The Beast feels like a stall tactic for her meteor, disrupting her could be helpful.
She's summoning the meteor to kill The Beast she let loose. She doesn't give a shit about collateral damage is the other half of the problem. Stalling Meteor is what our job is now. Shirou's is to pray that The Beast isn't immune to infinite swords.
 
[x] Run interference. Distract Olga and the creature alongside Saber as Emiya does his thing. Take Gae Bolg and take a stab at confronting Olga!
 
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[x] Run interference. Distract Olga and the creature alongside Saber as Emiya does his thing. Take Gae Bolg and take a stab at confronting Olga!
 
Beneath Twilight Skies
[] Run interference. Distract Olga and the creature alongside Saber as Emiya does his thing. Take Gae Bolg and take a stab at confronting Olga!



"I am the Bone of my Sword."


"Saber!" You called as you reinforced your legs to shoot forward.

Saber followed you as Olga stood where she was as the creature protected her. Tendrils shot forward towards you as you cut through them with Gae Bolg. Your body became a blur of scarlet as the demonic spear carved through the creature's appendage.

"Steel is my Body and Fire is my Blood."

Likewise Saber sliced through the glowing tentacles and weaved through more vicious attacks. He roared slashed through the obstacles in his way. You and Saber worked together to catch an intercept tendrils making their way to Emiya.

"I have created over a thousand blades."
You slid on the floor before you charged straight at Olga. Gae Bolg burned scarlet as you watched her summon miniature comets to come streaking your way. You watched them come for you before you smacked them aside with your spear.

"Unaware of Loss."
You watched as the creature slam down a tendril at Saber whom evaded expertly before severing the creature by its limb. He got on top of it and started running his way towards its body while many tendrils moved to intercept him.

"Nor aware of Gain."
You dodged and summoned Aegis to grind a tendril coming to your side upwards. Olga took a step back as the air was filled with her familiars. They were all around you.

"Withstood pain to create weapons, waiting for one's arrival."
You were encased in your shields as they smashed into you all at once. Smoke filled your vision before you burst out of it as you ended up on Olga's side. Her eyes followed you on surprise as her empty sleeve swayed in the air.

"I have no regrets. This is the only path."

"Olga!" You roared as you aimed straight for her heart.

Olga Marie moved and caught the demonic spear with her remaining hand, her left eye alight with furious fire. Her hand bled and burned from touching the Noble Phantasm even through her reinforcement.

"I won't lose. Never again!" Olga screamed as the two of you locked gazes.

It was at the same time Emiya finished his Aria.

"My whole life was Unlimited Blade Works!"
Illusionary fire erupted from where Emiya stood before cracking up the ground. His prana filled the air in what looked like crackling lightning before everything turned white.

.....
....
...

When you opened your eyes, you were kneeling in dirt. The faint smell of steel filled your lungs as a gentle breeze rolled overhead. The world you were in was in perpetual Twilight, serene and peaceful if only a bit melancholic.

Grass danced all around and gave off the impression of life beginning to take hold and grow in this wasteland...

You eventually slowly found your footing as you held on to your spear to find the looming form of the Lotus Creature towering in this world.

It was huge, like a pale parasitic worm that emerge from the depths of the earth. It screeched from afar, a huge stand out from this peaceful world. You soon saw that all around you were weapons stabbed into the ground. Heroic weapons, tragic weapons, weapons that were loved, weapons that were unloved, there hundreds, thousands perhaps a near infinite amount of them just being... There.

You had the distinct impression that they were all slumbering peacefully and in the wake of the monstrous interloper in their midst, the false articles slowly stirred. You recognized this manner of magecraft... If it could be considered as one.

To force one's internal world upon the surface of the earth, it could only be described as a Reality Marble. And the one who conjured it was without a doubt the man standing beside you now.

"Emiya... This is..." You blinked as you looked around you, "This is where you create your swords?"

Emiya... Shirou Emiya allowed himself a small smile at that, "No. It's a world I created which houses infinite number of swords. It's the only trick I really have going for me."

He picked up a nameless longsword from the ground and held it. You could see his magic circuits on his flesh as he looked at the sword on his grasp.

"With this, that thing can't escape or influence the outside," Emiya said as he lowered the blade.

Up above, the clouds broke apart to reveal the orange light of a setting sun. The grass beneath your feet swaying with the breeze as Saber walked by Shirou's side.

"Master," Saber nodded as he held his blade.

Emiya smiled as he walked forward, the grass beneath his shoes softening his footsteps, "Brie. I'm leaving Olga to you. Saber and I will engage the creature."

