MWKillKenny84
Lurking from the Trauma Switch.
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Romani you idiot, you have jinxed it and now when the First Order will be resolved you will get Drake's bill for her ship's repairs!!!
Hereafter [Worm x Fate/Grand Order]
- Thread starter James D. Fawkes
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Romani you idiot, you have jinxed it and now when the First Order will be resolved you will get Drake's bill for her ship's repairs!!!
- Location
- Philippines
Okay, so what's our Anniv rewards, who's the Anniversary Servants, and do we get a 5 star selector? /s
James D. Fawkes
Court Scribe
- Location
- Avalon (Isle of Mists)
You just got Artemis.
- Location
- Philippines
Dammit, I wanted the good macho Orion, not the teddy beaaaaar!You just got Artemis.
MWKillKenny84
Lurking from the Trauma Switch.
- Location
- Vado Ligure
Superhuman Orion is what is called when a animal-themed Beast is around, otherwise all you get is Teddy Bear Orion and his Yandere Girlfriend as the 'Main Servant'.
Hereafter Material: Samuel Bellamy [Heroic Spirit]
James D. Fawkes
Court Scribe
- Location
- Avalon (Isle of Mists)
Samuel Bellamy [Heroic Spirit]
Prince of Pirates
The Robin Hood of the Seas.
The generous, gentlemanly Prince of Pirates, famed for his tendency to eschew violence whenever possible. The richest, most successful pirate during the Golden Age of Piracy, whose career as captain lasted only a single year. He was well-known to capture ships without damaging them or injuring the crew.
He began as a sailor of the Royal Navy, and eventually, he wound up serving on a crew under men who would become famous pirates themselves, such as Benjamin Hornigold and Edward "Blackbeard" Teach. When the crew decided that Hornigold and Teach were not the leaders they needed, they elected Bellamy to replace them, and in his single year as captain, together, they captured fifty-three ships, keeping only two at all times.
His greatest success was the capture of the Whydah Gally, carrying a king's ransom in treasure.
However, his life and career were cut short in a storm off the northeastern coast of Massachusetts, and Bellamy died when the Whydah capsized, taking almost the entirety of his crew with it. His shining star was snuffed out just as it was beginning to rise.
Prince of Pirates
The Robin Hood of the Seas.
The generous, gentlemanly Prince of Pirates, famed for his tendency to eschew violence whenever possible. The richest, most successful pirate during the Golden Age of Piracy, whose career as captain lasted only a single year. He was well-known to capture ships without damaging them or injuring the crew.
He began as a sailor of the Royal Navy, and eventually, he wound up serving on a crew under men who would become famous pirates themselves, such as Benjamin Hornigold and Edward "Blackbeard" Teach. When the crew decided that Hornigold and Teach were not the leaders they needed, they elected Bellamy to replace them, and in his single year as captain, together, they captured fifty-three ships, keeping only two at all times.
His greatest success was the capture of the Whydah Gally, carrying a king's ransom in treasure.
However, his life and career were cut short in a storm off the northeastern coast of Massachusetts, and Bellamy died when the Whydah capsized, taking almost the entirety of his crew with it. His shining star was snuffed out just as it was beginning to rise.
The problem, to myself at least, is that you failed. The only thing you conveyed is that:
1. Hektor is an assassin and has presence concealment and/or
2. The Chaldea's servants were all carrying the idiot ball and/or
3. You just needed an excuse to get Taylor off the ship and picked the easiest option.
But since you have a patreon and have future chapters already written, I doubt you'll ever fix this. This is both, in the past where you were adamant that there is an explanation for any plot holes and never changed them and my own personal feelings on fanfic writers using patreon/locking stuff behind patreon. So I'm most likely being a lot more negative/harsh than normal on the never fixing things part.
Regardless, Hektor being hidden when all of the Chaldean servants would have been on edge and paying attention for anything makes absolutely no sense. They wouldn't have all just simply focused on Blackbeard's boat solely. They should also have been paying attention to their surroundings as well. And from what I'm seeing, you needed them to carry the idiot ball just so that you can get Taylor away from the crew and meetup with Bellamy.
I mean, you have it in this chapter right here. Hektor was acting like in a grail war and was going after the Master. And instead of just killing the Master, which would have happened in a grail war, you had Taylor got pushed off the boat instead. Plus, you also said that Taylor was the obvious leader/more experienced Master. So killing her would have made sense. But, no, Hektor was also carrying the idiot ball, again, for the sole purpose of getting Taylor away from the crew and to meetup with Bellamy.
