Reaching beyond the Stars (F/GO)

Winner
[X] Beyond the Boundary and Cosmos

Well seems that you choose Hard Mode, there is no way that is going to end bad!

AN: Sorry for being late, I needed to do some research on our protagonist, so I spent the last days watching Fgo First Order, The El Melloi II Case Files and rereading the game story.
Anyway.
Enjoy.

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Beyond the Domain and the Cosmos

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Olga carefully considers her choices.

The 'Connection to the「 」' contract is just absurd, no two ways about it, so it must be a red herring. The 'Moon Cell' contract implies that the referred artifact is damaged, and who would take a job like that even if it theoretically gives you something like clairvoyance.

That leaves the 'Beyond the Domain and the Cosmos' contract, which isn't as bad as it portrays itself. Besides, didn't dad said that it's a magus duty to discard the Common Sense of Man in pursuit of the Root of All Things.

"This one" You say pointing at the referred Boon.

Khororhoth gives a glance a the forwarded option."Are you sure that you want to take this path? I will sometimes put you in impossible situations or give you unreasonable tasks." He finally says after a moment. You look at him with a pout unimpressed gaze. "...Well your funeral, but then again this makes it both easier and harder for me, so I ask you one more time, do really want to become the ambassador of a Primordiality Rank Existence. While Alaya won't be searching for one good reason the off you if you don't behave thanks to a deal that I made, both her and Gaia will be keeping an eye on you."


You just pout harder look at him with a determined look.

"Okay, as I said before, your funeral. Now, the last thing before I send you of, the contract allows you to choose 10 minor Boons at your selection, here is the list."

You look over the new paper.

CHOOSE:
[] Doble Chance: Allows for Bo2 roll in an action respective to the Stat (A Crit is automatically selected, good or bad)(Each one cost 1 Boon).
-[] Martial
-[] Diplomacy
-[] Stewardship
-[] Intrigue
-[] Learning
-[] Spirit
--[] Doble Chance (Complete Mastery)**: Now You can roll for Bo3 (Costs an extra 1 Boon)

[X] Possibility Culling: Once per turn, the lowest roll can be rerolled (Doesn't work on nat 1)(Costs 1 Boon)
-[] Possibility Culling (Complete mastery)**: Allows nat 1's to be rerolled (Costs an extra 2 Boons)

[X]Starter Boost: gain a +10 in any Stat aside from Spirit (Can be taken multiple times)(Costs 1 Boon)
-[] Martial
-[] Diplomacy
-[] Stewardship
-[] Intrigue
-[X] Learning

[]Holy Grail: A magical item that materializes the desires of all humanity. Be it good or evil, this item takes the form of a golden cup. Should it be filled, it shall grant a single wish within the scope of Humanity, or it can be used as a self-sustaining mana battery so long as you don't go over it's base output (Costs 2 Boons)

[X]Greater Holy Grail: A dreadnaught-class Magical Reactor Core, an all-mighty wish artifact that can punch a hole in the sky directly to the「 」, and so, capable of enacting True Magic at planetary level, should it be filled that is. (Costs 6 Boons)

[X] Recovery of Humanity: Lose the -20 Diplomacy drawback of 'Inhuman Mindset' (Cost 2 Boons)
-[] Understanding of Humanity: Gain +20 Diplomacy when interacting with Humans. The 'Inhuman Mindset' trait Changes to 'Understanding of Mentalities' trait. (Costs an extra 2 Boons)

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** Complete Mastery can be archived through Personal Actions.
Edit: Finally came around to fix the chapter to make it more in line with the changes of the previous one.

Prospalz said:

Plz provide some benchmarks for stats. It is hard to evaluate the value of +stat options without knowing how much is needed to... idk, match a Servant with a C-rank in STR match a mediocre martially-inclined Servant.

And, perhaps, more info on what "Spirit" does. Others are mostly traditional stats, but this one is new.

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You are right in that the traditional stats are unchanged, Martial, Diplomacy, Stewardship, Intrigue and Learning, they all work the same, I shall get back to Spirit in a moment, first here is the Stat benchmark:

Stats
1-3 Child,
4-7 teen,
8-10 adult,
11-14 experienced,
15-19 peak human,
20-24 champion/Magical Beast,
25-29 25+ is E-rank,
30-34 Phantasmal Beast/ D-rank,
35+ ??????? (SURPASS THE LIMITS OF HUMANITY)
(This list shall be revised in the future)

Now, about the Spirit Stat, this Stat represents the ability of "Rewrite reality to the logic of the being". It's basically what Humans in Nasuverse do as a collective but measured to an individual level. It's what Magus do with their Thaumaturgical Fundations (The Software) and their magical circuits (The Hardware).
The base of the Spirit Stat Cannot be raised in the Age of Man by virtue of magical circuits being set from the moment of birth, so this Stat can't be trained.
For that you need to unlock Psionics, ????, ??????? and ????????? Boons, or unlocking the ????? Stat, which will allow to change the means of how to interface with the Software, making magical circuits, well not redundant but certainly not absolute.

