The Second Holy Grail War - A Fate RP

[Black Sword]

Background
Sixty years ago in faraway Japan, the magi of three families, under the supervision of the Second Magician Kaleidoscope, came together to conduct a ritual of rare power. This ritual brought into this world a great object known as the Holy Grail.

It is an omnipotent wish-granting device, an artifact that replicates true magic. It is capable of granting any one wish in this world, but only one. With one wish that could not be shared, the three families split and fought for the right to make that wish, and the opportunity to make that wish was lost.

After a slumber of over half a century, the Holy Grail has awakened and seeks to fulfill its purpose. It has chosen those who will be given the right to fight to make their wish, those who created it and those who truly need.

In order to truly bring forth the Holy Grail, it requires seven magi. Even so, a wish cannot be granted based on the strength of such puny souls. In order to grant any wish, the Holy Grail requires a greater fuel, something that embodies the hopes and dreams of humanity. That fuel would be Heroic Spirits.

To fill the Holy Grail, six Heroic Spirits must be sacrificed. These are summoned by the chosen magi, who become the Master of the Heroic Spirit, a familiar similar to a Ghost Liner. The familiar, a Servant, joins forces with the Master to seek the miracle.

Seven Masters have been chosen, their hands marked with the holy symbol. The ritual is known. The Servants will be summoned. The Second Holy Grail War will begin.

Seek the miracle.

Mechanics
This RP will focus around the Second War. As such, it will involve some canon restrictions and other innovations to keep things interesting.

To make certain the game does not drag out, it will be played over a total of 15 weeks. The first week will be spent summoning the Servants and getting the Masters and Servants acquainted with each other while establishing their characters. Each week after that will be one “day” in the Holy Grail War. This should encourage a quick, violent pace.

To maintain the operation of chaos, several other innovations. The identities of the Servants have been pre-decided, so players who chose to be Servants will be actors based on their legend. Masters and Servants will be matched based on the order of who registers as a Master. Masters and Servants must best figure out how to utilize each other in battle. Only Master and Servant will know their Noble Phantasms, until they decide to use them.

Second is the “flag” system, where events will trigger randomly. These include deaths of Servants or Masters, as well as unfortunate accidents and ambushes. Flags will begin to be triggered after the third “day.” Flags will be decided by random chance, like dice, tarot cards, and random number generators.

Lastly, to maintain impartiality, I will not play, either as a Master or a Servant. I will merely be the “flag” system.

Some Servants will enjoy secret abilities. I will confirm those abilities revealed in battle and will deny any that do not exist.

Once you have become a Master, please post a profile as to vital stats, your past, the nature of your magecraft, and the wish you seek from the Grail.

It would be a shame for the game to disappear at its conclusion. With the permission of the RPers, I will compile and edit everything into a novelization, to be posted here and on FF.net. So remember, the more you post, the more likely your character will be (one of) the central hero(es) of the piece (and the more likely you'll be to get top billing as writer)!

Finally.... fight as you wish, love as you wish, hate as you wish, kill as you can. Lavish upon us a tale of battle and hatred. Show us how true magi fight.

Characters

Tohsaka Mio

Full Name: Tohsaka Mio.
Controller: hero
Age: 28
Gender: Female.
Height: 170cm.
Weight: 59Kg.
Body Type: Athletic.
Ethnicity: Japanese.
Hair Color: Red.
Eye Color: Red.
Voice Actor: Tanaka Rie
Master of Caster


Past


Head of the Tohsaka family for the past ten years. His husband was murdered by a Magus Killer five years ago, event that traumatized Mio severely, to the point where it caused the loss of the baby girl she was carrying inside her womb at the time. From that point onwards, Tohsaka Mio would never be the same. Naturally, the human had died and the one thing that remained was the Magus. In act so cruel and painful that it could be called torture, she transferred the crest to her son, who had decided to step away from his duties as a magus. Whether he accepts his fate as the next heir remains to be seen, though...


Back to Mio, a word of advice: Don't let that aristocratic facade fool you, she has no wishes or worries of her own; no regrets or sins to atone for. Her ultimate goal is to reach Akaya, simply because that's the goal every traditional magus has. And just like every other magus, she is more than willing to kill to make said wish come true.


Nature of Thaumaturgy


Gifted with a fairly big amount of Magic Circuits of average quality and having been taught magecraft since she was three, Tohsaka Mio is a top tier magus boasting incredible strength in most areas of combat. Her iconic style of martial arts makes her deadly in CQC, even more when you consider the fact that she can reinforce her body beyond the limits usually shown. For her, tearing down a wall with her fists or lifting things several times her size are no big deal. Likewise, she can reinforce her sword to increase it's cutting power several times. In short, her reinforcement magic is based on the concept of 'Brute Force'.


