
MERLIN YES
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Sad there's only like 1 update per day
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>>4720279
>bullied by Medusa
haha imagine getting "bullied" by Medusa
who would want that haha
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>>4721024
What?
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>>4721176
Don't mind him, he's Canadian.
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>>4721177
the day of the rake was long overdue, especially after the day of the Emu.
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>>4721177
>>4721186
I just hope this doesn't sweep up people who would rather not get all site functionality taken away for a day into /qb/

>>4721222
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KIMI TO
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>>4720545
>See if you can't reinforce yourself too, now that you've found the seal to be weaker than you first imagined. Then you could just carry Sakura through the forests at inhuman speed.

Why manifest a sword instead of gauntlets. Shinji knows martial arts not sword skills.
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>>4720288
You know it would've made no difference whether he'd had his armor on or not right?
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>>4721518
It didn't really read that way, and that doesn't really make it look any better.
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>>4721539
During the ensuing argument Sweets clarified that the armor wasn't strong enough to stop Lancer.
It was the depletion of magical energy that did him in, not lack of armor.



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