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It's Always Snowy in Chaldea [Fate/Grand Order Group SI]

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Just in time for Halloween!

I have a feeling that Ritsuka's world is getting a little rocked. He's Very Japanese and seems more than a little sheltered. Which is odd given he acknowledged Achilles and Patroclus, but I would not be surprised if Drake and Dory were in an open relationship (or that his head would explode at the concept).

Mordred learning from Dory and the Prof is great. Mash having a backbone is also awesome. I do wonder how that'll affect her interactions with London!Mordred...?

One thing that bothered me was Indy's reaction to Vlad. He's not unique in being a Not Great Guy in Actual History - for brevity, the Celts were all some flavor of Oh No (Cu in particular), and then we have Mordred, Achilles, and any number of Servants yet to be summoned. Vlad isn't special. Hell, the closest Fateverse gets to acknowledging a Servant's bad side outside of Alters or handwaves is Columbus (who to be honest has it coming).

Point being - there's a lot of Servants that get whitewashed in comparison to their historical counterparts, so I'm curious as to the actual bone to pick with Vlad and if it will ever be explained in-text.

Back to things I liked; Emiya's rejoinder to CasCu was flawless. I gotta wonder if the poor guy's ever gonna get his spear, or if he's hard-locked to his Caster Container because

Odin wants to keep a closer eye on the new proceedings. Assuming you have him as part of the entire thing in this work.

And one last thing: Get it, Paisen.
 
Paisen sure seems eager to spend time with her husband, lol. Must be quite awkward when you need to interrupt them.

Was neat seeing all the Halloween costumes, both of media figures or cosplay of historical ones. The barrel thing was lost on me, though.
 
Diogenes would be the best servant.

His NP would be calling Servants out on their crazy bullshit and it alters reality. So he could be like 'You're Archer class, therefore bow' to Billy the Kid, and his guns would be replaced by a bow.
Impossible to program, great to meme.
 
Blinktwice13 said:
One thing that bothered me was Indy's reaction to Vlad. He's not unique in being a Not Great Guy in Actual History - for brevity, the Celts were all some flavor of Oh No (Cu in particular), and then we have Mordred, Achilles, and any number of Servants yet to be summoned. Vlad isn't special. Hell, the closest Fateverse gets to acknowledging a Servant's bad side outside of Alters or handwaves is Columbus (who to be honest has it coming).

Point being - there's a lot of Servants that get whitewashed in comparison to their historical counterparts, so I'm curious as to the actual bone to pick with Vlad and if it will ever be explained in-text.
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Genetic memory makes me gun-shy with respect to heavily armored, Eastern European Christian warlords.

It's kind of that simple.
 
October Daye said:
"Hello!" His Servant said. "I'm Abigail… Abigail Williams! I'm a For… um, Foreigner… and you're my Master?"
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Honestly, I would've gone for trying to summon Archer Emiya in his situation, mainly because:
  1. He doesn't seem to cost much mana to maintain and is good at operating on his own thanks to Independent Action.
  2. He's more familiar with modern society than any other servant, knows what it's like to be clueless about the world of magecraft, and is just extremely knowledgeable in general due to absurd amounts of experience, so he could be could at explaining things for the party.
  3. Thanks to having an ability that makes him a walking collection of innumerable ways to kill a man, he managed to kill Stay Night's Berserker seven times on his own without using his Reality Marble or targeting Illya. Very useful considering, you know, Heracles.
  4. Since it's said in this quest that catalysts can be things "so tied to that hero that holding the object immediately brings only that hero to mind", you could theoretically try to fudge the system with a written copy of the UBW chant, since it's an aria that A) is known by relatively few people in the Nasuverse, B) used by Emiya and Emiya alone, and C) tied to his very existence by virtue of being an aria that embodies his own existence, ideals, origin & elemental alignment, and his very relation to the Root. So this might be one of the few cases where you could cheat the system with somthing like this, especially considering that this is knowledge most beings in the Nasuverse wouldn't have.
Of course, someone who's only played FGO wouldn't know all this:V
 