Your eyes widened as swords flew up and floated behind Shirou's back. The man clenched his fist before charging at the Creature that he dragged into his own inner world. In order to defeat such a monster, he would even disturb the peaceful scenery of this world of swords.

You had your own job now. You turned and moved to where Olga was. The young heir of the Animusphere clenched her fist as her hand bled into the grass beneath her. She raised her gaze to see that you had come bearing your spear in hand.

"End of the line, Olga," You declared as you raised your spear her way.

"It's too late. You're far too late," Olga said as she steadied her breathing, "You can't stop it. Hiding in this world won't do anything. This city and everyone in it will witness the greatest of my Family's magecraft."

"And do you really think your family will approve of such an action. Of their hard work and masterpiece being used in such a way," you questioned her with a narrowed look.

"What choice do I have?!" Olga screamed as she clenched her hand.

Explosions rattled the ground. Swords blasted the Lotus Creature as Emiya and Saber worked as one to destroy it. The creature endured the broken Phantasms landing on its body while Saber cut through its form.

Tendrils flew and hammered the grassy plains.

"There's always a choice. You could have stopped. You could have given up. Things didn't have to turn out like this!" You told her as you gripped your spear.

"And what choice have you made, Doll?" Olga asked as she looked at you with a tired tone, "If I don't destroy this town, the Clocktower will. They'll purge it to cover it all up. Even if you offered my head or someone else's, do you really think Magi more heartless than I am will listen to you?"

The Lotus Creature grew and evolved, screaming as it carved open the landscape. It was showered in hundreds of swords but it refused to go down.

"You won't wish to save this town. To the end, you'll wish for your Servant's happiness. You don't care about this town. So why stop me if you're just going to do the same thing?" Olga asked as she straightened her back.

"You're right. I don't care about this town. All that matters is Rider's happiness," you replied as you finally admitted it, "And you being alive is a threat to that happiness. If I'm going to live a quiet life with Rider, I have to kill you and everyone who's going to get in my way."

"The Doll grows a heart but that heart is black," Olga sneered as she cracked a smile.

"Black? Oh it's red. It's very much red," You told her as your spear burned with your prana, "What about yours? Care for me to find out?"

"Luna!" Olga roared as an artificial moon shined behind her. Magic circles focused the moon's light before shooting you with it.

You raised your hand and snarled, "Aegis!"

The beam bounce off your shield.

"Come, you Lovesick Doll!" Olga declared as she released her familiars into the air.

You spun Gae Bolg in your hands and got ready.

GRAND BATTLE
VS
Heir to Astromancy
OLGA MARIE ANIMUSPHERE

Beneath Twilight Skies

[] Utilize your Speed to perform Hit and Run tactics. Wear down her defenses and prana.
[] Use your Command Seal and blindside her with summoning Berserker. End this by turning her into paste!
[] Employ Psychological Attacks against her. It worked last time. It should work again.
[] Raise your shields and take the brunt of her blows. See which one of you could outlast the other in terms of capacity.
[] Write...
 
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[X] Utilize your Speed to perform Hit and Run tactics. Wear down her defenses and prana.

Let's not use our last command seal. Also no more psychological attacks. And we've used a lot of mana, while she's been drawing on an external source this whole time.
 
"Olga!" You roared as you aimed straight for her heart.

Olga Marie moved and caught the demonic spear with her remaining hand, her left eye alight with furious fire. Her hand bled and burned from touching the Noble Phantasm even through her reinforcement.

"I won't lose. Never again!" Olga screamed as the two of you locked gazes.

It was at the same time Emiya finished his Aria.
Olga's churning on so much Prana she can take a prototype Gae Bulg. How much more can she sustain herself with before the piping of her circuits can no longer sustain the pressure.
Illusionary fire erupted from where Emiya stood before cracking up the ground. His prana filled the air in what looked like crackling lightning before everything turned white.

.....
....
...

When you opened your eyes, you were kneeling in dirt. The faint smell of steel filled your lungs as a gentle breeze rolled overhead.
Oh shit, we all got dragged into it!
You eventually slowly found your footing as you held on to your spear to find the looming form of the Lotus Creature towering in this world.

It was huge, like a pale parasitic worm that emerge from the depths of the earth. It screeched from afar, a huge stand out from this peaceful world. You soon saw that all around you were weapons stabbed into the ground. Heroic weapons, tragic weapons, weapons that were loved, weapons that were unloved, there hundreds, thousands perhaps a near infinite amount of them just being... There.
Don't suppose there's a gold chain in there somewhere? Maybe a black spear-sword with circuitry?
"End of the line, Olga," You declared as you raised your spear her way.

