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Adhoc vote count started by AnonymousRabbit on Feb 18, 2020 at 10:23 AM, finished with 44 posts and 11 votes.

  • [X] "I... I got it. I'll need materials. Can you fetch them for me?"
    [X] "I want to see Rider again. I want to tell her I'm okay. I... I don't want Minerva to turn her against me."
    [X] "The sky. Something's happening to the sky. Do you know what's going on, Berserker? The stars, they're vanishing."
    -[X]"We can't stay here, we'll have to go back into town. Find Ruler and the others."
 
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[] "I... I got it. I'll need materials. Can you fetch them for me?"

You looked at the animals Berserker had hunted and grimaced, "I... I got it. I'll need materials. Can you fetch them for me?"

Berserker stared at you for a few moments before walking away. You walked up to the animals and picked them all up in your arms. You need a place to skin and cook them. You wandered back to the cabin where you first woke up as the stars continued to vanish from the sky.

You walked in on a small kitchen in the cabin and set down the animals. You started preparing them with what meager tools you could find. Eventually you heard Berserker return with what you needed, some cutlery and a skewer.

Those will do so you began to work...

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Roasting the rabbits over the fire, you picked out the most cooked of the batch and sunk your teeth into it. Taking a chunk of the meat, you chewed and found it stringy within your teeth as you swallowed.

Bland but filling.

Berserker quietly stared at the flames while you ate the rest of the first rabbit. You were slowly regaining your strength and you had a lot to think about during your meal prep. It was fortunate that the area was abandoned, you didn't want to find any enemies lurking around here.

The fire crackled and you bit into another rabbit.

Swallowing, you set the skewer back down and sighed, "I need a plan."

"The plan is simple from where I am at. Find your friends," Berserker snorted as he glanced your way.

"As if Minerva will make it that easy. She has one command seal and she could easily use that to kill Rider," You hissed as you glanced his way.

The Wildman looked at you with a raised eyebrow, "Sweet Celtic Corns, you've got it bad for that chick."

"Who wouldn't. She's hot," you scoffed as you looked at the fire.

"Goes beyond that. But you're smart for thinking Minerva's going to pull shit," Berserker barked as he grabbed a rabbit and ripped it apart with his teeth, "That girl's always scheming, always one step ahead, she would be long gone now if this whole region wasn't locked down."

"She could pry a hole in it," you noted as you watched Berserker scarf down his food, "Did you let her get away?"

"Fuck no. But that girl's smart enough to cover her tracks with her magecraft. I'm a Servant, I have superhuman senses and even then I'm motherfucking Cu Chulainn, she shouldn't have been able to get away... Not unless she had help," Berserker growled under his breath as he crunched through the rabbit's flesh and bone.

"If she gets to my allies first then it's going to be an uphill battle. There will be an investigation but there's so many moving pieces..." You admitted as you rubbed your hands together, "This whole body switching threw me off."

"Minerva would only have one goal in mind and that's escaping. But she's a sadist too so she would be looking to cause as much chaos to use as smokescreen..." Berserker spat as he looked your way, "Though the bigger concern now is... Well..."

He pointed up the sky where the stars were vanishing one by one. You felt the dreadful feeling of terror well up inside you. Something told you this wasn't good.

"Oh. It's probably nothing," you noted with a disinterested look.

"Like hell it's nothing, did you inherit Minerva's brain damage too?!" Berserker barked as he looked your way, "The sky is fucked up, runt!"

"Stars are vanishing... No, they're being obscured," you murmured as you got a good look at the heavens.

"Obscured?" Berserker scoffed as he leaned forward, "Sounds like a bunch of bullshit to me."

"Pretty sure it does," you retorted as you looked at him.

"Hmph. Well what are you going to do about it, runt?" Berserker asked as he narrowed his gaze your way.

"What is there to do? I'm in this body, Minerva could be turning my friends against me and I'm stuck here with... With you!" You growled as you got up your feet, "You! And not Rider!"

Cu Chulainn smirked as he bared his teeth your way and reached out to hold your face. His hands were rough and calloused, he could easily snap your neck if he wanted.

"Yeah?" He challenged as he grinned, "Then what can this Cu Chulainn do for you to make you complain less, little runt? If it were me, I'd raise hell out there and let those friends of yours come. Are you just going to sit here wallow in shit while Minerva gets off unscathed?"

"I... I can't just move rashly, what about my friends?! I have to make sure they're fine!" You argued with him.

"And when are you going to fucking do that?!" Berserker roared as he got up his feet, "Let them come! Let them get mad! All that matters is you fucking kick Minerva's ass. If she's talked to your cronies then stab her first before you answer whatever questions they have! Stop making this more complicated and just get out there and ram your foot into her ass cheeks!"

"In our state?! We'll get dogpiled and Minerva will hurt Medb! Think this through! I've given this thought!" You snarled right back as you looked into Berserker's red eyes, "That's... That's what Minerva has over me. If it weren't for that command seal..."

That silenced Berserker leaving you two in the quiet darkness of the front of your cabin. You felt powerless... What... What can you do?

"Then just win the Grail," Berserker growled as he spoke once more, "Beat the other Servants, win the Grail, free Medb. That's all you have to do... And you have the power to do so."

The Grail...

You parted your lips as you looked at his red eyes, "That's..."