Rancorious said:
Honestly, I would've gone for trying to summon Archer Emiya in his situation, mainly because:
  1. He doesn't seem to cost much mana to maintain and is good at operating on his own thanks to Independent Action.
  2. He's more familiar with modern society than any other servant, knows what it's like to be clueless about the world of magecraft, and is just extremely knowledgeable in general due to absurd amounts of experience, so he could be could at explaining things for the party.
  3. Thanks to having an ability that makes him a walking collection of innumerable ways to kill a man, he managed to kill Stay Night's Berserker seven times on his own without using his Reality Marble or targeting Illya. Very useful considering, you know, Heracles.
  4. Since it's said in this quest that catalysts can be things "so tied to that hero that holding the object immediately brings only that hero to mind", you could theoretically try to fudge the system with a written copy of the UBW chant, since it's an aria that A) is known by relatively few people in the Nasuverse, B) used by Emiya and Emiya alone, and C) tied to his very existence by virtue of being an aria that embodies his own existence, ideals, origin & elemental alignment, and his very relation to the Root. So this might be one of the few cases where you could cheat the system with somthing like this, especially considering that this is knowledge most beings in the Nasuverse wouldn't have.
Of course, someone who's only played FGO wouldn't know all this:V
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At this point in time Archer was already under contract in Chaldea, so it would have been on Ritsuka to call him. Instead Ritsuka whistled up Tell and CasCu, who are probably his mainstays.

Them's the breaks.
 
Rancorious said:
Honestly, I would've gone for trying to summon Archer Emiya in his situation, mainly because:
  1. He doesn't seem to cost much mana to maintain and is good at operating on his own thanks to Independent Action.
  2. He's more familiar with modern society than any other servant, knows what it's like to be clueless about the world of magecraft, and is just extremely knowledgeable in general due to absurd amounts of experience, so he could be could at explaining things for the party.
  3. Thanks to having an ability that makes him a walking collection of innumerable ways to kill a man, he managed to kill Stay Night's Berserker seven times on his own without using his Reality Marble or targeting Illya. Very useful considering, you know, Heracles.
  4. Since it's said in this quest that catalysts can be things "so tied to that hero that holding the object immediately brings only that hero to mind", you could theoretically try to fudge the system with a written copy of the UBW chant, since it's an aria that A) is known by relatively few people in the Nasuverse, B) used by Emiya and Emiya alone, and C) tied to his very existence by virtue of being an aria that embodies his own existence, ideals, origin & elemental alignment, and his very relation to the Root. So this might be one of the few cases where you could cheat the system with somthing like this, especially considering that this is knowledge most beings in the Nasuverse wouldn't have.
Of course, someone who's only played FGO wouldn't know all this:V
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Well, that's an interesting analysis. Aside from the points that are already mentioned, though…

1. Toby was operating under the admittedly false assumption that upkeep cost wasn't going to be an issue. So an Archer wasn't the priority.

2. When you're in a Singularity, who gives a fuck about modern society? You're not in modern society!

3. Toby went for a Foreigner because he needed a silver bullet. He saw a specific problem ahead of him that wasn't worth trusting literal divine intervention to solve (Heracles), so he went for that. Emiya, nasty useful as he is, ain't a silver bullet, and even max power Emiya fueled by Rin was only enough to take 6-7 of Heracles' lives (can't recall exactly). And that was without Medea herself granting the same power ups that had Kuzuki beating Saber down for a little while.

4. Trying to use the UBW aria for a summoning chant is a terrible idea. Notice how Toby's modification of the summon to get a Foreigner follows the same format as the version needed to secure a Berserker? Yeah. Format is important. This stuff is a ritual, and trying to splice in the components of a DIFFERENT RITUAL is how you get deaded. Or worse.
 
If writing down the words to EMIYA's summoning chant would guarantee an EMIYA summon, then mages probably wouldn't spend obscene amounts of money on catalysts. Seriously - if that's all it took, then they'd just use a copy of The Illiad to grab an Achilles; or an appropriately minted denarius for Caesar or Augustus or Nero. Instead, we see them hunt down super rare artifacts when they're going into a Grail War. Iskandar's mantle, or the First Snakeskin, that sort of thing.

That being said, altering the summoning chant or using a different one entirely can, in this fic, alter who you get; it's not a force, though - just a nudge.
 
The catalyst matters much much more than the aria.

See Prelati fron Strange Fake making up half of her aria on the spot and then dropping the rest because she got bored, while still getting her intended servant because she had the best catalyst in the world.
 
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