But this is just my own 2 cents.
- Location
- Argentina
So Taylor killed a Drake and now she gets to eat one.
Would be hilarious if she gets Captain Drake as her servant later.
Would be hilarious if she gets Captain Drake as her servant later.
Hektor probably thought he killed Taylor. If someone goes overboard in the middle of a storm, chances are they're dead, and if they're not dead, they're usually unable to establish contact with their ship again, barring something like Chaldea providing communication that can't be disrupted through water damage.
Like, there are servants able to heal even instantly fatal wounds, and Hektor doesn't know if one of them is on the Golden Hind. By kicking Taylor off the ship, he not only practically ensures her death, but also makes it so she's out of reach of any healers long enough to actually die.
Of course, kicking her off also means that at the very minimum, Chaldea will force a stop to search for her. Arash and Bradamante going after her is also more servants taken out than just killing Taylor, as Taylor's only connected to Arash.
Hektor aimed not only for long-term crippling, but short-term as well. If Taylor died outright, Chaldea would pursue him heavily, and probably kill him. By leaving the possibility, however faint, that she survived, Rika and Ritsuka are more focused on finding her than pursuing Hektor.
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...You DO realise that the whole point of my post was that Barghest Blue was saying how unlikely it would be for the Archers to be able to hit the SHIP... right? Are you saying that an Archer couldn't hit a moving ship while on another moving ship... Both of which are going in mostly straight lines with no zig zagging, the only real movement to adjust aim for is a slight up and down from the waves, and these are ships.... they aren't exactly going to be very agile for split second dodges. They could DEFINITELY damage and slow down the Queen Anne's Revenge. Or even as you said, harass and make the other Servants keep their heads down. But they were just... standing there not doing anything.
Even that was pretty light compared to how you've had her act before. But no, mostly about the fact she wasn't saying anything about the other Servants or how to deal with them. It just comes off as her having her guard down. Taylor has never been a powerhouse, she's always had tactical planning and battlefield control as her cornerstones. And you've consistently shown that through these chapters. So here it just feels a bit lacking. I mean, all characters can make mistakes and if that's what you were going for then this is great. But it doesn't come off like that, especially with your comments.
I'm not certain if I'm making myself clear... Taylor's planning skills just seem slightly off. It's like there's a niggling little voice in the back of head saying something doesn't seem quite right, while bashing my head against a wall trying to get the words out.
And it was still there to be detected and not all downstream wasn't it? It doesn't transfer through water, for a variety of reasons starting with water isn't a good conductor (if you're now wondering about electricity, it mostly travels over the surface of water, it takes a direst lightning strike for it to get any real depth). An example is heat, most of any body of water's heat is stuck within a foot of the surface, and the rest doesn't get much farther than that. And magical energy that leaks into the water won't go anywhere until the water does, it won't just spread through the water.
The important part of my post was the 'relatively still' since absolute movement doesn't matter as much as relative movement. The other important part is that they are in the middle of a magical hurricane. You're talking about what they can accomplish in ideal conditions that don't exist. Also, until the modern era, bows weren't made to be precise in warfare, as much they were meant to hit something at a distance. Honestly we don't see the Archers making any shot that are a tenth the difficulty of the ones you're proposing. And is Revenge even in Emiyas range, you can see for a far longer distance than we know Emiya can reliably hit a target on the open ocean. You are severely underestimating the difficulty of the feat you are proposing.
Yes, they weren't just focused on Revenge, they were also focused on Bellamy and Jones. Where else would they have focused? Drake is focused on what's around them so it's not like they'll be able to help in way keeping watch. This is like complaining that someone getting sucker punched from behind (IN A HURRICANE) should have seen it coming somehow, you're certainly not going to bother explaining how, just that they should have somehow predicted it. Maybe the fact that the only one of them there experienced in naval battles is Drake, and to the rest of them, all the ocean around them is full of absolutely nothing? Seriously, why should they have been looking in the opposite direction of the three actual threats to keep watch on a vast expanse of stormy seas for the possibility that someone might come from that direction?
Stop acting like they're perfect individuals in ideal conditions with vast hoards of experience to draw upon for this exact situation and an omniscient perspective that automatically understands what everything around them is doing, why, and the effects of those actions.
The only reason you can say that any of what you think they should have done is easy, obvious or the best situation is because you're here reading it, and not actually in that situation. If they had actually tried any of that, things would have been worse. Maybe you're just reading too many Mary Sues that you're used to the plot bending over backward for the MCs? Hindsight is 20/20, and foresight is myopic.