"It's too late. You're far too late," Olga said as she steadied her breathing, "You can't stop it. Hiding in this world won't do anything. This city and everyone in it will witness the greatest of my Family's magecraft."
Yeah, gonna be hard if we have you unconscious.
"There's always a choice. You could have stopped. You could have given up. Things didn't have to turn out like this!" You told her as you gripped your spear.

"And what choice have you made, Doll?" Olga asked as she looked at you with a tired tone, "If I don't destroy this town, the Clocktower will. They'll purge it to cover it all up. Even if you offered my head or someone else's, do you really think Magi more heartless than I am will listen to you?"
No Olga, I don't thing you or Minerva's life would be enough to stop it.

But you both, and Hans? That will serve as a suitable good-faith opener for negociations.
The Lotus Creature grew and evolved, screaming as it carved open the landscape. It was showered in hundreds of swords but it refused to go down.

"You won't wish to save this town. To the end, you'll wish for your Servant's happiness. You don't care about this town. So why stop me if you're just going to do the same thing?" Olga asked as she straightened her back.
Because we won't do nothing for these people. Because we refuse to play a zero-sum game. Because we refuse to believe the only power, the only truth, in this world are a bunch of inbred, degenerate nobles whose very acts they commit across their lives diminish their precious magecraft. We won't bring back the people who died, we'll never be able to undo the nightmares you and Minerva inflicted on them. But we can give them something! WHICH IS MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT YOU!
"You're right. I don't care about this town. All that matters is Rider's happiness," you replied as you finally admitted it, "And you being alive is a threat to that happiness. If I'm going to live a quiet life with Rider, I have to kill you and everyone who's going to get in my way."

"The Doll grows a heart but that heart is black," Olga sneered as she cracked a smile.

"Black? Oh it's red. It's very much red," You told her as your spear burned with your prana, "What about yours? Care for me to find out?"
Nah, I disagree with Chibi-Brie. Killing Olga now is just proving her right. The Clock Tower will see to her fate.
[] Utilize your Speed to perform Hit and Run tactics. Wear down her defenses and prana.
Honestly, this is not the best plan. We're still in the Caster body, not the Berserker body. But the other options each have too massive a downside. I wouldn't count on too much prana drain, but rather just slowly cutting her to ribbons.
[] Use your Command Seal and blindside her with summoning Berserker. End this by turning her into paste!
So damn tempting. But without a Command Seal, BerserCu may just cock everything up. And Olga would then bring in Super-Carmilla.
[] Employ Psychological Attacks against her. It worked last time. It should work again.
We don't want Olga to get even more insane and self-destructive.
[] Raise your shields and take the brunt of her blows. See which one of you could outlast the other in terms of capacity.
She's still pulling from the entire city's life-force as prana. Not a good plan.

[] Utilize your Speed to perform Hit and Run tactics. Wear down her defenses and prana.
 
@Always Late

Something that's been bugging me for a little while now but how do you intend to get Hans help in restoring Brie to her original body if you're also intending to sell him out to the Association?
 
Nah, I disagree with Chibi-Brie. Killing Olga now is just proving her right. The Clock Tower will see to her fate.
I mean, we're not heartless, but the character we're playing really isn't very moral. Olga kind of is right about us. And frankly, killing her and then turning her body over to the Clocktower is fine by me. If we happen to take her alive, good for us, but remember the last time we spared her? Could have avoided a lot of trouble by killing her then.
 
You can in fact try and find Caladbolg. It's in there somewhere.

Emiya is that compulsive hoarder who didn't clean his Reality Marble up for years, while piling all the interesting swords he got his hands on into it.

We could, probably. Well, it's not really Medb's sword, she borrowed ( stole ) it from Fergus, sooo.
The question is, will our waifu's ex-husbando approve? :V
 
[X] Utilize your Speed to perform Hit and Run tactics. Wear down her defenses and prana.

Eh, a human can only unleash so much power for so long of a time, so forcing the hobo to fight as we chip away her defences sounds about right.

And this time, lets make sure she is really, really dead, yeah? Rip out the heart and tear off the head and all.
 
@Always Late

Something that's been bugging me for a little while now but how do you intend to get Hans help in restoring Brie to her original body if you're also intending to sell him out to the Association?
Because he'll have his back to the corner, no more tricks up his sleeve, and three to four enemy Servants with blades to his head.

Think about it. The Magus association decreed this farce of a war needed to end in days. Cu, Kiara+Olga, then Hans. That's how the war was supposed to go, and how it's going to end now. Minerva's undoubtedly been restrained by now, and once Olga's done the only competitors will be him, us, and Shirou. The Grail War effectively ends after this battle. Hans can't win a fight between him and everyone else, and he knows it. The disgraced traitor to his family, even as The Magus Association tears the family apart for their crimes, lost the moment he failed to seize the initiative. If he's needed to flip Minerva and Brie, he can't do anything about Jeanne frog-marching him off immediately after with a word in for good behavior. He'll get off light compared to Minerva and Olga.

