Fate Grand Elysium (A Fate grand order X Disco Elysium Quest)

Ophelia Snaps her fingers and let's out a Chant as she summons her knight and send him out to assist Mash and Charlemagne, and-

Mash: "Yah!"

Charlemagne: "Ha!"

That...was the Swiftest jumping of someone you've ever seen, with Charlemagne and Ophelia's Knight backing up the Cloaked Shadow servant against the Wall that is Mash's Shield the two sliced and diced the Shadow Servant. Was he a Class that found itself lacking in group fights or was that simply blind luck?

Logic: Or perhaps the combat momentum we build up swung in our favor? I'll need to observe more battles to give us a conclusion

Regardless, you see the telltale Purple Smoke of the defeated Shadow Servant Waft.

Mash: "Shadow Servants defeat Confirmed. permission to move on?"

Looking over you see Scathatch and Archer walking towards the rest of the group. You're about to give the okay when-

Empathy(Medium: Success): Why don't you let Olga make the call here. I'm sure she'll appreciate it.

Ritsuka: "Well the way forward certainly seems cleared. What do you think Ms. Director? Ready to press onward?"

Director: "Well if that's how it is, then I suppose we'll just have to deal with the cards dealt."

With that said you push on forward, with something occurring to you.

Ritsuka: "hey uh....does anyone know what could've possibly caused THIS much destruction? I mean I know this is a Singularity but still...THIS seems like...a lot."

Ophelia: "Well...I don't know much of the details, but I think...seeing how everything here is uh...in ashes, it could've been a Holy Grail War."

Encyclopedia (Medium: Success): That's the Cup that held Jesus's spilled blood after he was impaled by the Lance of Longinus's by the way.

Ritsuka: Oh yeah, that was morbid. Why did they do that anyways?

Inland Empire (medium: Success): I mean they had someone who claimed to be the Son of the One True God, clearly they were tempted by the powers, the Miracles, he could do and would want to see if they could use his blood to do the same. and in a way they were correct, as it bless the grail with plenty abilities.

Artifice: Assuming of course this is THE Holy Grail here.

Encyclopedia (Medium: Success): If memory serves us right, At least one of the Knights of the Round found it.

Encyclopedia (Hard: Success): Galahad. I believe.

Ritsuka: "So is that like...a war for the actual Holy Grail? I know it sounds stupid but I wouldn't know if they found it wherever it was hidden by the Knights of the Round Table."

Director: "No it's not THE Holy Grail, as far as I know Nobody in the Mage Association has it, and I doubt the Church would ever let us use it if They had it. It's just a Finely crafted Golden Goblet. The Real Prize is in the Wish Granting Power it holds. So long as you have a Wish, and a method to make that Wish work, the grail can grant it. It's how My Father got the funds to even start to build up Chaldea after all."

Empathy: It doesn't take a genius to tell that she holds pride in inheriting this from the Old Director

Authority (Easy: Success): And that means all the more pressure to not screw it up.

Artifice: Noted. Wish Granting Mechanism, NOT the cup that held God-Blood.

Reaction Speed (Medium: Success): Wait what was that about the Church?

Ritsuka: "Hold on, the Church knows about..well...The whole Occult side of things as well?"

Olga snorts in Derision

Director: "Unfortunately yes. They seem to be a bunch of people who think they should decide Which Mysteries should remain, Which should go, and which should be revealed to the Public."

Ritsuka: "Released to the Public?"

Ophelia: "They're called Baptism Rites, they uh, guide a Spiritual Body away from it's physical form and tries to banish them back to where they were before then. It's incredibly effective against Spirits. Well most of them, Heroic Spirits and those ranked higher than them would need something stronger to dispel their forms."

Ritsuka: "Huh. That could be Handy."

Director: "Hardly. For our purposes they would be Useless outside of a few niche situations. Clearing whatever dredges of History that are attracted to the Servants we summon most likely."

Ritsuka: "Is...is that known to happen?"

Ophelia: "It's a Risk that's been noted to happen when Servants are Summoned for long periods of time and in areas where they have gathered high amounts of Fame."

Director: "Ideally, Servants shouldn't be spending too much time in resolved singularities so it shouldn't be a problem. With or without the fame bonus."

The Fame bonus, that one they DID mention in the Pamphlet.

Ritsuka: "Alright then, but still I think it would be a good thing to have on hand. Just in case."

Encyclopedia: Always a good time to expand upon what we know.

Internal Circuitry: Just be sure to not strain yourself boss, we've only got so Much mana we can safely channel at once. Two, well three if we count Mash herself taking from our own private reserve, is the most we can safely handle. For the moment anyways.

Director: "I'll see about getting that looked into once we take stock of any recoverable masters. Happy?"

You feel placated by that, if only a little. It was around this time Dr. Roman popped back up.

Dr. Roman: "Alright! I think everything is in working order on my end. Anything new to report here?"

Mash: "Reporting in, we took out 3 Shadow Servants, and have discussed what could possibly cause all of this. Is everything well enough to detect any more?"