She is fairly adept in both Fire and Earth based magecraft. While none of her spells can be considered 'outstanding' in the world of Magi, Mio can perform a few combinations that can be quite deadly. Worth noting she has knowledge of generic schools, like shared perception or familiar controlling, among others.


Finally, she has access to a fair number of magic jewels [10]. These can be used to store magical energy over time and utilize it when needed. It is possible to release this energy in the form of an instantaneous A-rank spell, but doing so renders the jewel useless after that.


Wish: Find the Root. Not a wish that comes from oneself, but one impossed by family tradition.

Adolf von Einzbern

Full Name: Adolf von Einzbern
Controller: bloble
Age: 62
Gender: Male
Height: 6'1"
Weight: 80 kilograms
Body Type: Solid
Ethnicity: European
Hair Color: White/Blond
Eye Color: Blue/Red when using magecraft
Master of Assassin

Past: An especially studious yet lecherous man who's only goal in life is to indulge in whatever pleasures he wishes to have. He lives his life by whims and whims alone, though he does respect the rules of his house. For the past 20 years his main source of pleasure has been studying up on alchemy and slowly advancing the Einzbern magecraft, though in his youth he was a wild stallion that ventured all over Europe battling the Church. However, he returned after several years a changed man with many wounds, and now rarely ventures outside Einzbern land.

Nature of Thaumaturgy: He utilizes the classic Einzbern alchemy, mostly for frivolous things such as making intricate sculptures out of different metals. He is also very knowledgeable in healing magecraft as a matter of course, using it almost daily to numb the pain he has from his many magical transplants. During his youth Adolf lost many organs and even both of his legs and one hand, resulting in them being replaced by magical prosthetics that ache him daily. Thus Adolf instead of fighting for himself relies upon a steady supply of homunculus maids to take care of all his needs, including fighting. This has made him a very lazy man, and he himself, while possessing battle experience, rarely if ever actually fights these days. Still, when the occasion calls for it Adolf battles by manipulating metal and using its strength to augment his weak body. His prosthetic legs and hand are formed of magically enhanced metal created by the Einzbern Alchemists, and Adolf frequently uses them to battle in creative ways, such as turning his metal hand into vines.

Wish: To gain back the True Magic that the Einzberns lost, although he wouldn't mind having his young body back.

Sergei

Full Name: Sergei
Controller: llednaroth
Age: ?
Gender: Male
Height: 5'5"
Weight: 80 lb
Body Type: Cachectic
Ethnicity: Russian
Hair Color: Grey
Eye Color: Steel White
Master of Berserker

A child. Essentially mute, and all bones. What are the Matous thinking enlisting a walking corpse in this Heaven’s Feel? Matou Zouken must feel very confident to use such a weak slave.

Katsuhiro Yamanashi

Full Name: Katsuhiro Yamanashi
Controller: Xamusel
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Height: 5'10"
Weight: Whatever the converted weight of 74 Kilograms is
Body Type: Athletic
Ethnicity: Japanese
Hair Color: Tan
Eye Color: Amethyst
Master of Archer

Past: A Fuyuki native, Katsuhiro was born and raised a single child who was interested in the mysteries of the universe. While he wasn't all too interested in carrying on the duties of head of the local library (his family's day job while not being magi), at least it came with some much-needed perks. When it came down to it, he loved ancient history and even books on mythology, though he would still be unable to explain how a simple deck of cards could hold such an influence on him... a tarot deck that is.

Nature of Thaumaturgy: Tarot cards are used to a truer potential than what they normally are, as a means of forcing the opponents to go down a journey to the XIII of the Major Arcana, Death. Though they can force a specific route of lifespan on their opponent, the cards can also be used as sharp killing implements, though they would need to be cleaned up afterword..

Wish: To have a long and healthy life with a rather big family that didn't need to worry about anything for at least 500 years, even with the Thaumaturgical Crest issue.

Alexandra Wilcox

Full Name: Alexandra Wilcox
Controller: LeopardBear
Age: 34
Gender: Female
Height: 5'10
Weight: An unwise question
Body Type: AB
Ethnicity: White American
Hair Color: Blonde
Eye Color: Green
Master of Rider

Past: In the United States, magic has always been connected with the aristocracy, as in the old world: they were the ones with the time and money to pursue such things. Rather naturally, this aristocratic mage class gathered in the South, amassing estates, money, and of course, slaves - the perfect situation for a magus looking to do otherwise unsavory experiments.