Edit: oh and about Olga's Statsheet, it will be revealed at the end of the prologue.
Edit 2: Added certain Boons to the requirements of increasing the Spirit Stat.

So, the results are woosy, give me some time do something.

Edit: Here it is.

Winner
[X] Recovery of Humanity
[x] Possibility Culling
[X]Greater Holy Grail

There is a draw between the two remaining Boons, so I will roll to see which one wins.

Dice says 2, Starter Boost wins.

Rolling for which stat gets boosted.

Dice says 4, Learning gets boosted.

AN: And here it is, the final chapter of the Prologue. Let's see how we and Olga do.

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Olga looked over the new list, and this time she saw somethings that interested her. While these 'Boons' aren't as outragerous and unbelivable as the contracts before, they were certainly improbable, even if some of them are within a magus family crest capabilities.

Letting out a huff of frustration, she started choosing the Boost to her learning capabilities, which is the most believable of all the options. Then she choose 'Recovery of Humanity', because even if these contracts were a joke she won't risk losing any form of her Humanity. Finally she picked 'Possibility Culling', for failure was unacceptable for an Animusphere.

With the 'indispensable' out of the way she used her remaining 6 boons to buy the most expensive item in the catalog. The 'Greater Holy Grail'. This being a joke or not, you were not passing this one up, Father has been searching for funds for his projects since she could remember, and having the slightest chance of adquaring them in any form was to good to pass up. And maybe then he will finally take notice of me.

Having finished the sheat she gave it to the man again.

After a moment of looking through the list Khororhoth said "Okay, not going subtle aren't we, well It won't be something to worry about for now." Then he put both papers in an envelope and stamped it shut. "The three personal Boons will be actualized to your existence when you wake up and the Greater Holy Grail will be stored in a pocket dimension until you find somewhere to put it..."


"... but relax you can access this place to study and tinker with it, it's good construct, but I think the original makers cut some corners and put some restrictions that won't benefit you"

You narrow your eyes "Then why you didn't put that information in the list." you say.

"Because I don't give 'Win Buttons' to people, friends, allies or family with very few exceptions" He instantly replies.


*Humph*

"Well, with this we are finished here, oh and see ya tomorrow~"

Before Olga could ask what he means darkness overtakes har vision and she loses consciousness.

Suddenly, something snaps and breaks, then where once before a bed resided now there's a table with two chairs, on one, Khororhoth sat, and on the other sat a...

[ ] Young Woman.

[ ] Young Man.

"Now that's better." Khororhoth exhales while stretching his arms."Those filters may cost nothing to create and sustain, but putting them on the correct settings for Humans is certainly a pain in the ass, your race has certainly become quite fragile in the last 14000 years since I've been asleep!"

Ritsuka Fujimaru subtlety raised the danger that the being before them represented and wait patiently for their answers.

"Right, what's happening, well to begin with right now and here, you are outside of both time and space, facilitated by the nature of the Lostroom. Here we're outside of CHALDEAS gaze, so there won't be any leaks that I won't allow."

"Now about your actual questions..."
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...
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"...and that would be the full story." Khororhoth finalized.

Fujimaru sits there contemplating the situation. And after a while they say "Okay, I am in"

Khororhoth smile becomes feral. "Wonderful, now choose the Boons and When to receive them, and remember you can only use these once so procure to not use to many till the right time comes." He warns.

Choose 2
[ ] Complete Enhancement: Da Vinci receives a suitcase with the notes to unlock all Strengthening methods (Will take a Learning action to make them usable).

[ ] Magic Circuits Upgrade: Increase the quantity and quality of your magic circuits (+10 to Ritsuka Fujimaru base Spirit Stat).

[ ] Relief from Farming Hell: Acquire an income of 50 bronze items, 30 silver items, 10 gold items and 10000000 QP per turn (Special Items are not included).

[ ] Mission Catalog: You can now complete missions that will reward you with Saint Quarts, mana prisms, pure prisms and rare prisms.

When do you get them? :
[ ] Arrival at Finis Chaldea.

[ ] Arrival at Singularity F

[ ] After Singularity F

{AN: This voting won't matter until Arc 3, when Canon begins, but I won't find a better place to put it than here)

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In a room of size and regality that is reserved for nobility, a girl at the age of 9 stirs in her bed.