The real question you should be asking me... is whether we'll be fighting Shirou after this.
I mean, we're not heartless, but the character we're playing really isn't very moral. Olga kind of is right about us. And frankly, killing her and then turning her body over to the Clocktower is fine by me. If we happen to take her alive, good for us, but remember the last time we spared her? Could have avoided a lot of trouble by killing her then.
Once Carmilla is dead and Olga is in Jeanne's hands to be delivered to Clocktower? Trust me. Killing her here would be a mercy, compared to what those monsters do to the criminals among their "peers". If you want to be a vengeful, spiteful bastard, leave her alive, for death is a release from pain.
 
If you want to be a vengeful, spiteful bastard, leave her alive, for death is a release from pain.
I mean, I don't really. I just want her out of the way cleanly. The only reason I'd prefer her death is the end the chance of her causing any more problems, if we can guarantee her delivery into the hands of the clocktower that also works.
 
I mean, I don't really. I just want her out of the way cleanly. The only reason I'd prefer her death is the end the chance of her causing any more problems, if we can guarantee her delivery into the hands of the clocktower that also works.
Both times Olga got back up, it was because she had a patron, a source of sanctuary and support like we had in Shishou that never got seen on-screen until too late because we didn't pick the right options. Well Olga just stabbed Kiara in the back and blew the whole cult up. She has nothing left to pull off of. This is undoubtedly it. No tricks, no secrets, no bullshit, just a clean end no matter what.
 
Alright, I'm leaving the edgiest, antiheroic vote here, maybe someone will pick it up:

[X] Stall Olga Marie. Tank her hits with Aegis. Look for Caladbolg, the Rainbow Sword.
-[X] Once you find it, dual-wield it with Gae Bolg. Shank that bitch with your sword while you stab her with your spear.
 
Both times Olga got back up, it was because she had a patron, a source of sanctuary and support like we had in Shishou that never got seen on-screen until too late because we didn't pick the right options. Well Olga just stabbed Kiara in the back and blew the whole cult up. She has nothing left to pull off of. This is undoubtedly it. No tricks, no secrets, no bullshit, just a clean end no matter what.
As long as she's not rescued by Assassin again... if she's free, she can pull something in the future. Which is why she needs to die or be captured and turned over immediately (after Assassin is killed, if Assassin lives Olga needs to die).
[X] Stall Olga Marie. Tank her hits with Aegis. Look for Caladbolg, the Rainbow Sword.
That could take awhile...
 
[X] Utilize your Speed to perform Hit and Run tactics. Wear down her defenses and prana.
Minerva's undoubtedly been restrained by now, and once Olga's done the only competitors will be him, us, and Shirou. The Grail War effectively ends after this battle.

Doubtful, Minerva can probably fight Jeanne to a standstill if she can bluff hard enough to keep Rider from believing the Saint.

Though that is an admittedly large 'if'
 
That could take awhile...

Yeah, I know.
But, narratively speaking, that sword defeated her once already, she should be weak against it.

... maybe we could ask Emiya to show where he stashed it? Maybe there's a system, instead of what it looks like.

Cuz it looks like he dramatically drops the new swords wherever each time he acquires them.

Your soul is messy, man.
 
But, narratively speaking, that sword defeated her once already, she should be weak against it.
If you're talking about story narrative, we might as well use psychological tactics because that defeated her once already. If you're talking about the same kind of weaknesses that are Medb's cheese weakness or Cu's weakness if he eats dog meat, she's not a Servant so it doesn't really count. She's a human against an A-rank NP, of course she's weak to it.
 
As long as she's not rescued by Assassin again... if she's free, she can pull something in the future. Which is why she needs to die or be captured and turned over immediately (after Assassin is killed, if Assassin lives Olga needs to die).
Which is why I mentioned putting her in Jeanne's hands. Once Olga's unconscious and the OP levels of Prana are cut off, a single command seal from the saint and Carmilla walks into her own Iron maiden. Like I said, no more escapes. This is the final battle.
Doubtful, Minerva can probably fight Jeanne to a standstill if she can bluff hard enough to keep Rider from believing the Saint.
Oh, but you forget the previous conversations on this: Minerva only has one Command Seal. And Scáthach's also out there. Minerva won't be able to fool all three of them, especially with Jeanne in the loop. Minerva knows she needs to escape, she can't stick around to die to Olga's meteor or let Brie expose her. Minerva's acting skill is completely irrelevant.
 
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