Born in Georgia, Alexandra was the oldest child of a magus family - a highly traditional one that even declined to pass the Crest on, waiting for a male heir. However, as the War Between the States drew on, it became increasingly clear that holding the Crest in the head of the family was dangerous: the entire class was under extreme scrutiny from the Union, looking for magi and attempting to get rid of them (part of the motivation of the war, though nobody knew). As such, with Sherman marching down upon their heads to drive them into the ocean,the Wilcox family transferred the Crest to Alexandra, their only option... who sensed which way the wind was blowing and promptly fled the South for California at the age of 19.

The early years of Reconstruction were chaotic enough that the government couldn't spare anybody to look for a few missing Crests, and she slipped under the radar as a ranch hand in the Sierra Nevadas. Of course, they eventually came calling, as they always do, and she slipped the noose in San Francisco for Lima, Buenos Aires, Rome, for a short time in each, before arriving in Strasbourg and getting caught up in the Franco-Prussian War. Barely surviving the experience, she split for British Malaya and then Japan, her last leg on a journey to make it back to the states - or at least Hawaii.

Magecraft: Secret for now

Wish: Oh, nothing - at least that she's figured out yet.

Katerina Romanova

Full Name: Katerina Romanova~
Controller: Knight Turtle
Age: Ah? That's not for you to know. (Late teens, maybe. Maybe.)
Gender: I'm a girl, silly!
Height: 5'2"
Weight: I'm light!
Body Type: I'm pretty small and frail...
Ethnicity: Rrrrrrrrrrussia!
Hair Color: White, like snow!
Eye Color: T-they don't like red eyes...
Master of Saber

Past: She is related to the Romanovs. Due to her oddities, she was immediately placed into the mage branch of the family. There she was raised in mildly comfortable isolation, interrupted by tests. These tests were downright brutal, and in the first one, she arrived home with a bear, stating it was now her familiar. No one argued; the bear was perfectly obedient. The tests, of course, were to prepare her for great things as a magus, and she seems to be ready.

Emphasis on seems.

Nature of Magecraft: Secret.

She has average circuit count, with a possibly high amount of prana per circuit.

Wish: Her family wants her to wish for a glorious Russian empire.

Cassandra Blake

Full Name: Cassandra Blake
Controller: RacingeR
Age: 28
Height: 1,65 cm
Weight: Do you want to die that badly~?
Blood Type: A+
Ethnicity: White American
Hair Color: Red
Eye Color: Black
Master of Lancer

Past: A magus born from an ancient British lineage that translated itself to the United States of America a time ago. Actually, while the Blake lineage appears to be very traditional, it is just a disguise. It’s true identity is the breed of magi assassins under the service of the Clock Tower. Traditionally, the members of the Blake family become brutally effective Enforcers at an incredible young age, and remain at the service of the Association until old age.

Such was the fate of Cassandra Blake. Following the footsteps of her father, she entered the ranks of the Enforcers at the incredibly surprising age of 14, and since then she has remained in service. Until now she has not failed a single mission, using whatever method were deemed necessary. She was so fierce and effective, that despite the stigma her gender carries in this day and age, she became known in the underworld as a “Magus Killer”. To her prey, she is neither man nor woman, but a cheerful demon that announces death with a smile.

Due to her job and the experiences she has been exposed to, Cassandra’s personality has changed, from a normal girl of her age, to something else. To a cheerful, closed off existence that is numb to anything and does not truly feel anything, to an always smiling beautiful husk who holds an ever constant, creeping cheerfulness.

The last that is know about Cassandra is that one year ago she asked for a permission to the Clock Tower, and once conceded, she immediately parted towards Fuyuki City, with motives unknown.

Wish: Oh, I wonder~

Magic: Unknown. But at least, it is known that she wields an high number of conceptual weapons.

Archer - Satehi
Assassin - Elyrin
Berserker - Mellon
Caster - Milbunk
Lancer - Vahan
Rider - Five_X
Saber - Lycodrake

Player Limit
7 Masters, 7 Servants
14 total

(if we are short players, the Masters can also take on Servant roles, but not the role of their own Servant)

Servant Stats

Archer

Alignment: Lawful Evil
N. Phantasm: A++
Strength: A
Agility: B
Mana: A
Luck: C
Endurance: C+

Class Skills
Independent Action A
Magic Resistance E
Personal Skills
Divinity B
Protection from Wind A
Clairvoyance B

Assassin

Alignment: Lawful Evil
N. Phantasm: B+
Strength: C
Agility: A
Mana: C
Luck: E
Endurance: C

Class Skills
Presence Concealment A+
Personal Skills
Protection from Wind A
Disengage B

Berserker

Alignment: Chaotic Mad
N. Phantasm: A
Strength: A+
Agility: A+
Mana: B
Luck: C
Endurance: A++