- Location
- Tennessee
The chapters are still good, still enjoying the story. But I have no idea why Hektor didn't go for a lethal blow.
Either he's betraying Teach, it was a weird order from Teach, the silk armor and/or Mystic Code Da Vinci made is responsible, the intent was to split up the crew by forcing some servants to try to rescue Taylor, or something else entirely. I don't mind that it happened, exactly, but I wish the characters in-universe thought about it. Arash and Taylor just treat it as normal that an enemy servant gets a free shot in, doesn't kill, and then leaves.
Maybe this was already discussed, but I haven't gone back to read the comments. I was waiting for it to be addressed in this chapter, but alas.
Either he's betraying Teach, it was a weird order from Teach, the silk armor and/or Mystic Code Da Vinci made is responsible, the intent was to split up the crew by forcing some servants to try to rescue Taylor, or something else entirely. I don't mind that it happened, exactly, but I wish the characters in-universe thought about it. Arash and Taylor just treat it as normal that an enemy servant gets a free shot in, doesn't kill, and then leaves.
Maybe this was already discussed, but I haven't gone back to read the comments. I was waiting for it to be addressed in this chapter, but alas.
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D-O-G-A-R-S DOGARS!
- Location
- snooping as usual
Hold on, Whydah Galley? Was Bellamy ever active in West Africa?
Wait just checked Wikipedia, no he wasn't. Would've been fun if he was, to possibly see a servant associated with Africa in this hodgepodge of the early modern Atlantic world, like maybe Queen Amina of the Hausa, Usman Dan Fodio, or Samouri Toure.
Wait just checked Wikipedia, no he wasn't. Would've been fun if he was, to possibly see a servant associated with Africa in this hodgepodge of the early modern Atlantic world, like maybe Queen Amina of the Hausa, Usman Dan Fodio, or Samouri Toure.
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He's not loyal to Teach in the first place, he's running a triple agent gambit, where he betrays Teach, gets in close with Jason, and then betrays Jason. He's technially on the same side as Chaldea, just acting independently and without coordination.
It's done, it's happened, they think he accomplished what he was after (and it had a reasonable chance of killing her anyways, and it's actually more effective that she didn't die, because now the team with the Grail and Euryale are down two Servants and a Master, as long as they're out of play it's to Teach's advantage, if he'd just killed her, the two Servants would still be with them), and they have more immediate concerns to think about at the current time.
- Location
- Leeds
Sugar
Sugar is a special officer of the Donquixote Pirates' Trebol Army. She was one of the most integral components of Doflamingo's plan in keeping Dressrosa in line, as any dissenters were turned into toys by her Hobi Hobi no Mi powers. She is also the younger sister of Monet. Due to her actions and...
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This is what command seals are for. Use your head Taylor.
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- He
It's Artemis Orion, a canon character.
- Location
- Quebec
Well, when in doubt, cook the Tongue of the Wyvern. It's right there, slice it off, cut it in chunks and cook in on skewers.
- Location
- Tennessee
While likely, is that confirmed?
You can't convince me that Taylor, of all people, with all that she's seen, and all that she knows about this new world she's in, will think that it makes complete sense that a Servant with a spear didn't stab her in the heart or neck or head faster than anyone could react. Let alone the actual Servants that were around. I can believe Romani might - and Marie as well given her hero worship of what she views as her life's only non-mistake - but not Taylor, not Arash, not Emiya.
I'm not calling out that it happened a plot hole, I'm calling out the complete lack of thought or discourse about it. That said, maybe it's because Taylor is just recovering, but I will definitely be disappointed if it doesn't come up later as a thought they have and not some kind of reveal later.
If she had died, Arash and Bradamante wouldn't have jumped to try and save her, her being alive takes her, and two Servants off the playing field.
That's how the canon Okeanos went
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Normally, outright killing, if not fatally injuring, the Master would be the superior move.
But, Chaldea has three Masters. Presumably, Hector's reasoning to Blackbeard will be that killing Taylor may have accomplished nothing. But, kicking her overboard forces the Chaldean Servants to split up.
Potentially, permanently given the Singularity's environment.
But, Chaldea has three Masters. Presumably, Hector's reasoning to Blackbeard will be that killing Taylor may have accomplished nothing. But, kicking her overboard forces the Chaldean Servants to split up.
Potentially, permanently given the Singularity's environment.