Dr. Roman: "Three Shadow Servants?! already? that's really Impressive. Good job all of you."

Scathatch: "They were pushovers."

Roman: "As for our equipment...Uh..While we can't pinpoint the cause of all of this, I can tell there are 4 Signatures of Servants being around, 2 Stationary. one patrolling around a place and one wandering the area."

Director: " The wandering signature, is it Hostile?"

Roman: "I don't....Think so. I can't really get a good read on them from what readings Sheba has been giving me. But it IS moving. So that's something we should be on the look out for."

Ritsuka: "We should probably see if they're willing to talk. If we meet them."

Continuing to walk for a while until you all spot a massive crater in the ground, still red hot from whatever was used to create it

Ritsuka: "Jesus Christ...what happened here?"

Scathatch: "It must've been a Servant using a noble phantasm."

Charlemagne: "That sounds about right, Otherwise we would see similar craters if smaller in scale. Unless of course these craters do exist and we've just been lucky enough to avoid them all this time."

Director: "Romani! do you have eyes on the layout of the city?"

Roman: "Already checking...and no, there are no other craters here.."

Army of Shadows: So that's what a Servant can do with their Noble Phantasms. I wonder what ours can do.

As you all look over the giant as crater, and despair about what possibly could've done this..

Empathy (Hard: Success): You notice that Mash is taking this the worst out of everyone else here. For Charlemagne and Archer it's just a reminder of what they could do when they use their own Noble Phantasms, for Olga, Ophelia, and Scatatch it's a grim reminder of the raw destructive power some Servants hold.

You approach Mash, with concern on your face.

Mash: "Senpai? why are you looking at me like that."

Ritsuka: "Well I've noticed your concern at the Big crater...and well...While i can't say that we can handle whoever made this, at least not without meeting whoever did this, I do think that at the very least...we should be able to find our way around it. ....That is what people do with Craters after all now that I think about it."

Mash: "Do you really think we can do that? After if THIS is what a Servant is capable of doing, I'm not sure if I can do this especially since I..."

Conceptualization: Idea! we should try to make a joke about the Crater maker and how we don't necessarily have to fight them.

Rhetoric (medium: Success): That's more of a closing statement.

Empathy (Medium: Success): She isn't even finished yet. Just wait. or gently urge her forward. The Noble Phantasm is only what's half bothering her.

Ritsuka: "Go ahead, whatever it is, I'll listen."

Mash would give you a nod as she continues.

Mash: "I...Haven't been able to call upon my Noble Phantasm. Or rather, I know it's there but any attempts to instinctively know about it or figure out how to actively use it. Like something dangling in front of me, just out of reach."

Ritsuka: "Oh. Well...maybe that's because you're a Demi-Servant, and not a full Servant. You'll struggle to bring forth all of your power at once? This could be normal for all we know."

Mash: "Normal or Not, It still feels like I'll do nothing but drag this team down."

Now that pissed you off, it always does when someone downplays what they do in a negative light.

Ritsuka: "Alright then, remind me again who held off a Servant from reaching us while the others were fighting?"

Mash: "W-well that would be me Senpai?"

Ritsuka: "And did that Servant even get NEAR us while you were on the Defense?"

Mash: "No...What's your point?"

Ritsuka: "My point is that, you aren't dragging us down! in fact seeing as you're one of the first Servant, or Servant Level powers we have, I dare say that you are keeping us up afloat."

She blushes at that, and you feel proud of that.

Empathy (Medium: Success): You did help her out a Bit.

Rhetoric: Alright Now hit her with the Walk around bit.

Ritsuka: "besides, who said that we ever had to confront the Crater Maker? We could always do to them what we do to the Actual Craters. Just walk around her. What's she going to do? Open it up underneath herself?"

To be fair, it's more of the image being funny than the actual joke itself, but still it gets mash to smile and your happy.

Mash: "I suppose your right Senpai.'

Some time passes as your Group discusses where to go next until Eventually three Conclusions are made

Director: "To the South, Is where the Einzbern Estate lies, If we're lucky the grail war destroyed most of the traps and protections there and would leave it open for Investigations. They were always the ones close to the grail, if the Holy Grail War is the cause of this, they would have to be involved."

Ophelia: "How could you tell?"

Director: "Well, I've visited the Estate once before, and the Forest looks like it belongs to it. if I'm wrong we'll get out of there."

Roman: "I wouldn't recommend it that is THE place the signature is Patrolling around. It's a pretty big one as well. like Size wise. Maybe try heading West. That's where the wandering Signature is, and if he turns out to be unfriendly you can get the Jump on him.

Vibes (Hard: Failure): The land tells you nothing, except that wherever you go, you will be unsafe.

Inland Empire (Hard: Success): ...Hm...Try going North. I have a Good feeling about what's up there.

Choose one:
[] Go North following your intuition (Gain a weapon and a possible Catalyst.)
[] Go South towards the Forest (prompts a roll to see if you can gain access to the Einzbern estate. Which holds several Mystic Codes and a catalyst)
[] Go West Towards the Unknown/Wandering Servant (Try to learn more about this Servant before meeting with them.)