Starless Black (A Fate/Extra-style Quest)
- Thread starter ArlequineLunaire
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Wanted to say that I'll be leaving the vote open a little longer, up till around tomorrow I think, given this is a weightier choice. I'll probably try working on that 'companion fic' I mentioned in the meantime
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- SV's Only Complete Persona Quest
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Okay, currently needing a tiebreaker between the ticket and the painting. Will roll 1d2 if it remains unbroken
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- Germany
Hear ye! Hear ye! A vote for the lottery ticket is not only a vote for Rome; not only a vote for the sun; not only a vote for Servants that steal other Servants' stuff and thus all things Extra. Nay, it is a vote for fun! Entertainment! Is that not one of the great goals we may strive for in a Quest such as this? Of course, there'll be drama from conflicting personalities as welll. Truly is is the full royal package.
We might also get a pet tiger, if I read the armament section right. Who doesn't want a deadly pet tiger?
We might also get a pet tiger, if I read the armament section right. Who doesn't want a deadly pet tiger?
Depending on how much the church retains of its support capabilities from the original games, it could make a good analogue to the Velvet Room, yeah. Although, the risk of that comparison is that you'll make me imagine Ciel as an old woman with a humongous nose.
The pet tiger got me @ArlequineLunaire I will change my vote from the painting to the lottery tickte thus untiying it.
Edit: unless more people come and tie it again
Edit: unless more people come and tie it again
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Extra! Extra! Roman Emperor wins popularity contest by being a cat mom.
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- Gainful Employment
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I just looked the for mentioned emperor up, and apparently they're a trans woman.
Also, the servant sheet the QM made for them previously is a magical girl.
I am now perfectly fine with her winning.
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hugh_donnetono
No use to complain
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- Caught Out In The Rain
oh god he's a gamer
Anyway. The narration so far is interesting. There's clearly an actual first-person narrator in there telling the story, and it feels like there's something up with that beyond just a writing style quirk.
Prologue: That lottery ticket...
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[X] That fancy lottery ticket.
"That lottery ticket?" Beryl had to ask.
"Yeah, guess I thought it was, well, too fitting," Sakura said, "Not knowing which figure of legend I'll call upon in this tournament, feels like a lottery already."
Beryl let out a slight chuckle, "I see where you're coming from. Just… be careful about leaving everything to luck or seeing luck as in charge of all, wouldn't want to neglect skill and strategy."
Sakura had to blush a bit. "I know, I know, I was just saying that's how I feel right now, that's all. Not my whole game plan or anything," she said.
Museum trip done with, Beryl showed Sakura back to her room, something Sakura was thankful for since, given the winding corridors the Aquarius had, she doubted she would've been able to find the way on her own. Naturally thy passed a few people, players and service on the way there, but two that stood out to Sakura were that blonde, schoolteacher-like woman she'd seen in the lobby before, and… a black-haired, red-dressed woman that almost, almost bore a family resemblance to her. Well, so Sakura thought, but this woman like the blonde just brushed right past her.
"Your room, Mistress," Beryl said and indicated the door behind her. From this plain white door emerged a bright blue light, which scanned Sakura over, still making her twitch even though the doorman had already done the same to her, and then flashed green as the door opened.
She entered a low-light room with a tiled floor, stone walls, and a wood-panelled ceiling, or identical virtual imitations of such anyway. Dark burgundy curtains hung across the window, a white cupboard stood across from a fireplace, something she couldn't remember ever actually seeing in her life. Lastly, there was a large bed whose pillows and covers were a rich bronze in colour.
Sakura's instinct was to crash on this bed right away. True, the only physically exhausting thing she'd done today had been that climb up and down from the chapel, but mentally I'd say she felt like she'd been through much more than that. However, even now she couldn't get any rest or relaxation, as some pre-recorded message suddenly flared right on up. That 'note in your room' she'd been told about.
Greetings, potential Master, a computerised chime rang out, before a hologram of the Aquarius itself sprung up in her room, and welcome to the Star-Cell's Holy Grail War v2. Through the course of a preliminary and seven rounds, you shall summon a Servant, a legendary hero of humanity, and face off against another Master and Servant each round, if you keep making it through that is. A Library is provided by the Aquarius for researching other Servants, as is a Museum displaying the relics used in summoning Servants-
Sakura breathed a sigh of relief; this was all stuff she knew and had already figured out. "Er, so they honestly didn't expect players would check out the hotel before entering their rooms?" she had to ask Beryl.
Her maid shrugged. "It depends, but the massage doesn't hurt to have just in case," she said.
-If you can remember the world outside the virtual by the end of the preliminaries, you shall qualify to summon a Servant, the message kept recapping, before it left off with, Till then, good luck!
