The Type-Moon Miscellaneous Thoughts Thread

[SirGauoftheSquareTable]

he is scary, according to Gordolf.

Wait, Gordolf has met him?

[AmADo VII]

I guess only Lords and member from faculty of law can meet director.

[You]

Wait, Gordolf has met him?

When you first get to the Sea of Estray Gordolf looks at the door that leads to where the Sea of Estray magi locked themselves up in and says it gives him the same heebie-jeebies as the director

[Dullahan]

stop trying to make "mean ol' clock tower magi getting Put In Their Place by modern technology/normie uprising/reddit knowledge/self-insert with cheat powers/whatever" happen. it's never going to happen.

[Ratman]

If you're going to make a death knell title for the nasuverse, one where somebody with the ability to point out the obvious gets isekai'd, and starts abusing the settting by leaning on the narrative conventions it truly runs on, that wouldn't be half bad.

The origin of the isekai protag is infinite potential, therefore he can do everything so long as he can mentally justify it to the audience in single-paragraph plain sentences.

You could even take the completely ignorant route, and constantly point out how stupid the things that were meant to be stupid are, and how stupid it is to make everything stupid on purpose.

[AmADo VII]

look at Aoko, a regular high school girl suddenly given a magic by her grandpa.

[Ratman]

I'm talking things like scamming mages out of their money because they don't know how an ATM works, calling the cops on someone and having them have to explain the satanic workshop in their basement with jars of floating eyes, getting a recording of someone's unscrupulous murder and submitting it to the authorities, going to your local priest and insisting to let you meet the vampire hunters, and of course pulling a gun on half the stuff in the setting. Lately Nasuverse has been getting too Rowling for my liking, so let's do it, let's paint it as exactly the excuse to move plot and cool-people-doing-substanceless-cool-things it is. Let's generate some cringe.

[hayate]

stop trying to make "mean ol' clock tower magi getting Put In Their Place by modern technology/normie uprising/reddit knowledge/self-insert with cheat powers/whatever" happen. it's never going to happen.

I only saw one instance of that one and it's Fate/Zero.

And Case Files Waver's investigations consist of "dismantling" the mystery of Magi's Magecraft.

So rejoice, I guess.

look at Aoko, a regular high school girl suddenly given a magic by her grandpa.

And attained 5th Magic to boot.

[SpoonyViking]

Apo Jack's Master.

Oh.
Well, the joke flew right over my head. But thanks, Gau!

[Ratman]

The joke is that this actually happens in FGO. In London, Jack was apparently enough to take out the entirity of Clock Tower.

[Lily Emilio]

You mean the clocktower where all of the top tiers conveniently left the place on some holidays break before the attack?

[Dullahan]

anything can happen when it's written by idiots for idiots

[Deathhappens]

I'm talking things like scamming mages out of their money because they don't know how an ATM works, calling the cops on someone and having them have to explain the satanic workshop in their basement with jars of floating eyes, getting a recording of someone's unscrupulous murder and submitting it to the authorities, going to your local priest and insisting to let you meet the vampire hunters, and of course pulling a gun on half the stuff in the setting. Lately Nasuverse has been getting too Rowling for my liking, so let's do it, let's paint it as exactly the excuse to move plot and cool-people-doing-substanceless-cool-things it is. Let's generate some cringe.

Just because we don't generally see how the Enforcers or, I suspect, the Policies department, do their work doesn't mean they couldn't or wouldn't unperson you in a jiffy if you tried any of that stuff as an ordinary normie. Hypnosis is the basic of basics in magecraft. And considering the vast fortunes some of the bigger families are slinging about, they probably wouldn't need to expend an ounce of mana to do it anyway.

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Not that you couldn't use some of their glaring blind spots against them, of course, that was what Kiritsugu lived for, after all, but you'd need (very) specialised knowledge, equipment and training to do it if you weren't a magus. Something like Delta Green or the higher-end cabals in OWoD Hunter, for instance.

[LJ3]

Jesus too Ratman, that's too far.

Sorry, Dull, the current fanbase is too into that.

[Yggdrasil]

The joke is that this actually happens in FGO. In London, Jack was apparently enough to take out the entirity of Clock Tower.

TBF, every time they show them the 99% of the clock tower mages seem quite incompetent.

[AmADo VII]

TBF, every time they show them the 99% of the clock tower mages seem quite incompetent.

so you think a competent magus can fight servant?

[fumei]

so you think a competent magus can fight servant?

Something something hero kirei/sword saint zouken/kiritsugu with preparation and so on

[Dullahan]

zouken can fight servants easily, because thanks to FGO he's actually older than a substantial proportion of so-called heroic spirits, so all he has to do is wait around for them to be born and shank them in the crib

[fumei]

they aren't servants when born so your joke falls apart there sorry dully

[Dullahan]

no jokes here. only 100% serious posting in this thread.