Class Skills
Mad Enhancement C
Personal Skills
Eternal Arms Mastership A+
Bravery A+
Divinity C

Caster

Alignment: Lawful Good
N. Phantasm: E-A++
Strength: E
Agility: D
Mana: A+
Luck: B
Endurance: D

Class Skills
Territory Creation A
Item Construction C
Personal Skills
High-Speed Divine Words A
Divinity A
Soul of a Martyr A+

Lancer

Alignment: Lawful Neutral
N. Phantasm: B+
Strength: B
Agility: A
Mana: A+
Luck: D
Endurance: C+

Class Skills
Magic Resistance A
Personal Skills
Clairvoyance A
Divinity B
Rune Magic A+

Rider

Alignment: Lawful Evil
N. Phantasm: EX
Strength: B
Agility: A
Mana: C
Luck: A+
Endurance: C

Class Skills
Magic Resistance D
Riding A
Personal Skills
Charisma A
Military Tactics B
Projectile (Arrow) B

Saber

Alignment: Chaotic Good
N. Phantasm: B+
Strength: A
Agility: A
Mana: B
Luck: B+
Endurance: B


Class Skills
Magic Resistance B
Riding A
Personal Skills
Battle Continuation A
Charisma B
Instinct A

Canon Restrictions
Setting: Fuyuki, Japan, Meiji Era, 1874
Holy Grail will descend over the Tohsaka Mansion
Second War will end in failure

Tohsaka
Martial Art Specialists, likely able to use Reinforcement on self

Einzbern
Will hold Lesser Grail - a literal "cup" prepared by the Einzberns
Specialization: flow/transference of power
Ability with Alchemy, Healing magecraft
Sorcery Trait: Spellcasting without possessing the knowledge of the spell itself; to skip the thaumaturgical process altogether and recreate miracles just through the use of prana. Still bound to the limitations of the Magic Circuits.

Matou
Bug user
Specialization: "absorbing" or, from another perspective, "to bind something to one's self"

Jubstacheit von Einzbern and Matou Zouken will survive to see the Fifth War

[Milbunk]

This looks interesting, so to clarify, you can pick either one slot of Master or Servant, if we pick Servant we pick a class and you show stuff for us that you've already made? If we pick Master we create our own unless we go with the 3 main families?

[Black Sword]

All correct, Milibunk!

[Vahan]

Wow, sweet, I'll sign myself up as Lancer ;p Squeeee!

[Milbunk]

Tell you what, flip a coin for me, if heads give me Assassin if tails give me Caster I'll let you decide.

[Black Sword]

PM to each of you revealing your identities!

[Vahan]

Ooooooh, interesting, I like it.

[Lycodrake]

[Edited.] Actually, no, never mind. I'll need to give this more thought. Sorry 'bout that.

[Black Sword]

....I have no idea what you're apologizing about. I now haz a sad.

[Lycodrake]

....I have no idea what you're apologizing about. I now haz a sad.

Sorry, didn't intend to sadden you with that...
Could you flip a coin between Assassin and Saber for me, then?
(I decided I wouldn't mind RPing as either one of them from the stats, skills and alignments; just took a little while.)

[Five_X]

I'll go with a tentative RIDER! Kamen Rider, more like.

[Black Sword]

Lycodrake, your identity has now been revealed!

[Lycodrake]

Excuse me while I do a victory dance:

[Milbunk]

Two questions, are the Master's we Servants get already decided or will they be random?

Will Saber make it to the final round no matter what due to what was said about them?

[Vahan]

Obviously we all die ;p isn't it sad Saber-chan?

[SeiKeo]

Alignment: Lawful Evil
N. Phantasm: EX
Strength: B
Agility: A
Mana: C
Luck: A+
Endurance: C


Class Skills
Magic Resistance D
Riding A
Personal Skills
Charisma A
Military Tactics B
Projectile (Arrow) B

Wow I wonder who this is.

[Milbunk]

Is this the part where I correctly guess with my super psychic abilities that the Assassin will be having the true name of Hassan?

[Five_X]

Alignment: Lawful Evil
N. Phantasm: EX
Strength: B
Agility: A
Mana: C
Luck: A+
Endurance: C


Class Skills
Magic Resistance D
Riding A
Personal Skills
Charisma A
Military Tactics B
Projectile (Arrow) B

Wow I wonder who this is.

These Sarvant identities are pretty easy to guess, ya.

[Vahan]

Mongols come to mind. Mongrel mongols ... or maybe I've been playing too much MTW 2

[Black Sword]

Fiver has had his identity revealed to him. Leo, wanna join?

Masters will have their Servants assigned randomly.

Saber will definitely be in the last three, due to canon.