Fate/Clusterfuck (Fate/Stay Night)

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Rictus said:
Side note, I couldn't help but notice Circe's choice of wording...and her reaction when Shirou commented on what he thought she was saying.

"Magician" is a very specific title in Nasuverse and is not one chucked around lightly.
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His circuits sadly aren't good enough for that level of bullshit.
 
1.35 - Deceiver
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    This is the first of several sidestories that will be going on in the background, not all of them will have multiple chapters. But all will be plot relevant… eventually. This one is one of the main stars of the clusterfuck.

    No, nothing else has qualified so far as to the extent I'm going for.

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    Solomon would not answer. No matter how he was called, no matter with what catalyst, the great king of Israel would not answer so little a mage as that of Marisbury Animusphere. A mage of middling power, one who had their dream taken away in a chase for an impossibility, 'Chaldea', no funding, no resources. His pleas were ignored until he was but put away in a corner of the false utopia that was the clock tower. The walls, ancient, proud, brick that had weathered the storms of the world and of man mocked him as much as they protected him from the world at large, casting deep shadows instead of pleasant old comfort as he stood in his study.

    The curtains were drawn, allowing only the faintest amount of life granted by that of an oil lamp to light up the space. Revealing a room filled with books, texts, tomes and scrolls both mundane and eldritch in origin. They fluttered and flitted about as the magic circle in the room activated, alien lines of red runes erupted with power both physical and metaphysical, causing the curtains around the room to snap against the walls, their old wooden rods cracking against the brick as countless tomes tore themselves open. The books swung their pages, fanning out like a spectral hand was perusing their contents.

    Then the magic flared again, tossing them aside in a windstorm of paper as the circle was given everything the mage had to offer. He was just that, a mage, a trifling thing that claimed to have mastery of spellcraft in a world lacking mystery. The overabundance of technology made them weak, too weak for those from the age of gods to pay any attention without a promise of some reward.

    There was no reward here, just the desperate attempt by a mage, stricken from others of his kind, casting his power into the void to try and summon another, a caster of grand stature and status that would allow him to seek his goals in other ways. Ancient knowledge, promises of power, a being from the age of gods. To achieve his dreams, his… desire.

    Solomon would not answer, nor would Merlin, Zhuge, Longshanks, Da Vinci, and Hattim. None would answer. None would, not for such a wish, not for such a paltry master… But one, one took notice.

    The room exploded with heat as the summoning took hold, causing Marisbury to take a stuttering step back from the power unleashed. A fire, a piercing fire fanned over everything, effervescently bright and hotter than the sun itself, yet it did not burn. It was a black, balefire that washed over everything… and brought it all to a deathly calm. Books feel shut with a clatter, the curtains stilled, and the oil lamp flickered before coming to light once again. But a dimmer light, like it was… afraid.

    A man stood then in the center, or, perhaps an elf. With long flowing robes of black with decorative golden trim. His hair, white, trailed down all the way past his waist, and it faintly shifted as he stared down Marisbury. A small smile was present on his face, and his eyes glowed with a faintly golden light that seemed to flicker almost in sync with the faded golden hue of the lamp.

    "Servant," Marisbury said, standing himself straight once more. "I am your master, declare yourself."

    The servant stared at the man, the mage, then his eyes flickered down to the mark on the back of the man's hand. The contract that bound them both together. The servant then smiled a small, sincere smile.

    "Greetings my master, I am Oberon." Annatar lied.
     
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    • Alright, I was not expecting that. Pretty good.

    Mash choice in the first post or being taught by Circe is basically nothing compared to this.

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    Erien said:
    His circuits sadly aren't good enough for that level of bullshit.
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    Not saying I expect it to go in that direction, but I think circuits technically have nothing to do with that.

    Aoko's for example were specialized for...rotation, I think? Being fast and blowing stuff up good and not much else if I recall correctly.

    Had nothing to do with the Magic itself and we know how that ended.
     
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    Maybe it's just me, but there's a line between trying to go for a fun crazy cluster fuck and going full "lolwut random," and for me that line is when you can no longer trace a path to understand just what caused said clusterfuck and it seems like random things are happening for the sake of being random. Shirou coming across Medea and saving her, I can easily see happening if Shirou wandered into the right place at the right time. Circe, not "reduced and stuffed into a servant container Caster Circe" but actually god-damn living Circe being BS enough to recognize when Shirou is dreaming of her I can believe. But maybe it's just been long enough since I've gone through F/SN that I can't see any reason why Ayako would be shaking Shirou awake in his bed after fainting like that, so I'm going to stick with Sakura.

    Fake Edit: Ninja'd by the QM. Hope the vote is still open.
     
    7th Hex said:
    [X] [Purple Hair]

    Maybe it's just me, but there's a line between trying to go for a fun crazy cluster fuck and going full "lolwut random," and for me that line is when you can no longer trace a path to understand just what caused said clusterfuck and it seems like random things are happening for the sake of being random. Shirou coming across Medea and saving her, I can easily see happening if Shirou wandered into the right place at the right time. Circe, not "reduced and stuffed into a servant container Caster Circe" but actually god-damn living Circe being BS enough to recognize when Shirou is dreaming of her I can believe. But maybe it's just been long enough since I've gone through F/SN that I can't see any reason why Ayako would be shaking Shirou awake in his bed after fainting like that, so I'm going to stick with Sakura.

    Fake Edit: Ninja'd by the QM. Hope the vote is still open.
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    I'm trying not to be lolrandom!
    Edit: Oh you meant the vote.
    DB_Explorer said:
    .....as in lord of the rings??
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    Yep!
     
    Wow, its almost like this grail war is supposed to be a Clusterfuck, what ever could Erien and adds thnings in to make it entertainingly worse! :V
     
    7th Hex said:
    But maybe it's just been long enough since I've gone through F/SN that I can't see any reason why Ayako would be shaking Shirou awake in his bed after fainting like that, so I'm going to stick with Sakura
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    Shirou never goes to the park where he meets a younger sakura and fights bullies inspiring her. She never joins the archery club as a result of her lack of obsession with shirou and Shinji never joins either. Left alone the two aspiring archers form a deeper bond with over the course of there club time and Ayako assumes the family friend role that usually belongs to sakura.
     
    DB_Explorer said:
    .....as in lord of the rings??
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    Is it really surprising? There are fictional characters that have become famous enough to become Servants. Frankenstein's Monster (though it's debatable whether she did or did not exist in the Nasuverse) and Dracula come to mind.

    Sauron is pretty much tied with Darth Vader for being the tall-dark-and-intimidating lord of all that is evil in pop culture.

    Randino Treviani said:
    Fairly powerful. Essentially anti solomon with more rings. But fewer noble phantasms. More summons but of a lower quality.
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    Maybe not. I think this is Sauron-as-Annatar in an Assassin container. Keep in mind that being a Servant is more of a downgrade for the really powerful Heroic Spirits.

    This is probably going to be Sauron when he was acting subtle rather than Tyrant-Godking that's smashing his way through armies with a single swing of his giant mace.
     
    Adhoc vote count started by Erien on Sep 24, 2022 at 10:05 PM, finished with 95 posts and 60 votes.
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    Vote locking in 30ish hours!
     
    So I'm late at noticing but Circue gonna attempt to turn Shirou into a magician? If Blue can do it then I guess Shirou has a snowball chance in hell.
     
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