That left Sakura with half of her wanting to just get some rest already, and the other half thinking about what this 'truth of the outside world' even could be. Any time spent resting could be more time spent not figuring that out, so many Masters would think, but if you were dead tried, would you really be able to figure anything out?
"Hey, Beryl, I er don't know if you're allowed to say, but you wouldn't have any ideas about the 'outside' world?" Sakura asked, "Um, besides the hotel's name, apparently."
"I'm afraid I only know as much as you do," Beryl said. I guess she felt she should at least help somehow, maid's duty and all, so she added, "Aquarius would have connections to fate, water and its holding, the mythologies, and the stars. Once you're rested, perhaps we'll find something in the library? Or another contestant might share their theories?"
Sakura nodded, sounded like the most sensible idea. Well, it'd make more sense for the other contestants to not reveal anything, narrow the competition… but there had to be at least one willing to help their fellow players out this early in the game.
Some time later she fell asleep anyway, well less 'fell asleep' in this environment and more… felt the night and day cycle phase around her, to I suppose put it in more virtual reality-esque terms. She certainly felt refreshed on 'waking up' the next morning, at least.
Having gotten ready for the day, Sakura opened her door to find Beryl already waiting outside. "Oh hey! Er, you weren't standing here all night, were you?" Sakura tried to say with a giggle.
"I am an AI, Mistress, so to me it wouldn't matter either way," Beryl said, an… odd greeting this early in the morning.
"Okay," Sakura mumbled, before she asked, "Suppose this place would have a café of breakfast buffet, right? Hmm, and I guess after that, we should-
[ ] -see this Library."
[ ] -see if this Carvalho guy, the reigning champ they said, is anywhere around."
[ ] -okay, this is weird, but there's this older woman who kinda looks like me. Maybe we should see what's the case with her?"
[ ] -well, there's this older blonde woman I've seen, but she's acting real standoffish. I have to wonder what her deal is?"
[ ] -I don't know, just try wandering around again. I mean, who knows what we could find?"
[ ] Write-in
"That lottery ticket?" Beryl had to ask.
"Yeah, guess I thought it was, well, too fitting," Sakura said, "Not knowing which figure of legend I'll call upon in this tournament, feels like a lottery already."
Beryl let out a slight chuckle, "I see where you're coming from. Just… be careful about leaving everything to luck or seeing luck as in charge of all, wouldn't want to neglect skill and strategy."
Sakura had to blush a bit. "I know, I know, I was just saying that's how I feel right now, that's all. Not my whole game plan or anything," she said.
Museum trip done with, Beryl showed Sakura back to her room, something Sakura was thankful for since, given the winding corridors the Aquarius had, she doubted she would've been able to find the way on her own. Naturally thy passed a few people, players and service on the way there, but two that stood out to Sakura were that blonde, schoolteacher-like woman she'd seen in the lobby before, and… a black-haired, red-dressed woman that almost, almost bore a family resemblance to her. Well, so Sakura thought, but this woman like the blonde just brushed right past her.
"Your room, Mistress," Beryl said and indicated the door behind her. From this plain white door emerged a bright blue light, which scanned Sakura over, still making her twitch even though the doorman had already done the same to her, and then flashed green as the door opened.
She entered a low-light room with a tiled floor, stone walls, and a wood-panelled ceiling, or identical virtual imitations of such anyway. Dark burgundy curtains hung across the window, a white cupboard stood across from a fireplace, something she couldn't remember ever actually seeing in her life. Lastly, there was a large bed whose pillows and covers were a rich bronze in colour.
Sakura's instinct was to crash on this bed right away. True, the only physically exhausting thing she'd done today had been that climb up and down from the chapel, but mentally I'd say she felt like she'd been through much more than that. However, even now she couldn't get any rest or relaxation, as some pre-recorded message suddenly flared right on up. That 'note in your room' she'd been told about.
Greetings, potential Master, a computerised chime rang out, before a hologram of the Aquarius itself sprung up in her room, and welcome to the Star-Cell's Holy Grail War v2. Through the course of a preliminary and seven rounds, you shall summon a Servant, a legendary hero of humanity, and face off against another Master and Servant each round, if you keep making it through that is. A Library is provided by the Aquarius for researching other Servants, as is a Museum displaying the relics used in summoning Servants-
Sakura breathed a sigh of relief; this was all stuff she knew and had already figured out. "Er, so they honestly didn't expect players would check out the hotel before entering their rooms?" she had to ask Beryl.
Her maid shrugged. "It depends, but the massage doesn't hurt to have just in case," she said.
-If you can remember the world outside the virtual by the end of the preliminaries, you shall qualify to summon a Servant, the message kept recapping, before it left off with, Till then, good luck!