"That's all you can do now. That's everything you could do now. Now stop crying for Rider and give me shit to kill," Berserker growled as he grabbed you by your clothes to pull you close, "Now tell me... What do you want to do, Master? Who's Night are we going to absolutely ruin?"

You stared at him before clenching your fist, "You really are just a dog that just wants to fight..."

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[] I want to win the Grail. I want to save Rider. For that... We'll need to take out the other Masters. Lancer is the closest, you'll find him and Hans.
[] You'll raise Hell. You'll let them all come to you. The Cult seems like a good place to gather everyone... Plus you have your suspicions on the stars disappearing being from there.
[] "No one's... We're going to stay put and... Think. Regroup. Reorient. Just leave me alone. I want to think of a way to save Rider."
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[X] You'll raise Hell. You'll let them all come to you. The Cult seems like a good place to gather everyone... Plus you have your suspicions on the stars disappearing being from there.

Let's go with Cu's plan. It's a simplistic strategy, and very straightforward.
 
[X] You'll raise Hell. You'll let them all come to you. The Cult seems like a good place to gather everyone... Plus you have your suspicions on the stars disappearing being from there.

We should draw people to the source of the problem, then team up, I think.
 
[X] You'll raise Hell. You'll let them all come to you. The Cult seems like a good place to gather everyone... Plus you have your suspicions on the stars disappearing being from there.
 
[X] You'll raise Hell. You'll let them all come to you. The Cult seems like a good place to gather everyone... Plus you have your suspicions on the stars disappearing being from there.

Minerva has the initiative for so long. Time to take it back.

Even if thats mostly random flailing.
 
[X] You'll raise Hell. You'll let them all come to you. The Cult seems like a good place to gather everyone... Plus you have your suspicions on the stars disappearing being from there.
 
[X] You'll raise Hell. You'll let them all come to you. The Cult seems like a good place to gather everyone... Plus you have your suspicions on the stars disappearing being from there.
 
[X] You'll raise Hell. You'll let them all come to you. The Cult seems like a good place to gather everyone... Plus you have your suspicions on the stars disappearing being from there.
 
[X] You'll raise Hell. You'll let them all come to you. The Cult seems like a good place to gather everyone... Plus you have your suspicions on the stars disappearing being from there.

Clocks ticking, we can rest when the wars over. One benefit of being zerker Cu's master is that because of his extreme Madness Enhancement, he doesn't benefit from having a Master help strategize which means we're free to do other shit while he does his thing, where as with Medb or other servants they tend to need assistance to be at peak performance.
 
We sure we want him to fight everyone again? Remember, he no longer has Riastrad and we aren't the mana beast Minerva is.
 
We are a Berserker Doll, after all.

Also, weirdly, I think this is quite appropriate to this quest for some reason:

 
[X] You'll raise Hell. You'll let them all come to you. The Cult seems like a good place to gather everyone... Plus you have your suspicions on the stars disappearing being from there.
 
We sure we want him to fight everyone again? Remember, he no longer has Riastrad and we aren't the mana beast Minerva is.
The point isn't to fight everyone, it's to bring everyone together to stop whatever's happening right now. We're acting as bait.
Exactly what Impstar is saying. Putting something straightforwardly going back to the group like "walk back to the church and knock, ask for Ruler" is bound to run into something that screws it all up, like a bunch of Association members or Carmilla trying to gank us. Instead, we play by the story logic and just cause a bit of property damage. Then we get identity verification crap over with and put Minerva in her place.
 
[X] You'll raise Hell. You'll let them all come to you. The Cult seems like a good place to gather everyone... Plus you have your suspicions on the stars disappearing being from there.
 
[X] You'll raise Hell. You'll let them all come to you. The Cult seems like a good place to gather everyone... Plus you have your suspicions on the stars disappearing being from there.

We're in Canada. Time for some regional music.

 
This is a bad idea the magus association is already planning on nuking the city sending a berserker to raise hell will only exacerbate this issue.
[X] I want to win the Grail. I want to save Rider. For that... We'll need to take out the other Masters. Lancer is the closest, you'll find him and Hans.
 
I'm sorry. I promise I won't give you guys trouble again. It'll be smooth sailing from here. You'll get your body back. I'll even stack things to your favor.
I know I'm a bit late but @AnonymousRabbit seriously calm down. As others have said nobody had actually asked you to rewind or make things easier on us and others said they liked the way things were going. I am among them. I LOVE when a twist comes out of nowhere that makes sense in hindsight. Especially if it changes everything and the whole trajectory of the quest. Personally I think the relatively smooth sailing ending of using the box, getting Berzerker and Archer killed leaving us and Emiya to deal with Hans and Olga would have been more boring.

Don't change your plans because one or two people expressed anger at your work. Stick to your guns and push forward knowing there are just as many if not more people who support your work(Personally I think of AlwaysLate as a chronic overreactor. Most of their wild theories never come true anyway). If Authors bent to every single criticism of their work then many great stories would have been lost as the audience demanded change. I mean imagine if Rowling had reacted similarly to every criticism of HP? Or GRRM with GoT. Or Tolkien with LotR. The stories would have been irrevocably changed and probably dropped in quality as plans would need to be reshuffled to account for having to change stuff. People are going to complain, don't let that ruin what you have been making.

Anyway voting:
[X] You'll raise Hell. You'll let them all come to you. The Cult seems like a good place to gather everyone... Plus you have your suspicions on the stars disappearing being from there.
 
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