She wakes up, she washes and dresses herself, and proceeded to the dining room to prepare herself for the day to come.

When she reaches the Dining room, she is confronted by a sight that freezes her in her tracks.

For there sitting at the table where she spent so much time sharing with a father that doesn't acknowledge her is the man that just mere minutes ago dismissed as a wild dream. And so Olga responded with the only possible way that she could have answered.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!!!"

"Hello my dearest student! Ready for the day ahead?" Khororhoth responded with a genial smile.

The days in the Animusphere Manor are going to become quite busy indeed.

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AN: FINISHED! And woah, almost 1k words! I hope to refine the time I needed to do this update soon. But oh well, enjoy!

Olga Marie Asmleit Animusphere

Age: 9
Race: Human, Magus
Martial: 4+1= 5
Diplomacy: 10+2+2= 14
Stewardship: 5+1= 6
Intrigue: 18+1+2= 21
Learning: 32+2+2+2= 38
Spirit: 10+23= 33
Prowess: 2

Traits
Lord's Heir: +2 to Intrigue, +½ to training Intrigue
Blue-blood Magus: +23 to Spirit, +2 to learning
Adventurous: +1 to martial, +10 to event rolls
Storyteller: +2 to diplomacy
Young Heir: +2 to diplomacy, +2 to learning, +1 to intrigue, +1 to Stewardship, +½ to training learning, +½ to training Stewardship
Dedicated Student: +2 to learning, +½ to training learning

Boons

Bounded Field Savant (Theory): If you are given the opportunity, you can break down the composition and Mysteries of the majority of bounded fields. Basic bounded fields are figured out almost instantly.

Possibility Culling: Once per turn, the lowest roll can be rerolled (Doesn't work on nat 1)
-Mastery progress (0/10000)

Greater Holy Grail: A dreadnaught-class Magical Reactor Core, an all-mighty wish artifact that can punch a hole in the sky directly to the「 」, and so, capable of enacting True Magic at planetary level, should it be filled that is.
-Research progress (0/?????)
-Filling progress (0/?????)

Reality: The study of Textures, Reality Marbles and all that is within the Human Order. You also get the bud of what will be your own Reality Marble!
-Research progress
--Reality Marble (Advanced Theory) (0/8500)
---Reality Marble (Fundations) (0/5000)
--Textures (Theory) (0/15000)
--Miracles (Theory) (0/20000)
--The Human Order {Humanity} (0/20000)
--The Human Order {Alaya} (0/20000)
--The Human Order {The Counter Force} (0/20000)

Fantasy: The study of Dreams, Illusions, Fiction and all that is outside the Human Order. You also see through what's real and what's not (+10 to related rolls).
-Research progress
--Dreams (Basic Theory) (0/2000)
--Illusions (Basic Theory) (0/1000)
--Fiction (Basic Theory) (0/3000)
--The Outside of the Human Order (Gaia) (0/100000)
--The Outside of the Human Order {Mooncell} (0/80000)
--The Outside of the Human Order {Crimson Moon Brunestud} (0/100000)
--The Outside of the Human Order {The Crystal Valley} (0/??????????)

Science: The systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation, experimentation, and the testing of theories against the evidence obtained. Allows you to get closer into uncovering ???????.
-Research Progress
--Advancement/Mystery Degradation (Theorem) (0/7500)
--What is Science (Theorem) (0/7500)
--Science, Magecraft (Magic) and Religion (Theorem) (0/12000)


????????: ??????? (You got this one for choosing the Lostroom at the beginning, Have fun discovering what it is!).
-Research progress (0/??????)

Well we have two draws. Let's see what the dice gods say:

Dice says 1, Ritsuka Fujimaru is Male.

Dice says 1, 'Mission Catalog' wins.

So we have this:
[X] Young Man
[X] Relief from Farming Hell
[X] Mission Catalog
[X] Arrival at Finis Chaldea

As soon as I get home I will start writing, have fun until then.

Hello everyone, this is Khororhoth with a very important announcement.

I didn't properly check the timelines of events.

Originally I believed that Olga was abandoned at 6-7 years of age, but this is not the case. She was abandoned at 3-4 years of age.

This small detail has just thrown a big Kaboom to all the plans I had to entertain you all before we got to canon, and made me recheck the lore just to discover that I also mistook when Canon started and Olga becomes the Director.

So, without further ado, I need you to vote.
[ ] I abandon this quest and go for my original plan.
Or
[ ] I continue this quest and I plan as I go.

I know that this comes out of nowhere, but things will really become woosy if this decision isn't made.

With one I will have to deal with Trisha or Lev, and while one is reasonable, the other is not.

With the other I can mold Olga from a very young age, but we will have to make revotes and different votes.