That left Sakura with half of her wanting to just get some rest already, and the other half thinking about what this 'truth of the outside world' even could be. Any time spent resting could be more time spent not figuring that out, so many Masters would think, but if you were dead tried, would you really be able to figure anything out?
"Hey, Beryl, I er don't know if you're allowed to say, but you wouldn't have any ideas about the 'outside' world?" Sakura asked, "Um, besides the hotel's name, apparently."
"I'm afraid I only know as much as you do," Beryl said. I guess she felt she should at least help somehow, maid's duty and all, so she added, "Aquarius would have connections to fate, water and its holding, the mythologies, and the stars. Once you're rested, perhaps we'll find something in the library? Or another contestant might share their theories?"
Sakura nodded, sounded like the most sensible idea. Well, it'd make more sense for the other contestants to not reveal anything, narrow the competition… but there had to be at least one willing to help their fellow players out this early in the game.
Some time later she fell asleep anyway, well less 'fell asleep' in this environment and more… felt the night and day cycle phase around her, to I suppose put it in more virtual reality-esque terms. She certainly felt refreshed on 'waking up' the next morning, at least.
Having gotten ready for the day, Sakura opened her door to find Beryl already waiting outside. "Oh hey! Er, you weren't standing here all night, were you?" Sakura tried to say with a giggle.
"I am an AI, Mistress, so to me it wouldn't matter either way," Beryl said, an… odd greeting this early in the morning.
"Okay," Sakura mumbled, before she asked, "Suppose this place would have a café of breakfast buffet, right? Hmm, and I guess after that, we should-
[ ] -see this Library."
[ ] -see if this Carvalho guy, the reigning champ they said, is anywhere around."
[ ] -okay, this is weird, but there's this older woman who kinda looks like me. Maybe we should see what's the case with her?"
[ ] -well, there's this older blonde woman I've seen, but she's acting real standoffish. I have to wonder what her deal is?"
[ ] -I don't know, just try wandering around again. I mean, who knows what we could find?"
[ ] Write-in
[X] -I don't know, just try wandering around again. I mean, who knows what we could find?"
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[X] -okay, this is weird, but there's this older woman who kinda looks like me. Maybe we should see what's the case with her?"
Just about the only Older Sakurafaces I can think of are Servants.. unless someone took the appearance of her mother.
Just about the only Older Sakurafaces I can think of are Servants.. unless someone took the appearance of her mother.
hugh_donnetono
No use to complain
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- Caught Out In The Rain
and hey if he does, we already know who's going to summon him
Me too! I am biased towards the brazilians servants! Cacareco is sure the most famous brazilian animal mayor but we had others like the Ioio goat, the monkey Tião (holds the record of most voted monkey), a mosquito (yes, you read it right) another goat called 90 and this one even had a kidnapping suspicion.
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[X] -I don't know, just try wandering around again. I mean, who knows what we could find?"
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- USA
[x] -I don't know, just try wandering around again. I mean, who knows what we could find?"
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- Germany
[X] -see if this Carvalho guy, the reigning champ they said, is anywhere around."
Man, looking at all these votes for wandering around, I'm starting to feel like people are really embracing the lottery aspect now. Beryl might disaprove, but maybe the sun will smile at us instead.
Man, looking at all these votes for wandering around, I'm starting to feel like people are really embracing the lottery aspect now. Beryl might disaprove, but maybe the sun will smile at us instead.
Depending on how much older we're talking about and possible avatar hijinks, the red clothes alone make me think of Rin actually.
Hm, I'm not so sure about that actually. Jokes about gatekeeping aside, he sounds fairly casual in his approach to battle while Wolvey is the real hardcore gamer type... Man, now I wish this tournament was a doubles format so I could make VGC jokes. Anyway, I suppose the difference in how focused they are on victory could make for a decent contrast.and hey if he does, we already know who's going to summon him
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- SV's Only Complete Persona Quest
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- She/Her
I was pretty surprised that's the leading option too, but then I thought it might be because of the 'mystery box' aspect
Hmm, so like a mashup of Extra's and Apocrypha's formats, I guess
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- Germany
Possibly, either way I can't blame them.
Something like that, yeah. The Grail Front game mode in FGO might also be a pretty good comparison, with some additional team management aspects.
(Oh and just to clarify the reference, the gamer talk around A-Wolf made me think about Wolfey VGC, aka Wolfe Glick, a competetive pokemon player and youtuber/streamer and by extension the offical pokemon competetive format, which is double battles. Although, personality wise the comparison is doing him a disservice... Hm, if Elagabalus can add phantasm beasts to her collection of deadly animals, would that effectively make her a pokemon trainer?)
Now I want Ozymandias to see her sunny aura/connection and call her a relative or a fellow pharaoh.